Talk:Speed Force

De-stubbed

I removed the stub tag. I don't think the article needs it anymore. -- Ipstenu (talk|contribs) 14:16, 13 June 2006 (UTC)

Hyperbole and the Infinite Mass Punch

The use of the metaphor 'the Infinite Mass Punch as having the force of a White Dwarf Star,' I feel is not quite an exaggeration. My understanding of the Theory of Relativity: as the Flashes mass would approach infinite, the mass of a White Dwarf while massive (approxitmately the size of Earth) would still be a finite amount. The force of such blow could then land with a mass significantly more (or less) powerful, all conditional on how close (or far) the Flash would be at the point of impact to the speed of light. In short, maybe we should remove the hyberbole line, because there is no true way to gauge the force of such a blow and it's comic book physics.

Total Recall

Totall Recall is totally not a power related to the speed force, it's just Bart's photographic memory, he remembers anything he sees and reads. Just read the Impulse tpb and you'll see that. user:002KFlash052

Metabolize wounds

IIRC, Walter West CAN metabolize his injuries without prematurely aging himself. The incident with Kadabra was more of him keeping his body at a state of constant HYPER-metabolization (in order to instantly heal the lethal injuries Kadabra was giving him), which was why prematurely aged.

-- Marikina

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BetacommandBot (talk) 22:01, 5 December 2007 (UTC)

Superman?

I always wondered about this Superman can run about as fast as the Flash, when he's running is he using the speed force too? 156.33.241.6 (talk) 21:53, 13 March 2013 (UTC)

No, Superman is not using the speed force to run at high speed.

The evidence for this would be two-fold. Firstly, in Flash Rebirth #3, Barry Allen has returned as the Flash and is running alongside Superman. Superman tries to convince Barry to slow down and return to his family and friends by pointing out that even the Flash can't outrun Superman, and that Superman even won a few of their classic footraces in the past. The Flash then outruns Superman, leaving him trailing far behind and unable to catch up. I believe that there are several pages scans online that have this relevant page.

Secondly, Superman has no link to the Speed Force in the same way that any of the speedsters has. For example, Barry Allen had a lab accident that created his superpowers; Bart Allen inherited his Superhuman Speed from his ancestors. Superman has not had an accident that would have given him these powers, nor were his parents speedsters. Birdytiger (talk) 15:50, 28 September 2015 (UTC)

Geoff Johns on the Speed Force

Does anyone have a citation for Johns' opinion on the Speed Force? Surely, if he was involved in Infinite Crisis, Flashpoint, and Flash Rebirth, he would have written the Speed Force out of the continuity in one of those events? If you take a look at Rebirth, the Speed Force is more important there than in almost any other Flash story I have ever read, so why would Johns make such a statement? It doesn't seem logical. Birdytiger (talk) 15:53, 28 September 2015 (UTC)

Year, please?

Here the speed force is rightly considered as having always existed. Yet it has a first appearance, just like any character. Can someone find out when that was, and include it? Thetrellan (talk) 19:51, 21 November 2017 (UTC)

@Thetrellan: I read that issue a long long time ago when I was a kid. In that issue, Barry was flash, and Wally was kid flash; so it is definitely Vol 1. I think the antagonist was barry's twin. In that issue, all the speedsters just "feel a disturbance in the force"; for the first time. "Spped force" wasnt mentioned directly, but it was implied that there was something that connected all the speedsters. Sorry, i cant remember the issue. I am a wally west fan. when I read the first volume, i was just a kid, and it was a binge, i just wanted to get it over with. It was something like 4 years ago I think. —usernamekiran(talk) 20:45, 21 November 2017 (UTC)

You do realize that Star Wars predates Crisis on Infinite Earths, which led to Wally becoming the Flash and discovering the Speed Force, by a good 7 years, don't you? I'm sure it was just a Star Wars reference. Thetrellan (talk) 21:43, 13 February 2018 (UTC)