Archie Sonic Pre-Gen Wave: Feats & Calcs

Fully updated, only updates will be for fixing errors or correcting calcs or maybe in some off chance new ones need to be done.

Issue 1 Robotnik Survives Armageddon[]

Diameter of Earth is 217 px while the explosion is 12 px in diameter.

12 / 217 = x / 12742 km

x = 704.6 km

Y = ((x/0.28)^3)/1000

Y = ((352.313/0.28)^3)/1000

Y = 1,992,109.7 megatons, 996,054.868 megatons after dividing which is nearly 1 teraton.

Warp Speed[]

Warp speed statement in the original miniseries, Sonic can go faster than a lightbulb's light here at max speed.

~c

Faster Than His Own Shadow[]

Sonic is stated as being able to box his own shadow, and says the reasoning why is because he is FTL. You all know the feat.

1c+

Sonic Does a Home Run[]

This might be the scene the Sonic movie took inspiration from. Here.

"using MLB dimensions instead of the ones shown on-panel, (which might raise it) Rotor is 60.5 feet from home each base is 90 feet apart for a perimeter of 360 feet or 270 in this case so sonic traveled 82.296 m the sound could not travel 18.4404 in that time (divide by 343 for a time of 0.0537621 seconds) 82.296 / 0.0537621 = 1530.7438 m/s or Mach 4.46."

Wedgies Used to be Funny[]

Sonic moves away at twice the speed of light and then gives Robotnik a wedgie because people thought that was peak humor I guess.

If taken literally, 2c.

The Sonic Workout[]

Very simple, Sonic recommends spending three to four seconds running the circumference of the Earth. I will use three.

40075 / 3 = 13358.333 km/s = Mach 38,945 or 4.5% SoL

Sonic Outspeeds Television[]

Here. Sonic moves fast enough to go faster than a television and camera can track him, resulting in him still being onscreen.

This is tricky to quantify and will take some thought. Let's start by assuming Sonic moved ten meters because this cave does not have any consistent layout, so we will assume they were at least somewhat close to the entrance. Both the comic and real life seems to define their cameras as transmitting imagery via radio waves, so I guess we have a starting point. Since Sonic is at two places at once seemingly, he should be massively faster than the wave, as he had a burst of speed where he suddenly moved behind Rotor while otherwise moving at trackable speeds. If anyone has a better idea on how to quantify this or a different interpretation that lines up with the facts on the page better, let me know.

Using frozen time, snail speed is 0.001 m/s:

0.001 / 299,792,458 = 3.33564e-12 sec

10 / 3.33564e-12 = 2.9976e12 m/s or 9998c

Weaving Between Lightning[]

Sonic runs fast enough to weave through lightning, claiming to be faster than it, and that he can run between raindrops.

Lightning lasts around 30 microseconds. I scaled the movement the best I could with a limited tool, his actual movement should be somewhat higher. Also, I tried scaling the height of his speed line, but it changes in thickness even accounting for perspective.

169 + 183 + 386 + 348 + 312 + 278 = 1676

Sonic, 1 meter tall, is 308 pixels. That is 5.44 m moved in 30 microseconds.

5.44 / 3e-5 = 181,385.281 m/s or Mach 528.

Chaos Emerald Power Compilation[]

Chaos Emeralds have numerous statements regarding their power.

Bunnie Notices Sonic's Speed[]

Here.

26.8224 (which is 60 mph in m/s) / 0.000001 sec = 89c acceleration if we take this seriously and assume he can accelerate at such a rate.

Sonic's Sonic-Gram Speed[]

Someone already calculated this for me. For the record, it is the feat here. Calc here.

324.68 octillion c

Night of 1000 Sonics[]

Another famous already quantified feat. Check it out here.

1.63 septillion c

Anti-Sonic and Sonic fight while circling the Earth[]

Feat here. Speaking time for Anti-Sonic's thing is seven seconds. They circle the globe four times.

(40075 * 4) / 7 = 22,900 km/s or around 7.6% SoL

Sonic Throws a Ball of Water[]

Another big one. Usually this does not have a precise number attached to it. Here.

Basically, I realize this scaling is flawed but I also realized that the numbers would be higher if I scaled it properly since the bird would be farther in the background rather than closer to the observer, but the straight line proportionate to Sonic's height I drew is not necessarily correct. This is just a quicker way of assigning a relatively accurate ballpark estimate of the feat.

Sonic is one meter tall, or 36 px while the line is 215 px. Sonic stood up from crouching and threw the ball so I am adding another meter since he moved approximately his height with his arm. The rest is throwing speed.

Elapsed time: 0.000000000000001 seconds

The distance is 5.972 times longer than Sonic's height, so 6.97222 meters moved.

