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Eternals Star Looks To Settle The Flash Vs. Makkari Debate

Any superhero that comes along boasting powers vaguely similar to that of another, more famous costumed crimefighter is always going to invite comparisons to whoever the fans view as the top dog of that particular skill set, something Eternals star Lauren Ridoff has gotten used to during the...

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Any superhero that comes along boasting powers vaguely similar to that of another, more famous costumed crimefighter is always going to invite comparisons to whoever the fans view as the top dog of that particular skill set, something Eternals star Lauren Ridoff has gotten used to during the movie’s promotional campaign.

Even when the cosmic Marvel Cinematic Universe blockbuster was shooting in early 2020, producer Nate Moore outlined why Ridoff’s Makkari was completely different from a certain Scarlet Speedster over at DC Comics, and the finished product ensures that her abilities are depicted in completely different fashion so as not to display any overtly identical features.

In an interview CineExpress, Ridoff even admitted that she’d heard the exact same line of inquiry from her son, who refused to believe that his own mother was capable of outrunning the Flash in a head-to-head race.

“Okay, so this is a conversation I had with my son. When he first found out that I was going to be the fastest woman in the universe he said, ‘No you’re not.’ He brought over his laptop and looked into the computer and said, ‘Look! It’s true! Flash is faster than Makkari.’ But I’m sure Makkari…because she travels faster than the speed of sound.”

Ridoff puts her own stamp on Eternals‘ resident speed freak in terms of both her performance and physical movements, which are a lot more graceful and balletic than DC enthusiasts have become accustomed to seeing from Grant Gustin and Ezra Miller’s respective Barry Allens. Of course, the debate isn’t going to end, but Eternals has seen Makkari set out her stall as the fastest superhero in the live-action realm, with the ball now back in the Flash’s court.

 

[Boris Blank's glass eye]

I understand there's no such thing as bad publicity, but this is getting fucking pathetic.

 

[CatParty]

I understand there's no such thing as bad publicity, but this is getting fucking pathetic.

She couldn’t even be assed to check Wikipedia to know flash is faster than time lmao

 

[Chocolate Wombat]

Wow they really are desperate for any kind of positive press aren't they? Also, here's an article that disproves it

I don't really follow comics so I wouldn't know, but was this ever actually a debate?

 

[Jet Fuel Johnny]

"My character is faster than the speed of sound!"

"Um, Flash can travel back in time."

"Speed. Of. Sound. Nothing is faster than the speed of sound."

 

[Kulee Baba]

I'm still bewildered that they greenlit this movie. Again like many many nerd millennials I wasted a lot of time learning about Marvel lore and I never heard of The Eternals. Now to be fair I didn't know who Thanos was until I saw the first Avengers movie, when I was a real comic book nerd I didn't care about Cosmic Marvel. I just liked Captain America, Iron Man, and The X-Men. But damn these Eternal characters are so boring because they simply are recycled concepts from DC heroes.

Superman - Ikaris
Green Lantern - Sersi (she ever wears green LMAO)
Wonder Woman - Thena
The Flash - Makkari (he even wears RED)

Marvel engrossed everyone because their shit stood out. Eternals is so bland I feel sorry for everyone involved for getting stuck with this turd. Just because it drawn up by Jack Kirby doesn't mean it's gold. Flush it down the toilet along with the lame Fantastic Four. And when I shit on Fantastic Four I'm only shitting on the hero team itself, Doctor Doom, Silver Surfer, and Galactus are cool.

 

[The Lawgiver]

Flash is tied to the multiversal concept of speed itself, the "speed force" it's like the force but instead of just being the concept of pushing shit it's the concept of speed. he can fucking break time by speedforcing hard enough.

I'm still bewildered that they greenlit this movie. Again like many many nerd millennials I wasted a lot of time learning about Marvel lore and I never heard of The Eternals. Now to be fair I didn't know who Thanos was until I saw the first Avengers movie, when I was a real comic book nerd I didn't care about Cosmic Marvel. I just liked Captain America, Iron Man, and The X-Men. But damn these Eternal characters are so boring because they simply are recycled concepts from DC heroes.

