I actually love the character A-Train, he's a unique hybrid of what if a speedster character was treated as a professional athlete. And forced to constantly prove themselves to remain relevant. You get to see his hunger and desperation to remain at the top and that's why he's one of the most interesting and unique speedster characters to me. Also his running sound is the most satisfying
Now time for if their body gets destroy but they be like, my speed is so much i can retain my consciousness together Particle by particle , causes time to dilute resulting in revival of body as time moves backwards
I get that but at the same time he was complaining about how a short convo feels like an eternity, so I was hoping he would've used all that time to think of a plan.
@@DirkDiggler334To be fair, Omni-Man it’s fair to assume that a bloodlusted, several thousand years old, experienced, world conquering, super being that can fly fast enough to ignite a planet’s atmosphere could catch a “fast guy” off-guard. TL:DR, Red Rush messed up, Omni-Man didn’t.
when u said the reverse flash was the biggest troll, all i could think about is the "remeber when u were making out with iris" scene. really good video
In regards to Red Rush's scene with his girl. I know a lot of people are saying he called taking to her agony and had to talk his way out of it. But what I liked is that he didn't leave when she was talking, he ran off in the middle of HIS sentence after she was done talking. I think on some level he did like hearing her voice. Which makes his death sadder.
the slow motion perception that speedsters use such as A train isn't a result of him moving really fast, just his brain processes being so much faster than a normal human's. it doesn't matter how fast he goes to need to do the speedster perception thing
Yeah and for many speedsters this still works, when they stand F.e. Quicksilver was just standing in front of the explosion but time was still moving slowly
There was a moment in the more recent comics where Quicksilver’s mental limiters were removed by his sister in a type of cross, and he ran so fast that he couldn’t be tracked beyond dimensions and he was moving while time is completely stopped. This level of speed is inaccessible to him normally though.
@@Tax_evasion2004 Yes and no. While I agree Flash is still likely faster, he never truly beat Death itself in a 1v1. He simply ran so far into the future where death had no domain since all life had since been gone
@@lolstalgic9602 exactly therefor he defeated death, I'm not saying he actually 1 2 punched him but he did defeat death by going so fast he was able to exist where death wasnt. He defeated him in that sense because death was after him
To be fair, Red Rush doesn’t experience life in slow motion like other superheroes who can either trigger it, or just so hyper it FEELS like they’re in slow motion. Red Rush quite LITERALLY experiences time in milliseconds. It isn’t toggable. It’s constant.
@@DirkDiggler334 And also means when Omniman LET HIM GO AFTER HE HAD GRABBED HIS ARM, red rush had like years to move out of the way but was like "nah I wanna die anyway."
I have to say, that I HATE what they did to the character of Makari, originally Jack Kirby made that character male, but Hollywood wanted to be more inclusive and change it. I don't like that, if it isn't broke don't fix it! Just sayin'.
@@michaelkantner6420I don't think makari is iconic enough for it to matter and at least in the movie being female wasn't an incredibly important part of her character
If I was Red Rush I would be purely support. Take that save with the Immortal, now I’m doing that the whole fight. Keep the others alive. Keep them alive and they’re wearing him down.
I would imagine omniman punch the ground hard to disoriented the whole team and then uses flight to take the guardian out except for maybe immortal cause he also can fly, can't run if there are no ground (at least momentarily)
@@yeahboyz9314 thing is in one scene against the warrior gal he TANKS A HIT FROM OMNIMAN and blocks it to protect his friend, so why he didn't do this this more confuses me.
@@DirkDiggler334 And super endurance! Although, that could be another way to add limiters to speedsters. Like, because of that they have to do bursts instead of constant running, and they have to use it sparingly and tactfully, otherwise they'd end up burning their energy away. Which means most of the time they can just be a normal dude, and they have to weigh the risks and the value of the problem if it absolutely requires their speed. Plus, it's a good source of tension for story purposes.
@@DirkDiggler334if you actually stopped time, you’d need so many other abilities to even perceive the world because light needs to move and bounce so you can see, let-alone selectively put things back in motion when trying to get a free kill via stabbing and stuff It’s kinda crazy what powers people say they want without thinking about all the extra stuff they’ll need to the point they’re thinking about a different ability altogether
Red rush was amazing because he was shown to be what a speedster is really limited to and how they can be used as a useful character even if they aren’t over the top busted like the flash but regardless he was a victim of plot, because he would be too useful. He would have escaped Omni-man and told the world that he slaughtered the GotG and a whole spiral of events would happen.
Yeah plot was the only downfall if he was somehow able to push Immortal out of the way (at least in the show. i don't know how it went down in the comic), but failed to dodge getting his domepiece Nutcrackered while on high alert? And I don't wanna hear about "He was in shock and thus disadvantaged", if he could pull the move in exhibit A unprompted in the first place. Like yeah I understand sometimes characters need to lose a few brain cells for popular tropes to happen and Because Movie/Game/Book or what have you, but that's just how we like it, I suppose. Villains winning is made possible only when the heroes really stop thinking, in some instances.
Victim of plot. I don't think red rush could do anything to omni man but there is NO WAY omni man solos red rush without prep. Even if red rush makes the "mistakes" he made Omni man CANNOT catch him it's just impossible. Red Rush reacts infinitely faster to omni man than omni man reacts to him. Red rush has plenty of time to see that hand grabbing him it's not even a threat.
What I love about Quicksilver is that he isn’t some broken cosmic reality breaker like the flash, he’s just a speedster and that’s it. He’s plain and simple and that’s all he needs to be, his speed doesn’t break reality so he feels a lot more grounded compared to the usual dc speed force shenanigans
Nah his powerset literally contradicts his whole thing about not destroying the environment if he moves too fast, he is kinda lame in the comics Marvel treated Speedsters like a fcking joke for so many years, idk where did u find that grounded part, but he Marvel gave him too op power boosts in the comics without any reasonable explanation to his powers also he really has very bad comics.... as of now he is so fast that he can do dimension hopping as well as break reality, he doesn't have any aura like The Flash but somehow he doesn't vaporize everything but there is no literal or plausible explanation how he does it. So the concept of Speedforce is way more creative than getting Speed powers from a gene.
