History Main / LudicrousSpeed

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* ''Radio/BleakExpectations'' states that in Victorian England's poor understanding of science, it's impossible to travel faster than 30 MPH. Doing so would cause your head to implode. [[BunglingInventor Harry Biscuit]] decides that he will disprove this by using a team of 150 horses that will, by his logic, be able to travel at 150 times the speed of horse, and he invents a cone shaped helmet that will "cut through the air" to prevent his head from imploding.

* This is bound to happen in ''VideoGame/LethalLeague'' in regard to the ball. Every time it's hit, it goes faster. Hitting it with a ChargedAttack will make it go even faster. Combine that with other players smacking the ball as well as you, and pretty soon the ball will go at speeds of ''1,000,000 MPH'' (yep, that's six zeroes you just saw there), making it so fast that no one will have time to react to it and get eliminated. It also causes some really freaky things to happen on the stage (for instance, the empty pool stage will start raining heavily).

* In the past, people used to believe all sorts of yet-to-be-reached speeds would have dangerous and potentially fatal effects, including people two centuries ago thinking that travel by high-speed locomotive would leave the passengers unable to breathe. By high-speed, we mean 40 KPH (25 MPH), at which speed the pressures would suck all the air out. At 48 KPH (30 MPH) they believed people would be sucked bodily out of the windows. The fear was apparently based less on the speed itself than the belief that air pressure would drop because of it.
** Which is pretty funny, because by the 1910s, First World War aviators were flying at speeds in excess of 150 kph (90 mph) in open cockpits, and quickly discovered they didn't need any breathing protection beyond a scarf.

* On a similar note, the Porsche 918 Spyder supercar isn't the fastest in terms of top speed, with a Vmax of "only" 339 KPH (211 MPH), but it has crushed several other records, most notably [[http://blog.caranddriver.com/7-down-porsche-918-spyder-runs-record-breaking-657-nurburgring-lap/ the production car lap record at the Nürburgring]] (6:57, with orders to take it easy- to go faster, you have to use a specially prepared race car), and [[http://www.caranddriver.com/features/the-2015-porsche-918-spyder-is-the-quickest-road-car-in-the-world-feature the shortest 0-60 time recorded by Car and Driver magazine]] (only 2.2 seconds!). Motor Trend magazine also recorded [[http://www.motortrend.com/roadtests/exotic/1503_2015_mclaren_p1_vs_2015_porsche_918_spyder/track_performance.html a sub-1:30 lap at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca,]] another record.

* During the high speed run of the TGV (high speed train), whose current land speed record is 574.8 KPH (357 MPH), some people on-board the train felt slightly nauseous.

* In ''WesternAnimation/IAmWeasel'', right after Weasel and Baboon break the speed of light with their "motorbikini", they break the speed of heavy, and arrive in another dimension.

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* In the ''Anime/SpeedRacer'' two-parter "The Fastest Car in the World", the legendary GRX engine was dug up from its maker's grave. At top speed, a car propelled by it could only be driven safely if the driver had inhaled "V-gas". Speed tried to drive it without V-gas, went insane — or had a nearly-orgasmic moment of fahrvergnügen, we can't tell — and almost crashed. And of course, V-gas has the downside of making the inhaler extremely thirsty — and if they drink water, they'll become terrified of even the slowest speeds (which Pops had to condition him out of, and which killed another test pilot).

* In ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure'' Part 6, Enrico Pucci's Stand Stairway to Heaven/Made in Heaven can accelerate the entire universe, giving him the illusion that he is moving insanely fast — so fast that eventually it's stated that only the Stand's user and God Himself can keep up with him.
* ''Anime/RedLine'' is '''built''' on this trope. The plot involves a futuristic and illegal auto race across a militaristic DeathWorld, and the racers' vehicles reach supersonic speeds without even trying. Using [[NitroBoost speed boosters]] is depicted by having time slow down and the cars/drivers stretching to impossible lengths before launching away.

