Some rough MCU/DCEU calcs

You should calc Red Skull denying steel.

Zod uppercut

Superman, at around 90 kg, went pretty high, about 3/4 its height. Let's assume it's as tall as the Burj Khalifa

Distance ≈ 620 m

Mass ≈ 90 kg

Time spent flying ≈ 1.6

Velocity = 387.5 m/s

Acceleration = 387.5/.06 = 6458 m/s^2

F ≈ 580,000 N ≈ 59 tons

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A lowball. Superman used flight to stop himself and he did collide with the building

Orbital punch

This one comes from the novel, where it's stated his knee strikes can send a lock safe into orbit.

Gun safes are anywhere between 200 and 5,000 lb. Let's take the high end of an entry level safe: 600 lb

Mass = 272 kg

We'll assume it's at low orbit, with a max of 2,000 km

Distance = 2,000,000

I'm guessing how it would look onscreen

Time flying = 5 seconds

Velocity = 400,000 m/s

Acceleration = 400,000/.05 = 8,000,000 m/s^2

F = 2,176,000,000 N ≈ 222,000 Tons or 220 kilotons

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I don't wanna sound like a lowballer here, but this is clearly hyperbole if a weaker Supes is tanking force that bodied a stronger Supes who was hiding behind an energy absorber.

Messed up the Cap kick

Distance = 6.09 m

time = .6

V = 10.15
A = 101.5 m/s^2

F = 7,815 N or 0.8 tons

When you get up to these levels of power, I'm not the biggest fan of calcs. Since you lowballed practically all of them, I haven't got an issue (better than me,) but I can't see 100 tons overpowering the Hulkbuster.

@kryptonianking88: These are all very agreeable calcs. Every single one is a massive lowball so nobody should have any problem with these numbers.

That overpowered Cap kick still makes me cringe and cheer all at once.

@cocacolaman: True. Their striking should scale way higher than what's calced based off their higher end feats

@cocacolaman: Agreed. Putting the Hulkbuster at the weight of a car is just a ridiculous lowball. The whole Hulkbuster has to weigh at least 50 tons, it is similar to a tank.

@the_hajduk: I asked a art guy on Facebook, he says he doesn't know the weight....lol.

@joker567892: It’s a gigantic mech suit so the people on here who say it is only a few tons are pretty silly to me. It’s supposed to be as big and as strong and as heavy as possible to overpower the Hulk, it can barely even fly.

@eredin12: for the calcs I assumed the object getting hit was stationary and in a frictionless setting (drag wouldn’t really matter in most of these anyways) so the force they had was the force they were hit with

Your article goes way more in depth than I did. He talks about drag and gravity which just add to the punch’s power. It just proves the statement as hyperbole

Besides that, what do you think about the tremor feat? It seems shaking a lot of mass requires quite a bit of power.

@eredin12:

I assumed an ideal setting. If a UFC fighter punched something and the force transferred perfectly, a lighter object would travel faster to make up for the lack of mass and the heavier object would travel slower, but the force would still come out the same.

Zoe’s probably could come out that high. The scenes are slowed down and he still moves at supersonic speeds, but I was going off pure visuals

Bro it’s hyperbole, a secondary source that directly contradicts the film. You’re saying Clark’s gonna eat 47 megaton hits that are stronger than any man made weapon and then get bodied in the next film by 300 kilotons?

@kryptonianking88:

That Hulk ground shake calc tho

"Volume of the concrete shook ≈ 34 m^3"??? How did you calculate this? If the area is 15m^2 and the depth 6 inches the volume would be 0.381m^3.

There is a also a sewer system below city streets and we can actually see a manhole several feet from where Hulk is trapped. So factoring in the soil is not a justified choice.

@kryptonianking88:

Burj Khalifa height???? Why? That's not a good assumption at all. You'd be better off with counting the stories on the side of the building.

@kryptonianking88:

"I don't wanna sound like a lowballer here, but this is clearly hyperbole if a weaker Supes is tanking force that bodied a stronger Supes who was hiding behind an energy absorber."

Are you insinuating it was the force of the Nuke that bodied Superman? Force doesn't make you look drained of energy. I think the evidence shows that it was the fact he was so thoroughly drained that caused him to be KOd. Snyder specifically said he drew inspiration from Frank Miller's The Dark Night Returns. Superman was hit with a Nuke in that and he was in an almost identical state where he was thinned and very drained of solar energy.

Under his condition of perfect force transfer he is correct. But a 0.5 liter plastic bottle deforms on impact causing the impulse to lower as the force is transferred over a longer period of time.

Im not touching the rest of that...

@crunch5481:

Could you caculate the aprox force when

Sup blitzes into zods ship and rocks it

When dd first punches in zods ship, sup catches the punch and it rocks the ship causing lex to stumble

No that feat is near impossible to calculate with any accuracy. Too many unknowns.

Could have just been Lex flinching from the punch too.

smh, superman gets hurt by 0.001 kt punches. No way he's gonna take all that energy within a knee strike.

fair point, tho @kryptonianking88