Confirms the ladder
The higher-ranked entity killed the lower-ranked one. Record and ladder agree.
It sits the right way round and proves very little. Three places separate them, and the annotation removes most of the weight the kill would otherwise carry: the victim asked. Eighteenth place is argued from being a hazard requiring supervision rather than an opponent requiring defeat, and this is the occasion on which the supervision is finally exercised. Consent is not a margin. Whatever distance exists between these two is established somewhere other than here.
Thor killed The Sentry in Siege (2010).shown
at his own request
Gives up his remaining eye and hangs himself on Yggdrasil for the runes, then unmakes the cycle of Ragnarök. — 2004
Withstands the full output of a neutron star to forge Stormbreaker.
The baseline version is a god who has been fighting for a thousand years and it is nowhere near the top of his range. Rune King Thor gave up his second eye and hanged himself on the world tree to learn what the runes were, came down with enough of it to end the loop Asgard had been dying inside since the beginning, and then put the power away. The screen version's ceiling is a good afternoon at a forge.
Tears Ares apart with his hands in the middle of a battle.
His power is described as that of a million exploding suns.
Written as having the power of a million exploding suns, which is marketing, and then given one act that is not: he takes hold of Ares in front of a live audience and pulls him into two pieces. The Void is why he is down here. He is a containment problem rather than a combatant, and every story about him is about who is standing by to switch him off.
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.
Both entries carry their full receipts on the Marvel ranking — 4 citations between them.