For The Flash episode, see "Godspeed".

"Don't you two get it? You can't kill a god!"

—August Heart^[src]

August Heart (August 16, 2021^[1] - 2052^[2]), nicknamed Godspeed by Lia Nelson, is a criminal speedster from 2049.

In a previous timeline, he used tachyons and Velocity 9 to gain super speed. He was stopped and imprisoned after murdering Lia.

In the current timeline, August became the archenemy of Bart West-Allen/Impulse and Nora West-Allen/XS after murdering Jay Garrick. By fracturing himself in time, August created dozens of duplicate Godspeeds and sent them to terrorize Team Flash. At some point, the clones split off into two factions, one faction that wanted to help August steal Barry Allen's speed and another faction that aimed to free themselves and kill August. Obsessed with speed, August traveled back in time to 2021, but lost his memory as a result. Thanks to Team Flash, he got it back before he a battle against the Flash and the Reverse-Flash and gets remanded to Iron Heights Penitentiary.

At some point after being imprisoned, August returned to the future after presumably escaping from prison and eventually died in 2052 during a fight with Impulse. Shortly before his demise, August was recruited by Cobalt Blue to join a legion consisting of the Reverse-Flash, Zoom and Savitar, and powered by Negative Speed Force to finally kill the Flash's team. Godspeed battled Virtue who used her powers to defeat him, allowing him to be returned to his native time period.

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Who is August Heart, also known as Godspeed, in the Flash series?

August Heart, known as Godspeed in the Flash series, is a future speedster and a main antagonist in several seasons, including Season 1 and 8. He worked alongside Barry Allen at CCPD, leading a double life as a killer of other speedsters. He transitioned into an anti-hero in a redemption arc and was the key antagonist in Season 7's 'Godspeed Imperative arc'. August held various jobs, including a barista at CC Jitters and an inventory technician. He became the nemesis of Bart West-Allen/Impulse and Nora West-Allen/XS following the murder of Jay Garrick.

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How did August Heart gain super speed?

August Heart, also known as Godspeed, acquired super speed by initially using Velocity 9 and Velocity X serums, granting himself speedster abilities. His research into tachyons and the Velocity serums facilitated an unstable connection to the Speed Force. Seeking organic speed, he created clones and sent them back in time to absorb The Flash's speed. Ultimately, he gained a natural connection to the Speed Force, significantly augmenting his powers.

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Who became the archenemy of August Heart in the current timeline?

In the present timeline, August Heart, known as Godspeed, emerges as Bart West-Allen's main adversary. August's fixation on enhancing his speed and his animosity towards Bart, who made him understand the inferiority of artificial speed to natural speedsters' power, fuels this enmity. The rivalry intensifies to such an extent that August kills Bart's mentor, J.

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What is the significance of tachyons and Velocity 9 in August Heart's story?

Godspeed, real name August Heart, aimed to create a permanent version of Velocity 9, a drug that enhances speed. He stole essential chemicals, including sodium chlorate, to achieve this. Heart was also dismissed from Mercury Labs for administering tachyons to comatose patients, an act that mirrors his Flash Rebirth comic storyline where he gains speedster abilities from a Speed Force storm.

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How does August Heart's ability to fracture himself in time affect his character in the Flash?

August Heart, also known as Godspeed, has the ability to fracture himself in time due to his connection to the Speed Force in the Flash series. This ability locks his memories away, yet allows him to send clones through his consciousness. Despite gaining organic speed, his lightning color remains white. Unique among Flash antagonists, Heart originates from the future and has not been erased from existence.

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Biography

Original multiverse

Early life

August was born on August 16, 2021. He had a brother, Jorge, who passed away at some point. He attended Central City South High School, graduating three years in advance with a grade point average of 5.2. August went to college at Central City University, where he studied biochemistry engineering.

