Try to add drawbacks to them going MEGAFAST so that they're usually just fast and try to use speed as speed so you need torque and they need to actually build up speed instead of instantly going lightspeed. And when they do go MEGAFAST have there be collateral damage so there's a reason they usually don't go that fast.
On top of this, interacting with the "normal speed" world while lightspeed has penalties. Most objects don't want to move; you can't speed read a book/manual because the pages either won't turn or they'll be destroyed, people end up with life-threatening injuries if carried or even adjusted improperly. The superpower is great against opponents when you're already in motion to enhance dodges and high-speed strikes, but doing little technical things doesn't work.
There's a fricking reason for that, Flash-type superspeed without any drawbacks or limitations makes a character 100% invincible and that's boring as shit.
Yup. And it's even worse when we, the reader, know a character has a power or a feat that would allow them to easily overcome the current thing and they're just not doing it.
It makes shows like MAWS unwatchable for me. Seeing Superman struggle with regular people in tech armor is just ridiculous, he can move so fast he can change his entire wardrobe in a blink, be to and from locations halfway across town in less than a second. And I'm supposed to believe he's not effortlessly dodging all these punches and slow-ass laser beams?
That's what they never tell you about moving faster than light - you can only live in darkness.
Anyway, glad this thread's here because I've got to get this off my chest: Speedster characters are fricking cringe and it's because of bullshit like the OP. They always turn into the most reality-bustingly OP pieces of shit. It's actually far, far worse than Superman ever was, I don't get how people can say his stories are boring when Barry's stories are always just "I was really fast, but then this bad guy was faster, so then I went EVEN FASTER", like frick the frick off.
>Captain Cold freezes the streets >Flash appears as Captain Cold is sitting on a lubed up sled, about to go downhill >"You'll never catch me this time!"
Don't write stories where the primary goal is "beat the bad guy". Be creative. It's not hard for people who read a lot of nonfiction and get lots of experience going outside in the real world. You can't be a good writer if all you've ever experienced is other people's art. It's secondhand living, and you will forever be cursed to poorly plagiarize the things you love, never becoming capable of original thought. Your final fate is to give up and let AI make the art for you, because it offers the same uncreative aggregation of other people's work as you.
Literally just go outside. Creativity is easy for a healthy mind. It's what our brains were made for. I am published and moderately successful (don't need a real job anymore despite having a personality disorder and formerly chud). If I can do it, so can you. Choose life.
Be more ambitious. Stop writing such myopic stories about little characters in little universes with little powers and little villains. Write a fricking story. Reveal a truth. Change someone's mind. Stop settling for escapism like a fricking baby. If you seriously give a frick about the power levels of the Flash, or have serious opinions about speedsters in comics, you actually need to die. You need to die and never undie. You sicken me, and no one will ever read your stories.
Be more ambitious. Stop writing such myopic stories about little characters in little universes with little powers and little villains. Write a fricking story. Reveal a truth. Change someone's mind. Stop settling for escapism like a fricking baby. If you seriously give a frick about the power levels of the Flash, or have serious opinions about speedsters in comics, you actually need to die. You need to die and never undie. You sicken me, and no one will ever read your stories.
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British invasion fans, I presume? Take your cringe pretentious garbage and shove it up your asses.
The world will continue to move on without you. You can choose loneliness and misery, or you can choose life. There is no other option. You fail because you are repulsive, and you will never take accountability. You don't have the will. You don't have the strength.
What did you hope to accomplish by commenting this? How do you not realize you're just announcing your insecurity and anger? What's the point, man? How much longer can you realistically live like this, when you know the problem is you?
There's nothing to take seriously or not. I described a casual truth. You can accept it or deny it. It is what it is. The world moves on with or without you.
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Nah man, the other anon is right, you're a massive jerkoff and trying this "I'm the serious adult" routine on Cinemaphile of all places is just sad. Now please, respond with some pseud "wisdom".
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Anonymous
What did you hope to accomplish by commenting this? How do you not realize you're just announcing your insecurity and anger? What's the point, man? How much longer can you realistically live like this, when you know the problem is you?
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NTA, but you're part of the problem, so it's hard for you to see how it actually is.
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That's good, and you're even pretending to be someone else. Keep it coming! Teach us more!
