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NOTE: This article is about the incarnation of Savitar from the Arrowverse. The mainstream version can be found here: Savitar (DC).
NOTE: This article is about the incarnation of Future Flash from the Arrowverse. The mainstream version can be found here: Future Flash.
Villain Overview

Like I told you from the beginning... I am the Future Flash!
~ Savitar finally revealing his true identity, and his most famous quote.
Barry Allen: I went to the future. My future self told me that he created time remnants to stop you. But you slaughtered them all.
Savitar: All but one: me. I lived. But a
funny thing happened when I did... You, Joe, Wally, Cisco... you all shunned me because I wasn't the true Barry Allen. I was an aberration! A disposable hero! Future you failed to mention that, didn't he?
Barry Allen: How did you become Savitar?
Savitar: I was broken and alone, I wanted the pain to end, and that's when I realized the truth, Barry: God feels no pain. All I had to do was become one.
~ Savitar explaining his origins and the source of his god complex to Barry.
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.
~ Savitar's most infamous quote before killing Iris (who, in the current timeline, is actually a disguised H.R. Wells).

Savitar, also referred to as Alchemy and the self-proclaimed God of Speed, is a major antagonist in the the TV series The Flash.

He is a time remnant of the series' titular protagonist Barry Allen/The Flash that was created in an erased 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 travelled 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 is portrayed by starring cast member Grant Gustin, who also played Sebastian Smythe in Glee. Whilst armored, he is portrayed by stuntman Andre Tricoteux in his metallic suit and is voiced by Tobin Bell, who also played Peter Kingsley in 24 and John Kramer in the Saw franchise. Whilst possessing Julian Albert when becoming "Alchemy", he is portrayed by Tom Felton, who also played Draco Malfoy in the Harry Potter franchise and Dodge Landon in Rise of the Planet of the Apes.

Overview[]

Created by Barry Allen/The Flash to battle Savitar after the creation of Flashpoint, Barry's time remnants were all killed by the armored villain, except for one. This remaining remnant was shunned by Team Flash due to not being their Barry despite knowing everything that he does and feeling everything that he once felt, was left broken and alone until he decided to take revenge on "the real Barry" by any means necessary. To this end, he created his own futuristic armor and became Savitar, the very villain that indirectly created himself. After several battles with Barry, Savitar was imprisoned in the Speed Force by Tracy Brand, a scientist who developed a "Speed Force bazooka". However, before his imprisonment, Savitar manages to split up Team Flash and kill Iris West, thus making him a more personal foe to Barry than some of his other foes.

Savitar returns to Central City in 2016 to take revenge on Barry and the entire Team Flash, whom he holds responsible for his banishment. Savitar also intends to stop Barry before he can imprison him in the future, while also recreating the circumstances that led to his creation. As his imprisonment prevents him from arriving on Earth-1 in the flesh, Savitar uses the Philosopher's Stone, to which he is bound, to take control over Julian Albert, creating the split personality Alchemy in the man.

Through Albert, Savitar sets in motion an elaborate plan to escape the Speed Force. After Barry Allen, the Flash, has reset the Flashpoint timeline, Savitar starts handing meta-human powers to those who had it during Flashpoint. One of the recipients is Wally West who, by taking Savitar's gift, creates a special connection to Savitar.

Although Albert is eventually cured, severing Savitar from his proxy and thus his influence on Earth, Savitar starts appearing to Wally through the connection between the two. Furthermore, Barry and his team manage to contact Savitar in the Speed Force using Julian as a medium. From Savitar, they learn that he deeply despises all of them for what they will do to him in the future. He makes a prophecy regarding the fate of the team, claiming that in the events that lead up to the future creation of Savitar and Savitar's imprisonment, one team member will betray the team, one will fall, one will suffer a fate worse than death. In addition to Savitar's prophecy, Barry has to fight off the impending danger of Iris West's death, because he saw Savitar murder her when he accidentally raced to the future.

From his Speed Force banishment, Savitar uses Wally's youth and ego to his own advantage, eventually manipulating the young Wally into opening a breach into the Speed Force under the pretext to throw the Philosopher's Stone into it. Although Wally believes that this prevents Savitar from returning, it in truth gives Savitar everything he needs to leave the Speed Force. Savitar emerges on Earth-1 and, in return, Wally is dragged into the Speed Force to take Savitar's place. Free at last, Savitar is now able to shape the events to lead to the future he foresaw, including the death of Iris and Savitar's creation. He claims to have big plans for Jesse Quick and has managed to convince Killer Frost to side with him. After Barry figures out who Savitar is, he confronts him, thus leading to Savitar taking his armor off and explaining who he is and how he came to be.

Eventually, the time came that he would kill Iris in front of Barry; however, he discovers that he actually killed H.R. (Earth-19 Harrison Wells) using light-refraction technology to disguise himself. Knowing that he would be erased from existence any minute, he initiated his plan to spread himself across time and rule the world as a god. After a battle with Barry, Wally and Jay, Savitar's armor is destroyed. Just as he is defeated, Savitar runs at Barry, ready to kill him, only to be shot in the back by Iris, killing him and allowing the paradox to erase him from existence.

