The Flash
While several different the great unwashed have taken up the cape ofThe Flashover the years , the DC population is home toa number of superpowered speedstersas well . But out of all those science - breaking hero and baddie , there is only one who look fit to name himself after a literal god : Savitar .
Savitar first appeared inThe Flash vol 2 # 108 in 1995 . While his real name has never been revealed , comic fans know his story : originally a airplane pilot who enlisted to test a ultrasonic scrapper spirt during the Cold War epoch . During the test run , the jet plane was struck by lightning ( sound familiar ? ) and the aircraft crashed in enemy territory , where the original come upon he could move at super - speed . He easily defeated the foeman soldiers charge to apprehend him and became preoccupied with learning all he could about his newfound power , dubbing himself ' Savitar , ' derivative of Savitr , the Hindu idol of motility . A God of Speed that DC ’s heroes never saw come .
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Savitar unsecured powers no other speedster has ever achieved , let in personnel fields , near instantaneous healing from combat injury , and the ability to transfer kinetic energy to people or objects . He also gather a cult following ( which is fitting , consider he named himself after a religious entity ) . But Savitar was n’t the only speedster of that era . He seek out Johnny Quick , one of the superheroes of the All - Star Squadron who also had superintendent - upper , and an altercation ensued . Savitar lost when Max Mercury , another speedster , appeared and led Savitar intothe Speed Force , which , as all Flash fans know , is the gateway to time change of location .
Both Savitar and Max Mercury were shot forward in time , with Max appear earlier and becoming a mentor of sorts to the Flash family . When Savitar reemerged , he fall upon that his cult had continue to grow over the years , patiently wait his return . Savitar ’s new end was to wipe out all the other speedsters , but encountered an obstacle inWally West , whose direct connection to the Speed Force foreclose Savitar from stealing his speed . Eventually , Wally managed to bar Savitar by trapping him inside the Speed Force , where he stay untilThe Flash Rebirthmini - series , when he managed to escape before being unexpectedly disintegrated by Barry Allen . Oops .
While Savitar ’s dead on target identity element in the comics has never been made known , it ’s a different story in other media . In the CW’sThe FlashTV series , Savitar ’s story was alteredso that he was actually a future , evil version of Barry Allen who come back in clock time to play mayhem onThe Flashof the nowadays .
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