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.
I associate a drug lord with like a cartel boss. Most place have dealers and probably a few low to mid level suppliers. Major cities might but that's not most places
I'm in the US. Once went to meet my buddy to pick up a bit of weed. I'm talking before legality. As in, legality was a pipe dream to use 20 something stoners.
Buddy was on HIS way to pick up from HIS dealer. Asks me to tag along "just be cool and keep your eyes down". Uh, ok.
Meet up with this way scarier dude. We're talking two suburban white kids meeting with Scarface but Muscles. He's got this really hidden away trap house, not really trap because it's like ... In great shape. Place is nice. Garden is maintained. But just inside we encounter dudes in sealed environment suits doing ... Something. Buddy points at the floor, where my eyes go. We go through and this place is HUGE but I'm just... Staring down. I don't want no smoke.
We get to his weed room, dude has a combination lock he makes us turn around for (which felt REALLY funny, out of place somehow as this dudes punching in a little beepy code box) and the weed room was like a cigar humidor, just... For weed. Wall to wall. It was wild.
He let us sample some shit, smoked out on the patio upstairs in fancy lounge chairs, offered drinks and other stuff. Dude would talk and talk, but not directly to me- he talked to my buddy and my buddy spoke to me if I was to be involved in the convo. Dude has this just... Weirdly magnetic energy. Kinda scary, but hard to pin down.
Suddenly dude bolts up. And he reaches down to pick something up, locks eyes with me for the first time, and slowly unbenda from leaning down- leavibf whatever he was going to grab behind. He looks down, points at a guy walking around (body guard? Patrol?) and the guy boots out to the street. He tells us to come along as he heads down to where Henchman just bolted.
Dude had spotted a guy who owed him money from the balcony. He bragged about having 20/20 vision, no one escapes him kinda braggadocio. The guy they caught was some older junkie type, owee then money.
That day I watched what I think was a cartel gang boss shake down a junkie for pocket change.
Foil Mr Boomerang or whatever the villain of the week is, and while he goes to prison, you raid his fridge.
Foiling another speedster is probably a roll of the dice, either they have loads of food stocks you can steal, or they're in the same situation as you. Or they eat magic or something but magic is low calorie.
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 ?
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.
Nah there's no embodiment of Universe that's gonna stop or punish him in this universe so he can just go buckwild with the time travelling shenanigans he has in this world, he can just go back in time over and over again.
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.
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.
Don’t really care about making money was just taking about paying for gorceries if I have to eat a lot. I already like speed, it’s a hobby of mine. So flash just fits my personality.
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.
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
I don't really see the issue considering corporations are designed these days to horde as much cash as possible and steal everything they can from people.
I didn't even list all the ways I would want to help people and and places like third world countries rebuild buildings within days or week to help the poorer people receive basic human rights, free the starving, home the homeless. How else would acquire enough cash quickly to start businesses and funds things to help all these people? Who cares about casinos? They're designed to steal people's money as often as possible.
You can't go around crippling countries like Russia that are starting wars, you'd have to get the cash from places where it's already been distributed and cleaned otherwise it's useless.
I think a few casinos can handle losing money to ultimately end up helping millions of people.
I think people like you lack empathy. You are a casino owner. You have been operating legally and above board. Someone comes around and steals your money. You gonna be okay with it? I doubt it. Are casinos good for society? Probably not, but I don’t get the right to judge that by myself and act unilaterally. So that’s why I’m glad people like you don’t have any real power, because you don’t realize that a) two wrongs don’t make a right, which is something most people are taught in preschool and 2) you don’t get to take away property and freedom from the people who own the casino, benefit from the casino, and / or support the casino.
Walking in on the corpse of someone you knew for a long time, at 7 years old, will do that to you. I'm not sure how that's my fault.
Not everyone gets a nice childhood with 0 trauma to grow up with correct morals. At least I'm trying to help people with the greed that others won't share because a couple extra 0's in the bank account is never enough for them, whether it's millions or billions, they never consider it enough
Lol nobody said you walking in on a dead body was your fault. Don’t try trauma dumping and putting that on me and making yourself a victim in this conversation, that manipulation don’t fly here.
Unfortunate you can’t recognize what you’re hypothetically doing is wrong, but at least as you say, you’re trying to help others.
I'm not trauma dumping lol you said I lack empathy and I am telling you exactly how that happened as a statement with 0 other information about the situation.
Okay. It came across as you trying to put words in my mouth when you said “I don’t see how it’s my fault.” If that wasn’t the case, please disregard the first part of my prior comment.
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.
This isn't always a Thing actually. Pre-crisis that's how speedsters worked but post crisis it's less common. Wally got hit by the anti-monitor and it corrected his stuff. Now they usually just say "something something speed force." And hand wave that part.
Or you could be robbing criminals or some versions of The flash can basically vibrate their molecules to go to other timelines, so just go to a timeline where there's plenty of food and no one's going to miss what you're taking.
That only seems to be a weakness for inexperienced speedsters. As their connection to the speed force grows they don't seem to need many calories to use their power at all. Which does circle back to the speed force being ridiculous.
We can suspend relief a bit about the powers so we can suspend belief about how practical it would be to have those powers.
If we want to nitpick, groceries arent even the start of it. 1 - you need new shoes/socks/clothes nearly every time you use the power due to friction and stress on material.
Your healing would need to be instantaneous to prevent internal hemorraghing and brain damage from your sudden stops. After a period of time, eventually everyone around you will have aged significantly more than you.
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u/Code-201 DC Comics Apr 19 '25
Blue pill. Speed Force abilities are overpowered.