So, your character's Power Level is off the scale. That's just swell! Too bad it doesn't actually mean anything. Therefore, the contributors of the wiki have created a "scale" to measure a character's power. The Super Weight scale doesn't quantify power by Random Power Ranking using arbitrary numbers, but rather categorizes characters into nine broad categories based on what a given character can do.
It's not uncommon to see characters all over this scale in a setting, nor is it unheard of for characters to change Weight Class during the course of a story, whether up or down. Characters that have won the Superpower Lottery will usually end up on the higher levels of this scale.
When editing lists, remember that the weight classes measure the scope of a character's abilities — what the character is literally capable (and incapable) of with their raw power alone. While people like Batman and The Doctor have been known to take on gods, they do so with intellect and tactics rather than raw power, and thus remain low on the list relative to their defeated opponents. Thus, defeating somebody does NOT necessarily place a character at or above the opposing weight class, although the greater the disparity between the subjects, the more the defeat qualifies as an example of Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?.
Likewise, as these are broad categories, remember that it's entirely possible for one character to clearly be stronger than another character within the same weight class. Simply being within the same tier in no way implies being identical or even especially close in power, just that they're closer to each other in power than to characters in higher or lower tiers. This is generally more likely to happen with higher-tier characters, but by no means is that always the case.
Also note that this is not a place to be Gushing About Characters You Like; when adding examples, make realistic assessments of their weight class according to the scale.
Compare Character Tiers, which is this in terms of usefulness in competitive play, and Sliding Scale of Villain Threat, which assesses the danger level of villains.
Please make sure that there's at least four rankings before placing a work in a respective subpage or folder. Examples of works whose characters are all level 0 are as meaningful as people sitting on chairs.
Example subpages:
- Anime & Manga
- Comic Books
- Fan Works
- Films — Animation
- Films — Live-Action
- Literature
- Live-Action TV
- Myths & Religion
- Tabletop Games
- Video Games
- Web Animation
- Webcomics
- Web Original
- Western Animation
Other examples:
- Gorillaz
- Fragile Weight: The kids from Dirty Harry.
- Muggle Weight: 2D, Paula Cracker.
- Iron Weight: Noodle, Russell, Bruce Willis.
- Extranormal Weight: Murdoc, Cyborg Noodle.
- Super Weight: Del, Giant Russell.
- Hyper Weight: The Boogeyman and the other horsemen.
- The Magnus Archives
- Fragile Weight: Melanie as of MAG 155, Gerry in the Book of the End.
- Muggle Weight: Sasha James, Martin Blackwood, Georgie Barker, Jurgen Leitner, Mary Keay.
- Iron Weight: Basira Hussain, Tim Stoker, Melanie King, Adelard Dekker, Mikaele Salesa.
- Extranormal Weight: Gertrude Robinson, Lonely!Martin, most avatars at the beginning of their emergence.
- Super Weight: Jon Sims, Daisy Tonner, most other fully-developed avatars.
- Hyper Weight: Jonah Magnus, Jon as of MAG 160.
- Cosmic Weight: The Entities.
- Darwin's Soldiers
- Muggle Weight: Dr. Bailey, Shelton, Shakila all nameless background characters.
- Iron Weight: Dr. Zanasiu, Zachary, Sharon, Neville, Cobalt Squad bar Spc. Crota and Sgt. Masters, Dr. Landon, Aisha, Trinity (pre-Super Serum use).
- Extranormal Weight: Aimee], Alfred, Gustave, Spc. Crota, Sgt. Masters, Trinity (post-Super Serum use).
- Super Weight: Soundwave, all experiments, Gustave (post-Super Serum use).
- Hyper Weight: The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, Death, Neku (post-upgrade), Hailey.
- Destroy the Godmodder
- Fragile Weight: Rare, but a handful of summons ended up here, as well as a few self-summons after the godmodder reversed their modifiers, Dave.
- Muggle Weight: The members of a handful of armies. Characters native to Earth.
- Iron Weight: Anything of a lower level than this is toast. Anything or anyone that survives for a significant amount of time anywhere near a battlefield. Standard Minecraftians, and some of the weakest summons.
- Extranormal Weight: The level of many summons. Specific examples include individual Vord members, Itchy, and the ghost space pirates.
- Super Weight: The most common level. Dr. Christoff, Pootis, and the goldisaurus are all examples. Descendants who haven't yet learned their full potential.
- Hyper Weight: Many self-summons, the UOSS, the Preston Cole, Mechs, and the creepy dummy among others. Most Descendants.
- World Weight: The Operator, many other bosses, Twinbuilder, Doc Scratch, several of the stronger players.
- Cosmic Weight: The Secret of the Void, The First Block, Lord English, Terminae, a Game Master during an update, universe eaters, the Employer, the Narrative and Conflict.
