Speedsters Only Lose to Bad Writing 

There should've been Flash from the Injustice movie. Never had speedster lost to bad writing so hard.

Biggest issue with speedsters is writers just made them too fast to be interesting. A person that could run 150 mph would already be super powerful but for some reason writers made all speedsters go multiple times the speed of light for no reason.

It’s always funny when Omni Man makes a dig at superspeed being a lame power because RR is the only reason they lasted as long as they did, saved immortal AND War Woman and forced Nolan to take him out first. Obviously he went for Immortal first because he thought he was strongest, and War Woman as second, but Red Rush forced him to rethink his plan immediately

Red Rush is the one thing that would scare me about getting speed powers, if it were possible to have them. You need your perception of time to match your speed, but if you can't control that, then you're practically locked out of human interaction because everyone is too slow for you.

A problem a lot of writers seem to have is differentiating between not being able to win and losing. When a speedster fights, something like a superman proxy, they shouldn’t be able to beat them in a fistfight because of the sheer difference in durability and strength but that doesn’t mean that they should just fold like flip chair.

The thing everyone forgets is that super speed requires super durability. At Mach 1 the surface of your skin would be boiling off. The air pressure would push your eyes out of your head and destroy your lungs, turbulence around your fingers and arms would cause them to flap around with enough force to break bones. A fist traveling at the speed of sound carries as much energy as 6 grams of TNT and releases it just as fast. At Mach 8000, that fist has a yield of a quarter ton of TNT. Speedster losing makes no sense in nearly every case.

The Apocalypse fight isn't well written *but* it is consistent within the film. Apocalypse's entire power set is he is the first mutant and effectively can adapt to all powers. So he adapts (the whole eye thing seen here and earlier in the film) so he can keep up. Is it extremely lackluster? Yes of course but it is internally consistent iirc

No way man. You dropped the ball on that last part. Superman wasn't afraid of the explosive, he had no knowledge it was kryptonite. He had no idea kryptonite even exists so he just caught expecting the worst that could happen would just be an explosion that wouldn't even faze him. It ended up being something entirely new. Imagine showering, you have no fear, but then all of sudden the water gets replaced by acid.

Superman is extremely modest. One point the Justice League confronted him about putting Kandor on Earth and said… “You realize you’re the most powerful person on Earth?” Superman - “Uh, I guess.” “Well now there’s 100 thousand of you and they don’t have your morality.”

It seems to me like the reason why everyone is afraid of Homelander isn’t just his power. It’s him being a complete nuthead, hanging one inch from going full psycho mode. He’s terrifying as a person, and that adds up with his powers. On the topic of the video - it is good. Just. Solid. Good. You deserve more views with content like that.

The issue with flash vs Superman is just that the scaling between them is always inconsistent. Sometimes superman can like fully keep up with proper speedsters, sometimes it takes him like an hour of flash time to finish a sentence.

9:15 Homelander, hilariously, is faster than A-Train Both by the series own account, as A-Train reaches 371 m/s with compound V while Homelander is shown flying at Mach 1.5, and also Homelander has better showings, with his outspeeding Butcher's bomb, and having the reaction speed to be able to grab him and take him outside before the explosion hits Butcher

omni man was reading him. He realized that red rush always attacked his blind spot, then set up a false blind spot for him to trap Red Rush. Because of his perceptive ability, it was possible for him to capitalize on it.

I think red rush losing to Omni-man isn’t just cause the plot demanded it. Omni-man is shown to be super fast with him destroying a planet in seconds and when red rush saved the immortal Omni-man still seemed to move pretty fast to him. Omni-man has super good senses with him instantly knowing where invisible soldiers were so he could likely sense what direction red rush would come from even if he couldn’t see him. Also the guardians of the globe were initially holding back since they though Omni man was being controlled. Omni mans may not have the same combat speed as red rush but definitely has the reaction speed to be able to keep up.

