The Marvel Universe has a wealth of incredibly powerful, larger-than-life characters to choose from. A few, however, stand head and shoulders above the rest. Their powers are incalculable and far beyond comprehension. Here is our list of the most powerful characters in the entire Marvel comic book universe.
15. Vulcan
Emperor Vulcan (also known as Gabriel Summers, the brother of Scott Summers) is an omega level mutant who has the ability to manipulate all forms of energy, including magic, at will. Once the Emperor of the Shi’ar Empire, Vulcan has even fought against the X-men, Inhumans and Starjammers simultaneously. According to his creator, Ed Brubaker, Vulcan has control over seven elements (fire, earth, electricity, wind, water, darkness, and light).
14. Skaar
The son of the Hulk in an alternate reality, Skaar possesses even greater strength than his father. With a single punch, he once cracked the armour of the Juggernaut and sent him into the outer atmosphere. He has also survived falls from outer space and has a healing factor superior to Wolverine.
13. Odin
Odin, the father of Thor and the strongest of all Asgardians, is an immortal that can manipulate magic for a variety of effects. He also has the ability to absorb the powers of all the Asgardians into himself to greatly augment his already formidable powers.
12. Hercules
Over 3000 years old, Hercules, the son of Zeus, is considered the physically strongest character in the entire Marvel universe. He is stronger than both Thor and Hulk, and once pulled the entire island of Manhattan which weighed 99,000,000,000 tons. Aside from his great strength, Hercules is able to withstand cosmic blasts from Nova and is able to survive in space unaided.
11. Grandmaster
The Grandmaster is an eternal, ancient being that cannot die, has supernatural physical characteristics and the ability to bring the dead back to life. He is also vastly intelligent and powerful.
10. Galactus
Known as the Devourer of Worlds, Galactus eats entire planets and has unlimited cosmic power and knowledge. He also possesses technology that works with his biology and is perceived as the species of whoever is looking at him. For example, a human would see him in human form.
9. Magus
Not to be confused by his son, Adam Warlock, Magus’ power is comparable to that of Galactus. He can become virtually any substance, any size, shape and colour – enhanced shape-shifting. He is immortal and can also teleport, but his powers tend to fluctuate based on the form he takes. At his most powerful, he’s able to split a star in two.
8. Mikaboshi
Mikaboshi, the Japanese god of evil and chaos, is an abstract being greater than Odin. His powers include immortality, reality manipulation, stealth, strength, healing, endurance, shape-shifting, and more.
7. Cyttorak
Cyttorak is a powerful deity and possibly the strongest magical being in all of the Marvel universe. He is often the source of the elite magicians of the universe, including Doctor Strange. He is omnipotent within his Crimson Cosmos.
6. Phoenix Force
Phoenix Force is a powerful cosmic entity and the prime universal force of life that takes on various hosts, most frequently Jean Grey, Rachel Grey, Emma Frost and even Professor X. It single-handedly defeated Galactus. It can absorb energy, including the life-force of a being or the energy of a sun.
5. Franklin Richards
One of the rare omega-level mutants, Franklin Richards, the son of Reed Richards and Sue Storm, has the ability to warp reality and control the fundamental forces of the universe. It is said that his power equals that of the Celestials. He first appeared in Fantastic Four Annual #6 (1968) and is quite possibly the strongest mutant to ever exist.
4. Eternity
First appearing in Strange Tales #138, Eternity, the twin brother of Infinity and the sibling of Death and Oblivion, is the very embodiment of time. Greater than Galactus, he can manipulate space, time, and reality.
3. Living Tribunal
Created by Stan Lee, Marie Severin and Herb Trimpe, The Living Tribunal is so powerful that even Thanos with the Infinity Gauntlet dares not to engage him in combat. His power is absolutely limitless and he is able to erase entire realities from existence. However, The Living Tribunal has died fighting Beyonder before.
