- "His breath can shatter boulders, with one swing he sinks mountains into the earth, the strongest man among men under the heavens. KAN MEI!!!!"
- ― Kan Mei Army's war cheer on their Great General, Kan Mei (Kingdom)
- "Now, we must prepare. These weights are rusted, dust-covered. But they will suffice. For while your power is inherent, my muscles must be earned! And we must both be at our fullest possible strength--so that we may rip Spider-Man into the smallest possible pieces!"
- ― Eddie Brock (Marvel Comics)
The power to possess strength at peak human conditioning. Sub-power of Peak Human Body. Real world version of Enhanced Strength. Not to be confused with 100% Muscle Usage.
Also Called[]
- Immense/Maximum/Superior Human Strength
- Honed Strength
- Peak Physical Strength
- Peak Strength
- Peak-Human Physical Strength
- Honed Physical Strength
- Exceptional Strength
- Exceptionally Strong
- Above-Average Strength
- Above-Athletic Strength
- Above-Ordinary Strength
- High Physical Human Strength
- Immense Physical Human Strength
- Exceptional Physical Strength
- Unusual Strength
- Unusual Physical Strength
- Peak-Human Level of Strength
- Peak of Human Physical Strength
- Near/Nigh/Semi-Enhanced Strength
- Near/Nigh/Semi-Inhuman Strength
- Near/Nigh/Semi-Superhuman Strength
- Sheer Physical Human Strength
- Barbaric Strength
- Enormous Strength
- Enormous Physical Strength
- Impressive Strength
- Brute Physical Strength
- Brute Strength
- Barbaric Physical Strength
- Formidable Strength
- Formidable Physical Strength
- Raw Physical Strength
- Monstrous Strength
- Tremendous Strength
- Vast Physical Strength
- Low-Level Superhuman Strength
Capabilities[]
The user's strength is at maximum human capacity/potential. Users with peak human strength are superior to normal members of their species, often rivaling or surpassing Olympic-level athletes, depending on the universe. They have a highly developed and gifted musculoskeletal system that enables them to lift and withstand weights equal to and surpassing the strongest weightlifters in the world.
Their ability to lift and move objects exceeds the strongest known human feats of strength, they can overhead press well above their own body weigh depending on their strength level. The human limit of strength is considered to be 1,800-2,200 lbs. (about 816.46-997.90 kg) over-head, and 3,500-4,000 lbs (about 1587.57-1814.36 kg) on the bench press.
They can perform any offensive action with the combined force of numerous bodybuilders. The user can lift and move small trees, heavy furniture such as beds and refrigerators, motorcycles, overweight humans, and control animals with ease. The user can perform any bodily strike or hand-held weapon with overwhelming force that could kill land-based or aquatic-based animals that humans have a low probability of defeating.
Their bodies are strong enough to bend thick steel bars, can take down a tree with a kick, rip off a small dead tree with one hand. Create craters in a wall of solid concrete with punchs, Can overpower larger animals like elephants, bears, gorillas, tigers and lions, sharks and alligators with ease.
Applications[]
- Peak Human Balance
- Peak Human Bite
- Peak Human Durability
- Peak Human Endurance
- Peak Human Grip
- Peak Human Leap
- Peak Human Lifting
- Peak Human Running (A unintended result due to increased leg strength)
- Peak Human Stamina
- Peak Human Throwing
Techniques[]
Levels[]
- Peak Human Strength: The user can lift one's body weight twice or triple their own body weight, and perform any offensive action with the combined force of numerous bodybuilders. The user can lift and move small trees, heavy furniture such as beds and refrigerators motorcycles, overweight humans, and control animals with ease. The user can perform any bodily strike or hand-held weapon with overwhelming force that could kill land-based or aquatic-based animals that humans have a low probability of defeating.
- Enhanced Strength: The user can lift thousands of pounds to tens of thousands and perform any offensive action with the force of a massive vehicle. The user can lift cars, trucks, buses, small-moderately sized boulders, tall trees, and numerous times the weight of peak humans. The user can perform any biological strike or use objects with mighty power, such as destroying bridges, road vehicles, trees and killing massive creatures that require guns, small explosives, missiles, or chemical/biological/radiological weapons.
