Godspeed (character)

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Godspeed
Central City
Team affiliationsCentral City Police Department
Rogues
Abilities
  • Superhuman speed, agility, reflexes, strength, durability, stamina
  • Self-duplication
  • Electrokinesis
  • Vortex creation
  • Speed Force conduit, aura, theft
  • Accelerated healing
  • Enhanced senses
  • Intangibility and phasing
  • Speed scout
  • Energy construct creation
  • Time-space manipulation

Godspeed (August Heart) is a

American comic books published by DC Comics. He was established as a detective and one of Barry Allen's best friends on the police force. When his brother is murdered and the man he suspects is exonerated, he becomes vengeful and eventually gains speed-based superpowers. Donning the identity of Godspeed, he becomes a vigilante bent on killing criminals instead of incarcerating them, serving as an antithesis to the Flash. He has been portrayed as both a supervillain and an antihero
in the comic books and adapted media since his introduction in 2016.

The character made his

nine
.

Fictional character biography

Godspeed first makes an appearance during one of Barry Allen's visions, claiming he would kill everyone.[1]

August Heart is a colleague of Allen from the Central City Police Department. Heart's brother was murdered by a career criminal and his killer was let free due to the evidence being destroyed when Barry's lab were struck by lightning. When August confronts the Black Hole, a group who had stolen a van containing equipment from

Meena Dhawan, a new speedster who has helped create a Speed Force training center to help the new speedsters control their powers. When Barry and Meena return after recruiting more speedsters, they find the injured August who tells them that a new speedster called Godspeed killed the speedster criminals and took their speed. A recovered August brings two of the recruits with him in order to storm the Speed Force storm-infused Dr. Carver. After Barry and Meena's 'day off', Godspeed arrives at the training center where he is confronted by Meena. As Avery Ho, one of the speedster recruits, escapes to get the Flash, Godspeed kills Meena and two of the recruits and takes their speed.[3]

When Godspeed kills Billy Parks, the main suspect in August's brother's murder, Barry realizes that August is Godspeed. Barry confronts him and August reveals that he is indeed Godspeed and had given up on the justice system, deciding to become judge, jury and executioner, killing his brother's murderer. August reveals that when he was near the speedster criminals, he could feel the Speed Force within them connecting with him. He decided to take their powers from them, resulting in their deaths and August being injured. After realizing that it was possible to siphon another speedster's speed without killing them (evident when he, Barry, Meena and two recruits took Dr.

Iron Heights and do the one thing Barry could not, kill his enemies, including Eobard Thawne. However, Kid Flash (Wallace West) intervenes and helps the Flash in taking down Godspeed, who is later incarcerated in Iron Heights. It is not known whether August still maintains a connection to the Speed Force, as it was hinted that all who were hit during the Speed Force storm's powers may be temporary.[4]

August later teams up with the Flash and the Reverse-Flash to stop the villain Paradox from erasing all of the Flash's history. After Paradox is defeated, August asks Thawne if, given the latter's extensive future knowledge of the Flash, he knows who killed August's brother. Thawne gleefully admits being his brother's killer and snaps August's neck, killing him.[5] When Reverse-Flash is defeated, Godspeed's death is undone.[6]

During the "Titans: Beast World" storyline, Godspeed is exposed to the Beast Boy spores and transformed into a humanoid hornet. When Godspeed nearly kills Jai West, his date Maxine Baker saves him. Godspeed later went on a rampage at Iron Heights but is defeated by the Flash family, who had willingly mutated themselves into bee hybrids.[7]

Powers and abilities

In addition to abilities shared with other speedsters, Godspeed has the ability to forcibly take another speedster's speed. This is done by running around a speedster (or speedsters) at extreme speed, resulting in Godspeed gaining their speed, but at the cost of injuring himself and killing any victim or victims not willing to give up their speed. However, Godspeed was able to take Avery's speed without killing her, and Barry and Wally were able to take the speed from several speedsters safely.

Godspeed also has the ability to create a clone of himself by dividing the Speed Force in him. However, extended use of this clone will result in intense pain, and the copy will then destabilize, with its portion of the Speed Force returning to the original Godspeed. Like other speedsters, Godspeed can run up to 10 times the speed of light by entering the Speed Force.

In other media

See also:
August Heart (Arrowverse)

August Heart / Godspeed appears in

Virtue
and returned to the time period he was pulled from.

References

  1. ^ The Flash Rebirth #1. DC Comics.
  2. ^ The Flash (vol. 5) #1–3. DC Comics.
  3. ^ The Flash (vol. 5) #4–5. DC Comics.
  4. ^ The Flash (vol. 5) #6–8. DC Comics.
  5. ^ The Flash #755. DC Comics.
  6. ^ The Flash #762. DC Comics.
  7. ^ Titans: Beast World Tour - Central City #1. DC Comics.
  8. ^ "'The Flash': First Look At Godspeed Revealed". comicbook.com. February 23, 2019.
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