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Savitar explains that he is a time remnant of Barry, created by his future self while fighting Savitar. After being shunned by Team Flash, the time remnant became depressed and ran back in time to ultimately become Savitar. He explains that he needs to kill Iris so that Barry will be forced to create him in the future.
Clive Yorkin, a criminal spending life in prison, agreed to take part in a prison experiment. The experiment went wrong and it drove him mad and able to kill someone by touching them. It was thought he killed Iris West, but he was innocent. The real culprit being Professor Zoom the Reverse-Flash. Rainbow Raider: The Flash #286 (June 1980)
An alternate future Iris is killed by speedster Savitar, but Barry tries to prevent her murder. Ultimately, H.R. Wells, disguised as her, takes her place for Savitar to kill which changes the future. She, along with Barry, tries to talk down Savitar, revealed to be a future evil time remanent of Barry, but he continues his plan and attacks ...
Savitar (also portrayed by Grant Gustin: seasons 3 and 5; performed by Andre Tricoteux; recurring: season 3; archive footage: season 5; guest: season 9; and voiced by Tobin Bell in exosuit; recurring: season 3; archive footage: season 5; guest: season 9) is a temporal duplicate of Barry from a possible future who travels back in time and becomes embedded in a bootstrap paradox.
In the battle against Savitar, H. R. sacrifices himself by disguising himself as Iris and taking the latter's place to be killed by Savitar. His actions earn him Harry's respect, and his death is avenged when Iris kills Savitar. Iris later eulogizes H. R. as a hero. [62]
Savitar's plan of Iris's murder before Barry (which would lead to his own creation), however, is ruined with the sacrifice of H.R. To save himself, Savitar manipulates Vibe to fragment himself throughout all of time and then goad his original self to give in to dark impulses.
Before Gypsy takes him back to Earth-19 to be executed, Kadabra taunts the Flash by withholding his knowledge of Savitar's true identity, knowing Savitar kills Iris West by his time and relishing being able to do so by proxy.
Eventually, Iris gives him the idea to retrieve the Quark Sphere from the Speed Force to send a blast of lightning through the bomb to disable it. Barry does so and throws the Sphere back into the Speed Force, saving Central City. Jay reveals he is training a new female speedster to take his place.