#Also I'm fine with superheroes going through shit constantly I think especially with like peter parker and barry allen

[pumpkinrootbeer]

say what u will about barry allen but no other superhero has had a worse time. you come in, take up another heros mantle, be a hero for however many years, DIE!!! actually die not comic death but die to the point you are functionally irrelevant for 20 years you completely cease to be that character and the vast majority of people grew up with a different flash, get resurrected you're back now (yay?), writers don't know what to do with you because there's already another flash and there has been for the past two decades so the entire universe kinda hems and haws about what to do with you until they take you out of your main comics and just have you chill in the justice league, then you lose your powers and are once again no longer the flash.

I need a "where are they now" but for Barry Allen flash. dead for Twenty Real Life Years. come back to life. reset the universe. just to lose your powers and be booted again from the superhero title. God himself hates this man

"Oh wally got erased from existence" "well x happens to Batman" it's not even about what happens in the narrative it's like. you're the only mainstream superhero ever that stopped existing for two decades and when they do decide to bring the character back they have no idea what to do with you so you're eventually forever relegated to the sidelines And also you're not the strongest or the most skilled or the fastest flash and they keep retconning all the special stuff You did in specific and refuse to let your narrative exist beyond Dead Mom. bartholomew baby I'm so sorry

[maarigolds]

Ok so we need to talk about Pietro/Peter’s powers for a second here. He refers to it as “super speed”, but is it really? 

This is something I’ve seen people mention before, especially in relation to the scenes in the x-men movies where he saves everyone at the mansion or during Magneto’s prison break. In those moments we see the action from his point of view, and everything but him slows down to the point that the other characters can’t even see him or realize what is going on. Time is almost frozen. 

This must mean that Quicksilver is running really fast. Like, REALLY fast. In fact, fast to the point that, even if he had some sort of super resistance and strength to counter the effects of the acceleration, he’d still make a mess: stuff would shatter around him, his clothes would burn down in a split second due to friction, and any normal person he tried to save would pretty much explode. Literally. 

Still we see him carry many people to safety at super speed and they’re all fine. 

Now, this could simply be a plot hole because, really, who cares about physics in a superhero movie where impossible things are constantly happening? Those scenes are cool, that’s all that matters. Suspension of disbelief, whatever.

...or at least that’s what I thought until the last episode of WandaVision. Hear me out.

At the beginning of the episode Pietro’s powers are working as usual: he scares Billy and Tommy after seemingly appearing out of nowhere (but actually just running really fast). Everything is normal.

But then, when they’re out trick or treating, they all go on a super speed pranking spree. And this is what we see:

Pietro didn’t just take the kids with him: the two of them are actively engaging in the pranks. Unlike everyone else (beside Wanda, but we'll get to that later) they perceive what’s going on, despite the fact that they’re running at an insane speed. And yes, in this episode it’s revealed that Tommy too has super speed, so it makes sense that he would. But what about Billy? Billy is not a speedster. If Pietro was simply carrying him around like he did to the people he saved in the x-men movies, Billy wouldn’t have the time (or, to be precise, the reflexes) to see what’s going on, let alone spray silly strings on people. Hell, even the fucking silly strings wouldn’t probably come out of the cans fast enough!

...Unless Pietro (or whoever is controlling him) wanted him too. 

And what I mean by that is Pietro’s power is not super speed at all: it's time manipulation. And maybe this is him learning how to extend it to other people. Also, considering that Wanda has telekineses -meaning the manipulation of the first three dimensions- it would make sense for Pietro to have the fourth... although I’m probably reaching here.

But, since we’re talking about Wanda, what about her then? She sees the guys running ....And I don’t have an answer to that. It might be because of her powers. I might be because, even if she doesn’t actually see them, she can feel their presence through telepathy. It might even be that she simply knows it’s them because who else could it be.

There is a really interesting moment when she stops Tommy (which seeems to confuse and surprise Pietro quite a bit), so I'm leaning towards "she just has this power".

Billy later does the same, but it still doesn't make sense that he was running at Pietro and Billy's speed. (I think. I’m not sure of anything at this point.) 

Either way, Pietro’s powers work in weird ways and I hope it will be addressed soon. 

And yes these are most likely just 90s tv shenanigans and I should’t be paying attention to them because it’s not gonna work outside the hex but I can’t help it okay tv shows conspiracy theories are my shit

Second gif is from @quentintarantinos and first one I couldn't find a source sorry