Super Speed is the WORST Super Power
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- čas přidán 16. 02. 2024
- The Justice League discuss why super speed is one of the goofiest powers if you really think about it. Like think about it. Think about it tho. Like think about it. Like really. Think about it.
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“I guess me not having superpowers isn’t such a bad thing after all”
“No you still stuck”
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Reminds me of that vid on who should be the leader of the justice league. Superman goes "oh I'd definitely contribu"
"Clark I own the building you work in you're paying me with my own money"
* LAUGHING AT THE ORPHAN *
Aquaman and Green Arrow have money too
@Nzosaba_Matenge Yeah but not so MUCH money that he could buy the moon or buy a mansion for superheros a whole ass big mansion and still have enough money to have a cave that has super technology and ANOTHER whole ass mansion if they do have that much money than I understand your argument also I'm pretty sure batman has nearly a trillion
They could've just used leftover kryptonian technology, and hal could've asked the guardians for help, and they would have an even better tower. Heck, maybe Captain Marvel could ask the wizard shazam for help, too? Make it magic proof.
Not to mention rich ass aquaman and wonderwoman who had control over entire nations. Nations that have highly advanced technology too.
Just saying....
Fun fact: flash slows down his super thinking when living and chilling with his family or offguard so he wont go insane from everything being in slow motion
what about superman?
LMFAO
@@arikrex9978Superman has Super-Sanity.
I imagine flash has the advantage of tapping into the speed force, same applies mentally
@@Wertsir This is not a joke, it's the truth, I recommend emperor joker
I feel like percieving things in slow motion is the speedster equivalent of "you are now breathing manually".
Like, you draw attention to their perception of time and suddenly everything is super slow until they stop thinking about it.
Yeah, just making them perceive the world slowly wouldn't work because it would be impossible for them to interact with normal-speed people.
I think something like increasing the maximum speed at which they can think and react is probably the way to go, most of the time, and the thing about time slowing down for them is basically the same thing that some normal people experience during extreme adrenaline rushes, but with a much, much higher baseline.
Except if that happened to them mid-action they'd fuck everything up.
The equivalent of us getting distracted and sometimes feeling as if you've skipped time, that's a real phenomenon, when alert, our reaction time speeds up, and thus time slows down for our brain, the opposite for when we're off-guard.
If this logic applied, Superman could get distracted mid-flight and before he realizes it he's buried 2 miles under a mountain.
@@Dexuz I could totally see something like that happening, though.
i like this take, its actually feasible
OH COME ON
I love how this whole time green lantern is just sitting there staring right at us
Now his faster is actually a useful powerful that has no consequences
If you stay to the end you get a simple
“Is Hal still breathing?”
No.
No he is not.
“Super speed is the worst super power”
Aquaman: finally, some respect.
The super speeders: nah, you still suck
*continues laughing at the orphan instead of Aquaman*
What's funny is that Superman is also technically an orphan but no one makes fun of him for being adopted.
Superman is technically an orphan
@@CyanRooper batman has got no parents PERIOD
@@Leonalltime yeah but he was wnated by people unlike batman
The fact that it take the flash years to charage up the world wide punch kinda makes it even more badass because this man is so pissed he is willing to take at least a year to bake a punch just for you
CW lied to u that punch doesn’t carry the power of his family it is baked with white hot hatred😂
Didn't Wally in TAS throw multiple wind up punches at a Brainiac/Lex fusion?
@@Pellzwasnt it called the infinity mass punch in the animation?
Another thing to think about: if Flash is traversing the circumference of the globe in like a second, he is so far past escape velocity that he'd shoot off the planet.
@@mrguy89 He can slow down at key moments though.
Reminds me that story where Supergirl stood still for litteral centures so she could fight a villan that could go back in time. Everytime he tried to escape to the past, she was there. Amazing from the readers perspective, but I can't even imagine how it must have been from hers.
She must have been waiting at regular time.
im confused how'd she get to him in the past if she was just standing there
@@zeeb2190 You have to trust their science at this point.
@@zeeb2190 Supergirl traveled back in time, and then just stood still until modern time as way of trapping time travelling villains. That way, if they ever travelled back in time, she would be there to stop them.
@@SergeantExtremewhat the everloving fugg? Seriously? What an INSANE solution…
This skit made me recall of a plot hole in Boboiboy. In the episode where a girl named Ying who has the power of super speed ran all the way to the North Pole to get some ice for the coffee shop and she also took the penguin from there as well for proof that she actually ran to the North Pole.
Couple seasons later, a new alien villain found out that her power wasn't running super fast but she instead, slow down time and just ran at normal pace.
I guess going to the North Pole might have shaved off a few years of her life.
if by girl you meant child then likely it's the opposite problem, her body won't age, at all.
It coupd be a perception thing.
Like, she just ran, and at the same time she experienced herself doing it at that rate of super speed instead of like just slowing it down.
Hmmm a slowing ability that acts like super speed...interesting.
@@DkKombo While in theory slowing down time and running super fast that time looks slow to you would look the same to the outside perspective, one has the insane disadvantage of aging you years every time you use your powers.
How in the hell you get penguins from the NORTH pole
@@sirnikkel6746Idk, it's been a while since I've watched the show, and I usually get mixed up between the North and South Pole
lmao i love that Barry, the Forensics doctor, didn't realize he was starving to death this whole time time
I mean, technically, he WAS dying.
@@rsrt6910 Everytime i stop breathing, i feel like im being strangled, so i inhale some air and it makes me feel better, idk why tho.
@@maxwellquipey2716 yo same, i think something is wrong with me
It kinda makes sense that, the most obvious answer wouldn't register as the cause. I mean... dudes literally traveling at super speed, and has smarts. Eating tends to go on the back burner, of why "I feel bad." 😆
@@maxwellquipey2716 Every rime I stop drinking, I feel very dry, out of energy, dizzy, and also very sick. But then I start doing it and I feel better. Some absolute witchcraft.
This reminds me of an episode of Dexter's Laboratory where he slows down time to be able to get ready for school and finish a paper before the school bus arrived. He found that being super speedy meant that pretty much nothing he did could keep pace with him. Breakfast took forever to make, water took forever to fall out of the showerhead, and he had to take forever to write his paper because it burst into flame from the friction.
