The Flash (2014 TV Series) Episode: Legacy

"Legacy"

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Sometimes in life, all we can do is just live with the consequences.

—Barry Allen

Legacy is an episode of season 5 of The Flash. It premiered on May 14, 2019.

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Featured Characters:

The Flash (Barry Allen) (Flashback and main story)
XS/Nora West-Allen (Nora's Future) (Flashback and main story) (Also as an illusion) (Erased)

Supporting Characters:

Antagonists:

Cicada/Grace Gibbons (Nora's Future) (Erased)
Cicada (Orlin Dwyer) (As an illusion only) (Also as an hallucination)
Reverse-Flash/Eobard Thawne (Pre-Flashpoint) (Flashback and main story) (Impersonates Harrison Wells)

Other Characters:

Block (Vanessa Jansen) (Deceased) (In a photograph only) (Cameo)
The Central City Citizen (Nora's Future) (On a TV or computer screen) (Cameo)
The Flash/Barry Allen (Nora's Future) (On a TV or computer screen) (In a photograph only) (Cameo)
Gideon (Voice) (Cameo)
Gridlock (William Lang) (Deceased) (In a photograph only) (Cameo)
Harrison Wells (As an illusion only)
Henry Allen (Deceased) (In a photograph only) (Cameo)
Nora Allen (Deceased) (In a photograph only) (Cameo)
Razorsharp (Raelene Sharp) (Deceased) (In a photograph only) (Cameo)
Renee Adler (Behind the scenes)
Trevor Shinick (Nora's Future) (Dies in an erased timeline)
- Iron Heights guards (All die in an erased timeline)
The Atom (Nora's Future) (Mentioned only)
Batwoman (Nora's Future) (Mentioned only)
Cicada/David Hersch (Nora's Future) (Erased) (Mentioned only)
Cicada/Orlin Dwyer (Nora's Future) (Erased) (Mentioned only)
Clifford DeVoe (Mentioned only)
Green Arrow (Nora's Future) (Mentioned only)
Iris West-Allen (Nora's Future) (Mentioned only)
Mayor of Central City (Unnamed) (Mentioned only)
Ralph Dibny (Pre-Flashpoint) (Deceased) (Mentioned only)
Shadow Demons (Mentioned only)
Sue Dearbon (Mentioned only)
Supergirl (Earth-38) (Mentioned only)
White Canary (Mentioned only)
Ralph Macchio (Mentioned only)

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Concepts:

This episode confirms that Eobard Thawne is immune to change in the timeline due to his Negative Speed Force connection which basically makes him a living paradox.
- This mirrors his comic counterpart becoming a living paradox due to being in the Negative Speed Force during The Flashpoint.
In an erased timeline of Nora's Future, Eobard Thawne manages to kill Trevor Shinick and the other Iron Heights guards: however, XS and Flash are able to reverse time and erase the timeline by preventing the guards' death.
Nora's Future and all of its residents, including Nora and Grace Gibbons, are erased from existence as a consequence of the destruction of Cicada's Dagger,
- The events of "Into the Void" will reveal that this future still exist in a different form; it wil be eventually explored in Season 7.
Thawne's hair turning once again black implies that, after he had his powers restored, the effect of his appearance-stealing device was restored as well.
As a consequence of the creation of a new timeline, the Crisis is somehow shifted from 2024 to 2019 on Earth-1.
- Despite Thawne stating to "see Flash in the next Crisis", he doesn't actually appear in the Crisis on Infinite Earths event.

After meeting Team Flash, Eobard Thawne states that Ralph Dibny should be dead. This is a reference to Ralph's Pre-Flashpoint incarnation who died in the Particle Accelerator explosion as Thawne himself mentioned in "Power Outage".
Nora leaving a video message for the Earth-1 counterpart of her parents mirrors his father doing the same before vanishing in Crisis.^[1]

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