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Hulk doesn't consider the likes of Abomination & Sandman to be real challenges, but he does see Fin Fang Foom as one here. Hulk (who based off being "king of Sakaar" would logically be the green scar version) needed momentum to really hurt Foom -Indestructible Hulk issue #14

Fin Fang Foom is considered the second strongest thing on the planet according to the greatest monster collector in the galaxy (plus had knocked Cho Hulk unconscious in the same issue): https://zippyimage.com/album/fin-fang-foom-second-strongest.x8nvE

Iron Man is known to beat up Fin Fang Foom: https://zippyimage.com/image/iron-man-2005-issue-2-16.iAJlbm

Had created & survived a 16 hour long, space/time tearing explosion that destroyed Foom along with other dragons: https://zippyimage.com/album/classic-iron-man-vs-mandarin.iqfkp

Foom is afraid of facing more than one Iron Man: https://zippyimage.com/album/respect-iron-legion.islHx

Tony has also done things such as start to overwhelm Foom with his assault only to be asked to stop due to people being inside him (which further emphasizes Iron Man's attacks are significant), briefly down post-crisis Wonder Woman with a one-handed repulsor blast in the same crossover that she easily manhandled & tossed around Foom etc. but anyway shortly after Hulk's encounter with Foom, it is stated by Banner himself that Iron Man would be a good candidate as far as a hero stopping "Hulk squared" (second gamma bomb amping Hulk) goes https://zippyimage.com/image/wncuwrl.ie6JiN this would obviously mean Iron Man is more formidable than Abomination, Sandman, & Fin Fang Foom given Banner had no concern for them even beating the original Hulk. In a modern comic fight against the sinister six (where he beat Sandman too), Iron Man destroys the Rhino's horn & seemingly caves his face in by throwing a sewer cap after implying Rhino was an even more difficult opponent than the Hulk in the same instance https://bg-so-1.zippyimage.com/2023/09/04/b4d59c301b0b53bbe4e7d2f1f2f8c329.jpg https://bg-so-1.zippyimage.com/2023/09/04/b64b48da043b6d1b3e48a78b881eb0d4.jpg and https://bg-so-1.zippyimage.com/2023/09/04/1c3d8fae0a6ea26f1532f630691938e1.jpg

In the first issue of the same run where Banner says Iron Man is a powerful enough hero to stop "Hulk Squared", longtime Hulk Marvel editor, Mark Paniccia, says Iron Man rivals Hulk for the title of "strongest there is": https://zippyimage.com/image/ipukU5

Speaking of Sakaar, Iron Man's standard suit was seemingly taking direct attacks on the head from an extremely angry World War Hulk who had a grudge against Tony specifically, which wasn't the case with most of the other heroes Hulk fought. https://zippyimage.com/image/ravuanh.ieEjVo

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The same Hulk that fought Abomination & Sandman found fighting a large swarm of the Iron Patriot (who is vastly inferior to Iron Man) drones formidable and seemed worn out by the end of it: https://zippyimage.com/album/indestructible-hulk-vs-iron-patriot-drones.x8JKj
Modern Hulk has nightmares that feature Iron Man troubling him, even when he was strong as he was during the Sakaar/World War Hulk era. Interestingly enough, Abomination is portrayed as a far easier opponent to deal with than Iron Man (even flying from Iron Man's repulsor blast despite not being directly hit by it) and the likes of Bi-Beast, the Thing, Mister Fantastic, & Abomination were less effective attacking Hulk together than Iron Man's singular attack was.
There is also classic Modok being tanked by Iron Man for an extended period, with even Modok's full power not being enough, whereas Abomination cries & is terrified of Modok's power. Banner Hulk & Abomination both could not defeat Modok and were even able to be killed by said beams that Iron Man could withstand: https://zippyimage.com/album/iron-manabomination-classic-modok.xKf9l

