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Kinetic Energy when two characters are moving?

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Joke Battles
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Example:

Character A is 60 kg and is flying at mach 3

Character B is 60 kg and is flying at mach 9 in the opposite direction, and crashes into character A on propouse to hurt them.

How does character B's speed affect the kinetic energy calculation?
 
Character A would logically be taking 9x more force than he is outputting. And there really isn't much altering here, they both appear to be taking the full impact of Character B's collision output.
 
Huh, I figured it would be like "60/2*((Speed A+Speed B)^2)" or something, but if you say so.
 
Well, Character B would still be taking the full impact of his own KE via Newton's 3rd Law. And even slightly reducing character B's energy output, he'd still be taking the remaining 8/9ths combined with his own.
 
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