He had held several jobs from September 2043 to August 2048, lost them for various unknown reasons. August worked as a barista at the Windsor Heights branch of CC Jitters, but was fired in October 2043. In April 2044, he worked as a janitor at Ollins Laboratories until he was fired in July of the same year. He worked once more as a janitor at Stagg Industries in August 2044, but quit for unknown reasons in December of the same year. He quit his job again as a barista at the Petersburg branch of CC Jitters after working from February to March 2045. He worked as an inventory technician at Dayton Laboratory from May to June 204 until he was fired, and he worked once more as a barista at the Mounds View branch of CC Jitters from November to December 2045 until he was fired again.

In January 2048, he started interning at Mercury Labs until he was fired in August of the same year after being found guilty of experimenting on 17 different elderly comatose patients. While criminal charges were never formally brought against him, there were four civil lawsuits pending.^[1]

Career as Godspeed

In 2049, August experimented with tachyons to give himself speed, presumably made a suit for himself as the speedster "Godspeed" and began stealing chemicals to recreate the Velocity 9 serum. August visited the Flash Museum where he saw how Zoom used Velocity 9, also meeting Nora West-Allen there.

Nora would go on to attempt to stop Godspeed's robberies, but he knocked Nora down the first time with a lightning bolt. Godspeed defeated Nora the second time in speed combat before he murdered Lia Nelson for destroying what he aimed to steal. His identity was exposed when his DNA was found inside Lia's body, providing the CCPD with the necessary evidence to obtain an arrest warrant.

After learning about his next target, Nora went to his next robbery where he was going to steal a device that would make his artificial powers permanent. There, Godspeed fought Nora and was tricked into getting in the way of radio waves that disrupted the various cocktails in his system. He was then taken into custody by the CCPD.^[1]

Summer of 2019

After the defeat of two equivalents of Cicada altered Earth-1's timeline, "clones" of Godspeed appeared throughout the summer of 2019 and caused chaos throughout Central City on three separate occasions. After each defeat, each version of Godspeed was revealed to have actually been an impostor incapable of speech and making strange, modem-like noises.

A fourth attack by Godspeed took place on October 8th, 2019, and the impostor which was dubbed "G4" by Cisco Ramon before he was quickly apprehended by The Flash and sent to Iron Heights like the other three. With no further evidence at the time about who was behind these drones' powers or sending them off to cause havoc in Godspeed's name, Team Flash decided not to worry about the attacks for the time being.^[3]

Anti-Monitor Crisis

During the Crisis of 2019, August and nearly everyone in the multiverse was killed in an antimatter wave by the Anti-Monitor on December 10, 2019,^[4] but was restored a month later, after the seven Paragons and the Spectre created a new universe.^[5]

New multiverse

Origin

In Earth-Prime's timeline, August was a young physicist and desired to run faster than light. He created his own version of the Velocity formula and presumably made himself a suit. August soon realized that he'd never be fast enough without "infinite velocity" or "organic speed" no matter how fast he was. August later saw how irresponsible Impulse was and which he deemed unworthy of speed. August began coveting Impulse's speed, as having artificial speed was a "pale imitation" of being a speedster as he needed to frequently recharge his powers. In response to his jealousy, August became a personal enemy to Impulse to the point where their hate against each other was similar to the hate between the Flash and the Reverse-Flash. Eventually, August's hatred for Impulse became so intense that he, at some point, captured Jay Garrick and forced Impulse to watch him murdering Jay.^[6][7]

Altered timeline

Thanks to the actions of Impulse and XS travelling back to 2021, a ripple effect was sent through the timeline that altered several moments in the timelines, with a major one being the circumstances following August's capture of Jay. In this timeline, Impulse managed to begin the fight with August before he murdered anyone, allowing Jay to escape. This change didn't effect much as it only managed to fan the flames of August's hatred of Impulse.^[7]

Attack of the clones

In 2049, Godspeed fought Impulse and XS and was defeated. However, he escaped the sibling speedsters who chased him to the Flash Museum. Once there, Godspeed attempted to use the Cosmic Treadmill to open a wormhole, travel back in time and rewrite the past, gloating that the two speedsters weren't able to stop him.^[6] He recklessly fractured himself in time, splitting his speed across dozens of clones of Godspeed that were scattered across the past while the "Prime" version lost his memory.^[7]

