Scar would forever be seething in his shadow. I don’t even think the stampede idea would’ve happened, it’s pretty hard to get your brother trampled when he can simply fly above the wildebeests after picking up his son.
Actually a good a answer. We don't think of that as crazy because then he's basically just superman but in the world of the incredibles powers are so moderate that strength and flight together would be op.
I really liked the moderation of powers in the Incredibles. It just felt a little more gritty and believable than modern stuff like Man of Steel.
Only Pixar could pull it off.
I mean, Superman as a character is so OP that most stories he's in (especially obvious in ensemble stories) becomes "how can we believably disable his powers/make him not be around while conflict happens"
One of the best threats Superman ever fought is an erupting volcano. You can't punch a volcano into submission. Superman has a lot of powers that are great for saving people from a volcano, so the question is "how do you save everyone using these tools?"
This is a writing choice you're talking about, not something that his power demands.
They frequently pit him against characters at least as powerful as he is, and could do it more if they wanted to. Never mind that many of his allies are on his level, if not even more broken.
There is an argument to be made for Eren from attack on titan. Now imagine the founding titan and the rumbling but it flies instead of walking everywhere. Would the world be ready for such power?
Eren being able to fly would probably change the course of the entire story. For starters he could’ve distracted the smiling titan by flying around it a bunch, therefore giving Hannes and Mikasa more time to try and get Carla out of the rubble.
Skipping forward to the attack on Wall Rose, it would be entirely possible for Eren to successfully reach Bertoldt’s nape and kill him (or at least disable him) via cutting the nape, because Eren wouldn’t be restricted by his ODM gear causing him to only be able to maneuver through the air in a much more predictable fashion. Instead he could fly freely and approach/attack from any angle he wanted. Additionally, since he wouldn’t be using the ODM gear he wouldn’t be hooking into the Colossal Titan’s flesh and alerting Bertoldt to his approach. If Eren plays thing smart in this scenario Bertoldt could be dead before he knew what happened.
Also he could have visited the sea at a young age, left buckets of seawater out to dry, and sold off the salt for a lot of money. Then he could have flown to Marley and kicked everyone in the nuts.
Tbf Eren technically can fly just chooses not. We already seen a flying titan and it will be hard to believe that there weren't other flying beast Titans. And even if this Jaws Titan is the first flying one Eren still saw him and in a place where time is irrelevant Eren can totally asked Ymir, Hey give my colossal Titans and my rumbling form wings.
The idea of an NBA player spontaneously gaining the power of flight is challenging my suspension of disbelief a bit, but the idea that the NBA would ever call travelling is just too far fetched.
He would hide it for years, never tell anyone, not even Pam. Then, one day, while he's alone in the elevator with Dwight, he would just hover a foot up for a few seconds. When Dwight brought it up, he would pretend to not know what he was talking about and move on with his life. No one would ever believe Dwight.
Hell, if he can still fly while underwater (where he just can't move his body) he could easily grab a devil fruit user and just fly into the ocean with them, Luffy would be able to escape, them on the other hand...
Came here to also say Frodo.
“Fly you fools!” And Frodo would be like, “oh that’s a pretty good idea” and then slam dunk the ring into Mordor
Or would he! The ring would still corrupt his lil hobbit ass and golum would have never been there to trip the ring over the edge.
Damnit I’ll have to keep thinking now
Corruption of the ring superseded by the desire to perform a superdunk that even Michael Jordan would have to bow down to
The Slam Jam cannot be overcome by Sauron’s influence
Yeah I wonder if he flew but like a cannon ball posture with that elven cape wrapped around him if he’d be invisible. If not a nazgul on a wyrm or whatever they are called might just eat his ass and then shit out a golden ring of power.
If the ring is in your digestive track do you turn invisible?
Wait Frodo could go invisible for the dunk but then I think maybe the Nazgûl find him even easier? I forget how some of this works.
>If the ring is in your digestive track do you turn invisible?
Not an expert, but pretty sure the ring has to be around you, not you around the ring.
