Ok pretty simple idea, but just wanted to explore it quickly; rating my favorite verses in terms of who has the strongest hypothetical peak human.
This is specifically a human with no external aid; no technology, no magic (that is not available to all humans in verse), no external power sources, no metahuman mutations. Simply a human who has peak human stats in all categories (including physical and mental like skill and intelligence) and whatever abilities can be granted by training really hard.
Going to be classifying all 32 quickly though each section should be pretty short.
Unclassifiable: Wander over Yonder
There's literally no humans ever seen in verse. While presumably they exist there is literally no way to tell how strong they would be relatively speaking.
NGL the next 5 were easily the hardest to decide because the humans in verse lack any feats of note making it extremely hard to figure out the order. Take the order of the bottom 5 as basically just a guess.
31: Commedia
No particullarly special feats for humans. Was written hundreds of years ago where people were on average slightly shorter so figured it would be at the weakest due to reach and slight mass.
30: Shamanic Princess
The only normal humans seen in series are Tiara's classmates who have no notable feats. It's not even confirmed that normal humans have capacity to reach enlightenment and fuse with Yord as Tiara did since she is a mage from mage world. That said is a modern verse so would likely be slightly superior in reach and mass.
29: Cardcaptor Sakura
All feats for humans are for magic-users which not all humans can do. That said Tomoyo has shown a degree of intuition that was praised by Clow Reed and seems to transcend the normal human level for our verse, which is legit enough to be a tie breaker with SP
28: Axis Powers Hetalia
Pretty much the same physically since the series focuses almost entirely on anthromohpic countries but the APH-verse humans are used to the countries violent warring including the annual bloodbaths, so they are probably more used to violence and perhaps a bit more desensitivied to it.
27: Yuki Yuna is a Hero
Takes place in the future in a small isolated community after the destruction of most of the world suggesting that if current trends hold the people might be slightly bigger and healthier from future tech and/or possibly more efficient in their thought from having to survive with less resources? Yes it's a huge stretch but it's the best I could do to decide between people who have no feats.
Now we can get onto the verses that actually have feats for normal humans
26: Tokyo Mew Mew
Normal humans don't have any special physical stats but Ryou Shirogane was able to create advanced technology showing a super intellect suggesting a TMM verse Peak Human has a superhuman intellect
25: Cutie Honey
Pretty similar to TMM except Honey's father has arguably better intelligence feats then Ryou since he created from scratch a device that could change the air particles to practically anything while Ryou was partially adapting the alien's technology.
24: Stanley Parable
Only two humans ever appear in the series (Stanley and Mariella) one of them only appearing for seconds, so I have to judge by Stanley who survived a long fall requiring superhuman, possibly wall level durability. Though he can't run or jump (literally an achivement called "you can't jump"). While CH Peak Human could possibly outwit using this, SP Peak Human would probably take majority.
23: Over the Garden Wall
Debatable based on if you think you can use the Woodsman using his axe to threaten The Beast, and if you think so might be higher. Outside of that, Wirt and Greg have subsonic speed feats which should be enough to avoid and wear down SP Peak Human or otherwise incapacitate via environment.
22: xxxHolic
Watanuki has comical joke feats of moving fast enough to blurry speed (subsonic) and also of surviving long distances which would be superhuman in durability. I can't allow magic but this should be strong enough to beat OTGW Peak Human via similar speed and more durability
21: Panty and Stocking with Garterbelt
If you use Garterbelt's physical stats then obviously much higher but I think God's curse gave Garterbelt too long a time to get stronger to consider. P&S humans have moved faster then eye comically, Briefs was punched through stone and normal cops survived a massive car pile up. That's a more caroonishl high feat of durability then xxxholic-verse and likely also scales to attack potency. Plus the verse is much more prone to violence and desensitized.
20: Yu-Gi-Oh!
Jonouchi and Yuya both have feats of beating real world peak humans as well as subsonic and wall level+ feats like recovering from being struck by lightning or being smashed into wall structures. Yugioh Peak Human also has MHS reaction speed from Labyrinth Duelists reacting to lightning moving through water. Similar stats but better reaction to speed to P&S Peak Human
19: Ouran High School Host Club
Tamaki, who is physically the weakest or closest to it of the male hosts has comical faster then eye feats and feat of being slammed into a wall, and Honey and Mori are massively stronger. They also have superhuman skill feats of fighting numerous armed bodyguards on their level which would give hem edge in fighing skill.