Clones of Godspeed sporadically appeared in Central City, but were incapable of human speech and instead communicating through strange modem-like noises. They first appeared throughout 2019 on four separate occasions before being defeated each time. Each clone of Godspeed was placed in Iron Heights' meta-human wing.^[8][9]

After the Crisis of 2019, a fifth clone of Godspeed came to Central City to obtain a source of speed from Team Flash. This clone of Godspeed went to S.T.A.R. Labs and attacked Barry Allen and Allegra Garcia. He stole a percentage of Barry's depleting speed before retreating thanks to Nash Wells's timely intervention. He went on to siphon the speed of the previous four clones of Godspeed, killing them while making himself much faster and stronger. He then demanded the Flash's speed and threatened to execute hostages to get it.

The Flash saved the civilians and fought this clone of Godspeed, but he was too fast and powerful. He claimed the Flash didn't deserve the speed, but "we" did. This clone of Godspeed had the upper hand until Pied Piper teamed up with the Flash to defeat him. Upon being placed in Iron Heights, he was interrogated. This clone of Godspeed said that he was sent by another who wanted "infinite velocity" before his voice started to make broken modem sounds like the previous clones of Godspeed did.^[8]

The Godspeed Imperative

In 2021, the clones of Godspeed split into two fractions: one that wanted to help steal Barry's speed for the "Prime" version and one that aimed to free themselves by locating and killing August. The first group of clones ganged up on the Flash at a power plant before chasing at S.T.A.R. Labs which was contained by forcefield, although the clones of Godspeed were eventually able to disable.

The clones of Godspeed were suddenly overcome when Chester P. Runk arranged the Time Vault to pipe music all around, befuddling the clones of Godspeed while fighting the Flash, Frost and Chillblaine. One clone blasts into the Time Vault and disabled Gideon, but the Flash baits them all away before the second group arrived to save the Flash in the hopes of an alliance. Following this escalation, the two Godspeed factions started full on war fighting each other all over Central City.^[9]

As the two fractions were fighting, a clone of Godspeed was running through Central City before being captured by The Flash and Spartan with an entropy trap. He was later put in the pipeline cell and didn't communicate with until he was sure that Barry could help him.

During the interrogation, the clone revealed that he knew Barry's secret identity as well as told Barry about the two factions of Godspeed and how he belonged to the group that seeks to live and do not follow August. After the hero refused to help, the clone of Godspeed destroyed the entropy trap and tried to go after Barry, but was stopped by Allegra so he escaped from the pipeline.

Eventually, the "Prime" version was found by Cecile Horton, Spartan and Frost. Due to being an amnesiac, August was taken to S.T.A.R. Labs, where Caitlin Snow administered a solution of dark matter to him. This enabled August to remember at least his name, but not enough to remember who he was before his arrival in 2021.^[10]

The escalation of the Godspeed war and the arrival of Impulse and XS resulted in the two Godspeed factions briefly joining forces to attack which identified Impulse as the "adversary" by both fractions of Godspeed. The two young speedsters and the Flash used Chester's device on the clones of Godspeed which temporarily neutralized their speed, but the clones of Godspeed were able to quickly recharge and fight back to which Frost interrupted before the clones disappeared again.

Afterwards, several clones of Godspeed kidnapped Jay to Zauriel Cathedral, drawing Impulse in to confront the fraction that were holding the elder Flash hostage only to be simultaneously attacked by the group as the younger Flash and XS arrived on scene soon after. XS left to distract most of the clones, leaving one clone of Godspeed to face the Flash to face while holding and draining Impulse's speed. The lone Godspeed proclaimed Team Flash's defeat due to Impulse's recklessness before attacking. The Flash was able to phase through his attack and the clone of Godspeed, defeating them.

