The reason it's in 4:3 because that is everything the lens captures & he wants us to see every bit of what was shoot & the reason the flash moves like that is cause the air is so thick at that speed he's practically swimming through it.
My favorite speedster moment is from the animated Justice League show. When the Justice League is fighting Lex Luthor fused with Braniac, and Flash seemingly is running away from the fight until it's revealed that he actually just ran around the entire world just so he can punch Lex/Braniac as hard as he could
@@WumboBumbo858 And then Flash starts to disappear. "I feel kinda..funny.." And then Superman looks down at Luthor, eyes lit up, apparently ready to *literally kill him,* Wonder Woman walking forward to stop him and *Batman* of all people stops her. I'm not sure his intention was "No, he won't, we should trust Clark" or "Let the fucker burn". God I loved that show.
And the fact that they _immediately_ afterwards had him go "I don't think I can ever go that fast again" means that they didn't have to address the "why doesn't the Flash just autowin every fight from now on". It would absolutely not have worked if they either ignored that, or had him give the explanation at a later point.
"RED WUNZ GO FASTA!!" Gotta love that for warhammer 40k orks vehicles that is definitively true. Purple is also the stealthiest colour, after all - have you ever seen a purple ork?
In Warhammer 4DK (At least when I played it years ago) as the Orks, if you colored your vehicles red you got additional moves specifically because red things go faster.
The exact reason for this is unknown. However, it is known that Orks are all low-key psychic and as a group working together are able to subconscioisly alter physical reality to conform to their expectations. If enough Orks believe something is true, then it actually becomes true. So it's theorized that at some point in Ork history there was like a race between two carts or something and the red one won and from that point it became an accepted fact among Orks that red things are faster.
@@randomjunk1977 that has the same vibe as to the reason orks have those white and black checkerboard patterns on their shoulder pads is becuase Horus beat them up so bad on ullanor that they wanted to have the same kind of style like the Luna wolves and Horus
Yes. The reason is because of the Blood Angels. They found a STC with an old tank design that goes faster. The BA refuse to share the STC with the Mechanicus. So the Orks noticed that the BA tanks (the red ones) go faster. And here we are.
the Super Speed scene from Megamind was pretty good. not really for any cinematic reason, but showing just how lonely and otherworldly Metro Man's life can be.
The CW Flash was the first depiction of Super Speed I liked, because they have the actor run leaning forward a bit. Before that show super speed looked silly, like a Benny Hill sketch, because the actor would run on the green screen treadmill upright with the arms and legs just kind of flailing around. Smallville suffered from that. The Ezra Miller speedskating overdid it though.
See that’s the only thing I didn’t like, the lean forward bothers me cause no on runs like that in reality & the show is supposed to be based in reality but they’re mimicking the comic with the lean. I’ve gotten over it but it used to bother me so bad
Without knowing the actual lore behind why they don’t just make a million droidekas my guess is that they are really expensive and they are super cheap and don’t want to pay that much money when they think the cheaper droids will do. Though to be fair against most enemy’s the normal droids work pretty well it’s just Jedi that we really see have no problem with them.
Pretty much. The CIS is largely a corporate army so they always go for the cheapest effective option. There are also things like rolling the grenades through the shield and the fact that Palpatine intentionally kneecapped the separatists since they were made to lose for his benefit
If my cursory viewing of Star Wars lore videls is correct, the cost efficiency thing is correct, the Seperatist's strategy was to make as many of the cheapest battle droids as possible to just overwhelm their enemies like a zombie horde, the stronger ones like droidekas were only placed at key strategic locations, which is why we the audience see a lot of them, since we are following the protagonists into and through those strategic locations
They do have pretty glaring weaknesses but when you have a couple dozen B2 battle droids also shooting at you, in edition to the droidekas, they'll be pretty hard to exploit. It's an exercise of mixed unit tactics. They also have the heavier battle droids and magna guards. It keeps the enemy on their toes if they have to counter different types of units with different strengths and weaknesses
Only thing I could come up with for a villain still being faster than flash is that there acceleration is is faster so although their max isn’t as great, the average is faster
to be fair, the flash's powers are activated consciously iirc. or at least his accelerated perception isn't always active. this would would allow him to be caught off guard as it still takes a moment to go from 0-100 and react fast enough. it was also established in the plot of the show that his change in velocity is due to acceleration (and the other derivatives of displacement) and doesn't jump from one value to the next instantaneously (the flash needs to "build up speed" before entering the speed force and such)
They are not he actually has to spend effort to constantly slow himself down. We know in the comics they have explained him getting hit as he is constantly falling asleep because everything takes so long from his perspective that he gets full rest in less than a millisecond.
I also find it funny that every episode starts with Barry Allen saying "I am the fastest man alive" and yet every season the villain is someone faster lol
Season 4's villain though is a guy with super intelligence who wants to collect more powers, 5 is just a guy with a depowering knife, and 6 has a Resident Evil villain on its 1st half and then a lady who can enter mirrors, create mirror copies of anyone, and dodge fast on its 2nd half.
