Strength

""That man won't quit as long as he can still draw a breath. None of my teammates will. Me? I've got a different problem. I feel like I live in a world made of... cardboard!""

- Superman, Justice League Unlimited

One of The Six Stats, abbreviated as STR.

This is the stat that determines how strong a character is. This is usually broken down into two levels: how much a character can lift/carry/push/pull, and how damaging a blow from this character is. Of all the stats, this is the most historically blown-way-outta-proportion of all of the stats, and is usually the choice stat of an action or martial arts hero, and especially comic book characters.

Typically a Dump Stat for more intellectual characters, though obviously a Genius Bruiser is the exception to this trend.

Here's a guide for Examples:

12-15: The character is reasonably in-shape to athletic. The high-end stat-wielders are your typical good high-school athlete.

16-19: Professional athletes, fighters, etc. Expect most Olympian athletes to be pushing 18 or 19

20-23: These are the beginning of your super-heroes. Expect car-lifters to be common in this group, if not guys that make their own doors... through brick walls. Also expect a fight against a typical muggle to end with one punch - in that their skull will probably be a fine mist.

24+: So you've upgraded from lifting cars to juggling Abrams tanks, eh? These are your most-powerful superheroes, a LOT of mythical figures, and typically anyone who can wrestle a dragon.

Comic Books

 * Batman, being a badass normal, pushes the upper-levels of this teir, shying just short of being able to regularly lift a car. Mind you, this means he's still able to lift more and fight harder than Olympic-level weightlifters and grand-master martial-artists. Not surprising, though, since he is the poster-child for Badass Normal.

Anime

 * The typical level of power for fighters in Grappler Baki. As the comic goes on, it becomes more and more common for the fighters to kill mooks or bystanders with little effort, and sometimes even each other. At one point, Baki is thrown - not in one go, mind you, but through successive hits - through a series of concrete walls.

Anime

 * Goku. If you don't know that Goku can break the moon the earth the freakin' SUN with a single punch, you were apparently asleep from 1997-2004.

Comic Books

 * Superman. Earth-2 Superman especially. He killed the Anti-Monitor with one punch for crissake!
 * Captain Marvel. He has, on at least 2 occasions, gone toe-to-toe with Superman, with the Big Blue Boyscout pulling absolutely no punches. He is the only non-New-God, non-Kryptonian, non-Daxamite, other than Doomsday, to do this, by the way.
 * That's because Captain Marvel is powered by magical forces, which Superman is no more resistant to than anyone else.