Speed Blitz

Some people are fast. Some people are very very fast. Some of them travel so fast you can't even see them move.

And sometimes these people will fight so fast you hardly even get to react. That's a Speed Blitz.

Fights like this can end before bystanders even know it has started. As the name suggests it's more like being hit by lightning than getting in a brawl. A common version of this in anime is to Flash Step past a person and strike them in a process, never slowing down enough to be seen. The one doing the Speed Blitz may be accompanied by Speed Echoes or Speed Stripes to drive the point home.

Can be a serious source of Fridge Logic in regards to speedsters. After all, if they can fight like this, why don't they do it all time? The Doylist answer is Rule of Drama; it's hard for a non-speedster to resist a Speed Blitz, so if it happened all the time, there would be no tension. Watsonian answers usually call on some Necessary Drawback; maybe this use of speed is damaging to the body or creates sonic booms that will harm bystanders or it's simply incredibly exhausting.

This sort of thing can happen in real life to a limited extent - if you film an expert martial artist and then replay it frame by frame, their fists and feet can go a surprising distance in a fraction of a second.

Named after a common term in internet fight threads, itself probably a reference to the Nazi tactic of blitzkrieg, meaning "Lightning War".

If the blitz takes the form of a hail of punches, it's Rapid-Fire Fisticuffs.

Compare Single-Stroke Battle, where a fight can start and end in one move, no blitzing required. This trope tends to be associated with Curb-Stomp Battle by virtue of the Speed Blitz overwhelming the enemy with speed. Contrast Catching the Speedster for when this fails.

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Examples:

