Unlike DC Comics, Marvel has a hierarchy system with characters acting on their responsibilities. However, some do not belong to this system, as they are way more powerful than these characters, and sometimes, they come out from the Marvel Comic book Universe.
Once upon a time, Thanos became the strongest being in the Marvel Universe by possessing Infinity Gauntlet. But he is far from making it into a Top 15 list of powerful characters from the Marvel comics. With the expansion of the Comic Book Universe, Marvel has introduced more deadly and far more superior characters than the Mad Titan.
So, today, we will disclose the 15 Most Powerful Characters in Marvel Comics, and we can assure you that some of them have not even been known to you so far.
15 Most Powerful Characters From Marvel Comics:
Marvel Comics has many characters, each with unique abilities and strengths. However, some characters stand out as the most powerful, possessing incredible strength, speed, intelligence, and other abilities that make them virtually unstoppable. Here, we will look at the 15 most powerful characters from Marvel Comics.
1. One Above All:
The absolute supreme being in Marvel Comics is One Above All. After debuting in Doctor Strange #13, he does not appear that many.
Talking about his superpowers, this cannot be explained easily as he can do anything he wants at any moment. He is the actual god in Marvel Comics and is the ultimate source of good and evil. He has appeared in different forms at different times and is the one who commands another power cosmic being, The Living Tribunal.
However, very few cosmic beings came across this omnipotent, omnipresent, and omniscient in Marvel Comics, and Thanos, Adam Warlock, Spiderman, and Fantastic Four are those lucky ones. One Above All represents the Marvel comics’ creators, Jack Kirby, and Stan Lee.
2. One Below All:
The One Below All is the counterpart of the One Above All and is as old as Marvel’s strongest being. This malevolent cosmic entity is trapped in the Below-Place, the lowest level of hell, and the dimensional Green Door only blocks him from coming to the multiverse. Even though he seems evil, he is the actual source of gamma energy in the Marvel Universe.
Few details are available about One-Below-All, just like his sibling, One Above All. However, no one has survived after seeing the true form of One-Below-All, as those who witness it are destroyed.
3. Beyonder:
The Beyonder is a character from Marvel Comics and originated from an infinite realm beyond Marvel’s Multiverse. This troubled character possesses limitless power, as he physically embodies the Beyond universe. He easily killed The Living Tribunal without using that much power. He once took over an entire planet by just thinking about it. His abilities include regenerating, manipulating matter, teleporting anywhere, and doing anything he desires.
However, he has some psychological complexities which sometimes drive him to be a superhero and sometimes turns into a being who wants to destroy everything. The Beyonder was properly introduced in the Secret Wars II comic.
Recent rumors suggest that the character may appear in the MCU as a variant of Kang in the Secret Wars or the Kang Dynasty. If it happens, it will be an epic moment for Marvel fans.
4. The First Firmament:
The First Firmament is a cosmic entity as old as the One-Above-All and One-Below-All. He became the first physical manifestation of reality, time, space, and the universe. He is also often called the ‘first cosmos’ and the creator of Celestials. The First Firmament also absorbed the ‘second cosmos’ and was directly involved in creating Oblivion, Death, Living Tribunal, Power Cosmic, and Brother Yin.
He may be one of the strongest beings, but not as powerful as his siblings, One-Above-All and One-Below-All. However, he is involved in creating Marvel Multiverse, or to be precise, Marvel’s Comic book universe.
5. Oblivion:
Oblivion, the manifestation of the galactic void, is a cosmic abstract and one of the most powerful beings. This Galactic Void existed before the creation of the multiverse.
He is so powerful that another powerful, evil, and exiled god, Mikaboshi, extracts power from him. Oblivion’s true self cannot leave the outer void, if he does, that reality will crumble. With sustaining so much cosmic power, he is omnipotent, omnipresent, and nigh-omniscient in his true state.
Some comic books suggest that he is stronger than Living Tribunal, but his limitations force him not to cause chaos in the Multiverse of Marvel Comics.
6. The Living Tribunal:
Stan Lee, Marie Severin, and Herb Trimpe jointly introduced The Living Tribunal in the Strange Tales comic edition of 1967. During Thanos’ Infinity quest, it became clear that The Living Tribunal represents the authority in the Marvel universe. He only takes orders from the One Above All.
The full extent of the Living Tribunal’s powers and abilities are unimaginable and unexplored. He can erase any reality from existence at any moment. His sole purpose is to judge the actions at the cosmic level to maintain stability.
7. Molecule Man:
Even though Molecule Man is one of the strongest characters in Marvel comics, he has chronic insecurity. This makes him a very unstable and hard-to-deal-with supervillain. After debuting in Fantastic Four #20, Owen Reece, a laboratory technician, turned into Molecule Man after a lab accident.
Molecule Man’s abilities allow him to control and manipulate all energy molecules mentally. He can also create force fields, shoot energy blasts, and even create wormholes to travel faster than light. He is simply a cosmic-level threat that gave hard times to the Avengers on different occasions. However, he has turned into an anti-hero in recent issues.
8. Franklin Richards:
The son of Mr. Fantastic and Invisible Woman, Franklin Richards, is the strongest mutant and one of the strongest being in the Marvel Universe. His omega-level mutant abilities allow him total control over the universe’s fundamental forces. This is just part of it, as he possesses many psychic powers. He even can resurrect the dead and create worlds.
