Note: This is the finalized version of the essay originally published as "How Large Was Smaug Really?" You can also find it on Quora in...

In Tui T. Sutherland's series Wings Of Fire, civilized dragons inhabit a continent known as Pyrrhia, which is shaped like a dragon itself.

In Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Dumbledore and Voldemort face off in an epic wizard duel. The two exchange lightning and...

Spoilers (surprise!).

This is just some art of glass I found. In "Terminology Of the Imperium" at the back of Dune, a substance known as "metaglass" is...

I just watched the Holland trilogy, and man, it's good. Especially FFH.

Note: I'm using kilocalories for energy in this essay, because it's more intuitive that way. The super soldier serum drastically...

I did a *lot* of math for this one.

In Star Wars: Revenge Of the Sith, Obi-Wan Kenobi duels the cyborg General Grievous, cutting off two of his arms before taking him by...

Let's quantify MCU Thor's striking abilities with Mjolnir in The Avengers (2012). Feat (video version) Hulk weighs 450+ kg. Thor sends...

Fireballs. Beautiful fireballs. In this gif, you can see Toothless blowing up the top of a wooden tower. It makes a pretty impressive...

Note: The numbers here are very rough, and really only good to about an order of magnitude. They just give us some idea of what the Red...

Link to feat (gif version) In Game Of Thrones, John Snow swats a guy off his horse with a sword strike (a similar thing can be seen in...

Link to feat Star Trek is pretty consistently below Star Wars in terms of firepower. However, in Star Trek: Discovery (also known as DIS,...

Spoiler: I don't know. In a previous essay, I argued that Smaug could destroy Toothless. I don't think he'd ever get off a shot to...

Feat (Boba blasts a stormtrooper about twenty feet) Whatever he used to send that poor bloke flying had to output a minimum of about:...

(Spoilers for the new movie.)

Please note that these figures are very, very rough (due to the volume of the Red Death being rather difficult to figure out with...

I'm literally agonizing over who would win between a multi-hundred-ton demon who shrugged off molten gold and a car-sized flying lizard with

Here's the feat. All right, I'll run the numbers. Sadly, Imgur does not give precise second decimal numbers on their gifs, so I have to...