Top 20 Most Powerful Movie Characters of All Time

[@WatchMojo]

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[@marcusyates3044]

Top 20 Guardians of the Galaxy Moments!

[@teeje8205]

thanos

[@hightower8446]

The Mask

[@erzaender]

neo from the matrix saga and pinhead from hellraiser saga

[@thedevilsrockstxr2309]

Yall forgot to make a credible list

[@trinaq]

Rest in Peace, Robin Williams. We've never had a friend quite like you, and we're unlikely to again

[@thedraftingax5963]

Yeah, may you rest in peace, Robin. You were a great person and friend to all of us. God bless you and you’re kind soul.

[@_Crunch]

Cringe. we all know you just want likes bro. hopefully your being genuine.

[@Kris10000]

Greeting from Thailand, he was my friend too. 😇

[@ryanatherley9938]

Who's Robin Williams?

[@Bang-bangNinersgang-hv5yt]

He is my favorite actor of all time

[@santiagochaparro3099]

Let's be honest, Vader is not even the most powerful charachter in his saga, it's Palpatine, followed closely by Yoda. And none of them is more powerful than Sauron. Changing the topic, technically Jafar is more powerful than Genie, since he wished to be the most powerful gene ever, but he could never unleash his power because he wasn't free. However, one could still argue that since Genie was freed in the end, and he kept his powers, he would be more powerful than Jafar because he could choose when and how to use them.

[@JustTubbyRich]

Vader is more powerful. Palpatine knew he'd be killed and needed to be a ghost/God and was killed by his granddaughter. Vader/Annakin was MENTALLY fragile, but powerful? Vader had power all day. And let's not get into Vader's adventures/feats in the comics. This your first day?

[@santiagochaparro3099]

@@JustTubbyRich No, Anakin had the potential to be the most powerful being in the galaxy, but he never reached it because he lost most of his body and connection to the force in Mustafar. Then Palpatine made sure he never reached his highest power level by giving him a suit that limited his movement. Anakin's power peak was in ROTS, there he may have had the same power level as Mace Windu, but it went downhill from there. Potential does not mean immediate power. Now, let's not talk about anything that happened in the sequels because they do not count, that's not Star Wars. And we are talking about the movies, so anything that happened in the comics or legends does not count. However, if we were counting legends, Vader still wasn't the most powerful being in the galaxy. Legends Luke was like god, then you got Darth Nihilus, who could literally eat planets, and Abeloth, who's mere presence could destroy entire systems. Thar without mentioning all the strange stuff hidden in the unknown regions of the galaxy. No matter how you put it, Darth Vader is not and was never the most powerful. And stop acting like you know stuff you actually don't.

[@slystone4892]

But he was not a monster.

[@fabiansproer378]

Actually Luke is the strongest, but shown in the movies it is definitely Palps. Anakin/Vader was suppose to be the strongest but not even closely reached his potential. Vader fanboys and pop culture is crazy

[@PeterAtkinson]

I thought some of the rankings were off as well, still an enjoyable list to go through. 👍👍

[@yasser3268]

You’re just gonna ignore Jason Voorhees and Pennywise? That’s a major crime!

[@thedraftingax5963]

Yeah! It is! They’re two of the most powerful movie characters of all time! Why didn’t they include them? When they should’ve added them to the list!

[@yasser3268]

@@thedraftingax5963 you know what’s disappointing? They didn’t add Jason In top 20 most unbeatable characters too and they added Michael myers in the list, (which I respect) but Jason is a much bigger immortal than anyone else and that really p*ssed me off

[@thedraftingax5963]

@@yasser3268 Yeah exactly! It made me mad, and made me so p*ssed off too!

[@WatchMojo]

[@yasser3268]

@@WatchMojo are you not ashamed of not putting Jason in there? Because that was a crime to people who believed Voorhees is unkillable

[@Ashenshugura]

The Mask... He weilds the all powerful toon force.

[@mr.decencykeepinitreal6348]

And then became a very powerful, brutal anti-hero in the comics.

