Character Analysis: Juggernaut

 

Juggernaut

In case you were wondering…

• There have been a few characters who have notably taken the role of Juggernaut aside from just Cain Marko, most prominently Colossus and the Living Monolith. As detailed below, Juggernaut’s power varies based on how much power Cyttorak gives him most of the time, and at his peak Cain Marko has been given more power by Cyttorak than any other host, meaning it should be reasonable to include feats performed by these other characters as examples of what Cain could do at his strongest. I’ll also be including feats performed by other disciples of Cyttorak and other users of the Gem of Cyttorak for comprehensiveness, though the specifics of how each showing correlates to Cain will be described on a case-by-case basis

• Cain Marko has been amped with alternative power sources a few times. These aren’t standard and shouldn’t be applied, but they have all in some way altered his link with Cyttorak, resulting in a fluctuation in power 

Background

• Real Name: Cain Marko

• AKA: Juggernaut, Captain Universe, Kuurth

• Height: 6’10’’ | 2.08 m (varies)

• Weight: 900 lbs | 408.23 kg (varies)

• Groups: Exiles, Exemplars, X-Men, Excalibur, Thunderbolts, Worthy, Savage Avengers, Unstoppables, Krakoa (in that order). Oh and sometimes very briefly the Brotherhood of Evil

• Best friends with Black Tom Cassidy, to the point where they consider each other family

• Dazzler’s number one fan

• Has a soft spot for children

Cain Marko was born the son of Doctor Kurt Marko and his wife Marjory Marko. When Cain was only three years old, his mother died, leaving him to be raised by Kurt alone, who would send him to boarding school. Kurt was a researcher on the illicit Black Womb Project, a government-funded project with the goal of studying genetic mutations, experimenting on countless mutant babies and children. It was at this project where Kurt would become colleagues with Dr. Brian Xavier, father of Charles Xavier. Kurt was maddeningly jealous of Brian’s wealth, so when an explosion tore through the nuclear research facility they were working at, Kurt chose not to save Brian, leaving him to die. Soon after, Kurt seduced Brian’s grieving wife, Sharon, marrying her and securing Brian’s wealth for himself.

As a result of this new marriage, Cain moved in with Kurt to the Xavier estate, and became step-brothers with Charles. Cain was already brutish and arrogant, and the sudden introduction of a sibling to his life didn’t help. Unbeknownst to Cain, Charles had awakened to his mutant powers of telepathy, allowing him to read the minds of all those around him, and so excelled in school as a result. Charles constantly came home with trophies from sporting competitions and top-ranked grades, and Cain could do nothing but feel inferior as he struggled through his academics. Making it worse was the constant abuse Cain suffered at the hands of his father. Kurt made it no secret that he preferred Charles as a son, and would regularly lash out at Cain, horrifically beating him and letting out his rage. Cain didn’t know Charles was suffering the same abuse as well, and so could only suffer in solitude, every beating serving as a reminder of how Charles was more successful, and every hit making Cain’s hatred of his brother grow.

Sharon died of heart-break later on, leaving Cain with no-one to turn to. Enraged, he would eventually confront his father directly, accusing him of having a hand in the accident that caused Brian’s death, right in front of Charles. Cain spilled over some of his father’s chemicals during the argument, triggering an explosive chain reaction which blew away Cain, Kurt, and Charles. In his dying breaths, Kurt performed the most unselfish act of his life, carrying away his two sons from the fire to safety, admitting to Charles that he could have saved Brian but chose not to, before dying from his injuries. Cain Marko and Charles Xavier were now completely alone, Cain’s hatred of Xavier only increasing even further in the wake of his father’s death.

Their paths would ultimately diverge as they grew into adults, up until the Korean War. Cain and Xavier happened to serve in the same platoon of soldiers during the conflict, holed up together under the assault of enemy fire. Cain ended up making a run for it, with Xavier chasing after his brother into the cave he escaped to. They had unknowingly stumbled into the secret temple of Cyttorak, an ancient demonic god, and were drawn to the mystical Crimson Gem of Cyttorak within, an ancient ruby which would grant whoever touched it godly power. The gem sought Xavier as its host, but Cain got to it first, pushing his brother away and reciting the scripture: “Whosoever touches this gem shall possess the power of the Crimson Bands of Cyttorak. Henceforth, you who read these words shall become forevermore a human juggernaut.”  With this, Cain was transformed, as the magical energies of the ruby enveloped his body, empowering him and bulking him up. Xavier wouldn’t get to see the full results of his brother’s transformation though, as at that moment  the mountain they were in was shelled by enemy forces. Xavier managed to escape, but Cain was buried under countless tons of rubble from the collapsing mountain.

It took years before Cain dug his way out of the mountain with his new powers. Xavier sought to fulfil his dream of mutant-human coexistence during this time, and so assembled the X-Men, a team of young mutants he would tutor to act as superheroes, taking the name Professor X. Cain emerged from the mountain with nothing but thoughts of revenge against his brother for his mind, both for abandoning him in the mountain and as a way to fulfil his grudge against his brother as they were growing up. Befitting his new powers, which made him practically invulnerable and absurdly physically powerful due to his link with Cyttorak, and armed with a powerful set of armour, Cain took the name Juggernaut, and headed to Xavier’s mansion to destroy his brother. The Juggernaut was defeated and repelled by Xavier’s X-Men, ultimately being sealed in the dimension of the gem of Cyttorak by the team in their second encounter. Even after escaping, Juggernaut suffered nothing but continuous defeats at the hand of Xavier’s mutant team in his quest for revenge.

Cain eventually gained a partner-in-crime in the form of Black Tom Cassidy, a fellow adversary of the X-Men. While at first just a partnership out of convenience for Tom, they quickly grew to become legitimate friends, with Juggernaut even choosing to abandon a battle with the X-Men in order to save Tom on multiple occassions. During this period, Cain would be sucked into the alternate dimension of the Ultraverse, where he would take on a more heroic role for the first time with his new teammates, the Exiles, as he fell in love with member Amber Hunt. Upon returning to the main universe, Juggernaut would suffer a humiliating defeat at the hands of Onslaught, who later trapped him in his own gem and severed his powers. Juggernaut returned more powerful than ever, and would come to outright defy Cyttorak’s will, turning against him in his wager to plunge the entire planet into a devastating war and saving the world. Cyttorak, understandably, didn’t like that very much, and began steadily depowering Cain during this era, making him significantly weaker.

Around this time, Black Tom’s mutant powers began spiralling out of control, mutating him into a living tree monster who instinctively lashed out at all those around him. Seeing no other option to help his friend, Cain turned to his former adversaries, the X-Men, and asked them to help him save Tom. After being saved from near-death by a young fish-like mutant, Sammy, Cain realised that he wanted to be on the side of good for real, and became a member of the X-Men, developing an almost parental relationship with Sammy. Cain still struggled with his anger issues and the trauma of the abuse he suffered, but he finally found a healthy outlet for it, and even began to repair his relationship with Xavier. That was until the X-Men were attacked by the new Brotherhood of Evil, with Sammy ultimately dying at the hands of Black Tom himself, fully possessed by his madness. Cain was driven into a rage, and sacrificed himself to defeat the Brotherhood, ensuring they were all sucked into a singularity that had formed in the mansion.

After some misadventures in the alternate dimension of the Mojoverse he was sucked into, Cain returned to Earth, and joined up with the newly-formed Excalibur in order to aid the many mutants depowered in the wake of M-Day. Unfortunately for Cain, all these heroics were going against the desires of Cyttorak, who wanted the Juggernaut to cause as much destruction as possible, meaning Cain was getting weaker everyday, to the point where he was insecure about his own abilities to be useful for his team. Cain ultimately gave in to Cyttorak’s wishes in order to stop the rampaging World War Hulk, restored to his full power and acting as the destructive, villainous Juggernaut once more, even making an attempt on Xavier’s life as his grudge resurfaced. For all his actions, Cain landed in the Raft prison, and became a part of Luke Cage’s new Thunderbolts team of prisoners-on-parole.

While working with the Thunderbolts, Juggernaut was possessed by the Hammer of Kuurth, turning him into a servant of the Asgardian Serpent, Cul, and making him truly unstoppable. Cyttorak didn’t appreciate that Cain was now causing destruction in the name of a different god, and so finally completely depowered Cain, turning him back to normal, while making the X-Men member Colossus his new Juggernaut. No longer a hero or villain, Cain could at last live in peace, spending his days as a humble farmer. When he heard the call of Cyttorak’s gem once more, he rushed over to destroy it before it could find a new avatar, but was ultimately chosen by Cyttorak to become the Juggernaut once more, giving him enough power to seek revenge on Scott Summers, the man who killed Xavier.

Even still, some part of Cain still genuinely wanted to be a hero, and he would ultimately ally himself with the X-Men once more. After having his power removed yet again, he rejected Cyttorak once and for all, utilising a new armour made out of the Crimson Bands on Earth. Now truly independent, Cain began working with Damage Control to aid in reconstruction efforts in the wake of superhero battles, and even founded his own team of former villains, the Unstoppables, in order to aid against institutional abuse of convicts in the hopes of allowing other supervillains to reform. For his efforts, Cain was allowed into the mutant utopia of Krakoa, currently serving as a member of Nightcrawler’s Legionaries and reconciling with both Xavier and Black Tom. Cain Marko has been many things, from villain to hero to somewhere in-between, but all that hides an abused and wounded soul. And with the power of the Juggernaut, Cain makes sure nobody can hurt him like that ever again.

Experience

The timeline of Marvel comics is obviously somewhat vague and ill-defined due to Marvel’s sliding timescale. You could reasonably say though that Cain has operated as the Juggernaut for at least over a decade, and has experience fighting against many different kinds of opponents, both on his own and as a member of a team. Still, Juggernaut is somewhat infamous for his lack of intelligence, being defeated many times by trickery that turns his powers against him, and he’s been outright called an idiot multiple times in-universe. 

That’s not to say he’s completely vulnerable to being tricked by smarter characters though. He’s fought and defeated several skilled and intelligent characters with large amounts of experience of their own and is plenty capable of adapting to compensate for his weaknesses. Most notably, Cain acted as the leader of the Unstoppables, where he showed some pretty solid intelligence and planning feats, that allowed him to defeat enemies as unpredictable and powerful as the Human-Adaptoid. 

Skill and Intelligence

• Notes he has experience with being outnumbered, a single foe against many

• Uses the hand-grips on Guardian’s armour to pull him in and deliver a finishing blow

• Lifts Rhino up to prevent him from having leverage and afford an opening

• Through his experience, manages to briefly subdue Starkweather. Cain says he has maybe half the power of Starkweather, and is still beating him

• Can follow a plan and lay low if he has to

• Pays attentions and knows some stuff about science

• Catches the blade of one of Cyttorak’s disciples in his hand, before beating and nearly killing him. This disciple is stated to have a background in martial arts

• Even when blinded by Dazzler’s light, he relies on his hearing to figure out where she is

• Blocks a blast from an evil version of Iceman using the body he’s carrying, noting that he learns from his opponents as he fights

• After being launched into the sky, punches Albion while mid-air

• Grabs and crushes the head of an empowered ninja. He notes how he isn’t as fast as the ninja, and let himself get stabbed in order to bring him in close and attack

• Punches and slams King Hyperion into the ground, mentioning how he was inspired by Ali’s rope-a-dope

• Regularly works out at the Thunderbolts’ gym

• Manages to grab Wolverine off his back and throw him into the other X-Men

• Specifically knows to freeze Primus with some nearby gas after destroying him, which D-Cel comments on the cleverness of

• As the leader of the Unstoppables, Juggernaut is surprisingly strategic and is capable of laying out successful plans

• Knows how to drive and how to steer a jetship

• Projects a barrier to prevent Human-Adaptoid’s Swarm bees from hitting him, noting that he learned how to counter them after they defeated him last time

• Cain specifically improvises a working plan off of Deadpool’s suggestion without the latter knowing, tricking the Human-Adaptoid into not using his powers

• Battles and defeats Conquest. Conquest is noted as being an extremely skilled fighting machine, and was capable of somewhat tussling with Captain America, who instead chose to exploit her lack of teamwork

• Performs a fastball special with Nocturne, and later with Punisher

Low-End Showings

• By turning back to human form, Colossus is able to wiggle out of Juggernaut’s grip

• Skin’s elasticity allows him to break out of Juggernaut’s grip

• Pushed off a shaft by Bullseye who exploits his leverage

• Captain Britain throws Juggernaut into a pool by exploiting his lack of leverage, and tells him that he can’t fight if he doesn’t have anything to stand on and to start using his wits

• The Shadow King-controlled version of Beast manages to flip Juggs over and slam him into the ground by exploiting his leverage

• Cain is tricked into being launched into space by Skaar, where he has no leverage and can’t do anything

• Iceman says Juggernaut is an idiot, and can be taken down by telepaths without his helmet

• Colossus outmanoeuvres Juggernaut and manages to smash the ground beneath him, sending him hurtling off a cliff and into the ocean below

• Despite being weaker, Rogue uses her leverage to stop pushing against Juggernaut’s grip and let his weight send him flying into a trap

• Never understood quadratic equations

• Terrible typer

• Cain mentions that he almost went crazy the last time he was stuck in an alternate dimension

Arsenal

Crimson Gem of Cyttorak

Also known as the “Ruby of Cyttorak” or just “Gem of Cyttorak”, this magical ruby was created by Cyttorak, and is the source of the Juggernaut’s powers, turning anybody who touches it into an avatar of Cyttorak. This grants them the powers of the Juggernaut, and increases their physical mass and size, capable of turning even a child into a hulking brute. It’s usually located in the Temple of Cyttorak in South Korea.

The gem can be used on its own for numerous unique functions, such as teleportation or telepathy. It’s frequently used as a sort of link to the Crimson Cosmos, the alternate realm Cyttorak rules over. Cain Marko has occasionally carried it on his person, and has sometimes even bonded to it outright. “Fake” versions of the gem exist, and Cyttorak can create/summon the real gem at will. The Crimson Cosmos itself contains a “prototype” version of the ruby, which Jean Grey and Cyclops used to weaken Juggernaut’s power and seal him in the Crimson Cosmos.

The backstory on the Gem of Cyttorak varies a bit. The initial explanation was that the ruby’s power came when the destructive aspect of Cyttorak was sealed inside a ruby, causing Cyttorak to curse it to turn anyone who touched it into one of his avatars. A later comic says the gem was created a millenia ago by Cyttorak directly in a wager with the Octessence, seeking an avatar on Earth he could spread his influence through. The Marvel Handbook reconciles this by saying that the Gem of Cyttorak was created first in the wager with the Octessence, and then had Cyttorak’s destructive aspect sealed in it later on, occasionally transporting it to the outside world from its guarded temple to find an avatar. It also makes it clear that the Crimson Cosmos always existed, and that Cyttorak rules over it.

Mechanics

As said above, Juggernaut has at various points in his history bonded with the Gem of Cyttorak outright, increasing his strength and ensuring it can’t be taken by anyone else. The following is the timeline of the gem, chronicling when it’s bonded to Juggernaut, when it isn’t, and other users of it.

• Cyttorak created the Crimson Gem of Cyttorak from part of his own body, and sent it to Earth to turn anybody who touched it into his avatar on Earth, with immeasurable superhuman strength and invulnerability

• Cyttorak allows sorcerers like Strange to use his power as he craves destruction, eventually creating the gem in order to have an avatar on Earth

• Cain Marko touched the gem of Cyttorak in the temple in Korea, turning him into Juggernaut

• The prototype ruby of Cyttorak emits rays which take away Juggernaut’s powers and weaken him. The prototype is described in a handbook as being a “counterpart” to the Gem of Cyttorak

• Cain takes the true crimson gem of Cyttorak from its temple and uses it to empower Black Tom when he touches it, bulking him up. Rogue briefly drains Black Tom’s power, taking his Juggernaut powers and causing her to grow in size, though it soon returns to the gem of Cyttorak. She also drains Juggernaut’s powers before the power fades from her and returns to the gem of Cyttorak. Touching the gem returns Juggernaut’s powers to him

• By touching the ruby of Cyttorak, the Juggernaut’s power is split between Black Tom and Marko, giving Marko only half of his normal power. This reduced power causes Juggernaut to appear smaller. Note that the Marvel Handbook states that the assessment that Marko and Cassidy, when they both had the power of the Gem of Cyttorak, had half of Marko’s original power is inaccurate, as Juggernaut’s previous power level was “virtually immeasurable”. Take that how you will.

