While theAvengersmay be Earth’s Mightiest Heroes, they aren’t the only version of the team that exists within the Multiverse. Beyond the walls that hold each universe together, a team of heroes, scattered across the Multiverse, banded together to stave off villains and monstrous foes from threatening the sanctity of the Multiverse itself. However, some members of this valiant group of heroes are far stronger than the rest.
The“Multiversal Avengers”were first introduced inAvengers: Forever #4 (2022)by Jason Aaron and Jim Towe as an oppositional force to the growing threat of the Council of Red, a multiversal collective of Mephistos who planned to recreate the universe in their image alongside the First Firmament. But greater than their enemies are the Multiversal Avengers themselves. These time-and-space-spanning paragons of justice are the best of the best, dwarfing Earth-616’s team in power and scale. While the team features many ridiculously powerful characters,these ten heroes are by far the Multiversal Avengers’ strongest.
10Weapon America (Steven Rogers)
Home Dimension: Earth-20504
While this variant of Steve Rogers may share the same name as Captain America’s“secret identity,” it would be more accurate to say that this character isa fusion of Captain America, Nick Fury, and Wolverine.While little is known about this character’s backstory, it’s clear that this living weapon was designed to be explicitly that: a living weapon. With arms thicker than his head and a torso so wide it could be considered a full-length table, this hulking hero is already a paragon of physical strength.
In addition to his raw physical aptitude, Weapon America is most likely a subject ofthe Weapon Plus program, meaning that he most likely possesses Wolverine’s same healing factor to keep up with the active danger his Adamantium skeleton emits. As expected,this war-forged fighter is a brute of raw strength and feral rage,but ultimately can’t keep up with the absolute, terrifying power of this list’s other heroic entries.
9Star Panther (T’Challa)
Home Dimension: Earth-41766
After a multiversal-traveling variant of Killmonger traveled to this Black Panther’s reality, the infant T’Challa’s parents sent him away from Earth before Killmonger could overrun the planet with his forces. The king-to-be spent decades training himself to defeat the multiversal foe, but consistently failed to beat his enemy. In a final battle with King Killmonger,the tyrant cast T’Challa into an infant star, where his vibranium would keep him safe.
In three days' time, the cosmic powers of the star were imbued into T’Challa and his vibranium, thus birthing a new cosmic hero known as the Star Panther. In his new form,Star Panther possesses near-identical powers to heroes like Captain Marvel, albeit with significantly greater protection thanks to his vibranium suit. In the final battle againstthe Multiversal Masters of Evil, Star Panther served as a crucial ally in saving the Multiverse.
8God of Fists (Thor Odinson)
Home Dimension: Earth-56337
Unlike the Thor of Earth-616, this variant of the supposed-to-be“God of Thunder”never found himselfworthy enough to lift Mjolnir. Despite the hammer following him wherever he went, almost as if to mock his unworthiness, Thor could never truly claim his rightful thunderous powers. However, that said,Thor found a different godly patron to grant him the powerto defend what remained of his reality after the Multiversal Masters of Evil waged a gruesome war upon it.
Deep in the secretive tundra of the Himalayas, Thor sought out K’un-Lun, only to find it destroyed by the same evils that decimated Asgard. While there were no dragons to call upon,the god known as Lei Kung the Thunderer remained and trained the Asgardianin the way of the fist. While Mjolnir may still deem him unworthy, the newly dubbed God of Fists became a heroic powerhouse that channeled all the god’s raging power behind his bloodied fists.
7Infinity Thing (Ben Grimm)
Home Dimension: Earth-21170
As his name suggests, the Ben Grimm of this universeis entirely composed of Infinity Gems.While it’s unclear how the mythical stones became adhered to the Thing’s body, what is clear is that this variant ofthe Fantastic Fourmember is one of the most powerful entities of his home universe. With the full power of the Infinity Stones imbued into his body, the Infinity Thing has become a god in his own right.
However, Infinity Stones are only powerful within their home dimension. When a new universe is born, the big bang that jumpstarts its creation generates the Infinity Stones of that reality. While they exert absolute control over that specific reality,they aren’t made to exist outside the walls of their own universe.That said, the Infinity Thing is just as terrifying a threat on the multiversal level as Earth-616’s variant is on Earth.
6The Goddesses of Thunder (Frigg, Atli, and Ellisiv)
Home Dimension: Earth-14412
Frigg, Atli, and Ellisiv are the granddaughters of their timeline’s All-Father Thor,who passed the mantle to them in his old age, making them the new Goddesses of Thunder.They were first introduced in writer Jason Aaron’sThor: God of Thunderseries, where the three aided the past, present, and future versions of Thor and put an end toGorr the God Butcheronce and for all. However, after All-Father Thor sacrificed himself to restore their universe from Galactus’s wave of destruction, the three joined Hulk and the Old Man Phoenix to create a new team of Avengers.
