Whoever was peddling that "true strength comes from within" crap might have had a point...
- Karalau and Tamaki in Aquapazza have it. One is a warrior who carries a BFS, the other is a schoolgirl who can do lots of German Suplexes.
- Artery Gear: Fusion: Every Artery Gear is much, much stronger than the average human. Just a few punches from Quinn are enough to weaken the human commander severely.
- In Astal, the title character punches a hole in the ocean floor during the opening sequence, and in-game does things like picking up and throwing trees.
- This is a basic power that the 8 Guardian Generals in Asura's Wrath have. The degree of how much it is depends on the general. Augus, Yasha, Asura, and Deus are shown to be physically the strongest, able to punch through legions of multi Kilometer Sized Gohma like wet tissue paper. Asura follows the Hulk principle of getting stronger as he gets angrier.
- Super Strength is a powerup in Backyard Football.
- At the beginning of Baldur's Gate II, Minsc shatters the steel cage he is trapped in if you make him angry enough.
Minsc: The bars! They bend and twist with my berserker strength! Minsc and Boo are free!
- Bayonetta:
- Despite being unnaturally slender, Bayonetta displays a supernatural physical strength, particularly in cutscenes, doing things like throwing an entire church at a gigantic angel and casually holding up a trolley car with one arm before tossing it several hundred feet into the air.
- Rodin can have heavy objects like the lid of a coffin hit him without even flinching. As revealed in Bayonetta 2, he is powerful enough to oneshot demon mooks without even putting full effort in to it.
- Strength is an option in many Bethesda games. In the Fallout games, it's a special skill you can raise and lower at the start, a high Strength skill means better carry weight capacity, heavy weapons handling and melee weapons and unarmed skill. By level 30 you can punch people apart with just your fists if you’re level 100 unarmed.
- Strength even sometimes gives you special speech options where you inform someone how boss you are, especially in Fallout: New Vegas where the "The Terrifying Presence" perk which can send whole mobs cowering.
- Doc Mitchell has some choice words if you make yourself a powerhouse.
"Surprised anybody'd want to tangle with you. Heck, you could go Deathclaw hunting with a switch".
- The Super Mutants in Fallout are essentially an army of Incredible Hulks packing massive firepower and their strength can be a pain in the ass when you're a lower level and the Super Mutant Behemoths are a threat no matter how high level you are. Deathclaws also have superior strength given how easily they can rip you to shreds in about three or two swipes. In Fallout 2, Frank Horrigan (a Enclave Super Mutant in Powered Armor) empathises his strength by killing a Deathclaw with single punch.
- The Giants in The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim deserve a special mention as their club attack can send you and your companions ''into orbit''◊. This wasn't intentional and is a glitch but Bethesda liked it so much it stayed in the game.
- The Bizarre Adventures of Woodruff and the Schnibble: Woodruff gets this power once you make the Strength Formula. It also seems to be permanent, as Woodruff doesn't need to repeat the Formula each time he needs to use this power, as he needs to do with all other Formulas.
- In Chrono Trigger, both Robo and Ayla display feats of massive strength:
- In the factory level in 2300 AD, Robo holds a steel security door that must weigh several tons open.
- Ayla can easily toss enemies larger than herself several meters up into the air.
- In a combination technique, Ayla and Robo bat enemies larger than themselves back and forth like a baseball.
- In another combination technique with Marle, Ayla hits the enemy with a chunk of ice that is at least five times her own size.
- City of Heroes had this as a possible powerset for Brutes and Tankers, as well as implied super strength in the Titan Weapons powerset, as some of the weapons looked like they were ripped out of the ground.
- Champions Online has the Might framework, with many super strength powers (including several that are delberately the same as City of Heroes — two-handed strikes, a hand clap, an uppercut, and even Rage-based mechanics).
- Cute Bite: To tell her mistress that her past self was feared for her strength, the Butler says:
In your full power you could tear bricks apart with your hands.