• Juggernaut throws the gem of Cyttorak into orbit so nobody else can take its power. Nova, the herald of Galactus, ends up knocking the ruby out of orbit and back down to Earth, landing in the hands of a human boy named Stevie. Cain sought to reclaim the Ruby of Cyttorak from Stevie, but was defeated by the boy and the Hulk. He eventually regained possession of the gem and bonded with it to ensure its safety, enhancing his power further. He later describes the ruby as the source of his powers

• The Crimson Gem of Cyttorak is bonded to Juggernaut, and so makes him practically invulnerable. Onslaught removes it from his body, allowing him to knock Juggernaut out

• The Gem of Cyttorak being removed from Juggernaut creates a notable disturbance in the mystic plane. Prior to being removed, it was “inseparably” fused to Juggernaut’s body, and Doctor Strange says he never imagined any earthly force could separate the gem and Juggernaut

• The ruby of Cyttorak and Juggernaut are connected by Cyttorak’s binding energies, and Doctor Strange says that he could not remove those bonds as easily as Onslaught did

• The ruby contains a corrupted aspect of the “other-dimensional” Cyttorak, which Strange implies could be released if the ruby is separated from Juggernaut

• Without the gem, Marko no longer possesses the power of Juggernaut, and so can be harmed and brought to his knees by Gomurr

• When Juggernaut destroyed the gem of Cyttorak and freed himself and Spite, his soul became the vessel for its power, meaning he merges once again with the gem of Cyttorak

• A fake second gem of Cyttorak exists in Korea, which Juggernaut attempts to gain, but it turns out to be a trick, with the gem being powerless. The gem instead drains all his crimson energy, and he ultimately has his power returned to him when Gambit recovers the gem in Korea and gives it to him

• In Cyttorak’s temple in South Korea, the Gem of Cyttorak exists. Cyttorak forces Juggernaut to go through a trial if he wants to obtain it and restore his powers. Cain ends up taking the Gem of Cyttorak from Korea and keeping it in his bag, and in a fight with World War Hulk, grabs the gem and embraces his role as the Juggernaut, empowering him back to full strength and giving him his armour

• It’s unclear how this works with Juggernaut absorbing the gem before this. I could find no real explanation for why the gem was no longer bonded to him directly. The best I can figure is that Cyttorak removed it from his body as punishment for disobeying him, as this was during the era where Juggernaut was weakened

• Cyttorak’s avatars kept failing, and the gem was ultimately lost. The gem is once again in the Temple of Cyttorak in Korea, and sends out a call to find a new avatar. Living Monolith touches the ruby and becomes the Juggernaut, but this soon fades, and Cain becomes the Juggernaut once more 

• Casey Kinmont is gifted with a Crimson Gem of Cyttorak, which makes her unstoppable

• Later on, Magik, in her demonic Darkchylde form, rips out the gem of Cyttorak from within Juggernaut’s body before crushing it, severing his power and turning him back to normal. It’s revealed later that the Crimson Gem of Cyttorak has been reduced to chips and dust. Magik ripping the gem out of his body could imply Cain bonded to it after he became Juggernaut again, or it could be her using Juggernaut’s body as a conduit to reach and grab the gem

Dimensional Travel

The Official Marvel Handbook suggests that the Crimson Cosmos either exists within or can be accessed from the Gem of Cyttorak. It’s been used numerous times to either travel to or seal someone within the Crimson Cosmos, and has also displayed dimension warping capabilities across Earth itself.

• The Ancient One seals Xorak inside the dimension of the ruby

• The gem contains a “universe” inside it, which Cyclops and Jean Grey enter

• The prototype ruby of Cyttorak seals itself and Juggernaut in the Crimson Cosmos inside the gem

• Onslaught imprisons Juggernaut, body and soul, within the Gem of Cyttorak

• Gomurr uses his magic to enter the dimension inside the ruby

• Gomurr and Tar sealed the destructive aspect of Cyttorak within a ruby, which he cursed to grant anyone who touched it his power as the Juggernaut (note that while this explanation for the Gem of Cyttorak’s origins is contradicted later on, the sealing aspect still happened)

• A spell binds the aspect of Cyttorak to the inside of the gem, yet not Juggernaut. Cyttorak has existed within the gem for centuries

• Cain makes a deal with Cyttorak, letting the gem’s magic portal him to the Hulk’s location across countries in exchange for him acting in Cyttorak’s desires

Crimson Cosmos

The Crimson Cosmos is described as being an entire separate plane of reality Cyttorak rules over, where time flows differently, like it’s stopped completely. The Crimson Cosmos contains ageless people and tribes within it, and demons like the temptress Spite. It’s also linked to the Netherworld, a dimension filled with demonic monsters. It’s said that Cyttorak was banished to the dimension of the Crimson Cosmos long ago, and the Cosmos is his domain, empowering him while he’s in it. 

• In the past, Cyttorak battled Li Park, the Immortal Iron Fist, and the sorcerer Xun. Cyttorak was eventually banished from Earth to the Crimson Cosmos

• After being sealed, Xorak managed to harness and master the energies of the Crimson Cosmos

• Professor X attempts to drain Juggernaut of his energies and send them back to the “nameless void between dimensions” where Cyttorak dwells

• The Ancient One describes the universe inside the gem of Cyttorak as being one of timeless silence, and the flow of time is different in it

• Jean’s watch apparently disrupted the Crimson Cosmos’s timeless nature when Strange transported her there, causing Xorak to crumble to dust

• The Crimson Cosmos Juggernaut is trapped in is described as a “vast, endless void”

• Juggernaut has a symbiotic connection with the Crimson Cosmos, which is also the dimension the ruby of Cyttorak pulled him into against the X-Men, allowing Doctor Strange to summon him

• One doesn’t age in the Crimson Cosmos

• The air of the Crimson Cosmos slows Doctor Strange

• The gem of Cyttorak contains an alternate plane of reality of fire and volcanoes

• The interior of the gem of Cyttorak is affected by Juggernaut’s emotions, and so manifests locations from his memories inside it, acting as the nexus of his rage

• Juggernaut collides with the aspect of Cyttorak and destroys it, obliterating him and unleashing an explosion of mystic energy which begins tearing apart the dimension of the ruby. Juggernaut is spat out by it across the interdimensional void to Earth, buffeting Strange’s astral form and nearly disrupting it

• When he entered the realm of Cyttorak through the gem in Uncanny X-Men 33, Scott’s ruby visor took the properties of other crystals and now registered a demonic spectrum. A demon from back then somehow entered it and slipped through to Earth as a result

• The demon exists in the Netherworld, which Scott and Jean passed through when first visiting the realm of Cyttorak. A fissure connecting it to the ruby’s realm and the demons that exist inside is present, and is pulled open by Jean

• Magik teleports herself and others to the Crimson Cosmos

• A follower of Cyttorak notes that Cain would need all 8 gems to reach Cyttorak in the Crimson Cosmos

• The Marvel Handbook proposes a few possibilities for why Xorak considered himself the ruler of the Crimson Cosmos when Cyttorak was there, including the possibility that the Cosmos’s limbo-like properties caused Xorak to arrive before Cyttorak, or in a smaller pocket-realm associated with the Crimson Cosmos

Energy Manipulation

It’s stated in the Official Marvel Handbook that the Gem of Cyttorak, when used by Stevie, granted not Juggernaut powers, but energy manipulation powers, explaining the various esoteric abilities it displays when used by him. There’s no evidence Cain could apply the ruby in this way, but it’s worth noting.

• With the help of the Hulk, Stevie uses the ruby to defeat Juggernaut

• Stevie uses the ruby to create animated wax figures of a bunch of heroes, which have diluted versions of the powers of the real ones

• The Marvel handbook states that non-avatars have used the Gem of Cyttorak to fire energy blasts, monitor distant events, transmit messages, reflect energy attacks, turn targets intangible, and animate inanimate objects and grant them various powers

Miscellaneous

• The inscription on the gem of Cyttorak mystically appeared to Cain as being in English

• Juggernaut’s dark thoughts act as a voice in his head, brought to the front of his mind by the gem in order to break down his resolve

• Cain speaks to Cyttorak through the gem

• The call of Cyttorak reaches across the entire world, to the strong and angry who Cyttorak feel can be controlled, attracting them all to the gem. Colossus feels Cyttorak calling out to him, and sees the temple and gem in his head, realising it’s back on Earth

• Even after reduced to chips and dust, the remains of the gem still contain power, and Cain snorts it to communicate with Cyttorak

• The ruby is noted as being durable enough to survive the heat of atmospheric re-entry, referencing when it survived being thrown into orbit by Cain and subsequently it remaining intact after it was knocked back down to Earth

• A demon guarding the gem fights off the X-Men

Original Armour

The Juggernaut’s signature set of armour. Made up of an unknown metal from the Crimson Cosmos, it covers most of his body and offers an additional layer of durability to the Juggernaut’s already nigh-invulnerable body. Of specific note is the helmet, which makes whoever wears it practically immune to psionic attacks. Juggernaut can summon his armour to him at will, and can also manifest his helmet out of nearby material. The armour is stated to be literally forged out of the Crimson Bands of Cyttorak, explaining its mystical properties.

During his time with the Thunderbolts, Juggernaut’s helmet was upgraded by an engineer at the Raft, making it more durable and allowing him to turn his head without turning his entire torso to look to his side. At first, removing the helmet seemed to remove the Juggernaut’s powers and invulnerability, making him much weaker, but this weakness seems to be dropped later on in his history, despite it also occurring with a child who had temporarily become the Juggernaut. It’s possible that Cain’s years of wearing the armour and absorbing its energies allows him to retain his strength even without his helmet, something suggested by the Marvel Handbook’s description, though this is only a theory.

At times, Juggernaut has worn a skullcap around his head, created out of scraps of his larger helmet. This offers a second layer of protection to mental attacks, ensuring he can resist them even if his helmet is removed.

Armour summoning

• The mystical ruby of Cyttorak allows Juggernaut to summon his armour and helmet around him with just a thought. He later un-summons his armour and helmet and returns to his civilian clothing

• Summons his armour and helmet around his body

• Juggernaut wears his armour underneath his civilian clothing, and pulls his helmet from basically out of nowhere

• Cain says he tricked Hulk by fighting him in his street clothes, a trick he clued onto in his battle with Colossus

• Flexes into his costume from under his street clothes and pulls his helmet from out of nowhere

• Juggs wears his armour underneath his coat, with his helmet on the back

• Cain magically transforms one of his restraints into a new Juggernaut helmet, and notes that as long as he has the power, he can always create a new helmet

Properties

• Juggernaut’s armour makes him invisible to psi-scans

• A blast of kinetic energy from Stonecutter threatens to shatter his armour, but the armour is described as being a “part of his power”, so it ends up only displacing his helmet

• Spider-Man notes that Juggernaut is tough both with and without his armour based on their past encounters

• At one point, the Cyttora begin building around Juggernaut, sealing him inside his own armour

Helmet

• The crimson bands of Cyttorak which gave Juggernaut his powers also gave him his psionic helmet, which allows him to withstand mental attacks

• When his helmet is welded to his armour, it curtails his head movement

• Juggernaut says his goodbyes to Sammy, and gives him his helmet as a memento. Cain still has it later, which could suggest he can somehow duplicate it

• Cain can keep his helmet on the back of his armour to store it

• Cain has a new helmet engineered for him by an engineer on the Raft. It’s noted that it’s tougher than his previous helmets and will allow him to look to the side without turning his whole body. Cain says that his original used to just regrow if it broke

• Colossus can manifest and de-manifest his helmet at will whenever he summons the power of the Juggernaut

• When amped up by the Trion’s dark energies, entering the giant Juggernaut’s helmet through the mouth leads directly into Cain’s psyche, an astral plane solid enough to deceive Wolverine’s hypersenses

Durability and Removal

• Angel removes Juggernaut’s helmet from his head

• A recount of this comic’s event says that, while being distracted, Jean telekinetically loosened Juggernaut’s helmet, allowing Angel to remove it

• Beast at one point managed to remove Juggernaut’s helmet, taking away his powers and allowing Beast to beat on him. That said, in a different instance, Beast was unable to remove Juggernaut’s helmet with his strength

• Hulk removes his helmet and sends him flying. Hulk has also knocked off the helmet with a punch, and World War Hulk dented it with an uppercut

• Juggernaut welds his helmet to his armour with a laser torch, preventing Spider-Man from removing it. Spider-Man later says that he once almost dislocated something trying to take the Juggernaut helmet off of Cain’s head

• A direct hit to the helmet from Thor with Mjolnir doesn’t dislodge it. In a different instance, Thor punching it smashes it open, and Juggs has taken a direct hit to the head from Thor with his hammer, smashing open the helmet. That said, one of unworthy Thor’s hammers outright shattered against Juggernaut’s helmet with the helmet taking no visible damage

• Juggernaut’s helmet is bolted on, and he says it takes him forever to get it off and on again, but Colossus later manages to rip off the helmet through its boltings. After Juggernaut was amped by Cyttorak to the peak of his power, Colossus’s blows to the helmet did nothing to him

• Nimrod knocks off Juggernaut’s helmet, breaking its seal

• Longshot’s spikes loosen his helmet, allowing Rogue to remove it

• Siryn is able to remove Juggernaut’s helmet. He’s confused as to how, as he says the helmet is mystically bonded to his armour, but Shatterstar says that, as his blades were forged in a dimension of magic and science, they were able to cut through the moorings of his helmet, and threatens to slice off his head next

• Wolverine slashes at Juggernaut’s helmet, freeing it and allowing Hulk to take it off. Wolverine’s claws in a different showing appear to leave a visible scratch on Juggernaut’s helmet, and at other points have scratched and pierced it completely

• Thunderstrike’s axe manages to take off Juggernaut’s helmet. Juggernaut says the axe must be mystically enchanted, as it must be something more than physical to have tagged him that way

• War Hulk’s advanced sword, given to him by Apocalypse, removes Juggernaut’s helmet

• A blast of kinetic energy from Stonecutter, which almost destroyed his armour, knocks off his helmet

• Penance claws off Juggernaut’s helmet

• Polaris implies she could magnetically destroy Juggernaut’s helmet, though Juggernaut seems to rebuke the suggestion

• Sasquatch’s blow knocks off his helmet

• She-Hulk hurts her hand punching Starkweather’s helmet, but Cain manages to grab and remove it

• Takes a direct hit to the helmet from Skaar, who later seems to dent it with a punch

• Has his helmet shattered by Captain Universe

• Unphased by a direct punch to the helmet by Mettle

• Endures repeated blows to the helmet from King Hyperion. Hyperion manages to remove Juggernaut’s helmet with his atomic vision and strength

• Cyclops knocks off Colossus’s helmet with an optic blast

• Demon Colossus rips off his own helmet 

• Quicksilver uses his speed to blitz Juggernaut and remove his helmet

• The Cosmic Ghost Rider’s chains, made of the bones of Cyttorak, remove his helmet

• Takes a hit to the helmet from Sandman

Skullcap

• Colossus manages to rip off Juggernaut’s helmet through its boltings, but it turns out Juggernaut created a second, smaller helmet out of the scraps of the big one underneath, which acts as an insurance against psionic attacks and blocks Rachel’s mental powers

• Nimrod notes that the skullcap provides adequate protection against psionic attacks, but not ultra-high frequency sonics

• After Penance takes off Juggernaut’s helmet, Siren grabs and removes the additional skullcap underneath it

• After Quicksilver removes his helmet, it’s revealed Juggs has a skullcap underneath which acts as a second helmet to block psionic attacks

X-Men Armour

This is the set of armour Cain wore after first joining the X-Men, while his power was diminished by Cyttorak. It resembles his original armour and is fashioned from unstable molecules. This armour is only ever described in handbooks, with nothing in the comics themselves saying Juggernaut’s armour had changed after joining the X-Men. During this period, Juggernaut’s armour is inconsistently depicted as being either grey or red like his original, which could be attributed to a change in the armour and its properties. As you can tell, the details are vague.

Crimson Bands Armour

Name unofficial. This new set of armour was donned by Cain after he had his power severed by Magik and the Crimson Gem was destroyed. It’s forged out of the Crimson Bands of Cyttorak on Earth, specially designed to maintain their cohesion. Most significantly though, this armour has no direct link to Cyttorak, meaning Cain’s power remains static and isn’t subject to the whims of Cyttorak. It grants Cain the standard superhuman strength and invulnerability, while retaining his unstoppable momentum powers. The armour has its own set of rules, and doesn’t necessarily share all the properties of the armour granted by the Crimson Gem. This armour is what Cain is currently wearing in the comics.

• Cain arrives at the forge of Cyttorak, bonding with the Crimson Bands of Cyttorak maintained in this dimension to give him a new set of armour. Cain rejects Cyttorak’s offer to become his avatar and says he’s no longer linked to him, as his armour’s harness is made from the Crimson Bands that existed in the earthly plane

• Cain can summon his new set of armour on the fly, manifesting out of his chest. He’s later shown de-summoning it at will

• After being put to sleep, his armour de-manifests, though the Crimson Bands are still visible

• The warden’s guards say that Juggernaut’s armour is composed of the Crimson Bands of Cyttorak, and comes from another dimension through a portal. Juggernaut says they aren’t going to prevent him from summoning it as his armour is inside him now before manifesting it

• Xavier telepathically contacts Cain, with it being noted that while in the past his helmet blocked Xavier’s telepathy, his new armour follows new rules, Cain’s rules

Communicator

Cain has used some form of communication technology to speak with his allies over long distances on numerous occasions.

