If Flash takes the first move, he could knock Hals head off in one go.
But if there's any time to react then there's a potentially limitless number of ways for GL to win.
He could crush Flash, or fire heat seeking light speed green missiles at him from his ring, lol.
Or he could open up a huge portal to another dimension that swallows everything in the area except himself.
The power of the GL ring is awesome.
But would he have the time to use it, that's the question?
Yes, it just depends on the scenario. Is it all out battle? Is deception allowed? If Hal can deceive or distract Flash perhaps he can use his powers to win in any of the numerous ways I mentioned or ZephroCarnelian mentioned.
But this "greater than lightspeed" stuff make Flash so fast as to be almost uninteresting. It is one thing to be a speed based superhero, it as another to be faster than thought. Still to communicate he needs to go talk at the speed of other humans, so distraction is a possibility.
Unless he is so fast that even while distracted his reaction time is so great that GL couldn't enclose him in a box or bubble.
That would just be too good. He'd be up there wiht Spiderman if he had such reaction time. Oh, wait!!! He does!! lol
It's a cointoss, ladies and gentlemen, and Zephro (😉). Who goes first, how does GL go at this, does he allow an offence from the other side, does he attack the bucket, who won the pheonix-San game last night? All this is what decides the outcome of this bout. (seriously. who won?)
Originally posted by seaapple
I guess to get Flash you pretty much have to vaporize the planet. Since he is faster than light and thought any attack on the Earth won't work then...
Well, there are some that can match his speed (Zoom, Zoom-powered Cheetah are some recent examples) and others who are so consumed with defeating him (his entire rogues gallery) that they find ways to balance their bouts.
Hal 7/10.
GLs already have an auto-forcefield surrounding thier body, so a speed blizt--even if it takes him by surprise wouldn't KO him.
Also, look at the recent JLA arc vs. the CSA. Power Ring trapped Flash in a ball of energy for quite some time, and Flash only got out by running into something so hard that he broke his nose!
I'm sure if PR could do it then Hal could too...even though Flash should be leader of the JLA considering that with his powers (if written to thier full potential) he should be able to take down the JLA by himself. Like others have said though, it makes for boring reading.
I thought the auto defense system was basically a life saving thing... If something is going to kill the GL, it turns on. I think Hal's been punched through a planet before, and one ring tried (and almost succeeded) in saving an entire species when their native planet blew up, because it couldn't tell the difference between the GL and his kinsmen. It was something like 3 billion people. I don't think that even an IMP will get through the life saving function, but Flash could probly KO Hal real fast. Then again, Hal just isn't the type to get hit by a simple speed blitz, he's worked with Flash plenty of times, he'd probly expect it and be able to counter. Wally moves at 99% of the speed of light. Any faster and he enters the speedforce, which usually chucks him through time.
The Infinity Mass Punch is an overrated myth.
When Flash fought Zum, he had to run around the earth twice to increase his inertial mass, granting him enough force to perform a punch that sent his opponent flying hundreds of miles away. Nowhere in the comic does Flash, or the narration, or anyone else say that Flash's mass was increased to infinity. That in itself would defy logic, considering that there is a finite amount of matter in the universe. Mass is constant, and it is accompanied by proportional gravity. If Flash's mass was infinite, the universe itself would have collapsed upon him.
Flash can't just perform an "infinity mass punch" straigth off the blocks either. He had to run around the Earth twice to gain enough force to perform an attack that didn't even seriously injure his opponent. Running around the Earth twice, even at the speed of light, would take at least 0.26 seconds, and that's not even considering the large factor that acceleration would play. That's about 260 milliseconds. Hal could certainly react in that length of time. Any human could.
Originally posted by Cosmic Cube
The Infinity Mass Punch is an overrated myth.When Flash fought Zum, he had to run around the earth twice to increase his inertial mass, granting him enough force to perform a punch that sent his opponent flying hundreds of miles away. Nowhere in the comic does Flash, or the narration, or anyone else say that Flash's mass was increased to infinity. That in itself would defy logic, considering that there is a finite amount of matter in the universe. Mass is constant, and it is accompanied by proportional gravity. If Flash's mass was infinite, the universe itself would have collapsed upon him.
Flash can't just perform an "infinity mass punch" straigth off the blocks either. He had to run around the Earth twice to gain enough force to perform an attack that didn't even seriously injure his opponent. Running around the Earth twice, even at the speed of light, would take at least 0.26 seconds, and that's not even considering the large factor that acceleration would play. That's about 260 milliseconds. Hal could certainly react in that length of time. Any human could.
nice post. ✅
Originally posted by Cosmic Cube
The Infinity Mass Punch is an overrated myth.When Flash fought Zum, he had to run around the earth twice to increase his inertial mass, granting him enough force to perform a punch that sent his opponent flying hundreds of miles away. Nowhere in the comic does Flash, or the narration, or anyone else say that Flash's mass was increased to infinity. That in itself would defy logic, considering that there is a finite amount of matter in the universe. Mass is constant, and it is accompanied by proportional gravity. If Flash's mass was infinite, the universe itself would have collapsed upon him.
Flash can't just perform an "infinity mass punch" straigth off the blocks either. He had to run around the Earth twice to gain enough force to perform an attack that didn't even seriously injure his opponent. Running around the Earth twice, even at the speed of light, would take at least 0.26 seconds, and that's not even considering the large factor that acceleration would play. That's about 260 milliseconds. Hal could certainly react in that length of time. Any human could.