Flash Step

Flash Step
Ichigo Kurosaki (Bleach) using his Bankai's high speed combat in conjuncture with Shunpo to move at hyper speed.
Power/Ability to:	Use bursts of incredible speed.

The power to use bursts of speed allowing the user to move faster than the eye can track, making it appear as if they have teleported. Variation of Enhanced Speed.

Also Called

• Body Flicker
• Blind-Spot Movement
• Hirenkyaku (Flying Screen Feet)
• Quick Step
• Short-Range Teleportation
• Shukuchi (Shrunken Earth)
• Shunpo
• Shundō (Instant Movement Technique)
• Sonido (Sound)
• Soru (Shave)
• Teleport Dash
• Trackless Step
• Zero Shift

Capabilities

User can perform a burst of speed that allows the user to move so fast it appears as if they have teleported (in some cases, the user actually does teleport short distances), many users can sustain only short dashes. In most cases the user is able to maneuver at the high speeds accurately and does not cause any shock or disturbance to the surface they stop on.

This technique is commonly used to dodge projectiles, move behind enemies, show off speed, get away from a fight, etc.

Techniques

• Afterimage Creation: The user moves fast enough to leave an after image of themselves making it appear as if there are multiple of him or herself. The copies may appear stationary or be capable of taking action.
• Air Dashing: The user moves with enough momentum and leg strength to dash through midair.
• Double Jump: Applying enough leg strength to jump off ground level and flash stepping in the air.
• Invisible Speed: Moving at such high speed that enemy eyes cannot keep up.
• I'm Behind You: User moves behind their target, then strikes.
• Megaton Kick: Moving at such powerful speed requires powerful legs, which provides deadly kicks.
• Wallrunning: Gaining tremendous momentum to dash sideways on walls.

Associations

• Awareness Distortion
• Enhanced Speed
• Infinite Dash
• Teleportation
• Teleport Dash
• Time Acceleration

Limitations

• Might want to be careful of any item, like a wall, that could get in the way unless user has a form of Intangibility.
• May be tracked down by Precognition, or Energy Perception.
• May not be able to perceive where they are during the movement.
• May not be able to change directions during movement.
• May only be able to use the technique within a certain range or time.
• Users of Accelerated Probability may know where they are.
• May get slowed down by Time Reduction.
• Temporal Stasis will stop all movement.
• The quick movements and the quick stops may put strain to the body, breaking bones, destroying internal organs, or the air pushing against ones chest could cause respiratory arrest. The speed moving could theoretically flay both skin and muscle from the bone.

Known Users

See Also: Flash Step.

Manga/Anime

• Sebas (Animegataris)
• Korosensei (Assasination Classroom)
• Shinigami (Bleach); via Shunpo
• Quincy (Bleach); via Hirenkyaku
• Arrancar (Bleach); via Sonido
• Vizards (Bleach); via Shunpo or Sonido
• Fullbringers (Bleach); via Bringer Light
• Chiropterans (Blood+)
• Miria (Claymore)
• Teresa (Claymore)
• Hysteria (Claymore)
• Priscilla (Claymore)
• Joe Shimamura/Cyborg 009 (Cyborg 009)
• Control (Corrector Yui)
• Renamon (Digimon)
• Rapidmon (Digimon)
• Many fighters (Dragon Ball)
• Tatara (Tokyo Ghoul)
• Racer (Fairy Tail)
• Gen Fudo (Genesis of Aquarion)
• Kotaro Nanbara (Hand Maid May)
• Alucard (Hellsing)
• Kamen Rider Odin (Kamen Rider)
• Rarashik Fan’naru (Konjiki no Wordmaster)
• Chanohata Tamami (Mahoraba)
• User of Instant Movement Technique (Mahou Sensei Negima!)
• Tohru (Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid)
• Meliodas (Nanatsu no Taizai)
• Ban (Nanatsu no Taizai)
• King (Nanatsu no Taizai)
• Users of the Body Flicker Technique (Naruto)
• Kuro (One Piece)
• Users of Soru (One Piece)
  • CP9 Members
  • Coby
  • Momonga
• Monkey D. Luffy (One Piece); via Gear Second
• Bartholowem Kuma (One Piece); via Nikyu Nikyu no Mi
• Saitama (One-Punch Man)
• Boros (One-Punch Man)
• Shizuru Nakatsu (Rewrite)
• Moka Akashiya (Rosario + Vampire)
• Tsukune Aono (Rosario + Vampire)
• Kenshin Himura (Rurouni Kenshin)
• Sojiro Seta (Rurouni Kenshin)
• Blake Belladonna (RWBY)
• Ruby Rose (RWBY)
• Death the Kid (Soul Eater)
• Dororo (Sgt. Frog)
• Gourmet Cell Users (Toriko)
• User of Instant Movement Technique (UQ Holder)
• Abel Lunestad (Regalia: The Three Sacred Stars); via his Regalia Gear
• Hiei (Yu Yu Hakusho)
• Fein (Zatch Bell!)
• Greninja (Pokemon X&Y/Pokemon XYZ)

