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-->--'''Barry's opening monologue.'''

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-->--'''Barry's -->-- '''Barry's opening monologue.'''
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* PowerIncontinence: Barry has trouble controlling his speed at first, slamming into a wall and then a police car so hard he shatters the rear window.
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* DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment: In the opening, Barry analyzes some residue left by the get-away car and confirms that it's "fecal excrement".
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* OlderThanTheyLook: Barry is in his mid-twenties but is quite baby-faced. Someone at the station even outright calls him "baby-face".
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* NotSoAboveItAll: Barry says, "Cool!" after seeing Oliver Queen dramatically swing away to another building. Then Oliver has the same reaction to seeing Barry shoot away at super speed.
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* {{Adorkable}}: Barry tries to duck out of S.T.A.R. labs as quick as he can because he has a life to get back to. But before he does, he pops back in and asks if it's okay to keep the S.T.A.R. Labs sweatshirt.
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* FirstEpisodeSpoiler: Harrison Wells can walk and is from the future.

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* FirstEpisodeSpoiler: FirstEpisodeTwist: Harrison Wells can walk and is from the future.
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* BadFuture: It seems that at some point in the future, Flash will disappear (possibly die) battling a mysterious force powerful enough to [[ComicBook/CrisisOnInfiniteEarths turn the skies red]]. Dr. Wells is either from this future or somehow knows about it and seems to be manipulating Barry to bring it about.

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* BadFuture: It seems that at some point in the future, Flash will disappear (possibly die) battling a mysterious force powerful enough to [[ComicBook/CrisisOnInfiniteEarths [[Series/CrisisOnInfiniteEarths2019 turn the skies red]]. Dr. Wells is either from this future or somehow knows about it and seems to be manipulating Barry to bring it about.



* DifferentlyPoweredIndividual: Harrison Wells calls people with powers Metahumans.

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* DifferentlyPoweredIndividual: Harrison Wells calls people with powers Metahumans.Metahumans, and becomes the widely-accepted term.



** The 2024 newspaper shows Barry wearing the classic Flash suit, as well as [[ComicBook/CrisisOnInfiniteEarths a crisis involving the sky turning red]].

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** The 2024 newspaper shows Barry wearing the classic Flash suit, as well as [[ComicBook/CrisisOnInfiniteEarths [[Series/CrisisOnInfiniteEarths2019 a crisis involving the sky turning red]].



* WhamShot: The episode ends on the reveal that Harrison Wells [[ObfuscatingDisability is not actually crippled]], is from the future, and that in 2024 the Flash will vanish in the midst of [[ComicBook/CrisisOnInfiniteEarths a crisis involving the sky turning red]].

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* WhamShot: The episode ends on the reveal that Harrison Wells [[ObfuscatingDisability is not actually crippled]], is from the future, and that in 2024 the Flash will is set to vanish in the midst of [[ComicBook/CrisisOnInfiniteEarths a crisis involving the sky turning red]].

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-> ''"To understand what I'm about to tell you, you need to do something first. You need to believe in the impossible. Can you do that? Good! See that red blur? That's me. My name is Barry Allen, and I'm the fastest man alive."''
-->--'''Barry's opening monologue.'''



'''Iris:''' That's what dad calls him. ...He ''is'' pretty, though.

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'''Iris:''' That's what dad calls him. ... He ''is'' pretty, though.



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-> ''"My name is Barry Allen, and I am the fastest man alive. A friend recently gave me the idea for a new name... And something tells me, it's gonna catch on!"''
-->-- '''Barry's closing'''
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* BrutalHonesty: Joe bluntly tells Barry too move on with his life by bluntly telling him what he thinks had happened during the night Nora Allen was murdered.

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* BrutalHonesty: Joe bluntly tells Barry too to move on with his life by bluntly telling him what he thinks had happened during the night Nora Allen was murdered.

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* PerpetualFrowner: Caitlin apparently never smiled for nine months after the S.T.A.R. Labs accident, which cost her her career and killed her fiancé -- Barry successfully saving the city from Mardon's tornado changes that.

