# The Flash: All I can do is run fast...

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-flash-all-i-can-do-is-run-fast/176491>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [May 21, 2003, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-flash-all-i-can-do-is-run-fast/176491 "2003-05-21T03:36:41Z")\
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**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\
**Post date:** [May 28, 2003, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-flash-all-i-can-do-is-run-fast/176491/61 "2003-05-28T18:25:25Z")

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Waitaminute… If the various Flashes and similar characters get their speed from an extra-dimensional source, doesn’t that make them magical? And doesn’t that have all sorts of implications, under the DC rules?

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**Author:** ![BMalion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e274bd/32.png) [@BMalion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BMalion)\
**Post date:** [May 28, 2003, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-flash-all-i-can-do-is-run-fast/176491/62 "2003-05-28T19:35:12Z")

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> \*Originally posted by Chronos \*  
> \*\*Waitaminute… If the various Flashes and similar characters get their speed from an extra-dimensional source, doesn’t that make them magical? \*\*

No. it makes them _scientific_.

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> And doesn’t that have all sorts of implications, under the DC rules?\*\*

DC has rules?

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