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| “ | Like I told you from the beginning... I am the Future Flash! | „ |
| ~ Savitar finally revealing his true identity, and his most famous quote. |
| “ | Savitar: You stuck me in the Speed Force for an eternity of Hell! Now, welcome to yours. The Flash: No... Don't do this... Don't do this! Savitar: Now, finally, I am free of you! Iris: Barry... The Flash: I'm begging you! Just- Iris: Barry! Savitar: You lose, Barry. |
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| ~ Savitar's most infamous quote before killing Iris (who, in the current timeline, is actually a disguised H.R. Wells). |
| “ | The Flash: Where's Wally?... What just happened to him? Savitar: Like the Greek myth of Atlas, who could not put down the sky until someone took his place, Wally has taken up my place in the Speed Force. You know me, I love a good myth. The Flash: He took your place? What...- Savitar: When you created Flashpoint, you unwittingly provided me with the means for my return. You gave me the idea to turn Wally into Kid Flash, to make him fast enough to replace me in your prison. His youth and ego were my allies. So taken with his fame and speed, he never saw he was running right into my trap! The Flash: How do I get him out? Savitar: Wally's gone... The Flash: HOW DO I GET HIM OUT!? Savitar: ... Suffering in an endless void for all eternity. Another victim Barry Allen failed to save! |
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| ~ Savitar taunting Barry after trapping Wally in the Speed Force to relive his most painful memories. |
Savitar, also referred to as Alchemy and the self-proclaimed God of Speed, is a major antagonist in the TV series The Flash.
He is a time remnant of the series titular protagonist Barry Allen/The Flash that was created in the future. Upon being rejected by his friends after his failure to help Team Flash defeat Savitar and for not being "the true Barry Allen", the time remnant traveled to ancient times to obtain the Philosopher's Stone and become Savitar himself, creating the false legend of Savitar being the first Speedster. He desires to destroy the original Barry Allen and relieve himself of pain by ascending to godhood.
In his true form, he was portrayed by starring cast member Grant Gustin. Whilst armored, he was portrayed by stuntman Andre Tricoteux in his metallic suit and was voiced by Tobin Bell, who also played John Kramer in the Saw franchise. Whilst possessing Julian Albert Desmond when becoming "Doctor Alchemy", he was portrayed by Tom Felton.
His Evil Rankings[]
What Makes Him Heinous[]
In General[]
- Despite the High Heinous Standards of the Arrowverse, he passes it for attempting to splice himself across all of time with the Speed Force Bazooka to become a god and rule every waking moment, making him a multiversal threat as it would have led to the destruction of countless timelines and realities.
- While this may seem like Fridge Horror, it's not as we've already seen the impact his recreation of the Flashpoint metahumans had done first hand and would obliviously have been the same in all other timelines.
- Furthermore, his plan to kill Iris harmed the protagonists enough to stand out as one of Barry's most personal enemies, as evidenced by the erased future.
Background[]
- In an erased future, he kills Iris West right in front of Barry Allen in order to push him to the point of mental collapse and head down the path to becoming Savitar.
- Slaughters nearly all of Barry's time remnants except for his younger self before being banished into the Speed Force.
- Subsequently, his actions severely impacted the rest of Team Flash: Joe was left as a grieving father for years on end, Barry gave up crime-fighting, Caitlin would remain as Killer Frost, Cisco lost access to his powers after his hands were frozen and destroyed after his fight with Killer Frost, and, most horrifyingly, he battled Wally, shattered his spine, and sent him into a catatonic state.
- He manipulated Julian into looking for the Philosopher's Stone by using the hallucinatory form of his deceased sister, which ultimately lead to him possessing Julian and using him as a puppet to speak to his followers using the alias Doctor Alchemy for several years.
- He also slaughtered all of Julian's team members.
Season 3[]
- He manipulated many individuals who used to be meta-humans in the Flashpoint timeline into regaining their powers and gaining their loyalty, one of which was a teenage girl with dissociative identity disorder.
- He killed Edward Clariss/The Rival in his prison cell at Iron Heights for failing to kill the Flash, proving he didn't care about any of his followers and saw them all as pawns.
- When the Flash along with Joe and Wally and a Swat team encountered the cult, Savitar arrives and kills the Swat Team one by one as he uses the voice of his Alchemy persona to manipulate Wally into touching the Philosopher's Stone, trapping him in a cocoon-like container.
- Savitar using his voice to manipulate Wally was shown be extremely painful for Wally as it was so loud that he was forced to take his power to end the pain, and if he didn't he most likely would've had his mind shattered and he would've died.
- Afterwards, cornering the Flash, Savitar takes Barry and delivers a brutal beatdown until he's driven away by Caitlin's ice powers.
- He attempted to use a specially designed building to refract the energies of the Philosopher's Stone and bestow powers on to all the former meta-humans in the city from the Flashpoint timeline.
- He brutally beat Jay Garrick to near-death and attempted to kill him, despite telling him that it isn't his fight.
- Manipulates Cisco into releasing him by using a hallucination of his deceased brother, Dante, allowing him to deliver a brutal beatdown of both Barry and Wally, toying with them in the process since he couldn't kill them.
- When speaking through Julian, he cruelly taunted Team Flash about their fates in the future and threatened to make them feel his wrath.
- He telepathically tormented Wally as a hallucination to wear him down, culminating in him using his deceased mother's form as a hallucination to manipulates Wally into freeing him, which ended up with Savitar imprisoning Wally in the Speed Force to take his place and relive his most painful memories for an eternity.
- Attempted to kill Jesse Quick and would've succeeded had H.R. not intervened and told her where to strike him.
