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* DeconstructedTrope: Max has the ability to move at SuperSpeed... but the forces this puts on his body and the lack of any RequiredSecondaryPowers means that he's tearing himself apart every time he does it.
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* DeconstructedTrope: Max has the ability to move at superspeed... but the forces this puts on his body means that he's tearing himself apart every time he does it.
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* DeconstructedTrope: Max has the ability to move at superspeed...SuperSpeed... but the forces this puts on his body means that he's tearing himself apart every time he does it.
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* TheEndOrIsIt: The ending implies that Tony either still has his SuperSpeed, or is at least going through a form of withdrawal where regular time feels painfully slow in comparison to the Rush.
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* TheEndOrIsIt: The ending implies that Tony still has his SuperSpeed.
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* MurderSuicide: Chastity chooses to [[OneHitPolyKill stand in the path of the bullet she kills Max with]], claiming to Tony that she "can't go back" to what her life was like without SuperSpeed.
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* AntagonisticOffspring: Max assaults his sheriff father for uncovering the heavy-duty flashlight he'd killed the deputy with, saying that he no longer needs to be afraid of him.
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* MonsterOfTheWeekEvilIsPetty: Max drives a teacher into a wall with a cafeteria table and then launches a chair at his head just because the teacher failed him on a test for cheating despite no proof...a test which he had perfectly filled out after coming to class in the final minute.
* LikeFatherUnlikeSon: The delinquent Max's father is the town's sheriff.
* MonsterOfTheWeek: An ordinary, albeit delinquent, teenager that found a way to gain SuperSpeed powers.
* LikeFatherUnlikeSon: The delinquent Max's father is the town's sheriff.
* MonsterOfTheWeek: An ordinary, albeit delinquent, teenager that found a way to gain SuperSpeed powers.
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* YouthIsWastedOnTheDumbYouthIsWastedOnTheDumb: Max uses his SuperSpeed powers for murder, cheating at tests, and playing a prank where he abandons a car mid-drive and then saves Tony right before it crashes.
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* RequiredSecondaryPowers: Averted.Notably averted. To put it in comic book terms, Max and the other teenagers are basically given Franchise/TheFlash's main power of SuperSpeed, but at the same time none of his SuperToughness or HealingFactor. Their very average human bodies therefore takes the full brunt of being subjected to stress that it isn't designed to handle, resulting in appropriate medical issues (exhaustion, muscular and skeletal damage, etc.).
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* DeconstructedTrope: Max has the ability to move at superspeed. Given superspeed... but the human forces this puts on his body isn't designed to move at such speeds, means that he's pretty much destroying tearing himself everytime apart every time he does it.
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* DeconstructedTrope: Max has the ability to move at superspeed. Given the human body isn't designed to move at such speeds, he's pretty much destroying himself everytime he does it.
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* RealityEnsues: Max has the ability to move at superspeed. Given the human body isn't designed to move at such speeds, he's pretty much destroying himself everytime he does it.
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* RequiredSecondaryPowers: Averted. To put it in comic book terms, Max and the other teenagers are basically given Franchise/TheFlash's main power of SuperSpeed, but at the same time none of his SuperToughness or HealingFactor. Their very average human bodies therefore takes the full brunt of being subjected to stress that it isn't designed to handle, resulting in appropriate medical issues (exhaustion, muscular and skeletal damage, etc.).
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* DrivenToSuicide: Chastity after killing Max, stepping into the path of the same bullet she uses to do it.
* EnhanceButton:Experimental Chuck Burks' experimental technology is used to extract an important clue from blurred security footage.
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* TheUnreveal: The source of the teens' super-speed is never explained. All that is known is they go into a cave, interact with a strange metal, and emerge with superpowers.
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* TheUnreveal: The source of the teens' super-speed is never explained. All that is known is they go into a cave, interact with a strange metal, and emerge with superpowers. Sadly before Mulder or Scully can test their theory about it effecting teenagers the cave is filled up with concrete.
