Izuku Midoriya, better known as Deku. The main protagonist of My Hero Academia. With
the assistance of All Might, he was given the quirk One for All. This quirk boosts physical
strength to a grand scale, but how strong is that? Welcome to the ‘Outside of’ series
where I take a character from a franchise to list and calculate their feats to see how
strong they are. Now how usually go about this is that I just
approach certain attributes one at a time, but for the sake of not spoiling for those
that only watch the anime, I’m going to separate to approach anime feats first and
then manga feats. To starT this all off, this is one of the
moves that I have had been so confused with when first watching My Hero. That’s his
Delaware Smash, where he flicks his finger and a large shockwave of air comes bursting
through where he’s pointing. I know that this is an anime, and I understand that certain
things won’t fully make sense, but when they apply some logic in the franchise, it
makes me question the awareness. Though I happened to see something like this that exists
in real life. The pistol shrimp! This shrimp locks and shoots with it’s claw. It shoots
an air bullet underwater, creates light, and when it collapses on itself it’s the same
temperature as the surface of the sun. Though this is based off speed, not just strength
of the claw alone. Deku’s Delaware Smash doesn’t rely on speed, One for All gives
the benefit of being able to do these feats off pure strength alone. Which is odd but
still calculable.
So, to calculate the Delaware Smash, I had to go about this in more of a different way.
This calc was more anime based since the anime had gone out of it’s way to include a lot
more detail to make this possible. To first go about this, we begin with Deku alone. Deku
stands at 5ft 5 or 1.6 meters. Taking this apart by pixel length and how shoulder widths
average, his shoulder length sits at 1ft 3 or 0.39meters. Now we’re going to go to
an example of his Delaware Smashes, let’s go with the one at Flood Zone inside of the
U.S.J. Now, we’re going to need the size of the boat for this one to continue. The
width of Deku’s shoulders in this is 15 pixels in length. The boat itself is 846 pixels
in length. To cover the full length of the boat, you would have to multiple the length
of Deku’s shoulder width 56.4 times. Using the same multiplication for the real length
puts the boat at 77.55ft, or 23.63 meters. The boat sits at nearly 78ft in length, and
23ft in width. Well, why do we need to know this. We’re going to go down even further
for this. Now we’re here with a full view of not only
the boat, but the giant waterside to the right of it. The boat sits at 157 pixels, and we
know now that it’s nearly 78ft long. From bottom to top, the water slide is 806 pixels
in height. Along with that, you have the length between one of the loops to the back of the
waterslide too, since we’re going to need that also. Going further with the math we’ve
been providing with already; the waterslide is 5.1 times bigger than the boat. So, you
have the waterslide sitting at a clean 398ft. We also have the length between the loop and
back at 256ft.
We’re finally here to the picture where this all connects. So now, everything that
we’ve been using has now led up to the cause of this all. The underwater explosion caused
by Deku’s Delaware Smash. The reason why this would matter so much was given information
by Deku himself. “If a strong force is applied to the surface of the water, it’ll spread…
and then converge back in the middle!” You see what I was talking about earlier? Self-awareness.
So now, I have the numbers for all the things we need. The slide height, the width (technically
speaking), the waters height, and the waters width. The height of the slide is now 1000
pixels, and from the slide to the back is now 454 pixels. We had already established
that the slide width was 256ft, and the height of the slide is 398ft. The water in height
is 757 pixels, and its width is 340 pixels. Using the height of the slide, it makes it
easy to find the height of the water explosion. There’s a 219px difference between the slide
and the height of the water. Finding out that the height of the water is 299ft, with the
width of the water being 192ft. Now, with all the height stuff we’ve been working
with, we can now convert this over to a potential energy. Before hand I have to convert through
cylinder volumes and density of water. With a height of 299ft or 91.44 meters, and a radius
of 96ft or 29.26 meters. Finalizing that we have the cylinder volumes sitting at 257,399kg.
Then we must make this mass match it’s water mass, meaning we must add on water density.
