So there were so many Easter Egg's in Tuesday's episode, "Flash Back". Let's dive right in!
The easter egg that stood out most to me was the list of Flash's villains. There are both classic Rogues and more obscure villains. It took a moment for me to figure out the pattern, but it has almost every single villain in the order they made there appearance.
From Right to Left, the list reads
Weather Wizard/Clyde Mardon ("Pilot" 1x1)
Captain Clone/Danton Black ("Fastest Man Alive" 1x2)
The Mist/Kyle Nimbus (Things You Can't Outrun" 1x3)
Captain Cold/Leonard Snart ("Going Rogue" 1x4)
Goldfinger/General Wade Eiling ("Plastique" 1x5)
Girder/Tony Woodward ("The Flash Is Born" 1x6)
Blackout/Farooq Gibran ("Power Outage" 1x7)
Reverse Flash/Eobard Thawne ("The Man in the Yellow Suit" 1x9)
Heat Wave/Mick Rory ("Revenge of the Rogues" 1x10)
Pied Piper/Hartley Rathaway ("The Sound and the Fury" 1x11)
Peek-A-Boo/Deshawn "Shawna" Baez ("Crazy for You" 1x12)
????? Weather Wizard/Mark Mardon ("Out of Time" 1x15)
The Trickster/James Jesse ("Tricksters" 1x17)
What I don't understand is what the Xs are for. All of the profiles are Xed out but Hartley. Even the villains to the right of Hartley that Barry would not have met yet in that time are Xed out.. These include Peek-A-Boo, Weather Wizard (Mark Mardon), and The Trickster (James Jesse). The Xs can't stand for villains dead or in custody since Heat Wave and Captain Cold are on a mission in Legends of Tomorrow. So the Xes elude me. I'm also not entirely sure if the 2nd to last photo is Mark Mardon or another villain.
What also makes me curious is the villains absent from this list. It skips over Roy G. Bivolo/Rainbow Raider from the 8th episode, "Flash vs. Arrow". Obviously there is no Gorilla Grodd photo, so episodes 13 and 14 are also skipped over. They skipped over episode 16, "Rogue Time", which introduces Lisa Snart/Golden Glider. It makes me wonder if they are not considering her a villain since season 2 episode 3, "Family of Rogues". The second Trickster, Axel walker, is also absent from the list. I really hope he comes back one day though. He is one of my favorite Rogues in the New 52 Flash comics.
It is very cute that they end the list on episode 1x17, considering this episode is 2x17. Very nice little detail.
Moving on, I wanted to address a few of the newspaper clippings seen next to the pictures.
Nothing stood out to me particularly. These clippings merely reflected past events of the show. I did notice that the side article on the bottom picture was written by Mason Bridge, with is a nice little homage to Iris's old boss who was killed by the Reverse Flash.
If you've seen Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (which I'm sure you have), the Ezra Miller's Flash makes an appearance in Batman's dream. He says, "Bruce, Bruce! Lois! Lois Lane, she is the key. Am I too soon? I'm too soon! You were right about him, you always have been right about him! Fear him! Find us Bruce! You have to find us!" Basically the Barry of the cinematic universe traveled back in time to warn Batman about something, but visited him to early. I felt like this was a tiny nod to Ezra Miller's Flash from the movie. Except in this episode, our Flash visits Hartley Rathaway a little to soon.
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I wonder if Firestorm's fate will change because of this? Since Legends of Tomorrow uses Jax, not Ronnie, as the 2nd half of Firestorm, I'm not exactly sure what this line means for Ronnie's future. But it clearly must be important, since they seem to emphasize this line on the show.
The line above is said by Eobard Thawne, the Reverse Flash. What would be insanely cool is if Zoom and the Reverse Flash teamed up in the season finale of season 2. Next week fans are getting the backstory of Zoom, and it is possible that Eobard might have some connection to the black-suit speedster. It may also be possible Eobard is referring to Kid Flash, Wally West, and Trajectory. It makes me wonder just how many other speedsters there are? Will fans get Inertia any time soon?
And finally, its time for me to address Hartley Rathaway as a hero and as a son. Let me give a quick backstory from the comics about the Pied Piper.
So Hartley is born deaf to two super rich parents. His dad is able to give Hartley some hearing implants so he can regain his hearing ability. After that, Hartley becomes obsessed with sound. He turns into a musical prodigy and learns to hypnotize people with his flute. Eventually he turns to crime, and while his parents don't approve, they tolerate it. They simply pay his bail and help him come up with aliases to keep a good family reputation.