The Void (from Sentry) has consistently proved itself to be physically superior to the Hulk & is a being who genuinely terrifies Hulk, to the point where Hulk is afraid of encountering it: https://zippyimage.com/album/voidhulk.xK3Mp

Iron Man armors have consistently stood up to and held their own against the Void, and have even physically dominated/defeated it a couple of times on the other hand: https://zippyimage.com/album/iron-mans-void-scaling.xKqoc

For reference Hulkbusters almost always underperform and pretty much never get portrayed equal or superior to base/standard Iron Man armors as proven by this very fight, which was written by Greg Pak: https://zippyimage.com/image/iu92MX

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Under Greg Pak's writing War Machine was confident that he could take on green scar/World War Hulk (Incredible Hulks (2010) issue #614): https://bg-so-1.zippyimage.com/2025/07/29/cee861ea827038c262510d472f8581ed.jpg

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For reference Greg Pak wrote Bruce Banner to say that Hercules was one of the only people on the planet that could take out green scar/World War Hulk on his own: https://zippyimage.com/album/hercules-chance-against-ww-hulk.xd01V
Under the same writer, Ares was physically equal to his brother Hercules, who he gave a much harder time in combat than he could War Machine. War Machine tanked & overpowered Ares handily when they fought: https://zippyimage.com/album/hercules-vs-ares.xKb2g

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Iron Patriot (who is below standard Iron Man power levels due to not having real repulsor tech) https://zippyimage.com/album/indestructible-hulk-vs-iron-patriot-drones.x8JKj had matched & defeated Hera (while she was fighting to kill) who had the power of Zeus when being written by Greg Pak. Patriot could've even killed her if wanted: https://zippyimage.com/image/isCQln

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World War/green scar Hulk under Greg Pak was written to be demolished in a one sided fight with Zeus, who was holding back and could've destroyed Hulk easily at any moment with his lightning: https://zippyimage.com/album/green-scarww-hulk-vs-zeus.xd3OO

Banner Hulk considered Iron Man to be among the "mightiest of the mighty": https://bg-so-1.zippyimage.com/2025/05/29/048a6d408a18162d37fc2d13fb72881c.jpg

Iron Man is canonically noted to have the first official win out of fights between him & Hulk. Iron Man KOed a Bannerless Hulk (meaning Hulk himself was completely separated from & unhindered by Bruce Banner at the time) while he was blindsided with a single super punch that left Iron Man's armor locked up. Hulk was immediately given an oxygen mask which implies extreme injury or physical trauma https://i.postimg.cc/7DNshQT8/Screenshot-2025-06-21-095715.png and Iron Man's power was stated to be incomparable in this narrative. Also Iron Man's armor is considered impregnable to a laser that can even pierce Bannerless Hulk's skin -Iron Man (1968) issues #132-133: https://zippyimage.com/album/classic-iron-man-vs-mindlessbannerless-hulk.iZJBg

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Namor says he's never faced an opponent more worthy of sub-mariner's mettle while facing Iron Man -Tales to Astonish (1959) #82 https://bg-so-1.zippyimage.com/2023/07/09/e48a039aa3111db482b44f926060181e.jpg and in the same issue Iron Man gives Namor the mightiest blow he ever felt (by this point Namor fought Thor, Sentry, Beta Ray Bill, Thing, & Hulk for reference. Bill & Sentry due to time travel specifically) https://bg-so-1.zippyimage.com/2023/07/09/464370af53318590ad76aef2c4fe2b64.jpg

In "Adam: Legend of the Blue Marvel issue #4" Blue Marvel was confirmed to hit Namor about as hard as Hulk & Thor so he also struck weaker than Iron Man: https://postimg.cc/gallery/JhjP0s9 Ironically, in the issue right after that Iron Man easily catches up to a flying Blue Marvel and stings him while knocking him down despite holding back. Iron Man's repulsors also hurt Blue Marvel & knock him off his feet, whereas Ms Marvel and Wonder Man failed to. Blue Marvel even talks through Wonder Man's punch and casually slaps him away to Ms Marvel, hurting them both. As of recent, Iron Man decimates the Punisher robots that he encounters & tanks their self-destruction, while Blue Marvel on the other hand gave Carol Danvers a significant amount of energy so that she could go binary just to defeat the Punisher robots they encountered together.

