Sam Scudder

**Sam Scudder**, nicknamed **Mirror Master** by Wally West, is a meta-human criminal and the boyfriend of Lisa Snart. After being trapped in a mirror for over a year, Sam gained the ability to manipulate any reflective surface.

## Biography

#### Early exploits

At some point prior to being trapped in a mirror, Sam met Leonard Snart and his sister Lisa Snart. Eventually Scudder and Lisa became romantically involved. He also had a partnership with Roscoe Dillon

#### Becoming Mirror Master

Over a year later, Sam escaped the mirror and gained the ability to manipulate reflective surfaces. He reunited with Roscoe who also obtained powers, the latter gaining the power to manipulate an unknown energy source. They later took on The Flash but, failed.

#### The Rouges

After getting beaten by The Flash, Scudder was met by Leonard Snart and recruited into The Rouges. A week later, Scudder and the other Rouges were sent to Iron Heights

#### Mirror Master vs Kid Flash

In April 2022, Scudder escaped prison and wanted to exact revenge on The Flash. However, when he learns Flash is gone (while he's in the future), he decides to kill Kid Flash instead.

## Powers and abilities

### Powers

* **Meta-human physiology:** After Sam was stuck in a mirror for a year, this altered his DNA and supercharged his cells, augmenting his physiology into allowing him to access his powers.
	+ **Mirror/Catropic teleportation:** Sam can link Einstein-Rosen bridges to anything with high solar reflectance, allowing him to essentially create wormholes, or portals, through any reflective surface within a separate existence, allowing him to traverse areas at great speed at roughly Mach 13.2.

### Abilities

* **Expert thief:** Sam is an excellent thief, having successfully pulled off multiple heists.
* **Skilled hand-to-hand combat:** Sam is a skilled hand to hand combatant.

### Weaknesses

* **Droste effect:** When surrounded by too many reflections facing one another, creating an infinite reflective loop, Sam will be unable to travel through the mirrors at all.
* **Ground or faced-down mirrors:** If Sam is using a mirror lying flat on the ground, or perhaps obscured of light, he cannot escape from it.
* **Power-dampening cuffs**: Like most meta-humans, if Sam is wearing power-dampening cuffs, he can't use his powers.

## Appearances

### *The Flash*

#### Season 1

* Mirror Master
* The Gauntlet
* Back to the Future part l
* Back to the Future part ll
* Speed is a Battlefield

#### Season 2

* Going Rouge
* Mirror Mirror on the Flash

## Trivia

* Scudder's outfit, while not a "super" one, did have some subtle winks, with it being made of reflective materials, such as his satin shirt or his tie and pocket square having a sheen to them.

## Behind the scenes

* In the DC comics, Sam Scudder is Mirror Master, a member of the Rogues and an enemy of The Flash. His successor after his death in Crisis is Evan McCulloch.
	+ The concept of Scudder being a meta-human is based around the New 52 where the Rogues underwent a special procedure that merged them with their weapons, allowing them to use their weapon's abilities on their own. However, it went awry and Sam was trapped in a Mirror Dimension as on the show.
	+ Ironically, in the comics, Scudder studied mirrors and how to weaponize them, while Evan McCulloch was a regular criminal who just happened to get Scudder’s tech.