Who are you?
Savitar.
The God of Speed.
Hey Youtubers, it's Charlie so we finally get to see Savitar on the flash TV show but
there's a lot of confusion when he called himself the God of speed so I was can explain
the difference between Godspeed in the comics and Savitar and what the TV shows doing with
them.
So on the TV show you heard him call themselves Savitar the God of speed in the comics the
reason that Savitar chose that name for himself is because that's the Hindu god of motion.
So he thinks of himself as a God.
This Savitar also thinks of himself as a God a lot of people saw him the way his costume
worked in just how bad as he was in thought that he was talking about Godspeed now that's
not exactly what the TV show is doing.
But there are some similarities.
So Godspeed in rebirth is someone who is so fast that he can be in two places at once.
See you can have like the normal person walking around then you can have Godspeed running
around elsewhere murdering other speedsters.
So during flash rebirth.
There was the storyline where a speed force storm comes and gives a whole bunch of people
powers a whole bunch of Rando people all over the city so Barry has to deal with that he
has to train the ones that want to use their powers yes to help the ones that don't want
their powers, but here is one of the biggest differences about Godspeed he makes for a
much better TV and movie villain and comic book Savitar did, so comic book Savitar really
just wanted to be one with the speed force that was his only motivation so he would give
speed and take speed from people like he had a speed cult that worship the speed force
with him.
So Savitar became this really weird trippy religious story involving the speed force
but we know the big twist was is that Wally West could give and take speed Savitar could
give intakes be it kind of change the way we thought of the speed force itself.
It was during this Wally West era that they actually first learned about the speed force
in itself.
So they were starting to use it is a way to tell really interesting flash stories.
So people had different ways of harnessing it Savitar is a villain as well as like the
stuff that was happening during flash rebirth is just a way of kind of reimagining that
refreshing the way the comics treat the speed force, so when the way the comic book Wally
West had like a block in his mind that stopped him from going faster than Barry Allen for
a long time because eventually comic book Wally got to be the fastest flash it was all
about this mental block that they'd erected for themselves.
You know for whatever reason you do whatever hangups they had it stop them from fully accessing
the speed force, so Godspeed Savitar back during the Wally West run Hillhead like different
ways of harnessing the speed force.
It was just a way to tell really cool story so in both of these characters were rolled
out they were supposed to be like these Uber villains that were so crazy over the top powerful
that there is no way that Barry or Wally in the case of Savitar would be able to defeat
them technically Barry Allen was around when Savitar was around in the comics that was
until later.
But as with most big stories like this the villains do something that provides the mechanism
for their downfall like they want too much power and it just overwhelms them so that
kind of happened with Savitar.
It also kind of happened with Godspeed.
So the Savitar storyline was no pretty simple arc where he basically just want all the speed
for himself eventually Wally finds a way to give that to him.
You know the big twist and he winds up becoming one with the speed force, so to speak like
that's what he seeks so Wally takes him faster faster faster.
So you know you imagine someone like sticking their finger and a light socket and then just
turning the juice way way up so they themselves become pure energy, so that was the way that
Wally dealt with Savitar they brought him back in the comics later in Barry took care
of them during the first flash rebirth in a really funny way it was a twist that involve
the negative speed force which is something that we haven't seen on the TV show yet.
So just bookmark that for future season but is much Mark Wade Savitar stuff is there doing
this season like they're doing a mark way character Savitar but there's a lot of Godspeed
flash rebirth stuff happening the way they used him in that story in the way they took
him down so as you know in the comics.
Now they brought back Ginger Wally West like the Wally West from Mark Wade era.
But there's also the African-American kid flash Wally West.
So he ends up helping the flash in flash rebirth.
Take down Godspeed, but because the flash does not kill as he says you know no more
were not doing this anymore he locks him up.
It was a much more emotional arc something I think that would be much easier to adapt
for television like a much more fully formed character arc for the villain instead of just
give me all the power are all kill you.
