- For his main-self, see Barry Allen.
- "You, Joe, Wally, Cisco, you all shunned me because I wasn't the true Barry Allen. I was an aberration, a disposable hero. Future you failed to mention that, didn't he?... I was broken and alone. I wanted the pain to end and that's when I realized the truth, Barry. God feels no pain. All I had to do was become one."
- —Time remnant Barry revealing his origins to the original Barry[src]
Bartholomew Henry "Barry" Allen (born March 14, 1989) is a time remnant of the original Barry Allen that became a powerful armored speedster known as Savitar. Self-named after the Hindu God of Motion, he proclaims himself to be the "God of Speed" and the "ruler" of the Speed Force as well as the Future Flash, being one of the fastest known speedsters in the Multiverse. He was also called the Dark Lord by an acolyte of his cult, which he led himself through an avatar known as Alchemy, preparing worlds for his arrival. According to stories and myths learned by Jay Garrick, it appears that he is the first meta-human speedster in the multiverse. In the future he is considered by many to be the Flash's greatest enemy, even more so than Reverse-Flash and Zoom. Abra Kadabra even stated that out of all of the Flash's foes, Savitar is the only one who has truly emotionally broke the Flash. He possesses Julian Albert, as at some point the Philosopher's Stone was sealed away, preventing him from existing, and Julian opens the box and releases Savitar, who turns him into another Alchemy. He fought the Flash and his team and as Alchemy used the stone to restore people's abilities that were meta humans in Flashpoint. However soon enough he was thrown away into the Speed Force with help from Jay Garrick, the Earth-3 Flash. After manipulating Wally West, who was a speedster known as Kid Flash in Flashpoint, Savitar managed to escape from the Speed Force and resume his feud with the Flash.
Savitar later forms an alliance with Killer Frost and reveals his identity to her, and soon enough, to Team Flash.
Biography
Early life
Savitar's early life is similar to Barry Allen's until a single point in time when Barry created Flashpoint.
Origin
Barry's time remnant attains godly powers.
In a Post-Flashpoint possible timeline, Barry made time remnants to help stop Savitar. However, Savitar slaughtered most of them, and spared only one time remnant to live. He only did so to ensure the remnant becomes Savitar in the future. He was later shunned by Team Flash, as he was an aberration and not the true Barry. Desperate to end the pain, he decided to become a "god".
At some point, he used the Philosopher's Stone as a part of his power. He dubbed himself the "God of Speed" and founded a cult. The remnant is assumed to be the one to spread the myth about himself across the multiverse. Later, he gained a mechanical suit of armor made of friction-less material.
According to Jay Garrick and the myth of the Speed Force, Barry, as Savitar traveled throughout the multiverse with the Philosopher's Stone in hand, seeking out the most powerful Speedsters who threatened his power to battle before taking over their Earths. Before each encounter, he would possess a person and use them as a medium under the alias "Alchemy" to 'prepare' for his arrival by having "Alchemy" create meta-human armies for Barry to command. To get revenge on his 'main' version by avoiding him for being a aberration, he traveled to 2020 and he and his 'main' self fought, with Savitar thinking he could kill him. However, to the surprise of Savitar, his 'main' self was able to beat him and subsequently imprisoned him in the Speed Force, but not before killing of all the Flash's other time remnants except for one, allowing the remaining one to follow his path into despair and thus continuing the endless loop of Savitar before ultimately being sealed away and preventing the latter from escaping, for which Savitar swore revenge.[1]
Preparation for freedom from the Speed Force
Savitar possessing Julian.
While he was imprisoned in the Speed Force, Barry sensed a dramatic shift in the timeline that resulted from his past 'main' self from 2016, creating the Flashpoint timeline. Realizing that he could use the situation to his advantage, Barry waited until the timeline was restored to its previous form and began to enact his plan. After the Flashpoint has been erased, due to his past 'main' self and Eobard Thawne/Reverse-Flash actions, creating the Post-Flashpoint timeline, he telepathically appeared to Julian Albert in the form of his deceased sister Emma and told him of the Philosopher's Stone, claiming it could bring "her" back to him. Julian spent years searching for it and in 2012 funded an exhibition in India and found the container it was sealed within. After opening it however Savitar was released and possessed Julian and killed the other members of the exhibition. While Julian tried to escape Savitar by fleeing to America he continually possessed Julian and he unwillingly became the newest Alchemy. For the next few years Savitar, as Alchemy, sought out followers for his cult, seeking to slay a younger, less powerful version of him.[1] He also somehow became aware of the Flashpoint timeline and all the meta-humans from it, which unintentionally provided him the means for his return.
Alchemy began seeking out individuals who were meta-humans in Flashpoint.
Under his Alchemy guise Savitar began seeking out individuals who were meta-humans in Flashpoint and restored their memories and extorted them into find him. Once they did Barry promised to restore their power in exchange for their loyalty. He did this to Shade and Clive Yorkin. Barry then sought out Frankie Kane, a teenage girl with dissociation identity disorder, and restored her memories of Flashpoint and told her to find him. Once she did Alchemy offered to restore her powers in exchange for her service. While Frankie was reluctant her other personality "Magenta" agreed and Alchemy restored her powers.
Alchemy and The Rival confront The Flash.
