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* SavedByCanon: Thawne is this, in a TimeyWimeyBall sort of way. He can't be killed or permanently imprisoned before he discovers The Flash's identity, goes back in time to try to kill him as a child, and subsequently [[TrappedInThePast gets stuck]] (leading to the events of Season 1). Team Flash actually manages to capture him but are forced to let him go to avoid creating a TemporalParadox. Barry isn't pleased.
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* HaveWeMetYet: From Thawne's point of view this is the first time he and Barry meet - in other lines their timelines are [[{{Pun}} in reverse]].
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* HaveWeMetYet: From Thawne's point of view this is the first time he and Barry meet - in other lines words their timelines are [[{{Pun}} in reverse]].
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* CurbstompBattle: Barry's beat down of Thane is so brutal that Joe was actually worried he was going to beat him to death.
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* CurbstompBattle: CurbStompBattle: Barry's beat down of Thane Thawne is so brutal that Joe was actually worried he was going to beat him to death.
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* StableTimeLoop: Eobard's first trip to Central City is how he finds out about STAR Labs, Dr. Wells, and (eventually) Barry's identity, setting up how he will kill Barry's mom in the future.
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* StableTimeLoop: StableTimeLoop:
** Eobard's first trip to Central City is how he finds out about STAR Labs, Dr. Wells, and (eventually) Barry's identity, setting up how he will kill Barry's mom in the future.
** Eobard's first trip to Central City is how he finds out about STAR Labs, Dr. Wells, and (eventually) Barry's identity, setting up how he will kill Barry's mom in the future.
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* TimeyWimeyBall: The show's TimeTravel logic is stretched further than ever before to explain how a "temporal echo" of Eobard Thawne can still exist after his family tree was cut short. Nora's death being a fixed point in time is also a brand new supposition that could have saved everyone a lot of trouble last season. It does however explain how Future!Barry was still able to exist despite his entire timeline being changed and why he warned his other self not to save Nora.
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* TimeyWimeyBall: TimeyWimeyBall:
** The show's TimeTravel logic is stretched further than ever before to explain how a "temporal echo" of Eobard Thawne can still exist after his family tree was cut short. Nora's death being a fixed point in time is also a brand new supposition that could have saved everyone a lot of trouble last season. It does however explain how Future!Barry was still able to exist despite his entire timeline being changed and why he warned his other self not to save Nora.
** The show's TimeTravel logic is stretched further than ever before to explain how a "temporal echo" of Eobard Thawne can still exist after his family tree was cut short. Nora's death being a fixed point in time is also a brand new supposition that could have saved everyone a lot of trouble last season. It does however explain how Future!Barry was still able to exist despite his entire timeline being changed and why he warned his other self not to save Nora.
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** Thawne's KubrickStare at Earth-2 Wells (and asking him who he is) as he's let out of the cell is callback to Season 1, which Thawne spent most of impersonating Wells. Also doubles as a CallForward since, [[TimeyWimeyBall from Thawne's POV, this hasn't happened yet.]]
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The producers never "confirmed" that Zoom would not be Hunter Zolomon like in the comics, in fact the latest episode seems to indicate just that.
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* UnexpectedCharacter: Given how the producers confirmed that Zoom was ''not'' Hunter Zolomon, it's a major shock seeing him on Earth-1.
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* FreudianExcuse: Averted. We finally learn why Eobard Thawne hated Barry so much, and it clearly upsets Barry that his mother, Eddie, and several others died for completely shallow reasons.
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* VitriolicBestBuds: Cisco and Harry are well on their way to becoming this. They're constantly bickering and sniping at each other, but Harry panics when Cisco starts being erased from history, showing that he has actually come to care about him. They go straight back to sassing each other once Cisco recovers, though.
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* ShoutOutToShakespeare: When Team Flash are examining the Turtle's corpse in the pipeline.
-->'''Cisco:''' He better not be pulling a [[Theatre/RomeoAndJuliet Juliet]]. [[LampshadeHanging Yeah, that's right. I see plays]].
-->'''Cisco:''' He better not be pulling a [[Theatre/RomeoAndJuliet Juliet]]. [[LampshadeHanging Yeah, that's right. I see plays]].
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* PsychopathicManchild: The main reason Thawne hates Flash. Because he saw he would never be the Hero Flash was.
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* HoistByHisOwnPetard: [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] by Cisco, who notes that Eobard Thawne was ([[Recap/TheFlash2014S1E23FastEnough once again]]) imprisoned in the pipeline that he helped/[[TimeTravelTenseTrouble will help]] to develop, and by powers that he gave/will give to Cisco.
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* BrickJoke: A season later, and Cisco is ''still'' trying to figure out how to put a Flash suit in a ring.
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* BrickJoke: A season later, and Cisco is ''still'' trying to figure out how to put a Flash suit in a ring. Made funnier by how Cisco would ask Thawne the same thing [[TimeTravelTenseTrouble later--earlier--]][[Recap/TheFlash2014S1E23FastEnough whatever]].
