The Flash (2014 TV Series) Episode: The Race of His Life

"The Race of His Life"

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Yeah, locking up Barry. That was the easy part. Using our plan to take down Zoom, without Barry, that will be the hard part.

—Harrison Wells

The Race of His Life is an episode of season 2 of The Flash. It premiered on May 24, 2016.

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Reverse-Flash (Eobard Thawne) (Cameo)
Time Wraiths (Flashback and main story)
Zoom/Black Flash/Hunter Zolomon (Earth-2) (First appearance as Black Flash) (Flashback and main story) (Also in a vision)
- The Flash/"Jay Garrick" (Earth-2) (Flashback only) (Cameo)
- Zoom's Time Remnant (Dies)

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It is revealed that Earth-1 is the center of the Multiverse.
Although it is not addressed in the episode, Barry running back in time to stop Eobard Thawne from killing his mother, Nora, causes the creation of the Flashpoint Timeline.
- In Barry Lyga's The Flash: Hocus Pocus novel, it is shown that a version of Iris West manages to convince Barry's doppleganger to not going back in time and, as a consequence, never create the alternate timeline.
  - Instead of creating an alternate timeline, this event causes the birth of a whole, new Multiverse, which is later referred to as "Barryverse",^[1] where the events of every Earth, including alternate versions of Earth-1 and Earth-38 which become the settings of The Flash and Supergirl novels, unfolded differently.

Barry Allen's Time Remnant sacrificing himself to prevent the destruction of the Multiverse is a callback to Earth-One The Flash/Barry Allen dying to save the Multiverse^[2] in Crisis on Infinite Earths.

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