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While many think of superheroes as needing to be super-powered, there are quite a few
non-powered heroes who have earned the label super without them, simply from their accomplishments
over time.
As well as for being some of the strongest characters we have in comics, even without
powers.
Today we’re going to take a closer look at some of these characters as we count down
the top 10 strongest superheroes with no powers.
Plug in your best guesses for who will make our cut in the comments below and be sure
to stick around till the end of this list where I will have some bonus content coming
your way.
Alright, let’s get counting.
10 Huntress
Not only did we get to see how powerful Helena Bertinelli was in the Harley Quinn: Birds
of Prey film but even in the comics, she is known as being a force to be reckoned with.
Huntress is Helena Bertinelli the daughter and sole-surviving member of a famous mob
family in Gotham who is known for becoming a vigilante in order to get revenge on the
people who murdered her family.
She has not only bested Batgirl aka Barbara Gordon in combat before but she even once
fought against Lady Shiva and managed to hold her own.
She didn’t win, of course.
She got her butt whooped but she never gave up and because of this earned the respect
of Lady Shiva who gave her the name Iron Owl for her resilience.
9 Hit-Girl
Coming at us from Mark Millar’s and John Romita Jr’s series, Kick-Ass, which has
been published by both Marvel’s imprint Icon Comics and Image Comics, we have Hit-Girl.
Mindy McCready is Hit-Girl, a brutal hero, who despite appearances, is frightfully mighty
and scary.
She is out to avenge the death of her mother.
At least that’s what she believes she’s been trained for by her mentor and fellow
vigilante as well as father, Big Daddy.
A ruthless killer and trained fighter, Hit-Girl is not someone you’d want to mess with.
She’s been shown to get shot multiple times and still manage to get back up and continue
to kick ass.
And she’s only 12, and one quarter, years old.
8 Nightwing
Nightwing is Dick Grayson.
He is the first and possibly to some best Robin that Batman ever had.
He is also often known as the leader of the Teen Titans.
Trained by Batman himself, Nightwing is an insanely skilled fighter and his physique
is off the charts, making you often question what could be considered within the realm
of human with his astounding feats.
Dick has even taken up the mantle of Batman before temporarily when Batman was suspected
to be dead.
He’s managed to temporarily knock down Cassandra Cain, somehow managing to catch her off guard.
Insanely hard to do considering how well she can read people.
And even managed to pull a Bane over on Bane, attempting to break Bane’s back over his
own knee.
Youch!
7 War Machine
Not all superheroes need brute strength to be strong.
Some simply need a cool suit of armor.
When looking at the Ironman family that’s a common trait that you’ll notice.
This teched out squad of supers often uses tech and training to defeat their foes.
James Rhodes, fondly known as Rhodey is a skilled and seasoned pilot known for being
one of, if not THE, best friend of Tony Stark aka Ironman.
As such he ended up being gifted a suit of Mark 2 armor from Stark, thus starting a career
as a hero himself.
He’s bested Thor in a fight, single-handedly defeated a fleet of invading Skrulls, incapicated
Ares and constantly manages to put himself back into situations that have given him PTSD
just so he can continue being the hero he wants to be.
6 Daredevil
The son famed boxer, Battlin Jack Murdock, this vigilante who usually sticks to his own
neighbourhood of Hell’s Kitchen was blinded at a young age.
Originally he appeared to have recieved super-powers as a result of the accident that blinded him,
granting him super strength and endurance.
But this would later be retconned in Frank Millar’s Man Without Fear, where instead
Daredevil would be posed as a hero who simply had enhanced senses due to be blind and was
trained by master martial artist, Stick, who also happened to
be blind.
He’s been shown to be strong enough to literally rip demons apart, crack concrete with a single
punch, escape metal bindings, and has even taken on the Hulk in one v one combat.
He’s also known for being one of the toughest superheroes around, with or without powers.
5 Damian Wayne
Damian is the son of Bruce Wayne and Talia Al Ghul.
From a young age he was trained by the League of Assassins before being dropped by Talia
on Bruce’s doorstep, where Talia informed Bruce that Damian was his son and he would
now be responsible for looking after him.
Batman then took it up himself to train Damian, attempting to rehabilitate his son and rid
him of his murderous tendencies.
Both the light and dark sides of Damian make him a powerful and deadly vigilante in regards
to his role as Robin.
This is a kid who has beat people comatose, and that’s when he’s holding back.
And who beat his own mother, a supremely skilled assassin, in combat at the age of ten.
4 Cassandra Cain
Cassandra Cain is one of the few superheroes to have earned the mantle of Batgirl.
But before her time as part of the Bat family, she lived with her father and League of Assasins.
Her father was David Cain and her mother was Lady Shiva, who simply gave birth to Cassandra
in exchange for her life and training that would make her stronger.
David raised Cassandra to speak only through body language and taught her to be a skilled
assassin.
She was so young when she had her first kill that she thought it was all a game.
Her dad’s training regimen for young Cassandra was harsh and intense.
It even involved him shooting his daughter point blank in the back to apparently “keep
her on her toes.”
The scary part is that Cassandra didn’t even flinch.
3 Ninjak
Ninjak comes to us from Valiant Comics.
He is part spy and part ninja and in regards to his alias, part British aristocrat.
When it comes to his alter ego, he is known as Colin King.
He’s not only skilled when it comes to speed and agility but also demonstrates great endurance
and strength as well as an impossible level of stealth.
He managed to stab the most powerful psionic likely in all of the Valiantverse, Toyo Harada
before he could react, who is known for his insanely fast reaction time.
He has single-handedly been shown to defeat rooms full of armed mercenaries and skilled
ninjas.
And while allowing himself to take a beating, he’s even mused how easy it would be for
him to snap every one of his assailants necks before they’d even have enough time to realize
what was happening to them.
He’s deadly.
2 Ironman
Tony Stark is known for being one of the biggest and baddest supers in the Marvel Universe.
Seriously.
He’s turned evil more than once.
In regards to his strength, a lot of his power comes from his Ironman suits which have evolved
over the year to be insanely OP.
But along with this it’s really Stark’s intellect that makes him so strong without
any powers.
His smarts allow him to build his suits and have even allowed him to integrate some tech
within himself physically, making him even stronger.
1 Batman
The ultimate non-powered superhero.
There is very little that Batman can’t do.
He is known as a master detective, master martial artist and combatant, a weapons specialist,
master of shadows and stealth, an insanely skilled driver, pilot, captain…
Is there any vehicle type he hasn’t mastered?
Is there anything he can’t do?
He can apparently also bench press 1000 pounds.
Which by the way is more than our current world-record amount by a couple hundred.
Batman without a doubt has to be one of the most overpowered superheroes of all time,
even without any superpowers.
Thank you so much for watching, nerd squad.
I hope you enjoyed this list full of heroes who truly need no powers to be heroic.
Do you agree with our choices?
What are some of your favourites when it comes to strong non-powered heroes in comics?
Share your opinions in the comments below.
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