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  • In Attack on Titan, naturally the Titans themselves being Titans are super freaking strong: such as Kruger's Titan who could break a steamboat over his shoulders, Eren's Titan who can lift a massive boulder and especially the Colossal Titan who can smash the wall.
  • The titular Robot Girl heroine in Battle Angel Alita despite being 4'11 is ludicrously strong, able to tear through and smash other cyborgs four times her size. In the manga we see Alita smash boulders, throw motorbikes around, lift and kick around concrete beams, explode a normal man's head with a slap and block attacks from the foes as big as Makaku. Though as badass as Alita's strength makes her, it's actually a source of sadness for her since she can't show the affection to her love interest Hugo that she wants to, without the fear of accidently killing him.
  • Guts' entire life in Berserk has been one massive test of strength, ever since he was given an adult's longsword to fight with when he was 6 years old, meaning Guts had to pick bigger swords to accommodate when he grew up. Eventually Guts graduated to the Dragonslayer sword which weighs approximately 400 pounds/180 kilograms of solid steel which he can even lift in one hand. While it takes two normal humans to lift the "sword" and nearly crushed Isidro when he tried to pick it up, just to clarify what a Herculean freak Guts is.
  • The title character of Birdy the Mighty can knock over cars, punch holes into spaceships, rip apart robots like paper, and toss girders like javelins. A lot of her foes have this ability with Gomez not only outmatching her, but managing to break her arm and Hikawa is capable of chucking her into a wall like a ragdoll.
  • In Black Butler, Finny of all people is able to easily lift and toss a large marble statue. He throws it with such force that it becomes A Twinkle in the Sky... before falling at terminal velocity toward Ciel's head. Due to this super-strength, he is the only one able and willing to play with Plu (a giant, demonic dog).
  • In Bleach pretty much everybody has super-strength, with the standouts being Yamamoto, Isshin, IchibÄ“, Yoruichi, Kenpachi, Sado, Ichigo, Ulquiorra and Nel.
  • All chiropterans in Blood+ are stronger than humans. Even the "lower" chiropterans who have emerged from failed gene experiments are much stronger than humans. But those who look like humans are much stronger.
  • Blue Exorcist's Okumura Rin has this, on dint of his heritage. He tends to use it without thinking, since it was the one power he had even before his awakening, allowing him to lift up a car without even thinking about it.
  • In Brave10, Seikai and Byakugun end up facing off in the finale as the respective big guys from each of their teams since they're both blessed with this.
  • Miyazawa Kenji of Bungou Stray Dogs can pick up a van and toss it around like a beach ball... but only when he's hungry.
  • In Call of the Night, super-strength is a standard power of all vampires. At the very least, they are strong enough to send someone flying several meters and smash a table to splinters with one punch. Yamori is able to demolish an apartment building when he triggers his half-vampire powers.
  • In Castle Town Dandelion, Teru has this as his Royalty Superpower.
  • In Claymore you can see that more often. Even the ordinary youma are stronger than humans. Still, a really strong person can win a fight against a youma. Ironically, the half-youma warriornesses are (usually) much stronger than a ordinary youma. Clare, the main protagonist, easily defeats two human soldiers who were considered the city's best fighters in a short fight. And she has the lowest rank among the warriornesses, making her the weakest of them. A halfway strong warrior becomes a One-Woman Army if she only has to fight humans. Especially strong are the Awakened Beings. They arise when one of the warriornesses loses control of their demonic powers and transforms.
  • Crazy Food Truck: Arisa can take down a 50-foot-tall squid with a single karate chop.
  • Cyborg 009 has Geronimo Jr., a.k.a., Cyborg 005, a massive Native American who has this as his main ability.
  • Daily Lives of High School Boys
    • Tadakuni's little sister Mei: in High School Boys and Tower she can lift two guys both older and bigger than her on her shoulders, and in High School Boys and UFO Catchers she can shake a UFO Catcher at the arcade which the main trio together couldn't even move.
    Tadakuni, Hidenori and Yoshitake, in unison: "Just what IS she?"
    • Habara shows signs of this in the unanimated skits. Remember, she was an Enfant Terrible-level bully when she was an elementary schooler.
      • In High School Girls are Funky — Superficially, she incidentally burst a volleyball.
      • In High School Girls are Funky — Megaton Poke, Yanagin had Habara try out the "punch machine" in the arcade in which the former just broke the new record. While Habara didn't get as many points as Yanagin by far... close inspections revealed a hole on the punching pad after Habara played with it, and upon asking Habara said she didn't know she has to clench her fist in the first place... Which mean she just stabbed her hand into the punch pad.
  • Tade from Delicious in Dungeon is so strong she can manhandle dwarves, they themselves shown to be much stronger than humans, like it was nothing.
