The comparison of super powered individuals to god like deities is nothing new.
Some heroes in the panels of our favourite comics depict abilities that, if they were
to exist in real life, would definitely grant them a superior status.
Hence the whole ‘great power great responsibility’ sentiment, which one could argue applies to
characters way beyond Spider-Man’s reach.
So today, we’re taking a closer look at some of those heroes who have awesome abilities,
with our list of the top 10 superheroes with god-like powers.
It’s worth noting that will generally avoid actual cosmic deities that appear in the various
universes of mainstream comic book publishers.
So with that in mind, let’s get to it!
10 Thor Thor is a superhero who is a literal Asgardian
God.
The son of Odin, he is noted in the comics as being the physically strongest Asgardian
of them all.
So how strong is that?
He can lift the almost Earth-sized Midgard Serpent, he can support the weight of 20 planets,
and, when combining his efforts with Beta Ray Bill, he destroyed Surtur’s solar system
sized dimensional portal in Thor issue 340 from 1984.
He can enter a state called ‘Warrior’s Madness’, which is a berserk mode of sorts
that temporarily increases his strength and stamina (although can make him susceptible
to attacking both foe and friend).
Thir’s invulnerability is impressive as well; he’s withstood attacks from Celestials.
In addition to that, he’s got incredibly powerful senses, able to hear cries from across
a planet, track objects travelling faster than the speed of light, and can regenerate
wounded parts of his body (often with the help of magic).
Then, there’s the powers he gains from wielding Mjolnir; dimensional transportation that allows
him to travel between dimensions the likes of our own and Asgard’s, electric manipulation,
the ability to fly, and weather manipulation.
9 Storm Storm is yet another character who has been
hailed as a god in the past.
And she actually has an ancestry with links to the divine.
She has been known to be empowered from people’s beliefs and prayers; the more people who believe
in her, the more powerful she becomes.
When she was first introduced in Giant Size X-Men issue 1, Storm was being praised in
Kenya as a god.
Her Earth Link ability gives her a psychic bond with the primal life force of the Earth’s
biosphere, which feeds her spiritual and material substance and instills her with a great amount
of empathy towards every living being.
This means she can sense things others can’t; she once sensed that the Blackbird was breaking
through the atmosphere when she was thousands of miles away.
She can sense when natural phenomena are occurring.
And she once sense that a tree on the Xavier Mansion’s property was dying.
She lands higher up on our list in comparison to others thanks to her recently re-confirmed
Omega Level Mutant status, and her atmokinesis abilities; she has the ability to control
and manipulate the environment, precipitation, humidity and moisture at a molecular level.
8 Wonder Woman Diana Prince aka Wonder Woman first appeared
in All Star Comics issue 8 in 1941.
One of DC’s holy trinity, she is an Amazonian demigoddess with a massive list of abilities
that would have any villain shaking in their boots.
She has superhuman strength, speed, stamina, durability, endurance, agility, reflexes,
dexterity, intelligence, senses and longevity.
She is nigh-invulnerable.
She has an accelerated healing factor.
Diana is a master of hand to hand combat and martial artists, she can fly, she can make
use of magic, she is capable of electrokinesis, and, perhaps the most obvious reason why she’s
on this list, she can manipulate divine energy and project it, too.
Let’s not forget that Wonder woman has an arsenal of tools at her disposal that make
her even more powerful, the likes of her lasso of truth, her indestructible bracelets, and
more.
Plus, she’s also capable of taking on actual gods like Ares, and that speaks volumes.
7 Adam Warlock Warlock was created by a group of scientists
called the Enclave; he was the perfect artificial human, who initially was referred to as ‘Him’.
Rebelling against his creators, he left Earth and journeyed throughout space, becoming the
cosmic hero we are familiar with today.
So what can Warlock do?
He has superhuman speed, strength, agility and durability.
He can fly.
He can manipulate and absorb energy.
He’s an expert in the field of magic, specifically quantum magic, which he can use to manipulate
quantum energy and create force fields, teleport, travel faster than light, produce or detect
wormholes, and spot out other irregularities in space.
And, of course, Warlock can manipulate matter.
Warlock is also capable of recuperating himself; often creating a cocoon for self-preservation
and regeneration.
He’s immortal; he can be killed, although, not truly die because Death can not claim
his soul.
6 Solar Solar may be one of the lesser known characters
on our list, but oh boy, is he powerful.
First appearing in Doctor Solar: Man of the Atom issue 1 in 1962, initially published
by Gold Key Comics, now by Dynamite Entertainment.
So who is this fellow?