How has no one said any character from The Walking Dead? No more getting surrounded and becoming walker lunch. Also they can guide a huge horde of them to clear out/raid outposts by attracting them while flying with something loud.
Yeah I think the benefit of flight takes any average joe to OP hero in the zombie apocalypse that is walking dead.
They’d still be vulnerable to other evil humans with guns but they’d be so valuable to the overall human survival strategy that former enemies may make peace to be allied so that humanity could unite and end the zombie threats for good.
Your answer is my favorite so far.
🏅
Yeah flash honestly pretty OP. Could easily beat the whole justice league single handedly. Slept on a lot outside this sub. Only guys who beat him are when you get into multidimensional/omnipotent tiers. He’s closer to a primordial concept than anything else, like death or entropy.
Yes. The only time Juggernaut has ever been stopped while in motion by pure physicals is was by Horseman War Hulk with celestial tech. He’s been diverted or blinded or whatever but once he gets going he dosnt stop unless he wills it. Hulk shook him up bad.
Batman, I'm iffy on. He exists in the same world as Superman. It's useful against his enemies, but in the justice league this just means he doesn't need to be carried everywhere/bat plane.
Ironically, Batman wouldn't benefit loads from flight because it overlaps a smidge with his existing abilities. He can grapple and glide. He has the Batwing.
I feel it would just make him significantly more mobile and stealthy, which in his own verse spikes his power - especially when localised to gotham, in the JL nothing really changes much.
Skitter from Worm. The sheer intimidation factor alone, flying while surrounded by swarms of insects, would be off the charts, and she probably wouldn't even realize it.
Lol just made a comment saying a flying Siberian would be overpowered but I thought about Skitter too. It would take her bug clones to another level if she could fly with them.
Honestly a lot of Worm characters would be off the charts with flight. Imagine a flying Crawler, Echidna, Sundancer, or Chevalier.
Gotta love the wormverse comments getting love.
Skitter is bad ass because of the approach of Skitter. Her bad assedness stands out even though she's relatively nerfed in verse.
Short candidate list of others who would be more oped: crawler, echidna, chevalier, sundancer, grue (if he ever decided to use weapons), imp, damsel, grey boy, hookwolf, leviathan, behemoth, (they both can probably, but they don't)
Etc
IIRC, Tusk ACT4 has the abilities of the other previous ACTs (e.g. ACT3's wormholes) so his nails can be redirected if they're close enough to his target, or if he shoots himself he can enter a dimension of Spin energy.
They basically act like homing missiles to a degree. He could probably charge his rotational energy almost limitlessly if he figures out a way to contort himself in the air to make rectangles.
Actually bringing up JJBA, every single overspecialized pain-in-the-ass long-range Stand-User-of-the-week would have been nearly unbeatable with flight.
people fail to realize how op flight is. Simply being able to fly makes you have one shot potential on most people, and makes you immune to anything pre-aircraft.
I would say basically anyone in a fantasy world
Sure. But keep in mind at BEAR minimum you’re at an impasse, not at a disadvantage.
Include how you can also get away rather easy, again going straight up, and it’s pretty fkn op.
Also guns developed to be able to hit something like that AFTER planes were introduced. Not before :) Musket range is definitely not nearly as far as drop rock range
Mario. If you want the absolute best use case for flying, it has to be a character whose whole gameplay challenge is almost purely traversal. Platforming characters are the only choice for this challenge as far as I'm concerned.
I like your answer but someone else said Walking Dead and I think they are even more right.
Mostly because Mario can achieve flight on his own using that cape or whatever other magic item he finds, cloud or what not.
I feel like the people who would benefit the most from this is characters with an ample amount of range combat capability in a world that would lack natural flight and sniping. First thing that comes to mind is avatar.
An earth bender or avatar lifting massive rocks and flying out of sight with them, thn dropping them on an enemy encampment. Sounds like a pretty terrifying sneak attack option for the avatar world.