Barry then communicated with Edward Clariss, who was a speedster named "The Rival" in Flashpoint, and restored his memories of his Flashpoint life and told him to find him.[2] Once Clariss arrived, he begged Savitar to make the visions stop but Savitar asked if he really wanted the visions to stop, or if he wanted them to come true and to have speed once more. Clariss confessed that he did and Savitar promised to restore his power, in exchange for his loyalty and using the stone on Clariss, he became "The Rival" once more.[3]
Savitar kills Edward Clariss.
Alchemy observed as The Rival fought The Flash which ended in a draw, though The Flash was unaware Alchemy was watching them. Later when The Flash confronted The Rival at the Prescott Sawmill, Alchemy attacked The Flash and upon being asked what he wanted, he claimed to be helping people achieve their potential because he was preparing the world. The Rival then fought The Flash again but was defeated by the combined power of him and Vibe. When Clariss was incarcerated in Iron Heights Prison, Savitar scolded him for his failure and Clariss begged for a second chance, but Savitar appeared inside his cell and attacked him.[3] After tossing him around he struck a fatal blow that killed Clariss before he hit the ground.
Alchemy manipulates Magenta into killing her foster father.
Later after nearly killing her abusive foster father Magenta approached Alchemy, angry that Frankie continued to resurface as Alchemy promised her freedom from Frankie and her foster father. Alchemy told Magenta if she wanted Frankie gone she'd have to show her that she was in control, and this led to Magenta almost destroying a hospital full of innocent people to get revenge on her foster father. However, Frankie was talked out of it by Barry and she left Central City as a result.[4]
Alchemy attacks The Flash after failing to persuade Wally to restore his powers.
Future Barry then sought out Wally and restored his memories of Flashpoint. Knowing Barry would do all he could to prevent Wally from finding him Savitar sent Shade after him as a distraction, while he communicated with Wally and urged him to seek him out. When Wally locked himself in the pipeline Savitar began torturing him to persuade him, to no avail. When Shade was captured Savitar simply began torturing Wally more intensely until he eventually sought him out.
First encounter with the Flash again
Wally approaches Alchemy.
In an effort to lure Alchemy into a trap, Team Flash and a CCPD strike team followed secretly behind Wally West as he approached Alchemy about his visions of Flashpoint. Wally stalled Alchemy long enough to allow the police and Flash to storm the hideout. Alchemy and his cohorts were subsequently surrounded and shackled. Flash triumphantly stood before Alchemy and went to unmask him. Just as he was about to do so, an earthquake shook the hideout and suddenly a small blip of light began racing around the hideout, killing all of the cops and freeing Alchemy's followers. Realizing the blip of light was a speedster The Flash attempted to pursue it but it's speed was far beyond his, and Barry was brought down instead. As Wally West became trapped in a cocoon-like container, the mysterious speedster pinned a distracted Flash to a wall, revealing itself to be clad entirely in metallic armour. As the Flash finally beheld his armoured foe he demanded to know its identity to which it responded that its name was Savitar, the god of speed. Savitar then produced a long curved blade from his gauntlet and prepared to finish off the Flash.
Savitar battles Barry.
Luckily, the Flash was saved at the last second by the timely intervention of Joe West who managed to shake off his attackers and opened fire on Savitar even though he couldn't actually see the speedster. The bullets however deflected harmlessly off Savitar's armour. Ignoring the interruption, Savitar raced out of the lair with the Flash in hand and proceeded to drag, pummel and throw him all across Central City like a rag-doll by somehow using his speed to open up dimensional breaches to various locations around Central City, finally coming to a stop at the waterfront, whereupon Savitar began to savagely beat down his quarry. As the Flash lay broken and bleeding at his feet, Savitar declared the Flash to be beneath him and announced that he (Savitar) was the future while the Flash was the past. Having said this, he grabbed the Flash by the throat and prepared to once again skewer the speedster with his gauntlet-blade. Before he could do so however, the Flash was saved by the sudden arrival of Vibe and Caitlin Snow, who used her ice-powers to freeze Savitar in place and reveal him at the same time but inadvertently harming the Flash too. The ice though did not last long and Savitar soon burst out of his ice-prison and sped off.
Later Savitar sought out Julian while he was in the hospital though he told Savitar to stay away from him but Savitar confronted him anyway, telling him that only together could his return be achieved. Savitar then possessed Julian and at the C.C.P.D. took retrieved his Alchemy outfit to continue his plan.[5]
Fighting the Flashes
Savitar fights Jay Garrick.
With Julian resuming his Alchemy persona, Savitar prepared once again to target the Flash. He ordered Alchemy to use a specially designed building in Central City to refract the energies from the Philosopher's Stone and bestow powers on all the metahumans in Central City from the Flashpoint timeline at once. Their efforts were interrupted once again by the arrival of two Flashes; Barry having joined forces with the Earth Three veteran speedster Jay Garrick. Before they could do anything to Alchemy, Savitar appeared out of nowhere. While Barry dealt with Alchemy, Garrick squared off against Savitar but was completely outmatched by the metallic speedster, who viciously pummeled, threw around and beat down the elder speedster all across Central City, finally coming to a stop in an alley. Savitar angrily told Garrick that this was not his fight and unsheathed his gauntlet blade to kill him. Garrick was saved however when Barry sealed the Philosophers Stone back in its chest, causing Savitar to disappear into thin air.
