@Me-ke6sm

2 years ago

Super speed is an incredibly underestimated power. If you had super speed and super fast cognition and reflexes, you could almost be unbeatable. In movies they make it seem like a neat gimmick that falls short of other more impressive powers, which is an extreme disservice, and couldn’t be further from the truth. For example, at the end of X-men: Apocalypse, when Quicksilver is fighting Apocalypse, instead of punching him back and forth like ping pong, what if he found a sharp metal object nearby and stabbed him in both eyes straight away, then while his eyes were healing, he could saw his head off which I’m pretty sure Apocalypse can’t heal from. Not to mention the fact that he can throw objects faster than bullets. When you move that fast, you’re not just moving fast. In order to physically move your body that quickly you have to actually be stronger too, not to mention you’re fighting the force of everything around you moving at slower or outright zero speeds. Objects at rest want to stay at rest. That includes air molecules, which you’re pushing out of the way at an ungodly rate, creating a pressure wave all around you with hyper-compressed air molecules ahead of you and low negative pressure spaces in the air behind you. Every single time you move at those speeds (assuming you’re moving inside an atmosphere) you would be creating sonic booms, knocking everything within a few dozen feet of you around as though they were in an explosion… because they were. “Super speed” is an incredibly broken and under-utilized power. If you can think faster too (which you’d pretty much have to be able to or the power would be almost useless), nothing would ever surprise you. Speaking for you would be like trying to sound like yourself but slowed down x1,000… or whatever your brain’s maximum information processing speed is. Comedic timing? Slowed by a thousand. Conversations? Slowed by a thousand. Human interaction would seem tedious and near impossible to you. The only way you could live any semblance of a normal life would be if you could control the degree to which your “super speed” is effecting you, otherwise you’re stuck living life in a world that’s at 1000x slow motion, every second of every day for the rest of your life.

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