- Author Weight: The Black Monolith.
- Ruby Quest
- Fragile Weight: Bella (discounting her control of the facility's systems), Jay
- Muggle Weight: Red, Ruby before her mutation, Filbert pre-mutation
- Iron Weight: Tom without his mutation
- Extranormal Weight: Ruby with her Third Eye, Tom with his extra arms
- Super Weight: Ace, Tom Nook
- Hyper Weight: Cjopaze (only this low because of being confined to the Metal Glen)
- We Are All Pokémon Trainers
- Fragile Weight: Lone Unown, most baby mons.
- Muggle Weight: Most humans.
- Iron Weight: Badass Normal humans.
- Extranormal Weight: Most humans on the Auric spectrum, first stage mons.
- Super Weight: Advanced level humans on the Auric spectrum, most fully evolved mons.
- Hyper Weight: "Lower tier" legendaries (Mew and expies, Latii, etc), Psuedo legendaries.
- World Weight: Non-creation trio box legends (Weather trio, tao trio, etc.), Mewtwo, Deoxys, The Ghost Lord, Annoski.
- Cosmic Weight: The creation trio, the vitality trio, Unown hordes, Arceus.
- Author Weight: Narrators.
- William Shakespeare
- Fragile Weight: Ghosts and apparitions (Hamlet’s father, Richard III’s victims)
- Muggle Weight: Many characters throughout.
- Iron Weight: Othello, Hamlet, Coriolanus, Pericles, Macbeth, Macduff, Henry V, Edgar, Orlando, Marcus Brutus, Arcite, Talbot, Joan la Pucelle.
- Extranormal Weight: Achilles.
- Super Weight: Oberon, Titania, Puck, Ariel, The Three Witches.
- Hyper Weight: Prospero.
- Nasuversenote
- Fragile Weight: The Dead.
- Muggle Weight: Ordinary humans, Mikiya Kokutou.
- Iron Weight: Ryougi/Nanaya Shiki (without their Mystic Eyes of Death Perception), Fujimura Taiga, Souichirou Kuzuki, Soujuurou Shizukinote .
- Extranormal Weight: Most Mages and Executors, Fujyo Kirie, Shirazumi Rio, Shirou throughout most of Fate/stay night.
- Super Weight: Most Phantasmal Species and Spirits, Ryougi/Nanaya Shiki (with MEODP), Asagami Fujino, Dead Apostles, Arcueid during Tsukihime, Tohno Akiha, Tohno SHIKI, Heroic Spirits/Servants with little or no magical abilities, Shirou with Archer's arm.
- Hyper Weight: Transcedent Phantasmal Species and Greater Spirits, entities with Reality Marbles, Daemons, Counter Guardians, Araya Souren, True Ancestors, most beings in the Dead Apostle Ancestors list, Lorelei Barthomeloi, Kouma Kishima, Servants with high magical abilities, most humans and A-rays during Angel Notesnote .
- World Weight: Arcueid normally, True Daemons, practitioners of True Magic (includes Aozaki Aoko & Zelretchnote ), the Holy Grail, Divine Spirits in general, most powerful Servants (examples include Gilgamesh, Karna, Enkidu, and Solomon), BB, Heroic Spirits summoned by the World/Grand Class Servantsnote , Sefar/the White Titan, Abigail Williams as the Silver Key, the weaker Lostbelt Kings (Ivan the Terrible, Scathach-Skadi, and Qin Shi Huang Di).
- Cosmic Weight: The Counter Forces (Gaia and Alayashiki), the Aristotles/Ultimate Ones/TYPEs, Ado Edem, Origin of the Void/「Shiki Ryougi」/Shiki's Third Personalitynote , ARCHETYPE-EARTHnote , the Beasts of Calamity/Evils of Humanitynote , Velber/the Umbral Starnote , Akasha the Root of Creationnote , Outer Godsnote , Abigail Williams and BB as vessels for Outer Godsnote , the stronger Lostbelt Kings (Arjuna Over Gods, Zeus), Ishizue Kanata, Ookumaneko Mokumokunote .
- Umineko: When They Cry: note
- Muggle Weight: Genji, Gohda, Nanjo, Natsuhi, Lion.
- Iron Weight: Goat butlers, Krauss, Rudolf, Eva, Juza Amakusa.
- Extranormal Weight: Shannon and Kanon, the Seven Stakes of Purgatory, Rosa, Sakutarou.
