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''I am the world's strongest man! You better be worried about surviving through the night."''|'''[[Mark Henry]]'''}}
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This trope may be subverted by [[Samus Is a Girl]] or [[Fake Ultimate Hero]]. For the videogame version, see [[Mighty Glacier]]. See also [[Super Strength]]. Determining just who ''is'' the strongest leads to arguments about [[Character Tiers]].
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* The [[Tower of God]] was under the supreme rule of Zahard, the first man to climb up and settle down, and his supporters. Then Phantaminum, an existence [[Shrouded in Myth]], came and not only scaled the tower much faster than Zahard, but in the process killed many of his high rankers. These are the 1000 strongest of 100,000 rankers, and even the lowliest ranker can give the main characters a run for their money. After [[Storming the Castle]] of the ruler, Phantaminum disappeared, never to be seen again, however, similar Irregulars followed, shaking the Tower up once more. It shoud be mentioned that [[Storming the Castle]] is the only battle he participated in and even so was immediately declared strongest.
** And now try and guess what the Main Character is.
* Sensui from ''[[Yu Yu Hakusho]]''
* ''[[Dragonball Z]]''.
** Goku is the straight version of this trope
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== Pro Wrestling ==
* This is pretty much a stock wrestling character, though [[Mark Henry]] is currently billed as the World's Strongest Man in WWE (And apparently was a winner of several Strongest Man competitions as well as an Olympic weightlifter, which is the source of his gimmick. He is also the current world record holder for the ungeared squat, at
* Doug Furnas was so billed during his brief [[WCW]] days.
* The late Dino Bravo in [[WWE]], though being a [[Heel]], he was usually billed as the ''Self-Proclaimed'' World's Strongest Man.
** And sometimes he was billed as ''Canada's'' Strongest Man. Guess sometimes people just need more realistic goals...
* The first [[Wrestlecrap]] book posited that any wrestler using this moniker [[The Worf Effect|will inevitably fail]], especially if used to promote weightlifters who cannot actually wrestle (which is often the case).
* [[The Iron Sheik]] is legendary in strongman circles thanks to his Persian Clubs challenge.
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