Nah, Red Rush did not die to bad writing. I mean you said it yourself, Omniman can move at incredible speeds and react to obstacles and control himself at those speeds. He's also very well established in the story as being a battle-hardened warrior with perhaps thousands of years of experience. He didn't 'react' to red rush's punch. He stood there, thinking, and anticipated it because he was the better fighter. He put his hand there to grab Red Rush's hand without seeing it, he just figured it was coming. It was a gamble, a gamble that he was fast enough and experienced enough to make.

I think the thing that constantly gets lost in translation with MCU Quicksilver is that he DID move Hawkeye behind the car; Hawkeye and sacrificial-lamb-child were in the middle of the road before Ultron shoots, and then after Quicksilver is shot they are behind the car. He didn't run and body-catch those rounds, which is how the scene reads visually, but he did still die to silly writing, because he shoved them behind the car and didn't take cover himself; like, maybe he got shot mid-run, but then surely Hawkeye and lamb-child would have a couple rounds in them too.

I think probably a reason why speedsters are written as sidekicks most of the time is because the general idea of speedster is usually that they're young and hyperactive (the word 'god' doesn't exactly come into mind, though it can), as their super speed would probably reflect. This is good, but when it comes to nerfing them it makes a lot of the excuses why they lose half assed most of the time.

Finally someone else saying what i've been saying about speedsters. If you can perceive in slow motion nothing should ever be able to hit you unless it moves so fast your slow motion can't slow it down enough. For a regular person to understand this watch a video from the slow mo guys and if something was moving that slowly would you be able to dodge it or react to it? Glad you also pointed out how OP superman is and why nothing batman does would ever give him a hope in hell of beating superman.

10:13 the way I see this scene is that berry is running so fast that even if the alien missed by a millisecond, he would be fast enough to catch up to the projectile and hit him

I actually loved the Omni-man scene, it's clear throughout the series that Omni-man also has super speed, even though he's not as quick as Red Rush, and during the fight it's made very evident that Red Rush is really struggling to keep up with Omni-man's speed, strength, and durability. The same is true for A-train, it doesn't seem like he has speed react that keeps up with his speed, his first scene in the show shows that, and Kimiko is also an incredibly fast supe.

For Apokolipse, I would have made it to where he was adapting to Quick Silvers Speed, it severely damaged his retinas and brain to push himself that far but with his regenerative ability could have returned to somewhat to his normal state yet still weakened.

Omni Man's reaction time is faster than his combat speed, he flies through space a incredible speeds and he bait red rush into that attack not to mention all those heroes were not truly going all out cause Nolan was a friend

As many people have pointed out, the Guardians weren’t going all out against Omni because they weren’t sure what was going on, until he started killing them, then they started to actually fight him. Omni is also extremely old and a hardened combatant against entire planets he’s conquered, I’m sure he’s gone up against speedsters at some point in his history, so he knows how to fight into them. His race is a completely combat driven society, so he’s been training since he was a child and now he’s considered a mature adult, by his races age scale. That’s like an MMA fight against a professional who’s trained since 11 and is now 30, against someone who just picked up BJJ and has only ever punched a bag, in terms of combat knowledge.

I assumed with the Omniman thing that his species could do little bursts of superspeed, just not unending like Red Rush. Like it's something that'd take great effort to pull off.

I mean guys superman is a speedster though. Ppl forget that, that's why batman realistically coild never beat superman with his reaction. I do like the scene with superman reacting to barry and him being shocked like awesome

Actually for Omni man makes sense, he is fast yes not the fastest like red rush, but he has super speed, in the fight it was said they try to stop him to understand what happens, Nolan was trying to understand how much output to put in he's speed so he can catch red rush, again he is not in he's level but he is fast he can pull off stuff last moment and it happened many times, it was even better explanation in the spoiler alert. Mark goes back in time (it gets cancelled as he wants to go back in he's time so everything he did on this timeline went for nothing as nothing changed. In the new timeline Mark informs the Group of omni man plan and that was when Nolan couldn't do anything on red rush the moment Omni man tried to do something Red rush stopped him and because red rush went all out Omni man could not catch him off guard.