It's weird when a director will make like ONE really successful movie, and then can apparently get consistent high profile gigs based on that for DECADES. Zack Snyder did music videos. Then he got to do the Dawn of the Dead remake in 2004, which was kinda OK. Then he did 300 in 2006 which was a big hit. The highly stylized direction and big use of slo-mo worked well with the style of the material and it just kinda gelled. Basically everything he's done since then has been on the mediocre to bad scale in its reception but they just keep hiring him.
omg yes. And then you get someone like Kurtzman (who from memory idk has ever had a hit) but regardless, has for years been churning out terrible content that consistently loses tons of money, yet he's always in charge of large projects. And there must be so many talented creators out there that would be respectful to these IP's that can't get a break. It's infuriating.
@@LoLPunky Pretty sure Kurtzman is still cruising off the Star Trek movie reboot. That was quite well received and successful when it originally came out. That's about all he's done anyone liked.
He’s not entirely wrong about the running. The coefficient of friction on the foot is not enough for the force needed to achieve those speeds. Unless ofc it’s comic magic
I stopped watching The Flash after they wrote out Elongated Man. I know the they had issues with the actor, but the fact they didn't recast a character who can shapeshift is really dumb.
The hadn't problems with the actor (as far as I'm aware). He was fired because he had made some dodgy tweets like 8 years ago and Twitter wanted him removed from the show. Sadly the CW listens to opinions voiced on Twitter
Speed moments... obviously the Speed Force moment from the end of Zack Snyders Justice League. The Boys when A Train runs through Hughie's girlfriend. Really insane.
Did you know in the comics only the alen family processes reality in slow mo. Wally doesn't see bullets coming slow at him but barry and impulse can do it
It legit saddens me that the actor for cw flash Barry Allen can’t be the dceu flash. He has the personality of Barry Allen down to a T and even looks like comic book Barry. Although my favorite part of the flash tv show was seeing John Wesley shipp as jay Gordon flash.
Fun fact: While I can't remember who, or when, someone actually went and proved that "the naruto run" does, TECHNICALLY, make you run faster (though by an ultimately insignificant amount)
This is something I can yell about at a bar for three hours if you let me. The quicksilver scene is fine, but the best speedster moment in live-action is actually from the Snyder cut- not from the flash, but fuckin' wonder woman of all people. The one time snyder manages to resist putting her fighting in slow-mo during her introductory bank hostage fight, and you get to see her deflecting bullets in real-time, it looks AWESOME. If superhero media took speedsters seriously, they'd be the highlights of any movie they were in, but no one ever stops to think superspeed through, and it infuriates me. First of all, running at the speed of light is impossible. The Flash can handwave it, but he doesn't *need* to. Flash stuff causes itself so many problems by giving physics the middle finger. Anytime a speedster is moving relativistically, it breaks the universe they're in, and, like you said, the directors or writers or whatever have to find a way to nerf him. Except, if you think about it, a speedster is really just a human-sized bullet, and that comes with all the benefits and drawbacks that implies. Impact from a human running at more than 200 miles per hour would easily break steel, and even the shockwave could shatter nearby glass or displace nearby objects. (At least movies get that much right.) Much faster than that, and the oxygen and trace flammable gases in the air begin to spark, causing small amounts of fire, and plenty of heat. Once you start moving at sub-orbital speeds, 5-10,000 miles per hour or so, that fire becomes the same kind of ionized plasma that spacecraft have to deal with on re-entry. Faster than *that,* at about 3% the speed of light, and any medium you're moving through, be it air or water or whatever, will now be more likely to simply fuse with your skin, releasing the energy as a nuclear explosion. (And yes, a speedster moving near the speed of light would gain thousands of times their mass, but that move fundamentally misunderstands where the mass comes from- it's a product of the energy already in the system. Doing an infinite mass punch requires the mass to be created by putting more energy, or, effectively, strength behind the punch. It's no better than simply moving that fast.) This is just a rough overview of a speedster's strengths, but what really intrigues me is their inherent weaknesses, because there are a LOT. First and most important- with the exception of generally powerful heroes like superman or wonder woman, speedsters are shown to have speed be their primary ability, with little to no mention of increased durability, and, indeed, that is backed up when they fight. The Flash can't take a punch much better than any other fit person could, at least in theory. So, the speedster's worst enemy is themselves. When they're moving as fast as they are, everything around them is moving just as fast- relative to them. If, for instance, someone tossed a rock at a passing speedster, that rock hits them at the speed of a bullet, and, well, that's now what it is. Moreover, if a speedster tripped, slipped, or had some kind of sudden change in terrain, like when the Flash runs directly up buildings, they're going to hit that wall at the same speed, and it's going to be just as deadly to them. Even worse news is the fact that air friction becomes deadly when moving this fast, but most media at least attempts to address that fact. But I'm just getting started. Have you ever tried to run down a hill as a kid and found that you had to kind of keep running a few steps before you could stop or turn around? That's because, even though we don't have wheels, we're still subject to inertia, and speedsters ought to be no different. Stopping, slowing down, and turning, should be ordeals for these heroes. If they don't have a straight, clear path to their goal, and they're flying by the seat of their pants, they could very easily hit a car, a building, a tree, a piece of freakin' debris, ANYTHING could kill them when they're moving that fast. It's especially bad considering how hard it would be to see and how little time they'd have to process their surroundings. Speaking of which... thinking fast? That's the most egregious sin committed by superhero media and I will *never* forgive it. The ability to put a lot of power behind your legs is one thing, and I can even get behind speedsters healing quickly- it's all just metabolism, after all. But THINKING fast? What, the neurons in their brains are utilizing some new form of electricity that moves faster than light? Fuck right the hell off. If you just take away the speedster's godlike awareness of their surroundings, they become SO much more manageable, AND YOU DON'T HAVE TO KEEP KILLING THEM OFF! THEY COULD BE COOL, YOU GUYS. THEY COULD BE COOL WITHOUT BEING X-MEN. IT WAS FUN THE *ONE* TIME QUICKSILVER DID IT, NOW CAN WE ALL JUST PLEASE MOVE ON. Thank you for coming to my ted talk
One of my favorite speedster moments was in Young Justice when Flash and Impulse were talking, gradualy incresing in speed as they spoke while others around them couldn't make out what they were saying.
