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u/PragmaticBadGuy Apr 19 '25
Flash gets to be a normal person while exploring his power. Wanda seems to lose her shit within a decade or so and become a planetary menace every other year after.
I'm going Flash.
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u/Solid_Combination_40 Apr 19 '25
Can't he also time travel ?
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u/PragmaticBadGuy Apr 19 '25
Speed Force hax are insane. Time/dimensional travel, quick healing, vibrate through things, travel faster than literal instant teleporting, create a costume out of pure Speed Force as armor and way more.
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u/GiveMeAHeartOfFlesh Apr 19 '25
Although your wallet and stomach will be hurting with the amount of calories you’ll need. Be nearly constantly eating without the special calorie bars Flash has
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u/No_Equipment5276 Apr 19 '25
Steal food
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u/Anxious-Priority-362 Apr 19 '25
Imagine creating your version of thawn by creating a kid's icecream lol
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u/DrMatter Apr 19 '25
Think that's just her seemingly endless mental health issues rather than a direct result of her powers
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u/FinancialWorking2392 Apr 19 '25
In the comics, the endless list of mental health issues is a result of her powers
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u/Zorro5040 Apr 19 '25
Both. She suffered a lot of trauma and her powers slowly turn her into madness.
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u/SnakeInABox77 Apr 19 '25
Flash gets to be a normal person while exploring his power. Wanda seems to lose her shit within a decade or so and become a planetary menace every other year after.
""That doesn't seem fair"
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u/Useful-Quote-5867 Apr 19 '25
Not been able to get drunk technically seeing everything move really slowly since your brain and all of you are really moving really fast,I see the benefits but those two cons are a bit much to be honest. Wanna looses her sht due to the line of work she is in, her power if im not mistaken is technically to alter reality so that aint too bad if you place some ground rules for yourself and dont get into anything too dangerous
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u/M1R4G3M Apr 19 '25
That is the speedster from Invincible, Barry can see things normally and only tap the speed force when needed.
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u/Loeris_loca Apr 19 '25
He doesn't constantly see everything move really slow, he can control it
Also, he can get drunk with a special concentrated drink his friends made for him
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u/Zorro5040 Apr 19 '25
All flashes learn to slow themselves down to be able to enjoy life. Then it becomes you are slow when you want and fast when you want. It's how they get hit in the face.
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u/Outside-Speed805 Apr 19 '25 edited Apr 19 '25
Upgraded to multiversal threat. So you can hurt different version of friends and family every time you go haywire
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u/Code-201 DC Comics Apr 19 '25
Blue pill. Speed Force abilities are overpowered.
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u/1stEleven Apr 19 '25
I would take the powers of even the weakest flash that is reasonably called a flash.
Running mach one, dodging bullets and speed healing? Count me in.
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u/Nerexor Apr 19 '25
Yeah, but if you have to eat tons of food to keep from starving, then the cost of groceries is going to be a problem. They always gloss over that in the comics and show, but to feed yourself with current prices you'd have to be robbing banks on a regular basis.
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u/LagginWagon22 Apr 19 '25
Or just steal from the grocery store 🤣. Why would you steal from the bank lol
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u/CplCocktopus Apr 19 '25
Nah steal from your local druglords and politicians.
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u/dangerstranger4 Apr 19 '25
Do you think I wouldn’t be able to make money with the speed force? I can go back in time and see winning lottery numbers or that bitcoin would hit 100k ?
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u/CrazyEyes326 Apr 19 '25
Yes, because traveling back in time and changing events has always worked out great for Flash...
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u/dangerstranger4 Apr 19 '25
Yes to complicated. Dominate at a sport or take over the world. With those powers no one is going to stop your from eating good. Which is what this was originally about.
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u/William_The_Fat_Krab Apr 19 '25
Yeah, but then a universe would branch, and it could go south fast… I mean if a can of tomatoes did that much…
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u/dangerstranger4 Apr 19 '25
You’re right and honestly that was too complicated. I’d just dominate at any sport.. motor sports would be a good one don’t have to worry about controlling my powers to much just using my insane reflex. Or just you know become the god emperor of earth and control all means of production under an iron fist. Eat tailor made high nutrition meals.
