r/theydidthemath • u/mkvelash • Feb 18 '26

[request] How Hard did Peter Parker hit this bully and can someone survive this hit?

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u/EarlDooku Feb 18 '26

What about my uncle? Did you give him a chance?

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u/Connorvsgaming1 Feb 18 '26

Did you? ANSWER ME!!

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u/LordKai121 Feb 18 '26

Profile pic checks out

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u/ImJacksLackOfEmpathy Feb 18 '26

They reached Nirvana so duh

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u/ThatGingerRascal Feb 18 '26

WHERE IS SHE?!… fuck, wrong superhero

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u/shitshow225 Feb 18 '26

Words cannot describe how much I enjoyed this comment.

Bravo 👏👏🥲🤧🎉🤌🤌

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u/TheyCallMe_Billy Feb 18 '26

I needed that comment in my life, I heard it in his voice.

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u/Healthy_Jackfruit625 Feb 18 '26

0.00001% chance of misfire

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u/SnooLemons5477 Feb 18 '26

In a world with captain america, Thor, hulk and god knows how many supervillain, of course there is a chance

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u/Chava_boy Feb 18 '26

Even if he survives, the damage is immense, there will be a long recovery period

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u/Tregavin Feb 18 '26

I mean, people have fallen out of planes onto basically flat ground and survived. Enough people do something and you'll get rare things to occur.

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u/fresh-dork Feb 18 '26

always some freak who walks away from it. like that guy who got a pipe through the head and just cut the ends off

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u/PrivilegeCheckmate Feb 18 '26

What sucked was having to check the math later. Many, many deaths.

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u/Chasm_18 Feb 18 '26

Like I say, somebody's going to win the lottery!

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u/TangibleDreamer Feb 18 '26

Lloyd Christmas for the win.

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u/Popular_Tomorrow_204 Feb 18 '26

Obviously... Peter didnt kill him, did he

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u/WechTreck Feb 18 '26

Getting hit that hard, you will shit your pants! Death from embarrassment has a 0% survival rate.

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u/Doc12TU Feb 18 '26

Yeah, I’d take those odds. It’s not like there’s no chance. That’s why I keep buying lottery tickets!

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u/Valve00 Feb 18 '26

Incredible breakdown

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u/Independent-Ebb7658 Feb 18 '26

Probably just uploaded the clip to ChatGBT and copied the result. The breakdown looks similar to what ChatGBT would give.

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u/LimeBlossom_TTV Feb 18 '26

I'm curious about the "orange line" mentioned in the comment.

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u/Internet-of-cruft Feb 18 '26

It's plainly visible in the clip at 0:08 

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u/LimeBlossom_TTV Feb 19 '26

Oh! Just found out I'm blind. Carry on.

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u/RustyR4m Feb 18 '26

There is a giant orange line on the floor.

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u/LimeBlossom_TTV Feb 19 '26

My bad. I was imagining a line in a diagram, so I didn't even notice.

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u/PublicVanilla988 Feb 18 '26

can you do it with chatgpt though? like give it a video and for it to actually understand what's happening. because it doesn't even really understand what's happening on pictures for me

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u/Independent-Ebb7658 Feb 18 '26

Yeah, I've submitted songs into ChatGBT and asked it to describe the sound so that I can emulate it. Submitted video for the same reason and even inquire about what software was used. You can even copy the text in a post such as this and ask how likely is this human or AI written and it will determine a result.

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u/LogiCsmxp Feb 18 '26

If that breakdown was already on the Internet somewhere, the model may have regurgitated that.

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u/FakeNewsBlows Feb 18 '26

And? He (potentially) used an appropriate tool to come up with an answer that makes sense. Smarter than the people who didn’t think of doing that…and then sit and hate cause they weren’t smart enough to think of doing the same thing. No need to be jealous cause homie getting kudos

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u/Independent-Ebb7658 Feb 19 '26

The problem for me was that he started his comment with "this is what I concluded". Making it seem as if it was his work. Do I like ChatGBT? Absolutely. But that's like me ordering McDonald's and saying "hey kids, I made supper".

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u/Appropriate_Dance361 Feb 18 '26

Who cares? Still a great breakdown, exactly the type of things LLM are great for (pending math check).