@@DirkDiggler334 Easily my favorite villain in fiction. I just love the pettiness. I kind of hope he gets his own movie or miniseries in the DCU. It could be amazning.
While I love the Quicksilver scenes, Makkari is my favourite Speedster Live Action or Animated, just love the scene of her searching the earth for Tiamut and then the scene where she punches Ikaris two dozen or so times 💜
Agreed, Makkari in Eternals was a great representation of super speed in my opinion, and there were no parts of slow motion like with almost every other speedster, which made it more unique
Those quicksilver scenes are easily my favorite out of any of the X-men movies and I feel like they are so underrated, killer video brotha keep it up!!!
Johnny Quick had a very nice portrayal in the recent Justice League Crisis on Infinite Earths animated movie. While he was a member of the Crime Syndicate he was constantly shown to have a bit of remorse and he sacrificed himself knowing that Flash can't return to his universe because they were both tapping into the speed force which made them slower.
I agree, that version was also great. But you have to wonder if things wouldn't have turned out differently if he wasn't already injured and if he knew how to vibrate to different dimensions. Then we might have said goodbye to Barry earlier ... I rewatched Crisis on Two Earths yesterday and Quicks ending ... wow. Not only great because of his characterization but also because he notes that Batman knew this would lead to Johnny's death (and Batmans simply didn't want Flash to go for that reason, which Barry of course would have done even knowing the consequences).
You should maybe talk about sonic since he is also a speedster and also Ben 10 because some of his aliens have super speed as well so I would probably include those two.
After this video I'm conviced that Thawne controls absolutely everything. Dude is pretty much the personification of determinism, combined with being the biggest simp to ever live, of course.
I like Savitar's running. Like in his POV when he runs it seems slow but he is going very fast unlike the other Speedsters who u can see are running fast.
I was just thinking last night about how in Teen Titans they introduced Mas y Menos who were speedster twins who had the unique weakness of needing to make physical contact in some way to recharge their speed. I'm honestly surprised more people haven't used them in the comics
Great video. For me the speedster run and fight scene from "Eternals" was really great in that is showed her speed from an outside pov but it still felt like insane superspeed. Really loved that
Quicksilver saving everyone and not needing appreciation just speaks on how secure he is on who he is and what he does. Dude is literally him and knows it.
WHY IS MAKARI NOT BEING MENTIONED, imo she was the best showcase of speed from a speedster. i love the quicksilver scenes in xmen i do think theyre the best scenes of a speedster because it was so cool but showcasing speed by slow motion all the time doesnt really give us a great perspective of how fast these speedsters really are.
Love that movie for not giving us less Ezra, but actually two, later even three of them. I think Warner Bros. missed an opportunity in the second Aquaman by not replacing every actor with Amber Heard ..
Ulrich from Code Lyoko might unironically be the most balanced speedster I've seen. He's fast, but not "break time and space" fast, he techniaclly doesn't have speed react since everything on Lyoko is quick enough to dodge lasers, and his speed is limited because (while not explicitly explained) it uses up a sort of MP meter that all Lyoko abilities are tied to (since it's a video game/digital world). If nothing else, he actually has a speedster vs speedster fight that actually makes sense. It's really cool.
@@DirkDiggler334 It's a French-made show that aired on CN back in the early 2000's. It's kinda obscure, so I'm not surprised. All the episodes are on youtube if you wanna check it out. In the event you try the show out and don't like and decided to drop it, you should at least watch his speedster vs speedster fight, which in ep 51.
5:32 I fucking love Johnny he means the world to me but I love the orange hair design instead of the comic design but glad that the new movie with Johnny kept the accent
All of these characters are great in their own way! A-Train is the human side, Quicksliver is redemption in the comics, Merkari is just badass and relatable, and then The Flash which in my opinion the most influential speedster who embodies the definition of a superhero are all of them superheroes yes and they all are great but The Flash shows what it is like to be a hero and how being a hero can destroy someone mental health and forget about living in the moment can’t say much about Red Rush and then there’s the Reverse Flash which Diggler you explain amazingly!! Keep it up
FU for not talking about Makara. The best speedster made justice on the screen instead of slow mo scenes. Also the most badass fight of a speedster shown on screen.
I wish you would've included *Rainbow Dash,* because for a magical technicolor pegasus, she's actually pretty deep. Having ADHD, she often struggles between her loyalty to her friends and what's important to them Vs her own ambitions to be a fastest flyer/top athlete/Wonderbolt. Beneath her cocky attitude and "rule of cool" lifestyle, she's actually pretty self-conscious and has a desperate need to feel appreciated. In fact, her entire character can be described as always wanting to go fast, but constantly having to slow down. Also, she's fast AF, able to go warp speed 8, slow down time to a crawl, and even travel to the past and create a paradox
@@Lorddream01 I mean why not a speedster is a speedster. I never even noticed it myself but this goofy ah pony has the speed to rival the flash, plus she can fly.
There’s also the New 52 Reverse Flash, Daniel West but I loved how you phrased your words and thanks a lot for talking about comic Hunter Zolomon! I appreciate this video a lot, I’ll definitely be sharing it!
Thanks for this amazing take on speedsters. I agree with everything. The boys shows the human side of hero’s including our mistakes greed, lust, power, and pride. The X-men quick silver just did an amazing job of showing off those abilities and how awesome they can be along with some great tunes. Let’s be honest tho if he tried to play music while moving that fast wouldn’t the song be slowed down to point of it not being worth listening to lol.