- Manipulated Killer Frost into joining him in his schemes.
- He ordered Killer Frost to kill Tracy Bland, the physicist who would develop the technology to imprison him in the Speed Force.
- When that failed, he ordered Killer Frost to kidnap Cecile Horton to perform a trade; her life for Tracy.
- When he briefly lost his memories, he attacked Killer Frost, forcing her to subdue him.
- He disguised himself as Barry and tricked H.R. into telling him Iris' location before revealing his face.
- Upon arriving at Earth-2, he battled Wally and ended up breaking his leg before tossing him aside. Afterwards, he threatened to kill Harry Wells if he attempted to shoot him before kidnapping Iris.
- Before he kidnaps Iris, when Joe West tries to reason with him by apologizing for disregarding him in the future, referring to him as Barry, he coldly refuses, stating that Barry was not his name.
- After outsmarting Barry once again by proving the Speed Force bazooka's inefficiency against him, he killed "Iris West", which turned out be H.R. in disguise.
- He kidnapped Cisco and forced to modify the Speed Force bazooka into an interdimensional quantum splicer. When he refused, he threatened to kill Caitlin in the same vein as Eobard Thawne had previously done to Cisco.
- After rejecting redemption, he set the Philosopher's Stone to overload and blew up the interior of S.T.A.R. Labs, nearly killing everyone inside.
- At a park at Central City's outskirts, he ordered Killer Frost to shoot him into the Speed Force with the interdimensional quantum splicer in an attempt to become a god across all of time and fragment himself, only to be stopped by Team Flash and have it revealed that Cisco didn't modify it in his favor.
- He attempted to kill Team Flash one last time, specifically attempting to kill Cisco by vibrating his hand through his chest Eobard Thawne had done and as he had threatened to do with Caitlin.
- After Caitlin turned on him and redeemed herself, he admitted that he knew she didn't have it in her, showing he never cared for her.
- Knowing that he was going to die no matter what, he told Barry that if he died, he would take everyone Barry knew and loved down with him and began walking off to slaughter his friends and loved ones before having his suit hijacked by Barry.
- His last, arrogant words were that of taunting Barry to kill him and become him, as either way, Barry would go down a dark path and become Savitar.
- In his last moments, he attempted to kill Barry from behind in a fit of blind rage, only to get shot in the back by Iris and subsequently erased from existence.
- His death lead to the Speed Force leaking into the real world, forcing Barry to enter it before being orchestrated to be released in six months, making Savitar indirectly responsible for the creation of the bus Metas and, by extension, most of Season 4.
Season 9[]
- Upon being resurrected by Cobalt Blue before his original death, Savitar joins forces with him, Eobard Thawne, Zoom and Godspeed to finally kill the Flash under the Negative Speed Force's orders with some speed offered by Blue in behalf of their Speed Force.
- That said, before being told who brought him there, Savitar was likely willing to kill Thawne, Zoom, and Godspeed due to claiming that he would "bring this dimension to its knees" after learning on his demands who took him there until Cobalt Blue presented himself and convinced him to team up with them.
- While not confirmed and while killing Reverse-Flash and Zoom could be arguably justified for what they did to him (since he's still "Barry Allen" in a sense and has his memories), he still would've done that out of spite and revenge.
- That said, before being told who brought him there, Savitar was likely willing to kill Thawne, Zoom, and Godspeed due to claiming that he would "bring this dimension to its knees" after learning on his demands who took him there until Cobalt Blue presented himself and convinced him to team up with them.
- Announces his intentions to change and end Barry Allen's future as he is summoned by Cobalt Blue to 2023 for one last fight against Team Flash.
- Takes Barry's future daughter Nora West-Allen and stabs her with a spike out of spite for her mother Iris escaping his wrath previously, though he fails due to Nora phasing her body in time.
- This is made even worse by the fact that Nora is his own daughter too.
What Makes Him Inconsistent[]
- He is way too tragic, insecure and sympathetic to be Near Pure Evil, let alone Pure Evil, as he is solely motivated with wanting to ease his emotional pain and insecurities by becoming a god. He was a time remnant created by the Flash along with others trying to defeat the future Savitar, only for all of them to die and him left the sole survivor. He would later be shunned by Team Flash and rejected, being derided as a “false” Barry Allen, an “aberration” and a “disposable” life form. Overwhelmed by his painful memories of his life as Barry, coupled with the rejection he faced, he sought to become a god in order to ease his suffering. He then gets trapped in the Speed Force for an eternity, only to get freed as scarred and more broken than before due to relieving his most painful memories. Although he is ultimately seen as little more than a shell of who he used to be by the time he dies, several members of Team Flash, mainly Barry and Iris, sympathized with him, albeit, prior to him betraying them.
- Similarly, in relation to his imprisonment in the Speed Force, he clearly possesses moral agency issues due to his insanity, having lost his mind several times over by reliving his most painful memories and remembering everything that happened to him in the Speed Force.
- Although he ultimately rejected it, he genuinely considered redemption when he felt remorse for his actions by going to the Flash to get help, only to find out there is no way, as if he turns good, Savitar would've never existed, and thus, getting erased from existence still.
- He even felt remorse for killing H.R. since that wasn't his plan as all. He also felt remorse for trying to kill Iris since she was the love of his life.
- He still cares for his parents, recollecting a fond memory he had with them when he was 6 to Barry.
Trivia[]
- From all of the Arrowverse's Inconsistently Heinous characters, Savitar is the only one to never be redeemed, arguably making him the vilest of all of them.
External Links[]
- Savitar on the Villains Wiki
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