Originally posted by h1a8
There is no choosing involved. We are simply taking what the writer's gives us. If they say that one's mass increases as they approach c then that is what it is. No need to choose.
in one breath you're saying it is based off special relativity. in the next you are saying go by what the character says. great, except....
what the character says DOES NOT EQUAL special relativity. you can't have what he says AND what the theory implies because they are not the SAME.
arguing anything else is the height of nonsense. shall we list the characters in dc who can achieve 90% c? so ALL of them can achieve an imp with force enough to destroy GALAXIES. 😐
is that truly your stance?
here is a more simplified version--flash can run fast. when he runs fast he can hit pretty damn hard. superman hard? i'd doubt it, frankly, and if we compared punching feats i'm pretty sure it would bear itself out. infinitely hard??? that is utterly and in every way laughable.
i love getting criticized btw, for the skyfather argument (in my own case i tried to explain WHY imo a skyfather should win--CAN/HAS amped to match a speedster effortlessly, time-based powers, etc....) and yet the 'zoom never tries to really hurt heroes' argument is just fine, as is the 'just because he never has hit a quintillion times in a second with near infinite force doesn't mean he can't' argument. an even huger LULZ at even trying to pretend the odin side is extrapolating and has shown zero proof when the zoom/flash side can't even show zoom has ever thrown ONE IMP in his whole history!!
i think the fact that it has never been brought up again by writers or dc may be rather telling.... 😖hifty: