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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