Video Games

• Yasha (Asura's Wrath)
• Augus (Asura's Wrath)
• Rayne (BloodRayne)
• Uses of Shodowalk skill (Breath of Fire 3)
• Alucard (Castlevania)
• Lucifer (Dante's Inferno)
• Ryu Hayabusa (Dead or Alive/Ninja Gaiden)
• Dante (Devil May Cry)
• Vergil (Devil May Cry)
• Nero (Devil May Cry)
• Corvo Attano (Dishonored)
• Loz (Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children)
• Sephiroth (Final Fantasy VII)
• Lyndis (Fire Emblem)
• Promethean Knights (Halo)
• Kessler (Infamous)
• Vampires (Infamous 2: Festival of Blood)
• Sora (Kingdom Hearts)
• Katarina (League of Legends)
• Vanguards (Mass Effect)
• Screaming Mantis (Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots)
• Gene (Metal Gear Solid: Portable Ops)
• Kabal (Mortal Kombat)
• Arme (Grand Chase)
• Rain (Ninja Assassin)
• Travis Touchdown (No More Heroes)
• Shinobu (No More Heroes)
• Genji (Overwatch)
• Gabriel Reyes/Reaper (Overwatch)
• Lena Oxton/Tracer (Overwatch)
• Albert Wesker (Resident Evil)
• Pokémon who can use "Quick Attack", "Extreme Speed", "Agility" or "Double Team" (Pokémon)
• Alex Mercer (Prototype)
• Users with the Shadow Step skill (Punch Quest)
• Dragonborn (Skyrim)
• Sonic the Hedgehog (Sonic the Hedgehog)
• Shadow the Hedgehog (Sonic the Hedgehog)
• Biggyman (Splatterhouse 2010)
• Fox McCloud (Star Fox/Super Smash Bros. Brawl)
• Falco Lombardi (Star Fox/Super Smash Bros. Brawl)
• Wolf O'Donnell (Star Fox/Super Smash Bros. Brawl)
• Ibuki (Street Fighter)
• Lloyd (The Legend of Dragoon)
• Ghirahim (The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword)
• Sho Minamomoto (The World Ends With You)
• Viewtiful Joe (Viewtiful Joe)
• Youmu Konpaku (Touhou Project)

Comics

• The Flash (DC Comics)
• Superman (DC Comics)
• Owen Mercer/Captain Boomerang (DC Comics)
• Cassandra Cain (DC Comics)
• Catwoman (DC Comics)
• Blade (Marvel Comics)
• Spider-Man 2099 (Marvel Comics)

Television

• Soul Eaters (Angel)
• Penn (Angel)
• Connor (Angel)
• Dinza (Angel)
• Vampires (Being Human)
• Dahlia (The Vampire Diaries/The Originals)
• Angel/Angelus (Buffy the Vampire Slayer/Angel)
• Buffy Summers (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
• Malik (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)

Cartoons

• Roger Smith (American Dad!)
• Bree Davenport (Lab Rats)
• Rev Runner (Loonatics Unleashed)
• Ronny Robinson (Power Rangers Operation Overdrive)
• Emily Dinsmore (Smallville)
• Clark Kent (Smallville)

Films

• Jedi (Star Wars)
• Sith (Star Wars)
• Palpatine (Star Wars)
• Dash Parr (The Incredibles)
• Agents (The Matrix)
• Eris Fairies (The Troop)

Other

• Vampires (Underworld)
  • Selene (Underworld)
• Vampires/Originals/Hybrids (The Vampire Diaries/The Originals)
• Dahlia (The Vampire Diaries/The Originals)
• Kai (The Vampire Diaries/The Originals)
• Ghosts (Harry Potter)
• Magic Users (Harry Potter)
  • Voldemort
  • Gellert Grindelwald
  • Newt Scamander
• Helena G. Wells (Warehouse 13)
• Midnighter (Wildstorm)
• Juliet Van Heusen (Wizards of Waverly Place)

Gallery

Anime/Manga

Suì-Fēng's (Bleach) mastery of Shunpo allows her to go as far as create many afterimages.

Uryū Ishida (Bleach) using Hirenkyaku to move at bursts of high speed by riding on the flow of reishi created below their feet.

Byakuya Kuchiki and Yoruichi Shihōin (Bleach) using Shunpo to move at bursts of speed faster than the eye can follow.

