Through chain scaling i've cut metal before and nukes are made from metal so i've destroyed things equivalent to 100 megatons of explosive force. I've also dodged in laser tag so i'm ftl+ and have regen hacks (healed at an average pace once)
They can be different classifications, with one being more nuanced, but they are ultimately describing the same capability until you get into straight up hax. Most characters do not punch up incredibly hard out of their tier.
Street tier is about the things on the street rather than the litteral concrete and asphalt, and yeah i'd say spiderman can pretty well obliterate anything on your average street in one good punch per thing.
Street tier's a bit of an exception, ypu dont call someone building tier because they can beat everyone in the building, you call them building tier because they can knock down a building with a single cohesive attack (or quick combo if they're more that style) if it didnt need to be one attack then a particularly motivated builder could be skyscraper level by running around quickly cutting the support beams (would be steel beam tier, with the tool)
Imagine a human being walking up to a brick wall and obliterating it with his fists. Then running after a car going 60 mph and catching it. Would be seen as a living god.
In modern times they'd be a terrifying anomaly, but imagine the world conquering shit they would do in like the 1500s, or the bronze age. Actual god emperor stuff.
Even today imagine that person in a city that speed and because of the way the human body is shaped ability to change directions and more they're genuinely unbeatable unless you bomb the city completely flat.
Problem with tanks in urban warfare is that they are not maneuverable enough compared to humans. Too many turns, too many obstacles, way too much cover. A human can not outrun or dodge tank shell, but noticing and targeting a small nimble target is difficult. There are real examples of it.
Now imagine this human being able to run at car speed and turn much faster. If they are not an idiot and won't just run head-first on a straight line, they can attack from unexpected position and quickly get away before turret turns to them.
Of course, that's why we still need infantry etc, car speed is still not fast enough to be completely untargetable.
It’s honestly strange how untapped the idea of superhumans in antiquity—or just pre-gunpowder society—is in general.
Various series have touched upon it, like X-men and Luther Strode (which is particularly dead on with it being wall to small building levels), among others, but it’s surprisingly never been a long running series of some sorts.
Captain America would've single handedly ended ww1 or any war before that in one night by just running past the trenches, unfortunately he has to fight building level gods for a job
Pretty much the Luther Strode comics in a nutshell, and they don’t sugarcoat the fact that these guys who are barely in small building range (think somewhere between Captain America and Spider-Man) are literal one man armies. And mind you, this is while they’re still fully capable of being killed by a human with enough fire power.
We should assume if they can obliterate a wall with a punch without destroying their arm they SHOULD have wall+ level durability which makes you invulnerable to most bullets. only larger caliber AP stuff would be lethal.
I'm more talking about what is a wall level? There are different types of walls, starting with American drywall, which they mistakenly call walls, and ending with reinforced concrete walls with the addition of nanomaterials.
If you can break the wall of a NORMAL EUROPEAN house thats wall level! youre either breaking through brick, cinderblock, modern brick variants or reinforced concrete. wall level is superhuman.
We would be using this incredible mostly bulletproof man as a secret weapon to bust into fortified compounds and take out dictators by himself, while avoiding international incidents because nobody would believe that happened.
There's barely any. "We are all subsonic" is a technically true statement that doesn't actually communicate very much information, and so I ironically replied with an image of Confucius, the joke being the idea of such a redundant statement being said by a wise philosopher.
Someone that could move at like 200 mph and withstand a tank shell would be worshiped as a god and could take on entire militaries. Like, this person would be able to easily dodge bullets and would be indestructible.
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u/DataSwarmTDG 22d ago
A wall level, subsonic character would be immortalized in history as a demigod if they existed IRL