• Has comms with Red Skull

• Has comms with Strike

• Appears to have comms with Sage, projecting her as a small hologram

• Has a mic feed connecting him to D-Cel

Powers

Power Fluctuations

As stated above, for most of his history, Juggernaut’s power is dependent on the amount of power he receives from Cyttorak, the demonic god he draws his strength from. Cyttorak has on multiple occasions either raised or lowered the amount of power Juggernaut has depending on whether Cain follows Cyttorak’s desire, namely causing as much destruction as possible. Juggernaut has had a loooot of fluctuations in power, some of which cover significant portions of his history, so the following is a timeline of all his notable ones

• A dimension Juggernaut is banished to has a conscience, Oblivion, and restores Juggernaut’s youth in exchange for him losing his mystic powers. Juggernaut later says he lost his mystical powers long ago

• For a period, Juggernaut was trapped in the Ultraverse, an alternate universe consisting of its own set of heroes and villains from a different comic imprint. It’s suggested multiple times that the abilities of Marvel characters are notably weakened while in the Ultraverse, and it’s outright confirmed that Juggernaut’s powers were weakened while on this earth in the Official Marvel Handbook. As Juggernaut re-enters the Marvel universe, he can feel the rest of his power returning to him. Feats from this period will be marked UV

• Juggernaut believes Cyttorak’s power may be fading after all these years, as he’s finally able to sleep and can even bleed. Attacks have drawn blood from him in the Ultraverse, which Juggernaut claims should normally be impossible

• Onslaught removes the Crimson Gem of Cyttorak from Juggernaut’s body, allowing him to knock Juggernaut out and seal him within the gem. Without the gem, Cain no longer possesses the power of Juggernaut, and so can be harmed. Later on, he’s empowered by Tar’s magic scorpion, infusing him with the energy used to seal Cyttorak in the ruby and rejuvenating him to fight off Cyttorak. Juggernaut claims the power is a hundred times greater than what he had before, and Cyttorak says he has the power of the ruby itself. Feats from this period will be marked A

• Juggernaut is now rejuvenated, with his powers restored and stronger than before, and a later letters page also suggests Juggernaut is now stronger than ever, suggested to be wielding Cyttorak’s energies once more

• When Juggernaut destroyed the gem of Cyttorak and freed himself and Spite, his soul became the vessel for its power. Therefore, when D’yspare feeds on his emotions, he feeds on the power of the ruby itself. It’s also said Juggernaut has outright merged with the gem of Cyttorak

• Later during the Eighth Day event, Thor notes that Juggernaut is stronger than ever and that his might has increased “hundred-fold”, which Juggernaut says is true, and that something is making him this way and drawing him somewhere. It’s unclear if Thor is referring to the power amp Juggernaut got from merging with the Gem of Cyttorak or if this is a new power boost Cyttorak gave specifically for the arrival of the Octessence’s Exemplars. Cyttorak implies this is moreso due to Cain releasing his humanity than an actual amp, which could suggest it’s more akin to a state of mind than anything else, though the Marvel Handbook says Cyttorak increased Cain’s power, so it’s uncertain

• A fake gem of Cyttorak drains all of Juggernaut’s energy and leaves him nearly powerless and sick, with only occasional flashes of power. He ultimately has his power returned to him when Gambit recovers the gem in Korea and gives it to him, but reabsorbing his power from the gem leaves Juggernaut possessed somehow by the dark aspect of the Trion, more powerful than ever and going on a seemingly mindless rampage. This state is commonly known as Trion Juggernaut. Freeing Juggernaut from his possession causes him to return to normal, and releases an explosion of Cyttorak’s energies

• What exactly the Trion’s possession did to Juggernaut is never really confirmed. About the only indication there is is that it’s stated Juggernaut now has “all Cyttorak’s destructive might”, suggesting that by possessing him, the Trion were tapping into a much larger pool of Cyttorak’s power than normal. During this period, Juggernaut displayed several abilities he’s never shown before or since, and it’s unclear if he could access them on his own if he were to draw on enough of Cyttorak’s magic, or if they’re moreso linked to the Trion themselves. I’ve just noted them for the sake of comprehensiveness

• In probably Cain’s most extensive fluctuation in power, he spent most of the 2000s getting continuously weaker. The first indication of this is Black Tom describing Cain’s powers as “a dim shadow of what they once were”, and Wolverine noting that Juggernaut was bleeding and being restrained by Black Tom’s vines, and so believes he can now drown (note that Nocturne later indicates that Juggernaut can drown as well, so it’s consistent). A blurb also says that Juggernaut’s powers have been weakened, with Cyttorak even granting Juggernaut’s powers and armour to someone else, Ed Starkweather, for a brief time. The only indication of specifically how much weaker Cain had become is him saying he has maybe half the power of Starkweather in their battle, while Starkweather had taken the role of the new Juggernaut. Cain later notes how his blessing from Cyttorak was running empty when he first joined the X-Men, and how he was weak at the time.

The exact reason for why Juggernaut had become so much weaker is only given years later in New Excalibur, after Juggernaut laments his loss of power and a summary page describes how Juggernaut has recently not been feeling as strong and unstoppable as he once was. It’s stated how the gem of Cyttorak’s power has been weakening ever since Juggernaut became a good guy, and Cain describes how his power is weakening every day, as he refuses to do Cyttorak’s bidding. Cyttorak chose Cain as his agent of destruction for his anger, and due to Cain’s disloyalty, Cyttorak must seek out a replacement. Basically the idea is that Cyttorak has been weakening Cain more and more as he acts as a hero, which goes against Cyttorak’s desire for the Juggernaut to cause as much destruction as possible, the loss in power acting as a punishment for Cain’s disloyalty. Feats from this era will be marked B

• The initial explanation given for Juggernaut’s weakening is that, after Cain defeated Cyttorak, his power began to wane, and he thinks Cyttorak is taking that power back. It’s unclear if this battle with Cyttorak is referring to Juggernaut’s previous encounter with Cyttorak after he was sealed in the Crimson Cosmos by Onslaught, or to an off-screen encounter between comics prior to joining the X-Men. This explanation is pretty vague and is also contradicted by the later explanation of Cain being weakened due to acting against Cyttorak’s desires. The Marvel Handbook explains it as Cyttorak “gradually” weakening Cain for opposing him during the Eighth Day event, sometime after Juggernaut’s appearance in Cyclops Volume 1, with no mention of this battle with Cyttorak. It’s possible Cain is just lying or exaggerating here, as he’s known to do

• Some of the handbooks claim Cain retained “most of his power” when Cyttorak sought a new host after the Eighth Day. This is inconsistent with most statements and showings from the comics. It may just be referring to his actual powerset as opposed to his literal strength

• Cain finally recovered back to full power during the events of World War Hulk. After getting bloodied and beaten down by World War Hulk, the Gem of Cyttorak speaks to Cain, and says that it’s Cain’s own weakness and lack of focus which weakens him. Cain grabs the gem and embraces his role as the Juggernaut, empowering him and giving him his armour in exchange for no longer acting as a hero. Xavier later notes that Cain is “drawing on the full power of Cyttorak again”, and that he’s abandoned his attempt at reforming and has gone back to being the Juggernaut. A guidebook also claims he recovered his "full power". Feats from this period will be marked C

• For a very brief period, Juggernaut acted as Captain Universe, the Enigma Force residing in his body alongside Cyttorak before it left and he returned to normal. It’s later stated that him taking Captain Universe’s power seems to have interrupted or ticked off Cyttorak, and Juggernaut ends up weakened for a period of time. This manifests not just strength-wise, but abilities wise. It’s said that Juggernaut has lost a lot of his ability, requiring air, being able to drown, and needing more space to get into a full kinetic run, alongside being unable to regenerate or burn out his nanites. Feats from this period will be marked D

• The above period ended when Juggernaut touched the Hammer of Kuurth, upgrading him into Kuurth, Breaker of Stone, and a servant of the Asgardian Serpent, Cul, while also burning out his nanites. Upon finding out Cain was now serving another god, Cyttorak was pretty displeased, and depowers Cain after Magik reveals it to him, completely removing his Juggernaut powers with a magical bolt of lightning. In Cain’s place, Colossus touches the Gem of Cyttorak and is chosen to become the new Juggernaut. This lasts for about a year. Feats performed by Colossus as the Juggernaut will be marked as [Colossus]

• Note that Colossus’s Juggernaut powers are not something he is always using. Colossus can “tap” demonic Juggernaut energies, suggesting it’s something he has to manually activate, and the Juggernaut is depicted almost like an alternate personality Colossus has to control. Colossus summons the Juggernaut’s power if the situation calls for it, drawn as the helmet manifesting around his head

• Eventually, Colossus confronts Cyttorak in the Crimson Cosmos, and says since he is host to both Cyttorak and the Phoenix Force, Cyttorak should excommunicate him. Cyttorak refuses, as Colossus is his favourite avatar in thousands of years, having brought him more destruction than he could have hoped for, which is why he has given Colossus so much. This could suggest Colossus was granted more energy from Cyttorak than normal, though it’s unclear, and Colossus’s showings as the Juggernaut definitely aren’t as good as Cain’s on the whole

• Cain soon lost the power of Kuurth, and Colossus’s link to Cyttorak was eventually severed, turning him back to normal and leaving no Juggernaut active on Earth. After being depowered, Cain Marko became the Raft’s weakest prisoner, not even rating a special defence, but for a brief period of time, Man-Thing connected Cain to a universe where Cyttorak lives but Cain Marko has died, allowing him to establish a new connection with this alternate Cyttorak and become the Juggernaut once again, summoning his armour around him. These powers seem to eventually fade somewhat, but Cain later says he says he still has his power, and is going to run as far as he can before he loses it. Feats from this period will be marked E

• When Cain is next shown, he’s depicted as being a normal dude who isn’t the Juggernaut anymore. Despite this, he still has some extremely superhuman physical feats that blatantly suggest he’s still empowered to some degree. This is never really explained, but the best I can think of is that the Marvel Handbook explains that, even after being stripped of Cyttorak’s power, Cain still retains some superhuman strength and durability due to years of absorbing Cyttorak’s energy, in reference to period B listed above. It’s possible the same applies here, explaining why Cain is so strong even without a link to Cyttorak or his armour

• Cain eventually stops being the Juggernaut again and lives out a peaceful life in Utah as a farmer. When he hears the Gem call out across the world, he rushes over to Korea to destroy it, but it’s touched by Ahmet Abdol, the Living Monolith, before he can do so, and so Abdol (briefly) becomes the new Juggernaut, described as being “more powerful than ever”. Feats performed by Abdol will be marked [Living Monolith]

• After Abdol becomes the Juggernaut, Colossus realises Cyttorak will soon grow bored with the destruction his new avatar causes, and tells the demon that humanity will never kneel to him, and he knows it. He instead offers a new game, offering to become the Juggernaut again and asking Cyttorak to give him enough power to kill Cyttorak himself, more power than ever before, as the ultimate show of destruction. Cyttorak accepts the deal, but gives the power to Cain instead, making him the Juggernaut once more. Cain arrives back on Earth, and says Cyttorak gave him more power than he’s ever given anyone, enough power to kill Cyttorak himself as was promised. Cain says every weakness he had is now gone, shown by Rachel being unable to read his mind even without his helmet. This is probably the Juggernaut’s most powerful period. Feats from this period will be marked F 

• When he next shows up, the whole “enough power to kill Cyttorak” plotline is completely dropped and is never addressed, with Cain appearing notably less powerful than what was initially hyped up when he returned to being the Juggernaut. For instance, it’s implied he’s vulnerable to mental attacks without his helmet in a later comic by the presence of his skullcap, despite the fact that it’s made clear that Cain was now immune to mental attacks even without his helmet when he first obtained his new power, and it’s even suggested he’s back to needing to breathe later. It’s pretty unclear as a result if Cain’s showings in the comics after this are supposed to be the same level of power as above, and I personally think it’s likely that Cyttorak depowered him to an extent again due to Cain refusing to kill him per their wager. That said, there’s technically nothing confirming as such, so I’m grouping all these showings together regardless. Just something to keep in mind

• Cain notes that since becoming Cyttorak’s champion again, he’s more powerful than ever, especially when standing in the temple of Cyttorak, and calls himself “Ultimate Juggernaut”, suggesting being within the temple amps him up. This would also be extra evidence that this period is when he’s at his most powerful. Cyttorak later tests Cain’s worthiness after he lost to the unworthy Thor by placing him in a spell where he sees himself having a battle with Cyttorak. Cain ultimately comes out on top and is deemed worthy by Cyttorak once more

• Darkchylde Magik rips out the gem of Cyttorak from within Juggernaut’s body before crushing it, severing his power and turning him back to normal before banishing him to Limbo through a portal. Cain ends up sacrificing his armour to return to Earth, and bonds with the Crimson Bands of Cyttorak maintained in this dimension to give him a new set of armour. Cain rejects Cyttorak and says he’s no longer linked to him, as his armour’s harness is made from the Crimson Bands that existed in the earthly plane. Cyttorak’s ability to access the gem is gone and he has no links to any human hosts on earth. This is probably the Juggernaut’s most significant shift in power, as it completely removes his link to Cyttorak, meaning his power no longer varies, and his new armour has entirely different rules to his old one, basically changing his powerset permanently. New abilities and resistances displayed with this armour can’t be assumed to apply to Cain’s old powerset as a result. This is Juggernaut’s current state in the comics, and feats/abilities from this period will be marked NA (get it like “New Armour”)

Force Field

Initially, Juggernaut’s invulnerability was explained as being a result of a personal force field he has. This force field emanates around his entire body, and makes him practically impervious to attack. The force field can be turned on and off at will, and can even slow down incoming objects, halting their momentum, alongside being capable of pushing people back and breaking through objects. At first the force field served as the reason for Juggernaut's immense durability, with there being some suggestion he was still superhumanly durable without it. The force field slowly gets referenced and used less and less over the course of Cain’s history though, with its last explicit mention in the comics being in 2001, and numerous showings later that suggest the Juggernaut doesn’t have a constant protective barrier around him. In its last seen appearance, it appears to be something Cain does not always have on, which must be manually activated. This makes it kind of unclear which feats in the Juggernaut’s early days are a result of his natural durability or a result of his force field.

The Official Marvel Handbook reconciles all this by explaining the force field is something Juggernaut must manually turn on, and acts as essentially a second layer of durability to the Juggernaut’s already impressive physicality. It also basically confirms that the Juggernaut does not always have his forcefield on later in his history. Because of this, I’ll only mention durability feats which explicitly attribute Juggernaut’s endurance to the force field as being a feat for the forcefield later on.

• Juggernaut’s body is so charged with boundless energy that it exudes waves of force even while standing still, pushing Professor X back

• Juggernaut’s forcefield halts and reverses the momentum of a 10-ton steel roller

• Juggernaut’s forcefield isn’t constant, and Juggernaut can manually turn it on

• Juggernaut’s forcefield slows down and halts the momentum of Mjolnir after being thrown by Thor

• Cyclops notes that Juggernaut is surrounded by some kind of force-field, which, by hugging Black Tom close enough, extends around Tom’s body, and allows both to survive a large fall from a ship

• It’s stated in the Marvel Handbook that if Juggernaut used his force field, he may have proven invulnerable to the futuristic weapons Nimrod used to defeat him which disrupted his nervous system

Unstoppability

Probably Juggernaut’s most iconic trait is his unstoppability. This manifests in the form of his un-haltable momentum. The Marvel Handbook states that once Juggernaut gains momentum, “virtually no force on Earth can stop him”, with an earlier edition stating that once he begins walking in a certain direction, nothing has been observed to stop him, and that only he can stop himself. This has also been stated in the comics, with Raft scientists describing it as Juggernaut drawing on “endless kinetic power” from Cyttorak. This means Juggernaut’s momentum can be slowed or redirected, but it takes extremely powerful forces to outright stop or reverse his movement. It’s suggested that Juggernaut can normally initiate his charge practically instantly, as during a period where his power was weakened, it’s highlighted how he now takes longer to build up his charge and become truly unstoppable.

Juggernaut’s momentum serves as one of his greatest powers, but also one of his most notable weaknesses. Juggernaut needs a solid foothold to initiate a charge in the first place, so if he’s stuck on a surface that isn’t solid, he won’t be able to move or change direction. Likewise, Juggernaut’s charge has been redirected on multiple occasions, either by pushing him to the side or by exploiting his leverage. This can send Juggernaut careening off in the wrong direction, which can cause him to crash or can remove him from the battlefield entirely. Still, Juggernaut compensates for this by being very adept at climbing and digging, meaning he can usually return to the battlefield quickly enough.

Charge

Any of these showings should double as power/durability feats.

