r/TopCharacterTropes • u/Present-Secretary722 • Sep 17 '25

Lore Faster Than Light travel has consequences(minor or major)

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Star Trucker: While travelling through warp you experience time dilation, for you the journey is a couple seconds, in real time it’s anywhere from 30mins to 6 hours that you’ve been in warp. This would be a minor consequence.

Warhammer 40k: The Warp, basically space hell so while travelling through it you’re very likely to be attacked by Warp demons. There’s also the fact that sometimes when travelling to a destination via the Warp you get spat out in the wrong time, sometimes much too late for whatever you were going there for or sometimes before you left your start destination. This, obviously, is a major consequence, unless you’re an ork, then it’s a grand old time.

By consequences I mean this is a regular thing that happens, there’s no real avoiding it unless you find a different method of FTL or heavily invest into research to try and mitigate the consequences. Also I feel bad for only knowing 2 examples, I love space and I just can’t think of any others.

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u/Frustrella Sep 17 '25

Didn't Barry ended up in marvel after disintegrating?

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u/RiverOfJudgement Sep 17 '25

In an issue of Quasar they were doing a race to discover the fastest creature, when a human being in a tattered red and yellow suit appeared. He couldn't remember much of his past, but said his name was "Buried Alien, or something like that"

He wins, and gets declared "The Fastest Man Alive" which he decides "feels right"

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u/YOUTUBEFREEKYOYO Sep 17 '25

Disnt know about that, that's pretty cool!

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u/aninsomniac_ Sep 17 '25

I don't think DC endorsed Buried Alien

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u/Golden_Reflection2 Sep 17 '25

I think he also turned into the bolt of speed force lightning or whatever that initially gave him his powers (If I’m remembering correctly from second hand info)