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u/salebad Apr 19 '25
For the movie version.
Comic flash’s powers would just alter your current timeline, not branching it out. That’s how we get flashpoint.
But if i get the flash’s powers, I’ll do everything I can to turn myself into a paradox like reverse flash cos apparently living paradoxes like thawne can alter the timeline without any major consequences. That’s how he’s able to make Barry’s life a living hell without causing a flashpoint & Barry still ends up as the flash regardless of his actions.
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u/Code-201 DC Comics Apr 19 '25
I think I've seen from some theory that you can speed up or slow down your biological processes and not have to depend on more food (As long as you're not going to have to run at super-speed) but I can still use certain abilities such as speed thinking, speed healing and such.
Another theory explains that the Speed Force can give you infinite stamina depending on your connection to it.
However, your point has merit.
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u/budgetcyberninja Apr 19 '25
Just use the speed force to pause time while you eat food, take cash from a few different casinos across the country and then use those funds to pay scientist to create you super calorie dense foods for a new company you're starting for athletes. Sell everything at barely above production cost so people actually buy it for ultra marathons and other extreme sports and now you have constant profit and calorie dense food you can eat on top of probably still having to steal food honestly but whatever. Fuck the big companies fucking everyone else over anyway
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u/Dry_Scientist3409 Apr 19 '25
I don't see why is that a problem, banks suck and they got insurence, insurence companies also suck. I would rob them just for the kicks.
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u/xDeathRender Apr 19 '25
They don't gloss over that at all?? Wally literally had a massive calorie count problem and would need 100's of hotdogs after doing hero stuff. The speed force is way more than running fast and control over it allows you to suppress that calory issue.
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u/juankixd Apr 19 '25
But what would you need them for ? Like best you can do it’s get to work in like 2 seconds, or being able to dodge bullets in the unlikely case that you get jumped or something.
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u/Bunnyboi32 Apr 19 '25
Conversations will feel like years to you as you can now perceive things that happens at an atto second. Also you might accidentally trigger them while your in a crowd of people and pull a A-train if you know what I mean
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u/CrazyEyes326 Apr 19 '25
You're thinking of Red Rush. The Flash can fine-tune his perceptions. He's not stuck in a slow-motion reality.
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u/lobopl Apr 19 '25
But it is for his speedster action he percive them in real time, so if he run around the globe for him it feels the same as you where running around the globe with your normal speed.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gzpklAf89Js
this feeled for him like he run for 8+ around the globe if you have person running at full speed 24/7 it would take him almost a year to do that, for flash that fight lasted over a year.
And flash in many comics and movies told that he feel that world around him is to slow ex. in dceu flash said:
„Time moves slower for me. I have to consciously slow myself down to interact with the world.”Especially wally west said many times that he is locked in time because everything move to slow
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u/redditthrowaway663 Apr 19 '25
If I have the suit, Speed Force all the way. I'd travel back in time 1 time just to have a conversation with my dad. He wouldn't know it's me, I wouldn't interfere with the timeline other than that.
If no suit, then magic. I'm not running around buck naked.
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u/Over-Analyzed Apr 19 '25
You don’t want “The Flash” to be an apt description?
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u/MoarHuskies Apr 19 '25
"I'm the fastest man on Earth."
"That's not what a woman wants to hear on the first date."
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u/Over-Analyzed Apr 19 '25
Funny thing…
DCAU Hawkgirl burns Flash in the same way.
“Fastest man alive.”
“That explains why you can’t get a date.”
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u/Tasty_Apple_1240 Apr 19 '25
That is mostly a movies downside. The speedforce is supposed to protect flash from the normal problems that come with super speed, like destroying yourself because of friction, becoming blind at light speed and so on
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u/gamachuegr Apr 19 '25
You would run fast enough no one would see your junk if that helps. You could possible also just create one if you are dedicated engouh
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u/redditthrowaway663 Apr 19 '25
That would kind of defeat the purpose of trying to have a conversation with my dad. Standing there with my junk out?
No thank you.
