Flash Theory: Godspeed Is Working With Season 7's Villains - Screen Rant

Warning: SPOILERS for The Flash season 6, episode 18, "Pay The Piper".

Godspeed could be part of a cult out to steal Barry Allen's powers in The Flash - and that group could be season 7's main villains. Several lines of dialogue in the penultimate episode of The Flash season 6, "Pay The Piper", suggest that this is the case and set the stage for the upcoming season 7.

Godspeed is a recent introduction into The Flash's mythology in the comics,  first appearing in The Flash Rebirth #1 in 2016. The current The Flash series' opening arc established Godspeed as Barry Allen's best friend, police detective August Heart, who also gained a connection to the Speed Force but became corrupted by its power and began killing other speedsters to increase his own abilities. Godspeed was introduced into the Arrowverse with The Flash season 5 episode "Godspeed," where August Heart was a Mercury Labs intern in the year 2049 and the first supervillain fought by Nora West-Allen as XS. Heart replicated the Velocity-9 drug that gave ordinary people superspeed without a Speed Force connection and began committing robberies to gather the materials to make his powers permanent.

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Barry Allen fought Godspeed in the opening of The Flash's season 6 premiere, "Into The Void". However, this Godspeed was revealed to be an impostor; the fourth one that Team Flash had encountered over the summer of 2019. While capable of great speed, the copycats seemed to be mentally challenged and incapable of human speech, though they made the same disturbing electronic noises, like an old-fashioned modem. Apart from the Godspeed costume, there was no connection to August Heart and no explanation for where (or when) they were coming from. But it's possible that the explanation behind all this is that Godspeed is working with a cult of villains, which could extend beyond season 6 and into season 7.

Another Godspeed appeared in The Flash season 6, episode 18, "Pay The Piper", and this one seemed capable of independent action, unlike the first four Godspeeds Team Flash encountered earlier in the season. He also possessed a new power no speedster had ever shown before, reversing the vibrational energy generated by his breaking the sound barrier into a telekinetic force capable of pinning Flash in place and draining his Speed Force energy. This Godspeed was ultimately revealed as another fake, but he did establish several interesting facts before he, too, was left as a mindless drone who spoke in electronic beeps.

When the fifth Godspeed first faced Flash, he identified Barry Allen as "the one who stopped the others," before attempting to drain his power, only to be driven off by Nash Wells and a pulse cannon. After breaking into STAR Labs a second time, Godspeed demanded that Barry give up his speed to him within the hour or the people of Central City would suffer. During their third and final encounter on-camera, Godspeed told Barry, "You don't deserve the speed you were given. We do." Finally, in an interview that took place off-camera, the latest Godspeed told Barry that he was sent by "one who wants infinite velocity."

Curiously enough, this sounds precisely like the motivation and modus operandi of Savitar, a villain from The Flash comics who declared himself the God of Speed and built a cult of personality devoted to killing all speedsters but Savitar and claiming their powers for themselves. Savitar was adapted into a villain for The Flash season 3, but without the cult angle and a twist that revealed him to be a corrupted future version of Barry Allen. With the revelations revealed in "Pay The Piper," however, it seems that Godspeed is being set up in a similar role, either leading the cult himself or as an identity shared by this new cult leader's minions.

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Matt Morrison has been writing about comics since before the word "blogging" was coined. He got his start writing for the legendary DC Comics digital fanzine Fanzing, before receiving his own column, The Mount. Since then he has gone on to write for over a dozen websites, including 411 Mania, Comics Nexus and The Cult of Nobody. He holds both an MS in Information Science from the University of North Texas and a BFA from the University of Texas at Arlington. Known as a font of comic book history trivia, he has delivered lectures on the history of American Comic Books, Japanese Manga and Cosplay at over a dozen conventions and served as an Expert In-Residence for a course on Graphic Novels for Librarians at the University of North Texas. In addition to his work for Screen Rant, Matt is currently the Managing Editor of Kabooooom.com, the house critic of Explore The Multiverse and writes reviews for No Flying, No Tights – a graphic literature and anime review site aimed at teachers and librarians. He also maintains a personal blog – My Geeky Geeky Ways – which hosts his extensive episode guide for the television series making up The Arrowverse as well as his comedic Let’s Play videos. What little spare time he has is devoted towards acting, role-playing, movie-riffing and sarcasm. You can follow his adventures on Twitter, @GeekyGeekyWays.

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