I talked about this to people a while back and I wanted to point out here
Some people were complaining Flash and Sonic not being able to escape the Omega Beams showed their speed was downplayed in DC X Sonic. That’s not necessarily true logically. in fact, it shows they were moving at INSANELY high speeds.
TLDR: If you play a game of tag in a 10 foot range against someone who’s decently fast, can keep eyes on you and is very agile, it doesnt matter how much faster you are, you’re going to have to keep moving in order to avoid them.
Flash (Barry Allen) and Superman fought Darkseid once, he fired his Omega beams and Flash and Superman ended up running laps all through a city trying to escape them, when Flash finally phased through one of Darksied’s minions to get it to hit him instead, Flash was exhausted and had to catch his breath before running again.
The Omega beams could’ve been going anywhere between faster than sound to light speed, probably far faster than sound seeing that they exhausted Flash.
That being said, Omega beams also have extreme maneuverability, they don’t slow down or change speed while turning, and they move to the precise target with high efficiency.
Seeing Sonic and Flash were running around in a very small area, 20 yards at most, Omega Beams would get wherever they run in an instant with how fast they are. Which means Sonic and Flash would HAVE to keep moving to avoid them.
That actually proves in order to run ahead of the Omega Beams in such a short distance they were going many, many times faster than Barry was. Especially that one panel where we see Sonic moving only a few feet at a time, even in the air, and still avoiding the Omega Beam shows he was moving possibly even lightspeed since he was staying about a foot away from the beam, and it shows he has unreal control of his speed to be able to maneuver like that being able to decelerate that quickly and make turns that precisely.
Yes, my daily word count for college is now completed.
