The Flash
Who is Godspeed and what separates him from the other speedster supervillains who have testedThe ostentation ? While not as famous asEobard ThawneorZoom , Godspeed may be even more severe in wish to the unparalleled ways he is able-bodied to fudge the Speed Force .
Godspeed is a relatively new inductee to The Flash ’s scallywag ' gallery in the comics , having first appeared inThe Flash : Rebirth # 1special in 2016 . well described as theVenomto Barry Allen ’s Spider - Man , Godspeed is an anti - sub who had no qualms about killing criminals in the name of Justice Department . This full stop would have take him into conflict with The Flash , even ignore how Barry Allen was indirectly responsible for the creation of Godspeed .
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And now , Godspeed is appearing on The CW’sThe Flash . This comes after two seasons of Barry Allen combat non - speedster villains , such as Clifford DeVoe aka The Thinker and Orlin Dwyer aka Cicada . But just precisely who is Godspeed ?
Godspeed’s Origins and Powers In The Comics
Godspeed was August Heart - a police detective with the Central City Police Department , who was Barry Allen ’s only real friend on the force . Like Barry , August built his career as a cop around the death of a loved one - his beloved brother , whose alleged manslayer was coiffe free because the strong-arm evidence against him was ruin in the same lab fortuity that flex Barry Allen into Flash . The two bond over their mutual calamity and became nigher still after August was struck by a bolt of lightning of lightning during a addict storm mother by the Speed Force .
August became Flash ’s better half and the first mortal who learned Barry Allen ’s orphic identity after the strange storm gave several hoi polloi super - speed powers . Flash had just begun training these Modern speedsters in how to keep their powers under command when a new scoundrel called Godspeed emerged . Godspeed began killing the beginner , somehow taking their power in the process and grow quicker with every spirit he hire .
Barry identified Godspeed when he clear that there was one dupe who was n’t a speedster who had been identified as having been killed by Godspeed . This solitary dupe was Billy Parks - the humanity August Heart believed was responsible for killing his chum . Confronted with this knowledge , August squeal to the killings , say he had fall back faith in the criminal judge arrangement and decided to take the force he needed to become a super - fast judge , jury , and public executioner . This came after he accidentally give away that he couldsteal the speed and living - force from other speedsterswhile chasing down a pair of topnotch - degraded crook .
August develop another power that made him a peril , though . He had absorbed so much Speed Force vigour from his victims that he had become capable of in short moving so fast that he could literally be in two places at once . It was this ability that enable him to retain pop as Godspeed while still ostensibly being on the lookout for the murderous speedster as August Heart . gratefully , using both these ability caused August great physical pain , leaving him exhausted for a time after stealing another speedster ’s big businessman or create a speed - dead ringer . This give Barry Allen the edge he needed to put his former friend behind bar .
Godspeed on The Flash TV Series
Surprisingly little has been said about Godspeed ’s comportment onThe Flashbeyond the fact that he will be make his first appearance in an installment titled " Godspeed . " The photos revealing the eccentric ’s costume were free separately from the other preview photos for the episode , which came out several days before . There is also nothing said about the character in the episode ’s prescribed synopsis . While the costume is a dead - ringer for Godspeed ’s costume in the comics , nothing has been revealed about his accurate mogul or background . The only thing that can be say for certain is that this raw villain is sure to make Barry Allen ’s life even more difficult , and fans may enjoy a break from Cicada while Barry takes on yet another speedster scoundrel .
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