Why were no metas created after the particle accelerator exposition in Flash S04E03?

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I was watching The Flash Season 04. I watched Episode 03 - "Luck Be a Lady". In that in the end, Becky's powers expand out of control, reactivating the particle accelerator, which Harry deliberately allows, nullifying Becky's powers and leading to her incarceration.

My question is, why does it only affects Becky and not create new metas?

We have seen whenever something bad happens to the particle accelerator (I mean when it explodes) in any universe, it creates metas.

Is there any clarification on this?



Best Answer

Because no dark matter got released this time. The particle accelerator doesn't make meta humans; dark matter does. From the first episode:

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You can see red waves of energy which were responsible for making meta humans. We know this as dark matter.

Even when Harry was confident enough to restore Barry's power by a second explosion, with the over-confidence of being able to contain dark matter with Eobard's data, there was little leak which hit Jesse Wells and Wally West:

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It's again shown red.

When dark matter got released back when team flash tried to rescue the Flash from the speed force and made bu full of metas:

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Again red.

And when the particle accelerator nearly exploded because of Hazard's luck power, we see this:

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It's clear that it's full blue and have even no red tint, so no dark matter released. But what really happen is explained well by Cisco himself:

Cisco: What just happened? [EXHALES SHARPLY] The hydrogen electron collision released a charge that temporarily negated Hazard's quantum field.

Cisco: We did it.

Cisco: You did it.

Cisco: How did you know to do that?

Wells: Lucky guess.

That's why no new meta formed.


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What happened to the particle accelerator in the Flash?

After Iron Heights Prison opened a meta-human wing, Team Flash no longer used the accelerator as a prison. However, after Barry and Firestorm defeated Henry Hewitt he was incarcerated in the Pipeline until he agreed to keep quiet about what he'd seen and done.

Is the particle accelerator in the Flash comics?

While the particle reactor isn't from The Flash comics, Barry does get his powers from lightning in his origins. But that storm is filled with the much more comic book-y "chemicals," which wouldn't play particularly well on screen. But there are plenty of similarities between the S.T.A.R.

What episode does the particle accelerator explode in Arrow?

In the final scene of \u201cThree Ghosts,\u201d the particle accelerator explodes and lighting strikes Barry while he's standing in his lab\u2014the same lighting strike that gave his character super speed in the comics.



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