- —Tagline
Flash VS Quicksilver is the 61st episode of Death Battle, featuring The Flash from DC Comics and Quicksilver from Marvel Comics in a battle between superhero speedsters. Flash was voiced by Anthony Bowling and Quicksilver was voiced by Edwyn Tiong.
Interlude
 |
   
|
Boomstick: A long, long time ago, mankind began to walk.
Wiz: And then, we ran. And ever since that moment, we've been pushing speed to its very limit. Or in this case, past the point of absurdity.
Boomstick: The Flash, DC Comics' scarlet speedster.
Wiz: And Quicksilver, Marvel's fast-talking Avenger.
Boomstick: He's Wiz and I'm Boomstick.
Wiz: And it's our job to analyze their weapons, armor, and skills to find out who would win... a Death Battle.
The Flash
|
Hell of a Messenger - Justice League: The Flashpoint Paradox by Frederik Wiedmann
|
Wiz: From Wonder Woman to Superman, there's no shortage of DC heroes capable of achieving superhuman feats. But only one is truly synonymous with speed itself.
Boomstick: The Flash. Aaahhh!~
Wiz: But, before he became the Flash, he was only known as Barry Allen.
|
A Darker Past - Justice League: The Flashpoint Paradox by Frederik Wiedmann
|
Boomstick: Like many superheroes, Barry's lacking in the whole "living parent" department.
Wiz: One day after returning home, he discovered his mother had been murdered, and his father had been wrongly convicted of the crime.
Boomstick: Knowing dad was innocent, Barry vowed to clear him of the crime and became... a forensic scientist for the Central City Police.
|
A Lot Happened That Night - The Flash CW by Blake Neely
|
Boomstick: Buuut dear old dad died before Barry could set him free.
Wiz: Wracked with grief, this only strengthened Barry's resolve to find his mother's real killer.
Boomstick: And on one fateful night, when he was doing some... sciency stuff, he got struck by lightning! And then fell into some chemicals.
Wiz: Now, normally, this would be incredibly fatal. But since this is comic books, Allen was imbued with the power to move his body at incredible speeds and became the Flash!
|
The Mission of a Soldier - Justice League: The Flashpoint Paradox by Frederik Wiedmann
|
Boomstick: Aaahhh!~ You're probably thinking "Okay, cool, he's like, fast enough to run across water now," but there's a whole slew of other benefits that come with his new power. Like accelerated healing, enhanced strength, the ability to absorb kinetic energy from others, a brain that works faster than a supercomputer, and the ability to throw lightning.
Wiz: To do any of this, Flash draws his power from the Speed Force, an extra dimensional energy source which, when synced with a living being's bio-electric field, amplifies and distorts their perception and placement in individual time versus time outside their own field.
Boomstick: What?
Wiz: Uh, in layman's terms, it's kinda like the Force in Star Wars, but instead of Jedi tapping into its powers, it's comic book speedsters.
Boomstick: I see...
|
Called Some Friends For Help - The Flash CW by Blake Neely
|
Wiz: Think of it as its own dimension, that the Flash can use as a power source, and also enter on his own whim. Plus, it's pretty handy for getting the Flash out of jams when an author writes him into a corner.
Boomstick: Sure... Also, while other speedsters like Max Mercury and Wally West use the Speed Force, Barry is actually the one who generates it! And boy, can he do some ridiculous stuff.
Wiz: When push comes to shove, he can easily break the speed of light, over 670 million miles per hour.
Boomstick: He once rescued everyone from a collapsing apartment building, then used the public library to learn everything he needed to rebuild the whole place, and then he did it, all before the cops showed up! Oh, and he can run on clouds.
Wiz: Apparently, he does this by vibrating his feet in such a way that the ice crystals within the clouds are collected underneath him to provide footholds, which is an affront to science!
Boomstick: Speed Force, Wiz.
Wiz: Anyway, his brain is fast enough to perceive events in less then an attosecond; he once called the Justice League supercomputer slow, which, by the way, processes at 100,000 trillion calculations per second.