Free facts about IMAX. Didn't know that stuff about 4.3 either and I watch a lot of TV. Edit: Next nemesis of Barry is a guy dressed in red that just Naruto runs everywhere.
That last bit of how he thinks that how the flash would run is hilarious as it shows he (zack) fundamentally does not know what the fuck he’s talking about.
Red cars actually did go faster (only very slightly) in the past. Years ago the paint used on cars contained lead, and red car paint had less lead than many other colors. This meant that a car that was painted red would weigh a tiny bit less and would therefore be ever so slightly faster than the same car in a different color.
The best scenes in the Incredibles are the ones where the kids use their powers like their parents. Like when Dash uses his speed to punch a guy really hard or when Vi stretches herself out while making a force field. If only they'd remembered that for the second one.
Hammie the squirrel from Over the Hedge, when he drinks the energy drink. He's so fast he can walk around changing positions of various traps, starts back to the group, then goes back to the house to get a cookie, all before a laser sensor can complete a circuit.
I heard the reason for choosing 4:3 was to get more of the human body in frame at a time, thus achieving your ideal "superhero proportions" more naturally. But maybe that was just someone BSing on Snyder's behalf.
Fav speedster is Sonic the Hedgehog. Hands down he's been such a big part of my life. My favorite speedster moment is from Archie Sonic issue 175, the first issue I picked up. Where he faces a Eggman in a powersuit in the ruins of his hometown, everyone he knows has been captured and the suit Eggman is using was specifically designed to counter Sonic based on all the data he's collected on the hedgehog. Eggman has Sonic's number in this fight and beats him down, telling the hedgehog that he's at his limit. This enrages Sonic and he zips away, crossing the continent in an instant moving faster than he's ever gone before. Shouting "I've got your limit right here!" He uses the entire continent as a run up to charge Eggman in one cataclysmic strike. And all it does is dent his shield. The issue ends with Sonic defeated and it completely blew my thirteen year old mind.
The reason why red is associated with speed is because of red-shifting. Things red shift when they are running away from you and if they're close to the speed of light. So if you're eating the dust of someone moving fast enough, they'll start to look red.
ahh the final fantasy spirits within. i was so excited to watch this movie when i was a kid so i can finally join on my friends talking about final fantasy . . . . . not knowing it was actually the video game final fantasy not the movie. the embarrassment still haunts me whenever i need to sleep 20 years later
I still thinknit would have been cool if they added a boom and visual effects for the flash breaking the sound barrier everytime he sprints. Imagine how terrifying it would be fighting him or being nearby just hering sonic booms every few seconds
Man… the more takes on Snyder I see, the more I’m like “no one actually paid attention huh?” And I’m saying this unironically cuz god forbid his superhero movies look different from Marvels formulaic crap Ten bucks says Feige would end a Batman movie with him fighting Owlman
Curved TVs have only 2 real advantages, if you sit close enough, you can get that IMAX affect (but depending on the size of your TV, its probably impractical) and watching from an extreme angle, it looks better than a flat screen.
I didn't know Snyder gave that justification for Flash's running "stance". I thought he was like 'swimming' lmao. The explanation kinda makes sense but it looks so stupid. They should have just made it normal and honed in on it. They had the time to perfect it, after all.
I still watch the flash show to this very day 😤😤 idc if it's shit, it's beautiful shit that's molded into a even bigger shit with nice sparkles on it every now and again 🤣 and occasionally I like to take a bite and see what it tastes like as the years progress 💀
As much as I liked the Snyder cut and how much better it was than the 2017 version I do agree that the Quicksilver rip-off scene was dumb and I didn't like how Flash runs.
AND even in comics, if you make a really epic scene, you put it on double page, which makes it horizontal. Snyder is loved by his fanatics, but he is not a very great filmmaker.
I think the flash is the only arrow verse show where the powers\skills of the metas aren't toned down to ether makes them dark and gritty or to save money. Batwoman has only leds and steel for gadgets Supergirl\ superman and Lois makes everyone look like cosplayers Black lighting was good but a lot of the powers were just "hit hard don't die" Arrow was some arrows with explosions Legends of tomorrow has better costumes than the other shows but at the cost of people on that show seem to forget that they have magic, super powers, and the ability to think outside the last 15 minutes of the episode All still entertainment but laughing at the show itself is a third of the fun
LoT had to tone down Nates use of his steel ability because they couldn't fit it within their VFX budget, because so much more important stuff on the show already relied on VFX/CGI. It's still the best Arrowverse show (past season 1) and it's gone so weird/off the rails they had to stop including it in the crossovers outside of COIE.