18: Freedom Force
Golden Age Heroes without energy x beat genetically modified gorillas (Kill-a-Rillas) and Blackjack has a faster then the eye feat. Similar speed and stats but higher intelligence (superintelligence) as well as possibly MHS reflexes based on humans being able to react to Bullet who moves at the speed of lightning.
17: Bayonetta
Luka has survived being thrown through multiple stone pillars which is a higher degree of wall level, a wall level+ feat then any of the wall level feats before. Not quite as fast confirmed but still low superhuman.
16: Metroid
Scaling to Zero Suit Samus is wrong since she was genetically modified by the Chozo. That said, they can survive and even tank planets with 960x Earth gravity requiring wall+ level energy being tanked as well as would push them to near sound speed.
15: Puella Magi Madoka Magicka
Mostly comes from Tamura, the comedic Madoka series. Entering Witches barriers without being invited taking energy equivalent to wall level+ energies and humans can do it. In addition there is superintelligence enough to create power armor, robots, and Madoka's healing skill to revive from DEATH without magic. Superintelligence and healing would give a win against slightly stronger Metroid Peak Human
14: God of War
God of War humanity is much stronger able to survive on a much more massive planet and being larger then us. Weak Humans can tank being smashed through stone walls and briefly survive falling hundreds of meters. They range up to low building level like 4 Spartans pulling done a giant stone statue of Ares, or possibly higher as Last Spartan making it up the Temple of the Fates. They can also fire arrows at near supersonic speeds. This plus their incredible fighting skill suggests that it would defeat PMMM Peak Human
13: Magic Knight Rayearth
Using Cephiro Humans, which should be valid as Cephiro is an alternate universe, similar to using alternate versions of humans, the strongest without magic was Lafarga who could create nigh city-block attacks from a distance with just the sheer shockwave of his blows and scales to subsonic to supersonic speeds from Ascot. Raw stats win over GOW Peak Human.
12: Princess Tutu
Possibly impossible to rate since the whole thing takes place in Drosselmeyer's story which explains strange feats, but assuming you allow that as that is normal for verse humans, the Prince fought the Raven who dwarfs a town to a standstill and the dancing of the humans or anyone in verse that is good enough can warp reality. Assuming peak human reality-warping is at least comparable to Princess Tutu's, this is enough to even warp reality on a town scale.
11: Magicka
The novel speaks of human barbarian tribes who can physically kill Magicka Wizards, scaling to their Hypersonic speeds and Multi-City Block Stats. This isn't quite as strong as Princess Tutu Peak Human but is much faster then it's vague subsonic speed meaning that a Magicka Peak Human should be able to blitz and just slash at them over and over until they die.
10: Danny Phantom
Danny Phantom humans use technology to fight ghosts but it seems more based on negating the ghosts advantages of intangibility and invisibility and they seem to be able to compare to low tier ghosts, who scale in turn to Episode 1 Danny making a multi-city block crater and season 1 Danny lightning-timing. DP verse Peak Human also has supergenius intellect able to create missiles able to destroy whole universe sized areas made of ectoplasm and other super advanced equipment.
9: Sailor Moon
Sailor Moon Peak Human is basically Pre-Golden Crystal Tuxedo Kamen who scales to Sailor Moon accidentally threatening a dimension calced at least to kiloton range (this is a lowball admittingly) and was able to avoid Fully Awoken Sailor Venus's attack which scales to Pre-Awakening Minako traveling to Venus at faster then light speeds and possibly to Weaver Stars traveling to Earth at dozens of times the speed of light. Also supergenius intellect scaling from Professor Tomoe creating the daimon and other inventions. Sheer speed suggests SM Peak Human speedblitzes DP Peak Human
8: The Powerpuff Girls
Humans survived via toonforce a missile that devastated the city of townsville and scale to Amoeba Bros physically who are joke villains relying strictly on abilities who matched the speeds of the PPG in the pilot where they could travel to the Sun at 50c and in the film at a few days old the PPG traveled to Earth at 1.2c. Scaling to Professor Utonium gives supergenius intellect. SM vs PPG Peak Human is actually really balanced and while SM Peak Human has the protection of the Silver Crystal giving agelessness, the ability to survive in space, and possibly flight, I think PPG Peak Human is just smarter. While humans tend to act smarter in SM then PPG, and while both Tomoe and Utonium created advanced beings (the daimons/the ppg, mojo) Professor Tomoe has invented nothing else comparable outside of the dimension thing in the Mugen Elevator (which may have been the work of the daimons) and it's implied part of his great hybrid of human and daimon was because of the daimons' help. Utonium on the other hand also created Dynamo, a time machine and more showing a more generalized intellect.
