TL;DR Scarlet Witch, Captain Marvel, Thor, and Doctor Strange are frequently mentioned as some of the most powerful superheroes in the MCU. Their power levels vary based on context and specific feats.
Scarlet Witch (Wanda Maximoff)
Scarlet Witch is often cited as one of the most powerful characters due to her reality-warping abilities. She has demonstrated significant power by defeating characters like Captain Marvel from alternate universes with ease [5:6]. Wanda's strength was highlighted in "Multiverse of Madness," where she showcased her dominance over other powerful beings
[5:4]. Agatha Harkness even stated that the full power of the Scarlet Witch exceeds that of the Sorcerer Supreme
[5:8].
Captain Marvel
Captain Marvel is considered one of the strongest due to her immense energy manipulation and superhuman abilities. While she is high on offense and defense, some argue that Scarlet Witch surpasses her in terms of raw power [5:3]. However, Captain Marvel's resilience and versatility make her a formidable force in the MCU
[5:10].
Thor
Thor, the God of Thunder, is renowned for his physical prowess and control over lightning. He ranks high among the powerful heroes due to his durability and combat skills [5]. His ability to wield Mjolnir and Stormbreaker adds to his might, making him a key player in battles against cosmic threats
[4:1].
Doctor Strange
Doctor Strange is known for his mastery of the mystic arts, which allows him to manipulate time and space. He held his own against Thanos, who possessed multiple Infinity Stones, showcasing his strategic use of magic [5:3]. Although he lacks the raw power of others, his magical expertise makes him a critical asset in the MCU
[5:5].
Other Powerful Characters
While not strictly superheroes, characters like Dormammu, The Watcher, and Infinity Ultron are mentioned for their immense power [3:1]. These beings operate on a cosmic scale, influencing entire galaxies and dimensions. Additionally, entities like Eternity and Arishem hold significant sway in the universe
[4:5], though they are not typically classified as superheroes.
In conclusion, the most powerful superheroes in the MCU are often debated, with Scarlet Witch, Captain Marvel, Thor, and Doctor Strange frequently topping lists due to their unique abilities and feats.
Scarlet Witch is a reality warper not to mention she has an entire prophecy dedicated to her I’m sure she’s more powerful than sentry/void
We don’t really know if her powers are just illusions are reality warping, but if it is the latter, she could theoretically beat Loki.
MCU Death seems kinda weak to me, ngl. Especially when compared to Death in other media. The antrophomorphic representation of Death shouldn't have to ask pretty please to collect a soul.
Call her weak, but in the end all 6 of these characters lose to her. Wanda already has.
Dormammu????
I was wondering this one too. I mean, he iced Strange countless times who really only won by time loop frustration...
I mean, if we aren’t counting people like the one above all (kangs title in the TVA,) celestials, Eternity, ETC it makes sense not to mention Dormammu.
I don't disagree, and would add that he's kind in the same category as upper echelon Celestials, if we're including beings on that scale.
Shouldn’t K.E.V.I.N. be up there somewhere?
With great power, comes great responsibility 😔
Once Franklin appears it'll definitely be him.
So I put together a post of what I think are the top 10 most powerful characters that we've seen on screen so far in the MCU, let me know what you guys think of the list and who would make your top 10.
Surtur is immensely powerful and he demonstrated this by destroying Asgard and Hela who in her own right is immensely powerful.
Odin in his prime was incredibly powerful and its a shame we didn't get to see more of Odin in him prime on screen. Hell even old man Odin is still a force to he reckoned with. He goes in above Surtur as he was able to stop Surtur from initiating Ragnarock until his death.
We've only seen a few Celestials on screen in the MCU (Ego*, Eson, Tiamut and Arishem) Ego is defeated easily enough by the GOTG, we only see a short clip or Eson, Tiamut is stopped from awakening by the Eternals, so Arishem makes the list. Arishem being a Celestial means he pretty much destroys everyone below him on the list with the exception of maybe Kang depending on how powerful Marvel Studios decides to make him.
We've not really seen much of Dormammu on screen either, but that doesn't take away from how powerful he is. Don't forget Doctor Strange never defeated him he just managed to convince him to leave by using the time stone. This dude rules the Dark Dimension which is essentially a universe so Dormammu beats everyone below him on the list rather easily.
Now we're getting into characters that have the power to destroy universes. We never really seen Thanos use the IG to its potential which kinda keeps him from being higher up on the list. However this guy still wiped half of the life in the universe which is no small feat.
Kang is kinda hard to place on this list. Considering he created the TVA which was using infinity stones as paper weights indicates that he is immensely powerful and should be placed much higher up on this list. However we haven't really seen much of him on screen to indicate how powerful he is so we're kinda left guessing.