After a while, Hartley turns from crime and becomes reformed, working as a vigilante. His parents still don't approve of his work as an outlaw, and eventually disown him. Finally, Hartley's mom, Rachel, writes a letter asking him to come back home. Hartley does, only to find that the Turtle (he was recently in episode 2x10 "Potential Energy") has taken his parents hostage. Hartley frees his parents and saves the day, becoming redeemed in his parents eyes. It's pretty emotional.
The one thing I hate about comics is that no one ever gets a happily ever after. Rathaway's parents are eventually murdered, and Hartley gets framed for it. He even believes he must have killed them. Wally West discovers that Hartley is innocent and that Mirror Master killed his parents. Not knowing this, Hartley breaks out of prison and teams up with The Rogues, hoping to infiltrate the team. He ends up on the run with the Trickster, James Jesse, when multiple super heroes try to kill the Rogues for being tricked by Inertia into killing Barth Allen.
Now on to my theory. It has been officially confirmed that Mirror Master is going to be in season two of the Flash. I think that it would be an interesting story line if they introduced the villain by having him kill Hartley's parents. The latest episode of The Flash seemed to emphasize the part at the end of the show about Hartley having dinner with his parents. I want to see if Hartley really is going to stay hero or not. He is the only one of the Rogues to go straight and stay hero permanently. So to have his parents killed, especially since he was so close to them in the comics, would be a big test for him. Fans could see if he would remain on Team Flash or, pardon my pun, go Rogue.
Also I really want to meet Hartley's family in this new timeline. He actually has a younger, disabled sister, Jerrie Rathaway, in the comics, and that might be something the show could work with. The last time we saw Hartley's parents was in season 1 episode 10, "Revenge of the Rogues". They had bought a very expensive painting called "Fire and Ice", which was stolen from them by Heat Wave and Captain Cold. So did that not happen in this timeline since Hartley is cool with his parents or what? So many questions to be answered in upcoming episodes!
And finally, its time for me to address Hartley Rathaway as a hero and as a son. Let me give a quick backstory from the comics about the Pied Piper.
So Hartley is born deaf to two super rich parents. His dad is able to give Hartley some hearing implants so he can regain his hearing ability. After that, Hartley becomes obsessed with sound. He turns into a musical prodigy and learns to hypnotize people with his flute. Eventually he turns to crime, and while his parents don't approve, they tolerate it. They simply pay his bail and help him come up with aliases to keep a good family reputation.
After a while, Hartley turns from crime and becomes reformed, working as a vigilante. His parents still don't approve of his work as an outlaw, and eventually disown him. Finally, Hartley's mom, Rachel, writes a letter asking him to come back home. Hartley does, only to find that the Turtle (he was recently in episode 2x10 "Potential Energy") has taken his parents hostage. Hartley frees his parents and saves the day, becoming redeemed in his parents eyes. It's pretty emotional.
The one thing I hate about comics is that no one ever gets a happily ever after. Rathaway's parents are eventually murdered, and Hartley gets framed for it. He even believes he must have killed them. Wally West discovers that Hartley is innocent and that Mirror Master killed his parents. Not knowing this, Hartley breaks out of prison and teams up with The Rogues, hoping to infiltrate the team. He ends up on the run with the Trickster, James Jesse, when multiple super heroes try to kill the Rogues for being tricked by Inertia into killing Barth Allen.
Now on to my theory. It has been officially confirmed that Mirror Master is going to be in season two of the Flash. I think that it would be an interesting story line if they introduced the villain by having him kill Hartley's parents. The latest episode of The Flash seemed to emphasize the part at the end of the show about Hartley having dinner with his parents. I want to see if Hartley really is going to stay hero or not. He is the only one of the Rogues to go straight and stay hero permanently. So to have his parents killed, especially since he was so close to them in the comics, would be a big test for him. Fans could see if he would remain on Team Flash or, pardon my pun, go Rogue.
Also I really want to meet Hartley's family in this new timeline. He actually has a younger, disabled sister, Jerrie Rathaway, in the comics, and that might be something the show could work with. The last time we saw Hartley's parents was in season 1 episode 10, "Revenge of the Rogues". They had bought a very expensive painting called "Fire and Ice", which was stolen from them by Heat Wave and Captain Cold. So did that not happen in this timeline since Hartley is cool with his parents or what? So many questions to be answered in upcoming episodes!
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