There has been a lot of lowballing recently of MCU high tier characters. This has led me to create this thread. In this thread, I will give examples of just feats made by MCU characters that are above nuclear bomb / missile level.
DURABILITY
1. Thor's star feat
Yes. Yes. I know. The star did not act like a regular star, so we cannot judge its strength that way. The thing is though, that we can do this a different way. It is all thanks to this clip:
In this video at 0:27, we see Thor say that Uru metal is a special metal from the heart of a dying star (Neutron Star)
This confirms that Uru is Neutron Star material. This is important because Neutron Star material can withstand temperatures of billions of degrees, and 10^34 pascals or over 10^30 pounds of force per square inch without being crushed.
The amount of energy that would be required to melt this down would be much more than a nuke could produce, but the full energy of a star? Yes.
This is all important because the energy required to met this down was survived by Thor. This should put him solidly above nuke level. In fact this should be an almost planetary feat. It is also not an outlier as the directors used this to directly show Thor's true strength, and it goes with many of his other post awakened feats which are touching on planetary.
2. Thor survives MFTL acceleration and collisions with gas clouds. If you know anything about light speed objects, even ignoring general relativity, they have a lot of force. Far more than a nuke.

Even if we ignore general relativity, even colliding with 1 neutrino in space (space is full of them) at what seems to be at least 10,000,000,000 times faster than light judging how fast he was going in the Bifrost, would have literally
7.1904032 x 10^17 joules of force behind it. That would be just one. There are about 110 neutrinos per cm^3 in space so Thor was easily taking over quadrillions of these going through space. At least 7.4831245e+47 joules of energy altogether assuming he only went 10,000,000,000 light years.
Along with this, this acceleration would not only liquify something that could take a nuke, but turn it into pure energy. It would experiencing 1,366,650,099,677,259,819 Gs of force, or about 1.4 × 10^18 Gs for you scientific notation snobs.
3. Thanos snaps his fingers and is subjected to a surge of gamma rays on the scale of nothing ever seen before

In this gif, we can see how the energy radiated outwards from Wakanda directly from Thanos. The energy is at least 5000 megatons (bigger than any nuke), but definitely way higher as the counter of megatons was still going up and it was stated to be the biggest energy surge ever seen before.
I know that you might be saying "well why was nothing around Thanos destroyed?"
The answer is that I don't know. Maybe PIS, or maybe it was teleported out of the immediate vicinity via the Space Stone. It does not matter though how nothing was destroyed because Thanos was still affected by all the energy as he was burned. The fact that nothing around him was destroyed has nothing to do with the amount of energy he took as nothing around him including Thor were affected. Just him. We also know that Thanos took all this energy and not just. fraction of it as the user takes all the energy that the Stones give off as radiation thanks to the scene with Professor Hulk
4. Kurse is not instantly sucked into a black hole, and takes 11 full seconds to be absorbed
This is impressive because being that close to a black hole would destroy any material that comes its way and would be producing more force than any nuke could generate, but it takes 11 whole seconds to actually kill Kurse.
I know you might be like: "well it took a long time to suck in Odin's throne that is made out of gold."

This is a valid point that you have and is a good debunk until you actually look closely at how the black hole works.
Notice this sort of bubble that forms when the grenade initially goes off:

This seems to act as a telltale of what the range is. Anything outside it is not subjected as strongly to the true power of the black hole.
When something is inside the range of the black hole, like these soldiers:

They are immediately atomized. Those soldiers are also many times more durable than the throne too as they are Asgardian.
In conclusion, anything inside the range of the initial bubble is subjected to the full force of the black hole, and anything outside of it is not
5. Thor tanks Sokovia exploding

Before you say: "Thor was KOd." Just stop. He was not:

6. Thor survives the Statesman exploding
Thor comes out of an explosion that blew up a ship that no sold going through a collapsing Neutron Star with nothing but a sunburn.