• Breaks through a wall which is stated to have 50 times the tensile strength of battleship steel

• Smashes through a building

• Walks straight through a building

• Walks straight through a massive net of Spider-Man’s webbing

• Even without his helmet or skullcap, barrels through a building

• Crashes into and brings down an entire building

• Topples a large robot with a charge 

• Runs through a brick wall

• Walks through a solid brick wall

• Thunderstrike collapses trying to stop the Juggernaut’s march

• Powers right through a combinations of Cyclops’s laser, Jean Grey’s telekinesis, and Iceman’s ice without stopping

• Juggernaut’s stampede clears a large path of trees

• World War Hulk cannot stop him directly, but turns Juggernaut’s momentum against him, redirecting his charge and sending him into a nearby lake

• Bruce Banner notes that once the Juggernaut starts moving, he can’t be stopped

• Juggernaut begins charging, slamming through some trees and trolls and causing an explosion. Luke Cage tells him to “turn off”

• Charges right through and splatters a monster mutated by the Terrigen mists

• Charges down through a sewer system, through 1.3 kilometres straight of bedrock

• Charges through an entire army of ninjas

• Juggernaut charges into a massive lobster monster, smashing right through it

• Charges through a castle wall

• Juggernaut moves backwards in order to get space to build up momentum, and charges straight through a wall Luke Cage’s team couldn’t break through 

• Charges through some Frost Giants, dismembering them, and later does so again

• Charges into Kasyckla, making him keel over

• Juggernaut is affected by a mutant’s kinetic deceleration field. He manages to charge through somewhat, but is clearly slowed down by it. He admits he doesn’t know how to stop charging, and after she falls he keeps going for a bit before crashing NA

• Charges and leaps right through Quicksand’s giant sand body NA

• Charges through the solid wall of a hidden facility NA

• Juggernaut begins charging, with Magik portalling him mid-charge into the air to make him basically a dive bomber. His impact greatly damages the dragon Sadurang and returns him to his human form, setting church bells ringing for miles in every direction and creating a massive crater. Sadurang notes that not even Thor hits as hard NA

• Juggernaut charges into the dragon Sadurang’s stomach, harming him. Sadurang notes that the magic of Cyttorak is what allows him to harm him NA

• Charges into the Shuma Gorath-empowered Kulan Gath, slamming him into a tree NA

• Charges through a solid wall, toppling a small tower NA

• Charges through the force of Texas Twister’s tornado NA

• Charges into a car, smashing it open NA

• Begins charging, blowing away Nightcrawler and Zsen NA

• Juggernaut’s charge devastates a large swath of forest. Xavier describes it as flattening half the island NA

• Smashes through a bar wall on Krakoa NA

• Endures Thor’s Godblast, though it begins pushing him back. He’s unable to regain his forward momentum before the floor underneath him collapses

• Pushes back War Hulk, leaving a massive trail across the desert. War Hulk ultimately manages to stop and interrupt Juggernaut's charge, tossing him away

• The X-Men are unable to slow the giant Juggernaut’s advance in any way. Juggernaut’s advance is only stopped by a giant interdimensional monster summoned by Nightcrawler, which grabs him from behindTrion

• [Colossus] Colossus notes that Kuurth is more powerful than him in all ways except one, that being that Kuurth cannot stop his charge. Colossus’s charge accelerates up to 600 mph, travelling 60 miles from San Francisco in five minutes as he carries Kuurth with him. Colossus eventually manages to stop his charge after Kuurth is teleported away

• [Colossus] Colossus charges Thing outside of the blue area of the moon, skidding along the ground

Note that the Project: Wideawake RPG handbook describes what would happen if Juggernaut were to charge into the Blob. It claims that, while Blob would not be moved, Juggernaut would win by ripping up the ground beneath him if it took place on anything less than an adamantium planet, and that this would probably take several hours. Not explicitly canon, but it is pretty interesting.

Climbing and Digging

• Spends years digging out of a mountain, later stated to have been a decade

• Digs through to the X-Men’s mansion from underground

• Smashes his way out of a pothole

• Climbs up a building

• Falls down a trench, but manages to climb his way back up

• Climbs up a large hole in the ground

• Climbs up a steel wall

• Digs out of a pile of wreckage

• After being launched off of a cliff by Colossus, Juggernaut is taken out of the fight, but manages to dig his way out of the ground soon enough

• Digs his way back to the deck of a cruise ship after falling off

• Leaps out from underground, creating a hole in the earth

• Digs out from the ground after being pulled underground by Krakoa’s rootsNA

Water/Loose Material

• Due to his weight, Juggernaut sinks like a rock in water, and requires time to haul himself up

• Can swim freely

• Is very briefly subdued by Iceman flooding him, before bursting out of the water

• Sinks to the bottom of the ocean floor, and begins walking to Manhattan

• Sinks in quicksand, but bursts out after reaching the bottom 

• Juggernaut falls into a 40-feet deep pit of wet cement, sinking to the bottom. Juggernaut busts out eventually, but it takes him out of the fight, and he’s buried in it for 6 months straight

• When Juggernaut was trapped in this cement block by Spider-Man, he had to first sink to the bottom and dig his feet into the bedrock to get any traction. He dug through thousands of cubic feet of aggregate and then miles of rock, stone, and clay

• Is buried under an ice lake by Cyclops, though he quickly digs himself out 

• After being dropped in a pool of lava by Skaar, Cain mentions how he has no foothold, and must simply wait for Skaar to burn up

• Swims into the ocean to rescue Songbird and Moonstone (note that this while he was with the Thunderbolts, meaning he required air to breathe at this time)

• Ends up slipping on Iceman’s ice and falling into the ocean from the cruise ship he’s on, though he quickly swims back up

• Spider-Man defeats Sin-Eater, who has the powers of the Juggernaut, by liquifying the ground and trapping him in the liquid with no foothold, though Sin-Eater manages to dig his way out

Weaknesses

• Unable to charge when the floor underneath him is removed

• Ice causes Juggernaut to lose his footing

• Spider-Man trips Juggernaut up as he charges through his webbing by removing the manhole from underneath him, causing him to slip and be slingshotted back

• Thor catches Juggernaut on the handle of his hammer, and uses it to send Juggernaut off the planet into deep space, unable to break free of its grip 

• Wolverine trips Juggernaut with a pole

• Siryn knocks Juggernaut off a ledge with a screech

• Cain is launched into space by Skaar, where he has no leverage and has to wait to re-enter the Earth’s atmosphere while being unable to do anything

• Captain Universe says that without any earth beneath his feet, Juggernaut has no way of starting a charge, despite the fact that he could not be stopped when he started moving

• Speedball notes that he can’t stop Kuurth’s momentum, so he instead adds to it, causing Juggernaut to charge well over the town (Kuurth is obviously heavily amped compared to normal Juggernaut, but it’s still an indication of how the mechanics of his charge works)

• Colossus outmanoeuvres Juggernaut and manages to smash the ground beneath him, sending him hurtling off a cliff and into the ocean below. Juggernaut is taken out of the fight, though he manages to dig his way out of the ground eventually. Note that this is Juggernaut while he was amped to be at his most powerful by Cyttorak, showing that these weaknesses remain consistent for him even with his fluctuations

• Iceman can’t stop the Juggernaut, and so “freezes the speed of light” around Juggernaut, whatever the fuck that means, sending him flying into the air

• Iceman freezes Juggernaut and sends him flying away into a nearby river, with Iceman’s golems carrying Juggernaut away to SHIELD custody

• Juggernaut begins pushing Venom’s grip back, but Venom lets go and leaps over him, causing Juggernaut to crash into a truck

• Venom creates a shockwave to bury Juggernaut under some floorboards, allowing him to get a clean hit in

• The Cyttora begin building around Juggernaut, sealing him inside his own armour and preventing him from moving before Doctor Voodoo banishes him

• Juggernaut begins charging at Sinister, but Sinister telekinetically swings him high into the sky

• Magik, in her demonic Darkchylde form, telekinetically restrains Juggernaut as he’s charging and rips out the gem of Cyttorak from within his body

• [Colossus] Unit notes that Colossus is unstoppable while charging, and so alters Colossus’s trajectory by 45 degrees before slamming him into the ground

Endurance

Juggernaut’s stamina is essentially limitless. He does not need to breathe (outside of times when he’s been reduced in power), eat, or sleep, sustained entirely by Cyttorak’s mystic energies. This allows him to keep on moving for years on end, or to live out entire lifetimes without sustenance. It also makes tiring him out basically an impossibility in combat, ensuring he can keep getting up no matter what. That said, while he does not need sustenance, he can still feel suffocated, thirsty, and hungry, moreso mentally debilitated than anything. Given Juggernaut has enough willpower to spend years digging with no freedom in sight, he’s certainly tenacious enough to overcome it.

Juggernaut also boasts a notable healing factor, allowing him to quickly recover from small injuries with Cyttorak’s energies. Combined with his invulnerability, it makes him very difficult to truly put down or incapacitate. It’s been suggested a few times that Juggernaut’s endurance is fuelled by his rage and hate alone. His hatred has enabled him to endure the effects of a dimension forcibly ageing him (see the next section), or to keep fighting even when reduced to just a skeleton.

Stamina

• Spends several years straight digging out of a mountain, also stated to have been a decade

• Juggernaut relives his experience of digging out of the mountain when he got his powers, noting that it feels like he kept digging even as he was falling asleep

• Juggernaut is trapped in a block of cement by Spider-Man. He says he doesn’t need to breathe and can bust out eventually, but is trapped for six months

• Juggernaut is sent through time back to his body when he was trapped in concrete. He’s thirsty, which is why he went to get beer in Uncanny X-Men 183

• Juggernaut notes that while he was digging out of the cement block Spider-Man trapped him in, he felt suffocated and hungry, despite the fact that he doesn’t need to breathe or eat

• In space without his helmet, Juggernaut can still breathe, and claims he’ll eventually find his way back to Earth. When he returns, it’s said Juggernaut was lost in space without food for two months

• Fights X-Factor for an hour straight

• Juggernaut believes Cyttorak’s power may be fading after all these years (in reality due to the effects of the Ultraverse), as he’s finally able to sleep and can even bleed. He says he’s never even daydreamed since becoming the Juggernaut

• Is active for over 48 hours

• Cain recounts how he was sucked into the dimension inside the gem of Cyttorak in his early days, and how he spent “an eternity” there. He says he later spent most of a lifetime in Oblivion, growing old and dying before being spat back out alive again somehow, and how he spent nearly a year stuck in space on a rock or six months buried in cement by Spider-Man

• Even after being depowered, Juggernaut spent 30 days hauling his armour across Limbo, barely strong enough to carry it, before arriving at the Crossroads and sacrificing his armour to return to Earth. He emerges from Limbo in a heavily weakened condition

Healing Factor/Resilience 

• The magic coursing through Juggernaut’s veins protects and heals him, allowing him to immediately recover from getting stabbed in the eye

• Immediately heals from the injuries Shatterstar gave him

• Resuscitates himself after having no pulse and having stopped breathing

• Bursts awake from his catatonic state

• Even after having his power drained, through his hate, he keeps operating and fighting after being reduced to just a skeleton by D’yspare. After Spite returns his power to him, he’s fully restored back to flesh and blood. Note that while reduced to a skeleton, both Juggernaut and Spite suggest the latter could kill him in this state, suggesting it’s the upper limits of his endurance/regeneration

• Endures Rhino impaling him, and seems to quickly heal

• [Colossus] Colossus feels his skull crack with a swing of Kuurth’s hammer, but says it doesn’t seem to matter

• [Colossus] Turning into the Juggernaut seems to instantly heal a large hole in Colossus’s chest

Miscellaneous

• Projects energy globules from his body, which the X-Men dodge, breaking a tree in half. Cyclops notes that they’d be dangerous if they hit any of the X-Men

• A series of unrelated mystic events and Juggernaut’s own hatred allow him to manifest on Earth while trapped in Oblivion, though he is soon pulled back to Oblivion through a portal again

• The Oblivion Eternity banished Juggernaut to attempted to age him, but Juggernaut’s sheer hatred was an antidote that kept him young. When his hatred turns to fear against Beast, he begins ageing rapidly and is returned to Oblivion

• After draining Juggernaut’s magic energies, D’yspare claims he can now command “the very fabric of the universe

• Cain is so heavy him moving could shift the balance of a mass of wreckage

• Bruce Banner notes that while Skaar’s powers are based on science, Juggernaut is powered by magic

• The amped Juggernaut tears through the fabric of space-time itself, opening holes in reality and smashing through dimensional barriers. Juggernaut tears through every dimensional barrier more quickly than the lastTrion

• The amped Juggernaut possess a “homing instinct” leading it to the Trion, which they divert to delay himTrion

• The amped Juggernaut grows to a massive sizeTrion

• Freeing Juggernaut of his possession causes him to return to normal, but releases an explosion of Cyttorak’s energies which tears through space-time and approaches the other X-Men across dimensionsTrion

• [Colossus] Now empowered as the Juggernaut, Colossus warns Kitty that touching his skin may sear her fingers

Mystic Powers

After being banished to the Crimson Cosmos, Juggernaut learned some mystical powers that gave him outright magical abilities. He soon lost these abilities, trading them away for his restored youth with Oblivion, and I don’t think they’d be considered standard or viable to use, but they are interesting to note.

• While stuck in the Crimson Cosmos, Juggernaut somehow learned some magic. He uses a mystic spell emanating from his hands to shrink Nightmare down to his size and collide into him

• Projects a magic blast from his hands, the force of which, combined with Nightmare’s blast, frees Eternity from his bonds

• Juggernaut’s mystic skills allow him to hear a voice in his head communicating with him 

• Can sense Beast’s emanations, and follows Beast by sensing these emanations

• Juggernaut’s mystic powers prevent him from sinking in water, allowing him to swim and keep up with Beast

• The dimension Juggernaut was banished to has a conscience, Oblivion, and restores Juggernaut’s youth in exchange for his mystic powers, so he no longer has them

Demon Form

During Colossus’s time as the Juggernaut, he would occasionally lose himself to his inhibitions and morph into a powerful, demonic-looking form. The specifics of it are never really explained, but it appears to make him notably stronger and more violent. No explanation is ever given for why this happens or what causes the form, and it’s difficult to say if other people who serve as the Juggernaut like Cain Marko have access to this form as well. The best explanation I can give is that it’s possible that, since Cyttorak considers Colossus his best avatar in a millenia, Colossus gains this from a strengthened link to Cyttorak. I wouldn’t assume Cain has access to this form, but it’s worth noting.

• Colossus begins mutating and morphing as he slaughters the Tabula Rasa monsters, soon turning into a demonic form resembling Cyttorak as his influence takes hold. Magik manages to calm him down and returns back to normal

• Colossus gives into his inhibitions and morphs into his demonic Cyttorak form again

• Magik reveals she deliberately tricked Colossus into becoming the Juggernaut in order to show him her experiences, causing Colossus to turn into his demonic form in a fit of rage

Cyttorak

Cyttorak is the extra-dimensional demonic being the Juggernaut draws their power from. Cyttorak is described as a “multi-dimensional” deity, a god who was banished to the dimension of the Crimson Cosmos in a battle with the Iron Fist Li Park and the sorcerer Xun. He’s obsessed with being known and worshipped on Earth, and so creates avatars of his power on the planet through the Gem of Cyttorak to spread their influence and recognition, namely by causing as much destruction as possible. Cyttorak can empower and de-power the current Juggernaut on a whim, from just reducing their power to outright taking the role of Juggernaut from them. 

Cyttorak manifests in both a destructive, malevolent “aspect” and in a more godlike, aloof aspect. How exactly that works or what it means isn’t really specified, even by the handbooks, but the red demonic Cyttorak who’s typically seen seems to be the destructive aspect, while the more humanoid one is the godlike aspect. Notably, both have been shown existing in the Crimson Cosmos, and Cyttorak in his humanoid form has suggested he’s not truly the “overly humanoid form” he wears from time to time. The following are all the miscellaneous showings Cyttorak has, which, while not directly relevant to Cain, are interesting to cover.

• Cyttorak created the demon Xorak, and a race of “elf-like” beings to worship him

• Juggernaut attacks Cyttorak and seemingly defeats him, but it’s revealed to be a ruse. As Cyttorak is the source of Juggernaut’s powers, the moment the latter attacked him, he was enfeebled and became weaker and weaker, showing Cyttorak can depower Juggernaut on a whim

• It’s suggested Cyttorak could possess Juggernaut and take over his body on Earth

• Cyttorak, alongside the rest of the Octessence, created a totem of his power millenia ago that contained a fraction of his power, turning any human who touched it into an exemplar, a living embodiment of that power. Cyttorak tricked an order of monks into building a temple to contain it

• Cyttorak created the Crimson Gem of Cyttorak from part of his own body, and sent it to Earth to turn anybody who touched it into his avatar on Earth, with immeasurable superhuman strength and invulnerability

• Centuries ago, a group of monks attempted to harness Cyttorak’s power, but only ended up bringing his “most destructive aspect” to Earth

• Sage claims she believes Cyttorak and his minions have the power to bring negative thoughts and emotions to the forefront

• Cyttorak forms a mystic barrier around the gem of Cyttorak to prevent Cain from accessing it and regaining his full power

• Cyttorak hears Colossus’s call and seems to briefly possess Rachel and Pixie in order to speak through them, before summoning the X-Men to the Crimson Cosmos

• Doctor Voodoo summons Cyttora, minions of Cyttorak which are obsessed with durability who instinctively repair broken items

• Strange casts the Crimson Bands of Cyttorak, but they turn on him, as Cyttorak summons Strange to his realm

• Cyttorak’s destructive aspect is released from imprisonment when Peter Wisdom opens a mystic vault to free Merlin

• Cyttorak telepathically plays on Juggernaut’s doubts over reforming, tempting him to return to the temple in Korea

• Cyttorak attends the Devil’s Advocacy alongside the likes of Mephisto and Dormammu. He seeks vengeance on the Serpent, who transgressed and took his avatar 

• A group of golem Juggernaut-lookalikes made from the Crimson Bands of Cyttorak fight off the Avengers, including bloodying Thor, and assemble a Morningspyre to broadcast the story of their creator. The creator is Cyttorak’s daughter, who found tribe with the ageless inhabitants of the Crimson Cosmos and learned to command the Crimson Bands

• Cyttorak uses the last of his magics to flee the Crimson Cosmos as its inhabitants die and escape to the flickering realms

• Cyttorak creates the Screaming Masks of Cyttorak. These masks fly around and possess anybody they land on the face of, granting them superhuman strength capable of fighting off Spider-Man and the ability to project eye-beams. They can also drain their hosts of energy, turning them into skeletons, and can keep going even then. They seem weak to Shroud’s darkness, and Spider-Man was capable of fighting off their possession with the aid of Shroud

• The Crimson Brand of Cyttorak (named by Misty Beck) is a brand which transfers to the hand of one who spills the blood of the one they love most. Doing so gives them a direct tap to Cyttorak’s power, making them one of the most powerful beings on Earth. It’s located in an altar beneath Mercury Rising Hotel in L.A.