Savitar prepares to kill Barry and Wally.
Looking to continue the fight, Savitar chose to bide his time in order to figure out a way back. He began telepathically manipulating Cisco Ramon using an image of his dead brother Dante to convince him that the Philosopher's Stone could bring him back. Entranced by the stone's power, Cisco opened the chest, releasing Savitar once again just as the the Earth One Flash arrived in Cisco's lab. Savitar then seized the Flash and brought him to the Star Labs speed lab whereupon he began to mercilessly beat up the Flash yet again. As he did so, he was stalled by the sudden arrival of Wally who went to attack him but was merely seized by the throat by Savitar and thrown across the room into Barry. As the two speedsters lay defeated on the ground, Savitar unsheathed both of his wrist blades and moved to kill them both. He was however prevented from doing so at the last second when Caitlin convinced Cisco to accept his brother's death and close the chest containing the Stone, sealing Savitar away again. [1]
Savitar speaks through Julian.
Fuming from his latest defeat and Alchemy's constant failures, Savitar suddenly felt Julian's consciousness connected to the Stone, established a psychic connection through him and found himself face-to-face with Team Flash. He berated them for not bowing to him only to be derided for his claims to be a god. Seeking to rattle them, Savitar revealed intimate knowledge of each of the Team Flash members as well as a chilling warning about their future; one would betray them, one would die and one would suffer a fate worse than death. The Flash demanded to know who Savitar really was and what he wanted to which Savitar responded that he wanted to take back everything that the Flash had taken from him before he would destroy him. Confused, Flash angrily asked why Savitar didn't follow through with his threats right away before realizing that without the Stone, he literally couldn't. Enraged, Savitar revealed the reason for his vendetta; that it was in fact a future version of Barry who had trapped him 'in eternity' and vowed that he would rise again. Disconcerted, Barry disconnected Julian from Savitar.[1]
Escaping the Speed Force
Savitar attacks Wally.
Having regained possession of most of the Philosopher's Stone after the Flash threw it into the Speed Force, Savitar put the next phase of his escape plan into action. He began telepathically haunting Wally West to wear him down, which came to a head while he and Barry were out on a run and one of West's hallucinations actually attacked him. Desperate for answers, Team Flash opened up a line of communication to Savitar through Julian Albert and The Flash confronted his enemy once more. Savitar sardonically greeted Barry and his comrades but quickly rebuffed him when Barry argued that they were essentially the same, claiming that to him, Barry was the villain of their story. He revealed yet more intimate knowledge of the team such as Cisco's conversation with Reverb and H.R. surviving his future rampage. Team Flash interrogated Savitar extensively about his plans and his past but got only cryptic answers and half-statements in response; when questioned about the origin of their feud by Barry, Savitar arrogantly derided both Thawne and Zoom, claiming that he was the Flash's ultimate foe. He did however reveal that he had taken back the Stone and declared that no matter what they did, they could not stop his return. As he rose to his feet, Savitar reaffirmed his intention to escape, kill Iris and destroy the Flash, mockingly bringing up Barry's dead parents. Fed up, Barry disconnected Julian from Savitar.
Savitar takes the form of Francine West.
Satisfied that almost everything in place, Savitar focused on getting the broken piece of the Philosopher's Stone. He telepathically linked to Wally once again, taking the form of West's deceased mother to torment him and pressured him into stealing the piece of the stone. West stole the piece from Star Labs and raced to an abandoned factory and manically tried to open a portal to the Speed Force but was held back by the power of the Stone. Savitar mocked West's efforts, reminding West that he would eventually kill everyone he loved. Incensed by Savitar's words, West successfully opened a Speed Force portal and threw the piece of the stone into it.
Savitar battles his younger self, The Flash after being set free.
As Barry arrived on the scene, tendrils of white lightning seized West and pulled him into the Speed Force while breaking its hold on Savitar, who burst out of the portal roaring in triumph. Pacing around the Flash, Savitar revealed his full escape plan to Barry and declared that saving West was now impossible. Enraged, Barry charged Savitar and chased him into an alley. Though Barry angrily promised that he would kill him, Savitar mocked his threats, reminding that he was the hero who would never take a life, and declared him unworthy of the life Barry had been given and vowed to destroy Central City like he did in the future and attacked. This time, though Savitar remained dominant, the fight was more even-sided with both speedsters landing solid blows on the other, culminating in Barry seizing Savitar in a headlock, demanding he show his face. Savitar instead pivoted out of it and stabbed Barry through the shoulder with his gauntlet-blade, shattering his clavicle. Stating his intent to kill Barry, Savitar promised to let him live long enough to watch Iris die. Barry unexpectedly struck back by slicing off Savitar's blade with his vibrating hand. Roaring with anger, Savitar raced away.
Savitar declaring that he has big plans for Jesse Quick.