“Speed is power. Have you ever been kicked at the speed of light”? -Kizaru, One Piece

You need to be as careful as possible when creating a speedster. If you want to make stakes you need to either set a lot of limits on the power or up the power of your villains so they have at least a little superspeed to stay in the fight. One method is to have Superspeed as a base power like Strength and Durability (which basically every superhero ever has) then people who have proper superspeed are still very powerful but someone with good predictive abilities or enough skill has a hope against them. Or, just don't make characters who regularly break the light barrier.

I'm surprised you brought up speedsters who lose to bad writing and didn't bring up "sonic the hedgehog" of all characters. He is the fastest thing in his universe, able to time travel and restart time just by running, yet characters like shadow, tails, and metal sonic are almost "just as fast as him", some characters are actual stated to be able to accelerate faster than sonic, but given his feats, he should be faster than everyone alas.

I think A-Train is afraid of Homelander because of what he represents. He's the leader of the Seven and is seen by everyone as invincible, a God almost, so A-Train doesn't really have to confidence to go up against him. Perhaps in later seasons that could be explored, with Starlight and the Boys hyping him up to take on Homelander, because he *IS* strong, he just doesn't know it.

I think the Red Rush thing isn't bad writing. You're just slightly underestimating how fast Omni Man also is.

This isn't even half of the bad writing for speedsters. There's also so many physics-related blunders that exist when dealing with high speeds that require absurd writing so they can make sense.

Extremely well made video, you deserve more subcribers. I'd love to see you go in depth into CW flash, but even I know how stupid that is. I love the show, but in one of the episodes a girl was mad that she lost because she could read minds and predict the flash's movements, and flash's explanation was "I think at super speed" and not "I can kill you in 3,230,394,932 different ways before you could generate the neurons to form what would eventually be a body movement" it annoys the crap outa me sometimes.

My 2 favorite representation of speedsters are as far as how it was executed in media are Dash in the incredibles and the chic from Eternals

Really puts into perspective how OP speedsters are. Their only hard counters are time haxes, characters being able to react and fight at their speed while being able to tank their attacks, or other speedsters. Sure, you can be an absolute unit of a tank, but does not stop you from getting juggled and outlasted by a speedsters who could move incomprehensibly faster than your reaction speed and dodge all of your attacks.

7:10 of course is not realistic, we dont have super powered individuals and speedsters in real life.

I believe human error is still a valid factor here. It’s certainly not the entire case and I do agree that speedsters are often written to be ludicrously fast for the sake of the visuals and then make them seem so much slower for the sake of plot. But there are three here instances where I have an argument in their defence. 1) MCU Quicksilver. As you said, his speeds are much slower than his fox counterpart (and much closer to his comic counterpart). And he’s not gonna be redirecting the bullets from the Quinjet, but he didn’t just put himself in front of Hawkeye and the kid. You say that he should have moved them out of the way, BUT THAT’S EXACTLY WHAT HE DID!! He was just caught in the line of fire as he did that (which was established as being possible earlier in the Sokovia battle) 2) Red Rush: I believe Superhuman reaction and superhuman speed are closely related but still different. Omni-man has been shown to be fast, and while he’s not reaching speedster levels, he can react closely to the speed (he just can’t maintain that kind of speed). Red Rush was definitely having an emotional response too, he was confused about why this hero, this friend was attacking them. So he rushed in and gave quick jabs to Omni-man who then saw the pattern in his movement and acted accordingly. 3) The Flash: During the battle scene, we see how Barry’s perception is warped as he gets to this speeds, as well as how he’s physically straining to build up and maintain the charge. He’s got tunnel vision, he’s struggling and focusing solely on this task and can’t pay attention to anything else because of he doesn’t then he’ll lose the charge and the world ends. Should he have paid more attention? Possibly. But the question is if he could? It’s always easy for anyone to critique on what someone should have done when it’s an outside perspective with none of the stress or split second responses needed