- Supernatural Strength: Supernatural strength comes in six primary levels.
- Type I: The user can lift tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands of pounds and perform any offensive action with the force of destructive conventional explosives. The user can lift and move several construction vehicles such as bulldozers, backhoe loaders, motor graders, tanks, or several thousand-pound trucks. The user can perform any biological strike or use objects that can cause severe damage to tall buildings, neighborhoods, and house-sized asteroids.
- Type II: The user can lift hundreds of thousands to tens of millions of pounds and perform any offensive action with the output of a low-yield nuclear bomb. The user can move and lift boats to various cruise ships, airplanes, battleships, or bridges similar to the Brooklyn bridge. The user can perform any biological strike or use objects to cause massive damage to towns, small mountains, or dense metals.
- Type III: The user can lift tens of millions to hundreds of billions of pounds and perform any offensive action with the power of an atomic bomb. The user can move buildings to the skyscrapers, massive bridges, aircraft carriers, tallest trees ever recorded, thousands of feet tall mountains, and industrial structures. The user can perform any violent act on the earth to generate earthquakes, tsunamis, destroy air-mass thunderstorms, and halt any atmospherically meteorological phenomenon such as tornadoes, downbursts, or counter a nuclear warhead's shockwave.
- Type IV: The user can lift and move hundreds of billions of pounds to entire continents worth of weight and perform any action with the output of hydrogen bombs or tectonic plate worth of energy. The user can lift mountains, massive extraterrestrial aircraft, artifacts, thousands of Hyperion-like trees, or minor dwarf planets. The user can perform any action that can split continents and create canyons, mountains, or kilometers-sized craters on Earth.
- Type V: The user can lift and move continents to megastructures, planets, moons, low to high mass stars, to planetary systems worth of weight. The user's lifting capabilities permit them to move main-sequence stars to massive super giant. Their striking capabilities allow them to destroy several astronomical bodies and severely damage a dwarf or standard galaxy.
- Type VI: The user possesses "near-infinite strength." The user can lift and move galaxies, supermassive galaxies, collections of galaxies to universes, or on a multiverse level. They can bend space-time and aspects of reality with their pure strength. Their lifting and fighting capabilities permit them to demolish them and rival nigh-omnipotent beings.
- Absolute Strength: The user possesses lifting and striking capabilities to an infinite scale. By sheer strength, the user can create rips in space-time, dimensions, or reality. In addition, the user can move and destroy all of totality, as any obstacle that emerges can be defeated and eliminated.
Associations[]
Limitations[]
- Users of Enhanced or Supernatural Strength can easily overpower peak human strength. Absolute Strength will utterly curb stomp the user.
- May damage/or hurt other people without meaning or noticing.
- Beings with either Enhanced or Supernatural Durability can easily withstand blows from peak humans.
- Weak against Strength Absorption, Muscle Mass Weakening, Strength/Muscle Manipulation, Strength Reduction, etc.
- Like all physical powers a user will usually slow down and become less effective with age (starting in mid-30s or so, in most verses) unless they are an Old Prime or have some other superhuman ability to counter the ageing process.
Notes[]
- The human limit of strength is considered to be 1,800-2,200 lbs. (about 816.46-997.90 kg) over-head, and 3,500-4,000 lbs. (about 1587.57-1814.36 kg) bench press.
- If a user with peak human strength was to have an adrenaline rush, it could push them into Enhanced Strength, but not to Supernatural Strength.
- It is, in fact, possible for females to go through intense body and muscle building and gain the strength of that particular level, at least depending on their endurance.
Known Users[]
See Also: Charles Atlas Superpower, Badass Normal.
