Quicksilver is Fast
***WARNING***Prepare to get nerdy!
Quicksilver from the recent "X-men: Days of Future Past" movie is fast. REALLY fast. So fast that I suspected that he was much faster than the comics had ever claimed he could be. I did the maths.
Based on the awesome kitchen scene where he just wins in under a second by running on walls, gently tapping guards all while casually tasting food and stealing a hat, not only is Quicksilver fast, he's WAY faster than the comics ever dreamed he'd be. Let's break it down.
The kitchen was a round room, and judging by the bodies laying on the floor and a rough estimate I would say it has at least a 20 ft radius from the first shooter in the middle to our heroes at the edge.
Depending on the grain, .45 ACP bullets travel around 600mph or 880ft/s. It would take 0.0227s for the bullet to travel 20ft. Bullets are pretty swift. This is far too short a time to enjoy, so what would normally be far less than a blink of the eye is slowed down 5000 times. The slow motion started from the bulletfire and lasted 113s(4972 times longer than .0227s) until the bullet reached our heroes at the outer edge. So everything that Quicksilver does at movie slowmo speed can be multiplied by 5000 to get the real time speed.
Quicksilver immediately takes a full lap around the room (2*20ft *pi = 125.6ft circumference) in 37s of slowed movie time. This works out to be 17000ft/s(3.4f/s*5000) or 11,590mph. This turns out to be his casual jogging speed since after he's finished fooling around with the guards, he's at the far end of the room and finally notices the bullets heading toward his pals.
He makes a super fast half circle run in 1 second of movie time. If we estimate he's 5 feet from the wall at both his start and end that cuts the radius down to 15ft and his run is only 47.1ft(15*pi) to get to the bullets nearing the professor and magneto's faces. This is much faster. 47.1ft/s * 5000 = a real time speed of 235,000 ft/s or 160,227 mph. This is around a curve too. Who knows what he could do if he was going straight and really trying or trained or wasn't a slacker.
There are a couple of issues that a speed of over mach 200 brings up.
1. The comics max Quicksilver's speed at mach 10. While Mach 10 is very fast, it's certainly not Mach 200. Movie Quicksilver can run circles around asteroids and comets and therefore do anything he wants on earth, including solving ALL the problems of the movie and being nigh impossible to stop with the relatively sluggish Sentinels. Of course, the scene was so cool that no one really cares about the comics, and having more of him just ruins the drama of the Sentinels actually being a challenge, or having a problem stopping Mystique or w/e.
2. Flash is supposedly clocked at the speed of light. While 160227miles per hour is insanely fast, it's not even 1/60th the speed of light. That's right, the Flash is supposedly more than 60 times faster than even the incredible, overclocked, movie version of Quicksilver. Why is this an issue? It means that in comparison, Quicksilver is riding a tricycle while the Flash is in a Bugatti and therefore DC is terrible at making movies that aren't Batman when handed to visionary directors like Nolan. What the hell has DC been doing with itself this whole time? All everyone could talk about after seeing "Days of Future Past" was why there wasn't more Quicksilver, and DC has been sitting on a superhero mindblastingly faster and more powerful. I know there's a new flash tv show , but people are excited about him running 700mph when he's first clocked. I guess he's really challenged by a guy that makes cyclones, because...I don't care.
I really just wanted to confirm a hunch I had that the movie version of Quicksilver was way faster than he's ever been, and as it turns out, yup.
Quicksilver from the recent "X-men: Days of Future Past" movie is fast. REALLY fast. So fast that I suspected that he was much faster than the comics had ever claimed he could be. I did the maths.
Based on the awesome kitchen scene where he just wins in under a second by running on walls, gently tapping guards all while casually tasting food and stealing a hat, not only is Quicksilver fast, he's WAY faster than the comics ever dreamed he'd be. Let's break it down.
The kitchen was a round room, and judging by the bodies laying on the floor and a rough estimate I would say it has at least a 20 ft radius from the first shooter in the middle to our heroes at the edge.
Depending on the grain, .45 ACP bullets travel around 600mph or 880ft/s. It would take 0.0227s for the bullet to travel 20ft. Bullets are pretty swift. This is far too short a time to enjoy, so what would normally be far less than a blink of the eye is slowed down 5000 times. The slow motion started from the bulletfire and lasted 113s(4972 times longer than .0227s) until the bullet reached our heroes at the outer edge. So everything that Quicksilver does at movie slowmo speed can be multiplied by 5000 to get the real time speed.
Quicksilver immediately takes a full lap around the room (2*20ft *pi = 125.6ft circumference) in 37s of slowed movie time. This works out to be 17000ft/s(3.4f/s*5000) or 11,590mph. This turns out to be his casual jogging speed since after he's finished fooling around with the guards, he's at the far end of the room and finally notices the bullets heading toward his pals.
He makes a super fast half circle run in 1 second of movie time. If we estimate he's 5 feet from the wall at both his start and end that cuts the radius down to 15ft and his run is only 47.1ft(15*pi) to get to the bullets nearing the professor and magneto's faces. This is much faster. 47.1ft/s * 5000 = a real time speed of 235,000 ft/s or 160,227 mph. This is around a curve too. Who knows what he could do if he was going straight and really trying or trained or wasn't a slacker.
There are a couple of issues that a speed of over mach 200 brings up.
1. The comics max Quicksilver's speed at mach 10. While Mach 10 is very fast, it's certainly not Mach 200. Movie Quicksilver can run circles around asteroids and comets and therefore do anything he wants on earth, including solving ALL the problems of the movie and being nigh impossible to stop with the relatively sluggish Sentinels. Of course, the scene was so cool that no one really cares about the comics, and having more of him just ruins the drama of the Sentinels actually being a challenge, or having a problem stopping Mystique or w/e.
2. Flash is supposedly clocked at the speed of light. While 160227miles per hour is insanely fast, it's not even 1/60th the speed of light. That's right, the Flash is supposedly more than 60 times faster than even the incredible, overclocked, movie version of Quicksilver. Why is this an issue? It means that in comparison, Quicksilver is riding a tricycle while the Flash is in a Bugatti and therefore DC is terrible at making movies that aren't Batman when handed to visionary directors like Nolan. What the hell has DC been doing with itself this whole time? All everyone could talk about after seeing "Days of Future Past" was why there wasn't more Quicksilver, and DC has been sitting on a superhero mindblastingly faster and more powerful. I know there's a new flash tv show , but people are excited about him running 700mph when he's first clocked. I guess he's really challenged by a guy that makes cyclones, because...I don't care.
I really just wanted to confirm a hunch I had that the movie version of Quicksilver was way faster than he's ever been, and as it turns out, yup.
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