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** On the other hand, while rank usually reflects an adventurer's overall strength, promotion requires that they ''demonstrate'' not just their strength but also their capability with their deeds. [[SupportPartyMember Priestess]] is initially denied a promotion to Steel rank because, since she always tags along with Goblin Slayer's party (where literally every other member is Silver-ranked), [[OvershadowedByAwesome it looks as if she's just coasting through jobs while contributing the bare minimum]] (which could not be more wrong, as several of Goblin Slayer's plans hinge on Priestess using her miracles [[NotTheIntendedUse in unorthodox ways]]). It's only after she proves her mettle by leading a party of rookie adventurers as they fight off a goblin ambush that she's granted a promotion.

* ''Marvel Multiverse Role-Playing Game'', the current role-playing game about Franchise/MarvelComics, is more direct: each character has a numerical ranking from 1-6. Rank 1 are ordinary humans, from bystanders to {{Mooks}}. Rank 2 is street-level heroes with a few powers, like Daredevil. Rank 3 are slightly more powerful, but still the rank and file of superheroes. Rank 4 is elite heroes, like Spider-Man, and most of the regular members of the big teams like the Avengers, X-Men and Fantastic Four. Rank 5 is for the most powerful heroes in the world, like Thor, the Thing and Hercules. Rank 6 are force-of-nature characters or cosmic butt-kickers, like the Hulk, Dr. Strange, Magneto and the Silver Surfer. Beyond that is Rank X, for CosmicEntity characters who are so powerful, stat numbers are effectively pointless, and what they can do is completely at gamemaster discretion.

** On the other hand, while rank usually reflects an adventurer's overall strength, promotion requires that they ''demonstrate'' not just their strength but also their capability with their deeds. [[SupportPartyMember Priestess]] is initially denied a promotion to Steel rank because, since she always tags along with Goblin Slayer's party (where literally every other member is Silver-ranked), it looks as if she's just coasting through jobs while contributing the bare minimum (which could not be more wrong, as several of Goblin Slayer's plans hinge on Priestess using her miracles [[NotTheIntendedUse in unorthodox ways]]). It's only after she proves her mettle by leading a party of rookie adventurers as they fight off a goblin ambush that she's granted a promotion.

* In ''WebVideo/DragonBallZAbridged'' Nappa's scouter uses [[ButtMonkey Raditz]] as a unit of measurement, since [[StarterVillain Raditz's]] power level clocks in at an even (but pitiful for a Saiyan, and equivalent to a Saibaman's power level) 1200.

* In ''WebVideo/DragonBallZAbridged'' Nappa's scouter uses [[ButtMonkey Raditz]] as a unit of measurement, since [[StarterVillain Raditz's]] power level clocks in at an even (but pitiful for a Saiyan, and equivalent to a Saibaman's power level) 1200.
** Later on in the series, power levels are parodied when Vegeta is watching Piccolo fight Freeza. He points out that earlier, Piccolo could barely stand up to Nappa, who was at less than 9000, but ''now'' he's able to fight Freeza's second form, which is over ''one million''. This leads Vegeta to conclude that either Freeza hit him so hard he's in a delusional coma, or that "Power levels are bullshit!"

* ''Marvel Multiverse Role-Playing Game'', the current role-playing game about Franchise/MarvelComics, is more direct: each character has a numerical ranking from 1-6. Rank 1 are ordinary humans, from bystanders to {{Mooks}}. Rank 2 is street-level heroes with a few powers, like Daredevil. Rank 3 are slightly more powerful, but still the rank and file of superheroes. Rank 4 is elite heroes, like Spider-Man, and most of the regular members of the big teams such as the Avengers, X-Men and Fantastic Four. Rank 5 is for the most powerful heroes in the world, like Thor, the Thing and Hercules. Rank 6 are force-of-nature characters or cosmic butt-kickers, like the Hulk, Dr. Strange, Magneto and the Silver Surfer. Beyond that is Rank X, for CosmicEntity characters who are so powerful, stat numbers are effectively pointless, and what they can do is completely at gamemaster discretion.

