The Strongest Character in Literature?

Title says it all, who is the most powerful person from a novel? Basically,+ consider it a fight between all the most powerful characters from novels you can think of.

RULES:

The character must have originated from a novel or light novel (there can be other versions of the character in media, but they have to have started from a book)

In character

No omnipotence

No prep

No prior knowledge

No BFR

All characters have standard equipment

The characters only have feats from their book (if they gain any extra feats in any other media, they don't count)

All characters are determined to win

All characters are at full power

Win by KOing or killing all other characters

To start it off (and kinda set the bar), I'm going to go ahead and throw this character out there:

@theamazingyolo: Feats?

Durzo Blint.

Well, Eru from LOTR is omnipotent, and feat wise he created a race of beings that sang the universe into existence. Doesn't chthulu or whatever myths start at a series of books as well? They seem to be pretty powerful.

Azathoth.

Just looked him up, he has nothing to compete with Yuki's data manipulation.

Omnipotents aside, probably Zeus or Odin.

@princearagorn1: @i_like_swords: Sorry, I thought I said no omnipotence. Must have forgotten, I'll edit now.

Well, I'm going to just leave this here...

The Ka-Gash Trio from the "Demonata" Series: Grubbs Grady, Bec MacConn, & Kernal

Roughly, how powerful are they?

Doctor Manhattan...

:-P

@god_of_batman: Together their Nigh-Omnipotent.

Zeus practically is omnipotent, at least in some myths.

And in the myths where he isn't, he is afraid of Nyx:

"There [in Lemnos] she [Hera] encountered Hypnos (Sleep), the brother of Thanatos (Death) . . . [Hypnos addresses Hera :] `That time I laid to sleep the brain in Zeus of the aegis and drifted upon him still and soft, but your mind was devising evil, and you raised along the sea the blasts of the racking winds, and on these swept him away to Kos, the strong-founded, with all his friends lost, but Zeus awakened in anger and beat the gods up and down his house, looking beyond all others for me, and would have sunk me out of sight in the sea from the bright sky had not Nyx (Night) who has power over gods and men rescued me. I reached her in my flight, and Zeus let be, though he was angry, in awe of doing anything to swift Nyx' displeasure.'"

Source: Homer, Iliad 14. 231 ff (trans. Lattimore)

"[Zeus] would have imprisoned Hypnos (Sleep) in the darksome pit of gloom to dwell along with murky Iapetos [after conspiring with Hera to put Zeus to sleep so that she could drive her stepson Dionysos mad], but for the prayers of Nyx (Night) the vanquisher of gods and men. So Zeus calmed his savage resentment with difficulty, and cried out to Hera."

Source: Nonnus, Dionysiaca 35. 276 ff (trans. Rouse)

@theamazingyolo: Bruh, what's data manipulation and how does Yuki use it.

And a reason you don't get to see his real feats is because there hasn't been a book about his past where he lives 7 centuties with the different aliases he had through out his time.

When it comes to Mytholgoy i know Atlas has been carrying the Heavens for thousands of years so i guess him

@cgoodness: Atlas carried the heavens because he lost to Zeus and because Zeus forced that upon him:

"Encouraged the Titanes [and Gigantes?] to drive Jove [Zeus] from the kingdom and restore it to Saturn [Kronos]. When they tried to mount to heaven, Jove with the help of Minerva [Athene], Apollo, and Diana [Artemis], cast them headlong into Tartarus. On Atlas, who had been their leader, he put the vault of the sky; even now he is said to hold up the sky on his shoulders."

Source: Pseudo-Hyginus, Fabulae 150 (trans. Grant)

As a strength showing, even Herakles managed that, and it hardly elevates somebody to the top tiers. Zeus could effortlessly overpower all the other gods as well as the earth and sea at once as per Homer's Iliad.

@shootingnova: I didn't think any of the Greek Gods were omnipotent. Wasn't there a prophecy in the main myth that the son of Achilles' mother, would grow up to be more powerful than his father - which prompted Zeus to not have a kid with her?

@shootingnova: Didnt the Gods need weapons from a cyclops to defeat the Titans?

@i_like_swords: I said that there are different versions of myths. There are myths where Zeus loses to Typhon and needs his sinews to be reinstalled by Agi-Pan and Hermes, before then fighting Typhon again who was tricked into eating fruits by the Fates to win. In other myths, Zeus just strikes him with his thunderbolts and wins instantly. There's even an instance where Zeus defeats Gaia and Typhon together.

Now, if you take the Orphic version, Zeus literally swallows the entire universe and contains it within him. He is, more or less, omnipotent.

I agree that he isn't omnipotent in most myths, though.

Kali deserves a mention. She was destroying the universe by celebrating and dancing, and Shiva had to lie under her feet so that she would be halted and calmed.

@cgoodness: Those are weapons of the gods, though. It's like depriving Thor of Mjolnir.

And in some myths, no, they didn't.

@shootingnova: K

@shootingnova: Alright, fair enough. I guess it just depends on the author/myth.

@i_like_swords: Yeah, that tends to be the case. You can't identify any mythology under a single author because it's just one of those areas where there's bound to be inconsistencies between myths by different writers.

God is the strongest character in fiction.

(somebody is going to get offended, but I don't care)

Also, he's not omnipotent. If he was then he would've solved a lot of problems a long time ago.

Sorry, groups don't count. Only singular characters.

@theamazingyolo: Then Grubbs, he's the trigger & as such without him the other two can't function.

@watertaco: if you don't care about offending people.. how is he strongest?

Rhino

what problems?

Morgoth and Lucifer are on the top.

PIS and/or CIS

This threaths are bit useless.

Batman

God Emperor of Mankind.

Elder God Demonbane.

This is a near-impossible question to answer. If you had allowed omnipotent characters then we could just cite them, but in the case of nigh-omnipotence at best, we're forced to rely on personal interpretation and subjectivity a lot of the time, and each of the users in this thread, including myself, only know so many fictions to draw from. I'm confident somebody could bring up a character to exceed virtually any other character brought up in this thread.

+1.

I came in to claim The Great Old One.

@nickthedevil: Cthulhu one? No idea what it can do.

@deatheye said:

Not really the strongest of them all, but omnipotents aside I think he's pretty good.

Yeah, Tentacle-face.

Basically, Lovecraft wanted humanity to look insignificant when it came down to our presence in the universe. So Cthulu travels the multiverse (Yet, lives outside of it), slaughtering everything in each universe, and breeding his weird fish/hybrid people around.

@nickthedevil: Eh. Don't know anything about the Lovecraftian universe, but I thought the Great Old Ones were a group.

Anyway, they seem extremely powerful although Lucifer Morningstar apparently tanked a multiverse busting attack. Kali from Hindu myth was destroying the universe by celebrating, and we do of course have the Living Tribunal (since comic books are still books).

There should be more characters but I currently have a brain block, so it'll come back to me tomorrow.

Just to clear things up, comics don't count in this scenario. As I stated in the OP, the character has to have originated from a novel.

Yog-Sothoth.

They are, they're the pantheon.

Cthulhu is just the most pronounced, and he's the most outward, as far as haunting the multiverse goes.

Well the strongest character in all comics would be The One Above All.

Now you said novel, hmm..............................

This is very hard

@watertaco: How is God not omnipotent?