* One of the threats ''ComicBook/TheFlash'' faces is going so fast that he gets absorbed into the Speed Force, the cosmic force that gives him his power.
** Ludicrous Speed was the way Barry was able to visit Earth-Two and link UsefulNotes/{{the Silver Age|Of Comic Books}} to UsefulNotes/{{the Golden Age|Of Comic Books}}, as him vibrating incredibly fast in certain places on Earth-One gave him the ability to cross over into Earth-Two.
* Superman (at least during UsefulNotes/{{The Silver Age|Of Comic Books}}) could easily reach Ludicrous Speed, which allows him to warp space-time and time-travel.
** Supergirl rammed through Warworld at such a high speed that she passed into higher planes of existence — while still unconscious from the impact!
* Makkari, from Marvel's [[ComicBook/TheEternals Eternals]], once overloaded on energy and became so fast that he was out of sync with space and time, and was unable to slow down at all.
* In ''ComicBook/AvengersNoSurrender'', Quicksilver has Wanda and Synapse temporarily give him a boost to his powers so he can un-freeze everyone from technologically enforced freezing. The result causes him to disappear, not unlike Flashes going into the Speed Force. Once everything's over, Wanda and Synapse figure he's out there, somewhere, and go looking for him.

* ''Film/{{Spaceballs}}'' is the {{Trope Namer|s}}, but is actually a subversion: the only harm that really comes out of it is ''Spaceball One'' overshooting Lone Starr by a minimum of several hours in non-Ludicrous Speed travel time (which, while a serious setback for the Spaceballs, isn't physical harm), Dark Helmet taking some AmusingInjuries from crashing into a bridge console when ''Spaceball One'' decelerates, and everyone being granted a few minutes to gather themselves after the experience.

* In ''Film/InspectorGadget1999'', the Gadgetmobile states that he has only two speeds: "'Fast' and 'Whoo! What was that?'"
* ''Film/{{Clockstoppers}}'' features Hypertime, which allows the user to travel at faster than the eye can see speeds. Prolonged Hypertime exposure can lead a character to age 10 years in a matter of months in continuous Hyper Time. Double Hyper Time (using a Hypertime device in a room thats already in hypertime) is extremely unstable. So unstable that a person is able to pass through solid objects.

* ''Film/ConquestOfSpace'': When the spaceship accelerates towards Mars, the entire crew pull {{Narm}}ish facial expressions due to the tremendous velocity. This was an obligatory trope for any space exploration movie of the time (though it goes back to the silent movie ''Film/FrauImMond'') to show the crushing pressures of liftoff from the Earth's gravity.
* Likewise in ''Film/QueenOfOuterSpace''. Expressions vary from "happily constipated" as they're taking off, to "strapped-to-an-operating-table-and-anal-probed" as their rocketship hurtles (well, [[OnlyAModel wobbles actually]]) towards Venus at [[ReadingsAreOffTheScale over a hundred miles a second]].
* In ''Film/IndianaJonesAndTheKingdomOfTheCrystalSkull'', as Indy is fighting off his Russian captors, within Hangar 51, one particularly large and strong mook chases him into a testing area for a rocket sled. As the two men fight on top of the sled, the launch controls are accidentally activated, and the rocket is sent blasting down the launch track, with Dr. Jones and the bad guy, smooshed back against the front of the sled, the g-force stretching their features comically. After the rocket comes to a halt, both Indy and the Russian momentarily black out and are visibly ill and dizzy from shooting down the track at several hundred miles per hour.
* ''Film/RatRace'': Two of the racers for the $2,000,000, Vera Baker and her daughter Merrill Jennings, end up losing their car in the desert and stumble across a press gathering where a team of scientists are attempting to break the land speed record with a newly designed type of Rocket Car. Vera and Merrill manage to steal the vehicle and activate it, blasting off through the desert fast enough to keep up with a visibly speeding bullet next to them. When the car runs out of jet fuel and begins to slow down, the women shakily get out of the vehicle, dazed and disturbed enough to be mistaken for residents of an insane asylum out on a field trip.
* ''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxyVol2'' uses hyperspace "jumps" in this way. A mammal is only supposed to be able to handle 50 jumps at a time. This crew, being what it is, goes for 700, and the ''Quadrant'''s already committed to the trip by the time Yondu's able to alert Rocket to his mistake. We see their faces getting cartoonishly warped as they're screaming. Groot seems unaffected... until after they arrive, he pukes candidly and suddenly, like a baby would.

