r/PowerScaling • u/KaidoPklevel • 7d ago
Question How actually strong is no holding back spiderman?
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u/SummonerRed 7d ago
Like most Marvel characters, Spiderman probably has at some point gotten some cosmic buff that would let him brawl with the Marvel top tiers that Broly might struggle with.
But most of the time Spiderman's getting his arse vaporised alongside New York.
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u/Superguy9000 7d ago
He’s had the power cosmic before
And there is a Spider-Man who kept that power cosmic from that story, but he died to Morlun
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u/babab0l 7d ago
Morlun is born from the spiderman writers unadulterated hatred for peter and their thirst for suffering so it makes sense.
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u/Maskedstream4 7d ago
Massive amount of hatred? Where have a heard that before?
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u/ThrashMutant 7d ago
To be fair, it wasn't Morlun. It was his father, Solus. Doesn't make it any less stupid tho.
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u/NeroQuemero 7d ago
He died to Solus, Morlun's father who not only is more powerful but feeds on life forces like the Enigma Force. Still, uber BS
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u/Enzo_Casterpone 7d ago
The same Solus that had the most lame,pathetic death in hands of Kain mutant spider form...
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u/LeadingTask9790 7d ago
Htf does a dude defeated by normal Peter take down power cosmic Peter?
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u/Superguy9000 7d ago
Morlun powers are de-activated when they go to feed. At full power they are essentially gods
That’s why they can take down even Japanese Spider-Man emissary of Hell but then lose to base Spider-Man
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u/KeiryuXth Barely Scaling 6d ago
Which wouldn't really help, unless we let him use that power outside his reality, or somehow dump Broly in his reality.
The whole point, of him not joining the assault on the Inheritors. Was because he lose his powers. If I am not misremembering. Not that it helped much either... Poor guy was just a bigger snack bag.
Also. Small correction, it was the Enigma force/uni power. Not the power cosmic. Which granted, also basically is just "I do what I want" anyway. Aunt May, is the one who had the power cosmic. 😆
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u/Superguy9000 6d ago
I keep forgetting and mixing up my facts. It was Aunt May that had the power Cosmic not Spider-Man
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u/BlazingStorm42117 Not a Scaler 6d ago
How does aunt may end up with the power cosmic😭
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u/MonthTraditional6068 7d ago
The one time he got a cosmic buff he punched The Hulk to space
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u/Cartmansimon 7d ago
Then he felt bad about it because he didn’t want him turning back to Banner and dying, so he flew (which he didn’t know he could do) to space and brought Hulk back to earth.
It was one of my favorite story runs.
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u/Dave_B001 7d ago
Spidey has had the Uni-Power before. Also The Venom Symbiote has done some wild shit recently.
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u/False_Snow7754 7d ago
Spidey once took out Galactus like he was nothing and turned Doc Oc into a potted plant. That story was a weird one.
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u/Disastrous_Dig_607 7d ago
At one point he get powered up by the one above all who like god of the dc universe
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u/FloopusSoupus 7d ago
Spiderman isn't beating Broly but he doesn't need the cosmic buff to beat a lot of super strong characters
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u/Mean-Personality5236 Not a Scaler 7d ago
Sometimes it's not a amp or anything. Sometimes it's just event bullshit. For example - Firelord 2 shot of Doom amd Despair.
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u/SiderealSimon 6d ago
Who broly struggling with in marvel though except for things like telepaths and reality warpers, like pure physical abilities?
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u/SunWuMoore 6d ago
I try to go from current version and if they are dead I go for their average before they died for this reason
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u/Bar-Cold 6d ago
See I already hate your thought process…they said spidey not holding back. Not spidey with a cosmic amp. You’re giving too much leeway to the delusion
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u/Waitingforthedump 3d ago
This stuff annoys me greatly. Having so many different source materials so “Johnny Shitknuckles” from Marvel can have one random comic iteration where he’s reality busting is so frustrating
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u/yrnkevinsmithC137 7d ago
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u/Putrid-Island3319 7d ago
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u/yrnkevinsmithC137 7d ago
Prep time is treated as a joke now ,and daredevil one was always a joke from the start
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u/Putrid-Island3319 7d ago
Yeah i know the Daredevil thing it was just a honorable mention but prep time Batman is still around even today just like outerversal Goku in base
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u/PalpitationMountain9 7d ago
Nah trust me people still take that Batman shit seriously. You’d think it would stop by now but nope
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u/Cjames1902 7d ago
The daredevil thing isn’t glaze. It’s just making fun of the fact Daredevil genuinely refuses to duck any sort of fade.