  • Barda "The Bear" in Deltora Quest goes from a strong warrior in the books to a full fledged superhuman in the anime. Especially in the Final Battle of Del where he faces a Ak-Baba, pries its jaws open to get the Topaz and then after some reconciling with the ghost of his mom, he gains the strength to slice the Ak-Baba apart. This is most impressive since the canon of the books states packs of Ak-Baba can kill Dragons, making Barda as strong as at least one Dragon. In the manga adaptation, Barda even lifts a boulder above his head.
    • Glock and Nevets are the other prominent examples, and the Ralad tribe have explicit Super-Strength to justify their roles as castle builders.
  • Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba:
  • Almost all Digimon have this to some degree. Most champions have no problem smashing up trees and boulders and even low tier megas can toss around pieces of skyscrapers like they were footballs. But by far the most impressive showing was when Lucemon blew up three moons at once by pile-driving another Digimon into one of them. A notable aversion would be Lillymon. Despite being an Ultimate level Digimon, and holding her own as well as the other Digimon, her physical strength is at the level a woman of her stature and build would have.
  • Dragon Ball:
  • Fairy Tail
  • Almost everybody in Fist of the North Star has enhanced strength, but Kenshiro can go from swinging around a iron girder , carrying a huge boulder to breaking several skyscrapers with his fist and letting it all fall on him as he walks through it. Oh and he exploded a tank with a flurry of kicks and punches.
  • In Fullmetal Alchemist, during Scar's first fight with Major Armstrong, he comments that shiny man's strength is "almost superhuman". Hell, Armstrong and Sig use pretty much Good Old Fisticuffs to kill Sloth.
  • Shizuka Fujiyama, the top engineer on the Daiku Maryu in Gaiking: Legend of Daiku Maryu is the physically strongest person on the ship, despite having no apparent musculature, and can at once lift at least three of the metal plates that the rest of the crew struggle to lift even one of.
  • The Twilights in Gangsta. have enhanced strength due to being descendants of those who used the Celebrer drug. They can easily rip normal people apart like paper, lift up steel beams, smash concrete like cardboard and can even kick cars off the ground, which makes their preferred use of melee weapons like swords, knuckle dusters and knives against guns completely justified. Some Twilights (like Nicolas) have Super-Speed on top of their strength, making them deadly Lightning Bruisers. However, overdosing on pills or fighting for too long seriously risks Twilights' physical and mental health.
  • Major Motoko Kusanagi from Ghost in the Shell, being a Cyborg, has greatly enhanced strength and Super-Toughness compared to the average human woman; one time, just her landing on a roof too hard causes the metal tiles to be crushed beneath her artificial body. In Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex, Makoto is shown to be strong enough to pull a helicopter with its own cable — it's worth noting that the average helicopter can easily transport up to 44,000 pounds, which means the Major's strength must be far greater. Subverted greatly at the end of the 1995 movie, when the Major fights the Spider Tank — despite her best effort to physically rip off the hatch on top of the tank, Motoko's arms shatter in the effort, showing that her strength has limits.
  • Kagura from Gintama can toss around boulders and cars with ease and stop Gin's scooter by grabbing the back of it, among other things.
  • Apparently a standard ability of the vampires in Hellsing. Alucard dual-wields Hand Cannons that are explicitly said to be beyond human ability to lift, while Seras's BFGs keep getting bigger and bigger.
    • During a flashback sequence in Volume 3, Integra's father tells her during a lecture that vampires can rip humans apart, "like wet rags." Alucard, naturally, does exactly that in the same chapter to a SWAT team, including one instance of apparently bitch-slapping a man in half.
  • In Hetalia: Axis Powers, this seems to be a trait of several nations:
    • Germany had no trouble breaking a spoon with his bare hands. A better example of his strength would be in Hetalia "Paint it White", when he knocked out several pictonians with ease, and could have most likely beat them all if it weren't for Italy.
    • America could lift a buffalo as a toddler. He is also seen once dragging UK's car with one hand (and apparently he was walking about with said car for an hour). Moreover, during the 2010 Bloodbath, a party (possibly Finland) calls America and Russia "superhuman".
      • The 2011 April Fool's event confirms Russia to have this. He hides in a sewer and tosses around the the manhole cover (they typically weigh over 50 kg) like it's a pillow, even balancing it on his head.
    • One anime episode has a very angry China punching through a wall with eleven chops, kicking through another one with just one kick and even visibly cracking a third one with just his head before America stops him.
    • Greece is also implied to have this "power". One picture shows him wrestling down Germany seemly without trouble, in a strip he knocks out and carries around France's body like it's nothing, and in the Gakuen Hetalia PSP game he manages to move around several life-size stone statues and not even pant afterwards.
    • Belarus' introduction includes her clawing through a door and ripping its knob out with her bare hands. She also is able to break multiple fingers on Lithuania's hand with very little effort.
    • Hungary can beat up entire Prussian armies basically by herself.
  • Loads of characters in Hunter Ă— Hunter but here are the standouts:
  • Standard feature of Youkai in Inuyasha. The titular character, despite being half-human, is in the high side of the curve for Youkai. Not surprising, as his late father was one of the strongest youkai to ever live.