* ''Marvel Multiverse Role-Playing Game'', the current role-playing game about Franchise/MarvelComics, is more direct: each character has a numerical ranking from 1-6. Rank 1 are ordinary humans, from bystanders to {{Mooks}}. Rank 2 is street-level heroes with a few powers, like Daredevil. Rank 4 is elite heroes, like Spider-Man, and most of the regular members of the big teams such as the Avengers, X-Men and Fantastic Four. Rank 5 is for the most powerful heroes in the world, like Thor, the Thing and Hercules. Rank 6 are force-of-nature characters or cosmic butt-kickers, like the Hulk, Dr. Strange, Magneto and the Silver Surfer. Beyond that is Rank X, for CosmicEntity characters who are so powerful, stat numbers are pointless, and what they can do is completely at gamemaster discretion.

Some works can use StatOVision to record [[TheForceIsStrongWithThisOne or sense]] the magnitude of [[MyKungFuIsStrongerThanYours a character's strength]], to [[SuperWeight an exact number]]. [[SciFiWritersHave/NoSenseOfUnits Units are rarely included]], though -- it's senseless enough as it is. In any case, this is mildly useful for comparisons, until [[SortingAlgorithmOfEvil said levels start getting silly]] and are dropped altogether, never to be mentioned again.

See also {{Mana}}, and SuperWeight for this very wiki's homegrown system of Power Levels. JustForFun/NotToBeConfusedWith the PeninsulaOfPowerLeveling.

* Your base Essence stat in ''TabletopGame/{{Exalted}}'' kinda represents this in that a higher rank unlocks more powerful [[PowersAsPrograms Charms]]... except that the actual charms a character has means a lot more in terms of comparing power levels within Exalt types, and that the SuperWeight between the different types means more than if their Essence stat matches. Terrestrials, for example, tend to be significantly weaker than Solars or Abyssals, and Alchemicals veer up and down wildly depending on whether they've had time to optimise their Charm loadouts against you or not. It is, however, played straight in-setting in Yu-Shan, where a being's status is largely determined by their Essence rating, and elder Sidereals with an Essence of 10 socially outrank anyone except the Incarna.

'''Vegeta:''' (''while crushing his scouter at the same time'') It's over eight thousand! \\

'''Vegeta:''' (''while crushing his scouter at the same time'') It's over eight thousand! Raah!\\

** Bleach databooks also rated the various strengths of captains, namely Offense, Defense, Mobility, Kidō/Reiatsu, Intelligence, and Physical Strength, max 100 of each, [[http://bleach.wikia.com/wiki/Category:Databook_Images many of which are listed on their wiki]]. These are never outright mentioned in the show, and some seem like they're an InformedAbility. Though it must be stated that these ratings came very early in the franchise's history (after we had been introduced to the captains but long before we ever got to see most of them in serious combat), and are probably just down to Tite Kubo changing his mind on the magnitude of the abilities of a given character later on.

* Akuma in ''Manga/DGrayMan'' have extremely strictly-defined Power Levels, going so far as to completely define them by said levels. They can even level up by killing people; it's quite like a game for them. Level Ones are mindless killing machines and all look the same, Level Twos have personalities and very varied appearances, and Level Threes are astronomically stronger than the earlier levels and generally look somewhat like armored knights. Level [[FourIsDeath Fours]] look like twisted cherubs and are powerful enough to take on all of the Generals at once.

** Used in the series [[TheWorfEffect initially to just show how powerful Buffaloman is.]] Prior to him, every one of the main characters had a Chojin Power around 1,000,000, almost all of them less than that. After that, well, we jump from the next arc's BigBad, Akuma Shogun, who had a Chojin power of 15,000,000, to the five [[BigBad Big Bads]] of the Throne arc, who all had powers of ''100,000,000.'' However, even longstanding characters' power levels didn't change any over the course of the series as villains get more powerful, and as a result these were numbers mainly ignored for the purpose of storytelling, so by the end of the Throne arc, Robin Mask with his by-then measly 950,000 power beating the berserker Mammothman, Chojin power 78,000,000. Also it was discussed with the Five Evil Chojin Gods noting how on earth Kinnikuman of 950,000 can defeat a Perfect Chojin of 50,000,000 who happened to be [[spoiler:Neptune King]]. With the God Of Intelligence scanning the Machineguns' Muscle Docking attack defeating the Hell Missionaries; it turns out that Kinnikuman's Burning Inner Strength increased his own Chojin Power up to ''70,000,000'' in his attack. This lead to the plot in Scramble Of the Throne Arc to prevent Kinnikuman from becoming king due to his own increasing power that can surpass Chojin Gods.

