History TheFlash / SeasonSix

* LikeYouWouldReallyDoIt: The Monitor tells Barry and Iris in the season premiere that in order to survive the Crisis, "[[ExactWords Flash must die]]." However, the show was renewed for a full season, Barry [[AbsenteeActor sits the events of the fifth episode out]], and [[Arrow/SeasonEight Oliver is also fated to die in the Crisis]] under much more likely circumstances, all of which imply that Barry is going to make it out of the Crisis.

* BigBadEnsemble: [[NebulousEvilOrganisation Black Hole]] is one of the OverarchingVillain for this season at least, while the Anti-Monitor readies his game plan leading up to ''Crisis on Infinite Earths''. Meanwhile:

* LeftHanging: Production for this season had to end several episodes early due to the [[UsefulNotes/{{Coronavirus}} worldwide pandemic]] going on at the time. As a result the season's running plot won't be fully resolved in the season finale. The first three episodes of season 7 were used to resolve it, albeit with some rewrites - Hartley Sawyer [[RoleEndingMisdemeanour had been fired when old offensive tweets resurfaced]], and the production delays meant that Danielle Panamaker's pregnancy was no longer an issue. Therefore Frost took Elongated Man's role in the endgame.

* LeftHanging: Production for this season had to end several episodes early due to the worldwide pandemic going on at the time. As a result the season's running plot won't be fully resolved in the season finale. It's unclear how this will affect Season 7.

* TheFinalTemptation: The two-episode arc, "The Last Temptation of Barry Allen," is this for Barry ([[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin duh]]) just before he expects to die in the Crisis on Infinite Earths, during which Bloodwork tempts Barry with the prospect of a life with Iris and baby Nora if Barry gives into Ramsey's infection, which would ([[ExactWords techn]][[DeathOfPersonality ically]]) allow him to survive the Crisis.

** The season premiere sees Barry [[Recap/TheFlash2014S1E23FastEnough once again]] stopping a [[UnrealisticBlackHole black hole]]. In the second half of the season, the main villains the heroes go up against (briefly alluded to in the first half) are a [[TheSyndicate shadowy group]] known as "The Black Hole".

* IntrepidReporter: While Iris still finds the time to serve as Team Flash's MissionControl and Co-Leader when they need her, her Journalism career at "The Citizen" really starts to take off, as she, Kamilla and Alegra, aka Team Citizen, begin looking into "The Black Hole" to help Barry take them down.

* LikeYouWouldReallyDoIt: The Monitor tells Barry and Iris in the season premiere that in order to survive the Crisis, "[[ExactWords Flash must die]]." However, the show was renewed for a full season, Barry [[AbsenteeActor sits the events of the fifth episode out]], and [[Arrow/SeasonEight Oliver is also fated to die in the Crisis on Infinite Earths]] under much more likely circumstances, all of which imply that Barry is going to make it out of the Crisis.
* NothingIsTheSameAnymore: The world of Oliver's Earth-Prime is much more different than Earth-1 than Barry realizes.
* RealLifeWritesThePlot: Caitlin's absence from some episode, due to Creator/DaniellePanabaker's pregnancy, and the abrupt DownerEnding due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
* ScrewDestiny: Iris takes this stance relative to the Crisis, insisting to Barry that since the Crisis hasn't happened yet, they can still prevent Barry's death[[note]]much like how Diggle is insisting the same to Oliver in Arrow Season 8[[/note]], but Barry resigns to his fate after seeing that only one timeline resulted in Iris's and the others' survival, and that was the one timeline where Barry sacrifices himself to stop the Crisis.

* TimeyWimeyBall: Par for the course with the show, obviously, but major timeline changes take place after the end of Season 5 due to Thawne's manipulations to the timeline, including the Crisis on Infinite Earths happening on December 10th, 2019, not in 2024, as the article had originally read. Nora is also erased from existence, [[Recap/TheFlash2014S5E22Legacy obviously]], as a result of the timeline changing after Cicada's dagger was destroyed, which is a major part of Barry and Iris's character arcs this season, with the two grieving heavily over the loss of their child.