  • Jojos Bizarre Adventure:
    • The antagonists in Parts 1 and 2 all have super-strength to some degree. Even the basic zombies in Part 1 are so strong that it's almost impossible for a normal human to beat them without using Hamon. Actual vampires like Dio Brando even more so (as demonstrated by the famous road roller drop in Part 3). Strongest of all are the Pillarmen of Part 2 - as just one example, Wamuu is able to use a stone pillar like a club.
    • Jonathan Joestar is likely the physically strongest human in all of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, given he could shoulder ram Dio (the immortal vampire) with enough force to knock him over, despite being wounded in the shoulder by a spear. This is before he learns Hamon, too. That said, his greatest display of strength was after being revitalized and empowered by Zeppeli's Hamon - he ripped through 3 steel bars clutching his neck, a feat that even the mighty zombie Tarkus outright admitted he was incapable of. Stand users from later parts are actually very grateful a Herculean monster like Jonathan never got a Stand himself.
    • Jonathan's grandson Joseph could break stone with his feet to slow his descent when falling and even send a vampire flying with a whack of his Tommy Gun. Jotaro, Joseph's grandson relies on Star Platinum but he's still strong enough to beat up half dozen thugs by himself.
    • Part 3 introduces Star Platinum, Jotaro's Stand; in keeping with his lineage, it's strong enough to Offhand Backhand a shark, throw a massive tower, and even break High Priestess's diamond-hard teeth.
    • Besides Star Platinum other Stands with Super-Strength include:
      • Magician's Red (Avdol's Stand) as seen when with a single kick it was able to shatter Judgement's armor, whereas Silver Chariot couldn't.
      • Cream (Vanilla Ice's Stand) could decapitate a person with a single karate chop to the neck.
      • The World (DIO's Stand) just like its vampiric master has formidable strength, seen when it punches through poor Kakyoin's abdomen and goes on to match Star Platinum.
      • Crazy Diamond (Josuke's Stand) is akin to Star Platinum being able to punch straight through opponents' torsos like butter, it even matches Star Platinum in fisticuffs. Soft & Wet, Crazy Diamond's Alternate Universe counterpart is also very strong being able to kick through an apartment wall and break rock(human)s.
      • Spice Girl (Trish's Stand) was able to use a pipe to stab and section Notorious B.I.G into pieces while trying to destroy it and could break off the front of a plane by rapidly punching the walls and roof of the cabin.
      • Sticky Fingers (Bucciarati's Stand) is very strong, especially thanks to its Rocket Punch it's able to crush an opponent's skull into a bloody mess.
      • King Crimson (Diavolo's Stand) could obliterate a fortune teller's upper body in a single punch and throw a pair of scissors with such strength that they completely severed Risotto Nero's right foot off.
      • Gold Experience Requiem (Giorno's Stand) is perhaps the strongest stand in series, not just by Story-Breaker Power, but by also strength, obliterating the above mentioned King Crimson with a simple barrage. Word of God even stated that GER surpasses the aformentioned Star Platinum.
  • Yuji of Jujutsu Kaisen is unique among Sorcerers because he somehow has this without using Magic Enhancement — in the very first chapter he was able to casually break the shot put world record and jump directly through the fourth floor window of his school building. It even extends to being able to throw cars!
  • Kaiju Girl Caramelise: Kuroe Akaishi has a condition that turns her into a Kaiju when she gets emotional, which brings the expected destructive strength that entails. But even when undergoing a Partial Transformation that otherwise leaves her at human size, she still receives a big boost in strength. For example, when her hand transforms after her first date with Arata, she absentmindedly grips a bridge rail, crushes it, and falls into the river below. Another time, when she grows a tail at a theme park, her Tail Slaps manage to fling people pretty far.
  • Eclair from Kiddy Grade has super-strength as one of her main powers.
  • The title character from Kimba the White Lion has this power along with Super Vitality.
  • Lyrical Nanoha:
    • This is part of the Belkan style: Magically boost your physical strength and fight with close-combat weapons (or magic bows). Signum and Vita of the Wolkenritter exemplify this with their big weapons and heavy blows, and even an unaugmented punch from Signum is enough to send a petulant Teana flying across the room.
    • In the Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha StrikerS prelude manga, Teana made the mistake of telling Subaru to put more strength into boosting her up during a wall climbing exercise in the Ground Forces Military Academy. Subaru did... and accidentally threw Teana all the way up to the sky in the process. This was our first clue on Subaru's cyborg nature.
    • In FORCE, most members of the Huckebein family sport some degree of boosted physical strength but so far Fortis is the only one who has done a clear demonstration by crushing a soda can to a little marble with barely an effort.
  • Magical Girl Apocalypse: The Magical Girls, as well as the people they resurrect as zombies, are capital S STRONG.