During Fantastic four (1998) #15 Hulk's long time rival Thing, complains about how much beams hurt him while failing to hurt, or meaningfully restrain the armor in anyway. Iron Man even thinks the armor could seriously hurt Thing & his team, while Thing contemplates who would win a fight despite thinking he was just fighting a fake Iron Man. In fact, despite his competitive nature, he asks if he could apologize to avoid getting potentially pulverized by the armor, which was a simply rogue prototype. Reed quickly fixes the armor while Thing grapples with it for the last time. The armor had Thing so pressed that he decides to switch tactics instead of trying to futilely outslug it: https://bg-so-1.zippyimage.com/2023/07/09/c6ad5bcd418ef6d682f89ce48feeb4a6.jpg https://bg-so-1.zippyimage.com/2023/07/09/4be80ed31de1f774bdeae9e38845c9b4.jpg https://bg-so-1.zippyimage.com/2023/07/09/96535910b76a64c9e07652a6d0617952.jpg and https://bg-so-1.zippyimage.com/2023/07/09/9f704ad329dac707e59aabfedee0de73.jpg

Iron Man one-shots the Wrecker and tanks a cheapshot which he claims would've cut anyone else in half. (Note She-Hulk never actually took a hit from Wrecker in this comic). The people Iron Man was referring to being cut in half were Captain America, Hawkeye, Captain Marvel (Monica Rambeau), Thor (Odinson), Wasp (Janet Van Dyne), Human Torch (Johnny Storm), Mister Fantastic, Thing (Ben Grimm), Spider-Man (Peter Parker), Hulk (Bruce Banner), and Spider-Woman (Julia Carpenter). Likely a statement that would've applied for She-Hulk (Jennifer Walters) too: https://bg-so-1.zippyimage.com/2025/06/01/46b770463406bf51cd9ecb52af5c3fb6.jpg

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There is a instance where Hulk trades blows with Thing https://zippyimage.com/album/hulk-vs-thing-heroes-reborn.iC0d7 only to not long later get completely outperformed by a Skrull Iron Man who doesn't even move from Thing's punch. Thing only won after being given unexpected help from an ally targeting a weak spot in the armor, so it doesn't make him look that good https://zippyimage.com/album/promethium-iron-man-skrull-vs-brass-vision-swordsman-jack-ha.iCyv5 Hulk when controlled by Onslaught, gets put down even in his bloodthirsty state, so Onslaught simply took control of Iron Man instead: https://zippyimage.com/album/iron-man-was-holding-back-hulk.i5f1E https://bg-so-1.zippyimage.com/2023/07/09/91ef683ae8ec3dd33c330eed14a8fa28.jpg and https://bg-so-1.zippyimage.com/2023/07/09/084b0b1ae469fad6f991d2af22eda91e.jpg (from Onslaught Reborn issue #3) This is the same arc/event where Hulk did a punch (his strongest punch ever) that destroyed the Marvel Universe (per canon 616 reimagining/retelling of the Hulk's armor breaking punch on Onslaught that directly lead to this series/era of Marvel in the first place).
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Iron Man is established to be among the strongest men on Earth even amongst people as strong as Thing & Wonder Man: https://zippyimage.com/image/ieE16d

Iron Man is referenced as the most impressive to go toe-to-toe with out of him, Thor, & the Thing in a Hulk comic: https://zippyimage.com/image/ipUFap

Iron Man had held a solid advantage over Thor when he absorbed a non-holding back lightning strike according to Thor himself, but Iron Man still deliberately chose not to press his advantage. Note that classic Drax was also stunned despite Iron Man's armor absorbing the majority of the attack to protect him: https://zippyimage.com/album/classic-iron-man-vs-thor-fight-3.i97M8

