Super Speed is the WORST Super Power 

“I guess me not having superpowers isn’t such a bad thing after all” “No you still stuck” Justice League funding: $0

“Super speed is the worst super power” Aquaman: finally, some respect.

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.

I love how this whole time green lantern is just sitting there staring right at us

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

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.

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.

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"

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

lmao i love that Barry, the Forensics doctor, didn't realize he was starving to death this whole time time

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.

"The worst power" That one mutant whos only power is he can kill himself (via explosion)

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

When you say you want superspeed, what you really want is time stop and teleportation

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."

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

This whole conversation must be taking up the equivalent of a decade, in Superman & The Flash’s mind.

The problem with being faster then light is that you can only live in darkness.

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

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

To be fair super speed is great for being petty, I mean just ask Thawne

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.

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

The Flash: saving the world from evil villains, but also from the existential dread of living faster than light.

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.

Why was Hal laughing at Bruce for not having powers when he doesn't have them either

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.

“We’re falling apart guys this isn’t sustainable” is so unbelievably funny to me

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.

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.

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.

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."

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.

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

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.

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.

"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…"

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.

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 love how green lantern is just fucking sitting there. There’s no light between his eyes.

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.

"being faster than light means you constantly live in darkness"

0:02 "Selina, are you kitten me right meow?" That was a good one

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.

“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 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.

the videos just keep getting better and better, such a niche humor thanks man

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.

This is literally the reason Quicksilver gives for being in a bad mood all the time.

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.

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.

“I’ll figure it out” is the tagline for any man in a bad situation.

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.

Just imagine how slow this conversation must feel to Superman and the Flash.

I was about to comment about Green Lantern just being there but the last second got me

You’re a seasonal super hero.

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

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.

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 :>

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.

Speed Force, I ain't gotta explain shit

“I’d figure it out” he’s so real for that

The thought behind it as well as the presentation, I love it.

2:56 "We're falling apart guys. This isn't sustainable." An apt description about the DCU.

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

Hands down the funniest voice acting in youtube. You had me dying of laughter my friend, slow existenial laughter.

The real life equivalence I can think of is trying to communicate with someone on skype but you have superior internet speeds.

Flash comforting eating and assuming he’s going to die and then randomly feeling better lmao

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.

thumbnail got me here because mentioning super speed rading,throwing me back to childhood memories and namely movies Short Circuit 1 and 2 and how Johnny 5 used to read the books

1:17 man I'm dying LMAO 🤣

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."

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.

This is one of the best solid jjs

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

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.

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

“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.”

THANK YOU FOR BRINGING THIS POINT UP!!! I've always thought about this crap

Come on Superman, you don't have to read all 500 pages of the manual, we put an index in there for a reason!

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

Hal Jordan just sitting there like a grinning goober.

Flash hitting that Rock Lee face is great

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.

"We're falling apart guys, this isn't sustainable." I'm cutting that out as a forum weapon, it's amazing.

2:23 that was distributing, straight out of nowhere

"IHaveLostMySenseOfSelf" 😂 you are the master of snap quick wham lines

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

"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 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...

There should be a podcast of just this exact thing.

Man has the will power to make a whole journey around the earth without food or water just to punch a guy. Just give him the green lantern ring.

"What's the drawback" Well, Batman, have you considered the implications?

Dude, this is the funniest fucking thing I've heard all week, I needed this.

The problem being faster than the speed of light is your always living in darkness