  • The anime Magi: Labyrinth of Magic has the warrior folk Fanalis. Each of them is much stronger than an ordinary person. Morgiana, one of the main protagonists, is a 13-year-old girl, yet she was strong enough to defeat a band of bandits effortlessly.
  • In My Hero Academia, this is the power granted by "One for All". While there are other Quirks that grant enhanced strength, "One for All" puts the rest of them to shame. All Might relying on the fading dregs of "One for All" can topple buildings with the mere shockwaves generated by punching into the air. "One for All" is so powerful that it's actually very dangerous for Deku to use it at full strength since it doesn't come with invulnerability. Deku has to figure out how to tap into its full power safely so he doesn't accidentally cripple himself for life.
  • Naruto:
    • Tsunade is the mascot of this trope for the series with monstrous super-strength as her trademark ability. In her first appearance, she slams her finger into the ground and splits the earth before her into a large chasm. Orochimaru realized that she would put his life in danger if she was at full strength. Soon after this, she wields Gamabunta's Sword, slamming it down on Manda's jaw. In Part II, she smashes the Nigh-Invulnerable Susano'o on her own.
    • Then there's Tsunade's student, Sakura Haruno. She can now shatter boulders, launch Naruto over 300 meters (over 1000 feet) away with a single punch for no reason other than "comic relief", but it should be noted that this is filler and not canon, and break the highly defensive Hiruko puppet's defense with ease. By the end of Shippuden is the strongest kunoichi in the world.
      • Her daughter, Sarada strongly follows her footsteps from even more a younger age. Sarada is the most physically powerful character of her age. Even Boruto fears her since she demonstrated her raw power to him.
    • Naruto himself also utilizes this: he was able to stop a giant snake from hitting Sasuke during the Chunin Exams while tapping into the Fox's chakra. His most triumphant example is during the Pain Invasion, with him stopping Pain's giant ass rhino by grabbing its horn and then throwing it high into the sky while in Sage Mode; even without Sage Mode, he was able to shatter Preta's now stone body by just flexing his muscles. Later, he was able to fight Kyubi himself, slamming him flat on his back, although this was a Battle in the Center of the Mind.
    • Jiraiya, Naruto's master, was able to kill some of Pain's summons in just a few kicks; in Sage Mode he could punch a giant ram a significant distance out of a massive skyscraper that stood in Amegakure, and he could blind the insanely durable taijutsu body Human Path with just a single kick.
    • Killer Bee and the Raikage, A, demolished Sasuke utilizing this in two separate occasions. Killer Bee could wield Zabuza's BFS with one hand and he doubles as being Made of Iron. A smashed through Sasuke's Susano'o on two separate occasions by just strength alone, and his Liger Bomb... causes mass destruction.
    • Rock Lee and Might Guy's entire philosophy is devoted toward physical power (being practitioners of the Strong Fist Style) and skill over ninjutsu. Lee, as a 13-year old child, was able to uproot trees. Guy can punch so hard that the friction from his hand hitting the air creates a fireball.
  • Ku Fei in Negima! Magister Negi Magi is essentially the Badass Normal of the main cast yet still one of the top fighters. Even Negi has to resort to buffing himself with dark magic to match her sheer physical strength.
    • Quite a few of the girls in 3-A can enhance their strength with either ki or ki and magic combined, Asuna, Kaede, and Setsuna, for three. And if Ku Fei wasn't doing it in the early books, she certainly advanced to it by the Mahora War arc.
  • Most of the characters in One Piece, even Mooks, have super-strength, so much so that it might be a requirement in being a good pirate.
    • Luffy is the definitive example. Literally, the first thing we see him do as a pirate is take out a sea monster with one elastic punch. In Syrup Village, he tears off the figurehead of Kuro's ship and uses it to crush Mooks. In Skypeia, he lifts up a solid ball of gold. Considering the density of the gold and by using Luffy's height at the time (172 cm) to estimate the ball's size, it could easily weigh over 600,000 lbs or 300 tons. Even more impressively, in Water 7 Luffy was able to push two buildings apart when he heard the news about Robin. In the Dressrosa Colosseum he flips over a massive gladiator despite being a quarter his size, then in the same arc Luffy using Gear 4 levels most of Dressrosa with his Finishing Move. In Wano we learn even when Brought Down To "Normal" Luffy (wearing Sea Stone) is still strong enough to lift massive blocks of stone, alongside Kidd.
    • Zoro, from a very young age, could lift boulders (even with his mouth) and also overpower several grown adults. In the present, his regular training session involves weights that are literally bigger than his entire body. So it's no big surprise he is able to lift a house over his head and throw it at his opponent. Even before that Zoro picked up Dalton a man twice his size and slung him over his shoulder making Usopp annoyed as he could barely raise Dalton off the ground when he offered to carry him. Even before that Zoro could defeat Amazonian Beauty Miss Monday with a simple Facepalm of Doom. Zoro's strength combined with his Implausible Fencing Powers is a deadly mix, able to cut steel and even deflect strikes from Giants. Post-timeskip, it's only gotten more ridiculous; Zoro completely cuts through Pica's gigantic stone body without breaking a sweat.