Anime/Manga/Manhwa/Manhua[]
- Akuru Akutsu (Aho Girl)
- Revy (Black Lagoon)
- Guts (Berserk)
- Pippin (Berserk)
- Ichigo Kurosaki (Bleach) without Shinigami Form
- Saya Otonashi (Blood+)
- Somali Longhaired (Boarding School Juliet)
- Nomura Fudo (Busou Shoujo Machiavellism)
- Meiling Li (Cardcaptor Sakura)
- Various Characters (City Hunter)
- Ayla (Chrono Trigger)
- Marcus Damon (Digimon Data Squad)
- Takeshi Gouda (Doraemon)
- Tsukasa Shishio (Dr. Stone)
- Master Roshi (Dragon Ball series)
- Mr. Satan (Dragon Ball series)
- Videl (Dragon Ball series)
- Hwajin Na (Get Schooled)
- Rosarita Cisneros "Roberta" (Black Lagoon)
- Sango (InuYasha)
- Jonathan Joestar (JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Part I: Phantom Blood)
- Joseph Joestar (JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Part II: Battle Tendency)
- Yoshikage Kira (JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Part IV: Diamond is Unbreakable)
- Various Characters (Jujutsu Kaisen)
- Akisame Koetsuji (Kenichi: The Mightiest Disciple)
- Hayato Fūrinji (Kenichi: The Mightiest Disciple)
- Various Characters (Kenganverse)
- Various Characters (Kingdom)
- Various Characters (Naruto)
- Seishirō Tsugumi (Nisekoi)
- Chitoge Kirisaki (Nisekoi)
- Various Characters (One Piece)
- Shinichi Izumi (Parasyte) After fusing with Migi's cells
- Parasites (Parasyte)
- Gotou
- Hideo Shimada
- Miki
- Big Billy/Big Boy of the Gangreen Gang (Powerpuff Girls Z)
- Masashi Randou (Pretty Face)
- Chinese Amazons (Ranma 1/2)
- Jeanie/Genie (Rune Soldier Louie)
- Various Characters (Sakamoto Days)
- Karen Ichijou (School Rumble)
- Yoh Asakura (Shaman King)
- Loid Forger/Twilight (Spy X Family)
- Fiona Frost/Nightfall (Spy x Family)
- Various Characters (Tough series)
- Momo Chiyoda (The Demon Girl Next Door)
- Ayako Mochizuki (The Elusive Samurai)
- Ghouls (Tokyo Ghoul)
- Various Characters (Tokyo Revengers)
- Various Characters (Vinland Saga)
- Thorkell
- Thors
Comics/Cartoons[]
- Various Characters (Axe Cop)
- Conan (Conan the Barbarian)
- Bruce Wayne/Batman (DC Comics)
- Bane (DC Comics)
- Terry McGinnis/Batman Beyond (DCAU); without his suit
- Constantine Drakon (DC Comics)
- Barry Allen/The Flash (DC Comics)
- Sofia Gigante Falcone (DC Comics)
- Ted Grant/Wildcat (DC Comics)
- Richard "Dick" Grayson (DC Comics)
- Damian Wayne/Robin (DC Comics)
- Jason Todd/Red Hood (DC Comics)
- Trogg (DC Comics)
- Ubu (DC Comics)
- Jean Paul Valley/Azrael (DC Comics)
- Harley Quinn (DC Comics)
- The Batman Who Laughs (DC Comics)
- Joker (DC Comics)
- Various Characters (Scott Pilgrim)
- Marv (Sin City)
- Various Characters (Watchmen)
- Felicia Hardy/Black Cat (Marvel Comics)
- Natalia Romanova/Black Widow (Marvel Comics)
- Christoph Nord/Maverick/Agent Zero (Marvel Comics)
- Patricia "Patsy" Walker/Hellcat (Marvel Comics); without her Hellcat suit
- James "Bucky" Barnes/Winter Soldier (Marvel Comics); without the Bionic arm