Anime & Manga

• Occurs in many places across Dragon Ball:
  • Parodied as early as Dragon Ball's second arc, before it was established as a proper trope. In the 21st Tenkaichi Budokai tournament, Master Roshie (in disguise as "Jackie Chun") fights Krillin. The fight is over before the audience can even blink. Annoyed, they demand a better show, so Jackie Chun and Krillin go back and sloooooowly reenact the dozens of attacks, feints, blocks, defenses, and even taunts that they used in that split-second, complete with helpful commentary.
  • In the 22nd tournament, Goku uses this against Krillin and Tenshinhan, bouncing around the arena so fast that he's functionally invisible and only his footsteps can be heard. While it works on Krillin, Tien is able to see through it and picks out Goku before he can strike (his third eye certainly helps).
  • In Dragon Ball Z's Saiyan Arc, Gohan initially perceives Yamcha fighting a Saibaman as this because he's so inexperienced with fighting; Piccolo has to tell him to use his other senses to keep track of them. It can be inferred that this is the point in the series where every fight is like this, and being able to see the fight is artistic license for the audience's sake.
  • At the beginning of the Android Arc, Trunks encounters a group of Frieza's henchmen. In a single Flash Step, Trunks manages to Clean Cut all of them. Around this point, it's a common form of combat.
  • The Namek Saga had Jeice and Burter try to do this on Goku, only for Goku to dodge at such speed it looked like he hadn't even moved. This is also when Goku starts doing this trope with his own Battle Power, raising it at the point of impact and then lowering it In particular, he raised his battle power to the needed level at the moment of impact, then lowers it fast enough that their Scouters never detect the change.
  • Gogeta is a master of this, his first attack against Janemba in Fusion Reborn is literally just blurs of motion while impact blow impacts appear on the Demon’s chest. Gogeta’s canon debut is no stranger to this either, his attacks are blindingly fast and powerful.
  • The "Ultra Instinct" form is often shown this way in Dragon Ball Super, to highlight just how much of a god-level technique it is compared to just normal Super-Speed or Super-Reflexes. When Goku first masters the form, he hits Jiren several dozen times without even appearing to move at all. In another case, him exchanging blasts with Jiren is portrayed as his arms only appearing to vibrate as uncountable explosions appear between the two fighters.
• This is how the Flash Step is introduced in Bleach, with Byakuya using it to beat up Ichigo so fast that Ichigo can't even see what's happening. Ichigo also doesn't realize until Byakuya points it out that he got stabbed twice, not once.
  • And then Ichigo's Bankai makes him so fast that it looks like there's a swarm of Ichigos flying around. And his Superpowered Evil Side is even faster than that.
  • But of course Yoruichi The Goddess of Flash once took out dozens of Mooks in the blink of an eye. With her bare hands. Despite having been out of practice for roughly a century.
• In Claymore the Flash Sword and Wind Cutter techniques unleash a storm of iaido-style slashes so fast that weaker characters cannot tell the user has moved, and powerful enough to disintegrate a tree in seconds.
• Near the end of Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha StrikerS, Fate activates Sonic Drive and demonstrates how much faster she is now by dashing past Sette, slicing up her Boomerang Blades into itty-bitty pieces, and taking her out of commission all before she could even move out of her ready stance.
• Cyberpunk: Edgerunners, some fights in which David uses his Sandevistan implant are depicted first as portrayed through David's perception, then replayed in realtime where, to the outside observer, it appears as though he simply Flash Stepped to his opponent and floored them in the blink of an eye.
• JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Stone Ocean: The Grand Finale of the original JoJo universe climaxes when Stone Ocean's Big Bad, Enrico Pucci, successfully achieves the ultimate form of his Stand, Made In Heaven. It allows him to accelerate time for everything but living beings, himself excluded. This acceleration doesn't occur instantly, but rather steadily and exponentially increases, eventually resulting in Made In Heaven being completely unstoppable by any means other than those of its master. Accordingly, Pucci rapidly ramps up his own speed from agile, to blindingly fast, to relativistic speeds, to universe cracking velocity in a few moments, while all of the heroes have to use a combination of bullet riding, water stalling, and actual time stop (which Made In Heaven's time acceleration swiftly expends and eventually completely ignores) just to keep up with him... which is sadly nowhere near enough, and he butchers them all, with Emporio alone surviving.
• YuYu Hakusho:
  • Famous example: Hiei vs. Seiryu. Seiryu is fast enough to throw a hundred punches in a split second. Their fight ends in seconds, Hiei having slashed Seiryu sixteen times with his sword, before Seiryu even knew he was cut. Even Yusuke was only able to make out 7 of those slashes while watching the fight, while Kurama (himself noted for being highly observant) could only see a flash of light after the first cut.