Savitar remained silent and out of sight for the time being, while Team Flash frantically searched for a way to rescue Wally from the speed force, in order to work on repairing his damaged armour. When he finished, he stepped back and observed from afar as Barry went back into the Speed Force to free Wally from his prison. While doing so, he suddenly felt the lost piece of his armour being reactivated and homing in on him. Racing to it, he found himself confronted by the Earth Two speedster Jesse Quick. He declared that he knew that she would come for him and reprimanded her for her claiming that she wasn't afraid of him. Angered, Quick recklessly attacked with a lightning bolt but Savitar inexplicably absorbed the bolt and fired it right back at Quick, sending her flying several feet. Savitar demanded the return of his severed gauntlet-blade and began telekinetically summoning it to him as Quick clung on to it and too was dragged towards him. Thinking quickly, HR instructed Quick to find and attack a weak spot in Savitar's armor. As Savitar seized Jesse by the neck and held her before him, he declared that he had big plans for her, his arrogance blinding him to the fact that Quick was still holding his gauntlet-blade. Retorting that she had plans too, Quick viciously plunged the blade into Savitar's shoulder through a gap in his armor. Bellowing in agony, Savitar dropped Jesse and raced away. Realizing that Savitar could feel pain, HR later informed Barry and the team that Savitar was not a God after all but an armoured man with super speed.
Identity revealed
Barry reveals his identity to Killer Frost.
Savitar steered clear of the Flash and his team while recuperating from the injury dealt to him by Jesse Quick. When this was over, he sensed the resurgence of Killer Frost and went to meet her in a forest on the outskirts of Central City. When she arrived, Savitar greeted her amicably and promised her that he would ensure that Caitlin Snow would never return, though Frost was hesitant to believe him. To gain her trust, Savitar knelt down, removed his armor and revealed to her his true identity.[6]
Savitar orders Killer Frost to kill Tracy Brand.
Anticipating that his past self would try to build the Speed Force trap sooner than was destined, Savitar ordered Killer Frost to find and kill Tracy Brand, the physicist who would go on to build the trap technology in the first place, though Frost was thwarted by the Flash and Vibe. When she returned to him having failed, Savitar chastised her for not living up to her title and mused aloud if there was still a part of the old Caitlin Snow having an influence on her but Killer Frost quickly rebuffed him. Rethinking his plan, Savitar next ordered her to kidnap Joe's girlfriend Cecil in order to force Team Flash's hand and trade Tracy for her. Knowing what the team would try to do instead, Savitar warned Killer Frost ahead of time of what Barry would say to try and sway her back as well as the trap that they planned for her. When the team managed to subdue her anyway, Savitar sped in as Vibe was taking a blood sample and swatted him away from her. Proclaiming that his ascension was almost complete, Savitar concluded with a reminder to Barry that before long, the Flash would fall. Having said this, Savitar picked up Frost and raced away with her .[7]
Barry steps free of his armor to be face to face with his younger self.
With this latest encounter, Savitar knew it wouldn't be long before Flash figured out his true identity and raced to meet Flash on the outskirts of the city as Flash searched for him. Standing before his enemy, Barry declared that he had figured out who Savitar really was; that his ability to flawlessly predict the moves of Team Flash, his intimate knowledge of its members including Barry, were all because he had already lived it all himself. Declaring his relief, Savitar knelt down, removed his armor and revealed himself as none other than a future version of Barry with a pale and scarred face. Grinning ghoulishly at his past self, Savitar reiterated his infamous catchphrase, that he was the Future Flash.[7]
The Flash and Savitar firing massive bolts of lightning at each other
The scarred Barry paced around his younger self with a ghoulish smile on his face as he laid everything out in the open; that he was a time remnant created by Barry's future self in 2020 whom Savitar had allowed to live before being sealed away. The remnant was rejected and shunned by his family and friends as a 'fake', leaving him bitter and broken. Desperate to make the pain go away, the remnant was driven insane and strove to become a god, for which he went back in time to reinvent himself as Savitar, the original speedster, creating a perpetual cause and effect temporal loop. All that was left to complete the loop again was for Iris to die and a second element that the remnant didn't reveal. Present-Barry threatened to kill himself, but the remnant was undaunted, citing Eobard Thawne's survival as an example of how such action was futile and declaring his ascension nearly complete. Enraged, his younger self charged the remnant and attempted to kill him, but was stopped by the self-operating armor which engaged the Present-Barry in a brief struggle. As Present-Barry punched it away, the remnant sped back into it and began charging up for a lightning attack as his younger self did the same. The two fired massive bolts of lightning at each other which caused a huge explosion, hurling the speedsters away from each other and allowing Savitar to escape.
Savitar loses his memories and attacks Killer Frost.
While preparing for his next move, Savitar was inexplicably stripped of all his memories as a result of Team Flash accidentally wiping all the memories his past self had, causing him to randomly attack Killer Frost when she tried to talk to him. After she fled, he remained in seclusion for a time until Team Flash undid the damage by restoring Barry's memories and by extension Savitar's.[8]
Possible future(s)
Savitar about to kill Iris.
In one potential future of May 23 2017, Savitar confronted the Flash with Iris as his hostage. He claimed to finally be "free" of the Flash. Despite the Flash's pleas, Savitar simply told Flash that he "lost" and proceeded to murder Iris before the Flash could get to him in time, and Savitar fled as the Flash was left to his loss. Seemingly unbeknownst to Savitar or Flash, a younger version of the scarlet speedster from 5 months earlier was watching the event from the nearby trees, though he was pulled back to his own time by Jay Garrick.
In another possible future, the timeline is slightly altered when H.R is present on a nearby rooftop with a rifle aimed at Savitar, though this did not change Iris' fate.
