History Main / RandomPowerRanking

** It should be noted that even though 3-7 among the level 5's appear to be random with Misaka(3) and Mugino(4) about even and Gunha(7) appearantly more impressive than Misaka [[SuperpowerLottery Accelerator(1) and Kakine(2)]] are by far stronger than the other level 5's. Even than Accelerator is capable of [[CurbStumpBattle curbstumping]] Kakine who to be fair was actually able to hurt Accelerator. The rest of the level 5's aren't even capable of touching Accelerator much less hurt him.

*** At the conclusion of X5, X has lost the hesitation that held him back, becoming as confident as Zero (hence Special A). X7 [[WallBanger made him go in the complete opposite direction]]. [[IGotBetter He gets better]] in X8 and Command Mission.

*** Omega-level abilities don't necessarily mean high levels of actual power. Iceman's an Omega-level, but in terms of his actual abilities he's a mid-tier X-Man.
**** He's Omega-level could freeze the world, or just significantly fuck up the weather...so.

*** Naruto makes up for it double, maybe triple, by being a Sennin ("sage"), like Jiraiya, except he's perfected Sage Mode, something no other human has done (except maybe Rikudo Sennin ("Sage of the Six Paths")). Even Jiraiya needed two toads to help him maintain Sage Mode, and even then it was imperfect.

*** In reference to the 'threat level = bounty' idea, among groups with relatively similar power levels the highest bounties tend to go to the most AxCrazy. Examples include Donquixote Doflamingo of the Shichibukai and Eustass Kid of the Supernovas. This makes sense since, all other things being equal, someone who goes around slaugtering people ForTheEvulz would be considered more of a threat than someone who raids the occaisional merchant ship.

* MassEffect subverts this: letters denote military operational specialty, and numbers denote proficiency and commendations in that MOS. The numbers go from 1 to 7. The only letter that has been explained is N, which is special operations (it's assumed that whatever Joker's letter is, his number is definitely 7).

* MassEffect subverts this: letters denote military operational specialty, and numbers denote proficiency and commendations in that MOS. The numbers go from 1 to 7. The only letter that has been explained is N, which is special operations (it's assumed that whatever [[TheAce Joker]]'s letter is, his number is definitely 7).

* Discworld wizards rate magical ability from Level 0 - Normal person to Level 8 - Supreme wizard. This terminology is dismissed as basically meaningless by Granny Weatherwax ("It's all part of the game") and even wizards aknowledge that it fails to define sourcerers (Level Infinity) and Rincewind (Level some negative number).

* ''MegaManLegends'' uses these for Digger licenses (Higher license means you can access better dungeons).

** Chao stats can [[OrSoIHeard apparently]] go as high as S, which is one rank above A.

* English Letters (commonly A through D, usually adding S above A if it gets into RankInflation territory, followed by even ''more'' S-es if that isn't enough.)

** 40k background also features a system to classify the power level of psykers (people with psychic powers). The ranks are based on greek letters. The exact details are not known but it seems that delta is the power level of most battlefield psykers and beta is for very rare and powerful individuals. Alpha rank is reserved for the guys who can mind-control cities and snap a HumongousMecha in half with their mind, but humans can't usually handle such power and most alpha-level psykers tend to be completely insane and rather short-lived. It's been theorised that the other end of the scale (omega, phi etc.) is for people with negative warp presence (who do exist and are ''extremely'' valued for their ability to cancel enemy psykers and ward against demonic influence).
*** Alpha isn't the highest, though, just really, really high. After the regular ranks come the plus-ranks, which go in the opposite order (Alpha-plus, then Beta-plus, etc). The most powerful mortal on record was a beta-plus, and had the ability to cause nuclear explosions and pull battleships out of space. The rest of this scale is devoted to measuring the power of Daemons and Gods, for the most part. Judging by the way the scale works, the only thing even close to Omega-plus is Tzeentch, who could end the universe with a thought, and he might not even apply.
*** Where on this system is the "Apex" classification? Because a pair of apparently-immortal {{Creepy Child}}ren have been spotted, known as the Apex Twins.
*** [[GodEmperor The Emperor]] would likely classify as something like Omega+ or Alpha++ , since he's a PhysicalGod.
*** Also, where does it say Tzeentch could end the universe with a thought? The Emperor holds back all the other Chaos Gods and him as well from screwing with reality too much, so as mentioned above, the Emperor is an Omega+ or Alpha++

* Seen in ''ToAruMajutsuNoIndex'', where espers are graded depending on the strength of their power, from 0 to 5. It's possible for one to ascend from a lower rank to a higher one, but extremely difficult. The main character, Touma, has a power that's officially ranked level 0 because his power isn't actually an esper ability, negating any ability he might have had otherise. Imagine Breaker is still at least on par with any level 5 power out there: his right hand negates esper powers and magic that it touches, meaning he can block anything from stray magical flames to raw kinetic force that would turn anyone else into a fine mist. This pisses off one level 5, Mikoto, who doesn't understand how he's never been stopped by her lightning bolts despite the sharp disparity in their rated powers.

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* ''FateStayNight''. Servants themselves aren't given a single arbitrary Rank, but their individual parameters are. The arbitrary part is because each parameter is the sum result of various unmeasured factors -- ATK (attack) Rank is influenced by arm strength and weapon power. As for weapon power, this troper still doesn't know if the rank for a Noble Phantasm (magical weapon) is a total rank for the entire sum of its usefulness, or just the power of its special attack. And uniquely, a "+" does not indicate a slightly higher rank, but references an ability to [[NitroBoost effectively double the Rank for one moment]] (though how this is accomplished is a mystery). Two "+" allows for tripling the rank, and so on. Can't say what a "-" means.
** Weaker than what the rank suggests, but can temporarily make it go to the suggested rank? Just working with logic here.
** And individual Noble Phantasms also recieve their own ranking based, roughly, on how much destruction they are capable of causing with a single use; anti-personnel, anti-army, anti-castle, or anti-''world''. That last one has annoyed people for a long time (can it destroy the world? can it destroy all the ''people'' in the world? Is it just called that because it breaks the 'rules' of the world's reality? Who knows, the series never tells us!).
* DragonBall Z
** Translation: the existence of in-world "scouters," devices that estimated how much power a potential combatant had relative to an unspecified standard, allowed fans of ''DragonBallZ'' to know the exact odds for any encounter. While eventually the characters became so powerful that their numbers "could not be estimated," that didn't stop fans (or series guides, or games) from assigning them numbers through research and guesswork.

***This troper belives Mr. Immortal is being confused with Mr. X, from ''District X''