  • Hiei seems to love this trope, as he repeated something just like this in the Dark Tournament in his "fight" against Makintaro. Hiei takes out his sword. Next thing Makintaro knows, his arm's been cut off. Hiei then proceeds to hold said arm in the air, and only then does Makintaro realize what's happened, and cry out in pain.
• One Piece:
  • Luffy upon entering Gear Second. In more recent arcs, he can enter this form quickly and exit out of it easily, so most of his attacks are in this form.
  • Thanks to being a skeleton (having all the strength he did while alive but with a fraction of he mass lets him run very fast) Brook can Speed Blitz almost any kind of foe usually overlapping it with Flash Step. Seriously Brook got the jump on Big Mom who's an Emperor of the sea.
  • CP9 agents are fond of this with their Soru technique. The most basic way to assassinate someone is to Soru over to them, then use Shigan to quickly hit them with the force of a gun. Luffy actually invented Gear Second specifically to duplicate Soru's speed.
  • Much earlier, Kuro's ultimate attack, "Shakushi", is also a form of speed blitz, albeit far less refined, as he goes too fast to tell whether he's slicing his enemies or his crew. However, this drawback is mitigated by him being a Bad Boss who intended to kill off his crew anyway.
  • Sanji is also fond of this, at one point when fighting Wanze he apparently kicked the latter ten times in the face and we reader/audience didn't even see it. When saving Chiffon from Charlotte Oven, Sanji moves so damn fast Oven didn't see what hit him.
  • Speed blitzes are also Cavendish's specialty, but only as Hakuba. When Hakuba awoke during the Corrida Colosseum match, he took out almost every remaining fighter in the blink of an eye, with only Rebecca being fast enough to avoid the brunt of his attack thanks to her own Super-Speed and Haki.
  • Kaido gloriously proves that he is indeed faster than he looks, as he curb stomps Gear 4 Luffy in a split second.
• Naruto:
  • Rock Lee can do this whenever he drops his weights. He tries this on Gaara during the Chunin exams; it only fails due to Gaara being Nigh-Invulnerable compared to the other entrants.
  • His teammate Neji can also do this with his Eight Trigrams Sixty-Four Palms technique. We also find out in Shippuden that this was the Fourth Hokage's preferred fighting style. Still later, we find out that the Fourth Raikage is big on speed, in addition to being just plain big. Naruto himself is fond of this, to the point that he can do things like deflect massive attacks and slash a friggin' god well before anyone can bat an eyelid. When Naruto first unlocks this ability, he's so fast that Killer Bee (the Raikage's younger brother and thus no stranger to witnessing Super-Speed) mistakes it for teleportation.
• Maken-ki!: Nearly all of Yan-Min's "fights" begin and end in a flash. Her victims literally die never knowing what hit them, or that they were even under attack since Yan-Min's speed is so exceptional that she can't be seen, nor can her presence be detected... until she stops moving. Except, by then, it's already too late.
• Yaiba: The titular character is very fast and sometimes he/or his enemy can reach such a level of speed. During the last battle against Possessed Onimaru on Orochi he was so fast that he managed to dodge several Sword Beams while apparently standing still.
• In Negima! Magister Negi Magi, this trope is used in several ways:
  • First, there is "instant movement". By using it multiple times, high-level fighters can traverse large distances extremely fast to overwhelm opponents.
  • Next, Negi learns Magia Erebea, which not only drastically speeds him up on its own, but also allows him to absorb spells and fuse himself with them - his most common use of this is fusing with his own lightning spells to give him lightning speed.
• Kenshin and Mitsunari from Sengoku Basara, both Iaijutsu Practitioners who move and attack quicker than the eye can see.
• Levi aka humanity's most powerful soldier in Attack on Titan does this every time when he fights. Even Mikasa can't keep up with him.
• Campione!: Possible with Godou's Raptor authority and Sun Wukong's godspeed, but very difficult. The Raptor grants Godou immense speed so it would seem perfect for this attack, but whenever Godou attempts it he discovers he lacks the fine control needed, resulting in even the simplest attacks going wide of the target. Similarly, Sun Wukong moves so fast that he can't correct in time to strike when Godou dodges at the last second.
• Ranma ½: Mikado Sanzenin got hit 108 times without anyone but Akane seeing it... And that's before Ranma becomes really fast, at which point he can punch someone a hundred times in the same spot with what looks like a single punch to anyone else (thankfully, the only one who got hit by that was the incredibly sturdy Ryouga, who practically requires it).
• Sailor Moon: In the manga, Sailor Venus has demonstrated the ability to make a Flash Step and kick her victim in the same move.
• Fist of the Blue Sky: One of the opponent of the Thirties' Kenshiro (62nd successor to Hokuto Shinken and adopted uncle to the more famous one) whips the Shadowless Kick, a simple kick brought at Flash Step speeds, mentioning he learned it from the hermit Lǐ Sǎn, whose speed allowed him to defeat all his opponents but one. Then it's revealed that Lǐ Sǎn's one loss had been against Tesshin Kasumi, Hokuto Shinken's 61st successor, and Kenshiro whips out the Raibō Shin Kyaku technique that is even faster.