To be honest, your point of view, is same to mine really, I wonder why how would they lose to that and well, I guess they still couldn't think of things that could stop them so they nerfed their, speed react/senses, time control even durability and well, great video btw

We see in invincible season 2, Mark so fast he can turn off a light and return to the spot he's being held by Amber without her knowing it or injuring her. So, Omniman definitely is a to some degree speedster since he has all same powers as Mark. Red Rush is faster than Omniman for sure, but he's vastly outclassed everywhere else. Red Rush needed focus on defense instead of attacking Omniman. If he did that, his team might have survived. (or some of them anyways.) Nolan clearly was tracking Red Rush and anticipating his attack when he counters it. He would been hard pressed to focus on catching Red Rush if he was waiting till his teammates were engaging, but when he attempted to attack Omniman alone, he allowed Nolan to put all his attention on him. His speed advantage was not big enough for him to avoid Nolan forever on his own. Nolan makes it a point to grab him and hold him till he died because he knew he could have potentially gotten away otherwise. The Immortal, Martian man, and War Woman probably could done enough damage to Nolan to bring him down if Red Rush just prevented the would be death blows from landing as he did at the start of the fight. I wouldn't call this bad writing in anycase, as Nolan is far more experienced and more powerful than Red Rush overall, that it makes total sense Nolan could lay a hand on him if he came at him. Red Rush has probably never fought anyone like Nolan, while Nolan probably battled someone like him before in his battles across the centuries. Obviously, this was Nolan's ambush, so he had a better scope of what was happening than the guardians did and a clear plan of just killing them all. They were likely holding back and off balance for most of the fight. This all translated to them losing and dying to Omniman, despite Nolan being put in the hospital for a bit for his troubles.

Bro why 1:43 ???? Im in my kitchen in my underwear making a sandwich at 1am and now this video is gonna wake my parents up 🥶

Apocalypse probably raised the sand in the entire area around him and it cemented when Quicksilver ran through it. Although he forgot he can do this after.

In defense of omni man, red rush got baited. Omni man noticed the pattern of getting punched on the opposite side of where he was looking, not to say he should've been caught but it's not out of the question.

I am just gonna say something about the case of Omniman. First, his powers got him the name Omniman. Second, Traveling galaxies in days is very very high speed, Third, its already stated that his perception is ALSO as fast as he is. In this case, its just like the Flash beating Zoom. Its just a case of who is the faster character, its as simple as that.

11:31 He probably thought it was just a bomb and wouldn't hurt him. Had he known it had kryptonite gas he would have dodged it.

Good stuff, a really great decomposition. The way most writers define speedsters is really wage and sometimes causes many plot issues. Thank you for a vid.

9:02 "Sneaked" and "snuck" are both seen as valid past tenses of "sneak." In fact, for most of history, it was just "sneaked." "Snuck" is a relatively new invention, only showing up in the last hundred and fifty years or so. So you're actually using a form that would have been acceptable for a larger part of history! :D

Phenomenal vids. You're gonna hit 1M eventually if you keep this up.

One of the most underrated speedster skills is sounding normal when talking, taking into account their perception of time.

I’d argue Omni-Man has a form of super speed but that he just doesn’t really use it outside the realm of flight. He stated in the show that flying is like flexing a muscle, the harder you flex the faster you go. Further more he doesn’t need much room to move his body at near light speed. As seen in the scuffle with Cecil. He grabs his tie before he can fully teleport away. Now working off of what Omni-Man said about it being like a muscle that means some part of the brain controls some biological organ responsible for Viltrumite flight in order for it to flex and unflex. So if his brain can control that undefined muscle-and-or-organ for flight and that organ is capable of manipulating the entire viltumite body we can justify his grabbing of Red Rushes arm by surmising that his speed in that scene was a manipulation of his arm via the flight organ in tandem with his natural strength rather than reaction time via solely the muscles in his shoulder and arm. TLDR Omni-Man’s flight muscle can manipulate his whole body so in the fight with RR he uses his flight muscles to manipulated the speed of his arm to catch RR. So Red Rush was killed not by bad writing but by being predictable in attack and underestimating his opponent. Now is that Lazy writing? Sure, but is it bad writing? Nah.