[@MRWINDYMETHANE]

I think Genie is still stronger than Mask, since he has everything the Mask has & than some.

[@LOLKRYPTIXX]

i feel like the order of the list is more about popularity than comparing power haha

[@godemperorofmankind3.091]

whats yours then?

[@stephenroberts6140]

Unicorn would be the most powerful

[@BlazerK1914]

Freddy Krueger: “Prepare to die!” Genie: “Not today!”

[@mr.decencykeepinitreal6348]

Freddy Krueger is still one of the 100+ most famous villains in cinema history.

[@thedraftingax5963]

Fr and he always will be

[@williamsummerson1204]

My Goat.

[@supertat6398]

Everyone's gonna ignore morgan freeman in bruce almighty?

[@mr.decencykeepinitreal6348]

Back in the early ‘90s, actor Robert Patrick did a wonderful job as T-1,000 in the ‘Terminator’ sequel. 😊

[@RIFADOR001]

"Let's pick 20 RANDOM characters, in RANDOM order and pretend they are top 20"... What a scam.

[@godemperorofmankind3.091]

what's your list then, tough guy?

[@reemakang3406]

Great List Nice

[@justapeacefulmanwhosbornin7291]

Genie from Disney’s ‘Aladdin.’ We love you, Mr. Robin Williams, and we still miss you so much…

[@jesseargueta1612]

Morgan Freeman in Bruce Almighty. How is that not number 1?

[@cancerstinks1]

Was gonna say this but you beat me to it

[@g00ndaddy]

Can't believe I didn't think of this. This is the real answer. Great job

[@rooster217]

Amzing to see the Iron Giant get a shout out, this classic gets left out of too many of these lists......all time fav ❤

[@godemperorofmankind3.091]

its very good that he is left out of these lists, as he is massively impossibly too weak to be there.

[@batgurrl]

Excellent list and i was thrilled the T1000 was in there

[@godemperorofmankind3.091]

absurd nonsense list. T1000 is top 30 at best and is incredibly weak

[@dennisyoung6122]

Anakin as the Chosen One didn't make him an ally of the light. As they stated, he was to bring balance to the force, which he did by snuffing out the all too bright light of the Jedi Council. It then swung back to the dark before settling more in the middle again with him throwing Palpatine into the core. Balance with neither side in control.

[@BooBop1987]

NIce List!

[@JirouLierge]

#1. God. Bruce Almighty? Or does that not count?

[@destructionproductions9131]

How is a shapeshifting metal skeleton stronger than a planet eating robot larger than earth itself? This ranking makes no sense.

[@MarquisDeSacks]

Welcome to WatchMojo - the channel who's Top 10's all have the right entries, but in the VERY wrong order!

[@RIFADOR001]

@@MarquisDeSacks there is no way they have the right entries. You can make at least a top5 of xmen more powerful than all this list. And that is only ONE franchise with stupidly strong characters.

[@godemperorofmankind3.091]

what is yours then, tough guy

[@MarquisDeSacks]

They said no superheroes.@@RIFADOR001

[@Batman-lg2zj]

Actually it does

[@BlazerK1914]

Optimus Prime: “Does Clover exists in your timeline?” Terminator: “Exists? That creature rules it.”

[@thedevilsrockstxr2309]

JJ Abrams confirmed clover was killed by a nuke....he's not ruling shit

[@shawziiz5031]

Why that sound familiar? Oh yea Liu Kang's mirror match dialogue in MK1

[@bamabarrelracer]

FYI...In the first few films, Pinhead did not have a name, he was titled "Lead Cenobite." It was the fans who conceived the name "Pinhead," which Clive Barker disliked... He became referred to Pinhead in Hellraiser 3

[@ryansmith5359]

Surprised Gandalf didn’t make this list considering he’s not even allowed to use his full powers in middle earth

[@godemperorofmankind3.091]

thats one reason why he wouldnt be. Sauron can use his full powers.