** Spoofed at one point in the manga, where Jack Rakan puts a major villain's power in context with an oddball list that includes: a tank (200), a magic teacher (300), Negi (500) a dragon (650), an Aegis Battleship (1500), the current villain (3000), and the Kyoto Arc demon that Evangeline took out in one hit (8000). Chisame doesn't even know where to ''begin'' in pointing out all the problems with such an arbitrary list.

* In it's rawest form, cheap (typically unauthorized) children card games featuring Toku characters assigns power levels to both hero and villain cards, and the power levels indicate if the character will be powerful enough to defeat the other character or villain.

* Beings in ''VideoGame/{{Darkstalkers}}'' are ranked by letters, "D" being a non-sapient monster with capabilities less than those of human beings; "C" being a weak monster on par with a human (and humans themselves); "B" being an average monster that can devastate a smallish army; "B+" being a trained and magical monster capable of wiping their butts with "B-Class" demons, "A" being exceptionally strong creatures, many of which are the rulers of Makai, the demon world; and "S" being essentially a PhysicalGod. Most of the playable characters are B+s, with a few exceptions. [[note]]Demitri and Pyron are A and Jedah is an S. Morrigan was originally an S as well and [[PowerIncontinence showed]] [[RealityWarper signs]] of surpassing her adoptive father, the '''[[RankInflation S+]]''' Belial Aensland, necessitating that her power (and soul) be divided up into three parts; Morrigan wouldn't recover the last third of her soul until she [[FusionDance reunited with]] her "sister" Lilith (said third given physical form by Jedah) in their endings to the third game, though this is only definitively treated as "canon" for most of Morrigan's VideoGame/CapcomVs appearances and the full extent of her strength post-merger has never been officially evaluated.[[/note]] [[PsychoForHire Baby Bonnie Hood]], though human and a C by default, is the only known mortal with the slightest capability of damaging an S-Class demon thanks to her insanity, intense training, and impossibly large arsenal of hidden weapons.

* ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsII Final Mix'' has a bonus battle against Lexaeus. Sora is depicted with a power level of 100 while Lexaeus' power level gets higher and higher the more he flares up his BattleAura. The higher his power level, the greater the damage he inflicts, and his max level is 99,999. Sora has a {{Action Command|s}} where he momentarily adds Lexaeus' power level to his own, allowing him to briefly overpower the brute.

** Interestingly, these ranks don't seem to correlate directly to power, but ''meaning''. Berserker's "God Hand" lets him NoSell any attack below A-rank; as a result he can injured by Rin detonating one of her {{mana}}-storing gems, which is considered an A-rank attack by human standards, despite being less powerful than a C-rank attack from a Servant. WordOfGod is that, in theory, an attack could be powerful enough to destroy the world yet not possess the rank needed to pierce Berserker's skin.

* ''Webcomic/UnOrdinary'' in a world were almost everyone has powers peoples abillities are ranked on a scale of one too ten something which also defines someones place in society, 1 to 1.9 are defined as low teirs their practically defensless with rank 1s having no powers at all, 2 to 3.4 are midlevels who have average abillities, 3.5 to 4.9 are eliet tiers, 5 and up are high tiers the strongest teir, however those with powers between 6 and 10 are considered members of a sub catagory refered too as god tier and are practically invincicible unless faced with one of their own.

** The ranking system of the 13 Court Guard Squads - Seatless Soul Reapers -> Seated Officer --> Vice-Captain ---> Captain ----> Captain-General. While seemingly just a military rank system rather than power levels, promotion is normally based entirely on combat ability. Higher rank is supposed to ''always'' correspond to higher power, though in some cases it doesn't because of characters deliberately hiding their full power to avoid promotion.
** Hollow classes - normal Hollow -> Gillian --> Adjuchas ---> Vasto Lordes. This is even more strictly power-based than Soul Reaper ranks. Even the weakest Gillian is ''always'' stronger than the strongest normal Hollow, and conversely even the strongest Gillian is weaker than any Adjuchas. And all Vasto Lordes are far above the rest. The only ways to bridge the gap are to [[CannibalismSuperpower eat enough other Hollows to ascend to the next rank]], or to become an Arrancar.

