![]() ![]() “Float like a Cadillac, sting like a Beemer,” he says. Race time: DID NOT FINISH He isn't speed: Lightning McQueen comes a cropper. It’s all Sonic baby.” - Sonic the Hedgehog director, Jeff Fowler 8th Place - Lightning McQueen “He’s faster than all those other chumps. The conditions are set, the contestants are ready. The event will not be a direct head-to-head contest, but an individually timed sprint: the speedster who clocks the fastest time round the world wins the title of Fastest Speedster in all of entertainment. The race, then, will be one around the world, the full equatorial circumference of planet Earth, around 40,000 kilometres, which is around 24,901 miles give or take a few mini-marathons here or there. Also, there is no slow-motion camera on Earth that’d be able to film it, so we have to take a more non-traditional approach. This means that a conventional eight-man race over distance from A to B would make no sense, because a) we’d be comparing apples versus oranges, and b) the aforementioned egos wouldn’t allow it. Even before we fire the starting pistol on this thing, it’s clear there is already a gulf between the slowest and fastest contestants. Next, we need to determine the conditions of the race. THE STARTING LINE-UPįactoring in top speeds, pop culture pull and attitude, our starting line-up looks like this: This is clearly anecdotal evidence at best. Sadly, this does not include Tim Allen’s character from the movie Zoom: Academy For Superheroes, who, it’s claimed, is “faster than Superman, Quicksilver and The Flash combined”. The most infamous competition tends to be between Superman and The Flash, although they almost always end in a tie because DC can’t afford to bruise the ego of either speedster.Įgo actually goes a long way to determining who our starting contestants will be there are countless super-powered speedsters throughout comics, movies and beyond, but we’re only interested in the contest between the ones who shout the loudest about it. Now, across the various mediums of entertainment, speedsters are pitted against one another in races all the time. It seems the only way to settle this question definitively is with a race. So … sometimes it will be this much, and sometimes the things that he does, like that ocean run, are insanely fast.” When you're this fast, you're pretty much invincible. “But there’s a scene when he runs to the Pacific Ocean and back in, like, two seconds. “It matters because in the test he was clocked at 300, in the movie he’s clocked at 3-something,” says Schwartz. ![]() So… who’s the fastest speedster of them all? Sonic the Hedgehog director Jeff Fowler and Sonic himself, actor Ben Schwartz, have their own thoughts (which they share throughout this article). But when compared to the masked men and women of the wider world of pop culture, the hedgehog suddenly has serious competition. Back in the Green Hill Zone, where Sonic would race mostly against himself, or occasionally an overweight moustachioed megalomaniac, he was the fastest thing on two legs. However, although Sonic now has movie star credentials, he’s entered a whole new world of superpowers, meta-humans and professional speedsters, who operate on another level entirely. The spiny blue speedster, formerly confined to video games, animated shows and pencil cases, is now standing toe-to-toe with the bona fide blockbuster big league. Although his movie dragged its feet somewhat getting into cinemas following a three-month delay, Sonic the Hedgehog is one of the fastest characters in all of pop culture. ![]()
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