![]() "A war is coming, Captain Hunter, and at some point you’re going to be called back to Central City to fight it, so you need to know that - while you and your team have been in the temporal zone - I made a choice that affected the timeline. And he delivered it all the way from the year 2056, directed to Rip Hunter, the last remaining Time Master, as seen in the "Invasion" crossover of 2016: But Barry Allen may have already offered a warning stating that is exactly what winds up happening. It's not the heroic future fans would hope for, even if that sacrifice and commitment to do unspeakable acts could be viewed as noble, in some sense. ![]() Track down speedsters, capture their Speed Force energy as Zoom once did, and begin his long trek back in time. Knowing the only way to fix the future is to travel back to the past, but lacking the speed to do so due to his fracturing the Speed Force beyond repair, Barry has only one option. It's not hard to imagine that decades into the future Barry realizes just how horribly he impacted the future by traveling back in time and creating Flashpoint - or who knows, maybe it's another upcoming change to the timeline that causes it (the cost of saving Iris, even). The show clearly isn't adapting that story ("Out of Time") beat for beat, but with a few tweaks, it does seem like a possible basis for the season's threat. Killing his younger self will release that energy and prevent all the damage he caused in his future, even if he appears to all as a murderous, crazed, desperate monster.įor the modern Barry, it's a nightmare come true: he sees himself, older, armored, and hellbent on killing anyone with the Speed Force connection needed to undo his mistakes - mistakes caused by altering the timeline, leading to a future far worse than the one that could have formed naturally. ![]() Finally arriving from the future, this murderous version of Barry confronts his younger self - noting that his costume is far less advanced than his own metallic, blue, glowing armor - and revealing that only the young Barry possesses enough energy to seal the Speed Force rift completely. He still leaves them to be killed, justifying it to himself by saying that none of these murders will matter if he can undo the entire timeline from taking place. He leaps backward years at a time, preventing his enemies from their most terrible, unintentional acts. And when Gustin recently stated that fans wouldn't see the Savitar twist coming, a "Future Flash" seemed like a possible misdirection, if anything. At that point, it seemed guaranteed to not be the real mystery, since The Flash's writers would never make the mistake of hinting too strongly at the coming reveal. Then Savitar returned via Julian mind-meld in a later episode, and repeated the phrase. The possibility was an easy one to consider (he literally spoke the words, which is fewer dots than usually need to be connected for a villain theory), but almost seemed too easy. tinged with pride: "I'm the future, Flash." Or, if you were among the fans hungry for each and every Speed Force prediction and theory, his admission was that he was actually "the Future Flash." As in, the person claiming the title of 'The Flash' in an unknown future time and place. When asked just who he really was, the God of Speed gave a chilling answer to Barry Allen. Labs team would betray eachother, suffer a fate worse than death, fall, etc. ![]() It was during that conversation that Savitar made his prophecy, claiming that members of the S.T.A.R. And it also lends a bit more weight to a theory spun out of the first time Savitar spoke to the show's cast of characters via Julian mind-meld. That interpretation will be all fans need to spin their own theories and possible candidates (Wally, HR, even Jesse herself). Star Grant Gustin has reassured fans that while previous villains were hinted at and deduced by some fans before the big reveal, Flash fans won't guess Savitar's secret identity. But after the villain's cryptic prophecies offered a hint of who he might be, and what DC Comics mythology is being drawn upon, the latest episodes have added a new wrinkle. Possessing nearly immeasurable speed and knowing what the future holds for Barry and his friends, the villain is definitely familiar. Once again, the fans are asking: who is Savitar? until Savitar was revealed to be another future nemesis of Barry Allen, whose 'divine' nature wasn't entirely accurate. In its third season, The CW show seemed to be throwing off the idea of a secret identity shocker with its villain Savitar, the so-called 'God of Speed.' A god needs no disguise, so things seemed to truly be headed in a new direction. Then came Jay Garrick, who turned out to be the supervillain Zoom. įirst The Flash brought fans its first big bad/secret identity twist when Harrison Wells was truly the Reverse-Flash, Eobard Thawne.
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