This sort of time-travel stuff isn't new on The Flash. Central City is saved.īarry and Iris named their daughter Nora, after Barry's mother. This time, knowing Barry acting alone could result in his death and subsequently prevent her own birth, Nora assists Barry in punching down The Thinker's satellites. Just as Barry is about to superspeed punch the satellites hovering over Central City under control of The Thinker, Nora reverses time. It's Jessica Parker Kennedy ( Colony), wearing the same jacket Iris wore when she gained speedster powers a few episodes ago. In this year's finale, The Thinker's villainous "enlightenment" plan was almost complete, but then a streak of purple lightning starts trailing Barry's. She seems to have been watching The Flash right with us all season long, appearing four times since her surprise visit to the West-Allen wedding. In the comic books, the daughter of Iris and Barry is Dawn Allen, one half of their offspring, the " Tornado Twins."īy "a big mistake," Nora refers to saving the world. You can catch up with The Flash: The Complete Season 5 on DVD and Blu-ray which is available now."I think I made a big mistake," says mystery girl, who reveals herself to be Nora West Allen in The Flash Season 4 finale episode, "We are the Flash." Her appearance was far from a surprise, but the name change was a nice twist. Timeline problems aside, our characters end on a happy, if somewhat existential point, preparing us for a season of Superhero parenthood and questions of what the future of the Arrowverse really looks like.
Now flooded with questions about her past, she wonders if maybe, just maybe, she may know more about her father’s death than she first thought.Īnd now you’re ready for Season 5, with all its future daughters, newborns and Killer Frost revelations. She learns that her powers were awakened during an accident in her youth, and not the all too common particle accelerator explosion as she had thought. Well, other than facing all those super villains of course.Īnd what about about Killer Frost? During a fight with the thinker, it is revealed that Caitlin’s abilities are not actually being taken from frost, but are actually kept deep within her. Despite being successful parents, they feel that starting all over again so late in life may be the biggest challenge they have ever faced. Nora feels the burden as well, thinking she has made a terrible mistake and may actually have destroyed her own future with her intervention.Īnd it’s not just them, both Joe and Cecile have just had a child themselves. Knowing Nora is an inevitability and now required to save the city from DeVoe’s onslaught, they feel like the choice is no longer theirs, and the pressure mounts. But with the knowledge of the future and the anxieties of starting a family, the situation starts to have a serious effect on their relationship. With this shocking revelation and Nora’s motivating presence, Barry and Iris decided to finally get married.
Barry almost doesn’t save the day, but is helped by a mysterious speedster ally, who is revealed to be Barry’s future daughter, Nora. Chasing DeVoe through his own mind, Barry must use the power of emotions and love to best the cold, calculating DeVoe.īarry barely managed to win against this superhuman force, and has to use all his powers to save the city from DeVoe’s falling satellites, dropped from orbit as last backup plan to ensure victory. In order to beat this strange new foe, Barry must enter his mind as his brain is the only one fast enough to survive the ordeal. The ‘Enlightenment’ as DeVoe calls it, begins with stealing the power of Central City to power his brain zapping array. The Thinker, originally, Clifford DeVoe, wants to fix the slow dumbing down of humanity due to our reliance on technology, and creates a team of metahumans to achieve his goals. Team Flash battles the Thinker, a villain with a mighty intellect granted after surviving a traumatic particle accelerator explosion. The legendary speedster is bolting back onto our screens with the launch of The Flash: The Complete Fifth Season on Blu-ray and DVD today! In order to prepare you for the inevitable binge watching before Season Six, we’ve created a lighting fast catchup of where Season Four left us in its finale ‘We Are The Flash’.