However, Reed Richards always tries to suppress his son’s powers as he is too young to have such power. Recent rumors suggest that Franklin Richards will debut in the upcoming MCU Phase VI film, Fantastic Four. It may be an epic moment for Marvel’s first superhero family.
9. Evil Strange:
After first appearing in Disney Plus’s What If…? series. Evil Strange has gained vast popularity for his overpowered abilities. However, his tragic backstory has turned him into an evil version of Doctor Strange.
To revive his love interest Christian Palmer, this Doctor Strange variant consumed multiple mystic beings from different universes for centuries. In the end, the reality of his universe collapsed after he disrupted the timeline too many times.
At the end of Marvel’s What If…? series, Evil Strange assisted Multiverse’s Guardians in defeating Infinity Ultron to save the Multiverse from collapsing.
10. Infinity Ultron:
MCU did not use the full potential of Ultron as the supervillain was used as a missed opportunity in the Age of Ultron. However, Marvel Studios’ What If…? season 1 in 2021 introduced the strongest version of the character so far.
He has different overpowered abilities like Supernatural strength, Supernatural mobility, Supernatural durability, Anti-gravitokinesis, Flight, Concussion beams, and Mind transfer. After implanting the Infinity stones in his body, he also obtained the abilities like Energy projection, Nigh-omniscience, Nigh-omnipotence, Reality warping, Ergokinesis, Multiversal transcendence, and also Cosmic awareness.
All these abilities made him a Multiverse level of threat. After easily defeating the Watcher, he started breaking into other realities to seek more new challenges. Season 1 of the What If…? Disney+ show ended with defeating him at the hands of other heroes.
11. Michael Korvac:
One of the lesser-known supervillains, Michael Korvac, was introduced by many writers on different occasions in different manners. The character came from the mind of Steve Gerber and Jim Starlin and debuted in Giant-Size Defenders #3 in 1975. However, Roger Stern and Jim Shooter reintroduced Korvac in Marvel comics.
Korvac’s insane ability to absorb any energy from any source makes him a cosmic-level threat. He once absorbed the entire energy from Galactus’ ship and became one of the strongest in the Marvel Universe. He has the potential to unlock an infinite amount of power within himself.
12. Galactus:
Ninth on our list is none other than the devourer of the planets, Galactus, who is one of the strongest cosmic supervillains in the Marvel Universe. His infinite hunger for energy drives him to devour planets with rich life forms.
Two legendary comic book writers, Stan Lee, and Jack Kirby, created Galactus and introduced him in The Fantastic Four #48 in 1966. This purple supervillain possesses a limitless amount of cosmic energy and shares the slightest part of his cosmic energy with the “Heralds of Galactus”. Their sole duty is to find planets to satisfy their master’s hunger.
13. Cyttorak:
Cyttorak is a powerful being described as a god and demon in Marvel Comics and shares a fraction of power with Juggernaut. His origin story has not yet been revealed, but he is surely an evil and powerful being banished to the Omniverse.
Even powerful sorcerers like Doctor Strange, The Ancient One, and Dormammu borrow magic from him. After debuting in 1964’s Strange Tales #124, this cosmic evil supervillain does not appear too many times in the pages of comics.
14. The Phoenix Force:
Our 11th on our list is not a character but a cosmic force that has turned Jean Grey mad on different occasions.
In the comics, this powerful unknown cosmic entity always manifests itself by using a host. The Phoenix Force grants its host immeasurable power that allows him to manipulate a vast amount of cosmic energy.
Jean Grey is the most famous and notorious in its long list of hosts. Phoenix Force can travel in time and space and absorb any energy. During The Avengers vs. X-Men storyline, Phoenix Force amplified the basic abilities of each host. This powerful, immortal entity was first created by Chris Claremont and Dave Cockrum and introduced to Marvel Comics in 1976’s The Uncanny X-Men #101.
15. Mikaboshi:
Amatsu-Mikaboshi is the Japanese god of chaos and evil and a primordial being. He is an aspect of Oblivion with the sole purpose is to putting an end to the creation and beginning a new age of chaos and void.
Mikaboshi was almost successful in achieving his goal but was sealed off in time to a realm. He now dwells in an endless nothingness for all of eternity. He is an extremely powerful cosmic being and has defeated Zeus once in the comics.
Honorable Mentions:
Without these Marvel characters, some have missed out our list, but we gave mentioned them in this segment:
- The Fulcrum
- Black Winter
- The Brothers Yin and Yang
- Infinity
- Death
- Eternity
- Proteus
- Vishanti
- Vulcan
- Apocalypse
- Magus
- Rachel Summers
- Sentry
- Hyperion
- Gladiator
- Legion
- Celestials
However, some of the above characters are more powerful than those from the list. But, we have decided to exclude them due to their lack of appearances in Marvel Comics except on some special occasions.
Conclusion:
We hope you have enjoyed our list as a fan and comic book reader, and most of these have yet to appear in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. It shows that the MCU has a long way to go, as they have some amazing supervillains and overpowered superheroes, which can drive fans crazy.
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