Personality[]

What I remember is being created as a disposable life. Something to be thrown away when Barry Allen was done with me. He didn't care about me. Why should I care about his love?
~ Savitar explaining his motives for wanting to destroy the Flash's life completely.
TheFutureFlash

A disturbing idea of the kind of person Barry would've become if his pain had sent him down a darker path

At first view, he was seen by his enemies (Team Flash) as an extremely dangerous force to be reckoned with, perhaps the embodiment of evil, malevolence, cruelty and tyranny but underneath his threatening exterior lies a broken man and a tortured soul that harbors a more tragic and sympathetic past. Before he became Savitar, he was a time remnant of Barry Allen. As a time remnant, he was originally just as well-meaning, benevolent and heroic as his other counterparts. Upon being driven away from his friends and family, derided as a "disposable life", he decided to cope with his anguish and rage by becoming the very monster that ruined his life: Savitar.

Savitar's strength as a speedster and a force to be reckoned with seems to have given him a God complex, viewing himself as far superior to Barry Allen's other foes. Being extremely authoritative, formidable, and powerful, he looks down on other speedsters as inferior. However, despite his claims, he maintains a constant, compulsive, and pathological desire to prove himself superior to all others, thinking that any speedster with enough power will be able to challenge him and defeat him, making him more unassertive, oblivious, and insecure, compared to other foes Barry has faced.

Like many other supervillains in superhero-based media, Savitar's ego appears to be his own worst enemy, as he loathes the idea of anyone becoming more powerful than him, willing to taunt Barry and arrogantly downgrade his many accomplishments and viewing him as selfish due to messing with time and creating Flashpoint. While possessing Julian, he ordered Team Flash to bow before him despite that he was powerless to do anything to make them believe they should. Upon revealing his true identity, he began behaving in a deliberately smug manner, perhaps to rub what he really was in the heroes' faces.

He also seems to be an intolerant stickler to formalities, addressing Wally West as "Wallace" and choosing not to kill Barry immediately after escaping the Speed Force, thinking he should wait until he has finished off Iris right before his eyes. He also addressed H.R. as "the fake Wells", and noted how ironic it was that he would be the one who survives everything, his cowardice being his shield, which Savitar considered to be heartbreaking and pathetic.

He is extremely short-tempered, cocky, smug, argumentative, and cantankerous, obsessed with making the Flash suffer; Eobard Thawne had also planned this, but unlike Savitar, he rarely lost his temper, remaining calm and collected. Savitar views Barry as the villain due to being imprisoned in the Speed Force, saying that he never sought conflict with him, but he had still lost everything to Barry and wanting to take it all back. His desire to kill Barry is not exactly as simple as he wished it was, instead deciding to kill Iris right before his eyes to give him a taste of how dangerous his actions are, suggesting that, for some reason, he will never kill Barry directly like he wants to.

Though Savitar's hatred for Team Flash, in general, runs deep, his aforementioned formalities seem to show that he doesn't wish death upon all of Team Flash as he claims. While possessing Julian, he looked to Iris and apologized in advance that he has to kill her. In addition, he tells Barry that he has dealt with pain all his life, as the deaths of his parents had a huge effect on them, and saying that he wouldn't be able to bear what's coming and that he has apparently been with him from the very beginning. He called Barry selfish for his actions, particularly his creation of Flashpoint, even though he had tried his hardest to fix his mistakes. He commonly regarded Barry as a separate entity from himself, even expressing jealousy of his perfect life; he remembers proposing to Iris and everything, but he ultimately still disliked Barry.

His costume, megalomania and wish to be recognized as a separate entity from Barry show a deep self-hatred, which was part of what led Savitar to become one of Flash's greatest enemies.

Powers, Abilities, Equipment, & Weakness[]

Powers & Abilities[]

Savitar Emitting White Lightning

Savitar emitting light blue lightning while using his armor.

