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Executive Summary[]

Assorted feats for The Boys - both the Dynamite Comics version and the TV adaptation.

The Boys TV - How deep into superhuman is The Deep[]

General formula:

One atmosphere is equal to the weight of the earth's atmosphere at sea level, about 14.6 pounds per square inch. If you are at sea level, each square inch of your surface is subjected to a force of 14.6 pounds. The pressure increases about one atmosphere for every 10 meters of water depth. At a depth of 5,000 meters the pressure will be approximately 500 atmospheres or 500 times greater than the pressure at sea level. That's a lot of pressure.
~ Source

The Boys TV - How deep into superhuman is The Deep - Version 1[]

Now:

The Deep said in Season 1 he could survive 2 miles under the ocean.

2 miles = 3218.688 m

Pressure at that depth = (1 + (3218.688 m / 10 m * 1) atm) = 322.8688 atm

1 atm = 0.10132738879319 MPa or J/cc

Pressure tanked can be rewritten as 322.8688 * 0.10132738879319 MPa = 32.71545243 MPa or J/cc

The average human has a mass of about 62 kg, or 62,000 grams. That means the average volume of a human is 62,000 cubic centimeters.

Durability tanked by The Deep just by being underwater = 32.71545243 MPa * 62000 cc = 2,028,358.05 J (Wall)

Holy molly.

The Deep said in Season 2 Episode 1 he had been in the Mariana Trench before.

The maximum known depth is 10,984 metres (36,037 ft) (± 25 metres [82 ft) (6.825 miles) at the southern end of a small slot-shaped valley in its floor known as the Challenger Deep.] So the maximum depth The Deep can go into ~= 10,984 m

Pressure at that depth = (1 + 10,984 m / 10 m * 1) atm = 1099.4 atm = 111.3993312 MPa = 111.3993312 J/cc

Durability tanked by The Deep just by being at the Challenger Deep of Mariana Trench = 111.3993312 MPa * 62000 cc = 6,906,758.537 J (Wall)

This is madness. Madness. This~ is~ Sparta~!

The Boys TV - How deep into superhuman is The Deep - Version 2[]

Similar to version 1 but only the skin is tanking the ocean pressure.

It is super difficult to find out the human skin volume and mass because the body statistics vary among different institutes. A lot.

To demonstrate,

Approach 1: (NCBI approach)
The average human body has a surface area of 1.9 m^2 or 19000 cm^2.
NCBI suggests human skin density to be 1.02 g/cm^2
Human skin mass = 19000 / 1000 * 1.02 = 19380 g = 19.38 kg

Approach 2: (BBC approach)
In total, (the human skin) accounts for around 16 percent of your body weight
Average human body weight is 62 kg
Human skin mass calculated = 62 kg * 16% = 9.92 kg

Approach 3: (CUNY approach)
The human skin weighs about 3 kg.

Scientific findings of human skin statistics vary a lot indeed.

For now... Basically I use the CUNY approach because the data is most direct.
CUNY says human skin surface area is 20 sqft or 18580.608 cm^2.
Human skin thickness is 0.2 cm.
Human skin volume = 0.2 cm * 18580.608 cm^2 = 3716.1216 cm^3

This is for normal human.
Our average human height is 1.684 m (average of 1.753 m for men and 1.615 m for women).
Chace Crawford, the actor for The Deep, stands 1.791 m.
The Deep's skin volume = 3716.1216 cm^3 * (1.791/1.684)^3 = 4470.441465 cm^3

Durability of The Deep is

  • (S1 for diving into 3218.688 m) 4470.441465 * 32.71545243 = 146252.5151 J (Wall)
  • (S2 for diving into 10984 m) 4470.441465 * 111.3993312 = 498004.1896 J (Wall)

Speaking of which, human skin's durability (without clothing) by this standard is (1 atm * 0.101327389 MPa/atm * 3716.1216 cc) = 376.5448982 J (Street)

The Boys TV - Starlight lifts half side of a car[]

Weight of a car: 2885 lbs = 1308.613987 kg

Lifting half of it = 654.3069937 kg (Class 1)

The Boys TV - Starlight Tanks a Serbu BFG-50A round[]

A Serbu BFG-50A fires rounds which can go up to 20,195 J (Wall) - low end durability

What if we set a high end for every area of skin to be such bullet proof?
.50 BMG bullet radius = 0.65 cm
Surface area = pi * 0.65^2 = 1.327322896 cm^2
Human skin surface area = 18580.608 cm^2 (as above)
Durability of whole external skin = 282,700,900.93 J = 0.067567137 ton TNT (Small Building) - high end durability

The Boys TV - Starlight Tanks a Serbu BFG-50A round - higher highball[]

Same as above except

.50 BMG bullet radius = 0.65 cm
.50 BMG bullet tip radius = (0.65 cm)/56*8 = 0.092857143 cm
Surface area = pi * 0.65^2 = 1.327322896 cm^2
Human skin surface area = 18580.608 cm^2 (as above)
Durability of whole external skin = 13,852,344,145 J = 3.31078971 ton TNT (Large Building) - higher high end durability

The Boys TV - Plasma Laser Baby[]

Working by Screwattack:

Beam length = 5 m
Beam width = 0.3 m
Beam volume = pi() * (0.3/2)^2 * 5 = 1.41 m^3 0.353429174 m^3
Energy density of plasma = 10^10 J/m^3
Energy emitted
= 14100000000 J = 3.36998088 ton TNT (Large Building)
= 3534291735 J = 0.844715998 ton TNT (Building)

Hell Ben Singer cannot even keep his calculations correct. The struck part are intentionally kept to reflect the errors made by Ben.

The Boys TV - Plasma Laser Baby - Jasonsith fix[]

Guess what? This can be further fixed.

Since the plasma comes from the eye of a baby, we can calibrate the beam width by referring to the eye of a real baby, whose diameter is just about 16.5 mm or 0.0165 m

Beam volume = pi() * (0.0165/2)^2 * 5 = 0.001069123 m^3
Energy density of plasma = 10^10 J/m^3
Energy emitted
10691232.5 J = 0.002555266 ton TNT (Wall+)

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