On more than one occasion, classic Drax is both shown & stated to have Hulk level strength: https://zippyimage.com/album/classic-drax-hulk-level.xK7Hg

The West Coast Avengers run starting in 1985 implies Tony saw his old Silver Centurion armor to have Hulk level strength or greater and the power to defeat Abomination: https://zippyimage.com/album/iron-man-vs-hulkwonder-man-strength.xKDoz

Iron Man would've been helpful to She-Hulk (who was physically rivaling Thor & Wonder Man at the time) with his strength and puts her down only with intent to stun after she punches him. Same She-Hulk later had Wonder Man himself struggling to hold her although it was harder because she was wet:
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She-Hulk also has her fight with Abomination cited in this comic and in said fight with Abomination, She-Hulk has to protect Spider-Man with her superior body, Spider-Man has his strongest punch no-sold by Abomination, and Spider-Man claims Abomination survived something that would kill Spider-Man himself. Same Abomination is bloodlusted yet still is physically fended off by She-Hulk while she's pulling her punches due to bystanders. Abomination still feels pain from her strikes & fails to effectively put her down in contrast to Iron Man:
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Against King Thor who had the Odinforce, Iron Man is portrayed more relative & favorable "two of the world's greatest superpowers" https://bg-so-1.zippyimage.com/2025/06/13/cb4fd1775404aff8a36b836ca2cd86eb.jpg to him than Hulk & the Thing were together: https://bg-so-1.zippyimage.com/2025/06/13/cfaf94716b5a3e1a9eb9c691f7f73a2e.jpg

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Iron Man overall was portrayed as a combatant with more effective attacks & more resilience when facing the power of the Phoenix in AvX, being better than the likes of the Thing, Thor, Red Hulk, Doctor Strange (via accurate prediction device), & Hulk himself: https://zippyimage.com/album/iron-man-vs-dark-phoenix.x5k00

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Iron Man takes an attack from the Hood with three infinity gems (Hood who was much more powerful than Red Hulk when he had just two gems & could put Red Hulk down per Red Hulk's own words) that nearly killed the team of avengers accompanying Iron Man, pretty much unscathed (although Tony seemingly was unconscious for a bit when he was off-panel). Red Hulk (usually weaker than Green Hulk when Jeph Loeb isn't writing) in this story was cited as tougher than Hulk, so this overall shows Iron Man could survive & endure assaults from foes explicitly much more powerful than the Hulk. The Thing (Ben Grimm) felt utterly outmatched & was afraid to even confront Hood when he was back down to just two gems (due to Red Hulk luckily stealing one), whereas Iron Man doesn't hesitate to try to attack Hood again. Not to mention Iron Man & War Machine in general have great scaling over Red Hulk: https://zippyimage.com/album/iron-man-tanks-hood-stronger-green-hulk.xdSct

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When a topic of the physically strongest hero on the block comes up in a Marvel guide, Iron Man is the first one listed as far superior to Spider-Man and unlike Thor, Hulk, or the Thing (Ben Grimm), Iron Man's name is stated plainly without any special adjective or iconic label interestingly enough. It's as if Iron Man's high strength level is expected to already be blatantly obvious to the readers: https://zippyimage.com/image/iHpe9K

Iron Man & Scarlet Witch bring relief as "big guns" in a place where Thor, Hercules, or Wonder Man would be needed to deal with two Hulks fighting. Iron Man long ago had previously been favored as the second strongest avenger in a roster that included Scarlet Witch (plus Vision & Wonder Man who were also considered less dangerous than Iron Man) for reference https://zippyimage.com/image/iejuDp so this just reinforces his good rep: https://zippyimage.com/image/igakzb