I remember that one it was great. Every scene your described rushed back into my memory. He grabbed the water from the shower head and rubbed himself with like four drops of water lol. I forgot about that episode along with like most my childhood. Thanks for the good memory 👍❤️
That, I thoughts was a surprisingly realistic consequence of the speed l. And a detail usually ignored in such cartoons.
Shit, you awakened a memory for me. Haven't watched Dexter's in years.
*_Core Memory: Unlocked_*
Super speed is such nonsense when you try to real world it like that as well. I guess conveniently Dexter just happened to make himself immune from the friction of the air moving around him at those speeds 😂
True story: when the fifth harry potter book came out the french translation was exactly 960 pages long, and I read the entire thing in exactly 24 hours, not sleeping that night.
Today I remember nothing about it other than "it's the one that sirius black dies in"
excuse me... 960 pages long?
@@crypticlolRight? and it wasn't a pocket book either
@@SammyRenard damn
how didn't you get insane?
@@crypticlol The fact I went through the book like that should tell you how much of a HP fan I was back then lol
@@SammyRenard bro, it's fucking 960 pages
I think you aren't understanding my point
"The worst power"
That one mutant whos only power is he can kill himself (via explosion)
Motherfucker is wild mage but all he got on surge table is level 36 Fireball
I'd feel like that is the power you use as soon as you find out about it because you just want to see what will happen when you do.
Remember when flash was processing and moving through auto-second, well, he basically outlived the age of the universe several times.
Imagine outliving the universe for every millisecond for minutes, hours or something.
It could also be considered as the worst punishment ever devised
Ah yes Osama prime Bin super laden
Bro thinks he is Vegeta
The Flash: saving the world from evil villains, but also from the existential dread of living faster than light.
Also The Flash: Hoarding the power of super speed for its one true major benefit; makin the orgasms of sex last farrrrr longer
Sure sure, he has to walk to antarctica for days on end, but he can also have sex whilst processin things so slowly that his 15 secs of it turns into 15 days
@@SylviaRustyFaeArguably a worthwhile trade-off.
Going faster than light means you live in darkness
Justice League touched on this in the episode "Only a Dream", Flash was dreaming and then the villain Doctor Destiny infiltrates his dream at the point where it turns into a nightmare of Flash moving around while everyone else in Central City was stuck in place. Was a pretty good episode and kinda funny because Batman had to find some way to stay awake to get to where the the guy was and stop him, like busting into a busy coffee shop and ordering black coffee, punching out the windshield on the batmobile and turning on his radio and just blasting obnoxious pop music.
@@SylviaRustyFae Alright, you convinced me, super speed is awesome.
fun fact: flash's powers can randomly activate. it happend during a conversation and he had to wait for so long for his powers to turn off that he fell asleep while waiting, which made it seem like he just fainted in the middle of the conversation
How does he not go insane?
@@toseeupload8855he suppresses some of his speed thinking to avoid going crazy
@@toseeupload8855 So now that I think about it, that Flash casting Ezra Miller wasn't too far off then, dude was just method acting.
That's horrifying-ly hilarious 😂
"So as I saying-" BOOM
Face full of cement
Barry saying "I'd figure it out" when faced with his own death is unbelievably accurate. He has just 'figured it out.' Like, multiple times.
Dies and goes to Speed Force heaven? Figures it out and lives. Chased by the the zombie speedster incarnation of death? Figures it out and lives.
I did this hike/pilgrimage thing called "The Camino" a couple years ago, and I can testify that walking just a few hundred km takes weeks and is just a massive slog. Really put into perspective for me what it would feel like to do some of these "long distances in a moment" stunts. If I had super-speed I would really need a portable extra-dimensional storage thing, so I could bring stacks of books with me everywhere. "Wow, you ran from New York to San Francisco in a second?!" "Yeah, and I read the whole Wheel of Time, Harry Potter and A Series of Unfortunate Events while I was doing it."
I guess Quicksilver (in the movies that is) kind of gets around it by essentially having super speed in super speed. A bee's wings slowly move while he's moving at a "normal" pace, but then he can start zipping around like Dash from The Incredibles while everything is slowed down on top of that.
They don't really delve into if he needs to eat more like Flash, but he seems to get along well enough (when he isn't screwed by bad writing).
Ah, but running super fast isn't the same thing as walking while everything else is in slow motion. It's the same thing as running while everything else is in slow motion, except that you don't run out of energy for some reason and can probably make much tighter turns than should be physically possible even at normal running speed (or at least the Flash can, but that's because he runs too fast for anyone to enforce the laws of physics). It's easier to run without thinking and not get bored than it is to walk without thinking and not get bored.
@@spacevagabond4017 Which is funny cause I love when that happens with Quicksilver, I hate when it happens with CW The Flash. The scene : Barry and Jessie Quick currently in Flashtime, exposition, Jessie has to run off to get Jay Garrick.
As theyre already moving at super speed and we're seeing it from their pov (everything else stopped in time) then Jessie should just, jog away, or sprint away.
Nope. She *super speeds away* literally becomes a streak of lightning *mid flash time* which makes her just exponentially faster. If shes going 'speedster looks like a blur to a normal person' to a speedster? Just whuh? Thats too fast for their to ever be an issue ever agai:- ooooohhhh thats why they wrote her out....
I always viewed Quicksilvers as him...idk almost staying in hyperspeed or w.e, but accelerating and decelerating, which as is powers are kinda vague in the movies, is fine. But when CW goes into so much (albeit useless) power explanation etc, it falls on its face rather spectacularly.
Interesting thing to consider. In the event of a bomb, your only option is to read the manual. Because you can flip pages in super speed, but you can't use a computer or smartphone to search for the answer because those are subject to loading times and computer responsiveness and refresh rates.
As long as the pages of the book are strong enough to be flipped at super-speed. It'd be annoying if you flipped a page too fast and your fingers went through it, or set the paper on fire.
*Flips page at speed of light*
*Book explodes from friction*
Good point.
Something similar happened in an episode of 'Stargate' and one character wrote a book by typing at super-speed until the laptop's buffer filled up, and then doing something else while it slowly (to her) filled in the pages and pages of text.
