Comics are notorious for featuring over powered, or OP, characters in the panels over the years.
While this clearly isn’t the case with every superhero, it’s a consistent trope to appear
in the medium, one that sometimes leaves us groaning rather than being immersed. So today,
we’re taking a look at a handful of characters that may elicit that reaction in readers,
with our list of the top 10 overpowered marvel superheroes who need to be stopped. Let’s
get to it! 10 Hyperion
Hyperion is a bit of a Superman copycat, created by Roy Thomas and Sal Buscema, literally crafted
as a pastiche of the man of steel. There has been a slew of different iterations of the
character over the years across the multiverse, some depicted as a hero, others as a villain.
Just like Superman, he possess superhuman strength, stamina, speed, durability, and
flight, has enhanced sensory perceptions, and something called atomic vision, which
is basically x-ray vision. One Earth 712, a heroic version of the character has shown
the ability to use cosmic energy to augment his life force, giving him regenerative abilities
and further enhanced longevity, all because he is an Eternal. And here’s the kicker
– just like Superman, he’s got a kryptonite, called aragonite, which gives off radiation
that severely weakens him.
9 Deadpool Slightly controversial pick at this number,
but hey, you know it’s true. Deadpool is arguably OP. Wade Wilson is a character whose
accelerated healing factor is his main schtick; it has differed over the years in terms of
how effective it is. That healing factor has allowed him to survive decapitation, and even
complete incineration in the past. He has regrown his head when the Hulk pulverized
it in Deadpool kills the Marvel Universe. He’s immortal, despite having died a slew
of times. He’s proven almost entirely invulnerable to telepathic and psychic powers, and once,
Thanos cursed him with the inability to die, all because he was jealous of Deadpool and
Lady Death’s relationship. Luckily, his OP nature doesn’t interfere with narratives
enough to be annoying, or at least to those who of you who like the merc with a mouth.
8 Hercules Hercules may be a character who originates
from Greek mythology, but he’s also one of Marvel comics strongest heroes, first debuting
in the comics in Journey into Mystery annual issue 1 from 1965. In Marvel’s panels, he’s
the strongest of Olympians, capable of smashing rocks to powder and seling an entire cliff
around his foes with his bare hands. He once boasted that he could drag the entire island
of Manhattan if he wanted to. He has superhuman strength, durability, speed, reflexes, stamina
and endurance, and can leap over a hundred feet into the air. He has shown complete resistance
to high caliber bullets, and occasionally wields an adamantine mace, which is said to
be equal in durability to Mjolnir. He has shown some immunity to magic, has a healing
factor, and is, shocker, immortal. He can go toe to toe with Asgardian gods the likes
of Thor.
7 Scarlet Witch Scarlet Witch has proven capable of massively
altering the Marvel universe on several occasions, to the point where one could argue that she’s
used as a plot device. A really, really tragic plot device, but still, a means for Marvel
writers to stir sh*t up in the comics, coming up with concepts like House of M (in which
she depowered 90 percent of the mutant population) and the inversion spell at the center of the
AXIS storyline. After discovering that her children were merely constructs during Avengers
Disassembled, she goes on a vengeance filled tirade on the Avengers, blaming them for the
death of her kids, killing off a bunch of characters like Hawkeye, Vision and Scott
Lang. Needless to say, Wanda’s abilities to warp reality, and manipulate matter, time
and probability, ranks her as one of the strongest members of the Avengers, and one of the most
powerful Marvel characters kicking around in the comics.
6 Gladiator Gladiator is a character created by Chris
Claremont and Dave Cockrum, and often gets mocked as being a knock off version of DC’s
Superman. To be fair, he was part of an homage to DC’s Legion of Super-Heroes after all.
He’s strong enough to shatter a planet and rip apart a black hole. He’s capable of
withstanding the heat from the Phoenix Force, attacks from Mjolnir and Thor, planetary explosions
and the explosion of a supernova. He’s super-fast, has warp speed flight, has a regenerative
healing face, has heat vision hotter than a star, microscopic, telescopic and x-ray
vision, super hearing capable of listening to sounds light years away, and has psionic
resistance. But his biggest weakness is one that can null all of these abilities; his
powers decrease or increase based on his level of confidence.
5 Silver Surfer First appearing in The Fantastic Four issue
48 back in 1966, Silver Surfer is a cosmic superhero who sacrificed himself to save his
home planet from Galactus, thus becoming his herald and being endowed with a portion of
Galactus’ Power Cosmic. This gives him a plethora of abilities. He has superhuman strength,
endurance, senses and the ability to manipulate the Earth’s ambient energy. He can travel
throughout space and hyperspace, travelling faster than the speed of light, and has even
proven capable of time travel in several instances. He’s self-sustaining, converting matter
into energy, and can survive in almost any natural environment, including deep space
and black holes, which, by the way, he can also create. While he can’t resurrect the
dead, he can revitalize and evolve organic life on a planet-wide scale. He can manipulate
and phase through matter, can see through time, is telepathic and can read minds, and
influence human emotion and sensation. He and his board are nearly indestructible.