Overall, 6.972e15 m/s or 23,256,829c.

Anti-Sonic Speeds on the Cosmic Interstate[]

There is a speed limit sign here.

653,986.56c at least since they were described as zipping along the interstate, pretty straightforward conversion of units.

E.V.E. Speed[]

Around the Year 3235, E.V.E. left Earth and around 3237, Sonic and E.V.E. meet again, many light years away.

There are two differing numbers and both are debatably consistent, 849,000 light years and billions (I will use 2 billion), so I will have a high and low end. Granted this is another simple speed feat. Our time frame is two years and these are our minimum distances.

849,000 / 2 = 424,500c

2,000,000,000 / 2 = 1,000,000,000c

Sonic should scale.

Death Egg Explosion[]

Robotnik survived the explosion of the Death Egg, which was apparently heard across the entire planet. Krakatoa was around 194 decibels and the sound traveled across the entire planet, but was not necessarily audible. Around 300 decibels would result in a sound audible across the entire planet. However, I did not realize that I already basically did this calc a while ago, same value of 300 decibels, and the result is 4.7 gigatons of TNT.

Sonic Avoids Meteors[]

Sonic burrows in time to avoid some meteors, which have a reentry velocity of 11 km/s to 72 km/s.

I scaled the meteors as if they are perfectly above Sonic, but they are not, but this is a very small bit feat so I do not feel too guilty for this one.

Sonic's body width while burrowing, half his height at 0.5 meters, is 66 px while the meteor height is 244 px. Width of the hole in the second panel (0.5 m at least) is 7 px while the tunnel's length up until it stops is approximately 391 px in total.

Essentially, Sonic moved 27.9 meters underground, while the meteors moved 1.85 meters.

Low End:

1.85 / 11000 = 0.00016804

27.9 / 0.00016804 = 166,027.869 m/s or Mach 484

High End:

1.85 / 72000 = 0.00002569

27.9 / 0.00002569 = 1,085,837 m/s or Mach 3,165.7

Sonic Ship Speed[]

Ship speed Sonic should scale to. To make it to E.V.E., Sonic had to go several hundred parsecs. E.V.E. was going to eat the planet in fifteen minutes. Sonic does not make it in time, but E.V.E. is still there.

300 parsecs is 9.257e15 km.

9.257e15 / (15 * 60) = 10,285,555,555,555.56 km/s or 34,308,920.3c

E.V.E.'s Seppuku[]

Finally, the giant E.V.E. with the mass of a star ends her existence by entering the nearest star. She does so in around five seconds, as Sonic needs to leave the world in that time or risk death.

I will use sun to mercury distance for this one.

41.736 million miles, or 66,777,600 km.

66,777,600 / 299,792.458 = 44.55c

Sonic escaped with his ship before the time elapsed and went far beyond the planet.

Rouge Flies Anti-Sonic Out of the Atmosphere[]

Feat is here. Since curvature scaling here might be questionable I am just going to use the Karman Line, which is 100 km. Inputting the dialogue from Rouge in the final panel and the whoa from Anti-Sonic into wordcounter.net results in a speaking time of 3 seconds.

100 km / 3 = 33.3 km/s

Or Mach 97, nearly Massively Hypersonic but not quite. Just because, accounting for KE of the two, both Sonic and Rouge weigh 35 kg.

KE = 0.5 * 70 * 33333.3^2 KE = 3.888e10 J or 9.3 tons of TNT, nearly city block but not quite.

Knuckles' Chaos Teleportation Speed[]

When Sonic tells Tails that his parents are alive after he visited another galaxy, Knuckles teleports the gang there and discovers the Xorda taking over the area.

It is the same distances as above, either 849,000 or at least 2,000,000,000 light years. Assuming this takes a full minute.

8.032e18 / 60 = 1.338693333333e17 km/s or 446,540,030,481.1c

1.8921460945e22 / 60 = 3.153576824167e20 km/s or 1,051,919,999,991,016c

Super Shadow Performs the Gathering[]

This is an issue 169 feat that requires more than just a few scans worth of context. Basically, A.D.A.M. forces Super Shadow and Turbo Tails to telekinetically move every emerald in the universe and power a machine that will combine them respectively. We learn a few other valuable feats as well, like the fact that just a few emeralds passively and easily powered an entire star (one which E.V.E. went into when she had the mass of a sun) and A.D.A.M. can gain information from throughout the entire universe with emeralds. Fairly impressive, but we are just focused on speed rather than the bit AP or abilities.

