Talk:Knuckles the Echidna vs. Donkey Kong/@comment-24281142-20150118014417/@comment-25547865-20150223223324

You say that, in the cutscene, the moon is only as big as DK Isle, so it can't be as big as the moon in real life. But how big is DK Isle? Do you know? Has there been any canonical confirmation of DK Isle's size? Why couldn't DK Isle be as big as the moon is in real life?

Neither the size of DK Isle nor the moon has been confirmed. However, there is one thing in the cutscene the size of which has been canonically confirmed...namely, the distance from the planet to the moon, confirmed in Paper Mario 2 as being 389,603 kilometers. In the cutscene, the distance between the planet and the moon appears to be about 1000 pixels, meaning 1 pixel=389,603 meters. The radius of the moon is 80 pixels, so using the same ratio, we would find that the radius of the moon is actually 31,168.24 kilometers.

Considering that volume is the cube of radius, that means my estimation of DK's punching strength at 6.62e39 joules is lower than the true value by a factor of 5700!

Do you still believe the cutscene can be taken at face value?