![]() ![]() ![]() The Positive: On the one hand, having Barry be Savitar, would be a major emotional punch to all the characters on Team Flash - including Barry himself. The larger question in all this is: How would the reveal that Barry is Savitar affect the storyline of The Flash, and its characters? It's a storyline that has already played out in the comics: the DC Comics story arc "Out of Time" featured a Future Flash who wanted to kill his younger self, in order to fix all the damage he'd done to the Speed Force. It would explain Killer Frost's reaction at the end of the episode: seeing an older Barry having himself made the transformation into a villain (his "true" self) would probably be enough to inspire Killer Frost to follow in his footsteps. The version of Barry we meet in "The Once and Future Flash" is also a potential clue: Up until now, there has always been an underlying heroism to Barry Allen however, the Barry we saw eight years in the future was headed down a dark, and isolated path - one that could conceivably end with him deciding to surrender to the inevitable, and become Savitar. Labs, to the ramifications of Flashpoint - or the warning that Firestorm team Jefferson Jackson and Martin Stein discovered aboard the Waverider during the "Invasion!" event (that they not even trust Barry himself) - there have been repeated clues that Barry's various misuses of time travel eventually catch up to him. The Flash has been playing with the idea of Barry's career as a superhero across several epochs, ever since season 1.įrom the Final Crisis teases in Eobard Thawne's secret room inside S.T.A.R. ![]()
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