@@toddkes5890 Superman has x-ray vision, so he doesn't technically need to open the book or flip the pages to read it. Though having to read half the pages backwards only contributes to his annoyance.
The problem with being faster then light is that you can only live in darkness.
*insert child in sonic costume looking depressed*
Than
*than
*Tahn
…Unless you allowed the light to catch up.
The song "Seems So Slow/The Ballad of Barry Allen" actually is all about this. It's actually a whole song from Barry's POV that brings up this existential crisis... and how everything else seems slow to him and he can't connect with people.
"When things change in an instant, it's almost fast enough for me." is simultaneously the biggest flex of Flash's powers, while also the most tragic cry for help one could imagine.
Things to add:
1. Reading a whole book in one sitting isn't that hard. If there were enough hours in a day, allot of people would do that. They are also fast enough to take breaks if they need to.
2. I kinda assumed that their brain runs on autopilot when super speed running. Like when your walking somewhere and it feels like you've blacked out for the journey.
3. If time slows down for them, then in their perspective, hours have past between meals. They don't have to eat allot, they have to eat a regular amount in superspeed.
Its not thatreading a book in one sitting is hard it's that Supes needs to read the book, learn everything relevant (so probably reread a few times) and he has to do this while in a stressful situation.
Yup speedster learn how to go into auto pilot wally and Barry have spoken about it. There's a few issues of then hanging out just with friends and they shoot the shit this came up because GA lantern and nightingale were actually concerned for them and decided to ask them about it. They have horrible attention spans as a side effect rho
So just on point 3. If we say theyre superspeeding all the time, or it just on be default, that would extend a day exponentially wouldnt it? A 6 hour jog is still a 6 hour jog, even if they only do it in 3 seconds. They still burn off all that energy and hungry the same amount.
They should basically have to cram down days and days worth of food, for even 30 seconds of superspeed.
Unless you mean its a regular amount for the energy spent? Like theyre expending 10,000 calories, so they restock 10,000 calories which makes sense from that point of view
That explains a lot about Thawne. The dude runs through whole timelines and across centuries. It's amazing that he's even able to speak in complete sentences.
I guess his pettiness gives him that willpower to not crack.
@@atomic747hate is one hell of a fuel
@@hecrosegreat3943Ask Guts, Azura, Kratos, Doomguy/slayer, Hulk, and any Red Lantern in existence. They can back up that claim.
@@ashtonchane6126 don't forget all the Sith
They can... Turn it off.
So instead of picking up the bomb and throwing it to a location where it won't hurt anyone, he sits and takes the boring route of learning out to defuse it instead of just chucking it...
I think Superman just likes reading.
it seemed like his main problem was that the presence of the bomb ruined the reading vibe he was used to didn't it?
Dead Man's switch. Unviable.
@@Chameleonred5 That isn't what a dead mans switch does, but even if it blew up if moved, the guy can move at superspeed and fly.
Like, it would be unpleasant for him to have to carry an active bomb around, sure, but when you can fly it into space in a second, do you really need to read?
@@saphironkindrisAlso, at Superman and the flashes speeds, it wouldn't matter if the bombs were designed to go off on movement because the trigger mech and the reaction aren't instantaneous.
Supes would be just carrying a glorified expanding mattress as he flew, and flash being able to move faster then the speed of light would mean he'd be able to move faster then the flash point of both the starter and the expansion of the explosion
@@WhatHappenedIn-vt3vq yeah, that's my point, the explosion itself would be in such slow motion they probably wouldn't even notice
It's funny how Flash does have a villain that, instead of using the speed force, can speed up or slow down his own personal time, so he would have to go through this every time he wants to keep up with Barry
Zoom?
@@one8119 I think his name was Paradox
The Turtle
There's actually an explanation to this in the comics they just don't have a really good attention span and they can control their perspective of time and sometimes they forget they can do that but when they remember they're just moving in regular motion
when we used to play super heroes as kids, the kid playing as the flash would make a "fweeeee" sound when he was running super fast, and that would signal the rest of us to move in slow motion. he ended up being able to hold that note for like 3 minutes straight by the time we outgrew the game.
What's stopping him from just saying fweeeee again immediately
@@alargeredlizard3003Honour
@@alargeredlizard3003catching his breath, I guess. it's like holding your breath for too long, it'll take a couple seconds at least to recover
@@alargeredlizard3003 I don’t remember. But really, we were kids playing and having fun. I don’t think anyone tried to game the system. I imagine a kid who tried to cheat and ruin everyone’s fun ended up playing alone.
@@ddsmitty1 oh, so just common etiquette? That's actually... Pretty good.
There was an issue of X-Factor back in the 90s that had Quicksilver discussing this with a shrink. He describes a normal day like being in a bank line filed with elderly people who all have arthritis. He eats sandwiches and salads all the time because waiting for food to cook drives him crazy. He has to mentally prepare for a date night for that alone. Just sitting in one place at normal speed and waiting, waiting waiting. They did address when moving at that speed he does enter a different state of consciousness so he actually looks forward to all the fights and crazy stuff associated with being a superhero. It's the only time he feels "normal."
Sounds like Super ADHD
Slowing down his speaking so he is understandable. Waiting for his date to respond to the comment, then having to wait for their entire sentence to be complete. Then deliberately delaying his response so even though it took a millisecond to think of a response it doesn't seem that way.
And STILL he is a disappointment. Not because he's bad, or useless... but simply cause his dad won't give him love and shit talks his poor poor pietro XD. He'll always be running--- from his daddy issues.
@@DeathnoteBBI mean everyone has some limit
@@marthlink5015and he'll always be outclassed by his sister
If anyone has read the quantum prophecy books this is actually a concept they explore. A speedster has to deliver a cure to the entire planet but it can only be administered by skin to skin contact. He’s able to do it but afterwards he’s completely insane due to essentially living in slow motion world for what to him felt like years.
The Flash having to eat a lot cause of being so fast was actually a thing Wally West had to do back in the 80s and 90s. He really loved...FAST FOOD! XD
When you say you want superspeed, what you really want is time stop and teleportation
Sadly the flash is even faster than that.
@@charles9489 How could he possibly faster than stopping time? That doesn't even make sense
Hiro Nakamura for the win.