Comic Books

• The Flash:
  • The different Flashes are fond of this method against mere mortals.
  • Hunter Zolomon's Time Master powers make him appear so fast that this is how he appears even to speedsters like Wally and Jay Garrick — his first battle against the latter had Zoom punching Jay the length of a city block while moving so fast Jay and Wally never even caught a glimpse of him.
  • Zoom once pulled this against the entire Justice League, beating the stuffing out of Superman, Batman, and Wonder Woman all at the same time. They were lucky he was simply trying to escape from them, and wasn't using lethal force due to his bizarre and unpredictable code of ethics.
• Superman:
  • The Man of Steel will often use his Super-Speed to take his enemies out as quick as possible.
  • His Kryptonian and Daxamites allies also tend to do this. In Girl Power, the Justice Society of America are having a tough time taking Solomon Grundy down when Supergirl dives into the battlefield and punches Grundy out in a single movement.
  • In Superman vs. Shazam!, Karmang warns Supergirl all of them will be thrown into Limbo if she presses the black button on his space-warping machine. Kara replies she is faster than light, presses the button, grabs Mary Marvel and flies out of the place before Karmang has got time to turn around and scream "N—!"
  • In Supergirl's Three Super Girl-Friends, Superman catches and hurls Braniac's ship so fast that it is hit by its own shrinking beam.
  • In The Condemned Legionnaires: Supergirl's evil duplicate moves so fast when infecting the Legion girls with the "Crimson Virus" that nobody ever saw her around until she chose to reveal herself.
  • "Supergirl's Big Brother": When the Danvers' family car falls off a cliff, Supergirl removes and hides her wig and civilian clothes, leaps out of the rear seat, flies down the car and pick the vehicle before it can even begin falling down.
• The Mighty Thor: Thor once shut down Quicksilver in a heartbeat when the speedster got a little too cocky.
• Silver Surfer once disabled six Ergon starships in a matter of seconds in order to protect the Impossible Man.
• Quicksilver in The Ultimates used this as a Running Gag, claiming he saves all his teammates' lives multiple times without them seeing it. They assume he's lying, and complains that Quicksilver should have done something to help. In turn, he asks them to check the tapes of the fight at low speed. However we see it first hand when he takes down Hurricane. The fight starts as Hawkeye is knocked over and ends before he hits the ground.
• Spider-Man is one of the few non-classified speedsters who invokes this on a daily basis. Memorably in Secret Wars (1984) Spidey blitzed the entire X-Men in two pages as Super-Speed + Spider-Sense is a tricky combo.
• Batman:
  • Red Robin: Tim Drake went to Hong Kong to help Cassandra Cain track down the young serial killer "Cricket", who had perfected speedy hits to the point that he seemed to be a low-level speedster. He managed to easily take out both of them laughing all the while.
  • Cassandra herself is also well-known for this tactic, taking down opponents so fast that people are convinced she's a metahuman. In truth, this stems more from a combination of her ability to predict people's actions before they happen, her incredible mental capacity that allows her to keep track of many tasks and targets at once, and her sheer mastery of hand to hand combat.
• Wonder Woman's super speed is one of her best documented powers, being one of the first to be clearly depicted, and she has occasionally used it to take down opponents so quickly they're not sure what happened, but she has never done so without trying to talk them down first as violence is always a last resort for her, as it was for all Amazons of Paradise Island in The Golden Age of Comic Books.

Fan Works

• Child of the Storm
  • Jean-Paul, as a speedster, naturally favours this, especially once he gets access to the Speed Force, literally ripping through HYDRA's Extremis enhanced soldiers.
  • Clark mixes this with a Tap on the Head, something used to emphasis his sheer control - head wounds are dangerous enough at human strength, and even before he Took a Level in Badass, Clark's easily in the same tier as a powerful teenage Asgardian and capable of moving at hundreds of miles an hour. After the boost (to where he should be if not for long-term exposure to Kryptonite), he demonstrates it in earnest against the Void.
  • Since he's a Glass Cannon for the first book, and one by the standards of his tier in the second, Harry tends to favour this tactic - overwhelming ferocity, with pinpoint precision, often at re-entry level speeds, as the Elder Wyrm finds out.
• In Pantheon: Ragnarok, Bankwell breaks Akira's arm and leg, wrenches her to the ground, and then knocks her out with a stomp to the back of the head faster than Kasumi could even track.
• Hellsister Trilogy: At the height of the Apokoliptian War, a group of heroes manage to break into Darkseid's headquarters. Granny Goodness barely has time to notice Supergirl's presence before the Maid of Might angrily slaps Granny into a wall.
• MLDC: SHAZAM, Equestria's Mightest Mare!: Scootaloo demonstrates this during the hostage crisis at Manehattan, using her Speed of Mercurius Zephyr to quickly subdue many of the terrorists within the stadium. Black Adam utilizes this just as much, using his incredible speed to outrun and maneuver around the Princesses’ attacks.
• In the beginning of The Vampire of Steel, two gun-toting vampires are cornering Buffy when all of sudden Supergirl bursts into the place and pounds both vamps into the ground before they can even react.
• This is Stag's preferred mode of attack in The Fifth Element; An Adventure Time Fanfic. Being a Fragile Speedster, Stag cannot take too many hits and he knows it, so he rather wisely attempts to get in as many attacks in as possible. In his fight with Finn, The Stag hands the human his first defeat, by being pretty much untouchable.
• In Unlimited, the spar between Izuku, Bakugo, and Todoroki appears to outsiders like only Bakugo is attacking while Izuku is teleporting around and Todoroki is waiting to make his move. In reality, Izuku is so fast that he's been disrupting Todoroki's attacks as they form. Momo doesn't even realize Todoroki has done anything until she notices his right hand is frostbitten. Bakugo is the only one who can see Izuku move at all but is still too slow to keep up.
• In The Zero Context Series, Callista's entire fighting style boils down to hitting the enemy hard and fast while hoping they can't hit back. Her Lightspeed Crush in particular is a chain of multi-directional blows kicked off by a full-body tackle, all delivered at the speed in question.