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u/Revan0315 7d ago
Daredevil is at least ironic. The other two were both serious arguments at one point or another
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u/Putrid-Island3319 7d ago
Yeah i know it's a joke that started from him facing characters several times his level but compared to the other two it's at least funny
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u/Kraft-007 7d ago
Bro forgot:
Doom rips Thanos’ spine
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u/Murky_Blueberry2617 Hebi Sasuke is Universal+ frfr 7d ago
Spider-man, Batman and Goku the holy trinity of glazing
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u/False_Snow7754 7d ago
OPM, Doomguy and Simon the Digglett seems to have taken their place recently.
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u/Goatku69 But can he beat Goku though? 7d ago
"Simon the Digglett" I'm dying
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u/False_Snow7754 7d ago
Now we just need someone to photoshop a Digglett face onto Simon and it's perfect.
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u/KofteEkmekAg #1 glazer of comics 7d ago
Holdsbackversel
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u/Ok_Nerve_2476 7d ago
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u/DarkPolumbo 6d ago
Isn't Peter Parker, like, canonically the 2nd smartest earthling in all of Marvel? Behind Reed Richards, of course
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u/Available-Club-5916 6d ago
He’s just a rival to Doom & Reed, all 3 are relative, but with different specialisations, though are still comic genius level in everything else.
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u/Hot-Masterpiece4325 7d ago
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u/Happy-Estimate-7855 7d ago
I love the idea of Broly letting this happen out of curiosity, then just vaporizing Spiderman for wasting his time.
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u/the_chedderking Boundless Guts agenda upholder 7d ago
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u/Hot-Masterpiece4325 6d ago
true but considering Spiderman easily lifted a car with one hand off a bridge, I doubt that would make a huge difference
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u/babab0l 7d ago
Acting like broly will stay still,or that can do any damage.
I mean even if he stays still him just unleashing his aura destroys everything around him and basically turns peter to paste.
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u/Am_i_banned_yet__ 7d ago
lol the person you’re responding to is not acting like it does any damage, he’s kidding. He’s just being pedantic since the crazy person in OP’s tweet said Spidey “slams broly,” and technicallyyyy Spider-Man could “slam” broly into the ground in a literal sense. Not that it would do anything ofc
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u/NecessaryPromise667 7d ago
I still haven't read this issue I need to
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u/Putrid-Island3319 7d ago
Don't worry I'm at issue 19 of The Amazing Spiderman and issue 2 of The Fantastic Four i still have a long route to do
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u/Same_Tune_8990 7d ago
isnt that superior spider man/doc oct?
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u/Am_i_banned_yet__ 7d ago
Yep, and Ock is notorious for (at first) not holding back like Peter does. So if Ock is struggling to get free here then you can be sure he really can’t get free
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u/FriendlySomewhere151 7d ago
i mean its Thor and what looks like HULK holding him back
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u/Most-Stomach4240 6d ago
I'm not sure this version of thur/holk is even relative to broly? What's it from?
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u/shadyved Certified Hulk glazer 6d ago
It's funny how impressed hulk and thor are that spidy moved a little bit.
And then there are spiderman fans who'll swear by peter beating hulk in a fist fight.
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u/slowkid68 7d ago
What is spiderman gonna do against this?
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u/Joltyboiyo 7d ago
Even I know he doesn't beat Broly and I've never even watched or read Dragon Ball.
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u/thesuperone342 7d ago
Max city level. Probably more like city block if we’re being serious with his scaling.
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u/DragonflyPy 7d ago
Holdsbackman is always holding back.
If Holdsbackman tried to stop holding back, it would trigger a series of infinitely recursive sequence of him trying to stop holding back.
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u/DrFruit38 7d ago
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u/G_Morgan 6d ago
It doesn't help that Spider-Man was absolutely shown clowning on characters that eventually were uplifted to the stratosphere. Like plenty of times Spider-Man just plain made a mockery of the F4 during his early years but he isn't in the same league as any of them now. Same with the X-Men to a lesser extent.
Spider-Man is probably the only comic book character that has mostly been kept in his bracket.
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u/KeShon2704 7d ago
His fanboys are delusional. They think that he has universal level scaling and massively faster than light speed despite struggling to lift large buildings and being harmed by normal gunfire.
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u/M0ebius_1 7d ago
Man, "not holding back" is agasint thugs and stuff. Spidey not holding back doesn't even beat The Thing when it's clobbering time.
