Without giving away too much, fans are going to be shocked. 'One of our best villain reveals was Reverse-Flash and were always trying to live up to that, and I really think that this is on par with that. That would be keeping with his comic book M.O. Candice Patton, who plays Iris, added her two cents on the Savitar reveal on The Flash Season 3. All of those hooded figures surrounding Alchemy when Wally West first arrives look like they were minions of the not so good Doctor, but the guess is that they are acolytes of Savitar instead. What’s likely to be the same is his cult of followers. So he could be a person from the Flashpoint timeline or the counterpart of an evil speedster from an alternate Earth. The writers on The Flash are likely to change up his origin somewhat to make him a more natural ally to Doctor Alchemy. While he had a cult of followers, Savitar did not share a permanent power bond with his minions in the comics. That led to Wally West, the Flash of the time, to have to cope with speed-powered ninjas as well as Savitar himself. That proved handy when he started a cult, one that grew during his time jump, and he was able to make his followers fast too. He portrayed Julian Albert and Savitar posessing Julian in The Flash. What made Savitar different from other speedsters is the way he could lend speed to other people or objects. Thomas Andrew Felton (born 22 September 1987) is an English actor. He then set out to learn everything he could about his powers and the Speed Force, and while Max Mercury tried to defeat him by giving him exactly what he wanted by leading him to the source of their speed, he ricocheted away and ended up in the future. In something of a play on the origins of both Barry Allen and Hal Jordan, he was testing out an experimental plane when it was hit by weird lightning, forcing him down behind enemy lines.Īs you might have guessed, he found he had super-speed and named himself after the Hindu god of motion. Savitar in the comicsĬreated by writer Mark Waid and artist Oscar Jiminez during their much loved mid-90s run on The Flash, Savitar was originally a fighter pilot for an unnamed third world nation during the Cold War. So what is he then? Let’s check out his namesake in the pages of DC Comics and see what clues we find. At least we highly suspect that’s the case, because it would take the series in a whole new crazy direction if he is. You’ve probably already guessed that he’s not a god, and you’d be right. He introduced himself as Savitar, the god of speed. We’ve been to that well a few times already, after all.īut while Doctor Alchemy looms as a powerful and mysterious adversary, episode 6, Shade, introduced another evil speedster into the mix. Season 3 of The Flash has given us a refreshing change of pace by presenting Barry Allen with a big bad who isn’t a speedster. Read our recap first, or better yet, watch the episode yourself before reading on. Fans of The Flash are still reeling from the reveal that Savitar was the future Barry Allen, but thankfully, the next episode lays out in, perfect detail, exactly how Barry becomes the villain. Note: This article contains minor spoilers for season 3, episode 6 of The Flash.
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