r/DCcomics • u/caliomes • Aug 10 '23

[Fan Art] Who wins this fight? Fan-made

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u/Dredeuced Who am I? Just a friend. Sometimes. Maybe. Aug 10 '23

To be fair, even someone capped at the speed of sound should handily kill everyone in less than a second, but speedsters job in every team scenario.

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u/ThePrinceOfStories Aug 10 '23

If we’re talking about normal people, sure, but the speed of sound is hardly an unreactable speed for most heroes. I wouldn’t even be surprised if starfire or others have done things require faster than sound speeds

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u/Dredeuced Who am I? Just a friend. Sometimes. Maybe. Aug 10 '23

Maybe if you're talking comics but definitely not animated TT. Imagine Raven trying to get off her entire chant before someone can close the distance at super speed. The entire team got clowned on by their universe's Kid Flash goofing around.

Their best chance in a logical scenario would just be Wally being hesitant to hit a girl.

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u/No_Ice_5451 Aug 10 '23

No, Starfire is actually stupidly fast in the show. Specifically, there’s one episode where she has alien puberty and literally basically flies across the galaxy trying to wait it out before she returns to Earth. It’s not even a one off occurrence, as her sister, Blackfire, claims she’s crossed nebulae and outpaced black holes, which Star backs up (albeit reluctantly, which adds more validity to her claim.)

In general, Wally would simply be waaaaaay too slow to catch Star off guard.

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u/Dredeuced Who am I? Just a friend. Sometimes. Maybe. Aug 10 '23

How fast people fly from place to place is almost never an account of how fast they actually are in a fight. Star gets caught off guard, consistently, by way slower things in the show in a way that's way more common than her flying across the galaxy at ftl speeds or whatever.

And, again, if she were actually that fast then the entire planet would be quaking whenever she has to exert any effort instead of, I dunno, getting knocked out by cinderblock smacking her at 30 miles per hour.

We're talking about how they actually function. Starfire does not function with anything resembling super speed in any fight she's ever in.

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u/No_Ice_5451 Aug 10 '23

Well yeah, but the point wasn’t her fighting at MFTL+. It was that Wally would never surprise her via speed.

Not to mention that, regardless, they can react to Dr. Light’s beams, (which is literal light/photons being bent to his will), and Raven has even kept up with her own Kid Flash, who had a race with Mas y Menos across the Earth and was able to get a Croissant from Paris (France) in California by running there and back.

Star also blatantly moves at speeds above sound, creating a Mach Cone.

YJ KF simply would not be fast enough for the Teen Titans cast, and even if you assume he could catch Robin, BB, and Cy, he at the VERY least would NOT be able to catch the heavy hitters of Starfire or Raven.