This is impressive as it shows that the ship was not only able to withstand pressures of that of a collapsing Neutron Star 10^34 pascals (many times more than point blank of a nuke, and something that would require well over a planet sized amount of TNT to produce pressures this much), but that of a forming black hole (due to it being a collapsing neutron star). Even with this however, it was no match for the Power Stone which Thor survived.
ATTACK POTENCY AND STRENGTH
1. Thor pulls the rings of Nidavellir

In this gif, we have the famed "Thor ring pull"
In this gif, Thor is exerting an equal amount of strength as Rocket's rocket (no pun intended). This allows him to move the rings of Nidavellir. This is amazingly impressive as those rings are insanely heavy and dense as they have their own gravity.


He was also definitely the one moving them and they did not move on their own. This is because the forge lost power, so could not do anything. Also, a few thousand tons of ice on the gears of the rings would not be able to stop something that could move literal planet weight metal rings. They would not even notice the ice. On top of this, we see the rings move by themself, but only start after the star starts to heat up, and Thor after Thor moves them.
Thor obviously moves them himself, then the rings stop, and the gears move them into place without Thor’s help. If the gears were already moving and Thor just helped them, they would be in constant motion.
Judging by the size of the rings, and the weight of them, it is safe to say that a nuke would not be able to output enough energy to move them
2. Thor destroys Leviathans

This is impressive as it was stated by Jarvis that Tony would run out of power before a highly concentrated laser of his even made it through a the armor. That laser in a weaker armor was stated to put out 200 petawatts in a 2 second time. That is also above nuke level
3. Thanos crushes the Tesseract

This is far beyond nuke level because the Tesseract is able to channel through it the energy required to bend space enough to open a wormhole which is ridiculously more energy than a nuke can give off. The only thing that happens to the Tesseract after this is that it gets a little hot. This proves that the energy is indeed interacting with the Tesseract and is not just magic intangible energy
(This could be an outlier, but Thanos really has no crushing anti feats, and was casually able to crunch Loki's neck, break Visions head, and tear off Iron Man's helmet which is made out of material that no sold the Power Stone.)
4. Thor causes a shockwave bigger than the Earth itself

In this gif, Thor sends out a shockwave that destroys so much ice that it creates a canyon 100 times that of the Grand Canyon

Keep in mind that this is also ice that is equally as strong as Asgardian steel. Overall, a nuke would not be able to cause a literal planetary canyon of ice.

Yeah. That is how big Earth is compared to the canyon Thor made. It was also stated in the script to have shaken the whole planet.
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5. Ikaris displaces a country sized amount of clouds

This amount of clouds he dispersed is insane. It is highly reminiscent of the Tonga volcano eruption that happened this year

This blast was put at 10 megatons (definitely nuke level) Ikaris also dispersed those clouds thousands of times faster than this volcano eruption, so it is definitely safe to say Ikaris's bull rush is beyond nuke level. This is a calc to it putting it at island level. This would also be considered a durability feat too, as Ikaris has to be durable enough to no sell this much force.
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Thanos one shots Dr Strange's shield

This might be one of the best MCU high tier feats to date as these shields are tremendously and notoriously durable.

This is impressive as Dormammu is clearly not holding back, and is still only able to break through it after a full 5 seconds or so. If you do not think that Dormammu is beyond nuke level, then I don't know what to tell you. This is even more impressive as it is one of the first times Dr Strange has ever even used one of these attacks, and is countless times more powerful when he actually faces Thanos.
This is not the only attack that Dr Strange has blocked against the sentient universe either.

Along with the feats against Dormammu, his alternate universe counterparts block attacks from Strange Supreme himself

I know that you might be thinking "What if Strange does not scale to main universe Strange!" In reality, there is no difference in their power levels as they had parallel lives except for a few small changes.
We also have feats of these shields made by far weaker characters
These same energy blasts did this to a Leviathan

Overall, I think this is substantial evidence to prove that MCU characters definitely do indeed have nuke level and above feats

Credit also goes to @kryptonianking88 for giving me some of these feats :)
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