** The ranking system of the 13 Court Guard Squads - Seatless Soul Reapers -> Seated Officer --> Vice-Captain ---> Captain ----> Captain-General
** Hollow classes - normal Hollow -> Gillian --> Adjuchas ---> Vasto Lordes

*** Then there is not actively named, but is likely best called divinity levels. When a deus god or Ancient One descends into the mortal realm, their divinity is ''severely'' reduced and has to restore itself over time. They are calculated in percentages and are mostly relative to the user, as higher divinity percentages grant a god more and more of their powers and the higher level ones are absolutely insane. Omega, for one, gains the power to bypass the PowerLimiter nature of her authority over "the beginning" and destroy the universe immediately upon hitting about 50% of her divinity.

*** First is their actual classification. Local gods (generally gods of various religions and mythologies) are considered the weakest, though chief gods are considered the strongest amongst them. Then we have the deus gods (any gods that reside in the Empyrean, otherwise simply known as the Divine Realm), which uniquely all hold complete immunity to any force or phenomenon not backed by either [[TakesOneToKillOne divinity]] or the Purity Trait. Atop the standard deus gods are the Primordials (embodiments of universal concepts like space, time, or chaos), and atop ''them'' are the Elder Gods (the ones who ''made'' the Elder Gods and who are so powerful that any Primordial barring [[WorldsStrongestWoman Baelz]] fighting one is considered suicide). Beyond all other gods are the Ancient Ones, who generally come from the works of Creator/HPLovecraft and are so stupidly powerful that they can't directly enter the mortal realm ''at all'', requiring the use of one of several "vessels" in said realm to act as their medium.

* ''WebAnimation/HoloChronicles'' puts an interesting twist on this trope, it that it's not reliant on StatOVision of any kind. Rather, it depends on one of the powers of [[WorldsStrongestWoman Sora Tokino]]. Namely, she possesses the power to summon up to 13 powerful spirits in the form of armored knights, each individual one capable of levelling a small country and the exact number summoned depending on the power of her opponent. Due to this enemy-scaling gimmick of her summoning ability, figuring out the characters' relative "power levels" is a matter of pitting them up against Sora and seeing how many knights manifest in response. Currently, we know that Roboco and Suisei could both bring forth 6 knights, while [=AZKi=] was able to make her manifest 8.

*** It tried to defy this a little bit by having something called "Level X" which can't be definitively measured and has the capacity to be infinite. Despite being introduced like it was going to be a really big deal, not a lot ended up being done with it, and the main Rider who used such a level, Genm, was demonstrably overpowered again and again by other Riders who ''did'' have numerical levels or whose powers were specifically created to outclass everything else in the show at the point they were introduced. One of the epilogue movies got a little silly with it, with Genm creating a form he claimed was "Level Billion", but he was opposed by one of the heroes with a new Level X form.

** Speaking of Moria, he is a perfect example of why you can't use bounties as an indicator of strength. Of all of the pre-timeskip Warlords, his former bounty was the second highest, right after Doflamingo. However, during the events of the Marineford arc, it became explicitly clear that he was the ''weakest'' one. This was due to the fact that during the intervening years between his defeat at the hands of Kaido and the present time, he let himself go and suffered major BadassDecay. This would eventually lead to his expulsion from the group and the Government sending Doflamingo to kill him as a means of retaining the prestige of the Warlords by claiming he died in the war. (He somehow survived though) In general, a Warlord's bounty is a poor indicator of their strength because it's frozen at the time of their induction and doesn't take into account whether they got stronger or weaker since then.