I think a good example is Tracer from. She's pretty slow compared to these speedsters but her time accelerater helps her flash step around the battles like a speedster and can potentially rewind herself by a few seconds. The Cinematics show that she has good reflexes but timed traps can still hit her. Against Doomfist, it showed him trying to hit her but she's just too fast. So he pauses, he's thining and times where she's gonna jump to next because she's constantly hitting him from behind. So with priper timing, he was able to 1 shot her. This happens to her again against Sigma's trailer where he uses his scientist mind to recognize her movement pattern and correctly predict where she's going to be to 1 shot her. She's pretty fast, too fast to hit, but predictable enough to counter.

I feel like the proper counters to a speedster should be sneak attacks. Like in the Boys even if a speedster has super reactions, they can't see things happening behind them. If they're just sitting in a bar and someone shoots them from behind (preferably with a bullet moving faster than sound so that they can't hear it) then there should be nothing that they can really do about it. Ironically enough, people like Batman would actually be the perfect counter to a speedster, just not the way that they usually show him fighting, he'd have to go full ninja mode to avoid letting the speedster find him while attacking the speedster from angles they can't see. Another good potential counter is big AoE attacks. Obviously depending on what you're using the speedster might be able to run out of the blast faster than it can hurt them. But as an example I think a much better way to to write the Apocalypse scene would have been to do something like say fill the entire area around him with sludge so that when Quicksilver ran into it, he'd get stuck automatically. And even if QS saw it and avoided it, well now the entire area is sludge so he can't really run up to melee distance. Could also do things like darken the area to effectively blind everyone. Doesn't matter how fast your super reactions are if you can't see anything. At which point just a basic trap could catch him. The real problem with how speedsters are written though is that they never seem to want to use anything but their fists to fight lol. Like I can maybe buy Omniman being able to grab Red Rush in that circumstance. It clearly took him a few tries and he's basically a Superman Analogue. But the real question is even if we assume that to be possible, why the hell was Red Rush *ever* within Omniman's reach in the first place!? Surely you could deal far more damage by picking up like a rock and throwing it 100x faster than a bullet with your super speed. All while maintaining a safe distance that gives you more than plenty of time to dodge any kind of retaliation that Omniman could possibly try against you.

Yes! Thank you for giving the speedsters the respect they deserve!

omni man baited red rush here7:00 which is why he was looking the other way anticipating a punch also whilst he dosnt move as fast as red rush(in combat) he could probably react to his attacks since he's faster than the immortal who reacted to red rush running at him (shocked) and whilst it hasnt happened in the show yet he flew to another planet in the virgo super cluster in a week so he must be able to react and perceive events at that speed

I dunno, I loved quicksilver's writing (The x-men one). Of course, he was always a side character and was never meant to beat apocalypse, who, quite a few times already, has the ability to add effects via his generation of celestial energy including increasing his speed to levels that could match and even dwarf a speedsters. That is most likely what was happening with his pupils twitching and glowing blue. After realising he was facing a speedster, he needed to counter that by generating said energy and using it to increase his own speed. I don't think he lost to bad writing (personally), I just think it was the fact that he was facing an opponent who had cosmic levels of power and the only way to kill him was to use power on par/stronger than it (thus the phoenix force). He just simply had a bad matchup.

Omniman and their whole vilturmite race are so fast that they fly to other galaxies faster than the speed of light...

Loved the editing, this deserves more views.