* TheBusCameBack: Wally will return at some point this season, as will Amunet Black and The Reverse Flash.

** The second half has this show's version of Mirror Master, [[GenderFlip Eva McCulloch]], biding her time to free herself from a mirror dimension and get revenge on her husband who happens to be the leader of Black Hole.

* ArcWords: "A world without the Flash." Barry is trying to prep his team and the world for when the Crisis comes and Barry meets his prophesied end.
* BigBadEnsemble:
** This season has two [[BigBad Big Bads]], one for each half of the season, as well as the looming threat and subsequent fallout of the Anti-Monitor in the Crisis on Infinite Earths, this year's [[CrisisCrossover crossover]], which is set to play a much larger role than the previous crossovers. The first half of the season has Dr. Ramsey Rosso, aka Bloodwork, as the main villain, though Barry is (for the most part) more preoccupied with [[TonightSomeoneDies the Monitor's prophecy of his fate in the Crisis]] during Rosso's time in the chair.
** The second half will focus on "The Black Hole" a terrorist organization that has been operating in the background of Central City, long before Barry became the Flash.

* {{Foreshadowing}}: Jay Garrick's antimatter tracking map in "A Flash of the Lightning" shows that the next antimatter wave is expected at Earth-2. Earth-2 is promptly destroyed at the end of Arrow's Season 8 premiere, "[[Recap/ArrowS8E1StarlingCity Starling City]]," hours after the episode aired.

* BigBadEnsemble: This season has two [[BigBad Big Bads]], one for each half of the season, as well as the looming threat and subsequent fallout of the Anti-Monitor in the Crisis on Infinite Earths, this year's [[CrisisCrossover crossover]], which is set to play a much larger role than the previous crossovers. The first half of the season has Dr. Ramsey Rosso, aka Bloodwork, as the main villain, though Barry is (for the most part) more preoccupied with [[TonightSomeoneDies the Monitor's prophecy of his fate in the Crisis]] during Rosso's time in the chair.

* TragicKeepsake: Nora's will, originally, but eventually Barry and Iris settle for Nora's jacket after the Monitor destroys the former.

* BigBad: An interesting case. Bloodwork would normally be the major threat for the entire season, but thanks to the upcoming Crisis, he's been downplayed.

* ScrewDestiny: Iris takes this stance relative to the crisis, insisting to Barry that since the Crisis hasn't happened yet, they can still prevent Barry's death[[note]]much like how Diggle is insisting the same to Oliver in Arrow Season 8[[/note]], but Barry resigns to his fate after seeing that only one timeline resulted in Iris's and the others' survival, and that was the one timeline where Barry sacrifices himself to stop the Crisis.

* TimeyWimeyBall: Par for the course with the show, obviously, but major timeline changes take place after the end of Season 5 due to Thawne's manipulations to the timeline, including the Crisis on Infinite Earths happening on December 10th, 2019, not in 2024, as the article had originally read. Nora is also erased from existence, [[TheFlash2014S5E22Legacy obviously]], as a result of the timeline changing after Cicada's dagger was destroyed, which is a major part of Barry and Iris's character arcs this season, with the two grieving heavily over the loss of their child.

** At the beginning of the premiere, a version of Godspeed is running around 2019 Central City. Since Nora isn't there to [[TheFlash2014S5E18Godspeed stop him]] in the new timeline, imperfect clones/test subjects of his are in present-day Central City.

** At the beginning of the premiere, a version of Godspeed is running around 2019 Central City. Since Nora isn't there to [[TheFlashS5E18Godspeed stop him]] in the new timeline, imperfect clones/test subjects of his are in present-day Central City.

* {{Foreshadowing}}: Jay Garrick's antimatter tracking map in "A Flash of the Lightning" shows that the next antimatter wave is expected at Earth-2. Earth-2 is promptly destroyed at the end of Arrow's Season 8 premiere, "[[Recap/ArrowS8E01StarlingCity Starling City]]," hours after the episode aired.