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Alright, I can't even lie, it's kind of insane seeing Barry's Post-Flashpoint Profile and he's automatically MFTL+ off of This ONE feat. Like unironically if we're only using 1 feat we could just start cherry picking feats from characters like Spiderman and start upgrading them to FTL and greater
It gives me the impression that when making his profile we didn't actually care about his consistent speed scaling in the New 52! Otherwise we might realize that he genuinely doesn't ever MOVE at MFTL+ speeds, in fact a whole plot point for him is to Not Go to fast (Beyond the Speed of Light) otherwise bad things happen
We see this happen and proven here
Now let's look at a bunch of feats he has beyond literally one thing that never comes up again!
Barry Dodges Lightning
Sees Rifle Bullets, and maybe a nuke, in Slow-Mo
Flash outruns an explosion
Flash Travels all of Central City to help people
Flash Clears Tokyo in 30 seconds
Barry accidentally travels to East Africa from Central City
Barry goes from Central City to Keystone City quickly
Barry and Kid Flash run around the Earth quickly
Barry and Kid Flash are concerned with ESCAPE VELOCITY!!
The list goes on and on and on. Barry has not a single MFTL+ movement speed or otherwise feat in his solo run that isn't a crazy outlier compared to the rest of his series!!! Like he can move FTL because going into the Speed Force for time travelling, however, he's not MFTL+ much less consistently in the New 52.
So the Proposal, we have a couple different things we can do:
A. Downgrade specifically New 52 Post-Flashpoint Flash to FTL movement speed max with maybe MFTL+ Reactions. Superman could keep his stuff since Flash straight up implies that Superman is faster than him flying, this would effectively only downgrade Barry since most of the League has fought with Supes and the like in Space where they can actually move at these speeds
B. Just give him a "Varies" tier, "High Hypersonic+, Varies, up to MFTL+ Reaction speed", this also reduces the downgrading of profiles as a whole
C. Acknowledge that the New 52 is probably the most speed grounded time for these characters and these characters only ever move "MFTL+" in space. So downgrade basically everyone to around Barry's level if they're only fighting on Earth, and split Superman/Supergirl/Anyone else who scales to their space combat/flight speed into different categories, ie "on earth" or "in space"
D. Ignore it and say "**** consistency that's to much work"
It gives me the impression that when making his profile we didn't actually care about his consistent speed scaling in the New 52! Otherwise we might realize that he genuinely doesn't ever MOVE at MFTL+ speeds, in fact a whole plot point for him is to Not Go to fast (Beyond the Speed of Light) otherwise bad things happen
We see this happen and proven here
Now let's look at a bunch of feats he has beyond literally one thing that never comes up again!
Barry Dodges Lightning
Sees Rifle Bullets, and maybe a nuke, in Slow-Mo
Flash outruns an explosion
Flash Travels all of Central City to help people
Flash Clears Tokyo in 30 seconds
Barry accidentally travels to East Africa from Central City
Barry goes from Central City to Keystone City quickly
Barry and Kid Flash run around the Earth quickly
Barry and Kid Flash are concerned with ESCAPE VELOCITY!!
The list goes on and on and on. Barry has not a single MFTL+ movement speed or otherwise feat in his solo run that isn't a crazy outlier compared to the rest of his series!!! Like he can move FTL because going into the Speed Force for time travelling, however, he's not MFTL+ much less consistently in the New 52.
So the Proposal, we have a couple different things we can do:
A. Downgrade specifically New 52 Post-Flashpoint Flash to FTL movement speed max with maybe MFTL+ Reactions. Superman could keep his stuff since Flash straight up implies that Superman is faster than him flying, this would effectively only downgrade Barry since most of the League has fought with Supes and the like in Space where they can actually move at these speeds
B. Just give him a "Varies" tier, "High Hypersonic+, Varies, up to MFTL+ Reaction speed", this also reduces the downgrading of profiles as a whole
C. Acknowledge that the New 52 is probably the most speed grounded time for these characters and these characters only ever move "MFTL+" in space. So downgrade basically everyone to around Barry's level if they're only fighting on Earth, and split Superman/Supergirl/Anyone else who scales to their space combat/flight speed into different categories, ie "on earth" or "in space"
D. Ignore it and say "**** consistency that's to much work"
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