Superman - Ikaris
Green Lantern - Sersi (she ever wears green LMAO)
Wonder Woman - Thena
The Flash - Makkari (he even wears RED)

Marvel engrossed everyone because their shit stood out. Eternals is so bland I feel sorry for everyone involved for getting stuck with this turd. Just because it drawn up by Jack Kirby doesn't mean it's gold. Flush it down the toilet along with the lame Fantastic Four. And when I shit on Fantastic Four I'm only shitting on the hero team itself, Doctor Doom, Silver Surfer, and Galactus are cool.

The eternals in this movie were heavily altered/gimped into their bland ass looking designs. The OG comic is like pychadellic eye-searing color and raw style that could in theory make a really good movie aesthetic but they chose instead to do something completely different for the movie and make it some generic scifi drama tv special looking thing about ancient empowered POC aliens.

Also fuck you the fantastic four are fantastic it's in their name they're the fantastic 4. A dude got orange rock tumors all over his body and has to live with it as he smokes big fucking cigars, is that not fantastic enough for you?

 

[Kulee Baba]

The eternals in this movie were heavily altered/gimped into their bland ass looking designs. The OG comic is like pychadellic eye-searing color and raw style that could in theory make a really good movie aesthetic but they chose instead to do something completely different for the movie and make it some generic scifi drama tv special looking thing about ancient empowered POC aliens.

Also fuck you the fantastic four are fantastic it's in their name they're the fantastic 4. A dude got orange rock tumors all over his body and has to live with it as he smokes big fucking cigars, is that not fantastic enough for you?

Yeah you have a point The Thing isn't a bad character, although he always felt like a disappointing character because he always got jobbered by The Hulk.

But I've said it once I'll say it again Marvel is setting themselves up for failure if they do a Fantastic Four movie and feature Mr. Fantastic or that shit tier diversity hire Pakistani Miss Marvel. Elastic Humans in a realistic setting are disgusting. And for the record Plastic Man is the best Stetchy Man and no superhero woman will be as sexy as Helen Parr.

 

[CatParty]

"My character is faster than the speed of sound!"

"Um, Flash can travel back in time."

"Speed. Of. Sound. Nothing is faster than the speed of sound."

She’s deaf too she wouldn’t know if there’s a sonic boom

Flash is tied to the multiversal concept of speed itself, the "speed force" it's like the force but instead of just being the concept of pushing shit it's the concept of speed. he can fucking break time by speedforcing hard enough.



The eternals in this movie were heavily altered/gimped into their bland ass looking designs. The OG comic is like pychadellic eye-searing color and raw style that could in theory make a really good movie aesthetic but they chose instead to do something completely different for the movie and make it some generic scifi drama tv special looking thing about ancient empowered POC aliens.

Also fuck you the fantastic four are fantastic it's in their name they're the fantastic 4. A dude got orange rock tumors all over his body and has to live with it as he smokes big fucking cigars, is that not fantastic enough for you?

shoulda went the speed racer route.

But I've said it once I'll say it again Marvel is setting themselves up for failure if they do a Fantastic Four movie and feature Mr. Fantastic or that shit tier diversity hire Pakistani Miss Marvel. Elastic Humans in a realistic setting are disgusting. And for the record Plastic Man is the best Stetchy Man and no superhero woman will be as sexy as Helen Parr.

They replaced her stretchy powers with basically Armor’s powers.

 

[The Lawgiver]

shoulda went the speed racer route.

