Who is nuke-able?

Ultron did survive a nuclear explosion when Jocasta tried to kill him...his adamantium body protected him.

As mentioned, anyone with what I'll call "Superman-grade" invulnerability, no matter its origin, unless it happens to suffer from a vulnerability that would be found in the blast. (I'm not sure Martian Manhunter's durability would be up to a nuke, but even if it was, it might easily qualify for his [crappy] vulnerability to fire.)

Anyone with sufficient reality-warping abilities. Various sorcerer supreme types come to mind, as do sufficiently willful Green Lanterns, and a few people with reality warping mental powers. They can effectively wish themselves the ability to survive, or wish away the negative effects of the blast, if not the entire blast itself.

Anyone with sufficiently powerful force field abilities, of any origin or explanation. Examples might be Invisible Girl or post-Pheonix Jean Gray.

Anyone with sufficiently potent energy absorption powers might be able to "eat" the damaging energy. Stormwatch's Winter comes to mind, as does Vanth Dreadstar. I believe both actually survived nukes, though, IIRC, neither had to absorb the full force of the blasts. (The one that hit Vanth Dreadstar was significantly larger than what we're discussing, but he was not at the epicenter and was inside a magical force field.)

A few entities might be physically destroyed, but able to reform, even though reduced to constituent atoms. Most examples I can think of these who aren't some sort of cosmic entity or incarnate concept are people who have already have some sort of coherent gas, energy or otherwise incorporeal "body"

Rogue took a near detonation.

I wonder if Wolverines super fast healing would be fast enough to keep him alive lone enough to regenerate?

I think most of the 'heavies' in either of the big two could take a near hit - at the distance where concrete or steel are only heavily damaged instead of instantly vaporized you'd have a whole class of heroes who routinely prove themselves tougher than either.

For example, The Thing, Colossus, Iron Man, the Hulk, Thor

The direct hit crowd would be a LOT smaller, reserved for those renowned for being invulnerable or routinely deal with forces of a similar scale.

For example: Golden Age Superman, Silver Age Superman, most future versions of Superman, the Heralds of Galactus, Galactus himself, Thanos, Drax the Destroyer (in his big dumb green fun incarnation), Gladiator from the Shi'ar. Juggernaut sometimes.

Of course most of those fluctuate wildly depending on writer. Silver Surfer has both flown through stars AND been taken out by a single lightning bolt from Storm. Gladiator ranges from survive a supernova to winded by a charged deck of cards from Gambit to slugging it out with Colossus to no-selling direct hits from Juggernaut.

The Plutonian likely could handle that (being essentially 'Superman'). Max Damage, depending on how long he's been awake could easily take a direct hit, although he'd be completely off his rocker from sleep deprivation at that point.

Ajax, from CoH Omega team likely could, since he's supposedly literally invulnerable to harm, and not just really tough.

In the recent Deadpool #37, Wade Wilson gets the brilliant idea after talking with Wolverine about having the Hulk kill him so he can finally hook up with Death. Two nuclear devices get detonated on US soil because of Deadpool's latest madcap scheme.

The first nuclear device is attached to a pickup truck that Bruce Banner is driving when Deadpool detonates it. Banner survives the nuclear explosion and turns into a rather annoyed Hulk. At the end of #37 Hulk has a second nuclear device exploded in his face. That does nothing but annoy him further, although he still refuses to play let's kill Deadpool.

And finally in #39, Hulk has had enough and punches Deadpool's head into a pile of goo. Of course, Deadpool survives...

Both nuclear devices were detonated within a few feet of Banner (first time) and the Hulk (the second time). And this wasn't the Worldbreaker, but standard enraged Hulk.

Indiana Jones can as long as theirs a metal refridgerator nearby! Now you're thinking "Well then any hero could survive one" at which point I would say "Not true. Only Indy and Batman would likely think of it!"

Kitty Pryde got stuck in the center of the earth, I see no reason she couldn't survive a nuclear blast if she went intangible.

And of course all the Regenerators. I have no doubt Wolverine/Deadpool/Sabertooth/X-23 would survive it.

Wasn't Wolverine's Galactus-level healing factor revealed to have been magically augmented and now he's back to only Highlander-level regeneration?

In any event: Wolverine, Sabertooth and X-23 may survive a nuke but their powers will likely be overtaxed and compensating for radiation sickness for some time. This was also shown in a Highlander comic where Duncan was on a nuke sub that went nuclear. Afterwards he was alive (somehow his head didn't come off) and was showing signs of constantly regenerating from rad. damage.

Superman can take a nuke, therefore so can Captain Marvel (Shazam version not Mar-Vell version)

A herald of Galactus would laugh at a nuke, so would the Juggernaut and THOR.

Way back in the classic Dreadstar comic, the combined powers of both Vanth Dreadstar and his sorceror friend Szygy Darklock enabled them to survive a nuclear attack. (They fled to the lowest levels of the city sewers, Szygy used his power for forcefield shielding and Vanth's sword can absorb transfinite amounts of energy.)

Red Hulk should be able to take a nuke, so should most Green versions of Banner_Hulk, but the Grey Hulk due his lower power base may have trouble.

Take the Magic: The Gathering 'What Color Are You?' Quiz.

Both Deadpool and Lobo should easily survive a direct hit... not for their healing powers but because both of them are practically immortal.



And I can´t wait to get my hands on Deadpool #37 - 39.

@Redcap

What is Gladiator's level of power from the Shi'ar Imperial Guard? It seems like he has the ability "if you think you can, you can." I seem to recall him doubting himself causing him to fail at one point.

Harley Quinn and Lobo

Harley Quinn, while she can die she is banned from hell and as she is hell bound she can't "die".

Lobo, while he can die he is banned from hell and heaven and regenerates.

Sebastian Shaw.

Blok and Wildfire are pretty much guaranteed nuke survivors (from LSH). Ultra Boy in invulnerability mode probably could as well.

I'd say the Captain Marvel who could turn into any EM spectrum energy would ignore a nuke.

Of course then there's Mogo, and Ego, but then it's a matter of scale there.

According to 616 cannon Wolverine was for a time unkillable. Every time he died, as long as there was a single cell left Wolvrine would fight "death" and if he won he would fully regen where as currently can't do this for some reason and thus is killable.

Ultimate X-Men he's dead, killed via some trickery i don't know about yet and i highly doubt he could have survived a nuke.

Ok, if a lightning bolt can overload Shaw, a nuke is surely out of his level of ability.

Lots of good choices so far, but remember its all about the writer. You would think Captain Marvel would be fine with it but if you have read Kingdom Come you would know better, in fact quite a few didn't make it.

Yes I know Kingdom Come was a elseworlds, but they have said it is in the current dc timeline just in the future, but again with the Reboot today who knows anymore.