As noted by Jay, the future is always changing based on the choices people make in the present, indicating Iris may not suffer this fate. The fact that Barry is now armed with his knowledge supports this. However, alternatively, as H.R. said regarding the future, Barry's very knowledge of these events may lead to Iris' death in his attempts to prevent it.[1]
When Barry ran to 2024 to speak with his future self about Savitar's identity but his future-self couldn't tell him as he still didn't know who Savitar really was. Barry learned that Savitar and Killer Frost had joined forces to fight and break Barry and his team prior to the night of Iris' death. Due to their allied actions, Cisco had his arms frozen and shattered following a battle with Killer Frost. Barry had tried everything to stop Savitar, even creating time remnants to help fight him, but Savitar killed them all save for one and then went on to kill Iris as Barry had foreseen. Barry had then started pushing everyone away as they were reminders of what he had lost and became hateful and obsessed with defeating Savitar. Savitar killing Iris also made Wally heated with vengeance and he went after Savitar which led to a battle that had Wally's spine broken and he became physically and emotionally paralyzed. Savitar had been imprisoned by Barry in the Speed Force in the year 2020 due to a trap designed by Tracy Brand. Barry discovered that Killer Frost had learned who Savitar really was but she wouldn't tell him; only saying that when he did find out, he would be surprised. But due to Barry knowing who is Savitar's true identity and it reveals to be the an evil future version of Barry this slightly began to change the future in 2024.
Personality
As a civilian and as the Flash
- Main article: Barry Allen
Prior to him becoming Savitar, Barry was once a moral, selfless and honorable individual who used his powers to help others until at some point he went insane, becoming his own nemesis Savitar in the process.
As Savitar
Savitar claims himself as a god in every sense of the term and "rule" the Speed Force instead of "serving it" like his younger self does and as such he looks down on all others including fellow speedsters with contempt and derision. He believes that he is meant to be worshiped and bowed to by all and has a loyal cult following that he seems to appreciate enough to aid in times of need. At the same time, he appears to have a measure of insecurity when it comes to other speedsters. Reveling in his status as the fastest there is, he refuses to let other speedsters challenge that claim, driven to destroy them before they can pose a true threat from their own growing speed. Savitar also has a short temper and is obsessed with revenge on his younger-self for imprisoning him.[1]
Savitar hypocritically views the younger Barry as the villain, claiming that he never sought conflict with him and that he was the only one to lose anything as a result of it; despite being a villain himself.
Savitar is merciless and cruel towards his opponents as evidenced by his murder of the CCPD officers in his lair, his savage beat-down of the younger Barry all across Central City and his willingness to kill the younger Barry without a second's hesitation. However, he is focused on making his defeat over the younger Barry painful and miserable, which leads him to plan on killing the love of his life, Iris West, to make him suffer instead of killing him outright.
While he hates the younger Barry for all that his future-self has done to him, Savitar seems to show some empathy for him. He comments that all of his life Barry's had to suffer, from the pain of losing his mom and dad. However, Savitar firmly states that he will not survive what is about to come, and that he has been with Barry from the very beginning. This was a reference to Savitar being the younger Barry's most worst inner demon.
His twisted personality comes from a treatment as an aberration by Team Flash. This is seemingly what created his hatred of the team and what caused him to become Savitar in the first place.
Powers and abilities
Powers
Barry's superhuman speed is emphasized by white lightning while using his metallic armor.
- Speed Force connection/Meta-human physiology: Barry possesses a powerful connection to the Speed Force. His control and power in the Speed Force's usage greatly exceeds all other known users to the point that his potency made him claim to be a god and the "ruler" of it. Even within Edward Clariss' prison cell with a meta-human power dampener, he could fully use his powers. However, this may potent and refined might may be due to the fact that Barry's powers were tied to the Philosopher's Stone.[3] Despite his seemingly unmatched power, a future Barry Allen (his younger-self) was somehow able to defeat and seal him away into the Speed Force itself.[9]
- Accelerated healing factor: Barry's accelerated healing exceeds those of most speedsters, due to his very potent connection to the Speed Force. Despite having spread his reputation as the Hindu God of Motion since ancient times and throughout the ages, he still remaining youthful as ever, he shows tremendous longevity and decelerated aging. At the same time, he was not able to heal from the scars on the right side of his face.
- Electrokinesis: When moving at lower superhuman speeds, Barry generates orange lightning, like his regular self. When running at his peak speeds, he generates white lightning. He is the only known individual in the multiverse whose lightning is this color. Barry is also capable of projecting electrical arcs. Uniquely, he is is able to absorb any electricity launched at him and can then redirect it, possibly due to his suit's capabilities.
- Superhuman agility: Barry possesses superhuman bodily coordination, balance, equilibrium, and dexterity. He is able to change direction immediately, thus allowing him to make sharp turns and easily maneuver while moving at immense speed.[10]
- Superhuman speed: Barry is unfathomably fast despite the huge suit of armor he wears. His astronomical speed allowed him to race around Alchemy's lair and instantly kill multiple cops in seconds.[10] Upon their first encounter, despite the younger Barry's own speed exceeding his other speedster enemies, his own movements were still slow-motion in comparison to the future Barry, who effortlessly countered and outmaneuvered the younger Barry. He later showed equal dominance against the veteran speedster Jay Garrick and simultaneously against the younger Barry and Wally. Even after being freed from his prison, Barry continued to dominate speedsters like the younger Barry and Jesse Quick, who were only able to fend him off by outsmarting him for a decent enough hit.