Boomstick: The Speed Force also absorbs damage like a shield, because at this point, what can't it do?
|
Justice League - Justice League: The Flashpoint Paradox by Frederik Wiedmann
|
Boomstick: Make waffles? Probably. He was once blown up by enough grenades to send him flying into a tree, breaking it in half.
Wiz: To snap a tree like that requires at least 70,000 pounds of force.
Boomstick: Ouch, but he was up and running around in no time, thanks to Speed Force healing.
Wiz: Right, like the time he got stabbed through the leg, but minutes later, stood up and ran fast enough to outrace a nuclear blast, and break the time barrier. Yes, I said "time barrier".
Boomstick: Did you ever hear the phrase, "New 52"? Like, where DC rebooted its whole universe and everyone's backstories? Yeah, Flash... Flash did that. All of it. Batman's dad told him to.
Wiz: You'd think time travel would be an awesome skill to have, but not really in Flash's case. While well-intentioned, his hotheaded time-hopping adventures usually end up making things worse.
Boomstick: Like when he tried to save his mom's life, and ended up ruining the entire universe instead!
Reverse-Flash: Break the sound barrier and there's a sonic boom. You broke the time barrier, Flash, time boom. Ripples of distortion radiated out through that point of impact, shifting everything just a tiny bit, but enough.
Wiz: Also, it is possible for others to disrupt Flash's connection to the Speed Force, making him lose his abilities.
Boomstick: But with fast healing, time travel, extra dimensional power, he's done a lot for a guy who can run really fast.
Barry Allen uses his ring to change into the Flash.
Quicksilver
|
Theme of Magneto - Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3 by Hideyuki Fukasawa
|
Boomstick: An amazing man once said, "To achieve great things, one must sacrifice stability and push one's limit past sanity." And few people embody those words better than Quicksilver.
Wiz: Wait, who said that quote?
Boomstick: I did, last week, when I got my sweet new dune buggy and jumped that lake!
Wiz: No, you just said "Hold my beer!", and drove it straight into the water.
Boomstick: Wiz, come on, stay on topic. Quicksilver goes fast!
Wiz: Uh... Yeah, that's true, and I guess your fake quote kind of applies, because Quicksilver's life has been anything but stable. I mean, his origin story is absolutely insanely convoluted. I guess that's what happens when competing movie studios both inadvertently own the rights to the same character.
Boomstick: Yeah, don't worry, I got it. Basically, Quicksilver and his twin sister the Scarlet Witch were born Pietro and Wanda to a pair of gypsies named Django and Marya Maximoff. But as babies, they were kidnapped by a guy they call the High Evolutionary. He experimented on the two children, and then returned them to their parents, only now they had super cool powers! But Pietro and Wanda were later tricked into believing that they were the mutant children of Magneto, abandoned by their mother and handed off to gypsies by a cow lady midwife.
Wiz: What the hell!?
Boomstick: Y'know, it doesn't even matter. They're the kids of gypsies, and they have super cool powers.
Wiz: Well, with all the instability in his personal life, it's no wonder Pietro Maximoff has been known to bounce from alliance to alliance, like when Magneto saved him from an angry mob, he joined the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants, where Magneto gave him his sleek costume, and his new name: Quicksilver.
|
Heroes - Avengers: Age of Ultron by Danny Elfman
|
Boomstick: But, when Magneto got his ass kicked, Quicksilver joined the Avengers, because what's loyalty when you can't even keep track of who your dad is? I wish I at least knew where my dad was, though.
Wiz: Probably as far away as possible... ahem, well, one benefit in all this hopping back and forth across the line in the sand, is that Quicksilver's had training and experience from both sides of the spectrum, from the likes of Captain America to Mastermind.
Boomstick: But really, when you're fast enough to disappear in the blink of an eye, who wouldn't want you on their team? After all, Quicksilver is all about speed. He can heal fast, think fast, learn fast, and of course, run around really freaking fast.
