Wally now wears a costume made of concentrated speed force energy. Unable to wait for both broken legs to heal and inspired by a then-recent Justice League case, he gained enough control over the speed force to create a costume which would support him and enable him to run despite his injury (Flash #131, 1997).
Overview: There is little doubt today that Wally West is considered to be one of the fastest living things on the face of the Earth. There are a few superhumans who can sustain levels of superhuman speed on par with the Flash. Superman, Captain Marvel, and Impulse can reach speeds that can compare with the Flash, but few other than Impulse have the wide range of powers available to the Flash.
After Wally's adjustment, Wally's powers began to increase and eventually approach their previous levels. Recently, Wally West has reached new speed plateaus and is actually believed to have passed beyond into the Speed Dimension, the now-believed source of many speedsters powers. After his cross-over into this dimension, Wally seemed to possess all of the powers of his predecessors and a range of abilities never before exhibited by any Flash.
Powers:
Speed Force Aura: The Flash's body is surrounded by what he calls his "speed force aura". This aura protects him and anyone who is running with him or carried by him, from the effects of using his speed. This includes friction and airborne particulate matter. It may also protect him from injury from high speed impacts such as punches he delivers and receives from his opponents. He does seem to possess some level of superhuman resistance to injury but this does not extend far past normal physical interactions, as received from normal combat.
Molecular Control: The Flash's powers allow him to perform a number of speed-related feats. The Flash has always possessed the ability to control his speed and angular momentum at the MOLECULAR level, and control his molecular interactions to allow his body to pass through any substance. There have been only a few superdense materials that the Flash has not been able to penetrate with this power. Certain forcefields also seem to negate this power. His power allow him to run along the surface of bodies of water and up the sides of buildings.
Increased Perceptions: The Flash possesses the ability to alter his perceptions so that falling objects can appear to be standing still and can be caught and moved back to their normal position. He can do this so quickly as to have it happen invisibly to the normal human eye. The Flash's reaction time is so increased as to perform feats of speed such as removing the momentum from bullets and fast moving objects thrown at him or at others.
Supercharged Brain Activity: The Flash's mental abilities are also increased in speed, simple computations can be done at lightning speeds, and his ability to perform normal feats at increased speeds has allow him to build hundreds of force field generators in a matter of hours, move sandbags to cover a beach or search an entire area for something as small as a paper clip. Wally can also read as superspeed, but rarely takes advantage of his ability to learn at increased speeds, although, Jay Garrick has done so and has become a jack of all trades in several disciplines and languages.
Super Speed Running: It appears that the Flash may run at any speed that he thinks is possible, but there may be physical limits to his speed. Theorectically, speeds greater than Mach 10, are dangerous to the people and to the environment. This speed would still be the equivalent to approximately 128 miles per second; allowing him to cross the United States in about 23 seconds, or circle the world in about 3 minutes. The Flash rarely achieves such speed in populated areas due to the effects of sonic disruptions and air displacements. His cruising speeds are probably around 90-150 miles per hour (1.5 - 2.5 miles per second). This is fast enough to move through most cities and around people without causing too much disruption to the population and slow enough for him to register everything he sees clearly. If he choses, Wally can approach the speed of light, and doing so, enters the Speed Force dimension. If he chooses to continue to run at light speed, he can use the Speed Force dimension for a form of haphazard Time Travel.
Sharing the Force: Since his interaction with the Speed Force, he may also lend his speed and angular momentum to another object or person. This may allow others to run alongside with the Flash. He may still allow his molecular structure to pass through object but now after he passes through an object, the object is now supercharged with a chaotic energy, and explodes seconds after his passing through it. His range of powers seems to have been increased significantly and he is now the fastest Flash to have ever lived. If he shares the Speed Force with another meta with superspeed capabilities such as Superman, that metahuman can now exceed the speed of light but does not become aware of the Speed Dimension.
Speed Feats: The Flash can also perform a variety of superspeed feats such as:
He can strike a single opponent hundreds of times in a second or multiple opponents two or three times in a second.
He can disarm, or jam any number of opponents weapons before they are even aware of his movement.
Hurl small projectiles at hypersonic velocities.
Pluck speeding projectiles from the air.
The creation of wind based vortecies that can act as barriers to movement, funnels for toxic gasses, or vacuum chambers.
He can spin his arms to create directed funnels of hurricane speed air that can knock down barriers or reduce the speed of a falling object. Now with his control of inertia, he can probably reduce the speed of a falling object directly by applying the speed force in reverse, to leech momemtum from the object.
