Flash's Top Speed Has a Disgusting Side-Effect Too Dark for the Movies
While the Flash is perhaps DC's most powerful hero — with the ability to do everything from travel through time to punch with infinite mass — that power comes at a price. When Flash's speed goes wrong, it goes very wrong. In the best-case scenario, that sometimes means a pair of broken legs, and in the worst, it means damaging the entire multiverse. However, easily the most disgusting consequence of Flash's power happened when he was forced to jump to top speed in order to save hundreds of people from a living god.
The Justice League Elite were an offshoot of the main team comprised of former villains looking for redemption. To keep the group in line, Batgirl, Green Arrow, and Flash joined up, taking on villainous new identities while infiltrating a cosmic drug cartel. Unfortunately, when rogue psychic Manchester Black was able to colonize the body of team leader Vera, he seized control of the cosmic entity Eve — a being able to change reality with a thought. Manchester Black immediately ordered Eve to unleash a devastating explosion aboard the cartel's spaceship base, at which point Flash jumped into action.
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In Justice League Elite #9 — from Joe Kelly, Doug Mahnke, Tom Nguyen, David Baron, and Pat Brosseau — readers see the consequences. Despite Eve's near total command of reality, Flash is able to rescue over a hundred people from the cartel's base, but he has to push himself to his limits to do it. This amount of strain leaves Flash in a chaotic state, as his body becomes gelatinous 'velociplasm.' While Green Lantern is able to create a device to help Flash reconstitute himself, Wally West is trapped in a disgusting limbo where his body is attempting to
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