** The ranking system of the 13 Court Guard Squads - Seatless Soul Reapers-> Seated Officer --> Vice-Captain ---> Captain ----> Captain-General

* In ''Manga/BlackClover'' the Heart Kingdom and Spade Kingdom use a scale for magical power and skill known as Magic Stages, with Stage Zero the strongest and Stage Nine the weakest. Then there's [[WrongContextMagic Arcane Stages]], whose powers are unconventional enough to not fit into the scaling. After the six-month timeskip the Clover Kingdom uses it as well.

* In ''Anime/AkudamaDrive'', the more dangerous a criminal is, the longer their estimated sentences are, with most Akudama (Kansai's most wanted criminals and the series main characters) having estimated sentences of hundreds of years. When a criminal with a LongerThanLifeSentence is caught, instead of serving it, they are outright condemned to death penalty, as seen with [[SerialKiller Cutthroat]] at the very beginning of the anime.
* To an extent, the "World's Greatest Robot" arc of ''Anime/AstroBoy'' treats Horsepower as a kind of power level, but also finds a way to deconstruct the concept even before it became widespread in the shonen genre. The monstruos Pluto, a robot with one milion horsepower has been travelling the world killing the strongest robots under the orders of his creator. Now, Astro knows Pluto is coming after him, so he demands that Prof. Ochanomizu upgrade his output from 100,000 horsepower to 1,000,001 horsepower so he can defeat Pluto. In a twist, Ochanomizu refuses to do that for two reasons: one, Astro was never meant to be a fighting robot, and he refuses to upgrade Astro in a way meant almost exclusively for combat and violence. Two, because he believes that raw power wasn't everything in a fight. So when Astro and Pluto have their final duel, the creator of Pluto reveals he had another super robot built; an even bigger one called Bora, who has two million horsepower. And this new robot destroys Pluto in a tragic scene. But Astro manages to defeat Bora because he's so small, he could pry his way into the giant robot's armor and dismantle him from the inside. A 100,000 horsepower naked robot kid beats a death machine with extreme power by using creativity.
* In ''Manga/BlackClover'' the Heart Kingdom and Spade Kingdom use a scale for magical power and skill known as Magic Stages, with Stage Zero the strongest and Stage Nine the weakest. Then there's [[WrongContextMagic Arcane Stages]], whose powers are unconventional enough to not fit into the scaling. After the six-month timeskip the Clover Kingdom uses it as well.
* In ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'', two such systems exists:
** The ranking system of the 13 Court Guard Squads - Seatless Soul Reapers-> Seated Officer --> Vice-Captain ---> Captain ----> Captain-General
** Hollow classes - normal Hollow -> Gillian --> Adjuchas ---> Vasto Lordes
** Bleach databooks also rated the various strengths of captains, namely Offense, Defense, Mobility, Kidō/Reiatsu, Intelligence, and Physical Strength, max 100 of each, [[http://bleach.wikia.com/wiki/Category:Databook_Images many of which are listed on their wiki]]. These are never outright mentioned in the show, and some seem like they're an InformedAbility. Though it must be stated that these ratings came very early in the franchise's history (after we had been introduced to the captains but long before we ever got to see most of them in serious combat), and are probably just down to Tite Kubo changing his mind on the magnitude of the abilities of a given character later on.

* ''Fanfic/TheSoulmateTimeline'' uses the concept as a means of explaining the differing potential of potential Magical Girls as mentioned in ''Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica'', with Homura volunteering her own magical potential as a base unit, or 'Homuras', for the ease of explaining to Madoka, whose not contracted and can't see or sense them. An average person is said to have about a fourth or fifth as much potential as Homura does, Hitomi Shizuki has about two Homuras of potential, Sayaka Miki two and a half to three Homuras, Mami has raw magical potential worth about six Homuras, and Madoka's potential leaves Mami speechless and unable to give it a measurement of its own in Homura units. [[VideoGame/MagiaRecordPuellaMagiMadokaMagicaSideStory Kamihama City]] has a refined measurement method devised by Touka that measures the raw power of Magical Girls via [[InsufferableGenius milliToukas]]. The average Magical girl has a 'power level' of 10 milliToukas. More experienced magical girls, like Momoko and Yachiyo, find the concept very dumb, and are pretty blunt about how such measurements are only part of the equation of a Magical Girl's potential.

