

“It creates an interesting paradigm because Savitar has probably done as much, if not more, to hurt them as any villain they’ve ever come up against, and yet Barry has a measure of sympathy for him. RELATED: Flash Season Finale Tease Hints at Show-Changing Cliffhanger So to have our lead actor be both the hero and the villain isn’t something we’ve done before, so that was exciting for us as storytellers.” We’re not only competing with all the stuff that we’ve done on Flash, but we’re always competing with everything we’ve done on all the other shows. “The idea that the darkest villain we could come up with was actually a very damaged version of our hero was interesting and fresh to us. WARNING: This post contains SPOILERS for The Flash - It's official: The Flash has confirmed the identity of Savitar to be. “What’s really cool for anyone who thought that there wasn’t a plan, or we didn’t know, or we were making this up as we go, this was always where we were heading,” executive producer Andrew Kriesberg told Entertainment Weekly. Published Savitar reveals his true identity to The Flash, after Barry Allen uncovers the secret that some fans had already solved. Since the episode ended with the reveal, it's unclear how this future Barry came to look this way. His face was covered in scars and he was noticeably older. However, the future version of Barry Allen that stepped out of the Savitar suit was nigh unrecognizable. RELATED: The Flash Teams With Captain Cold In New Synopsis As Barry recalled Savitar saying in an earlier episode, "I am what I created," which suggests that Iris' death was a big component in the birth of Savitar. For the show’s third evil speedster, Savitar served as the main antagonist, and the Arrowverse incarnation was a significant reimagining. Technically, the Savitar suit counts as a Flash suit for one simple, but major reason: Savitar is really Barry Allen - or, rather, a time remnant version of Barry Allen. RELATED: The Flash Teams With Captain Cold In New Synopsis. Though Barry was floored by that at the time, he slowly came to the realization that a past version of Savitar had been present at that moment.Īs he ruminated on these events, he began to put two-and-two together and realized that everything - Iris' death, Killer Frost, the dissolution of Team Flash - would cause him to lose himself and become a villain. The Savitar Suit A big surprise in The Flash season 3 was the reveal that the season’s big bad was a version of Barry, and Team Flash ended up facing a new threat with a too-familiar face. As Barry recalled Savitar saying in an earlier episode, 'I am what I created,' which suggests that Iris' death was a big component in the birth of Savitar. RELATED: The Flash: Panabaker Teases More Killer Frost, Less Caitlin Snowįurther, when Team Flash confronted her in an effort to rescue Cecil, Killer Frost was able to parrot Barry's words back to him before he even had a chance to say them.