Whats funny about Speed racer is aesthetically the original series is a somewhat down to earth somewhat realistic series about a dude who just really wants to race as a career and his family of mechanics that had to deal with his older brother leaving them to do the same. There's mafia dealings and shit with crime syndicates who want to rig shit for cash or have some other motivations, that's the big part. The movie speed racer is a lot more f-zero than speed racer in terms of how it operates but still manages to pull through as a good movie that somehow evokes some of the vibes of the source despite not being an accurate adaptation. This situation is Bizzaro world speed racer in a sense where it completely strays fromt he source material save for a few things but makes everything boring instead of turning shit up to 100.

Sometimes I actually want to see an accurate adaptation of speed racer/mach gogogo but it's probably not gonna ever happen at this point and if they try doing it in current year it's just gonna end up like this shit lmao. There's technically already movies that kinda follow the "speed racer formula" in the terms of criminal shit involving cars specifically but seeing an attempt at doing a 50s/60s kinda aesthetic one would be interesting.

 

[AnnLurker]

"My character is faster than the speed of sound!"

"Um, Flash can travel back in time."

"Speed. Of. Sound. Nothing is faster than the speed of sound."

Superman is faster than her, and Flash beats Superman in speed.
What is with these capeshit actors not knowing anything about their own characters? I know Hollywood actors are veritable retards, but sound isn't faster than light and certainly not faster than the human embodiment of the speed force. I haven't read comics in nearly 30 years and even I know nobody beats Flash.

 

[Pork Packer]

DC "big name" characters are designed to be as stupidly OP as possible so trying to start a pissing match about how your shitty knockoff is super-er is as autistic and pathetic as....well....pretty much any argument regarding comics in this day and age that is not asking why the hell they still exist

 

[Milwaukee Macho Man]

As a former comic nerd, I have never heard this debate in my life.

I almost feel bad for these bozo's. I get not knowing anything about Marvel and just wanting to "get in" on it, but imagine getting in on shit that not even major comic book nerds give a fuck about.

 

[Red Hood]

If it was Wally West vs Super Sonic the Hedgehog you might have something. It even has a nice red vs blue theming.

But no one knows or cares who Makkari is.

 

[TheSword]

This really is pathetic. I can understand online fans bickering over which capetard is better than the other, but imagine actually getting paid to be a sped. Then again- it’d be pretty cool if I got paid to shit up threads instead of doing it for free..

 

[Tasty Tatty]

(spoiler)

Spoiler

 

[Screw Danlon]

"My character is faster than the speed of sound!"

"Um, Flash can travel back in time."

"Speed. Of. Sound. Nothing is faster than the speed of sound."

If Speed of Sound is so great, why did Gwenyth Paltrow dump Coldplay dude?

 

[TowinKarz]

"Speed. Of. Sound. Nothing is faster than the speed of sound."

Except maybe the speed of "REEEEEE!" going around the world, via Instagram.

As a former comic nerd, I have never heard this debate in my life.

Seriously, this is like grade-school tier shit, where someone who was a fan of an obscure comic (or worse, their OC) tried to get everyone to pick a side in the "who is stronger?" debate.... and would literally cry if you sided with the mainstream DC/Marvel superheroes when OBVIOIUSLY, his was better.

 

[Johan Schmidt]

Who the fuck is Makkari? Shut up journoswine.

 

[Krokodil Overdose]

Holy shit this is retarded. I haven't participated in comic book power level tism fests since high school, and even I know that the Flash is significantly faster than it is physically possible to be, to the point of breaking physics in so many ways that the writers need to force-feed him paint chips to stop him from solving every problem literally instantly. Makkari is really fast, but that's it- she's just fast. Quicksilver is a more appropriate comparison.

I mean, if she wanted to talk up her character relative to the Flash, she should have gone with the "she has millennia of experience, she's a team player, she has a strong moral compass" and bring up stuff like Flash leaving Reverse-Flash (or was it Zoom) frozen in time but still conscious as a statue, which is a massively fucked-up thing for a nominal hero to do. I don't think "Makkari is better than the Flash" is an unwinnable argument (for a given value of "better") but the actress went about it in the worst way.