For anime characters, defeating entire armies can be a basic achievement. A handful of characters can wipe out thousands of enemies like it's a Dynasty Warriors game, and fans think nothing of it because of the sheer power they often on display. When something happens, it's easy for the power scaling to get way out of hand truly. Some anime characters don't stop until they've gone head to head with godsーand won.

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It could be a hero, villain, or even a mentorーregardless of who did it. These characters proved themselves to be either incredible in combat or tactical geniuses who showed they could defeat an existence as powerful as a god.

10 Majin Buu

Majin Buu Dragon Ball

Majin Buu was created by the magician Babidi, and for a time, he was easily the most fearsome being in the entire universe. He went through all the four major galaxies and laid waste to many planets. Majin Buu started punching higher and higher until he was battling literal gods, as the Supreme Kais are considered to be even above Kami and King Kai. He had no problem battling gods and absorbing a Supreme Kai.

9 Godou Kusanagi – Campione

Godou Kusanagi & His Harem In Campione

The entire purpose of Campione is to defeat gods who have decided to start wandering the Earth and causing trouble for humanity. Godou Kusanagi is the lead character of the series and finds himself up against the Persian god of victory, Verethragna. After Verethragna explains that his blade can cut through divinity itself, Godou finds a way to steal the sword and uses it to take the god out once and for all. In doing so, he’s imbued with the power of the fallen god, which sets him on the road to battling other such gods and saving humanity.

8 Bahamut - Rage Of Bahamut

Bahamut In Rage Of Bahamut

This anime is in a universe where there are gods and demons alike. They both exist in separate realms while occasionally interacting with the humansーbut regardless of how powerful they are. None of them want to even think about fighting Bahamut. The character has wiped out gods and demons alike with ease, and it took the combined effort of all of them to seal him off. But even with that, Bahamut successfully managed to take out Poseidon before he was sealed away.

7 Sherria Blendy – Fairy Tail

Sherria Blendy Fairy Tail

The Alvarez Empire’s Spriggan 12 possessed some of the most impressive mages Fairy Tail had ever faced. And Dimaria Yesta, in particular, was someone they didn’t even have the means to defeat on their own.

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As it turns out, she not only had control over time but access to the god of time. Fortunately, Sherria was a Sky God Slayer—but her magic wasn’t developed enough, and so she needed the help of the Third Origin to unlock all the magic she would ever master. She gave her potential to protect her friend, Wendy Marvell, using the boost to rout Dimaria.

6 Ange - Cross Ange

Angelise Ikaruga Misurugi

Ange was once a princess about to take over her country when they discovered she was a Normaーa being without magic. Banished to another island, Ange was forced to fight against monsters known as DRAGONs in giant robots called Para-mails. During the series, Ange battles against the world's creator, Embryo, whose goal is to wipe out humanity and start over. Despite his powers, once Ange figures out how to cut him off from his source of magic, she steals the victory.

5 Atem – Yu-Gi-Oh

Atem Mind Crushes Kaiba

When things began, Yu-Gi-Oh was about helping Yugi’s partner regain his memory. But Atem finally recovering his memory wasn’t enough. In the end, he had to return to his own time and battle against Zorc Necrophades, a being created from the hearts of the people of the time period. His power pre-dated that of the Millennium Items themselves, and he nearly managed to win yet again. But Atem took the power of the three Egyptian god cards and combined them to create Horakhty, the god of light, and save everyone by erasing Zorc for good.

4 Yato – Noragami

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Most of Noragami is about Yato trying to earn a name as a fortune god by doing jobs for humans.

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But eventually, the series delves into Yato’s past, where it’s explained the character was once a god of calamity. In that role, the entire reason for his being was to kill every god that had ever lived, which means he has a history of taking out gods, even if that’s a past he’d rather forget.

3 Edward Elric - Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood

Edward Elric angry stare Fullmetal Alchemist

When Ed faced off against Father, it was after Father had achieved his ultimate goal and absorbed the being that described themselves as Truth. With that power, Father was essentially a god in terms of powerーbut his energy still ran off of the Philosopher Stone. It took the combined efforts of multiple characters in the show to exhaust his powers, but in the end, it was Edward Elric who struck the final blow, taking him out of action.

2 Natsu Dragneel - Fairy Tail

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By the end of Fairy Tail, all of them are too strong to be threatened by a Dark Guild. And that’s why even when Avatar’s plan to raise the god Ikusa-Tsunagi, it didn’t matter. The group took out all of Avatar’s head mages, and then Natsu Dragneel faced off against the battle god with his own power. Despite being a massive titan, Natsu used his flame magic to destroy the battle god from its own head.

1 Zamasu - Dragon Ball Super

Zamasu

Zamasu and Goku Black’s “Zero Mortal Plan” required them to do quite a bit of work on the back end to make it a possibility. As Supreme Kai students, they actually didn’t have the power to take out the gods of destruction. But they had more than enough power to defeat the Supreme Kai of their universe, Gowasu. They sealed off the god of destruction for their universe by doing so. They would find themselves able to do the same in every universe in their timeline, leaving no one to stop them from wiping out all humans on Earth before moving on to other planets and universes.

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