Destructive Capabilities



1 - Below Street Level

2 - Street Level

3 - Wall/ Tree Level

4 - Small Building Level

5 - Large Building Level

6 - Skyscraper Level

7 - City Block Level

8 - Multi-City Block Level/ Town Level/ Small City Level

9 - City Level/ Hill Level/ Mountain Level/ Island Level

10 - Country Level

11 - Continent Level

12 - Moon Level/ Planetoid Level

13 - Planet Level/ Star Level

14 - Lower Stellar Level

15 - Stellar Level/ Solar Level

16 - Multi-Solar Level

17 - Galatic Level

18 - Galactic Cluster Level

19 - Universal Level

20 - Multiversal Level

21 - Megaversal Level

22 - Omniversal Level

Destructive Capacity is simply the capacity of a character to cause destruction. It is useful for scaling the power of a character and is the most common method of determining how much damage a character can dish out, but it is not absolute, since destruction of certain things such as cities requires range (AoE), and some attacks like focused lasers might not even qualify as, say, building busters even though they are much more damaging than the punch of someone who takes down a building in one go. Even still, it's useful for a general comparison and placing characters into leagues. Destructive capacity is based on the ability to destroy with a single attack.

An alternate method of calculation is to determine what materials the attack is capable of destroying. Someone who can cut steel is... a steel cutter. It can even be applied to fictional materials, for example, a villain boasting "This tank is made of Barritium, which is ten thousand times the strength of steel! You'll never defeat me! Mwhahahahahaha!" ...and then the hero smashes the tank in one go, and we have our answer! However, this scenario does not present itself often due to it requiring the author to actually tell us these things through the writing. We are usually left with existing materials, or scaling from what the material has withstood (a spaceship which withstood the gravitational shearing of a black holes is made out of something hard to destroy)

The terms used in the this site are not thoroughly classified, and are quite general on the lower scales, some such as building buster, island buster, and country buster are very vague, being subject to colloquialism and too much generalization. As such, this page attempts to formalize them with calculated values so we can all learn to stop being retards and classify things a bit better.