On May 15th, 2025 Christopher Cantwell gives his thoughts on who is stronger between Iron Man & the Thing (even calling the question "bait" at first): "I would say it depends on the armor! Hulk Buster, Iron Man quickly. Model 1, 2, 4 or 70, even. Extremis, Cosmic = Tony advantage. Model 3, Modular = Ben." https://zippyimage.com/image/ipgcbc

https://zippyimage.com/album/marvel-vs-dc-and-allunlimited-access-canon.isP9K In Unlimited Access, Iron Man stalemated a Hal Jordan https://zippyimage.com/album/avengers-vs-justice-league.iChJj who even fought evenly with the Hulk https://zippyimage.com/album/hulk-vs-hal-jordan.iCLnt an issue prior, mocking Hal's ring whereas Hal was impressed enough with the armor to even try to mimic it (despite the fact that he could create Godzilla constructs). Summary of Iron Man's obscure last personal encounter with Marvel's Godzilla (Dr Demonicus' monster): https://zippyimage.com/image/ipUWDd

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Matter of fact, Iron Man proved superior to & capable of defeating lifestone evolved/amped Marvel Godzilla who already was established comparable or superior to Hulk/Thing: https://zippyimage.com/album/iron-mangodzillahulk.xO9Dq

Iron Man was one of the few Loeb-force Rulk didn't put down even with multiple ambush hits & the massive Helicarrier explosion on top of that. She-Hulk & even the Watcher were easily dealt with in comparison. Abomination was beaten until his skull cracked quickly, the Earth even shook as a result of the blows. Red Hulk picked Iron Man & slim She-Hulk as his next targets. Iron Man was also the first Rulk thought of mentioning when he was emphasizing how strong he was to green Hulk -Hulk (2008) issues #1 & 7 https://zippyimage.com/image/ikkO0l
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In Mighty avengers issues #21-23 Iron Man with a hardly functionable armor tanks a merciless beating from Hulk (who Scarlet Witch/Female Loki sends as a test due to seeing them both as peak champions) only to set off an explosion that immediately puts down Hulk while his force field no-sells it: https://i.postimg.cc/TGPN0CKR/RCO015-w-1465538887.jpg and https://postimg.cc/gallery/nVhcMjd

Tuatara's transformed reptilian monster state who was trying to kill Tony, is assessed by Iron Man to be someone who would just barely lose in a physical brawl with the real Hulk. It's stated earlier Tony does not want to kill anyone (not only that, but in the fight he shows that he'll even have concern for harming a monstrous opponent who is much larger than he is when attacking), and by the end of the issue it's revealed he finds fighting such an opponent to be fun. Iron Man went blow for blow with Tuatara quite evenly with no one gaining the upperhand, until Iron Man's sonics were used to rattle her, showing how potent they are -Iron Man (1998) issue #6: https://zippyimage.com/album/iron-man-holds-back.i8o1x/?page=3&seek=ipKJnS
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Iron Man (1998) issue #43: Hyde specifically cited to have fought Hulk & Thor to a standstill is put down hard by a burst of repulsors from an armor that was still in the midst of testing stages all while Iron Man thought he was on a time limit to deactivate a bomb. The force fields being pushed out had hurt & impressed this Hyde too: https://bg-so-1.zippyimage.com/2023/10/04/b3fd9e204c34e99115b370c3282fd9ec.jpg https://bg-so-1.zippyimage.com/2023/10/04/55bd39d7c60c8ab51e22fd6b2916c095.jpg & https://bg-so-1.zippyimage.com/2023/10/04/626d28da6e3b2de1c7f7623f54ed80ed.jpg

Iron Man put down a bloodlusted mutated She-Hulk https://zippyimage.com/album/avengers-ultrons-vs-she-hulk-scarlet-witch-amped.i8spl who was deformed & bulked up considerably, doing things such as denting "unstoppable" Ultrons, easily tearing apart Vision, quickly hospitalizing Captain America despite his shield absorbing the blows, & no-selling Excalibur despite it being wielded by someone with super strength keep in mind that around this very same era of time She-Hulk was written to easily reach Hulk levels of strength https://zippyimage.com/album/she-hulk-strong.i8wCg (and potentially above based off the dialogue https://zippyimage.com/image/igQDb7) when under extreme levels of fear & paranoia, so imagine how strong this mutated, Scarlet Witch amped She-Hulk was

