How to Actually Write a Speedster

The Final Speedster Episode. This is the last one guys. Its been fun but I truly do not care about speedster logic that much. Or most super hero logic. Infinity war features doctor strange who should have been able to freeze time, cut thanos' arms off with his portals, and win. But he didn't. And I still like infinity war. 6-7/10 for sure. Its obviously a dumb moment when something dumb happens but its not as bad as character assasination or boring ahh writing. So yeah. I've never lowered a score based on a bad logic moment is what im saying. Although it is annoying and objectively embarrassing. Dudes defending it are usually wrong.

But yeah some dude told me to not be so hard on people who deny basic logic. Because aparently they were my audience. And no. They are not. But also i can't be too sure on these new views. I love you guys but i don't really know how I can please you. I don't wanna make more speedster videos. Not because i burnt out but because theres not much more for me to say. If you wanna see breakdowns on other speedsters you can watch madvocate. Because he deserves it. He basically came up with this and he's the one who does it. Plus since logic is mostly objective what would I be adding? But yeah my orignal video was supposed to be good but i didn't expect it to get views.

But yeah i love you guys and we'll see what happens.

[RSG]

Guys I had to remove some of the Megamind Clips I used in the video so that's why there are now some weird cuts. If you're interested, here's the link to the original version of the video.

Thanks guys

[aqn]

> gives characters too much powers
> make them beat op villain
> lose to street level crook
peak CW writing

[BLUERAYGUNER]

Fun fact: if you watch Megamind again, the moment after he shouts "FIRE!" where it shows both their faces in the silence, you can briefly see Metroman fade behind Megamind. It almost looks like distortion, but it's clearly him. That's how fast he moved

[alolanpoppzillio]

Imagine a speedster fighting a character that can slow down time. Once he uses his power, the speedster runs at a normal pace. Now it's just 2 normal dudes fighting each other

[El-Burrito]

I watched a show recently called "I'm a Virgo" and it has a speedster who is very interestingly written. Her whole deal is that she was born in superspeed, so from her perspective her parents were always barely moving. As she grows older, she creates a system to communicate with her parents across the speed difference and eventually learns how to slow herself down. It's pretty cool

[maronin]

Oh my god, you just made me realize why Metroman became music man, it is not just a funny random joke, he picked music cuz he is shown to actually suck at it both guitar and songwriting. It’s an endeavor that actually challenges him and delivers him an actual journey of improvement. Megamind is such a good movie

[orcastrike]

A thing to mention is how Dash DOES have his moment where the writers are able to be like “look at how cool it is to be a speedster” in the form of the 100 mile dash (specifically the water running). All the while Dash is still a well-written speedster.

Edit: okay yes I understand the tack scene exists at the start of the movie which makes his speed inconsistent, so before you comment that very fact read this first

[crazykingdavid]

Just having super speed implies an entire list of needed powers to remain alive.

[linksbro]

My Favorite version of The Flash is when he is depicted as both being such a speedster he's basically a god to the point ALL villains piss their pants and run from him, and all he really does is wag his finger at them and shame them. There was a comic where it was minor villains talking about why Central City was the worst place to target, and they all bring up stories of some of the biggest villains being utterly humiliated by Flash, like Joker being defeated in a single second and him never targeting Central City again because "it's not fun", to the master of time and space stealing a lollypop from the little girl cuz she stuck her tongue out at him, and when flash shows up, simply wagging his finger, the guy flees through dimension after dimension as Flash follows, all the way to the end of all existence itself.. and Flash is there, holding out his hand for the lollypop. Not a single punch, but he utilizes psychological warfare in the polar opposite way that Batman does. Batman will hurt you, but this iteration of Flash will use the fact that he is basically a god to forcefully humble anyone he faces.

[dynaguy]

I don’t know if the 100 Mile Dash scene will ever be beat. It’s just so exciting as we get to see this kid truly let loose for the first time in his life. That chuckle when he runs on water for the first time always puts a big smile on my face

[chahleybrosfullsignal]

I love the scene with Metroman's superspeed for the simple detail that he's causing a Doppler effect with the light of his own body.
Metroman is moving so close to the speed of light, that even with the camera matching his pace, light is getting red-shifted or blue-shifted depending on the direction he's going relative to the camera, showing he can still move faster.

[evilectric]

I like how in Megamind during the scene where they're waiting for the sun to warm up, you can see Metro Man blip for a split second. During that split second is when he went into superspeeed mode and began contemplating his life. It's one of my favourite uses of foreshadowing.