[@godemperorofmankind3.091]

my list. movies ive actually seen/know about. one character per universe. 1. God from Bruce Almighty. Can do anything 2. Death from Final Destination. Also implied to be God himself. 3. Lucy. Omnipresent 4. Eris from Sinbad. Larger than planets and galaxies in her real form 5. Genie Jafar 6. Unicron (transformers film reboot) 7. Godzilla Earth/burning Godzilla 8. Gamera 9. Merged Giant Kaiju from Pacific Rim Uprising 10. Cloverfield i think Kaiju count. strange this list has so little of them. No one from Star Wars should be here. they just arent that impressive except maybe Palpatine from the end of Rise of Skywalker. If we can presume mind control works on large creatures, then Voldemort and Sauron could be above the Kaiju, but we have no evidence thats possible.

[@sergiolopez3975]

This list makes more sense haha

[@godemperorofmankind3.091]

@@sergiolopez3975 I forgot the galaxy sized aliens from the very last scene in Men in Black.

[@gorgha3988]

I feel like any being that can destroy planets or control entire realities should have been much higher on this list.

[@justapeacefulmanwhosbornin7291]

T-1,000 from ‘T2: Judgment Day.’ Part of my childhood as well. 🙂

[@spencersawesomevideos7022]

You should do a vs video comparing My Adventures With Superman to Superman The Animated Series!

[@PBYblackcat]

Fun fact: The monster in the original Cloverfield was an infant, the adult as seen on Cloverfield Paradox are like 3 times as big

[@DrumaholicsAnonymous]

Shouldn’t Beetlejuice be on there if the Genie is?

[@DaddyOfTheSugarVariety]

I vote for Miss Piggy.

[@lfgubrs]

How can Merlin from The Sword in the Stone not even have a spot on this list. He is easy on par with the Genie. He can basically do whatever he wants.

[@Aragorn7884]

*Neo* 😎

[@holdmybeers]

You forgot Topper Harley in Hot Shots Part Deux

[@crystalshaw8744]

I never knew the monster's name in Cloverfield...smile. Thanks

[@tfe1788]

Darth Vader shouldn't be 1 actually 2nd behind the Genie who should be number 1 not 3 and where is Gandalf?? And Voldemort?? Dumbledore is correct in 4th

[@godemperorofmankind3.091]

vader isn't even top 2 in his own universe. gandalf is self admittedly not the strongest. he technically was equal to the balrog.

[@avidfather1864]

I think they went one character per franchise. Sauron is more powerful than Gandalf so it's fair they went with him. And honestly, none of the HP characters are in the same league as some of the characters mentioned here. Dumbledore should be way lower.

[@CashelOConnolly]

R.I.P William Friedkin 😢

[@that.canadian.vaper.guyTCVG]

If you watch this and think of it like just listing the characters and NOT ranking them by power, this is a pretty cool list. T1000 being above UNICRON is absurd. Unicron is basically a god and the size of a planet, he could beat everyone else on this list singlehandedly lol.

[@RIFADOR001]

But this is still not a top 20. There are franchises (like xmen and other superheroes) that have characters way more powerful than this top 20 together.

[@godemperorofmankind3.091]

unicron is barely top 5 by my reckoning.

[@godemperorofmankind3.091]

@@RIFADOR001 they excluded superheroes in the first 5 seconds. and if we are counting all of fiction, well, only 2 comic book characters even make it. the One Above All, and the Presence.

[@StephenPaulChaseJr-nn1ng]

You-know-who.................

[@danielsantiagourtado3430]

Darth vader will always be iconic!🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

[@cesarvictorino4301]

Top 20 Movie Characters Who Are Evil Incarnate.

[@waittillfamewtf2385]

Miss Alma LeFay Peregrine 🦅 "Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children" (2016)

[@AprilStarr29]

I absolutely love her as an actress, she makes any character look so cool!

[@waittillfamewtf2385]

@@AprilStarr29 no doubt

[@marvelzero1932]

You should do top 10/20 most powerful female movie characters!!!!!! From superheroes to beautiful giant moths!!!!! Hopefully, Captain Marvel and Mothra will be included!!!!!!!