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* PerpetualFrowner: Caitlin apparently never smiled for nine months after the S.T.A.R. Labs accident, which cost her her career and killed her fiancé -- Barry successfully saving the city from Mardon's tornado changes that.that (the not smiling, that is).



-->'''Barry''': Lightning gave me abs?



* SuperSpeed: As of first awaking from his coma, Barry clocks in at around 700 mph, just under the sound barrier.

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* SuperSpeed: As of first awaking waking from his coma, Barry clocks in at around 700 mph, just under the sound barrier.

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* {{Bookends}}: "Run, Barry, run!", both from Henry Allen [[WhenItAllBegan the night his wife is killed]], and later at the end of Wells' speech encouraging Barry to beat Mardon.

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"Run, Barry, run!", both from Henry Allen [[WhenItAllBegan the night his wife is killed]], and later at the end of Wells' speech encouraging Barry to beat Mardon.Mardon.
** At the beginning and at the end, Henry and Barry talk about a fight involving Barry.



* LikeBrotherAndSister: Iris feels this way with Barry. The latter feels differently.

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* LikeBrotherAndSister: Iris apparently feels this way with Barry. The latter feels differently.
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* IceQueen: Caitlin -- she's a PerpetualFrowner and generally aloof and distant. And her last name is ''Snow''. To top it off, her comic-book counterpart is the supervillain Killer Frost.

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* IceQueen: Caitlin -- she's a PerpetualFrowner and generally aloof and distant. And her last name is ''Snow''. To top it off, her comic-book counterpart counterpart--[[spoiler: and eventual alter-ego in the series]]-- is the supervillain Killer Frost.

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* ThrowingOffTheDisability: At the end, Wells enters a secret room and rises from his wheelchair, showing that [[ObfuscatingDisability he has merely been feigning his injury]], to top it off, he also shows that he apparently doesn't need his glasses either.



* WhamShot: The episode ends on the reveal that Harrison Wells is not crippled, is from the future, and that in 2024 the Flash will vanish in the midst of [[ComicBook/CrisisOnInfiniteEarths a crisis involving the sky turning red]].

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* WhamShot: The episode ends on the reveal that Harrison Wells [[ObfuscatingDisability is not crippled, actually crippled]], is from the future, and that in 2024 the Flash will vanish in the midst of [[ComicBook/CrisisOnInfiniteEarths a crisis involving the sky turning red]].
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* SpinoffSendoff: Barry visits Oliver to talk about his new situation and Oliver tells him that his powers chose him and that he could be a better vigilante than him.

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* TheChosenOne: Oliver tells Barry that his powers chose him.



* {{Retcon}}: The ''Series/{{Arrow}}'' episode "Three Ghosts" depicted Barry's lab accident happening on the night he returned from Starling City, and showed Barry to be on the phone to Felicity Smoak immediately before it, with Barry telling her that he missed the cut-off in the line at S.T.A.R. Labs. The Pilot instead depicts Barry as being back in Central City the morning before the accident, removes the phone call, and has Barry and Iris at S.T.A.R. Labs before leaving to file a police report after Iris is robbed, with Barry heading to his lab from there

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* {{Retcon}}: The ''Series/{{Arrow}}'' episode "Three Ghosts" depicted Barry's lab accident happening on the night he returned from Starling City, and showed Barry to be on the phone to Felicity Smoak immediately before it, with Barry telling her that he missed the cut-off in the line at S.T.A.R. Labs. The Pilot instead depicts Barry as being back in Central City the morning before the accident, removes the phone call, and has Barry and Iris at S.T.A.R. Labs before leaving to file a police report after Iris is robbed, with Barry heading to his lab from therethere.


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* ShirtlessScene: While recovering from the lightning impact, Barry is obviously shirtless so his status can be known better. When he recovers, he can contemplate how he became slightly muscular after being impacted by the lightning.
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'''Iris:''' That's what dad calls him.... He ''is'' pretty, though.

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'''Iris:''' That's what dad calls him.... him. ...He ''is'' pretty, though.

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