Current Events > Do Captain America and The Flash need to eat a lot?

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Superman has the alien excuse but Steve and Wally are just blokes.

They must have crazy metabolisms, sonic too.

I mean DBZ shows Goku and Vegeta eating a ton every episode

Flash, yes. I think it's a running gag that the various Flashes eat a shitload.

IIRC, in the CW show, they specifically create an extremely high-calorie protein bar thing so he doesn't have to constantly eat.

I just googled it, and Flash apparently needs to eat 50 times his body weight a day

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/1/4/6/AAY0fDAADrJK.png

idk if there's anything official for Captain America, though.

pegusus123456 posted...

Flash, yes. I think it's a running gag that the various Flashes eat a shitload.

IIRC, in the CW show, they specifically create an extremely high-calorie protein bar thing so he doesn't have to constantly eat.

Always wondered how he afforded it. Star labs picking up his tab?

I did like how the cw show touched on it effectecting his performance in bed. And then they tried making a super alcohol so he could get drunk. One shot got him pretty drunk but then it was like 10 seconds later and he's like I'm sober again

Iirc the likes of captain America Deadpool and so on can't get high or drunk. Cept the time someone made q super drug and it worked on cap

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/1/5/2/AAA_aCAADrJQ.jpg

Sufferedphoneix posted...

I did like how the cw show touched on it effectecting his performance in bed.

Did it? I don't remember that at all.

Regardless, I think the ability to vibrate at superspeed would offset any premature ejaculation issues.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/1/5/4/AAA_aCAADrJS.jpg

Guns_of_Verdun posted...

I mean DBZ shows Goku and Vegeta eating a ton every episode

Like seriously: i watched a few DB movies and literally they all have them jamming food down like theyre dying from hunger in all of them.

pegusus123456 posted...

Did it? I don't remember that at all.

Regardless, I think the ability to vibrate at superspeed would offset any premature ejaculation issues.

It was while he was still new at it iirc. Like season one.

And that was his friends concern. He was just hooking up with a girl they hadn't yet accounted for how his speed (and not having mastered it) would effect it.

Wasn't a major plot point. A small part of one episode I believe. Like a smaller more lighthearted side story within a episode.

Forger the conclusion

Sufferedphoneix posted...

Always wondered how he afforded it. Star labs picking up his tab?

Batman probably funds it

UnfairRepresent posted...

Batman probably funds it

Doubt. Flash was doing his thing before he knew batsy

Hmm does he need to eat slower to offset calories burned? Cause yeah he could go super speed but surely he'd be burning a lot of calories doing that too

Guess no choice though. Even if it dropped it to 10 times his body weight that would take a long time

Sufferedphoneix posted...

Hmm does he need to eat slower to offset calories burned? Cause yeah he could go super speed but surely he'd be burning a lot of calories doing that too

Speeeeeeeeeeeeeeed force.

pegusus123456 posted...

Speeeeeeeeeeeeeeed force.

He's already burning tons of calories moving fast which is why he's gotta eat like that. What's speed force gotta do with rather eating faster or slower would be more optimal?

Sufferedphoneix posted...

He's already burning tons of calories moving fast which is why he's gotta eat like that. What's speed force gotta do with rather eating faster or slower would be more optimal?

Speed Force is the Pym Particle of DC Comics. If something doesn't make sense about the Flash, the answer is Speed Force.

In fact, I'm surprised he does need to eat more and that the Speed Force doesn't just protect him from the effects.

g0ldie posted...

