It is now said the presence of tektites in both their bodies allows the two enemies to sense each other and sometimes be drawn to each other. The Immortal Man is still present at Savage's origin, and still fashions an amulet from a piece of the meteor. The Post-Crisis version of Savage is more bloodthirsty, and it is suggested by some that he is the first cannibal on record in human history. In this new history, Savage is still originally a Cro-Magnon warrior called Vandar Adg, now said to have been leader of the Blood Tribe. Whenever the Immortal Man died or was killed, his powerful amulet allowed him to quickly materialize in a new body elsewhere on Earth, without having to literally be born again and with his memories intact. The story shows Savage seemingly reduced to ash by a meteorite, but Superman concludes the villain will still return. After this, he became a recurring enemy to the heroes of Earth-Two and Earth-One, sometimes crossing the dimensional barrier between the two realities. Four years later, he made his second appearance in All Star Comics #37 (1947), where he joined the original Injustice Society, a team of villains that battled the Justice Society of America. For over 50,000 years, he plagues the Earth as a villain and occasional conqueror, sometimes using different names but most often calling himself Vandal Savage. The Vandals (21-14) made a Cinderella run in the Big Sky Conference Tournament, entering as the No. 7 seed and going on to win it all and bring home the Starch Madness trophy to Moscow. He said Oklahoma was one of the teams that the Vandals watched and tried to mimic. Moreira said it should be a fun matchup and that both teams play very fast. In their previous trips (2013, 2014 and 2016) the Vandals were a No. 14 or No. 16 seed. As the No. 13 seed, it is the highest seed for the Vandal women in the modern era. In this timeline, Savage is also the father of Angelo Bend, whom he later kills (although Angelo appears again without explanation as the Angle Man). Savage later learns that this meteor nearly struck Krypton before, but was deflected by an ancestor of Superman's. By this time, Savage begins to believe he is in fact the Biblical figure Cain. When this fails, Savage consumes a clone of himself to restore his power, at least temporarily. As he is sent to the asteroid, he declares that he will protect the Flash and his family and heirs as thanks for Wally West's help in his achievement of new power. From this, historian Peter Heather concludes that at this time the Vandals were located in the region around the Middle and Upper Danube. According to Jordanes' Getica, the Hasdingi came into conflict with the Goths around the time of Constantine the Great. The Hasdingi, who later led the Vandal invasion of Carthage, do not appear in written records until the 2nd century and the time of the Marcomannic wars. He names them as one of the groups sometimes thought to be one of the oldest divisions of these peoples, along with the Marsi, Gambrivii, and Suebi, but does not say where they live, or which peoples are within this category. The name of the Vandals has been connected to that of Vendel, the name of a province in Uppland, Sweden, which is also eponymous of the Vendel Period of Swedish prehistory, corresponding to the late Germanic Iron Age leading up to the Viking Age. Renaissance and early-modern writers characterized the Vandals as prototypical barbarians, due to their 14-day Sack of Rome, leading to the use of the term "vandalism" to describe any form of wanton destruction, particularly the "barbarian" defacing of artwork. Shelley's ability to reincarnate and remember his past lives seems to interact with the tektites, giving him the ability to continuously resurrect himself after death and gain a new superpower each time he does. More often, unwilling to test how much damage his immortality can repair, he is content to be an advisor behind the scenes. At different points in history, Savage faces Batman due to the hero becoming temporarily lost wandering through time as a result of Final Crisis. The Insiders seek out meteorite fragments of the original meteor, while Savage forms a temporary alliance with the near-immortal terrorist cult leader Ra's al Ghul to thwart the group. The Flash reverses the effect of the device, pushing the asteroid away, but then Savage leaps into the path of the beam, believing he will gain greater power from the asteroid just as a meteor once gave him power before. Tartarus targets Adeline Kane, a leader of the terrorist group H.I.V.E., to use her blood for a new immortality serum. The Vandals were probably not any more destructive than other invaders of ancient times, but writers who idealized Rome often blamed them for its destruction. The modern term vandalism stems from the Vandals' reputation as the barbarian people who sacked and looted Rome in AD 455. Judith George explains that "Analysis of the Vandal poems in their context holds up a mirror to the ways and values of the times". When 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. In the New 52 timeline, Savage was mutated by radiation from a passing comet, one which had almost destroyed the planet Krypton years before. Savage's blood can be used to create a serum that can imbue another person with superhuman powers. The regenerative power that keeps him alive also keeps the cancerous cells from being removed. In the 1990s, it was revealed that the source of his power was not radiation-induced mutation but a colony of sub-atomic robots called "tektites" inhabiting his bloodstream and cells. For a brief time when he existed out of phase with his home dimension of Earth-Two, Savage was able to mentally project messages and images.