Be more ambitious. Stop writing such myopic stories about little characters in little universes with little powers and little villains. Write a fricking story. Reveal a truth. Change someone's mind. Stop settling for escapism like a fricking baby. If you seriously give a frick about the power levels of the Flash, or have serious opinions about speedsters in comics, you actually need to die. You need to die and never undie. You sicken me, and no one will ever read your stories.
no one is gonna respond to this cuz it hits too close to home kek
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Based.
British invasion fans, I presume? Take your cringe pretentious garbage and shove it up your asses.
Be more ambitious. Stop writing such myopic stories about little characters in little universes with little powers and little villains. Write a fricking story. Reveal a truth. Change someone's mind. Stop settling for escapism like a fricking baby. If you seriously give a frick about the power levels of the Flash, or have serious opinions about speedsters in comics, you actually need to die. You need to die and never undie. You sicken me, and no one will ever read your stories.
Don't give them enhanced durability. That way they can't just turn their speed into energy by punching someone unless they want to destroy their arm. Or, allow them to erase the energy that comes from moving really fast when interacting with other things, but it works both ways so they can't just Infinite Mass Punch(tm) people.
The real problem is that they have the speedforce make it so the writer's vague half-assed recollection of high-school physics always work in whatever way is most favorable to the Flash, no matter what, including mutually contradictory ways at the same time. The Infinite Mass Punch is the most obvious - some writer was all "oh wow I'm going to look like a smarty-pants by having the Flash smugly reveal his superspeed is also a carrier of super momentum." But doing that without destroying his own body and blowing up the neighborhood isn't a matter of speed. It’s now an energy absorption power.
At a point “peak flash” is not even anymore about speed at all; he’s a time travelling, energy controlling matter phaser with an elercticity theme. might as well just give Flash the ability to deliver as much energy as he wants anywhere he pleases in whatever form he wants, so he can just point at someone and they explode and cut the speed shit out of play all together.
The only real way is to make their personality a weakness that can be exploited. Like pic related charging straight into an obviously telegraphed windup attack because he was confident he could outspeed it. If you make them fast in the head too, you can justifiably explain them getting one-upped despite their speed. Superspeed is OP but only if you can calmly think out how to handle situations with it and (ironically) take things slow.
Have them get their powers from solving math equations.
You build most of their stories around things that aren't their speed powers
Try to add drawbacks to them going MEGAFAST so that they're usually just fast and try to use speed as speed so you need torque and they need to actually build up speed instead of instantly going lightspeed. And when they do go MEGAFAST have there be collateral damage so there's a reason they usually don't go that fast.
On top of this, interacting with the "normal speed" world while lightspeed has penalties. Most objects don't want to move; you can't speed read a book/manual because the pages either won't turn or they'll be destroyed, people end up with life-threatening injuries if carried or even adjusted improperly. The superpower is great against opponents when you're already in motion to enhance dodges and high-speed strikes, but doing little technical things doesn't work.
Why do you spam this thread?
It makes anti-powerscaling homosexuals big mad
LOOK OUT
>Flash lives in the games
>Flash lives in the comic books
>Flash inexplicably dies in the movie
For what purpose?
every suggestion about improving superspeed is basically "how to make it more useless and ineffective"
Super speed is also inherently overpowered.
There's a fricking reason for that, Flash-type superspeed without any drawbacks or limitations makes a character 100% invincible and that's boring as shit.
Yup. And it's even worse when we, the reader, know a character has a power or a feat that would allow them to easily overcome the current thing and they're just not doing it.
It makes shows like MAWS unwatchable for me. Seeing Superman struggle with regular people in tech armor is just ridiculous, he can move so fast he can change his entire wardrobe in a blink, be to and from locations halfway across town in less than a second. And I'm supposed to believe he's not effortlessly dodging all these punches and slow-ass laser beams?
Yeah, that shit was a frickton of a cringe, whoever wrote it should go the frick outside lol
more speedsters each more insane than the last
>Give them a tight suit and lots of speed effects
>have them do sweet tricks
>have them fight cool villains
super speed is dumb i agree but light would not appear frozen to you. thinking really fast doesn't affect the laws of physics
>even light would appear frozen to you
So Flash should be blind, right?
That's what they never tell you about moving faster than light - you can only live in darkness.