* The Creator/IsaacAsimov short story "Escape", where the robot brains working on hyperspace travel discover that hyperspace travel causes humans to die ([[BackFromTheDead They Get Better]] though), which causes their ThreeLawsCompliant brains to go haywire (Consolidated Robots's Brain renders itself into junk, while the US Robotics' one has more personality and develops a mischievous sense of humor). The two characters we see taking the hyperspace jump actually go to {{Heaven}} and {{Hell}} respectively (somewhat Creator/GilbertAndSullivan-influenced places, due to AuthorAppeal).
* ''Literature/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy''
** [[Literature/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy1 The first book]] mentions something called the R factor, which is a measure of how fast somebody is traveling based on their psychological perception of speed. Anything going at a speed higher than 1 R is going "too fast", by definition, although the actual value of ''1 R'' varies by individual and species. The crew of the starship Bistromath end up traveling at 10^17,000 R, i.e. 10-with-seventeen-thousand-zeroes times faster than an appropriate speed would actually be.
** And, of course, there's the Infinite Improbability Drive, which has unusual effects on its ship's passengers ("Ford, you're turning into a penguin. Stop it."). Though it might be more accurate to call it pure ludicrousness that gives you Ludicrous Speed as a side effect.
* Creator/StephenKing wrote a short story called "[[Literature/SkeletonCrew The Jaunt]]" which has a future humanity easily colonizing other worlds thanks to a mass-produced teleportation mechanism. The only catch is that any living thing that goes through the transport while ''conscious'' either dies or comes through [[GoMadFromTheRevelation a gibbering lunatic]]. Ironically, the story implies that this is because the brain experiences everything in the "warp" as going so slow that it takes an ''[[AndIMustScream eternity]]'' to finally arrive.
-->''"[[MadnessMantra It's longer than you think! It's longer than you think!]]"''
** In ''Danse Macabre'', King relates an apocryphal story about Creator/HarlanEllison, which he heard at various fantasy/sci-fi conventions:
--->''It was told that [[Creator/{{Paramount}} Paramount Pictures]] had a pre-production conference of Big Name Science Fiction Writers prior to shooting on ''[[Film/StarTrekTheMotionPicture Star Trek: The Movie]]''. The purpose of the conference was to toss around ideas for a mission that would be big enough to fly the Starship ''Enterprise'' from the cathode tube to the Silver Screen... and BIG was the word that the exec in charge of the conference kept emphasizing. One writer suggested that the ''Enterprise'' might be sucked into a black hole (the Disney people [[Film/TheBlackHole scoffed that idea up about three months later]]). The Paramount exec didn't think that was big enough. Another suggested that Kirk, Spock, and company might discover a pulsar that was in fact a living organism. Still not big enough, the writer was admonished; the writers were again reminded that they should think BIG. According to the tale, Ellison sat silent, doing a slow burn... only with Harlan, a slow burn lasts only about five seconds. Finally, he spoke up. "The ''Enterprise''," he said, "goes through an interstellar warp, the great-granddaddy of all interstellar warps. It's transported over a googol of light-years in the space of seconds and comes out at a huge gray wall. The wall marks the edge of the entire universe. Scotty rigs full-charge ion blasters which breach the wall so they can see what's beyond the edge of everything. Peering through at them, bathed in an incredible white light, is the face of God Himself."\\

