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Disregarding simple point A to point B flying in a straight line feats, what are the best quantifiable (or 'nigh-quantifiable') speed feats you've ever seen?

Quicksilver outracing radio waves.

Quicksilver dodging lightning.

Quicksilver running halfway around the world in like 90 seconds.

The first one is good.

The next two are kinda meh.

Hulk running at Iron Man

One might say, Indestructible.

DCnU Superman reading every medical book ever written in seconds. He had to turn all the pages with his hands manually. He had to find each one. And process the information.

I forgot to mention that this goes for any era ever.

Originally posted by keiththegreat
DCnU Superman reading every medical book ever written in seconds. He had to turn all the pages with his hands manually. He had to find each one. And process the information.

It seems he was reading texts on the computer as well.

Originally posted by keiththegreat
DCnU Superman reading every medical book ever written in seconds. He had to turn all the pages with his hands manually. He had to find each one. And process the information. What about old crazy Tom's book of homemade remedies?

Let's get into even bigger leagues.

Wally saving half a million people from an explosion in like a microsecond.

Flash has gone 13 trillion times faster than light

It's a helluva feat, possibly the best pure quantifiable feat in the modern comics.


I can think of better old school feats though. Golden Age Superman making his own underground cities across the entire planet, in seconds too, IIRC.


Probably the best pure speed feat I can think of is Golden Age Captain Marvel rebuilding an entire planet by himself in a panel. The planet had exploded and he was noted to put it back together before the atmosphere got too far away to reform...or something.

Superman and vartox rebuilding vartox's planet in one panel. The planet exploded and they had to travel millions of lightyears to collect every part of the planet before every molecule of oxygen on earth exploded due to a chain-reaction.

http://s4d2.turboimagehost.com/t1/14804018_supermanvartox1.jpg http://s4d2.turboimagehost.com/t1/14804023_supermanvartox2.jpg

Originally posted by sCOURGE_0
Flash has gone 13 trillion times faster than light Originally posted by CosmicComet
It's a helluva feat, possibly the best pure quantifiable feat in the modern comics.
Quantitatively he was not according to the writer.

Originally posted by abhilegend
Superman and vartox rebuilding vartox's planet in one panel. The planet exploded and they had to travel millions of lightyears to collect every part of the planet before every molecule of oxygen on earth exploded due to a chain-reaction.

http://s4d2.turboimagehost.com/t1/14804018_supermanvartox1.jpg http://s4d2.turboimagehost.com/t1/14804023_supermanvartox2.jpg

holy shit.

what year was this? and issue number?

He drew it.

Gladiator flying 100 times the speed of light.

Originally posted by carver9
Gladiator flying 100 times the speed of light.

facepalm

carver...read...

that's also a shit feat as far as flying heralds in space go.

Originally posted by CosmicComet
holy shit.

what year was this? and issue number?
Action Comics 499.

Originally posted by CosmicComet
facepalm

carver...read...

that's also a shit feat as far as flying heralds in space go.

That's the best "quantifiable" speed ft.

It's quantifiable at 100 x speed of light.

Which means quantifiably its very unimpressive for his 'weight class'.

Originally posted by CosmicComet
It's quantifiable at 100 x speed of light.

Which means quantifiably its very unimpressive for his 'weight class'.

It's more impressive than time and distance imo. I can easily bring up him crossing Galaxies in mid sentence but I don't believe in time and distance because everyone can do it, including Ms. Marvel. He has the best quantifiable ft IMO. You can agree to disagree.

Pretty sure Surfer travelling a light year in a fraction of a second to grab the gauntlet of Thanos' hand is fairly quantifiable and much better than 100 X light speed.

I mean sure we can't know the exact time, but considering it was, at most a second, that's much, much faster than 100 x light speed.

Originally posted by carver9
I don't believe in time and distance

This is why H1a8 and you can never be friends.

And why Bada will be around soon to ban you, for denying the existence of him and his scaly kind.

Originally posted by abhilegend
Superman and vartox rebuilding vartox's planet in one panel. The planet exploded and they had to travel millions of lightyears to collect every part of the planet before every molecule of oxygen on earth exploded due to a chain-reaction.

http://s4d2.turboimagehost.com/t1/14804018_supermanvartox1.jpg http://s4d2.turboimagehost.com/t1/14804023_supermanvartox2.jpg
To show just how fast they were going, here is Vartox's planet blowing up nigh instantly after the oxygen atom started blowing up in its atmosphere.

http://s4d2.turboimagehost.com/t1/14808115_vartoxplanet.jpg

Now that same thing was going to happen on earth when Vartox came to earth.

http://s4d2.turboimagehost.com/t1/14808095_vartoxexplains.jpg

So it was a really short length of time where superman and vartox traveled millions of lightyears.

Originally posted by abhilegend
To show just how fast they were going, here is Vartox's planet blowing up nigh instantly after the oxygen atom started blowing up in its atmosphere.

http://s4d2.turboimagehost.com/t1/14808115_vartoxplanet.jpg

Now that same thing was going to happen on earth when Vartox came to earth.

http://s4d2.turboimagehost.com/t1/14808095_vartoxexplains.jpg

So it was a really short length of time where superman and vartox traveled millions of lightyears. That's the gayest costume ever.

I imagine Carver dons a costume like that when he's working the streets.

Originally posted by Branlor Swift
That's the gayest costume ever.

