Sam Scudder


 * For the Mirror Master of Earth Two, see Evan McCulloch.

Sam Scudder, nicknamed Mirror Master by Harrison Wells, is a meta-human criminal and the rival of Leonard Snart.

Early exploits
Sam Scudder and Rosa Dillon completed a heist with Leonard Snart. The latter told them to lay low but they refused. Leonard approached them and Sam told Snart that without him and Rosa, Snart would still be kicking down liquor stores. Sam was told that his version of reality was warped. Sam decided he wanted out and Snart tried to shoot him. Sam disarmed Snart but was quickly defeated and thrown against a mirror. Sam crawled to another nearby mirror where he was nearly killed by Snart, before the latter fled when the S.T.A.R. Labs particle accelerator blew up. Sam was hit by the dark matter and vanished.

Becoming Mirror Master
Three years later, when Broome Industries was being cleaned up, Sam grabbed a worker by the throat and emerged from the mirror. Sam proceeded to demand where Snart was.

Sam asked an old lackey of Snart of his whereabouts, though the man was unsure. Upset, Sam told him he would find someone who does, as he threw him into a mirror and out a nearby window, sending him falling out of the two story building, though the man survived. Later, Sam broke Rosa out of Iron Heights Prison. Sam explained to Rosa he was trapped in a mirror and only escaped the previous night. Sam was told that it had been three years and a lot has changed. Sam asked Rosa if she was affected also and told her to show him her abilities. After being demonstrated her crippling vertigo abilities, Sam told her they could take down Snart. Sam was then told that Snart was long gone, though Sam they could still be who they want to be and be in control.

Sam and Rosa robbed First National Bank. As they were leaving, they were approached by the Flash and Jesse Quick. Sam and Rosa escaped using reflective materials, climbing a building using reflections. After the Flash came to Jesse's aid, Sam used the distraction to throw the Flash into a mirror, trapping him. At Broome Industries, Sam was called by "Snart". Scudder and Rosa approached him at an adbandoned amusement park. Sam told Snart that things had changed and it was his and Rosa's town now. Sam told Snart that his cold gun wouldn't stop him as Sam tried to use a mirror to attack Snart from behind. Sam quickly learned it was only a hologram of Snart as he turned around to see the Flash. Sam was eventually trapped in a circle of mirrors, creating an infinite reflective loop utilizing a property known as the Droste effect. Defeated, Sam was handcuffed by the Flash and taken into custody. Sam was later incarcerated in Iron Heights, and placed in a cell with no reflective surfaces in order to prevent any attempts at escape.

Powers

 * Reflection manipulation: After he was caught in the particle accelerator's explosion's shock-wave, Sam gained the power to travel through any reflective surface within a separate existence, allowing him to traverse areas at great speed, nearly equally Barry's speed. It is revealed that he is be able to link Einstein-Rosen bridges to anything with high solar reflectance, allowing him to essentially create wormholes, or portals, through reflections. He can use this power on others, allowing him to also trap them within the mirror surface, as well as teleport them, which he has used offensively, as he threw one of Leonard Snart's old associates into a mirror, causing his reflection to be seen in another as as if he was falling, and the man ended up coming out of a second story window, though he survived the fall.

Weaknesses

 * Extreme cold: By reducing the surface temperature of the reflection to low enough level, the mirror prison can potentially be shattered with enough vibrational force.
 * Droste effect: When surrounded by too many reflections looking at each other, creating an infinite reflection, Sam will be unable to travel through the mirror at all.
 * Ground mirrors: If the mirror is laying on the ground he cannot escape.

Behind the scenes

 * Harrison Wells immediately thinks of naming Scudder "Mirror Master", as there is one on his Earth. However, he also says Mirror Master had a different name on his Earth and used a mirror gun, alluding to Mirror Master's DC Comics origins.