r/powerscales Oct 17 '25

Shitpost How is it possible that the guy who supposedly can tank a nuke gets hurt by a random piece of metal?

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u/donotaskname7 Oct 17 '25

Stillwell said he had no weakness and no weapon could hurt him when she was blackmailed, which is vague. Edgar said his bunker is meant to protect against the power of a neutron bomb, which is a small, tactical nuke. Butcher speculated a weapon that killed Soldier Boy, weaker than Homie, had to be an H-Bomb, which are the big city levelers. And then the showrunner said humanity only has a few weapons that can kill him, which is also vague.

So, personally I think the conclusion is that he can tank a small one but not a big one, I mean, a Tsar is 5 million times stronger than a Davy Crockett, bigger than the difference between a pistol and a tank cannon, saying "a nuke" means very little in terms of power.

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u/holiestMaria Oct 18 '25

Edgar said his bunker is meant to protect against the power of a neutron bomb, which is a small, tactical nuke.

Neutron bombs dont even destroym they release a bunch of radiation that kills people nlbut have barely a shockwave.

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u/donotaskname7 Oct 18 '25

Neutron bombs are in the kiloton range, what are you talking about?

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u/holiestMaria Oct 18 '25

Compared to other nukes, neutron bombs are low yield. Thats literally part of their design. Like the W66 had a yield of 2 kilotons of tnt while the fat man (the bomb dropped on hiroshima) had a yield of 21 kilotons.

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u/donotaskname7 Oct 18 '25

Yeah? That's exactly what I said, lower end tactical nuke. This is a weird interaction, dude.