Like their grandfather, the Goddesses of Thunder are powerful Asgardians, each rivaling the present-day Thor in power. Together,this band of gods has saved their universe from total annihilation on numerous occasions.They later joined the Multiversal Avengers to preserve all of reality from the First Firmament and the Multiversal Masters of Evil. Regardless of which time or reality they appear in, these comparatively young Asgardians always make their grandfather proud.
5Avenger Prime (Loki Laufeyson)
Home Dimension: Earth-18201
Shockingly, the leader of this band of multiverse-spanning heroes is none other than Loki. Also known as Avenger Prime, this Loki is by far more resilient and certainly nobler than most of the God of Deception’s other variants. In his home reality, Thor died early in childhood, leaving Loki to easily capture the throne. However, he grew hollow and sought other Lokis for company, only to be disappointed by their constant string of losses. That said, after learning thatLokis were responsible for the Avengers’ creation, he chose to lead his own band of Multiversal Avengers.
In addition to the Loki-Force that pumps through his mystical veins,Avenger Prime also reigns as his reality’s Sorcerer Supreme, granting the variant access to the most potent magics his reality can muster. The Eye of Agamotto is permanently affixed to his forehead, allowing Loki to conjure the progenitor sorcerer’s power over time and space at all times. Even without a team of Avengers behind him, Loki hasbested the Infinity Stones, Celestials, and Galactus.
4Avengers Mountain (Deathlok)
Home Dimension: Earth-616
Before becoming an actual Avenger, Avengers Mountain served asEarth-616’s Avengers’ home base until the team later came into contact with the Multiversal Avengers. The base wasbuilt inside the corpse of a frozen Celestial known as the Progenitor.Loki once explained that in its final days, it bled cosmic fluids that soaked into the ground and water, thus giving way to the extreme presence of superpowered people on Earth. However, despite its“death,”the Progenitor’s multiversal nature imbued it with enough life to interface with a variant of Deathlok.
In the fight against the collectives of Mephisto and Doctor Doom,the Deathlok uploaded his consciousness into Avengers Mountain, unlocking the ability to pilot and reform the Progenitor’s body to his will. Now possessing one of the Multiverse’s original creators, Deathlok became an absolute weapon of mass destruction and played a critical role in staving off the Multiversal Avengers’ enemies. Today, the Deathlok-piloted Progenitor serves as the new base of operations for the Avenger Prime and his team.
3Lady Phoenix (Firehair)
Firehair is Earth-616’s first Earthly avatar of the Phoenix Force. Having lived somewhere around 1,000,000 BCE,this ancient mutant of vast psychic potential set the metric that the Phoenix Force would be drawn tofor millions of years to come. Alongside heroes like Odin and Agamotto, Firehair, also known as Lady Phoenix, founded the Earth’s first team of“Avengers”to save the world from unparalleled threats beyond the stars.
Like all other Phoenixes, Lady Phoenix is a cosmic titan, fueled by the primordial powers of creation and reformed into an immortal being to live on inside the Phoenix Force forever. In the final battle against the First Firmament,Firehair and a Starbrand named Brandy Selby combined their incredible powersto create one single finishing blow. However, this combined, cosmically fueled attack took the last inklings of life from both women beforethe Phoenix Force was rebornand sent back to its home reality.
2All-Rider (Robbie Reyes)
While Robbie Reyes may be one ofMarvel’s newer Ghost Riders, he has proven himself to be its most powerful. Robbie Reyes got his start after being gunned down in the crossfire of gang violence, only to be soon revived by the spirit of his Satanic, long-dead uncle. Despite being a Ghost Rider,Robbie instead joined the ranks of the Avengers, which brought him into direct conflict with the Multiversal Masters of Evil.
In the final battle against the First Firmament, the Ghost Rider, now unbound by Earth-616’s limited energy, evolved into a cosmic variant of the infernal hero. Now known as the All-Rider,Robbie can effectively imbue his hellish flames into anything and“ride”itjust as he would his Hell Charger. In a final attempt to seal away Marvel’s first universe, the All-Rider rode an entire planet into the God Quarry, forever sealing himself and the First Frimament on the other side.
1Old Man Phoenix (James Howlett)
Without a doubt,the most powerful member of this team of extraordinary heroes is the Old Man Phoenix.In his universe, Wolverine was among many who were slaughtered under Loki’s rule, but was resurrected by the Phoenix Force to become its next avatar. For billions of years, Logan traveled the cosmos, wiping out dead and dying worlds to stave off the slow entropy that would eventually spell death for his universe.
As expected from this legendary figure, Old Man Phoenix possesses bothWolverine’s violently powerful clawsand his incredible healing factor. However, with the raw power of creation imbued in his soul from the Phoenix Force, his mutant abilities pale in comparison. As the last surviving Phoenix from his universe, Old Man Phoenix is a cosmic juggernaut fueled by rage and fury. Empowered by one of the cosmos' earliest primordial gods, he stands as one of the mightiest heroes ofMarvel’sMultiversalAvengersteam.
