Vandal Savage (DCAU)
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Vandal Savage, a fictional character and supervillain in the DC Comics Universe, appeared in Justice League voiced by Phil Morris.
Savage's is a tyran and a brilliant tactician who has had centuries of experience due to his immortality. In consecuence, he also has an amsing amunt of knowledge. In Justice League, in addition to being an immortal, he has enhanced self-healing abilities like Marvel Comics's Wolverine.
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[edit] Appearances
- The Savage Time, Part I
- The Savage Time, Part II
- The Savage Time, Part III
- Maid of Honor, Part I
- Maid of Honor, Part II
- Hereafter, Part I
- Hereafter, Part II
[edit] DC animated universe fictional biography
His origin is the same as in comic books, except that, as revealed in Maid of Honor his age is half of that in the comics - 25,000 years. At some point during his adulthood, Vandar Adg is exposed to a meteorite that mutates him granting him inmortality and self-healing powers. Believing he is destined to rule mankind he has attempted to conquer it several times under aliases such as Genghis Khan or Atila the Hun.
The Justice League first encounters Savage in the three-part episode The Savage Time, when he manages to alter time and cause Nazi Germany to win World War II. The League (minus Batman, who was in their satellite headquarters at the time) was protected by Green Lantern energy (As he guided their space ship in for docking) and were unaffected by the temporal alteration. In the altered timeline, Batman, the leader of the Anti-Nazi resistance, determines what Savage did and decides to send the League to a point in time close to when Savage starts the alterations. They learn that Vandal Savage had sent himself, from the present-day to the past, a laptop that contained technologically advanced plans for weaponry, as well as information on the future plans of the Allies. This knowledge and technology allowed Savage to catapult himself to the top of the Axis authority, deposing Hitler and assuming the title of Führer. The League managed to end Savage's campaign just as he mounts a jet-powered aerial assault heading towards America, and he is forced to retreat, with Hitler restored to power in time for D-Day to succeed.
Savage's second appearance is in Maid of Honor, in which to the surprise of Batman and Wonder Woman he turns up as the fiancé of Princess Audrey of Kasnia. Savage disguised himself as his own descendant, Vandal Savage the Third. He married Audrey and used the Kasnian involvement in an international space station to set up a rail gun that shoots meteors with pinpoint accuracy. With this, he hoped to threaten the world into bowing to his authority. Wonder Woman, who becomes close friends with of Audrey's prior to the wedding, dismantles Savage's plot with aid of the League and convindes the Princess to nulificate teir wedding. In this appearance he reminiscent of the enemies of James Bond, like Dr. No or Blofeld, with the same kind of outfit, and over the top plan to conquer the world and a freak mute henchmen (Colonel Vox).
His final appearance in the two-part Hereafter, although fit, is rather ironic and comical. Believed death, Superman is sent forward in time to a future in which the Earth's sun is red (and therefore becoming powerless) meets Savage, who due to his unlikely powers, is the sole surviving human. As they are the only humans left, Savage decides to stick with Superman and reveals him he is responsible for the destruction of the human race, having stolen the Atom's piece of dwarf star, and using it to build a machine that would allow him to control the force of gravity. In Superman's absence he defeats the Justice League, but the side effects of his gravity manipulation shifted the Earth's orbit, killing all human life. The centuries of loneliness and isolation have caused him to regret his mad pursuits of power. He and Superman end up working together to revive a Zero Point Energy powered time machine that Savage built so that Superman can go back in time and stop Savage's past self from dooming the human race (Savage couldn't go himself as the machine couldn't send him somewhere he already existed, but Superman, beeing absent in that point, is free to go back). Once operational, the radiation from the time machine's power source also has the effect of restoring Superman to his full abilities (it's like a miniature yellow sun). Superman returns to the present and the future Savage sees the future restore itself just as he slowly fades from existence, his last words being "Thank you, my friend...".
[edit] See also
[edit] External links
- The World's Finest, a site with a complete guide to the DC animated universe. It's the source of a great deal of the related images in Pop-Cult Guides.
- DCAUResource.com a very well documented site with fictional biographies.
- The Animated Batman, an Unofficial Guide, a site with a complete guide to Bruce Timm's Batman. It's the source of a great deal of the related images in Pop-Cult Guides.