2. Beyonder
A near omnipotent and vastly powerful entity, Beyonder first appeared in Secret Wars #1. He is so strong that all the Marvel abstracts, celestials, supreme cosmic beings, and The Living Tribunal are at his mercy. He is second only to One-Above-All.
1. One-Above-All
One-Above-All, who first appeared in Doctor Strange #13, is the most powerful and the most mysterious character in the Marvel multiverse. He is believed to represent the creators of Marvel and has taken the form of Jack Kirby. The One-Above-All is omnipotent, omniscient, and omnipresent.
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I’m surprised the Scarlet Witch is nowhere in that list, considering that she can treat reality like an etch-a-sketch. Her son, Wiccan, is supposed to grow up to be the Demiurge and set magic free.
True. Scarlet Witch should probably be on the list.
sentry rape hecules, where is?
I’m sorry but the Phoenix Force should be number 1. Or the very least above Frankilin Rhichards. I never saw that kid do anything in the comics. Every FF comic so far he is just too weak.
Also no Jean Grey???? She is omega level and the most know powerful mutant there is.
Spiderman is the best one ever of all them.
You think about Jean Grey while I’m thinking about David Haller, The Legion. Since he has every power and yet a single separate character controls each one of his power and he is also an Omega, I think he should be there too.
she cant be number 1. literally none can beat the one above all
How do you figure that the Phoenix Force should be first when it doesn’t have infinite power and doesn’t hold a candle to beings like the One above all , Living Tribunal or the Beyonder who is the total sum and creator force of his own universe ?
Jean Grey embodies the Phoenix force, for the sake of the list they’re the same. Jean Grey needs the Phoenix force to be comparable to the other characters on this list anyways.
And no, it is absolutely absurd to believe the Phoenix force is anywhere near first place. You could make a good argument that it is superior to Franklin, though, as they were both capable of defeating Galactus. However, Richards is consistently shown to be more powerful and subdued Galactus with a lot more ease. I’d have to give the edge to Richards, at least when he is at the peak of his power.
Professor x can control anyone by entering their mind, including Jean
Scarlet Witch will most likely not be number one. One Above All is literally the representation of the creators of Marvel. There is no possibility she would be able to compete with him. Her existence would be completely wiped out.
Franklin revived Galactus, and killed a celestial with a single punch, he went back in time to teach himself tonise his powers and basically became twice as strong
Jean Grey is technically the Phoenix Force
Actually, the most powerful being is everyone. Because, well, comic logic
Ummm.Yeah no the Phoenix is not that powerful. Stop lying to you’re self.Also Jean is an omega level Mutant that’s true but she dies A LOT so no she doesn’t deserve to be on the list. Franklin Richards has done a lot in comics he’s way way more powerful then Jean. He has done in comics
1) He made Galaxy’s his herald and rose him from nothing.
2) He creates pocket universes like no joke. The kid goes in his room makes universes and puts them in his pocket. Jeans a joke compared to him
3) He made a counter Universe and brought every hero there so they wouldn’t die.
So tell me how he doesn’t do “anything” in comic books…..
Now tell me how dose she or the Phoenix are above him also one more thing what are you stupid the Phoenix, above beyonder or TOAA for that matter you’re hilarious…
I think Jesus should be number one…
Now let’s pray.
Lol?
Lol!
Why does everyone get pre-retconned Beyonder wrong? He is more powerful than TOAA. The TOAA is supreme being of the Marvel multiverse, the Beyonder is supreme being of the Beyond Realm. The Beyond Realm was considered to be much greater in size than the Marvel multiverse and was also not considered part of that multiverse either. The comparison was a drop of water in an ocean, with Marvel being the drop and the Beyond Realm being an ocean. Basically you have supreme being vs supreme being, one that hails from a much bigger multiverse and is much greater in power than that very multiverse. (power millions of
times greater than the Marvel multiverse was what was said about him I believe)
If you’re able to find the source, I’ll be happy to have a look through, and possibly update.