Films — Live-Action

• In Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, Barry Allen takes down a gunman robbing the store he's in so fast, the milk he was holding doesn't even begin to drop before he returns to it.
• Marvel Cinematic Universe:
  • Played straight in Avengers: Age of Ultron when Quicksilver is introduced, Cap describes him as "a blur".
  • Defied in Avengers: Infinity War. When Loki pulls out the knife, Ebony Maw is startled and Proxima Midnight is still aiming her deadly spear at him — they were both not quick enough to react. Thanos, however, saw it coming and stops Loki with the Space Stone before the dagger reaches his neck.

Literature

• Possibly the most extreme example is The Shrike from the Hyperion Cantos. Late in the series, it repeatedly blitzes people who are themselves so fast that they can watch lasers crawl through the air in front of them. It's probably best not to think about the physics of that.
  • In detail: it destroys every light in a tunnel system nearly simultaneously, then retreats several miles in a fraction of a second so that a radar scan doesn't detect it, then runs back down, waits for its enemy to turn on her own superspeed powers, and finally pulls out her intestines before she can react. Turns out that when you blast the Shrike with a Kill Sat it kind of holds a grudge.
• In the Revenge of the Sith novelization the duel between Darth Sidious and Mace Windu has the two moving so fast that Anakin can barely see them and has to use the Force just to keep track.
• Voidskipper space combat is this, with ships actively using their warp drive in combat to dodge and maneuver at the speed of light, causing light lag to massively obscure their current positions and mandating utterly immense measures to try and score hits.
• The Garatron in one of the Animorphs books.
  • The Andalites have shades of this as well. They can move their tails fast enough so that most species can't even see anything before their throat is slit by the tail's blade.
• The Fighter-type specialists in Sergey Lukyanenko's Genome move and fight so fast, others (like the protagonist, a Navigator-type) barely notice that a fight broke out before one of the Fighters drops dead or incapacitated a second or two later. Needless to say, nobody but another Fighter-type can fight them at all.
• One of the hats of the non-humans in The Dresden Files is super speed, Vampires and Fae especially are noted for it.
• Windcrafter fights in Codex Alera all happen at the super speed they borrow from their Furies.

Live-Action TV

• Kamen Rider has been doing this since at least Agito, what with Agito's random bouts of sudden acceleration during his Rider Kick, with his Shining Rider Kick being the more blatant in that series. Since then, Kamen Rider had used this trope on-and-off again, appearing most famously in Kamen Rider 555 (Faiz Axel, which had a 10-second limit and never uses it in quick succession) and most prolifically in Kamen Rider Kabuto, in which every Monster of the Week had Super-Speed and all the Riders were equipped with the same to counter them.
• Tracker (2001): Cole can do this thanks to his alien abilities. He does have a justification for not doing it all the time, or at least the hyperspeed version of it, which is that it uses a lot of energy in the process.

Tabletop Games

• One Paranoia NPC has the mutant power of Truly Implausible Agility. At one point, there's a blur of motion— and by the time anyone works out that he's just turned someone into mincemeat, he's already got his feet back up on his desk. Turns out the Big Bad has pretty much the same power.
• Monks in Dungeons & Dragons have the ability Flurry of Blows, which means they get three to five attacks (depending on the edition and level) in a round. A round lasts six seconds.