- Bodily vibration: When Barry was encased in sub-zero ice, he was able to almost instantly break free from his confinement.[10]
- Dimensional travel: Barry's speed is so intense, with a sudden movement he can open dimensional breaches, enabling him to shift and warp about and appear out of nowhere to new locations. Combined with his raw speed, the actions can appear as if he is at multiple places at once by rapidly switching his terrain to his preference. He is also able to use this power to travel throughout the Multiverse, which spread knowledge of his existence to various other speedsters, including Jay Garrick. Due to the effects of Flashpoint weakening his imprisonment in the Speed Force, he became able to temporarily manifest himself physically in the real world until he was drawn back in. It was the fact that he was trapped in the Speed Force and, therefore, not subject to the limits of space or distance in the real world, which made him able to rapidly change locations.
- Geokinesis: Barry is somehow capable of generating earthquakes with his speed.[10]His ability to create earthquakes is likely due to the absurd amount of kinetic energy he transfers into the ground with every step he takes.
- Superhuman momentum: Barry can generate great amounts of physical force through the kinetic energy his immense speed generates. This allowed him to knock several cops into the air when running past and killing them when he first encountered the younger Barry.[10]
- Superhuman perception: Barry is easily capable of keeping up with and perceiving the movements and actions of speedsters.
- Superhuman stamina: Barry's body can handle the stresses of superhuman racing without noticeable distress.[10]
- Superhuman strength: Barry possesses a level of increased strength, able to lift and drag a fully-grown man off the ground by their throat, all with a single hand.[2][10] Barry was able to pummel and toss around the younger Barry, Wally West and Jay Garrick with one hand and, with one punch, he was able to send Jay Garrick flying over a building. [1]
- Philosopher's Stone connection: Barry's connection to the Philosopher's Stone allows him to invade the minds of others. It is yet unknown as to how he attained his connection to the Philosopher Stone.
- Possession: Once establishing a strong enough connection to a person's mind, Barry is able to completely overshadow their actions, turning them into his unwitting pawn, and possess them, as he did with Julian Albert to turn him into "Alchemy", and enabling them to wield the power of the Philosopher's Stone.
- Telepathy: With his connection to the Philosopher's Stone, Barry is able to manipulate others' minds. He can telepathically communicate with them and project illusions that only they can see. This power can still be used even while sealed away in the box. However, it is considerably weakened, as he can only prey on a person's insecurities, such as creating illusions of their lost loved ones, to con them into releasing him.
Former powers
- Invisibility: Due to Barry being imprisoned in the Speed Force and Philosopher's Stone, he was unable to be perceived by anyone who was not also connected to the Speed Force. Cisco Ramon was able to see him in one of his vibes, due to Barry having already escaped from the Speed Force. However, after the rest of the Philosopher's Stone was thrown in the Speed Force which then led to him being freed from the Speed Force, Barry was no longer invisible to Team Flash, as evidenced when he showed up on Team Flash's surveillance camera.
Abilities
For full list of his known abilities, see Barry Allen
- Master manipulator: In his avatar as Alchemy, Barry convinced Edward Clariss and other reborn meta-humans to become agents of his will. He was also able to advise and keep in line the rebellious Magenta. As Alchemy, he spoke to his cult members, leading them together to believe that he is a deity.[1] Barry himself manipulated Julian Albert and later Cisco Ramon to release him, using their own feelings against them. He was also able to trick Team Flash into getting the Philosopher's Stone into the Speed Force and get Wally West to take his place as a prisoner of the Speed Force to free himself.
- Skilled hand-to-hand combatant: Barry is a capable fighter as evidenced by his rapid victory over other speedsters like the younger Barry. His style is not as refined as Eobard Thawne's but is as savage as Zoom's; he uses his extraordinary speed to land powerful blows and throw his opponents around with lots of momentum.[1]While he was still trapped in the Speed Force, he often incorporated intradimensional breaching to switch the terrain to his preference in an instant, keeping his opponent disoriented and off guard, though he apparently lost this ability after being freed from the Speed Force.
- Eidetic memory: Since he is a possible version of Barry from the future, he presumably has knowledge of all the events that have happened, are happening and will happen in the younger Barry's own life, thus allowing him to determine Barry's every action, using this to his advantage in several situations. Even his timings and speeches of these events are precise and accurate.
Weaknesses
For full list of his known weaknesses, see Barry Allen
- Armor reliance: Ironically, Barry's greatest strength is also his greatest weakness in that he has become so fast that when he uses his superhuman speed at his highest levels, the charge he builds up around himself is so volatile (due to the massive buildup of heat energy), he must wear the suit of armor to shield himself from it otherwise it would kill him. The high velocity and charge he builds up could also be used against him to trap him in the Speed Force, as discovered by Tracy Brand, who used this weakness to create the device that imprisoned him in the first place. However, despite this weakness, Barry can run for a period of a few seconds without his armor, shown when he ran towards it and donned it during his fight with his past self.
