>Flash can run faster than light
>gets punched in the face by Catwoman
I'm no physicist but if even she accidentally punched him moving at, say, the speed of sound, wouldn't that be like getting run over by jet?
>Flash can run faster than light. >gets punched in the face by Catwoman
DC has systematically pruned every interesting facet of being a speedster from the Flash a long time ago. Flash is just a variant of wizard that casts spells using his legs.
This is why I prefer Quicksilver. He's still fast as frick but not so fast that no other superpowered character is invalidated. Juggernaut could still clothesline Quicksilver. If Juggs tried to clothesline Flash, his arm would disintegrate.
No, you are still not getting it. If the Juggernaut tried to clothesline the Flash, the Flash would run through his arm like a ghost because he 'vibrated his molecules', and then turn around a throw a lightning bolt at him like zeus using speedforce.
Flash does not run fast. Flash uses running fast as an excuse for why can can use a bunch of other powers.
lol all right, I get your point. A point has been reached where the shit Flash can do is no longer explainable by being fast.
So speed is to Flash what magnets are to Magneto?
There's a reason Magneto is the fricking worst. You know, aside from being a Krakoa Mutant before Krakoa mutants really were a thing.
Sounds like a shitty characters that pulls bullshit out of his ass on the daily. Makes OG Superman seem tame.
Honestly, the only series I can name that ever addressed the inherent flaw with super speed punching was Baki.
The infinite mass punch does make theoretical sense. Less so why anyone would be able to survive it, or why Barry's fist doesn't create a singularity on impact.
does it really? even a baseball at 90% light speed is only generated 4 megatons
Barry weighs about 200 lb. It would be technically impossible with physics as we currently understand it to propel his body mass to light speed. But if it could be done, at the moment his fist hit a dude's face, he would be as dense as a neutron star.
"Infinite" mass is maybe not accurate but still... it's a lot.
AIIIIIIIIEEEEEEEEE HE'S QUICKER WHERE IT COUNTS!!!
Also not a physicist but if a man was running at the speed of light and immediately stopped because he was stabbed, that sudden deceleration would kill him, Slade, and everything within a sixteen mile radius.
Deathstroke had severe plot armor where Wally was involved because he deeked on him back when he was a dumb kid in the Titans.
And for some goddamned reason we never had a story where he absolutely mogs him because he's not a dumb kid anymore. Or if we did it was ignored by the hordes of Wolfman Fanboys who continue writing him as someone who can step to the Flash.
It's the same shit whenever you get the more normal characters. You'd also never see Batman lose against any of them, this is just the villainous version of it.
this is just bad writing
How long before the speed force can heal mortal injuries? Maybe you send your body backwards in time and the injury never happened.
... There's no fricking way DC hasn't thought of this.
This worked though, since Zoom was so high on his own arrogance that he was paying zero attention to what was going on around him. It wasn't great execution, but it shows how you could deal with the nightmare of superspeed.
frankly unless you describe it as being based on something other than pure movement, super-speed is always and will always be the most stupidly broken and OP power that has so few effective counters
whenever superspeed shows up in these types of genres, it should be treated as something dangerous and rare that's nigh-impossible to overcome in a direct fight
How did Deadshot shoot a man that can outrun the maximum effective range of that bullet?
Flash would be so much better if he could do all of these ultraspeed techs, but it came at the cost of possibly obliterating the surrounding area and people, and possibly even himself if he starts doing hypersonic bullshit. That way he's constantly trying to regulate his own speed, often to his own detriment if he gets caught at a bad time, or refuses to speed up enough to avoid a hit if he knows it'd make a sonic boom that'd level a city block.
I have my problem with The Boys but it has one of the better realistic portrayals of super speed. When A-Train hits a person going at his terminal velocity, that motherfricker explodes.
tom king is a hack
Speedster just suck as characters. Nothing new.
I'm conflicted on the Magneto versus Flash argument. Having absolute control over the electromagnetic spectrum is kind of like the "I can do anything" power that isn't reality warping. But Flash's speed is always written as that ultimate utility power too.
Magneto can't magnet himself backwards in time, I suppose.
I hate Flash for this reason. Literally power creep the character because just being fast doesn't leave a lot of room for interesting stories.
1) they were being controlled by a strained ivy
2) frick speedster bullshit
Why didn't Barry move Alfred?