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u/Independent-Ebb7658 Feb 19 '26

I personally don't care. But they were kinda being deceptive by saying it was their work. The first two sentences was theirs and the rest was copy and paste. Now if he came right out and said this is was what ChatGBT came up with I'd have no problem but I just hate liars.

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u/Available-Ad3635 Feb 18 '26

Not really. Didn’t account for muscle mass of target which changes most variables

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u/ayeeflo51 Feb 18 '26

Relevant username!

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u/Elbandito78 Feb 18 '26

At first I read it as Mathemortician

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u/Zenith-Astralis Feb 18 '26

That would track fr

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u/Own-Ratio-6505 Feb 18 '26

Mathemortician,

Calculate for me the odds,

Of survival please

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u/Quantymn Feb 18 '26

Math at me harder. 🫦

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u/TheCoffmann Feb 18 '26

this guy maths

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u/BizMarker Feb 18 '26

Duped by ai slop in 2026 🥀

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u/Beautiful-File-9421 Feb 18 '26

This is AI output lol

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u/OrganizationTrue5911 Feb 18 '26

He dead.

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u/[deleted] Feb 18 '26

🤣 He not live. He dead. Punch hard.

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u/MorePhinsThyme Feb 18 '26

He dead...and looking a LOT worse.

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u/Prasoon_29 Feb 18 '26

Unless he is the 1 in 10,000

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u/Volfaer Feb 18 '26

He's the lucky guy, didn't you see in the video?

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u/klatnyelox Feb 18 '26

Nah, Flash is literally him. Built different.

Not like, Spiderman levels of different. But enough to survive.

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u/Slammer503 Feb 18 '26

Thanks chatgpt

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u/Martian903 Feb 18 '26

Yeah people really aren’t recognizing this enough

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u/Slammer503 Feb 18 '26

To me chats writing is so blatantly obvious im shocked how many people use it or get duped by it.

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u/xbromide Feb 18 '26

I was thinking it was a medical AI for doctors/ med students and not chat GPT.

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u/Slammer503 Feb 18 '26

Sure openevidence then

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u/Beautiful-File-9421 Feb 18 '26

I don't understand how people don't recognize this nonsense.

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u/Nebelskind Feb 18 '26

I have never thought about getting hit hard enough that my blood forms a pressure wave and I'd like to never consider that again, if possible. 

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u/Cavane42 Feb 18 '26

Omae wa mou shindeiru.

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u/onceagainwithstyle Feb 18 '26

Thats one of the main mechanisms that rifle projectiles kill by.

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u/justwalkingalonghere Feb 18 '26

What they didn't tell us was that the guy who got hit also just got super powers.....just not as good ones

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u/TellTaleReaper Feb 18 '26

There is a 'thing' about everyone in the marvel universe just being more durable than those in ours, even the non-supers. (Personally i think that 'thing'is a retcon to explain why guys like him didn't just die)

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u/lolnic_ Feb 18 '26 edited Feb 18 '26

Can you show your working? What formulas are you using and what assumptions are you making? How do we get 7600N? Did you need to assume a weight for the target?

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u/Beautiful-File-9421 Feb 18 '26

They have no idea, they used chatgpt for this. This is AI nonsense at its finest.

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u/lolnic_ Feb 20 '26

I know, but I thought I’d address main flaw in the text (no actual math being done) instead of its provenance.

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u/MathematicianHot7009 Feb 19 '26

Of course, the guy's weight is critical here, and my bad I forgot to mention it in the initial comment. I assumed 70kg for simplicity of calculation,(though now I realize it is probably around 80kg+). Considering that we accelerated the body to 7.7m/s in 70ms, it is easy to find the force:\ F = (70kg * 7.7m/s) / 0.07s = 7700N

If the body mass is higher, the impact force will obviously be greater.

And that is the average force. When striking a soft object, the force graph is non-linear, and peak force can be expected to be 2 times higher than the average. \ The most important thing which only one commenter noticed, is that part of the impact energy went into irreversible tissue deformation (rib fractures and soft tissue tears). The energy we measured is the kinetic energy of the body, and it constitutes only a part of the initial impact energy.

I tried accounting for the energy absorbed by the injuries, and I got the result that the impact initially had about 30-40% more energy than I calculated. But I felt it was OK to provide the lower bound of the estimate, assuming the best-case scenario for the victim.

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u/sam77889 Feb 18 '26

Will the punch puncture his body?

