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* In "Duet," a depowered Flash and Supergirl try to stop a gang war from breaking out by ''running right in the middle of the crossfire''. Fortunately, this didn't end fatally for them.

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* In "Duet," a depowered Flash and Supergirl try to stop Supergirl find a gang war from breaking out by ''running right in shooting outside.\\
'''You'd Expect:''' Them to remember that they don't have their powers anymore and thus they should stay inside since there's nothing they can do to help.\\
'''Instead''': They ''foolishly run into
the middle of the crossfire''. Fortunately, this didn't end fatally for them.crossfire and get shot''. Had they not been saved through ThePowerOfLove, they would have died.\\
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'''You'd Expect''': '''''BARRY JUST FRIGGIN KILL/THROW ZOOM IN THE PIPELINE RIGHT THEN AND THERE!!!! OR SOMEBODY ELSE JUST BLOW THE BASTARD TO HELL!!!!'''''\\
'''Instead''': HonorBeforeReason. JUST...HonorBeforeReason.\\

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'''You'd Expect''': '''''BARRY JUST FRIGGIN KILL/THROW ZOOM IN THE PIPELINE RIGHT THEN AND THERE!!!! '''''Barry to fight him!!! Or the others to shoot him!!!! OR SOMEBODY ELSE JUST BLOW THE BASTARD TO HELL!!!!'''''\\
ANYTHING OTHER THAN GIVING WHAT HE WANTS!'''''\\
'''Instead''': HonorBeforeReason. JUST...HonorBeforeReason.\\\\
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* Pretty much the entirety of Barry's "impersonate my alternate universe self" plan in "Welcome to Earth-2." Unsurprisingly, it gets Earth-2 Joe killed and Barry himself captured by Zoom. Comes off as particularly egregious considering that he spends a lot of time angsting about putting his loved ones in danger (even pushing Patty away because of it) and yet does it to his Earth-2 counterparts without much thought.

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* Pretty much the entirety of Barry's "impersonate my alternate universe self" plan in "Welcome to Earth-2." Unsurprisingly, it gets Earth-2 Joe killed and Barry himself captured by Zoom. Comes off as particularly egregious considering that he spends a lot of time angsting about putting his loved ones in danger (even pushing Patty away because of it) and yet does it to his Earth-2 counterparts without much thought.\\



'''Even Worse:''' Zoom's eyes turn black several seconds before he escapes, and he wastes time making a boast. Barry could easily take the time then to run Zoom to the Pipeline, or at least engage him, rather than waiting for him to escape and then play catch-up. Were he to do so, even if Zoom goes after Barry's friends and family, he wouldn't have time to grab them as Barry would be right on top of him.

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'''Even Worse:''' Zoom's eyes turn black several seconds before he escapes, and he wastes time making a boast. Barry could easily take the time then to run Zoom to the Pipeline, or at least engage him, rather than waiting for him to escape and then play catch-up. Were he to do so, even if Zoom goes after Barry's friends and family, he wouldn't have time to grab them as Barry would be right on top of him. \\
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* In "Escape from Earth-2," Zoom begins a manhunt for Dr. Wells.

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* In "Escape from Earth-2," Zoom begins a manhunt for Dr. Wells. \\



'''Result''': His warnings indirectly cause Wells to realize that Zoom's hunting him and gives him time to escape.

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'''Result''': His warnings indirectly cause Wells to realize that Zoom's hunting him and gives him time to escape.\\



* In "Back to Normal", Caitlin is held captive in Zoom's lair on Earth-2. While Zoom is gone, she meets [[AnIcePerson Killer Frost]], her EvilDoppleganger whom Zoom had imprisoned in an ice-proof cell. Killer Frost then offers a deal that if Caitlin frees her from the cell, she'll help her escape Zoom's lair. \\

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* In "Back to Normal", Caitlin is held captive in Zoom's lair on Earth-2. While Zoom is gone, she meets [[AnIcePerson Killer Frost]], her EvilDoppleganger EvilTwin whom Zoom had imprisoned in an ice-proof cell. Killer Frost then offers a deal that if Caitlin frees her from the cell, she'll help her escape Zoom's lair. \\

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'''As A Result''': Barry has no speed and therefore no real way to stop Zoom, Zoom has all of Barry's speed combined with his own insane amount, can travel through dimensions at will, has kidnapped [[MoralityPet Caitlin]], is ready to start his invasion of Earth-1 with his army and [[spoiler: eventual OmnicidalManiac plan to destroy every earth except Earth-1 so [[AGodAmI he can rule over it]].]] [[SarcasmMode Great hero we have here]].