Video Games

• Bravely Default has the Ninja ability Shippujinrai, which allows the user to attack immediately at the beginning of a turn, regardless of all other combatants' speed. True to the trope, the enemy ninja Kikyo will often Brave to use it twice in a row, taking out one of your party members before you have a chance to respond.
• Sonic the Hedgehog:
  • The Light Speed Attack functions this way in the series. Particularly in Sonic Heroes where it's the basis and aftereffect for the "Sonic Overdrive", and is able to one-shot multiple enemies in a row, up to and including Heavy Egg Hammers.
  • This is also the intended way to use Sonic in the Super Smash Bros. games: He doesn't do much damage, he doesn't have much launching power, and he has rather low defense, but everything he does is blindingly fast. This puts him at Difficult, but Awesome, as anyone whose fingers can't keep up with the World's Fastest Hedgehog will struggle, but anyone who can is capable of turning Sonic into a whirlwind of attacks anywhere the opponents go, with them unable to meaningfully fight back due to them being, well, too slow.
• In Eternal Fighter Zero, Mai Kawasumi can perform offensive flash steps at varying distances, or also to escape when cornered, and one super has her disappearing for a while, and reappearing on contact.
• In the Pokémon games, this is the point of attacks like Mach Punch, Extremespeed, and Quick Attack which have higher priority than most other moves.
• The upgraded version of Omega Rugal fought at the end of The King of Fighters '98 used much more powerful versions of Rugal's classic moves, with his God Press going from a move where he runs forward, grabs your fighter and carries them across the screen to slam them against the far wall, to a move where he stands up straight, vanishes in a blur of motion, then appears standing on the other side of your character, who takes half a dozen hits and loses a huge chunk of their life bar. The new version was appropriately called "Vanishing Rush".
• Xenoblade Chronicles 2 has Jin, who demonstrates what happens when someone doesn't hold this back. Plot wise, he effortlessly wins every fight when he isn't under a massive handicap until Pneuma appears. Gameplay wise, he doesn't move around the battlefield particularly fast, but he has dodge frames for days, incredible range on his attacks, and absurd counterattack moves.
• The Dragon Slayer techinque in Akane allows her to go fast enough that it's a One-Hit Kill screen-clearing attack even against the damage-resistant Elite Mooks. Cutscenes show that Akane developed the technique as a child specifically to kill her master and that she succeeded.
• League of Legends: Notorious noobstomper Master Yi has his Alpha Strike, slashing up to 4 opponents while blinking between them so fast he cannot be hit.
• Cartoon Hero: A handful of special attacks can do this, such as Blue's dash, down, air specials, but Grey's dash special takes the cake. He simply blinks to the other side of the screen and anyone in between gets hit, even if they are in the air, while phasing through any enemy attack in the way. This is particularly powerful when they are bosses, because they can use special attacks constantly without being limited by energy.
• Final Fantasy VII Remake: Tifa's Starshower has her punching the opponent up to 9 times while dashing through them from all angles at blinding speed.
• Injustice 2: Cheetah's Super Move has a rare 2-stage Speed Blitz. She first launches her opponent into the air and dashes through them 3 times, lands, and then pounces and dashes through them again even faster 4 times. The Flash from the same game on the other hand, opts for something even more over the top.
• Wild ARMs 4: Jude's strongest attack, Assault Buster, has him turn his gun into a sword, charge at the enemy, and deliver multiple slashes, leaving glowing lines in the air. It becomes stronger based on the difference in RFX stat (that governs turn order) between Jude and the enemy, showing that he can make more slashes thanks to his superior speed. The explanation for why he doesn't use his Super-Speed outside of one late-game attack is simple: it's a result of his Nanomachine-derived Accelerator ability, that he can use only for a very short time.
• Yakuza 3 has a special move that allows Kiryu to perform a series of powerful attacks against multiple opponents before they can react. A move he learned when observing a girl handing out tissue packets managed to give multiple people one without them noticing, such as sticking one in between someone's brow and glasses, or replacing a man's phone with a packet, leaving him dumbfounded when he turns to look at it.