The flash would actually benefit from the Naruto run, unlike the regular person. For the normal person the Naruto run isn’t a good idea because we don’t move anything near the speeds that air drag really matters. But flash, sonic, and any other character that can get up to highway speeds or greater would see a noticeable increase in there super speed do to them not having to fight the air resistance anywhere near as much. The effects would only be greater the faster they can run. And if you want to make the “but the speed force protects against wind” argument, what if that energy wasn’t as needed and could be redirected into greater speed.
I can remember which speedster it was, but they didn't have access to the speed force at the time. When they tested out their power, the air resistance and friction dried out their eyes so fast that they almost crashed and there were scratches all over from the particulates in the air. The speed force prevents injury.
I don't know everyone else's reason for liking the Flash is, but I just generally just find the character dynamics fun. And the first few seasons are fun to rewatch.
Personally I LOVE Zack's justice league, but even I think the reason it's 4:3 is dumber than a box of rocks. I mean, I don't mind watching it that way, but the reason for it is so ridiculous 😆
Red is used so much as a 'fast' color due it being in my belief and what I remember as the lightest paint available... Somehow? I don't remember where I heard it but yeah
I think Tom welling could play a good new 52 Superman. He has the wider face for it. If that was only for the animated stuff that came out at that time well for me it still works
The reason it's in 4:3 because that is everything the lens captures & he wants us to see every bit of what was shoot & the reason the flash moves like that is cause the air is so thick at that speed he's practically swimming through it.
To quote Brad during editing, “Technically all the camera captures is circular #releasethecirclecut”.
Just accept it’s a stupid decision dude.
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@@FactFiend ?? Not the actual lens 🙄
Speed force makes the air resistance negligible. So that's a bad reason. It really was just a poor decision.
My favorite speedster moment is from the animated Justice League show. When the Justice League is fighting Lex Luthor fused with Braniac, and Flash seemingly is running away from the fight until it's revealed that he actually just ran around the entire world just so he can punch Lex/Braniac as hard as he could
I remember that when Wally almost got lost in the speed force trying to fight Braniac Luthor.
@@adamaizenberg756 Man came in clutch
@@WumboBumbo858 And then Flash starts to disappear. "I feel kinda..funny.."
And then Superman looks down at Luthor, eyes lit up, apparently ready to *literally kill him,* Wonder Woman walking forward to stop him and *Batman* of all people stops her. I'm not sure his intention was "No, he won't, we should trust Clark" or "Let the fucker burn".
God I loved that show.
That scene was amazing and I'm glad I'm not the only one who thought of it.
And the fact that they _immediately_ afterwards had him go "I don't think I can ever go that fast again" means that they didn't have to address the "why doesn't the Flash just autowin every fight from now on". It would absolutely not have worked if they either ignored that, or had him give the explanation at a later point.
For the record, the flash absolutely does the Akira slide many times in the show
The man usually poses after doing the Akira slide.
Right before he needlessly talks to the bad guy instead of just slapping the energy damper cuffs on them.
So does wally west as kid flash in young justice.
Best way to look over his shoulder.
Flash fact
"RED WUNZ GO FASTA!!"
Gotta love that for warhammer 40k orks vehicles that is definitively true.
Purple is also the stealthiest colour, after all - have you ever seen a purple ork?
Yes!
I was looking for this, TY.
...ork ninjas
Such a weird concept that red is the fastest when it really means stop…
This vid has very ironic timing as, supposedly, Ezra Miller, the Sniderverse Flash actor, just got arrested in Hawaii, for harassment, again lmaooo
😂
Too funny 😁
Fastest man arrested.
@@Gloomdrake again
@@Gloomdrake yes again. Not arrested in Hawaii specifically again, but arrssted for "harassment" at a bar again
In Warhammer 4DK (At least when I played it years ago) as the Orks, if you colored your vehicles red you got additional moves specifically because red things go faster.
The exact reason for this is unknown. However, it is known that Orks are all low-key psychic and as a group working together are able to subconscioisly alter physical reality to conform to their expectations. If enough Orks believe something is true, then it actually becomes true. So it's theorized that at some point in Ork history there was like a race between two carts or something and the red one won and from that point it became an accepted fact among Orks that red things are faster.
@@randomjunk1977 that has the same vibe as to the reason orks have those white and black checkerboard patterns on their shoulder pads is becuase Horus beat them up so bad on ullanor that they wanted to have the same kind of style like the Luna wolves and Horus
Yes. The reason is because of the Blood Angels. They found a STC with an old tank design that goes faster. The BA refuse to share the STC with the Mechanicus. So the Orks noticed that the BA tanks (the red ones) go faster. And here we are.
WAAAAGH
Ah the Flash, my guilty pleasure show with a budget of $1000.
Mine would be as well but i perfer early new who 😹😹
the Super Speed scene from Megamind was pretty good. not really for any cinematic reason, but showing just how lonely and otherworldly Metro Man's life can be.
