a ranking of superheroes with super strength
note: not including thor, bc he’s an alien, and not including the hulk, bc he has a distinct size advantage and we’re not sure how much that affects how strong he actually is.
also, i just went with the people i remembered off the top of my head, bc frankly super strength is too common of a power, so yes i’m aware that i probably missed a lot. this is meant to be fun not to take shots at any of them (i might have Opinions™ but i tried to keep those at bay. it didn’t really work. but still.)
list goes from least strongest to strongest
- steve rogers (aka captain america). 1/10 on the super strength scale. baby. can break a punching bag, bend some rusty metal if he’s trying really hard, and maybe throw bad guys a few feet further than a normal very strong highly trained person from the mcu. shouldn’t even count imo (listen i love him but his super strength? a joke tbh)
- luther hargreeves (aka spaceboy). tv show, not comics (sorry :/ ). 1.5/10 on the super strength scale. breaks a statue, tosses a few people around, shoves off a chandelier easy enough, doesn’t seem to have trouble with any of it, but nothing really more than any of that? at least that i can remember. i tried looking for scenes he used his strength, but didn’t have much luck. honestly if anything he seemed more powerful when he was a kid and yeeted that robber out the bank windows near the ceiling so hard that he definitely wasn’t getting back up again once he hit the ground vs. when he was an adult and threw hazel maybe a good few feet and through a wall, which he basically shook off tbh. also have to take into account the serum, which could give him either an advantage or a disadvantage in this aspect. lead to believe that it’s the former, but we don’t know for sure. not counting what he did to vanya w the hug bc a) he hurt her, but didn’t seriously injure her, and b) we don’t talk about that scene goddamnit that shouldn’t have been allowed. overall, not very impressive, literally any of the others should’ve been chosen to be the leader/number one if they were going based on powers (no offense buddy)
- bob parr (aka mr. incredible). solid 3/10 on the super strength scale. a lad. caught a speeding train. can pull freight trains and lift loaded vehicles and rooted trees with little difficulty. one of the ogs.
- peter parker (aka spider-man). mcu version. tentative 4/10 on the super strength scale, i’m tempted to go lower. doing his best. lifted a building off of himself from a position that gave him a severe disadvantage in doing so, not long after receiving his powers, though we aren’t sure how long exactly. kept a loaded ferry from completely falling apart, though with great difficulty, and pulled a full elevator upward with, i think, like a medium amount of difficulty. hard to judge bc it’s not a power he showcases very obviously very often, other than the aforementioned incidents and a couple other instances.
- cindy collins (aka princess). 8/10 on the super strength scale. a queen. lifted five tons (approx. 10k lbs. or 4535.924 kg) above her head without breaking a sweat as a six year old. then proceeded to throw a whole ass forklift with at least 8.75 tons in weights stacked on it with great accuracy. (so approx. 26.5k lbs. in total or 12020.198 kg) ((sorry this was the only thing i was able to do actual calculations for)) used what i’m p sure was a giant windmill as a baseball bat. did not seem to have trouble with any of this. as previously mentioned, she was six when she did all of this. powers probably grew with age and training. should be more recognized bc she’s amazing.
-will stronghold (no superhero name). we’re not ranking his dad bc i don’t feel like it. also not ranking the stone guy from his class bc again size advantage. 9/10 on the super strength scale. an absolute idiot, but impressive nonetheless. (listen i love him but you can’t tell me he’s not an idiot) can easily throw people, bend solid metal lampposts, and separate doors from walls without trying. caught an entire school filled to the brim with students, staff, alumni, buses, machinery, etc., plus the school grounds, that together almost covered an entire neighborhood, as it was falling out of the sky at extreme speeds, only a few weeks after first getting his powers. had little trouble with it all things considered. again, powers probably grew with age and training. i maintain the stance that we were robbed with the cancellation of the sky high series.
still holding out for a 10/10 lmk if you find one
