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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.

** Nagi Springfield was also one of these, being [[Up to Eleven|even more powerful than Jack]], at least until he mysteriously disappeared.

* In ''[[Hellsing]]'', Alucard is the world's strongest vampire, not only in magical power but physical strength as well.

* ''[[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.

* ''[[Puella Magi Madoka Magica]]'': 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}}.

 

* ''[[Superman]]'' is generally thought of as the strongest superhero in the DC universe, though there are a number of cosmic and legendary beings who are stronger than him, including Heracles, [[New Gods|Darkseid]], Mongul, Doomsday, Despero, Monarch, [[Green Lantern|Sodam Yat]], Vartox (Pre-Crisis), Superboy Prime, Ariella Kent, and his [[Kingdom Come]] counterpart. Ostensibly Superboy Prime is, at the moment, the strongest character in the main DC universe - just not emotionally.

* [[Wonder Woman]] is generally portrayed as the strongest woman in the DC universe. Depending on who's writing her, she's sometimes described as second only to Superman in terms of strength.

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

 

* Paul is definitely this in ''[[With Strings Attached]]'', and takes great pride in it. It's one of the Blessed parts of being [[Blessed with Suck]].

* Everyone in Team RWBY qualifies for "World's Strongest Girl", at least on Earth, in ''[[Emergence]]''. There's a scene in one story where Yang is working out in the high school gym and overestimates how much weight she can lift, requiring Blake, who's acting as her spotter, to grab it. The amount of weight on the barbell -- and the fact that Blake casually picked it up off of her -- freaks out a couple of boys who witness the scene.

 

* Fezzik, from ''[[The Princess Bride (film)|The Princess Bride]]''.

* Albrecht in ''[[The Adventures of Baron Munchausen]]'' (1989).

 

* Gerard in ''The [[Book of Amber]]'', who's effectively the Strongest Man in [[The Multiverse]].

* Saval Bork of the ''[[Matador Series]]'', is established from the first book to be the strongest recorded man in the '''known universe'''. However, in ''Brother Death'', {{spoiler|he meets Brother Mkono, an assassin who's even stronger than him. After much existential angst, he remembers that he's also trained in the universe's most deadly martial art and proceeds to dismantle his opponent.}}

* Stonks from ''[[The Borribles]]'' is possibly the World's Strongest Borrible. He's the strongest Borrible anyone in the books has ever encountered, including Spiff and Flinthead, who've been around since the Victorian era.

 

* 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.

* [[The Dragon|Damaras]] of ''[[Kaizoku Sentai Gokaiger]]'' has the [[Red Baron|title]] "The Strongest Man in the ''Universe''". When he finally goes into action against the Gokaigers, it shows us that he ''deserves'' it.

 

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

* Also, [[Hot-Blooded]] Judge Samson from ''[[The Bible]]''.

* In ''[[Mandrake the Magician]],'' Lothar has always been billed as the strongest man in the world.

 

* Doug Furnas was so billed during his brief [[WCW]] days.

** 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. 75 lbs. may not sound much, but swinging that much weight on what is essentially a lever is ''extremely difficult.'' Mark Henry was the only wrestler to beat the challenge.

 

* Alex Mercer from ''[[Prototype (video game)|Prototype]]'' is clearly the strongest man in his universe. He can throw a destroyed helicopter at another helicopter with ease.

* [[Badass|Akuma]] from ''[[Street Fighter]]'' is considered to be this, while [[Action Girl|Chun-Li]] claims to be the "strongest woman in the world".

** And finally, there's the "Four Sky Kings" that Momoyo belongs to, of which Ageha is also a member. Tsubame, one of the new heroines in the upcoming sequel, makes her cameo early as a member in the anime. {{spoiler|Mayucchi}} also gains this distinction at the end of her path via [[Klingon Promotion]].

 

* In ''[[Problem Sleuth]]'', the title is first held by [[Big Bad|Mobster Kingpin]] and later by [[The Lancer|Ace Dick]].

 

* ''[[Homestar Runner]]'' has {{spoiler|Pom Pom}}, as depicted in "[https://web.archive.org/web/20131104025405/http://www.homestarrunner.com/10years.html The Homestar Runner Enters the Strongest Man in the World Contest]". In the original book, he offered to share with {{spoiler|Homestar}}, who was disqualified.

* 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]].

 

* ''[[Afro Samurai]]'' : The wielder of the Number One Headband.

* ''[[He-Man and the Masters of the Universe|He-Man]]'': '''''THE MOST POWERFUL MAN IN THE UNIVERSE!!!!''''' His powerset is actually defined as being [[Strong as They Need to Be|exactly as strong as he needs to be for any given task]]. Meaning that he'll always be at least slightly stronger than anyone he fights, no matter how strong they are.

* ''[[The 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.

 

* The current{{when}} record holder for an assisted bench press is Ryan Kennelly at 1,070 pounds.

* The World's Strongest Man, an annual competition taking place around Christmas time, pits strongmen from all over the shop in a very broad range of events designed to test all-round strength. Events vary from from traditional weight lifting to dragging, flipping, carrying, pushing, pulling, holding, throwing and otherwise manipulating incredibly heavy items such as tractor tyres, anvils, tractors, trains, cars, beer kegs, giant stone pillars, and the iconic Atlas Stones. Pictured above is one such winner, [[Awesome McCoolname|Magnus ver Magnusson]], whose name means "Big Guy Son of Big Guy who was the son of another Big Guy").

 

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