Ultimately, the clones of Godspeed which chased after XS arrived, prompting both Flashes to carry Impulse away from the scene albeit to no avail. The Godspeed army surrounded while the speedsters readied for a confrontation before Mecha-Vibe used an entropy-powered weapon to temporarily slow the army of Godspeed clones. Mecha-Vibe's attack didn't hold the clones of Godspeed off for long while XS was unable to wake up Impulse, causing Team Flash to retreat to S.T.A.R. Labs for better treatment.

Due the Godspeed war worsening, Barry's consciousness was projected into August's mind in hopes of helping him regain his memories. Barry was at Zauriel Cathedral which had been redecorated into Godspeed's sanctum which had August waiting to answer Barry's questions while thinking it was going to be fun for himself.^[6]

August revealed to his background to Barry and was unfazed by the fact that two Godspeed factions were searching for him. Barry found out that August desired to permanently become a true speedster. August requested that either Barry give him "the gift he deserves" and he'll save Central City by reabsorbing his clones or refuse and August let the Godspeed clones destroy it, if not the entire world. Barry refused his request to which August projected Barry out of his mind.

Back at S.T.A.R. Labs, August was surprised to find out about his real identity and was horrified by the fact that he was a killer from the future, obsessed with taking speed and ruling the world. Panicked, he asked Cecile how he's supposed to live now since he now knows he's a "bad guy" despite wanting his memory and life back. Cecile reassured him that he doesn't have to be his previous self.

Final battle and defeat

Joe West and Kristen Kramer return to Central City to which a clone of Godspeed attacked Joe, but Kramer mimicked the clone of Godspeed's powers which were used to escape from the clone of Godspeed with Joe.

A group clones of Godspeed later battle with the two Flashes, XS, Impulse, The Flash and the Speed Force before Wavelength was able to charge the same device for earlier to neutralize the clones of Godspeed. Meanwhile, another group of clones of Godspeed dealt with Mecha-Vibe and Frost, but were unable to disrupt an entropy-equipped shield before disappearing again.

Because the Godspeed war was going too far, Barry decided to give "organic speed" via the Speed Force to August, much to his surprise. His artificial speed cells were dormant which was why he lost his memories, thus he recovered his speed as well as his entire memory and fully embraced his criminal career much to Cecile's horror.

Appearing outside of his lightning at the top of S.T.A.R. Labs, Godspeed absorbed all of his clones and proceeded to fight the 'main' Flash, claiming the Flash's death. The speedsters both chase in Central City where Godspeed proved to be faster than the Flash for the moment due to having absorbed his clones and organic speed. Godspeed was about to kill the Flash and absorb his opponent's speed, but he was knocked down by Eobard Thawne.

Unfazed and flattered by the uneasy alliance between the Flash and the Reverse-Flash just to stop him, all three speedsters proceeded to fight with lightning swords. Godspeed subdued the Flash with a surprise sonic boom, but he was distracted long enough to be stabbed by the Reverse-Flash which didn't kill him. Afterwards, his mind had been wiped of the Flash's identity by the Speed Force and was incarcerated in Iron Heights.^[7]

Possible futures

At some point after being imprisoned in 2021, August returned to the future after presumably escaping from Iron Heights and was supposed to die in 2052 during a fight with Impulse.^[2]

Legion of Zoom

As part of the Negative Speed Force's plan, August was pulled from time alongside Hunter Zolomon, the Reverse-Flash and Savitar. Appearing inside the physical manifestation of the Negative Speed Force, August came face to face with Hunter and the two speedsters butted heads as foreseen by the Negative Still Force.^[11] August and Hunter erroneously believed being captured by the Flash before Thawne correctly explaining that the speedsters had been brought to the Negative Speed Force. August tried to boost of his own superiority to the two speedsters before Savitar's arrival to counter. Eddie Thawne/Cobalt Blue ultimately proposed that the four speedsters were unable to defeat the Flash separately so everyone should team up as a group.