Yes! thats the one thing I learned after uploading this video, someone else commented that and once you hear that you can't not think abt it every time you see those scenes. Thanks for the comment
The best representation of speedster for me was from jojo part 6 when pucci the antagonist got the power to accelerates time because in the entire time when he finally got this power, the writer didn't nerf his speed or his power like the flash and other (mostly) dc/marvel speedster for the plot. Instead he almost killed everyone on the main squad and only got stop because one of the side characters defeated him with oxygen. That is how you presented speedster done right for me
If I were a Red rush i would take all my team one by one out of this place, it would be so much smarter, but he didnt know the future, so maybe was thinkin Omniman is under hypnosis or something
Yeah, it was probably not a good idea to show him relocating people at the start, so we know he can do that. Without that you could argue he saw no other way to save his friends than fighting Omni-Man and even with his speed he couldn't have run out and informed people without some of the Guardians dying while he talked. But i honestly still think the ending is ok. You can assume that even in the brutal Invincible-universe, where ordinary people get ripped apart by villains constantly, this was an event Red Rush never expected and so he didn't think clear. And Red Rush was ultimately the first victim. He might have reacted differently if Omni-Man already killed one of them, showing that he's definitly not holding back. Also it won't be the last time the show had a battle where people made bad decisions for different reasons. Yet it would still have been better if Omni-Man went after Red Rush first, knowing his abilities would allow him to escape, and/or create a situation where Red Rush only saw one option, thus falling for a trap.
Red Rush could've keep doing what he was doing at first during the fight against Ominiman which was preventing the others of being hit by Ominiman. This way they would've had a chance against Ominiman
Besides Quicksilver and Makkari, one of my favorite speedsters is yo-yo. She's a marvel comic character and her live-action version appears in the tv show agents of shield (spoilers for all 7 seasons:). Her powers give her the ability to run very fast within one heartbeat, but by the next heartbeat she bounces back to the place she started running from. It's an interesting handicap to give a speedster, she is powerful but not totally overpowered and villains can easily abuse her weakness. Later on in the show she learns to control her powers better and doesn't bounce back within a heartbeat like before, but she did loose both of her arms before learning to do that. The comic version still has the bouncing back, but only when she stops using her powers (with no time limit).
Now hear me out. Quicksilver is another name for mercury. Mercury is another name for Hermes. Hermes is the god of thieves (which Quicksilver is introduced as). And thieves typically aren't noticed (if they're any good). So I can buy him just saving everyone, then letting himself fade into the crowd while they focus on the blue girl
You forgot an awesome temporary speedster: Fry from Futurama! That whole scene after the 100th cup of coffee was chef's kiss. I still call random things an orange blur to this day
My fav speedsters are Wally West and Quicksilver. I love how they're both very intense and they have this internal anxious energy, Wally in particular had a very weird life as his first years as The Flash after he took the mantle, but he grows as a person and as a hero. And quicksilver, he said once in a therapy session that he lives his life like he has to always slow himself down and wait to the world catch up to him, while his mind is running five miles ahead and thinking of may things at once...I found that so relatable to me... I love speedsters😅
That scene where kimiko knocks down A-Train is one of the few actually realistic scenes of a speedster getting defeated, he didn’t see her and so couldn’t react to something he couldn’t see coming. Meanwhile jean grey can suddenly move stuff atleast 20x as fast as a bullet.
Wish you talked about Makkari from Eternals. That's the best live action speedster for me. They didn't use slow motion to show her speed and when we see her running it's so cool
I'm actually a big fan of the Quicksilver from Age of Ultron, since he's a lot more like the comic character. I just wish they hadn't wasted him so awfully.
Red Rush and other speedsters like him have what I affectionately refer to as “Reverse Plot Armor” Realistically, they can’t really lose to anyone that isn’t a speedster, so the writers have to give them a lapse in judgement so they’re able to lose their fight
Sonic the Hedgehog not being on this list is wild. Also, I feel like because of the mcu, quickly we doesn’t really ever get the recognition he deserves, which sucks. I’m glad you focused a lot on him here
Hey I just wanted to say that in the end where you wanted quicksilver to get some praise from the people that he saved just saved remember time for speedsters is relative he may have just stood in front of that kid for what we perceived as a couple of seconds but that kid didn't even see him because Quicksilver was in front of him for more than a nanosecond they have no way of knowing who saved them and none of them have seen him before and besides no one has seen a mutant like mystique before where their mutation is a full body thing and she wasn't wearing any clothes, but it really does show just how fast he was cause even beast didn't know who saved them untill quicksilver made him self known
okay I see that, ngl it'd be hard for me to not demand at least a thank you, I probably would've said something. But I guess quicksilver is way more humble than me and doesn't care about people praising him.
Probably obvious by the pfp but my favorite speedster is Sonic. Surprised he wasn't mentioned, as he's easily one of/if not the most iconic speedster next to Flash. Hopefully you talk about him in a part 2, especially the movie version.
I also love Makkari. The Eternals sucked, but that was the coolest looking speedster we ever got. The whole time stopping jazz is nice, but she's the only one that just moves really fast and looks dope doing it.
In defense of Red Rush 😂, I genuinely feel the moment was so confusing for everyone there, everyone was in shock even us the audience as to why would Omni man attack these guys, and secondly yes it was dumb to try and fight Omni man knowing well he had no super strength or invulnerability but Dashing away and leaving your friends to die also seems dumb to me, perhaps he couldve atleast tried to save some of them by fast travelling them to the nearest save point available. Also I have to say “Destroy the glass” at 20:49 feels so weird to me 😂😂, I never noticed that my mind always Associates glass with breaking so this was a new experience, absolute bomb of a countdown, Kudos Dirk.👏🏽
17:29 that headcrush, it was from his POV. Omni-Man was fast enough to catch him, and crush his head in, what to the other members of the Guardians, an instant. Like you said, Omni-Man was just faster than him, and had them in an ambush, and was already slaughtering members, can be forgiven for a momentary lapse in strategy
I have a character in my books named after the Norse god Ratatoskr, and in my books, he's a speedster. He is able to outrun teleportation and is so small that he's commonly unseen. Literallly 6.5 inches tall. A squirrel. All you see is a brown streak with a blue streak as he runs somewhere, though he's able to "turn that off" with focus. For stealth, ofc.
