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** While the intention was that sending Grodd to Gorilla City to grant him comradery among his own kind, Team Flash finds their actions have made them pawns in a coup for power.

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** While the intention was that sending Grodd to Gorilla City to would grant him comradery among his own kind, Team Flash finds their actions have made them pawns in a coup for power.


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* PersonAsVerb: Barry defeats Solovar by “pulling a Reverse Flash” and doing a vibrating punch.
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* AsskickingEqualsAuthority: This is how leadership works in Gorilla City; thus, Solovar is the leader, being the strongest gorilla. Once Barry defeats him in battle, the gorillas no longer respect Solovar, and instead turn to follow Grodd. Grodd had hoped that Barry would ''kill'' Solovar, but the results are effectively the same either way.

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* AsskickingEqualsAuthority: AsskickingLeadsToLeadership: This is how leadership works in Gorilla City; thus, Solovar is the leader, being the strongest gorilla. Once Barry defeats him in battle, the gorillas no longer respect Solovar, and instead turn to follow Grodd. Grodd had hoped that Barry would ''kill'' Solovar, but the results are effectively the same either way.
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* ActorAllusion: The episode has Creator/TomFelton going up against [[Film/RiseOfThePlanetOfTheApes sentient apes]]. The episode even has Julian {{Squee}}ing over ''Franchise/PlanetOfTheApes''.
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* UngratefulBastard: Grodd. His second appearance had him trying to create more apes like him. so Team Flash sent him to Gorilla City so he could be with others like him. Grodd doesn't see it that way. He sees it has his home being taken from him even though he was forced to skulk in sewers and empty skyscrapers on Earth-1.

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* UngratefulBastard: Grodd. His second appearance had him trying to create more apes like him. him, so Team Flash sent him to Gorilla City so he could be with others like him. But Grodd doesn't see it that way. He sees it has his home being taken from him even though he was forced to skulk in sewers and empty skyscrapers on Earth-1.
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* AdaptationalVillainy: Traditionally Grodd is the TokenEvilTeammate amongst the Gorillas who want to subjugate humanity and Solovar is usually an ally to the heroes trying to stop him. Here the roles are reversed. Subverted when it turns out that it was all a ruse by Grodd [[TheStarscream to stage a coup]] so he could conquer Earth-1. Nonetheless, Solovar is still not the most pleasant of individuals.

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* AdaptationalVillainy: Traditionally Traditionally, Grodd is the TokenEvilTeammate amongst the Gorillas who want to subjugate humanity and Solovar is usually an ally to the heroes trying to stop him. Here the roles are reversed. Subverted when it turns out that it was all a ruse by Grodd [[TheStarscream to stage a coup]] so he could conquer Earth-1. Nonetheless, Solovar is still not the most pleasant of individuals.



* YouCantFightFate: Grodd is still invading Central City, thus Barry's efforts to stop another incidence connected to Iris' death failed.

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* YouCantFightFate: Grodd is still invading Central City, thus Barry's efforts to stop another incidence incident connected to Iris' death failed.
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* SpoilerOpening: Oddly enough, the recap clip after the OpeningNarration does not feature the episodes with Grodd. What ''does'' get through is that one of the clips are from Gypsy's episode, foreshadowing her return.

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* SpoilerOpening: Oddly enough, the recap clip PreviouslyOn clipshow after the OpeningNarration does not feature the episodes with Grodd. What ''does'' get through is that one of the are clips are from Gypsy's episode, foreshadowing her return.
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** Upon arriving in Eart-2, Cisco says "[[Music/GunsNRoses Welcome to the Jungle, Baby]]."
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** Cisco mentions that they sent Grodd to Gorilla City "[[Film/KingKong1933 when he went after Fay Wray here]]."
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* ObscuredSpecialEffects: Grodd mostly speaks through Harry and Cisco while he himself remains offscreen. It's pretty obvious that this done to reduce the amount of shots featuring Grodd, thus saving the money required to animate a fully computer-generated gorilla for those shots.
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* IdiotBall: Grodd is fooled when Barry pretends to be dead, so he takes his "lifeless" body outside of the cell and just puts it there, and leaves. It's true that [[DidntSeeThatComing he couldn't have known about Caitlin's powers being used to complete the deception]], but on the other hand he ''does'' have telepathic powers, so it wouldn't be too difficult for him to check whether Barry's brains are still working.