- Strangely averted by DC Universe Online, where strength (super or otherwise) only affects what you can lift. There's no full super-strength powerset, despite being set in the same universe as the most well-known Flying Brick of all. Though, in the game's defense, pretty much every Exobyte-powered Hero or Villain has enough of it to lob a dumpster most of a city block, and taking it as an Iconic power just means you can do that with, you know, a transit bus or dump truck. Not to mention the fact all of said heroes and villains can physically hit hard enough barehanded to tear apart Mooks in Power Armor or the various Brainiac/OMAC/Whatever drones even WITHOUT said iconic. And of course there's the Brawling weapon style...
- Dante's Inferno: Dante can grapple with and overpower demons, break chains, and topple buildings.
- In Devil May Cry, the standard ability of all demons is superior strength, though there are standouts.
- The BFS-wielding Dante is the most prominent example and his strength just becomes more extreme as the series goes on. It's one of his superpowers that get demonstrated more than it's told. In his first scene from DMC3, Dante destroys a demon by simply shoving it into a wall, crushes a jukebox, then kicks a pool table around. And after Dante acquires his Devil Trigger, he destroys a stone pillar accidentally. DMC4 takes this trope even further with Dante who not only does a Punch Catch to Nero's Devil Bringer arm and forces him back, but also holds Echidna's jaws open, destroys a Hell Gate with a one inch-punch using Gilgamesh and even stops the gigantic Savior's fist without his Devil Trigger! In DMC5, he wields the equally-large chainsaw-motorcycle halves of the Cavaliere Devil Arm on each hand. Spin-offs may showcase this as well, such as in Episode 7 of the 2007 anime where he effortlessly breaks his handcuff chains.
- Vergil, while he isn't as blatant as Dante is, still has crazy strength as well: in DMC3 he sends Dante flying with the hilt of Yamato◊ and later using the Beowulf gauntlets he uppercuts the namesake monster's corpse into the air and then axe kicks him so hard Beowulf splits in two. In DMC5 Vergil even when weakened to point being almost dead, was still strong enough to rip off Nero's Devil Bringer arm like a chicken wing. When he regains his original body, Vergil can punt Dante across the room using Yamato in its scabbard.
- Nero similarly has demonic strength due to being Vergil's son in his first game he punched a demon so hard it went flying, knocked over a huge stone sword with his legs, matches Berial’s BFS with his smaller sword and with his Devil Bringer Nero even briefly overpowers Dante (though Dante was holding back so he wouldn't hurt his nephew). When Nero gets his Devil Trigger he physically stops both Dante and Vergil simultaneously.
- Trish is the foremost female example since she's a demon as well, in her first scene she lifts a motorbike (likely 400 pounds) over her head and throws it at Dante.
- The Doomguy from DOOM is capable of carrying a massive array of huge guns, along with the amount of ammunition required for them as well. In terms of combat, he is capable of punching zombies to death with his bare fists, and when powered up with the Berserk Pack, reducing anything less than a Pinky to red slop on the floor with a single punch., but come his 2016 reappearance, he, now known as the Doom Slayer, somehow buffed up his already inhuman strength to demon-busting levels. The Doom Slayer can punch through the Bio-Armor of demon-mechs, rip and tear demons into shreds, kick off the horn of the Cyberdemon and smash his face with it, and open several armored blast doors. You might think this all due to Powered Armour giving him enhanced strength, but you'd be wrong as even when buck-naked he is still powerful enough to break iron chains and crush a Possessed's skull.
- Sven the Rogue Knight in Dota 2. He's extremely strong that his skill set includes: Throwing a magically enhanced gauntlet so strongly that the magical properties get ignored that the enemies in the area where it landed gets stunned; swinging his sword so strongly everyone nearby gets damaged with a big percentage of his strength, yelling so hard everyone gets a boost of speed and toughness, and ultimately, his God's Strength pumps up his already absurd strength to even more godlike levels, it's not that rare to see Sven whacking his enemies to death with his strength and bigass sword.
- In Dragon Ball Xenoverse the Future Warrior regardless of race: Earthling, Saiyan, Namekian, Frieza's race or Majin; will still be able to grab a Great Ape by the tail and lift them up before slamming them down.
- In Earth and Sky, Austin's earthsuit gives him super strength and super toughness.
