Comic book characters strength

This is something I've thought of a lot and never had an answer. Based on feats how do you determine how strong a character is.

What makes a character a 1 tonner, 2 , 5 and 10 tonner

Who's stronger, some on that could lift a van over their heads,someone that could push over an oak tree or someone who can throw a human 50ft in the air

I'm basically trying to figure out what puts a character in a specific strength class. And based on FEATS, how strong would you say captain america was if they didn't label him as peak human, but enhanced instead

Well a car weights about 1 ton on average. So if someone can lift a car over their head they're a 1 tonner.

An african Elephant weights about 4-7 tons.

A modern tank weights 65 tons.

A blue whale weights 110-160 tons

and so on and so forth.

Cap is like a .5 tonner at most. Peak human = the best feats any humans are capable of. Given that the world record is like 1100 pounds benched by a human, cap shoudl be able to do that. I think he has benched like 800+ before.

@fallschirmjager: but cap has feats that put him outside that range

Comics have a loose definition of peak human.

@fallschirmjager: so what do you think of the third question

He's still peak human.

Hawkeye once lifted a car off of himself - but that's not something he should be able to do.

@fallschirmjager: no, the question about who's stronger

@fallschirmjager: what kind of car do yo you drive that only weights 1 ton????

My Nissan weights like 2400lbs. That's a little over 1 ton.

My bro's Honda weights less.

I didn't say SUV/Truck. I said car. The former go up to like 2-3 tons usually.

@fallschirmjager: you got a little car bro lol, my Saturn ion is a small car an that tops 3000 lbs

4 door? mine is a coupe.

manual transmission too, which I believe its lighter than automatics.

@fallschirmjager: 4 door manual 5 speed, and yeah coupes are pretty small

word...i will never own an automatic

completely off topic though :P