The Most Overpowered Characters in Comic Book History

In the vividly imagined realm of comic books, there's a place for everyone, regardless of their origin and purpose. Well, almost everyone cause there exists a very select number of characters who are so disproportionately powerful that it's incredibly difficult to craft a story around them. To create a feasible story you need conflict and there are not a lot of characters in the entire comicdom that can actually give them a sense of threat or challenge. As a result, they have been used pretty scarcely, in very few one-off story events and then left untouched. 

While some of them have generated a huge fan base over the years, their overpowered nature prevents them from appearing in the mainstream comic book story lines. So without further ado, here's a compilation (in increasing order of power levels) of some of the most powerful characters ever conceived in comic book history. In fact, they are so damned powerful that even the writers have decided to leave them alone. 

10. Trion Juggernaut: When it comes to Earth based heroes and villains in the Marvel universe, Juggernaut holds the crown of the most physically intimidating character. But in this incarnation of Juggernaut, Marvel made him as powerful as they possibly could. Briefly appearing in Uncanny X-Men #369, Trion Juggernaut was infinitely stronger than his old self, so much so that he was effortlessly punching through entire dimensions.

The source of Juggernaut's immense physical strength is an Elder God named Cyttorakk (a multiple galaxy buster in his own right). Normally Juggs can only use a very small portion of Cyttorakk's power but as Trion Juggernaut, he was in possession of almost all of it, making him powerful enough to shatter time and space itself, and that's just one of the reasons why he is so terribly overpowered. 

9. Superman Prime: An alternate version of Superman from Earth-prime (a parallel version of Earth), Superman Prime is one of the most feared (and stupid) adversary in the entire DC Multiverse. As his younger self, also known as Superboy Prime, he was already pretty much unstoppable. He tore through the entire Justice League and the Green Lantern corps multiple times and all of them together couldn't do much except annoy him. Similar to Trion Juggernaut, Superboy Prime also busted through reality multiple times.

But after absorbing the Oa-n energy, the grown up Superman Prime became even more powerful than his younger self. Appearing only in a couple of issues in the Countdown to Final Crisis miniseries, Man prime didn't get a lot of time to shine but in that short span he casually destroyed a parallel Earth by just flying through it and at the end of his appearance, he managed to tank (receiving an attack without taking any damage) an explosion that wiped out almost an entire universe. This incredible feat alone puts him as one of the most powerful characters ever created in comic book history.

8. Kal Kent: Also known as Superman One Million, Kal Kent has displayed some of the most incredible feats in the entire DC Multiverse. Basically, all of the insane feats performed by Trion Juggernaut and Superman Prime are literally child's play for Kal Kent. Able to leap from world to world in a single bound, Kal Kent once held together an entire galaxy with his “force vision” and managed to punch through time in a weakened state. These feats easily cements his reputation as one of the most overpowered characters ever created. 

7. Silver Age/ Pre-Crisis Superman: This list is littered with multiple versions of Superman and the pre-crisis Superman is the sole reason for that. In fact, his power level was so insane that it had to be taken down several notches to make Superman a more accessible character to the modern comic book reader in the first place. 

Pre-Crisis Superman makes most versions of Superman (including Kal Kent) look weak. Boasting some of the most impossible (and hilarious) feats such as sneezing away an entire solar system, pulling multiple planets together with a chain, flying so fast as to damage the fabric of space and time, pre-crisis Superman is the textbook definition of overpowered. 

6. Death Seed Sentry: Death Seed Sentry hasn't had any appearances outside of his limited ones in the Uncanny Avengers series and probably has some of the least number of feats among the characters in this list. But what he did in that limited run is more than enough to put him this high in this list. 

Sentry has always been scarily powerful but now with the Death Seed, he makes all of the characters before him totally outclassed (even pre-crisis Superman). Being immune to all sorts of physical damages, immortal, the most powerful molecule manipulator in the Marvel Universe, the most powerful telepath, fast enough to bend space and time and strong enough to stomp Thor while holding back (the comics version of Thor is incalculably more powerful than the movie version) and stop the descent of a Celestial, Death Seed Sentry belongs in a league of his own even among some of the most overpowered characters in comic book history. 

And now, here comes the big guys (and gals). 

5. Mr. Mxyzptlk: An Imp from the 5^th dimension, Mxy is an insanely powerful reality warper who can create, erase and recreate an Universe with just a whim. In the World's Funnest issue, Mxy destroyed the DC Universe in an instant, proving not many people in comicdom can go toe-to-toe with him in terms of raw power. He also appeared in an episode of Superman: the animated series, albeit in a much lesser capacity. The full extent of Mxy's powers are as scary as they are beyond comprehension. He can turn anyone below him in this list into dust or just erase them from existence. 

4. White Phoenix of the Crown: The Phoenix force is one of the most fundamental and powerful forces in the Marvel Omniverse. Also known as the spark of creation, the Phoenix force even had a part in the creation of the Multiverse. Very few extraordinary people are chosen to be the host of the Phoenix force throughout all of time. Even though they only had a small fraction of the entire Phoenix force, the power they've displayed is enormous----casually destroying Universes, easily overpowering beings such as Galactus and many more. 

Jean Grey as the White Phoenix of the Crown is the most powerful avatar of the Phoenix force. A multiversal being herself, to say that she is extremely powerful is really an understatement as seen in the scan where she is holding an entire Universe in her hands, healing it. 

3. Mad Jim Jaspers: Able to effortlessly warp reality on a Multiversal scale, Mad Jim Jaspers once changed an entire Universe to such degrees that it took the complete destruction of that Universe to stop him. Originally a British Parliament member, James Jaspers had a mutated brain that allowed him to warp reality. An Omniversal threat, Jaspers can restructure all matter and energy and bend or distort space across dimensions. Basically, his ability to do anything is only limited by his imagination. At one point, Jaspers was also shown to create life and resurrect the dead. 

2. Molecule Man (Pre-Retcon): Owen Reece has the power to control all matter and energy across the Omniverse. Considered as the second most powerful being in all of Creation, Molecule Man once repaired the entire multiverse with just a small gesture of his fingers. But even with the power to create entire galaxies and obliterate several billion Universes in a single blast, Owen Reece enjoys the simple pleasures of life like staying in a tiny apartment and watching re-runs of his favorite TV shows. He is the comical proof that absolute power does not corrupt absolutely. 

1. The Beyonder (Pre-Retcon): The Beyonder may very well end up as the most powerful being ever conceived in all of genre fiction. With the ability to create or erase the entire Multiverse with just a thought, the Beyonder was only seen in the second part of the Secret Wars miniseries from Marvel. In the words of Molecule Man himself, “The Beyonder, it seems, on levels unimaginable to me”. Just for a perspective, The Beyonder can stomp everyone in this list combined without lifting a finger.

Source: Comicvine.com.