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Overly powerful villains.
I'm not talking about supermen. I'm not talking about teleporters. I'm not talking about emperors with Authority Equals Asskicking on their side.
I'm talking about those world destroyers, universe owners, high deities, etc.
It particularly bothers me when the guys opposing them are, at least at first, ordinary humans. They don't get their magic swords of plot advancement for quite a while. A lot of the time they don't even know how to use the weapons properly because they trained for it or whatever, either it's depicted as being too easy to wield without an in-verse excuse or they just give you the skills with em. It's even worse when they use non-magical weapons made by man, even if they are like giant robots or something. It doesn't bother me when the guys opposing them are also world destroyers/universe owners/high deities/etc. though.
Now to be honest I haven't actually seen many works that do this, but I was reading some trope pages and I was going all like "...there's this many examples of this shit?"
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Though I do enjoy seeing heroes gradually get stupidly powerful and awesome with the proper pacing. There's gotta be some kind of control valve on the awesome, you know?
Barry Allen is capable of running faster than the speed of light and, at times during the Silver Age, described as faster than the speed of thought. In Flash #150, "straining every muscle," he ran at ten times the speed of light.[35] However, when he pushed himself further (during the Crisis on Infinite Earths) he appeared to waste away as he was converted into pure energy, traveled back in time, and was revealed in Secret Origins Annual #2 to be the very bolt of lightning that gave him his powers.[36] This was later retconned in The Flash: Rebirth #1, where Barry stated that he "ran into the Speed Force," and that, "When [he] stopped the Anti-Monitor, when [he] ran into the 'Speed Force' and joined it, it was like shedding [his] identity."[16]
Barry Allen possesses abilities that Jay Garrick has not always been able to duplicate, most notably the ability to "vibrate" in such a way as to pass through solid matter. Allen has regularly engaged in time travel using the Cosmic Treadmill device (he no longer needs this to conduct this feat), and is able to "vibrate" between dimensions. Barry is unique among Flashes and most characters in the DC Universe in that he has complete control over every molecule in his body.[37] In Grant Morrison's Final Crisis, using the Speed Force, Allen was able to undo the effects of the Anti-Life Equation upon an individual: an ability he used on his wife Iris to free her from the bondage of Darkseid's mind control.[14] He has recently been revealed to not only be connected to the Speed Force, but is the very source of it, generating it with every step he takes. As such, he presumably has some of the Speed Force-related abilities other speedsters have demonstrated (such as lending and stealing speed), though he has yet to demonstrate such abilities. This alone is enough to make him one of the most powerful beings on Earth, and perhaps in existence. He is also immune to telepathic attacks and control, as he can shift his thoughts at a speed faster than normal thought. He used this tactic against Black Lantern Martian Manhunter in Blackest Night. Through "speed-reading" Barry can absorb large amounts of information into his short-term memory, which remain in his mind just long enough for him to make use of it. Using this technique, Barry was able to learn enough about building work to rebuild a destroyed apartment building.[38]
When he did it in Crisis on Infinite Earths, he was attuned to the Speed Force. He recreated his Speed Force powers. When he did it in Flashpoint, he was not. He did not.