@@Necromitzu1 he literally won a race against people who can teleport
yeah but even they have their own weird hang ups. Time stop could screw with your own time axis an physic's would make no sense, like how would you breath, see? no light hitting your eyes except what you walk into it. Teleportation would be wonkey, like what if someone is standing where you boop too? do you create a implosion from the space you vacated? i donno lol
To be fair super speed is great for being petty, I mean just ask Thawne
IT WAS ME, BARRY
@@brandoncastellano1858 I spoiled all the produce in your fridge!
I changed all your passwords.
I committed credit card fraud by buying several 6.5 graded charizard cards off ebay
I ruined your credit score.
Why was Hal laughing at Bruce for not having powers when he doesn't have them either
Because Bruce Doesn't Have the lantern Ring.
Hal used to not have any. Since 2010s (after absorbing all willpower in the universe, became every color of the emotional spectrum, became Parallax and Spectre at the same time, etc), he is somewhat of a lantern battery himself. No rings needed.
Speed reading seems like a skill students want so they can finish their reading homework as quickly as possible.
It's not actually that effective, lmao. Yes, you do get to finish your homework earlier, but that's only bc time moved slower as you speed read. Most students speed read bc less homework time AND less time being tortured by something boring.
However, you still have to put up with reading the whole text as if you're not speed reading it because time for you barely changes. Only outside time slows down. It becomes more painfully noticeable the more boring the text is.
This whole conversation must be taking up the equivalent of a decade, in Superman & The Flash’s mind.
Ouch.
i see you everywhere, we've had whole conversations, how are you always everywhere!?
a century to the flash
They can turn on and off they power but i understand the joke.
@@Skivv5 you both have similar interests and end up in the same videos
Seriously once they brought up the whole “You go regular speed, everything is just slow to you” in X-Men: First Class all I can think of is how hellish that must be to live in. Everything takes a damn eternity for you.
I feel that way every time I'm driving, lol.
Well, its not that seriouss for people woh can turn on and off LIKE THE FLASHHHH
@@slevinchannel7589 Even then it would suck really bad because every time he has to use a speed to help save the world or stop a villain he's having to endure hours days or even decades of lonely boredom like think of how long it would take a human being assuming they could walk on water to go around the world
Every time he's doing that from his perspective it's those years of just walking in a straight line no one to talk to nothing really to look at or enjoy because everything's frozen to you From his perspective he's probably centuries old
I remeber this one comic where quicksilver is eating with friends or family and trying to eat as slow as possible taking his time with every bite so he wouldn't finish immediately and have to wait for everyone else and I remember him trying to be so slow it was like torture to him. When he finishes I think even with all that effort he stills finishes way before everyone else and I think about that from time to time.
Now imagine a speedster standing in line at the DMV.
I feel like this would be a fun conversation to see in an actual piece of superhero media. Would give both other characters and the audience perspective on how incredible power doesn't always come with amazing perks.
Honestly this makes so much sense. When a character is running at super speed, it’s just normal running from their perspective. Even if you don’t get tired, in your relative time you’d still spend the same amount of time it’d take a regular person to run somewhere. Also all those clips of someone running at super speed and talking on a radio makes no sense your perception of time would need to be accelerated to keep up with your body so outside stimuli like sound would sound like gibberish being stretched out. You’d literally have to slow down just to be able to talk to someone. If you didn’t, you’d probably catch your foot on something and go tumbling at hundreds of MPH. Practicality aside, the sense of time issue would be infuriating. Outside looking in it’s awesome, but actually doing it just makes the world around you look like…less, while you’re just regular and needing to cover large distances.and it’s not like you can listen to music or a podcast while you’re doing it either, just a world of utter silence while you get to where you’re going. And the more you do it, the longer it takes for tomorrow to come, so good luck waiting for something when you have to add hours to your day everytime there’s an emergency
I just wish everytime similar convos come up people go 'super strength would kill you cause bones are weak' m just sitting her going 'why wont your bones and ligaments be super strong'
but yes some powers would suck so much.
Imagine being as smart as Tony Stark or Hank Pym or Lex Luthor. The things you could invent and mae are great, but all media you see and read is done by complete idiots. every invention you dont make yourself is just so bad and no one else can understand what you are working on.
Imagine spending decades running across the earth and oceans, without stopping for a drink, without eating, without sleeping, without doing literally anything else just to land a single punch to your enemy.
Kinda makes sense now, if you spend a year walking around the planet, you'd be hungry af after lol I'm surprised he doesn't die from Hunger, wouldn't his body do it's bodily functions at a relatively normal pace?
Imagine every time the flash has to run to save someone , he has to take like 3 shits 6 pees and 3 meals cuz it takes him a day to walk from central city to somewhere else
luckily, all the flashes have the plot armor called "the speed force" in literally every modern iteration@@KuroTheDesigner
It's even harder to imagine because you also have to imagine doing it and not feeling thirsty or sleepy for that time period, your concept of "how long it takes to starve" would warped to hell lmao
@@KuroTheDesignerJust think about it: he would also have to shit every "day" too. Do he shit on the ground? Do he break into people's home to shit?
The more science advances, the more we discover the laws of the universe and physics not to mention our own body, as such it becomes less appealing to have super powers like super strength or super speed because we discover the horrible curses that come with them.
fun fact: the super speed perspective thing for speedsters can be triggered by a lot of things, including boredom. one time the flash was talking with the in-laws and got so bored that it activated and he had to stand still for what felt like hours.
so it CAN be turned on and off. cuz ive been here reading the comments for the past 10 mins because of superman's contradictory statement, trying to find an answer
@@emochick6666 In the comics and most media it's definitely an on/off thing otherwise it would be very weird and impractical for the characters. I've also seen people say they think they their brains can kinda go autopilot and do monotonous things or go far distances without having to fully process/remember everything.
@@emochick6666 yeah, otherwise every speedster in DC connected to the speedforce would be absolutely insane and useless to themselves. Also technically he doesnt turn it off, he can't turn it off. The energy is always being channeled through his body. He just knows how to "slow down" as it were so he can interact with people normally.