  • Speed Force Connection: After the particle accelerator explosion at S.T.A.R.-Labs, Savitar became a Speedster.
    • Superhuman Speed: Like all speedsters, Savitar is immensely fast. According to Jay though, Savitar is the fastest speedster of them all.
    • Superhuman Reflexes: His perception and reflexes are so advanced that he sees Speedsters, moving at superhuman speeds, as how human beings see normal men running. This allows him to react to them much easily.
    • Electrokinesis: He has light blue lightning coming off him when he runs. However, as shown in "Cause and Effect", his speed lightning is still red, and when he speeds around in his armor, it becomes white.
    • Dimensional Travel: He can travel between dimensions. However, due to being trapped in the Speed Force, he cannot manage this for too long.
      • Teleportation: While trapped in the Speed Force, Savitar was able to open breaches with his speed, allowing him to instantly transport him and anyone he is carrying across vast distances without occupying the space between.
    • Superhuman Strength: He possesses superhuman strength, enough to toss and lift full-grown and well-built men without any distress at all. Using his speed and strength together, he can create powerful superhuman physical blows. It is unknown whether its strength comes from itself or from his armor.
    • Superhuman Stamina: He has an almost limitless amount of stamina and vitality.
    • Accelerated Healing: He has regenerative powers, which might be superior to an average Speedster's regenerative prowess. He instantly recovered from a powerful frostbite from Killer Frost, whereas a normal speedster would require a certain amount of time to recover.
    • Invisibility: Due to Savitar being imprisoned in the Speed Force, he was unable to be perceived by anyone who was not also connected to the Speed Force. However, after Savitar was freed from the Speed Force, Savitar was no longer invisible, as evidenced when he showed up on Team Flash's surveillance camera.
    • Energy absorption: Due to his powers being boosted by the Philosopher's Stone, Savitar was able to absorb copious amounts of energy and redirect it from his suit, as white energy. This was demonstrated when Jesse Wells threw a lightning bolt at him, and Savitar merely absorbed it and redirected it back at her.
  • Philosopher's Stone connection: As Savitar in a potential future, Barry traveled back in time to locate the Philosopher's Stone, a powerful artifact made of calcified Speed Force energy, and established a connection to the Philosopher's Stone.
    • Speedster weapons immunity: The Philosopher's Stone, while connected to Savitar, immunized him from weapons that could affect speedsters who drew power from the Speed Force. While wielding it, Savitar was protected from being trapped in the Speed Force itself. The Stone also protected him from being re-imprisoned in the Speed Force a second time.
    • Telepathic Powers/Telepathy: With his connection to the Philosopher's Stone, Savitar was able to manipulate others' minds. He could telepathically communicate with them and project illusions that only they could see. This power could still be used even while sealed away in the box. However, it was considerably weakened, as he could only prey on a person's insecurities, such as creating illusions of their lost loved ones, to con them into releasing him. He is mentally connected to the Philosopher's Stone. So if a being comes in contact with it, he is able to create telepathic links with them, as he did with Julian Albert, transforming him into Alchemy. He also seems to be able to prevent Julian Albert from remembering his time as Alchemy whenever he becomes a mere civilian again. He showed that he is capable of controlling his suit even when he is not in it, meaning that he has a telepathic connection to his suit.
      • Illusions Projection: He was able to create illusions of Julian Albert's late sister and Cisco's late brother to manipulate them.
      • Visions Projection: According to his followers, who have called him the "Dark Lord", he is able to show them the future, allowing one particular follower to point out Killer Frost as being "great" in the future.
      • Possession: Once establishing a strong enough connection to a person's mind, Savitar was able to completely overshadow their actions, turning them into his unwitting pawn, and possess them, as he did with Julian Albert to turn him into "Alchemy", and enabling them to wield the power of the Philosopher's Stone.
    • Power bestowal through recognition: The Philosopher's Stone could even return the powers of individuals who had been wielding them during the Flashpoint timeline. While in Flashpoint, he was unaware of some meta-humans, like Magenta and Shade, but somehow gained knowledge of them. It would appear that the Stone bestows meta-human powers to those who had powers in alternate timelines.

Equipment[]

  • Philosopher's Stone: Savitar went back in time and discovered this artifact long ago, using it to hire new meta-human servants to his cult, and also to further enhance his power. He used this artifact up to the point of being defeated and trapped in the Speed Force within it by his original self until he was able to use it to escape his imprisonment. Savitar was able to use the stone to keep the Speed Force bazooka from trapping him in the Speed Force again.The stone was later destroyed when Savitar planted it in S.T.A.R. Labs, causing a considerable amount of damage to the building.
Savitar getting out of his armor

Savitar exiting from his armor.

