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6. The Death Of Nora Allen #2

The Flash Season 1 Finale Barry Nora Allen
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At plenty of times throughout The Flash’s run to date, we’re seen and revisited the death of Nora Allen. And here we got to see it once again.

Rather than feeling like just a case of the ‘same old, same old’, this new death felt even more tragic than what we’d seen before.

As Reverse-Flash is about to kill Nora, we see The Flash turn up to save the day. Turning to his mother, Barry then explains how everything is going to be okay, managing to calm his mother down and offer a reassuring voice… only for another Reverse-Flash to turn up then brutally kill Nora.

You really can’t help but feel for poor Nora here, with the whole event proving to be even more traumatic this time around than it was initially. Being saved and then killed is a horrible way to go out for the character, but, as Eobard Thawne had earlier explained, the death of Nora was unavoidable if the ‘regular’ timeline was to come back to being.

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