* Beings in the ''Souls'' series (''VideoGame/DemonsSouls'' and ''VideoGame/DarkSouls'') have a numerical value assigned to their souls, which shows roughly how strong they are. The primary method of getting more powerful is absorbing souls, which your character takes advantage of to LevelUp. By the end of the series, the characters with the highest "soul levels"[[note]]Including both the number of souls that you get from killing them, and the number that you then get from absorbing the "X's Soul" item that spawns separately.[[/note]] are [[{{Kaiju}} Darkeater]] [[OurDragonsAreDifferent Midir]] (170,000), [[HumanoidAbomination Slave]] [[FromNobodyToNightmare Knight]] [[AnthropomorphicPersonification Gael]] (140,000), the Burnt Ivory King (122,000), [[AllYourPowersCombined the Soul of Cinder]] (120,000), the Demon Prince (120,000), [[OurDragonsAreDifferent Sinh the Slumbering]] (112,000), [[GodSaveUsFromTheQueen Queen Nashandra]] (110,000), [[PhysicalGod the Nameless King]] with his stormdrake absorbed (100,000), [[TopGod Gwyn]] (90,000), and [[EldritchAbomination Manus]] (78,000).[[note]]Sister Friede would rank here at 92,000, but that's for killing both her ''and'' Father Ariandel. A decent chunk of that number is probably his.[[/note]]

** Speaking of Moria, he is a perfect example of why you can't use bounties as an indicator of strength. Of the Warlords [[spoiler:prior to the TimeSkip]], his former bounty was the second highest, right after Doflamingo. Throughout the Paramount War, however, it became explicitly clear that of the Warlords, he was the ''weakest'' one. This was due to the fact that during the intervening years between his defeat at the hands of Kaido and the present time, he let himself go and suffered major BadassDecay, [[spoiler:all of which eventually got him kicked out of the group]]. In general, a Warlord's bounty is a poor indicator of their strength because it's frozen at the time of their induction and doesn't take into account whether they got stronger or weaker since then. The best example is Boa Hancock who, despite having the lowest bounty (80 million) of all the Warlords [[spoiler:prior to the Timeskip (aside from Teach's bounty of zero)]], is far stronger than Moria.
** Blackbeard intentionally exploited the idea of bounties as threat levels by having a bounty of zero before the TimeSkip. Despite because extremely strong even before gaining a Devil Fruit power, he hid as an unranked {{mook}} under the shadow of Whitebeard, making him a complete unknown until he decided to explode into the spotlight as dramatically as possible, making the leap from a bounty of nothing to over ''two-billion'' in one go.

** Pirates and other outlaws are assigned [[PriceOnTheirHead bounties]] as a measure of their threat to the World Government and the world at large. Bounties are not strictly a measure of physical power, since what earns a bounty doesn't necessarily correlate to that person's combat ability. For example, individuals who possess knowledge and intelligence deemed dangerous by the World Government will be assigned a high bounty, with one such example being Nico Robin, who was assigned a 79 million belly bounty at the tender age of 8 years old. Despite not being particularly strong[[note]]she did have a Devil Fruit ability at this time, but she wasn't skilled enough at using it to justify such a high bounty[[/note]], the World Government put such a high price on her head because she is the only living person in the world that can read and decipher Poneglyphs. This clearly illustrates how bounties are not influenced solely by the individual's martial prowess. However, if the individual ''is'' strong, it will only serve to increase their bounty even further. There are just as many exceptions as there are examples, with bounties both over-estimating and under-estimating the real threat of the character. For example, Chopper was originally given a measly ''fifty belly'' bounty, because the government just thought he was the Straw Hat Pirates' ''pet'' and are apparently unaware of his fighting prowess and human-level intelligence.
** WordOfGod has also clarified one doesn't necessarily have to ''do'' anything in order to gain a bounty or a bounty increase; simply serving underneath someone notorious may warrant such, such as the previously mentioned example of Chopper gaining a bounty just for being the Straw Hats' pet, and Sanji being given a 100 million belly bounty increase simply for being a member of the Straw Hat crew after the events of Dressrosa, not because he actively participated in the battle. The top fighters of an Emperor's crew also have enormous bounties in part ''because'' they are in such positions, not just because they're powerful. Finally, ''the'' biggest threat the World Government faced in the past, [[spoiler:PredecessorVillain Rocks D. Xebec]], never had a bounty of any kind at all, because even ''acknowledging he existed'' is too dangerous to the World Government.

