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Did a calc for DCEU Batman's quadruple pillar busting feat in his power armor in another thread, was told to bring it here. Don't really think it's that good, too many hypotheticals and it's only for 1 pillar, but I think it's good for a rough starting point.
Mr. Redic said:I'm gonna try to do a rough calc, sorry if it's not great, I'm pretty new at this.
In this video (or GIF if you prefer) we see Batman swing Superman through 3 pillars that I'm gonna assume are around 1 meter wide and 5m in height, and releases him to hit a 4th one for similar results as the first 3. I don't really know how much more energy it takes to swing a guy through 4 consecutive pillars vs 1, for all I know it could be just a bit more energy to a straightforward 4x or an exponentially more difficult task that could lead to some ridiculously large value, so I'm just gonna try and do 1 pillar's destruction as something like a baseline.
Now, we see Supes' hit the pillar with so much force that dust forms, more than what's just coating the pillars, so I'm assuming he Pulverizes the area he impacts. The rest of the pillar gets dragged along with him and gets ripped from their foundations in both the ceiling and floor while crumpling into small pieces, as far as I can tell watching it frame-by-frame, so that's Violent Fragmentaion for the rest.
Henry Cavill's a pretty swole guy, and his arms are spread out a bit while they're impacting the pillars at the same time as the rest of his body for the 3rd pillar's impact, which was the clearest one to me, so I'm gonna assume he's impacting a 1m section to keep it simple. We times it by a base of 1m, for a volume of 1,000,000 cm^3 for Pulverization. The other 4m of the pillar's height times 1m base gets us 4,000,000 cm^3 for V. Frag.
Plugging in the building values from Calculations, we get:
1,000,000 x 214.35 = 2.1435e8 Joules
4,000,000 x 69 = 2.76e8 Joules
Total = 4.9035e8 Joules, or 0.117 tons of TnT to a precision of 3