Kieron Gillen (Iron Man writer) & Mark Waid (Hulk writer) hype Iron Man up against the Hulk with Gillen even describing Iron Man as one of Marvel's greatest titans: https://zippyimage.com/image/screenshot-20230907-151233.inhScL

Speaking of Iron Man and Thor's duo, Spider-Man says Juggernaut alone is only enough to give one of them a run for their money, meaning Iron Man's power has significant parity to both Thor & Juggernaut: https://zippyimage.com/album/iron-man-power-close-juggernauts.iOxBx

Iron Man believes he can stop Juggernaut, which is reinforced by Ultron's reaction being to try to protect Juggernaut and prevent Iron Man's attack (not to mention Iron Man has more than one instance of displaying the power to put down enemies strong enough to break the crimson bands of Cyttorak, as seen in one of the links): https://zippyimage.com/image/in9U19

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Juggernaut struggles to defeat Post-Crisis Wonder Woman in a physical brawl & is impressed with her strength, both a cheapshot and a charge fail to put down or even notably hurt Wonder Woman: https://zippyimage.com/album/wonder-woman-vs-juggernaut.xK01q

Meanwhile a surprise one-handed repulsor blast successfully puts down both the same Wonder Woman & Green Lantern (Kyle Rayner) simultaneously for a brief moment: https://zippyimage.com/image/iAtCPN

It should be noted that Iron Man's armor itself has physically proven to be much stronger than repulsors: https://zippyimage.com/album/iron-man-physicalsrepulsors.i0Pvx

Iron Man's Proton Cannon (which at least Model Prime should be able to make) can take out Juggernaut & DC's Post-Crisis Star Sapphire at the same time with a single blast: https://bg-so-1.zippyimage.com/2025/06/01/2fbce067ec2cc30874f9feaf6917851b.jpg

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Sadurang can successfully take blows from Thor, Rogue, & a Cyttorak powered Juggernaut who could hit harder than Thor. He hurt Juggernaut in his grasp (Sadurang also had beat Juggernaut up while using a human body instead of his dragon form https://i.postimg.cc/x9ysxd9J/Sadurangbeats-Juggernaut-Team22.jpg ), plus it's implied Juggernaut could not take his fire. Rogue & Wolverine also were implied to not be able to endure Sadurang's fire, yet Iron Man in both his modern armor, & the primitive model made to avoid magic infection, could do real harm to Sadurang physically with their blows as well as no-sell the flames. Tony nearly beat Dormmamu's favored student (Sadurang) to death because Sadurang reminded him of himself and hurt people Tony cares for. Sadurang was also impressed & taken aback to learn that Fin Fang Foom is a villain that Iron Man can deal with. This all indicates high levels of durability & power for Iron Man's armors: https://zippyimage.com/album/iron-man-vs-super-metals.i55k8/?page=2&seek=ipT8p7

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Sadurang is stronger than Colossus and only a bit less strong than Thing physically according to Gail Simone who wrote the Iron Man story: https://zippyimage.com/image/ipOoYp

Under Tom Taylor's writing, Iron Man is seemingly superior to peak level Gentle (who physically is stated to be able to go toe to toe with the Hulk) based on their performances against Teen Abomination. Teen Abomination also overpowers Namor underwater & had Namor helpless while being choked out. Iron Man's armor on the other hand, overpowered & put down Teen Abomination quickly: https://zippyimage.com/album/iron-mannamor-gentle.x8AdK

Standard Iron Man (in a now outdated armor & with tech that has been upgraded/improved many times since then) is seen as akin to a Hulk with Quicksilver-like speed & reflexes: https://zippyimage.com/image/iut0lm

