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* ArtisticLicensePhysics: Captain Cold can apparently freeze a ''laser''.

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* ArtisticLicensePhysics: ArtisticLicenseEngineering: Any real high-security keypad would lock up and trigger an alarm after multiple consecutive failed attempts at entering the password, specifically to prevent exactly what "Sam" did from working.
* ArtisticLicensePhysics:
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Captain Cold can apparently freeze a ''laser''.''laser''.
** Thermite burns very hot, but it's also extremely stable (hard to ignite) and very slow-burning. In other words, ''the exact opposite of an explosive substance.''
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* HypocriticalHeartwarming: Lewis sees himself in the position to abuse his children....if somebody else however just as much as ''insults'' one of them, he'll blow their heads off.
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** With a touch of NotHisSled: In the comics, Cold couldn't bring himself to pull the trigger on his dad, he had to have Heat Wave do it. Then again, in the comics, Lisa was long-dead and Lewis hadn't recently threatened her life...

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* WhamShot: In TheStinger, Earth-2's Harrison Wells goes through the breach and lands through the other side in Star Labs' basement.

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* WhamShot: WhamShot:
** Professor Stein suddenly bursting into flames. ''[[TechnicolorFire Blue]]'' flames.
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* LaserGuidedKarma: Cold kills his father by freezing his heart solid. The man stuck a bomb in his daughter's neck to gain his son's cooperation and pulled enough ForTheEvulz stunts that not even Barry is protesting his death.
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* AntagonistInMourning: When he sees Lewis shoot "Sam", Lenny's apology seems genuine.


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* {{Irony}}: Anyone else notice the oddity of Lenny requesting Barry to pass the ''salt''?


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* ReverseMole: Barry, or rather, "Sam", joins Lewis Snart's gang.


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* WithFriendsLikeThese: During a Rogues' heist, Lenny gets kidnapped, Lisa gets knocked out, and Mick...makes off with the loot.
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* WhamShot: Earth-2's Harrison Wells goes through the breach and lands through the other side in Star Labs' basement.

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* WhamShot: In TheStinger, Earth-2's Harrison Wells goes through the breach and lands through the other side in Star Labs' basement.
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* TheBusCameBack: Linda makes a brief appearance, having last been seen in Season 1's "Rogue Time".
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* WhamShot: Harrison Wells from Earth 2 goes through the breach and lands through the other side in Star Labs' basement.

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* WhamShot: Earth-2's Harrison Wells from Earth 2 goes through the breach and lands through the other side in Star Labs' basement.
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* WhamShot: Harrison Wells from Earth 2 goes through the breach and lands through the other side in Star Labs' basement.
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* EvenEvilHasStandards: Leonard and Lisa might not be saints, but neither of them are fond of their father's cruelty and sadism.
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* VileVillainSaccharineShow: The episode has quite a number of heartwarming moments in spite of its especially nasty MonsterOfTheWeek.

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* ExplosiveLeash: This is Lewis Snart's M.O.



* YouAreBetterThanYouthinkYouAre: Barry tells Snart that he believes that deep down Leonard is actually a good person.

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* YouAreBetterThanYouthinkYouAre: YouAreBetterThanYouThinkYouAre: Barry tells Snart that he believes that deep down Leonard is actually a good person.
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This has to be vetted by the Complete Monster cleanup thread before it\'s added here. I suggested it, but it was shot down by someone and then largely ignored afterwards, so he may not count. We\'ll see. And if so, it\'ll be on the YMMV tab, not the main page.


* CompleteMonster: Lewis Snart has no redeeming qualities whatsoever.

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* BeGoneBribe: Joe gives his ex some money to try to get her to leave town

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* BeGoneBribe: Joe gives his ex some money to try to get her to leave towntown. It doesn't work.
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* BegoneBride: Joe gives his ex some money to try to get her to leave town

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* BegoneBride: BeGoneBribe: Joe gives his ex some money to try to get her to leave town
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* CastingGag: This is not the first time that Micheal Ironsides has [[Film/{{Scanners}} made heads explode]].



* YouAreBetterThanYouthinkYouAre: Barry tells Snart that he believes that deep down Leonard is actually a good person.

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* YouAreBetterThanYouthinkYouAre: Barry tells Snart that he believes that deep down Leonard is actually a good person.person.
* YourHeadASplode: Lewis likes to implant bombs in peoples' heads to ensure compliance.

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* ADayInTheLimelight: For Captain Cold and Golden Glider. Turns out there's more them than just pulling heists.

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* ADayInTheLimelight: For Captain Cold and Golden Glider. Turns out there's more to them than just pulling heists.



* FriendlyEnemy: The Snart siblings and Team Flash have clearly assumed this attitude regarding each other.



* WhyAmITicking: Lisa is unknowingly carrying around a thermite bomb in her neck.

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* WhyAmITicking: Lisa is unknowingly carrying around a thermite bomb in her neck.neck.
* YouAreBetterThanYouthinkYouAre: Barry tells Snart that he believes that deep down Leonard is actually a good person.
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* FreudanExcuse: With Lewis Snart is a parent, it's amazing Leonard and Lisa didn't turn out to be even ''worse'' people than mere supervillains.

