Superheroes have been saving the day in comic books for decades, and long-running, popular characters have continued to grow and evolve in their individual arcs much like a normal person. This includes starting families in some cases, either naturally or by adding powerful themed characters to create a new family.

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Whether these powerful comic book families have been around for decades or have grown over the years to become powerhouses in their respective universes, they have developed into seriously overpowered threats when compared to other similar teams and families, making them noticeably powerful

10 The Pym Family Includes Powerful Robots & Brilliant Scientists

Pym Family Vision Ultron Wasp

Hank Pym/Ant-Man was a founding member of the Avengers alongside Janet van Dyne/Wasp, and his size-altering Pym Particles made him a powerful physical threat— though it was his brilliant scientific mind that created the powerful Pym family.

Pym created the artificial intelligence known as Ultron who would become one of the Avengers' greatest enemies, and he would create other powerful synthezoids like Vision, Jocasta, Alkhema, and Victor Mancha, who were all Avengers-level threats. Pym's extended family includes reality-warpers like Scarlet Witch and her powerful children Wiccan and Speed.

9 The Inhuman Royal Family Is Stacked With Powerful Characters

Marvel Comics' Inhumans - Triton, Gorgon, Karnak, Black Bolt, Medusa, and Crystal

Marvel's powerful Inhumans are ritualistically transformed with the Terrigen Mists when they come of age, receiving powerful abilities in most cases that they use to protect and further their private society.

The Inhumans are ruled by a royal family that is filled with powerful characters like the destructive Gorgon, the tactical Karnak, and the elemental Crystal. However, the most powerful member of the Inhuman Royal Family is Black Bolt, whose powerful psionic abilities are dwarfed only by his devastating voice that could shatter mountains with a whisper.

8 The Flash Family Of Speedsters Are One Of DC's Biggest Threats

DC's Flash Family

Jay Garrick was the first speedster to call himself the Flash, though Barry Allen was the first to begin to build up a family of speedsters when he first brought young Wally West on to the team as Kid Flash.

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Other speedsters like Jesse Quick, Max Mercury, Bart Allen/Impulse, Wallace West/Kid Flash II, and more have joined the Flash Family over the years, and their connection to the Speed Force makes them uniquely powerful when compared to other multiversal speedsters, to the point that they can affect time and alter reality.

7 The Fantastic Four Are The First Family Of Marvel Comics

Marvel's Fantastic Four

When Reed Richards/Mr. Fantastic brought his future wife, her brother, and his best friend along on an experimental space flight they were transformed into the Fantastic Four, ushering in the Marvel Age of superhero comics.

While Susan Storm-Richards/Invisible Woman is arguably the most powerful member of the FF (with stiff competition from the Human Torch and The Thing), her children have further raised the power levels of the First Family, as Franklin Richards has cosmic-level reality-shaping abilities while Valeria Richards is already smarter than her genius father.

6 The Graysons Are Image Comics' Superpowered Family

Invincible's Grayson Family

Invincible introduced readers to Mark Grayson/Invincible as he began to develop alien powers inherited from his father Nolan/Omni-Man that made him and his father two of the most powerful superheroes in the Image Comics' universe that will appear in the upcoming Invincible animated series.

The Grayson family soon expanded to include Oliver/Kid Omni-Man who shared his father and brother's Viltrumite strength, speed, flight, durability, and healing factor. Mark also married the molecule-rearranger Atom Eve and added another powerful Viltrumite to the family with Terra, who followed in her father's footsteps as Invincible.

5 The Summers Family Are Marvel's Mutant Powerhouses

The Summers Family

Scott Summers/Cyclops was one of the first mutants to join the X-Men to help learn how to control his devastating optic blasts, and his brother Alex Summers/Havok was one of the team's most powerful new recruits with his cosmic-charged plasmablasts. Third brother Gabriel Summers/Vulcan's omega-level energy manipulating abilities outclass even his older brothers.

Cyclops would fall in love with omega-level telepath/telekinetic Jean Grey which would lead to children in Nathan Summers/Cable and Rachel Summers/Prestige, who shared their mother's abilities. Scott and Jean are also in an undefined polyamorous relationship with Wolverine and Emma Frost, further extending the powerful Summers family.

4 The Shazam Family Are DC's Magically-Powered Heroes

DC's Shazam Family

Originally known as the Marvel Family, Billy Batson's heroic alter ego was rebranded as Shazam in the New 52, which extended to his new Shazam Family of characters that shared the abilities of the gods to become some of the most powerful heroes in the DCU.

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Shazam has the wisdom of Solomon, the strength of Hercules, the stamina of Atlas, the power of Zeus, the courage of Achilles and the speed of Mercury. He shares these powers evenly with Lady Shazam and Shazam Jr., while the rest of his adopted siblings each shared one of the singular magical abilities.

3 Superman's House of El Are Known Throughout The DC Universe

DC Superman Family House of El

Clark Kent/Superman is largely considered to be one of the most powerful heroes in the DC Universe, with frequent debates raging between Superman or Shazam's rankings due to Superman's weakness to magic.

However, a weakened Superman will likely still prevail, and he has an entire family of Kryptonianst hat share his abilities known as the House of El, which includes his cousin Kara Zor-El/Supergirl, his adopted brother Conner Kent/Superboy, his son Jon Kent/Superboy, and extended members now include General Zod and his family.

2 The Asgardian Royal Family Are Literal Gods In The Marvel Universe

A tapestry displays the MCU Asgardian Royal Family

Thor wields the enchanted hammer Mjolnir and is one of the strongest members of the Avengers, and as a member of the Asgardian Royal Family, he stands alongside some of the Marvel universe's most powerful beings.

Asgardians are naturally more powerful than most beings and revered as gods, though Odin stands above and is capable of shattering galaxies with the Odinforce. His wife Freyja was a powerful sorceress, skills that she passed down to her Frost Giant son Loki. Thor and Loki's sister Angela was later revealed to further increase the family's god-like power levels.

1 DC's The Endless Are Nigh-Omnipotent Siblings

DC The Endless The Sandman

Morpheus/Dream was first introduced in the pages of Neil Gaiman's The Sandman as the God of Dreams, an incredibly powerful aspect of the universe that is the personification of the dreams he lords over as well as the ruler of his dimensional Dreamscape.

Dream and his equally powerful siblings are known as The Endless and each represents their own aspect of life in the universe like Death, Destiny, Despair, Desire, Delirium, and Destruction, who operate individually and together to maintain the cosmic status of the DC Universe and are capable of almost anything.

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