Imagine being a speedster dying to bullets

The only way to write a speedster in my opinion is to not give them the superhuman reflexes, or to have the psychological effects overwhelming. That way they either can't run faster than they can process information, or the idea of "Oh I'll run across the entire country" becomes a level of hell where they would be, to them, running for several months non-stop. Either that or deprive them of energy. Yoyo on Agents of Shield was a creative exception, since she was limited in range to only as fast as she can move in a single heartbeat from her original position; didn't make a lot of sense, mind you, but it kept her from being OP.

Sonic the Hedgehog: *Laughs in main character*

I think the reason i would give superman a pass (and it would only be for the beginning of a fight) is that he's so used to being god, where the confidence lets him get struck by things unfamiliar to him. Such as, him catching an explosive in which he's normal invulnerable too, ended up being some random weird green dust. Essentially, element of surprise or lack of knowledge from supes

Maybe the Bad Writers isn't when the Speedster lose but in how their abilities were depicted in the first place. For movies and TV directors love slow motions and thus love using Speedsters as an excuse to indulge in it, but what that often results in is their power presented less as them moving fast but as everything else being slowed down. And that should be complexly separate Super Power, that's Homura's super power in Madoka Magica. Super Speed should have obvious draw back, but the directors obsessions with depicted it as slow-mo mode erases those drawbacks. So yeah when I watched Apocalypse I was cringing when Quicksilver did everything' he did at the Mansion, not when he fell for exactly the kind of trap I feel super speed should absolutely be vulnerable to. But people tend assume the scene always be consider the mistake even trough good writers should have decided how they're gonna everything before the wrote the set ups.

3:30 your wrong apocalyptic dies to bad writing lol

amazing video bro, keep up the good work

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I think Superman losing to Batman wasnt wrong. He was trying to talk to him and get him to help him at first instead of hurting him plus he didnt know that grenade was going to explode kryptonite smoke. He probably didnt even know he had a weakness up into that point so he just simply grabbed it not really caring.

2:24 he has fucking insane strength, and he also has gravity and inertia manipulation. for more info, search why quicksilver is stronger than you think.

“He doesent seem to have any super strength” cuts to him throwing around grown adults

Love when writers introduce an absolutely absurd power, and then make the heroes completely forget that the power exists 5 minutes later.

You got to A-Train and I thought "we're not ready for the stupid plotholes and plot contrivances of The Boys". Honestly, Butcher and the gang have the strongest plot armour in fiction history. Carry on.

I always say the most annoying thing to see in cartoons is barry or wally overwhelming a villain and the villain “predicts” where they’re going to be. Note that would make sense except for the fact that speedsters can experience the world in slow motion, so they will see that villain trying to hit them because usually that villain does not have super speed and is “predicting”

actually in Omni-man he just baited red rush cause he knew he kept attack his blind spots, so he just looked the other way so he could trick red rush into getting caught

"The one who controls time controls everything." Brilliant.

Random question bro… can you do something with Marvel’s Juggernaut VS anyone or scaling? Me and friends argue about him all the time and we really want to see other people’s opinion. I think it’s underrated and nerfed most times.

With Invincible, I think the fact that Red Rush doesnt have durability is what made him work the way he does- he only seems to have durability when it comes to running. There seems to be a moment where he stops woth EVERYTHING else he does, which might be him slowing down his movements for thigs that aren't running so he doesnt shatter his damn arm on omniman's super durable body. It looks like he was going to a more manageable speed whenever he punches, then going back to super speed to retreat.

Well, to be fair, one of Barry's shadows ends up becoming a self-proclaimed God.

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Omni man is super fast his fight speed scales to his flight speed

For Red Rush I think it was Nolan anticipating his angle of attack after years of working with him.