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* FreudanExcuse: FreudianExcuse: With Lewis Snart is a parent, it's amazing Leonard and Lisa didn't turn out to be even ''worse'' people than mere supervillains.
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* AbusiveParent: Being willing to kill his own daughter just to force his son into helping him, and doing this after he'd brutally abused her as a child? Lewis Snart, you will not be mourned by anyone.


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* FreudanExcuse: With Lewis Snart is a parent, it's amazing Leonard and Lisa didn't turn out to be even ''worse'' people than mere supervillains.

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* BeGoneBride: Joe gives his ex some money to try to get her to leave.

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* BeGoneBride: BegoneBride: Joe gives his ex some money to try to get her to leave.leave town



* GetOut: Joe is ''not'' happy that his wife has come back to town 20 years after she walked away from the family, telling her it's too little too late for to reconcile.

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* GetOut: Joe is ''not'' happy that his wife has come back to town 20 years after she walked away from the family, telling her it's too little too late for to reconcile.reconcile with him and Iris.


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* LoveIsAWeakness, Lewis uses Cold's love for Lisa against to get him to do his bidding.
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* BeGoneBride: Joe gives his ex some money to try to get her to leave.


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* GetOut: Joe is ''not'' happy that his wife has come back to town 20 years after she walked away from the family, telling her it's too little too late for to reconcile.
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* ADayInTheLimelight: For Captain Cold and Golden Glider. Turns out there's more them than just pulling heists.


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* MythologyGag: Barry and Joe want Cold to be imprisoned in Iron Height's new meta-human wing. In the comics all of the Flash supervillains are put together in the same wing of the prison - the Pipeline as it's called.
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* BrokenPedastal: Joe had told Iris that her supposedly dead mother had been a loving and excellent parent. She'd actually been a negligent drug addict.

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* BrokenPedastal: BrokenPedestal: Joe had told Iris that her supposedly dead mother had been a loving and excellent parent. She'd actually been a negligent drug addict.
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* ArtisticLicensePhysics: Captain Cold can apparently freeze a ''laser''.
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* BrokenPedastal: Joe had told Iris that her supposedly dead mother had been a loving and excellent parent. She'd actually been a negligent drug addict.

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* MythologyGag:
** Barry and Joe want Cold to be imprisoned in Iron Height's new meta-human wing. In the comics all of the supervillains are put together in the same wing of the prison - the Pipeline as it's called.

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* MythologyGag:
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Lisa "Golden Glider" Snart comes to the team for help when she thinks her brother has been kidnapped, but Barry and discovers the situation is much more complicated. Joe want wrestles with telling Iris the truth about her mother.

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* CallingTheOldManOut: Captain
Cold to be imprisoned in Iron Height's new meta-human wing. In the comics all spends most of the supervillains are put together in episode snarking at his father's relatively amateurish theft (compared to Snart's own methods), and then has a short, brutal and effective one when he kills the same wing man.
* CompleteMonster: Lewis Snart has no redeeming qualities whatsoever.
* [[IHaveYourWife I Have Your Sister]]: Lewis threatens to set off a thermite bomb implanted in Lisa if Leonard refuses to assist him in his heist.
* InsistentTerminology: It's a Cold Gun, not a Freeze Ray.
* PayEvilUntoEvil: Snart puts a block
of the prison - the Pipeline as it's called.ice through his father's heart. Although he's broken his promise to Barry not to kill any more, Barry is not especially distressed by it.
* WhyAmITicking: Lisa is unknowingly carrying around a thermite bomb in her neck.

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Lisa "Golden Glider" Snart comes to the team for help when she thinks her brother has been kidnapped, but Barry discovers the situation is much more complicated. Joe wrestles with telling Iris the truth about her mother.

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* CallingTheOldManOut: Captain Cold spends most of the episode snarking at his father's relatively amateurish theft (compared to Snart's own methods), and then has a short, brutal and effective one when he kills the man.
* PayEvilUntoEvil: Snart puts a block of ice through his father's heart. Although he's broken his promise to Barry not to kill any more, Barry is not especially distressed by it.

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Lisa "Golden Glider" Snart comes to the team for help when she thinks her brother has been kidnapped, but * MythologyGag:
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Barry discovers the situation is much more complicated. and Joe wrestles with telling Iris the truth about her mother.

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* CallingTheOldManOut: Captain
want Cold spends most to be imprisoned in Iron Height's new meta-human wing. In the comics all of the episode snarking at his father's relatively amateurish theft (compared to Snart's own methods), and then has a short, brutal and effective one when he kills supervillains are put together in the man.
* PayEvilUntoEvil: Snart puts a block
same wing of ice through his father's heart. Although he's broken his promise to Barry not to kill any more, Barry is not especially distressed by it.the prison - the Pipeline as it's called.
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Lisa "Golden Glider" Snart comes to the team for help when she thinks her brother has been kidnapped, but Barry discovers the situation is much more complicated. Joe wrestles with telling Iris the truth about her mother.

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* CallingTheOldManOut: Captain Cold spends most of the episode snarking at his father's relatively amateurish theft (compared to Snart's own methods), and then has a short, brutal and effective one when he kills the man.
* PayEvilUntoEvil: Snart puts a block of ice through his father's heart. Although he's broken his promise to Barry not to kill any more, Barry is not especially distressed by it.

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