* There was a short story, written towards the end of the 19th century, where a train travels at the then-unheard of speed of 128 KPH (80 MPH), but it had to stop every so often for the ''souls'' of the passengers to catch up.
* [[FasterThanLightTravel Warp]] in ''Chalice Cycle'' by Howard L. Myers has a similar problem, but the speed limit depends on environment and ship size. As [[{{Exposition}} explained]] to an alien in ''[[http://baenebooks.com/10.1125/Baen/0743436075/0743436075__31.htm Heavy Thinker,]]'' atoms in normal space create turbulences in objects moving through them in warp state. Denser matter and bigger warp ships mean stronger turbulences. And those turbulences slow down travelers' souls, separating them from bodies. Long separation leads to insanity, 2-3-second one is considered incurable. Humans with implanted warp units can safely exceed the speed of light in interstellar gas, but manned ships have to move slower to keep the crew sane. [[spoiler:The alien Monte is too big to painlessly go supralight.]]
** Later 2 characters deliberately leave warp in a planet's upper atmosphere to make themselves [[TheUnfettered insane,]] [[PowerBornOfMadness therefore unpredictable]] [[GodzillaThreshold to the enemies]].

* A rather nasty science fiction book by Creator/CharlesRPellegrino, ''Flying to Valhalla'', that featured a light speed trip that caused the characters to become disconnected from reality, reliving their life over and over again, for years!

* In Creator/LarryNiven's ''Literature/KnownSpace'' stories, looking out of a spacecraft in hyperspace has adverse mental effects on humans. It's described as developing a mental "blind spot" and distorting perception nearby to eliminate any view of hyperspace itself. In one story two people are exposed to raw hyperspace (the hull of their ship is vaporized); they become nearly catatonic, since their blind spot expands to cover the entire universe with the exception of the few objects remaining in their field of vision.
* A science-fiction short story treated FTL speed this way, as the only survivor of a ship that went FTL experiences waves of expanding consciousness as he starts becoming one with the universe due to FTL being supposedly impossible (all while the government continually tries to force him to say his experience never happened for apparently no other reason than 'science says you can't go faster than light'). This apparently is so disruptive that someone (who may be a cosmic being masquerading as a human female) appears and talks him into letting her remove his experiences, at which point he declares 'Are you crazy? You can't go faster than light' at his next interrogation. Hearing what they wanted, the government promptly stops trashing his life and lets him go.
* The operation of the Tubes permitting faster-than-light travel in ''Literature/StarBridge'' is a closely-guarded secret of the Eron Corporation (for which they represent a very lucrative monopoly) and passengers travelling by tubeship are rendered unconscious for the duration. One character goes through a tube conscious, in a space suit. He does not enjoy it, and speculates that in addition to the expressly stated justification of protecting the secret of the tubes, passengers are made unconscious to keep them from going insane.

* ''Literature/TheWitchesOfKarres'' series makes occasional reference to the "Egger Route", which can apparently be used to transport individuals across interstellar distances very quickly - far, far more quickly than starships can go. The downside being that it's a ''very'' bad trip: the effects we've seen in the series include catatonia for a couple of minutes on the other side (hopefully giving enough time for whoever's there to apply restraints), convulsions for another couple of minutes, and an unwillingness to talk about or remember what was along the route.
* ''The Gulf Between'' by Tom Godwin. A spy steals a prototype spacecraft, but gives the wrong order to the robot pilot and is immediately pressed into the pilot's couch by the acceleration, unable to move or speak to issue the command to slow down while the robot obediently carries out his last order, including [[AndIMustScream helping the pilot stay alive with drugs and artificial implants]].
* The prototype Haertel Overdrive in Creator/JamesBlish's ''Common Time'' has strange effects on the pilot's perception of time -- sufficiently severe that it killed the first two test pilots.
* ''Sky Lift'', by Creator/RobertAHeinlein. Two torchship pilots must deliver urgently-needed transfusion blood to a colony on Pluto, at three-and-a-half gravities of constant acceleration. It kills one pilot, and the other is so crippled he has to spend the rest of his life in a geriatric institution on the Moon.
* ''[[Literature/PriscillaHutchins Chindi]]'' by Creator/JackMcDevitt has an alien spacecraft that--instead of jumping through hyperspace like human spaceships--uses constant acceleration to up to a quarter light speed to take TheSlowPath across interstellar distances. Unfortunately someone gets stuck on the spacecraft when it takes off, and while his colleagues can easily get ahead of him, the problem is matching the spacecraft's velocity once they come out of hyperspace.

