From the Canon record
Explore standout moments from the characters' stories. Each card links to the records and sources behind it, with relevant assistance, equipment and special conditions. This is a curated collection, not a ranking.
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Beyond the blink
Split-second reactions, impossible races and moments of pure speed.
Force of nature
Great lifts, mighty blows and extraordinary displays of strength.
When worlds break
From shattered battlefields to destruction on a cosmic scale.
Still standing
Endurance, regeneration and remarkable returns from the brink.
Beyond the ordinary
Time, space and the extraordinary abilities that change the story.
Expect the unexpected
Unlikely outcomes, unusual encounters and wonderfully strange moments.
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69 feats in the collection.
Beyond the blink
In Baseball Bugs (1946), Bugs throws a pitch and then gets to the plate before his own ball does.
In Invincible #7, Nolan smashes Aquarius's and Red Rush's faces together, decapitates Green Ghost, snaps War Woman's neck, disembowels Martian Man, impales Darkwing and decapitates Immortal, "before they could think".
In The Flash vol. 2 #136–138, Wally runs as fast as he ever has and is still far behind Krakkl. Then he learns to have the planets' energy run alongside him and outraces the Gamblers' own instantaneous travel. Earth and Kwyzz are spared.
At the USJ in My Hero Academia ch. 19, All Might goes beyond 100% in a sustained barrage, over 300 blows by his own count, and launches Nomu out of the USJ.
In Jujutsu Kaisen ch. 89, after his brief Unlimited Void ends, Gojo eliminates the immobilized transfigured humans over the next 299 seconds.
Force of nature
In the Gylfaginning, Thor manages to lift only one foot of his host's cat. The host later reveals that the cat was the World Serpent.
In Iron Man #132 (1980), Tony puts all his reserve power into one punch and knocks the Hulk out, and his suit goes inert.
When worlds break
In One-Punch Man, Boros fires his Collapsing Star Roaring Cannon and Saitama answers with a Serious Punch. It overwhelms the blast, splits the clouds in a curve around the globe and leaves Boros mortally defeated.
In Thor vol. 6 #6, Thor turns Galactus's dying body and his own acquired cosmic reserve into a bomb against the Black Winter. Galactus ends as a dead, smouldering husk.
In episode 12, Beerus and Goku clash hard enough to endanger the universe, until Goku cancels the next clash with matching force and angle.
In the 1993 film, Broly fires a ki blast toward the Shamoians' homeworld and destroys the planet.
In Rebel Rabbit (1949), Bugs gets to work with a saw in Florida and cuts the whole state loose from the mainland.
At the end of Doomsday Clock #9, after reforming, Dr. Manhattan takes out all the heroes on Mars at once: a blue explosion leaves them bloodied and seemingly dead. They survive.
In Dragon Ball Super ep. 27, after Vegeta pummels him out of his Golden form, Frieza refuses to admit defeat and blows up the Earth. Only the fighters under Whis's shield survive.
In Infinity Countdown #4 (2018), Galactus at first refuses to eat Saiph, then consumes it "and everyone on it", "sacrificing his soul". Ultron nearly dies and loses the Soul Stone.
In Jujutsu Kaisen ch. 223, Utahime's ritual raises Gojo to 120% and his own incantation and hand signs take him to 200%. His Purple tears from Shibuya to Shinjuku, fells a skyscraper and destroys both of Sukuna's reinforced arms.
In Dragon Ball chs. 514–517, with Porunga restoring Goku, a Spirit Bomb powered by all of Earth destroys Buu down to the last cell.
In Hera's Garden in God of War III, Kratos kills Hera for insulting Pandora. With her death, all Greek plant life ends.
In Naruto ch. 673, fighting alongside Sasuke against Madara, Naruto's Lava Rasenshuriken hits Madara and severs the trunk of the God Tree. Madara survives.
In Avengers: Infinity War, Wanda holds Thanos back with one hand while destroying the Mind Stone, and Vision with it, with the other. Thanos keeps advancing through her beam.