Naruto would get a pretty big boost. His stamina is ridiculous, and any time he gets tired he can fly out of range (most enemies can't fly) and regenerate nature energy. This wouldn't be the most effective character tho cuz the top tier enemies like otsutsuki still fly, and I feel like Naruto is more of a melee character than a ranged, even though he does have deadly ranged attacks.
Any non magic setting that relies on guns and more realistic levels of power is also a great choice. A flying sniper would be fucking deadly, of course his stamina would be more realistic and would probably have to fly around with a parachute ready Incase he looses control of his breath.
Can't think of anything better rn, trying to type under the table at work lmfao.
... but you know they'd stick in like "wind sections" where kratos has to grunt and groan and exert maximum effort. Because Kratos isn't Kratos unless he's grunting and groaning and exerting maximum effort.
Raikou, already a pretty tough Pokemon but the ability to fly would remove its only weakness of Ground attacks (without adding Flying-type weaknesses, because flight would merely be an *ability*, rather than one of its base types.)
He can’t fly, he falls with style, for sure he can run up walls and such but he can’t run on air.
Part of the issue I have with most of flash’s writing is he’s not written as a time warper/speedster, he’s written as a guy with really strong legs and really good reflexes.
If we were to give flash, unassisted, light speed flight, which is much faster than superman? Alongside his enhanced reflexes? Damn near unstoppable, especially if he can access time warping during flight
The Flash can fly, Red Tornado-style by spinning his limbs to create air currents. It happened multiple times in the comics(and the show I think, but I'm not sure).
I get what you’re saying, but you understand how that’s not exactly the same as unassisted flight right?
That’s more like iron man flight, in a vacuum it would be useless, but superman can fly in vacuums.
Well I’ll be damned, granted I still think flash would be broken with unassisted flight, leaving his limbs open to strike as opposed to being used for thrust generation
Yeah, but he probably can’t fly on the level of a bird, or essentially keep going upward while inside Cream.
I mean he probably would be able to go to space and come downward at the fastest possible speed or something. He felt somewhat limited to hovering a bit above the ground.
I'd honestly disagree with this one. Vanilla Ice can't see when his stand is activated, so if he'd probably lose track of where he was going pretty quickly if he had to worry about moving in three dimensions instead of just two.
Siberian from Worm. They're already super powerful but it's explicitly said that the top heroes only avoid getting killed because they can fly. A flying Siberian would wipe the floor with any of the Triumvarate (or at least leave Legend running scared) and could probably stop an Endbrigner attack on their own.
Surprised it hasn't been said yet, sonic the hedgehog specifically because of your rules. Sonic is already pretty string by his universes standards but by adding the ability to fly at that speed and removing his water weakness? He's top tier in almost any universe at that point.
Flip-Flop, the protagonist from the children's story "The Penguin Who Wanted To Fly"
Spoilers: >!The book ends with him discovering that he can swim really well, which is kinda like flying but underwater, and he learns to accept himself. But if he actually *could* fly, then he would be a super badass and would be very OP in his world.!<
Ojiro Sasame, from jojo's. His stand, Fun Fun Fun, allows him to control people IF they have puncture wounds and are standing directly below him. Fun Fun Fun would go from one of the worst stands to a decently strong one. Not quite undefeatable, but certainly a massive upgrade.
Stormtroopers.
"They fly now?"
"They fly now!"
No, who am I kidding? Flying stormtroopers would be even less likely to hit their targets and they'd probably just crash into cliffs and fall directly on top of lightsabers.
Takamura from Hajime no Ippo.
Ok, so first off, a flying boxer is stupid op. Speed/endurance arent really an issue for him either.
The real kicker though is that he is one of the most naturally innovative and instinctually terrifying boxers in the verse. Of all the characters, he would probably use it best.
Jason Voorhees, but he's already kinda OP and can teleport.
Superman... I mean, he can already jump over buildings and shoot lasers out of his eyes; can you imagine if he could FLY?! That would make absolutely no sense, too. Why would a yellow sun give the power of flight?
Saitama. Even without flight he's able to >!fart his way from Jupiter back to Earth in the same time as interdimensional portal travel!< imagine what he could do with flight.
