The creators of the show Greg Berlanti and Andrew Kreisberg said to MTV before the Flash season 3 aired on TV “Everything about Zoom felt like death. We had an idea that it should look like a demon. Reverse-Flash came from the future and Zoom came from hell. But now we want to go in for something sinister.”
We could all agree that Zoom turned the Flash TV show into a dark, brooding saga of a mad masked crusader wreaking havoc in the Central city. He first kidnapped Jesse (daughter of Earth-2 Prof. Wells), then he kidnapped Wally west and traded his life with Flash’s speed force, he then captured Caitlin Snow as he obsesses over her, traumatized her so much that she developed some kind of Post-Traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and finally killed Henry Allen (father of Barry Allen) to make him believe that both of them are the same. Fans even said that he is very much akin to the character of Avery in Netflix series. He is the most terrifying villain of the Flash TV show ever, Reverse flash couldn’t possibly have this kind of dark imagination to meet his sinister end.
But what if I tell you the speedster coming in season 3 will make you feel Zoom was slightly less evil? The new evil speedster is Savitar who is a version of the New Reverse Flash in DC Rebirth (Godspeed). He is a Wally West era villain who is not just a powerful speedster, he can create special force fields, transfer kinetic energy at will and is a master of psychological torture. If Zoom took the speed of Barry at a gunpoint, Savitar will instead poison the source of Barry’s speed-force itself. He is like a Megatron transformer with super-speed. Can Team Flash overcome this insurmountable threat?