When he was first introduced, he was a physicist named Dr Phillip Solar who attempted to avert
an imminent meltdown of a nuclear power plant.
Solar absorbed a massive amount of radiation, gaining his powers that allows for him to
convert his body into any kind of nuclear energy he desires.
The second version of the character had a similar origin story, except now, his powers
were due to a new type of fusion reactor.
Essentially, he is a living nuclear battery, with his body now being made up entirely of
pure energy.
He doesn’t rely on food anymore, doesn’t have a human metabolism, nor does he have
a heartbeat.
An innately super genius, the accident turned him into a godlike being; he can manipulate
on an atomic and subatomic level.
He’s invulnerable.
He’s immortal.
And he can manipulate energy in all of its forms, and generate it, converting it into
energy blasts and projectiles.
5 Silver Surfer The Silver surfer is arguably one of the more
over powered superheroes in Marvel’s roster.
Initially the herald of Galactus, who endowed him with the power cosmic, Silver surfer uses
that power cosmic to pull off some pretty impressive moves.
These abilities include super human strength and durability, flight, travelling at a speed
that exceeds the speed of light, manipulating energy and matter, time travelling, telekinesis
and telepathy via parsecs of distances, he’s intangible, can turn invisible, can create
a star or a black hole, can create pocket universes, cast illusions, phase through things
and of course, his cosmic senses.
All in all, that’s a pretty godly skill set to have.
4 The Sentry The Sentry is Robert Reynolds, a man who,
one day, woke up and remembered he used to be a superhero.
As absurd as it sounds, it was the beginning of a story of a hero who had been such a threat
to the greater good that he himself had helped wiped the memory of his existence from the
minds of everyone all over the globe.
Sentry is like a majorly upgraded Marvel version of Superman.
He is capable of molecular manipulation, which all of his powers are based within; it allows
him to have complete invulnerability, flight, light and darkness manipulation, superhuman
strength, speed and stamina, a regenerative healing factor, enhanced senses, matter manipulation,
energy absorption and projection, immortality, reality warping, life creation, empathy and
emotion manipulation, death touch, shape shifting, mind control resistance, and more.
The downside, and the reason why he was wiped from everyone’s memories?
He has an evil alter ego within him called the Void, who proved to threaten all of existence
with his malevolent ways.
3 Molecule Man Molecule Man aka Owen Reece is a Marvel character
who first appeared in issue 20 of Fantastic Four in 1963, created by Stan Lee and Jack
Kirby.
He first debuted as a villain, but eventually became a reformed hero.
His allegiances weren’t the only change he endured over the years; his powers got
a major upgrade, too.
Initially, he was capable of mentally manipulating molecules, which allows him to create force
fields, energy beams and hyperspace portals.
The upgrade?
Reece can now warp reality itself on a multiversal scale.
It has been explained as Reece having mental blocks subconsciously imposed upon himself
that held these powers back.
He is a multiversal composite entity, a single creature that manifests fractions of its entire
being in each universe found within the marvel multiverse.
2 Franklin Richards Franklin Richards, the son of Sue Storm and
Reed Richards, first appearing in Marvel’s pages in Fantastic Four Annual issue 6 in
1968.
And he has a ridiculous amount of power.
He can manipulate matter and energy.
He can project energy.
He has psionic abilities that include telekinesis, telepathy, astral projection and precognition.
He can teleport.
He can create a pocket universe, one that can even replicate the entire 616 universe
(which he did subconsciously though).
And he’s immortal.
Of course.
He’s a mutant who can warp reality, considered an omega level mutant might I add, and even
celestials think his power is on par with themselves.
The reason he doesn’t rank higher on this list is because his power limits are still
undefined, and he is still honing said powers.
1 Doctor Manhattan Doctor Manhattan, previous Jonathan Osterman,
from Watchmen is a being with subatomic perception and control with an unlimited manipulation
of matter, and his own body.
He is nigh-omnipotent.
He is entirely invulnerable to all harm, capable of reconstructing his body when disintegrated
without a matter of seconds.
He can create life.
He is unable to be exhausted.
And he is clairvoyant.
In the Watchmen universe (not looking at the seemingly ceaseless Doomsday Clock storyline
here), Manhattan is the only character who possesses actual super powers.
Human beings view him as a god.
His perception of time allows him to see his past, present and future simultaneously.
And, he is arguably in the purest sense the most god like figure outside of a cosmic entity
in modern comics today.
There’s a handful of characters we didn’t get to touch on, so give us a shout in those
comments below if you’d like to see a part 2 of our list!
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