Too Fast to Stop: Difference between revisions

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Often a subtrope of [[Required Secondary Powers]], see that trope for other examples of superpowers being trumped by physics -- Including the other obvious [[Super Speed]] [[Required Secondary Powers]]: The ability to react fast enough to control yourself in super speed, the toughness required to keep your feet from turning into bloody stumps at 250+ MPH, skin that can survive a wind chill in the negative hundreds, etc etc.

== Anime and Manga ==

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* In Zone races in ''[[Wipeout (Video Game)|Wipeout]] HD'', your car gradually increases in speed (no brakes!) and continues to do so until you sustain too much damage and crash.

* In ''[[Ratchet and Clank Going Commando]]'', you can't stop or steer at all for the first couple of seconds after you activate the [[Sprint Shoes|Charge Boots]], making it easy to fly off a cliff it there's one anywhere nearby. [[Ratchet and Clank Up Your Arsenal|Later]] [[Ratchet Deadlocked|games]] had you regain control sooner, but there's still a risk.

* In the [[Konami]] [[Shoot Em Up]] ''[[Twinbee (Video Game)|Twinbee]]'', collecting blue bells will increase your ship's speed. There is no [[Cap|maximum speed]], so collecting too many will make your ship fall into this trope.

* In the [[Konami]] [[Shoot'Em Up]] ''[[Twinbee (Video Game)|Twinbee]]'', collecting blue bells will increase your ship's speed. There is no [[Cap|maximum speed]], so collecting too many will make your ship fall into this trope.

* A ''[[Minecraft]]'' glitch can create this. About a minute into this video. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fiL2S9b1lBc&feature=related\]

* In ''[[Warhammer 40000 Space Marine]]'' your Marine Character in full [[Powered Armor]] needs a good 10 feet to stop when running at full speed. Handy when you're rushing to an enemy, not so handy when trying to round a corner.

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* In an episode of [[The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy]] an out-of-shape Billy wants to pass the President's Fitness Challenge and convinces Nergal Jr. to become a pair of pants that make him run super fast. Nergal Jr. gets stuck in that form and Billy can't stop running, [[Tethercat Principle|with the implication he runs for all eternity.]]

* There was one episode of ''[[Dexters Laboratory]]'' where Dexter tried to give himself various superpowers but ended up with unintended side effects. When he gave himself super speed, he could run around the world in an instant, but when he tried to stop he ended up skidding all the way around the world again.

* Similarly happened in ''[[Jimmy Neutron]]: Boy Genius'', Jimmy made himself some frictionless shoes which gave him [[Super Speed]] to compete in school races. He ended up not winning because Cindy tricked him at the last second, and then tried to use the speed to play pranks. But the frictionless shoes proved impossible to stop once running for long, and when he tried to get rid of them he [[Can't Get Away With Nuthin|ended becoming a piece of glowing purple goo on the floor]].

* Similarly happened in ''[[Jimmy Neutron]]: Boy Genius'', Jimmy made himself some frictionless shoes which gave him [[Super Speed]] to compete in school races. He ended up not winning because Cindy tricked him at the last second, and then tried to use the speed to play pranks. But the frictionless shoes proved impossible to stop once running for long, and when he tried to get rid of them he [[Can't Get Away With Nuthin'|ended becoming a piece of glowing purple goo on the floor]].

** Someone [[Did Not Do the Research|failed physics forever]], since friction is what generates traction to begin with. Frictionless shoes would make it impossible for him to travel, he would either run in place or slip and fall with the first step.

*** This is [[Handwaved]] by Jimmy saying that the shoes were propulsive, ''and'' frictionless, which only makes sense on paper.

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** In the first season of ''[[Justice League]]'', [[The Flash]] was held back a lot by being tripped or clotheslined by objects that he had no excuse for not seeing coming or reacting to.

* In the cartoon of ''[[Young Justice (Animation)|Young Justice]]'', Kid Flash has this problem, running into a metal door because he didn't have enough space to stop. Though this might just have been because he was in a hallway.

* This seems to happen a lot with Rainbow Dash from ''[[My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic (Animation)|My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic]]''. It would explain where she got the nickname "Rainbow Crash".

* This seems to happen a lot with Rainbow Dash from ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (Animation)|My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic]]''. It would explain where she got the nickname "Rainbow Crash".

== Real Life ==