Driven mad, Savitar became obsessed with the Speed Force and his new-found powers, forming a twisted cult dedicated to studying it and unlocking its full potential. He got better later though.Īfter all.you are the one who showed me the face of God.Ī Cold War pilot for a third-world nation who was granted powers by the Speed Force while testing an experimental supersonic jet. With Great Power Comes Great Insanity: The speed he gained from his experiments caused him going off the rails.You Don't Look Like You: In the Johns run he's significantly heavier-set, has curly hair, and a much less prominent brow.Those Two Guys: Once he and Tina reconciled, they became this.Super Strength: A side-effect of Speed Demon's experiments.Super Serum: Gained Super Speed via taking the experimental Steroid B-19.Self-Disposing Villain: When he first attacked the Flash, without any real control over his powers, he ran straight into a power plant, which exploded.Psycho Serum: Steroid B-19 gave his Super Speed, but it also turned him into a psychotic killing machine driven only by rage, malice, and heart break.Professor Guinea Pig: Used himself as a test subject for Steroid B-19.One-Shot Character: His Speed Demon identity didn't actually last that very long, only for a single brief arc.Murder the Hypotenuse: He attempted to off the Flash for making the moves on his estranged wife.Happily Married: Following his Heel≯ace Turn, he and Tina reconciled.Heel≯ace Turn: Turned evil, then back to good.His steroid research had already made him an abusive Jerkass, however, so turning himself into a monster was more Jumping Off the Slippery Slope. FaceHeel Turn: When Tina began having an affair with Wally (early into Wally's career as the Flash) while being estranged from her husband, Jerry used his super-speed research to turn himself into a hulking monstrosity, Speed Demon.Deadly Upgrade: His self-experiments gave him super-speed and super-strength, but at the cost of his organs failing and collapsing.Crazy Jealous Guy: Went off the deep end after his ex-wife Tina shacked up with Wally West.Clothes Make the Superman: His costume was extremely high-tech, with an electronically metered, computer-controlled device that automatically injected steroids into him.Brief Accent Imitation: He occasionally puts on a corny faux-French accent to tease his wife.It required extensive operation to make him relatively human again. Body Horror: Amping himself up with steroids and other implants left him disfigured.Ax-Crazy: During his stint as Speed Demon.Unfortunately, the self-experimentation caused his internal organs to collapse fortunately, he recovered. Angry and jealous, Jerry turned his hyper-physiology research onto himself, transforming into a steroid-pumped hulk of a man who could rival Wally's then-top speed of 700 miles an hour. More From Shawn S."I've got no money, thousands of dollars of damages against me, no wife and co-workers who remember me as an eight-foot-tall psychopath who tried to kill them."Įarly into Wally West's career as the Flash, Jerry was estranged from his wife Tina, who began having an affair with the speedster. Visit Shawn Lealos' website to learn more about his novel writing and follow him on Twitter at sslealos. Shawn is also a published author, with a non-fiction book about the Stephen King Dollar Baby Filmmakers and has begun work on a new fiction series as well. His work on the Internet has been featured on websites like The Huffington Post, Yahoo Movies, Chud, Renegade Cinema, 411mania, and Sporting News. He has work published in newspapers such as Daily Oklahoman and Oklahoma Gazette and magazines such as Vox Magazine, Loud Magazine, and Inside Sports Magazine. Shawn is a former member of the Society of Professional Journalists and current member of the Oklahoma Film Critics Circle. He has worked as a journalist for over 25 years, first in the world of print journalism before moving to online media as the world changed. Shawn received his Bachelor's degree in Journalism from the University of Oklahoma with a minor in Film Studies. Lealos is a senior writer on ScreenRant who fell in love with movies in 1989 after going to the theater to see Tim Burton's Batman as his first big screen experience.
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