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Edited by Mrph1 on Jul 29th 2024 at 3:09:00 PM
I don't know how Flash will be in Justice League, but MCU Quicksilver is the modern speedster who got the least amount of emphasis on how absurdly fast he is. The CW gives Barry all these "lightning in the streets" scenes and several "conversations at super-speed" with fellow speedsters, X-Men Quicksilver got the Pentagon scene. MCU Quicksilver got a string of very short sequences
and appeared in the middle of a movie that was filled to the brim with action scenes, so it was harder for him to leave a mark.
Well, it was mostly bad timing, because coming just a few months after DOFP where the other Quicksilver had what is widely seen as the "coolest scene of the movie" did not help. When you type "quicksilver" in youtube, the pentagon scene is the first suggestion.
So, apparently everyone loves Homecoming with reviews ranging from "may be the best spiderman ever" and "one of the best MCU movies" to "it's great" (meaning most reviewers are between A-, 9/10, 4/5 and B, 7,5/10, 3,5/5) except the Hollywood reporter who gave it a rotten score and screwed up the average...I won't risk reading it, because this particular reviewer most likely spoils the movie thoroughly.
I guess we are safe to say: Marvel did it again.
Maybe this is how Lockjaw breaks out as a character/mascot for the MCU here and goes on to co-star in Ms. Marvel (2014): The Movie.
Actually, that may also have been a contributing factor to why Quicksilver was killed. Even at that restrained power level, Super-Speed characters are a bitch to have around.
edited 29th Jun '17 11:20:14 AM by MonsieurThenardier
"It is very easy to be kind; the difficulty lies in being just."Writers have famously talked about how annoying it is to have speedster characters on teams, because you have to have a reason for why they can't just solve the problem before anyone else gets a chance to do anything.
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Most of the examples you are talking about are slowed down for the audience. For the rest of the people, they are super fast. And since you are judging them from the audience's perspective, you can't accurately tell how fast anything is.

It also important to note that Sonic like most games have story and gameplay segregation.
"Mai waifu."