r/whowouldwin • u/LetsGet2Birding • May 18 '25

Challenge Darth Vader Is Dropped Into Los Angeles. How Much Damage Can He Do?

Darth Vader right before the events of A New Hope is plopped in the city of Los Angeles, California. He has his lightsaber with him and can use the force. Given how he has just been teleported, he is confused, but of course, let's get the ball rolling by making him even more irritable since he now has no hope of helping retrieve the death star plans.

Just how much damage can Vader do before someone, somehow, puts him down. Police? Military? For how long can he wreak havoc?

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u/skyzm_ May 19 '25

What do you think conventional munitions do when they don’t penetrate things?

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u/skyzm_ May 20 '25

I’m sorry none of this is remotely true. Bullets kill people through blunt damage very easily. If an armor’s rating is higher than a bullet’s penetrative capability, you take the concussive impact to the body part. As I said, they can and do very easily kill through blunt damage.

The fact that you think a bullet will do less damage than a bare fist is something you should really think about critically for a minute, to see if maybe you can get why it’s crazy.

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u/Appropriate_Mixer May 21 '25

That’s not how force works. F=ma but acceleration is an exponential function of speed so velocity has a much larger impact on force then mass does. Cause it has to slow down immediately if it hits something that can stop the bullet, which is massive amounts of acceleration.