I was just wondering to myself, if Juggernaut really existed, he wouldn’t be very effective at all. Mainly because of the problem of leverage.
Assume that he’s completely invulnerable, and can put out practically infinite power (in terms of how much force he can exert on himself or any physical object), so what? He’s still limited to a mass of about 5000kg at most (about the mass of an elephant).
He certainly can’t rip up a building by a corner, the building wouldn’t hold together long enough. Could he even knock down the building by punching it? The building is way more massive than 5000kg. By punching it as hard as he could, he’d probably just throw himself across the street.
I guess he could take a running start at the building and build up enough momentum to take out the supporting columns, but that’s about it. Or twirl about like a ballerina and accelerate himself into a whirling dervish of fist, but I doubt he has the co-ordination.
Is there something I’m missing?
It’s not just a question of mass, but one of breaking points. You’re correct that he can’t hold up a building by the corner, or life a tank by its barrel Hulk-style, but I’m sure he could take out a building by punching through its support columns. Might take a little while, though.
Is his speed human-level or fairly infinite as well? If he can swing as fast as he wants, then he can swing just as hard as he wants up to the point where drag and his friction versus the ground give way. Overall, I suspect he could do better than a cannon since he’s not sitting on wood wheels and he can manage the movement of forces more fluidly. If he gets a lot of his body weight into it, at a cannonball’s speed, I’m certain he could take out a steel I-beam at least. But, even better still would be to get up to a run and just barrel through everything at mach 1.
But if he can only move at human speed, he’s better off to squeeze things in his hands and pull things apart by planting his feet on it. With judicious choice of where to tear things up, he should be able to bring a skyscraper down before you could evacuate it.
Juggernaut cannot be stopped. He could walk through the support columns of a building at a leisurely pace and they would crumble before him. His power is magical in origin. It’s not subject to conventional laws governing momentum.
I always used to wonder if someone with Juggernaut/Hulk style powers could wipe out the human race. Sure they could kill 24hrs a day with their bare hands, but isn’t the rate of population growth higher than that? Surely more people die of disease.
This is disallowing crazy ripping up tectonic plates stuff.
According to various writers, the Hulk’s strength can do just about anything imaginable. One writer had him punch through time to time travel. So, theoretically, the Hulk could probably destroy the universe if he wanted to. He could easily destroy Eternity as well.
Juggernaut, on the other hand, has much more limited powers.
He’s been imprisoned several times. The idea is that his power is based around momentum. If he can get moving nothing can stop him. Spidey trapped him in a convenient pool of drying cement once.
if that’s the case, i would imagine that his destruction would be pretty limited to only urban areas. the second he steps out onto a muddy field or, good gracious, a beach, he would pretty much be sucked down like a sabertooth tiger into a tar pit.
I just suddenly get this mental picture of one of those two, up to their elbows in gore, railing away with a classic silver age inner monologue. “I must kill, but pant more, and faster…!”
Anyway—well, I guess if he spent a lot of his time and energy destroying INFRASTRUCTURE—like oil fields, farms, whatever—he might be able to cause enough disruption to civilization that he could increase the death rate measurably beyond the people he could kill personally.
(Though it does bring to mind some pretty…unoperatic imagery. “HULK SMASH PUNY SOYBEANS!”)
I guess either one could try and provoke wars, too—like, I dunno, destroying all the major Abrahamic holy sites, possibly incognito; or breaking into a nuclear missile site and start tossing warheads around—though that’s probably cheating.