    • Sanji is mainly known for his incredible kick strength which can break stone, send dudes flying, smash boulders, destroy 21 wooden bats, take down dinosaurs (even 28 ton ones), crush steel, defeat Kaiju-sized monsters, smash buildings down, knock Luffy out cold and even topple Giants. However Sanji's upper body strength is no joke either, in his first appearance, he dangled Fullbody by the neck with one hand. In Skypeia he could swing around a 5-ton sledgehammer like it was nothing. In Water 7 Sanji overpowered Chopper (in his Heavy form) with just one arm. Similarly in Thriller Bark Sanji restrained Absalom (whose modified body weighed 300 kilos) by grabbing his leg and in the same fight lift Nami above his head. Then in the next arc Sanji overpowered Duval by choking him one handed. In Movie 6 Sanji during a cooking battle lifted a gigantic pot the size of a truck over his head, then Sanji physically flipped the even larger meal into the air.
    Usopp: Are you guys even human?
    • Cyborg Franky, while not quite as strong as the trio above, is still no slouch when it comes to physical might. Even before he got his robotic parts, he could break Spandam's skull with the butt of a rifle and he briefly stopped the Sea Train (though he was run over almost immediately after). After his cybernetic upgrade, he can lift Blueno by the face with one hand, rip apart the Sea Train's carriage and later physically stopped a sword-elephant from killing Robin then used the same elephant to wreck Spandam again. In Thriller Bark, he makes nunchucks out of two massive stone pillars and uses them to smash the crap out of a giant spider monkey zombie with ease. Post-timeskip Franky could hold back the Smile Factory in Dressrosa and in the One Piece Film: Gold short special Franky equals Luffy in the sumo ring.
    • Chopper is also a prominent example despite being labeled alongside with Usopp and Nami as being the "Weak Trio", in his "Heavy Point" Chopper can take down foes with brute force and he almost smashed Doctor Hogback's skull with a suplex. Chopper's "Arm Point" is even more impressive as his Kokutei Roseo Metel attack stunned Shiki in One Piece Film: Strong World. But by far Chopper's greatest strength comes in his "Monster Point" where he was capable of leveling an entire village in Drum Island, ripping apart the Tower of Justice like it was cardboard and effortlessly defeat Kumdori and toss his unconscious body miles away. Post-timeskip Monster Point Chopper one-shot a energy steroid using Fishman. However the big downside is the fact Chopper is unable to discern friend from foe in this form (pre timeskip) and the amount of energy used can potentially kill him.
      • Even in his Chibi-form Chopper has enough strength to run while carrying heavy iron balls chained to his feet.
    • Usopp initially pretended to have super-strength to fool villains, by using comically-oversized hammers (much lighter than they looked, due to being hollow) with "5 ton" and later "10 ton" written on them. Post-timeskip, he's bulked up considerably and it's no longer a façade (though he's still nowhere near the likes of the Monster Trio). Played straight for once in One Piece Stampede where Usopp catches a heavy burning mast that was gonna fall on Luffy, and keeps holding it up with his Heroic Spirit.
    • Fishmen have super-strength as a species-wide ability; the average fishman is ten times stronger than the average human, and when in the water they get even stronger. That said, there are fishmen that are even stronger than your average fishman, like Jinbei, Tom, and Fisher Tiger. In the case of Jinbei, his feats put Energy Steroid guzzling Hody Jones (also a fishman) to shame. When Wadatsumi (an incredibly strong gigantic fishman) ate an Energy Steroid, he tried to punch Jinbei, who casually counters with a roundhouse kick, injuring Wadatsumi's fist and causing him to fall to the ground. In Whole Cake Island, Jinbei could even deliver a Megaton Punch to Big Mom strong enough to knock her over.
      • The Arlong Pirates and New Fishman Pirates were built up to be so fearsome, because of their immense strength as fishmen (Arlong himself could lift a house), but all in all, they're just your slightly above average Fishmen that can be outclassed by three aforementioned superhumans. This is one of the reasons why the Straw Hats were able to defeat Arlong's crew early in the series.
    • The Mink tribe make most Fishmen look like pushovers in comparison as they learn to fight from the moment they are born, two Minks, in particular, have incredible strength: Inuarashi and Nekomushi the former stopping Jack's massive trunk one-handed and latter flipping Jack right over. The Sulong transformation also doubles strength as the petite Carrot could crack the ground under her feet and rip off a ship's mast.
    • The Super-Soldier Vinsmoke Family children have modified strength thanks to their DNA being tampered with e.g kid Reiju could bend iron bars. Super-Strength appears to be Vinsmoke Yonji's power when wearing a Raid Suit as unlike his other siblings he isn't granted special powers. Ironically, when Yonji fought his aforementioned "normal" human brother Sanji, he lost badly because he wasn't nearly as strong.
