‘The Flash’ 3.01 “Flashpoint” Easter Eggs

3. Weather Wizard Namedrop & Pilot Episode Call Backs

Candice Patton said in a recent interview that fans who saw the pilot would notice some similarities in the premier of the third season. In the interview she made it sound like the relationship between Barry and Iris would be what is similar to the pilot, but in actuality it was the fight with The Rival that was most reminiscent of the series’ first episode. In the final third of Flashpoint, The Rival pulls a straight up Weather Wizard and creates two tornados to use against Barry. Little did The Rival know that these tornados were just like the tornado from the pilot episode. Barry easily “unraveled” the tornados by running opposite of their spin direction, just like he did in the pilot. To add more fuel to the fire, Flashpoint Cisco even pulled a normal-timeline Cisco and gave The Rival a second nickname in response to the tornados, the Weather Wizard. The villain in the pilot episode happened to be the brother of the real Weather Wizard. Coincidence? I think not.