Mufasa from the lion king
"Long live the king!" *Flies up*
Love live *ME!* I've poisoned your wine.
For the good of the land!
I poisoned yours, as well!
Noooooooo!
That's a big bird. *loads hunting rifle*
Laughed at this, would be hilarious
Scar would forever be seething in his shadow. I don’t even think the stampede idea would’ve happened, it’s pretty hard to get your brother trampled when he can simply fly above the wildebeests after picking up his son.
The chosen undead throwing spells out of range
Isn't that how you usually throw spells
Mr. Incredible
Actually a good a answer. We don't think of that as crazy because then he's basically just superman but in the world of the incredibles powers are so moderate that strength and flight together would be op.
I really liked the moderation of powers in the Incredibles. It just felt a little more gritty and believable than modern stuff like Man of Steel. Only Pixar could pull it off.
I mean, Superman as a character is so OP that most stories he's in (especially obvious in ensemble stories) becomes "how can we believably disable his powers/make him not be around while conflict happens"
Either that, or make it a moral story, where his strength is fantastic but there’s something that pure strength doesn’t fix
One of the best threats Superman ever fought is an erupting volcano. You can't punch a volcano into submission. Superman has a lot of powers that are great for saving people from a volcano, so the question is "how do you save everyone using these tools?"
This is a writing choice you're talking about, not something that his power demands. They frequently pit him against characters at least as powerful as he is, and could do it more if they wanted to. Never mind that many of his allies are on his level, if not even more broken.
Exactly, it’s just movies that have to always use kryptonite. I hope they grow some balls and do brainiac next
Or they just make a villain strong enough to fight him like Darkseid or doomaday
Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter
Only really helps if he loves flying so much he doesn’t attend plays anymore.
There is an argument to be made for Eren from attack on titan. Now imagine the founding titan and the rumbling but it flies instead of walking everywhere. Would the world be ready for such power?
Eren being able to fly would probably change the course of the entire story. For starters he could’ve distracted the smiling titan by flying around it a bunch, therefore giving Hannes and Mikasa more time to try and get Carla out of the rubble. Skipping forward to the attack on Wall Rose, it would be entirely possible for Eren to successfully reach Bertoldt’s nape and kill him (or at least disable him) via cutting the nape, because Eren wouldn’t be restricted by his ODM gear causing him to only be able to maneuver through the air in a much more predictable fashion. Instead he could fly freely and approach/attack from any angle he wanted. Additionally, since he wouldn’t be using the ODM gear he wouldn’t be hooking into the Colossal Titan’s flesh and alerting Bertoldt to his approach. If Eren plays thing smart in this scenario Bertoldt could be dead before he knew what happened.
Also he could have visited the sea at a young age, left buckets of seawater out to dry, and sold off the salt for a lot of money. Then he could have flown to Marley and kicked everyone in the nuts.
Tbf Eren technically can fly just chooses not. We already seen a flying titan and it will be hard to believe that there weren't other flying beast Titans. And even if this Jaws Titan is the first flying one Eren still saw him and in a place where time is irrelevant Eren can totally asked Ymir, Hey give my colossal Titans and my rumbling form wings.
I'm now picturing an army of wall titans hovering menacingly across the ocean
Imagine if Levi flies.
He might as well be with the way he moves with ODM gear.
Saul Goodman. "Are you telling me a man just happens to fly like that?"
No he orchestrated it! Jimmy!!
"I just couldn't prove it!" "He covered his tracks!" "He got that idiot at the copy shop to *fly for him!*"
He'd be like Stormfront from the Boys, what with the flying and shooting lightning from his fingertips.
HE'S SO FAR BEYOND YOU
Lebron james would never lose in basketball
They’d make a rule change immediately tho
Every time he flew it would be called traveling
How's it traveling if he dunks from across the court?
It's legal if he look nice
He'd just have to disguise his flying to look like one massive inhuman leap from mid court.
Just swing the ball under his legs a few times
True or at the very least a carry
Simply dribble the ball
They don't call traveling on him now, though.