Anyway, glad this thread's here because I've got to get this off my chest: Speedster characters are fricking cringe and it's because of bullshit like the OP. They always turn into the most reality-bustingly OP pieces of shit. It's actually far, far worse than Superman ever was, I don't get how people can say his stories are boring when Barry's stories are always just "I was really fast, but then this bad guy was faster, so then I went EVEN FASTER", like frick the frick off.
>"I was really fast, but then this bad guy was faster, so then I went EVEN FASTER"
Can Captain Cold or Gorilla Grodd even go that fast?
>Captain Cold freezes the streets
>Flash appears as Captain Cold is sitting on a lubed up sled, about to go downhill
>"You'll never catch me this time!"
And then he gets put on the shelf again till the cycle repeats.
>insert omni-man here
>A FRICKING SCATTOSECOND
Don't write stories where the primary goal is "beat the bad guy". Be creative. It's not hard for people who read a lot of nonfiction and get lots of experience going outside in the real world. You can't be a good writer if all you've ever experienced is other people's art. It's secondhand living, and you will forever be cursed to poorly plagiarize the things you love, never becoming capable of original thought. Your final fate is to give up and let AI make the art for you, because it offers the same uncreative aggregation of other people's work as you.
Literally just go outside. Creativity is easy for a healthy mind. It's what our brains were made for. I am published and moderately successful (don't need a real job anymore despite having a personality disorder and formerly chud). If I can do it, so can you. Choose life.
no one is gonna respond to this cuz it hits too close to home kek
Based.
>just don't write superheroes bro
moronic pseudointellectual.
>"Write better stories."
>FRICK YOUUU!!
What's your major malfunction?
The world will continue to move on without you. You can choose loneliness and misery, or you can choose life. There is no other option. You fail because you are repulsive, and you will never take accountability. You don't have the will. You don't have the strength.
you sound like a massive jerkoff
What did you hope to accomplish by commenting this? How do you not realize you're just announcing your insecurity and anger? What's the point, man? How much longer can you realistically live like this, when you know the problem is you?
you are taking this way too seriously
There's nothing to take seriously or not. I described a casual truth. You can accept it or deny it. It is what it is. The world moves on with or without you.
Nah man, the other anon is right, you're a massive jerkoff and trying this "I'm the serious adult" routine on Cinemaphile of all places is just sad. Now please, respond with some pseud "wisdom".
NTA, but you're part of the problem, so it's hard for you to see how it actually is.
That's good, and you're even pretending to be someone else. Keep it coming! Teach us more!
>you're even pretending to be someone else
Nope.
British invasion fans, I presume? Take your cringe pretentious garbage and shove it up your asses.
Be more ambitious. Stop writing such myopic stories about little characters in little universes with little powers and little villains. Write a fricking story. Reveal a truth. Change someone's mind. Stop settling for escapism like a fricking baby. If you seriously give a frick about the power levels of the Flash, or have serious opinions about speedsters in comics, you actually need to die. You need to die and never undie. You sicken me, and no one will ever read your stories.
Don't give them enhanced durability. That way they can't just turn their speed into energy by punching someone unless they want to destroy their arm. Or, allow them to erase the energy that comes from moving really fast when interacting with other things, but it works both ways so they can't just Infinite Mass Punch(tm) people.
The real problem is that they have the speedforce make it so the writer's vague half-assed recollection of high-school physics always work in whatever way is most favorable to the Flash, no matter what, including mutually contradictory ways at the same time. The Infinite Mass Punch is the most obvious - some writer was all "oh wow I'm going to look like a smarty-pants by having the Flash smugly reveal his superspeed is also a carrier of super momentum." But doing that without destroying his own body and blowing up the neighborhood isn't a matter of speed. It’s now an energy absorption power.
At a point “peak flash” is not even anymore about speed at all; he’s a time travelling, energy controlling matter phaser with an elercticity theme. might as well just give Flash the ability to deliver as much energy as he wants anywhere he pleases in whatever form he wants, so he can just point at someone and they explode and cut the speed shit out of play all together.
Why are people against good writing?
Actually baffling.
The Incredibles (1) did it well, I thought
The only real way is to make their personality a weakness that can be exploited. Like pic related charging straight into an obviously telegraphed windup attack because he was confident he could outspeed it. If you make them fast in the head too, you can justifiably explain them getting one-upped despite their speed. Superspeed is OP but only if you can calmly think out how to handle situations with it and (ironically) take things slow.