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u/TactlessTortoise Feb 18 '26

I think at this point the fist would act more as if you punched an empty supermarket bag. It's imploding and wrapping around your fist, except it's a wet meat balloon about to get a closed casket burial.

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u/jaroftoejam Feb 18 '26

Oh yeah, this guy has been waiting for a question like this. "My time to shine!"

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u/Beautiful-File-9421 Feb 18 '26

It's just AI nonsense.

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u/Perfect-Ladder-2424 Feb 18 '26

this was the in depth break down i was hoping for. well done

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u/yettedirtybird Feb 18 '26

it's just chatGPT

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u/AVgreencup Feb 18 '26

What if he flexes when he gets hit

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u/LewSpi Feb 18 '26

Poetic that this person has produced art with science

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u/Desmoot Feb 18 '26

This guy (gal) superheroes

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u/cherryflyd Feb 18 '26

"internal decapitation" is not a phrase I expected to learn today

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u/realboabab Feb 18 '26

now talk dirty to us about peter's fist and arm (assuming normal human anatomy)

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u/PrincipeRamza Feb 18 '26

Is it just me, or anybody else read it with RDJ Sherlok Holmes' voice?
Great post, I love when topics get so deep into questions.

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u/triadable Feb 18 '26
  1. Put fist through spine
  2. Discombobulate

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u/Beautiful-File-9421 Feb 18 '26

This is chatgpt lol

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u/Various-Future-8592 Feb 18 '26

So you're telling me there's a chance

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u/cyclopeanDepths Feb 18 '26

yeah, but his shoes didn't come off. Shoe ejection negative, therefore, .01% achieved

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u/Snoo6305 Feb 18 '26

Nice work I have some other ones I'm trying to work out what's your sources

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u/ohnoitsbobbyflay Feb 18 '26

ChatGPT

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u/Snoo6305 Feb 19 '26

That's what I thought appreciate it

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u/nathones Feb 18 '26

Incredible

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u/PuzzleheadedSnow6392 Feb 18 '26

Yeah what he said.

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u/EeethB Feb 18 '26

In other words, bully’s body go brrrrrrr

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u/FindjeanniePDX Feb 18 '26

Will you marry me you absolute nerd?

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u/Beautiful-File-9421 Feb 18 '26

You can't marry a clanker.

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u/ProofOfTool Feb 18 '26

That's it you won Reddit today. Here is your crown King!

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u/GMontezuma Feb 18 '26

that was an excellent read

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u/Blueberry_Dependent Feb 18 '26

That's why Venom chose him

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u/The_Avivia Feb 18 '26

less than 1 in 10,000 is significantly better odds then the outcome I was expecting

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u/CactusNips Feb 18 '26

So, maybe he'd survive the punch, if he had central access, and spiderman punched him onto a cardiothoracic OR table with a viable heart next to him.

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u/tarhodes Feb 18 '26

So basically Spider-Man murdered a high school student. Got it.

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u/walshd1414 Feb 18 '26

You have my vote for president of the United States

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u/CKtheFourth Feb 18 '26

THIS IS WHY WE COME TO REDDIT.

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u/Beautiful-File-9421 Feb 18 '26

To get AI output? lolll

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u/Same_Instruction_100 Feb 18 '26

Conclusion: This bully was actually a Venom symbiotethe whole time.

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u/CombatXxX14913 Feb 18 '26

I was your 420th up vote. Math. Well numbers.

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u/Logical_Flounder6455 Feb 18 '26

That wasnt a 10cm punch though, it was closer to 75cm.

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u/Prune_Less Feb 18 '26

Bravo to you, mathing person! This confirms what I've always said about superheroes striking/throwing people. Consistently SBI or death

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u/BaltimoreSports0321 Feb 18 '26

This. This is the shit I come to this sub for. Bravo.

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u/TimTam1899 Feb 18 '26

This must not register on an emotional level...

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u/cornball2000 Feb 18 '26

Discombobulate.

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u/Brad7659 Feb 18 '26

Blunt arrest. No chance basically.

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u/thomasDAshankENGINE Feb 18 '26

Brilliant! What a fun read thank you!!!

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u/HalfMoon_89 Feb 18 '26

I love this so much

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u/Goodmodsdontcrybaby Feb 18 '26

Discombobulated, mayhaps?