• The brand gives Mysterio the power to fire large blasts of energy, summon barriers which can manifest wall-running monsters, and manifest an energy sword

• Ben Reilly disarms Mysterio, cutting the hand with the brand off and severing the link to his power, causing all the summoned monsters to de-manifest and for Mysterio to return to normal as the brand disappears from his hand

Hax Resistances & Vulnerabilities

Keep in mind that any feats marked NA  are done in Juggernaut’s new set of armour, which has different rules to his old one as said above, so resistance feats performed in it may not apply to his old armour and level of power.

Mind Manipulation

Feats marked [Helmet] are done while Juggernaut is wearing his helmet. Note again that the helmet blocking psionic attacks only applies to Juggernaut’s old armour, and in his new armour (marked NA), his helmet offers no innate protection from what we’ve seen.

• Positive Showings:

• [Helmet] Withstands Professor X’s total mental energy

• [Helmet] Juggernaut’s helmet blocks Rachel’s mental powers, as does his skullcap

• [Helmet] Unaffected by Dazzler’s calming hypnotism, which works via light

• [Helmet] Psylocke is unable to probe Juggernaut’s mind and sense his location

• [Helmet] Juggernaut’s helmet protects him from Jean’s psychic powers, so he removes it as a sign of trust to let Jean access his mind

• [Helmet] Juggernaut’s armour makes him invisible to psi-scans

• [Helmet] Seems unaffected by D’yspare’s induced hopelessness

• [Helmet] Juggernaut’s helmet protects him from Xavier’s psionic powers, and must be removed

• [Helmet] Emma Frost notes that Juggernaut’s helmet makes him immune to her telepathy

• [Helmet] Cain can feel when someone is trying to get into his head through the helmet, and notes Xavier has a specific style that allows Cain to know Xavier was coming to see him as the helmet blocked his telepathy

• [Helmet] Captain Universe says he was unable to probe Juggernaut’s mind for weaknesses due to his helmet

• [Helmet] Emma Frost suggests Colossus’s Juggernaut helmet will protect him from Mister Sinister’s psychic attacks. He’s only controlled when his helmet is knocked off

• [Helmet] It’s implied the helmet makes Colossus immune to Xemnu’s psychic powers

• [Helmet] Rachel cannot read Living Monolith’s mind

• [Helmet] The young Jean is unable to shut down Juggernaut, and notes his mind is protected

• [Helmet] Unaffected by Emma Frost’s mind-wipe of the X-Men. It’s unclear if Emma was actually targeting him, but with his helmet he’s later shown being unaffected by her mentally projecting her thoughts into the other X-Men

• Cain willingly takes off his helmet, but Rachel still can’t read him, and says there’s something blocking his mind. Cain says every weakness he had is now gone. This is Juggernaut after being amped to the greatest degree by Cyttorak, strong enough to kill Cyttorak himself, so it would only apply at his peak

• Negative Showings:

• [Helmet] Factor Three invades Juggernaut’s mind and begins speaking to him without him being aware, even while he has the helmet on

• [Helmet] Mystically marked with Beyondersbane, which places him under Mephisto’s thrall

• [Helmet] Is fooled by Spite’s trickery and illusions

• [Helmet] Bedlam mentally probes Cain’s mind

• [Helmet] Dragged through time and mind-controlled by Orrgo

• [Helmet] Jean telepathically floods Juggernaut with memories that knock him out. He notes how it should be impossible for her to get past his helmet, but she does so anyways

• [Helmet] Cyttorak and his minions have the power to bring negative thoughts and emotions to the forefront, which seems to affect Cain

• [Helmet] Captain Universe seems to take Juggernaut on a sort of vague mental trip through his head

• [Helmet] Affected by a magical illusion, which makes him see people judging him

• [Helmet] The handbook confirms that Cyttorak telepathically played on Cain’s doubts to tempt him to return to the temple in Korea

• Subdued by Professor X’s mental powers, leaving him in a coma for months

• Is knocked out by mental blasts from Jean and Xavier

• Without his helmet or skullcap, is knocked out by a psionic blast from Psylocke

• Without his helmet, is knocked out by a psychic attack from Rachel’s Phoenix

• Knocked out cold by a psychic shockwave unleashed by the Hulk and Mentallo

• Is affected and fooled by the mental landscape created by Onslaught

• With the helmet but without the ruby powering it, is affected by an illusion cast by Spite. He’s affected again by an illusion of hers later, though he recognises it’s not real

• Xavier claims Juggernaut’s psionic signature has never been difficult to track

• Without his helmet, he is vulnerable to and knocked out by Bedlam’s psychic powers, shown again later

• Without his helmet or skullcap, is taken out by Emma Frost’s telepathy

• Without his helmet, is subdued by the Stranger filling his mind with cosmic truths

• The Shadow King-possessed Xavier notes that without his armour or helmet for protection, Cain is nothing but muscle, and proceeds to subdue him with a mental attack

• Without his helmet, is taken over and controlled by the Shadow King. Note that, given how he needed to lure Juggernaut away first and trick him into taking off his helmet, the implication seems to be that his helmet was otherwise blocking his control

• While Cain was sleeping without his helmet on, Xavier entered his head and trapped him in a mindscape until he wakes Cain up

• Mind controlled and possessed by Kindred’s centipedes. Note that he has his helmet on NA

• Xavier telepathically contacts Cain, with it being noted that while in the past his helmet blocked Xavier’s telepathy, his new armour follows new rules, Cain’s rulesNA

• Affected by Forget-Me-Not’s powers, making him forget who he isNA

• Affected by Switch’s mind-transfer, having his body taken overNA

• Xavier switches Cain’s mind offNA

• Neutral Showings (Both Positive and Negative):

• [Helmet] Mentally assaulted by Marvel Girl with Professor X’s powers, hurting him even as he has his helmet. He appears to somewhat resist, but has to act quickly before it knocks him out

• [Helmet] Stunned by a psionic blast from Psylocke which disrupts the neuron centre of his brain, even while he has his helmet on, though he quickly recovers and Psylocke notes she didn’t entirely succeed

• [Helmet] Psylocke’s psionic knives manage to affect Juggernaut through his helmet, though it’s noted he’s weakened and that it still only barely has an effect

• [Helmet] Onslaught mentally blocks some of Juggernaut’s memories, forcing him to seek out Jean to break the mental block and dig them out. With Jean’s help, he manages to smash through the mental block applied by Onslaught in his head

• [Helmet] Though Cain’s thoughts are shielded from Xavier’s telepathic scans, he can still sense Cain’s approach

• [Helmet] Xavier says he would normally be unable to penetrate Juggernaut’s psyche, but due to Cain being weakened and confused, he manages to sneak his astral form into his head through his helmet

• [Helmet] Is initially affected by, but quickly manages to overcome, a telepathic assault from Bedlam, later becoming completely immune to her powers, suggesting his telepathic resistance can increase over time

• [Helmet] Xavier is able to sense Juggernaut is alive, albeit not his exact location

• [Helmet] While asleep, Cain’s helmet and the amulet of Cyttorak protect him against a psionic attack stronger than even Xavier’s, though it does wake him up and cause visible pain. The Official Marvel Handbook confirms that this was the effect of Mister Sinister’s Cronus device, with Cain’s helmet protecting him from becoming Sinister’s host body

• Without his helmet, Cain is placed in a dream binding spell, which traps him in a mental landscape, but after having a talk with his own child self, he manages to break out of it and wake up. Note that the events of this issue are revealed to have all been in Juggernaut’s mind as a test for his worthiness by Cyttorak, so it’s unclear if this actually “happened” or not

• Stated that as children, Cain somehow sensed Xavier was reading his mind. That doesn’t really make sense and it’s only explicitly said in a handbook, so take it as you will

Soul Manipulation / Possession

• Positive Showings:

• None notable

• Negative Showings:

• It’s suggested Cyttorak could possess Juggernaut and take over his body

• Nocturne possesses Cain while he’s wearing his helmet. She notes she made the possession “light as possible”

• Ghost “possesses” and interfaces with Juggernaut’s mystic armour, peering into seemingly his soul. He’s forced out, but only because Kuurth was also possessing Juggernaut

• Neutral Showings (Both Positive and Negative):

• Re-absorbing his power from the gem in Korea leaves Juggernaut possessed somehow by the enemy of the Trion, going on a seemingly mindless rampage. The entity possessing Juggernaut traps him in his own mind, showing him an illusion of his worst fears that Xavier and Wolverine have to help him break out of. Juggernaut manages to recover his powers in his head and defeat the entity possessing him in the astral plane, freeing himself from its control and power

• Juggernaut is placed under a sort of spell putting him under Cyttorak’s control, interfering with Xavier’s attempts to reach him in his astral form. Juggernaut battles Cyttorak for control within his own mind. To avoid conflict with Cyttorak, Cain creates a simple psychic construct of his past within his mind. His growing rage while mentally battling Xavier allows him to regain control and dissolves the construct, and the now-dominant Cain defeats Cyttorak within his mind and regains control of his body

• Touches the Hammer of Kuurth, which allows Kuurth to possess him. Even while possessed, Juggernaut still has some degree of control and influence. Cain is bonded to both Kuurth and Cyttorak, both of whom appear to bury his spirit. It’s said he could have used Cyttorak’s presence within him to resist Kuurth’s possession, but he chose not to

Matter Manipulation

• Positive Showings:

• Juggernaut survives a blast from Nimrod which disintegrates an i-beam. Juggernaut says he could have been killed by the disintegrator if it weren’t for the magic spell that made him Juggernaut

• Stated that Cyttorak’s mystical energy makes him impervious to all forms of injury, up to and including molecular disintegrations. Note that this is only in the earliest editions of the handbook, so it’s possible that it’s been retconned

• Negative Showings:

• Juggernaut seems to think Decay’s decaying powers would affect him

Biological Manipulation

• Positive Showings:

• Barely affected by sleeping gas potent enough to affect a herd of elephants

• In a retelling of these events, he’s affected by, but manages to get past, gas canisters strong enough to sedate a herd of elephants 

• Unaffected by acid bombs and concussion grenades

• Unharmed by Mammomax’s stomach acid

• Negative Showings:

• Nimrod jams the transmission of neural impulses from Juggernaut’s brain to his body, paralysing him

• Affected by Conquest’s pressure points. He gets up quickly, but it’s unclear if that’s due to him overpowering the effects of the pressure points or if that’s a property of Conquest’s attack

• Knocked out by some sort of bullet fired by Vulture into his mouth through the helmet holes. It’s not really clear what it is, but it appears to sedate him

• Affected and taken out by a heart attack induced via a reality warping mutant. Havok says he’ll be out for a few weeks at minimum 

• Luke Cage incapacitates Juggernaut by activating the nanites within his body

• Subdued by King Hyperion controlling his nanites, causing him pain

• Takes a slash from a Dirae, which are stated to induce “unimaginable pain”

• Subdued and knocked unconscious by his nanites

• Affected by some genetically engineered bees with the DNA of Swarm and Toad, whose stings release a paralytic agent which causes Juggernaut to keel over NA

• Put to sleep by Valerian officinalis growing inside his body. As he sleeps, his armour de-manifestsNA

Power Nullification / Removal

• Positive Showings:

• The Human-Adaptoid, with Absorbing Man’s powers, is unable to access and steal the power Juggernaut’s armour hidesNA

• The Adaptoid’s guards say that Juggernaut’s armour is composed of the Crimson Bands of Cyttorak, and Juggernaut says they aren’t going to prevent him from summoning it as his armour is inside him now, which could explain this resistance

• Negative Showings:

• The prototype ruby of Cyttorak takes away Juggernaut’s powers

• Rogue drains Black Tom’s power, taking his memories and his Juggernaut powers and causing her to grow in size, though it soon returns to the gem of Cyttorak

• Thor casts a spell that negates all mystical energies in the area, removing Juggernaut’s forcefield (it doesn’t remove his strength, but it doesn’t seem like the spell was targeting it)

• Affected by the effects of the Ultraverse, which weaken his power

• Onslaught forcibly removes the Crimson Gem of Cyttorak from his body, depowering him. The handbook states this severed Cain’s connection to the ruby

• Seemingly affected and contained by an energy dampener

• While unconscious, has his powers and strength temporarily stolen by Rogue

• Taking Captain Universe’s power seems to either interrupt Cain’s link to Cyttorak or have ticked off Cyttorak, leading to Cain being weakened, with a handbook implying it’s the former

• The Frost Giants restrain Juggernaut with some magic bands and torture him, leaving him bleeding. They attempt to pull the power of Cyttorak from his body, and Punisher believes Juggernaut will soon be killed and the Frost Giants will become more powerful if they aren’t stopped

• Takes a shot from Sin-Eater, allowing Sin-Eater to steal his powers

• Magik, in her demonic Darkchylde form, rips out the gem of Cyttorak from within Juggernaut’s body before crushing it, severing his power

• A blast from Cosmic Ghost Rider’s Power Cosmic weakens him. It’s said a few pages later that his healing factor is down, likely due to the Power Cosmic’s effects

• Almost has the Crimson Bands of Cyttorak removed from his armour by some elite prison guardsNA

• [Colossus] Now in her own domain, Magik uses her Soulsword to shatter Colossus’s enchantment, slicing Cyttorak’s bonds and removing the power of the Juggernaut from him. Colossus does later note that while Magik’s Soulsword was able to separate him from the gem, he’s unsure if it would work on the Living Monolith, but he attributes this to Monolith’s size and his own resistances, not any innate power of the Juggernaut that would apply to other avatars

• Neutral Showings (Both Positive and Negative):

• Rogue drains Juggernaut’s powers and memories, but due to Juggernaut resisting her, she’s unable to control herself and goes berserk. The power soon fades from her and returns to the gem of Cyttorak, with touching the gem returning Juggernaut’s powers to him 

• Has his memories and powers drained by Rogue. She notes that Juggernaut’s powers are magical and are too much for her to safely handle, meaning she can only absorb a portion of it, and that he’s still conscious and will regain his powers in a minute

Energy Absorption

• Positive Showings:

• None notable

• Negative Showings:

• While in the Ultraverse, seems to have his energy drained by the Firewalker

• D’yspare feeds on Juggernaut’s emotions, in-turn feeding on the power of the ruby itself as Cain is bonded with it, which weakens Juggernaut. Spite ends up draining practically all of Juggernaut’s power

• The fake Gem of Cyttorak drains all of Juggernaut's crimson energy and leaves him nearly powerless and sick, with only occasional flashes of power

• Neutral Showings (Both Positive and Negative):

• Professor X attempts to drain Juggernaut of his energies and send them back to the Crimson Cosmos, though the machine he uses breaks due to outside interference, causing Juggernaut to absorb Xavier’s mental powers for a time

Stasis

• Positive Showings:

• None notable

• Negative Showings:

• Held in stasis by Mephisto

• Held in a stasis cage

• Held in stasis at Crossmoor

BFR

• Positive Showings:

• This has literally never not worked on him

• Negative Showings:

• The prototype ruby of Cyttorak forcibly sends him to the Crimson Cosmos inside the gem, only pulled out of it later by one of Professor X’s machines

• Banished to the Crimson Cosmos by the effect of Professor X’s machine. The Spell of Cyttorak prevents Juggernaut from returning to Earth

• Eternity banishes Juggernaut to “Oblivion”. He’s later banished through a portal back to Oblivion even after briefly leaving

• A series of unrelated mystic events and Juggernaut’s hatred allow him to manifest on Earth, but he’s soon pulled back to Oblivion through a portal again, so this probably wouldn’t apply normally. He’s returned to Oblivion for good and only escapes through a machine that returns him to Earth 

• Thor banishes Juggernaut to a distant dimension/asteroid (the details on if it was just in space or outright an alternate dimension vary, with the Marvel Handbook suggesting it’s the former) 

• Teleported away by Deadpool

• Juggernaut has a symbiotic connection with the Crimson Cosmos, allowing Doctor Strange to summon him

• Forcibly transported out of the dimension, banishing him to a world between worlds

• Forcibly teleported back to the Marvel universe by Reaper

• Juggernaut collides with the aspect of Cyttorak and destroys it, unleashing an explosion of mystic energy which begins tearing apart the dimension of the ruby. Juggernaut is spat out by it across the interdimensional void to Earth

• Forcibly teleported by Prosh

• Sucked into Xorn’s black hole and sent to the Mojoverse (though he allowed it to happen)

• Juggernaut is pulled to the “real world” by Clyde Wyncham, better known as the counterpart of the Marquis of Death

• Beast uses a spell to open a demonic portal beneath Juggernaut and banish him away, specifically sending him to Siberia with a detour through Hell

• Forcibly summoned by Doctor Voodoo’s spell

• Magik, in her demonic Darkchylde form, severs Juggernaut’s power and banishes him through a portal to Limbo

