History Recap / TheFlash2014S1E7PowerOutage

* PowerLossMakesYouStrong: It causes Barry to rethink his priorities -- and results in his willingness to [[UpToEleven up his game]] and see how fast his SuperSpeed can ''really'' take him.

* AdultFear: When Iris gets dragged away by Tockman, and Joe hears the gunshot and doesn't know what happened.

* {{Foreshadowing}}: Barry's scolding to Wells about how uncareful is him and that he doesn't care about the people will have an important role later.

* {{Foreshadowing}}:
** Barry's scolding to Wells about how uncareful is him and that he doesn't care about the people will have an important role later.
** Wells mentions Ralph Dibny, whose [[spoiler:death would be negated and who in Season 4 would join Team Flash.]]

* HorrorHunger: Blackout must continually feed on electricity to survive. [[OurVampiresAreDifferent This includes draining humans of the electricity they produce.]]

* MundaneUtility: Barry, using his speed to change clothes, brush his teeth and get coffee.

* {{Foreshadowing}}: Wells mentions Ralph Dibny, whose [[spoiler:death would be negated and who in Season 4 would join Team Flash.]]
* GoodFeelsGood: Barry loves helping people and thinks the Flash is the better part of him

* MuggingTheMonster: The "hero" variety; after getting some coffee, Barry is held up at gunpoint by a common mugger. Barry is very cheerfully amused the mugger's poor luck (to the mugger's bemusement) and the confrontation ends with the mugger disarmed, stripped to his underwear and in front of a suddenly appearing police officer.

* ArtisticLicensePhysics: Barry jumps out of a car when Farooq shoots lightning at it. Cars are [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faraday_cage Faraday cages]] and the safest place for him was inside the car. Interestingly enough, Farooq seems to demonstrate this knowledge since in the beginning of the episode, at the sight of a lightning storm brewing, he tells his friends to get in the car. So it's possible the creators knew about this phenomenon (it ''is'' fairly common knowledge) but ignored it in favor of a [[RuleOfCool cool action scene]].

After an electrokinetic metahuman by the name of Farooq (aka Blackout) leaves Barry powerless, Barry has to figure out how to get his powers back. Things get more complicated after Blackout shows up at STAR Labs and William Tockman aka Clock King takes the police station hostage.

* AlasPoorVillain: Barry gets tears in his eyes after Tony dies at the hands of Blackout.

* AmbiguousSituation: It is revealed that Dr. Wells is actively working to make the future where Barry stops the Red Skies come to pass but his comments about Barry being motivated by helping others make it unclear whether this is out of malice or in order to prevent severe damage to the timestream.
* ArtisticLicensePhysics
** Barry jumps out of a car when Farooq shoots lightning at it. Cars are [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faraday_cage Faraday cages]] and the safest place for him was inside the car.
*** Interestingly enough, Farooq seems to demonstrate this knowledge since in the beginning of the episode, at the sight of a lightning storm brewing, he tells his friends to get in the car. So it's possible the creators knew about this phenomenon (it ''is'' fairly common knowledge) but ignored it in favour of a [[RuleOfCool cool action scene]].
** Barry being able to see and outrun electricity. To outrun a form of electromagnetic radiation, he had to have been running faster than ''the speed of light''.
*** ...Not quite. Barry is outrunning ''lightning'', which moves at merely 3,700 miles per second in atmosphere, as opposed to the speed of light which is 186,000 miles per second.

* BrickJoke: Joe smashes Barry's mug to test if he really lost his powers. He mourns how he "loves that mug". Later, Iris sees the smashed mug and says "Barry loved that mug".
** Possibly also counts as BookEnds; Barry meets Tockman when he's escorted into CCPD and compliments Barry's watch; after the blackout incident is over Barry goes back to the police station and one of the first things he sees is Tockman being dragged out.

* VillainousRescue: Clock King patches up Eddie to prevent his bleeding out from a bullet to the arm.

* WorfHadTheFlu: Clock King, a Batman and Green Arrow villain who could never hope to be a match for the Flash, lucks out in coming to Central City when he's depowered.

** Barry jumps out of a car when Farooq shoots lightening at it. Cars are [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faraday_cage Faraday cages]] and the safest place for him was inside the car.

* GenreSavvy: Blackout is overloaded by trying to drain the Speed Force from Barry, and appears to die. They put him in a cell anyway, just in case.
** [[DangerouslyGenreSavvy Tockman]] makes sure to wear Kevlar underneath his suit.

* AmbiguousSituation: It is revealed that Dr. Wells is actively working to make the future where Barry stops the Red Skies come to pass but his comments about Barry being motivated by helping others make it unclear whether this out of malice to prevent severe damage to the timestream.

After an electrokinetic metahuman by the name of Farooq (aka Blackout) leaves Barry powerless, Barry has to figure out how to get his powers back. Things get more complicated after Blackout shows up at STAR Labs and Clock King takes the police station hostage.

*** Interestingly enough, Farooq seems to demonstrate this knowledge since in the beginning, at the sight of a lightning storm brewing, he tells his friends to get in the car. So it's possible the creators knew about this phenomenon (it ''is'' fairly common knowledge) but ignored it in favour of a [[RuleOfCool cool action scene]].