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This is going to be my flash versus savitar speed force explainer video also has some
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alerts so that you don't miss anything during the break, but savitar, so we've already learned
a lot about him on the TV show but there's a couple key differences from the comics the
give little insight as to why he's trapped in the speed force, even though he calls himself
a speed God, but that's actually a really important point he chose the name's savitar
for himself, the Hindu god of motion that that doesn't mean that he's actually a God.
So as he says you only need people to believe you're a God to become a God your smart about
before God you believe you are knowingly so that doesn't mean that he has like this crazy
power that Barry does not have, but when you look at the comics especially savitar storyline
there are many different ways that you can become a speedster, you can gain your power
through magic like through enchantment like Max Mercury back in the 1830s this dying Indian
shaman gave him his speed.
So you can also get your power from the speed formula like the rival of the comics the reverse
flash of the Jay Garrick era the Edward Clariss reverse flash they change that for the TV
show in the comics like way back in the Golden age of the flash during the Jay Garrick era
he gave himself velocity nine that's how he got his speed and then like Jesse quick like
Johnny quick you can use the speed formula to give yourself speed, but as, of savitar's
debut in the comics.
They had only started to learn about the speed force, so the people that wrote the flash
comic had a lot of different ways of explaining how the flash got his powers, but the speed
force is a concept wasn't created until Mark Wade's run.
So before that the flash is ran really fast, but after Mark Wade created the idea of the
speed force, especially leading into the savitar arc it change the nature of the flash is powers
but he still have a lot of different types of speedsters getting there speed from different
sources.
So, what the TV show is done is it simplified this a little bit and all of the good speedsters
that you've seen so far get their power from the speed force but they all have different
levels of ability like Wally West is progressing through his training much faster than Barry
did.
So just remember the idea that not all speedsters are created equal and that includes savitar,
so in the comics savitar got his powers when he was struck by lightning in an aircraft
he was a Cold War era pilot we never learned his name when he woke up amidst the wreckage
of his plane he found that he had superspeed.
So he killed a bunch of people took the name's savitar and then eventually ran afoul of Max
Mercury.
But as Max Mercury was trying to fight him.
He got a taste of the speed force and just went completely drunk on it.
He started worshiping the speed force as a God in wanted to commune with it more and
more, but because he didn't get his powers from the speed force he wasn't connected to
it in the way that Wally West was.
So all he could do was steal speed from other people that would make him faster, more powerful,
but there was an absolute limit.
So what happens is is you have all the speedsters to get their powers from places that are not
the speed force like Jesse quick the formula speedsters velocity nine speedsters anybody
else like Max Mercury the got it from the Indian shaman savitar is able to steal all
of their speed.
So Wally West is left to take down savitar by himself but one of the key cornerstones
of the Wally West character is that he had always lived in grief of how Barry Allen had
died and had erected mental blocks for himself that prevented him from reaching his full
potential as a speedster's over the course of several adventures he's able to overcome
this fully tap into the speed force in runs savitar right into it, trapping him he becomes
pure energy savitar is trapped in the speed force prison, but the reason that he can't
get out is because the nature of his powers do not connect him with the speed force in
the way that Wally is so he sort of trapped in this endless void of time and energy.
The way they say on the TV show.
So what we know about TV savitar he got his powers from the philosopher's stone not directly
from the speed force in the way that Barry or Wally got their powers.
So the thing about Barry is that the speed force as he spoke to that speed force wormhole
aliens in season two they chose him he is like the universes champion the way they played
it was a little confusing this a little bit different than the comics because in the comics
the speed force is just an energy source in what you do with energy you use it to power
things there's no intelligence behind it.
But the TV show has turned it into more of a Star Trek deep space nine thing where you
have beings that existed in this continuum and have a will they exerted upon the universe.
They have a divine purpose and Barry is an instrument of that.
But as we've learned from season two people like zoom can gain the speed force.
They can get powers even though these beings did not choose him is a champion.
So evil people can gain speed different ways through circumstance and that sounds like
the way savitar got his powers he found the philosopher's stone that gave him his powers
he became superfast he can siphon speed from other people, but he's not connected to the
speed force in the way that Barry is so that's why he can be so powerful but still be trapped
inside the speed force, so during the midseason finale Jay Garrick made a really offhanded
remark, and it was almost lost like a second time I watched it I heard a little bit more
clearly some to play this clip is that she really important idea that is kind of throughout
their touchstone is loaded with gravimetric for something to think you can run fast enough
to enter speed force and carry that same time he can with my health be run as fast as we
can you trail behind me siphon with some of my speed combined it with their own when you
have a nostril that Think Different speed force, so here's the important thing they
kind of done this before on the flash this is the first time that two people have run
together to enable one to run even faster than he normally would be able to run they've
done it with the reverse flash, but here Jay Garrick is actually saying it out loud in
a way that they haven't done before you can siphon my speed and that will enable you to
throw the philosopher's stone into the speed force, so on the TV show were already borrowing
giving taking speed between speedsters in a way that's different from season to where
Harrison wells had to siphon it off using that special device like it was really hard
for zoom to take Barry speed, but here he's taking Jay Garrick speed and a really easy
offhanded way like it's no big deal.
So that's actually a huge concept and what it sounds like is happening here is that Barry
is going to get the arc from the comics where Wally had to overcome his mental block, so
a lot of you asked how fast is Barry has he reached his full potential.
I will say he is definitely not as fast as he will ever get he will get even faster by
the end of the season.
He'll have to in order to defeat's savitar just like they deepen the mythology of the
flash each new season with each new villain will deepen the mythology by allowing Barry
to more fully tap into the speed force will become so fast that he can trap savitar in
the speed force again just like they did in the comics so you just have to remember that
the flash TV show blends a lot of Wally West era.
A lot of Golden age era and.
A lot of modern era flash, so that's why I think that Barry is getting some Wally West
era, comic book story at least as it applies to the nature of the speed force, so hopefully
that explains why savitar is supposedly a God of speed yet he is trapped inside the
speed force.
When Barry went there himself.
I mean, he had that died to do it but I think in the future he'll just become so fast that
he can go into the speed force and come back out at will.
But if you guys want I will do a full flash versus savitar comic book storyline bonus
video I might have to break it up into a couple because it's really big story but that'll
happen during the break, I'm doing a bunch of epic comic book battle videos like the
flash versus Iris West is like a really cool twist from the comics so the be all kinds
a bonus videos like that but what can happen later tonight is the Spider-Man trailer is
going to be dropping.
I'm totally gonna do a video for it.
But they just revealed that there's a second trailer with slightly different footage so
I'll be doing to Spider-Man trailer videos, but the first one will post later tonight
than the next one will dispose Friday morning.
So instead of just one Spider-Man trailer you get to is gonna be awesome.
There is the midseason finale of legends of tomorrow Capt. cold.
Does that make sure you watch that episode because of that Spider-Man stuff my video
for that will post till Friday morning.
So no worries.
I will do legends of tomorrow.
I will do agents of shield, but because there's so much stuff happening.
I'll just update the schedule as I post new videos.
So it's gonna be a lot of fun.
Let me know what kind of flash bonus videos you want me to do during the break the flash
episode 10 is coming back January 24.
So, I know that sounds like a long time but a section out that long, but the flash ring
giveaway will still be happening every week so I'll say congratulations to this week's
winner Mr. Scully please private message me on the back and my channel so I can get your
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you can click here for the Spider-Man teaser trailer and you can click here for my flash
episode nine video think you so much watching everybody let's high five I'll see you guys
tonight!