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''I am the world's strongest man! You better be worried about surviving through the night."''|'''[[Mark Henry]]'''}}

 

 

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]].

** In a weird twist, Krillin ends up being the strongest normal human in the group. He has occasionally pointed out friends of his, including the goofy Yamcha and even [[Education Mama]] Chichi, are still ''ridiculously'' strong compared to the average nondescript civilian. That is, if we're not counting Uub (biologically 100% human, but the magical reincarnation of an incredibly powerful alien) and Tien who is, according to the [[Word of God]], an [[Human Aliens|Alien]].

** 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.

* ''[[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-Magic|Power-Nullifier]] Blackbeard, a very strong and powerful pirate in his own right, through strength alone.}}

* ''[[Mahou Sensei Negima]]''

* ''[[Baki the Grappler]]'''s Yujiro Hanma. His title is the "Strongest Creature in the World."

* Mr. Don from ''[[Eyeshield 21]]''. When a guy can hand [[The Worf Effect|a Worf Effect]] to [[Gentle Giant|Kurita Ryokan]], [[Jack of All Stats|Yamato Takeru]], [[Lightning Bruiser|Shin Seijuro]], AND [[The Berserker|Gaou]] [[The Determinator|Rikaya]], holy crap. Hell, {{spoiler|Gaou, the heaviest hitter on the entire protagonist team, had to [[Up to Eleven|use a Delta Dynamite]] just to knock the guy off balance!}} Good lord.

* 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-Sized Powerhouse|Nuriko]], the strongest Seishi in ''[[Fushigi Yuugi]]''.

 

 

* [[Power Girl]] is another contender for strongest women in the DCU, being, powerwise, a female Superman (with more muscle mass than Supergirl).

* [[Incredible Hulk (Comic Book)|The Hulk's]] ''potential'' strength is theoretically unlimited, making him the Marvel Universe's strongest character. Green Scar in particular is the strongest version of the Hulk. [[Word of God]] is that the Green Scar Hulk is "stronger than any mortal and most immortals in the marvel universe." So he is literally the strongest man; anyone stronger than him is at least a [[Physical God]], and he's stronger than most of those.

* ''[[Asterix]] the Gaul'' has Obelix, a dumb-but-super-strong sidekick who fell into a vat of strength potion as a child.

* ''[[The Dandy]]'' has Desperate Dan, who memorably once won a World's Strongest Man competition by lifting ''all the other competitors, plus everything '''they''' were lifting''.

* ''[[Bamse]]'' is the world's strongest bear.

* Some older adventure strips from ''[[The Beano]]'' featured characters like this such as Morgyn the Mighty.

* [[Captain Marvel]] is often considered the "World's Mightiest Mortal", with strength slightly greater than Superman's due to his magical nature.

 

== Fan Works ==

 

 

== Films -- Live Action ==

* There actually was a movie called ''The Strongest Man in the World''. It starred a young Kurt Russell as college student who became the titular individual after drinking a secret formula.

* ''[[The Adventures of Captain Marvel]]'' film serial of the 1940's stars Captain Marvel, who channels the strength of Hercules, and is the strongest man in the world by virtue of being the only guy with out and out superpowers.

 

* Jean Valjean of ''[[Les Misérables]]'' is not established as actually being the world's strongest man, but he is so unusually strong that {{spoiler|in all his life Javert has never seen any other person possess such strength, which is what causes him to recognize Valjean}}. Interestingly, Valjean is also about as far as you can get from being a meathead.

* In ''[[A Song of Ice and Fire]]'', Ser Gregor Clegane is freakishly large and strong. He stands almost eight feet tall and wields a greatsword with one hand. While mounted, he makes even the largest destrier look undersized, earning him the name "The Mountain That Rides." His abnormal dimensions apparently cause him frequent migraines that drive him into a constant state of rage.

* 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).

* 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-Man Band]]'' of [[The Big Guy|Big Guys]], but the knight Mandorallen is something of a standout, ''crushing'' a lion to death just by squeezing. Probably one of the most memorable bits, though, is when he was preparing to attack two opposing armies simultaneously, which his companions managed to talk him out of, as they considered it suicidal... although one of them noticed ''both'' armies were visibly relieved that he had been called off.

 

* Spoofed with Artie from ''[[The Adventures of Pete and Pete]]''. Yes, he is pretty strong, but it's by the Pete's standards, and we don't know if he's simply ''crazy'' or not.

** His on-camera feats include hitting a golf ball 300,003 feet, pushing a house to the left an inch (he wanted to knock it over, but he had strained a muscle earlier while lifting a brassiere emporium), rolling a bowling ball from whatever state Wellsville is in into Canada, skipping a stone on ''Neptune'', and leaping across the city in a single jump.

* Nadine from ''[[Twin Peaks]]'' is already pretty strong earlier in the series (she involuntarily mangles a steel rail with her bare hands), but after she comes back in her "perky schoolgirl" persona on recovering from her overdose the gloves really come off. In the school gym, she's seen leg-pressing unfeasible amounts of weight without effort, to the astonishment of the watching jocks, and in a touch-down celebration she gleefully whirls the hunky quarterback round in her arms, before, forgetting her own strength, she flings him what appears to be about a hundred feet through the air.

 

 

== Mythology ==

* Hercules in [[Classical Mythology]] is not only the strongest man, he's stronger than a good many gods as well.

* Magni, from [[Norse Mythology]], who had the combined strength of both parents at the age of two. For the record, his parents were a giantess and Thor.

 

 

 

== Video Games ==

* [[Badass|Akuma]] from ''[[Street Fighter]]'' is considered to be this.

* So far, ''[[Asura's Wrath]]'' has a lot of potiential examples, though Asura himself seems to be a likely candidate by the end of the game.

 

== [[Visual Novels]] ==

** 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-Powered Evil Side|Alter Berserker]] }} seems to be lacking the Godhand shield (which would cover his skin, but {{spoiler|given his skin was disintegrated by the shadow...}}, meaning his insane defensive phantasm wasn't working, unlike when {{spoiler|Caliburn}} hit.

** Momoyo is considered a "god of martial arts" and is pretty much ''the'' strongest person in the world by the beginning of the game;

** Mayucchi's father told the [[Our Presidents Are Different|Prime Minister of Japan]] that his daughter had already surpassed him in skill. Mayucchi's father, who just happens to be the current [[Names to Run Away From Really Fast|Sword Saint]], a.k.a. the strongest swordsman in the world;

 

== Web Original ==

* The strongest man in the [[Global Guardians PBEM Universe]] was the aptly named Strength, a supervillain working for Tarot. During the entire run of the game, they never found an object too heavy for him to lift.

* Chuck "[[Memetic Mutation]]" [[Chuck Norris|Norris]].

 

== Western Animation ==

* [[Popeye]] has reached this level when spinached up; even without it, he's pretty strong.

* Bam-Bam from ''[[The Flintstones]]'' is billed as the strongest baby in the world, and in later cartoons the strongest teen in the world.

* ''[[Rocky and Bullwinkle]]''. While a moose rather than a man, Bullwinkle J Moose every so often performs feats of incredible strength, which he attributes to his "mighty moose muscle", or sometimes just "moose-le".

* ''[[Fairly Oddparents]]'': Timmy once wished to be the toughest guy on the beach - ergo, he'd be stronger than the toughest fellow to turn up on that beach. This was going fine and dandy until a ''whale'' beached itself.