Philosophía
"The devil made me do it"
Originally posted by abhilegend
Yes, I disagree with that logic, "speed steal" is just not that potent in comics.Of course he can, he has already beaten total shut down of his body, has gone through heat death of universe. Wally? Can't even drain the momentum of a space ship fully.
How about that.
If there's anything that objectively shows the comparison between Superman and Flash, it's Wally struggling to speed steal a falling ship while Superman goes through the heat death of the Universe 👆
It's not Wally flat-out saying that he can steal all of Superman's kinetic energy and leave him for dead:
https://i.imgur.com/ubRy0U6.jpg
It's not Wally invisibly controlling Superman's [alongside a shitload of other heroes] speed:
https://i.imgur.com/4pTAmux.jpg
It's not Jay stealing Supes speed:
https://imgur.com/a/QjHslHk
It's not Wally stealing and redirecting Superman, Jay and Wonder Woman's speed:
https://imgur.com/a/wmyCLRe
It's not Wally speed-stealing the combined kinetic energy stress that Superman, Wonder Woman and Martian Manhunter combined put on Earth:
https://imgur.com/a/hQGqWby
It's not verge-of-death Wally speed stealing Amazo's speed, who explicitly retaliated too fast for Superman
https://qph.fs.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-6df0ad0f94f89c8d3638a5007f09c83f.webp
https://i.imgur.com/8hDQchE.jpg
Obviously, direct statements, speed-steals and speed manipulations of Superman directly don't really matter.
The fact of the matter is, there is no binary here. It's not "Flash steals Superman's speed and leaves him a statue for all of eternity" or "Superman just shruggs it off". The point is that Wally has the capability [both said and done] to steal Superman's speed -- whether he gets him from 100% speed to 10% speed or 0% speed [all the while, Wally is amping his own speed], and then randomly allows Superman back up to 30% or whatnot and doesn't keep absorbing is semantics -- point is, Superman won't be able to do anything to him, since he simply will never be allowed to be fast enough in order to do anything.
If Flash is 100 and Superman is 95, Wally can, at his own leisure, put him anywhere from 0 to 10 whenever he feel like it, IMP him, jog around, and then do it all again. Superman breathing hard won't do anything to change that.