Vandal Savage may not have always been among DC's most famous adversaries, but over the course of the last two decades the character has slowly climbed up the publisher's ranks to reach revered status.
Granted immortality by basking in the glow of a radioactive meteorite, Savage is the most experienced human being on the planet. He's survived every war, learned everything there is to learn, and is among the deadliest opponents the Justice League have ever faced. More recently the character has also made a mark on the world of animation and TV, appearing first in the Justice League cartoon series from the early 2000s, before later making waves in Young Justice and in TheCW's Arrowverse.
Still, nothing beats the original comics incarnation, who manages to be imposing and terrifying wherever he goes.
Case in point: not only was Savage apparently the one responsible for sending Atlantis crashing towards the ocean, he was also apparently the first human cannibal too. Lovely.
WhatCulture's very own resident movie guy, Ewan has been working in the content creation biz for over 10 years now, having started as a freelance contributor to WhatCulture Gaming all the way back in 2015. After graduating with a First-Class Honours in History from Northumbria University in 2017 (where he won a prize for a totally killer dissertation on the Watergate years), Ewan took on the role of Comics Editor at WhatCulture and quickly developed WhatCulture Comics into one of the biggest superhero-focused channels on YouTube. He followed this with a brief hiatus at Screen Rant in 2021, where he worked across the Gaming and Film sections as a writer and editor, before returning to WhatCulture as a Senior Content Producer / Presenter in 2023. He started his own podcast, We Love Dad Movies, in 2022, and has contributed several written pieces to the Eisner-nominated comics website Shelfdust as well.
In his current role, Ewan incorporates his love of cinema, comic books, and history into written pieces and video essays for WhatCulture's Film & TV channel, as well as WhatCulture Gaming and WhatCulture Horror, with a particular focus on nineties-era Dad Movies, old school Westerns, and Golden Age Hollywood Noir. John Carpenter is his fave, and he thinks Batman Beyond should never have been cancelled. If that's your vibe, you'll probably like his stuff.