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* IdiotBall: Grodd is fooled when Barry pretends to be dead, so he takes his "lifeless" body outside of the cell and just puts it there, and leaves. It's true that Grodd [[DidntSeeThatComing he couldn't have known about Caitlin's powers being used to complete the deception]], but on the other hand he ''does'' have telepathic powers, so it wouldn't be too difficult for him to check whether Barry's brains are still working.
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* IdiotBall: Grodd is fooled when Barry pretends to be dead, so he takes his "lifeless" body outside of the cell and just puts it there, and leaves. However, in fairness, [[DidntSeeThatComing there's no way he could have known about Caitlin's powers being used to complete the deception]].

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* IdiotBall: Grodd is fooled when Barry pretends to be dead, so he takes his "lifeless" body outside of the cell and just puts it there, and leaves. However, in fairness, It's true that [[DidntSeeThatComing there's no way he could couldn't have known about Caitlin's powers being used to complete the deception]].deception]], but on the other hand he ''does'' have telepathic powers, so it wouldn't be too difficult for him to check whether Barry's brains are still working.
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* EurekaMoment:
** During the arena battle when Julian mentions reversal Cisco realizes that Flash needs to "[[VibroWeapon pull a Reverse-Flash]]" to defeat Solovar.
** Barry taking Cisco's idea of someone among them dying so the rest can escape, just not the same way Cisco thought.
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* MisplacedVegetation: Cisco comments about the weirdness of Earth-2 Africa having a rainforest.


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* MythologyGag: Julian makes an excuse to Captain Singh about him and Barry going to a convention in [[ComicBook/{{Nightwing}} Bludhaven]].
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* AdaptationalVillainy: Traditionally Grodd is the TokenEvilTeammate amongst the Gorillas who want to subjugate humanity and Solovar is usually an ally to the heroes trying to stop him. Here the roles are reversed. Subverted when it turns out that it was all a ruse by Grodd to stage a coup so he could conquer Earth-1. Nonetheless, Solovar is still not the most pleasant of individuals.

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* AdaptationalVillainy: Traditionally Grodd is the TokenEvilTeammate amongst the Gorillas who want to subjugate humanity and Solovar is usually an ally to the heroes trying to stop him. Here the roles are reversed. Subverted when it turns out that it was all a ruse by Grodd [[TheStarscream to stage a coup coup]] so he could conquer Earth-1. Nonetheless, Solovar is still not the most pleasant of individuals.
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* Chekhov's Gun: Averted. Julian shows that he's carrying a gun, but it's not used in this episode.

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* Chekhov's Gun: ChekhovsGun: Averted. Julian shows that he's carrying a gun, but it's not used in this episode.
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* AdventurerOutfit: Julian dresses up much like Indiana Jones for the trip to Earth-2, and even lampshades it, calling it "the perfect attire".
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* ArtisticLicenseGunSafety: Julian responds to objections over him joining the rescue operation by pointing out that he is armed. This involves him unnecessarily pulling his handgun from its holster (rather than just revealing its presence) and holding it with his finger on the trigger.
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* Chekhov's Gun: Averted. Julian shows that he's carrying a gun, but it's not used in this episode.
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** Once again, Team Flash are dealing with Grodd in an episode that is in the latter half of a season.

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** Once again, This is the third time in as many seasons that Team Flash are dealing with Grodd in an episode that is in the latter half of a season.Grodd.
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* BadBadActing: Caitlin pretending to be upset while trying to explain Barry's "death" to Grodd.


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** Once again, Team Flash are dealing with Grodd in an episode that is in the latter half of a season.

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