10 Strongest MCU Characters Confirmed For Avengers: Doomsday, Ranked By Power (#2 Just Changed Everything)

Published Nov 15, 2026, 12:20 PM EST Simon Gallagher has worked in movie and TV journalism for more than 17 years. He has written more than 6000 articles and reviews, and edited thousands more. He is an expert in the entertainment industry, particularly in the golden age of screen superheroes. Simon is also a Rotten Tomatoes approved critic. It's been almost endlessly said that the MCU has a power problem because of the natural escalation of sequels and the instinct to bring in more impressive heroes and villains over the almost 20 years that the franchise has been in existence. While certain Marvel characters have been consciously depowered in order to protect dramatic stakes, other powerful characters like Gaia and America Chavez have seemingly just disappeared without a trace. Avengers: Doomsday will see the convergence of the most powerful group of characters in the history of the MCU. At this stage, there are still some notable absences among the top power level of the Avengers: Spider-Man, Doctor Strange, and Captain Marvel, who are officially sitting Doomsday out. Rumors suggest that Strange is involved as one of Doctor Doom's Latverian witches, alongside Bruce Banner and Scarlet Witch, but it seems for now that information is being protected. Even without those names, the Young Avengers, Hawkeye, and the missing original X-Men like Jean Grey and Wolverine (and, of course, Ryan Reynolds' Deadpool), there is still an eye-watering number of extremely powerful characters on show in Doomsday. But the question is: which is the most powerful? 10 The Invisible Woman/Sue Storm MovieStillsDB All four of the Fantastic Four will be important in Avengers: Doomsday because of their history with Robert Downey Jr.'s Doctor Doom, and all four are extremely powerful in their own right. But from what we've seen of Marvel's First Family in the MCU, it's the Invisible Woman who is the most powerful so far. Like the other members of her family, Sue derived her powers from cosmic ray exposure, making her a very different prospect to the rest of the MCU's heroes. Vanessa Kirby's hero was actually given a power upgrade in the MCU compared to the comics, learning how to generate force fields very quickly, despite that power taking 20 years to manifest in the comics. So powerful is that superpower that she's actually able to project a field that - at least briefly - contains Galactus. That's why she beats the other three members of the Fantastic Four to this ranking. 9 Magneto He may be old now, but Ian McKellen's X-Men villain - or antihero, depending on how you want to look at it - is still an Omega-level mutant and one of the most powerful survivors of the Fox X-Men universe. Those movies didn’t actually show the true extent of his powers other than in flashes, and it’s arguably X-Men ‘97 that better showed it. Nevertheless, he’s a hugely powerful addition to the hero side, and if he survives the attack on that universe and the resurrection of the Sentinels (which is not guaranteed), he’ll have a big part to play against Doom. 8 Professor X Via MovieStillsDB Avengers: Doomsday will sadly be the end of an era for Sir Patrick Stewart's iconic version of Charles Xavier after the great man's death earlier this year. And though the trailers reveal that Professor X appears to be waning, he's still one of the most formidable mutants in X-Men lore. As an Omega-level telepath, he's also one of the most valuable weapons in opposition to Doctor Doom. Unfortunately, it would appear that Charles is one of the more likely characters to die in Avengers: Doomsday, but his power set is a real game changer. He can read thoughts, communicate directly within anyone's mind, influence decisions, and alter behavior. He can even completely take over someone else's mind and body, has the ability to manipulate memory, can create illusions, and can concentrate bolts of mental energy that can paralyze and cause physical pain. He's also able to detect mutants and has the power of telekinesis. There are very few mutants who have anything like his power level. 7 Hulk A late addition to the Avengers: Doomsday cast, Mark Ruffalo's Hulk might have been through a lot of trauma and a lot of volatility throughout his MCU arc, but he is in the very top tier of the Avengers power hierarchy. Puny Banner is a bit of a drawback, even with his almost unequal intelligence, but Hulk is a ferocious battering ram. Seems to be mostly invincible in the MCU and actually gets stronger the more he loses control. We've only really seen that true potential a couple of times, and it's usually when Hulk causes the most damage, as he did in Spider-Man: Brand New Day. But now that he's been collected by Doctor Doom and could potentially be unrestrained in Doomsday, we could be about to see the most powerful version of Hulk outside of Marvel's multiverse animations. The very fact that Doom has recruited him says everything about his power. 6 Thor In terms of raw power, Thor is still one of the most elite heroes associated with the Avengers. He might have had a patchy arc that has seen him deal with significant trauma and questions of his worthiness, but he’s still the god of thunder and withstood the power of a star to forge Stormbreaker. Him being chosen as the Avenger to fight Doctor Doom in the Doomsday trailer was a pointed decision too: it was intended to show exactly how terrifying Doom will be. A fully powered Thor has few equals in the MCU and, worryingly, he’s exactly the kind of big player who’d make an excellent death. 