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* HaveWeMetYet: From Thawne's point of view this is the first time he and Barry meet - in other lines their timelines are in reverse.
* GreenEyedMonster: The reason Thawne is the monster he is is as simple as it is [[EvilIsPetty petty]]: He wants to be better and faster than the Flash.
* GreenEyedMonster: The reason Thawne is the monster he is is as simple as it is [[EvilIsPetty petty]]: He wants to be better and faster than the Flash.
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* HaveWeMetYet: From Thawne's point of view this is the first time he and Barry meet - in other lines their timelines are [[{{Pun}} in reverse.
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* GreenEyedMonster: The reason Thawne is the monster he is is as simple as it is [[EvilIsPetty petty]]: He wants to be better and faster than the Flash. This lines up with his origin story in the comics.
* GreenEyedMonster: The reason Thawne is the monster he is is as simple as it is [[EvilIsPetty petty]]: He wants to be better and faster than the Flash. This lines up with his origin story in the comics.
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* SoLastSeason: ZigZagged. Barry is now faster and stronger than Eobard, but this Eobard is from a future where he is still at the beginning of his career as the Reverse-Flash. Thawne can't use his Speed Force powers as efficiently as he will (he can't toss effective punches and doesn't know any of the wrestling moves at this point in time), but it's shown that the significant vibrating hand move was one he learned early on in his career.
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** Also, Eobard only became the the Flash's arch-nemesis and 'opposite' because he discovered while time-travelling that he was destined to do so.
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** Also, Eobard only became the the Flash's arch-nemesis and 'opposite' because he discovered while time-travelling that he was destined to do so. And thanks to Cisco, he may have found the idea for hiding his suit in the Reverse-Flash ring.
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* RapidFireFisticuffs: Barry delivers this to the Reverse Flash before knocking him out and sending him to the Pipeline.
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* HaveWeMetYet: From Thawne's point of view this is the first time he and Barry meet - in other lines their timelines are in reverse.
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* JerkassBall: Barry is just plain cruel to Patty in this episode.
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* JerkassBall: An intentional example; Barry is just plain cruel to Patty in this episode.episode as a way to BreakHerHeartToSaveHer (see above).
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* TheReveal: Barry finally finds out why Thawne hates him so much. Thawne was the Flash's biggest fan so he tried to become just like him, right down to copying the lab accident that gave him his powers. Much to his horror, he found out he was destined to be the Flash's greatest enemy, so he snapped and became the reverse of everything Barry was.
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* TheReveal: Barry finally finds out why Thawne hates him so much. much: Thawne was the Flash's biggest fan so he tried to become just like him, right down to copying the lab accident that gave him his powers. Much to his horror, he found out he was destined to be the Flash's greatest enemy, so he snapped and became the reverse of everything Barry was.
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* JerkassBall: Barry is just plain cruel to Patty in this episode.
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* SuspiciouslySpecificDenial: Harry goes out of his way to having anything to do with the Turtle's death...when he wasn't really accused of it in the first place.
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* SuspiciouslySpecificDenial: Harry goes out of his way to having anything to do with the Turtle's death...when he wasn't really accused of it in the first place.
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** Thawne says "I win again Flash," something he said (technically later in his personal timeline) earlier in season one. Seemingly doubles as his CatchPhrase.
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* MeaningfulEcho: Thawne says "I win again Flash," something he said (technically later in his personal timeline) earlier in season one. Seemingly doubles as his CatchPhrase.
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* CantKillYouStillNeedYou: Barry is content to let Thawne rot in the Pipeline, only to discover that he needs to let him play out his history or else the timeline will implode.
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* SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong: Averted. Harry affirms that there is no way Barry can ever save Nora because it's now a fixed point in time.
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* SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong: Averted. Harry affirms that there is no way Barry can ever save Nora because it's now a fixed point in time.time - or rather nothing they do to Thawne in the present will save her because it's already happened in the past.
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* YouCalledMeXItMustBeSerious: Harry actually calls Cisco by his first name as the latter is about to be erased from history.
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* DeadlyNosebleed: Poor Cisco's first clue that something has gone awry.
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** Thawne says "I win again Flash," something he said (technically later in his personal timeline) earlier in season one. Seemingly doubles as his CatchPhrase.
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* MadScientist: Present in Eobard's first appearance, but very evident here. He's a scientist fascinated by Cisco's powers and other scientist curiosities around him. And he's also TheSociopath and has no problem using violence as a first option.
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** Eobard Thawne's motivation and OriginStory of idolizing The Flash and [[SelfFulfillingProphecy finding out he's his biggest enemy, which drives him to become evil]] is taken from the Wally West storyline "The Return of Barry Allen."
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* ShoutOut:
** Harry says that Barry needs to get [[Series/TheSixMillionDollarMan "better, stronger, faster."]]
** Harry says that Barry needs to get [[Series/TheSixMillionDollarMan "better, stronger, faster."]]
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* CurbstompBattle: Barry's beat down of Thane is so brutal that Joe was actually worried he was going to beat him to death.
