With his new abilities, Batman quickly murdered his own rogues gallery, despite Barry's pleas to tell him to stop. As a result, Batman and Flash are forcibly fused into one being, with Bruce gaining Flash's powers and a corrupt connection to the Speed Force while Barry's consciousness became trapped inside Bruce's body. After knocking Flash out, Batman then chains him to the hood of the Batmobile (which he had modified using the designs of the Cosmic Treadmill) and drives him and Flash into the Speed Force. When Earth -52 was on the verge of destruction, Batman uses weapons he obtained from the Rogues ( Captain Cold's freeze ray, Heat Wave's heat gun, Mirror Master's mirror gun, and Weather Wizard's wand) to fight the Flash from his universe, who had refused to give him the Speed Force powers. Unfortunately, as time went on, many different Robins had lost their lives during various missions with the Caped Crusader, which drove him mad and caused him to adopt more extreme methods towards crime-fighting. I’m still not sure what this could mean, although there are theories out there that indicate he could be anyone from Barry to Jay Garrick to Wally.The Batman of Earth -52 once fought crime with the help of his Robins, who were his sidekicks. But the key would seem to be that he’s known to Team Flash, or at least to Ms. You don’t call yourself the God of Speed if you’re new to the game or lack a healthy ego. Considering that the CW is expanding the backstory of their timeline with the introduction of the JSA on Legends of Tomorrow, I’d be cool with this Savitar simply being an earlier speedster, even this world’s first speedster. And, of course, Killer Frost’s reaction to the Savitar reveal at the end of “The Once and Future Flash” implies something quite different.Īs for speculating on his actual identity? I’d be a little surprised if he’s from an alternate Earth or even from the Flashpoint timeline, both of which would feel a little lazy. I couldn’t help but feel like the bearded guy in the hood with the nasty looking knife looks like he could be Savitar without that crazy Speed Force armor, but I might very well be imagining things. DC recently announced they’re going to start reprinting Mark Waid’s entire run on Flashin nice new TPBs, but it might take a little while before we get to “Dead Heat.” You can find out of print versions of it, though.Īnyway, what does all this have to do with the Savitar from the show? Well, Alchemy and his cult were revealed as disciples of Savitar.
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Fans of the TV series will find lots of familiar stuff to love, even though your main Flash is Barry and not Wally, the tone will feel very familiar. I’m not going to recap “Dead Heat” here, because really, you should go read it. You can see his fondness for edged weapons on the show when that blade thingy popped out of his Transformers-looking fist there.īut just as Savitar can giveth, Savitar can taketh away, kids! He can sap your connection to the Speed Force, so if you’re hoping to spend an episode with Barry moping around without his powers (c’mon, it’s becoming a tradition on this show!) you’re likely to get your wish this year.
They’re basically speedster ninjas with a fondness for edged weapons, and things get pretty messy for his victims.
He was a nameless fighter pilot during the Cold War for a nation that most certainly wasn’t the US or Russia whose plane was struck by a mysterious bolt of lightning, and after that, his powers manifested, so he did what any sensible person would do in that situation: he named himself after the Hindu god of speed (Savitr, no seriously, look it up) and formed a cult! Since one of his deals is that he can transfer his speed to others, you can imagine the rewards of joining the cult of Savitar. He’s more than a speedster, he’s essentially the man who discovered the Speed Force. Savitar was introduced in a story called “Dead Heat” and that remains his only real story. Waid’s period writing Flashwas marked by an expansion of the character’s mythos and powers (the Speed Force is one of the things to come into play during the Waid years, for example), a greater focus on additional speedsters (Jay Garrick as mentor to all speedsters and Jesse Quick’s rise to prominence came during this time), and new villains, one of whom was our pal Savitar.
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