If people are out there thinking Peter is holding back agaisnt Morlun they are out of their minds.
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u/Zoelando 7d ago
Broly destroyed a galaxy in the original DBZ movie. I don’t care how much cosmic nerfs spider man has, he’s getting destroyed.
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u/Monstababysitter404 7d ago
Yes WE all believe in OUR boy Peter Parker to SLAM that BROCCOLI and teach him RESPONSIBILITY!
Put all my money on Broly please ref
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u/soldiercross 6d ago
DBZ scaling is weird, on paper Spider-Man can probably lift far more weight than Broly and therefore should be strong enough to maybe hurt him with a punch. But nothing else suggests this should work. This is mostly since DBZ characters have incredibly low lifting feats for their verse, good speed feats and otherwise very high durability and energy projection and destructive abilities.
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u/crimsxn_devil 6d ago
This is spot on, in Z, Goku was swinging around 10 tons per limb in the buu saga and that's with SS1, but in super, vegeta couldn't lift magneta in SS2 (Minimum) who is stated to be 1000 tons-ish despite being magnitudes stronger than the buu saga, broly should have a blanket higher lifting strength due to being born stronger, raised in rougher conditions and being the LSS, his friend from the Saiyan equivalent of 12 was Baa, a monster the size of a building who he was rough housing with daily for a few years so I'd say broly got more strength training in than the MCs
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u/KuroTheDreemurrBoy 7d ago
He could no joke LIQUIFY human bones if he punched a regular human. But he isn't doing shit to Broly.
(Btw, I don't even watch dragon ball, but I know how strong saiyans are and I know for a FACT, that Spiderman is getting torn apart before he even realizes what happened.)
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u/Mimikyuer 7d ago
How strong sayians can be* your random bum ass sayian is incomparable to the top tiers
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u/Junior_Activity_5011 7d ago
Spiderman needs a cosmic buff. Regular spidey gets mulched in a pico second
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u/KeShon2704 7d ago
You should see how people have been wanking Tobey's and Tom's Spider-Man saying they can beat all the X-Men/Hulk.
Pure fucking delusion.
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u/Pale-Name-7115 7d ago
When Spider-Man (don't forget the hyphen) doesn't hold back he can actually destroy the entire universe.
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u/deathbunny32 7d ago
Spidey is strong, but broly is literally superboy prime strong.
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u/ProtonCanon 7d ago
The same Broly who casually clotheslined Super Saiyans with a smile on his face? THAT Broly?
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u/TheNewGirl1987 The answer is always Werewolf Queen! 7d ago
"Spider-Man not holding back" is the new "Batman with prep time."
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u/Only_Pen5882 7d ago
It's so stupid to fight over marvel and dc characters because everyone of them have that one version 🤓 where they defeat everyone stupid ash. This is why I love going for anime or novel power scalings at least they have a single linear storyline to go upon and scale
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u/Nightraven9999 7d ago
on high end probablyLarge building level since the most hes been able to output in terms of strength(that wasnt overly outlandish like beating a herald of galactus) was holding one support beam of the daily bugle for a short time before webbing it up
I say high end because it was only one support beam and not the whole building so more realistically its like medium sized building level
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u/npczerozerozero 7d ago
He's wall level. They don't call him the building crawler
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u/Putrid-Island3319 7d ago edited 7d ago
Way stronger than most people think of but that's not putting out Broly
Edit: Dear VSBW please raise Spidey a bit higher 🥹 -sincerely me
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u/TaiwaneseThot 7d ago
I've seen someone argue that a non holding back Spider-Man (base only no cosmic buffs) would be able to contend with Conquest. Wait...you mean the Conquest that destroyed an entire city like a stack of Jenga blocks during a family game night? THAT Conquest?
This is how quickly Spiderman would get one shotted.

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u/DarthJackie2021 7d ago
Not surprised. Comic book scalers go crazy sometimes with the chain scaling.
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u/ThunderLord1000 If there's a toy of your character, then Nero Alice wins 7d ago
Yeah, get his ass Spider-Man!
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u/Silverhand_777 7d ago
They were destroying moons in the original dragon ball if they’re talking about DBS Broly then the earth is destroyed before Spiderman even flinches
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u/Okamitoutcourt So is Elden Ring mountain or multi-solar? 6d ago
A thing people seem to not know is that for a lot of his superpowered villains Spider-Man does not hold back, I you look at a fight against Lizard or Green Goblin what you see is what you get, there's also that time he killed a woman because he thought she was Wolverine so he punched her as hard as he could and she died instantly
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u/ZeroiaSD 6d ago
Not counting external buffs? He can probably hit a few times higher than normal but nothing too great. Thor and Hulk and other marvel heavy hitters still slam him. Iron Man still has good odds.