It would depend if a girl I didn’t know randomly asks me to lay pipe, I’d say no cuz that’d be too suspicious, but if I knew her and she was at least a 6.5 then I’d oblige
Absolutely evey time The Boys comes up, I am forever disappointed by the fact that I see absolutely nobody pointing out the joke that buddy's girlfriend was hit by a fucking train.
@@DirkDiggler334 I always kinda just figured the joke was so obvious that fans must have ran it into the ground during the earliest days of the show. But the more I hear about the show, the more I see people fail to even gesture at it, the more I wonder if it literally just went clean over everyone's heads.
On the quicksilver scenes they are some of my absolute all time favorites but, i always wondered what speed was he listening to the song at. Realistically he should put on his headphones then finish moving before the first note is even played.
Yo I never actually thought about that, thats crazy dude theres no way he's listening to anything unless he's got some type of magical or futuristic tech. everything he did happened in a split second.
At least in this case i can see him using a special player that was way faster than normal - ok, hard to believe in the era of cassette-tapes. Still not as bad as Speedsters using computers in super-speed ...
Speedster is my go-to Power I Want. I bike & skate & jog in a city & love the speed & awareness to surroundings you have to be. Flying is cool but its so freeing of the interactivity with the world an adrenaline-junky like me has. Nothing like speeding by with a big-ass bus right next to you. And i have ADHD so it already pairs nicely
Hey bro love the video! But you can put subtitles in the next ones? I’m from Brazil and I’m starting to learn some English so it’s a little hard to me to understand completely the video without the subtitles, love!!!
I found the rant about the students at the Xavier School weird because they wouldn't realize that Quicksilver saved them. To them I'd likely seem like they were teleported.
19:47 I thought you were gonna say "you may know Evan Peters from American Horror Story". American Horror Story is way more iconic than Dahmer. AHS has 12 seasons, 128 episodes and Dahmer has only one season.
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Thanks man 🤞🏾
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Bro who doesn't know quicksilver isn't Magneto's son? Come on!
I actually love the character A-Train, he's a unique hybrid of what if a speedster character was treated as a professional athlete. And forced to constantly prove themselves to remain relevant. You get to see his hunger and desperation to remain at the top and that's why he's one of the most interesting and unique speedster characters to me. Also his running sound is the most satisfying
I couldn’t agree more, also couldn’t have said it better.
Train sounds for a-train. Very cool detail
I like that his heart is a drawback, creative.
I agree@@darksideofevil13
I love how this nerd says he'd get turned off by a girl wanting to fuck em 💀😂 that part was funny
I am waiting for the day that a speedster gets their leg broken only to reveal that they can walk on their hands just as fast
prob not just as fast but certainly even on their hands they should still be the fastest superheroes.
One word "Wheelchair" .. burning rubber.
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@@DirkDiggler334 If you are reacting so fast that time seems to stop around you then even a crawling Speedster would be way faster than anyone else.
Now time for if their body gets destroy but they be like, my speed is so much i can retain my consciousness together Particle by particle , causes time to dilute resulting in revival of body as time moves backwards
In defense of red rush, they didn't know what was happening. He wasn't trying to kill him, omni man just wasn't playing
I get that but at the same time he was complaining about how a short convo feels like an eternity, so I was hoping he would've used all that time to think of a plan.
So in tandem he uses that time to think to incapacitate
Then just dies because the time to incapacitate or kill is the time to figure out what's wrong for omni man
@@DirkDiggler334could be hyperbole
@@DirkDiggler334To be fair, Omni-Man it’s fair to assume that a bloodlusted, several thousand years old, experienced, world conquering, super being that can fly fast enough to ignite a planet’s atmosphere could catch a “fast guy” off-guard.
TL:DR, Red Rush messed up, Omni-Man didn’t.
when u said the reverse flash was the biggest troll, all i could think about is the "remeber when u were making out with iris" scene. really good video
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In regards to Red Rush's scene with his girl. I know a lot of people are saying he called taking to her agony and had to talk his way out of it.
But what I liked is that he didn't leave when she was talking, he ran off in the middle of HIS sentence after she was done talking. I think on some level he did like hearing her voice. Which makes his death sadder.
the slow motion perception that speedsters use such as A train isn't a result of him moving really fast, just his brain processes being so much faster than a normal human's. it doesn't matter how fast he goes to need to do the speedster perception thing
Ah I see thanks for letting me know
@@DirkDiggler334what the commenter above said also explains why Superman is not a speedster but can perceive the flash
@@mmmkkkyla gotcha
Yeah and for many speedsters this still works, when they stand
F.e. Quicksilver was just standing in front of the explosion but time was still moving slowly
@SlimthickmodelsBatman can’t see bullets lol
There was a moment in the more recent comics where Quicksilver’s mental limiters were removed by his sister in a type of cross, and he ran so fast that he couldn’t be tracked beyond dimensions and he was moving while time is completely stopped. This level of speed is inaccessible to him normally though.
God I love that, Making my favorite speedster even faster. And that sounds far beyond what he is normally capable of.
Excuse me what? Because someone needs to tell Barry Allen about this.
@@lolstalgic9602I’m pretty sure flash has better feats than that like running so fast he existed outside of time all together defeating death
@@Tax_evasion2004 Yes and no. While I agree Flash is still likely faster, he never truly beat Death itself in a 1v1. He simply ran so far into the future where death had no domain since all life had since been gone
@@lolstalgic9602 exactly therefor he defeated death, I'm not saying he actually 1 2 punched him but he did defeat death by going so fast he was able to exist where death wasnt. He defeated him in that sense because death was after him
To be fair, Red Rush doesn’t experience life in slow motion like other superheroes who can either trigger it, or just so hyper it FEELS like they’re in slow motion.
Red Rush quite LITERALLY experiences time in milliseconds. It isn’t toggable. It’s constant.
That would absolutely suck
That would also make him one of the oldest heroes :)
@@DirkDiggler334 And also means when Omniman LET HIM GO AFTER HE HAD GRABBED HIS ARM, red rush had like years to move out of the way but was like "nah I wanna die anyway."
@@thunderspark1536 man Red Rush made no sense 🤦🏾♂️
@@DirkDiggler334 Maybe he was suicidal idk.
