Superhuman Strength

Hulk — Strength rises with his anger, which is why the character is written with no stated upper ceiling

Superman — Strength is drawn from yellow solar radiation and depletes when that source is removed

All Might — Can only hold his powered form for a shrinking number of hours per day after a career-ending injury

Saitama — Never depicted at his limit; the series is explicitly built around his ceiling being unmeasurable

Goku — Power is tiered through named transformations, giving him a documented ladder rather than a single value

Wonder Woman — Her strength is divine in origin rather than physiological, and she is written as the League's superior close combatant

Superman — Moves planetary masses, the standard the rest of the DC line is measured against

Superman — Trades blows with Doomsday to mutual destruction

Spider-Man — Lifts and holds machinery far beyond human capacity while injured

Spider-Man — Holds a collapsing structure off himself by leg strength alone

Spider-Man — Adheres to and climbs sheer surfaces while carrying additional load

Wonder Woman — Fights Superman to a standstill without special preparation

Wonder Woman — Deflects bullets at reaction speed with her bracers

Wonder Woman — Amazon-trained, and written as the better combatant of the DC trinity

Iron Man — The armour, not the man, supplies the strength — a distinction the stories keep

Iron Man — Lifts loads measured in tons in a heavy-duty armour variant

Thor — Among the physically strongest characters Marvel publishes

Thor — Trades blows with the Hulk without being overpowered

Hulk — Strength increases with anger, with no stated ceiling

Hulk — Supports the weight of a mountain range collapsing on him

Hulk — Leaps distances measured in miles rather than flying

Goku — Trains under gravity many times Earth's as ordinary conditioning

Naruto Uzumaki — Sage mode multiplies his physical output well past his baseline

Aquaman — Withstands and operates at full ocean-trench pressure

Aquaman — Fights Justice League members on equal physical terms

Aquaman — Durable enough to take Atlantean weaponry without injury

Thanos — Overpowers the Hulk in direct physical combat

Thanos — Fights the assembled Marvel roster without the Gauntlet and survives

Darkseid — Physically overpowers Superman without visible effort

Darkseid — Withstands the Justice League's combined assault

Deku — One For All output breaks his own bones before it breaks the target

Deku — The quirk's stockpiled power grows with each successive holder

Deku — Percentage output is the explicit measure of how much he can safely use

Lobo — Physically matches Superman in a straight fight

Lobo — Survives unprotected in vacuum with no apparent effort

Lobo — Tracks and hauls bounties across interstellar distances alone

Namor the Sub-Mariner — Among the physically strongest characters Marvel published in its first decade

Namor the Sub-Mariner — Strength is stated to diminish out of water over time

Namor the Sub-Mariner — Fights the Thing and the Hulk on equal physical terms

Starfire — Lifts and throws vehicles, a Tamaranean baseline rather than a personal feat

Starfire — Fights Kryptonian-level opponents without being immediately overpowered

Black Bolt — Physically matches the Thing without using his voice

Hawkman — Nth metal amplifies his strength and durability beyond human limit

Hawkman — Fights physically superior opponents to a standstill with a mace

Naruto Uzumaki — Tailed-beast chakra mode multiplies strength and speed simultaneously

Monkey D. Luffy — Gear techniques trade stamina for force, which is the stated cost of every escalation

Saitama — Ends nearly every fight in a single punch, which is the series premise

Saitama — A jump from the moon returns him to Earth, and the series treats it as unremarkable

Saitama — His stated training regimen is deliberately absurd, so the power has no real explanation

Doomsday — Kills Superman in direct physical combat

Doomsday — Fights the assembled Justice League without being stopped

Parasite — Strength scales directly with whoever he last drained

Parasite — Requires physical contact, so distance is the reliable counter

Sung Jinwoo — Advances from the weakest hunter to the strongest, which is the series structure

Sung Jinwoo — His growth is stated to come from a system nobody else has access to

Sebastian Shaw — Converts absorbed energy into physical strength, so hitting him makes him stronger

Sebastian Shaw — The counter is stated plainly: do not hit him — restrain him instead

Cyborg — Mechanical strength far past human, used to hold structures in place

Cyborg — Reconfigures his own limbs into tools and weapons

All Might — A single punch changes local weather by displacing the air

All Might — One For All is inherited and stockpiled across nine holders, which is stated outright

DIO — Lifts a steamroller overhead and brings it down as a weapon

DIO — Survives on a stolen body, which is why his power set is not purely his own