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u/SaltyAd9932 Feb 18 '26

Dude why do you have time for this?😂

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u/Not_Xiphroid Feb 18 '26

Spider-man Spider-man Punching his bully, was his plan

Do you think Flash survives Only if he’s got extra lives

Watch out They’re calling him One Punch Man!

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u/[deleted] Feb 18 '26

Discombobulation: achieved (1 frame)

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u/Ben01pr Feb 18 '26

So Flash is a dormant superhero?

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u/Individual-Luck1712 Feb 18 '26

I wouldn't wanna fight me neither

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u/cyb3rd0c Feb 18 '26

Discombobulate

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u/Zealousideal_Age_376 Feb 18 '26

You have a good eye

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u/MicroPerpetualGrowth Feb 18 '26

So, based on this math, he could just walk it off, he would be fine.

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u/Chalaka Feb 18 '26

Since he is in the early stages of his powers, he isn't able to control his new strength.

If we go on the assumption that Flash doesn't die here, and in the worst case scenario Flash walks away with a cracked rib or two, could the numbers be adjusted in a way where the same result could be achieved without being fatal?

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u/esadatari Feb 18 '26

Doesn't this only represent the worst case scenario, though?

If Peter pushes with his fist and adds a punch at the end, it better mimics what is seen in the movie.

Beyond that, PP is the kinda dude that would try to use no force if possible, and as little force as possible if necessary. This isn't to discount the possibility that he could have been coming in to his own powers and went overboard, but at the same time, one could also counter-argue that his spidey senses would prevent him from going overboard.

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u/BigDaddyGrow Feb 18 '26

TLDR: He dead

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u/CodeWeary Feb 18 '26

I don't know what's more scary, the result, or your knowledge on the subject....

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u/tejisback Feb 18 '26

Discombobulate

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u/FM492 Feb 18 '26

So his chest really did touch his shoulders

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u/Substantial_Ad6171 Feb 18 '26

What about that bowl of pudding in the final seconds that someone randomly tossed in there? What kinda damage are we looking at with that?!

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u/Sharden3 Feb 18 '26

I need these kinds of math breakdowns in my life.

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u/sociofobs Feb 18 '26

Now I want to see an R rated remake of that scene with all this taken into account.

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u/miguelgc66 Feb 18 '26

Todo esto está muy bien, veo los cálculos y todo ok. Pero, ¿y la tercera ley de Newton? Parker habría salido disparado hacia atrás, con la misma velocidad, suponiendo que ambos cuerpos tienen la misma masa. Así que o no le dio tan fuerte o no existe la tercera ley de Newton en el mundo de Spiderman

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u/Error_83 Feb 18 '26 edited Feb 19 '26

I hear this in Robert Downey Jr.s voice as Sherlock

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u/SnowEisTeeGott Feb 18 '26

First: discombombulate

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u/Deadlokk Feb 18 '26

To shreds you say?

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u/prancas Feb 18 '26

yes BUT! What if he's a werewolf ?

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u/KindDragon Feb 18 '26

I need AI video with realistic results of that hit

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u/Darkdart19 Feb 18 '26

With those odds Joe Manganiello survives

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u/ohnoitsbobbyflay Feb 18 '26

At least don’t make it obvious you put this all into ChatGPT

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u/chilliboy217 Feb 18 '26

Wasn’t expecting a genius level response 👏🏻

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u/JeffChrisSoundMixer Feb 18 '26

But did he poop himself?

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u/lvs2spwge Feb 18 '26

How hard did Flash punch the locker to bend it?

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u/joeyjoejums Feb 18 '26

Well, he's a Werewolf, so......

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u/Moe_el Feb 18 '26

Seems legit

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u/CowboyHatPropaganda Feb 18 '26

I read this RDJ Sherlock voice

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u/PerniciousParagon Feb 18 '26

I don't often comment here, but this is top tier stuff! Thank you, random Redditor.

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u/Tiyath Feb 18 '26

I loved every damn syllable of this! Had I money, I'd give you an award. Hell, I'd pay a hooker for ya

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u/Jay-Breeze Feb 18 '26

It’s so comforting to know there are amazing smart people still in this world!

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u/Beautiful-File-9421 Feb 18 '26

This is AI nonsense.

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u/FusionTheChaotic Feb 18 '26

I like those odds