4 Molecule Man Molecule Man aka Owen Reece first came to
be in Fantastic Four issue 20 in 1963. Sometimes portrayed as a villain, other times portrayed
as a hero, he’s a character whose powers would grow in scale over time. Initially,
he was able to manipulate molecules and create force fields, energy beams and hyperspace
portals. But that eventually changed, with Reece becoming capable of warping reality
on a multiversal scale. Galactus, in the ultimate marvel universe, once stated that Reece could
destroy him with a thought. He once got super meta, looking out of a panel at the reader,
describing himself as “editing and ordering the base information of reality. Owen Reece,
Narrative Man,” implying that he may know he’s a character in a story, and that he
is capable of manipulating said story. He once fought the Beyonder in a battle that
took place in more than three spatial dimensions, threatening to destroy the multiverse altogether.
He’s also tragic in the sense that he was created to serve as a living bomb, one that
could destroy the entire universe that he inhabits, and is unable to stop his own death
from happening.
3 Hulk Now don’t get us wrong, the Hulk is a great
character. The dynamic between the monster and the man, Bruce Banner, is one that has
always managed to be compelling and intriguing, for the most part. It even airs on the side
of tragedy in some cases. But here’s the thing. The Hulk, thanks to his anger empowerment
ability, becomes more powerful the angrier he gets. His durability, regeneration and
endurance, along with his strength, increase in proportion to his anger, and depending
on that writer’s interpretation of the character, this means he can withstand nuclear attacks,
solar temperatures and other planet shattering impacts. There’s very little that can return
him to his Banner form when he gets like that; a point made in multiple arguments when it
comes to the Hulk versus other characters. He can be susceptible to magic, gamma bombs
and some psychic attacks, but even then, that depends on whose writing him. In addition
to that, once he’s going, it’s really hard to calm him down. That being said, he
was once calmed down by the use of puppies, but unless you’ve got a gallon of puppers
with you when you’re fighting him, it’s gonna be an uphill battle, for sure.
2 Franklin Richards Franklin Richards is a mutant who is beyond
Omega-Level, something that is incredibly rare. He’s the son of Reed Richards and
Sue Storm, and for someone so young, what he’s capable of is borderline terrifying.
His vast reality altering abilities allow him to manipulate matter and energy on a cosmic
scale. He can create pocket universes and teleport. He has psionic powers that include
telekinesis, telepathy, astral projection and precognition. Oh, and he’s immortal.
He’s been described as a character whom the Celestials felt was on par with themselves.
He’s even obliterated two celestials in combat (technically that last bit was an adult
version of himself, who, might I add, rubs shoulders with Galactus in FF issue 16, with
them commenting on the fact that billions of years from now, Franklin and Galactus will
witness the birth of a new universe together) . All that and he’s a f*cking child. That
latter fact restricts his abilities to an extent, causing him to have limited control,
but when Franklin is subconsciously creating a pocket universe that is a replica of Earth
616, I duno about you guys, but that’s some scary stuff.
1 The Sentry The Sentry is a character who was introduced
in 2000, inserted into the Marvel universe via a story in which his alter ego, Bob Reynolds,
remembers that he once was a superhero, only to discover that he, with the help of Reed
Richards and Doctor Doom, wiped out the memory of him globally as a means of suppressing
his darker, more violent other half, the Void. Let’s backtrack for a sec though. Sentry
is a character said to have the power of one million suns. The way in which he gets his
powers has varied over the years, but initially, it was thanks to a special serum. His abilities
put DC’s Superman to shame. He’s not only has superhuman strength, speed and stamina,
but he’s completely invulnerable, can manipulate light, has a regenerative healing factor,
psionic powers, can fly, has enhanced senses, is capable of molecular manipulation, matter
manipulation, gravity manipulation, teleportation, telepathy, energy projection and absorption,
can bend time, he can shape shift, can project thoughts, can manipulation the weather, can
turn invisible, can astral project, and of course, he’s immortal. If that isn’t OP,
I don’t know what is. He once tried to commit suicide by flying directly into the sun but
then recreated himself after his body was destroyed. He once ripped Carnage in half
in space. He took control of Molecule Man’s body. Nick Fury has stated that SHIELD has
never figured out a way to kill him. He once battled the Hulk and fought him until both
he and Banner returned to their regular bodies, but was hindered because he was suffering
from some major mental health issues at the time.
And his other half? He’s an entity that exists as a side effect of Sentry’s powers,
and has his own nasty set of abilities on top of what Sentry can do. Norman Osborn once
called the Void the angel of death. But I think you guys get the idea; he’s powerful
AF.
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