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This staff thread has been accepted. With it comes a much harder definition of what travel speed is
More or less every single movie MCU character is scaled to this Iron Man calc and this Iron Man calc
The new speed scaling
Everyone is downgraded to supersonic+ based on the following calcs
The FeatsIf a character travels or flies very fast through a very empty terrain, in which it doesn't necessarily have to react to sudden obstacles, the speed in question is travel or flight speed, but not necessarily reaction speed. In order for it to also be reaction speed, and the speed in total hence applying to the character's combat speed, the character either must have demonstrated the ability to react to sudden obstacles while traveling at this speed, have a calculation made that supports the character having corresponding reaction speed/time or otherwise demonstrate having comparable reactions.
Simply being able to stop accurately at the target destination does typically not qualify, as it can be spotted from a large distance to make preparations to stop or the character could even slow down before reaching the destination, assuming we only know the average speed with which they moved.
More or less every single movie MCU character is scaled to this Iron Man calc and this Iron Man calc
- For reference the scene in question (the relevant part being 0:51) has the armor fly from Tennessee to Miami. The issue being.... they fly in a straight line in the air. In other words, as the above new rule mentions, the pieces were facing no obstacles and would not need to preform rapid movements that would indicate they hard scale to their overall slight speed.
- The second one is... also Iron Man flying in a straight line in the air over an ocean (for the most part). There's also no indication this scales to his reaction speed, espically since he had a tracking device that allowed him to know where Cap was going and when he needed to stop/slow down.
The new speed scaling
Everyone is downgraded to supersonic+ based on the following calcs
- Scarlet Witch blocking an explosion: Mach 4.77
- Bucky reacting to bullets: 46 m/s
- Hulk's subsonic jumps
- Iron Man reacting to a tank shot
- Falcon blocking some bullets
- Falcon dodging missiles in FatWS
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