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Bruce Banner, the Incredible Hulk, is considered by many to be the strongest hero on Earth. At the very least, the Hulk definitely thinks so, constantly yelling that “Hulk is the strongest one there is!”. With gamma-fueled strength, a healing factor, and his notorious ability for getting stronger the madder he becomes, fans generally believe the Hulk is unbeatable. The early days of Marvel definitely reinforced the idea; their two strongest heroes were the Hulk and Thor. Over the years, the Hulk’s strength has grown to the point where his footsteps create earthquakes. Writers have expanded on Hulk’s powers as they try and reach the upper levels of his strength; the Hulk always turns the tide of any battle.
Despite the power to lift mountains and crack planets, Marvel is chock full of beings stronger than the Hulk; some can turn him inside out with just a pinky. It’s not pleasant to think about, which is why Marvel likes to hide said characters away, letting fans believe Hulk really is the strongest one around. However, much to chagrin of Hulk fans around the world, today at CBR we’re looking at 15 characters stronger than the Hulk that Marvel would rather you not know exist.
I will post a few,for the rest open link below.
Silver Surfer
Time and again the Hulk has been thrust into cosmic battles or faced down beings of cosmic origin, and time again the Hulk struggles in the face of cosmically-powered opponents. The Silver Surfer, wielder of the Power Cosmic, has fought Hulk on numerous occasions and defeated him in nearly every instance.
Despite his gentle-looking frame, the Surfer is the host to immense power. With the Power Cosmic bestowed onto him by Galactus, the Silver Surfer is a Superman-level entity, but with a vaster array of powers. He can control gravity, rearrange molecules, creating something from nothing, time travel, is telekinetic, and has many, many more powers. He’s unquestionably one of Marvel’s mightiest heroes. Using the Power Cosmic, the Surfer has beat the Hulk without even touching him, applying the Power Cosmic to revert the Hulk back to Bruce Banner without the Surfer throwing a single punch.
captain universe
Firstly, Captain Universe is not an actual person, but rather the physical manifestation of the Uni-Power. The Uni-Power possesses individuals during a respective crisis and gives them the power to solve it. As a result, the power granted is astronomical, as the wielder becomes many times stronger than the Hulk, is capable of energy manipulation and projection, and nearly any other power the wielder can think of or needs at a certain moment.
When Spider-Man possessed the power, he punched the Hulk into space and when Sue Storm was imbued with the Uni Power, she effortlessly defeated the nigh-unbeatable Gladiator…the guy who’s survived attacks that have destroyed half a solar system. Even non-superpowered beings become ridiculously strong. The character William Nguyen was just a normal dude, but when he acquired the power, he hit the Juggernaut so hard that the latter’s helmet came right off and knocked him clean out.
GLADIATOR
A member of the Strontian species, Gladiator is the leader of the Shi’ar Imperial Guard and generally regarded as one of the universe’s strongest mortals. Essentially an analog of Superman, Gladiator possesses all the powers of the Man of Steel, and then some. His hyper violent nature also makes him deadlier than a great many other beings in his weight class.
The number of awe-inspiring feats Gladiator has committed is too long to list, but a few of them are that he’s flown across galaxies in seconds, punched Wonder Man to the center of a planet, kicked Thor’s hammer across a city (despite being unworthy to lift it), flown through suns, and even destroyed an entire planet with one punch. With all manner of sensory powers too, Gladiator’s only real weakness is his self-confidence, but he’s typically a braggart and completely confident in himself.
HYPERION
The first character Marvel created as an answer to Superman, Hyperion allies himself with the Squadron Supreme and the Avengers and is considered one of the strongest super-humans in the entire Marvel Multiverse. Rescued by the Grandmaster after his planet was inadvertently destroyed by Genis-Vell, he was introduced as a villain.
Heralding from Earth-13034 and already possessing great power, when he arrived to Earth-616, he became even stronger, as Hyperion gains his power from the Sun and the Sun in this universe was less filtered. Hyperion’s powers are nearly identical to Superman. He has Atomic Vision, which can fire heat blasts of 12,000 degrees, and is so strong he’s lifted and thrown Atlantis on his own, held two universes apart, and slowed down a hurtling planet single-handed. His invulnerability is also such that he survived the destruction of two Earths colliding. Anything Hulk can do, Hyperion can do in spades.
sun god
Born in another universe, Zoran, or Sun God as his world knows him by, is also the strongest being in his universe. A member of the Great Society, which is essentially an unabashed rip-off of the Justice League, Sun God and his team defeated an Incursion brought on by the Mapmakers. Immediately after they were forced to deal with the Illuminati, made up of Mr. Fantastic, Black Panther, Doctor Strange, Iron Man, Beast, Black Bolt and Namor.
Upon meeting the heroes from Earth-616, it became clear the Great Society didn’t possess any means with which to stop another Incursion and only had “hope” in their arsenal. A planet needed to die so one could live. Namor starts the fight between the two groups, seeing the pointlessness of their debating. Throughout the fight, Sun God takes on the Hulk and beats him with just two shots.
Blue Marvel
Adam Brashear served his country in the military, but then later discovered he had powers. After the revelation, Adam adopted the superhero alias the Blue Marvel and saved the country numerous times. He was forced into retirement by the government because of his tremendous power and for being black. He eventually came back, stronger than ever.
One of the, if not the, strongest hero on Earth, Blue Marvel received his powers thanks to getting mutated by radiation from the event horizon of the Negative Zone. Considered any Alpha-Level threat, which is designated for planet-destroying entities, Blue Marvel can manipulate all antimatter; one-gram contains the same energy as an atomic bomb. The limits to his power are unknown, but he’s defeated the Sentry with one punch and knocked out Ultimate Hulk with one punch. With no known weaknesses, Blue Marvel can do nearly anything he sets his mind to.
SENTRY
Supposedly harnessing the power of a million exploding suns (whatever that means), The Sentry is essentially Marvel’s dark version of Superman. After drinking an experimental super-solider formula, Bob Reynolds became the Sentry. All was not dandy, as the Void, the darker half of the Sentry, would occasionally manifest and create chaos. The Hulk fought the Void once, and had all his bones broken. In their second fight, Worldbreaker Hulk, the Hulk’s strongest form, fights the non-Void Sentry and still barely wins.
Later, after his tenure with the Avengers, he joined Norman Osborn’s Dark Avengers. During “Siege” the Sentry killed Ares, the God of War, destroyed Asgard, and then required a nuclear explosion, the combined assault of the Avengers, and Thor’s hammer Mjonir’s mightiest strikes before finally dying. Unleashed, the Sentry can perform reality and molecular manipulation, energy absorption and manipulation, and virtually every other power imaginable.
Class 100+; the Sentry possesses superhuman strength enabling him to lift well over 100 tons easily. He has been able to stalemate one of the most powerful incarnations of the Hulk while weakened by his Agoraphobia, destroy the Shields of Dr Doom and even contain a Cosmic Cube for a while before it was absorbed into the Sentry's body. Marvel dubbed The Sentry as the world's most powerful superhero at some point in time.
NOTE- The sentry that the Ww hulk fought was a weaker version of sentry and it was really a stalemate.