Cartoons have come a long way since the spinach-fueled adventures of Popeye or the ceaseless cat-and-mouse game played by Tom & Jerry. The medium pays homage to its origins like no other. Every cartoon character owes their existence to the predecessors that helped mold, set, and redefine benchmarks over the last century.
Many cartoons are geared specifically towards children. However, adults make up a large fraction of the overall fanbase, as evidenced by the sheer variety of fictional worlds out there. It's not an impossible task to classify cartoon characters based on their physical strength, but the line between powered and overpowered is often too blurry. Still, there are more than a few cartoon characters who could benefit from some nerfing.
10 Morgana Le Fay Is Equally Matched With Merlin Himself - Tales Of Arcadia
Morgana is a major antagonist in the Tales Of Arcadia franchise. She is arguably the only character with the magic necessary to overwhelm Merlin himself. Morgana's abilities are wide-ranging and extremely potent. She has incredible durability, stamina and the ability to control magical energy with great precision.
Although she falls from grace after encountering the Shadow Realm and the Arcane Order, Morgana's overall strength is vastly augmented as a result of her dabbling in the dark arts. She eventually sacrifices her life, demonstrating that anyone is capable of redeeming themselves.
9 Bugs Bunny Is Too Canny To Be Taken Down By Anyone - Looney Tunes
Bugs Bunny doesn't seem to have any real limitations. One of his favorite pastimes is addressing the viewers through the fourth wall, which proves that he knows exactly where he comes from. He even interacts with Looney Tunes' cartoonists on several occasions.
Bugs is also known for regularly befuddling his opponents using a plethora of disguises. It is impossible to get the upper hand against this slippery rabbit/hare. Yosemite Sam, Porky Pig, Elmer Fudd, Daffy Duck, Marvin the Martian, and many others have discovered this, to their detriment.
8 Aaravos Wields Magic From All Six Primal Sources - The Dragon Prince
Considering his Startouch Elven origins, Aaravos is one of the most powerful mages in The Dragon Prince. He wields enchantments from every single Primal Source, including the Earth, the Sun, the Moon, the Sky, the Oceans, and the Stars.
Aaravos' defining feature is his magical charm. He effortlessly puts people as self-disciplined as Viren under his spell and uses their link to bring about extensive destruction. At this point in The Dragon Prince, Aaravos is preparing to pupate into something far more dangerous and terrifying.
7 Invictus' Transcendental Power Is Yet To Be Fully Explored - Final Space
Final Space has several dominating villains, such as the Lord Commander and Ash Graven. Everyone in Final Space pales before Invictus. This super-cosmic entity is purely evil, it wants to crush existence into dust only to be overhauled according to its twisted visions.
Like all Titans, Invictus boasts of incomprehensible levels of physical strength and endurance. Final Space is yet to reveal the full scope of Invictus' transcendental power.
6 Jack-Jack Is Set To Become The Greatest Hero Of All Time - The Incredibles
Every member of The Incredibles' Parr family is a force of nature in their own right. Although, Jack-Jack makes his parents and siblings look like amateurs. The baby's abilities include anatomical transfiguration, telekinesis, appearance replication, flight, fire generation, teleportation, and dozens more.
The only reason that Jack-Jack isn't the greatest hero of all time is that he's still in diapers. One can hope that he chooses to fight with his family when he grows up, because nothing can stop him if he decides to become a villain.
5 Jinx Is Strong, Fast, Tough, And A Brilliant Inventor - Arcane
Powder's talents are magnified beyond imagination after she meets Silco, who redirects her energy to a different path than Vi would have wanted. She is an entirely new person as Jinx, in terms of her skills and her personality.
In fact, Jinx is even more powerful after Shimmer is used to heal her severely damaged body. Jinx becomes faster, stronger, and tougher than most humans in Arcane. Jinx's asset, however, is her untrained genius, she configures complex explosive devices entirely from experience and observation.
4 Aku's Devastating Power Is Quasi-Cosmic In Nature - Samurai Jack
Samurai Jack openly acknowledges his nemesis Aku's devastating power, which is sadly used in the service of evil and nothing else. The fearsome demon can alter his form, create clones, recover from fatal injuries, and shoot lasers from his eyes. He can also manipulate spacetime, prophesize the future, and control the elements, in addition to being practically immortal.
Aku's martial prowess is similarly unparalleled, although Samurai Jack takes the edge in this particular sphere of combat. It takes a concerted effort from the heroes to bring Aku down.
3 SpongeBob Is Immune To The Laws Of Physics - SpongeBob SquarePants
SpongeBob might be immature, illogical, and downright ditzy, but he performs feats that no other character in Bikini Bottom can even dream of. His inadequate understanding of cuisine is inconsequential because the laws of physics rarely apply to him.
SpongeBob can stretch, retract, regenerate, fly, teleport, and even evade lasers and lightning. Most importantly, there is no possible way to wear him down. Whether Squidward likes it or not, SpongeBob will always be around.
2 Dee Dee Outwits Her Genius Brother Every Time - Dexter's Laboratory
Dexter's Eastern European-accented mad genius is antithetical to Dee Dee's hyperactive goofiness. And yet, she almost always wins any altercation that arises between the two siblings, illustrating that extraordinary intelligence is meaningless before unbreakable grit.
For all his engineering and technological innovations, Dexter is simply unable to keep Dee Dee out of his high-security laboratory. Further, Dee Dee displays mysterious powers, like talking to animals and bringing fictional entities into the real world.
1 Omni-Man's Ruthlessness And Invulnerability Are A Formidable Combination - Invincible
Omni-Man's Viltrumite ancestry allows him access to unbelievable reserves of power. He has access to enough power to singlehandedly crush the Guardians of the Globe without getting himself killed. Unfortunately, Omni-Man does not subscribe to Spider-Man's "power vs. responsibility" philosophy.
He doesn't care about murdering his son because his son refuses to abandon Earth - until a thoroughly bloodied Mark breaks Nolan out of his Viltrumite conditioning. Omni-Man's ruthlessness, invulnerability, and incandescent power are a formidable combination.