** Additionally, some villainous groups have group-specific power level-like ways of demonstrating their strength relative to one another, such as [=CP9's=] Douriki. The Douriki is pretty much a straight example, which was used during the [=CP9=] arc to rank the members of that storyline's QuirkyMinibossSquad. For a scale comparison, the average soldier has a rating of 10, and anyone above 500 is essentially superhuman. [[TheDragon CP9's strongest member]], Rob Lucci, had a rating of 4000 (nearly double that of the next two below him, Kaku and Jyabura who had 2200 and 2180 respectively). Afterward, Douriki was never mentioned again, on account of it being specific to [=CP9=]. Amusingly, the dub outright calls it power levels, including a not-so-subtle "Over 9000" reference.[[note]] Meanwhile, the boss of [=CP9=], Spandam, is said to have a Douriki of 9, making him weaker than the average mook. However, he has a Devil Fruit-powered sword, so he is not completely defenseless.[[/note]]

* ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/47843671/chapters/120616627 The Soulmate Timeline]]'' uses the concept as a means of explaining the differing potential of potential Magical Girls as mentioned in ''Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica'', with Homura volunteering her own magical potential as a base unit, or 'Homuras', for the ease of explaining to Madoka, whose not contracted and can't see or sense them. An average person is said to have about a fourth or fifth as much potential as Homura does, Hitomi Shizuki has about two Homuras of potential, Sayaka Miki two and a half to three Homuras, Mami has raw magical potential worth about six Homuras, and Madoka's potential leaves Mami speechless and unable to give it a measurement of its own in Homura units. [[VideoGame/MagiaRecordPuellaMagiMadokaMagicaSideStory Kamihama City]] has a refined measurement method devised by Touka that measures the raw power of Magical Girls via [[InsufferableGenius milliToukas]]. The average Magical girl has a 'power level' of 10 milliToukas. More experienced magical girls, like Momoko and Yachiyo, find the concept very dumb, and are pretty blunt about how such measurements are only part of the equation of a Magical Girl's potential.

* ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/47843671/chapters/120616627 The Soulmate Timeline]]'' uses the concept as a means of explaining the differing potential of potential Magical Girls as mentioned in ''Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica'', with Homura volunteering her own magical potential as a base unit, or 'Homuras', for the ease of explaining to Madoka, whose not contracted and can't see or sense them. An average person is said to have about a fourth or fifth as much potential as Homura does, Hitomi Shizuki has about two Homuras of potential, Sayaka Miki two and a half to three Homuras, Mami has raw magical potential worth about six Homuras, and Madoka's potential leaves Mami speechless and unable to give it a measurement of its own in Homura units.

** Speaking of Moria, he is a perfect example of why you can't use bounties as an indicator of strength. Of the Warlords [[spoiler:prior to the TimeSkip]], his former bounty was the second highest, right after Doflamingo. Throughout the Paramount War, however, it became explicitly clear that of the Warlords, he was the ''weakest'' one. This was due to the fact that during the intervening years between his defeat at the hands of Kaido and the present time, he let himself go and suffered major BadassDecay, [[spoiler:all of which eventually got him kicked out of the group]]. In general, a Warlord's bounty is a poor indicator of their strength because it's frozen at the time of their induction and doesn't take into account whether they got stronger or weaker since then. The best example is Boa Hancock who, despite having the lowest bounty (80 millions) of all the Warlords [[spoiler:prior to the Timeskip (aside from Teach's bounty of zero)]], is far stronger than Moria.

* ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsII Final Mix'' has a bonus battle against Lexaeus. Sora is depicted with a power level of 100 while Lexaeus' power level gets higher and higher the more he flares up his BattleAura. The higher his power level, the greater the damage he inflicts, and his max level is 99,999. Sora has a ReactionCommand where he momentarily adds Lexaeus' power level to his own, allowing him to briefly overpower the brute.