- EXTRAPOWER has a few heroes whose claim to fame includes Super-Strength. Among the most prominent examples is the brave hero Zophy, whose strength has reached legendary status. In Giant Fist, this strength manifests in his ability to punch through endless waves of enemies, and throw foes around effortlessly whether or not they're human goons, Jeeps, rampaging elephants, or creatures made of solid rock.
- Final Fantasy:
- All Summons have this, but Titan is the obvious example.
- In Final Fantasy VI, Sabin/Mash Rene Figaro is noteworthy for supporting a collapsing building and later a collapsing ceiling. And for suplexing a friggin' train.
- While a number of characters in Final Fantasy VII have displayed Charles Atlas Superpowers, Sephiroth, the main villain of the game, has explicit Super Strength, wielding his 8-foot Masamune as if it were a dagger, and at one point, impaling a subway-train sized snake with a tree.
- Cloud Strife the main character, has his own massive sword (not as long as Seph's Masamune, but wider and almost certainly heavier), and wields it with similar ease. Worth noting even before Cloud got the Bio-Augmentation from Hojo, he could not only wield the Buster Sword, but also lift Sephiroth up by his own Masamune despite being impaled by it at the time and toss his ass down into the Mako reactor. In the Final Fantasy VII Remake we see Cloud: lift stone slabs and girders off Jessie with little effort, kick a motorbike so hard it makes the Super-Soldier who was riding it fly off, knock mooks back by smashing his BFS into the ground, bury said BFS into concrete and reinforced glass and cut trains and other building-sized rubble thrown by Sephiroth into pieces. In Advent Children Cloud is strong enough to slice open the humongous super dragon Bahamut Sin.
- Tifa Lockhart easily rivals SOLDIER's strength with her own Charles Atlas Super Power even though her Limitbreaks are just an extreme exaggeration of her physical prowess and its obviously impossoble for anyone to suplex a dragon or even a weapon beast.
- In Final Fantasy X several characters have super strength with Kimahri being the most blatant, though even the 5'9 Tidus can Neck Lift a dude. The winner is Auron though, just see his Shooting Star attack.
- Fire Emblem:
- Ike from Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance holds a two handed sword with only one hand, can jump absurdly high and has shown to rival Zelgius in power, someone who can choke a grown-up with ease.
- Dimitri from Fire Emblem: Three Houses wields massive lancers taller than himself and has the highest strength growth in the game. In-Universe Dimitri's strength interferes with day to day tasks, as when he asked his friend Mercedes to teach him needlework, he managed to break a pair of scissors and as a child he used snap swords while training with his best friend Felix.
- Gene from God Hand can lift and throw large crates, uproot a lamp post and clobber enemies senseless with it, and regularly sends dudes flying across the room or into the Milky Way.
- Kratos from God of War can rip people in half, knock pillars over, and go toe-to-toe with various monsters and gods. Justified because he is Zeus' son. In God of War II after becoming a god proper, Kratos gains greater Super Strength as his core power; it takes time for him to build force, but no sliding door can stand in his way, given a few minutes and his BARE HANDS. By the time of God of War III Kratos is strong enough to rip a god's head off and kill the entire Greek Pantheon. Even when older in God of War (PS4) the first thing Kratos does in game is lift a whole tree over his shoulder. Later on in the same game, Kratos and the Stranger aka Baldur during a Brawler Lock make the very terrain split beneath their feet.
- From Halo, all of the Spartans are capable of lifting a few tons (Master Chief in Halo 2 drags a massive bomb out of an airlock) and running at inhuman speeds, thanks to their augmentations. In Halo: Reach the Spartan IIIs can stagger Elites with punches to the face and perform a Neck Snap on them. Even the Badass Normal ODST can wield Gatling Guns, overpower Brutes and Hunters like Spartans can, although their melee attacks are weaker.
- It appears that every single character in Hotline Miami has this. Most notable is the Producer in the "Decadence" chapter, who is capable of literally turning Jacket's entire head into paste with a single punch.
- I Was a Teenage Exocolonist: Sol can have enhanced muscles as their augment, which strengthens their Toughness and Combat skill gains by an extra 1 point.
- The King of Fighters:
- Goro Daimon, a professional judoka, is strong enough to cause earth-shattering tremors with his bare hands and toss people dozens of feet into the air like sandbags.