I just googled it, and Flash apparently needs to eat 50 times his body weight a day

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/1/4/6/AAY0fDAADrJK.png

idk if there's anything official for Captain America, though.

assuming Flash is, idk, 200 lbs, and 50 times that is 10,000

and a pound of beef has ~1000 calories

We're looking at 10 million kilocalories, or about 40 billion joules.

cursory google search says launching a rocket into space uses 3 trillion joules

honestly they'd be better off never addressing his calorie needs and just explaining it away with speedforce lol

Edit: Why is Arrow even there, Flash should be cleaning up before he can even pull the string lmao

Kim_Seong-a posted...

assuming Flash is, idk, 200 lbs, and 50 times that is 10,000

and a pound of beef has ~1000 calories

We're looking at 10 million kilocalories, or about 40 billion joules.

cursory google search says launching a rocket into space uses 3 trillion joules

honestly they'd be better off never addressing his calorie needs and just explaining it away with speedforce lol

Probably wanted him to have a quirk related to his powers. Hell they could use it for story telling if they wanted. Have him abandoned somewhere (say another planet) where food is scarce fighting a threat that's giving him a run for his money so he's getting slower and weaker as the fight goes.

Or better yet some contrived plan by his rogues to bring him down and beat him.

It's good for the hero to lose once in awhile

Sufferedphoneix posted...

It's good for the hero to lose once in awhile

Barry Allen already lost. Then Geoff Johns decided to bring him back and we've been paying for it ever since <____<

"50 times my body weight" could also be an exaggeration

Kim_Seong-a posted...

Barry Allen already lost. Then Geoff Johns decided to bring him back and we've been paying for it ever since <____<

I just think it would be cool to see the regular rogues captain cold trickster etc. Take him down with a cunning plan. Of course somebody swoops in and saves his ass though. But I'd want him throughly defeated brutalized etc.

Idk flash to me has always seemed to overpowered compared to his normal villains. He only ever struggles cause he doesn't use his powers as effectively as he could

UnfairRepresent posted...

"50 times my body weight" could also be an exaggeration

True I've always been on the line of thought just because a fictional character says something doesn't mean it's true in their world

Like a lot of mgs retcons can be explained simply by somebody lied or had false information.

Kim_Seong-a posted...

Edit: Why is Arrow even there, Flash should be cleaning up before he can even pull the string lmao

They're just having fun fighting crime and spending time together. No neednfor the Flash to go all out here.

That and it's comics, characters of varying power fight alongside one another up to universal beings regularly.

i doubt whatever made skinny cap into swole cap in the mcu chamber runs on proteins and carbs like the rest of us.

maybe it just amped up the effects so he doesnt need tons of fuel to run

https://youtu.be/R8Ureytbq3A

NatsuSama posted...

https://youtu.be/R8Ureytbq3A

Reminder that it's a canonical fact that when he and Lex Luthor switched bodies, he knocked the doors off of Lex's girlfriend so thoroughly that she was disappointed when they switched back.

Damn wtf. I remember in a "would you rather be flash or superman" thread most voted to be flash cuz he can run super fast and has speedforce powers.
But he has to eat so much dude fuck that. I bet most ppl with flash powers would have to rob and steal from places to get enough food . Id rather be superman cuz he just needs sunlight and is already fast enough to blitz the entire planet of normal humans omfg

pegusus123456 posted...

Reminder that it's a canonical fact that when he and Lex Luthor switched bodies, he knocked the doors off of Lex's girlfriend so thoroughly that she was disappointed when they switched back.

How did this happen? Did the girlfriend know about the body swapping? Because if not...

TheOnionKnight posted...

How did this happen? Did the girlfriend know about the body swapping? Because if not...

Flash didn't want to do it, he just kinda didn't have a choice about it. At the time, Lex was leading a Legion of Doom type deal, so he was absolutely surrounded by supervillains. Without knowing how his technology works, Lex has no ability to fight them off, so Flash kinda had to go along with things.

If it helps, Tala didn't seem to feel particularly violated.

pegusus123456 posted...

If it helps, Tala didn't seem to feel particularly violated.

lol I wouldn't say that helps. This sounds like some kind of fucked-up Arthurian-style body-swapping mess, like with Sir Lancelot and Dame Brusen. Super unsavory, to say the very least.

Flash was violated too though. He didn't want to have sex with a supervillain.

But yeah, it probably wouldn't fly today.

pegusus123456 posted...

Flash was violated too though. He didn't want to have sex with a supervillain.

But yeah, it probably wouldn't fly today.

https://youtu.be/qQ-7xNWjBbI