[theauditor]

*couldnt catch a bullet*

*fast enough to go back in time*

*Barry fucking allan*

[Blundabus]

Who'd win in a fight:
A speedster that has mastered the speed force that is so fast he is faster than instant travel and can outrun death itself and the end of the universe

or

some middle aged guy with a super soaker full of ice.

[sabetasama]

The show "'I'm a Virgo" has a Speedster character who actually is stuck permanently in speed mode. She couldn't speak to people for most of her life, until she eventually developed a system that taught her how to listen and speak more slowly. But it's agonizing to her. A simple "Hello" feels like several minutes to her, so for years her primary form of communication was just writing things down and leaving sticky-notes everywhere so people could reply to her at their speed without her having to wait on them to finish a thought. It creates a fun and compelling character out of someone you'd normally expect to be the most overpowered person in the show.

[jaycub]

In defense of the Red Rush scene, Omni Man is also incredibly fast, so it's something akin to the Justice League scene where everyone moves in slow motion around flash, except Superman. So Omni man was able to catch him, and with his overwhelming strength didn't allow Rush an option out. He only took about a second to crush Red Rush's skull, but in that time we see that he punched Omni Man enough times to shred through Nolan's uniform, and break his own hands on the nearly invulnerable skin

[-KnightOfTheWind]

An idea i got to use when writing my own speedster character is... I made them lazy.

"Yea, i like a good hyperactive speedster, but what if i slowed down that specific part of his character?" I thought to myself when writing this guy (he's still somewhat cocky and still plays a bit with the guys who try to shoot down this nearly unstoppable force of nature). He doesn't like to finish off most criminals quickly as he doesn't take them that seriously.

*"Dude, bullets are expensive, why not use them to actually hit someone?"*

*"Would you mind not doing any shady crap? I've got a date today"*

He could be resolving any and all crimes in the world in just a few hours, but he just prefers playing DDR with his girlfriend, hanging out with his friends or just generally slacking. Like he has all that power but not that much responsibility in a sense.

That way, i got to make him as powerful as i'd like while giving his character a significant yet not that detrimental of a flaw, that can also be used for some comedy and keeping the story healthy, even with more superheroes in the same world.

Yeah... He's far from perfect because no character should be, but still grows a little during the course of the story.

[THEDeathWizard]

Another angle for the “godlike” speedster is to have him be the villain. I instantly think of Pucci from JoJo Part 6. When he gets Made in Heaven all the heroes are instantly and hopelessly outclassed and it’s absolutely terrifying (it’s a power he’s been working towards for the entire story so it feels earned and not like it comes out of nowhere)

[Velocity_YT]

Yeah, not gonna lie...when you mentioned how speedsters got taken out in your previous videos, I just realized how the writers don't know how to write speedsters at all at this point.

Edit: I made this comment a while back and I realize there was a typo pointed out by someone. Thanks. I needed that. And there was also a comment that said that we fans are also kinda to blame and you know what? They're right.

I mean for example, to tell you how OP speedsters are, just take at the old TV shows Teen Titans with the episode titled: LightSpeed. In that episode, we finally see Kid Flash and in just one episode, it shows that it is nearly impossible for him to lose to villians. He got caught on purpose by the Hive Five and then proceeded to escape and make the High Five look like a joke while trashing their entire base. As for when he starts fighting Madame Rouge, yeah he starts to get beaten up a little but is still holding his own. Plus it actually shows that he's getting tired the more the battle wages on. At that point, he doesn't even want to fight Madame Rouge anymore, he just wants to get out of their because he's getting tired and Madame Rouge knows this and tries finishing him off. I was a little upset when I Kid Flash only got a few episodes of screentime in the Teen Titans but I kinda understand why they did that. That episode alone showed how easy it was fir him to single handedly trash seven villians all by himself very efficiently. With him always with the Titans, it would be hard to make a scenario where they have trouble facing a villian and end up losing if the fastest Kid alive can take care of them in a few seconds. So yeah, the writers are to blame but so are we.

[ramshacklerozza]

The whole “why not just a nice 200mph?” made a lot of sense. It’s like writers think that the only way is up and that they have to make speedsters inconceivably fast.

But if you lower that to the speed of a car, something we understand and recognise, it ups the stakes and makes the speed feel genuinely, plausibly fast, not so fast that you can barely comprehend how fast it is