Thread:Superluigiluigi/@comment-1058260-20150302080212/@comment-65.129.176.87-20150302095717

1. Paper is just the visual style of the game. They didn't really start with the whole "everyhing is literally made out of paper" thing until Sticker Star, so the first three games should still be applicable, especially considering the Star Spirits from the original appeared in Mario Party 5 and the Goomba King reappeared in Super Mario 64 DS.

2. I'll address this in a moment.

3. You can't really use the radius of the moon to find its distance from the world. The animators didn't create everything to scale, they just created the sizes of things to be what felt right. If true, you could use the 389,603km figure from PM2 to show that DK Isle's length is twice Earth's diameter. I'd bet that any closer than 300,000km and you're probably looking at the moon crashing into the planet naturally. (Also, you said that the moon orbited at a height of 7.5x its diameter, but you used the radius instead of the diameter for calculating the height.)

4. I attribute that to either just being done for cinematic effect, or, despite appearances, DK's transfer of energy to the moon was not entirely conventional, and it took a few moments for the energy to "build up". This build up of energy could've continued while it was falling, explaining the acceleration.

5. My impression was that Tiki Tong was trying to push back against the moon and eventually succeeded in sending it back into orbit. The majority of the counter-reaction force was absorbed by him, but a small sliver caused the volcano explosion.

6. Mario and DK have to be of similar strengths for them to compete against each other, and then we know Luigi is of similar strength to Mario because of the Mario & Luigi games (some would argue that Luigi is stronger than Mario). Even going with the minimum amount of energy needed (just to negate the moon's kinetic energy), 3.85e28 J, and assuming that Mario is 10x weaker than DK, and Luigi is 10x weaker than Mario, that's solid continent busting for Luigi. Luigi kinda has better feats anyway (beating someone capable of creating dimensions one-on-one, for example).