• Forcibly portalled by PixieNA

• [Colossus] Colossus is forcibly teleported away by Pixie

• [Colossus] Magik takes the demonic Colossus and herself to Limbo 

Telekinesis / That shit Magneto does

• Positive Showings:

• Shatters Jean Grey’s telekinetic power as she lifts him

• In a re-telling, is affected by, but breaks through, Jean’s telekinetic field

• In a What-If story, Xavier as the Juggernaut is completely unaffected by Magneto’s magnetism, before crushing his helmet in his hands. This is arguably contradicted by the showing below, but worth noting

• Negative Showings:

• Lifted off the ground by Marvel Girl’s telekinesis

• Jean restrains Juggernaut with psychic bands. He offers no resistance, but he seems to think it’s possible she could hold him legitimately

• Magneto is capable of affecting and melting even Kuurth’s helmet, albeit he can’t stop the hammer in-motion due to it also being unstoppable. This is Kuurth, but Juggernaut should be weaker and so also vulnerable

• Neutral Showings (Both Positive and Negative):

• In a What-If story, Magneto struggles against Cain’s force, with Juggernaut eventually overpowering his pull

High-Frequency Sound

• Positive Showings:

• None notable

• Negative Showings:

• Knocked out by a beam of ultra-high frequency sonics to the head, his skullcap unable to protect him and the pain preventing him from taking action

• Affected and seemingly harmed by the Scream’s global sonic pulse

• Affected and hurt by the scream of the Dirae, which causes ears to bleed. The helmet does not help

• Neutral Showings (Both Positive and Negative):

• Endures a powerful localised sonic assault from Iron Man. He manages to stay standing, but it draws a large amount of blood from him and causes visible pain

Sealing

• Positive Showings:

• None notable

• Negative Showings:

• While banished to the Crimson Cosmos, the Spell of Cyttorak outright prevents Juggernaut from returning to Earth

• After removing the gem from his body, Onslaught imprisons Juggernaut, body and soul, within the Gem of Cyttorak

• The Frost Giants restrain Juggernaut with some magic bands and torture him

• Unable to break out of some magical ice restraints

• [Cyttorak] Gomurr and Tar seal the destructive aspect of Cyttorak within a ruby. A spell binds the aspect of Cyttorak to the inside of the gem, though not Juggernaut. Juggernaut is later infused with the energy used to seal Cyttorak in the ruby

Time Manipulation

• Positive Showings:

• None notable

• Negative Showings:

• Summoned through time by a machine before being sent back

• Prosh projects Juggernaut’s “psychic engram” into the body of his past self, linked to encephalographic wavelengths of his past body

• Dragged through time and space by Orrgo, and is later sent back

• Neutral Showings (Both Positive and Negative):

• The realm of Oblivion attempts to age him, but Juggernaut’s sheer hatred is an antidote that keeps him young. When his hatred turns to fear against Beast, he begins ageing rapidly

• He says he later spent most of a lifetime in Oblivion, growing old and dying before being spat back out alive again somehow

• Turned into a child by Spiral and Mojo’s powers. Even as a child though, Cain retains the “proportional power” of the Juggernaut

Spatial Manipulation

• Positive Showings:

• Survives reality shattering around him, pulling him from his dimensional prison

• Negative Showings:

• None notable

Phasing / Intangibility

• Positive Showings:

• Juggernaut reaches through Xavier’s astral self and pulls his physical form out of it. Note that this was during the Eighth Day event, so, as said above, it’s possible Cyttorak was increasing Juggernaut’s power

• Viv Vision phases through Juggernaut’s body, but he seems to grab her while she’s intangible and removes her from his body, noting that her robotic magic tricks are no match for the Gem of Cyttorak

• Negative Showings:

• Unable to affect D’yspare after the latter turns into smoke

• Unable to harm Ghost when he’s phasing

• Unable to punch Paulie’s smoke apparitions, and is nearly choked by breathing in the smoke NA

Life-Force Manipulation

• Positive Showings:

• None notable

• Negative Showings:

• Restrained and has his life-force drained by the mutated Black Tom Cassidy

• Burned by the blood of some monsters mutated by the Terrigen mists, subduing him. It’s later said that contact drains the life-force of whoever touches the monsters

Radiation

• Positive Showings:

• Luke Cage notes Juggernaut should be immune to the mutating effects of the Terrigen mists, and he seems unaffected by the radiation present in the cave

• In a What-If, is immune to the radiation released by the Sentinels across the planet, which exterminates all humans and all mutants. A later letters page says that this is because his power comes from the mystical might of Cyttorak and is magical in nature, so it would take a huge magical force to stop him

• Negative Showings:

• None notable

Kinetic Energy Manipulation

• Positive Showings:

• None notable

• Negative Showings:

• None notable

• Neutral Showings (Both Positive and Negative):

• Affected by a mutant’s kinetic deceleration field. He manages to charge through somewhat, but is clearly slowed down by itNA

This doesn’t apply to Juggernaut normally, but I just wanted to mention the comic where Kuurth resists basically every single esoteric ability and plan Cyclops throws at him in a row, walking through it all without slowing down. Man that’s cool.

Feats

As a reminder of the key:

• UV - Ultraverse, where Juggernaut’s powers were weakened

• A - Juggernaut after absorbing the Gem of Cyttorak’s energies, where his power was much greater than before

• B - Juggernaut for most of the 2000s, where he was getting weaker and weaker every day

• C - Juggernaut after regaining his full power against World War Hulk

• D - Juggernaut while he was with the Thunderbolts, where his power was diminished again

• E - Juggernaut after connecting with an alternate Cyttorak, where his power was vaguely fading

• F - Juggernaut after gaining the most amount of power ever granted by Cyttorak, his strongest state

• NA - Juggernaut in his new armour, where he’s no longer directly linked to Cyttorak

Overall

• Defeated Hulk, Thing, Rhino, Sasquatch, just about every big bruiser in Marvel you can think of

• Served as one of the Serpent’s Worthy during Fear Itself

• Rescued D-Cel from unlawful incarceration

• Briefly ruled over an alien planet as king

• Helped save Professor Xavier from World War Hulk

• Told Cyttorak to fuck off

Strength

Striking, Tearing,  and Bending

• In the past, Cyttorak had Cain defeat a disloyal Juggernaut and challenge him for the mantle. Juggernaut successfully killed him and razed his village to the ground, killing everyone inside it

• Smashes through Iceman’s constructs, as thick as a concrete wall, and shakes the X-Men’s mansion

• Breaks through an electromagnetic forcefield

• Snaps a steel cable like paper

• Takes out all the X-Men in one swing

• Smashes part of the X-Men’s mansion

• Blows a large hole through a cargo ship

• Rips apart a helicopter

• Breaks through Iceman’s ice freezing over him

• Launches some ice shards hard enough to knock out Iceman

• Smashes through a solid wall

• Battles Nightmare in his dimension. He takes some blows and lands some hits, but the fight is quickly cut short before anything definitive can happen

• Smashes through solid steel floats like paper mache

• Counters Beast trying to take off his helmet by smashing him into a tree

• Smashes Beast into a rock 

• Smashes apart a tank

• Hits the Hulk over a large mound, before smashing through it 

• Trades blows with the Hulk, noting him as almost being his physical equal

• Punches away Colossus, Wolverine, Storm, and Nightcrawler, putting Colossus through a solid wall and knocking out Wolverine with a slap

• Smashes the ground to hit Colossus and knocks him out

• Smashes through a steel machine

• Smashes through a part of a castle, blowing a massive hole in it

• Nearly knocks out Spider-Woman with just a slap 

• Rips apart a reinforced concrete wall

• Punches Colossus, shaking the entire ship

• Crumples a solid steel hatch

• Smashes Spider-Man through a solid wall to remove him from his body

• Collapses the roof of a building

• Catches and crumples a large steel girder

• Without his helmet or armour on, trades blows with Colossus. He crushes Colossus under a large part of a bar and sends him flying through the walls and crushes him further by collapsing the roof of the building

• While at half-power, smashes through part of a building

• Juggernaut is slingshotted by Spider-Man’s net and collides with Black Tom, causing a building to collapse

• Smashes into the sewers

• Beats down on and subdues an empowered Thing in only three panels, who had just defeated every other villain Mephisto summoned (note that Juggernaut was possibly vaguely empowered at the time, first page last paragraph)

• Swats Rogue high into the air, crashing through a faraway building

• Even without his helmet or skullcap, smashes some tanks

• Sends Captain Britain flying and beats down on him

• Swats away Thor, sending him flying

• Collides with Thor, sending him flying into a building and knocking him out

• Swats away Speedball

• Breaks out of an iron rail wrapped around his body

• Smashes Thor through a stone mound

• Even without his forcefield and helmet, Juggernaut claims he retains his strength, and knocks Thor down

• Without his helmet, lifts a large pillar and knocks Thor down with it, claiming he’s easily Thor’s equal in strength

• Harms Siryn with a punch

• Trades blows with Warpath, later swatting him aside

• Juggernaut smashes apart the crystals containing Doctor Strange

• Surprise attacks Cyttorak and rips the ruby from his head, though he does not actually defeat him or knock him out, and Nova, the herald of Galactus, is capable of knocking Cyttorak’s ruby out of Juggernaut’s grip

• Harms Doctor Strange with his blows

• Shakes the Hulk, Wolverine, and Spider-Man off his body

• While not wearing his helmet, sends Professor Hulk flying through the jungle with a hit. He crushes Hulk’s throat in his grip, preventing him from breathing. Hulk says the unarmoured Juggernaut is giving him a run for his money, and he nearly knocks out the Hulk with his blows, only stopping after being ordered to

• Swats away the Black Knight 

• Collapses a building with a punch

• Splits apart a fire truck

• Easily knocks back Venom and sends him flying

• Sends Venom crashing into a hole in space

• Smashes through a metal door

• Bursts through a solid wall while on fire

• Bursts out through a solid stone wall

• Almost kills Beast with a punch

• Punches through a solid wall

• Decks Qune UV

• Punches a large hole in a building wall UV

• Bursts through the walls of a sewer and knocks away all the Exiles UV

• Smashes the ground, creating cracks along it UV

• Smashes part of the seafloor apart

• Smashes through a metal jet-ski and knocks out Bishop

• Sends Gambit flying with a back-hand

• Without his gem and depowered, breaks out of a mound of volcanic rock covering his body

• Juggernaut collides with the weakened aspect of Cyttorak and destroys it, obliterating him and unleashing an explosion of mystic energy which begins tearing apart the dimension of the ruby (note that this didn’t actually seem to kill Cyttorak’s aspect, who shows up in later comics just fine) A

• Devastates and tears down some buildings over time A

• Smashes a truck A

• With Juggernaut’s magic energies, D’yspare claims he can now command “the very fabric of the universe” A

• Hits War Hulk through some cars A

• Without his armour, smashes through the X-Men mansion’s door A

• Smashes a hole in the road and destroys some neighbouring buildings A

• His grip overwhelms Thor before tossing him away into a wall A

• Grips and nearly chokes the life out of Thor, who is unable to escape, before the grip is broken by Bedlam’s magic A

• Smashes through the god-machine, displacing its mystic energies A

• Trades blows with Stonecutter, devastating the landscape around them and destroying the god-machine in what the narration describes as fury that has never before been unleashed on the natural world A

• Trades blows with Conquest and ultimately defeats her A

• The spells that empower Juggernaut will allow him to eventually break free of Stonecutter’s imprisonment field, which is strong enough to hold even Thor A

• Without his armour, punches the head off of one of Prosh’s robot bodies A

• Without his helmet, smashes through the Stranger’s body, though the Stranger is completely unharmed as he has no reliance on the corporeal. He later knocks down the Stranger with a punch A

• Tears through the walls of Prosh’s ship A

• Restrains Hulk in his grip A

• Breaks through Iceman’s ice repeatedly B

• Destroys his house B

• Smashes Puck into the ground B

• Trades blows with Sasquatch, whose blow knocks off his helmet. The impact of their clash knocks over the surrounding cars and leaves both bleeding and knocked out. He later fights evenly with Sasquatch, knocking him through a tree B

• Sends Sasquatch flying through some cars with a punch B

• Smashes a rock golem B

• Decks Mimic B

• Slams some wolf monsters into the ground B

• Smashes Polaris under a tree, incapacitating her B

• Smashes and collapses a wall with a punch B

• Without his armour, sends Sasquatch skidding through the ground with a punch B

• Without his armour, defeats three members of Alpha Flight single handedly, sending Guardian flying through a tree with a punch and knocking him out and smashing his armourB

• Sends Rhino flying through a prison wall with a blow B

• The clash between Starkweather and the unarmoured Cain creates a shockwave which blows away a nearby car B

• Swats away multiple AIM soldiers at once B

• Smashes through a large construct of ice from Iceman B

• Crushes and subdues a group of Chinese soldiers B

• Smashes and breaks the knee of a giant-sized Collective Man B

• Grabs and subdues Nocturne (though he doesn’t kill her) B

• Rips apart the tree Black Tom B

• Smashes Avalanche’s helmet with a punch B

• Shatters the ground with a punch, which lifts up a large mass of earth B

• Knocks away Mammomax with a punch B

• While turned into a child, sends Mojo’s Sasquatch flying with a punch, and surprises Spiral and subdues her with a punch B

• Swats a dark copy of Jean Grey out of a building B

• Flexes out of a dark copy of Iceman’s ice B

• Knocks out a copy of Iceman with a punch B

• Is frozen by a blast which encases him in crystal, but eventually breaks out B

• Defeats two Warwolves and restrains them with iron girders B

• Digs out of a pile of wreckage, creating a fissure along the ground as he does it and lifting a large rock B

• Punches Captain Britain through a wall and draws blood B

• Knocks out the Black Knight with a light tap B

• Sucker punches Wrecker in the gut B

• Catches and destroys the blade of one of Cyttorak’s disciples in his hand, before beating him into the ground and nearly killing him B

• While unarmoured, trades blows with World War Hulk, landing multiple hits but ultimately being subdued and smashed into the ground B

• Smashes one of Albion’s Captain Britain minions into the ground B

• Subdues two Shadow-Captain Britains with a punch and a kick, before shattering the sword of a third and tossing them aside B

• Decks Albion while mid-air B

• The now empowered Cain trades blows with and fights evenly with World War Hulk, slamming him into the ground and grappling him. Juggernaut and Hulk’s clash undermines the stability of Xavier’s mansion, threatening to collapse it C

• Brawls evenly with the Hulk, taking multiple hits C (?)

• Repeatedly punches Skaar in the head, drawing blood C

• Frees Spider-Man from some steel girders and bends them C

• Grabs Captain Universe and punches him in the gut C

• Tears through a forest and topples a bunch of trees D

• Collapses the entrance to a cave D

• Grabs and restrains Man-Thing D

• Fights off a swarm of ninjas D

• Swats away Luke Cage D

• Slaps away Thor D

• Grabs King Hyperion and slams him into the ground D

• Headbutts King Hyperion, seemingly drawing blood, and slams him into a rock D

• Punches King Hyperion and repeatedly slams him into the ground, drawing blood D

• Decks Ragnarok and sends him flying, and smashes him into the ground alongside Mr. Hyde E

• Sends Man-Killer flying out of the temple of Cyttorak, straight through the wall E

• Slaps aside both Rachel Grey and Nightcrawler E

• Breaks out of Iceman’s ice E

• Repeatedly punches Colossus, drawing blood E

• Juggernaut slams into the giant-sized Living Monolith, sending him toppling to the ground, before slamming into his chest F

• Juggernaut grapples with and overwhelms Colossus F

• Smashes the ground, creating a massive shockwave which blows away Colossus and seems to start a fire F

• Punches Colossus, sending him flying straight through a massive section of forest and breaking his ribs F

• Juggernaut smashes through a wall, leaving a massive hole in it and blowing away the time-displaced young X-Men F

• Smashes out of the young Iceman’s ice restraints, later swinging him away and sending him flying F

• Is frozen solid in a block of ice by (regular) Iceman, but immediately smashes out F

• Punches Iceman’s ice, knocking him away F

• Bearhugs Iceman and begins crushing him F

• Smashes into the ground, blowing away the Avengers Unity Division including the likes of Rogue and Scarlet Witch F

• Smashes through Doctor Voodoo’s shield F

• Swats aside Synapse, heavily injuring her F

• Clashes grips with Rogue, overpowering her and noting that he’s stronger F

• Sends Thor flying with a punch, drawing blood F

• Trades blows with Thor, drawing blood from him, before slamming him into the ground. Thor notes that he feels a tooth tearing through his intestines F

• Smashes Joseph, a clone of Magneto, into the ground F

• Slams Blockbuster into a train carriage, crushing it F

• Slaps away Siena Blaze into a slab F

• Stomps on a Frost Giant’s head, crushing it F

• Crushes his fist down on Zveltar the Miserable, pasting him F

• Punches a hole through a wall of Uru, which the Punisher describes as being a dozen feet thick F

• Slams Cosmic Ghost Rider into the ground F (?)