- Extreme cold: Much like other speedsters, Barry seems to be weakened or at least momentarily stunned when exposed to an extremely cold environment. This was proven when Caitlin Snow used her meta-human freezing powers on an invisible Barry. However, his powers allowed him to shortly afterward break free and recover enough to zip away.
- Mental link: As Savitar is a future time remnant, any new experiences that happen to the prime Barry will affect him as well. To which, if Barry forgets who he is, so will Savitar.
Former weaknesses
- Philosopher's Stone connection: At some point, Barry was defeated by his younger self and sealed away. Barry can only maintain his presence in the world while the Philosopher's Stone is in contact with the world outside of its containment vessel. However, now that Barry is free from the Speed Force, with Jay Garrick taking his place in the Speed Force, the stone is no longer a weakness to him.
Equipment
Barry removing his armor.
- Armor: Upon gaining his remarkable speed, Barry also gained a full-bodied suit of armor that is massive in size and demon-like in form and generates white lightning when he uses his speed.[1] Acting as a mechanized battle-suit, it opens from the backside. It possesses a thick, retractable spike mounted on each wrist and seemingly is able to disguise his voice.
- Cold resistance: The armor protected him from Caitlin Snow freezing him solid, as he was able to instantly burst out of it unfazed and ran away instantly in the speed of a lightning bolt.
- Hidden blades: Barry's armor possesses retractible blades in its wrists as melee weapons.
- Armor retraction: Should any part of his armor be broken off, it can immediately be drawn back to Barry from any distance, to the point where any broken off pieces can be telekinetically summoned back to the rest of the suit if it is close enough.
- Voice filtering: Barry is able to disguise his voice so as to not be identified as a megalomaniacal version of his past self.
- Advanced durability: The armor itself is extremely resilient and enormous durability. Despite Joe West unloading a full magazine of bullets on him, each shot merely ricocheted off him. He also takes nearly no damage when The Flash attacks him, although when the The Flash phases the wrist sword off, he seems to be in quite a lot of pain, but as his suit has been shown to be removable, it's possible that was a reaction to discomfort. So far, he has only be damage by weapons made from its own material and he was shown to feel pain when pieces of it where removed, such as when Barry broke off his arm blade.
- Static charge displacement: The armor's primary function is to shield Barry from the highly dangerous levels of static charge built up whenever he uses his advanced speed.
- Mental connection: To a certain degree, the armor can move and attack on its own, should Barry be attacked out of his suit, though it is unable to use Barry's speed.
- Philosopher's Stone: Barry went back in time and discovered this artifact long ago, using it to hire new meta-humans, and also to further enhance his power. He used this artifact up to the point of being defeated and trapped in the Speed Force within it by his younger-self until he was able to use it to escape his imprisonment.
Appearances
The Flash
Season 3
|
DC's Legends of Tomorrow
Season 2
- "Shogun" (indirectly mentioned)
Trivia
- It's also possible that the time loop of Savitar was created when the time remnant that dies to save multiverse was able to survive, because Flashpoint, and for unknown reasons (probably the same than the current remnant) he became Savitar and battled his main version at some point in the future and killed all the remnants he created (except one, which is the current remnant).
- As a rather interesting trick on the audience, Savitar has said "I am the Future Flash", flatly saying he is a future version of Barry Allen. However, it was spoken as if to say "I am the future, Flash." saying he represented the next step in evolution or the one to lead the world into the future.
- Savitar did not exist until after Flashpoint, as evidenced by Eobard Thawne's future newspaper changing only after the event was over.
- Savitar is clearly unaware of the ultimate fate of Eobard Thawne when he was killed by the Black Flash, indicating that he has yet to cross paths with it or the Time Wraiths.
- It is revealed that Savitar's absolute knowledge of events of the past, present and future of Team Flash was not due to his power, but because of his memories as he is an evil version of Barry Allen himself. This means he has lived through these events and has remembered them.
- Barry/Savitar is the first speedster that can become invisible, because he was trapped in the speed force. This is an ability found in the comics, where conduits of the speed-force can move so fast that they are invisible to normal humans. Only other speedsters could see him, even while he is standing still, appearing invisible to humans and through cameras, but after being freed, he became visible to everyone else.
- Barry/Savitar is, so far, the only main antagonist of The Flash who didn't make his debut on the first episode of the season he appears in. His voice is heard on Flashpoint, but he didn't make his first full appearance until Shade.
- Barry/Savitar is the only speedster that generates white lightning, as opposed to yellow (his younger self, Jay, Wally, and Jesse), red (Eobard and Edward), blue (Hunter and Eliza) or purple (Accelerated Man). However, he only does so in his armor; outside it, he generates normal yellow lightning.
- Barry/Savitar is the only speedster so far who has demonstrated the ability to open dimensional breaches to different locations on the same Earth, though it is possible that the majority of this ability seemed to come from the fact that he was trapped in the Speed Force and, therefore, was not confined to the limits of distance and space of the real world. It appears that he has lost this ability, as he has seemingly stopped using it ever since he was freed from his imprisonment.
- Every time Savitar's ripped from this world and back to imprisonment, the hole he's pulled through is shaped like a lightning bolt.
- Barry/Savitar can access his speed while in the metahuman power dampening cell. Though not yet explained, it's most likely due to the fact that his essence is contained within the Philosopher's Stone, and that his physical manifestation is simply an extension of this, which is why his powers weren't negated, as the stone was not in the cell.