7: Yu Yu Hakusho
Basically Sensui. Not as fast or as intelligent as PPG Peak Human, but country level stats from training of natural human reiki means can tank all attacks and can one-shot
6: Pretty Cure
Basically Criasu Corporation who scale to planet level based on Pretty Cure scaling to Elisio's planetary reality warping and also lightning timing as well as having superintelligence (created time travel and time freeze devices)
5: Xiaolin Showdown
As the Xiaolin use chi it seems like you could basically just use Grandmaster Dashi the top tier. Scales to Wuya's casual low stellar feat of shaping the Sun's surface which is consistent with being significantly stronger then large planet level beings. Also scales to faster then the Showdown Transitions which can take far into space quickly requiring hundreds of times the speed of light. Also has creation and mystical reality-warping from chi and has Jack's superintelligence.
4: Okami
Powerful humans are stronger then beginning of game Amaterasu who could casually with a single dab of her celestial paint brush create a star in a distant star system at millions of times the speed of light. While XS Peak Human could maybe beat Okami peak human with prep time using superintelligence and hax abilities, Okami Peak Human blitzes in a no prep fight.
3: DC Comics
Karate Kid, the godly skilled being who can fight galactic level pre-crisis superboy and post-crisis kryptonians as well as scales to quadrillions of times lightspeed movement and possibly much higher reaction speed (can tag Superboy Pre-Crisis). Plus Lex Luthor Level intelligence which is powerful enough to basically just mind hax someone by speaking. More powerful, more hax, faster, smarter
2: Undertale
Scales to Peak Frisk who could fight Universal Entities like God Flowey or Asriel Dreemur and can reform their soul from the sheer power of DETERMINATION. Determination also gives other abilities like creation as well as SAVE and LOAD. Speed's a bit lower, but power is so much higher and while mind hax is dangerous, I think UT Peak Human would win via hax, particularly godly regen.
1: Saint Seiya
Kinda cheating tbh, as humanity uses cosmo to make them like them gods, giving them cosmic stats surpassing anyone else here as well as a variety of abilities including atomization of the soul which would stop Load from working. Strongest human normally would probably be Pegasus Tenma who matched Hades himself, though Pegasus Seiya briefly attained higher in Overture Movie. If you stretch you can even use the Gods here, as the Gods were humans who awoke the 9th sense and became the Gods for all eternity, retroactively giving them histories as gods, but as it changed their nature from human to god I don't count it. But yeah, Low Multiversal scaling from Hades maintaining 3 universes, speeds septillions or higher above the speed of light, atomization, hitting non-physical entities, reviving from death, reality-warping, etc.
Really interesting idea Imp, this makes for a pretty unique and fun blog! I think when people consider how strong/fast/durable humans are in series, they tend to make the easy mistake of limiting them to real life humans and their capabilities. Which isn't always wrong of course; if they don't have anything indicating the contrary, then we gotta give 'em real world stats. But as you've demonstrated here, there are a lot of times where people do things that don't match the real world, impossible things.
ReplyDeleteI've always been a fan of characters who don't have superpowers per se, and aren't simply granted magical abilities from some higher being. Those that gotta get by on their own grit, skill and intelligence, pushing their bodies and wits to their limits. That's a big reason why I love this blog, it's a great showcase of characters going beyond what anyone would expect of them. Seeing as you're using your favorite series here, I had a feeling that crazy Karate Kid from DC would show up. What the heck does that boy eat? And as soon as I saw anything external was ruled out, I had a very good feeling Saint Seiya humans would rank very high on the list, and I was not disappointed thank you!
That being said, there were a few unexpected surprises. Madoka humans had more to them that I thought, though that's my fault for only being familiar with the main series anime. The Princess Tutu humans having reality-warping powers through the power of dance was pretty dang cool, and kind of funny to think about. PreCure humans are WAY more powerful at their peak than I could've imagined, that's insane! And then Okami blows the lid off that. Really great stuff Imp, I hope to see more original blog ideas like this in the future!
Oh, and even if using Saint Seiya humans and their miraculous powers is kinda of cheating, I don't mind :P