So what you'll probably see is that Savitar on the TV show that there is a person underneath
that armor, but in the way that Godspeed in a couple other people during the flash rebirth
comic manifest their costumes from the speed force.
That's probably what you'll see him due to he also has powers that people haven't seen
before an interesting twist on the speed force, so fast that only people like the flash people
with the speed force can see him that's what he looks really invisible here it is meant
to be super bad ass like oh he's so fast that he's invisible, but when you're talking about
him with your friends and they ask you who is the villain of the flash season three should
say Savitar not Godspeed but if they do ask about Godspeed you can just say their borrowing
a lot of stuff from Godspeed was the TV show tends to do like it did with zoom Hunter Solomon
and Jay Garrick a kind of blend a lot of stuff but zoom in the comics is Hunter Solomon zoom
on the TV show was Hunter Solomon.
So that's why think that Savitar will still be Savitar from the comics but their borrowing
a lot of stuff from Godspeed in the comics you like e-forms's costume out of the speed
force he does crazy things that no flash is been able to do before even the reverse flash
who supposedly knows more about the speed force than anybody else the whole reason that
is called Prof. zoom in the comics is because he is a professor of flash and speed force
studies in the 25th century like they have a school dedicated to studying the flash in
the speed force.
He eventually became one of the instructors the real twist of the TV show in this was
also evident during the Godspeed run is that Barry kind of creates his own problems.
So you know whatever's going on with Savitar with Doctor alchemy that happened because
of flashpoint, because of something Barry did when he was being selfish trying to save
his parents, even though it meant changing the timeline.
So in the comics.
Godspeed was kind of a consequence of the stuff that Barry was not willing to do with
a very flashpoint type twist Godspeed wanted the flash to go back in time and change the
past.
So that his brother's murder would not go free like Barry's parents were murdered he
try to go back in time and change that causes flashpoint is a huge nightmare.
So he starts to learn the lesson that there are some things that you cannot change that
or some bad things that happened to you just have to learn to accept Godspeed of course
is a brand-new speedster with a huge axe to grind against his brother's murder has not
learned this lesson yet.
So the big question of what would you do if you were given the powers of the flash would
you be a hero or would you start crossing the line being judged, jury executioner, so
I will say in the comics the Godspeed arc was a much better character arc.
But I think that you know Savitar which is like a really interesting story for the time
that it was published that as with all things the way they write the speed force in the
comics of falls over time so they just try to do new interesting things with it sometimes
it's cool sometimes it doesn't work out, but if you want to read along in flash rebirth
is like one of the best new comics like your flash fan and you want to read the comics
I just recommend you start with flash rebirth.
Don't worry about reading the old stuff the TV shows only doing a little bit of stuff
from that Savitar run and I'll point out all the comic book stuff when they do it on the
TV show but as with Godspeed's end in the comics of the way they take him down with
the help of kid flash Wally West I think they'll also try to do something similar on the TV
show because now TV show Wally West is getting his powers, but the question is is what is
he gonna do with those powers.
So I think you know because the TV show wants a more hopeful spin he will try to help but
a big part of his arc.
This season is in learning to be a hero but he doesn't get his powers and just automatically
learn everything that he needs to learn overnight he has to learn a lot of the same lessons
that Barry learned the first couple of seasons and then there's the idea that Barry has only
been the flash for little while himself so he's probably not the best teacher not as
good as say Jay Garrick so hopefully the TV show bring back Jay Garrick pretty soon and
you can drop some knowledge bombs on them cracked cup style like he gave Barry that
speech look, kid, you can go back in time every time you want to.
You crack the very fabric of reality.
Every time you try to play God.
So whole bunch of crazy stuff happening tonight is the killer Frost episodes I'll probably
end up doing like a killer Frost video later this week to just because she's a really interesting
character from the comics.
I can't wait to see what they do with her on the TV show is going to continue to be
a big part of the show so don't worry you do whatever ends up happening with her shall
still be on the show.
I think the just try to tell a really interesting Caitlin arc so be sure to subscribe to get
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