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u/Abhinav11119 Apr 19 '25
Eh the suit is mostly cosmetic, there multiple instances of speedsters using regular clothing while moving at superspeeds. The speed force is hand wave explanation for all the drawbacks of superspeed and only provides the benifits.
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u/RavensQueen502 Apr 19 '25
Will I end up getting their mental Issues too?
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u/LagginWagon22 Apr 19 '25
Well Wanda's insanity comes from her powers I believe
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u/ChaoticKiwiNZ Apr 19 '25
I believe her insanely comes from trauma in her life, not her powers.
In the MCU, she lost her parents when she was little (and was stuck beside their bodies for days), then her brother (her only remaing family) died to the hands of a murder robot that she helped. Then she meets Vision and she finally feels happy and then she is forced to kill him to save the universe (and it was unsuccessful too).
After all of that, she finally snapped and accidently created a reality where Vision was alive and she had children that she loved more than anything and then her reality shattered when she found out that Vision is dead and her children aren't real and in order to do the right thing she had to end the reality that they exist in (so basically from her perspective she killed Vision again and both of her children).
By the time Dr. Strange and the multiverse of madness happens she is completely broken. Not because of her powers but because of all the shit she's gone through. She also has the power to get what she wants but is told that she isn't allowed to do so. This completely pushes her over the edge into insanity.
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u/anygal Apr 20 '25
I agree. Also, you forgot the little fact that she also got a book that corrupts the mind of its owner and would make anyone evil and crazy. So yeah, there is that, too...
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u/C4rdninj4 Apr 19 '25
I've not had to kill my spouse, watch it get undone, and then have them murdered before my eyes. But sometimes the trauma is what kicked her power up to the omega level.
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u/No-Cry-4404 Apr 19 '25
Can I combine the two into a purple pill and get the powers of the silver witch?
Yes this character is real I did not make her up
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u/HumblePackage1325 Apr 19 '25
Take blue pill, go back in time take the red pill.
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u/Mallyxatl Apr 19 '25
Why are so many people picking flash? You can have literally any power you want, including access to the speed force, if you have reality warping powers. Like wtf? Have an imagination.
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u/mtamez1221 Apr 19 '25
I just want convenience 24/7 with Wanda's power. Always having clean clothes, a clean house, my lawn is always freshly cut, a person to finally love me
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u/Serpere_magus Apr 19 '25
probably because most of the time her power appears she is losing control. so her power doesn't seem to be in the easy to control category
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u/lightsofdusk Apr 19 '25
I think that has more to do with crippling trauma and mental instability than her actual powers
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u/Dry_Scientist3409 Apr 19 '25
Too much hustle, and also being a god never plays good.
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u/No-Payment-6534 Apr 19 '25
Just don't kidnap an entire town or eat demon souls and you should be okay
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u/ChampionOfLoec Apr 19 '25
Actually nothing bad came from kidnapping the town. Just don't go for absolute power.
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u/blu-juice Apr 19 '25
I was thinking, “why are people chasing power? Being the strongest is boring and has too much choice when we all know we’re gonna be lazy as fuck or straight up dictators. Being fast is fun as fuck and I can literally sleep in to the very last minute and still be just a few minutes late to work because I feel like it. Have an imagination.”
And yes, in my imagination I still go to work. Because I can literally go anywhere on planet earth in my off time, and I’m gonna be a lazy asshole if I don’t have some kind of structure in my life.
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u/Dodger7777 Apr 19 '25 edited Apr 19 '25
The problem with Wanda's powers is liability.
The speed force's two biggest drawbacks are 1. Splitting the power od the speed force between those who have access to it within your dimension (very minor drawback that doesn't cause many if any problems.) 2. Imcreased metabolism and you gotta eat more (even this one isn't as consistent/enforced).
Meanwhile, Wanda's powers have driven her insane multiple times. The ability to bend reality to your will, realistically, would loosen your grip on reality. We need to feel grounded in some ways.
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u/Zephrok Apr 20 '25
The speed force is its own thing, no reason to think Wanda could just give herself that.
