Originally posted by DarkSaint85
To Bran:In the preceding page to the one everyone focusses on, they say what it measures.
So the original scan is that 1 Herc is the max energy given off by 1 punch.
But what energy? The heat, the sound, the kinetic, the TOTAL? No, it's the amount of magical energy that's being given off. The special kind of energy that all mythological beings radiate. That's my point. We can't take the total energy of Herc's punch, and say that's a Herc....when two panels ago, she explains she's measuring the energy a magical entity radiates.
1 Herc is the totality of one component of his punch. Specifically, the magical part.
Edit: and I get what you're saying - when Pandora's box was in his lungs, it was unleashed like a bomb, whereas Monica was just standing there with the POTENTIAL to do whatever she wanted. Celey had the same line of thought. Your nuke analogy, for example.
But a Herc measures the energy given off. Its already being unleashed. The box was just sitting there, and they already clocked it at 133.45, just sitting there. Monica was just standing there, and she was radiating 0.5 Hercs off her skin. Cho, 0.05 etc.
Its not the capability. They're literally giving it off.
Explain away the word equivalent in reference to the punch in Hercs. You'll never be able to.
We assume that a way was invented to measure mystical beings like Hope, Baba Yaga, Hercules, Zeus, Thor, etc. This is your claim. I agree with it. But, since Hercules is also very much physical, 1 Herc becomes subjective due to the use of the word Equivalent. It says that 1 Herc is the equivalent level of power that Hercules can put off in one punch. When compared to how powerful Hope was regardless of power type, it registered on that scale as being more powerful than a physical punch that was thrown by Hercules by a being over 133 times as powerful as his punch. It does not say that Hope was 133.5 times more powerful than Hercules, rather it directly compares it to the punch. This is the number that we start at.
Simplified,
Although Hope may be a mystical creature, this does not take away the damage that it is capable of dishing out on the physical universe. The Hulk was actually hit very hard by Hope who possessed massive amounts of power. He survived. The End.