Edit After further thought, I've moved Kang from number 8 to number 5. He was powerful enough to weaponize Aliath which was destroying entire worlds, and considering he was controlling entire timelines I think that places him above Thanos on the list.
Was I the only one who was slightly surprised with how powerful the Watcher was portrayed in the MCU? This guy went toe to toe with Infinity Ultron who used the Infinity stones much better than Thanos did which is why he goes above him on this list.
Wanda hasn't really explored the full potential of her powers yet which is what keeps her from topping this list. We know she's a nexus being along with the Watcher, and even though I don't think she beats him right now that could all change after MOM. If she finally masters her full power there's no doubt she's above everyone else on this list.
I mean this dude destroyed an entire universe what else is there really to say. We know Wanda's power trumps Doctor Stange's, but I don't think it trumps Strange Supreme's (not yet anyway). We haven't seen Wanda become aware of any cosmic entities as of yet, whereas Strange Supreme's cosmic awareness is so great he is able to perceive The Watcher. He is the most powerful being we've seen on screen in the MCU.... well except for one.
Honestly it was so dope to see Ultron demonstrate what he was really capable of in What If, as I think he was a bit of a disappointment in AOU. I mean this guy decimated Thanos wielding 5 stones, and that was before he even got a full set of stones. Once he did he stated that he was able to wipe out universes with just a thought. It took the combined efforts of The Watcher, Strange Supreme, and the Guardians of the Multiverse just to stop him and if they didn't it is well stated that he would've wiped out the entirety of the multiverse.
Strictly MCU
Kinda expected it go to go to ten after reading the first one. 1.?
what do you mean?
how do I get out of this
Obviously the most powerful character in the MCU is Ant-Man when he finally works up the courage to do the butt thing.
With "What if" introducing a whole lot of new extremely powerful characters, just wondering what people think are the new top 5 most powerful characters in the mcu (on screen, be it Movies or disney+ shows). For me it would be
I know my list may well be far off, but just off the top of my head this is what I came up with. I feel I may be short changing Dormammu. But what are you guys thoughts??
Ultron infinite. Galaxy level AP, MFTL, retcon punches, soul, mind,reality and time haxes so ultron is pretty much the most OP char
thanos with the IG. Pretty much the same powers as ultron, just on a less destructive scale
Dormammu. Basically the physical manifestation of dark dimension who casually conquers planets and blows holes through planetoids with his laser breath and also has casual planetoid level TK. Ancient one with power drawn from him could split a timeline
the watcher. Could tank a galaxy level explosion and retcon punches to his face without a scratch.
Scarlet witch. Reality warper with TP. nuff said
Captain marvel. A basic heavy hitter, can be planetary when needed
these are the most powerful mcu characters
Dark strange collapsed a reality, should that not at least put him above captain marvel
>Dark strange collapsed a reality, should that not at least put him above captain marvel
he didn't collapse anything, breaking an absolute point resulted in the collapse of reality. That is not equal to collapsing a reality
If we talk about What if.... Captain Marvel is pretty powerful too. I'd say at 4 maybe And thanos with Infinity gauntlet didnt last for a minute with Ultvision
Yeah she was a tough one to place, its hard to assume that all thanos are equal. The what if thanos did get no diffed by infinity ultron where what if captain marvel did survive somewhat. But I placed mcu thanos there as he has more viable feats
ultron toyed with CM lol, he stood there like a statue and let her attack and then casually overpowered and one shotted her
keep a blank space for Jean Grey when the mutants get the Feige treatment.
I just hope the xmen get the treatment they deserve. 3rd times the charm with dark phoenix.
Exactly. I always see people saying that they shouldn't do Dark Phoenix anymore. But I disagree. It's still one of Marvel's best and most iconic storylines ever. I wanna see a proper adaption of that saga in the MCU. I think they can do it right. And they can keep Hans Zimmer's score😆
Spoilers for LTBC
>!Eddie Brock. Mans literally travelled to the MCU from another universe on his hotel bed!<
That's the most logical take. >!Venom literally decided to just fucking move multiverses.!<
Honestly though I wouldn't even be surprised(though I wouldn't exactly like the effect it would have on the first and second movies) if >!Venom 1 and 2 were just delusions of Eddies and he has been in the MCU the entire time!<
We don’t know if Venom is in the MCU or if Tom Holland Spider-Man is in the Venom-verse.
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Eternity? Dormammu? Arishem? Uatu? The Living Tribunal?
Magnus (Warlock), Annihilus, Elders of the Universe, Ego, Gladiator, Omega Mutants.........
Rune King Thor, Beyonder, Molecule Man, the Watchers, World Breaker Hulk, the freaking One Above All………
Sue Storm is pregnant with the most powerful character.
With Thor's power, I think he could use them. Not in excess
Didn't Captain Carter wield them? I didn't finish What If..?, but I feel like I've seen images of her wielding them.