Visual Novels

• Dies Irae:
  • This is what makes fighting Wolfgang Schreiber so dangerous. Not only is he fast, he is fast to the point of absurdity and his powers works in such a way that no matter how fast his opponent is, he will always be faster. While his strikes don't hit as hard as some other characters, the relentless flurry of attacks will wear even the most capable fighters down with nary a chance to fight back. This is best displayed when Wilhelm tried to fight him, it was just a one-sided beatdown in Schreiber's favor.
  • Once the main protagonist Ren unlocks more of his own powers he becomes able to accelerate his own time to render him absurdly fast leading to this trope. Still not enough to out-speed Schreiber though. Even after he gain Eine Faust Finale which also slows down time and increases gravity in his vicinity on top of the accelerated time he is unable to keep up with Schreiber. Only outright Time Stands Still is able to even the odds.
• Full Metal Daemon Muramasa: Thanks to Ginseigo, Hikaru Minato have access to a laundry list of broken powers, not least of which is an absurd level of speed that defies all rules of physics. Best exemplified once when Kageaki faces her down and he prepares for her imminent strike before all of a sudden he finds himself imbedded in a cliffside, taking a while to register that he'd even been hit.

Web Comics

• In this Ask Axe Cop comic, Axe Cop explains how he became the world's fastest chopper by downing a can of Red Bull and decapitating 1,000 bad guys at once.
• Homestuck:
  • Bro Strider can move so fast that he fights Dave by using Lil' Cal as a proxy, essentially fighting using real time stop motion.
  • Dirk can too. Dave on the other hand is a Time Master and uses it to make his Flash Step seem faster, though he's genuinely pretty quick himself.
• Kill Six Billion Demons: Ki Rata, The Greatest Style of Supernatural Martial Arts in The Multiverse, has a technique that allows its user to cause Time Stands Still, or just move so fast that time essentially stops for everyone else. God-Emperor Solomon David, Demiurge of Pride, World's Best Warrior and sole remaining grandmaster of Ki Rata, knows the technique and uses it during the Tournament Arc when he wants to send a very clear message of what he's capable of. He rarely uses the technique otherwise because he has no need to — there are only a handful of other beings in the Multiverse who can even threaten him — and because Ki Rata requires absolute concentration and breath control. During the Discordance of the Demiurges Solomon is initially too angry to pull this move out from the get-go, and even when he does Jagganoth is immune to harm, making the technique mostly a way to pin Jagganoth in place with an infinite amount of attacks while the other Demiurges set up a combo attack to bind him in place.
• in Pokemon: Festival of Champions, at least one pokemon in Red, Blue, and Green's team adopt this approach. In Green's case, Raticate specialized in this and Arcanine developed Extreme Speed. In Red's case, Pikachu's Quick Attack also matches them while using electricity. In Blue's case, Espeon uses Reflect to set up platforms and then bounces around to hit the enemy from every angle having learned from both Raticate and Pikachu.
• Nemi in Serpamia Flare has an extremely high agility stat, allowing her to have the quickest (though not necessarily the strongest) attack rate in the party. She first demonstrates her speed in combat in Chapter Two, against the Shrewters, and then again when rescuing Lac in the same chapter. In Chapter Three she frequently displays high speed - against the Sandworm, the Danrir Rebels and Sho.
• Schlock Mercenary: Soldiers enhanced with certain nanite boosts can move far too fast for anyone without similar nanite packages that would still qualify as Super Soldiers themselves to handle; they simply don't have the reaction time to fight back, or even the time to perceive the attack.
  Brad: So I looked at our guards instead. And then this... shadow flitted across them, and they collapsed.

Western Animation

• The DC Animated Universe has most of Speedsters and Kryptonians. Wally West in Justice League frequently Speed Blitzes, even bringing down Brainiac with the Speed Force, and Lex Luthor in Wally's body blitzes everybody in the Watch Tower.
• Wally West in Teen Titans (2003) as Kid Flash is just as good as his JL counterpart completely overwhelming The Hive 5.
• Wally is less powerful in Young Justice (2010) though he can still speed blitz the Villain of the Week when motivated.
• Quicksilver in X-Men: Evolution and Wolverine and the X-Men (2009) often brutally blitzes his foes, including smashing Emma Frost head into a stone pillar in the latter show.
• Alucard in Castlevania (2017) in the Final Battle stops using a simple Flash Step and becomes a blur of speed◊ against his father Dracula. Unfortunately, Drac just isn't having it, catching him mid-blitz and then slamming him down.

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