The CW Flash was the first depiction of Super Speed I liked, because they have the actor run leaning forward a bit. Before that show super speed looked silly, like a Benny Hill sketch, because the actor would run on the green screen treadmill upright with the arms and legs just kind of flailing around. Smallville suffered from that.
The Ezra Miller speedskating overdid it though.
X-Men apocalypse quicksilver is the best speedster tho
@@person-zi7mc damn right. :)
See that’s the only thing I didn’t like, the lean forward bothers me cause no on runs like that in reality & the show is supposed to be based in reality but they’re mimicking the comic with the lean. I’ve gotten over it but it used to bother me so bad
It's like you know when belt comes off, and you timed the upload for when my cheeks hit the porcelain. Thanks Karl.
Without knowing the actual lore behind why they don’t just make a million droidekas my guess is that they are really expensive and they are super cheap and don’t want to pay that much money when they think the cheaper droids will do. Though to be fair against most enemy’s the normal droids work pretty well it’s just Jedi that we really see have no problem with them.
Pretty much. The CIS is largely a corporate army so they always go for the cheapest effective option. There are also things like rolling the grenades through the shield and the fact that Palpatine intentionally kneecapped the separatists since they were made to lose for his benefit
If my cursory viewing of Star Wars lore videls is correct, the cost efficiency thing is correct, the Seperatist's strategy was to make as many of the cheapest battle droids as possible to just overwhelm their enemies like a zombie horde, the stronger ones like droidekas were only placed at key strategic locations, which is why we the audience see a lot of them, since we are following the protagonists into and through those strategic locations
@@Gloomdrake I see you are a man of culture as well
Except when the Jedi just use force run fast
They do have pretty glaring weaknesses but when you have a couple dozen B2 battle droids also shooting at you, in edition to the droidekas, they'll be pretty hard to exploit. It's an exercise of mixed unit tactics. They also have the heavier battle droids and magna guards. It keeps the enemy on their toes if they have to counter different types of units with different strengths and weaknesses
It is like... the Flash can run at, let's say 'infinity' so the next villain can simply run at 'infinity+1' which is really the same thing.
also remember that force = mass x acceleration and since his acceleration is basicly infite he packs a insane punch.
Only thing I could come up with for a villain still being faster than flash is that there acceleration is is faster so although their max isn’t as great, the average is faster
@@They_Hit_The_Pentagon that or yk
they get in his way
In order to get just the voices they have to use silent props. Vinyl paper bags and the like so they are quiet on set
to be fair, the flash's powers are activated consciously iirc. or at least his accelerated perception isn't always active. this would would allow him to be caught off guard as it still takes a moment to go from 0-100 and react fast enough. it was also established in the plot of the show that his change in velocity is due to acceleration (and the other derivatives of displacement) and doesn't jump from one value to the next instantaneously (the flash needs to "build up speed" before entering the speed force and such)
They are not he actually has to spend effort to constantly slow himself down. We know in the comics they have explained him getting hit as he is constantly falling asleep because everything takes so long from his perspective that he gets full rest in less than a millisecond.
He also doesn't need to buildup anything one of the core tenants of the flashes powers is ignoring the laws of physics.
And again with the perfect timing
I also find it funny that every episode starts with Barry Allen saying "I am the fastest man alive" and yet every season the villain is someone faster lol
Season 4's villain though is a guy with super intelligence who wants to collect more powers, 5 is just a guy with a depowering knife, and 6 has a Resident Evil villain on its 1st half and then a lady who can enter mirrors, create mirror copies of anyone, and dodge fast on its 2nd half.
this is one of my favorite After the Fact end banter with friends. Thanks for having it in with some videos
It's weird when a director will make like ONE really successful movie, and then can apparently get consistent high profile gigs based on that for DECADES. Zack Snyder did music videos. Then he got to do the Dawn of the Dead remake in 2004, which was kinda OK. Then he did 300 in 2006 which was a big hit. The highly stylized direction and big use of slo-mo worked well with the style of the material and it just kinda gelled. Basically everything he's done since then has been on the mediocre to bad scale in its reception but they just keep hiring him.
omg yes. And then you get someone like Kurtzman (who from memory idk has ever had a hit) but regardless, has for years been churning out terrible content that consistently loses tons of money, yet he's always in charge of large projects. And there must be so many talented creators out there that would be respectful to these IP's that can't get a break. It's infuriating.
@@LoLPunky Pretty sure Kurtzman is still cruising off the Star Trek movie reboot. That was quite well received and successful when it originally came out. That's about all he's done anyone liked.
I'd agree with that but I still have a soft spot for Watchmen and his music video directorial tie-in was pretty good also.
With all due respect. The greatest speedster scene is Fry drinking his 100th cup of coffee
He’s not entirely wrong about the running. The coefficient of friction on the foot is not enough for the force needed to achieve those speeds. Unless ofc it’s comic magic
Any physical inaccuracies regarding the Flashs speed can be answered with "Speedforce innit"
@@Ser_Salty exactly
speedforce
a force that manipulates the laws of physics around flash so he can move even faster
I stopped watching The Flash after they wrote out Elongated Man. I know the they had issues with the actor, but the fact they didn't recast a character who can shapeshift is really dumb.
