Phoenix Wright Kicks Down a Door (Anime Scans)[]
So to settle a little debate about phoenix wright, one of my favorite characters ever, being street level, I'm going to have to do what is probably my first calculation ever on this site, so do bear with me now. I'm just a kid with a dream is all. Also, Mr. Bambu told me my best bet would be to find kinetic energy, so that'd what I'm going to try and do here right now. So, let's get right into this.
The feat in question is Phoenix Wright kicking down a door, taking three kicks to do so. You'll see a link to it if you were to go onto his profile. Now that doesn't necesarily seem 9-B, so we're going to have to delve into it. But first, we need to find the dimensions of the door, and for that, we need a size comparison.
I'm going to be using the anime for the size comparisons, as that's really the only way we can get a good comparison out of this, so most of my pictures and pixels will be taken from this episode right here. I know it's not a representation of the game, but it's really hard to get a size reference in the game and I'm assuming it'd be generally the same.
So if we were to go to the time mark 8:09, we would see that we have a pretty good size comparison of Phoenix with the door. So first of all, according to the wiki, which takes its sources from game files, Phoenix Wright is about 176 centimeters tall, or five feet nine inches. Using a program on Chrome to count the pixels, I determined he was about 451 pixels tall, meaning that every pixel is .3902439 cm tall.
The door that he is standing right next to is a llittle taller than him, at about 497 pixels. Times it by the amount of centimeters and we get about 193.95 cm, or 6.36 feet tall. the width is 16.39 cm.
Earlier in the video is where the feat is performed, and while Phoenix had help in this shot, it never says he does in game, and besides he is hitting one of the doors open himself, so I believe it counts. Either way the door, after being forces open, swings out to about the other side of the screen, about 617 pixels, or 240 cm. It covers the distance in about one second.
Now that we got the speed and the measurments, we gotta go through the kinetic energy formula, but first we need mass, and for mass we need volume. Calculating the measurements given to us yields 2.78 cubic feet.
Calculating for mass, and assuming that the door is made out of Hickory and solid, we can say that the mass is around 161.24 pounds, or this absurd amount of grams here: 73137.2337 grams.
Finding out the velocity was simple enough with an online calculator I used, so...converting the 240 cm it moves into yards, leaving it with 2.62467, and putting it through the velocity formula along with the one second, the calculator gave me 5.37 mph, or 2.399996826 m/s.
Putting these through the kinetic energy formula, I had realized that I did my math wrong the first time and had to do this all over again, so it's a good thing I caught that beforehand. Putting it through the formula now, the energy output is about 210.6347 Joules, which is 10-A Athlete Level. Unfortunately, not as strong as I thought without weapons.
Using Game Scans[]
Since I was told that maybe using the anime to get a size reference wouldn't work, I'm going to be trying my hardest to get one from the game. The hardest part was size reference, but I think I found a good one in This picture. Assuming that some of the taller candles in this room are long wick candles, we can say they're about six inches long, or 15.24 cm. Now, a normal candle like this takes up about eight pixels on screen, which means that a single pixel equals 1.925 cm.
So now that we figured out we have to measure the door again. Measuring the door that is unopened for an easier time, the door's height is about 84 pixels, or 161.7 cm. its about 27 p or 51.975 cm in length (Am i getting these terms right?) and it's about 7.7 cm thick. Now to find the colume.
Length times width times height yields us about 2.29 cubic feet. once again, calculate for mass, and you get 132.82 pounds. Now, it's a little bit impossible to tell how fast the door was moving, considering the fact that the game is going by in still images. If we take the speed it was going in the anime, 5.37 mph, we can say that the kinetic energy given would be 173.596 J or Athlete Level. Same tier, just lower amount of joules.
However, there is still one more feat I want to calc!
Phoenix Wright Gets Hit by a Car[]
So there was a scene in the Apollo Justice game where Phoenix Wright gets hit full force by a car, gets launched back, and hits his head on a telephone pole and suffered only a sprained ankle. Not only is this a stupid feat, but it's calcable, and fairly consistent with his stupid durability..
Assuming that the car is about 4,079 pounds, the average weight of a car in 2010, which is the greatest size i could find since the game apparently takes place in the future, and that it was going around fifty to seventy, since Phoenix hitting the car did knock off its side mirror completely, putting it into meters per second would be a low end of 22.35 to 31.29 m/s
Putting this through the kinetic energy formula brings us a grand total of 462,106 Joules low end, and a 905,735 joules high end, both of them wall level in durability.
So, with that said, feel free to rip me a new one with this calc. Math was never my best subject, so this should be a doozy.