The One Above All is not the supreme being of the Marvel multiverse; he/she/it (whatever) is the supreme being of the omniverse, including the DC multiverse, all entertainment universes, etc. Because of this, the Beyonder is stuck at number two
All the stuff about Beyonder was retconned. So it’s not even a part of normal marvel continuity
TOAA is the representation of a collective consciousness of writers, creators, and all those people working at creating entertainment, with his DC name being Overmonitor.
From reading the Marvel wiki on Magus, it seems like a lot is known about Magus …
What about Deadpool, have we all forgotten that he killed everyone in the marvel universe?
deadpool can easily be erased from the earth!!!!
The marquis of death anyone? Should be at least number 3
dude what about molecule man i agree with the list but molecule man has to be in that list also i think gladiator is suppose to be here.
Nice wannabe list fool. Crap internet list that ended up in top placement.
Where the hell is Thanos? I’m in no way saying he should be at the top, but you’d think he’d at least be top 5 or slightly lower.
I feel that the Beyonder should be third on this list and the Living Tribunal should be second since he was created to be second in power to the One Above All and has never gotten his powers stolen by Dr. Doom .
Hercules and vulcan lol wouldn’t be even on the top 200 of my list. There are so many more powerful beings in marvel its ridiculous! Sorry!
But he died by the beyonder he should be third because warlock becomes the new living tribunal
The information is wrong.
Living Tribunal was killed by the Beyonders not Beyonder.
Not a very comprehensive list im sorry to say.
9-15 wouldn’t be even in my top 40 to be honest.
The Magus entry is all wrong. Possibly confused with the other Magus.
This Magus’s son is not Adam warlock. Just Warlock. This Magus is the head of the Technarchy, an alien Techno organic race of beings.
The other Magus is the evil verson of Adam Warlock.
Neither should be on this list though. Well def not in the top 100 if being honest.
WBH should be in place of Skarr. Even Apocalypse’s Horseman version of Hulk was stronger than Skarr.
where the living hell is deadpool he should be on this list. did any one forget he actually murdered almost everyone in the multiverse and he can literally not die.
Well, this is actually wrong. While yes, he did kill everyone regular in the marvel universe, he didn’t kill any truly cosmic entities. He didn’t touch any of them. Besides, any one of these people besides Skaar or Hercules could kill him. All they would have to do is destroy every molecule in his body, which for these people, would be a snap of their fingers.
Marquis of death. He should definitely be on there!
The Molecule Man should be top 5.
Not sure on the exact order of this list , but another thing that I AM certain about involves several of the characters here as well.
And that would be the list for cheesiest, lamest, most over the top, laughably ridiculous while being embarrassingly dumb and just plain old stupidest names ever given to characters in anything. Marvel and DC have always held a monopoly on this with the number one slot still being:
The Living Tribunal. So lame.
One above All….where do I even start. Such depth must have been given to the thought process of coming up with that one. They saved ink in combining name and description.
The Beyonder…Uhhh, okay. Awesome I guess?
Steppenwolf…Wonder what music was playing when that was thought up?
Marvel has some of the coolest names of characters ever as well. Just so hilarious to see the most powerful with the most god awful, unimaginative and laughable, literally laughable names .
The Living Tribunal….HAHAHA! Marvel can steal my tribute of a user name for a final showdown!
Boi,TLT be existing before you’re even a sperm LOL.
Unlike DC. “Lucifer Morningstar” Wonder what they read before that name was thought up? Satanist Books?
“Superman” …Sounds lame af.
“Wonder Woman” She be Wondering.
and “Steppenwolf” is from DC.
LOLLLL
What about rune king thor???