- Clint Barton/Hawkeye (Marvel Comics)
- Sam Wilson/Falcon (Marvel Comics)
- Brock Rumlow/Crossbones (Marvel Comics)
- Elijah Bradley (Marvel Comics)
- Matt Murdock/Daredevil (Marvel Comics)
- Josiah al hajj Saddiq (Marvel Comics)
- Wilson Fisk/Kingpin (Marvel Comics)
- Kro (Marvel Comics)
- Michael van Patrick/MVP (Marvel Comics)
- Melvin Potter/Gladiator (Marvel Comics)
- Frank Castle/The Punisher(Marvel Comics)
- Steve Rogers/Captain America (Marvel Comics); while at a sustainable level
- T'Challa/Black Panther (Marvel Comics)
- Remy LeBeau/Gambit (Marvel Comics)
- Silver Sable (Marvel Comics)
- Tony Stark/Iron Man (Marvel Comics); without his armor
- Tarantula (Marvel Comics)
- Vargas (Marvel Comics)
- Jigsaw (Marvel Comics)
- Various Characters (G.I. Joe)
- Katherine Hanks (Katherine)
- Lucy Biggs (Katherine)
- Oroku Saki/The Shredder (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles)
- Iroh (Avatar: The Last Airbender)
- Korra (Avatar: The Legend of Korra)
- Black Dynamite (Black Dynamite)
- Terry McGinnis/Batman (Batman Beyond)
- Gaston (Beauty and the Beast)
- Fistrick (Ben 10)
- Cooper (Ben 10 Ultimate Alien)
- Coach Buzzcut (Beavis and Butt-head)
- Trevor Belmont (Castlevania)
- Ed (Ed, Edd, and Eddy); sometimes above human strength
- Huntsman (Freakazoid)
- Stan Pines (Gravity Falls)
- Jack (Samurai Jack)
- Buford Van Storm (Phineas and Ferb)
- William W. Williams/Big Billy of the Gangreen Gang (The Powerpuff Girls)
- Lynn Loud (The Loud House)
- Polly Pain (The Loud House)
- The Stankos (The Loud House)
- Chunk (The Loud House)
- Peter Griffin (Family Guy)
- Stewie Griffin (Family Guy)
- Mebh Òg MacTíre (Wolfwalkers)
- Quasimodo (Disney's the Hunchback of Notre Dame)
- Dom Toretto (Fast and Furious Spy Racers: Homecoming) to an extent
- Grimms (Grimm)
- Phil Mitchell (Eastenders)
- Francis Dolarhyde/The Great Red Dragon (Hannibal)
- Supernatural Hunters (The Vampire Diaries/The Originals)
- Brotherhood of the Five
- Jeremy Gilbert
- Rayna Cruz
- Rocky Balboa (Rocky)
- Jim Hopper (Stranger Things)
- Dean Winchester (Supernatural)
- Sam Winchester (Supernatural)
- Archibald "Archie" Andrews (Riverdale)
- Billy Butcher (The Boys)
- Bull Shannon (Night Court)
- Robby Keene (Cobra Kai)
Live Television/Movies[]
- Spartans (300)
- Leonidas
- Athenians (300)
- Alan "Dutch" Schaefer (Predator Series)
- Bob Stone (Central Intelligence)
- Alien Bounty Hunter (The X-Files)
- Oddjob (Goldfinger)
- Michael Myers (Halloween)
- Leatherface (The Texas Chainsaw Massacre series)
- The Miner (My Bloody Valentine)
- John Rambo (Rambo film series)
- MacGruber MacGyver (MacGruber)
- Diana (Mermaids)
- Mermaids (Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides)
- Rasputia Latimore (Norbit)
- Mother Russia (Kick Ass 2)
- The Mechanic (Raiders of the Lost Ark)
- Jaws (The Spy Who Loved Me)
- Mr Hinx (Spectre)
- Horde/The Beast (Split)
- May Day (A View to a Kill)
- Frank (Ip Man series)