Man I love how you put a random pic of squidward at the end lmao

Thoughts so far: Apocalypse - really is that fast. He has superhuman perception and all he needs to do is perceive Quicksilver to neutralize his abilities. However, the fact that he should have mopped the floor with the rest of the X-men (except maybe for Jean Grey) stands. Telekinetics/matter manipulators with enhanced perception are SCARY. Omni-man: It seems to me that the problem hear is less with bad writing regarding Red Rush and more with inconsistency regarding Omniman. The writers are treating his combat speed as superhuman, which maybe they shouldn't, but makes sense give that we know his perception is, at least. I do think it's possible to have speedsters lose to cleverness, and not just to bad writing. It would be really amazing to have some scenes of speedsters legitimately losing. Thoughts on how to do that include: having a house with the walls, floor and ceiling rigged all around with explosives. Have an infrared laser across the door. As soon as the speedster enters the building and starts moving up to rescue hostages, the signal goes to every explosive everywhere in the building all at once. A fast enough speedster MIGHT be able to get out, but it would be a heck of a good feat as the explosion closes in on you from all sides. Poison or drugs - obviously. Speedsters typically have an enhanced metabolic system as part of their power set, but this could work. Undetectable weapons: Any sort of ray or weapon that the speedster can't detect - and therefore can't respond to. You're never going to beat a speedster in a gunfight, but sniping them with something they can't detect coming should kill them. Other ways I'm sure I haven't thought of.

One thing in relation to A-Train being afraid of Homelander, it's probably not that he's just afraid that Homelander will instantly body him any time Homelander wants to. I read that more as A-Train knowing just how mental Homelander is. If A-Train gets on Homelander's kill list, it doesn't really matter if A-Train can survive one fight with them. The real problem is that from that point on, so long as Homelander is alive, A-Train can and will be met again the moment Homelander's in the mood. Like, his life is over. He needs to go hide somewhere as a nobody (something that is entirely against his character as he gives up everything he has to maintain his position as a top league superhero). And even if he hides, Homelander can still find him with the same trackers that were a thing in Season 1 with Transluscent. If he removes that (operating on himself?), maybe he can hide for the rest of his life, but will always have the thought hanging over his head that one day, he might wake up to Homelander's hand around his neck, if he wakes up at all. So, essentially, if he gets on Homelander's wrong side boils down to the options of trying to murder one of the most powerful and popular beings in the world and losing all he ever wanted as a celebrity, or giving up that celebrity status and living in fear of eventual retaliation.

Love this content bro

I love me some speedsters. Especially the Flash. He can outrun any signal that he's coming, and before you even know he's there, he's clocked you in the head with a brick at light-speed.

Two things. You point out that Ominman has to have super perception based on how fast he moves and his ability to control where he's going. I feel like its self evident that Omniman can move his body MUCH faster than an average person. Especially as we see Red Rush is just barely dodging his attacks. When he focused Red Rush, he waited for him to keep attacking blindspots so he could predict where he'd be so he could catch him. Omniman has more than enough strength to keep him there. While its hard to catch an average adult's wrist mid punch, for Nolan, it was like holding onto a 5 year old's arm after they hit you. So no. Not bad writing. As for Supes just looking at the kryptonite explosive round. That was his first exposure to kryptonite. He thought it was just another explosive round that, at worst, made his hand a little warm. It'd be like going to wash your hands, then suddenly your faucet water is liquid mercury.

Flash with his god powers could make sense....if there was a drawback. Like, maybe he has to charge the speed force and using it for that level of OP time stop will cost him future time (aka, a cooldown). You can have the cool moments when it's full charged, but have him hit when on cooldown.

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glazing at the end was out of control