* ''Series/DoctorWho'':
** "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS22E3TheMarkOfTheRani The Mark Of The Rani]]": [[spoiler:Due to tampering, the Rani's TARDIS]] loses the ability to regulate its speed, causing it to continually accelerate. The force flattens both the Rani and the Master against the wall, and the ship begins to experience "time spillage", causing one of the fallen specimens to [[RapidAging begin to grow]] up.

* An episode of the Discovery Channel's ''Biker Build-Off'' had two teams making street-legal drag bikes. One had such forceful acceleration that it dislocated the rider's shoulder.
* After 3 million years of constant acceleration, Series/RedDwarf finally breaks the light barrier. The shipboard computer Holly, who has an IQ of 6000 (though he has gone a bit senile over the years), finds this situation simply impossible to navigate. As he puts it, by the time he sees an obstacle in their path "we've already gone through it!".
* During the ''Film/PrinceOfSpace'' [[Recap/MysteryScienceTheater3000S08E16PrinceOfSpace episode]] of ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000'', a time warp has the characters changing realities.
* ''Series/BlakesSeven''. Our heroes are trying to work out how to pilot the ''Liberator'', an alien vessel of unknown technology, and ask WhatDoesThisButtonDo Cue them being hurled to the deck as the ''Liberator'' accelerates to incredible speed, shown by planets rushing past and closeups of our heroes with the G-force [[FlappingCheeks buffeting their faces]]. With great effort Jenna is able to get them to stop, and there's some speculation about having traveled in [[TechnoBabble negative hyperspace]]. Jenna hits another button and everyone grabs for a handhold... then laugh as nothing happens.
* ''Series/TheExpanse''. In "Home", the ''Rocinante'' has to travel at 15 G's of constant acceleration to catch up with Eros which is threatening to ColonyDrop on Earth. Though they have special drugs that can be injected via their acceleration seats to enable them to survive, [[ItsTheOnlyWay it's still a high-risk maneuver]] that could easily cause death or serious injury from a burst blood vessel.
* ''Series/MythBusters''. Adam Savage's reaction to the rocket sled test for the compact compact myth. "Wow. Holy crap ... We've seen plenty of rocket launches, but when the second stage kicked in, I was thinking I've never seen anything go that fast. And then I realised that's correct, I have ''never'' seen anything go that fast."

* Music/NinjaSexParty's "6969" contains the line, "The speed of light's for pussies, we're going at the speed of Brian!" For reference, Ninja Brian has shown to be capable of OffscreenTeleportation at his slowest.

* ''Radio/BleakExpectations'' states that in Victorian England's poor understanding of science it's impossible to travel faster than 30 MPH. Doing so would cause your head to implode. [[BunglingInventor Harry]] [[TheDitz Biscuit]] decides that he will disprove this by using a team of 150 horses that will, by his logic, be able to travel at 150 times the speed of horse, and he invents a cone shaped helmet that will "cut through the air" to prevent his head from imploding.

* ''TabletopGame/{{Battletech}}'': Transit Disorientation Syndrome, which affects a high percentage of people travelling by Kearney-Fuchida FTL drive. Most people experience only mild feelings of nausea and dizziness or vertigo that wear off within a few minutes, but about 10% of the populations suffer much more severe symptoms that last for hours, or days if they have to endure multiple jumps in quick succession. A much smaller percentage can also suffer from hallucinations or psychotic delusions. There is medication that can keep the symptoms manageable, but a confirmed diagnosis of acute [=TDS=] is an instant [[CareerEndingInjury career breaker]] for anyone wanting to serve in the space forces.

