Quicksilver can only get to the speed of sound. Flash can get to speeds approaching the speed of light. Because he's super uber annoyingly DC like that.
well in the DC world quicksilver would get so torn up it wouldnt even be funny, but in the marvel world the flash cant tap into the speed force tere for has no where to get his speed
The Flash: Has regularly ran at light speed, and in some occasions have surpassed this speed by merging with the Speed Force (being able to even transverse time, at first with a time-machine treadmill and later on just by simply speeding through it).
The speed of light in meters per second = 299 792 458 m / s.
QuickSilver: Normal speed 145-300 miles an hour, coming close to Mach speed with effort. After getting a speed-boost with Isotope-E he can now reach Mach 5-10 level speeds.
The speed of sound in meters per second = 340.29 m / s
The Flash could literally go home, take a bath, cook a meal, wash the dishes, feed the dog, feed the parakeets, circumnavigate the globe a couple hundred times, and learnt to speak Gujurati - all before QuickSilver could have run 10 miles.
This is not a competition.
Quicksilver is nowhere as fast as the flash. They are not even close.
The speed of light in miles per second is 186,000 miles per second.
The speed of sound on the other hand, in miles per second, is 0.2 miles per second (yep, that slow once you convert it to miles per second). Can you compare 186,000 miles per second with 0.2 miles per second?
You tell me, what chance would Quicksilver have.
BTW: Quicksilver cannot move as fast as lightning. Not even close.
According to the Marvel Directory he can:
Quicksilver has been timed at speeds of up to 175 miles per hour, approximately three times faster than the fastest land animal, the cheetah. He has sufficient energy reserves to enable him to run at this average speed for about four hours, whereupon he must reduce his speed, replenish his body's store of energy, or do both. .
I believe the Hulk can run faster than that.
Later on he came in contact with Isotope-E, which now enables him to reach Mach speed.
You asked for the speed of lightning. The speed of lightning, that oscillates around 93,000 miles per second.
That is almost as fast as the speed of light (although almost is relative since there is a big difference in the actual speeds). And again, QuickSilver cannot run as fast as lightning.
Ok Thank you. They should changeQuicksilver's costume then. Put a car on it because that is how fast he is. he's as fast as automobile. Flash would win if that's the case.
Also note that DC always over-powers their characters. For example in JLA:Trial By Fire the Flash evacuated a whole Korean city by taking the people in ones and twos to a nearby hill. He did this in 0.0001 of a second ......just after a nuclear bomb detonated!
Evacuating a whole city, by taking the people in ones and twos, in a fraction of a second, and taking them far enough to be safe from an exploding nuclear missile.
QuickSilver could never DREAM of doing that.
By the way this excerpt i got from another source might help. It shows a ranking of speedsters based on top speeds as well as operational speeds. (By the way, there are at least 10 more other speeders i can think of - 8 of them being connected to the Speed force - that were not included, but this list is basically quite complete).
BTW: QuickSilver is not to be found anywhere. He just doesn't have the oomph to even register when compared to some of these guys.
P.s: Here is another site that has a list of speedsters connected to the speedforce (it even shows a gif of the race between the Flash and QuickSilver .....which the Flash won easy). The URL for the site is: http://www.hyperborea.org/flash/wally.html
Anyways, here is the copied list of speedsters + explanations:
TOP SPEEDS
Nothing but running the fastest.
1. Wally
2. Barry
3. Max
4. Bart
5. Savitar
6. Zoom II
7. Superman
8. Jay
9. Jesse Quick
Explanation:
The Ultimate measures of speed are:
1. Crossing the Speed Force barrier.
2. Beating Instantaneous Travel.
Wally's done both (for the second, refer to "The Human Race" arc). Barry's done it ONCE (before he died, entering the Speed Force and becoming the lightning bolt that caused his accident). Max is able to bounce off the Speed Force barrier at will and break the Time Travel barrier. Bart was able to bring Max to the Speed Force barrier and fight Inertia there. Savitar, despite his mastery of Speed Force powers, couldn't came up against the barrier once, and only broke through with help. Outside of travelling in the Speed Force, we're talking about real-world operational speeds, where Zoom is king, followed by Superman (capable of breaking the light-speed barrier like Jay, just not the Speed Force barrier). Jay, AFAIK, has only ever broken into the Speed Force with help from Wally. When he raced Superman recently, he would have lost on stamina if he hadn't stolen Superman's speed. AFAIK, Jesse never made it into the Speed Force dimension without Wally.
Edit: To clarify Jay and Jesse have made it into the Speed Force before (while Wally wasn't immediately present), however this is akin to Wally's powers as Kid Flash when Barry was present. An on-going theory was that Barry subconsciously streamed Speed Force to Wally when he was Kid Flash, part of the explanation for why Wally lost a lot of his power upon Barry's death.
OPERATING SPEED
A list of the fastest speedsters without crossing over into the Speed Force dimension:
1. Zoom II
2. Wally
3. Superman/Barry/Savitar
4. Bart/Max/Jay/Jesse
While still operating in our world (not entering into the Speed Force), Zoom's the fastest... however it's hard to say whether his form of "speed" counts. Wally, when completely mainlining the Speed Force (Formula included), was able to match Zoom, if only temporarily. Barry and Savitar have base-line operating speeds equal to Wally not completely mainlining. Superman is on their level, but ONLY flying intergalatically in space. On the ground, Superman has slower operating speeds for 2 reasons: 1. He has no aura to protect the world from him (his speed would damage the planet). 2. His response times aren't as fast making it hard to call it "operating" speed. The remaning speedsters are all about on par, off a little due to things like age, experience, etc.
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