"Isn't it beautiful, father? My device is summoning every green chaos emerald from around Mobius... the cyan chaos emeralds from the planet weeet... and the blue chaos emeralds from the planet xorda. How do I know all this? I am bound to the summoning spire. The emeralds are telling me. They tell me the red chaos emeralds hail from thoraxia... the purple from the remains of teragosa 6... the star that consumed E.V.E. goes dark as its fuel -- the yellow chaos emeralds -- are pulled away... and they grey chaos emeralds leave their resting places on argentum."

speaking time: 32 seconds

5.912956545313e20 km/s or 1.972 quadrillion c (Using the same 2 billion light year figure as before, should be reasonable since A.D.A.M. said he gathered emeralds across the entire universe, although one guide later said that the emeralds were across the galaxy but I do not think the wording excluded the possibility that emeralds were in other places)

Enerjak VS Super Sonic[]

Scourge implies that Super Sonic and Enerjak will destroy the planet by fighting.

Fairly simple, baseline planet divided by 2.

29.7 Zettatons, Small Planet level

Super Scourge's Threat[]

Super Scourge threatens to spin dash both Mobius and Moebius in half. Another fairly simple calc, doubling the high end here.

1e31 J or around 2.4 Zettatons, Small Planet level

I've Got Your Limit Right Here[]

Sonic runs across the country to attack the Egg Beater. The speaking time between Eggman and Snively seems to make a good timeframe since while they were talking, Sonic was building up speed. Transcribing their dialogue to wordcounter.net reveals that their dialogue has a speaking time of 15 seconds.

Speaking time for the second page is 3 seconds, including what Eggman says.

Northamer is the continent we see a map of here and it is based on North America. We should have a one to one scale since Mobius used to be Earth. The US is 2800 miles across and Sonic makes it about halfway both times (Eggman is a little past the halfway point but evidently some weathering of land mass occurred here so I think this should be fair).

4,480 / 15 = 298.666 km/s or Mach 870.7

4,480 / 3 = 1493.333 km/s or Mach 4353.7

Since I will not be able to find a very accurate mass for the Egg Beater, even if I tried, I will use a higher end weight of a van, 6000 lbs or 2.72155 metric tons.

KE = 0.5 * 2721.55 * 1493333.3^2

KE = 3,034,532,842,307,557 J or 725 kilotons, Large Town level

Enerjak Sinks Downunda[]

Downunda is Australia of course, so lets begin. Australia is 4000 km wide. Since the continent sunk, a 9 on the Mercalli Intensity Scale is warranted.

(Magnitude at distance) + 6.399 + 1.66*log10((r/110)*((2*π)/360)) = Richter Magnitude of Earthquake

(9) + 6.399 + 1.66*log10((2000/110)*((2*π)/360)) = Richter Magnitude of Earthquake

15.399 + 1.66log10((18.18181818181818) * (0.0174532925))

Magnitude 14.57151425830691

Final formula: 10 ^ [(1.5R)+4.8]

10 ^ [(1.5 * 14.57) + 4.8] = 4.54e26 J or 108 Petatons of TNT, Multi-Continent level

Final Tally[]

Issue 1 Robotnik Survives Armageddon: 996 gigatons (Large Island level)
Warp Speed: ~c
Faster Than His Own Shadow: 1c+
Sonic Does a Home Run: Mach 4.46
Wedgies Used to be Funny: 2c
The Sonic Workout: 4.5% SoL
Sonic Outspeeds Television: 9998c
Weaving Between Lightning: Mach 528
Bunnie Notices Sonic's Speed: 89c
Sonic's Sonic-Gram Speed: 324.68 octillion c
Night of 1000 Sonics: 1.63 septillion c
Anti-Sonic and Sonic fight while circling the Earth: 7.6% SoL
Sonic Throws a Ball of Water: 23,256,829c
Anti-Sonic Speeds on the Cosmic Interstate: 653,986.56c
E.V.E. Speed: 424,500c to 1,000,000,000c
Death Egg Explosion: 4.7 gigatons
Sonic Avoids Meteors: Mach 484 to Mach 3,165.7
Sonic Ship Speed: 34,308,920.3c
E.V.E.'s Seppuku: 44.55c
Rouge Flies Anti-Sonic out of the Atmosphere: Mach 97, 9.3 tons
Knuckles' Chaos Teleportation Speed: 446,540,030,481.1c to 1,051,919,999,991,016c
Super Shadow Performs the Gathering: 1,972,349,999,983,156c
Enerjak VS Super Sonic: 29.7 Zettatons
Super Scourge's Threat: 2.4 Zettatons
I've Got Your Limit Right Here: Mach 870.7 to Mach 4353.7, 725 Kilotons
Enerjak Sinks Downunda: 108 Petatons