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Savant, A history behind another Heir

Savant Deep Dive

By Entertainment Nerd NewsPublished 3 years ago 3 min read
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Brian Durlin, Who will become Savant, is a spoiled Heir to an enormous fortune who moves to Gotham to become a vigilante. However, after being called out by Batman for his complete lack of care to protect others he changes his path and decides to use his formidable computer skills to build a profitable blackmailing business in order to prove his genius and extort money from people. He was joined in the venture by an ex- Russian KGB Agent, Creote. Creote was devoted to Savant and even secretly in love with him.

Later Savant kidnaps Black Canary and tortures her in hopes of getting Oracle to reveal Batman’s true identity. His plans are foiled by the Birds of Prey when the Oracle calls in Huntress. Oracle then tried to rehabilitate Savant because he was just too dangerous of a force to have against them even in Jail. He was a genius; however, due to a chemical imbalance he exhibits a non-linear memory and seems to be quite forgetful. Savant had also exhibited feelings for Oracle, but this was probably rooted in his envy of her computer skills.

Savant went on under Oracles control to clean up a Gotham neighborhood. However his unique methods lead oracle to regret her decision. Savant and Creote then joined forces with Huntress to take over Gotham Mafia by placing Huntress as Capo.

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As part of a plan by Calculator to get to Oracle, Savant was kidnapped and tortured by agents of the Secret Society of Super Villains. However his non-linear memory helped him to resist the interrogation, making it appear to last only a few hours rather than the days it had really been. He was rescued by the Birds of Prey and out of anger pushed the villain Black Spider out of a window. Spider survived, meaning the Birds did not have to arrest Savant for murder, though he did end his association with Oracle.

Savant is seemingly attacked and murdered by The White Canary. After a failed attempt to keep him alive, a grieving Creote blames Oracle for this and shoots himself. However, all of that was a ruse as they both faked their deaths. They later appear in Oracle’s base and abduct her, planning for her to reveal her secret identity to the world. They take Oracle to the top of the Gotham Dam, where Savant reveals that his distorted sense of time means that his torture at the hands of the Secret Society feels like it only happened five minutes ago and that he has been in constant mental agony for two years.

He then reveals that the true purpose of bringing Oracle out to the dam was to have her witness his suicide and attempts to throw himself off the dam, but Oracle leaps from her chair and stops him, convincing Creote to help pull them up despite his promise to let Savant die. She then explains to a confused Savant that Creote is in love with him. Creote later admits his feelings to Savant, who to his surprise reciprocates.

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Savant and Creote were offered positions in the Birds of Prey by Oracle yet again, Savant on technical staff, Creote as a bodyguard. Recently, Savant has appeared in a meeting with the Calculator to have faked his breakdown to infiltrate Oracle’s operation. However, it is later apparent in a meeting with Oracle and Batman that he is a double agent for the Birds of Prey, to feed Calculator information that would ultimately allow the Birds to successfully fake the death of Oracle. The brief encounter with Batman revealed that neither of them has forgotten their previous hostility towards the other.

Does the craziness end here? Not exactly. Savant joins Amanda Waller’s new Suicide Squad to hunt Harley Quinn down. In order to help weed out the wink link, they’re tortured. Savant weakens and cracks himself leading him to turn on the group. He is dragged away to be seemingly killed. However since that is never defined, his fate is unknown.

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