CosmicComet
Senior Member
Originally posted by Endless Mike
It's absolutely possible to have super speed reactions without the movement speed to accompany them, a Jedi in Star Wars can run at around 40 mph tops using Force Speed but they can react to and deflect projectiles moving at hypersonic speeds or faster. In the ROTS novelization Obi-Wan was able to deflect blasts from 10,000 droids at once, and it said he moved his lightsaber so fast it looked like a solid dome of light around him.
It is absolutely IMPOSSIBLE logically. Reaction speed is half based on how fast your muscles move and half based on how fast you perceive a stimulus.
It doesn't matter if some fictions don't know any better and create a nonsensical trope accidentally.
Hypersonic reactions, yet slower than a cheetah. Think about that implication. Obi Wan's arms move thousands and thousands of times faster than his legs eh? So if there was a time dilation in place where hypersonic speed would look like normal speed, then you mean to say Obi Wan's arms would look like their moving at normal speed yet his legs would be seemingly frozen in spot, correct? No? That's right. No. Because that means his legs would be useless in a fight and he'd never do anything other than stay in one spot for duels because his own legs would be too slow for him to even perceive that they are even moving. If his legs are able to move during that time dilation then it instantly contradicts the stupid 40 mph stat. If he can fully stretch his arm in the time frame of say a 100 microseconds (just a rough guesstimate) and he can take a step with his feet during the same time frame (the same way any normal person can take a step forward in the same time frame it takes to throw a punch) then his movement speed is ALREADY immensely faster than 40 mph. All he has to do is keep taking steps and before one real time second has passed, he'll have already crossed miles.
Unless a writer specifically lays out the claim that X can 'react' this fast and only 'move' Y fast (which is still retarded because reacting IS moving), then one of the two situations it creates is simple PIS. You have to discard one or the other.
As for Hulk, has super speed reaction of course, because he has some degree of super speed, but his super speed reactions cannot greatly exceed his running speed. At best two or three times better.