No matter who you are, you have to have come from someone before you. All of us are the byproduct of our ancestors and bloodline, and every future generation will be the same. That’s true for just about every fictional character, too, barring cosmic entities that spawned themselves. Even superheroes trace their lineage back to people who came before them. Sometimes, the strongest hero can emerge from the humblest of origins, and sometimes. However, as great as a zero-to-hero story is, often, these heroes rise from a lineage of other powerful figures. Even if not, usually, these heroes leave a bloodline that follows, which is every bit as powerful as they were.
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Today, we’re going to take a look at those bloodlines and lineages. We’re going to look at the seven strongest family trees in all of comics. While every superhero and villain family is strong, these families are in a league of their own. To be clear, we are only discussing the family trees of these heroes, not their associated teams. This includes anyone directly or indirectly related to each other, usually using one character as a starting point. Some of these families are large, some are small, but all are absolute powerhouses. Without further ado, let’s dissect some family trees.
7) Wonder Tree
Wonder Woman and her extended family are all extremely powerful. Even when excluding every Amazon not related to her, as including everyone in her sisterhood feels a bit extreme, we have Wonder Woman, her mother, Donna, Lizzy, and, if some origins are counted, even Zeus himself. Wonder Woman is one of the strongest heroes alive on her own, and every member of this family tree sports incredible abilities as well. While Hippolyta used to be physically weaker than her daughter and granddaughter, now she is a goddess, and potentially the strongest of the lot. Diana’s divine strength seems to be passed through her bloodline perfectly, as Lizzy is just as strong as her mother. This Amazonian sisterhood is beyond powerful and the best-trained warriors here.
6) Flash Family
While only counting relatives cuts out some speedsters like Jay Garrick and Max Mercury, you’d be surprised how much of this Family are legally family. The Allen and West family trees, joined by Barry and Iris, bring nearly a dozen speedsters together. It has the definitive fastest man alive in Wally and his three extremely powerful children, Barry’s own powered kids, Impulse, and, thanks to Barry’s long-lost twin brother, eventually even the Reverse-Flash, Eobard Thawne, connects to this tree. Even one speedster is absurdly powerful, but a whole family of them makes up one of the most dangerous forces that you cannot see coming.
5) Odin-Line
On their own, Odin, Loki, and Thor are three of the most powerful Asgardians to ever walk the Ten Realms. Odin alone has twelve children, each with their own strengths that cover a wide range of powers. Then, expanding that tree out to the rest of the Norse Pantheon only makes sense, as plenty of other gods and goddesses are related in some capacity. Why, Thor alone is the son of Gaea, one of the primordial gods whose power even eclipses Odin’s. This family is only bolstered further by the Odinforce, a power that makes the ruler of the Asgardians even more absurdly powerful than they already are. This family tree is stacked beyond belief, but somehow, there are still powers that stand above it.
4) First Family
The Fantastic Four were Marvel’s first family, and they continue to show just why to this very day. Unfortunately, we have to exclude the ever-loving Thing from this list, as he isn’t related to the others, but the ones that are here more than make up for his absence. Johnny Storm, Mister Fantastic, and Invisible Woman are all powerful heroes in their own right. However, while strong, they can’t hold a candle to the previous entries. What really earns them their spot is Franklin, who is one of the most powerful individuals to have ever lived. His ability to reshape reality puts his family on the map. Even beyond him, if we go far enough into the future, the legendary Kang the Conqueror is the Richards’ descendant to boot.
3) House of El
While nobody in Superman’s family is a reality-warper like Franklin, the average power of the House of El is nearly as high as it can be. You have the various Kryptonians of today, from Superman, Supergirl, Kon-El, and Jon Kent, to all of their just-as-powerful descendants. The House of El continues far, far into the future, with every new generation taking up the role of protector of the innocent. In fact, over time, the family only grows more powerful as their powers evolve, shown by the Superman of the 853rd Century. Superman himself has unlimited potential, with various possible futures showing him to be the final living thing in his universe.
2) Summers/Grey
The most absurdly powerful mutants in Marvel are always either psychics or reality-warpers, with a heavy amount of overlap, and legitimately half of them come from this family tree. Jean alone is second in mutant power to only Franklin Richards, given that she is irrevocably connected to the Phoenix Force. This connection has spread to her children, making all of them potential hosts and extremely powerful. Scott and Jean’s genetics are so perfectly geared towards making Beyond-Omega-Level mutants that Mister Sinister dedicated his life to getting them together. Askani is nearly as powerful as her mother, Vulcan is the greatest energy manipulator in existence, and Nate Grey is one of the only people on Franklin’s level of reality warping. This family is overpowered in every conceivable way.
1) The Endless
The Endless are the seven near-omnipotent children of Time and Night, each representing a fundamental force of the universe. These siblings are among the most powerful beings in DC’s multiverse. In fact, if the Presence and his archangels stood in first place, then the Endless come in second, which just goes to show how absurd they are. They are all-powerful within their domains and truly immortal, as they shall exist for as long as their concepts do. They can force reality into whatever ways they wish, and truly stand above everyone else as the most powerful and one of the most dysfunctional families of all time. Pun intended.
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