I realise it's impossible to objectify the power output of our heroes when the writer's themselves have wildly varying portrayals, but just wanted to see what everyone's thoughts were. Pick your favourite hero, then express their power based on their best ever canon feat in joules as it's easiest to compare.
^ means "to the power of", or if the base number is 10, how many zeroes follow the 1. eg., 10^3 = 1000, 10^6 = 1,000,000, etc. A few salient examples:
10^17 joules: Largest nuclear explosion eg., Tsar Bomba; explosion was 3000x more powerful than Hiroshima/Nagasaki bombs. Equivalent energy yield to 8.1 richter earthquake.
10^23 joules: Extinction-level event causing Chicxulub crater (dinosaurs' demise from the meteor).
10^33: Earth's kinetic orbital energy. Need more than this to reverse its orbit around the sun.
10^41: Earth's total mass-energy. Need more than this to destroy it (let's keep it simple).
10^46: Most powerful witnessed supernova (Hypernova).
10^59: Total mass-energy of our galaxy.
10^69: Total mass-energy of observable universe. Assuming 100% E=mc^2 conversion, this is also the energy output of the BIG BANG.
To keep it incredible simple, we'll assume that if a hero can survive or destroy something at a power level, they are more powerful than that. eg., heroes who could survive a direct, massive nuclear explosion have durability more than 10^17. Heroes who can destroy the earth are more powerful than 10^41.
I know it is not scientific, but wondeirng how would you rank your hard-hitting heroes?
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