- Super Weight: Kyrie, The Chiesters, George, Jessica, Gaap, Ronove, Virgillia
- Hyper Weight: Beatrice, Maria and Eva-Beatricenote , Battler, Ange, Erika Furudo
- World Weight: Dlanor A. Knoxnote , Willard H. Wright , Beatrice in the Meta-World, Sorcerer Battler, Bernkastel's pet cats
- Cosmic Weight: Bernkastel and Lambdadeltanote , Ange as the Witch of Resurection, the Witch's Senate, Lambdadelta's Fan Club
- Author Weight: Featherine Augustus Aurora
- Atop the Fourth Wall:
- Fragile Weight: Eliza
- Muggle Weight: 90s Dude, Harvey Finevoice, Dr. Linksano, Viga, Erin, Allen, Whately, Snowflame, Mechakara turned human
- Iron Weight: Ninja Style Dancer, Iron Liz, Bone Button
- Extranormal Weight: Pollo, Cybermats, the Shades, Lord Vyce in the "His Blue Soul" story-arc
- Super Weight: Linkara, Jaeris, Mechakara, Holokara, Mirrorkara, the Magic Gun, Pyramid Head, most ghosts and spirits
- Hyper Weight: Lord Vyce, Neutro, NIMUE, Comicron-1, anyone wielding the Magic Coin
- World Weight: The King of Worms
- Cosmic Weight: The Entity, the Temlins
- Channel Awesome
- Fragile Weight: 90's Kid.
- Muggle Weight: Most reviewers and charactersnote , Chester A. Bum, Douchey McNitpick, Ma-Ti.
- Extranormal Weight: Kevin Baugh, Phelous, The Nostalgia Critic note , Roger note .
- Super Weight: Angry Joe, Dr. Insano, Satan note .
- Hyper Weight: Blood Beard Joe, Santa Christ, Malachite, Ma-Ti.
- World Weight: Optimus Prime.
- Cosmic Weight: The Plot Hole, The Nostalgia Critic & Douchey after merging with the Plot Hole, God.
- Author Weight: Doug Walker note
- Epic Rap Battles of History
- Fragile Weight: Stephen Hawking (physically), Things 1 & 2 note , Child!Michael Jackson
- Muggle Weight: Most non-rappers, Justin Bieber, the Easter Bunny, Thomas Edison
- Iron Weight: All rappers not listed elsewhere, Theodore Roosevelt, Stephen Hawking (skill-wise), Season 1-3 Adolf Hitler
- Extranormal Weight: Dr. Seuss, Leonidas note , The Mario Brothers, Dalek Sec, Bruce Lee, Clint Eastwood note , Mahatma Gandhi note , Donald Trump, JP Morgan, Kanye West, Season 4 Hitler
- Super Weight: Darth Vader, Gandalf, Dumbledore, HAL 9000, The Doctor, Moses, Deadpool, Dracula
- Hyper Weight: Chuck Norris, Superman, Goku
- World Weight: Zeus, Thor, Thanos
- Cosmic Weight: Death
- Author Weight: NicePeter, Epic LLOYD
- Moviebob's The Game Overthinker
- Muggle Weight: Chris Chipman, Commissioner Bunnyface, Strawman, Gary Oak, the Game Overthinker before the Genre Shift.
- Iron Weight: Senator Lieberson, James Pond, Dr. Beardo.
- Extranormal Weight: Ivan the Intern, Wario, Retrothinker.
- Super Weight: The Game Overthinker, Anti-Thinker.
- Hyper Weight: The Game Overthinker (when wielding elemental stones), the Anti-Thinker's true form, Pyrothinker, Cryothinker, Plasmathinker, Necrothinker, Omega Thinker, Robothinker.
- World Weight: Princess Rosalina, Mr. Fib.
- Cosmic Weight: The Beast (implied to be).
- Shadow of Israphel
- Fragile Weight: Old_Peculier while Tainted, Angus_Eyeless, Um_Bongo, Skylord_Baako, Professor Webley.
- Muggle Weight: Old_Peculier, Daisy_Duke, Granny_Bacon, Father_Braeburn, Skylord_Jasper, Mr_Banjo.
- Iron Weight: Reverend_John, Knight_Peculier, Skylord_Lysander, Strongman_Bruno, Adaephon and the other Crimson Cross Templars, Isabel_Peculier, Jock_Fireblast, Grimjaw_Slugface, Professor Grizwold, Shiplord_Hubert.
- Extranormal Weight: Lewis and Simonnote , Madame_Nubescu, Spacker_LeChuck, PirateTinman, Skylord_Vitali, Dwarves (Kormag_Darkforge, Rory_Rockhammer, Moira_Magmabloom).
- Super Weight: Fumblemore Hawke and Swampy_Bogbeard, King_Finbar while possessed by Israphel, Verigan Antioch and Karpath Antioch and presumably the other Templar Kings.
- Hyper Weight: Israphel.
- World Weight: The Sands, the Sentinels.
- Author Weight: Notch (if He exists).