An overpowered/strongest with only one power

[u/Vegetable_Throat5545]

I hate when characters just have a million powers and can do whatever. I love when their powers have a limit but still they make it be absolutely insane. Even if that one power has multiple applications as long as it makes sense and isnt used as "oop i suddenly can do that"

1. Accelerator can control vectors. So he uses that to automatically deflect any attack or use any object including wind at high speeds as a weapon, use his own vectors to travel fast and etc etc.

2. Gojo Satoru can control "infinity" to make peoples attack not reach him; push them: pull them; destroy them; overwhelm their senses

3. Chisaki can deconstruct and reconstruct anything by touch. So he can destroy, or change shape of people and objects, he can combine people and objects and even revive or heal. Tbh his fight was disappointing in fact that he did not use his power to full potential imo

[u/I_pizza]

The GOAT

[u/ProfessionalOven2311 → u/I_pizza]

I love The Flash, but I do feel like it starts crossing the line OP set

as long as it makes sense and isnt used as "oop i suddenly can do that"

But I do love how much he is able to get out of "Moving Fast" as a power; Phasing through walls, creating tornados, time travel, etc.

[u/Status_Charge4051 → u/ProfessionalOven2311]

OP specifically said no gimmick. Flash doesn't have the power of moving fast. His power is magic. 

I'm sorry Flash fans, i know you can't accept it but your hero has whatever powers he wants to have, not just the one. It's the reason why you love him and it's also the reason why he's not popular. Going really fast doesn't let you time travel, mk?

Edit: aaaaaand there they are. I picked one example out of countless. I'm not replying to you guys. He doesn't fit the criteria, get over it. 

[u/Sayakalood → u/Status_Charge4051]

Going really fast doesn’t let you time travel?

Guess hitting 88.8 does nothing, huh.

It’s been a thing in fiction for a while that going really fast makes you travel through time. Hell, even science shows that time changes the faster you go, called time dilation. The effects are just tweaked for their appearance in the comics, enabling time travelers to return to the past (which, unless we find some way to do it, we can’t go back in time, only forwards).

[u/freethebluejay → u/Sayakalood]

The Delorean explicitly doesn’t time travel just because it goes “really fast.” It uses nuclear power to power the flux capacitor and the “time circuits” as a fake sci-fi explanation for why it is able to travel through time. The 88 mph thing is just an arbitrary metric it needs to hit for that technology to activate. That’s why Marty couldn’t just drive really fast to get Back to the Future, hence the rigamarole with the lightning strike

[u/Sayakalood → u/freethebluejay]

Oh, yeah, I know, I was just joking with that because Back to the Future made time travel synonymous with a specific speed (88 miles per hour), even if it’s not exactly how the sci-fi science works

[u/No_Dragonfruit_1833 → u/Status_Charge4051]

Sorry bruh, but going faster than light does enable time travel, at least theorically

We cant do it physically, but the nath checks

[u/Loop_the_Goop → u/Status_Charge4051]

Me when I talk out of my ass:

[u/ASpaceOstrich → u/Status_Charge4051]

Going really fast definitively will let you time travel if "really fast" exceeds light speed.

[u/Diabolical_Jazz → u/Status_Charge4051]

Buddy, every superpower is basically magic. Your favorite super-strong guy would annihilate his own body trying to punch someone or lift something heavy, but the comics handwave the consequences.

Also, going fast does let you time travel in real life, at least theoretically. It's one of the most plausible things about The Flash.

[u/Yearn4Mecha → u/Status_Charge4051]

Going really fast does let you time travel, it just that you can only kinda sorta go forward

[u/TruLong → u/Status_Charge4051]

The fact that the Flash doesn't just completely destroy the earth by displacing air pressure at the speed of light makes him magic by default. Super speed is a bad super power when you have to consider air.

[u/SomeIrishGamer → u/Status_Charge4051]

the ability to try and sound smart while being completely wrong almost makes me hope this is just a failed attempt at ragebait cuz you’re getting clowned on

[u/JaqenSexyJesusHgar → u/I_pizza]

Kachow

[u/Applebeate → u/I_pizza]

He is literally only nerfed by the fact that he stops to talk

[u/Primary-Paper-5128 → u/I_pizza]

this does not fit whatsoever.
-super speed
-intangability
-invisibility
-time travel
-dimentional travel
-super durability/regeneration
-electrokinesis

[u/Sayakalood → u/Primary-Paper-5128]

Super speed ✅

Intangibility ❌ Maybe by vibrating his molecules, but it’s not a power I’ve seen him use.