Although it’s short I love Eternals scene with Icarus. They showed how fast Marki can be and she didn’t even have to touch him. Small, but great shot!
I have to say, that I HATE what they did to the character of Makari, originally Jack Kirby made that character male, but Hollywood wanted to be more inclusive and change it. I don't like that, if it isn't broke don't fix it! Just sayin'.
@@michaelkantner6420Whats the problem exactly?
@@michaelkantner6420 Ancient One was also made female, why no problem with that?
@@michaelkantner6420I don't think makari is iconic enough for it to matter and at least in the movie being female wasn't an incredibly important part of her character
@@kachowabunga17i mean true but keep characters consistent with their original, race and gender swapping characters is exhausting.
If I was Red Rush I would be purely support. Take that save with the Immortal, now I’m doing that the whole fight. Keep the others alive. Keep them alive and they’re wearing him down.
Yes absolutely, that would've have been the only plan where they had a chance.
I would imagine omniman punch the ground hard to disoriented the whole team and then uses flight to take the guardian out except for maybe immortal cause he also can fly, can't run if there are no ground (at least momentarily)
@@yeahboyz9314 thing is in one scene against the warrior gal he TANKS A HIT FROM OMNIMAN and blocks it to protect his friend, so why he didn't do this this more confuses me.
If I could choose a superpower it would definitely be superspeed. And the durability that you would need to actually use it without getting liquified.
I agree and people be forgetting that another power these speedsters must have is super durability.
@@DirkDiggler334
And super endurance!
Although, that could be another way to add limiters to speedsters.
Like, because of that they have to do bursts instead of constant running, and they have to use it sparingly and tactfully, otherwise they'd end up burning their energy away. Which means most of the time they can just be a normal dude, and they have to weigh the risks and the value of the problem if it absolutely requires their speed.
Plus, it's a good source of tension for story purposes.
Yeah and if you move super fast anything, even flies or water drops would be like bullets
So you’d end like MCU Quicksilver
@@DirkDiggler334if you actually stopped time, you’d need so many other abilities to even perceive the world because light needs to move and bounce so you can see, let-alone selectively put things back in motion when trying to get a free kill via stabbing and stuff
It’s kinda crazy what powers people say they want without thinking about all the extra stuff they’ll need to the point they’re thinking about a different ability altogether
speedsters just chugging olive oil before their fights for the calories lmao@@jocosesonata
If your gonna name Michael Fassbender than you can’t call sir Ian McKellen, Gandalf himself “that old guy”
I know, that was very disrespectful on my part, I apologize
Red rush was amazing because he was shown to be what a speedster is really limited to and how they can be used as a useful character even if they aren’t over the top busted like the flash but regardless he was a victim of plot, because he would be too useful. He would have escaped Omni-man and told the world that he slaughtered the GotG and a whole spiral of events would happen.
That's exactly what I wanted him to do, thats what I would've done, id know I can't beat omni man I might as well flee to regroup.
Yeah plot was the only downfall if he was somehow able to push Immortal out of the way (at least in the show. i don't know how it went down in the comic), but failed to dodge getting his domepiece Nutcrackered while on high alert? And I don't wanna hear about "He was in shock and thus disadvantaged", if he could pull the move in exhibit A unprompted in the first place. Like yeah I understand sometimes characters need to lose a few brain cells for popular tropes to happen and Because Movie/Game/Book or what have you, but that's just how we like it, I suppose. Villains winning is made possible only when the heroes really stop thinking, in some instances.
@@viscountrainbows2857in the comics they all died in one panel. Barley damage omni man. The show did it way better
Victim of plot. I don't think red rush could do anything to omni man but there is NO WAY omni man solos red rush without prep. Even if red rush makes the "mistakes" he made Omni man CANNOT catch him it's just impossible. Red Rush reacts infinitely faster to omni man than omni man reacts to him. Red rush has plenty of time to see that hand grabbing him it's not even a threat.
>Video with minato on the thumbnail
>Look inside
>No minato
What I love about Quicksilver is that he isn’t some broken cosmic reality breaker like the flash, he’s just a speedster and that’s it. He’s plain and simple and that’s all he needs to be, his speed doesn’t break reality so he feels a lot more grounded compared to the usual dc speed force shenanigans
Nah his powerset literally contradicts his whole thing about not destroying the environment if he moves too fast, he is kinda lame in the comics Marvel treated Speedsters like a fcking joke for so many years, idk where did u find that grounded part, but he Marvel gave him too op power boosts in the comics without any reasonable explanation to his powers also he really has very bad comics.... as of now he is so fast that he can do dimension hopping as well as break reality, he doesn't have any aura like The Flash but somehow he doesn't vaporize everything but there is no literal or plausible explanation how he does it. So the concept of Speedforce is way more creative than getting Speed powers from a gene.
Truth is red rush had probably the ultimate weakness of any speedster, writers wanted him to lose 😂
Facts!!! 😂 how unfortunate
At least he didn't stop to talk 😉
The Reverse Flash is too goated 😭
Faxxx
@@DirkDiggler334 Easily my favorite villain in fiction. I just love the pettiness. I kind of hope he gets his own movie or miniseries in the DCU. It could be amazning.
@@kingvidster5637 couldn’t agree more
😂 Nah fam yeen seen flashpoint
While I love the Quicksilver scenes, Makkari is my favourite Speedster Live Action or Animated, just love the scene of her searching the earth for Tiamut and then the scene where she punches Ikaris two dozen or so times 💜
Agreed, Makkari in Eternals was a great representation of super speed in my opinion, and there were no parts of slow motion like with almost every other speedster, which made it more unique
Makari my fav live action speedster
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Those quicksilver scenes are easily my favorite out of any of the X-men movies and I feel like they are so underrated, killer video brotha keep it up!!!
Quicksilver scenes are everything but underrated. lol, the scenes are good but Fanbois glaze on it too much
Johnny Quick had a very nice portrayal in the recent Justice League Crisis on Infinite Earths animated movie. While he was a member of the Crime Syndicate he was constantly shown to have a bit of remorse and he sacrificed himself knowing that Flash can't return to his universe because they were both tapping into the speed force which made them slower.
