@nfareed71024: Amazo does not have the combined speed, he just has super speed. Gladiator's speed cannot be stolen just employed, which would not bring anything to the table that he foes not alteady have. He is simply unbeatable. How would Amazo possibly kill him? Nobody has supplied me with the answer to that question yet. Amazo has reapetedly been beaten by lower level villians while Gladiator has been a juggernaut of the most powerful. Amazo's most useful power stolen from is MM whose telepathy will have no affect and hiis intangibility can only be formidable on the defensive end against Kallark. Gladiator just has them beat.
In the most recent battle between the JLA and Amazo (Pre-Flashpoint), Wonder Woman was on the losing side of the classic "test of strength" often employed by professional wrestlers at the beginning of their matches. During this, she (in her mind) stated "What was I thinking? He's stronger than me and Clark put together". Why would she say this? Simple. Because she's aware of something you choose not to realize: Amazo has full access to his baseline powerset and any other Metas in his vicinity. In full. And in any combination. Simultaneously. This ability extends to his speed, his telepathy, and/or his energy projection(s).
"Speed Steal" is a technique first discovered by Wally West which he then later taught to Jay Garrick. It is my understanding that Barry Allen has also learned this technique as well. Since Amazo also has full access to the Speed Force, he can also perform this maneuver as well as other Speed Force specific maneuvers (which I'll outline later if it becomes necessary to do so). Speed Steal works as follows:
The target of the Speed Steal has 99% of all of its kinetic energy removed from their bodies transformed (since energy can't be created or destroyed) into 99% potential energy. Freezing them in place like a statue with only the most minimal amount of kinetic/synaptic energy to keep their lungs expanding and contracting and their hearts beating. Because the Flash family aren't killers, they leave the last 1% of kinetic energy in their opponents bodies, so they can be taken into custody or what have you. Amazo has no such moral code, and would thus either take that last 1%, killing Gladiator outright, OR leave that 1% so he can feel helpless and then get blasted into orbit where he can't save himself because NONE OF HIS LIMBS ARE ABLE TO MOVE.
The only energy left in his body is barely enough to keep his involuntary organ function going, not enough to keep his psionic power boosting abilities operative because that would be a voluntary (and thus an upper mental function). It's for this reason that coma patients don't run the 100 yard dash, but are able to breathe, urinate, defecate, and keep a steady heartbeat. You don't have to be awake or aware of yourself doing ANY of those things, but they still happen. Gladiator would be no different and would be helpless to stop it.
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