- 31,139
- 27,343
Frankly I don't care a lot for this verse and have only just started digging through the scaling for it today, but there's something out of place here that I've noticed so I've been forced to make this thread re-evaluating an important foundation for the verse's scaling.
A large chunk of 5-A characters get their 430.325 Yottatons scaling of Large Planet level from this "feat" of 3rd Form Malware surviving the destruction of the Moon Galvan B.
This took place at the end of the episode Showdown: Part 1 from Ben 10: Omniverse.
The primary issue with this is that Malware is not exactly shown to tank an explosion here; he infected the Moon he was on which was scattered into tiny pieces that rained down on the planet. About 3 minutes into the next episode, Showdown Part 2, we get this exchange where the characters notice Malware raining onto the planet. And at 4:32 of that episode we see Malware is seemingly reforming his body.
While Malware did survive the destruction of the Moon, we have a section on Surviving Attacks on our Durability page that addresses this:
Malware's main body was not directly shown to be intact following the explosion. It does not seem like Malware survived by virture of pure durability if he had to reform his body.
Moreover, directly scaling Malware to 430.325 Yottatons seems to be relying on the assumption that Malware was directly at the epicenter of the explosion. As we can see from Showdown: Part 1 and 2, the explosion started at multiple points across the Moon seemingly in a chain reaction before finally fracturing the Moon apart. It was not just one singular 5-A explosion that took place where Malware was standing. As such due to inverse-square law I have no reason to believe that Malware scales to the value to the calc. Large swatches of the Moon's surface wasn't affected by the "5-A explosion" so to assume that Malware took 100% of the energy head-on seems generous.
Since it's tenuous whether Malware was completely intact from the explosion or even whether he took a significant percentage of it in the first place, I think that the calc should be removed from his durability justification.
Addendum
Just as a bonus note, I'm not confident in the validity of the original calc anyway since it assumes that the entire mass of the Moon was scattered omnidirectionally at 7001395 m/s, and yet we can see large chunks of the Moon in a relatively stable position after the explosions that fractured it apart.
A large chunk of 5-A characters get their 430.325 Yottatons scaling of Large Planet level from this "feat" of 3rd Form Malware surviving the destruction of the Moon Galvan B.
This took place at the end of the episode Showdown: Part 1 from Ben 10: Omniverse.
The primary issue with this is that Malware is not exactly shown to tank an explosion here; he infected the Moon he was on which was scattered into tiny pieces that rained down on the planet. About 3 minutes into the next episode, Showdown Part 2, we get this exchange where the characters notice Malware raining onto the planet. And at 4:32 of that episode we see Malware is seemingly reforming his body.
While Malware did survive the destruction of the Moon, we have a section on Surviving Attacks on our Durability page that addresses this:
Malware's main body was not directly shown to be intact following the explosion. It does not seem like Malware survived by virture of pure durability if he had to reform his body.
Moreover, directly scaling Malware to 430.325 Yottatons seems to be relying on the assumption that Malware was directly at the epicenter of the explosion. As we can see from Showdown: Part 1 and 2, the explosion started at multiple points across the Moon seemingly in a chain reaction before finally fracturing the Moon apart. It was not just one singular 5-A explosion that took place where Malware was standing. As such due to inverse-square law I have no reason to believe that Malware scales to the value to the calc. Large swatches of the Moon's surface wasn't affected by the "5-A explosion" so to assume that Malware took 100% of the energy head-on seems generous.
Since it's tenuous whether Malware was completely intact from the explosion or even whether he took a significant percentage of it in the first place, I think that the calc should be removed from his durability justification.
Addendum
Just as a bonus note, I'm not confident in the validity of the original calc anyway since it assumes that the entire mass of the Moon was scattered omnidirectionally at 7001395 m/s, and yet we can see large chunks of the Moon in a relatively stable position after the explosions that fractured it apart.
