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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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== Anime and Manga ==
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** At certain points in the story, both Tien and Master Roshi were the strongest men in the world before they were both surpassed by Goku.
** By the end of the series, the true strongest person in existance is ''Gohan'', thanks to having his true potential unlocked. A few episodes ''before'' that, however, the title belonged to Vegetto, who is without a doubt the single most powerful character alive in [[Dragonball]], whether you include GT or not. And that's saying a lot considering the competition.
* ''[[One Piece]]'': Whitebeard holds this title. He is powerful enough that the ''World Government'' find it necessary to pool pretty much their ''entire'' military might in preparation for his onslaught when a single crewmember of his is caught and scheduled for execution. Even with all their powers combined, they aren't certain of the outcome. This partially because {{spoiler|1=his long unknown Devil Fruit power is to create shockwaves. Big ones. As in "Punch an island in two." However, his mere strength alone is still insane, with him stopping an entire ship that was pushed along the ground with his arm and not budging a bit, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rTPn1jlvofI holding off the strike of a giant one-handedly], [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rA9Wykr4tKE defeating another giant with one hand] and beating down [[Anti
* ''[[Mahou Sensei Negima]]''
** Jack Rakan seems to currently hold this position. When you can blow up a mountain by ''accident'' or destroy a barrier dimension by flexing your muscles, you earn the position. On a scale in which an ordinary, non-magical human being is the baseline, and an expert magical warrior might break 1000, he estimated himself at ''12,000'' (he also likes to joke around, though, so it's possible he was exaggerating).
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* Sailor Galaxia of ''[[Sailor Moon]]'s'' fame is the strongest woman in the universe, capable of destroying Tokyo with a warm-up without even bothering to transform and access her full power (nearly happened in the manga). When she transforms, she can depopulate the world with a small gesture (she did in the anime) and kill Sailor Senshi and similar enemies without even trying. Cue [[Oh Crap]] moment when she's found out to be the legendary hero the Sailor Starlights hoped would avenge them...
* Teresa from ''[[Claymore]]'' is known as the strongest Claymore of all generations. This is understating her capability; she's an order of magnitude stronger than anyone else, and when she goes rogue, she's capable of single-handedly [[Curb Stomp Battle|curb-stomping]] an entire team of high-ranked Claymores. (Priscilla is ''possibly'' stronger than Teresa by this point, but being an Awakened Being, she doesn't count.)
* [[Pint
* [[Puella Magi Madoka Magica (Anime)|Madoka]] turns out like this, {{spoiler|one-shotting Walpurgis Night}} and all. Too bad it's that kind of show, and the only thing left after {{spoiler|defeating the most powerful witch}} is to {{spoiler|become an even more powerful witch and destroy the world}}.
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* The [[No Name Given|Nameless Narrator]] of ''[[The Night Land]]'' is stronger than anyone he has ever encountered, and performs some truly incredible feats of endurance and strength (running for three days in full armor while carrying his girlfriend, for example).
* In ''[[The Neverending Story (Literature)|The Neverending Story]]'', the knight Hykrion claims to be the strongest in the world. Another knight named Hero Hynreck defeats him one-on-one with superior strength. Then, Hynreck himself is thoroughly outmuscled by the real strongest man in Fantasia, Bastian himself, who had used AURYN to give himself godlike strength.
* The ''[[Belgariad]]'' graces us with a number of phenomenally strong characters- there are so many [[The Big Guy|Big Guys]] that they actually form their own ''[[Five
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* Berserker in ''[[Fate Stay Night]]'' is quite clearly defined as the strongest hero, only properly matched by Saber. {{spoiler|But it's subverted in that while he is stronger than Gilgamesh, Saber etc. pure power isn't everything. He's even quite possibly the fastest. But he has no ranged attacks and the abilities all the other heroes possess means he never lasts very long. World's strongest, not world's toughest or best.}}
** Part of this is because his class boosts his stats at the cost of preventing him from using any of his skills (which would have let him qualify for any other class, excepting Caster and maybe Assassin) or Noble Phantasms except for the auto-active one. As shown in ''Heaven's Feel'', his Noble Phantasm is capable of killing someone of his own level 9 times over in one shot, which makes it even better than {{spoiler|Caliburn}}, but not {{spoiler|Excalibur}}.
*** Note also that {{spoiler|[[Super
*** The ''[[Fate Zero]]'' Berserker went in the opposite direction, being able to use pretty much anything he got his hands on as a weapon, including some very dangerous Noble Phantasms, which made him a pain in the ass for both [[Master Swordsman|Saber]] and [[Storm of Blades|Gilgamesh]] to fight.
* In ''[[Maji De Watashi Ni Koi Shinasai (Visual Novel)|Maji De Watashi Ni Koi Shinasai]]'' they're only high school students, but...
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