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/MysteryMan9274 May 20 '25

I once saw a video of an IRL RPG (looking like an orange blur) being fired from around a kilometer away, and it looked pretty slow despite moving at like 300 m/s. Watching a SW blaster being fired is almost identical, but they're fired from a few meters away. I don't mean in games, but in the movies. Look at the very first scene of A New Hope. They're definitely not even a tenth as fast as a bullet.

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u/geometricpillow May 28 '25

Yeah but they also look about the same speed when they’re being fired between ships kilometers apart. The speed is not really consistent, unless I suppose ships gun have a much, much faster velocity than blasters.

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u/Environmental-Pea-97 May 25 '25

I think a blaster bolt would look like a very long lightsaber in the air.