Talk:Knuckles the Echidna vs. Donkey Kong/@comment-25547865-20141229194201/@comment-25547865-20141229201843

Super Mario World's castle destruction scenes were explicitly meant to be comedy. If you take them out of the equation, you can still easily explain the plot. DK punching the moon was not. If you take punching the moon out of the equation, there is no explanation for the final demise of Tiki Tong, creating a plot hole. Therefore, DK punching the moon is a legitimate feat.

DK was traveling at a high speed when he got shot out of the atmosphere. Atmospheric drag slowed him down to the point where the moon's gravity could overtake him, sending him flying towards the moon. However, the velocity that the moon gave to DK through its gravity is nowhere near enough to add enough kinetic energy for DK to punch the moon out of orbit. At best, it would've accelerated DK to 1.7 km/s, adding 2.63e8 J of kinetic energy to him; nowhere near enough energy to punch the moon out of orbit.

Diddy used his entire mass in the collision, while DK used his fist and probably a good amount of his mass. Since DK added the same amount of kinetic energy to the moon using less mass, he is more powerful.