@@emochick6666tbh it wouldn't make sense for superman to be able to turn it on and off, but again, it wouldn't make sense for super to be actually that fast, he can move really fast, he has amazing reflexes, but he shouldn't be able to get to a 1000th of flash's speed, while for flash it makes total sense for his perception of time to be altered at will, because of the speed force
To be fair, they must be able to turn it off. Otherwise to communicate they would always have to speak extremely slowly in order to be understood by the people around them. Not only that, but they'd have to speak slowly just the right amount. If you want to experiment this on yourself, record yourself speaking slowly knowing that later you'll listen to the recording at double speed. I can guarantee you won't sound human.
A justice league episode touched on this once. The flash dreamed he kept getting faster and faster until the whole world just stopped moving even when he was standing still.
It might be that way for Clark but the Speed Force doesn't only work like this. Barry is capable of decelerating his higher brain functions the same way he is able to accelerate them and he can manipulate how they factor in to his motor and speech functions at will. He's also been seen cononicaly moving at a speedster pace while communicating with non-speedsters.
The speed reading bit sounds solid though, can't separate the mind from itself.
It honestly just depends on the writer. There's even a comic in which Superman consciously adjusts his senses to those of Flash and the entire room stands still.
They were having lunch and also needed to have a private conversation. They accelerated their perception to have that conversation and then sat there for a bit longer before leaving so as to not freak out the other pateeons
Moving at speedster pace and talking with non speedsters doesn't actually make sense. He can slow down or fasten his talking speed, but non speedsters can't
@udaykadam5455 you can say that all you want but you're wrong, it's already happened canonically.
@udaykadam5455 I'm just rereading that and I never suggested non speedsters can manipulate their rate of speech so you clearly missed my point.
“We’re falling apart guys this isn’t sustainable” is so unbelievably funny to me
Same. If Perry taught Clark anything, it was solid business sense. *The exact thing this League currently LACKS.*
I snorted SO HARD after he said that.
@@lior1222 Mind giving me some of what you're snorting? (This is a joke.)
@@That-guy-with-a-croc-profile Maybe he was snorting some of that good ol' GamerSupps! (Use code Solid)
Solid JJ is a fucking comedy genius, someone should pay him handsomely
"10,127 years, 5 months, 17 hours, 28 minutes and 48.521 seconds have passed down here…
While 10 years, 3 months, 4 hours, 45 minutes and 12.852 seconds passed on the overworld…
And one million years passed for me, who was built to perceive time 100 times slower…"
"What’s more, you’ll vividly remember everything you see and experience…"
"That's that and this is this"
Where's this from?
@@punanilover4934 its from a game, its called Library of Ruina
@@punanilover4934 its from lobotomy corporation by a robot designed to help you run an scp like facility
@@punanilover4934From Bleach, I think?
There is a character in Marvel named Makkari who is one of the eternals. He had super speed and eventually became so fast only other beings with high levels of speed could interact with him. This video reminded me of him.
Me preguntó si adaptarán eso en eternas 2
"being faster than light means you constantly live in darkness"
I love how green lantern is just fucking sitting there. There’s no light between his eyes.
Ironic for a guy named LANTERN
At the end
"Is Hal okay?"
"I don't think he's breathing"
"Fuck"
Fitting considering his insanely trash imagination
@@OniContraverum
So that's why they have so manny Green Lanterns, they are like Goldfishs
the lights are on, but nobody is home
“Does the speed apply to all aspects of life? If it does, think about dead puppies. A LOT of dead puppies.”
-Cisco Ramone (The Flash)
I don't remember that quote lol
pov while cisco ramone and flash are talking they're going insane from how slow everything is
Captain Americoke: DidSomebodySaySPEED‽
@@epsithe flash: who are you? and why do you look like a bootleg captain America?
This was early in the series, when Barry was dating for the first time since getting his powers. It was a reference to a common joke about how the Flash was too "fast" in bed. He was worried about how his powers would affect him during the date and their minds naturally jumped to that scenario.
imagine having superspeed but doesn't have super comprehension.
Crashing into walls non-stop. Fun fact, Quick Man in Mega Man has this problem, but he doesn't get hurt when he crashes into walls because...he's a robot.
That would be a fun and very unused way of handling a speedster, it should be done more.
This video openend my eyes, every super power is coming with a super drawback... heros are truly amazing because they suffer more than anyone else
I feel like most superpowers don’t come with any more drawbacks beyond what just living as a normal human comes along with. Super strength doesn’t come with a drawback, we already have individuals who are insanely strong and they’re not walking around destroying things accidentally.
@@church5033 Depends on how we interpret the super strenght.
Realistically, there's no way super strenght can work through mere biology, unless you're a machine, if you can punch through a wall, it means your muscles and tissues have a supernatural field around them that allows them to perform the task, both to generate the required acceleration, and to survive the hit.
If we assume this field is always on you, as the power shouldn't come with supernatural awareness required to control said field, then the equivalent of a small muscle movement would still be overcharged and be the equivalent of a blunt and abrupt motion; so say goodbye to mundane tasks.
No drawbacks to shape shifting, no?
@@randominternetsurfersurfin7595 there’s possible psychological drawbacks. Similar to undercover work, I imagine there’s the possibility that you could lose yourself if you stay shape-shifted for too long.
Everything these days requires higher education. Even if you want to become a superhero, you probably still have to get a PhD to handle your superpowers correctly.
I honestly agree cuz from the looks of it a ton of superheroes are just coincidentally already super smart so their able to actually do more incredible things with their powers compared if it was given to some regular guy like me who would have NO idea how to make a web shooter
i mean every super villains seems to own some kind of PHD
alot of Doctors you know
gotta match up
@@uchihabomber1296 that happened in the "What if Flash became Spider-Man" For some reason Madame Web decided not to give Flash the innate capacity to make any type of webshooter. So Flash has to do everything without webshooters
this comment alone is why the anime My Hero Academia exists
Think about what getting a PHD actually entails: You must write and publish original research, teach classes, and write a thesis. None of that would really help you learn to handle your super-powers. To become an Olympic swimmer, you need to swim a lot. To become a first rate brain surgeon, you have to actually perform brain surgery. To become a first rate physicist, you need to actually create new physics. To become a speedster, you practice using your super speed. Don't get me wrong, the best paid professions are still doctors, lawyers, and physicists. So if you want to make bank in the real world, then that will usually mean graduate school. But not every skill is best honed by doing a PHD. Not everything is academia or just a watered down version of it. My dad has 2 degrees from Duke University. He works as a proprietary trader. But he says that he doesn't use what he learned in school in his trading. He relies on what he learned working as a clerk for a trading firm.
