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Batman/Superman: World's Finest #17 - "Showdown" (2023)
written by Mark Waid art by Dan Mora & Tamra Bonvillain
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the Flash Vs. AMAZO, from Justice League: the Nail, Vol. 1 # 2, Written and Illustrated in Pencil by Alan Davis, with Inks by Mark Farmer, Colors by Patricia Mulvihill, Letters by Patricia Prentice, and Editing by Mike Carlin.
As I understand it, the Speedforce is essentially the governing energy source for all motion. Meaning that the Flash is (essentially) the God of Motion.
Barry is able use that energy to traverse time, dimensions, space, to bring people with him, or to reach into the brain of an Android designed to kill his entire team, and just push it out of the android’s head. An Android capable of giving the entire league a hell of a fight at the same time, and Barry beat it by himself. In Crisis on Infinite Earths, Barry destroyed the Anti-Monitor by running in a circle around him so fast that it reversed the anti-matter composition of the entity on a molecular level. Think about that.
And Wally West is even more powerful than Barry. Wally has been described as having a more direct connection to the Speed Force than Barry. Barry was given his powers by way of a lab accident. Whereas Wally was born with his, and he has gotten more powerful as he has grown into them.
Wally once used the Glimmer’s Hyper-Wheel as a treadmill to get himself up to a speed described as “Faster than Light Squared”. The Hyper-Wheel did not increase Wally’s speed, it just gave him the running room to get up to speed. Wally used that Speed to Fax himself from a world beyond the Source Wall, all the way back to Earth. And, Wally brought Aquaman and Green Lantern with him when he did it.
Here are some quick mathematical facts: The speed of light is approximately 186,282.4 miles per second (It is approximate because of a variety of reasons, but the number serves my purposes). As a matter of comparison, the Earth’s circumference -measured along the Equator- is 24,901 miles. Traveling at the speed of light, the Flash can circle the globe on the equator 7.4809 times in the same amount of time it takes for you and I to say the word “alligator”.
7 and ½ times around the equator in one second, and that is not even his top speed.
the Flash is one of the most powerful people in the DCU, but he is just so good natured that nobody would ever think of him that way.
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Justice League: The Nail #2 by Alan Davis, Mark Farmer,Patricia Mulvihill and Patricia Prentice
DC
One of my favorite examples of how powerful the Flash really is. Dude just straight-up aced a robot designed to fight the entire League by himself.
Flash is maybe the most powerful member of the entire league. His powers functionally make him the god of motion.
AMAZE-O*, by Darwyn Cooke. *this was published on page # 21 of Darwyn's 'SOLO' issue*.
The Flash by Ryan Sook.
-A lot of people don’t get this, but the Flash is WAY up there in the power levels department. He could very easily kill Superman. In fact, I’m kinda hard pressed to think of ANYONE in JLA that the Flash couldn’t make short work of. In JLA: the Nail (Alan Davis Elseworlds Story), the Flash defeats Amazo by himself. He simply vibrates his hand through Amazo’s head and pulls his brain out. That has nothing to do with Elseworlds. That’s simply a different, more ruthless use of his powers. Barry Allen defeated the anti-monitor by vibrating his machine out of sync with reality. He also used to regularly teleport the entire team to different Earths and different times. In JLA: Rock of Ages, Wally West used a treadmill to reach a speed described as “Faster Than Light Squared”. He only used the treadmill because he was bringing Green Lantern and Aquaman with him on a trip from the other end of the Universe, back to Earth. The Flash can get to those speeds on his own, he just needs the room to do so (a treadmill makes this easier.)
He can also speed read and retain the knowledge for varying amounts of time (Bart Allen was the only Flash that could keep the knowledge he read.) For example, Batman once told the Flash to read the Internet and check for any unusual activity. The Internet. All of it. The Flash did it. He can also lend speed to others if need be.
If the Flash wanted to Kill Superman, he could simply vibrate himself to the point of being invisible (even to Superman) and then reach into the Kryptonian’s chest and pull his heart out, or replace it with a piece of Kryptonite, etc. Whereas if Superman wanted to kill the Flash, he wouldn’t have an easy time of it. All of Superman’s powers involve him having physical contact with the Flash… And he can’t, unless Flash decides to let him.