User blog comment:Lupercalus/Savitar/@comment-3221148-20161205100929

Or maybe Savitar is just Savitar. You know, like in the comics?

The Flash has a roundabout way of staying true to the comics, while making the viewers think it's not. Oh, so they have their own Reverse-Flash, Harrison Wells? Nope, he turns out to be Eobard Thawne. Oh, now Jay Garrick is Zoom? Nope, it's Hunter Zolomon, Jay is another actor entirely.

Yes, Savitar doesn't look like the comics version (who was a naked guy with a Zoom mask), but neither did Zoom. The main principle behind him (as that of a man trapped in the Speed Force, who learned all of its secrets while imprisoned and became a master of its creative use) will probably stay the same. Additionally, like the comics' Savitar, it will probably take the combined forces of all speedsters' to defeat him.