  • Futuristic Armor: The exact metal and composition of his armor remain unknown. He has a sharp blade that can protrude from his arm, which he uses to kill his victims; when Barry sawed it off with his powers, Savitar found it too painful to stand, forcing him to flee. The suit was created using the Philosopher's Stone.
    • Advanced durability: The armor itself is extremely resilient and enormously durable, enough that Joe West's bullets and shots from the Mercury Labs Energy Rifle ricocheted off him harmlessly. He also takes nearly no damage when The Flash or Wally West attacked him, although he was shown to feel pain when The Flash severed his arm blade with his vibrating hand and Jesse Quick stabbed the armor with the severed arm blade. However, as his suit has been shown to be removable, it's possible that was a reaction to discomfort. So far, he has only been damaged by weapons made from its own material. The armor fares poorly against vibration, as shown by Barry severing an arm blade and later phasing Savitar out of the suit.
      • Cold resistance: The armor protected him from Caitlin Snow freezing him solid, as he was able to instantly burst out of it unfazed and ran away instantly.
    • Advanced strength: The armor's size, mechanized parts and material give it great strength, allowing Savitar to effortlessly lift, drag and send people flying through the air with one hand. Even when his briefly lost his memories and, therefore, forgot his powers along his younger self, he retained his strength due to his suit, allowing him to lift Caitlin Snow against a wall with one hand. While operating without Savitar being inside it, the suit managed to throw the present Barry several feet and briefly pin him down with its foot before the speedster forced it off him.
    • Armor retraction: Should any part of his armor be broken off, it can immediately be drawn back to Savitar from any distance, to the point where any broken off pieces can be telekinetically summoned back to the rest of the suit if it is close enough.
    • Hidden blades: Savitar is able to retract a hidden blade from his wrists as melee weapons.
    • Mental connection: To a certain degree, the armor can move and attack on its own, should Savitar be attacked out of his suit, though it is unable to use Savitar's speed.
    • Static charge displacement: The armor's primary function is to shield Savitar from the highly dangerous levels of static charge built up whenever he uses his advanced speed.
    • Voice filtering: Savitar is able to disguise his voice so as to not be identified as a megalomaniacal version of his past self. This only applies to Savitar, as present Barry just sounds echoed in the suit. It possibly one of Savitar powers as Barry is shown to do it.
    • Armor coloring: Depending on who is in the armor, the glowing parts will change corresponding to the bearer. For Barry, the glow was red while his time remnant had a blue glow. Also, the armor is capable of changing the color of a speedster's lightning as the armor changed Savitar's lightning from yellow to light blue. As Barry did not run inside the armor, it is unknown what color his lightning would be.
    • Armor reflection: The suit reflects the users' lightning trail from orange to white. However, this was only seen on Savitar but not Barry Allen.

Weaknesses[]

  • Philosopher's Stone Connection (formerly): During his Speed Force imprisonment, his presence in the real world is limited. Only through the Philosopher's stone, he is able to temporarily appear in the real world. When the Stone is put in its box and the box is closed, he will disappear suddenly, as shown when Barry shut it in "The Present"; Savitar was about to kill Jay Garrick of Earth-3, but he disappears just as the Stone was locked away in the box. As it turns out, he needed the Philosopher's Stone in its entirety to be released from his prison in the Speed Force, and any broken-off piece of the Stone would have to be thrown into the Speed Force too for it to work.
  • Speed Force Connection: Despite being the fastest speedster seen so far, he has been unable to project himself physically for too long due to his Speed Force imprisonment, forcing him to rely on Alchemy to carry out his will. He was trapped in the Speed Force by Barry long enough to "lose [his] mind many times over", and every time he manages to get himself on the physical plane of existence, he would just get sucked back into the Speed Force again. However, he has managed to escape this prison by tricking Wally West into taking his place as prisoner, allowing him to stay on the physical plane of existence for as long as he wants.
  • Time: Savitar's plan was to cement his place in reality by giving Barry an excuse to create the time remnant that would eventually become him. However, H.R. defied this casual time loop and took Iris' place, thus meaning that Barry never creates Savitar; if he isn't created, then the Speed Force will realize the paradox and erase him from existence, just like what happened to Eobard Thawne.
  • Overheat and Static: Tracy Brand theorized the true reason why Savitar wears his armor; his own powers are potentially a ticking time-bomb. Other speedsters wore friction-proof costumes while running in order to prevent a static charge from building up or to prevent overheating. Savitar's armor seems to serve the same purpose, as without it, he could potentially run the risk of damaging his body.
  • Extreme Cold: Extremely-cold temperatures can temporarily stun and weaken him, a weakness shared with Barry and other speedsters. Caitlin Snow was able to stun him this way.

Victims[]

  • Eddie Slick/Sand Demon
  • Vandal Savage (Alongside; Oliver Queen)
  • Edward Clariss/The Rival
  • Iris West (Erased timeline)
  • H.R. Wells
  • Several Central City Police Department officers
  • Numerous Barry Allen time remnants (Erased timeline)

Indirectly[]

  • Al Rothstein/Atom-Smasher
  • Nora Allen
  • Dante Ramon
  • Sara Diggle
  • Hunter Zolomon/Black Flash

Quotes[]