The hadn't problems with the actor (as far as I'm aware). He was fired because he had made some dodgy tweets like 8 years ago and Twitter wanted him removed from the show. Sadly the CW listens to opinions voiced on Twitter
9:35 it's because even the super-rich galactic spaning megacorps of Star Wars find Droidekas's abhorrently expensive
The real reason Zack Snyder did 4:3 was to make the justice league larger than life his friend and other people who worked on the film mentioned it
Speed moments... obviously the Speed Force moment from the end of Zack Snyders Justice League. The Boys when A Train runs through Hughie's girlfriend. Really insane.
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every time I see Tyler Hoechlin I can't stop myself thinking of his role as Derek in teen wolf and how much I loved that
He does the slide to go under truck trailers
Angry hot rod, like Andy Samberg hot rod?
Did you know in the comics only the alen family processes reality in slow mo. Wally doesn't see bullets coming slow at him but barry and impulse can do it
So how can Wally dodge a bullet, if he's not expecting it?
@@CristanioPeweyyy if i remember right, he reacts as soon as he feels it (super speed also means super reaction time)
@@CristanioPeweyyy it's comics man, not much logic there...
@@Iffem So what if he doesn't feel it or hear it? Lmao.
@@Nimrod336 True, but I would still like to see other people's perspective view.
It legit saddens me that the actor for cw flash Barry Allen can’t be the dceu flash. He has the personality of Barry Allen down to a T and even looks like comic book Barry. Although my favorite part of the flash tv show was seeing John Wesley shipp as jay Gordon flash.
*Jay Garrick...Flash Gordon is something else :)
@@sariarosegold oh fuck how did mess that up.
Take a shot every time Barry says “I need to get faster” you’ll be dead before the end of the first season
Fun fact:
While I can't remember who, or when, someone actually went and proved that "the naruto run" does, TECHNICALLY, make you run faster (though by an ultimately insignificant amount)
2:38 idk why but the "eugh Karl..." made me snort, just, the disgust and concern in his voice was too much
This is something I can yell about at a bar for three hours if you let me.
The quicksilver scene is fine, but the best speedster moment in live-action is actually from the Snyder cut- not from the flash, but fuckin' wonder woman of all people. The one time snyder manages to resist putting her fighting in slow-mo during her introductory bank hostage fight, and you get to see her deflecting bullets in real-time, it looks AWESOME. If superhero media took speedsters seriously, they'd be the highlights of any movie they were in, but no one ever stops to think superspeed through, and it infuriates me.
First of all, running at the speed of light is impossible. The Flash can handwave it, but he doesn't *need* to. Flash stuff causes itself so many problems by giving physics the middle finger. Anytime a speedster is moving relativistically, it breaks the universe they're in, and, like you said, the directors or writers or whatever have to find a way to nerf him. Except, if you think about it, a speedster is really just a human-sized bullet, and that comes with all the benefits and drawbacks that implies.
Impact from a human running at more than 200 miles per hour would easily break steel, and even the shockwave could shatter nearby glass or displace nearby objects. (At least movies get that much right.) Much faster than that, and the oxygen and trace flammable gases in the air begin to spark, causing small amounts of fire, and plenty of heat. Once you start moving at sub-orbital speeds, 5-10,000 miles per hour or so, that fire becomes the same kind of ionized plasma that spacecraft have to deal with on re-entry. Faster than *that,* at about 3% the speed of light, and any medium you're moving through, be it air or water or whatever, will now be more likely to simply fuse with your skin, releasing the energy as a nuclear explosion.
(And yes, a speedster moving near the speed of light would gain thousands of times their mass, but that move fundamentally misunderstands where the mass comes from- it's a product of the energy already in the system. Doing an infinite mass punch requires the mass to be created by putting more energy, or, effectively, strength behind the punch. It's no better than simply moving that fast.)
This is just a rough overview of a speedster's strengths, but what really intrigues me is their inherent weaknesses, because there are a LOT.
First and most important- with the exception of generally powerful heroes like superman or wonder woman, speedsters are shown to have speed be their primary ability, with little to no mention of increased durability, and, indeed, that is backed up when they fight. The Flash can't take a punch much better than any other fit person could, at least in theory.
So, the speedster's worst enemy is themselves. When they're moving as fast as they are, everything around them is moving just as fast- relative to them. If, for instance, someone tossed a rock at a passing speedster, that rock hits them at the speed of a bullet, and, well, that's now what it is.
Moreover, if a speedster tripped, slipped, or had some kind of sudden change in terrain, like when the Flash runs directly up buildings, they're going to hit that wall at the same speed, and it's going to be just as deadly to them. Even worse news is the fact that air friction becomes deadly when moving this fast, but most media at least attempts to address that fact.
But I'm just getting started. Have you ever tried to run down a hill as a kid and found that you had to kind of keep running a few steps before you could stop or turn around? That's because, even though we don't have wheels, we're still subject to inertia, and speedsters ought to be no different. Stopping, slowing down, and turning, should be ordeals for these heroes. If they don't have a straight, clear path to their goal, and they're flying by the seat of their pants, they could very easily hit a car, a building, a tree, a piece of freakin' debris, ANYTHING could kill them when they're moving that fast. It's especially bad considering how hard it would be to see and how little time they'd have to process their surroundings.