5 Sentry Like Bruce Banner, Sentry comes with a built-in caveat to his almost unprecedented power levels at full capacity. His human alter ego, Bob, is obviously vulnerable, though it's unclear whether he is even killable. At the other end of the scale, the Void is immensely powerful but also too dangerous to be unleashed. If Sentry can keep control, which doesn't look likely because that's sort of his whole thing, he would be the MCU's version of Superman. As Sentry himself says in Thunderbolts*, he's essentially a god. He can effortlessly take on super soldiers and defeat them. The Void's power of sending people to their own shame rooms would be a remarkably valuable power if it could actually be used by Sentry. Were it not for Bob's mental frailty and the time bomb ticking inside Sentry, he would probably be in the top three, but he's just held back by that inbuilt kill switch. 4 Doctor Doom As yet, all we really have to go on for Doctor Doom, in terms of his confirmed power level, is what we've seen in the Avengers: Doomsday trailers and the aura that he's projected in his other appearances (in Avengers: Endgame Encore's additional footage, and VisionQuest's post-credit scene). If the MCU, as expected, is making Doctor Doom as powerful as he is in the comics, he is a Thanos-level threat without the Infinity Stones, combining genius-level command of technology with proficiency in ancient magic. The trailers show him withstanding a direct attack from Thor and Stormbreaker with very little effort. We've already seen him overcome the Hulk, admittedly off-screen, in one of Encore's new scenes, and VisionQuest's post-credits suggests he was able to, in some way, restrain Scarlet Witch, or at least convince her to align with him. Add to that the rumors that he's also collected Doctor Strange and Clea, and that suggests that this might be one of the very most powerful magic users in the MCU's entire history. 3 Loki MovieStillsDB Loki was already a god before he took up his position at the heart of the multiverse at the end of Loki Season 2, and he was one of the greatest magic users in the MCU. But after centuries of time slipping and endless failures to save the multiverse, Loki also gained the ability to control time at will. He could grab actual multiverse timelines to weave them together in some of the most unprecedented magic we'd ever seen on screen. By the way, in terms of endurance, at the very least, he is almost unknowably powerful. He's only not at the very top here because a lot of his power is very specifically tied to him being a so-called "God of Stories," holding the timelines together. We know that he visits Captain America and Peggy in the past in order to offer them sanctuary, but we don't know whether that happens after he takes his seat on the multiverse throne or before.Crucially, there are also heavy rumors that Loki might not make it far into Avengers: Doomsday after Doctor Doom recognizes that absorbing his powers would make him incredibly powerful. That would, unfortunately, be a pretty catastrophic way to confirm exactly how powerful he was. 2 Scarlet Witch When she first appeared in the MCU, Wanda Maximoff was a prodigiously powerful magic user, able to cast illusions, take on the Avengers almost single-handedly in Age of Ultron with some help from her brother Quicksilver, and valuable enough that Ultron recruited her to help him basically destroy the Earth. Since then, through a significant amount of trauma and confirmation that she is the Scarlet Witch, Wanda has gotten even more powerful, not only at her base level but thanks to her learning all of the dark holds and forbidden magic. She was the closest individual character to taking down Thanos in Endgame's final battle. She managed to keep an entire town under her control in one division, and her terrifying magical feats in Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness confirmed she was a walking weapon of mass destruction. The only thing that really holds Scarlet Witch back is Wanda's emotional volatility. Focus her power on something, and she is the most powerful Avenger. 1 Franklin Richards Yes, that's right, an actual child is the most powerful character in Avengers: Doomsday. He may not seem it from the short amount of screen time he's had in The Fantastic Four: First Steps and briefly in Doomsday's marketing, but Franklin Richards is about as powerful as any Marvel character has ever been. He is the very definition of god-tier and is often classified as a beyond Omega-level mutant, with powers comparable to cosmic entities like the Celestials and Galactus. He may not actually show any of those powers in Avengers: Doomsday because, quite frankly, the spectacle of watching a toddler take on Doctor Doom and effortlessly beat him might not be something Marvel fans are ready for yet. But make no mistake: Franklin Richards is well above everybody else in the power hierarchy. He has the ability to control time and reality and was key to helping rebuild the multiverse, which may actually be why he's being positioned as such an important character in Doomsday's narrative. Avengers: Doomsday is scheduled to release globally on December 18. Avengers: Doomsday Release Date December 18, 2026 Runtime 165 Minutes Director Anthony Russo, Joe Russo Writers Stephen McFeely, Michael Waldron, Chris McKenna, Erik Sommers Cast Reed Richards / Mr. Fantastic Vanessa Kirby Sue Storm / Invisible Woman