[@godemperorofmankind3.091]

Captain marvel is a superhero and they already banned them from consideration

[@TheArtmann]

Where's Mr. Bean?

[@Gor85]

Very awesome characters😁Transformers,T-1000,Godzilla(I 1998). Albus Dumbledore is legend😁 Genie is fantastic,epic. Love him😁 Sauron is terrifying. Extremely powerful. Unbelievable power. Vader is extremely power. Anakin as Chosen One has unbelievable power and potential. It's amazing what he can did. And in the end,he brings balance. Great list😊

[@jordanhurd1988]

Again, where’s the Saeki family from the Grudge franchise? They are unstoppable.

[@scottydrierwertyhg]

Do anime next

[@CannonKnight]

Not having comic book characters made this a much more interesting list. It would take forever to rank all those godlike, infinite-powered beings. Plus, we all know Batman would be #1 BECAUSE HE'S BATMAN!

[@godemperorofmankind3.091]

there are godlike movie characters. they were just left out of the list.

[@RequiemDead]

LOLZ at the Narrator saying "Mordor".

[@trexadvent4726]

Who would win between these characters on this list?

[@ChibiProwl]

Unicron, he's a planet eater, or Clover, with how big he is. I've only seen Cloverfield, but the monster was huge. And said monster was a BABY! How BIG is his mummy!?😮

[@CainNuke]

the most powerful would be God, from any movie he is in such as: The Passion of the Christ, The 10 Commandments, etc.

[@pedrolima2994]

good list, bad order

[@kleine.5438]

The entire video was great, but I just want to make a point of one specific movie, the 1998 Godzilla movie is the only one I like and it sucks that they left it on the cliffhanger with one of the eggs hatching at the very end cuz they really should have made a sequel

[@godemperorofmankind3.091]

the animated series continued the story.

[@train_go_boom2065]

They did, its called Godzilla The Series and its badass. It is animated.

[@Carlos_Sutton]

So if all of these characters fought in a battle royale, Darth Vader would come out victorious?

[@AprilStarr29]

Deadpool? He can't be killed, so to me that's the most powerful. He's powerful with his humor. 😂

[@godemperorofmankind3.091]

you couldnt listen for 5 seconds at the start of the damn video? they said no comic book characters.

[@shagadelicbeast]

@@godemperorofmankind3.091was wondering about that lol since there’s other action movie type characters like iron man

[@AprilStarr29]

@@godemperorofmankind3.091 lol, ah shit I probably wasn't paying attention to the very beginning, Well that explains alot, like why nobody mentioned certain people. Thanks. I shouldn't have commented at all in that case because I don't know who's a comic book character or not! I know alot of the super heroes/ villains are from comic books.

[@solidsnake9898]

Shouldn't the most powerful character be Morgan Freeman where he played God? Also Vader isn't as strong as sidious

[@SirsasthNigam.]

Darth Vader tops although he lost twice in Death Battle -1-Doctor Doom 2-Obito Uchiha

[@godemperorofmankind3.091]

death battle is not exactly a reliable metric. plus those two characters that beat him, dont qualify to be on this list anyway.

[@SirsasthNigam.]

@@godemperorofmankind3.091 yeah former was not portrayed accurately in films and latter had only starred in Naruto films

[@crystalshaw8744]

They're really is a Flying Dutchman?...lmbo

[@RGTV1417]

TBH Dr. Manhatten shoulda been number 1

[@godemperorofmankind3.091]

why? when in the first 5 seconds of the damn video, they banned comic book characters?

[@alexhidalgo7110]

Darth Vader absolutely he is the most powerful villain

[@santiagochaparro3099]

Honestly, Sauron is way more powerful, and Vader is not even the most powerful character in his saga. Anakin had the potential to be the most powerful being in the galaxy, but he got brutally nerfed after his clash with Obi Wan. I don't think Vader ever surpassed Palpatine in terms of power, I think he was even with Yoda and Mace Windu, at best.