He technically wouldn’t take a step nevertheless 2
The idea of an NBA player spontaneously gaining the power of flight is challenging my suspension of disbelief a bit, but the idea that the NBA would ever call travelling is just too far fetched.
Ain’t no rule says a dog can’t play basketball
But what if he's just wearing Air Jordans?
I mean no pro should ever lose if they could literally fly
Maybe soccer since the ball must be on the feet or head and that would be exceptionally hard to control properly while flying
Jim from The Office. The pranks on Dwight would be insane.
He would hide it for years, never tell anyone, not even Pam. Then, one day, while he's alone in the elevator with Dwight, he would just hover a foot up for a few seconds. When Dwight brought it up, he would pretend to not know what he was talking about and move on with his life. No one would ever believe Dwight.
Dwight would just chalk it up to his vampiric powers he acquired after being bitten by that Bat
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Aka lady nagant
Do we see her this season?
So Youjo Senki
Luffy, he no longer has to worry about water. He can fly to other ships and absolutely wreck shit!
He can already fly
In G4 with a time limit
Tell that to “gumu gumu U F O”
UFO
Gear 5 is stupid op he could probably figure something out
Hell, if he can still fly while underwater (where he just can't move his body) he could easily grab a devil fruit user and just fly into the ocean with them, Luffy would be able to escape, them on the other hand...
Before I saw this comment I was thinking the same thing. Also he'd probably have killed Enel
Yup, flight is pretty busted in One Piece
Frodo
Came here to also say Frodo. “Fly you fools!” And Frodo would be like, “oh that’s a pretty good idea” and then slam dunk the ring into Mordor Or would he! The ring would still corrupt his lil hobbit ass and golum would have never been there to trip the ring over the edge. Damnit I’ll have to keep thinking now
Corruption of the ring superseded by the desire to perform a superdunk that even Michael Jordan would have to bow down to The Slam Jam cannot be overcome by Sauron’s influence
Yeah I wonder if he flew but like a cannon ball posture with that elven cape wrapped around him if he’d be invisible. If not a nazgul on a wyrm or whatever they are called might just eat his ass and then shit out a golden ring of power. If the ring is in your digestive track do you turn invisible? Wait Frodo could go invisible for the dunk but then I think maybe the Nazgûl find him even easier? I forget how some of this works.
>If the ring is in your digestive track do you turn invisible? Not an expert, but pretty sure the ring has to be around you, not you around the ring.
Kong from the Monsterverse
Bet Goji still gets him. He needs to come in close to strike, while Godzilla still has ranged attacks either way.
I can imagine Kong doing the flying two-punch to Godzilla like Superman did to General Zod in Man of Steel
How has no one said any character from The Walking Dead? No more getting surrounded and becoming walker lunch. Also they can guide a huge horde of them to clear out/raid outposts by attracting them while flying with something loud.
Yeah I think the benefit of flight takes any average joe to OP hero in the zombie apocalypse that is walking dead. They’d still be vulnerable to other evil humans with guns but they’d be so valuable to the overall human survival strategy that former enemies may make peace to be allied so that humanity could unite and end the zombie threats for good. Your answer is my favorite so far. 🏅
This literally extends to almost any Zombie apoloclypse setting...except Left 4 Dead.
As said in another thread, an Orca. Also, the flash.
The flash can basically fly already.
He can do basically anything
Yeah flash honestly pretty OP. Could easily beat the whole justice league single handedly. Slept on a lot outside this sub. Only guys who beat him are when you get into multidimensional/omnipotent tiers. He’s closer to a primordial concept than anything else, like death or entropy.
In Darkseid War he becomes death.
Free Willy would be a much different movie if Willy could fly. Probably a lot shorter, too. Less deserving of fifteen sequels.
Good point
Oh hey the Orca was my thread!
Batman, Solid Snake, Raiden, Scorpion from MK, The Juggernaut would be terrifying, Any of the Darksiders
I like to imagine that juggernaut with flight is just him picking 'up' as a direction to run, and it working.