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-->'''Jay:''' "He's name is Hunter Zolomon."
* WorfHadTheFlu: Barry defeat's Thawne relatively easy this time. However, this version of Thawne is from a time period where he hasn't been the Reverse Flash for very long.
* WorfHadTheFlu: Barry defeat's Thawne relatively easy this time. However, this version of Thawne is from a time period where he hasn't been the Reverse Flash for very long.
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-->'''Jay:''' "He's "His name is Hunter Zolomon."
* WorfHadTheFlu: Barrydefeat's defeats Thawne relatively easy this time. However, this version of Thawne is from a time period where he hasn't been the Reverse Flash for very long.
* WorfHadTheFlu: Barry
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* JokerImmunity: UpToEleven. The Speed Force saved Thawne from being ''unborn'', ensuring that he will encounter Barry more times in the future.
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* ArcNumber: "52" once again pops up. For the matter, the season's fascination with duality and second chances (2) also comes into play this episode.
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* BaitAndSwitch: Cisco's PsychicNosebleed is at first implied to be because the goggles Harry made to harness his powers is a DeadlyUpgrade for him. Turns out not to be the case.
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* BaitAndSwitch: Cisco's PsychicNosebleed is at first implied to be because of the goggles Harry made to harness his powers is being a DeadlyUpgrade for him. Turns out not to be the case.
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** Barry sends Eobard back to the future by running around the Particle Accelerator, just like how he opened the time hole in the Season 1 finale.
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** Barry sends Eobard back to the future by running around the Particle Accelerator, just like how he opened the time hole traveled in the Season 1 finale.
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** Barry and Patty's farewell on the train is reminiscent of Barry and Felicity's during early early Season 1.
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** Barry and Patty's farewell on the train is reminiscent basically a DarkReprise of Barry and Felicity's goodbyes during an early early episode of Season 1.
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* SoLastSeason: ZigZagged. Barry is now faster and stronger than Eobard, but this Eobard is from a distant future where he is still at the beginning of his career as the Reverse-Flash.
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* SoLastSeason: ZigZagged. Barry is now faster and stronger than Eobard, but this Eobard is from a distant future where he is still at the beginning of his career as the Reverse-Flash.
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* ThisIsUnforgivable: Harry strongly implies that he resents Eobard for what he did/will do to [[YouKilledMyFather his Earth-1 counterpart]].
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* ThisCannotBe: Team Flash's reaction upon discovering that Eobard is back despite being {{Ret Gone}}d.
* ThisIsUnforgivable:Harry strongly implies that he resents Eobard for what he did/will do to faces the wrath of the people who was/will be [[YouKilledMyFather his Earth-1 counterpart]].affected]] [[MistakenForMurderer by]] [[KillAndReplace his]] [[UnwittingPawn actions]].
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* WhamLine: For comic readers, TheReveal of who Jay Garrick's Earth-1 counterpart is.
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* YouHaveOutLivedYourUsefulness: Thawne tries to pull this on Dr. [=McGee=], but luckily Barry saves her in the nick of time.
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* YouHaveOutLivedYourUsefulness: Thawne tries to pull this on Dr. [=McGee=], but luckily Barry saves her in the nick of time.time.
* YouKilledMyFather: Eobard's past/future sins catches up to him as Barry still hasn't forgotten what he did/will do to his mother ([[MistakenForMurderer and father]]). Harry also strongly implies that he is pissed at him for what [[KillAndReplace he did/will do]] to his Earth-1 counterpart.
* YouKilledMyFather: Eobard's past/future sins catches up to him as Barry still hasn't forgotten what he did/will do to his mother ([[MistakenForMurderer and father]]). Harry also strongly implies that he is pissed at him for what [[KillAndReplace he did/will do]] to his Earth-1 counterpart.
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* GreenEyedMonster: The reason Thawne is the monster he is is as simpel as it is [[EvilIsPetty petty]]: He wants to be better and faster than the Flash.
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* GreenEyedMonster: The reason Thawne is the monster he is is as simpel simple as it is [[EvilIsPetty petty]]: He wants to be better and faster than the Flash.
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Not this trope. It\'s about getting evil after being treated as evil. Doesn\'t apply to Thawne.
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* BreakHisHeartToSaveHim: Barry drives Patty away, because he's sick and tired of evil speedsters taking his loved ones from him.
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* BreakHisHeartToSaveHim: BreakHerHeartToSaveHer: Barry drives Patty away, because he's sick and tired of evil speedsters taking his loved ones from him.
* GreenEyedMonster: The reason Thawne is the monster he is is as simpel as it is [[EvilIsPetty petty]]: He wants to be better and faster than the Flash.
** Subverted in the end, as Barry and company trying to imprison him for good ''does'' have an effect on the timeline.....it's just a very bad one, so they have to release him.
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* WorfHadTheFlu: Barry defeat's Thawne relatively easy this time. However, this version of Thawne is from a time period where he hasn't been the Reverse Flash for very long.
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** Barry and Patty's farewell on the train is reminiscent of Barry and Felicity's during early early Season 1.