Bow to your god!
~ Savitar while attacking Flash.
You may serve the Speed Force, Flash, but I rule it! You are only a man, but I am a god. Your god. I... am Savitar!
~ Savitar introduces himself.
Savitar: I know you, Caitlin, Cisco, Joe, Wally, the fake Wells. I know your fears, I know your weaknesses, I know you better than you know yourselves. I know your destinies. One shall betray you, one shall fall, one will suffer a fate far worse than death. This is the knowledge I have for you about your everlasting damnation
Barry Allen: Who are you?
Savitar: I am the Future Flash.
~ Savitar revealing the future fates of Team Flash whilst also teasing his true identity.
You did this to me. You trapped me in eternity, your future self. You did this to me, Barry. And now, the age of my revenge rises. My freedom is at hand. You will feel my wrath! The wrath of Savitar!
~ Savitar swearing revenge before being disconnected from Julian.
If you had the strength to end my life, you would have done it in the future. But Barry Allen doesn't kill, he's the good guy. The boy Joe raised, the man Iris loves. You have everything and deserve none of it! I'm going to destroy this city like I did in the future so you can see the truth, Barry, and then, you'll treat me like a god!
~ Savitar after escaping his prison in the Speed Force.
I am the Future Flash.
~ Savitar's catchphrase, while also giving away his true identity.
I want so badly to kill you and I will, but you have to live a little while longer. Long enough to see Iris die.
~ Savitar stabbing Barry before escaping.
My ascension is nearly at hand, Flash. As I rise, you will fall!
~ Savitar as he retrieves Killer Frost just after Vibe defeats her.
Today, I become a god.
~ Savitar just as he attempts to pull off the final stages of his plan.
DO IT! You kill me, you become me! Either way, I live!'
~ Barry's time remnant's final words while trying to tempt Flash into killing him so he can become Savitar instead.

Trivia[]

  • As a trick, Savitar reveals who he is before Barry figures it out. He constantly tells them "I am the Future Flash". But it's spoken as if he was saying "I am the future, Flash".
  • This villain is a composite character of two evil speedsters from the comics; Savitar (a cultist that was sealed in the Speed Force) and the Future Flash (a murderous future version of Barry Allen wearing a costume covered in blue lines). He also fills in the role of Alvin Desmond, who could take over an unsuspecting person and force them to play the role of Alchemy.
  • Savitar is similar to Slade Wilson (under the influence of the Mirakuru) in season 2 of Arrow, as both are manipulative, black-haired, messy and somewhat-insane villains with super strength, they both wear suits of armor, both also held their enemies responsible for tragic fates of the ones they loved (the defeat of Shado for Slade and the defeat of Iris for Savitar).
  • Due to a lack of information about Savitar, it was assumed at the time that the initial trailer for Season 3 was released that the Rival was actually Savitar.
  • Savitar is the fifth villainous speedster encountered by Team Flash. Before him came Eobard Thawne, Zoom, Trajectory and the Rival. The next villainous speedster to follow after Savitar is Godspeed. Additionally, Savitar is the third speedster to be the main villain of a season.
  • Savitar is the third Arrowverse villain to be tied directly to a mythological story, the others being Silver Banshee from Supergirl and Vandal Savage from DC's Legends of Tomorrow.
  • Savitar has never seemed to cross paths with the Time Wraiths or their new enforcer, the Black Flash, despite that he'd been able to escape the Speed Force and the Time Wraiths exist to prevent such events. Being a time remnant of Barry, Savitar going undetected by them seems more interesting.
  • Savitar is similar to the Black Fairy from Once Upon a Time, in that they were both imprisoned in a lifeless, dark void, but they were able to briefly project themselves in the real world long enough to fight others. Also, like the Black Fairy, Savitar was able to escape his prison through trickery (the Black Fairy forced Gideon to open a portal for her, and Savitar tricked Wally West into taking his place). They are both resentful of destiny and the future unless it plays into their desires, with the Black Fairy having sought to change her son's fate and Savitar seeking to discourage his past self from continuing his life as the Flash. In the end, however, they both ended up becoming their worst nightmares while trying to prevent their respective fates.