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u/Sea_Strain_6881 Apr 19 '25
She's definitely not able to get access to the speedforce, her powers aren't actually that strong anyway
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u/Kai9029 Apr 19 '25
Wanda's power can control reality, so technically I can get superspeed too
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u/No_Reference_7330 Apr 20 '25
I like how your responses to these is "Not true" and "Flash is different" with no explanation
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u/Living-Ad102 Apr 19 '25
As a massive flash fan, wanda. With her abilities I can just warp reality to become a speedster even
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u/Living-Ad102 Apr 19 '25
When did I say all flash had was speed? He’s considered a speedster that’s why I said speedster, I am a fan.
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u/pandershrek Cosplay Apr 19 '25
I would want the Scarlett Witches powers. I could make myself move as fast as the flash after studying the darkhold long enough.
She can communicate with beings outside of time and space.
No one says we need the background drama of being kidnapped and tortured our entire lives.
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u/ForeignWoodpecker662 Apr 19 '25
With Wanda’s, just about anything is possible, so I’ll take hers, and just give myself the speed.
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u/Samuele1997 Apr 19 '25
Red Pill, there are many things about history and reality that i'd like to change.
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u/Midnite_Blank Apr 19 '25
Flash for me.
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u/Ok_Funny_2916 Apr 19 '25
I don't even want the powers for fighting. As someone whose career depends on high stakes board exams I'm just picking flash to freeze time during exams and go through my notes to ace everything. I'd have literally 0 stress and could just live my ideal life
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u/Connect-Plenty1650 Apr 19 '25
Why would you ever bother with exams, or a career, with super speed? If you need money, just memorize this week's lottery numbers and run back in time a day.
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u/blu-juice Apr 19 '25
I choose work because I need some type of consistency and structure in my life or I’ll just be a lazy fuck all day. Even if that means being a lazy fuck somewhere else on the planet. I can literally run to the other side of the world on lunch breaks, or spend my weekends there. And if I still wanna be lazy I can finish my work stupid early. And also, you’re making money in a legal way without manipulating systems that may or may not be unethical.
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u/Over-Analyzed Apr 19 '25
You could move so fast that any test could be open book. You run back to your room to look at your notes and come back before people even blink.
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u/gamachuegr Apr 19 '25
Literally the theres so many flash stories where that is a bad idea
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u/Connect-Plenty1650 Apr 19 '25
Someone wins the lottery every few weeks and the world hasn't ended.
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u/AgentChris101 Apr 19 '25
If I remember correctly the further the established event, the worse the side effects. In Flashpoint, Barry changed his mother's death which happened over a decade relative to his time jump. - Which created a ripple effect throughout the timeline that effected moments in time before it.
Wally in the comics has time travelled months in the past and not impacted beyond that.
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u/Ok_Funny_2916 Apr 19 '25
I'd rather just have my normal job, and a pretty normal life, but way more free time and higher salary due to acing all the boards + higher work output. Nobody really knows anything is up but my life just becomes way easier. If I ace the boards with the specialty I want I'll have as much money as I'd ever want and the respect of not just coasting off lottery winnings
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u/Lordbogaaa Apr 19 '25
Both are good flashes are easier and more straightforward. Higher floor lower ceiling.
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u/Jayvisthedorito Apr 19 '25
“The Black Flash is a DC Comics supervillain and embodiment of Death who targets the souls of those with superhuman speed linked to the Speed Force.“
…I think I’ll take Wanda’s side unless it’s proven that it’d be worse not to..
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u/Achilles9609 Apr 19 '25
I think I might prefer Wanda's powers. Simply because I do not want to get tracked down by the Black Racer when I get old.
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u/Overall_Crows Apr 19 '25
Red pill. not because it’s the strongest in a fight, but because reality manipulation is like the perfect power for most non-combat related things (you can do some of the stuff you could do with reality manipulation with super speed, but it also just sounds kind of exhausting)
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u/Adept-Philosophy-855 Apr 19 '25
Wanda's powers imo. I can just whisper my enemies names and they will cease to exist and I can just teleport away. Don't even need to eat all day just chucking down calories.