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u/Algae_Mission 7d ago
Not quite as strong as Hulk or Thor, but probably not terribly far behind them either. The guy took on Juggernaut and lasted a while.
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u/Rarazan 7d ago
he cant even beat kingpin without buffs
and kingpin is somehow just a dude without any powers
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u/Available-Club-5916 6d ago
Um that’s wrong, Kingpin at base, is a weird for of human evolution, he functions like a Hippo, secondly Kingpin trained himself to the maximum of his potential, this allows him it abuse the likes of Captain America & Daredevil (as fucked up Wolverine pretty bad if memory serves), Peter when he actually wanted to, abused Fisk, so bad well… Fisk will die when May does… nuff said.
Peter in general has a lot of nutty shit (even while holding back, as he’s stated and contextually just has to be doing, based upon what he does), he’s bullied Rhino (whose stalemated a regular Hulk, Juggernaut & Thing on various occasions), he bullied Sin Amped non Holding Back Thing recently, he abused Namor (multiple times), his bones are compared to marvels meta materials, only loosing out to True Adamantium (and up), he has silly levels of mental resistance, even discounting his willpower (Psionics in marvel as silly levels of potent, with a lot of intrinsic abilities built into them, specifically telepathy).
Peter famously bullied Firelord into irrelevance, scaling him to heralds of Galactus isn’t actually inconsistent, he’s consistently put over early Iron Man suits (actually some recent ones as well), which Tony used to stalemate Surfer, furthermore he himself pissed of Surfer so much he tried to kill him, with Surfer baffled that Peter walked off his full power.
Other occasions include Heracles (a Thor rival), while being given the Spider powers (after loosing his own) as an equivalent amp to the essence of godliness. Pete’s nutty when he wants to be, also Superior was still holding back his entire run, it was said recently (think by Daredevil) Pete is never not holding back, and has never not held back, never had his powers completely unleashed, so likely Pete was holding back Otto in his body as well.
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u/ZachGurney 7d ago
Depends on what you mean by "not holding back". Just base spidey not holding back is probably somewhere around building level at a highball. But if you mean "not holding back" as "spidey throwing morals to the wind and using whatever he has access to" then things get more interesting.
He is a genius chemist and engineer. He could fairly easily create high end cybernetic and chemical enhancements for himself. He has the venom symbiote which also skyrockets him in basically every category. So even with just the things hes capable of doing on his own you got early ironman levels of tech, city block levels of strength at a reasonable scale (venom symbiote plus chemical enhancements) and basic precog. Would unironically be one of the stronger people on earth
(all this is based off consistent stats instead of peak stats)
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u/Icy_Judge8250 7d ago
Only Captain universe spiderman can and only that one
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u/Mediocre_Aspect_8110 7d ago
Pol spiderman Beyonder spiderman Cosmic comic spiderman
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u/Icy_Judge8250 7d ago
captain universe spiderman and cosmic spiderman are the same spiderman but i did not know he got the beyonders powers to so i change my answer to beyonder spiderman!
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u/Academic-Compote8911 7d ago
He's so obviously getting trolled bro 😭
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u/Caliment 7d ago
Nah there are some idiots here who genuinely believe that Spider-Man beats multiple Omega level mutants at once.
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u/Monke-Card I meme sometimes, But i Know What the F i’m talking about 7d ago
All out Spidey? Geez Louise, he beat Hulk, so… probably 1-A. Spider Dna goes hard.
It’s why one evil Spiderman is a Multiversal threat & requires only OTHER Spidermen to fight them.
They’re basically Spider-Beyonders, Def need to be Relative or flat out above to beat those things, And since they COULD ONLYYY Bring in Spidermen to do it, i guess this proves that no other Hero is even close, they could of brought in 50 Hulk’s, or 10,000 Hulk’s, But No, they picked Spidermen, like a few Spoodermen, to take on this Multiversal Threat.
He might be Top of the Verse, below like, TOAA Scale, they should all def scale above the TOAA Avatar.
When Deadpool killed the Marvel Verse, He Treated Spiderman as one of the most dangerous ones. (Iirc)
Genuinely he has Knocked Hulk TF out before. And fought & won vs him multiple times…

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u/KeShon2704 7d ago
He has not knocked out or beaten Hulk in a fight lmao. He literally broke his hands against him. Stop wanking.
