43 Facts About Vandal Savage

Vandar Adg of the Blood Tribe, more widely known as Vandal Savage, is a supervillain appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics.

Vandal Savage is said to be a Cro-Magnon warrior who gained immortality and advanced healing abilities after encountering a strange meteorite during prehistoric times.

Vandal Savage is a brilliant and sadistic tactician with immense knowledge in various sciences and forms of combat, able to fight effectively against many heroes despite not having any superhuman powers beyond his ability to survive and heal from lethal wounds.

Vandal Savage is a recurring foe of the Justice Society and the Justice League and occasionally works as a member of super-villain organizations such as the Injustice Society and the Legion of Doom.

The story featured Vandal Savage targeting Hawkman, who decades later would be established as one of Vandal Savage's most frequent enemies.

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The story shows Vandal Savage seemingly reduced to ash by a meteorite, but Superman concludes the villain will still return.

Likewise, it was revealed that Vandal Savage had regularly fought the reincarnating heroes Hawkman and Hawkgirl across many of their lives, sometimes being responsible for their deaths.

The crossover Final Crisis depicts characters believing Vandal Savage is the inspiration for the story of Cain from the Bible.

Vandal Savage manipulates the Green Lantern and his secret identity Alan Scott into helping his schemes, later revealing he knows they are the same person.

Vandal Savage explains that he is "one million years old" and was once a Cro-Magnon man who was the chief of his tribe.

Vandal Savage was left in a comatose state for months, then woke up as an immortal "barring accidents", no longer aging but still vulnerable to injury.

Vandal Savage learns that the meteor that made him immortal in the first place did not explode into ash as he thought but actually warped through space and time, crossing through dimensions and into Limbo.

Vandal Savage manipulates Jay Garrick and Barry Allen into helping him free the meteor back into Earth's atmosphere, hoping another exposure will recharge his immortality.

Since Vandal Savage was shifting between the dimensions of Earth-One and Earth-Two just before the meteor impacted with him, he is stuck in a partial existence between both worlds, only able to achieve tangibility in one while only being a shadow form in the other.

The Post-Crisis version of Vandal Savage is more bloodthirsty, and it is suggested by some that he is the first cannibal on record in human history.

Vandal Savage eventually learns the meteor didn't empower him through radiation but by infecting him with sub-atomic robots it carried called "tektites".

Vandal Savage compares the two reincarnating Hawk heroes to cockroaches.

Vandal Savage's other reincarnating enemy is a man named Mitchell Shelley, who is reborn time and time again and usually recalls the events of his past lives, leading him to essentially becoming the same person time and time again.

In many lives, Shelley fights Vandal Savage, becoming his most frequent enemy next to the Immortal Man.

When he later decides the Justice Society of America have become too formidable, Vandal Savage uses his influence on several senators to shut the heroes down.

The JSA choose to retire instead, which Vandal Savage considers a victory as it means an end to widespread superhero activity for decades.

Vandal Savage starts tracking down his descendants in order to rely on them for organ transplants if he needs them, as his body now has a harder time regenerating full organs if they are too greatly damaged.

Wally West, the latest hero to be called the Flash, realizes Vandal Savage is hiding under the alias of Burt Villers, an art dealer.

Later, he is coincidentally kidnapped by the Lab, as Vandal Savage's organization is testing its tektite technology by injecting it into homeless people and seeing if they survive lethal injuries.

Soon before the events of Infinite Crisis, Vandal Savage joins the newly reorganized Secret Society of Super Villains.

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Meanwhile, his-adult daughter Scandal Vandal Savage joins the newest group to call itself the Secret Six, a team that opposes the Society's agenda.

Vandal Savage later reveals that he believes Scandal and her Secret Six teammate the Catman would produce a suitable and formidable heir.

Vandal Savage becomes leader of a doomsday cult and endows his followers with a variety of superhuman abilities thanks to a serum based on his own blood.

Vandal Savage's recruit Fantasia then casts illusions to trick the Flash into bringing Savage an alien "Summoner" device.

Vandal Savage's immortality allows him to survive on the meteor and he later returns to Earth by "hitching a ride" on a comet that is headed in that direction.

Vandal Savage succeeds in ridding himself of the Mark of Cain by passing it on to the Question.

Vandal Savage gained immortality and superhuman strength by encountering a small meteorite that broke off from a radioactive comet that passed by Earth.

Vandal Savage later learns that this meteor nearly struck Krypton before, but was deflected by an ancestor of Superman's.

Vandal Savage's daughter Kassandra "Kass" Sage is an FBI agent who consults him on a case.

Vandal Savage is later depicted as a villain free of imprisonment.

Vandal Savage exhibited greater strength, speed, reflexes, resiliency to injury, and tolerance to pain than the average human being.

Over time, this immortality has weakened, and Vandal Savage has had to rely on his children, descendants, or clones for organ replacement and blood transfusions.

Later stories revealed Vandal Savage had intestinal cancer when he acquired his immortality.

When Vandal Savage later encountered the comet again, his proximity to it increased his power, giving him flight, organic armor, and an energy field of an unknown nature.

New 52 version of Vandal Savage fathered Kassidy Sage, an FBI agent, and Angelo Bend, the villain known as the Angle Man.

Vandal Savage now had a much harder time healing his body, being unable to regrow or replace a lost eye.

In Grant Morrison's 2014 miniseries The Multiversity, a version of Vandal Savage appeared who was not only immortal, but an inter-dimensional pirate.

In 2009, Vandal Savage was ranked as IGN's 36th-greatest comic book villain of all time.