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War Machine was called in for help by Reed Richards to give Black Panther and the fantastic four significant firepower against Doom's forces on the battlefield. War Machine drops down & destroys mystically charged (so much so that Rhodey's sensors were off the scale) vibranium Doombots that Storm's attacks were useless against, then offers Stark tech that gives Shuri & other Wakandans ("Amazons") a fighting chance against adaptive technology that they otherwise couldn't keep ahead of -Doomwar issue #5
Just the issue prior (#4) Human Torch (who even went near-supernova levels to no avail), Storm, Thing (who got laid out in one hit after his own was no-sold, and was unable to gain any sort of advantage until he put vibranium wakandan weaponry on his fists), Black Panther, & Invisible Woman (who had her shields quickly broken through) were all at the mercy of far less physically imposing Doombots (already described as Hulk-class strength by Sue) until Wakandans arrived with their own vibranium to help. The same Wakandans that later needed War Machine to give them a fighting chance against Doom's forces: https://zippyimage.com/album/mystical-vibranium-doombots.xdipj

Someone cited to be as destructive as the Hulk, fails to do anything to a mere mysterium cane (The Invincible Iron Man (2022) issue #11) https://bg-so-1.zippyimage.com/2025/06/06/229fa8a6ccb3566fa9afbeaefc34f6ca.jpg whereas Nimrod dents & takes out the sentinel buster armor (which was comprised of mysterium) with a single blow https://bg-so-1.zippyimage.com/2025/06/06/48e4bba021e45bf5096c956f9f0bebad.jpg and https://zippyimage.com/image/ipTNME yet Iron Man in a damaged standard armor can restrain said Nimrod's arm: https://bg-so-1.zippyimage.com/2025/06/06/62484a7d84a4ce2d2104cab0272e82f9.jpg and https://zippyimage.com/image/ipTpfd

Plus the same Nimrod had overpowered Juggernaut's charge with that same arm & beat him into a bloody pulp: https://zippyimage.com/album/nimrod-616-vs-juggernaut.x8RwG

Also Iron Man himself in the mysterium flight suit for the sentinel buster, could punch its way through mysterium comprised depths: https://zippyimage.com/image/ipNNPE

A derivative Stark Sentinel (Iron Man based, mass produced cannon fodders not made by Stark himself) had much greater effect on Jean Grey's shield with its punch (which KOed Cyclops despite being protected) than Abomination who had his punch no-sold by the shield despite intending to kill Jean. Abomination also proves to be much less threatening to Jean, Cyclops, & Iceman overall despite this being a much smaller group than what the sentinel faced and the fact that they didn't try half as hard as they did against the sentinel: https://zippyimage.com/album/iron-man-liftingover-100-tonner-strength.ivj4x/?sort=date_asc&page=11&seek=issnpz

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A mere short-frequency pulse from an Iron Man gauntlet not even connected to an armor, one shots Dr. Strange who had channeled an extra-dimensional entity that annihilated the Great Society and threatened two Earths during an Incursion. This is someone who Namor & Black Panther couldn't handle either which is why they relied on Iron Man to: https://zippyimage.com/image/igfX2g

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As of 2025, writer Murewa Ayodele confirms he sees Iron Man as stronger than Namor and the Thing plus notes that he is someone capable of defeating the Hulk, Ayodele also wrote I Am Iron Man issue #5 which notably features She-Hulk, who Ayodele writes with her Jason Aaron/Buff power levels in mind, making her equal to Hulk and even strong enough to match Immortal Hulk physically for reference. The official marvel website implies Iron Man could trade blows with this particular She-Hulk and in the comic itself it's shown she can't break Iron Man's force field bubble, but in turn is sent flying helplessly from a unibeam and the secret weapon of Shield that came after She-Hulk's defeat was Iron Man himself (a clone with his armor), implying that Iron Man is a more powerful fighter than even buff She-Hulk from Ayodele's perspective. Ayodele even implies Iron Man is strong enough to win a physical fight via superior fighting skills: https://zippyimage.com/album/murewa-ayodele-opinion-iron-man.xKtMd