Yoruichi Shihōin's (Bleach) tremendous mastery of Shunpo allowed her to wipe out an entire Onmitsukidō squadron in seconds.

Suì-Fēng (Bleach) using Shunpo to move at such bursts of speed that she made two attacks on the opposite sides look like one.

Byakuya Kuchiki (Bleach) using Way of Onmitsu, 3rd of the Shihō: Utsusemi to leave behind an afterimage that appears to have taken damage.

Arrancar (Bleach) using Sonído, a movement technique which allows them to move faster than the eye can follow.

Zommari Rureaux's (Bleach) Gemelos Sonído is an advanced Sonído technique, allowing him to move at such speed that he can create up to five "sound clones".

Shūkurō Tsukishima and Ichigo Kurosaki (Bleach) using Bringer Light to move at bursts of high speed and speed strikes.

All Vizards (Bleach) have high level of skill in Shunpo and can further enhance their speed capabilities with Hollowfication.

Sosuke Aizen (Bleach) is one of the greatest Shunpo masters in Soul Society, he could dodge attacks with tremendous speed...

and sneak attacks from Shunpo master Kyouraku instantly.

Sosuke Aizen (Bleach) combines Shunpo with his swordsmanship to cut down enemies with lightning fast slashes.

Tenjiro Kirinji (Bleach) was legendary for his lightning fast Shunpo.

Priscilla (Claymore) instantly closing the gap between herself and Riful, which was many miles apart, in one step.

Son Goku (Dragon Ball) moving at such high speeds that he is creating afterimages.

Goku and Cell (Dragon Ball series) fighting each other in quick bursts of speed.

Vegeta (Dragon Ball) using Rapid Movement to dodge Frieza's tail attack.

Tohru (Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid) catches up to a purse snatcher in mere seconds.

A (Naruto) using his Lightning Release Armor to drastically increase his speed and reflexes, creating an afterimage while slipping away from a pointblank Amaterasu.

Hiruko (Naruto) using Swift Release to move with instantaneous speed.

Shisui Uchiha (Naruto) was infamous for his skill with the Body Flicker Technique.

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Kuro (One Piece) using Shakushi, moving at disappearing speed while killing indiscriminately.

Those who master the Soru technique (One Piece) seem to disappear when in reality they are actually kicking the ground over 10 times in less than a second. This leg strength allows them dash at very high speeds.

Monkey D. Luffy (One Piece) Gear Second increases the flow of blood allowing him to then use the Rokushiki technique, Soru.

In Gear Fourth, Monkey D. Luffy (One Piece) can move at speed that surpasses Gear Second.

Hody Jones (One Piece) moving at bursts of disappearing speed due to overdosing on Energy Steroids, leaving afterimages.

Pekoms (One Piece) dodged Caribou's scythe.

Enishi Yukishiro (Rurouni Kenshin) using his Frenzied Nerves to boost his speed to levels that he can instantly appear behind Kenshin.

Sōjirō Seta (Rurouni Kenshin) using Shukuchi against Kenshin, moving at very powerful bursts of undetectable speeds.

Sōjirō Seta and Kenshin Himura (Rurouni Kenshin) both using their ultimate techniques in a burst of disappearing speed.

Tōta Konoe (UQ Holder) using Instant Movement to move at burst of speed that makes it appear as though he teleported.

Hiei (Yu Yu Hakusho) moving at bursts of high speed that he leaves behind afterimages.

Comics/Cartoons

Superman (DC Comics) moving in quick bursts of speed.

The Flash (DC Comics) moving at incredible speed that he is too fast for the untrained eyes to follow.

Speedy (Looney Toons) moving so fast he completely escapes Sylvester's grasp.

Silver the Hedgehog (Sonic the Hedgehog) using his Psychokinesis to dash at light speed to simulate teleportation.

Live Television/Movies

Angel (Buffy the Vampire Slayer/Angel) moves at such speeds that he crosses the street in the short time it takes for Wesley to turn his head.

Dinza (Angel) can move so fast she taps Angel's chest and re-positions herself in a split second.

Video Games

Lyndis (Fire Emblem) moves at such speeds that she creates afterimages.

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Gene (Metal Gear) using his Zero Shift, a burst speed akin to teleportation, to effortlessly dodge machine gun fire.

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Sonic the Hedgehog (Sonic the Hedgehog) moving at powerful bursts of speed, leaving behind sonic booms and can sidestep projectiles.

Using Quick Step, Sonic (Sonic the Hedgehog) rapidly sidesteps to avoid obstacles.

Albert Wesker (Resident Evil) moving at bursts of high speed to dodge bullets.