Me and a friend of mine has been talking about this for a while and I just wanted to know what you all think. Sometime I get a little confused with this, I say that surfer dont have combat speed and someone put up a post of him flying across the universe at tremendous speed.
the ability to move at tremendous speeds in a straight line, does not mean that same character can move at tremendous speeds whilst actively fighting an opponent.
See combat speed has a lot to do with how fast one can move thier hands and legs. The surfer doesn't use his legs to move. He pushes along on his board. Superman, flies far faster than his legs run. Flash can actually run faster than superman can fly. thus flash has the fastest combat speed in DC.
So answer this, is it possible for someone to make short burst of light speed flight but is unable to fully fly light speed (I know theres another way to ask this).
Is it possible for a character to be able to have faster then light combat speed but theyre unable to fly faster then light.
oh, but then... Surfer travels at FTL speeds in "straight-lines" only?
my point was that the feat was hyperbole. it wasn't instantaneous, it was faster than teleportation. I think there's a Surfer scan where he does just that too.
Surfer's reaction speeds are far beyond C speeds, his flight requires that he be capable of such reaction speeds, or else he'd be long dead or constantly smashing through planets because he got bounced by an asteroid or a passing Celestial...
janus, you go by comic showings of the character, and surfer has had many many horrible showings of combat reaction speed, while having good showings of high traveling speed.
If you have a long enough range of vision, or cosmic senses, you would know when to alter your course. Which is not at all the same as something suddenly appearing in front of you and you reacting to it.
we're talking moving objects crossing his path when he's already at many multiples of C (which he achieves near enough instantaneously).
regardless of how long your depth of vision is, you still have to process all the information whilst travelling at >>> C, because your course changes when you navigate the obstacles - seeing new obstacles that were obscured initially.
Surfer's also scanned the whole planet in the time it took Strange to complete a sentence. attacked cities around the Earth in a few panels...
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