8:10 ugh me:stop

With Omniman vs Red Rush, it makes sense because Omniman killed Red Rush by grabbing him while tanking blows. Red Rush was the most effective member of the Guardians against Omniman, and his speed did gave them a major advantage up until the moment when Omniman was able to grab him. Once that happened, there was nothing he could do because Omniman was much stronger than him. Which was able to happen because Omniman is both fast (even if he's not the same speed as Red Rush, he's still a lot faster than a normal human and fast enough to catch him with the right timing) and physically strong enough to only need to land one clean hit where Red Rush needed to land many. It's the same way you kill a mosquito. A lot of bugs fly around faster than humans move, but there's still a few sports out of catching and hitting balls moving faster than Usain Bolt. Having the ability to react makes you harder to hit, but unless that superspeed is being used by something capable of freely movement in any direction without being affected by it's past momentum, it can't fully overcoming that limitation. Skill becomes a necessity to deal with anything faster than you can change directions. It's seen in the animal kingdom constantly, sometimes the fastest of predators let prey slip from their claws and sometimes the fastest of prey still get caught by predators. This is something constantly considered in videogames. Being able to move faster than an enemy doesn't change the fact that an attack still does the same amount of damage when it could have been dodged as when it couldn't. Which is why the normal approach to boss design is to make the boss able to tank more damage than usual so that the player has to spend more time whittling down their health bar rather than chasing down an enemy that could be killed in as many hits as any other enemy. The ability to avoid being hit isn't as useful in a fight as the ability to take a hit and continue hitting back. If you use Superspeed to attack an opponent in close quarters that you cannot instantly take down, there's always going to be some risk of getting hit and additional chances that you might be immobilized if this happens. Reflexes and retreating partially reduce those risks in most scenarios, but they won't fully nullify that risk in an extended situation without additional skill. In order to fully overcome the limitations of how speed works, you'd need one of the following: 1. Ranged attacks that won't further restrict your field of safe movement. If the ranged attacks can also hurt you, that means you'll have to factor avoiding them as well as aiming them. Which means you'd use even more skill instead of less. The ranged attacks would have to either do no damage to you or move at similar speeds to your own. 2. A form of movement that allows you to freely change directions without being limited by your previous. Being fast doesn't help you if you can't move in the direction you need to. There are levels of superspeed where this is not a factor because they can run on or through just about anything, but any speedsters that aren't at that level have to face that limitation. 3. Sufficient durability relative to your opponent's damage to deprioritize avoiding damage. If someone is both fast and durable enough that the hits that land are ineffective, then they'll hold two major power advantages. It's already hard enough to land one hit on something fast, so having to consistently land many hits on that same object would be even more challenging. 4. The means to quickly dispatch your enemy. You don't have to worry about weaknesses if there's no time for your opponent to take advantage of them. This is the usual approach writers take to speedsters because it's the simplest. In theory, they would only struggle in the face of an opponent that can't be defeated quickly or due to skill issues. But execution is where things get messy.

Bro snuck a ninjago quote in at the end

You gotta adjust the volumes of all the clips and your commentary to one volume. Your videos are great and I've subbed.

Well, It is hard to write a Speedster. Only if they mentioned that they perceived time as normal human being and only when activated then they can go Super speed then no one will bet an eye.

2:40 Yeah, no super strength at all

About red-rush it would've been crazy if omniman first looked to where he was going to get punch, had gone for the grab before the punch came into screen and got to grip his hand in a precarious way on the way out, but because he is so strong he could still hold him. That way it would've been a prediction instead of a reaction

Great video bro

This preference for physical strength seems to be a Western thing because in Japan, the most common and overused super power isn't superstrength but superspeed because the Japanese tend to understand the ways that tends to be more game breaking and powerful than super strength. Though their speedie bois tend to suffer from a lot of the same tropes holding them back.

So someone pointed out when flash was running around building up speed, he would be moving so fast he would be everywhere in that circle. Then he’s focusing on building up speed, and side stepping could cause him to lose a lot of that speed

I see what you did at the ending! nice touch.

I feel like there should at least be a case for the vs Omni man fight. Since Omni man can get to extremely high speed while flying, and the fact that he can do stuff while flying, such as navigating at superspeed, or talking, or thinking, he has at least some kind of superspeed reaction. Its probably not slowing down his perception or anything, but he's probably trained enough at very high speed to be able to be able to realistically predict where Red Rush might be striking next

5:15 why didn't bullets penetrate and kill hawkeye? is hawkeye invincible to bullets?