This is Pre Reboot Wally. If he had the power gem with CIS/CIP off, who can beat him (no one can take the gem from him). The rules for this is, whoever you chose has to be grounded...no flying or levitating.
No beings like LT can be picked either...the limit is people in Galactus tier.
can anyone contend with that sashay. only if you think Runner's getting the space/time gem. Power Gem would make it so all Wally has to do is tag Runner and if Wally uses the PG to boost his Speed Force as well as his strength there is no stopping him from steam rolling a grounded runner.
Here's one most of you probably don't know- Agent M, from Fred Perry's Gold Digger.
He's sort of the Superman analog of that world, but lower-powered. No vision powers, no superspeed... what he does have, though, is time-freezing. Only for brief moments, and doing it too much too fast hurts him, but it's like, freeze, villain's handcuffed without knowing what's going on.
Storm managed to BFR him.
Her cold winds and ice ALMOST managed to take him down before that.
Colossus proved utterly helpless against him, though.
Smashed in the face by Colossus, Shaw smashed Colossus back.
KICKED full force in the face by Colossus, Shaw slung Colossus around like a rag doll and knocked him out.
He laughed off Cyclops' optic beams, gained enough energy from Nightcrawler merely juggling him to knock Nightcrawler out, and, more recently, escaped a prison after near-complete depowerment by ...
hitting himself in the head for several hours with a book.
Not an easy to handle opponent. I'm considering what happens if Flash rushes in with an I.M.P. the way most people suggest a CISless forum Flash would and thinking Shaw would have energy enough to literally destroy Earth if that kind of treatment continued for any length of time...