He can run across bodies of water, up the sides of buildings, and by spinning like a helicopter, he can even perform a limited kind of flight. Since his power is a quantum/molecular phenomenon, it is theoretically possible for the Flash to be able to fly just as other metas do, (and there have been other flying speedsters in the past, such as the deceased Johnny Quick,) because he can control his absolute molecular energy and direction and force it in the direction he wished to move without running.
He can also impart molecular energy to a target to increase molecular movement, as he did against the water being called Flow, boiling him into steam for a short time
Those info are from hyperborea.org and STARNET Metahuman Database.
He's not a god-lik being like in Kingdom Come, but with his powers, if he goes mad, not crazy, and wants to kill the Earth heroes he can.
How can you attack something you cannot see?
GL, Wonder Woman, Plastic Man, Batman, gets killed.
Superman and Martian Manhunter?He can vibrate through them and make them explode.Can't he?
KC flash like exists on all dimensions at once and he patrols keystone city at all times hes so fast hes constantly vibrating or something becuase hes red and translucent. Im of course not reading this from something this is just what i remember. I remember reading like hes too fast to be stuck on one plane of existence, so thats pretty badass.
batman and mabe wonderwoman gets killed, i agree with that, but superman and green lantern? i highly doubt it, green lantern can erect a force field around himself that the flash can niether pass nor vibrate through, and super man, i just dont think that flash could vibrate through him and make a being as powerful as superman{not just physically} "explode"
Originally posted by leonheartmm
batman and mabe wonderwoman gets killed, i agree with that, but superman and green lantern? i highly doubt it, green lantern can erect a force field around himself that the flash can niether pass nor vibrate through
but does he have the shield up ALL the time??? if he doesnt... i believe the question is could he erect the shield FASTER than flash can get to him??? how would he even know when flash was comming?? i dont think he would know what hit him... literally.
actually, if there is a writer that can fully explore the flash's ability we would learn that he should be able to beat anyone.
flash fact #1: he has mach punches. all he has to do is swing his arms at whatever mach he chooses and the resulting shockwave can dust anything. that would be eqivalent to when those big guns like superman,hulk or grundy does that sonic hand clap thing.and thats if flash chooses not to hit somebody. i remember in a really old school issue of barry Allen racing superman across the world they chopped down a few trees to help out some loggers and flash leveled half a forrest with a few karate chops.
Flash fact #2: according to coventional science whenever an object approaches the speed of light, its mass increases to infinty. and whatever it collides with will be met the the force of infinty.(think, getting hit with a bullet thats thrown at you, and a bullet thats shot at you) In fact flash has used this trick before, in the first issue of the current JLA series. the trade is New World Order vol.1
so unless he's completely taken by surprise, which is impossible, or some writer apporaches with stark fanboyism and believe that just becuase a charcter is stronger he's gonna beat him, flash can beat anybody period.
if there is a writer that can fully explore the flash's ability we would learn that he should be able to beat anyone
Not really. A reality warper could alter their speed and reaction time to what it is flash has. Other beings are near the speed of flash but indesctrubile and with more powers like superman, silver surfer, gladiator etc. Cosmic beings are simply out of his class aswell.
according to coventional science
Im pretty sure that comics are not in accordance with conventional science. How do you even expect to explain how Flash's body can take punishment under such speeds or even continue to exist? The speed force is a pretty lousy explanation. Its a given that reality is suspended within comic books.
good one , thas what ive been sayin for ages, dont look at physics too much in comics, and anyway if your talkni about conventional science, ud also know that when the object's mass gets to infinite, time stops around it, n when it reaches speeds of over the speed of light, the mass goes beyond infinte n the universe cant hold it since its greater than the critical limit of the universe n the object travels through time, u cant expect flash to hit things while hes travellin through time can u, because he wont be in the same reality anymore{according to conventional science 🙂
and anyway, while looking at things that are "in accordance with conventional science" the ,mach punches dont make any sense, there are two very simple rules in physics, the first being newton's third law of motion{every action has an equal and opposite reaction}, lets say that if flash creates a shockwave from mach punches that can create enough force to destroy a whole forest then the reaction force from that will be equal to the applied force, meanind that the flash would be hit back{more accuractely the the hand flash mach punched with} by the same amount of force that destroyed a whole forest, do u think that flash could really survive that. the second is impulse, which is the amount of force u get because of the length of time over which that force was delivered, simply mass*velocity, well if flash mach punches at the speeds he is capable of{lets say the speed of light}, then the impulse would be so damn great that id be surprised if it doesnt make superman unconcious!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!, let alone flash. but since these are comics, we shouldnt look at PHYSICS too much.