In Siege #3, during the battle with Thor, Sentry breaks the city's foundation and the city collapses.
On Titan in Avengers: Infinity War, the team's hold on Thanos nearly works until Quill disrupts it. Once free, Thanos breaks material from Titan's moon and brings the debris toward the battlefield.
In ch. 626, Haschwalth announces the absorption is complete. Yhwach takes a new form with eyes over the top of his face, the ground around his guards crumbles and he begins crushing Soul Society.
In DOOM Eternal, mission 13: Final Sin, the Icon of Sin collapses and the Slayer plunges the Crucible into its exposed brain, killing it. Then he breaks the blade and keeps the hilt.
In Tensura vol. 5, Rimuru one-sidedly massacres the 20,000-strong Falmuth army for the souls his awakening needs. On completing the Demon Lord evolution, dead Tempest citizens are revived, Shion among them.
In Infinity Gauntlet (1991) #1, Thanos wipes out an entire planet, and the point of it is to impress Mephisto and Death.
In Thor: God of Thunder #23, King Thor pulls All-Black out of a black hole, becomes Necro-Thor and kills Galactus by blasting his face off with the Necrosword and Mjolnir combined.
Still standing
On New Planet Vegeta in the 1993 film, Goku fires a Kamehameha point-blank into Broly's face. It does no damage, and Broly counters at once.
At the end of Captain America: The First Avenger, Steve sees no safe landing and crashes the bomber in the Arctic. He stays frozen there until he is found decades later.
In Watchmen #12, Veidt disintegrates Dr. Manhattan in his fortress with the intrinsic field subtractor. Manhattan reforms; enormous, he smashes an arm through the wall and mocks Veidt for thinking he could be destroyed so easily.
In Invincible #140, Thragg throws Mark into the sun, burning most of his back. Mark gets behind Thragg and tackles them both into the sun, and the two rise barely recognisable.
In God of War, Kratos dies after Ares's pillar. With the gravedigger's help he fights his way out of the Underworld and returns to Athens.
In Dark Avengers #13, Bob tries to end himself by plunging into the Sun. His flesh regenerates.
In Thor vol. 6 #2, Galactus hits Thor with a massive blast, and it doesn't harm him.
In Avengers: Infinity War, Thor puts himself in the open to get the forge working for Stormbreaker and nearly dies. The weapon is finished before he recovers.
In Deadpool Annual #1 (2013), Madcap takes over Wade's body and makes Thor and Luke Cage rip it in half. Each half heals into a whole body: one Wade, one Madcap.
In The Infinity Gauntlet #4 (1991), Doom lunges for the Gauntlet and Thanos knocks him across all of space. His armour barely saves him, and Strange brings him back in #5.
At the end of ch. 683, Ichigo cuts Yhwach in two, a cut that lands because Aizen's Kyōka Suigetsu had ensnared him. In ch. 684, Yhwach rewrites his own death through The Almighty and reforms.
Beyond the ordinary
In the prologue of The Misfit of Demon King Academy vol. 1, Anos accepts the ritual and a fatal thrust to his heart, then returns two thousand years later.
In One-Punch Man, Cosmic Garou demonstrates and coaches the technique, and Saitama mirrors it with his own body and reverses time. His punch from the future then reaches the earlier Garou.
In Final Crisis #6, Batman shoots Darkseid's occupied body with radion, then the Omega Sanction sends Batman into the past.
In Doomsday Clock #10, Dr. Manhattan prevents the Justice Society from forming, which changes Superman's history again. He says the power he feels from "chaining Superman" is intoxicating.
In Avengers: Endgame, Tony snaps his fingers and the selected enemies disintegrate.
In House of M #7 (2005), Wanda cries "No more mutants" and a white light consumes the world. In #8, Emma's Cerebra scan finds "barely hundreds of mutants left, when there used to be around a million."
In WandaVision episode 8, a replay at the vacant lot shows Wanda's grief setting off the town's transformation and the creation of a new Vision.
At the close of Marvel: The End #6, Thanos restores the setting with a new law that no one can be resurrected again, then gives up his own existence. Only Warlock remembers.
