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I believe we have a serious problem with the way we treat heat here in the wiki. The problem lies in the fact that we always treat it as AP (i am talking mainly about resistance/durability here), when it is clearly not, at least in fiction.
Heat is energy, energy is AP. So us treating it as AP is physically correct, but most fiction do not care about this. Heat is treated differently from a punch or a kick, or an explosion (shockwave) or anything else, because it is temperature. Unlike any of the things i mentioned above, heat is energy but does not apply in the same method due to lacking "force". Everything here has energy, but they all can produce force if it hits someone (taking their acceleration from 0 to a certain number), however heat is different, i can go stand in the core of the sun and my acceleration wouldn't budge because it is not vectorial.
So in most cases than not, the heat would just melt something but not cause it destruction. As such it is very common in fiction for character to be immensly durable but lose to very little heat. Examples would be Broly (Toei) dying due to hitting the surface of the sun. Son Goku (Dragon Ball Super) saying "i do not think i will be able to survive dipping my body in magma". Many characters from other verses such as Rakudai losing to 3k degrees of heat, Shigekuni Yamamoto Genryusai's heat being so great despite everyone in that verse being to a level where that much heat wouldn't do anything. But as i said physically it does make sense to treat it as AP, does it really though?
Does Goku's body have a higher melting point? Does a dude with a 5-B metal armor really have more than "metal" in his armor? What about biologically? The enzymes stop working after 42 degrees of heat which is why if your inner temperature rises above 42 degrees of heat you could end up with very very serious injuries or if it continues death. Why would we assume that a character is biologically different just because of his AP.
So back to the point. while it would make sense logcailly due to it being just energy, due to the nature fiction depicts it the physics in this case and the biological differences. Is it really just ok to go with "heat is AP and durability is enough to resist it" rather than "Extreme heat would need resistance to extreme heat to resist". Especially when we have cases like as i said extreme heat damaging far higher durability.
Heat is energy, energy is AP. So us treating it as AP is physically correct, but most fiction do not care about this. Heat is treated differently from a punch or a kick, or an explosion (shockwave) or anything else, because it is temperature. Unlike any of the things i mentioned above, heat is energy but does not apply in the same method due to lacking "force". Everything here has energy, but they all can produce force if it hits someone (taking their acceleration from 0 to a certain number), however heat is different, i can go stand in the core of the sun and my acceleration wouldn't budge because it is not vectorial.
So in most cases than not, the heat would just melt something but not cause it destruction. As such it is very common in fiction for character to be immensly durable but lose to very little heat. Examples would be Broly (Toei) dying due to hitting the surface of the sun. Son Goku (Dragon Ball Super) saying "i do not think i will be able to survive dipping my body in magma". Many characters from other verses such as Rakudai losing to 3k degrees of heat, Shigekuni Yamamoto Genryusai's heat being so great despite everyone in that verse being to a level where that much heat wouldn't do anything. But as i said physically it does make sense to treat it as AP, does it really though?
Does Goku's body have a higher melting point? Does a dude with a 5-B metal armor really have more than "metal" in his armor? What about biologically? The enzymes stop working after 42 degrees of heat which is why if your inner temperature rises above 42 degrees of heat you could end up with very very serious injuries or if it continues death. Why would we assume that a character is biologically different just because of his AP.
So back to the point. while it would make sense logcailly due to it being just energy, due to the nature fiction depicts it the physics in this case and the biological differences. Is it really just ok to go with "heat is AP and durability is enough to resist it" rather than "Extreme heat would need resistance to extreme heat to resist". Especially when we have cases like as i said extreme heat damaging far higher durability.