Board Thread:Fun and Games/@comment-23758952-20130927015655/@comment-7050565-20140706040609

CoolCat123450 wrote: "If it is actually lightning then nothing else matters. If I outran a bolt of lightning from a machine that was moving at the speed of lightning (cause its freaking lightning) then it wouldn't be a trope because it is lightning, a bolt of lightning moves at the same speed normal lightning does just as a beam of light moves at the speed of normal light."

Yes it does, but ONLY in the world of fiction. They tend to highly ESTABLISH that lightning or lasers from magical or internal energy is usually much slower than the real phenomena. If you want to believe that anybody who could equally fight Kizaru or the Living Laser is FTL or anybody in the Avatarverse is a lightning timer and even Kalifa who has MASSIVELY slower reflexes after the event. Everything is done to maintain a sense of consistency otherwise the fiction that YOU enjoy would make absolutely no sense or would all have massively powerful characters which is simply not the case.

But then, I understand because looking at the event again, it was most certainly natural lightning, but I just cant seem to understand how Kaliifa reacted to it so easily. That's anybody's guess really, but I just consider it an outlier as of right now. If nami can redirect enels lightning (which requires lightning reaction) then what makes it hard to believe a master fighter (in comparison) can't? In terms of reaction speed, travel/combat she should be superior to name having been trained since a kid. Heck luffy kicked lightning just before it hit the ground.