  • Savitar, being Barry's darker self, seems to represent how present Barry would've turned out had he somehow lost all his signature optimism and humor; cold, merciless, manipulative and evil. Cisco compared Savitar and Barry's connection to the Star Trek episode "The Enemy Within", in which protagonist James Kirk is split into two separate entities; one being the good Kirk and the other being an "evil" Kirk that lacked the restraint that his complete self has.
    • Savitar's goal is to recreate the circumstances that led to his own creation and separation from the main Barry Allen, thus creating a time loop; this was also a time-travel rule that was mentioned in the Terminator movies, specifically in Terminator 2: Judgement Day, in which the leftover technology from the original T-800 in the first movie would later be used to create Skynet, the AI that created the T-800 and all other Terminators, effectively meaning that Skynet created itself. At the end of the movie, the T-1000 and the reprogrammed T-800 were destroyed to prevent themselves from "creating" Skynet; however, Skynet still existed in the future. In Savitar's case, he says that present Barry killing himself wouldn't have any effect on him, saying that the more someone time-travels, the less "the rules" apply to them.
    • In Season 1 of DC's Legends of Tomorrow, Mick Rory, due to a time loop and also being shunned by his teammates for his actions, was cast out, leading to him becoming the time-traveling bounty hunter Chronos. He was able to track the team because he remembered where they ventured to during their mission.
  • Savitar is the fourth villain in the Arrowverse that is fought by more than two heroes at once, having fought off Barry, Jay Garrick and Wally West in "The Present" and then again in "Finish Line"; Eobard Thawne was the first, (defeated by Barry, the Green Arrow and Firestorm), the second was Vandal Savage, (defeated by Barry, Green Arrow, Hawkman and Hawkgirl, then later again by the Legends team), and the third was the Dominators, defeated by Team Arrow, Team Flash, the Legends and Supergirl of Earth-38 all teaming up. However, Savitar was able to beat the three speedsters himself. In "Finish Line", he is defeated by the speedsters and killed by Iris West.
  • Savitar also seems to be similar to Loki from the Marvel Cinematic Universe, as both are manipulative, black-haired, messy and somewhat-insane villains with God complexes. They mainly felt jealousy for the protagonist of their respective stories (Thor and Barry, respectively) and were defeated by the combined forces of multiple characters working as a team (Team Flash and the Avengers, respectively). Both also held their enemies responsible for being dropped into a cosmic prison (Thanos' domain and the Speed Force, respectively) and used blue mystical artifacts (the Mind Stone and the Philosopher's Stone, respectively) as weapons against their enemies.
  • Savitar has been met with mixed reception from fans and critics alike. Most of the criticism has been directed towards his visual appearance. He has also been noted for having many traits in common with Zoom (as mentioned above) and Reverse-Flash and isn't very distinct from either villains. The producers have also been criticized for using another speedster as the primary villain of the third season, after already using speedsters as the primary villains of the first two seasons.
    • However, following his identity being revealed and later the reception of the "big bads" in the subsequent seasons, Savitar is currently regarded as one of the show's best and greatest villains.
  • While other speedsters such as Reverse-Flash and Zoom are significantly faster than Barry, Savitar is only interested in targeting Barry, for in the future, he will one day trap him in the Philosopher's Stone.
  • The prophecy for Team Flash that Savitar had said to Barry has been revealed:
    • "One Shall Betray you" - Caitlin Snow, who kept a small piece of the stone and later becoming Killer Frost and siding with Savitar upon seeing his true identity.
    • "One shall fall" - Iris being killed by Savitar, though H.R. took her place.
    • "One will suffer a fate far worse than death" - Wally being imprisoned in the Speed Force prison made by future Barry and later having his spine crushed by Savitar, horribly traumatized by this and left unable to speak.
  • In his first appearance, Savitar was only in CGI.
  • In the season 3 finale, Cisco calls Savitar "Two-Face". It is not revealed whether he says that to reference a movie or comic, or whether a version of the villain actually exists in the Arrowverse.

