![]() ![]() What little spare time he has is devoted towards acting, role-playing, movie-riffing and sarcasm. He also maintains a personal blog –called My Geeky Geeky Ways – which hosts his extensive episode guide for the television series making up The Arrowverse as well as his comedic Let’s Play videos. In addition to his work for Screen Rant, Matt is currently the Editor In Chief of and writes reviews for No Flying, No Tights – a graphic literature and anime review site aimed at teachers and librarians. Known as a font of comic book history trivia, he has delivered lectures on the history of American Comic Books, Japanese Manga, Doctor Who, and Cosplay at over a dozen conventions and served as an Expert In-Residence for a course on Graphic Novels for Librarians at the University of North Texas. He holds both an MS in Information Science from the University of North Texas and a BFA from the University of Texas at Arlington. Since then he has gone on to write for over a dozen websites, including 411 Mania, Comics Nexus and The Cult of Nobody. He got his start writing for the legendary DC Comics digital fanzine Fanzing, before receiving his own column, The Mount. Matt Morrison has been writing about comics since before the word "blogging" was coined. In time he attracted followers, with whom Savitar shared his power even as he drained the Speed Force from those speedsters who would not acknowledge his supremacy. Savitar devoted his life to studying the Speed Force, developing powers which no other speedster had, such as draining the kinetic energy from objects in motion to boost his own velocity. This gave him a connection to the Speed Force, just like Barry Allen, and he took the name of the Hindu god of all which is mobile. Savitar had been a test-pilot for an unnamed third world nation at the height of the Cold War, whose supersonic jet was struck by lightning while he was breaking the sound barrier. Savitar first appeared in The Flash #108 in December 1995, though several issues would pass before his origins were revealed. The show previously introduced a villain called Savitar during season 3, but he had nothing in common with the original character apart from being an evil speedster. The Flash seems to be setting up a comics-accurate version of the classic villain Savitar for season 7. That would be keeping with his comic book M.O.Warning: The following contains SPOILERS for The Flash, season 6, episode 18, "Pay The Piper." 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. 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. What made Savitar different from other speedsters is the way he could lend speed to other people or objects. 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. ![]() Note: This article contains minor spoilers for season 3, episode 6 of The Flash. ![]()
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