See also Offscreen Teleportation, Villain Teleportation and Doppelgänger Spin when the person is so fast they leave afterimages. Depending on the work it may be possible to do this in midair without any footing, resulting in Not Quite Flight. Alternatively, what seems like a flash step in-universe can be represented to the audience by a character moving at "normal" speed in a Bullet Time sequence. Also often used to avoid actually animating fight scenes, which with the flash step can be a slideshow of sword clangs and a woosh sound to indicate the characters are moving so fast you can't see them. When two people do this repeatedly, see No, I Am Behind You. May result in Speed Blitz, but beware if Inertia Is a Cruel Mistress. Often combined with Rapid-Fire Fisticuffs when used in combat. Occasionally both users keep using Flash Step instead of actually attacking for quite a while and just exchange insults until finally one of them loses the speed fight, or someone else steps in to disrupt them. Some other stories have different outcomes, like the user starting to talk about how s/he has the speed advantage instead of actually attacking, or the user becomes the victim of the opponent's own Flash Step. One of two things may then occur-the user attacks the opponent before they have time to register their presence, or it turns out to have been a Single-Stroke Battle and the user landed the fatal hit while moving, the opponent not realizing it until the coolest / funniest moment. A Flash Step will cause the user to suddenly appear either right behind the opponent (often making some sort of snarky comment about how the person is Too Slow) or a short distance past the person facing away from them. A standard attack, especially in any show with Charles Atlas Superpower-level martial arts. Sometimes rather than Super Speed, a Flash Step will use actual teleportation. Making use of a short burst of Super Speed that in practice gets used more like teleportation.
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