Though the usual metric fans love to debate when it comes to superheroes will always be power, many a message hasbeen sent all over the internet regarding the superhero genre's fastest comic book characters too.
Ever since The Flash faced off with the Man of Steel in Superman #199, characters from both Marvel and DC have been matched against each other in an attempt to find who's truly the speediest of all. The race isn't exclusive to just heroes either, as countless other villains both prominent and otherwise have given the likes of the Justice League and the Avengers a good run for their money in the past - each to varying degrees of success.
Actually measuring who is definitively the fastest, however, can prove tricky, as with most characters powers tend to change like the seasons, with various writers and artists hopping on to runs to leave their own stamp on the character, sometimes by altering the potency of a given hero or villain’s skill-set.
This in itself can bring both positives and negatives, and though chronicling the fastest comic book beings going is made more difficult by this - with some sticking and others awaiting an inevitable ret-con - it's no less fun.
WhatCulture's very own resident movie guy, Ewan has been working in the content creation biz for over 10 years now, having started as a freelance contributor to WhatCulture Gaming all the way back in 2015. After graduating with a First-Class Honours in History from Northumbria University in 2017 (where he won a prize for a totally killer dissertation on the Watergate years), Ewan took on the role of Comics Editor at WhatCulture and quickly developed WhatCulture Comics into one of the biggest superhero-focused channels on YouTube. He followed this with a brief hiatus at Screen Rant in 2021, where he worked across the Gaming and Film sections as a writer and editor, before returning to WhatCulture as a Senior Content Producer / Presenter in 2023. He started his own podcast, We Love Dad Movies, in 2022, and has contributed several written pieces to the Eisner-nominated comics website Shelfdust as well.
In his current role, Ewan incorporates his love of cinema, comic books, and history into written pieces and video essays for WhatCulture's Film & TV channel, as well as WhatCulture Gaming and WhatCulture Horror, with a particular focus on nineties-era Dad Movies, old school Westerns, and Golden Age Hollywood Noir. John Carpenter is his fave, and he thinks Batman Beyond should never have been cancelled. If that's your vibe, you'll probably like his stuff.
