Fans of Marvel Comics would agree that the Marvel Cinematic Universe is pulling all stops when it comes to introducing power players from the deepest reaches of the comics. Considering how the current MCU is seemingly preparing for the likes of the Fantastic Four and the X-Men, it’s only natural for fans to get excited as to who from Marvel Comics will the MCU bring to screens next.

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Interestingly enough, some characters from Marvel Comics seem to be locked into their own stories due to the sheer level of power they hold over their own domains. Some fans might even consider these characters so powerful they would break the more grounded Marvel Cinematic Universe. Just who are these Marvel Comics characters, and how can they break the MCU?

10 Franklin Richards

Franklin Richards

Perhaps one of the most devastating cases of a depowerment, Franklin Richards remains one of the most powerful Marvel comics characters to ever exist. One of the children of Fantastic Four members Reed Richards and Susan Storm, Franklin Richards became irradiated at an early age and began developing vast abilities. As a child and well into his teens, Franklin Richards displayed remarkable levels of mentifery, or the purest form of reality manipulation where imagination itself transforms everything around him. This made Fantastic Four villains easy pickings for the child.

Initially thought to be a mutant, Franklin Richards received a classification of being “Beyond Omega-level,” meaning his powers can theoretically alter reality as he willed it. At the conclusion of 2015’s “Secret Wars,” Franklin is seen constructing universes with Reed Richards.

However, due to mysterious circumstances, Franklin lost his powers around 2020. In fact, Charles Xavier of the X-Men revealed that Franklin was only a mutant because his reality manipulation warped his body on a cellular level. Currently depowered, it’s theoretically possible for Franklin to have only lost his powers for as long as he “believes” he has lost them.

9 Edifice Rex

Edifice Rex

If there’s anything scarier than Marvel characters manipulating reality, it’s those characters that have the same powers but on a humorous level. Edifice Rex is one such individual and was formerly known as Rex Randolph of Damage Control. When Randolph tinkers with a mysterious green sphere in a demolished warehouse, he’s instantly transformed into a cosmically-aware being. At first, Edifice Rex is seen telling coworkers about unforeseen disasters.

However, it’s soon discovered that Edifice Rex can communicate almost instantaneously and travel through hyperspace. More impressively, Edifice Rex can “instantly” fix anything through remarkable matter manipulation. It’s also implied he has other abilities he has either yet to display or to discover, meaning his abilities may immediately put him at a cosmic level, with the added lethality of humor.

8 Job Burke

Job Burke of Marvel

Making a minor appearance in “Man-Thing” in 1997, Job Burke is the seemingly ordinary child of Ted Sallis, the plant-like Man-Thing. However, it’s soon revealed that Job is actually the direct descendant of Adam, the First Man, and is charged with maintaining the “illusion that is reality.” Such was his power that the ancient deity only known as Mister Termineus tried to manipulate Job to his own ends, only to be stopped.

Despite being an obscure character in the current Marvel meta, Job Burke is immensely powerful in hindsight. Subconsciously, Job can alter reality - to the point of restoring or repairing its damages - and even achieve levels of insight and intuition regarding its very nature. Only his youth and lack of understanding seem to be the two things stopping him from achieving his true potential.

7 Nth Man

Nth Man of Marvel

Thomas Lightner was a minor character introduced in the 1970s, particularly when an experiment gone wrong transformed him into Blacksun, an entity with the powers of a black hole. While he returns to his normal form, yet another experiment will have Thomas get affected on a near-multiversal level, this time with the Nth Projector. This transforms him into Nth Man, making him quite literally an interdimensional vortex.

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Similar to his Blacksun form, the Nth Man can transform all nearby energy and matter unto himself. His power as a vortex became so strong that efforts to shut him down only sent him into seven other realities, all of which he destroyed.

Given his form as Nth Man was still at an early stage, the Aquarian was still able to shut him down. Theoretically, had the Nth Man been left to lay waste to various universes, his vortex powers would’ve let him consume entire realities with no end in sight.

6 Hope Summers

Hope Summers of X-Men

When Scarlet Witch declared “No More Mutants” and eradicated most of the human population, Hope Summers was the prophetic first mutant born after the crisis. This sparked a conflict of interest amongst various parties interested in her existence, even leading to the Phoenix Force desiring Hope for itself and resulting in the storyline of Avengers vs. X-Men. However, the interest in Hope does have its reasons. Classified as an Omega-level mutant, Hope is capable of copying and altering the powers of mutants within her immediate vicinity.

Theoretically, Hope’s ability allows her to absorb, regulate, and track the powers she obtains. Moreover, Hope was also the cause of the activation of powers of a new generation of mutants worldwide.

While her abilities only affect other mutants, her proximity to the X-Men means it’s safe to assume she already has the abilities of other Omega-level mutants like Jean Grey. Moreover, in the new mutant nation of Krakoa, Hope Summers is part of “The Five,” a group of mutants tasked to resurrect dead mutants. It’s thanks to Hope’s ability of power synergy and augmentation that they can pull off this historic feat.