Speaking of which... thinking fast? That's the most egregious sin committed by superhero media and I will *never* forgive it. The ability to put a lot of power behind your legs is one thing, and I can even get behind speedsters healing quickly- it's all just metabolism, after all. But THINKING fast? What, the neurons in their brains are utilizing some new form of electricity that moves faster than light? Fuck right the hell off. If you just take away the speedster's godlike awareness of their surroundings, they become SO much more manageable, AND YOU DON'T HAVE TO KEEP KILLING THEM OFF!
THEY COULD BE COOL, YOU GUYS. THEY COULD BE COOL WITHOUT BEING X-MEN. IT WAS FUN THE *ONE* TIME QUICKSILVER DID IT, NOW CAN WE ALL JUST PLEASE MOVE ON.
Thank you for coming to my ted talk
One of my favorite speedster moments was in Young Justice when Flash and Impulse were talking, gradualy incresing in speed as they spoke while others around them couldn't make out what they were saying.
Free facts about IMAX. Didn't know that stuff about 4.3 either and I watch a lot of TV.
Edit: Next nemesis of Barry is a guy dressed in red that just Naruto runs everywhere.
That last bit of how he thinks that how the flash would run is hilarious as it shows he (zack) fundamentally does not know what the fuck he’s talking about.
Red cars actually did go faster (only very slightly) in the past.
Years ago the paint used on cars contained lead, and red car paint had less lead than many other colors.
This meant that a car that was painted red would weigh a tiny bit less and would therefore be ever so slightly faster than the same car in a different color.
The best scenes in the Incredibles are the ones where the kids use their powers like their parents. Like when Dash uses his speed to punch a guy really hard or when Vi stretches herself out while making a force field. If only they'd remembered that for the second one.
Red makes things faster, purple is more sneaky
Hammie the squirrel from Over the Hedge, when he drinks the energy drink. He's so fast he can walk around changing positions of various traps, starts back to the group, then goes back to the house to get a cookie, all before a laser sensor can complete a circuit.
One of my favorite speedsters is Hammy from 'Over the Hedge'.
Jim's Big Ego is all I can hear when I see flash run
Flash: “I’m the fastest man alive you’ll never get away from me”
Any non speedster villain: “allow me to introduce you to walking off screen”
Even Orks know red things go faster
I heard the reason for choosing 4:3 was to get more of the human body in frame at a time, thus achieving your ideal "superhero proportions" more naturally. But maybe that was just someone BSing on Snyder's behalf.
i love that godzilla is just a Gate closing and opening
Nerd flag here; in Warhammer 40K the orcs get a speed boost to their vehicles because they painted them go fasta red.
Karl: "Red goes faster"
*Cult of speed intensifies*
Fav speedster is Sonic the Hedgehog. Hands down he's been such a big part of my life. My favorite speedster moment is from Archie Sonic issue 175, the first issue I picked up. Where he faces a Eggman in a powersuit in the ruins of his hometown, everyone he knows has been captured and the suit Eggman is using was specifically designed to counter Sonic based on all the data he's collected on the hedgehog. Eggman has Sonic's number in this fight and beats him down, telling the hedgehog that he's at his limit. This enrages Sonic and he zips away, crossing the continent in an instant moving faster than he's ever gone before. Shouting "I've got your limit right here!" He uses the entire continent as a run up to charge Eggman in one cataclysmic strike. And all it does is dent his shield. The issue ends with Sonic defeated and it completely blew my thirteen year old mind.
A skating stride generates more forward momentum than a running stride. So it kinda makes sense
That Tokyo Drift song went surprisingly well with CW Flash clips
7:55 *laughs in ork* this umie getz it
Karl: "as we all know, red things go faster" is an Orc confirmed.
Call in His Angels. Praise the Emperor!!!
Red rush is probably my favorite take on a speedster for the short time he was alive in invincible.
1:32 for 1 episode then got killed off by batwoman. God that was dumb
The reason why red is associated with speed is because of red-shifting. Things red shift when they are running away from you and if they're close to the speed of light. So if you're eating the dust of someone moving fast enough, they'll start to look red.
Karl at 8 minutes starting to sound like a warhammer 40K ork
ahh the final fantasy spirits within. i was so excited to watch this movie when i was a kid so i can finally join on my friends talking about final fantasy . . . . . not knowing it was actually the video game final fantasy not the movie. the embarrassment still haunts me whenever i need to sleep 20 years later
I still thinknit would have been cool if they added a boom and visual effects for the flash breaking the sound barrier everytime he sprints.
Imagine how terrifying it would be fighting him or being nearby just hering sonic booms every few seconds
Man… the more takes on Snyder I see, the more I’m like “no one actually paid attention huh?”
And I’m saying this unironically cuz god forbid his superhero movies look different from Marvels formulaic crap
Ten bucks says Feige would end a Batman movie with him fighting Owlman
Karl is an ork confirmed. He understands the universal truth: da red onz go FASTAH
In the crossover where Supergirl meets the rest of the team, Brandon Routh comments that she kinda looks like his cousin
I've got to agree with Karl here, that scene in The Incredibles is absolutely great
Don't stop to talk. Don't stop to talk. Don't stop to talk. Don't stop to talk. Don't stop to talk. Don't stop to talk. Don't stop to talk.
