Yet it’s a little strange that “ The Once and Future Flash” took great pains to show us Barry (as the now infamous Emo Barry) shunning his friends and the hurt it caused them. Possible? Perhaps, since just like The Highlander taught us, there can be only one. It was that feeling of abandonment and loneliness that inspired him to try to become a self-styled god. The remnant said that after he survived the battle with … um, himself, Joe West, Wally West and the other members of Team Flash turned their backs on him since he was just a duplicate. The other part was a little harder to believe. It’s not like he was going to end up with the love of his life, as she’d be together with the “real” Barry. In one aspect, the idea that the villain is a time remnant make his killing of Iris West a little more logical. What was really needed, though, was an explanation about Savitar’s motives. (Though as shown this week, changes to Barry do have an impact on Savitar, like the ones forced on him when Barry had his memory erased.) As Cisco Ramon explained, everything about the villain’s history is a closed loop, so even Barry killing himself wouldn’t stop him. Discovering he could defeat the enemy by moving at super. As he reached top speed, his plane was struck by what appeared to be lightning, and he went down in hostile territory.

A Cold War pilot for a third-world nation, the man who would become known as Savitar was to test a supersonic fighter jet. As a Speed Force conduit, he is an enemy of the Flash. We later discovered that Savitar journeyed back into the past, creating the legend about him that he was the original speedster and sowing the seeds for the cult that worshiped him. Savitar is the self-declared god of speed. Savitar killed most of the time remnants that Barry summoned to aid him, but one survived, and that one, in turn, became Savitar. But they weren’t 100 percent right, either.Īs we learned this week in “ Cause and Effect,” Savitar is actually a time remnant of the Flash himself, plucked from the timeline to help battle Savitar in one of those ironies that only sci-fi and superhero properties with time travel involved can give us.

Those people subscribing to the idea that Savitar would be revealed as an evil Barry Allen from the future, an idea that has its roots within a DC Comics run from just a few years ago, weren’t wrong.

As familiar as it could possibly be, in fact, since Barry Allen is the show’s main character. We could add a spoiler warning here, but at this point the identity of the season 3 big bad on The Flash has been out there for a while.įans of The Flash have had an inkling for a while now that when Savitar finally stepped out of his spiky metallic armor, the face inside the helmet would be a familiar one.

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