Last night I logged into Twitter and found myself in the middle of a storm in which people were posting joke names for speedsters. It all started when Geoff Johns posted the following:
- @GeoffJohns0: RT @Brainiacphive Hello. I have a name for you for a Flash character: Speed Date. #newspeedsters #
Well, people went with it! You can read them all at #newspeedsters until the posts drop off of Twitter search’s radar in a few weeks. Some of my favorites:
- jonahlantern: this one is easy. Bad guy team. Jamaican, with ice powers on top of speed. Cool Runnings. #
- blacaucasian: Runs Really Fast. Because he runs really fast. #
- mgrabois: Usain Bolt # (a popular suggestion, but I think this was the first)
- jester1436: Quickstep and Foxtrot #
- MarkWaid: Charlie Hustle #
- Knippenberg: Captain 23-Skidoo #
- mattfraction: Th Flsh # (@shanajeanh remarked, “too fast for vowels?” #)
- Mike2112McKone suggested several, including: Zip, Zap, Whoosh, Reverb, Skid and iSpeed.
- Bart_Allen: All Day I Dream About Speed– another corporate sponsored speedster # (in response to my suggestion of Sprint – and in case you’re wondering, look at the first letters.)
- ValVictory: Krackle and Pop as in the sounds of the speedforce # (I suggested “The Sounds of the Speed Force” it sounded like a band, and VV agreed, saying “Anyone play bass?”)
- ValVictory: happy fun American run fast time man — That one is from overseas. #
- ValVictory: Sir speeds a lot — The U.K. flash #
- bobbynash: Fast Bastard #
- housetoastonish: Speedy Alberto Gonzales – He’s Quick To Judge #
Stephen Wacker chimed in with a number of characters based on people in the comics industry.
- Ran Didio. Slow-ey Cavalieri. Street Tomasi. Matt Traction. Slowing Gates. “On your Mark, get set, WAID!” #
- I can’t stop….Drag Rucka. Ethan Van Slider. Slow Quesada. Richard Running. gRANt. Chasin’ Aaron. Axel Alonso. #
And here are my own humble contributions:
- Mr. Zip, of course! (As in the panels from “The Return of Barry Allen.” I was really surprised no one had suggested it yet.)
- The Running Man
- Sprint(tm), the corporate-sponsored speedster
- The Hot Flash
- Zoom’s little brother, Vrooom
- Greased Lightning
- Spud Racer – the Mr. Potato-Head Flash.
- Theed Racer, the Flash from Naboo
- Race Windu. He’s powered by Force Speed instead of the Speed Force.
Manic Mailman!
(One day someone will get this reference.)
Time to sue the USPS. 😉
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Skidmark, duh.
Man, watching Usain Bolt during the Olympics, I started hopping up and down on the couch and hollering at my husband:
“honey!HoneyHONEY HON-NEY!!!! He’s got the Speed Force! LOOKIT LOOKIT! Oh. You missed it.”
😀 Wanna see my fast draw? Wanna see it again?
Whiz Bam! Infinity Loop! Tread! Treadmill! Bleeding Speed!
Jack Kirby
Hah! When memes collide!
Give Wally the name “Turbo” or “Overdrive” (though those might be better names for Bart as an adult…). As long as it’s something that distances him from KID Flash (of for that matter, anything that implies that he’s back to side-kick material again).
Oops… this is humor names. How about Speed McQueen
Wow. This scans/panels make me wanna reread my Flash comics and trades.
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Lots are good but The UK Flash Sir-speeds-a-lot is a pure win!
PDQ!
Young Flash! (And Jay can be Uncle Flash!)
Jetstream!
Speedy is available nowadays. That should’ve been his name originally, not Kid Flash.
Do I wanna know what happened to the female Speedy?
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I’m afraid to ask…
I think Speedy is still around, but she just isn’t being used as a character. No pun intended seeing as Speedy was a hooker in her first appearance
I never knew there was a female Speedy. I was thinking of Red Arrow/Arsenal.
How about RUSH and Mercury?