PowerRankings

One cited deathNew Avengers · 2015
Does this death move the ranking?

Off the scale

One of these two was never ranked, so this cannot move a ranking it is not in.

The Beyonders vs The Living Tribunal

The killerThe BeyondersMarvel · rank 1
The victimThe Living TribunalMarvel · off the scale

No movement, and the victim's placement was argued from this in the first place. Sitting off the scale is not a promotion here; it records that authority and force are separate quantities, and that the first can be removed by parties who never conceded it existed. The death is the evidence for that reading rather than a challenge to it — which is the most useful thing a pairing can do when neither party is in a position to move. Worth flagging that a killing of this magnitude rests on stated testimony alone.

The connecting record

statedNew Avengers · 2015

The Beyonders killed The Living Tribunal in New Avengers.

What each of them is ranked on

The killer · The Beyonders · rank 1

The ones who finished — comics

comicscomiccontested

They killed the Living Tribunal, they killed Celestials, and then they collapsed the entire multiverse to a schedule, universe against universe, until one was left. Nobody else here completed a plan that size. The contested tag is for the obvious objection: they barely qualify as characters, they have no dialogue, and their motive is never explained. The wreckage is still on the page.

  • statedNew Avengers · vol. 3 #29–33

    Named as the killers of the Living Tribunal and the cause of the incursions destroying the multiverse. — 2015

  • shownSecret Wars · 2015

    The multiverse ends, leaving one patchwork world assembled from the survivors.

The Beyonders on the Marvel ladder

The victim · The Living Tribunal · off the scale

Three faces, one verdict — comics

comicscomic

The multiverse's judiciary, and the clearest demonstration on this page that rank and power are different things. He outranks nearly everyone in Marvel and was still found dead, killed by beings who did not recognise the court.

  • statedStrange Tales · #157

    Introduced as the arbiter who maintains balance across the multiverse. — 1967

  • shownNew Avengers · #8

    His body is discovered dead on the Moon, with no explanation for two years. — 2013

The Living Tribunal on the Marvel ladder

What this does not settle

One death in one work. It is the only place the record puts these two in the same room, and it is evidence about that meeting and nothing wider — not a general matchup, not a rematch, and not a ranking of its own.

The ladder above it is argued from everything either of them has been shown doing; this page is argued from one citation.

Where the two disagree, the disagreement is the point, and it stays visible rather than being resolved by whichever of them happens to be on this page.