Magically imbued strength counts (mako showers are used as an example in the OP) but the friendship sword is literally not a feat of strength, it's a feat of magic. It manifests as a beam of light for goodness sake. Meanwhile Noctis is just using his body and a sword. There are Final Fantasy party members that are faster than Noctis in demonstrated canon but there isn't one that could beat him at the bench press, barring a scene I'm not aware of.
I am pretty sure Diamond Weapon weighs a LOT more than the entire Phantom Train.
The Ghost Train is ten cars long, plus the engine.
The interior of just one of those cars is several screens long. It's bigger than Diamond Weapon is, and Sabin doesn't need a limit break or any MP to suplex it.
True, but the Diamond Weapon is also a biological creature, while the train is mostly hollow.And did it while sprinting faster than a locomotive. He's just on a completely different level.
You'd probably lose that bet. From the interior/exterior of the Phantom Train, it looks like those are modeled after the Pullman type coach, a type of railway dining/sleeper/etc car used from the mid 1800s to mid 1900s.
Pullman (car or coach) - Wikipedia
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A typical pullman car was roughly 85 feet long. There are 10 cars there, plus the engine. Assume they're all average length, that's about 935 feet, or about the length of a 93 story building if you stood it end to end. If you're from Philadelphia like I am, this is about the height of the Liberty Place or Comcast Center skyscrapers. Assuming Cloud/Tifa/Barrett are all 6 feet tall, you would need to stack 155 of them on top of each other to equal the length/height of the Phantom Train.
Each car is also wide enough that the party can move around freely within it as they would in a fairly large room which is WAY bigger than a pullman car. This is a BIG freaking train.
Diamond Weapon is nowhere near that size. Judging by the height of the party fighting it, it's 100-150 feet tall at best. Diamond Weapon also appears to be made at least somewhat of organic material- the train is not.
But wait, we're not done. The Phantom Train is SPEEDING at the time Sabin picks it up and suplexes it. To pull that off you need to overcome not only the weight of the train, but it's momentum. Or to put it simply, stopping the momentum of a 935 foot train that is speeding at you at 100 mph is a LOT harder than picking up one that's simply standing there- which is what Diamond Weapon is doing.
Any way you slice it, picking up the train is the more difficult feat.
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Tough call.
Yeah, he's strong, but:
Tough call.
His cardio could definitely use some work here. To his credit, though, he and the bros can jog for literally forever and cross the entire continent that way, but he does get winded after a short sprint.
Suplexing a train is a quirky and funny mechanical interaction.
Noctis canonically parries a living mountain.
I know Gladiolus looks buffer but Noctis is many times stronger than him going by the game's lore and I think he's probably the strongest Final Fantasy main party member if you only consider feats that are explicitly canon.
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Tough call.
We may all be underestimating Tidus with all these feats for pure strength. He can swim like a dolphin and water resistance is nothing to him:
Something to consider.
Who are you to say Lightning didn't use her agility to amplify the attack? That's the problem with trying to apply any logic to this contest. The only one that works is seeing who's the most swole. Other than that the characters are as strong as the plot needs them to be in that moment. That's why Godbert is the winner. His character is intended to play off that trope.
He sadly died on the way to his home planet:
Thank you FF X´s EU.
Did you see the shit these characters pull off in Advent Children? This shit is canon. You got lvl 99 in your name and don't acknowledge its power, smh
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No, he's right. Look at the gif: Cyan and Shadow don't stop running, and the background and track both continue to scroll by.
LOL, the main characters of that show are about as OP as it gets. They're literally "Unlimited," beings whose power surpass all reason or limitation. They annihilate entire landscapes and make it look easy, before turning around to fight immortal antimatter gods (or at least the autonomous body parts of such). And the main villain is the kind of being that has already destroyed and consumed countless worlds of a vast multiverse. But the powerful characters are all summoners, and rarely get caught up in physical brawls, so it isn't very applicable to this thread.You say that Manmademan but the book and the audio drama were written by:
Was anyone crazy strong in the half-finished TV anime by the kings of schlock Gonzo? Or is it just a parade of shitty kids and an emo Vincent clone who dresses like Cap Harlock? Even I had to quit that nonsense fast. What I mean, as no one remembers this fuck up: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Final_Fantasy:_UnlimitedKazushige Nojima
Kazushige Nojima (野島 一成, Nojima Kazushige?) (born January 20, 1964, in Sapporo, Hokkaido) was the main scenario writer for several Final Fantasy games. He is also the lyricist for several Final Fantasy songs. Kazushige Nojima left Square Enix in October 2003 and started his own freelance...
So much uff.
I don't think XIV!WoL really qualifies for the same reason Sabin's suplex and Tifa's meteor drive and Zell's world lap don't necessarily count. Gameplay and story separation and such.The FF XI and especially XIV protagonists (warriors of light) are also of note. Running marathons and power diving can´t be underestimated.
The whole game is basically a workout befitting of Sabin:
Zack would proud of all the digital squats you can do.