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China White | Billy Wintergreen | Brother Blood | Isabel Rochev | Ruvé Darhk | Andrew Diggle | Conklin | Anarky | Talia al Ghul | Artemis | Ishmael Gregor | Tobias Church | Anatoly Knyazev | Cayden James | Joe Wilson | Dante | Grant Wilson | Trickster | Doctor Alchemy | Marlize DeVoe | Amunet Black | Vanessa Ambres | Joseph Carver | Deathstorm | Zaman Druce | Valentina Vostok | Atropos | Indigo | Silver Banshee | Colonel James Harper | Cyborg Superman | Thomas Coville | Morgan Edge | Otis Graves | Manchester Black | Eve Teschmacher | Red Daughter | Phil Baker | Margot Morrison | Rama Khan | Catherine Hamilton-Kane | Jonathan Cartwright | Chuck Dodgson | Hush | August Cartwright | Enigma | Tatiana | Russell Tavaroff | Poison Ivy | Lala | Syonide | Lady Eve | Kara Fowdy | Giselle Cutter | Helga Jace | Carson Williams | Sara Grey | Yuri Mosin | Leslie Larr | Zeta-Rho | Bizarro | Onomatopoeia | Agent Smith | A.M.A.Z.O | Despero

Minor Antagonists
Adam Hunt | Thomas Galen | Black Caesar | Constantine Drakon | Martin Somers | Jason Brodeur | Huntress | Frank Bertinelli | Ted Gaynor | Firefly | Count Vertigo | Al-Owal | Dollmaker | Mayor | Officer Daily | Milo Armitage | Clock King | Chase | Vertigo | Komodo | Cooper Seldon | Captain Boomerang | Danny Brickwell | Murmur | Joseph Cray | Cupid | Mina Fayad | Deathbolt | Phaedra Nixon | Thomas | Joyner | Double Down | Liza Warner | Calculator | Bug-Eyed Bandit | Janet Carroll | J.G. Walker | Derek Sampson | Scimitar | Hideo Yamane | Sean Sonus | James Edlund | Justin Claybourne | Kimberly Hill | Sam Armand | Sheck | Alex Faust | Nylander | Athena | Virgil | Beatrice | Red Dart | Kodiak | Silencer | Chimera | Wade Eiling | The Mist | Weather Wizard | Girder | Rainbow Rider | Pied Piper | Peek-a-Boo | Everyman | Clyde Mardon | Multiplex | Simon Stagg | Blackout | Clay Parker | Vincent Santini | Trickster II | Anthony Bellows | Dr. Light (Earth-2) | Killer Frost (Earth-2) | Deathstorm (Earth-2) | Geomancer | The Turtle | Tokamak | Atom Smasher | Sand Demon | Lewis Snart | Tar Pit | Reverb | Trajectory | James Zolomon | Griffin Grey | Rupture | The Rival | Mirror Master | Top | Plunder | Magenta | Shade | Clive Yorkin | Abra Kadabra | Heat Monger | Samuroid | Kilg%re | Gregory Wolfe | Matthew Norvock | Nergal | Black Bison | Dwarfstar | Prank | Crucifer | Laurel Lance (Earth-X) | Rag Doll | Jones | Goldface | Ultraviolet | Dr. Light | Sunshine | Mr. Blake | The Colonel | Jon Valor | Hawk-Beasts | Bud Ellison | Per Degaton | The Hunters | The Pilgrim | The Leviathan | Baron Krieger | Shogun | Lead Samurai | Quentin Turnbull | Henry Stein | Tabitha | First of the Fallen | Aleister Crowley | Vartox | Hellgrammite | Maxima | Reactron | Ethan Knox | Red Tornado | T.O. Morrow | Jemm | Dirk Armstrong | Bizarro-Girl | Toyman | Miranda Crane (White Martian) | Metallo | Scorcher | Roulette | Parasite | Phillip Karnowsky | Beth Breen | Rick Malverne | Zod | Bloodsport | Pestilence | Mercy Graves | Natalie Hawkings | Menagerie | The Hat | Midnight | Magpie | Executioner | The Rifle | Bruce Wayne (Earth-99) | The Detonator | Nocturna | Duela Dent | Mabel Cartwright | Johnny Sabatino | Tim Teslow | Joker | Victor Zsasz | Ethan Rogers | Candy Lady | Amygdala | Ellis O'Brien | Kilovolt | Cluemaster | Circe Sionis | Liam Crandle | Killer Croc | Professor Pyg | Will | Joey Toledo | Deputy Chief Cayman | Cleaners | Tori Whale | Eldridge Whale | Glennon | Steven Conners | Looker | New Wave | Shakedown | Heatstroke | Coldsnap | Instant | David Fuglestad | Thaddeus Killgrave | Reno Rosetti | Atom-Man | Cyber-Woman | Prometheus (Earth-X) | Quentin Lance (Earth-X) | Plastoids | Psycho-Pirate

Anti-Villains
Green Arrow | Deadshot | Amanda Waller | Nyssa al Ghul | Bronze Tiger | Ragman | Vigilante | Stanley Dover | Captain Cold | Gorilla Grodd | Killer Frost (Earth-1) | Heat Wave | King Shark | Time Wraiths | Black Siren | Solovar | Music Meister | Cassandra Savage | Nora Darhk | Astra Logue | Kayla | Maxwell Lord | Livewire | Master Jailer | Lena Luthor | Purity | Mxyzptlk | Psi | Malefic J'onzz | Mary Hamilton | Two-Bits | Painkiller | John Henry Irons | Lucifer Morningstar

Groups
Royal Flush Gang | League of Assassins | A.S.A. | H.I.V.E | Suicide Squad | Shadowspire | Demolition Team | Rogue Anti-Vigilante Task Force | Jackals | Ninth Circle | Longbow Hunters | Deathstroke Gang | Stillwater Gang | Legion of Doom | Project Cadmus | Children of Liberty | Morae | Crows Security | Wonderland Gang | False Face Society | Many Arms of Death | Leviathan | Black Hole | Mirror Duplicates | The 100 | Shadow Board | Masters of Disaster | Markovian Insurgents | Dominators | Shadow Demons | Intergang

See Also
Batwoman Villains | Black Lightning Villains | Flash Villains | Green Arrow Villains | DC's Legends of Tomorrow Villains | Supergirl Villains | Superman Villains

           Flash-Logo Villains

Comics
Abra Kadabra | Angle Man | Anti-Monitor | Aquaman (Flashpoint) | Black Flash | Black Hand | Bloodwork | Brain | Brother Grimm | Cadre | Calculator | Captain Boomerang | Captain Cold | Carol Ferris | Cheetah | Chillblaine | Chronos | Cicada | Clive Yorkin | Clayface | Cobalt Blue | Dark Knights | Deadshot | Deathstroke | Doctor Alchemy | Double Down | Doctor Light | Doctor Polaris | Eclipso | Enchantress | Fallout | Fiddler | Future Flash | Felix Faust | Giganta | Girder | Godspeed | Goldface | Gorilla Grodd | Hector Hammond | Icicle | Killer Frost | Kobra | Lady Flash | Lex Luthor | Livewire | Magenta | Major Disaster | Maxwell Lord | Merlyn | Mirror Master | Mongul | Monsieur Mallah | Murmur | Neron | Pied Piper | Poison Ivy | President Thawne | Queen Bee | Ragdoll | Rainbow Raider | Razer | Red Death | Renegades | Reverse-Flashes (Inertia, Professor Zoom, Daniel West, The Rival, & Zoom) | Riddler | Rogues | Savitar | Shade | Shadow-Thief | Sinestro | Solomon Grundy | Speed Demon | Suicide Squad | Thinker | Thorn | T.O. Morrow | Tobias Whale | Toyman | Trickster | Turtle | Vandal Savage | Warp | Weather Wizard | Wonder Woman (Flashpoint)