I imagine Carver dons a costume like that when he's working the streets.
Inorite.

http://www.heromachine.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/Sean-Connery-in-Zardoz.jpg

"Like looking into a mirror that makes me white"

- Carver

Thor flying upside-down via THE HULK ***** SLAP EXPRESS

HAHA.

Originally posted by abhilegend
Inorite.

http://www.heromachine.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/Sean-Connery-in-Zardoz.jpg ha zardoz. I actually liked that movie. I like the sci-fi trash genre

Tom Strange jumps from his world to earth:
http://www.turboimagehost.com/p/16384738/2.jpg.html
http://www.turboimagehost.com/p/16384739/3.jpg.html
http://www.turboimagehost.com/p/16384740/4.jpg.html
http://www.turboimagehost.com/p/16384741/5.jpg.html

Tom is from an alternate earth(dubbed 'Terra Obscura') that resides on "the far side of the Milky Way":
http://www.turboimagehost.com/p/16384743/6.jpg.html

That's why it is noted that Tom "ran across the entire galaxy to summon help on earth":
http://www.turboimagehost.com/p/16384772/7.jpg.html

He accomplished this feat in 30 standard years:
http://www.turboimagehost.com/p/16384774/8.jpg.html


The distance from our sun(since its location is fixed/constant) to the "far side" of the Milky Way galaxy is roughly 76,000 light years. Tom spanned that distance in 30 years. This equates to him traveling over 2,500x the speed of light. Even if you cut that distance in half(38,000ly), Tom was still traveling over 1,200x the speed of light. Even if you cut THAT distance in half(19,000ly), Tom was still traveling over 600x the speed of light. Even if you cut THAT distance in half(9,500ly), Tom was still traveling over 300x the speed of light.

So even if you low-ball the feat to a meager 1/8th of the 'quoted' distance, it still equates to a very uber speed feat... Then recall that Tom attained that speed by physically jumping from one star/planet to another, and it becomes absurdly...laughably...ridiculously... impressive.

Originally posted by carver9
That's the best "quantifiable" speed ft. Quantifiable doesn't mean the speed has to be stated plainly in numbers.

It's also quantifiable if we have information like time and distance.

We're getting into really heavy territory here with you, having to divide one value to another to get the speed, but try to stay strong.

Sentry flying so fast that Thor could hardly hold his atoms together.

Yeah, I went there.

Is Phil also a raptor!?

Originally posted by Mindset
Is Phil also a raptor!?

Phil is not of this world.

Originally posted by Mindset
Is Phil also a raptor!? just a bird that eats eggs when nobody's looking

There's a joke somewhere in there, and it's about Phildo sucking dicks.

Of course they do, if the information to determine them is present. If there's not enough information to tell (which often happens) or the information we have is contradictory (which also often happens), you can't calculate it.

But if you have a guy who runs 100 miles in 1 hour, and both of those facts are clearly know, of course you can say he is running at 100 miles per hour. That's just common sense.

BA flying from the end of the universe to earth in 5000 years

She-Hulk's knickers?

Originally posted by JBL
I think that carver means that if the person who wrote the feat or story did not give a speed number, then neither can the fans of a character. There is NO way to tell how fast a character is moving by calculations or fan boosted speeds. Carvers knows 100% that gladiator was traveling at 100 times light speed, 100% quantifiable. If no speed was given, then that number would be fan boosted to millions of times light speed like certain characters get that have not one speed feat showing a given speed number of at least 10 times light speed. Example... Flash saved all those people and was claimed by people to be moving thousands of times light speed, when the writer himself stated it was just shy of light speed. even with a number it was fan boosted. 2. flash fought zoom and it was stated by the writer that the speed was light speed and not one of his friends was fast enough to help when a number is given, yet when no numbers are given, fans tend to make up speeds. To sum it up, numbers speak louder than point A to B guessing. If we guess, then characters like spiderman, ironman, rogue and a lot others are light fast by point A to point B logic. This is comics, not a college room. Real life calcalations dont work on comics. If you know the time and you know the distance.... you know the speed. By your logic I could speed and tell the cops that their ladar/radar guns are lies because distance/time doesn't calculate speed and that they would have to know and prove my speedometer was faster than the speed limit.

Originally posted by Uriel005
If you know the time and you know the distance.... you know the speed. By your logic I could speed and tell the cops that their ladar/radar guns are lies because distance/time doesn't calculate speed and that they would have to know and prove my speedometer was faster than the speed limit. Writers who write comics do not go by distance and time like Cops do. Writers do not take into consideration how fast a character is moving by judging things like real life events, they dont have radar guns aimed at comic book characters. They give numbers and such because comics dont follow real life rules. A real life spiderman or batman would never dodge a bullet fired on target at them. 95% of the fights in comics that go on for pages/issues would not last one minute if they were real life. Writers are more prone to the story than to waste time on how fast a character is going. BUT when they give you a number, it tells you something. Example. Again. Flash and Zoom were fighting at light speed. The writer made that clear as day. He also made it VERY clear that not one of flash friends could help him, in other words, the writer ( not the fans ) using light speed plainly stated that WW, MM, CM, Superman and the rest of the JLA could not match nor surpass that speed. This is with numbers, not time or distance. Distance and time has never calculated speed in a comic because writers NEVER use real life calculations when writing comics.

Do you think that writer used time and distance when flash moved all those people??? NO he used " just shy of light speed ". Use time and distance and see what number you come up with for that same moving of those people.

http://www.stardestroyer.net/Empire/Essays/Analysis.html