* Because of most old DOS games from the 1980s and early 1990s having CPU-based speed, playing them in [=DOSBox=] on a modern computer system with significantly more power than a Tandy 1000 or IBM PC will often result in the game moving too fast for any human being to catch up. In order to have any hope of playing them correctly, you will need to know how to adjust the cycles.
* ''VideoGame/CTGP7'': DownplayedExample: Setting the cc modifier to 9999cc causes this to happen. [[ArtificialStupidity This even happens to the computers, too!]] The downplayed part? [[spoiler:[[AmusingInjuries Nothing bad happens to the racers]]; when they fall off, they get rescued by Lakitu and continue the race at the closest respawn point.]]
** {{Inverted}}: [[GoodBadBugs Accidental Example]] - [=CC=]s less than 50 are dangerous - On custom tracks, there's a glitch that causes karts to fall through the track when the CC is less than 50, making the race impossible.
* Inverted in ''VideoGame/GrimFandango''; at the beginning of year four, the ''lack'' of speed is slowly killing Glottis. Glottis is a spirit who was created expressly for the purpose of driving cars. This is both his purpose and sole desire in life, but he was created too big to fit into any of the Department's cars, so when you meet him he's kinda-sorta eking out survival by working as a mechanic instead.
* In a meta sense, GRIN's [[SugarWiki/NeedsMoreLove overlooked PC racing game]] ''Ballistics'' was often compared to the aforementioned 2001 stargate sequence by critics, as its whole gimmick was being designed for players to go incredibly fast-supersonic fast-all the time. In a strictly in-game sense, the speed of the ''first'' speed class in a barely-modified machine can be incredibly disorienting to the uninitiated. The fastest speed class in a fully-modified racer is almost impossible to follow, best described as a montage of sonic booms, motion blur and primary colors zipping by. Even more amusing is that you can go so fast, the game tends to break - [[GoodBadBugs letting you phase right through obstacles that you otherwise would whack into.]]

* ''VideoGame/KerbalSpaceProgram'': Because the game uses a purely Newtonian physics model, it is possible to achieve faster-than-light speeds using the infinite fuel cheat. However, traveling at such speeds (at least, without using mods that add warp drives) tends to summon the [[GoodBadBugs Deep Space Kraken]].

* This is bound to happen in ''VideoGame/LethalLeague'' in regards to the ball. Every time it's hit, it goes faster. Hitting it with a ChargedAttack will make it go even faster. Combine that with other players smacking the ball as well as you, and pretty soon the ball will go at speeds of ''1,000,000 MPH'' (yep, that's six zeroes you just saw there), making it so fast that no one will have time to react to it and get eliminated. It also causes some really freaky things to happen on the stage (for instance, the empty pool stage will start raining heavily).

* The ''WebAnimation/ZeroPunctuation'' review of Tom Clancy's ''VideoGame/{{HAWX}}'' mentions that the selection of military air-crafts mainly boils down to the exact design of the expensive, military ass you'll have to stare at all day, and possibly a slight promotion from 'ludicrously fast' to 'there is [[ImpactSilhouette a mosquito-shaped hole in my teeth]]'.

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* Used with ''VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog'' in [[http://www.vgcats.com/comics/?strip_id=291 this]] ''Webcomic/VGCats'' strip.

* ''Website/SCPFoundation'': A storage accident involving [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-1272 SCP-1272]] created a zone in one of their bases with topological twisting so severe it created relativistic effects. An unknown person is walking out of the affected area at what appears to be imperceptibly slow speed -- but he's ''blue-shifted'', meaning he's moving at a decent fraction of the speed of light. [[EarthShatteringKaboom When he emerges from the zone moving at that speed...]]

* A segment of ''Anime/TheAnimatrix'' centers on a sprinter who ran so fast he was on the verge of breaching the Matrix and waking up into the real world.
* In ''Westernanimation/IAmWeasel'', right after Weasel and Baboon break the speed of light with their "motorbikini", they break the speed of heavy, and arrive in another dimension.
* In ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeagueUnlimited'', the Flash [[spoiler:purged Brainiac from Lex Luthor's body]] by hitting him so fast that he ''lapped the entire planet'' with each blow. He nearly has the same problem listed above in Comic Books, where he nearly dissolved into another dimension.