Deadpool should be second, in the comics Deadpool kills the marvel universe, he nearly assasinates every marvel entity and then later turns and looks at the reader and says ” I’ll find you soon enough”. But all in all, one above all should be at the top. He represents the creators.
where is spawn? He killed satan and GOD. You know, christian god. The one that could do anything he wanted to do because he is so powerful. Yeah, spawn killed them, then basically did whatever he wanted without care.
Spawn is not marvel.
spawn isnt marvel looooooooooooooool
Why Fulcrum is omitted from this list? As far as I know he is the second most powerful being in the Marvel Universe. In fact some claim Fulcrum is Jack Kirby. Over here it’s been mentioned that One-Above-All has taken the form of Jack Kirby. I’m bit confused. Can somebody to clarify things.
Im guessing they are basically the same. If you are at that level of power why not just be the Fulcrum instead of TOAA for a day, and then switch back.
“…the Fulcrum is likely an aspect, manifestation, or alternate name of the One-Above-All.
The Fulcrum is an incarnation of Jack Kirby, the well known author who literally created the Celestials and the eternals…”(1)
– (1) https://comicvine.gamespot.com/the-fulcrum/4005-60755/
What about Mickey Mouse… he has the power to make you laugh until your sides hurt.
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also he can buy your soul and bend your reality to his will
A lot wrong with this list
“Hercules, the son of Zeus, is considered the physically strongest character in the entire Marvel universe. He is stronger than both Thor and Hulk, and once pulled the entire island of Manhattan which weighed 99,000,000,000 tons.”
Hmmmm, Herc is physically stronger than Hulk? O-Kay….. *Maybe* before Hulk gets Angry. On that basis, Thor is pretty close to un-angered Hulk, and Algrim/Kurse has More than Twice Thor’s strength. That should put him around twice Hulk’s base level strength too.
Herc is also Not more Powerful than Odin.
The Celestials are more powerful than Odin.
Fulcrum, as others have noted.
Lord Chaos and Master Order?
The Stranger? Surtur?
BTW, wasn’t *The* Beyonder retconned to be one of the race The Beyonders?
Didn’t Protege have the ability to duplicate Any power?
I’m surprised Mr Mar-vel, or Hope who is another Omega-level mutant, she was born with her powers active and gained more as she grew up. She also was the host for the 5th Phoenix (White Phoenix) not to be confused Jean’s later Phoenix of the white room. She was born with 2 powers, by 18 years old she had 7 or more powers. She could man handle Thanos even with his Infinity Gauntlet.
U think storm is as powedul as some of these on the list. While she is busy calling up clouds to cause a lighting strike thor hits her in the face with lighting be ause he is the god of thunder but sure storm who is a mutant that controls wind and pulls clouds together can beat him and he isnt even on the list
I find it hard to believe that Thor isn’t on this list seeing how he passed Odin #13 in every single trial that Odin failed. He the later defeated The Living Tribunal #3 in his later comics. Not to mention the time he enslaved the entire cosmos for 1000 years to “protect” it, then went back in time and stopped himself from doing it.
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Where’s Legion, Scarlet Witch, Ant-Man in some ways too (quantum), Loki who has defeated Surfer, Thor, Hulk should be here especially planet/world breaker seeing as he has no limits to his powers/strength period. And even Vision is seriously powerful alongside the characters Captain Marvel, Adam Warlock and The Kree Empire in general which aren’t so much stand alone powerful but the armies they have are frightening to say the least. Then there’s the likes of genius powerful- Like the saying you don’t need superpowers to be a hero or even a massive threat universally and people like Ironman, Reed Richards, Von Doom and Moongirl could think of devastating ways to cause serious drama if they went the other way or had bad intentions.