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[[caption-width-right:350:''"It was such a [[TitleDrop rush]]... moving fast like that."'']]
[[caption-width-right:350:''"It was such a [[TitleDrop rush]]... moving fast like that."'']]
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[[Recap/TheXFiles Index]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS07E01TheSixthExtinction 1]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS07E02TheSixthExtinctionIIAmorFati 2]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS07E03Hungry 3]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS07E04Millennium 4]] | '''5''' | [[Recap/TheXFilesS07E06TheGoldbergVariation 6]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS07E07Orison 7]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS07E08TheAmazingMaleeni 8]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS07E09SignsAndWonders 9]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS07E10SeinUndZeit 10]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS07E11Closure 11]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS07E12XCops 12]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS07E13FirstPersonShooter 13]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS07E14Theef 14]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS07E15EnAmi 15]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS07E16Chimera 16]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS07E17AllThings 17]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS07E18BrandX 18]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS07E19HollywoodAD 19]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS07E20FightClub 20]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS07E21JeSouhaite 21]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS07E22Requiem 22]]]]-]]]
'''Season 7, Episode 05:'''
!Rush
->Written by David Amann\\
Directed by Robert Lieberman
->''"Speed, Scully. Somehow, Max Harden has found a way to move faster than the eye can see."''
-->-- '''Fox Mulder'''
[[Recap/TheXFiles Index]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS07E01TheSixthExtinction 1]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS07E02TheSixthExtinctionIIAmorFati 2]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS07E03Hungry 3]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS07E04Millennium 4]] | '''5''' | [[Recap/TheXFilesS07E06TheGoldbergVariation 6]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS07E07Orison 7]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS07E08TheAmazingMaleeni 8]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS07E09SignsAndWonders 9]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS07E10SeinUndZeit 10]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS07E11Closure 11]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS07E12XCops 12]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS07E13FirstPersonShooter 13]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS07E14Theef 14]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS07E15EnAmi 15]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS07E16Chimera 16]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS07E17AllThings 17]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS07E18BrandX 18]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS07E19HollywoodAD 19]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS07E20FightClub 20]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS07E21JeSouhaite 21]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS07E22Requiem 22]]]]-]]]
'''Season 7, Episode 05:'''
!Rush
->Written by David Amann\\
Directed by Robert Lieberman
->''"Speed, Scully. Somehow, Max Harden has found a way to move faster than the eye can see."''
-->-- '''Fox Mulder'''
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->''"What if we're too old? Well, you said that teenagers differ from adults chemically and physiologically."''
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* AntiVillain: Chastity, who goes along with her boyfriend more out of fear than devotion.
* BaitAndSwitch: In an inversion of the usual way this sort of plot goes down, [[TheCorrupter Max]] is the one who wanted a real friend in [[NaiveNewcomer Tony]]; Tony quickly gets cold feet and turns on Max while he's indisposed.
* BaitAndSwitch: In an inversion of the usual way this sort of plot goes down, [[TheCorrupter Max]] is the one who wanted a real friend in [[NaiveNewcomer Tony]]; Tony quickly gets cold feet and turns on Max while he's indisposed.
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Mulder and Scully investigate a bizarre murder and find a group of teenagers with SuperSpeed.
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* RequiredSecondaryPowers: Averted. Using super speed places stresses on the human body that it isn't designed to handle, resulting in appropriate medical issues (exhaustion, muscular and skeletal damage, etc.).
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* MotionBlur: a A key plot-point where security footage at a high school was found to show a strange blur. Using experimental technology to colorize it, the agents reveal the blur is made up of the school colors, suggesting that it comes from the jacket of one of the (superpowered) students.
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* OneHitPolykill: A teen essentially commits murder-suicide in this way, shooting someone in the back, and then using her super speed to step into the path of the bullet as is passes through.
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* BlessedWithSuck: The cave grants adolescents SuperSpeed; unfortunately, it also omits the RequiredSecondaryPowers, which leads to the users of the power literally tearing their bodies apart.
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* SuperSpeed: What the cave provides to teenagers.
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