* Merely going to sub light speed in the SpaceOpera sketches on ''WesternAnimation/TheRenAndStimpyShow'' can do this.
* A RunningGag in ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes,'' usually when a plane is plummeting, the airspeed meter starts spinning up ever faster, before displaying a message like "incredible, ain't it?"
* Also from ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'', the WesternAnimation/RoadRunner. With a burst of speed, he can vanish over the horizon in a fraction of a second, cause paved roadways to ripple like water, uproot utility poles with his slipstream, and basically defy the laws of physics. Of course, he never studied law.)
* Furthermore from ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'', or more specifically ''WesternAnimation/TazMania'', there's the Kiwi, a tiny, yellow, wingless bird that makes the WesternAnimation/RoadRunner look motionless, it has often been shown to warp space-time itself when running, essentially crossing wormholes when accelerating enough, and at least once [[RealityWarper it's slipstream dragged reality itself]], making for one of the craziest [[FadeToBlack blackout gags]] one could imagine.
* ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerbTheMovieCandaceAgainstTheUniverse'': When on a spaceship that accelerates to twice the speed of light, reality is unmade for Phineas and the others. This takes the form of being reduced to storyboards, temp dialogue being inserted for Buford, and ultimately, [[CreatorCameo Dan and Swampy]] pitching the whole sequence.

* Parodied in the ''WesternAnimation/CodenameKidsNextDoor'' episode "Operation: S.A.T.U.R.N." after one of Numbuh Three's Rainbow Monkeys is grabbed by an unseen cosmic being and the team pursues in their CoolStarship:
-->'''Numbuh Three:''' GET MY RAINBOW MONKEY!!\\
'''Numbuh Five:''' I don't think I can catch it, it's moving at [[ShoutOut Warp Factor Fast!]]
* ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls1998'': In "Members Only," Bubbles competes in a global foot race against League of Supermen member E-Male. They're travelling at unheard of speeds and are neck and neck when Bubbles turns on the after-burners and easily wins the race.
* At the end of the ''WesternAnimation/RockosModernLife'' episode "Crusin", the captain makes the cruiseship travel at its top speed setting that reads, "Wow! Dat's fast!".
* In ''WesternAnimation/StarTrekProdigy'', we learn that this is the big secret of [[CoolStarship the U.S.S.]] ''[[CoolStarship Protostar]]'': [[spoiler: the ship is outfitted with a Proto-Drive Engine, which uses a literal protostar to power warp drives to speeds and distances most warp engines can't. Its first usage had the ''Protostar'' warp 4,000 light years in only a few minutes.]]

* ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls'': In "Members Only," Bubbles competes in a global foot race against League of Supermen member E-Male. They're travelling at unheard of speeds and are neck and neck when Bubbles turns on the after-burners and easily wins the race.

* ''VideoGame/BigRigsOverTheRoadRacing'' has an infamous [[ObviousBeta unintentional example]]. Want to drive a big rig at relativistic speeds? You can do that. Just hold down the reverse key for 10 minutes or so. And then release it to watch the rig come to a stop that causes Newton's First Law to blow its brains out with a shotgun. And if you keep doing it long enough, you will reach a speed where the game will register your vehicle as being everywhere at once, causing the level to end since that includes the finish line.

* Also from ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'', the WesternAnimation/RoadRunner. With a burst of speed, he can vanish over the horizon in a fraction of a second, cause paved roadways to ripple like water, uproot utility poles with his slipstream, and basically defy the laws of physics. [[CatchPhrase (Of course, he never studied law.)]]

* ''Film/{{Clockstoppers}}'' features Hypertime, which allows the user to travel at faster then the eye can see speeds. Prolonged Hypertime exposure can lead a character to age 10 years in a matter of months in continuous Hyper Time. Double Hyper Time (using a Hypertime device in a room thats already in hypertime) is extremely unstable. So unstable that a person is able to pass through solid objects.

* A humorously downplayed example occurs in ''Literature/{{Thud}}'', when Sam Vimes is so desperate to reach Koom Valley quickly that he bends his rule about not using magic and allows the wizards to supe up a coach. When the magic is activated, Vimes' mind reels as the vehicle reaches such stupendous speeds as ''60 miles per hour''. In fact, due to the decreased speed of light on the Disc because of the BackgroundMagicField, he starts to experience visible blueshift at the highest speeds.