I agree, that version was also great. But you have to wonder if things wouldn't have turned out differently if he wasn't already injured and if he knew how to vibrate to different dimensions. Then we might have said goodbye to Barry earlier ...
I rewatched Crisis on Two Earths yesterday and Quicks ending ... wow. Not only great because of his characterization but also because he notes that Batman knew this would lead to Johnny's death (and Batmans simply didn't want Flash to go for that reason, which Barry of course would have done even knowing the consequences).
You should maybe talk about sonic since he is also a speedster and also Ben 10 because some of his aliens have super speed as well so I would probably include those two.
yep most definetly
@@DirkDiggler334So maybe we'll get a Part 2 video? 😏
@@Seetiyan yessir
sonic is the king of speedsters literally but only when he transforms into hyper
@@adnan_honest_jihadist5775 sorry but that's the flash
After this video I'm conviced that Thawne controls absolutely everything. Dude is pretty much the personification of determinism, combined with being the biggest simp to ever live, of course.
Boy you said it! Agreed
I like Savitar's running. Like in his POV when he runs it seems slow but he is going very fast unlike the other Speedsters who u can see are running fast.
A speedster video without Sonic is crazy
bro fr why isnt he here??
I was just thinking last night about how in Teen Titans they introduced Mas y Menos who were speedster twins who had the unique weakness of needing to make physical contact in some way to recharge their speed.
I'm honestly surprised more people haven't used them in the comics
I love your energy and I appreciate how much energy you put into this video, you and whoever helped.
Thank you!
I want a speedster focused series that shows how op they are until they get bored. Just like one punch man
The fact you put Minato in the thumbnail and didn't put him in is hurtful 😢😢😢
Imagine if A-Train just moved to the side a small bit and then thats it for The Boys
This video is definitely gonna blow up
Great video. For me the speedster run and fight scene from "Eternals" was really great in that is showed her speed from an outside pov but it still felt like insane superspeed. Really loved that
Quicksilver saving everyone and not needing appreciation just speaks on how secure he is on who he is and what he does. Dude is literally him and knows it.
The “old guy” and bro is talking about SIR Ian McKellen 😭😭😭
fitting here, the old guy being canonically Peter and Wandas Father ..
That whole X Family Tree is more like a blackberry bush.
I mean the great Gandalf 😭😭
WHY IS MAKARI NOT BEING MENTIONED, imo she was the best showcase of speed from a speedster. i love the quicksilver scenes in xmen i do think theyre the best scenes of a speedster because it was so cool but showcasing speed by slow motion all the time doesnt really give us a great perspective of how fast these speedsters really are.
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Nice video! Eobard is one messed up individual. I think he took over Ezra Miller in our timeline ngl😅
Thanks, and I agree
Thank you for that new Head-Canon :)
Love that movie for not giving us less Ezra, but actually two, later even three of them. I think Warner Bros. missed an opportunity in the second Aquaman by not replacing every actor with Amber Heard ..
Ulrich from Code Lyoko might unironically be the most balanced speedster I've seen. He's fast, but not "break time and space" fast, he techniaclly doesn't have speed react since everything on Lyoko is quick enough to dodge lasers, and his speed is limited because (while not explicitly explained) it uses up a sort of MP meter that all Lyoko abilities are tied to (since it's a video game/digital world).
If nothing else, he actually has a speedster vs speedster fight that actually makes sense. It's really cool.
Never actually heard of Ulrich but I’m happy you’re putting me on.
@@DirkDiggler334 It's a French-made show that aired on CN back in the early 2000's. It's kinda obscure, so I'm not surprised. All the episodes are on youtube if you wanna check it out.
In the event you try the show out and don't like and decided to drop it, you should at least watch his speedster vs speedster fight, which in ep 51.
@@Windjammer19 Got it ill check it out
If he can dodge lasers, he obviously has speed react.
Code lyoko 😢
A-train and Quicksilver are honestly the 2 speedsters that i love the most, but quicksilver is the one that makes me the most jealous of his powers
@@duckdabro5954 I definitely agree, quicksilver’s not the fastest but he’s my favorite
5:32 I fucking love Johnny he means the world to me but I love the orange hair design instead of the comic design but glad that the new movie with Johnny kept the accent
The accent is a must!
All of these characters are great in their own way! A-Train is the human side, Quicksliver is redemption in the comics, Merkari is just badass and relatable, and then The Flash which in my opinion the most influential speedster who embodies the definition of a superhero are all of them superheroes yes and they all are great but The Flash shows what it is like to be a hero and how being a hero can destroy someone mental health and forget about living in the moment can’t say much about Red Rush and then there’s the Reverse Flash which Diggler you explain amazingly!! Keep it up
Thank You!
FU for not talking about Makara. The best speedster made justice on the screen instead of slow mo scenes. Also the most badass fight of a speedster shown on screen.
I wish you would've included *Rainbow Dash,* because for a magical technicolor pegasus, she's actually pretty deep. Having ADHD, she often struggles between her loyalty to her friends and what's important to them Vs her own ambitions to be a fastest flyer/top athlete/Wonderbolt. Beneath her cocky attitude and "rule of cool" lifestyle, she's actually pretty self-conscious and has a desperate need to feel appreciated. In fact, her entire character can be described as always wanting to go fast, but constantly having to slow down.
Also, she's fast AF, able to go warp speed 8, slow down time to a crawl, and even travel to the past and create a paradox
No way your expecting him to yap about *checks notes* My Little Pony? I had to look ts up
@@Lorddream01 MLP is awesome and deserves respect !
@@Lorddream01 I mean why not a speedster is a speedster. I never even noticed it myself but this goofy ah pony has the speed to rival the flash, plus she can fly.
There’s also the New 52 Reverse Flash, Daniel West but I loved how you phrased your words and thanks a lot for talking about comic Hunter Zolomon! I appreciate this video a lot, I’ll definitely be sharing it!