Char Aznable has a red Zaku II which is 3 times faster despite being a normal model just painted red
I legit just started re watching this this morning 😂
Curved TVs have only 2 real advantages, if you sit close enough, you can get that IMAX affect (but depending on the size of your TV, its probably impractical) and watching from an extreme angle, it looks better than a flat screen.
My favorite Flash moment is when he kidnapped 3 kids in a house full of rifles, i mean why would the flash need rifles
I didn't know Snyder gave that justification for Flash's running "stance". I thought he was like 'swimming' lmao. The explanation kinda makes sense but it looks so stupid. They should have just made it normal and honed in on it. They had the time to perfect it, after all.
air friction and lack of COF shouldn't matter to the flash due to his speed force aura that protects him from those laws of physics
I still watch the flash show to this very day 😤😤 idc if it's shit, it's beautiful shit that's molded into a even bigger shit with nice sparkles on it every now and again 🤣 and occasionally I like to take a bite and see what it tastes like as the years progress 💀
As much as I liked the Snyder cut and how much better it was than the 2017 version I do agree that the Quicksilver rip-off scene was dumb and I didn't like how Flash runs.
My favorite made-up sound is the pod racers in SW episode 1 was A harley mixed with a chopper, and I think played backwards.
Safelight must have a field day whenevr the flash runs past a bunch of cars lmao
AND even in comics, if you make a really epic scene, you put it on double page, which makes it horizontal. Snyder is loved by his fanatics, but he is not a very great filmmaker.
As a sprinter I just can't get over the running form...no matter the speed force.
i always thought the scariest thing in comics was the flash with a knife just the things he could do scares me
I think the flash is the only arrow verse show where the powers\skills of the metas aren't toned down to ether makes them dark and gritty or to save money.
Batwoman has only leds and steel for gadgets
Supergirl\ superman and Lois makes everyone look like cosplayers
Black lighting was good but a lot of the powers were just "hit hard don't die"
Arrow was some arrows with explosions
Legends of tomorrow has better costumes than the other shows but at the cost of people on that show seem to forget that they have magic, super powers, and the ability to think outside the last 15 minutes of the episode
All still entertainment but laughing at the show itself is a third of the fun
LoT had to tone down Nates use of his steel ability because they couldn't fit it within their VFX budget, because so much more important stuff on the show already relied on VFX/CGI. It's still the best Arrowverse show (past season 1) and it's gone so weird/off the rails they had to stop including it in the crossovers outside of COIE.
The scene I think has been ripped off more than the Akira slide, is the slow walk from A Clockwork Orange
Horizontal Comic Book, that's an interesting idea
"red things go faster"
*laughs in warhammer 40k Orks, because things they paint red actually go fater*
Should've put Flash running to one of the songs from Initial D, probably Running in the 90s
Super speed is actually crazy over powered. If you can move around people like they are standing still what Can't you do to them!?
The flash would actually benefit from the Naruto run, unlike the regular person.
For the normal person the Naruto run isn’t a good idea because we don’t move anything near the speeds that air drag really matters.
But flash, sonic, and any other character that can get up to highway speeds or greater would see a noticeable increase in there super speed do to them not having to fight the air resistance anywhere near as much. The effects would only be greater the faster they can run.
And if you want to make the “but the speed force protects against wind” argument, what if that energy wasn’t as needed and could be redirected into greater speed.
I can remember which speedster it was, but they didn't have access to the speed force at the time. When they tested out their power, the air resistance and friction dried out their eyes so fast that they almost crashed and there were scratches all over from the particulates in the air. The speed force prevents injury.
lol no, if Flash ran like Naruto, he would probaly fall over due to gravity pushing his back down to the floor.
I could be wrong though.
I don't know everyone else's reason for liking the Flash is, but I just generally just find the character dynamics fun. And the first few seasons are fun to rewatch.
Fire is speed and speed is fire
2:30
Oh Carl...
Confirmed, Karl Smallwood is an Ork fan. Da red un's run fasta!
Personally I LOVE Zack's justice league, but even I think the reason it's 4:3 is dumber than a box of rocks. I mean, I don't mind watching it that way, but the reason for it is so ridiculous 😆
The first time they show flash time was cool
I had no idea that Final Fantasy The Spirits Within had a novelization
I liked flash when it first came out, but it got way too formulaic.
So to be the fastest you have to Naruto-run everywhere dressed in red. Got it.
Red is used so much as a 'fast' color due it being in my belief and what I remember as the lightest paint available... Somehow? I don't remember where I heard it but yeah
Karl is an Ork playa confirmed. Kult ov Speed!
What a sentence to end on lol
I think Tom welling could play a good new 52 Superman. He has the wider face for it. If that was only for the animated stuff that came out at that time well for me it still works
They also brought back the og batman from the 60s from the adam west batman world and birds of prey and showed titans
The fastest man alive except when he isn't
I am actually watching through the flash show for like the 5th time right now