5 Vulcan

Vulcan of X-Men

Of all the Summers brothers, it’s perhaps the youngest Gabriel Summers that is the most powerful. Dubbed as Vulcan, he’s described by both Professor X and Rachel Summers as leagues “beyond Omega-level,” capable of absorbing and manipulating any kind of energy - be it from the electromagnetic spectrum, magical energies, or even extra-dimensional energies similar to Cyclops’ optic blasts.

In fact, such was his control over energy that Vulcan can consciously suppress the abilities of others through their brains, siphon the powers of others, and become immensely resistant to psionic attacks. Such was his power that he’s able to match energies released by Black Bolt’s voice, to the point that they created a tear in space-time and into the Cancerverse, a doomed corpse of a reality where life prevailed against death.

4 The Sentry

Sentry in Marvel

Back in 1947, various scientists from Operation: Rebirth gathered to form Project: Sentry with the aim of magnifying the Super Soldier Serum’s effects over 100,000 times. They succeeded with the Golden Sentry Serum but were somehow abandoned in the process. Unfortunately for them, they would never have a suitable candidate to try the serum, as meth addict Robert Reynolds would consume the serum and obtain the power of a “million exploding suns.”

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Now the Sentry has essentially become one of Marvel’s analogs for Superman. However, unlike the Man of Steel, the Sentry also has the Void, a darker aspect hell-bent on destroying everything in his way. It doesn’t help that the Sentry has a myriad of impressive abilities that easily classify him as a godlike threat. Among his powers are molecular manipulation, virtual immortality, invulnerability, powerful psionics, as well as power absorption and sharing. Should the Sentry will it, he could theoretically become a multiversal threat.

3 Legion

Legion of the X-Men

Given Charles Xavier of X-Men being one of the most powerful telepaths out there, it makes sense for his lineage to have an intense connection with psionics. In the case of David Haller, his abilities extended far beyond telepathy, and he also has the ability to create spontaneous mutations. Due to the highly unstable nature of his powers, David creates a new “persona” for each power he develops, thus naming his entirety as Legion.

Legion himself stated that he has around 200 “Omega-level split personalities,” which is a far cry compared to the true aspect of his abilities. When Rogue went inside Legion’s head, she realized that Legion has more powers being “born” in him with each passing second. Of all his personalities, the Legion is his most dominant.

Considered as a “God-Mutant,” the Legion personality can not only manipulate time but also warp reality itself. It’s thanks to his tinkering that spawned the entire Age of Apocalypse timeline. And such was his reality-altering abilities that he killed the Elder Gods of Limbo, beings that were seemingly unkillable by any means.

2 Molecule Man

Molecule Man

Formerly known as Owen Reece, Molecule Man may easily be one of the most powerful persons to ever exist in Marvel comics before cosmic entities themselves. Originally debuting as a Fantastic Four villain in 1963, the “Secret Wars” (2015) reveals that Owen Reece is a creation of the Beyonders, entities that exist outside the Omniverse. Serving as a singularity in any reality, Molecule Man is programmed to “kill” his home universe as soon as he dies, with every Molecule Man designed to eventually destroy the Multiverse by detonating simultaneously.

Doctor Doom, Doctor Strange, and Earth-616’s Molecule Man would stop this plan from happening, and would even kill the Beyonders in the process. This jumpstarts the incursion of all universes, resulting in Doctor Doom’s Battleworld. However, behind all of this craziness is Molecule Man, who at his most basic is capable of manipulating the molecular structure of anything he desires.

As demonstrated in “Secret Wars,” he can create and destroy realities as he wished, and even bestow and remove reality-altering powers from others. Thankfully, Molecule Man was more of a hero than a villain in “Secret Wars,” with the recreation of the Multiverse helping him restore his broken psyche.

1 Mad Jim Jaspers

Mad Jim Jaspers

Originally just a villain of Captain Britain, Sir James Jaspers made himself known in the Marvel universe for being quite the anti-superhuman radicalist. However, beneath his charming exterior is a sinister individual with the power to manipulate reality itself. In the 1981 event “Jaspers’ Warp,” the Mad Jim Jaspers of Earth-238 created an unreality wave that Captain Britain miraculously stopped through various reality-warping shenanigans. And while future events would have Mad Jim Jaspers destroyed, he seemingly finds a way to return in various situations.

To describe the full depth of Mad Jim Jaspers, one must look at Merlyn, the Great Hierophant of the Otherworld, tasked to maintain order in the multiverse. According to him, the Earth-616/Original Mad Jim Jaspers is so powerful that he can easily put the Omniverse in a state of chaos.

Doctor Strange In The Multiverse Of Madness will be released on May 6, 2022.

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