Too Fast to Stop: Difference between revisions

* Happens to Clare in ''[[Claymore]]'' after Awakening her legs. In the anime she slows herself down by [[Blade Brake|stabbing her sword into the ground]], while in the manga she gains control by Awakening her arms as well.

* Captain Kuro of ''[[One Piece]]'' is an interesting case while using his [[Flash Step|Shakushi]] attack. He seems to be perfectly capable of stopping himself whenever he wants (though we never see it because Luffy always manages to stop him first), but the attack makes Kuro too fast to see where he's going or who he's attacking, so he's basically "Too Fast ''To Know When'' To Stop".

* In the ''[[Fullmetal Alchemist]]'' manga, {{spoiler|Sloth}} is very easy to set traps for: you just get out of the way when he charges [[Flash Step|ludicrously fast]], and he'll run straight into whatever was behind you. Just make sure you're not in-between or you won't exist any longer.

* Used in one battle of [[Mahou Sensei Negima]]. Takahata Takamichi explains that the weakness of the series' version of the [[Flash Step]] is that once you enter it, you can't stop until you reach your destination, and proving it by tripping Negi as the kid tries to [[Flash Step]] past him.

** This was also the cause of Black Stig's "death" after he attempted to reach 100 mph and stop on an aircraft carrier. He mistakenly reached 109 before breaking, and plummeted into the ocean, leaving [[Never Found the Body|only a single black glove]]...

* There was an episode of [[Smallville]] where Clark's powers started going haywire. When his mother calls him in for lunch, he tries to get back in the house, only to find himself at Lake Tahoe. When he tries to run back, he only makes it to Colorado Springs before his powers shut off, forcing him to take the bus home.

** The Flash himself had this problem in the pilot episode. He takes off at a dash, panics and puts on the brakes, and finds himself 30 miles from where he started.

* In an episode of [[Lois and Clark]], Clark was able to pull this off against a nemesis who had just stolen his superpowers by taunting her. Justified in that it was the very first time she ever used her newly acquired speed.

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