Colossus — Throws Wolverine as a projectile, the Fastball Special

Colossus — Holds a collapsing structure while the team evacuates

Luke Cage — Lifts and throws vehicles as a matter of routine

Choji Akimichi — Strength scales with the expansion rather than being separate from it

Choji Akimichi — The three coloured pills escalate his output, with the third nearly killing him

Mera — Atlantean physiology gives her strength well past human

Mera — Fights Justice League members on equal physical terms

Percy Jackson — Strength and endurance increase while he is in contact with water

Percy Jackson — Communicates with and commands sea creatures

Natsu Dragneel — Physical output rises with the flame he has consumed

Natsu Dragneel — Destroys structures with unaugmented physical blows

Kisame Hoshigaki — Physically overpowers opponents before using any technique

Kisame Hoshigaki — Merges with Samehada to gain shark features and more power

The Predator — Physically overpowers a trained soldier without weapons

The Predator — Survives injuries that would incapacitate a human and keeps hunting

Amazo — Matches Superman's strength while holding the copy

Amazo — Fights the whole League at once by using each member's power against them

Laxus Dreyar — Physical strength scales with the magic he has consumed

Laxus Dreyar — Breaks through defences with unaugmented blows

Endeavor — Physical output is enhanced alongside the flame

Endeavor — Holds the number-one hero ranking after All Might retires

The Atom — Retains full body weight while tiny, so a punch lands with a grown man's force

Ant-Man — Mass is preserved when he shrinks, which is what makes an insect-sized punch land like a full-sized one

Ant-Man — Scott Lang stole the suit rather than inventing it, which separates him from Pym

Hank Pym — As Giant-Man his strength scales with height

Hank Pym — The particles are stored, not generated, so his supply is finite

The Atom — Delivers a full-weight blow from insect scale, his standard attack

Eren Yeager — Titan form overpowers others of comparable size in hand-to-hand

Eren Yeager — The Founding Titan commands every other Titan simultaneously

Mikasa Ackerman — Rated as worth a hundred ordinary soldiers by her own command

Mikasa Ackerman — The Ackerman bloodline awakens through a moment of clarity, not training

Mikasa Ackerman — Lifts and carries wounded soldiers while still fighting

Tanjiro Kamado — Breathing techniques raise physical output by controlling oxygen intake

Tanjiro Kamado — Sun Breathing is the original form from which all others derive

Vegeta — Destroys planets with unaugmented physical force

Vegeta — Saiyan physiology grows stronger after recovering from near-death

Vegeta — His pride is written as the reason he is repeatedly second, not his power

Roronoa Zoro — Cuts through steel and stone with a sword stroke

Roronoa Zoro — Takes another person's accumulated injuries onto himself and survives

Roronoa Zoro — Fights effectively while blinded, relying on Haki instead of sight

Gohan — Exceeds his father's power as a child during the Cell Games

Gohan — His power spikes with rage rather than training, the stated mechanism

Gohan — He is written as uninterested in fighting, which is why the power lapses

Levi Ackerman — Rated as worth an entire brigade by his own command

Levi Ackerman — Defeats the Beast Titan single-handed

Levi Ackerman — He never becomes a Titan shifter, which is the point of the character

Sanji — Kicks through stone and steel

Sanji — His refusal to strike women is written as a genuine tactical liability

Yusuke Urameshi — Physically overpowers demons far above human capability

Yusuke Urameshi — The Spirit Wave redirects an opponent's energy back at them

Erza Scarlet — Fights while wearing armour that would immobilise anyone else

Erza Scarlet — Continues fighting through injuries that would end most mages

Erza Scarlet — Wields several swords at once, one per hand and more in the air

Yusuke Urameshi — Fights on after injuries that would kill an ordinary human, twice over

Black Panther — The heart-shaped herb raises him to the peak of human capability and past it

Black Panther — Defeats the Fantastic Four individually in his first appearance, by preparation

Black Panther — He was the first Black superhero in mainstream American comics, predating the Black Panther Party's founding

Venom — Matches and exceeds Spider-Man's strength

Venom — Spider-sense does not register it, because the symbiote knew how to hide

Venom — The symbiote is a separate living being, so the character is two entities

Supergirl — Matches Superman's strength under the same yellow sun

Supergirl — She arrived on Earth as a teenager and remembers Krypton, unlike her cousin

