Since he's the Fastest Man Alive doesn't imply that the Flash really utilizes speed. Truth be told, Barry Allen's main foe, the Reverse Flash, found the Speed Force's most noteworthy mystery, focusing a light on what being a speedster really is.
The DC Universe is brimming with strange, difficult to characterize energies that give legends and lowlifes exceptional capacities. The Flash and the few other speedsters zooming around battling wrongdoing draw their power from the baffling Speed Force. Barry Allen's gallant profession started when he was splashed in a novel mix of synthetic substances and struck by lighting associating him to the strong Speed Force. From that point forward, the electrically charged legend and his numerous speedster partners have utilized their abilities to travel at fantastic speeds, pull off amazing accomplishments, and travel to different times and aspects. Few might comprehend the Speed Force, however many pervaded with it perceive the potential their speed opens.
In any case, a disclosure from the Flash's harsh opponent, the Reverse Flash, puts the Speed Force in a whole new setting. During the "Way To Flashpoint" story curve of the Flash by Geoff Johns, Scott Kolins, and Francis Manapul, a progression of strange passings are happening in Central City. Flash works with the police to examine the reason why such countless bodies are seeming to pass on from fast maturing. Barry finds a young man at one crime location and accepts he might know who's behind the passings. Yet, the kid is really the shrewd Reverse Flash in camouflage. He uncovers his real essence to scientific examiner Patty Spivot and makes reference to that he has been exploring different avenues regarding the Speed Force in manners the Flash hasn't at any point attempted. By emptying the years out of others and utilizing them to change his own appearance, Thawne understands that the Speed Force is really time-based.
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Switch Flash's uncover isn't excessively is to be expected since time travel is an exemplary Flash power, however that is typically viewed as a useful use of their speed, ordinarily related to a Cosmic Treadmill. In any case, what Thawne has found is that the Speed Force itself is a sign of time, not speed or even power as some might naturally suspect. This implies that speedsters like Flash and his kind are really time-based superheroes rather than speed-based.
It's usually expected that Barry and others essentially move quicker than their general surroundings. Yet, might be really happening that speedsters control the progression of time, causing it to appear as though they're traveling at incredible speeds. The Reverse Flash Hunter Zolomon really used this strategy as Zoom since he initially had no association with the Speed Force. In any case, Thawne suggests that this might be what the Speed Force permits all speedsters to do. Regardless of his standing, this would imply that the Flash isn't really the Fastest Man Alive, he's simply slowing the remainder of the world down. Without a doubt, it's all relative relying upon the viewpoint. Yet, Flash's chief rival might have presented the defense that speedsters are simply altered time travelers.