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The Flash - Season 1

He's not just punching people quickly with human strength.

Imagine a friend of yours, stuck the top half of their body out a car window, and then the car charged at you at 88 mph... And then that person with their torso and fists hanging out the window, propelled at 88 miles per hour, punches you as hard as they can as the car passes where you are standing.

Is the effect on your bare chin going to be less or greater than if this friend of yours were just standing in front of you at rest and winding up for a haymaker?

Your friend would end up with a badly mangled arm/hand.
 
He's not just punching people quickly with human strength.

Imagine a friend of yours, stuck the top half of their body out a car window, and then the car charged at you at 88 mph... And then that person with their torso and fists hanging out the window, propelled at 88 miles per hour, punches you as hard as they can as the car passes where you are standing.

Is the effect on your bare chin going to be less or greater than if this friend of yours were just standing in front of you at rest and winding up for a haymaker?

Well I think that would also do quite a bit of damage to the person hanging out of the car as well. Just like water becomes as hard as concrete if you hit it too fast, a guy's face would probably become a lot harder if you hit it too fast as well.

At least I'm assuming. I'm not a physics expert and haven't done any studies on the subject. :p

Edit: Or what Sojourner said.
 
Why does Barry slow down to normal speed to fight?

(Quicksilver in Days of Futures past anyone?)
This bothered me too. We've already seen him dance circles around Iris with her appearing almost frozen... Perhaps he can only do it while aroused? :lol:

I'm still not exactly sure how Quicksilver was able to make people punch themselves simply by aiming their fists towards their faces. Did he somehow put their fists into motion as well?
 
I'm still not exactly sure how Quicksilver was able to make people punch themselves simply by aiming their fists towards their faces. Did he somehow put their fists into motion as well?

Well, yes. By moving their fists in the direction of their faces, he imparted them with momentum. They therefore kept going after he let go of them, even though their motion was slowed down in "Quicksilver-vision."
 
When he repositioned people, the were already moving, and they were being repositioned at 400 mph, so when le let go, the speeds of whatever he was repositioning probably dropped down to 60 mph, which means it looks like they were still, but it was still a hyper accelerated fist.

...

Original timeline before Wells.

How did Barry get his powers?

Was the collider mismanaged to explosion by someone else, or even the "real" Wells?

Or did the Flash NOT get his powers from the collider?

Or maybe the flash got different (lesser) powers without the collider?

Two things can happen at the same time.
 
Interesting episode. I don't remember Jamie Madrox being a DC villain.

Madrox and Multiplex are two different characters. Madrox is Marvel.

Not sure if this has been mentioned, but does anyone thing that Caitlin's dead boyfriend Ronnie will turn out to be one half of Firestorm?

I should have put a smiley or a winky at the end of my post, which was meant to be facetious. I know Multiple Man but had never heard of Cineplex until Tuesday night.
 
I so loved this second episode of The Flash. It was fantastic, well acted and had real emotion. I though it was actually better then the pilot and I liked the pilot a lot. I hope the show can keep this level of entertainment.
 
I wonder if Wells has a 12 Monkeys thing going on? "It's alright to murder anyone because everyone is already dead". Which would mean that he is still possibly an antihero and not an out right villain.

I still think that it's hilarious what President Reagan did to Barry.

Put him on a treadmill for 20 years, clocking just shy of light speed, to power the national power grid.

Oh, Ronnie you Scamp.

(Yes it was really Luthor, but the Public thought that it was Reagan.)
 
I wonder if Wells has a 12 Monkeys thing going on? "It's alright to murder anyone because everyone is already dead". Which would mean that he is still possibly an antihero and not an out right villain.

I still think that it's hilarious what President Reagan did to Barry.

Put him on a treadmill for 20 years, clocking just shy of light speed, to power the national power grid.

Oh, Ronnie you Scamp.

(Yes it was really Luthor, but the Public thought that it was Reagan.)
Which book was this in?
 
Frank Miller's The Dark Knight Strikes Again, the sequel to the classic The Dark Knight Returns, is where #### got real, and the above described happened.

:)

Also, if you remember Frank Miller's All-Star Batman?

All-Star Batman was (obviously) the prequel to Dark Knight Returns, which means that Dark Knight Returns was never (retroactively) supposed to be the continuation of regular Batman continuity.

:)
 
You all really know your stuff. I am trying to recall things from my '70s 25-cent stand-alone comics era. We only had cable now because the Tigers made the playoffs; it goes back tomorrow. So I guess I won't see any more "Flash"-es, but I enjoyed what I saw.
 
Frank Miller's The Dark Knight Strikes Again, the sequel to the classic The Dark Knight Returns, is where #### got real, and the above described happened.

:)

Also, if you remember Frank Miller's All-Star Batman?

All-Star Batman was (obviously) the prequel to Dark Knight Returns, which means that Dark Knight Returns was never (retroactively) supposed to be the continuation of regular Batman continuity.

:)
Trying to forget both.
 
All-Star Batman was (obviously) the prequel to Dark Knight Returns, which means that Dark Knight Returns was never (retroactively) supposed to be the continuation of regular Batman continuity.

Retroactively, nothing. It was never intended to be the "real" future of the comics, because of course they wouldn't limit their storytelling options by locking down future events. It wasn't meant to be a direct continuation of the comics at all. It was meant to be a darkly satirical deconstruction of the comics as they existed at the time, a dystopian alternate future whose extreme and brutal nature threw the comparatively upbeat and fanciful comics of the pre-Crisis era into relief. It was essentially a forerunner to the Elseworlds graphic novels, a "What If?" scenario.

The problem is that it became so popular that the mainstream Batman comics started imitating it and making the "real" present-day stories as extreme and brutal and dystopian as TDKR, missing the fact that the story was told that way to serve a specific purpose rather than just being an end in itself. Thus creating the perception that it was a direct continuation rather than an alternate reality.
 
The problem is that it became so popular that the mainstream Batman comics started imitating it and making the "real" present-day stories as extreme and brutal and dystopian as TDKR, missing the fact that the story was told that way to serve a specific purpose rather than just being an end in itself.
What's problematic about stories getting told that people want to read?
 
Because people are shit.

Although if they really wanted to tap into what people wanted, Batman could easily be murder porn like CSI or Law and Order without much jiggering or shuffling at all.
 
I really enjoyed the episode. I don't remember any specific comments since it's been almost a week.
I didn't realize Multiplex was a comics character until you guys mentioned it up thread. Looking him up, I see he was a Firestorm villain, which would explain why I didn't recognize him since I'm not familiar with Firestorm.
 
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