A big question for The Flash season 3: Is Wally Savitar? When Savitar tells Barry he’s the Future Flash (or Future, Flash--however you want to interpret it), the first question that pops to mind is: which Flash and from where? Team Flash had an extensive conversation with Savitar through Julian’s mind in The Flash Season 3 episode 15, “The Wrath of Savitar.” Let’s break down that conversation before tonight’s episode because there’s some potentially huge clues about Savitar’s identity.
SAVITAR: I am nothing like you, Barry. You are cruel, selfish and from my perspective, you’re the big bad.
BARRY: How long have you been trapped?
SAVITAR: Long enough to lose my mind several times over, it’s only my will, that keeps me on the side of sanity.
BARRY: Why are we enemies?
SAVITAR: Because we had to be, only one of us could live. You thought that Thawne and Zoom were your biggest foes, but it’s me. It’s always been me, Barry.
JOE: What did we do to you?
SAVITAR: You took everything from me. I never asked for any of this, Joe. I am only this way because of you, all of you.
BARRY: When do we meet?
Not long now. You’re there when I become who I am.
BARRY: You’re saying I created you? I gave you your speed?
SAVITAR: Oh no. I created myself, Barry. Only I can bring out my greatness.
IRIS: Man you love to see yourself talk.
SAVITAR : Iris, I’m sorry you have to die, but it’s you or me. And despite your feeble efforts to change the future, you can’t. Because I am the Future Flash. Barry you’ve had to suffer worse than anyone, trust me, you’ll never get over this.
This conversation, and Savitar’s plan to escape the speed force by teaching Wally to become fast enough to take his place, prompted many fans to consider Wally is Savitar. In the Flashpoint timeline, Wally called himself Flash. In fact, that’s what inspired Savitar’s plan to give him back his powers in the new timeline.
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Savitar says, “You did this to me” and “I created myself.” In the Flashpoint timeline, Wally got his powers from tinkering with a nitro formula. One night while racing, his car was struck by lightning and he went into coma, waking with a connection to the speed force and speedster abilities. So this Flashpoint version of Wally did sort of create himself. However, Barry took all this away from Wally when he reset the Flashpoint timeline, including his speedster abilities. For Wally, obsessed with speed his whole life, who knows what he could have done once he realized Barry was a Flash too and posed a threat to his very existence.
But there are so many holes in the theory. Savitar seems to have existed before Flashpoint. He is supposedly the first man ever granted speed, a speed force myth who Jay Garrick said hunts speedsters who he sees as a threat. The name Savitar kind of throws this Wally theory off--how could Wally become a god of speed? The impending “war” Savitar talks about, the language he uses, and his cult followers are also suspicious.
“If you had the strength to end my life, you would have done it in the future. But Barry Allen doesn't kill, he’s a good guy. I’m going to destroy this city like I did in the future so you can see the proof barry, and then you’ll treat me like a god,” Savitar says.
The bottom line is, as of right now, it’s hard to see Wally having an evil enough agenda to become a season long big bad. But at the same time, why go through all the trouble to introduce Kid Flash for just one Flashpoint episode? If Wally ends up playing a large part in this Savitar mystery, being stuck inside the speed force and driven mad after Barry erased Flashpoint, it could explain why the writers chose to make one of the biggest events in Flash comic book history just one episode of television.
Do you think Wally could be Savitar? Let us know in the comments.
