PowerRankings

Corpus as of
28 Sep 2026

Every rank carries its receipt.

Fictional characters, ranked inside twenty-one franchises by cited feats. What follows is the record: what the site ranks, what backs it, and where the backing runs thin.

21 rankings487 ranked entries1,732 citations229 works

How a citation is labelled

shown
depicted on page or screen
973
stated
asserted by a character or narrator
757
scaled
inferred by comparison — the weakest
2

The 21 ladders

Where the record and the ladder meet

83 matchups: pairings where one entry on a ranking killed another in a named work, each asking whether the death should move the ladder.

  • 46

    Confirms the ladder — the higher-ranked entity killed the lower-ranked one. Record and ladder agree.

  • 15

    Upset — the lower-ranked entity killed the higher-ranked one. The record and the ladder disagree.

  • 10

    Off the scale — one of these two was never ranked, so this cannot move a ranking it is not in.

  • 12

    It didn't stick — the record shows a kill. It was reversed, so the ranking does not move.

The record underneath them: 288 cited deaths, 35 undone. All matchups

Where the backing runs thin

Ranked entries citing nothing depicted
106 of 487
…of those, holding a top-ten place
30
Citations naming only the work, with no locator
251 of 1,732

The evidence page names every one

Check any of it.

The rules

The validator, failing: every rule, shown failing against a file built to break it.

The rules page