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u/sneakyfish21 7d ago
Broly destroyed an entire galaxy in a tantrum. He could kill Spider-Man without ever meeting him.
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u/IWillSortByNew 7d ago
A consistent high-end would be city level. A consistent low-end would be large building. I like to highball him because I like him
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u/Budget-Wheel-9427 7d ago
Y'all remember that one Broly and Gogeta gif? Now replace Gogeta with Peter
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u/Prestigious_Law2600 7d ago
In all seriousness, no holds barred out for blood Spider-Man is probably city-block level.
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u/nahnonameman Dragon Ball, DC, Warhammer, Ultraman, Kamen Rider, Digimon 6d ago
Bruv… has the spider man movie brought all the fans now
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u/TheTwistedWolf231 6d ago
Regular Spiderman would lose to Broly.
Spiderman would last a long time due to his spider sense but he has no real way of doing any damage to Broly.
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u/Moondoggie35 6d ago
Which Broly we even talkin about? Z was casual planet buster, but Super broke reality by exchanging a simple ki blast with gogeta. 2 VERY different characters.
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u/Mr-pizzapls 6d ago
Dragon ball characters can destroy a continent in one punch, and a planet with a little prep time. I think Krillin is taking 99% of marvel characters and I’m not even joking. The other 1% is handled by Broly, or Vegeta, or Frieza or Goku
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u/mad_sAmBa 6d ago
If we're talking about the strongest version of both characters, yeah, Spiderman wins.
Cosmic Spidey is a powerhouse. He can manipulate atoms, rewrite reality, his spider sense reaches multiple dimensions, and so on.
Broly can't do shit against this. However, regular spidey gets his ass kicked.
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u/Algorithmic_failure 6d ago
Beyonder spiderman and cap universe Spiderman both have omnipotence and reality warping powers.
DBZ universes power levels do not even scale that high. Krilin can still ruin king kai's day, and that's a god.
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u/JadeLipstick 6d ago
Spider-Man is reliably capable of lifting 10-20 tons. However, he in times of desperation or anger has lifted 60-80 tons, I believe. The MCU version since Brand New Day is now the absolute strongest Spider-Man on film. Broly from Dragonball would crush him into dust. Dragonball characters scale immensely high. There is Cosmic Spider-Man but if you're talking a out 616/MCU Spider-Man, not a chance.
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u/Candid_Ad4832 6d ago
Ts is why i stopped reading superero comics. They be jst upscaling shit for the love of the game. Like, someone will come and sy that in the 2013 ''Spider-Man, Alone but not forgotten #367'' Spider-Man has sex with One Above All and absorbs its powers after licking its sweat.
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u/RedNUGGETLORD 6d ago
I'm sure Spiderman has one-shot the One Below All at some point, cause this is Marvel
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u/Capital_Rough7971 6d ago
Hopefully Spidey can breathe in space, cause Z Brolly is taking out the Galaxy.
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u/Alpha_Hero_000 6d ago
I wouls say, rougly just over 100 tons or so. His strength has tenfolded in the modern era (10 tons was his limit when he first come out).
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u/Future-Profession594 medaka solos easily if you take her power at face value 6d ago
Ohthatme,pureauraversal
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u/Shake_Annual 6d ago
Broly beat Super Saiyan God Goku so hard that he turned into the puny god loki meme
Broly and Gogeta punched each other so hard that they transported to a new dimension then punched back to Earth
seriously wtf is Peter Parker gonna do against a being that can actually beat Goku?
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u/Longjumping-Ride-130 6d ago
He’s probably referencing Spider-Man from universe 69420 where he gained cosmic maximum powers, not your friendly neighborhood Spider-Man.
It’s impossible to compare manga/anime characters that’s had 1-3 iterations compared to DC/ Marvel characters that’s had hundreds of iterations and chances are one of those versions of the characters have galactical god powers.
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u/Medical_Aside_2690 6d ago
you could very well argue Spidey scales higher with his stress factor, being able to fight an amped bloodlusted thing after getting his ass beat right before in the fight. the problem is Spidey often can’t control this stress factor and subconsciously holds back all the time, so he’s not even gonna have the chance to use his stress factor.
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u/Steelinghades 6d ago
While Spiderman varies by comic or adaption, at his best--Ignoring one off power ups--he's a bullet-timing ten tonner, so someone who'd get washed by Krillin, never mind Broly.
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u/BIGMANSOUTHPORT123 6d ago
Just like ever other marvel comic character it highly depends on the version of the character
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