Top 5 live-action speed-blitzers

[Powerboy]

Dean Cain Superman might be FTL, but this takeout feat is garbage because it also requires the cashier and the restaurant staff to operate at FTL speeds.

I suspect it's more he just leaves the money, makes the takeout order himself and leaves.

[Guy1]

[big_adventure]

Ok. So have a link or something of the feat? Is the camera on him the whole time maybe? If it's switching between people or not on him at all, that's probably at least a second

The cam is on him 100% of the time. Lois is in the foreground, Clark is standing behind her, she starts saying her list, and every time she says something there's a WOOOOSH and he's standing there with the stuff. She doesn't even realize that he's doing it. It's nowhere close to a second. It's literally a frame or two. I've been looking for the scene and I can't find it.

[The Drunkard Kid]

I suspect it's more he just leaves the money, makes the takeout order himself and leaves.

You talk like Superman is above stealing people's takeout.

[Cronus]

My personal favorite...

[The Dork Knight]

The cam is on him 100% of the time. Lois is in the foreground, Clark is standing behind her, she starts saying her list, and every time she says something there's a WOOOOSH and he's standing there with the stuff. She doesn't even realize that he's doing it. It's nowhere close to a second. It's literally a frame or two. I've been looking for the scene and I can't find it.

So the objects just appear in his hand as the camera is fixed on him? Although technically even that is not explicit proof of FTL reflexes that would at least make a strong case for the writers wanting to show absurd speed

Anything else, while fast, does not really hint at FTL reflexes fast.

I suppose the better question would be, anything else in the show indicate such speed or is it one off SMvFL?

[BitVyper]

Well just being a rare display wouldn't make it SvsFL unless he had an established limitation in that area. Anyway, finding good clips from Lois and Clark is pretty hard to do, but speaking from my memory of the show, he definitely used a pretty high level superspeed a fair amount in ways that required him to have the reflexes to keep up with what he was doing because it was frequently for trivial things like wallpapering a house. Not FTL, but absolutely backing up that he's a solid speedster beyond simply travel speed, and these things he does are always incredibly trivial for him, frequently played as this just being how Clark organizes his life. So overall, while I can't think of any other feats in the range of the one being discussed, the series definitely lends itself more to Clark having as much speed as he needs to have than it does to any suggestion of a limit below zipping around the globe for takeout.

As for FTL, I dunno that the feat being discussed requires THAT, but it'd have to be in like, the high tenths of C at least.

Edit: Rather, what I'm saying above is that the frequency of Clark just using super speed to do day-to-day stuff is enough that any time he's not using it to solve the actual problems of an episode comes off as pretty standard speedster PIS.

[Pendaran]

So overall, while I can't think of any other feats in the range of the one being discussed, the series definitely lends itself more to Clark having as much speed as he needs to have than it does to any suggestion of a limit below zipping around the globe for takeout.

The idea that just because he has nothing approaching even close to a thing he only did once, but that's fine because "he has as much speed as he needs to do something" is not a good line of reasoning. That show went for several years and all.

[BitVyper]

Yeah, but it's in a funny place where the series isn't doing anything to suggest he CAN'T do that either, which is a component of SvsFL. When I say he has as much super speed as he needs, what I mean is that it was generally played as either he did something trivially with super speed or just completely forgot he had super speed. I can't recall a single instance of him trying to super speed something and not being fast enough. So I think that makes an argument for SvsFL questionable.

There's nothing happening to establish a limitation below that feat.

Edit: Looked at the SvsFL rule and I guess the text of it can swing against me here too, so YMMV

[BitVyper]

Anyway, I'm running purely on memory here, as Lois and Clark isn't a series where I can just pop on youtube and go "top 10 lois and clark speedblitzes" so I'm not gonna argue about it if everyone disagrees. It's bugging me a bit because I'm pretty sure I remember it occasionally being brought up in-series that Clark could do things in line with that feat, but I'm not gonna go try and track down the episodes, so I can't really back that up

[Pendaran]

Yeah, but it's in a funny place where the series isn't doing anything to suggest he CAN'T do that either, which is a component of SvsFL. When I say he has as much super speed as he needs, what I mean is that it was generally played as either he did something trivially with super speed or just completely forgot he had super speed. I can't recall a single instance of him trying to super speed something and not being fast enough. So I think that makes an argument for SvsFL questionable.

There's nothing happening to establish a limitation below that feat.

No, that basically means you're making a no limits argument.

[BitVyper]

No, that basically means you're making a no limits argument.

Well no. The feat IS there. it's just not widely backed up by a ton of other feats, but there's nothing taking it down either.

[Pendaran]

Well no. The feat IS there. it's just not widely backed up by a ton of other feats, but there's nothing taking it down either.

Let me ask you another way. So what limits do you feel there are then on Cain Superman's speed? Remember:

these things he does are always incredibly trivial for him, frequently played as this just being how Clark organizes his life. So overall, while I can't think of any other feats in the range of the one being discussed, the series definitely lends itself more to Clark having as much speed as he needs to have than it does to any suggestion of a limit below zipping around the globe for takeout.

[Pendaran]

Your argument is straight up that he has as much speed as he needs to have.

[BitVyper]

I feel that the feat being discussed is setting the upper limit for his speed. I feel the rest of the series well establishes his superspeed to the extent that any time he's not instantly solving his problems with superspeed of the "trivially wallpaper an entire house" level, there's obvious PIS going on. I think this is a problem for SvsFL arguments against the feat being discussed, because the vast majority of problems that could be solved by superspeed in the series could be solved by the better established level.