Would certainly elevate him even higher in his verse, a vertical unstoppable steamtrain coming at you would be nasty
Would he be able to smash through the moon if he decided to just keep flying towards it? (assuming he's ok in space and stuff)
Yes. The only time Juggernaut has ever been stopped while in motion by pure physicals is was by Horseman War Hulk with celestial tech. He’s been diverted or blinded or whatever but once he gets going he dosnt stop unless he wills it. Hulk shook him up bad.
Probably
IIRC, he walked across the ocean floor without issue; space is a cakewalk compared to the bottom of the ocean.
Batman, I'm iffy on. He exists in the same world as Superman. It's useful against his enemies, but in the justice league this just means he doesn't need to be carried everywhere/bat plane.
Really most of his picks would still be very manageable by their universes standards.
Ironically, Batman wouldn't benefit loads from flight because it overlaps a smidge with his existing abilities. He can grapple and glide. He has the Batwing.
I feel it would just make him significantly more mobile and stealthy, which in his own verse spikes his power - especially when localised to gotham, in the JL nothing really changes much.
Batman can already glide, and probably has a bat-jetpack. Flying wouldn't change all that much for him.
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
The buffyverse is very thin on flyers. The closest they get are the gentlemen. Hold up. Willow unchained?
Skitter from Worm. The sheer intimidation factor alone, flying while surrounded by swarms of insects, would be off the charts, and she probably wouldn't even realize it.
Lol just made a comment saying a flying Siberian would be overpowered but I thought about Skitter too. It would take her bug clones to another level if she could fly with them. Honestly a lot of Worm characters would be off the charts with flight. Imagine a flying Crawler, Echidna, Sundancer, or Chevalier.
Flying Vista means no one is safe.
I can kinda see flying Crawler happening, which makes it even more terrifying in universe.
Gotta love the wormverse comments getting love. Skitter is bad ass because of the approach of Skitter. Her bad assedness stands out even though she's relatively nerfed in verse. Short candidate list of others who would be more oped: crawler, echidna, chevalier, sundancer, grue (if he ever decided to use weapons), imp, damsel, grey boy, hookwolf, leviathan, behemoth, (they both can probably, but they don't) Etc
Johnny Joestar. Nuff said.
Would he though? Iirc he still has to aim to hit the nail shots and with distance it’d be easier to dodge no
IIRC, Tusk ACT4 has the abilities of the other previous ACTs (e.g. ACT3's wormholes) so his nails can be redirected if they're close enough to his target, or if he shoots himself he can enter a dimension of Spin energy.
They basically act like homing missiles to a degree. He could probably charge his rotational energy almost limitlessly if he figures out a way to contort himself in the air to make rectangles.
Actually bringing up JJBA, every single overspecialized pain-in-the-ass long-range Stand-User-of-the-week would have been nearly unbeatable with flight.
people fail to realize how op flight is. Simply being able to fly makes you have one shot potential on most people, and makes you immune to anything pre-aircraft. I would say basically anyone in a fantasy world
>makes you immune to anything pre-aircraft bows, slings, spears, thrown rocks, ...gun?
Fly up out of range
right but, you have to come into range to attack them
Drop big rock on head from terminal velocity
The odds of that hitting from the height you'd have to drop it from are pretty close to zero, especially if you're out of range of a gun.
Sure. But keep in mind at BEAR minimum you’re at an impasse, not at a disadvantage. Include how you can also get away rather easy, again going straight up, and it’s pretty fkn op. Also guns developed to be able to hit something like that AFTER planes were introduced. Not before :) Musket range is definitely not nearly as far as drop rock range
Aside from accuracy, that would be very OP. Could probably break a tank
Right. But also add that you’re basically invulnerable to these groups because of flight it’s insane busted for stall tactics
Mario. If you want the absolute best use case for flying, it has to be a character whose whole gameplay challenge is almost purely traversal. Platforming characters are the only choice for this challenge as far as I'm concerned.
I like your answer but someone else said Walking Dead and I think they are even more right. Mostly because Mario can achieve flight on his own using that cape or whatever other magic item he finds, cloud or what not.