Star Lord is also by far more powerful than a lot of this list massively being a celestial due to his father the living planet Ego who’d stomp a lot solo being one himself. You then have the likes of White Queen Phoenix, Silver Surfer is more powerful than many here too. Squirrel Girls defeated Thanos so she’s a candidate. Invisible Womans not most powerful but she has beaten Jean Grey before and so too has Emma Frost. The only reason I mention the few non god like X-Men characters is for one Storm hurt Surfer twice and that’s hard to do. Damn even Spiderman surprise one shot him off his board (no I am not confusing them as all powerful god or skyfather beings i’m simply stating define most powerful) most powerful at what exactly even the best can fall to people you’d never expect to get hits in never mind win. Talking of Skyfathers also pretty sure Hela would end mostly all this list the exceptions being the top 3 t 5 never mind the fact The Collector wipe out an entire race of elites single handed so that’s power there. Christ The Collector makes Thanos look silly in terms of raw power and even Thanos deserves to be on this list. There’s loads others but it’d take all day.
My ex wife would be #1 she has the ability to crush a man’s soul and bleed their wallet dry
That power only works on weaklings.
Molecule man whopped the Beyonders ass and he’s not on the lists? PITIFUL
Why wasn’t storm included in the list she has the ability use weather elements to her ability also Thor did not make the list being the son of Odin those 2 together would be a formidable force as they could combine their powers
Hulk killed death and all the super heroes and villains then resurrected his wife and son so he should be up there
What a great list thank you. Deadpool definitely missing tho.
The One Below all?
Runescape Thor should definitely be on this list if Worldbreaker Hulk is, he either defeated or rivaled the Beyonders, and is 2x as powerful as Oden.
Franklin Richard should be 2 cause he has named 2 strongest according to marvel
why is’nt The Impossible man on the list?
Why isn’t David Haller (Legion) on the list, didn’t he like snap gods out of existence. He’s got to be at least above 10.
Yeah…Haller can rip apart a universe with but a simple thought. The dude can not only atom by atom rip a universe but the man also has instantaneous awareness/access to the multiverse–NOW THATS ABSOLUTE POWER. Good mention dude; I’m backing your play!
Yes sir he is easy top 10 and I’m pretty sure he is more powerful then even Richards
Thanks, or Kronos should be here as they all powerfull titans, that promise the end of everything 😣
Thanos not thanks
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Hello,to anyone who is saying that “OMFG U STUPID IDIOT HULK IS THA BEST”I have to say that:THANOS WHO WASNT ON THE LIST KICKED HIS ASS SO SHUT UP STUPID 13 YEAR-OLDS!
Hello Rogue can steal anyone on this list’s powers with just a touch!
But they have to be there for her to touch. So by herself she cant beat them because these people are so insanely powerful that she would be killed before she got close. Like some of the ones on this list would be almost impossible to touch if they didnt want touched.
The Marquis of Death destroyed the sun, turning it into like a neutron star or something, and threw at earth destroying it. He did that to millions of planets and universes. He has almost omnipotent power and can easily kill the people from #5-15 on the list. Just my opinion. He doesn’t have that much popularity, only because he doesn’t show up in many comics, although he showed his absolute power in the ones he did.
Stan Lee should be number one.
Silver surfer is top 5 for sure !
WHERE IS DEADPOOL?!
World breaker hulk
Put Dark Phoenix up against the Hulk then come talk to me
These lists are stupid. They’re flavor-of-the-day. All it would take for that list to become obsolete is for a writer to write a new story where (fill-in-with-the-name-of-your-favorite-hero) beats any one of those, and since the Marvel universe “rules” are completely fabricated, complaints will fall on deaf ears and everyone has to accept the “new” reality.
For myself, I say that only the original creator’s say-so about a character is official. Johnny-come-latelys don’t count. I just ignore them…. So the Hulk will always be the most powerful Marvel character. All others are wanna-bees.
Phoenix force clearly referring to the collective, rogue were the stronger of those
Talking smak Spidey wil rule even over the omni potent assassin of beyonder
Brute strength hulk gets outweigh by almost every gamma enfused character that followed (abomination, red hulk)
If its there cosmic or celestial force mar-vel rivals and out weights most other characters
But in all its an ever changing and infinite story-verse