- The Ikari Warriors, Ralf and Clark, are each their own One-Man Army. Ralf can punch hard enough to cause explosions and tear through tanks like paper. Clark is a grappler who can run around carrying people several heads taller like ragdolls, and then throw them into the sky with a few wrist movements.
- Kirby: King Dedede's hammer weighs close to a ton according to Snake in Super Smash Bros. Brawl, but he can run and jump with it like it was nothing. In Kirby Super Star Ultra he mechanizes it into an even larger form, then there's his appearance in Kirby: Triple Deluxe in which he tears a decorative ax off the wall that is three times longer than he is tall and wields that. More feats of King Dedede's inhuman strength for his boss fights are even more staggering for certain games such as Kirby Star Allies, in his empowered muscular form when he Turns Red, he's able to simply crush the thickened stone floor in his fortress with a powerful two-fisted overhead Ground Punch so hard, the force of the impact sends Kirby (and other characters who're with him) sailing into the air. For his boss battle as Forgo Dedede in Kirby and the Forgotten Land, he grabs ahold of an enormous stone pillar, casually places it across his shoulder, and actually uses it as a massive Improvised Weapon as another method to attack Kirby with. The sheer force of him slamming said pillar into the ground creates a swerve of jagged ice particles erupting from the floor in scattered directions.
- A few of Kirby's Copy Abilities seem to include Super-Strength as a Required Secondary Power; Hammer can launch foes into the sky, and Suplex and Throw can be used on mini-bosses four times Kirby's size; In the Megaton Punch mini-game, Fighter Kirby punches the planet in half if you get a perfect score.
- Meta Knight, Kirby's mysterious masked rival/ally, is a total powerhouse of a swordsman. With his trademark sword, Galaxia, he can chop incredibly large and durable obstacles to bits. The aforementioned obstacles that Kirby requires to his use Robobot Armor with and it's not just because his sword is an Absurdly Sharp Blade, he really is that physically powerful. Engaging in a Sword Fight with Kirby multiple times clearly shows how much of a fierce opponent he truly is, since the pink puffball himself has destroyed dozens upon dozens of cosmic horrors and Eldritch Abominations on a daily basis. He's also defeated many bosses that are massive compared to him and usually comes out on top.
- The Tank from Left 4 Dead can pull chunks of concrete out of the ground and throw them at the survivors without a problem. It also has enough arm strength to punt cars and dumpsters out of its way and will send the survivors flying with every hit it lands. From the same game there's also The Witch who despite not having the muscle massive of The Tank, can smash through steel doors.
- The Legend of Zelda:
- Ganondorf is not only a very dangerous magic user but also extremely physically powerful especially in his Ganon form. His feats include breaking free from heavy chains, destroying the floor of his throne room with one punch, destroying pillars which require the most powerful weapons for it to destroy with ease, dual wielding huge swords, breaking free from a giant castle rubble and many more to list. Triforce of Power everyone.
- Link in his many variations, is either at peak physical condition or super human (Hylian). Even at his smallest in The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker Link can swing a Darknut sword◊ twice his size, and an even bigger in sword◊ in The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword. But the Link in The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess is easily the physically strongest Link, working as a rancher he can stop charging bulls (likely going at 35 mph) with his bare hands and subdue them, later Link picks ups and throws Gorons who weigh as much as boulders and can toss the bigger Goron warrior Dangoro (who is armored).
- Other races in Zelda have Super-Strength most notably the Gorons who eat rocks and toss around boulders as big as themselves, although being a boisterous and careless race this can lead to hilarious and painful encounters. There's also the Four Giants in The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask who can hold up the moon of Termia.
- Done subtly in Mass Effect 2 with Commander Shepard, who is rebuilt with extensive cybernetic upgrades. The super strength isn't obvious, but Shepard is shown to be capable of wielding weapons that would be impossible for normal humans to use, i.e. a shotgun that would break normal humans' arms or carrying an antitank rifle that normally can only be fired while prone (or used by geth). Shepard can also lift and push aside heavy steel girders or debris, can punch out krogan soldiers in hand-to-hand combat, knock out fully-armored soldiers with his/her bare fists in the Arrival DLC, and take on the Shadow Broker in hand-to-hand combat (the Shadow Broker being a three meter tall alien massing several times that of a normal human).
