In anime,strengthcomes in many forms, from the blade of a determined swordsman to the raw emotion behind a desperate final attack. But then some characters operate on a massive scale, so absurdly overwhelming, that the planet becomes collateral damage.
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These aren’t just fighters. They’regods, demons, cosmic anomalies. Some can vaporize cities with a glance. Others don’t need to lift a finger, their will alone is enough to reset reality. And while a few carry that weight with restraint, others wield it with a terrifying lack of care. Here are the Characters with absurd amount of power.
Death Note
He never lifts a finger, never raises his voice, and never once throws a punch. Yet Ryuk, the Shinigami who dropped the Death Note into the human world, may be one of themost dangerous beingsin all of anime.
Unlike others on this list who can split the sky or obliterate continents with energy blasts, Ryuk operates on an entirely different axis of power. His planetary threat doesn’t lie in force, it lies in how absurdly easy it would be for him to erase all life on Earth.
If Ryuk were to write down every name he could find, it wouldn’t matter how strong, fast, or smart someone was. The rules of the Death Note are brutally simple: name and face, and they die. And since Shinigami can see the names and lifespans of every human just by looking, Ryuk could end the entire population in days, if not hours.
His boredom is the only thing that spares us.
The Misfit of Demon King Academy
Anos Voldigoad is the kind of overpowered that makes even other overpowered characters look like they’re on training wheels. Dubbed the “Demon King of Tyranny” from The Misfit of Demon King Academy, Anos has rewritten the laws of his universe more times than anyone can count.
He once resurrected himself 0.0000000001 seconds after dying.
He erased an entire army of ten thousand with the beat of his heart.
He can literally destroy a planet with a flick of his finger, and the anime shows it.
In the second season, Anos destroys an entire celestial body just to make a point. Not out of desperation or rage, but casually, while explaining something to his enemies. His power is so extreme it feels like the laws of physics are just suggestions.
Even time and causality don’t scare him. He’s tanked conceptual magic that erases you from history itself and still come back with a smirk.
5Kaguya Otsutsuki
Naruto Shippuden
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Before the concept of chakra spread throughout the Naruto world, there was Kaguya, an alien being from the Otsutsuki clan whose arrival on Earth rewrote human history itself.
Once revered as the Rabbit Goddess, Kaguya consumed the God Tree’s fruit and became the chakra’s first wielder. Her power was not born of training or bloodline, it was something divine. Something that should not have belonged to Earth.
And when she returned during the Fourth Great Ninja War, her goal was not to rule the planet.
It was to absorb all chakra and start over.
Kaguya could alter reality by opening entire dimensions at will. One moment, a battlefield. The next, a frozen wasteland, or a sea of acid. Each dimension was its own closed system, completely removed from space-time. Her power let her recreate planetary environments, which means undoing Earth itself wasn’t far out of reach.
And then there’s the Expansive Truth-Seeking Ball, a mass of chakra so dense it could annihilate the world. In the anime, it’s implied that if Naruto and Sasuke hadn’t stopped her in time, the planet would have been completely consumed.
4Alluka Zoldyck
Hunter X Hunter
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Alluka Zoldyck, the most mysterious member of the infamous Zoldyck family from Hunter x Hunter, may look like an innocent little girl, but inside her lives Nanika, a being of unknown origin with abilities that bypass every known system of Nen, logic, or reason.
Nanika can grant any wish, no matter how impossible. She’s brought people back from the dead. Healed Gon when even the best Nen users had given up. But there’s a cost, equal exchange based on the weight of the wish.
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If the wish is too big? The price could be hundreds, thousands, or even millions of lives.
In theory, if someone asked Nanika to make them the sole survivor of Earth, or to “get rid of everyone,” she could grant it, and the price would fall on innocents. There’s no telling how many would have to die in return.
What makes it scarier is that Killua can bypass the price altogether, asking Nanika to “do anything” without consequence. That loophole alone gives this child the potential to destroy a planet if someone with ill intent controlled her.
Dragon Ball Super
He’s small. He’s polite. He draws in crayon. But when Zeno from Dragon Ball Super gets upset, entire timelines vanish.
Zeno doesn’t just destroy planets. He erases universes.
There’s no charging up. No flashy animation. He simply raises his hand, and suddenly, an entire reality is gone, gods, planets, stars, everything. During the Tournament of Power, he eliminated multiple universes just because their fighters lost. And he did it with a smile on his face.
The Grand Priest, the Angels, even the Gods of Destruction bow to him. Goku calls him “Zenny” like a friend, but even he knows not to cross the line. Because Zeno doesn’t understand consequences. If he thinks something’s boring, he deletes it. If he’s happy, you might live.
One Punch Man
By now, we know that One Punch Man is more satire than shonen. But here’s the scary part, the joke doesn’t make Saitama any less real.
He’s broken through his universe’s power scale. His punch once split clouds across the planet. He jumped from the moon back to Earth with no effort. And in his fight against Garou in Season 2’s manga and webcomic arc, he was moving faster than time itself.
At his peak, Saitama could likely destroy the planet, not out of rage, but by accident.
There’s a moment in the manga where Saitama’s sneeze, yes, his sneeze, blows apart Jupiter’s moon Io. That alone confirms that his casual power dwarfs anything Earth’s defenses could ever handle.
And here’s the kicker: he’s still getting stronger.
Dragon Ball Z
Of course he’s on this list.
Goku started as a kid with a tail and a power pole. Now he fights gods and makes them sweat.
In Dragon Ball Super, Goku faced Beerus in a battle that shook the entire universe. Their punches rippled through space, cracking the void. And that wasn’t even Goku’s final form. Since then, he’s unlocked Ultra Instinct, a state that puts him on par with the strongest deities in existence.
He’s never intentionally destroyed a planet, but the threat is always looming. In the past, a powered-up Goku had to teleport Cell to King Kai’s planet just to save Earth from blowing up. He’s smart enough to hold back when needed. But planetary destruction is almost casual in a universe where Goku has to keep up with beings like Zeno and Jiren.
He’s not just a fighter, he’s a safeguard. A balancing force. But let’s be honest: if he went rogue, there’s nothing on Earth, or Namek, or anywhere, that could stop him.
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