Wiz: He can run around an opponent so fast, he forms a tornado, sucking away the oxygen and suffocating them.
Boomstick: He can easily run on water, and maintain speeds of more than 700 miles per hour, for extremely long periods of time. And if things are looking serious, he can crank it up even further, and become fast enough to outrun a radio wave.
Wiz: Radio waves are a kind of electromagnetic radiation, and thus, travel the same speed as light. Meaning, Quicksilver can run well over 670 million miles per hour.
Boomstick: Much like Wiz seeing himself in the mirror every morning, Quicksilver has survived some pretty terrifying things.
Wiz: Yeah— hey... He has taken a hit from some of Marvel's strongest heroes, including Hercules, the god of strength himself.
Boomstick: He doesn't even flinch at the destructive shockwaves made by his own speed, and one time, he ran up a mountain so fast, he accidentally launched himself into an airplane and fell 39,000 feet down into the ocean. And survived! Man, that's crazy to think about.
|
Welcome Back - X-Men: Days of Future Past by John Ottman
|
Wiz: Speaking of thinking, his brain can process and retain information so quickly, that he memorized Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata by ear and could play it himself, in just about a minute. A feat which takes an average person years to perfect!
Boomstick: Despite having a taste for calming and refined music, he's incredibly impatient, and has been known to lash out in anger and annoyance.
Wiz: Why does that sound familiar?
Boomstick: You shut your mouth before I shut it for you!
Wiz: I rest my case... Quicksilver also has a tendency to run headfirst into danger without thinking things through.
Boomstick: Rest your case? I'll rest your case!
Wiz: Alright, just don't trip on that—
Boomstick trips on something and falls hard.
Boomstick: (groaning) I hurt my balls... just finish the rundown!
Wiz: (chuckles) Well, despite his brashness, Quicksilver is a tragedy hardened speed-freak who I wouldn't cross for even a second.
Quicksilver sees a creature.
Quicksilver: Oh, I get it, you're supposed to stop me. Well go ahead, try it.
The creature swipes at him, he dodges and zips around it, punching multiple times but it falls.
Quicksilver: Next time, try a little harder.
Prelude
Wiz: Alright, the combatants are set. Let's end this debate once and for all!
Boomstick: IT'S TIME FOR A DEATH BATTLEEE!!!
Death Battle
Somewhere in New York City, civilians watch in rapt attention at the scene of a burning building.
|
The Mission - Avengers: Age of Ultron by Brian Tyler
|
A cop car arrives, running a civilian down in the process, and Captain America steps out. A young girl is high up on the building, struggling to breathe.
Captain America: Please stay calm, miss! I'm coming up there!
The girl loses her footing and falls.
Captain America: No!
As she falls, time slows down and eventually stops.
|
Fastest Man Alive (Always Late) - The Flash CW by Blake Keely
|
The Flash and Quicksilver arrive on the scene at the same time, both ready to be the hero.
Both: I got her!
Quicksilver: Wait, who the hell are you? You trying to steal my spotlight?
Flash: Uh, seriously? Have you been living under a rock? I'm the Flash. All-star hero? Fastest man alive?
Quicksilver: Fastest? Bullshit, that's me. Let's race to Japan!
Flash looks up, and to him, the girl is falling incredibly slowly.
Flash: Well, what the heck? I've got time.
Quicksilver: Okay, on the count of three. Three!
|
Catch Me if You Can - The Flash CW by Blake Neely
|
Quicksilver cheats and runs off ahead of Flash.
Flash: Hey!
Barry runs as he soon catches up to Pietro and runs alongside him.
Flash: Hey hey hey! Cheap trick, pal!
Quicksilver: I got another one for you!
Quicksilver punches Flash, knocking him off course.
Flash: So that's how we're gonna do this, huh?