To be fair, Batman would probably be the one person who would actually never get tired of super speed, since he would just keep being the edgelord lone wolf detective that he always is, but just faster.
He's Batman, brooding at the speed of light!
That's probably would be a problem
Billionaire Bruce Wayne is growing gray at 27! And if that did not happen I imagine his mental state would massively deteriorate because without a regular day night cycle time as Bruce Wayne to distract him from being Batman he would probably lose his mind as he would gain the power to put himself entirely in his work
right up until he has to take notes or test something. like theoretically with speed force he could solve all crime but realistically he has to wait for somputers to run and so wild shit would happen
@@genisisbeing Ha! True, Flash commented saying a super computer was too slow.
@@jonathanprisbrey9473ngl I think this would be a great comic series, just have Batman destroy himself when he gets the flashes powers because he’s just that much of a workaholic and mentally deranged.
I think speedsters can usually control how fast their brain processes stuff; this way they can process stuff at a slightly faster pace while moving at super speed, meaning flash can look quick to himself as well, just not as fast. And when I say a little faster, I mean JUST enough so it doesn’t take a whole year.
0:02 "Selina, are you kitten me right meow?" That was a good one
2:56 "We're falling apart guys. This isn't sustainable."
An apt description about the DCU.
Considering Aquaman 2 is the last movie that is set in the DCU yeah superman is too late the DCU os already gone.
Self-Deletion Squad seems unsustainable too.
@@B-52HThe original one is the DCEU. The DCU is the new one with Superman Legacy.
@@super8bitable yeah my bad
@@faidzeelhisyamhattar2133Nobody was saying it was looking sustainable, you’re fighting ghost dude.
“I’ll figure it out” is the tagline for any man in a bad situation.
in other words "fuck it, we ball"
He has that dog in him
The Flash is just thugging it out
Samurai Jack: I always find a way
"O o okay then, killing a tiger bare handed"
"Ill figure it out"
T h r o a t
the videos just keep getting better and better, such a niche humor
thanks man
Imagine you get your powers, and it's super speed. You then have to suddenly process months of time into one minute to hold a conversation with someone, each syllable stretched hours apart...
...Yeah, fuck that. I'll stick with teleportation.
And can you imagine if you’re in super speed mode and you’re talking to everyone in regular speed? You have to space out your voice in equally slow motion. That alone would drive anyone insane.
Maybe that is why Thawn was so angry all the time.
@@isiahs9312 its definitelly the reason why Quicksilver is angry all the time. I remember a page (cant remember the x-men issue) where ends up getting so angry that he starts talking super fast, which he probably didnt even notice. Magneto tells him that nobody can understand him when he does that.
I think there's a show currently that covers this exact thing. A bany was born with super speed and had to learn how to live with her powers.
She learned how to speak normally by listening to a recording of her parents and mimicking how slow it sounded to her.
They point that out in Invincible with Red Rush
by chance could you tell me the name of the show? @@JamesCPotter13
Superman: What if you actually were dying? Like what was your plan?
Flash: I'd figure it out.
The craziest thing about it is that Flash can and has found was to cheat death multiple times.
Yeah by out running it and sometimes throwing it down a rather deep hole.
Man has a whole arc about seeing DEATH APPROACHING and decided to best solution is to RUN FROM IT and it _WORKS_
so much so that death had to create a speedster just for him (and others)
one of those, is that when a speedster dies, speedforce will just reform their bodies inside of the speedforce, even tho it takes sometime he will still comeback to life, hopefully he CAN die of old age, otherwise speedforce is never going to stop bringing the mback
@@fromtheotherguy3284And then Wally West proceeded to run *to the literal end of time* so he could outrun it.
Bleach had a guy who poisoned his enemy with a superhero drug that made his perception thousands of times faster and then stabbed him in the head. And then, from the perspective of the enemy, he was feeling getting stabbed for decades, wishing it all to be over.
Ohh, i remember that, mad scientist vs a fan of scienc, man that scene was so terryfying in the perspective of enemy.
Mayuri
Ducktales & Batman TAS both had episodes where these devices were built that placed its user inside of a bubble that made them move so fast everything around them was so slowed as if stopped. Criminals used them to commit crimes.
There's also that creepypasta story where the guy volunteers for a lab experiment that slows down his perceptions, only his own body is also moving slowly because he's not outside of normal speed, only his brain is. He takes a sleeping pill which causes it to get worse. He spends thousands of years, his perception, just getting to a subway station & typing out a help message. In the sequel it's said that by the time anyone found him, his brain had processed millions of years of information in a few hours & his mind was wiped.
Oh, I remember that creepypasta! What was the title to the sequel again? I never actually got around to seeing it.
It’s interesting how Green lantern is just sitting there completely silent and I’ve never thought about how super speed could be a terrible power
The funny thing is Green Lantern does have super speed with the ring on so he's probably just out of it
3:14 😂
This is super friends green lantern. He doesn't do much
He wouldn 't expierience the same thing. Ring transports him and puts him in coma for longer flights
If you go to the very end they try to see if Hal's ok and Bruce says "I don't think he's breathing..."
My head canon for super speed running is that you kinda enter a flow state when traversing huge distances. Kinda like when you're having fun, and sometimes the day just goes by super fast? It's like that. So you don't need to process every single split nanosecond of your run to Antarctica, your brain kinda just enters that "flow state" where you don't notice the time. Also, it would explain why sometimes speedsters fall for the "trip" attacks, like sticking a pole out in front of them or oil spills.
I mean,its gotta be that way
Otherwise that would mean that they would willingly trip over something and eat massive shit due to falling to the ground with super speed momentum
Also I think there’s a way to regulate how much they’re aware of when speeding. Look at A Train in the Boyz, bro accidentally killed Hughies girlfriend by running too fast, don’t you think he would’ve avoided her if he was seeing everything in normal speed in his POV? My guess is it’s like acceleration in general, if they want to notice what’s going on around they can, but they can also just yeet themselves around at high speeds just for the hell of it
@@Basedbrawlerexactly my thoughts
the only way to resolve it is that it doesnt exist
That makes the most sense
Just imagine how slow this conversation must feel to Superman and the Flash.