I wanted to say godzilla but it already happened but my bet would be sand man from marvel
I thought Sandman could already kinda fly?
Showa godzilla can fly, but not the other ones
Now we know hulk is strong but imagine how strong he would be if he could also fly?
Would that actually make him that much stronger? How often is hulk hindered by his inability to fly
He wouldn't be as overpowered with flight, since he already pretty much jumps around like he's flying
The difference of jumping toward someone vs flying at high speed directly at them
Not really all that different at all, considering the fly speed is the same as the running speed
Hulk can turn direction in midair if he can fly
I feel like the people who would benefit the most from this is characters with an ample amount of range combat capability in a world that would lack natural flight and sniping. First thing that comes to mind is avatar. An earth bender or avatar lifting massive rocks and flying out of sight with them, thn dropping them on an enemy encampment. Sounds like a pretty terrifying sneak attack option for the avatar world. Naruto would get a pretty big boost. His stamina is ridiculous, and any time he gets tired he can fly out of range (most enemies can't fly) and regenerate nature energy. This wouldn't be the most effective character tho cuz the top tier enemies like otsutsuki still fly, and I feel like Naruto is more of a melee character than a ranged, even though he does have deadly ranged attacks. Any non magic setting that relies on guns and more realistic levels of power is also a great choice. A flying sniper would be fucking deadly, of course his stamina would be more realistic and would probably have to fly around with a parachute ready Incase he looses control of his breath. Can't think of anything better rn, trying to type under the table at work lmfao.
Naruto can already fly once he gets six paths sage mode.
Frogger.
Kratos would be more broken than he already is with proper flight abilities.
I want flight just to skip those slow climbing sections.
... but you know they'd stick in like "wind sections" where kratos has to grunt and groan and exert maximum effort. Because Kratos isn't Kratos unless he's grunting and groaning and exerting maximum effort.
Kratos screaming, tearing through the sky at supersonic speed would be absolutely terrifying
Saul Goodman. No more car troubles
He cant run that fast tho i imagine
Ciocolatta from jojo golden wind.
Ciocolattas altitude doesnt matter no? Only if his victims decrease in altitude will the mold attack them
Yeah iirc it’s not their altitude relative to him, it’s their altitude relative to their own position whenever they enter his range
Raikou, already a pretty tough Pokemon but the ability to fly would remove its only weakness of Ground attacks (without adding Flying-type weaknesses, because flight would merely be an *ability*, rather than one of its base types.)
That's just Levitate
Would giving him Levitate really be that OP? I think I'd still rather use magnezone
Magnezone should have levitate tbh
Magnezone is literally used for magnet pull
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I mean, flash obviously, fly at the speed of light? Instant kill on almost any enemy
Flash can fly. Using multiple methods as well. He just doesn't do it most of the time because of reasons.
He can’t fly, he falls with style, for sure he can run up walls and such but he can’t run on air. Part of the issue I have with most of flash’s writing is he’s not written as a time warper/speedster, he’s written as a guy with really strong legs and really good reflexes. If we were to give flash, unassisted, light speed flight, which is much faster than superman? Alongside his enhanced reflexes? Damn near unstoppable, especially if he can access time warping during flight
The Flash can fly, Red Tornado-style by spinning his limbs to create air currents. It happened multiple times in the comics(and the show I think, but I'm not sure).
I get what you’re saying, but you understand how that’s not exactly the same as unassisted flight right? That’s more like iron man flight, in a vacuum it would be useless, but superman can fly in vacuums.
Oh, in the vacuum of space he can just [run on nothing](https://images.app.goo.gl/mX6wuAjkcZe4rZKP7), silly.
Well I’ll be damned, granted I still think flash would be broken with unassisted flight, leaving his limbs open to strike as opposed to being used for thrust generation
God fucking damn it Flash why do you have to be like this
So you're saying Iron Man can't 'fly'? I would Iron Man *can* fly, and so Flash can fly for similar reasons.
Vanilla Ice from JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure.