He catches up with Quicksilver and runs alongside him again.
|
Theme of Super Skrull - Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3 by Hideyuki Fukasawa
|
Barry and Pietro race across NYC and up a building. They jump off and trade blows in midair until Quicksilver catches one of Flash's punches as he shifts behind the Scarlet Speedster and kicks him away.
Quicksilver: Catch ya later!
Quicksilver lands in Central Park and keeps running for Japan.
Quicksilver: Hmph, what a loser!
The Flash suddenly appears amid some trees, then hops back into the race.
Flash: Hey man! Did you miss me?
The two race across the United States, eventually ending up on a California beach. Quicksilver takes the initiative and gives Flash a Polish hammer, flooring him.
Quicksilver: Too slow!
Pietro then starts running around Barry, causing a whirlwind that sucks him up, then pummels the helpless Flash in midair.
|
Joker's Gang Fight - Justice League: Unlimited by Kristopher Carter, Michael McCuistion, Lolita Ritmanis
|
|
Cap's Promise - Captain America: Civil War by Henry Jackman
|
Quicksilver: How's it feel to lose, chump?
Flash dodges his last attack.
Flash: Let's turn this around!
Flash spins in the opposite direction, reversing (and reddening) the whirlwind so that it overtakes Quicksilver.
Quicksilver: Agh! What?
Flash knocks his foe out of the cyclone. With both heroes airborne, Flash notices an incoming flock of birds.
Flash: Aw crap...
Barry spins his arms to create a vortex and blow Pietro into the flock...
Quicksilver: Ahh! Goddammit!
....and then uses the birds as a platform to dropkick the erstwhile mutant into the water. Flash races on the water, and Quicksilver recovers and catches up.
Quicksilver: Alright, Flash, so you're fast! But I'm stronger and smarter!
Flash: Prove it, tough guy!
They briefly trade blows again.
Flash: Okay, this is getting dumb.
Barry speeds ahead...
Quicksilver: ...Flash?
...and the scene changes to a white void, frozen in time.
Quicksilver: The hell? What's going on?
|
I Have To Try - The Flash CW by Blake Neely
|
Flash: You're in the Speed Force. MY Speed Force. I'm sure you feel it, the raw energy coursing all around you. This is the source of my power. And here, I AM KING!
The Flash, now supercharged, clobbers Quicksilver at super speed. He then charges up a lightning bolt and tosses it at his opponent, knocking him out of the Speed Force and back into real world. Quicksilver flies for miles, screaming all the way, until he is impaled on a sword-wielding statue in Japan. Flash arrives and surveys the corpse.
Flash: Eww... Well, at least you beat me here! Bye!
He runs off.
Flash runs back to New York to rescue the girl while Quicksilver's corpse is visited by a solemn Magneto.
Results
|
Hell of a Messenger by Frederik Wiedmann
|
Boomstick: Flash Fact: sharp things hurt.
Wiz: As fast is Quicksilver is, the Flash is just... much, much faster.
Boomstick: Quicksilver clearing the speed of light is great and all, but the Flash has gone 10 times that.
Wiz: Which would put him at more than six billion miles per hour!
Boomstick: Plus, Barry can pull people into the Speed Force and fight them there, giving him a home-field advantage.
Wiz: In addition, the Flash's brain can process events in less than an attosecond, and in case you're wondering, 12 attoseconds is the shortest amount of time humanity has ever been able to measure. This means that while Quicksilver's Beethoven feat proved he could think over 500,000 times faster than an ordinary person, the Flash can think many trillion times faster. He had plenty of time to predict every perceivable action Quicksilver may have taken.
Boomstick: Quicksilver had the upper hand in formal combat training, but when you're fighting someone who can move, think, and act WAY faster than you, there's not really much you can do. You could say this battle was over... in a Flash!
The music promptly cuts out as Boomstick says his pun. We then cut to the "Winner" card.
Wiz: (unimpressed) ...The winner is The Flash.