Part of me believes the same theory with a couple other powers. Obviously can't list all of them but still. For example:
- Clairvoyence. It would drive the user insane pretty quickly. Clairvoyence isn't just seeing the future, it's KNOWING the future. It's being aware of every single possibility that could ever be imagined. Our fingers turning into lions, the world turning into jelly, the sun suddenly becoming ten times bigger. Someone who's clairvoyent has to know about those possibilities in depth and essentially stay neutral and numb to all of them.
The point is, having super powers would most likely have A LOT of drawbacks that would make the user miserable, like Pepa and Felix's side of the family in Encanto.
Speed Force, I ain't gotta explain shit
real
"Fuck you" - Speedforce, 2014
based
Flash writers in a nutshell
Good news is that it probably could explain this by just saying less speed force went to the mind or he could control how much speed force went to the brain so that way he could underclock like a computer
Fun fact: there is a bug called the tiger beetle, which has the ability to run at 5.6 miles per hour(which is incredibly fast for a tiny guy). This bug could easily be the flash of the insect world, except for the fact that it moves so fast that its brain literally can’t process where it’s moving, so it has to stop before it does anything.
Cool!
Tiger Beetles are cool
So basically the Blue Beetle, but a lot smarter and he can probably make a better movie
Wow, that's a design flaw lol
Evolution is great at making things that survive.
Improving beyond that isn't its strong suit@@logicplague2077
The real life equivalence I can think of is trying to communicate with someone on skype but you have superior internet speeds.
y’know it’s been weeks and i still cant tell if the big image with all four of them at the table is from the original show or drawn for this sketch, and that’s a testament to the quality of TheFrenchPineapple’s art. amazing work as always :>
You’re a seasonal super hero.
And you... your weakness is the color yellow?
Yu'ore*
iul'arrrgh*
@@goofyboyjoiwait are you serious ?
@@Stxr45Yeah so what? If a meteor is crashing down to earth I'd like to see you stop it
I just rewatched this and realized Hal in fact, didn’t say a thing. My head canon is that’s just a cardboard cutout or something
didn't he laugh with everyone else
For Green Lantern's voice they got the actor who plays him in the Justice League movie!
Laughs in lack of voice actor.
This is one of the best solid jjs
Hands down the funniest voice acting in youtube. You had me dying of laughter my friend, slow existenial laughter.
Now the drawback of super strength explaining by Superman form JLU
"I feel like I live in a world made of cardboard. Always taking constant care not to break something. To break someone. Never allowing myself to lose control, even for a moment, or someone could die."
"What we have here is a rare occasion for me to cut loose, to show you just how powerful I really am."
*proceeds to absolutely body Darkseid in the most epic punch of all time*
At least you have some measure of control over it, and super strength is the easiest superpower to master. Now, mind reading on the other hand, is absolutely terrifying to me.
@hoki0624 it's still a pain in yhe ass to control tho. Ever had to carefully handle origami crafts or something so fragile it would deform or break with the lightest force? You would need to walk on eggshells for your whole life without going insane
@@hipstercaden7739"But you can take it, can you big man?"
Best quote ever
This is literally the reason Quicksilver gives for being in a bad mood all the time.
Also Red Rush from Invincible
"Imagine your entire life is waiting in line at the post office for stamps behind the slowest person ever. That's my entire life."
90s X-Factor was great.
I mean it makes sense.
The thought behind it as well as the presentation, I love it.
Ive heard of a worse version of this power where only your brain is super fast and not your body, so your body is incredibly slow along with everything else
Me recuerda a un sketch de un canal llamado enchufe tv dónde un superhéroe tiene el poder de congelar el tiempo pero no puede moverse cuando lo hace
There’s also the fact that Flash has to eat a bunch of food a day to even stay alive which means he has to ingest the same amount of food daily not to mention the massive amount of cash he would be spending on the food.
He could just steal it. Not like anyone could stop him and it's for the greater good and all that.
@@mscomies he could also just eat expired food. His body can digest it faster than mold and bacteria can even enter his cells
That's only when they first get their powers. Once they properly tap into the speed force, it doesn't effect them unless they really push it. Running super fast becomes less like running a sprint and more like flying a kite and you're the kite.
There is no way The Flash has to pay for food anywhere in Central or Keystone City.
@@mscomiesits the flash, he might honestly rather starve then regularly steal food to live.
He's the buying majority of the food he's eating.
Flash comforting eating and assuming he’s going to die and then randomly feeling better lmao
In CW, the speedsters can slow down their process speed to trick they're brain to think its moving slow but in reality they are running fast, so you just mindlessly run until you speed up your processing speed
I was about to comment about Green Lantern just being there but the last second got me
This reminds me of Metroman's flashback in Megamind where he used his superspeed to clear his head and you do see him sitting down and reading a book
He even stopped for a snack at a restaurant (still with the book). Guy literally read that book end to end, probably in several places throughout the city.
@@spacevagabond4017 Yeah, and not just that book as he had multiple books out at the time.
It's like that horror story where this guy takes an experimental drug that's supposed to help you think faster. At first it's great and he has these inhuman reactions. But he takes a Xanax which causes it to ramp up to the point where he's experiencing thousands of years in mere seconds and just goes absolutely insane.
Love that one.
Title...please
@@JM-mh1pp If you’re armed at the Glenmont metro, please shoot me
there's a really good sfm animation for it on youtube
@@JM-mh1pp I would like to know the title of this as well.
@@JM-mh1pp It's called: "If You're Armed and at the Glenmont Metro, Please Shoot Me".
If we're talking of the time passing for speedsters I remember a book about a team of superheroes in a real world and horrible consequences of their powers. For the speedster of the team everything worked by slowing down and so when everybody else saw a blur he had to walk across the world for days... Which meant that he was aging each time that he was using his powers. And at some point he stopped being able to turn them off.
At the end of the book it was few months years after the team was initiated and he became an old man. He quit superheroics halfway through just to have some time left to see the world.
He had to spend his life completely alone because even a brief conversation would have hours for him. And he had to make a journey on foot because even a trip on a plane would be mean weeks of time wasted and probably starvation.
I love this one.
