Godspeed

## Powers & Abilities

* **Speed Force Conduit:** After being struck by a bolt of lightning during a Speed Force storm in Central City, August gained a connection to the Speed Force, a mysterious cosmic force that pushes time and space itself forward. As it does this, the Speed Force creates excess energy that builds up and needs to be released. August, along with all speedsters connected to the Force, acts as a release valve for the Speed Force. When August uses his powers, he taps into that built up energy. Godspeed is highly creative when it comes to the Speed Force, as he was able to figure out how to steal speed from other speedsters, create constructs, and be in two places at once, all things that even Barry Allen couldn't figure out how to do at the time.
	+ **Superhuman Speed:** Godspeed is able to run at incredible superhuman speeds. He had initially absorbed so much Speed Force that he had become even faster than the Flash. Though this excess power was eventually taken back by Flash and Kid Flash. August's speed allows him to generate so much force to the point that he was able to decapitate a man with a single punch, as well as knock a man out with a poke of his finger.
	+ **Superhuman Stamina:** Godspeed's body can handle the stress of moving at superhuman speeds without getting tired or weak.
	+ **Superhuman Agility:** Godspeed's agility, balance, and bodily coordination are enhanced to superhuman levels. This allows him to easily maneuver while moving at superhuman speed.
	+ **Superhuman Reflexes:** Godspeed's reflexes are enhanced to superhuman levels, allowing him to easily react to danger and events.
	+ **Superhuman Strength:** Godspeed possesses sufficiently enhanced strength. He was strong enough to effortlessly lift and dangle a grown man with one hand, high above his head.
	+ **Speed Force Aura:** The Speed Force surrounds speedsters bodies with a "friction cushion", which provides light protection from the nastier elements of their speed.
		- **Superhuman Durability:** Godspeed's durability is enhanced to levels greater than any normal human. This is due to the Speed Force supplying him with a "friction cushion".
	+ **Accelerated Healing:** Like all conduits of the Speed Force, August is capable of regenerating from injuries much faster than any normal human.
	+ **Dimensional Travel:** With the aid of his Speed Force gauntlet, Godspeed is able to instantly enter and exit the Speed Force with ease.
	+ **Electrokinesis:** Godspeed can generate and manipulate the electrical energy that he draws from the Speed Force. This Speed Force lightning emanates off of him, especially when moving at superhuman speed.
		- **Electro-Blast:** Godspeed is able to project powerful arcs of Speed Force lightning.
		- **Energy Construct Creation:** By focusing, Godspeed can use the Speed Force to create solid energy constructs, which he used to compose his costume.
		- **Healing:** Godspeed is capable of healing other conduits of the Speed Force, through physical contact of his Speed Force energy.
		- **Speed Force Absorption:** By interlocking energy currents, Godspeed can drain away the Speed Force, or Negative Speed Force, from others whose DNA has not completely bonded to it, or other energy sources such as a Speed Force storm. Unless the Speed Force is taken willfully from a speedster, the speedster will be killed with the loss of their powers.
	+ **Enhanced Senses:** Speed Force conduits traveling at the speed of sound may miss important events as they run by. The Speed Force grants Godspeed enhanced senses that allow him to perceive the world at a rate attuned his reaction speed.
	+ **Molecular Acceleration:** Godspeed is able to accelerate his own molecules, as well as the molecules of others for various uses.
		- **Intangibility:** Godspeed can become intangible by vibrating his body on a molecular level, allowing objects to pass directly through him. He can also vibrate other people at his own frequency, making them intangible, which allowed him to merge them with a wall.
		- **Phasing:** By vibrating his molecules on an atomic level, and by doing so at just the right frequency, Godspeed can allow himself to become momentarily intangible, and phase through objects.
	+ **Speed Scout:** By "dividing his Speed Force", Godspeed is able to clone himself, thus being able to be in two places at once. He claims he is able to do this because he is much faster than the Flash. If he keeps the copy around too long, the Speed Force causes him pain, the copy will then destabilize and the Speed Force will be sent back to the original.
	+ **Time Travel:** In conjunction with a Cosmic Treadmill, August is capable of using his speed to jump into the timestream and travel throughout it.
	+ **Vortex Creations:** August is able to create strong vortexes of wind by rotating his arms at super-speed.
* **Criminology:**
* **Genius Level Intellect:**
* **Deception:** August was able to deceive the everyone at S.T.A.R Labs and even Barry Allen himself by acting as the Flash's partner.
* **Firearms:**
* **Hand-to-Hand Combat (Basic):**
* **Interrogation:**
* **Investigation:**

## Equipment

* **Speed Force Gauntlet:** Godspeed wears a gauntlet that used to belong to an unnamed speedster, capable of collecting samples of Speed Force from other speedsters, as well as allow him to enter and exit the Speed Force at will.

## Weaknesses

* **Power Instability:** If August keeps a clone active for too long, the Speed Force pains him and recombines him with his clones. Stealing another speedster's speed also pains him, though a great deal more than his cloning, as he mentioned that the first time he tried it, it nearly killed him.

## Fun Facts

* August has *murdered children* in the past in order to get faster.
* According to Joshua Williamson’s Top 10 Speedster Rankings released after *The Flash* (Volume 5) #50, Godspeed is currently the 8th fastest person in the DC Universe. According to the ranking:
	+ *"When August first got his powers, he was maybe faster than Barry Allen, but Barry and Wallace siphoned the speed he stole from them. Now that his powers are more in check, Godspeed needs redemption if he's ever going to tap into his true speed."*
* Joshua Williamson revealed that August and his brother Jorge's mother is white and their father is Latino. Their last name was originally Corazón but it was changed to Heart when they came to Central City.