- Savitar is the only speedster-villain thus far to have defeated three rival speedsters in a single episode; His younger self, Jay and Wally.
- Barry/Savitar holds his previous speedster foes like Thawne and Zoom in low regard when he arrogantly understated the scope of their rivalries with his past self. Abra Kadabra also compared Savitar as being worse than Thawne or Zoom due to the fact that Savitar was the only foe to true "break" Barry, as he comes from a timeline where Savitar was successful at killing Iris.
- It's also interesting that Barry/Savitar holds Zoom in low regard, despite the fact he mirrors Hunter Zolomon. Hunter killed Barry's father to unleash Barry's dark side, similar to how Hunter became evil when he witnessed his father murder his mother. Ironically, Barry, as Savitar, fulfilled this by killing Iris. Hunter also created a time remnant who would be Jay Garrick, a past version of him to be a hero, and himself as the villain, as Barry and Savitar mirror each other.
- Hunter Zolomon was able to achieve his goal of having Barry embrace the darkness in this case. Despite his hate for Zoom, this Barry also reiterates to his younger self that he'll drive him to the darkness.
- Despite his great power, his younger self has demonstrated himself to have grown powerful enough to fight Barry/Savitar on equal grounds and briefly subdue him, something that other speedsters, such as Jay Garrick and Jesse Quick were incapable of doing. Savitar seemed to have become more vulnerable to harm after having escaped the Speed Force, since Barry and Jesse both managed to cause him physical pain when the former broke off his arm blade and the latter stabbed him with it. While he was still only manisfesting himself through his imprisonment, only Caitlin Snow was able to come close to harming him when she briefly froze him.
- It is not yet known how deep Barry/Savitar's natural connection to the Speed Force really is. Many of his seemingly unique abilities, such as opening breaches at will, invisibility, unrivaled super-speed, immunity to metahuman power-dampeners or his "clairvoyance" may very well be related to his imprisonment in the Speed Force. Due to this, he may have had pure and fresh access to speed force energies, thus contributing to his significantly enhanced speedster powers, prompting his megalomaniacal claims to be "a god" and "the ruler of the Speed Force".
- As Cisco mentioned that "any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable to magic", it's possible that some of Barry/Savitar's powers could be advanced technology, as his metallic form is actually a mechanical suit of armor.
- Barry/Savitar made a prophecy to his younger self about the destinies of his friends. In the episode "The Once and Future Flash", which features a possible version of the future (the year of 2024), more details about his prophecy are revealed:
- "One shall betray you" - Caitlin Snow is the one who betrays the Flash. She initially kept a piece of the Philosopher's stone, without team's knowledge, with the hope that it might help her somehow, lose her powers. However, after she transforms and embraces her Killer Frost personality, it is revealed that she learns Savitar's true identity like a future version of Barry and allies herself with him. In 2024, Caitlin, who is still a villain, is kept as a prisoner in the Pipeline, and still refuses to reveal Savitar's secret to her former allies.
- "One shall fall" - So far, the one destined to die appears to be Iris West. In the possible future, Barry/Savitar impales her with his wrist blade while he makes The Flash watch. In 2024, Iris' death has greatly affected her friends and family; his younger self quit being the Flash and isolated himself from everyone, Joe and Barry are not in touch anymore and Team Flash has been disbanded.
- "One will suffer a fate far worse than death" - Wally West suffers a fate far worse than death. He is initially imprisoned into the Speed Force and is forced to relive the moment of his mother's death in a endless loop until Barry saves him. In 2024, Wally is revealed to have been left paralyzed and mentally catatonic for the rest of his life, after a confrontation with Barry/Savitar. It is explained that he was so enraged by Iris's death that he decided to go after his sister's killer alone, but Barry/Savitar managed to crush Wally's spine and expose him to incredible yet unknown horrors that left him in that state. It's presumed Barry revealed himself to Wally and he was unable to cope with that.
- In a possible future in 2024, H.R. is an author of a book titled "The Streak Vs Mr. Reflecto" that is presumed based on the real life vendetta between the Flash and Savitar, though it may also be a reference to Mirror Master, who was free and terrorizing the city at the time.
Behind the scenes
- In the DC comics, Savitar was an enemy of Wally West as the Flash, an ex-pilot obsessed with speed, who named himself after Savitr, the Hindu god of motion, and dedicated his life to unlocking the secrets of the Speed Force. He discovered creative ways of using the Speed Force and tried to kill every other speedster on Earth, transferring their Speed Force connections onto himself.
- Similarly to how it's depicted in The Flash TV series, Savitar was able to use the Speed Force to make himself invisible to non-speedsters in the comics.
- This portrayal of Savitar appears to be an amalgamation of the DC Comics' Savitar and the Future Flash, who travels back in time to kill his younger self, for he blames himself for the death of Wally West twenty years into the future. Similarly, The Flash portrays this version of the Future Flash traveling through time to ruin his younger self's life by killing Iris West (and possibly his younger self) for reasons yet to be revealed.
- Savitar's metallic appearance and white lightning are similar to the DC comics character Godspeed.
- Up until his appearance in The Wrath of Savitar, all of Savitar's appearances have been CGI.