Not going into the physics or real life science of superspeed, just taking it at face value and saying the consecuences.
Hey man could you make a sketch about the justice league revealing their identities and everyone is just underwhelmed by Clark just being a reporter while Barry is a scientist, Hal is a pilot and Bruce is a billionaire? I can picture your voices with this idea perfectly
Liking this to the top
"Hey, I'm a Pulitzer-Prize investigative journalist! I put crooked politicians in jail and save lives!"
"Okay, but you're still just typing for a living. You can see how uncool that looks."
"Like you can talk, Mr. Send All My Samples to the FBI Lab and Go To Lunch Early."
"Hey, it's not my fault CCPD has budget issues! I've put in a requisition for a gas chromatograph six years in a row."
"Did you ask for the Chromatech 3200? That's what I have in the Batcave. Nice machine. I'll send you the specs for a couple of mods, if they ever get you one."
"Well, let's be honest here -- test pilot is clearly the coolest job."
"Don't astronauts tend to come out of that?"
"Yes! Lots of them. Armstrong, Glenn, the whole Original Seven, in fact."
"So what did you do to FAIL at becoming an astronaut? I mean, you only have your job at Ferris because your boss thinks you're hot."
"I've seen Hal fly a jet -- adequate but not impressive. Dick and Tim are both at least as good, and Tim is half Hal's age."
"Did you just name your sidekicks? Isn't that a secret?"
"Oh crap."
Bump
Bump
Bump
"Two hundred and fifty nine days Bruce."
"What?"
"That's how long it takes to walk around the world Bruce. Two hundred and fifty nine days. I hit Braniac ten times with that in our last fight. Two thousand five hundred and ninety days. Seven years. Alone. No rest. No distractions. Nothing but walking alone through a silent statue garden for *years*. You dare ask me what I would do if I was actually dying Clark? DO YOU REALLY THINK I FEAR DEATH?"
I'd become a very ardent believer after the first month, chanting all th time: "Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death..."
The great equalizer effects all men.
LOVE the reference to the episode of "divided we fall" from jlu!! but i like to imagine that superspeed doesnt actually work like this 😅
I get the joke but to be fair. The Flash actually does see things super fast and he has super reactions. It's not taking long for him.
its worth adding, his stamina is fucking incredible too.
Imagine being physically capablof walking that distance
Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, THANK YOU FOR FINALLY DISCUSSING THIS. I've pondered about it for years. Like, in the CW Flash, there's a S1 moment where Iris is pouring sugar and he just monologues for a good minute between crystals. Then he'll zwhip outta there like the prop guy hit the air cannon button. Then he'll be running down the street slowly but the world is fast. Then he'll whiz by. Then we'll follow his yellow whiz-pause-then he'll run so fast he'll enter the speed force but is still running like the air is made of jello. Both DCU and Arrowverse, actually. But thanks, nonetheless. I unfortunately always thought this was the case.
The Speed Force is basically DC's out to a lot of the logistical issues the Flash presents. It basically does allow him to speed up or slow down his perception of time, it lets him move at super speed without burning all his clothing off, it lets him hold people and run without them getting super whiplash, etc, so the world isn't always in slow motion for him.
As for Superman, yeah, he just has to deal with it.
I've always had this thought where a speedster is waiting for something to happen but because it's so slow compared to him he gets distracted and misses it.
Just like me fr 💀
The song "The Ballad of Barry Allen" actually explores this, and some of the lyrics mention how he moves on to the next crime because people thanking him or even blinking seems so slow.
Come on Superman, you don't have to read all 500 pages of the manual, we put an index in there for a reason!
Unless the index clearly marks the disarm section, and the "how to disarm even after someone has absolutely tampered with any and every component" section...
Maybe he wanted to be prepared for the next time he had to disarm a different bomb.
@@GeorgeMonet also best to double/triple check everythig cause if you make a mistake then Metropolis will look like a slightly better Gotham
THANK YOU FOR BRINGING THIS POINT UP!!! I've always thought about this crap
The problem being faster than the speed of light is your always living in darkness
"We're falling apart guys, this isn't sustainable."
I'm cutting that out as a forum weapon, it's amazing.
Woah look at this guy
Forums
I havent heard that word in a decade
@@deadbeef576 they've actually had a major resurgence in the past couple years
You know you're just gonna get ignored if you unironically use that as a "weapon"
Love how at 3:14 they finally acknowledge how hal hasn't spoken a single time 😂
I never saw the ending but even I was wondering if people were gonna talk about that
“Trust me buddy, you don’t want your brain to have to work as fast as you’d be moving, you’d have a seizure immediately.”
I love these, they are a lot like the saturday morning spinoff talkshows I'd watch alongside Toonami and Adult Swim... better days you could say...
I love the fact Sanderson addressed this in Mistborn with Sliders and Steelrunners. A Slider is a blur to anyone outside of their super speed bubbles, but a Slider is actually just walking around or changing clothes. Anything outside of the bubble is moving in slow motion. A Steelrunner blitzes people, but from the speedster’s perspective they’re taking a walk.
Do we see a Steelrunner’s perspective? Closest I remember is when Sazed taps steel for a short burst
It does help that those are powers that they explicitly turn on and off; rather than just constantly having them.
@@cara-seyunWayne in Era 2, I'm quite sure we see his perspective a few times
@@Federico-mj3si he’s not a steelrunner
There’s a moment showing a steel runner at the same time Wayne is using his powers and they’re both just moving regularly while everyone else is slow. That’s the closest I think we have to seeing their perspective
Being able to control all your levels of speed at any point super speed? Best thing ever
Being stuck at "max speed" at all times super speed, HELL
well i mean it's established here that even having to go to the other side of the earth would suck
having to walk (or jog) a distance, of which a plane would normally take days, hella sucks
@@mr.cantplayaninstrument8402 unless you also perceive things fast, that way you're essentially teleporting
@@LEOODARTHVADER2
If you perceive things super fast, then time effectively slows down, that's what it means.
And we experience this throughout our daily lives, when we're distracted, time flies, as our brain slows down its processing, the opposite happens when we're alert.
“I’d figure it out” he’s so real for that
This was one of my favorite youtube videos period. HOW DID I NEVER THINK OF THIS BEFORE? IT WAS RIGHT THERE! So funny!