Cobalt Blue later opened a breach into the Negative Speed Force which allowed Godspeed, Zoom, Savitar and the Reverse-Flash to arrive and stand opposite of Team Flash. When a fight between the two teams broke out, Godspeed cornered Virtue. Godspeed then sent his clones after Virtue. Virtue managed to dispatch all of his copies before Godspeed personally confronted the psychic and was taken down by a psychic attack.

His speed was later siphoned off by Cobalt Blue, sending him back to his proper place in the timeline.^[2]

Legacy

Godspeed was remembered by the Negative Speed Force.^[12]

Personality

Powers and abilities

Powers

• Speed Force-Negative Speed Force connection/Meta-human physiology: Through August's research into tachyons and the Velocity serums, he was able to grant himself a powerful, albeit unstable connection to the Speed Force, giving him the powers of incredible speed. This meant he was completely unaffected by the death of the Speed Force and meta-dampening tech. After forcing Barry's hand, August was given a natural connection to the Speed Force, greatly augmenting his powers, which combined with his other enhancements granted him additional abilities seemingly unique to him. After gaining a connection to organic Speed Force and accessing his full potential, August became so dangerous and powerful that it took Flash and Reverse-Flash working together to stop him. When August agreed to team up with Cobalt Blue, Reverse-Flash and the others, August gained a connection to the Negative Speed Force which made him even more powerful.
  • Accelerated healing factor: As a speedster, August regenerates much faster and more efficiently than normal humans.
  • Electrokinesis: Unlike other speedsters, August produces white electricity from his body, commonly seen radiating from him even when he stood still. August also mastered harnessing his lightning the point he can perform it while stationary. He easily unleashed a lightning bolt containing five billion joules of electricity (equal to approximately five average lightning strikes). After gaining a natural connection to the Speed Force, he became able to disperse himself into electricity to teleport. Upon tapping into the Negative Speed Force, August now generates red electricity from his body instead of white. He can also hop across his lightning bolts like the Flash can to attack his enemies from the air.
    • Lightning construct: Another use of his electrokinesis, August can channel natural lightning to produce constructs like swords to battle with, which he used in his fight against Barry Allen and Eobard Thawne. In addition, August's Velocity serum granted him the unique ability to summon/produce cumulonimbus clouds when he produces electricity a certain way.
  • Superhuman durability: August possesses inhuman resilience, most commonly seen from being unaffected by momentum build-up. He can take attacks and exertion, even survive impacts that would easily kill normal humans.
  • Superhuman speed: August can move at such vast speeds, indeterminable to the naked eye. He boasts that he is the "God of Speed". His speed is so great that even a camera able to capture a trillion frames per second can barely capture his lightning trail. After gaining a speed boost and organic Speed Force connection thanks to Barry and the absorption of his clones, he was able to vastly outpace Barry. However, this tremendous speed boost was only temporary.
    • Superhuman agility: August has demonstrated flawless coordination, equilibrium and dexterity. He can change direction with immediate sharp turns without sliding or losing balance and instantly stop running on the spot.
    • Superhuman reflexes: August's reaction time is augmented to superhuman levels, allowing him to react to danger and events far faster than normal humans.
    • Superhuman momentum: August can generate great amounts of physical force through kinetic energy, simulating superhuman strength, even in a stationary position. Even little exertions from this build-up can generate a tremendous amount of force, able to knock a person out.
  • Superhuman mental process: August's powers also make his system and thought processing able to take in and retain information just as fast and efficiently. Even while using his raw speed, he can clearly think, react to events, and perform actions long before normal humans can perceive them.
  • Bodily vibration: Like most speedsters, August can vibrate his body for various effects. This can distort his vocal cords to disguise his real voice. He can also channel his vibrational energy in order to generate powerful sonic booms able to repel or hold down his opponents from either his hands or chest.
    • Intangibility: August can move and vibrate any part of his body so fast that he can effortlessly change his frequency and phase himself through people or objects. This allows him to seamlessly phase his arm through people, killing them instantly without outwardly damaging them.
  • Superhuman stamina: August can handle the stresses of extreme racing without noticeable distress, letting him function much longer than normal humans unhindered.^[1]

