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Possible Metro Man Speed Upgrade

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Metro Man's current peak speed is calced as MHS due to perceiving a whole day within a single frame of the movie. The calc's fine, and is a bit more precise than simply giving him Speed of Light for viewing the world as completely frozen, but it's still a lowball imo, and there's another feat being overlooked that shows him as likely equal or superior to lightspeed.

As shown when Metro Man fakes his death, his perception/movement speed is fast enough to view Megamind's death laser in slow-motion. As for why it's a bona fide laser:

As for the other pieces of evidence used to prove a fictional laser as legitimate, they don't really come into play. Orbital stations, while they may be the platonic ideal of a laser origin in fiction, aren't necessarily realistic to our reality. The laser also never has any opportunity to diffuse, reflect, or refract.

All in all, I understand this is a bit tenuous, but what evidence we are presented points to it being a laser.

If none of this goes through, though, at very least we can add him blitzing the death ray as a supporting feat, or maybe we can still give him an upgrade! Lets crunch some numbers. In the clip, the beam takes from 4:59 to 5:01 to hit the observatory, giving us a timeframe of 2 seconds.
  • Assuming the satellite is hugging the Kármán Line (62 miles above Earth's surface): 31 miles/second, or Mach 145.45. Decent supporting feat
  • Assuming the satellite is at minimum Low Earth Orbit (160 km): 80 km/s, or Mach 233.23 (being faster than it is quite consistent with Metro Mind's current Mach 279.88 rating)
  • Assuming maximum LEO (2000 km): 1000 km/s, or Mach 2915.45 (still a big upgrade for Music Man)
  • Assuming mean LEO (1080 km): 540 km/s, or Mach 1574.34 (Big Dub for Mega Man)
  • Assuming geostationary orbit (35786 km) (granted even I think this is a bit much, but Megamind sure af wouldn'tve had the patience to wait for the satellite to enter position and charge): 17893 km/s, or 0.0596c (Massive Dub for Markiplier if true)
  • Assuming the satellite is a plasma railgun with a highest-end speed: 200 km/s, or Mach 583.09 (upgrade for Enzo Gorlami)
 
Pretty sure he used to be FTL before it was disagreed against being a real laser.
 
Pretty sure he used to be FTL before it was disagreed against being a real laser.
Yeah I thought that may have been the case, but didn't feel like tracking down the CRT. In any case, he did have a significant speed advantage over if not outright blitz an orbital strike that even at the lowest end estimates is still comparable to his current rating
 
Also during the scene we can, from space, see the full state of Michigan in all its misery, so we can definitely calc the exact distance and use that value unless it comes up with an absurdly short distance for a satellite to orbit at (as in sub-Kármán Line)
 
It might have been This thread. It was mostly focused on downgraded Megamind and Tighten, but somewhere down the line; Metro Man's FTL feat also got downgraded.
 
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