- Several characters from Mega Man (Classic), most of which are ground type. Arguably the most obvious example being "Guts Man", who can pick up boulders as if they were pebbles and throw them with extreme force. Mega Man himself can hold up a 60,000 ton tower and lift cars in the Archie Comics.
- Metal Gear:
- Solid Snake likely due to being a clone is incredibly strong, in Solid he can snap a man's neck with one arm, throw a cyborg like Grey Fox across the room as well as uppercutting his very strong clone brother Liquid in their fist fight so hard he went flying. Most impressively in MGS4 he can wield the massive the Rail Gun◊ which is like wielding a portable tank cannon and Snake easily uses it to destroy the entire Suicide GEKKO squad, despite being an old man.
- Colonel Volgin in MGS3 is easily super strong, at one point he destroys a concrete wall with a few punches while having a tantrum and later he wields a massive rocket launcher with ease.
- In Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker Big Boss can support the weight◊ of a Metal Gear, though it's debatable whether he can actually do in the story since the feat is just a game mechanic.
- Raiden from MGS4 onwards is ridiculously strong thanks to his cybernetic upgrades, in said game he beats a dozen Geckos by swinging one around with his mouth. Later he holds backs the entire titanic Outer Heaven Battleship by himself giving Snake enough time to escape though he loses both arms as a result, if that wasn't enough he then appears later still armless and fights off Haven Troops with just his sword clutched between his teeth. Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance takes this even further as in the very first level, Raiden picks up Metal Gear RAY (which weighs over one thousand tons) and throws it over several buildings and then slices it head to toe like it's butter. In the final level while fighting Armstrong, he lifts the even bigger Metal Gear EXCELSUS throws it down and then tears off it's blade-legs off and swings it around at high speeds. It's safe to say Raiden is likely the strongest individual in the Metal Gear franchise.
- The only two people who have matched or defeated Raiden in Revengeance are "Jet Stream" Sam and Senator Armstrong. Sam in the first level effortlessly overpowers Raiden with his own sword skill and cuts his cybernetic arm off and in his own DLC he destroys a RAY with the same ease that Raiden did and you know what's the real kicker? He isn't a cyborg which makes his previous victory over Raiden and slicing a Ray all the more impressive.
- Senator Armstrong made himself super human by injecting his bloodstream full of Nanomachines making his skin near indestructible note even when he is cut apart he can just put his limbs back together as well as giving him superhuman strength, in the DLC he beats Sam with only moderate effort and in the main game he beats the crap out of Raiden who just overpowered his massive MG EXCELSUS. Armstrong even catches Raiden's high frequency blade (which can separate atoms) and snaps it like a twig, Raiden only won the battle thanks to Blade Wolf bringing Sam's superior Katana to him.
- Metroid:
- In Mortal Kombat much like Street Fighter everybody has enhanced strength given how easily they can all break bone◊, rip heads off◊, punch through people◊ and even karate chop solid platinum◊. Some are even stronger than others, e.g Raiden a Physical God can smash through a bridge and Shao Khan can turn people into human wishbones.
- Mr. Shifty can open holes in brick walls with his fists. Lampshaded by Chairman Stone when you use it to break out of your jail cell.
- James, Rico and Captain Cori from Papa Louie 2 are capable of pushing boulders around. Special mention to Captain Cori, whose weapon is an anchor.
- The Gargantuar from Plants vs. Zombies uses a telephone pole, road crossing sign or another zombie as a club to smash your plants with. Sure, all of its weapons are smaller than it, but have you ever tried pulling a telephone pole or sign out of the ground... or for that matter, wielding somebody else using one hand? Not only that but if you fail to find any brains during a "Brain Ball", the newspaper clearly shows it holding up an entire house looking for brains.
- Fighting Pokémon in general are pretty strong, but Regigigas can move the entire continents of the world using a rope.
- Pokemon with the Huge Power ability count as this (such as Azumarill, Diggersby, and Mega Mawile), as the ability DOUBLES their Attack stat, making weak Pokemon great and great Pokemon destructive powerhouses.