I would add cap America when he was returning the stones. Dude had mjolnir, pym particles, infinity stones, star tech, his shield and his usual super soldier serum
The mjolnir and star tech is something. None of the others could be used by him
Knull’s introduction will forever be horrible with how the comics did it
Knull is shit villain in comics too so not much different
Honestly I think what they did with him in Last Dance was really good. If he’d lost it would’ve been absolute plot armor.
You forgot Death and Eternity
Who do you think is the most powerful MCU superhero and why?
I think it goes down like this: Captain Marvel > Thor > Dr. Strange > Scarlet Witch > Hulk.
From what we've seen, Dr. Starnge and Scarlet Witch are high on offense, but low on defense as they are glass cannon which makes Captain Marvel and Thor more stronger than them.
Scarlet Witch > Dr Strange > Captain Marvel > Thor > Hulk
Dr Strange was able to match Thanos while he held 3 Infinity Stones. Raw power is useless if you can't get a hit in.
So was Iron Man but nobody is realistically listing Iron Man here. Because we all know Thanos wasn't trying with the Infinity Stones.
Dr Strange lost against Thanos's sorceror. Let alone against Thanos himself with the Infinity Stones if he were trying. He's up there still, but he's not actually competing against the stones.
How did Dr Strange match Thanos? He held Thanos off for about 20 seconds before Thanos had him by the throat. Thanos could have snapped his neck if he wanted to kill him
Anyone saying captain marvel hasn't seen multiverse of madness. No spoilers but there is a fight in that film that clearly shows who is stronger.
Doesn’t Agatha straight up say in WandaVision that the full power of the Scarlet Witch exceed the Sorcerer Supreme?
Yes, but also the ancient one said that Strange is the best of all of them, including the sorcerer supreme, which is wong.
That line doesn't make sense. Sorcerer Supreme is a job title. Wong is currently sorcerer supreme, but Strange is definitely more powerful.
Wanda straight up killed the 838 version of Captain Marvel with little effort, she is straight up the strongest person in the MCU.
she is straight up the strongest person in the MCU
Easy there, Eternity would chew her up and spit out red dust, she may be a powerful character but she's nowhere near the most powerful.
Hulk is for sure at the bottom of this list because he can only really do 1 thing, super strength. Everyone else seems to have multiple abilities. Well I guess magic is just 1 but its sort of an exception because... magic!
After everything we have seen up until this point. Imho it’s Dormammu. Even though he was “defeated” by Strange he wasn’t destroyed just took a deal. But I don’t think anyone can top his overwhelming level at this point - what do you think?
Time traveling Captain America is the most powerful character in the MCU. As Ultron said.. Cap can’t live without a war. Cap doesn’t have to put the stones back first (he was def playing coy with Sam). I’d also point out that the concept of all 6 stones being bonded to mjolnir, similar to how Ronan bonded the power stone to the cosmi-rod, was recently introduced to the comics. In a 2019 comic the Black Winter gives Thor a vision of Thanos in the future wielding mjolnir with all 6 stones bonded to it. If Cap does this he could be omnipresent/omniscient and infinitely powerful. I’d imagine a day in Cap’s life.. he kisses Peggy goodbye at 9am, teleports through spacetime, smashes planets that are threatening future Earth with power stone activated mjolnir, teleports back home at 5pm for dinner with Peggy lol.
The new Thor comics are crazy - did he see Thanos and all the avengers were dead? I have to reread that issue. Thor also kills black winter and galactus so he moved up big time on the list for me
Yeah, he saw them dead.. however I don’t think it’s the actual future, only a possible future. The goal was to send Thor into a binge drinking depression I think. Thor st8 sentences Galactus to death and uses his body as a bomb lol
afaik, and I may be wrong, but scarlet witch created an infinity stone. She's pretty powerful, though she can't really control her powers to the highest degree yet
Im going to go with dormammu unless they do introduce God of chaos cthon where Scarlett witch gets her Magick from
Big question after WandaVision is if Wanda Maximoff actually recreated the mind stone for Vision or just the illusion of one.
1)dormammu 2)odin 3)ego 4)hela 5)thanos (none of them with stones)
I like this list - but nowhere is a celestials head, can we count them yet? Lol - maybe this list will change after Eternals
Yes knowhere, grandmaster and collector can be very strong but looks like they are just for fun in MCU
I think thanos’ army is what makes him as strong as he is.
Also, it’s clear that Wanda got way more powerful after Wandavision (and she almost killed 2014 thanos before) so Wanda right now is definitely stronger than the 2014 thanos.
Thor could also kill thanos. If he simply went for the head thanos would be dead. The fact that thanos was still able to snap wasn’t because of Thor’s lack of strength, it was a miscalculation.
