The Marvel world can seem oversaturated with male heroes, but as Marvel Comics have proven time and time again, there is a great range of female characters with immense power too. These women are not only physically strong, with all manner of cool abilities, but they often have incredible intellectual and/or emotional strengths too.

Whether heroes, villains, or anywhere in between, these ladies prove themselves to be some of the most powerful women in Marvel Comics, ever.

35 Black Widow Is A Soviet Super Soldier & Combat Expert

(AKA Natalia "Natasha" Romanova)

Natasha Romanov, AKA Black Widow is one of Marvel's most enduring characters, and among its most fierce fighters. From her origin as a Soviet spy, to her time as a perennial Avenger, Widow has developed a skill-set matched by few other fighters. Her training, combined with her Supersoldier Serum-enhanced physique, has enabled her to take on numerous superpowered characters in combat.

Black Widow is also one of Marvel's most savvy characters, able to outsmart almost anyone. She is a weapons expert, as well as a master of hand-to-hand fighting techniques. Thanks to the Supersoldier Serum she has a healing factor that allows her to put herself in highly dangerous situations, which she is always willing to do.

34 Black Cat Is Marvel's Greatest Thief

(AKA Felica Hardy)

While DC has Selina Kyle, Marvel has Felica Hardy. Black Cat is one of the greatest thieves that the Marvel Universe has ever seen. She's a prolific jewel thief and has also managed to steal Spider-Man's heart a few different times. Not only is Felica a master thief, but she also has powerful probability manipulation powers. This allows her to always be on the winning side of things, no matter how bad her situation might look, a stroke of luck will always make it, so she ends up on top.

Over the years, she's flirted with the idea of being both an anti-hero and a superhero. Sometimes she's a gang leader ruling the streets of New York, and sometimes she's the first to answer Spider-Man's call for help. Either way, she's an absolutely beloved character in the Marvel Universe.

33 The Invisible Woman Does More Than Just Disappear

(AKA Dr. Susan Storm-Richard)

As a member of "Marvel's First Family," the Fantastic Four, Sue Storm is among the company's early prominent female superheroes. Over six decades after her debut, Sue has become increasingly powerful, with her range of abilities extending beyond just invisibility, as she has been revealed to be a powerful energy-manipulator.

Sue is often overlooked, but she has proven herself against the most powerful villains in the Marvel Universe, as well as fellow heroes such as the Hulk. Most notably, the Invisible Woman displayed the true might of her powers by killing a Celestial, a cosmic being ranking among Marvel's most powerful.

32 Elektra Is Marvel's Deadliest Woman

(AKA Elektra Natchios)

Elektra is often regarded as one of the most deadly women in Marvel. She's been a member of the Chaste and a member of The Hand, and she's been a major love interest of Matt Murdock for decades. She's even been the personal assassin for Wilson Fisk and killed several people on his orders. Despite the darkness that is inside Elektra, she has tried a few times to be a true hero.

During Chip Zdarsky's run on Daredevil, Elektra took on the mantle of Daredevil to prove to Matt that she was genuine about being a hero. Since then, she's continued to patrol the streets of New York, doing her best to keep the citizens of Hells Kitchen safe. Her relationship with Daredevil has been one of the most ionate and destructive relationships in comic book history.

31 Jessica Jones Is Among Marvel's Most Badass Street-Level Brawlers

(AKA Jewel, Knightress, Power Woman)

Jessica Jones is the very model of strength in the face of adversity. Her powers include enhanced strength and durability, which she put to use as a hero for a time, before she fell under the mind-control of the villain Purple Man, and was forced to serve at his whims.

After being freed from his influence, Jessica eschewed the traditional superhero life and became a private eye, and a fantastic one at that. While she doesn't make a living with her powers, they certainly come in handy as she's fought powerful villains like Doctor Doom.

30 Spider-Woman is Marvel's Most Capable Spider-Hero

(AKA Jessica Drew)

Jessica Drew, also known as Spider-Woman, not only has every power that fans have come to associate with a Spider-hero, but is also a super spy and private investigator. Physically, Jessica can hold her own with Marvel's most powerful fighters, but she also has a wide range of unique powers that give her more than just a physical edge. She is also tactically and intellectually powerful.

Although Spider-Woman has a rather convoluted origin story, she's always been portrayed as a powerful character. A member of the Avengers who has had experiences with both S.H.I.E.L.D. and HYDRA, Jessica is a valuable ally, and dangerous enemy, to have.

Several distinct versions of Jessica Drew have become popular in the Marvel Universe over the years, thanks to the Multiverse, including the variant introduced in Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse.

29 Ironheart Is One Of Marvel's Smartest Characters

(AKA Riri Williams)

There are tons of brilliant minds in the Marvel Universe, from Reed Richards to Tony Stark, and one of the brightest and youngest minds is Riri Williams. At the age of five years old, Riri was diagnosed as being a super genius and her parents moved her into a special school that could better cater to her budding genius.

Riri Williams' genius status is confirmed by the fact that she got a scholarship at MIT and managed to build her own Iron Armor with spare parts from the school labs.

Riri had intended to use her genius to create inventions that would help superheroes fight crime, but after her family was caught in the middle of a gang shooting, Riri decided to start building her own Iron Man suit to fight crime. After stealing dozens of parts and reverse engineering an old Tony Stark Iron Man suit, Riri was able to the superhero community and help fight in the second superhero civil war on the side of Iron Man.

28 The Upper Level Of Monica Rambeau's Power Is Nearly Limitless

(AKA Spectrum, Photon, Captain Marvel)

Monica Rambeau has gone by a number of superhero names over the years. Originally, she was a former New Orleans Harbor Patrol Lieutenant who received exposure to extradimensional energy, and gained the power to turn into any form of energy along the electromagnetic spectrum. This gave her the ability fly at the speed of light, shoot lasers, and assume the form of all sorts of energies.

Monica was notably the first woman to use the Captain Marvel moniker. Portrayed as a member of both the Avengers and the Ultimates, her Spectrum form's powers have a vast range of applications, making her an asset to any team, on a wide variety of different missions.

27 Cassandra Nova

(AKA Anti-Self)

The forgotten twin sister of Professor Charles Xavier, Cassandra wields the exact same telepathic powers of her brother as well as everything Charles could have potentially inherited. While Cassandra is a terrifyingly powerful psionic , her real power is her ability to manipulate DNA. She can manipulate someone's DNA right down to the genome, adding or removing any quality she wants from them. She's also capable of regenerating at incredible speeds and can even phase directly through objects, rendering her completely immune to damage. Combine this with Cassandra's absolute sadism and she's unbelievably dangerous.

26 Madelyne Pryor

(AKA Goblin Queen)

Madelyne Pryor is a clone of Jean Grey, and as such, she has all the same mutant abilities as her "sister." These include things like Telepathy, Telekenisis, a low level of Reality Warping, mind alteration, and dozens of others. but if those abilities weren't enough, she also has Demonic Augmentation from bargaining with the demon S'ym. Thanks to this, she has demonic abilities as well, such as dark sorcery which she can add ontop of her already incredibly impressive telepathy. As far as dangerous women go, having all of the powers of Marvel's most powerful telepaths on top of demonic magic is pretty hard to beat.