I don’t know much about the character (apart from the fact that his relationship with Hawkgirl and Green Lantern was the best part of the Justice League cartoon) but I came across this, which is really pretty awesome:
Basically in a fraction of a second The Flash saves the population of an entire North Korean city from a detonating nuclear device.
My question is from the perspective of The Flash how long did it take to achieve this, I might be mistaken but I assume that to him it seems like the world is frozen in time but his thoughts are running at usual speed, so for him it would seem to take a few minutes at least to make the 70 mile round trip to pick up each person and carry them to safety.
I realise I’m not being entirely clear what I mean because I’m not entirely sure myself, but basically my question is what did that feat look like to The Flash himself and how long did it subjectively take him to do it?
The answer to all Flash questions is always “Speedforce.” Basically, he can alter how time appears to pass for him. So he can slow down enough to be able to figure out what he’s doing, but he can also speed read an entire book without having it feel like it took him hours.
This is opposed to someone like Quicksilver, who basically always feels like the world around him is going in slow motion.
True, the math in this case doesn’t work. There’s a somewhat comparable example in the Injustice Gods comic:
Led Luthor keeps a speedster - Jesse Quick, I think - on retainer to instantly whisk him to shelter in case of nuclear attack. He survives but she goes out again to rescue others and dies in the attempt.
Disney comics dealt with this once. Donald Duck got superpowers, and, to prove it, decided to run all the way around the world. It would only take a couple of minutes.
He got a couple miles on his way before he realized that it would take him the same amount of subjective time as it would a normal person! Each mile would take up the same amount of his conscious time as it would have if he didn’t have powers.
So he came back, and people laughed at him because he didn’t do what he said he could.
This is exactly what I was thinking but didn’t express correctly, thanks!
So its basically comic-book logic, thanks, that’s interesting re Quicksilver, I always got the impression Marvel superheroes were a little more restricted and realistic (for want of a better word) than DC.
