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. “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. 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. 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. 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.

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