- Alex Mercer in [PROTOTYPE] is the size of an average human, but can lift a car over his head and chuck it like a baseball. At maximum upgrade with Musclemass, he can throw one at least a city block if not more. The same goes for the destroyed shells of tanks and helicopters.
- Punch-Out!!:
- Mr. Sandman doesn't need a wrecking ball to demolish a brick building. He's strong enough to destroy it with his bare hands! Plus, he can curl the ring ropes as if they were strings. By being able to defeat that monster, Little Mac has this by de facto.
- Giga Mac gives Mac even greater strength.
- Resident Evil series:
- The Tyrants are the most prominent B.O.W example, even the first Tyrant from RE1 could bust through concrete from underground, T-00 from RE2 is even more ridiculous as not only can he smash through walls but in the RE2make, Mr X can lift a helicopter (mostly likely 14,000 pounds) one handed. If Mr X gets his hands on Leon or Claire and they can't loosen his grip with a QTE, he'll crush their skulls like watermelons◊.
- Nemesis a modified Tyrant from RE3 can wield giant rocket launchers and flame throwers, impossible for any human to wield. In the RE3make Nemesis is strong enough to destroy Jill's entire apartment floor with a slab of concrete and in his second form can smack the ground so hard the ground shakes, breaks and surrounding vehicles explode.
- Ustanak from RE6 can send cars flying while chasing Sherry and Jake and later on force back a high-powered drill.
- Other B.O.Ws like Lickers and Hunters have a degree of super strength as well. However the G-Creature (aka William Birkin) in particular gives the Tyrants a run for their money, in fact Birkin in RE2make could not only hold back a cargo container but also pick up massive canisters and throw them and even tear down a whole wall of the laboratory. Not to mention Birkin also tears the aforementioned Mr X apart.
- Due to taking the Prototype Virus Albert Wesker has this as seen in Resident Evil – Code: Veronica and RE5 where Wesker is shown capable of bending a steel pipe with his forearm, breaking concrete with his fist, lifting missiles with one hand, piercing through his enemies's torsos with his hand, catching freaking RPG’s rockets with his hands and holding Chris with one hand by the throat (three times), among other feats of strength. The man's practically a living, breathing machine and shows almost no damage after having a crane full of steel girders dropped on his head. Then again, he's not exactly human after the first game, either.
- Resident Evil Village has multiple super strong mutated enemies, such as the Statuesque Stunner Lady Dimitrescu who can easily Neck Lift Ethan and even smash him into the floor so hard he goes through it into the underground. There's also Uriaș and Uriaș Străjer troll-like bosses who respectively wield a massive sledgehammer and massive mace and can create shockwaves hitting the ground with their oversized weapons.
- It overlaps with Charles Atlas Super Power but Chris Redfield has super strength in RE5 and onward which he gained after going through Training from Hell so he could hold his own against the aforementioned Wesker. Chris is now capable of sending enemies flying with a haymaker◊, punching through bullet proof glass◊ tossing B.O.Ws around◊, cargo bay doors open◊ and in Chris's most awesome (and ridiculous) moment dislodging a fucking boulder with his fist!. Even in the relatively more grounded RE7 Chris can still explode a Molded's head with a single punch, something Ethan cannot do in the main game. In Resident Evil Village Chris can take down the massive Uriaș Străjer with just his knife, which is par for the course from him at this point.
- Leon S. Kennedy has super strength as well, in RE4 he can kick enemies' heads off with a Roundhouse Kick and smash their skulls with a suplex In Resident Evil: Degeneration he held up the combined weight of Angela and her massively mutated brother while dangling from a steel beam and in RE6 Leon holds open the jaws of Brzak the mutated shark and even pushes over a 6.5 ton boulder (albeit with some help). If all that wasn't enough in Resident Evil: Vendetta Leon can stagger the humongous mutated Arias with a single axe kick... no wonder Leon can equal Chris in combat. Hell even as a regular rookie in RE2make, Leon can break out of enemies's grabs faster than Claire and at the end Leon defeats mutated Birkin with a broken pipe (though Claire is strong enough to do the same and can wield the minigun).