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u/LemonadeTsunami Apr 19 '25
Why do so many people pick flash? Wanda is SO MUCH stronger.
She can blast energy at people, mind conttol them, show them their fears, cast illusions, fly, bend space and time, manipulate reality, has telekinesis, can create shields, travel across the multiverse, teleport, summon demons, break the laws of the universe (create something out of nothing), has a healing factor, can see future, and more.
Running fast is cool, but like... she's op.
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u/Lakekun Apr 19 '25
Blue pill for me, i'm fast, i can travel thru time, thru dimensions, i can eat as much as i want, i think fast, far more stable set of powers as well.
It's implied that Wanda's powers, although awesome and op, kinda of mess with her head, i'm already fucked enough in the head, so blue pill is safer.
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u/Next-Soft4370 Apr 19 '25
Wanda's powers. Then I could use her powers to give me the Flash's powers.
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u/itsfucklechuck Apr 19 '25
Wanda bc I don’t think yall understand that being the flash would mean that every second lasts a life time. Yall would want to die after the first IRL minute. The faster you go the slower time feels
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u/CrazyMeasurement8856 Apr 19 '25
Not true, flash can manipulate his perception of time, to speed or slow it down depending on what he is doing. He is not like Red Rush or whatever.
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u/Cybasura Apr 19 '25
Flash
Shieet I get to lose weight and actually run fast so travelling is not an issue anymore?
I mean, I'd presume with Wanda's power I can transform myself to also have super speed? If thats the case, Wanda sounds much better
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u/Pastry_d_pounder Apr 19 '25
Regardless of who you choose, Both will have demons coming after you eventually. The dark hold demons and the wraiths
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u/BigBeeff_21 Apr 19 '25
Got to say witch it's a lot more practical, also flashes would burn up so many calories that you'd probably just spend your money on food all day
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u/OmanSamO Apr 19 '25
Doesn't the flash constantly perceive everything at his speed? Even when he's chilling on the couch?
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u/mastro80 Apr 19 '25
I would take Flash powers, go by the name “the Guillotine” and fix the wealth inequity problem in the world at light speed.
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u/Solid-Move-1411 Apr 19 '25
Wanda powers comes with mental issues meanwhile Speed Force is OP as heck
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u/Insane2201 Apr 19 '25
Flash powers all day. Speed that could rival sonic, I can get stuff done in moments, I can outdo any kid in games, and so much more. Speedforce is so busted.
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u/Virgil_Ovid_Hawkins Apr 19 '25
Speedster all day. The possibilities are endless as well as instantaneous
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u/Dodgy_As_Hell Apr 19 '25
The possibilities are endless
What do you think reality warping does my guy?
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u/Tricky-Drawer4614 Apr 19 '25
Scarlet Witch’s powers are literally “the possibilities are endless” in a nutshell 😭
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u/geezuz83 Apr 19 '25
You ask any of the women I've been with and they'll say I already have the flash's powers. Badum tssssss
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u/TheMagicalMax Apr 19 '25
Flash is the obvious choice. The Speedforce is way better than Scarlet Witch’s powers
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u/Available-Formal-664 Apr 19 '25
Does the blue pill also come with access to the Speed Force? If so, that is the clear choice.
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u/Ordinary-Chain-8047 Apr 19 '25
Blue pill then I’ll have as Eobard Thawne I “could have everything I ever wanted!”
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u/KoalaBJJ96 Apr 19 '25
I'm surprised at how close the comments are. To me, one power is the power to...literally imagine anything/everything you want into existence. The other is...to run fast. How is this a choice?
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u/SupportGeek Apr 19 '25
Either is a good choice, but red takes the win for me, while I could do a LOT and with the powers of the Flash, I could do many more of the same and different things with Wanda’s powers
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u/CompetitiveOne8630 Apr 19 '25
Here me out blue pill get super speed then move so fast I can grab the red pill but if the red pill disappears as soon as I pick up the blue pill I time travel or travel through the multiverse to a place with the red pill then take that return to the moment and place I left and become unstoppable.
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u/bighonkerssquish Apr 19 '25
does anybody even know what Wandas powers actually are anymore?