Movie
Dark Flash | Sword of Rao (Dru-Zod, Faora-Ul, & Nam-Ek) | Al Falcone | Reverse-Flash

Television
Season 1: Reverse-Flash | Captain Cold | General Wade Eiling | Gorilla Grodd | The Mist | Heat Wave | Weather Wizard | Girder | Rainbow Raider | Pied Piper | Peek-a-Boo | Everyman | Clyde Mardon | Multiplex | Simon Stagg | Blackout | Clock King | Captain Boomerang | Clay Parker | Vincent Santini | The Trickster | Trickster II | Anthony Bellows | Bug-Eyed Bandit | Blackout | Royal Flush Gang | Golden Glider | Deathbolt | Negative Speed Force
Season 2: Zoom | Reverse-Flash | Captain Cold | Killer Frost (Earth-2) | King Shark | Dr. Light (Earth-2) | Geomancer | The Turtle | Time Wraiths | Tokamak | Heat Wave | Atom-Smasher | Anthony Bellows | Sand Demon | Lewis Snart | Gorilla Grodd | Vandal Savage | Dark Archer | Damien Darhk | Weather Wizard | The Trickster | Tar Pit | Deathstorm (Earth-2) | Reverb | Trajectory | Pied Piper | James Zolomon | Griffin Grey | Rupture | Girder | Speed Force | Black Siren
Season 3: Savitar | Dr. Alchemy | Killer Frost | Captain Cold | The Rival | Black Flash | King Shark | Mirror Master | Top | Plunder | Gorilla Grodd | Solovar | Reverse-Flash | Magenta | Shade | Dominators | Trickster (Earth-3) | Clive Yorkin | Time Wraiths | Music Meister | Abra Kadabra | Reverb | Vigilante | Speed Force | Heat Monger
Season 4: The Thinker | Marlize DeVoe | Samuroid | Kilg%re | Gregory Wolfe | Amunet Black | Matthew Norvock | Killer Frost | Black Bison | Dwarfstar | King Shark | Anthony Bellows | Peek-a-Boo | Dark Arrow | Overgirl | Reverse-Flash | Prometheus (Earth-X) | Quentin Lance (Earth-X) | Trickster II | Prank | Jones | Crucifer | Siren-X
Season 5: Cicada (Orlin Dwyer & Grace Gibbons) | Reverse-Flash | Vanessa Ambres | Jones | Icicle | Weather Wizard | Rag Doll | Monitor | Zoom | Savitar | The Thinker | Clyde Mardon | John Deegan | A.M.A.Z.O. | Psycho-Pirate | Matthew Norvock | Peek-a-Boo | Goldface | King Shark | Gorilla Grodd | Godspeed | Negative Speed Force | Bug-Eyed Bandit
Season 6: Bloodwork | Anti-Monitor | Eva McCulloch | Black Hole (Joseph Carver, Ultraviolet, Dr. Light, & Sunshine) | Reverse-Flash | Mirror Duplicates | Monitor | Matthew Norvock | Godspeed | Pied Piper | Echo | Lex Luthor | Amunet Black | Goldface | Gorilla Grodd | Solovar | Rag Doll | Negative Speed Force
Season 7: Mirror Monarch | Speed Force | Godspeed | Black Hole (Mirror Master, Top, & Olsen) | Mirror Duplicates | Psych | Deon Owens | Chillblaine | Ultraviolet | Reverse-Flash | Sunshine | Abra Kadabra | Matthew Norvock | Psycho-Pirate
Season 8: Reverse-Flash | Deon Owens | Deathstorm | Despero | Negative Speed Force | Royal Flush Gang | Xotar | Top | Chillblaine | Damien Darhk | Psych | Blockbuster | Goldface | Sunshine | Dr. Light
Season 9: Red Death | Cobalt Blue | Negative Speed Force | Captain Boomerang II | Fiddler | Chillblaine | Pied Piper | Murmur | Goldface | Rainbow Raider | Tar Pit | Grodd | Bloodwork | Reverse-Flash | Zoom | Savitar | Godspeed

Video Games
Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe: Dark Kahn | Deathstroke | Catwoman | Kano | Lex Luthor | Scorpion
Injustice: Superman | The Flash | Yellow Lantern | Sinestro | Killer Frost | Solomon Grundy | Gorilla Grodd | Captain Cold | Reverse Flash | Deadshot | Wonder Woman

See Also
Impulse Villains

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