- Jake Muller from RE6 may give Chris and Leon a run for their money when it comes to strength, especially since his gameplay focuses on melee more than gunplay. Jake can not only rip B.O.Ws apart with his combos, but even the aforementioned massive Ustanak was brought down by Jake barehanded. It is justified given Jake is Wesker's illegitimate son and inherited his enhanced physiology from him.
- Joe Baker from RE7 is just as ridiculous as the previous examples (despite being older), not only can he rip apart molded with his bare hands but he also fights and defeats his mutated brother Jack with Good Old Fisticuffs and wrestling moves.
- Jill Valentine (Chris’s partner) is the most prominent female example (aside from Claire or Helena from RE6), as she is normally Jill can move heavy objects that Rebecca can't budge and Jill can even push over the goddamn Nemesis from RE3. In the RE3make Jill is strong enough to pull steel sheets down on Nemesis and wield the massive railgun like it's light furniture, Word of God touts this as being Jill's equivalent to Chris's aforementioned boulder punching scene. When she’s Brainwashed and Crazy in RE5 Jill has enhanced strength similar to Wesker given Jill physically overpowered the muscular Chris, twice.
- Sonic the Hedgehog:
- Sonic is known best for his Super-Speed, but he's also capable of sending cars flying like footballs. It's even more frequently apparent when his strength is shown in Cutscene Power to the Max. In one part during the ending sequence of Sonic the Hedgehog CD, he's effortlessly ripped apart one of the badniks (along with its saw blade). In one cutscene for the Dark Story mode in Sonic Adventure 2 when he's confronted by the Egg Golem, Sonic jumped and simply kicked its head so hard, that according to Eggman, he's broken its mechanism and caused its programming to malfunction. During the opening cinematic of Sonic Unleashed, at one point when Sonic shows up to start his assault on Eggman's armada and vessels, he brings one fist out and starts plowing through many of Eggman's mechs within seconds. It's pretty much safe to say that even though Sonic the Hedgehog is undoubtedly considered to be the Fastest Thing Alive, he's absolutely WAY stronger than he appears to be.
- In Shadow the Hedgehog, Shadow is able to dead lift a bus one-handed in one of the levels, while firing a rifle in the other hand. Busses can weigh as much as 20 tons. Other than dead lifting and flipping over larger objects, if Shadow doesn't have any weapons in hand his own physical attacks can destroy destructible environments in the levels whether it's containers, doors, stone pillars, streetlights, trees. He can even put the hurt on G.U.N.'s robots, Eggman's robots and even Black Doom's troops.
- This is Knuckles' main ability. Capable of shattering boulders ten times bigger than him with his fists, he's said to be as strong as Sonic is fast.
- Surprisingly, Dr. Eggman himself. Usually he's a typical Evil Genius that creates various combat machines as well as Humongous Mecha that does the fighting for him. But outside of his scientific range, even though he's on the obese side he can pack a mighty punch. Despite being human, he can slam large vehicles out of his path and has even reduced blocks of ice into rubble with just his fists, basically out of sheer malice and vengeance, but it did slightly hurt his hands a little after doing so (not that he cared). It's no wonder why he's even listed as a Power-Type character in Sonic Riders.
- The Skylanders giants are more then capable of throwing boulders across maps and shattering walls that normal Skylanders can't without bombs. If that isn't enough info, try the feats of strength events on for size.
- The only giant who doesn't use brute force when doing most of the above is Ninjini, who instead uses the Mind over Matter technique.
- Street Fighter: Pretty much everyone since Everybody Was Kung-Fu Fighting, though even then some are more extreme than others.
- Ryu not only put a permanent scar on Sagat's chest with Shoryuken but in Street Fighter III he lifts a 36 ton boulder with Oro sitting on top of it. In the comics Ryu can make a crater with a punch◊. Not surprisingly Ryu teams up with the Hulk in Marvel vs. Capcom: Infinite.
- Akuma is somehow even more ridiculous, as he is normally he can: split Uluru, destroy an island with a single fist, crush a submarine In a Single Bound. In his Super Modes Akuma is even stronger: as Shin Akuma he destroyed a meteor, as Oni he caused volcano to erupt with a karate chop and in Asura's Wrath Oni destroyed the freaking moon.