• Superhuman strength: August's strength was greatly enhanced by the Speed Force, being able to over power The Flash & Reverse Flash with one arm each while they were using two.^[7]
• Speed Force siphoning: August is able to use the sonic booms he produces while running to allow him to siphon speed from other speedsters in order to bolster his own. He demonstrated this when he siphoned speed from all of his clones while he was reabsorbing them. He attempted to siphon Barry's speed, but he was stopped by the Reverse-Flash before he could do it.^[7]

• Temporal fracturing: August is able to split himself into multiple clones by using an unknown side effect of time travel. However, he can make clones appear alongside him at will as well.^[2] He is also able to merge his clones back into himself.^[7]

Abilities

• Genius-level intellect/Expert tactician: August can come up with a strategy for his plans. Such as when he used people to experiment with tachyons to give himself speedster powers and infiltrate highly secure compounds to steal what he needs to make himself faster.
  • Bilingual: August is fluent in English and Punjabi.
  • Expert scientist: August is an expert scientist as when he experimented with tachyons to give himself speedster powers. He was even able to recreate the Velocity 9 formula to increase his speedster powers even further than usual.
• Expert hand-to-hand combatant: August is a highly skilled hand-to-hand combatant. This is seen when he easily overwhelmed Nora West-Allen during their first fight.^[1] After gaining a natural connection to the Speed Force, he proved able to compete against Flash and Reverse-Flash simultaneously for a period of time. During which, he showed noticeable agility to flip and evade attacks.^[7]
• Expert swordsman: During his battle against Flash and Reverse-Flash, he proved able to compete with both of them in a two-on-one swordfight.^[7]

Weaknesses

• Meta-human power dampener/Speedster dampening bracelet: In a previous timeline, August was unable to use his speed after Nora cuffed him with speedster dampening bracelet. However, after injecting himself with another dose of V9, he was able to phase it off and access his speed again.^[1] Post-Crisis, August no longer had this weakness, however, since he established a natural Speed Force connection it is unclear whether he would lose access to his powers or if they'd merely be greatly diminished while being dampened.

Former weaknesses

• Electromagnetic radiation/Radio waves: In a previous timeline, August's Velocity 9 enhanced speed was disabled when he was hit with radio waves, and he seemingly lost access to his powers. After Crisis, he still initially appeared to have this weakness, as this energy was able to disable and greatly weaken the Godspeed clones. However, he presumably no longer has this weakness since gaining "organic speed" and a connection to the Speed Force.
• Time travel limitation: August required the use of the Cosmic Treadmill in the Flash Museum to travel to 2021, as he was unable to naturally do so by himself. As his clones were formed from his consciousness being fractured from time travel, they also had this limitation, although unlike him, they could recharge themselves by going into the Speed Force. Now that he has a connection to the Speed Force, he can time travel at will.
  • Memory loss: As August did not have a connection to the Speed Force or use a Time Sphere to protect himself from temporal energy, he "fractured himself in time", which caused his memories to be locked away and lie dormant. August was still be able to send clones through his consciousness, but some of the clones born from his speedster energy began to wish for freedom.

Equipment

Original multiverse

• Godspeed suit: August wears a protective suit as his villainous alter-ego, Godspeed, to hide his identity from his victims.^[1]
• Velocity 9: August uses V9 to increase his speed. In a previous timeline when Nora used meta-dampening tech on August, he used V9 to give himself a boost to free himself.^[1]

New multiverse

• Velocity serum: August created a Velocity serum that gave him tremendous amounts of speed.^[7]
• Godspeed suit: August wears a protective suit as his villainous alter-ego, Godspeed, to hide his identity from his victims.^[6]