In Wakanda in Avengers: Infinity War, just after Vision explodes, Thanos reverses the destruction, restoring Vision and the Mind Stone, then pulls the Stone out, killing Vision.
In Thor vol. 2 #85, Rune King Thor cuts the thread and slashes the tapestry of the Norns' loom. Those Who Sit Above beg him to stop and offer him equal standing; he refuses, Yggdrasil implodes and they vanish.
In The Flash vol. 2 #141, the Black Flash, which had taken Linda, returns for Wally. He races it to the end of time, a point where death has no meaning, and there it dissipates.
In Infinity Wars (2018) #6, Adam grabs the Time Stone and freezes time around him, then locks in the universes with the Soul Stone, takes everyone into it and goes home through the portal.
In Justice League: Darkseid War: Batman #1, Batman intercepts a planned nightclub robbery. When one robber shouts "WASTE HIM!" he teleports the group to Antarctica, leaving survival tips and word that a ship will arrive in a few hours.
In Marvel Super Heroes Secret Wars #10, the Beyonder devastates Doom, but a concealed absorption device does its work.
In JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Part 5 ch. 149, Gold Experience Requiem punches Diavolo into the Tiber. He is then stabbed by a vagrant, dissected on an autopsy table and run over in the road. Giorno: "Your end has no ending!"
In Jujutsu Kaisen ch. 89, Gojo exposes his targets to Unlimited Void for just 0.2 seconds, and that is enough to immobilize them.
Expect the unexpected
In One-Punch Man, during his fight with Cosmic Garou, Saitama sneezes. It misses Garou and strips away a large, visible part of Jupiter's atmosphere, though much of the planet remains.
In Justice League vol. 2 #44, the Anti-Monitor seizes the Black Racer that Darkseid summoned, fuses it with Barry Allen through the Anti-Life Equation and hurls the Racer-Flash through Darkseid, who dies.
In episode 18, Beerus is fast asleep, and a movement he makes in his sleep sends Goku away.
In Rabbit Seasoning (1952), during the "Duck season / rabbit season" exchange, Bugs's wordplay leads Daffy, again and again, to order Elmer to shoot Daffy rather than Bugs.
Mephisto, weakened by feeding on Steve's soul, hands Hell to Doom in exchange for escape. Doom, who took Mephisto's power by betraying his ally Veratok at the last second, voids Mephisto's contracts and returns Steve's soul.
In Hulk (2008) #5, Red Hulk carries his struggle with Thor upward, uses a zero-gravity loophole with Thor's hammer and leaves Thor on the Moon.
In God of War III, Gaia grabs the building and Kratos and Zeus fall inside her. Kratos impales Zeus against Gaia's heart with the Blade of Olympus, and the one thrust kills Gaia and apparently Zeus.
In Civil War: The Return #1, Creel absorbs Sentry's power and gains the upper hand while Sentry holds back. Then Sentry lets him absorb his full power, and Creel disintegrates.
In Bleach ch. 392, the figure Kyōraku and Hitsugaya ran through is revealed to be Momo, not Aizen. The captains are then cut down.
As Cyborg's Boom Tube opens in Batman and Robin vol. 2 #37, Batman provokes Darkseid's Omega Sanction and catches the beam in the Chaos Shard.
At the party in Avengers: Age of Ultron, none of the others can move the hammer, but Steve shifts it slightly. Thor looks visibly concerned, then laughs with relief when Steve gives up.
In Deadpool vs. Carnage #2, Wade subdues Carnage's symbiote by playing dubstep from an MP3 player, a trick he says he learned from his time with Venom. Shriek destroys the player and Carnage escapes.
In Naruto ch. 682, facing Kaguya, a Reverse Harem diversion opens her up for a punch. The sealing attempt that follows fails when ice surrounds them.
In Marvel: The End #6, the assembled cosmic beings fail to stop Heart-empowered Thanos.
In Avengers: Infinity War, Gamora asks Quill to shoot. He fires, and Thanos changes the lethal shot into bubbles.
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