Similar to how dormammu’s miscalculation with dr. Strange doesn’t make him weaker than strange
> I think thanos’ army is what makes him as strong as he is.
Yes maybe but Odin could defeat him in 1 v 1 ( he has odinforce also )
> Also, it’s clear that Wanda got way more powerful after Wandavision (and she almost killed 2014 thanos before) so Wanda right now is definitely stronger than the 2014 thanos.
Yes she's not fully learned and may become as strong as Odin after some time
> Thor could also kill thanos. If he simply went for the head thanos would be dead. The fact that thanos was still able to snap wasn’t because of Thor’s lack of strength, it was a miscalculation.
No way thor could kill thanos. Thor was in his prime in endgame and thanos even without the gauntlet was easily beating him along with iron man and cap
> Similar to how dormammu’s miscalculation with dr. Strange doesn’t make him weaker than strange
Dr strange had the stone. No one in MCU till now can defeat Dormammu without stone
The One Above All (Stan Lee)
With everyone at the strongest we’ve seen so far my top 10 is:
Hey I know this is an old thread but I'm just curious why you put Starlord on the top 10 when you're missing characters like War Machine, Winter Solider, Antman, Wasp, Wong, Valkyrie and possibly more.
I was originally just gonna make this a “who’s winning a free for all,” between these characters, so if you’d rather just do that be my guest. I assume it’s a toss up between Abomination and Juggernaut but I genuinely have no clue. Main reason for this post is just the fact I don’t know how these characters match up.
Like obviously Thor, Blue Marvel, Sentry, and Hulk kinda take the cake for the strongest heroes in the Marvel universe, but what about the 2nd string? (Not all heroes, but I’m curious about Jug and Abom too).
So yeah, either way lol. Rank em or just lmk who’s the strongest/weakest outta these guys.
Also I know Juggernaut kinda becomes the strongest thing.. ever, when he starts to get some momentum. But I’m sorta talking baseline strength. If you wanna answer who’s winning the free for all then ofc take that into account, but if you’re just ranking strength Juggernaut doesn’t get that instant win.
Abomination has fallen off the ranks a lot recently and She Hulk lost her Amps. Her amp from the Slott run got retconned when she lost a weight lifting contest to Ben and she dumped off the amp she got from the celestials.
Current Juggs is at like 80% power due to cyttorak Rings I think
I don't think Abomination has gotten weaker. I think Hulk just climbed too high
In recent run, he fought on par with Immortal Thor who had Odin Force and Zeus Bolt and should be above Odin in power. Hulk strength has skyrocketed in last decade and so much to match the likes of Odin or even Celestial.
>Current Juggs is at like 80% power due to cyttorak Rings I think
IIRC, he's supposedly back to normal power levels after using the crimson bands to absorb the shards of the Gem
Juggernaut, Abomination, thing, she-hulk, Colossas
By catch phrase:
Correct.
I support making "Give me a Real fight" Blonsky's catch phrase
1.Jug 2. abomination 3/shulk/thing 4. colossus
hi guys im excited to see your guesses about the strongest mcu charecters
Ummmmm either Dr.Strange, Scarlet Witch,or Captain marvel
Definitely Captain Marvel, followed by Thor, then Scarlet Witch (though I could be convinced to switch these two).
Though, in an actual fight, Strange trumps basically everyone else because he can just push them to the Mirror dimension and call it.
Idk, Fit Thor, Captain Marvel, Dr Strange, and Wanda all can do a lot of damage in a lot of different ways.
Strange or Wanda.
Slight edge to Strange but we might get our answer in Doctor Strange 2
I think Wanda has the most potential
Hulk or Quake.
i agree with hulk. AFAIK, his power knows no limits and grows exponentially with his rage level..
Most powerful superheroes in the MCU
Key Considerations for Powerful Superheroes in the MCU:
Powers and Abilities: Consider the range of powers, including superhuman strength, speed, durability, and unique abilities (e.g., magic, technology).
Combat Skills: Evaluate their fighting skills and experience in battle, which can enhance their effectiveness in confrontations.
Intelligence and Strategy: Some superheroes possess high intelligence and strategic thinking, allowing them to outsmart opponents.
Cosmic Entities: Characters with cosmic powers or connections to the universe often rank higher due to their vast abilities.
Top Powerful Superheroes in the MCU:
Scarlet Witch (Wanda Maximoff):
Doctor Strange:
Thor:
Hulk (Bruce Banner):
Captain Marvel (Carol Danvers):
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Takeaway: The most powerful superheroes in the MCU often combine raw power with intelligence and unique abilities. Scarlet Witch and Doctor Strange are frequently highlighted for their reality-altering capabilities, while Thor and Captain Marvel are recognized for their immense strength and combat prowess.
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