Board Thread:The Flash discussions/@comment-807326-20170308013636/@comment-24476516-20170309210045

Xandermcc wrote: Kagemamoru wrote:

Xandermcc wrote:

Kagemamoru wrote: Meh, I liked Savitar's old look better, shinier.

Funny detail I noticed was Savitar referring to Wally as "WALLACE!" just like HR... Anyway, I'm convinced Savitar is Cisco. He can't be Wally because Wally was not present when Reverb taunted Cisco, and Savitar quoted Reverb's exact words. Also, the original body Savitar had before going megatron was light skinned. He can't be Barry because he'd kill himself by killing Barry, and unlike the evil Future Barry from the New 52, he's not exactly the suicidal type. His insistence on being a god would be redundant if his goal was to end up getting killed. Also, remember that just before Savitar's debut, there was a very odd vibration in Alchemy's lair that was never explained. Savitar also mentioned that he had been around from the beginning or something, kinda like how Cisco is an OG Team Flash member.

The sole problem with this theory is that Cisco isn't a speedster... but not yet, at least. And with his Vibe powers + speedster powers, he would totally feel powerful enough to boast about godhood like Savitar does. Except in the comics Savitar is a Tibetan fighter pilot who gets a god complex after getting superspeed. So? The show always twists the canon around. In the comics he was a very human shirtless Wally villain that didn't have a vendetta for something from the future, but he's different on the show. Like how in the comics, Hunter Zolomon was a crippled but good man, cop, and friend to Wally before becoming Zoom, none of which happened on the show. Also, TV Savitar isn't motivated by wanting to steal everyone's speed to be the fastest like comics Savitar was. TV Savitar's hatred for the Flash is clearly much more personal. He obviously did get a god complex from his powers on the show. The core of the character though is that he is a god. Just like how both versions of Zolomon tried to manipulate the Flash into a better hero.

Yeah, but they can do the core god complex thing without keeping his backstory. I mean, technically, they already did. And TV Zolomon wanted Barry to be evil just like him, not a "hero" lol