    • Gecko Moria one of the Warlords of the Sea when he absorbed every single shadow into his body, could smash the island of Thriller Bark with just his physical strikes a rare feat in One Piece. Yet despite all the augmented power Moria is so bloated that Luffy defeats him with only mild effort.
    • Others, obviously, exist. As one goes up in the ranks of pirates, their strength starts scaling quite insanely. Warlords of the Sea were above Luffy for quite some time and remained on par for even longer, and once you get to the Emperors and their crews it gets catastrophic.
    • Kozuki Oden has super-strength like the aforementioned examples, but he deserves a very special mention for carrying all nine of his men above his head, while being Stewed Alive and then throwing them all to safety after one hour. Given that Oden had a Blade Lock with the aforementioned Whitebeard and even overpowered Kaido, his monstrous strength is to be expected, but this last feat in particular is legendary even by One Piece standards.
  • Lots of people in One-Punch Man have this, but Saitama is the main one. His strength is so high that anything he punches, no matter how powerful it is, will die in one punch. The only one (apart from Garou) who put up any kind of fight against Saitama was Boros (who survived three of Saitama's punches, albeit with heavy damage each time). He even survived a "serious punch", though with such severe injuries that he died minutes later. Most of the time, Saitama is so far above his opponents that even a lazily-thrown, effortless love-tap from him can obliterate them in one blow.
  • Ikushima Saya in Onidere is often compared to a demon. She's the strongest Delinquent around and her biggest fear is that her beloved one would leave her.
  • Photon: The Idiot Adventures: For unexplained reasons, Photon Earth is incredibly strong. His feats include catching a boulder launched by a catapult and throwing it back, punching robots to pieces, lifting a half-buried spaceship out of the ground, and punching opponents to the horizon.
  • PokĂ©mon: The Series:
    • Onix, Snorlax, Charizard, Aggron, Hitmonchan, Blastoise, Machamp, Heracross, Diggersby, Hariyama, Swampert, Conkeldurr, Ursaring, Tyranitar, Diancie, Bewear, Heracross and especially Regigigas.
    • Brock's Happiny is able to lift her trainer with ease, can fling a Seviper by the tail, and can even toss an entire frozen lake into an abyss. Not bad for a two-foot-tall baby Pokemon.
    • Wow Ash as well?.
  • A-ko in Project Ako has super-strength as part of her powers of being the daughter of Wonder Woman and Superman. B-ko gains super-strength via her Powered Armor.
  • Rage of Bahamut: Genesis has Amira, who is a nephilim. She also shows on several occasions that ordinary humans in combat have no chance against her.
  • In Ranma ½, most of the martial artists seem to have some level of greater-than-human strength, implicitly because of the fact that they practice martial arts. Nailing down precisely what a given character is capable of can be tricky, because, similarly to Dragon Ball, the series is an action-comedy, so it can be hard to discern what is a legitimate feat of strength and what is merely a moment of slapstick.
    • Female protagonist Akane Tendo is a teenage juggernaut. She can run up and down the stairs of her house at full tilt whilst carrying a refrigerator, use one-hand barbells as effective throwing weapons, and launch people dozens of meters by punching them or picking them up and throwing them. In one story, she decides to test her might against a sumo arm wrestling machine for fun, and effortlessly beats every level up to the highest, which she only fails to beat because the even stronger Shampoo was hiding inside it. And the scary thing is, as strong as Akane is, she's actually the weakest of the main cast, as proven by the superior feats they display and the fact she's the only main cast member incapable of Roof Hopping.
    • Shampoo is a cute Anime Chinese Girl... and also generally accepted by fans as the physically strongest female lead. She is introduced casually smashing through a building wall, which she continues to do throughout the early series. A flashback to her and Ranma's first meeting shows her easily defeating a woman twice her height and easily three times her mass armed with a massive two-handed steel club. Her weapons of choice are chui (Chinese maces with basketball-sized heads made of solid steel) or a dao (Chinese saber) easily as long as she is tall), which she swings around one-handed. She once tricked Akane into arm wrestling with her by hiding inside of a sumo-themed arm wrestling machine; at all her strength, Akane couldn't budge Shampoo's arm, whilst Shampoo sent Akane flying with a casual snap of her wrist. Throughout the series, Ranma does his best to keep Shampoo from actually fighting with Akane, because he knows that with her superior strength and Super-Speed, Akane would lose.
    • Ryoga is a powerhouse who largely fills the series' role of The Big Guy. He can effortlessly plow through walls even before he learns his Bakusai Tenketsu technique, to the point the anime shows him charging headfirst through multiple school walls in his debut episode. In the manga, he once managed to lift two massive chunks of ice many times his size, one in each hand, to crush an opponent between them, one of the few feats of strength ever shown to make him exert himself. He has knocked over telephone poles by headbutting them, or simply pulled them out of the ground. In fact, Ryoga's strength far exceeds his ability to control it, so he tends to smash things around him whenever he gets distracted or emotional.