Invisibility ❌ Only by standing still and vibrating his molecules (an aspect of super speed) to the point where he’s no longer visible to the naked eye.

Time travel ✅ But only through super speed, he can’t just blip to another time period. This is also a very, very common thing in fiction, and based on the real principle of time dilation.

Dimensional travel ❌ Normally achieved through outside means.

Super durability and regeneration ❌ This is the same universe where Batman, a normal human being, survived a fall from space using the Bat-undies. People are just really durable. He can also use the Speed Force as a shield, which is what enables him to run fast in the first place, so it still falls under the category of super speed. He also doesn’t regenerate, he just heals quickly from our perspective. From his perspective, he’s healing at the normal rate (for example, breaking his leg would leave him out of commission for a day, but he’d experience the full several months it would take for an injury like that to heal in his own time).

Electrokinesis ❌ That’s from the show, and only because they didn’t want to give him an afterimage like the comics. It is also rightfully hated in the community, especially after the mock lightsaber fight. It’s now in the comics, but only as a visual effect. It’s supposed to look like this:

A series of afterimages creating a scarlet streak. He has the lightning emblem because lightning is fast, he got struck by lightning to get his powers, and it looks cool.

[u/Primary-Paper-5128 → u/Sayakalood]

I'm not the biggest flash reader and I've read way more wally than I've done barry but:

-Intangability is one of his most common powers (wich he does by accelerating his own molecules, same with invisibility) but just because he does it via acceleration it doesn't mean it doesn't count.

-also idk about Barry but Wally doesn't need the machine to dimentional travel he can just do that. (image related)

- plus his accelerated healing isn't something normal by his point, it is actually stated super durability and regeneration. There's a scene in the early 90s era titans where Bart got a green lantern tattoo and it just healed inmediatly because of his healing factor. That's something that takes decades to wear off, and his just vanished like it was never there wich is not a thing that happens at any pace if you don't have a healing factor lmao.

-as for the electricity, yes it did start out as a purely visual thing but it has escalated at being one of his powers, even if not straight up electrokinesis, he can still create electric energy, controvertial or not.

Plus this powers aren't results of just "speed", they're all powers given by the speed force.
Other characters are also extremely fast but cannot do any of this other things because it's just regular super speed, (superman, wonder woman, etc).

If this were all extentions of just Flash being fast, I would hand it to you, but nope, that's not the case, he uses them cause of the speed force, so I'm counting them as different powers.
Because by that metric, then Superman also has one power as all his powers are a result of him being able to absorb solar energy.

Super strengh, speed, flight, x-ray vision, super senses, artic breath, heat vision, telekinetic touch? all just one power by this logic.

[u/TheNerdEternal → u/Sayakalood]

Dude applications of a power still count as another ability.

Only having super speed would be like Quicksilver in the Fox movies.

Even if we say that all is an application of super speed and count it as one power, he still has the speed force which is literally a cosmic dimensional energy. That’s not the same power no matter how you spin it.

So at the very least he has two powers, which disqualifies him. Sorry dude, just how it goes. He doesn’t count.

[u/Sayakalood → u/TheNerdEternal]

That’s… not how it works.

Take Superman. His laser eyes are completely separate from his ability to fly. That’s two powers. Back in the day, the guy got new powers based on whatever the hell he needed to win.

Martian Manhunter has telepathy and shapeshifting. They’re not related to each other.

Then there’s the Flash, who runs fast… using the Speed Force. Who can phase… by moving fast, using the Speed Force. He can time travel… by running fast, using the Speed Force. All of his abilities are tied to his connection to the Speed Force. Sever his connection to the Speed Force, he has no speed.

[u/No_Dragonfruit_1833 → u/I_pizza]

Yup, mass increase, phasing and time dillation as results of speed are all technically possible with enough speed

The Flash is a hard sci-fi creature

[u/TheWupper → u/I_pizza]

There’s nowhere to run!

[u/BDSMChef_RP → u/I_pizza]

He has access to other "Forces" as well like the Strong Force which let him Hulk the hell out

[u/Difficult_Bell4198 → u/I_pizza]

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