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During Jason Aaron's avengers run, Crimson Dynamo (who is inferior to Iron Man) forces buff She-Hulk to lose her grip with a blast and then proceeds to have his blasts countered by Iron Man's own: https://bg-so-1.zippyimage.com/2023/11/26/0ee5246dfdcf63cba89ee72bd839bd18.jpg
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In the same run Young Odin, a Hulked out Starbrand named Vnn (even a pregnant lady with weakened Starbrand powers was a threat to pretty much everyone else & could easily destroy galaxies in the same run. Buff She-Hulk could only absorb a limited amount of the lady's starbrand power to allow Captain America to get close and deliver the baby) stated to be as physically strong as Hulk by Captain Marvel (Carol Danvers) & Odinforce Thor who both struggled with singular arms, and a ghostrider (on a mammoth imbued with hellfire) fail to put down Iron Man despite trying to kill him for a seemingly extended period of time. Iron Man had his power diverted searching for Vibranium & had already had his armor running for a while too, yet even a cheapshot from a Phoenix that could "melt supernovas" sending him miles away from the fight did not put him down. Only a Gorilla with the power stone/gem (described as near infinite power) ambushing Iron Man who didn't even have full armor on, finally breaks it. For more context, a starbrand is cited as the most powerful cosmic weapon in the universe, granting wielders virtually infinite power. Early in the fight, Iron Man grapples with the angry, Hulked out Starbrand and pushes out of its grip, also has the Starbrand reeling back with his blasts. Then Iron Man shrugs off a surprise Mjolnir blow from Young Odin, with the Starbrand implied to try to smash Iron Man: https://i.postimg.cc/Sqff48CV/Avengers-Assemble-Alpha-Issue-1-12.jpg

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Also in the same run, even a baby starbrand was strong to Captain Marvel: https://zippyimage.com/album/captain-marvel-dragged-baby-starbrand.iFf1d

https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/Vnn_(Earth-616)

There's more stuff like Namor getting no-sold & then hurt by Vnn's (the Hulk-like Starbrand) scream, Odinforce Thor failing to stop or hurt Vnn with the help of Captain Marvel, Vnn taking out Captain Marvel once she fought him on her own in the same issue then proceeding to easily shatter Sorcerer Supreme Doom's shields. Vnn overpowered that Doom to a point where he couldn't gain the upper hand without a spell: https://zippyimage.com/album/vnn-starbrands-strength.xmIbc

Namor struggled to arm wrestle a far weaker Starbrand who smiled at Namor confidently as he tried to beat her: https://i.postimg.cc/WNss5yXz/RCO016-1666363393.jpg

https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/Brandy_Selby_(Earth-616)

Around the same time/era that Iron Man's power is proven to to be far above the power cosmic, the Thing gets heavily dazed from just one blow of a Spider-Man imbued with something akin to the power cosmic whereas the Thing easily beat up & took down an immortal Hulk amped Spider-Man. Overall this would indicate Iron Man's power>power cosmic>immortal hulk's power: https://zippyimage.com/album/iron-manpower-cosmicimmortal-hulk.xOHnu not to mention Dan Slott who wrote the Thing vs Immortal Hulk fight had Thing admit he couldn't break a single vibranium ring no matter what, https://i.postimg.cc/w9qsqpC6/8-bfe82b0116bf93a1714a432ed0f445b1.png with the ring even no-selling the arm shattering punch that Thing threw at Immortal Hulk to stop him. Same Dan Slott wrote Iron Man breaking through the Manticore, which was cited as the most powerful assault vehicle in the Marvel universe (which would include vibranium Wakandan vehicles) https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/Wakandan_Army_(Earth-616)#:~:text=3.1%20References-,History,Wakandan%20Army%20(Earth-616) & Gail Simone who wrote for a point in Dan Slott's Iron Man run had personally cited Sadurang as only a bit weaker than the Thing in 2025. Sadurang was both decimated by Iron Man directly in physical combat & failed to break the Manticore

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