Yes I would agree but only when his confidence is low or in doubt ,Gladiator in full confidence mode has not been measured and seems without limit . With the uni-power ,it would be off the scale by any standard."Not really. Even when he has been brimming with confidence he has struggled with some strength feats.
He showed signs of straining when lifting the original Baxter Building (the strain was shown clearly on his face).
That building would be approximately 100,000 tonnes. He did not get to lift the entire building as has been pointed out many times.
I do think that Gladiator's baseline strength (with high confidence) is higher than this and I would personally put him around the 150,000 tonne mark.
This figure lies far beyond 100 tonnes and so according to Marvel would suggest incalcuble strength.
It is only incalcuble if Marvel don't bother to get off their a$$ and do the calculations based on his strength feats.
The 150,000 tonne figure ties in with eclipsing some of the standard strength feats shown by classic Thor, whom I think is slightly weaker than Gladiator.
Now if the Uni Power augments the uses strength by around 50 times, this would mean that Capt Uni Gladiator has a strength of 50 x 150,000 = 7,500,000 tonnes.
A big number to be sure.
However SMP pushes Earth sized planets around. That's represented by a strength figure of 5,980,000,000,000,000,000,000 tonnes.
Even if Capt Uni Gladiator is a 1000 times stronger than my estimate, he is nowhere near that of SMP.
Then bear in mind that SMP can engage beings of his strength level in combat so his durability is sufficient to allow him to withstand blows from similar strength beings.
Forever said:
That sounds pretty reasonable."
To add to that, "no known limit" means exactly that. The limit is not know. That does not then mean that his strength is limitless. Thor actually has an unknown limit to his strength as do a lot of the Marvel class 100 characters. This does not mean that there is no limit to their strength, just that the limit is not know. So to determine whether they are as strong as a SMP, one would need to compare their feats. Gladiator has not had as much of an opportunity to shine in the spotlight that SMP and the character he is most compared to, Pre-Crisis Superman, have had but in his appearances Gladiator has not demonstrated the power levels that SMP has. Increasing his strength 50 times could very well put him above the current Superman, in terms of displayed strength, but that would be far from SMP.
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