• Smashes the ground, creating a shockwave which blows away some building rubble NA

• Lays a beatdown on Immortal Hulk as he’s getting his gamma drained, uppercutting him and managing to subdue him NA

• Smashes through an armoured vault door NA

• Leaps out of the Dungeon prison, breaking through the roof NA

• Smashes the ground, creating a shockwave which blows away some police cars NA

• Punches Deadpool’s head in, turning it into a pancake NA

• Smashes through a clearing of trees on Krakoa NA

• Grapples with the Human-Adaptoid, later decking him in the head, loosening his grip NA

• Fights off a group of Merlyn’s forces NA

• [Colossus] Colossus tackles Kuurth, cracking open a large chunk of the road

• [Colossus] Colossus punches Kuurth into a building, causing it to fall

• [Colossus] Colossus and Kuurth trade blows. Colossus notes that Kuurth is stronger and faster than him, more powerful in all ways except one, that being that Kuurth cannot stop his charge

• [Colossus] Smashes through some micro-Celestials

• [Colossus] Colossus smashes into a giant Phalanx hybrid, sending into smashing into the ground 

• [Colossus] Colossus smashes through the head of a Sentinel

• [Colossus] Colossus punches Xemnu in the head. It’s stated only Colossus’s Juggernaut energies are strong enough to directly engage him

• [Colossus] Colossus smashes the ground, cratering the street

• [Colossus] Colossus seems to brawl evenly with Red Hulk

• [Colossus] Colossus trades blows with Red Hulk, taking multiple hits to the helmet and sending him crashing into moon-rock

• [Colossus] Colossus smashes Thing with a large piece of debris, and proceeds to trade blows with Thing, sending him flying and tanking his hits. He ultimately knocks out Thing with a punch

• [Colossus] Demon Colossus beats down on Red Hulk, drawing blood and breaking his bones, ultimately damaging the pillar supporting Utopia. Red Hulk later admits that fighting Colossus almost broke him 

• [Colossus] Demon Colossus rips off his own helmet

• [Colossus] Begins morphing into his demonic form as he slaughters the Tabula Rasa monsters

• [Colossus] Demon Colossus in a bout of rage smashes the ground, leaving a crater

• [Living Monolith] Living Monolith as the Juggernaut possibly shifts the stars themselves in a show of power, and says the star quiver at his power (though it’s very unclear, so it’s debatable)

• Hospitalises Stan Lee and Jack Kirby

Lifting, Pushing, and Pulling

• Blows away some boxes which collide with Angel, knocking him unconscious

• Unable to power against the pull of a large wind tunnel

• Breaks off and throws a large chunk of stone

• Lifts and launches a steamroller

• Tosses aside cars and trucks

• Knocks aside a large police van

• Rips off and lifts the corner of an entire building

• Swats aside a three-ton steel ball, bringing down the side of a building

• Lifts and smashes a tank

• With half of the Juggernaut’s power, Black Tom lifts and topples a building

• While at half power, tosses a car

• Throws the gem of Cyttorak into orbit (we’re later shown a shot of how far the ruby went when Juggernaut threw it)

• Tosses aside a bunch of cars

• Rips off a chunk of a building, collapsing it 

• Tosses a bus full of people

• Throws an entire boxcar

• Launches Hulk like a projectile

• Lifts and swings a giant robot t-rex UV

• Flips tanks into the air UV

• Holds up a collapsing ceiling, though he notes he’s not sure how much longer he can hold it. It eventually collapses the entire top of the building UV

• Without his helmet, lifts and smacks a tree into HarvestUV

• Even without the gem, Juggernaut can throw Spite into Cyttorak’s grip

• Lifts and tosses a car A

• Tears out, lifts, and throws a large chunk of the street A

• While weakened, tosses a large truck through a building and rips off and lifts the corner of a large building

• Tosses a bus A

• Tears off and throws a large chunk of machinery at Decay A

• Resists the force of the vacuum created by Prosh dissipating A

• Lifts a massive road-sign and smashes it into Starkweather B

• Uses a nearby pole to send Starkweather flying through a building B

• Lifts a large girder B

• Juggernaut performs a strength test in the Danger Room, apparently struggling with a level that’s not even Colossus-tier B

• Lifts the leg of a giant Collective Man B

• Struggles to get out of the weight of the giant Collective Man on top of him B

• Restrained by Black Tom. Black Tom later claims that he’s held Juggernaut at bay for hours with his roots B

• Lifts and swings Mammomax through three trees before slamming him into the ground, cracking it and subduing him B

• Lifts part of a train carriage B

• Overcomes the restraint of Black Tom Cassidy’s plants and swings them around B

• Seems to chuck a large piece of rock at a Makluan dragon’s head B

• Lifts and swings a Makluan dragon by the tail B

• Lifts a bus and smashes it over Wrecker B

• Crushes a monster with a large boulder D

• Lifts a massive number of weights with one hand as part of an exercise D

• Lifts and tosses a large boulder D

• Lifts and holds the foot of a massive building-destroying kaiju, stopping it D

• Throws an icicle hard enough to impale a Frost Giant F

• Restrained by Cosmic Ghost Rider’s chains, made of the bones of Cyttorak, which remove his helmet and knock him out F (?)

• Throws a large rock through Quicksand’s sand head, severing it NA

• Restrained and encased by Primus NA 

• Lifts Sadurang by the tail off the ground before swinging and throwing him NA

• Tosses aside Grey Gargoyle and Lizard NA

• [Colossus] Colossus lifts and swings a Sentinel into the ground by the leg

Thunderclaps and Earthquakes / Shockwaves

• Smashes the ground to unleash sonic waves, which knock out Cyclops and cancel out Jean Grey’s levitation

• Creates an earthquake by smashing the ground, causing a cliff to crumble

• Smashes a large machine, creating a tremor

• Creates a shockwave by smashing the ground

• Creates a tremor by bursting through a wall

• Knocks down Deadpool with a shockwave

• Kicks up the other Exiles by stomping the ground UV

• The shockwave of Juggernaut clapping knocks out the entire Generation X team A

• Juggernaut’s thunderclap creates a shockwave which knocks down Cyclops A

• Juggernaut beats down on a shielded Bruce Banner, which creates a magnitude 4.6 earthquake, possibly magnitude 8 C

• Juggernaut observes the cracks in the tectonic plate with the Enigma Force, and says he’s the one who caused them months ago C

• Disperses Veil’s form with a thunderclap D

• Stomps the ground, creating a shockwave which sends the young Jean flying F

• Pulverises Primus with a thunderclap NA

• [Colossus] Colossus unleashes a thunderclap, blowing back Spider-Man and the ground around him. The text box says Latveria will suffer a month long glass shortage due to the force of this blow

• [Colossus] Colossus smashes the ground, sending a shockwave along it which knocks away Spider-Man

Weight / Super-Impact

• Crushes some stairs just by walking on them

• Falls from high in the sky, cratering the ground upon impact

• Trades blows with the empowered Black Tom, knocking each other off the building and cratering the ground upon impact

• Juggernaut’s footsteps create a seismic disturbance

• Heavily breaks apart the street with his walking

• Cracks the ground just by walking

• Creates a crater by falling

• Creates shockwaves through the sidewalk by landing UV

• Juggernaut’s footsteps leave holes in the pavement

• Cracks the pavement with every step he takes B

• Cain is so heavy him moving could shift the balance of a mass of wreckage B

• Smashes the ground by landing from a great height, destroying Black Tom’s giant robo plants B

• Falls from a great height, creating a crater in the ground and knocking him out B

• Smashes through a roof and cracks the floor of a bank by landing B

• Juggernaut is stated to weigh nearly half a ton C

• Falls from high above, crashing into a mountain hard enough to dig into an underground bunker NA

Statements

• Juggernaut is more powerful than any threat the X-Men have faced so far

• Described as the X-Men’s most dangerous foe

• Stated to possess Hulk-level strength

• Has class 100 strength, allowing him to lift over 100 tons

• The power of X-Force is nothing compared to Juggernaut

• Described as one of X-Force’s most powerful foes

• Apocalypse describes Juggernaut as the most “puissant” of the X-Men’s foes

• Spider-Man claims that Juggernaut alone could give Thor or Iron Man a run for their money

• Juggernaut thinks he’s strong enough to take on the Avengers, Thor, Iron Man, and Scarlet Witch included A

• Juggernaut is ranked as an 8.9 on the “Comparative Mutagenic Power Register”, the same level as Jean Grey A

• Juggernaut laments his loss of power, and says there used to be a time where he could have easily defeated some dragons instead of getting swatted away. Nocturne says he’s still the toughest person on the team, aside from Captain Britain B

• Wrecker says that in his prime, he could see Thor stopping Juggernaut, maybe Hulk, and says that a prime Cain would have easily defeated the Wrecking Crew B

• Stated that during this time, while still superhuman, Juggernaut’s strength has vastly decreased from his class 100 level B

• Xavier considers Juggernaut the most dangerous of all the X-Men’s enemies, above Apocalypse and the Shadow King, and dealt with him immediately upon becoming Onslaught, because he’s afraid of the gem and knows it was intended for him 

• Cyttorak chose Cain as his agent of destruction for his anger, and implies he can move mountains

• Juggernaut is called the Raft’s most powerful inmate D

• Cyclops says that on a good day, Juggernaut is a “Thor-class threat” on his own

• Cain says Cyttorak gave him more power than he’s ever given anyone, enough power to kill Cyttorak himself F

• D-Cel acknowledges that Immortal Hulk is much stronger than Juggernaut is currently NA

• [Colossus] Unit says Magneto is the most dangerous of the X-Men, suggesting he’s more dangerous than Colossus

Cyttorak

• The Crimson Bands of Cyttorak ensnare Doctor Strange 

• The spikes within Cyttorak’s dimension threaten to kill Doctor Strange. As they partake of the essence of Cyttorak, not even powerful incantations can free him 

• Cyttorak knocks out Nova, herald of Galactus

• An aspect of Cyttorak’s power ravaged villages across Asia

• Gomurr and Tar cannot destroy Cyttorak’s power itself, only the form which it takes

• The aspect of Cyttorak quickly grabs and grips Spite, with her unable to escape

• Cyttorak says a demon lord inside his domain is outside of natural law, and says Colossus shouldn’t dream that he can face him even with a fifth of the Phoenix Force

• In the past, Cyttorak battled Li Park, the Immortal Iron Fist, and the sorcerer Xun

• Strange casts the Crimson Bands of Cyttorak, but they turn on him, as Cyttorak summons Strange to his realm. Strange manages to deflect with the Seraphim's bright shield and escape, but Cyttorak cracks his shield

• Cyttorak engages in battle with Watoomb

• Cyttorak attends the Devil’s Advocacy alongside the likes of Mephisto and Dormammu, which in context suggests he considers himself as being ranked similar to these entities

• Noted that his power is invoked by the likes of Doctor Strange, Dormammu, Umar, and Zom

• Stated to possibly be the strongest magical being in the multiverse, powerful enough to imprison Galactus. The page describes gods as being capable of creating or destroying the entire multiverse

• Stated to only be a minor demon-god in a different guidebook, bummer

• There’s a supposed post by Marvel editor Tom Breevort which says Cyttorak is well above Zom and likely even above Shuma-Gorath depending on the circumstances, but this post is fairly old and a lot of these sites are down or unarchived, so it’s difficult for me to verify if this is real. I’ll update this if I ever track it down for sure

Speed

• Grabs and redirects Angel into Cyclops’s force beams before either can react, with Cyclops specifically noting his speed 

• Attacks the ground in a “microsecond”

• Attacks the X-Men before they can dodge

• Nightcrawler dodges Juggernaut’s attacks, but is eventually tagged

• Intercepts and grabs Dazzler before she can attack B

• Intercepts a blast from the Shadow King-controlled version of Iceman B

• [Colossus] Colossus’s charge accelerates up to 600 mph, travelling 60 miles from San Francisco in five minutes as he carries Kuurth with him

Low-End Showings

• Beast outpaces Juggernaut and dodges his attacks

• Noted that he can’t move as fast as the X-Men

• Beast dodges an attack from Juggernaut, and notes he’s faster than him

• Unable to tag Nightcrawler disguised as Professor X

• Spider-Man easily evades his attacks at close-range, though wears himself out 

• Thor is able to pretty handily dodge Juggernaut’s blows

• Deadpool dodges a surprise attack from Juggernaut

• Hellblade outpaces an attack from Juggernaut UV

• Siren easily avoids a blow from Juggernaut UV

• Spider-Man easily evades Juggernaut’s blows A

• The Shadow King-controlled version of Beast repeatedly dodges Juggernaut’s blows B

• Crushes the head of a ninja-hybrid, composed of 20 ninjas, and notes how he isn’t as fast as the ninja D

• Colossus dodges a series of blows from Juggernaut, and manages to get on his back F

• Quicksilver is shown outpacing Juggernaut in close quarters. He uses his speed to blitz Juggernaut and remove his helmet F

This is pretty embarrassing I’ll admit.

Durability

        Blunt Force / Explosive / Cutting

• Survives a mountain collapsing on him

• Tanks a bazooka shot

• Beast is unable to harm Juggernaut even without his forcefield

• Absorbs an explosion which knocks out Cyclops and Jean Grey

• Unharmed by a rock thrown by Beast

• Endures Jean telekinetically launching him

• Unphased by combined attacks from Cyclops, Iceman, and Angel

• Hulk removes his helmet and sends him crashing into a large mound

• Unharmed by a slash from Wolverine’s claws

• Knocked down by a hit from Colossus, but quickly gets back up 

• Endures getting thrown through a wall by Colossus

• Unharmed by a force bolt from Storm, and reflects it back at her

• Unphased by a sneak attack from Spider-Man

• Unharmed by a large explosion while at half-power

• Survives a building collapsing on him 

• Endures Nimrod telekinetically launching him out of a building

• Bursts out from 1.37 kilotons of steel collapsing on top of him

• Unphased by a punch from Rogue which shatters every window across the nearby buildings

• Survives an impact from Rogue which creates a massive crater

• Even without his helmet or skullcap, endures tank fire

• Is launched back, but unharmed by, a hit from Thor. He’s shown taking a hit from Thor later

• Unharmed by the collision of two boxcars

• Without his forcefield, Thor punches Juggernaut, who endures it despite it smashing his helmet

• Endures a barrage of punches from Thor without falling

• Unharmed by a head-on collision from Cannonball, not even budging

• Shatterstar cuts through Juggernaut’s eye

• Endures getting stabbed by Shatterstar

• Endures a punch from the Hulk

• Endures multiple hits from the Hulk, Wolverine, and Spider-Man

• Without his helmet, is knocked out by a hit from the Hulk

• Without his helmet, is knocked down by a punch to the gut from the Hulk

• Endures a strike from the Black Knight

• Powers through a fire hose with enough power to turn over a station wagon

• Unharmed by Thunderstrike’s hammer

• Endures a few hits from Venom

• Endures being sent crashing into the street by Venom with the Mercury Virus

• Endures Venom throwing a car at him and throwing him into a building

• Endures Venom striking him from the third floor of a building all the way into the sewers

• Unhurt by having a bunch of meat cleavers dropped on him from above

• Unharmed by Deadpool’s shurikens and snaps his sword upon contact

• Sent flying by an attack from Onslaught which launches him from Canada to New Jersey, cratering the street and seriously harming him

• Unphased by a head-on charge from Cannonball

• Endures a slash across the chest from Qune, which causes him to actually bleed, something Juggernaut claims should be impossible UV

• Endures Gambit’s kinetic card UV

• Tanks several kinetic cards from Gambit

• Onslaught seems to suggest he couldn’t kill Juggernaut without removing the Gem of Cyttorak

• Even without his powers, endures a direct hit from Cyttorak, which sends him crashing through a pillar and displaces his helmet

• Endures a hit from Cyttorak which shatters the ground, knocking him out

• Withstands a gas station exploding A

• Endures being knocked through multiple brick walls A

• Survives being tossed by War Hulk all the way to Cairo A

• Trades blows with War Hulk, who overpowers him and sends him flying into a building A

• Completely unphased by a full-power blow from Spider-Man A

• While weakened, endures, but is knocked out by, kinetic attacks from Gambit A

• Tanks a direct hit to the chest from Thor with Mjolnir, and withstands multiple blows from Thor which begin cracking the street around them A

• Deflects the thrown Mjolnir with his back A

• Endures, but is repelled back by, repeated blows from Thor A

• Endures slashes from Carnivore which cut through his armour A

• Unharmed by Jubilee’s explosions A

• As a civilian Cain goes to a tattoo artist who uses adamantium-tipped needles to pierce his skin, giving him a tat of the X-Men logo A

• Punched into the ground by a rock golem B

• Without his armour, survives a blow from Sasquatch which sends him into the ground B

• Without his armour, endures multiple blows from Guardian B

• Endures a beatdown from Sasquatch, though it draws blood B

• Endures Rhino impaling him, and seems to quickly heal B

• Endures multiple blows from Starkweather and him digging into his chest B

• Survives a long drop down an elevator shaft B

• Survives a generator explosion with little damage B

• Survives an explosion which levels the entire AIM base B 

• Survives being near a massive explosion from Havok, which destroys the X-Plane B

• A bus crashing into him destroys the bus, without Cain moving B

• Endures being swatted into a pile of rocks by Albion B

• Endures being launched by the swing of a dragon’s tail B

• Endures a giant Makluan dragon biting him with no visible punctures B

• Bloodied and subdued by the hits of Wrecker B

• Endures the Wrecking Crew collectively beating him up and smashing a bus on his body B

• Takes a slash across the chest from another one of Cyttorak’s disciples, drawing blood B

• Endures a shot which sends him flying through the wall of a bank B

• Takes a punch to the gut from one Albion’s Captain Britains B

• Takes a charge from Brittania/Sage B

• Takes charges to the chest from two Captain Britains at once B

• Endures having a building thrown on him by Skaar C

• Takes a direct hit to the helmet from Skaar C

• Launched into the air by Skaar and endures a sword swing from him C

• Endures being punched into space by Skaar, breaking off a part of his armour C

• Survives crashing into the earth like a meteor after being launched from space to the ground and having his helmet shattered by Captain Universe, though it nearly kills him. Their clash is noted later to have created fissures in the tectonic plate underneath New York, creating a mild earthquake. A comic summary states that Captain Universe has enough cosmic power to put the Juggernaut into a coma C

• Survives colliding into the Jersey Palisades, which shatters the metal slab he’s on, all while unconscious C

• Endures being slammed into the ground by an Asgardian troll D

• Unphased by a direct punch to the helmet by Mettle D

• Unharmed by a barrage of ninja stars D

• Takes a kick to the gut by an amped up Shadowlands ninja D

• Takes a hit from Luke Cage which slams him into the ground D

• Endures a hit to the head from Thor with his hammer, which smashes open his helmet D

• Takes a hit from Luke Cage, which collapses the cliff underneath him D

• Endures a kaiju swinging him away with its tail D

• Endures repeated hits to the helmet from King Hyperion and has his leg broken by a kick D

• Endures repeated blows to the head from King Hyperion, which draw blood. Hyperion ends up hurting his hand punching Juggernaut’s head D

• Takes a slash from a Dirae, which draws blood D

• Endures a massive explosion which destroys most of the Raft prison D

• Endures being thrown through a slab by Colossus E

• Completely unharmed by a series of blows from Colossus to the helmet and chest. Colossus comments that he thinks he broke his hands F

• Juggernaut’s attack is stopped by Rogue, who sends him flying through a wall and a car F

• Completely unphased by a full-body charge from Quicksilver, blasts from Wasp, and a punch from Rogue, noting that he’s now ready for her and so won’t be moved F

• Endures Deadpool crashing a truck into him F

• One of Thor’s hammers shatters against Juggernaut’s helmet F

• Takes an electric-charged swing from Thor with one of his hammers, drawing blood and knocking multiple teeth from him. It leaves subdued long enough for Thor to take the relic Cain was carrying and escape F

• Endures a magical rocket to the chest, which sends him flying backwards and knocks him out F

• Takes a hit from Khonshu, who seems to defeat him and tells him that Cyttorak should send someone better if they want Khonshu’s realm F (?)

