The Flash - 'All Star Team Up'

"And remember, the port..."
"Yeah, we did that joke in the last post."

The Flash goes up against a perfectly human mad scientist with a swarm of killer robot bees at her disposal. He is ill-equipped to battle a mass of insects, but fortunately help is at hand, in the form of Felicity Smoake and her new beau, Ray Palmer.

"It's like dating Barry Allen in Oliver Queen's body... which is a sentence you will never repeat."

Okay, I am way behind on Arrow, so Ray Palmer was a bit left field for me, even before he turned out to be ex-Superman Brandon Routh and - and this threw me a major loop - not able to alter his size at all. He's actually just a slightly awkward Iron Man. I guess the shrinking will come along later.

Anyway, the superheroics are a little beside the point on this one. Atom uses his bee-proof supersuit to help Flash thwart the Bug-Eyed Bandit (and helps Cisco, who totally becomes his super-science bro, to name her,) Flash arrests her and everyone goes home happy. Except that actually there is no happy. Felicity actually comments that she leaves Starling City to get away from the brooding, but Central City is getting just as bad.

Eddie and Iris's relationship is strained to breaking point by Barry and Joe's request that Eddie keep the Flash's identity a secret from Iris. Major points to Eddie for his insistence that she should know and that keeping her in the dark to protect her is wrong.

"I'm her father."
"And I'm her boyfriend. When does my vote outweigh yours?"
"When you become her husband."

Daaamn, Joe; showing the age there a little. Also, that's never happening, because Iris refuses any explanations or rationales and walks out until such time as Eddie makes full disclosure. Kudos to Barry for trying to help, having created the problem, effectively catching Eddie between a duty of confidence to his mentor and his friend, and his duty of honesty to Iris. It's a bit sucky for him, and you can see why his descendants might bear a grudge against the Flash.

Moreover, taking Felicity's advice over Joe's, Barry brings Cisco and Caitlin in on his suspicions about Dr Wells. Caitlin is skeptical, but it turns out that Cisco has been remembering flashes of the timeline in which he was killed after Thawne revealed his true identity. Team Flash will never be the same, for certain.