Multiplying water density and volume, we get 257,400,000kg. Then to finalize this all,
we just plug everything we have into the potential energy equation. The equation is PE= m x g
x h. Which is Potential energy equals mass times acceleration of gravity times height.
The earth’s acceleration of gravity is set at 9.8 meters per second squared.
So, by plugging in what we have and bringing back the height that we had used previously,
we get our potential energy of 230,815,747,562.4 joules. We have to convert this over one last
time to find where he stands on the scale. So, we’re converting from joules to tons
of TNT. Now the final energy is at 55 tons of TNT. That’s a bit above the middle of
City Block level, and after finally getting to this conclusion. While I did follow everything,
and got here through canon height, I’m not exactly sure on middle City Block level, but
then I’ve seen Deku’s flicks being used other times where it would make sense at this
point. Let’s take the Deku vs. Todoroki fight for
example. While ice has a lower density, I can say that just based off viewing alone,
there’s way more ice than there was water. He literally blows away these large quantities
of ice being blasted at him, back to back. This is also attacking Todoroki’s ice before
it could get ridiculously large in comparison to the tournament. Even seeing his ice like
this again is so crazy because he’s it’s not that difficult for him to do this. Imagine
just trying to do this to buildings alone, except you’re probably not going to see
the because Heroes have to try to not damage the city if possible. With everything we’ve
gone over, this was just the Delaware smash alone.
Another two examples of strength come from one feat. With one jump, he jumps to the height
of the largest type of villain bot. This villain bot stood above any of the near by buildings,
and using the windows as floors we can get a general guesstimate for how large it is.
Off counting some widows and doing some building people comparisons using screenshots and manga
panels. You can put the buildings at around 200ft or 61m and then with a full head above
the buildings, you can put the robots around the size of 230ft or 70m. So, for Deku to
jump up and punch the robot in the face, he had to jump around 230ft.
I also realized something since I just noticed that this could also be a speed feat too.
Aside from the anime making the moment hype and make the action longer, the leap and punch
had ended up being one direct motion. Deku had pushed off of the ground to get his momentum
which led into his punch, he didn’t just have an air punch with no leverage. It also
took him less than 5 seconds to travel 230ft, which I believe contributes a lot to his speed
category. We can see right here it only took him about 3 seconds to get in the face of
the robot. To travel 230ft in 3 seconds, you must be going around 52mph. The acceleration
of Deku is 7.7893 m/s ². Reminder that this is just Deku jumping directly to his problem.
I’m sure that full power Deku burst with speed is fast enough to do a lot, but for
now we can be fine with 5% “Full Cowl” Deku, who is most likely Subsonic.
Now since I had gone over both strength and speed in the anime, I wanted to go over durability.
Though here’s my problem with trying to do so. I could bring up the fight with All
Might with Deku and Bakugo, but along with being weighted, “All Might” is still holding
back. We don’t plan to see too gory of scenes in My Hero, but “All Might” is someone
that can easily punch a hole right through Deku and Bakugo. So, I put that off. Then
I want to have Deku vs. Bakugo, but Bakugo has hit Deku with explosions that logically
should blow off some skin from his body but hasn’t. You guys can take this as durability
if need be, this isn’t something I can automatically get behind but since it’s in the mechanics
of the show, it’s something I’m going to have to go with.
Now I know I said I’d go over some manga stuff if possible, but it was only going to
be something we’d end up seeing in Season 3. Plus, the feat wasn’t fully on Deku,
and more on him exhausting his opponents quirk in a sense. A certain one-sided big guy if
you guys had read the manga. I plan to go over more of Deku like his newer and more
recent forms, but that’s for a later video. So, you can see this as a season 1-3 video
possibly. Depending on how much they’re going to put into Season 3. That’s going
to be all for now. I hope you guys enjoyed. Leave a like if you did, subscribe for more
even though you’re probably going to see one My Hero video every 2 other videos. Leave
a comment for someone you want me to go over next. I plan to do All Might, but if the majority
asks for someone else then I’ll do that character. Until the next one, peace and godspeed.