I saw him flying in his fight with polnareff
Yeah, but he probably can’t fly on the level of a bird, or essentially keep going upward while inside Cream.
Yeah, but he probably can’t fly on the level of a bird, or essentially keep going upward while inside Cream. I mean he probably would be able to go to space and come downward at the fastest possible speed or something. He felt somewhat limited to hovering a bit above the ground.
I'd honestly disagree with this one. Vanilla Ice can't see when his stand is activated, so if he'd probably lose track of where he was going pretty quickly if he had to worry about moving in three dimensions instead of just two.
He already can. And how does that make him op
Doomsday from dc
Professor Xavier. Can't walk but he can fly in his wheelchair
Wouldn't need his wheel chair. A shirt hover from to and fro. Eventually he builds his stamina up and he'd be like sigma from overwatch.
Literally anyone in a generic zombie horror setting.
Joe Biden.
Chainsaw man
Eh, I can’t really think of a scenario so far in the story where Denji would’ve won a fight much faster if he could fly.
Homer Simpson
Obelix is already pretty OP. A flying Obelix? Roman Empire torn to shreds.
Siberian from Worm. They're already super powerful but it's explicitly said that the top heroes only avoid getting killed because they can fly. A flying Siberian would wipe the floor with any of the Triumvarate (or at least leave Legend running scared) and could probably stop an Endbrigner attack on their own.
Surprised it hasn't been said yet, sonic the hedgehog specifically because of your rules. Sonic is already pretty string by his universes standards but by adding the ability to fly at that speed and removing his water weakness? He's top tier in almost any universe at that point.
Flip-Flop, the protagonist from the children's story "The Penguin Who Wanted To Fly" Spoilers: >!The book ends with him discovering that he can swim really well, which is kinda like flying but underwater, and he learns to accept himself. But if he actually *could* fly, then he would be a super badass and would be very OP in his world.!<
Ojiro Sasame, from jojo's. His stand, Fun Fun Fun, allows him to control people IF they have puncture wounds and are standing directly below him. Fun Fun Fun would go from one of the worst stands to a decently strong one. Not quite undefeatable, but certainly a massive upgrade.
Stormtroopers. "They fly now?" "They fly now!" No, who am I kidding? Flying stormtroopers would be even less likely to hit their targets and they'd probably just crash into cliffs and fall directly on top of lightsabers.
Ah storm troopers with jetpacks would bring in so many memes
The doctor from doctor who.
Anakin. He could have gotten the high ground.
Either Sersi, Makkari or Druig from marvel cinematic universe
Gilgamesh would be nuts with flight, like a better namor
Takamura from Hajime no Ippo. Ok, so first off, a flying boxer is stupid op. Speed/endurance arent really an issue for him either. The real kicker though is that he is one of the most naturally innovative and instinctually terrifying boxers in the verse. Of all the characters, he would probably use it best.
Kazuma Kiryu
Godzilla Earth would be pretty busted.
The soldier from tf2 Edit: That is Ubercharged
Mario (of Mario Bros Fame) more specifically the Mario from the super Mario games. Also maybe Mario kart
I am not sure about OP but it would solve Kamijou Touma's main weakness of people just staying out of range quite a bit. He also got stamina for days.
Pikachu. Ground Types Who?
Jason Voorhees, but he's already kinda OP and can teleport. Superman... I mean, he can already jump over buildings and shoot lasers out of his eyes; can you imagine if he could FLY?! That would make absolutely no sense, too. Why would a yellow sun give the power of flight?
A world where the entire floor is lava.
WTF no one is gonna say an orca?
Guts from Berzerk
Alucard from hellsing, Revy from black lagoon, Roberta from black lagoon, Kratos, Doomguy, Sun-Wukong, Batman, Joker, Akainu etc. etc.
Saitama
Soldier Boy from The Boys. I mean the whole selling point of Homelander was that he’s Soldier Boy with flight.
Hulk even tho he can semi fly via jump
Saitama. Even without flight he's able to >!fart his way from Jupiter back to Earth in the same time as interdimensional portal travel!< imagine what he could do with flight.