The Top 10 Most Comic-Accurate Characters From DC’s Television Shows

Vandal Savage (Legends of Tomorrow)

Before I begin this one, I want to to start by saying that Vandal Savage did not impress me as much as I was sure he was going to when I first heard he was going to be the first big bad in Legends of Tomorrow season 1.  Physically, he was perfect, and is why he’s on this list. The way Casper Crump delivered his lines were sinister and downright creepy at times. He seemed like the perfect villain. Even when the The Flash and Arrow crossover featured Savage as the villain, I was sold on him. Then Legends happened, and honestly, he ended up being just kind of boring. He didn’t really do much, and didn’t ever really seem to pose a real threat to the team. For how powerful he was portrayed in the Flash/Arrow crossover, he was pretty ineffective on Legends. But I will end on that note before I start writing an entire separate list on the subject.

The main reasons Savage is so high on this list are mainly his physical appearance and how spot-on Crump played the character. His timelessness was straight from the comics, as he never ages and is seemingly immortal. The show did something original and linked his origin to Hawkman and Hawkgirl, which is significant variant from the comics. The print version of Savage was originally a caveman who was exposed to radiation from a meteorite, which is similar to the comics, but the similarities end there. In the show, he is from Egypt, along with the Hawks, who were exposed to the same meteorite, which gave them immortal life, even if they die causing them to continuously be born again. And Savage goes through time trying to kill them both so he becomes super immortal, or something like that. I’m not totally sure, that show’s plot confused me. Let’s go on to the next one.