Shazam — The strength of Hercules, one of the six powers named in the acronym

Shazam — Fights Superman to a standstill, magic being Superman's weakness

Shazam — Billy Batson remains a child mentally, which is the character's whole point

Black Adam — Holds the same power set as Shazam, granted by Egyptian gods instead

Black Adam — Defeats multiple Justice Society members simultaneously

Black Adam — Written as a ruler protecting his nation rather than as a straightforward villain

Deathstroke — Uses roughly nine-tenths of his brain capacity, the stated source of the enhancement

Deathstroke — Fights Batman on even terms without any superhuman advantage in strength

General Zod — Holds Superman's full power set under a yellow sun

General Zod — Military training makes him more dangerous than his power alone

General Zod — Fights Superman to a standstill on equal terms

Gorilla Grodd — Physically overpowers the Flash when he closes the distance

Gorilla Grodd — His intellect is stated to exceed most human scientists

Deathstroke — Enhanced reflexes and stamina accompany the mental enhancement

Carnage — Stronger than Venom, which is stated rather than implied

Carnage — Requires Spider-Man and Venom working together to contain him

Carnage — Kasady was a killer before the bonding, so the symbiote amplified rather than caused it

Green Goblin — The Goblin formula raises him well past human strength

Green Goblin — Kills Gwen Stacy, the event that ended the Silver Age of comics

Green Goblin — He learns Spider-Man's identity, which no other villain manages for decades

Moon Knight — Strength is stated to vary with the phase of the moon

Moon Knight — His dissociative identities are treated as genuine, not as a disguise

Moon Knight — He wears white specifically to be seen, inverting the vigilante convention

The Thing — Among the strongest characters Marvel publishes, in the Hulk's weight class

The Thing — Trades blows with the Hulk repeatedly and survives

The Thing — Lifts structural loads measured in thousands of tons

The Thing — His strength has increased over time, stated in-universe as continued mutation

War Machine — Armour strength allows him to hold structures in place

War Machine — Wore the Iron Man armour himself for an extended run

Winter Soldier — The bionic arm exceeds human strength considerably

Winter Soldier — His return in 2005 undid comics' most durable death

Winter Soldier — Later carries the Captain America identity himself

Bizarro — Matches Superman's strength as an imperfect duplicate

Bizarro — His vision powers are inverted — freeze vision and flame breath

Bizarro — Created by a duplicator ray rather than cloned

Superboy — Apparent strength comes from the field, which is why it has a hard ceiling

Superboy — A clone of Superman and Lex Luthor, which the stories treat as his central problem

Ocean Master — Atlantean physiology gives him strength past human limit

Ocean Master — Fights Aquaman on equal physical terms

Ocean Master — Leads an Atlantean invasion of the surface world

Bane — Venom raises his strength far past human, fed through tubes into his skull

Bane — Breaks Batman's back over his knee, ending his career for months

Bane — Withdrawal from Venom is debilitating, the stated cost of the power

Bane — Releases every Arkham inmate to exhaust Batman before fighting him

Bane — Raised in prison serving his father's sentence, the origin of the discipline

Jiraiya — Sage mode multiplies physical output well past his baseline

Jiraiya — Trained both Minato and Naruto, two generations of protagonist

Tsunade — Destroys terrain with a single finger, using chakra control rather than mass

Tsunade — The strength is precisely timed chakra release at the point of impact

Tsunade — Her fear of blood is a genuine combat liability for much of the series

All For One — Fights All Might at full power and survives

All For One — Operates for over a century, aged but not stopped

Gon Freecss — Physical output far past a trained adult while still a child

Gon Freecss — Trades his entire future potential for one instant of adult power

Gon Freecss — Recovery requires a wish rather than treatment, which is how far it went

Ken Kaneki — Ghoul physiology gives strength far past human

Ken Kaneki — His kakuja form emerges after prolonged torture, and he does not control it

Ken Kaneki — His rc cell count exceeds normal ghouls, which is the stated reason for the escalation

Kenpachi Zaraki — Cuts through opponents without releasing his zanpakuto at all

Kenpachi Zaraki — He wears an eyepatch that drains his own power deliberately, to prolong fights

Kenpachi Zaraki — Became captain by killing the previous one, the only legal route he used

Shanks — Stops the Marineford war by arriving, without fighting anyone

Shanks — Fights Whitebeard to a standstill, splitting the sky

Shanks — His arrival alone ends conflicts that armies could not