• boobs@lemmy.world
    4 months

    Not being an expert on the lore, I’d be willing to bet it exists solely for merchandising

  • Lushed_Lungfish@lemmy.caEnglish
    4 months

    For picking up chicks. Dude may be the fastest man alive but no lady gonna give him the time of day unless he got a sweet ass ride.

  • DaddleDew@lemmy.world
    4 months

    I imagine that his perception of time is also affected when he uses his super speed. Yes, he can run from one side of the continent to the other and back in a fraction of a second. But from his perspective, he just ran nonstop for an entire month.

    • sbv@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      4 months

      Subjectively, a stop light or stop sign must feel like an eternity for this guy. Or conversations, for that matter.

      • hayvan@piefed.worldEnglish
        4 months

        There is a storyline about Quicksilver constantly being frustrated because of how slow everything and everyone is.

      • FrChazzz@lemmus.orgEnglish
        4 months

        I used to think about this way too much. The answer is the Speed Force, the power that various Flashes tap into. So he can move around like a normal person fine. When he wants to go fast, he taps into the Speed Force. He’s not like Quicksilver, who is just fast all the time and has to actually physically slow his body to have a normal conversation, etc. So, I’m sure it’s frustrating because he knows he can just use the Speed Force to do things, but he’s not necessarily perceiving time differently on a regular basis.

    • scrion@lemmy.world
      4 months

      It’s canon that he can alter the speed at which information is processed / how he perceives the flow of time / events.

      • SaraTonin@lemmy.world
        4 months

        But does that alter his ability to do things at speed? If he does all the housework in s second, can he make it feel like a second, or does the fact that he has to pay attention to what he’s doing mean that subjectively it takes just as long as doing it at normal speed?

        • GraniteM@lemmy.world
          4 months

          I think of it being like how a pro golfer does like a dozen things in the split second it takes them to swing a gold club, and they all have to be perfectly coordinated, but they really don’t think of each and every little movement in sequence as it happens.

          • Buddahriffic@lemmy.world
            4 months

            That’s muscle memory, which is different because it doesn’t require reacting to different things during the process like cleaning a house would.

    • NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone
      4 months

      Spider-man had a spiderbuggy that could drive up walls and hop between buildings, later used more practically by Deadpool, who can’t innately do any of those things.

      • Buddahriffic@lemmy.world
        4 months

        His body and everything else around him can handle it, so why not a bike? Like at a certain point, he’d be accelerating fast enough to just step out of his shoes and costume from his leg movement. Though he’s often shown going from a standstill to moving faster than your eyes can follow, which should probably leave his clothes behind.

        Probably bits of his body, too. Like the iterarions of him that could hit or exceed the speed of light are moving fast enough that running into air would probably feel more like a cement wall, plus a bunch of ionization effects just from the sheer friction.

        There’s that ask xykd about a baseball being thrown at some high portion of c and iirc, the conclusion was that everyone in the stadium and in some radius of it would die and that was just for a baseball. A full person would be an order of magnitude bigger. Even The Boys didn’t quite get it right in their premiere, it would have been more violent than just his gf getting vapourized (though not sure that guy was going close to c, so it might not be “everyone within 100m of him dies when he runs”, but he wouldn’t need to run into someone to affect them at “just” faster than you can follow with your eyes).

        • SkyezOpen@lemmy.world
          4 months

          Speed force. That’s it. There’s a magical power called the speed force and I don’t know the details but the bottom line is it lets then handwave literally anything related to going fast.

          • TheOakTree@lemmy.zip
            4 months

            My understanding of most Flash material is that he runs fast but then meets villains who run faster so then they have a fast-off and then the Flash unlocks new fast-ness to be faster than the villain. This keeps happening until they are basically breaking space-time.

  • PDFuego@lemmy.world
    4 months

    He also bought a van once, but that was when he was single and it was for uh… other stuff.

  • snek_boi@lemmy.ml
    4 months

    Doesn’t Flash just wanna cruise sometimes? Also, it’s probably great after workouts

  • Possibly Maybe@lemmy.world
    4 months

    Didn’t one of the variations of Flash burn calories when he used his powers. The dude was always eating.

    • FrChazzz@lemmus.orgEnglish
      4 months

      I feel like it was a distinctively Wally West thing. They had Barry go through that in the Flash TV show, but iirc it was introduced with Wally.

  • orenj@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
    4 months

    Warframe recently added bikes you can use in normal missions. The player character already has acess to like a million other movement options that are way better than bikes in practically every environment. It makes good noises though!

  • hodgepodgin@lemmy.zip
    4 months

    tbf kids don’t employ logic when playing. to them it’s just a cool bike with a recognizable character