Hey youtubers it’s Charlie, this week on the Flash we met a couple more big comic book
characters and got some more information about the big villain.
So I’ll start with my top 5 easter eggs then do my review and circle back around for
all the other references I spotted.
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I’ll wait just a sec...okay, top 5 easter eggs,
Number 5 - Barry Needs Junk Food
Anyone who saw the original Flash TV Series with John Wesley Shipp might remember the
scene where he ate like 18 pizzas while Doctor McGee watched him.
The way Caitlin Snow explained everything is a lot more complex but The Flash draws
on the Speed Force to give him his power.
His body is mostly the same, he still has to burn calories like anyone else.
He just burns a shitload more.
That’s where all the junk food comes from.
When they went back to Barry’s lab you could see all the empty pastry boxes.
By the end of the episode Cisco had created a crazy powerful version of a clif bar.
So I don’t think they’ll do a ton more Junk Food jokes.
We might see him throwing away the occasional candy bar wrapper though.
One of those energy bars he’s got is the equivalent of 850 Tacos.
Also equal to one Chipotle Burrito.
Number 4 - We Were All Struck By That Lightning
This is a huge wink at the comics, at least one other person in that group was probably
struck by the speed force lightning.
I won’t say who exactly just in case you haven’t read the comics.
But Caitlin Snow and Cisco Ramon both have super powers un-related to the lightning.
It’s unclear whether or not the show will give them powers.
But Caitlin Snow’s alias is Killer Frost, she has Cold based powers and Cisco’s is
Vibe, he can create shock waves.
That’s why everytime Danielle Panabaker makes a funny face when Barry talks about
metahumans I feel like she secretly was affected by the Star Labs explosion and just isn’t
telling them.
Number 3 - Metamorpho
Simon Stagg, the person William Sadler was playing is directly responsible for the creation
of Metamorpho, the show isn’t doing that character this season, and they just killed
Simon Stagg, but the whole idea of cells adapting to become anything the body needs is a pretty
good nod.
Multiplex is a different villain in the comics, but his powers are pretty much what you saw.
He makes copies of himself.
It seemed like he died too at the end, so we might not see him again.
Number 2 - Captain Clone
Cisco naming super villains is probably going to continue to be a thing which is awesome.
But Captain Clone is just a wink at Captain Cold who we’ll meet in Episode 4.
Obviously when we see all the rogues for the first time they’ll appear their real selves.
So we’ll be meeting Leonard Snart, not Captain Cold.
He’s being played by Wentworth Miller from Prison Break.
He is probably going to be the coolest villain this season, no pun intended.
But seriously, he’s not the biggest villain.
If you watched Arrow Season 2, think of him more as a Brother Blood level villain, like
a medium bad.
and my number 1 easter egg - Firestorm
Next week is when we’ll meet Ronnie Raymond aka Firestorm.
It sounds like it’s going to be a flashback to before the star labs explosion.
He’s Danielle Panabaker’s fiancee, part of the reason she’s so angry all the time
is because he died, or she thinks he died.
The episode is called “Things You Can’t Outrun”, which is a reference to the other
villain they’ll be chasing “Mist”.
I also think it’s a reference to a nuclear explosion.
Like the flash can’t out run something that devestating.
It’s just a reference to Firestorm’s Nuclear based powers.
Hopefully we’ll get to see Robbie Amell as Firestorm in present day.
But he’ll eventually be part of Team Flash the same way Oliver Queen started adding people
to Team Arrow.
Very excited, I know all the Tomorrow People fans were pumped when the cast him as a big
comic book superhero.
I already did a big explainer video for him and for captain cold.
So I’ll add links to those in the description if you want to learn more about those characters.
Just as a bonus WTF Comic Book Moment - Harrison Wells, we have to talk about him.
Clearly someone sinister, if he had been a future version of Barry he would not have
killed Stagg.
The evidence that he’s really professor zoom is stacking up.
There’s still a chance he could be a different version of the reverse flash.
There are many of them.
I also did a video explaining them all.
Lots of explaining going around.
So if you want to dig deeper on all these huge characters just check the description.
Let me know though, what was your favorite moment and do you think Harrison Wells is
Professor Zoom or do you think he’s someone else?
Overall I gave the episode an A minus for digging deeper into the character relationships.
All the comic book stuff is great, but that means nothing if the characters fall flat.
Of all the relationships on the show, not sexual relationships, the ones I’m most
interested in right now are Barry and Caitlin, Barry and Harrison and Barry and Eddie Thawne.
Eddie Thawne isn’t really much of a character yet.
We’ll probably get a lot more time with him soon.
Harrison of course is throwing all the WTF moments at us, he’s definitely obsessed
with Barry in a very time travely way.
And Caitlin Snow is probably the most complex character on the show right now.
Which for me, makes her the most interesting.
She clearly has a lot she’s not telling everyone.
Yet.
Cisco, Detective West and Iris West are all totally open books.
There is nothing they are hiding.
So most of the intrigue will come from those other characters.
The story was great, Barry realizing his limits and everyone else realizing that as long as
Barry Believes in himself, he kind of doesn’t have limits.
We’ll continue to learn more about the nature of the speed force and how his powers work.
Right now he’s still using it in a relatively unsophisticated way.
Like swirling beakers around and running around things.
In the comics, he can vibrate his body so fast he can pass through solid objects and
with the aid of the Star Labs jacked up treadmill.
He can travel through time.
I almost forgot, Treadmill equals cosmic treadmill easter egg.
Be sure to let me know if you spotted any other comic book references in the episode
that I missed.
But next week is Firestorm, prepare thyself.
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