Whenever I see those kinds of fight where the characters pretend to be normal humans then just out of the blue while fighting, punches a wall bare fisted, or takes a sledgehammer bonk to the head like it’s nothing. I’m more curious about the classic “shove the dude through the wall” move, sometimes into goddamn concrete walls. What would the damages actually be for the three parties (third being the wall) if it’s even possible to start with in real life ?
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*Pushed* is key bit here. Being *pushed* through a wall will not do too much damage – because to be pushed through a concrete wall, the concrete wall is probably crumble AF or just some silly slender concrete bricks stacked together with no joining material. So long as you are pushed/stumble far enough away from the wall that any falling bricks don’t land on you, or only a couple bounce off you, it’ll likely be bruising and aching but nothing more.
*Punching* through a wall – different game entirely, as others have pointed out. If it helps – myself, my dad and my brother-in-law have managed to punch *through* walls at various points in our lives. I was a stroppy young twenty-something, my Dad was in his prime as a front-line solider, and my brother-in-law was a skinny stroppy young teen – so massive disparities in force, but we all left fist-sized holes in the cheap-ass walls we punched. If it had been a brick or concrete wall, all of us would have walked away with broken knuckles. I’ve managed to kick through a wooden door in the past (again, stroppy anger-management-issues).
To actually force someone bodily through a wall though? Short of it being cheap ply-board or paper walls, you have to then take into account the surface area of the person as well as the amount of force per square [area measurement], and that force applied consistently across the person, and that force to be such that it exceeds the compressive strength/integrity of build of the wall. So to actually launch someone *through* a wall it is near-impossible to do so and the person you launch still be alive.
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