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'''As A Result''': Barry has no speed and therefore no real way to stop Zoom, Zoom has all of Barry's speed combined with his own insane amount, can travel through dimensions at will, has kidnapped [[MoralityPet Caitlin]], is ready to start his invasion of Earth-1 with his army and [[spoiler: eventual OmnicidalManiac plan to destroy every earth except Earth-1 so [[AGodAmI he can rule over it]].]] [[SarcasmMode Great hero we have here]].\\
* In "Back to Normal", Caitlin is held captive in Zoom's lair on Earth-2. While Zoom is gone, she meets [[AnIcePerson Killer Frost]], her EvilDoppleganger whom Zoom had imprisoned in an ice-proof cell. Killer Frost then offers a deal that if Caitlin frees her from the cell, she'll help her escape Zoom's lair. \\
'''You'd Expect''': Caitlin to realize she's trusting a dangerous metahuman who might be planning to kill her and there will be nothing holding her back after Caitlin frees her. Keep in mind that she's alone and Barry doesn't even have his speed anymore to protect her.\\
'''Instead:''' Caitlin goes right ahead with freeing Killer Frost.\\
'''Predictably''': Killer Frost immediately reneges on the deal and tries to kill Caitlin, and Caitlin is only saved because Zoom showed up and killed Killer Frost.\\
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* At some point, Iris manages to pull a headshot on Dr Light, which doesn’t kill her, but does knock her helmet off her head, allowing Team Flash to discover her identity.\\
'''You’d Expect''': For Iris to shoot her again. After all, by that point, regardless of her true identity, Dr Light has clearly shown to be a dangerous metahuman that needs to be neutralized. It’s an especially good opportunity because a), Dr Light is disoriented from the previous shot and is vulnerable, and b), Dr Light isn’t wearing any kind of bulletproof clothing or anything like that. Iris doesn’t even have to kill Dr Light if she doesn’t want to (though she did initially go for a killshot by aiming for the head, but still). She can just give Dr Light a crippling shot in the kneecap or whatnot, or just punch her unconscious and have Barry take her to STAR Labs. Also, on a side note, Iris is '''not''' a superhero, so in a meta context, she’s not morally obliged to abide by ThouShaltNotKill.\\

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* At some point, Iris manages to pull a headshot on Dr Dr. Light, which doesn’t kill her, but does knock her helmet off her head, allowing Team Flash to discover her identity.\\
'''You’d Expect''': For Iris to shoot her again. After all, by that point, regardless of her true identity, Dr Dr. Light has clearly shown to be a dangerous metahuman that needs to be neutralized. It’s an especially good opportunity because a), Dr Dr. Light is disoriented from the previous shot and is vulnerable, and b), Dr Dr. Light isn’t wearing any kind of bulletproof clothing or anything like that. Iris doesn’t even have to kill Dr Dr. Light if she doesn’t want to (though she did initially go for a killshot by aiming for the head, but still). She can just give Dr Dr. Light a crippling shot in the kneecap or whatnot, whatnot (and immediately calling an ambulance), or just punch her unconscious and have Barry take her to STAR Labs. Also, on a side note, Iris is '''not''' a superhero, so in a meta context, she’s not morally obliged to abide by ThouShaltNotKill.\\



'''Result''': Dr Light recovers and escapes to potentially cause more havoc elsewhere and to try to kill her Earth-1 counterpart. Way to go, Iris.

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'''Result''': Dr Dr. Light recovers and escapes to potentially cause more havoc elsewhere and to try to kill her Earth-1 counterpart. Way to go, Iris.
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* Right after above example Caitlin visits Barry to tell him she made a serum that would stop Everyman from shapeshifting. Unknown to her she meets Everyman disguised as Barry. Since Everyman never met her he calles her "you" instead of her name, then when he follows her to S.T.A.R. labs he acts seriously unnatural for Barry, up to not knowing Iris' name(whom Barry knew since childhood).\\

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* Right after above example Caitlin visits Barry to tell him she made a serum that would stop Everyman from shapeshifting. Unknown to her she meets Everyman disguised as Barry. Since Everyman never met her he calles her "you" instead of her name, then when he follows her to S.T.A.R. labs he acts seriously unnatural for Barry, up to not knowing Iris' name(whom Barry knew since childhood). And by seriously unnatural for Barry, we mean ''repeatedly kissing Caitlin to her own confusion.'' The only time Barry and Caitlin ''might'' have communicated interest in each other was back in episode 12, when A) Barry opened up about never being noticed by Iris B) Barry gets Linda Park's number and C) Caitlin got ''seriously'' drunk.\\



'''You'd then expect''': Seeing as between them two Barry is clearly the more trustworthy one he'd say that he'll do it ''after'' Cold fulfilled his part of the dead. Then he can either play GuileHero and not do it or HonorBeforeReason and fulfill his end of the deal after Cold fulfilled his.\\
'''Instead''': He destroys evidence right of the bat leaving himself with no leverage to force Cold to fulfill his end of the bargain.\\

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'''You'd then expect''': Seeing as between them two Barry is clearly the more trustworthy one he'd say that he'll do it ''after'' Cold fulfilled his part of the dead.deal. Then he can either play GuileHero and not do it or HonorBeforeReason and fulfill his end of the deal after Cold fulfilled his.\\
'''Instead''': He destroys evidence right of off the bat leaving himself with no leverage to force Cold to fulfill his end of the bargain.\\

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