Yo thanks a lot for this comment!
@@DirkDiggler334 No problem!
Thanks for this amazing take on speedsters. I agree with everything. The boys shows the human side of hero’s including our mistakes greed, lust, power, and pride. The X-men quick silver just did an amazing job of showing off those abilities and how awesome they can be along with some great tunes. Let’s be honest tho if he tried to play music while moving that fast wouldn’t the song be slowed down to point of it not being worth listening to lol.
Yes! thats the one thing I learned after uploading this video, someone else commented that and once you hear that you can't not think abt it every time you see those scenes. Thanks for the comment
This is absolutely amazing keep up the great work can’t wait to see more 🔥!
Thank You!
The best representation of speedster for me was from jojo part 6 when pucci the antagonist got the power to accelerates time because in the entire time when he finally got this power, the writer didn't nerf his speed or his power like the flash and other (mostly) dc/marvel speedster for the plot. Instead he almost killed everyone on the main squad and only got stop because one of the side characters defeated him with oxygen. That is how you presented speedster done right for me
If I were a Red rush i would take all my team one by one out of this place, it would be so much smarter, but he didnt know the future, so maybe was thinkin Omniman is under hypnosis or something
Thats exactly what I would do too
Yeah, it was probably not a good idea to show him relocating people at the start, so we know he can do that. Without that you could argue he saw no other way to save his friends than fighting Omni-Man and even with his speed he couldn't have run out and informed people without some of the Guardians dying while he talked.
But i honestly still think the ending is ok. You can assume that even in the brutal Invincible-universe, where ordinary people get ripped apart by villains constantly, this was an event Red Rush never expected and so he didn't think clear. And Red Rush was ultimately the first victim. He might have reacted differently if Omni-Man already killed one of them, showing that he's definitly not holding back. Also it won't be the last time the show had a battle where people made bad decisions for different reasons.
Yet it would still have been better if Omni-Man went after Red Rush first, knowing his abilities would allow him to escape, and/or create a situation where Red Rush only saw one option, thus falling for a trap.
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Bro i nearly had an essay ready before i saw that the good the bad and the ugly was not talking about the 3 in the front in order
The mini-rant about you complaining Mystique taking all the credit from Quicksilver is hiliarious
😂😂😂 thanks!
Red Rush could've keep doing what he was doing at first during the fight against Ominiman which was preventing the others of being hit by Ominiman. This way they would've had a chance against Ominiman
I completely agree
Reserve flash was a menace
An absolute menace
The kids didn't thank Quicksilver because they couldn't comprehend what happened
right and he's so humble he didn't want to brag
few people talk about Godspeed from the comics
Im working on a vid, and I mention him. Hes the siphon speedforce from other speedsters and can be in 2 places at once speedster right
Besides Quicksilver and Makkari, one of my favorite speedsters is yo-yo. She's a marvel comic character and her live-action version appears in the tv show agents of shield (spoilers for all 7 seasons:). Her powers give her the ability to run very fast within one heartbeat, but by the next heartbeat she bounces back to the place she started running from. It's an interesting handicap to give a speedster, she is powerful but not totally overpowered and villains can easily abuse her weakness. Later on in the show she learns to control her powers better and doesn't bounce back within a heartbeat like before, but she did loose both of her arms before learning to do that. The comic version still has the bouncing back, but only when she stops using her powers (with no time limit).
Dude thats crazy i've never heard of her before but imma check her out now.
Now hear me out. Quicksilver is another name for mercury. Mercury is another name for Hermes. Hermes is the god of thieves (which Quicksilver is introduced as). And thieves typically aren't noticed (if they're any good). So I can buy him just saving everyone, then letting himself fade into the crowd while they focus on the blue girl
😂😂😂 damn that’s creative, so did he run their pockets while saving them too?
Also officially hermes is the god of speed
No fast character will ever outrun The Quickster.
You forgot an awesome temporary speedster: Fry from Futurama!
That whole scene after the 100th cup of coffee was chef's kiss. I still call random things an orange blur to this day
Trust me I love futurama and I remember that scene
My fav speedsters are Wally West and Quicksilver. I love how they're both very intense and they have this internal anxious energy, Wally in particular had a very weird life as his first years as The Flash after he took the mantle, but he grows as a person and as a hero.
And quicksilver, he said once in a therapy session that he lives his life like he has to always slow himself down and wait to the world catch up to him, while his mind is running five miles ahead and thinking of may things at once...I found that so relatable to me...
I love speedsters😅
@@leonis5664 I love speedsters too
That scene where kimiko knocks down A-Train is one of the few actually realistic scenes of a speedster getting defeated, he didn’t see her and so couldn’t react to something he couldn’t see coming. Meanwhile jean grey can suddenly move stuff atleast 20x as fast as a bullet.
Wish you talked about Makkari from Eternals. That's the best live action speedster for me. They didn't use slow motion to show her speed and when we see her running it's so cool
I definitely gotta do a part 2, I’ll touch on her
@@DirkDiggler334 thanks. I appreciate it. You should talk about XLR8 from Ben 10 as well
@@Knull-ug3mi yeah I will I had a clip of him in this vid but it was just a clip
I'm actually a big fan of the Quicksilver from Age of Ultron, since he's a lot more like the comic character. I just wish they hadn't wasted him so awfully.
Red Rush and other speedsters like him have what I affectionately refer to as “Reverse Plot Armor”
Realistically, they can’t really lose to anyone that isn’t a speedster, so the writers have to give them a lapse in judgement so they’re able to lose their fight
My favourite speedsters: XLR8, Sonic, The flash, Quicksilver
Your videos are amazing.
Thank you that means a lot!