    • Ranma himself, the male protagonist, prefers agility and technique to brute force, but is still capable of incredible feats of strength akin to Ryoga's, such as knocking trees over and smashing through walls with his bare hands, or picking a concrete lawn roller up on the tip of his foot and then kicking it at someone high above him like a soccer ball. His female form, despite being known to have reduced strength compared to the male form, has achieved such feats as hoisting Ryoga's super-heavy battle umbrella with one hand (a feat Akane struggled to do with two hands), managing to stay afloat despite Ryoga standing on her head and doing the aforementioned double glacier lift, creating a massive crater in the sidewalk with the air pressure from a misfired punch, and swimming down to the bottom of a lake whilst carrying a massive boulder fast enough to jam said boulder in the head of a giant dragon before it can eat Akane.
    • One-shot villain Lime is The Brute of the Musk Dynasty, a descendant from a family line where the men married tigers that they had transformed into human women in order to enhance the strength of their offspring. As a result, Lime is a juggernaut who can knock Ryoga around like a playtoy and at one point in the story beats Ryoga to the brink of death with his bare hands; Ryoga only wins by countering with a super-charged Shishi Hokodan, fueled by his utter despair. However, the price he pays for this is that he's almost as stupid as he is strong, even considering that the culture he comes from is weirdly backwards.
  • In Rosario + Vampire, pretty much every monster out there is stronger than a normal human, but most especially the vampires, whose primary power is converting their Youki directly into strength - for vampires, muscles really are meaningless.
  • This seems to be a standard power of the titular Saber Marionettes. In her first appearance, Lime is capable of singlehandedly carrying half a sky scrapper (although this was extremely taxing) and Bloodberry is generally portrayed as being stronger still. Even Cherry, who is not as adept at fighting, is shown to be stronger than a human.
  • Sailor Moon has pretty much every single Sailor Soldier when transformed, but two have it even in civilian form and are far stronger than the others when transformed:
  • Sonic, Knuckles, Hyper Metal Sonic, Metal Robotnik all display great feats of physical strength in Sonic the Hedgehog: The Movie. A clash between Sonic and Metal was enough to dislodge a stalactite the size of a mountain!
  • Sonic X:
    • Sonic has a lot tremendous strength for a 3-foot blue hedgehog. When it comes to taking on a various number of Eggman's robots, they're usually larger than most of the cast. In episode 13 he used all of his might just to shove E-18 Guerra-Hard's hand off of him (the robot weighed 550 tons by the way) when the latter had him pinned against a wall, casually held back a large robotic fish without even looking, carry some of the biggest animals such as a tiger while running, has effortlessly bent the turret of a tank as if he was tying a knot, and he's able to combat and trade blows with Knuckles himself. And that's just whenever he's not in the mood of doing his signature Spin Attack. Combined with his famous Super-Speed along with this strength, he's undoubtedly a hardcore Lightning Bruiser in this regard.
      • As Super Sonic, his strength is even more powerful and essentially god-like, such as when he casually held back a punch from the E-99 Egg Emperor, note  (the very same mech that gave him a No-Holds-Barred Beatdown beforehand) and absolutely destroyed it without hesitation, made short work of Perfect Chaos, and has wrecked the Egg Carrier without even trying.
    • Knuckles is a dude who's not to be taken lightly as his monstrous strength makes him a beast since he tends to be The Big Guy of the group. Those spikes on his fists are no joke as he can destroy large stones and level any kind of robots to pieces. Aside from just wrecking anything, he can also uproot enormous trees, shred through sturdy rubble and soil with his Shovel Claws, has easily tossed around a colossal Moguera-esque mecha by the tail like a damn rag doll, and has managed to uphold a gigantic pillar from Yellow Zelkova and has also sent him flying across the field just by throwing both him and the pillar despite the combined weight. Although moments earlier he somehow struggled to hoist up even a small boulder much to Sonic's disbelief.
    • Shadow is able to single-handedly ravage an entire Metarex fleet within seconds after removing his Limiters, which gives him One-Man Army qualities, can give Sonic and even Knuckles a run for their money, and at one point held back one of Final Nova's heads, which makes him look like nothing more than a mere fly by comparison. In his Super form, he can gradually fight against Super Sonic on even ground and has even brought him down with only one punch.
    • Amy Rose. No really. Even though her temper is mostly Played for Laughs but when she actually brings out her Piko-Piko Hammer as well being on the edge of blowing her stack, anything or anyone will get obliterated. Especially in the 9th episode The Last Resort, after seeing her bracelet getting destroyed that she specifically made for Sonic, she went ballistic on the E-39 Quizon, which (hilariously) made Eggman rather fearful of her wrath as well as catching Sonic off-guard. She's even chucked her hammer so far it made a visible dent in the Egg Carrier which is essentially Eggman's Airborne Air Craft Carrier, and according to the bio card for the machine, the vessel itself weighs around 655.281 tons as well as being 789 meters... in length.