[@RobertBurns71405]

Vader isn’t even the most powerful character in Star Wars

[@jmcd21182]

No lol

[@godemperorofmankind3.091]

not even close

[@williamsummerson1204]

Pennywise, Luke Skywalker (instead of Vader), King Kong

[@godemperorofmankind3.091]

pennywise was not all that impressive powers wise, just difficult to permanently get rid of. luke is barely top 3, if we consider Rey at the end of Rise of Skywalker to be channelling all of Luke's powers into herself. kong isn't even top 3 in his own universe.

[@JonasFilberg]

Gandalf though

[@monkeydrajanka4798]

I had a Hunch Darth Vader would be #1

[@BowserMovies1989]

Me, too.

[@godemperorofmankind3.091]

why?

[@cesarvictorino4301]

Top 10 Movie Characters That Suffered A Lot But Eventually Found Peace.

[@pray444mal]

before even watching the vid i just had a feeling darth Vader was going to be #1😹😹😹

[@benzoladlam]

Lucy is a great movie, but it makes you think about how she was possibly the only one to ingest the drug and that was it, like there was no constant supply of this said substance and irl if it was like that 100-500 people would be affected if it was a said drug, maybe it’s not a drug¿ but watching the movie I kinda thought it was a miraculous drug that just made her a god🤷🏻‍♂️

[@tahjvines7608]

They literally "teen titan go'd" Pacific Rim

[@Predatorwarrior18]

Godzilla should’ve been #1. Also to clarify Vader was never in control of the Death Stars. Tarkin was in command of the first one and Palpatine the second one.

[@godemperorofmankind3.091]

absurd. godzilla is top 5 sure, but not number 1

[@train_go_boom2065]

​@@godemperorofmankind3.091he killed Satan and every greek god

[@tanyatheendergirl8987]

How can Vader be stronger than Sauron? Sauron is a literal god in his universe, and that was even before the Ring. Most people like to compare Sauron to other characters with his Ring, but if he were in his true form, he'd smite them. Even though Sauron is plenty strong, he's still weaker than Melkor

[@godemperorofmankind3.091]

this is about movies only, and you can be a god in one universe, but barely relevant in another. put Disney Hades into the God of War universe and he dies like a fool in seconds.

[@Toledotourbillion]

Bruce Almighty ahould be number one but I can't say that with a straight face.😂

[@stefaniweaver6563]

You're telling me that Vader is more powerful than Dumbledore? Come on. Also Neo? I don't think I agree with this list.

[@nattonep8788]

Godzilla (1998) should've been called Zilla.

[@lubosbacik2997]

Master Oogway from Kung fu panda should be at least in top 3 on the list

[@godemperorofmankind3.091]

even counting animated movies hes still not top 10. there's people like the Genie, Hercules, and the main villain of Sinbad.

[@mykellayne]

I think Sauron should've been first, and Darth Vader before him.

[@godemperorofmankind3.091]

sauron isnt even top 10, nor is vader.

[@JustTubbyRich]

Morgan Freeman. God. The end.

[@MrEdensworth]

Sauron could easily destroy Darth Vader

[@megalon73]

The King of the Monsters. should be the Number 1. on this list, His been killed many times and still get back on his Feet and Tail. Godzilla, is One even both Heaven and Hell had difficulties to control!

[@briancorvello3620]

Uh... no, Freddy should not be on this list. See, as iconic as he is to fans of the genre, the vast majority of his actions were limited to one town. Most of the names on this list did things that are a lot more far-reaching. Samara? Debatable. People only THINK she is invincible, unkillable, and unstoppable, but I beg to differ. VCRs have fallen out of use since the last entry of the original franchise, and VCR tapes are very hard to copy onto DVD or BlueRay. This is only a theory in my part, but sooner or later, her videotape would end up in the hands of someone who was unable to play it or copy it and once that happened, she would be powerless and trapped - forever.