• Endures a barrage of kinetic force NA

• Endures Immortal Hulk punching him into a mountain, creating a tremor NA

• Takes a hit from Immortal Hulk which launches him through some trees NA

• Takes a punch from Quicksand, which sends him flying across the city and into a building NA

• Endures being thrown a far distance into his teammates by Sadurang NA

• Endures a large explosion caused by a rocket crashing into a helicarrier, which sends it crashing down NA

• Is restrained and tossed aside a good distance by the sentient tree Krakoa, twice NA

• [Colossus] Colossus is slapped aside by a Sentinel

• [Colossus] Unit slams Colossus into the ground with a shockwave, knocking his helmet off

• [Colossus] Demon Colossus allows Red Hulk to beat on him without his helmet, drawing blood and knocking him out

• [Colossus] Colossus takes a kick to the head from Daredevil and some blaster fire

• [Colossus] Juggernaut tanks a Doombot exploding in his face, which is said in the prior page to equal the force of an M67 hand grenade

• [Colossus] Colossus endures Thing smashing his head into the ground, getting up moments later

Bullets

• Barrels through military fire

• Completely unphased by a barrage of gunfire from the police, including artillery shots

• Endures military fire UV

• Walks through a barrage of bullets from the NYPD A

• Unharmed by the bullets of Chinese soldiers B

• Unharmed by some fishermen’s bullets B

• Unphased by the shots fired by a squad of police C

• Walks through a barrage of bullet fire, knocking down some trees as he does so F

• Walks through bullet fire unharmed NA

• Completely unmoved by a barrage of bullets NA

Energy / Other

• Repels Cyclops’s beams like a solid object

• Endures energy blasts from the Danger Room

• Is pushed back by, but withstands, a combined blast from a sonic weapon and Iceman

• Unharmed by Cyclops’s beams and Angel’s attacks

• Tanks Cyclops’s laser

• Unphased by a full power blast from Cyclops

• Endures a blast from Nimrod

• Walks through Dazzler’s max power photon blasts. Dazzler claims this blast could have punched through a mountain

• Endures Thor’s Godblast, though it begins pushing him back (note Thor was experiencing bouts of weakness at the time)

• Endures Siryn’s screech

• Unharmed by a blast from Boom Boom 

• While Juggernaut is wearing his helmet, Doctor Strange cannot “weaken” him

• Cyttorak incapacitates and restrains Juggernaut

• Deflects a laser blast with his body

• Unharmed by Cyclops’s beam

• Endures an energy blast which leaves a massive hole in the ground

• Survives a shriek from Siryn which collapses part of a building on him

• Seems to endure the blast of Gateway’s portal UV

• Amber knocks out an unarmoured Juggernaut UV

• Amber as the Phoenix manages to subdue and knock out Juggernaut, though he’s the last one to fall UV

• Takes an energy blast to the chest UV

• Juggernaut seemingly destroys the physical form of Cyttorak’s aspect, unleashing an explosion of mystic energy which begins tearing apart the dimension of the ruby. Juggernaut survives this is spat out by it across the interdimensional void to Earth A

• Endures a magic blast from Spite A

• After having nearly all his power drained, endures D’yspare launching a large blast of energy at him, fueled by the power of the gem of Cyttorak. It reduces him to a skeleton, but he still stands

• Survives the explosion of the god-machine’s energies, which is visible on the Earth’s curvature and is described as being like nothing the world has seen in millenia, with the explosion sending him to a corner of the Earth. Note that Thor directly compared the power of the Exemplars’ god-machine to that of Odin A

• Juggernaut says the other Exemplars have enough power to kill him A

• Endures a blast of energy “powerful enough to vaporise countless tons of titanium steel in a split-second”, though he is knocked back by it A

• A blast of kinetic energy from Stonecutter shatters his armour, which is described as a “part of his power”, and displaces his helmet A

• Unharmed by Black Tom’s energy attacks A

• Without his armour, endures, but is harmed by, an energy attack from Prosh A

• Without his armour, endures an energy attack from the Stranger A

• Completely unharmed by Cyclops’s beams, which Cyclops describes as having enough force to rip a small planet in half A

• Briefly frozen and launched back by Iceman’s ice before breaking out B

• Survives an explosion which destroys part of a building, which knocks him out and leaves him with serious burns that nearly kill him. He only lives due to Archangel’s healing B

• Knocked out by a blast from Havok and is later sent flying by another blast B

• Endures multiple blasts from Vindicator without his armour B

• Survives a blast from Kyle Rayner using an Iron Man-designed construct B (?)

• Unharmed by a security beam which is designed to ward off intruders B

• Takes a direct blast of ice from Iceman B

• Survives a blast from Havok B

• Endures a blast from a Shadow King-possessed version of Professor X B

• Endures repeated blows and light attacks from Dazzler B

• Unharmed by a direct H.A.M.M.E.R satellite strike which destroys his mobile home in Arizona C

• Takes a repulsor blast from Iron Man which craters the ground D

• Endures repeated atomic vision from King Hyperion D

• Endures a magical cannonball of smelted poltergeist, and an attack which summons tentacles on his back that begin biting him D

• Endures a blast of animus infernus flame from Satana, which feeds on the purely mystic. Satana notes that as Juggernaut is somewhat cursed himself, it probably hurt him D

• Tanks attacks from Firestar, Iceman, and Pixie (it’s unclear what spell Pixie is using) F

• Tanks blasts from the young Cyclops and Angel F

• Endures a hex from Scarlet Witch, noting that Cyttorak’s power is bigger than what she’s slinging out F

• Survives a shot from Sin-Eater, though it’s shown later to have blown a hole through him and knocked him out, with Sin-Eater stealing his powers F

• Endures a blast from Cosmic Ghost Rider’s Power Cosmic, which weakens him F (?)

• Endures an energy attack from the Human-Adaptoid, which injures him and knocks him over NA

• [Colossus] Colossus survives, but is blown back by, a large explosion of energy from Hope Summers

• [Living Monolith] Living Monolith tanks blasts from Storm and Firestar

• [Living Monolith] Living Monolith is blinded by a large flash of light and takes an explosion from Rockslide to the helmet

Electricity/Thunder

• Unphased by a full strength venom bolt from Spider-Woman

• Withstands a lightning bolt from Storm, though it knocks him into a hole

• Survives, but is hurt by, the combined electric currents of Spider-Woman and Storm, who nearly burn themselves out unleashing so much power and blow a hole in the ship

• Unaffected by a million volts of electricity coursing through his body, which Spider-Man says is strong enough to knock out a herd of rhinos

• Completely unharmed by Thor’s lightning (though note Thor is weakened at the time)

• Knocked down by Bishop’s electricity, with enough volts to power the entire city, though Beast notes that if Juggernaut wasn’t weakened he could have tanked it. Juggernaut is catatonic from this

• While weakened, endures a bolt of lightning from Storm A

• Endures a bolt of lightning from Thor A

• Endures repeated electric blasts from Thor D

• Endures a blast of electricity from Electro NA 

• [Colossus] Seems to endure Kuurth’s lightning, which he says is strong enough to incinerate armies

Heat

• Withstands a full-intensity flame blast from the Human Torch

• Endures jets of chemical flames 

• Survives, but is hurt by, a pot of boiling liquid thrown at his head

• Unphased by Firestar heating up his costume until it’s white-hot

• Not visibly harmed by having a vat of molten liquid dumped over his body

• After having some of his power drained, is hurt by, but survives, being dumped in molten steel A

• Endures, but is harmed by, Chamber’s bioenergy flames, before walking through a full-power stream of them A

• Completely unharmed by being dropped in a magma chamber, and claims he can just wait for Skaar to burn up C

• Endures fire from Pyro F

• [Colossus] Endures Red Hulk shoving his super-heated thumbs in his eyes

             Forcefield

• Juggernaut’s energy aura breaks through a block of ice around him

• Juggernaut’s forcefield pushes aside Jean’s telekinetic power like it’s a physical thing

• Juggernaut’s forcefield is completely unaffected by the Human Torch’s flames

• Juggernaut’s forcefield blocks Jean’s telekinetic attack, preventing her from removing his helmet

• Forcefield pushes back Beast

• Tanks a bazooka shot

• Forcefield protects from an electrified fence

• Helicopter blades break on his forcefield

• Forcefield shields against a collision with a giant fan, shattering it, though it leaves Juggernaut groggy

• Juggernaut turns on the forcefield to break through Iceman’s ice

• Forcefield blocks Spider-Man’s webbing, seemingly while Juggernaut is unaware of it

• Forcefield protects Juggernaut from a collapsing building, preventing the bricks from touching him

• Unharmed by a collision with a gasoline tanker which triggers a massive explosion, the heat of which is intense enough to burn Spider-Man’s costume from far away. Spider-Man implies it’s a result of his forcefield, which is confirmed in the Marvel Handbook

• While given part of the Juggernaut’s powers, Black Tom’s forcefield blocks Spider-Man’s webbing

• Juggernaut’s forcefield withstands the full force of a blow from Thor, even as Thor claims he isn’t holding back

• The forcefield withstands an energy blast from Thor

• Seems to project a force-field around himself to prevent the Human-Adaptoid’s Swarm bees from hitting himNA

Scaling

• Galactus: Juggernaut withstood the Godblast, which threatened a hungry Galactus. The consistency of this is questionable on its own, but Cyttorak is also stated in a guidebook to be strong enough to imprison Galactus, and Juggernaut at his peak was granted enough power that it was stated he could kill Cyttorak himself.

• His battle with the Other and the Scrier threatened to destroy the entire infinite multiverse

• In particular, note the comparison that Oblivion makes between their battle and the Chaos War, an event in which the Chaos King annihilated nearly the entirety of Marvel’s creation

• Odin: Galactus and Odin once battled, with Odin notably seriously injuring himself with a headbutt to Galactus while Galactus got up soon after, suggesting Galactus as stronger. Odin admits he lacked the strength to keep fighting Galactus and had to transfer his conscience to the Destroyer to keep going

• Sent shockwaves across every plane of reality in his battle with Seth

• Fought Surtur and Seth, who can both destroy Yggdrasil, which exists in all planes of reality, of which there are infinite

• Dormammu: Cyttorak’s magic is invoked for spells by the likes of Dormammu, suggesting Cyttorak wields a power greater than what Dormammu can manage on his own. Cyttorak and Dormammu also both attended the Devil’s Advocacy near Satan’s throne, suggesting they’re of similar rank, and Cyttorak is called possibly the most powerful magical being in the multiverse in a guidebook

• Sustains the Dark Dimension

• The Dark Dimension is suggested to be transinfinite in scope, with likely at least ~6.3 dimensions, possibly much higher

• Miscellaneous

• Hulk destroys a universe with a thunderclap

• Invisible Woman’s barriers protect from an Incursion

• Hercules bears the weight of the universe for Atlas

• Hyperion withstands the collision of two universes unscathed

• Eric Masterson and Dargo Ktor clashing their hammers is said to be the greatest force in the universe since the Big Bang

• Thor crosses the universe in moments

• Loki sends Ulik from Asgard to Earth in 2 seconds

• Rick Jones’ energy travels across the universe in a heartbeat

• Loki retreats from Earth to Asgard with only microseconds to spare

• X-Man and Ares fight between moments in Planck time

• Valkyrie scours every corner of all the nine realms in the blink of an eye

Weaknesses

• Juggernaut’s most consistent weakness is his vulnerability to telepathic attacks. His helmet may protect him, but once it’s removed, he’s usually quickly subdued by a psychic attacking his head

• Juggernaut cannot fly, and relies entirely on having some sort of foothold to move. By removing his foothold and exploiting his lack of leverage, such as by tossing him into space, his enemies can render him basically completely helpless, removing him as a threat

• Juggernaut’s charge is nearly unstoppable, but it can still be redirected or set off-angle, usually causing him to crash off the battlefield. In addition, he doesn’t boast any real space/dimensional travelling capabilities, meaning he’s very vulnerable to just being teleported or portalled away to somewhere else

• Juggernaut has been briefly blinded many times (here’s a full compilation), whether by covering his eyes or through intense light, allowing his enemies to score some hits in or redirect him. He can compensate for this somewhat with his other senses, but it’s a pretty consistent weakness for him

• Juggernaut’s helmet has a hole for the mouth, meaning precise enough opponents can fire projectiles into it, either to sedate him or just to distract him as he’s forced to spit out whatever he’s choking on

• Juggernaut’s power usually fluctuates based on how much power Cyttorak grants him at the time, and Cyttorak can completely depower Juggernaut if Cain goes against his wishes too hard. While this is no longer a factor with Juggernaut’s new armour, which has a set power-level, it is an issue if one is considering Juggernaut at his peak

• Despite his invulnerability and regeneration, Juggernaut is not immortal, and sufficient force can threaten his life and kill him. The Marvel Handbook notes that he’s particularly vulnerable to mystical forces of sufficient strength

Overall

As you can tell, that’s a lot of text, and Juggernaut’s power level changes a lot. Just as a quick summary to condense it for anybody who understandably got a bit lost, Juggernaut, when not specifically de-powered, frequently contends with and is compared to the likes of Thor and Hulk, Marvel’s two biggest heavy-hitters. He has a feat of tanking the Godblast when at this level of power, which could place him higher (while Thor was weakened during the period this happened, this typically manifested in bouts of weakness more than anything, and the Godblast is a different form of attack which Thor directly compared to the one that threatened Galactus and a Celestial). 

While empowered further by absorbing the Gem of Cyttorak’s energies, he survived the explosion of the god-machine, which Thor directly compared to Odin in power, which could lend additional support for scaling. At his very peak, Juggernaut was granted enough power to kill Cyttorak himself, and so would likely physically scale to the demon, who has statements suggesting he’s relative to the likes of Galactus and Dormammu. Note that this most likely only applies to power though, as Juggernaut’s high-end showings are all power/durability based. You could argue he was capable of fighting Cyttorak evenly at one point, suggesting his speed is comparable, but this was specifically noted as being just an aspect of Cyttorak who was weakened when Juggernaut fought him, and Juggernaut didn’t even actually kill him anyways. It’s specifically said that Juggernaut being granted enough power to kill Cyttorak is greater than any amp he’s ever received before, which further suggests Juggs didn’t actually do much to Cyttorak in this fight.

While weakened during the 2000s, his best showings are probably fighting evenly with Sasquatch of Alpha Flight. In his new armour, his power level is no longer in-flux. Here he was stated to have impacted Sadurang even harder than Thor, which would suggest he’s relative in power to Thor, but he’s explicitly weaker than Immortal Hulk, which provides a cap on his power. He trades in his mental resistances for a couple of new resistances, but these are all mutually exclusive with his old powerset. He cannot have both his peak, Cyttorak-level strength and his new armour and its resistances at the same time.

Suggested Opponents

I might do a blog on this later if I feel like it