Sonic the Hedgehog not being on this list is wild. Also, I feel like because of the mcu, quickly we doesn’t really ever get the recognition he deserves, which sucks. I’m glad you focused a lot on him here
Hey I just wanted to say that in the end where you wanted quicksilver to get some praise from the people that he saved just saved remember time for speedsters is relative he may have just stood in front of that kid for what we perceived as a couple of seconds but that kid didn't even see him because Quicksilver was in front of him for more than a nanosecond they have no way of knowing who saved them and none of them have seen him before and besides no one has seen a mutant like mystique before where their mutation is a full body thing and she wasn't wearing any clothes, but it really does show just how fast he was cause even beast didn't know who saved them untill quicksilver made him self known
okay I see that, ngl it'd be hard for me to not demand at least a thank you, I probably would've said something. But I guess quicksilver is way more humble than me and doesn't care about people praising him.
Probably obvious by the pfp but my favorite speedster is Sonic. Surprised he wasn't mentioned, as he's easily one of/if not the most iconic speedster next to Flash. Hopefully you talk about him in a part 2, especially the movie version.
I also love Makkari. The Eternals sucked, but that was the coolest looking speedster we ever got.
The whole time stopping jazz is nice, but she's the only one that just moves really fast and looks dope doing it.
Im starting to agree
Great list, I'm throwing in Flora from I'm a Virgo. Loved her story and how the speed of sound is too slow for her ♥️
Does quicksilver listen to music at like 100x speed during his speed scenes?
I know right that’s what a bunch of comments have been lately
W video bro u mad underrated
Thanks a lot!!!
17:05 i wasn't expecting you to say you're dipping 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
that A-train running through robin scene is god tier
1:01 nobody concerned by this?
I am
Yeah bro tweaking
Im mature, I refuse to think exactly what I know we all thinking!
In defense of Red Rush 😂, I genuinely feel the moment was so confusing for everyone there, everyone was in shock even us the audience as to why would Omni man attack these guys, and secondly yes it was dumb to try and fight Omni man knowing well he had no super strength or invulnerability but Dashing away and leaving your friends to die also seems dumb to me, perhaps he couldve atleast tried to save some of them by fast travelling them to the nearest save point available.
Also I have to say “Destroy the glass” at 20:49 feels so weird to me 😂😂, I never noticed that my mind always Associates glass with breaking so this was a new experience, absolute bomb of a countdown, Kudos Dirk.👏🏽
17:29 that headcrush, it was from his POV. Omni-Man was fast enough to catch him, and crush his head in, what to the other members of the Guardians, an instant. Like you said, Omni-Man was just faster than him, and had them in an ambush, and was already slaughtering members, can be forgiven for a momentary lapse in strategy
I have a character in my books named after the Norse god Ratatoskr, and in my books, he's a speedster. He is able to outrun teleportation and is so small that he's commonly unseen. Literallly 6.5 inches tall. A squirrel. All you see is a brown streak with a blue streak as he runs somewhere, though he's able to "turn that off" with focus. For stealth, ofc.
That sounds cool and different, nice!
What are the books called?
@@stormichow5325 The Village of Higher Beings and The New World. TNW is my new one.
be real if a girl asked specifically you to lay pipe youd be jumping for joy
It would depend if a girl I didn’t know randomly asks me to lay pipe, I’d say no cuz that’d be too suspicious, but if I knew her and she was at least a 6.5 then I’d oblige
glad u mentioned johnny he’s goated
That omni man scene is god tier
I agree
In a part 2, could you talk about Straight Cougar from S-Cry-Ed? Good video. Love speedsters myself. ⚡
Dude you really used Minato Sensei as click bait? You're despicable! Like this is reverse flash levels of despicability (if that's a word) 😂
so ur telling me that i watched the whole video waiting for minato just for bro to not talk about him
Absolutely evey time The Boys comes up, I am forever disappointed by the fact that I see absolutely nobody pointing out the joke that buddy's girlfriend was hit by a fucking train.
oh shit! thats crazy
@@DirkDiggler334 I always kinda just figured the joke was so obvious that fans must have ran it into the ground during the earliest days of the show.
But the more I hear about the show, the more I see people fail to even gesture at it, the more I wonder if it literally just went clean over everyone's heads.
@@HobbNoblin yeah it definitely went over my head but I like it, it’s clever
hey i was ur 1k subscriber!!
Im writing it down, matter fact if I remember I'll add this in the next video.
Reverse flash is the most relatable superhero in all of fiction and real life
till the end i was waiting for barry or wally but still a great video
so we not gonna talk about the goat of all speedsters sonic the got damn hedgehog
Don't worry i'm abt to drop a pt 2 soon and I plan to
That same scene caught my attention and made me a fan of this series, it definitely caught me off guard
17:50 how does one stand still, quickly? 🤔Quicksilver seems to have time travel powers as opposed to being really fast.
On the quicksilver scenes they are some of my absolute all time favorites but, i always wondered what speed was he listening to the song at. Realistically he should put on his headphones then finish moving before the first note is even played.
Yo I never actually thought about that, thats crazy dude theres no way he's listening to anything unless he's got some type of magical or futuristic tech. everything he did happened in a split second.
At least in this case i can see him using a special player that was way faster than normal - ok, hard to believe in the era of cassette-tapes. Still not as bad as Speedsters using computers in super-speed ...
20:32 Magneto and QuickSilver arent related anymore. It got retconned
Damn 😩 I really wanted that to be true
Speedster is my go-to Power I Want. I bike & skate & jog in a city & love the speed & awareness to surroundings you have to be. Flying is cool but its so freeing of the interactivity with the world an adrenaline-junky like me has. Nothing like speeding by with a big-ass bus right next to you.
And i have ADHD so it already pairs nicely
Good vid bro
Thank you so much 🙏🏾
Hey bro love the video! But you can put subtitles in the next ones? I’m from Brazil and I’m starting to learn some English so it’s a little hard to me to understand completely the video without the subtitles, love!!!
I found the rant about the students at the Xavier School weird because they wouldn't realize that Quicksilver saved them.
To them I'd likely seem like they were teleported.
@@p4rt_t1me_g0d yeah you’re right
19:47 I thought you were gonna say "you may know Evan Peters from American Horror Story". American Horror Story is way more iconic than Dahmer. AHS has 12 seasons, 128 episodes and Dahmer has only one season.
Red Rush got done dirty by the writers, cause no way he's that stupid😂