[@scarletttyson4622]

Yep Bewilderbeasts are powerful and not great if they we’re to fall in the wrong hands but Toothless quite powerful too wonder if one of the reasons people went to see Rise of the beasts was because of Unicron then and in the sequel Jafar was able to defeat Genie while he was one

[@triplesixcrew3804]

Hmm.. idk how the terminator is stronger than any Kaiju but I mean I guess lol

[@matebenedektoth8608]

The predator ( like super predator Berserker )? Okay maybe it is not that powerfoul but deadly.

[@StephenPaulChaseJr-nn1ng]

And superman since the 1940s..........

[@godemperorofmankind3.091]

you couldnt listen for 5 seconds at the start of the damn video? they said no comic book characters.

[@leemangaming1020]

Obviously John Wick should be have been Number 1! The guy killed three guys in a bar with a pencil!

[@godemperorofmankind3.091]

which is of course not impressive. wick is weak in every imaginable way and wouldnt even be top 100.

[@trinitygaminganalysis1079]

This is the most erratic, unkept, dumb list I think they have ever done. If this is ranked in terms of power it’s even worse cause it’s way out of whack. The clover beast in the Cloverfield Paradox is not the same one as Cloverfield. The one in Paradox is confirmed over 6000 feet tall while obviously the other one isn’t. That’s just one example otherwise this list is just terrible.

[@godemperorofmankind3.091]

whats your list then? it better be good, given your self confidence.

[@RobH1628]

God from Bruce Almighty. He’s God.

[@mattg6777]

Leprechaun should be on here.

[@twinmillario1452]

If they are, then who else are the most powerful anime characters?

[@ChibiProwl]

Shenron from the Dragon Ball franchise, the King Kais from the Dragon Ball franchise, Kaido from One Piece, and Big Mom from One Piece to name but four.

[@godemperorofmankind3.091]

@@ChibiProwl not even close. in fact most of those arent even top 300

[@williamsummerson1204]

Kenshiro.

[@godemperorofmankind3.091]

@@williamsummerson1204 absurd. hes not even top 200

[@aromalja9861]

Yes they are​@@godemperorofmankind3.091

[@KRATOS7514]

is this power tier ranking to most strongest powerful if yes the most powerful strongest movie character is god morgan freeman from the bruce almighty movie

[@thadcastle661]

What about God in Bruce Almighty?

[@belowaveagej0e780]

You forgot Dr Manhattan

[@godemperorofmankind3.091]

no they didnt. how did you not listen to the first few seconds of the video where they banned comic book characters?

[@ziaride]

V'ger from Star Trek

[@JonahWillmarth-hj4ht]

Scarlet Witch from Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness????

[@arohansinha4046]

There are no superheroes in this list, they mentioned that earlier in the video.

[@Clancy619]

Where the hell is Shaggy??!

[@marcusyates3044]

Top 20 Best Guardians of the Galaxy Moments in the MCU!

[@DoctorMurky]

um. Jobu Tupaki? The Scarlet Witch?

[@godemperorofmankind3.091]

you couldnt listen to the first few seconds of the damn video? they said no comic book characters

[@DoctorMurky]

@@godemperorofmankind3.091 Jobu Tupaki isn't a superhero though.

[@attaist]

3. Pinhead 2. Lucy 1. Genie …..smh

[@ZarminFG]

Very odd. World eating, planet sized destroyers... 9. Dark Vader, General lackey of the supreme Lord Sidious number 1?! So confusing.

[@godemperorofmankind3.091]

whats your list then?

[@markperez9613]

Robert Englund IS Freddy Krueger

[@mattbeth79]

Wait wait wait. How is the T-1000 or Godzilla stronger than a planet eating Transformer?!?

[@godemperorofmankind3.091]

Godzilla in some of his earlier forms was planet-destroying level. there were alot of movies about him. they got crazy

[@train_go_boom2065]

​@@godemperorofmankind3.091dont forget the even stronger comic godzilla

[@HonoredKermit]

Superman 😢

[@godemperorofmankind3.091]

first few seconds of the video, they said they didnt allow superheroes to be considered.

[@chrishawrelak4185]

Godzilla also one shot something related to God himself

[@rbiii1771]

Gozer