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Electro's "Tier 7 via Absorption"

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This might be pretty simple?

Introduction
In the 3 part, "Light The Night," story arc of the 1990 Spider-Man run, Electro absorbs the entirety of the New York city power grid, sucking down every single kilowatt, from every borough, every street, and every building. Using it to fire off a massive beam of light into the night sky, blanketing the entire city with a white hot glow. It's even referenced again in Spider-Man #422, and eventually reached a point he could have destroyed half of New York City

The energy per second alone came to 2.4 tons of tnt, and the yield of Electro wiping out half of New York City came to 242 megatons of tnt
Scaling Things
The important thing is how Electro specifically states he's terrified of absorbing that much power, repeatedly stating it would have killed him. So it's fair to assume Electro has never used his powers to this ability when regularly fighting Spider-Man, and he himself could not survive it.

As such Electro's profile should be written to include the following
  • Wall level+ (Can trade hits with Daredevil). Varies (His power level depends on the amount of charge he possesses), usually Large Building level with powers (Can consistently harm Spider-Man), at most Mountain level with Energy Absorption (Absorbed all of New York City's power, and eventually reached a point where he could wipe out half of New York City) | Large Building level physically (Traded hits with Spider-Man). Varies, usually Large Building level with powers (Stronger than before), at most Mountain level with Energy Absorption | Large Building level physically (Can harm those who harm him). Varies, usually Large Building level with powers, at most Mountain level with Energy Absorption
  • Tier: 9-B physically. Varies, usually High 8-C with powers, 7-A with Energy Absorption | High 8-C physically. Varies, usually High 8-C with powers, 7-A with Energy Absorption | High 8-C physically. Varies, usually High 8-C with powers, 7-A with Energy Absorption
Agree: @Qawsedf234
Disagree:
 
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As a side note since we're talking about Electro, Spider-Man: Total Mayhem should get downgraded, that Electro calc uses the energy consumption of New York city across an entire year, so it should probably just get replaced with 1/2 of the comic version calc will be replaced separately
 
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Bump (it's 1 staff for minor threads, but 3 for major verses, so like... 2 staff total are needed ig?)
 
I'll be straight up honest I didn't list it initially because I don't know how, arguably it can be listed in the Durability section? He can't really convert it into practical AP iirc.

But yeah it seems fine, this is his first big time arc so it's consistent with the character. Also I forget if this is first key or second, so might have to check that.
 
But yeah it seems fine, this is his first big time arc so it's consistent with the character. Also I forget if this is first key or second, so might have to check that.
It'd be his first key, since the first amp was from 1997 while the Light the Night arc was from 1993
 
Looking at the calc, I think the end result is wrong isn't it?
  • Total energy usage for population: 33.6*7.305e6 = 245448000 kWh (211 kilotons of tnt)
The page is assuming Kilowatt Hours but Electro is being scaled like its a per second value.

This has to be converted to Kilowatts per second first. So the feat should be 68,180 Kilowatts per second or 68,180,000 Joules.

To scale to the OP's value he would need to absorb all the power for at least one hour straight afaik
 
Looking at the calc, I think the end result is wrong isn't it?
Looking back, I actually got the calc even further wrong lol, the amount I ended up using was an entire 24 hour period of time worth of power from New York City. I should have divided by seconds in a year, and multiplied by the seconds of energy Electro absorbs (like RHCP's energy absorbtion calc)

So I need to completely rework the calc and OP
 
Ok, so update time:
  • Per second yield of Electro's energy absorption: 2.4 tons of tnt per second
  • Electro's maximum ability to wipe out half of New York: 242 megatons of tnt
So instead Electro gets at most 7-A energy absorption / via self destruction
 
what's left here? this has already been accepted for a while now no?
 
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