- Wolverine/James Howlett Logan (X-Men Movies)
- Victor Creed/Sabertooth (X-Men Movies)
- Thomas (Maze Runner; Trilogy)
- Minho (Maze Runner; Trilogy)
- Gally (Maze Runner; Trilogy)
- Jabari Tribe (Marvel Cinematic Universe)
- M'Baku
- M3GAN (M3GAN)
- Bruce Lee (Various Movies)
- Floyd Lawton/Deadshot (DC Extended Universe)
- Christopher Smith/Peacemaker (DC Extended Universe)
- Gunter Braun/Javelin (DC Extended Universe)
- Rocky Balboa (Rocky)
- Jason Voorhees (mortal) (Friday the 13th)
- Singham, Simmba & Sooryavanshi (Cop Universe)
- Sundar Ramaswamy (Sarkar)
- Lovely Sigh (Bodyguard)
- Suryakant "Surya" Shastri / Boss (Boss 2011)
Literature[]
- Jean Valjean (Les Miserables)
- Lennie (Of Mice and Men)
- Sandor Clegane/The Hound (Game of Thrones)
- The Mountain (Game of Thrones)
- Brienne of Tarth (Game of Thrones)
- Sherlock Holmes (Sherlock Holmes)
- Tarzan/John Clayton II (Tarzan)
- Triple Ace (The Young Guardians)
- Dirk Savage (The Last Kids on Earth)
Video Games[]
- Albert King (Batman: Arkham Knight)
- Chandlo Funkbun (Bugsnax)
- Lady (Devil May Cry)
- Sam Porter Bridges (Death Stranding)
- Hitomi (Dead or Alive series)
- Chris Walker (Outlast)
- Bass Armstrong (Dead or Alive series)
- Kai Yan (Dragalia Lost)
- Duke Nukem (Duke Nukem series)
- Susie (Deltarune)
- Chrom (Fire Emblem Awakening)
- Alien Grunts (Hλlf-Life series)
- HECU Soldiers (Hλlf-Life series)
- Male Assassins (Hλlf-Life: Opposing Force)
- Link (The Legend of Zelda)
- Solid Snake (Metal Gear series)
- Liquid Snake (Metal Gear)
- Big Boss (Metal Gear)
- Venom Snake (Metal Gear)
- The Boss (Metal Gear)
- Liquid Ocelot (Metal Gear)
- Mr. Sandman (Punch Out)
- Enforcers (Quake series)
- Ranger (Quake series)
- Mad Dog (Raid Redemption)
- Blue (Rainbow Friends)
- Chris Redfield (Resident Evil Series)
- Leon Scott Kennedy (Resident Evil series)
- Jake Muller (Resident Evil 6)
- Claire Redfield (Resident Evil' series)
- Jill Valentine (Resident Evil series)
- Carlos Oliveira (Resident Evil 3: Nemesis)
- Joe Baker (Resident Evil 7: Biohazard)
- Josh (Rise of Nightmares)
- Serious Sam (Serious Sam series)
- Kazuma Kiryu (Yakuza)
- Joel Miller (The Last of Us)
- Abby Anderson (The Last of Us Part II)
- Lara Croft (Tomb Raider series)
- Nathan Drake (Uncharted series)
- Koala Kong (Crash Bandicoot)
- Taiga Saejima (Yakuza series)
- Kiryuu Kazuma (Yakuza series)
Web Animation/Comics/Original/Series[]
- Joe (Planet Land Comic's Blood Rush)
- Jeff the Killer (Creepypasta)
- Jane the Killer (Creepypasta)
- Gaylord "Nurf" Nurfington (Camp Camp)
- Che Heart (Ordeal)
- Gooseman (Greasy Moose)
- Yang Xiao Long (RWBY)
- SCP-002 - The "Living" Room (SCP Foundation)
- SCP-049 - Plague Doctor (SCP Foundation)
- SCP-056 - A Beautiful Person (SCP Foundation)
- SCP-1788 - The Adults (SCP Foundation)
- SCP-3199 - Humans, Refuted (SCP Foundation)
- Aaron Siegal "The Man With the Infinity Gun"/O5-1/SCP-055 (SCP Foundation)
- Calvin Lucien (SCP Foundation)