  • While most of the cast seem to be Made of Iron with regards to being physically injured, a few in Soul Eater demonstrate extreme strength. Outside of gods like Shinigami and Kid putting craters in the scenery when not using their Weapons, Black Star has been known to punch holes in walls thanks to his soul wavelength.
  • SPYĂ—FAMILY: Professional Killer Yor is frighteningly strong for someone with no explicit superpowers. Feats include multiple instances of kicks sending people across the room (and in one case embedding the target in the ceiling), knocking a moving vehicle off the road, knocking a man unconscious by throwing a button at him, pinning another man to a wall with a thrown knife, and hitting a tennis ball at the speed of sound while holding back (her previous, full-power shot didn't go anywhere, because the wires of the racket just sliced the ball into pieces). Later on, Yor knocks a volleyball into the mesosphere during a game.
  • In Strike Witches, all Witches have enhanced physical attributes, further enhanced by the Striker Units, allowing them to carry heavy-duty weapons. Gertrud has more powerful version of this ability, allowing her to achieve feats like chucking an I-beam what was implanted into the ground.
  • Ryoko in the Tenchi Muyo! worlds often has this ability; one manga episode had her rather crudely performing 'brute force barbecue': heat plus (surprised) cow.
  • The Tower of Druaga has ten-year old Coopa be capable of carrying Utu (who was still in armor) and Melt's rod bag with little difficulty.
    • Some time in Season 2, she was able to pull up the (big and presumably heavy) metal cage she was trapped in, while injured. And at the end of the season, she was able to pull up the entire band of True Companions from a dangling cliff.
  • It's rarely touched upon but Vash the Stampede from Trigun has enhanced strength given he can carry two grown women across the desert, kick over The Brute Monev and wield Wolfwood's BFG. In the manga Vash does one arm handstand pushups every morning and even resists Legato's Mind over Matter powers with the strength his body. It helps that Vash isn't human but a humanoid Plant.
  • Urusei Yatsura:
    • It's the least touched upon aspect compared to his Super-Speed and Super-Toughness, but Ataru Moroboshi is capable of ridiculous feats of strength when sufficiently motivated. In one story, Ten ties him to a tree and then sets the top of the tree on fire; Ataru uproots the tree with just his legs alone, and then carries it away as he goes looking for someone to extinguish it. In the 1981 anime's version of Ran's debut, Ataru gets buried in the ground up to his hips to try and keep him away from Ran and her Kiss of Death; Ataru is so determined to get that kiss that he walks through the solid earth to try and reach her, to the shock of Lum and her stormtroopers.
    • Shinobu Miyaki, the intended but thwarted female protagonist, has strength that defies human limits. She casually throws school desks the way other girls throw school-books when angry, with enough force to put them through walls, swings telephone poles like branches, and can send guys flying with a single punch. In one story, to handicap her to make an interclass battle more fair, old-fashioned ball-and-chain weights are shackled to both ankles and both wrists, and they don't even slow her down. A Running Gag is Shinobu complaining about being a weak, frail, delicate girl whilst simultaneously performing some feat of super-strength.
    • The alien girl Benten is generally accepted to have superhuman strength as her power, compared to Lum's flight and electrokinesis or Oyuki's cryokinesis. She is able to casually hold a similarly sized girl suspended in midair with one hand, and then throw said girl back so hard she leaves a crater in the wall she hits without even meaning to.
    • Ryuunosuke Fujinami, due to a Hilariously Abusive Childhood in which she was Raised as the Opposite Gender, is at least as strong as Benten, if not as strong as Shinobu. She regularly lifts heavy furniture and uses it as a projectile weapon, smashes through walls, and sends guys flying with a punch. When she decides to find a boyfriend with a fighting tournament, she proved able to easily beat up every guy at Tomobiki High School, and during the Miss Tomobiki Beauty pagent, she beat the snot out of a fully grown male lion with her bare hands.
    • Sakura, despite being a miko and the School Nurse by trade, is shown to be ridiculously strong, regularly manhandling horny young guys like they were throw pillows. During the Miss Tomobiki Beauty pagent, she is shown throwing a male gorilla and a fully-grown male brown bear around.
    • Nagisa Shiowatari, Ryuunosuke's parentally-approved spouse, is a super-effeminate guy with the personality of a Yamato Nadeshiko. He's also strong enough that his response to being locked out of the house by Ryuunosuke is to punch through the wall, and when he and Ryuunosuke fight, he proves strong enough that he can effortlessly defeat her, first blocking her strikes without any strain, and then literally bear-hugging her into submission. It's even lampshaded that nobody had ever beaten Ryuunosuke in a fight before Nagisa did it.
  • Yuuna and the Haunted Hot Springs:
    • Nonko possesses this because she is part oni. She is strong enough to easily use a full grown man as a bowling ball.
    • Kogarashi himself possesses enough spiritual and physical strength to KO a dragon-god in a single punch.

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