Appearances

The Flash

Gallery

Clones

Trivia

• August is indirectly responsible for the Anti-Monitor Crisis being moved up 5 years; him attacking Nora West-Allen shorted out the meta-dampening chip, causing Nora to seek out Eobard Thawne for assistance in being a speedster allowed Eobard to manipulate Nora into destroying Cicada's dagger, which thereby changed the entire time-line.
• Interestingly, even after being given organic speed, Heart's lightning color remains white.
• As August visited the Flash Museum, he seems to have taken cues from each of the Flash's three most prominent speedster enemies.
  • Heart artificially granted himself speedster powers through the use of Velocity 9, the serum utilized by Zoom to enhance the latter's existing speedster powers. Furthermore, he shares the same desire to be the only fastest speedster alive, as he pointed that even though he developed a Velocity formula, it wasn't enough. Even more, those words were the exact same ones Hunter Zolomon said to Joe West.
  • On Earth-1, Heart introduced himself as the "God of Speed", a title previously used by Savitar. Nora also notes that his plans of making a perfected Velocity 9 would make him "the most powerful speedster", another title that Savitar used. On Earth-Prime, he simply considers himself a god. Albeit unintentionally, he also fractures himself in time, which was one of Savitar's goals. In addition August's unique speedster physiology was able to make him immune to meta-human dampening tech, same with Savitar while using the Philosopher's Stone and imprisoned in the Speed Force.
  • Godspeed used his vibrating hand to murder Lia Nelson, a signature move utilized by the Reverse-Flash.
    • On a side note, the revelation of his own life is similar to Thawne: both wanted their own wish to be true (Thawne being the Flash, August getting his memory back) only for them to learn that they'll be the entire reverse of who they wished to be (Thawne as the Reverse-Flash, August as Godspeed). Furthermore, both Thawne and August created their own means to acquire super speed (Eobard duplicated the conditions behind the Flash's powers and also was thought to had created the Negative Speed Force while August created his own Velocity serum to gain speed just as Zoom did with the original Velocity formula).
  • In the new universe, August also takes cues from Zoom and the Rival, sporting a harsher voice and more sadistic personality.
  • Interestingly, August seems to have made a lasting impression on Barry Allen. He commented that the Flash had "leveled up" from the boost having received from the Speed Force. Barry would continue to use this term as his own speed reached new heights after the Godspeed War, and repeated usage led other members of Team Flash to adopt use of the expression as well.
• August also appears to take some inspiration from Barry, as he sports a nanotech mask similar to Barry's fifth suit as the Flash.
• When killing Lia, his lightning briefly turned blue, which is a side effect of using Velocity 9.
• The clones of Godspeed are a reference to the Speed Scout power he has in the DC comics. However, unlike the DC comics, having clones only slows him down and it does not appear to cause him pain.
  • Also, unlike his comic book counterpart who can only create one clone of himself, the TV version can create multiple clones at once.
• August is the only main antagonist of The Flash to be from the future and not get erased from existence.
• Godspeed seemed to go after the Flash in his 30s due to him being mentally weaker than his 2049 version.
• August is the first main speedster villain to appear on The Flash since Savitar in Season 3.
• August is the fourth main villain who was defeated yet hasn't ended up being killed/erased (Bloodwork, Speed Force, and Mirror Monarch).
• August is the first main antagonist that appeared in previous seasons as a recurring villain and then later on become the main antagonist in a later season. The second being Eobard.
  • Eobard Thawne was the main antagonist of Season 1 until being a recurring villain in a few seasons until also being one of the main antagonists in Season 8.

Behind the scenes

• In the DC comics, Godspeed is August Heart, a murderous vigilante speedster introduced in the recent Rebirth storyline who worked with Barry Allen at CCPD by day and killed other speedsters by night. Eventually, he had a redemption arc as an anti-hero.
  • Additionally, Inertia is Bart Allen's clone who utilized the Velocity serum.
• He served as the main antagonist of the "Godspeed Imperative arc" of Season 7 of The Flash.

References