- Zangief has super strength aka "Muscle Power" which is a nuanced technique comparable to Ansatsuken in sheer power. In Street Fighter V Zangief not only stops a Brainwashed and Crazy Abel's charge by landing in front of him and flexing, taking him down with a piledriver, forcing back Balrog's Gigaton Blow (which can kill a elephant) and breaking Satsuki's Masamune (which for reference was likely folded over 1000 times) with his pecs!!!. This is probably not too surprising, considering Zangief wrestles Grizzly Bears in his spare time.
- Zangief's student R.Mika takes after him given she can force Balrog's punch back with her face.
- Chun-Li is the foremost female example (aside from Mika) given she can lift a sofa and throw it, kick Vega through a wall and destroy a tank with a flurry of kicks. In SFV Chun-Li at one point destroys a massive steel door same as Karin.
- Special mention to Cody, he can casually break brick walls and prior to SFV handicaps himself with handcuffs, when Cody took the cuffs off he could knock out Ryu with a single punch◊.
- While not as remarkable even compared to the other females, Ibuki deserves some credit with her Yamikazura forward throw. While she is only 5'3, she has been able to hip toss giant metal robots, obese men, and even Gill, the final boss of the III series who weighs 644 pounds more than her.
- Abagail (another character from Final Fight) as shown in the SFV Arcade Edition trailer can crush cars in his bare hands and according to Ryu's win quote against Abgail he is the strongest person he's ever faced. Fortunately Abagail is devoid of any technique behind his strength making him Dumb Muscle compared to the aforementioned examples.
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- "Sasha", the minigun of the Heavy Weapons Guy from Team Fortress 2, is said to weigh 150 kilograms (a bit over 330 pounds), but he has no problems lifting it. Or running around with it as long as he isn't spinning up or firing it. He also dishes out the same melee damage with his bare hands that the other characters need bats, wrenches, shovels, and huge knives to deliver, and in one of his taunt animations, he effortlessly spins his holdout weapon, a 12-gauge shotgun, like it was a pistol.
- Tekken much like Street Fighter and Mortal Kombat has this all over the place. Those with the Devil Gene, such as Kazuya Mishima and his son Jin Kazama can respectively rip apart dinosaurs and smash Heihachi Mishima through limestone walls (which would require at least 20,300 PSI of force). There's also cyborg characters like Bryan Fury who can tear the turret off a tank or properly robotic characters like Gentle Giant JACK who can destroy entire meteors. Even supposedly human characters are ridiculously strong e.g Nina and Anna Williams can kick grown men flying, Steve Fox can break reinforced glass, Paul Phoenix can shatter brick walls to pieces, Craig Murdock can rip apart of the ropes of the wrestling arena with his bare hands, Raven can chuck a massive mech around and Feng can shatter a mountain apart. Can't forget Heihatchi either, despite being an old man he can break a hatchet with his teeth, punch missiles around, demolish aforementioned JACK bots and amazingly go toe to toe and even overpower his demonically-powered son and grandsonnote it is inferred Heihatchi has powerful Ki Manipulation, which justifies his strength but it's never really explained in the games.
- Lara Croft from Tomb Raider is able to push around blocks of solid rock measuring roughly 2 meters per side, which puts them at a weight of about 20 metric tonnes.
- Byakuren Hijiri from Touhou Project specializes herself in magic that augments her own physical abilities, which allegedly grants her super strength, among other useful powers such as Super-Speed. One of her spellcards is aptly named 'Superhuman "Byakuren Hijiri"'.
- Others characters with super strength are Suika Ibuki, who is capable of tearing down a whole mountain on herself; Yuugi Hoshiguma, a.k.a. Yuugi the Strong, who is probably even stronger than Suika; and the two Scarlet Sisters (Vampires are in Touhou canon stated to be as strong as Oni and as fast as Tengu).
- In The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, Geralt of Rivia can cleave a fully-armoured man clean in half with a single strike from an ordinary steel sword. Witchers like him are Super Soldiers created through magic and alchemy to fight monsters that are too mighty for regular humans to handle.