Trivia
Production
- The core connections between Flash and Quicksilver are that they are both iconic comic book superhero speedsters and are members of famous superhero teams (the Justice League and the Avengers, respectively). In addition:
- Quicksilver once lost a race to "Buried Allen", an amnesiac homage to Barry Allen based on the idea that he was sent to the Marvel universe after he died in Crisis on Infinite Earths.
- Flash and Quicksilver have fought two times in official comics prior to this episode. The first was in Marvel Versus DC and the second was in JLA/Avengers. Flash won the first fight with his superior speed, while Quicksilver's home field advantage gave him an edge in the second crossover (due to Flash being disconnected from the Speed Force on Earth-616). However, both of these encounters featured Wally West as the Flash instead of Barry Allen, though Barry does show up later in the latter story.
- This fight makes a cameo appearance in Goku Black VS Reverse-Flash, where it's revealed at the start that Reverse-Flash set up the samurai statue that would fatally impale Quicksilver at the end of the fight, and a recreation of Quicksilver's death is even shown at the end of Reverse-Flash and Goku Black's time travel murder spree.
- This makes it the second fight where the winning combatant unintentionally kills the losing combatant, after Hercule Satan VS Dan Hibiki, and with the next one being Spider-Man VS Deku.
Errors
- Despite the episode being titled "Flash VS Quicksilver", the series names in the parentheses are written as "Marvel VS DC" instead of the other way around to match the combatants.
- This makes it the third episode where this has happened, after Fulgore VS Sektor and Wolverine VS Raiden, and with the next two being Aquaman VS Namor and Galactus VS Unicron.
- When Flash's rundown mentions that Wally West uses the Speed Force, it shows artwork of Bart Allen as Kid Flash rather than Wally.
- During the fight animation, Flash's eye color constantly alternates between blue (what is typically Barry's eye color) and green (what is typically Wally's eye color), sometimes having both at once.
Other
- This is the seventh Marvel VS DC-themed episode, after Rogue VS Wonder Woman, Batman VS Spider-Man, Batman VS Captain America, Deadpool VS Deathstroke, Iron Man VS Lex Luthor, and Green Arrow VS Hawkeye, and with the next 22 being Hulk VS Doomsday, Venom VS Bane, Thor VS Wonder Woman, Batman Beyond VS Spider-Man 2099, Black Panther VS Batman, Doctor Strange VS Doctor Fate, Nightwing VS Daredevil, Thanos VS Darkseid, Aquaman VS Namor, Captain Marvel VS Shazam, Ghost Rider VS Lobo, Miles Morales VS Static, Cable VS Booster Gold, Winter Soldier VS Red Hood, Batgirl VS Spider-Gwen, Lex Luthor VS Doctor Doom, Batman VS Iron Man, Scarlet Witch VS Zatanna, Black Adam VS Apocalypse, Ant-Man VS Atom, Phoenix VS Raven, and Martian Manhunter VS Silver Surfer.
- This is the second time that DC wins, after Batman VS Captain America, and with the next 12 being Hulk VS Doomsday, Thor VS Wonder Woman, Batman Beyond VS Spider-Man 2099, Doctor Strange VS Doctor Fate, Nightwing VS Daredevil, Thanos VS Darkseid, Aquaman VS Namor, Captain Marvel VS Shazam, Miles Morales VS Static, Cable VS Booster Gold, Scarlet Witch VS Zatanna, and Phoenix VS Raven.
- This is the second episode where a combatant sends their opponent to their turf (via Flash dragging Quicksilver into the Speed Force), after Ryu VS Scorpion, and with the next five being Thanos VS Darkseid, Iron Fist VS Po, Korra VS Storm, Trunks VS Silver, and Phoenix VS Raven.
- This is the second time the home turf combatant wins, after Ryu VS Scorpion, and with the next two being Thanos VS Darkseid and Iron Fist VS Po.
- This is the first episode in which Boomstick references "Flash" by Queen, with the next two being Flash VS Sonic and Goku Black VS Reverse-Flash.