The official 2024 Marvel Studios Character Encyclopedia -- which is written for a young audience -- confirms several major MCU power levels and feats:
The Infinity Stones ... which "control space, time, power, minds, souls, and reality" ... gave Thanos "absolute power." Absolute means ultimate, perfect, unmitigated, and having no restriction, exception, or qualification.
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/absolute
Eitri "can create the universe's most powerful weapons." This includes Mjolnir, the Infinity Gauntlet, and Stormbreaker. Eitri's ability by definition scales his weapons above all others in the universe ... including any others that harness the power of Infinity Stones, such as the Eye of Agamotto.
The Eye of Agamotto is powered by the Time Stone, "which allows the user to control all aspects of time." Strange uses this to "defeat the terrifying Dormammu." So Thanos had at least this much power in Infinity War. Also, Strange saw "into 14,000,605 timelines, and knows that in only one can the Avengers beat Thanos." So Thanos with four Stones already was more powerful than Strange with the Time Stone.
Dormammu is straight up mulitversal. He has the "power to consume entire dimensions" and "seeks to devour all other dimensions in the multiverse. Dormammu's power is seemingly infinite." By the time Strange beat Dormammu with the Time Stone, Dormammu had already consumed other entire dimensions. Dormammu sought Earth's dimension. That's the universe. So dimensions are universes. The Time Stone by definition trapped a multiversal being.
Again, MCU dimensions are in fact universes. "For thousands of years, the people of Ta Lo have protected all universes from the Dweller in Darkness." This also scales up Shang Chi, Wenwu, and the rings to multiversal level. Insane but there it is in official print.
Had Malekith and Gorr succeeded, each of them would have destroyed the universe. Since Gorr sought to do this by making a wish at Eternity, that confirms Eternity could have destroyed the universe.
Malekith sought to "spread darkness across the universe" with the Aether, "an ancient force of infinite destruction" that "is an Infinity Stone that controls reality." Thor overpowered Malekith while he was in the process of doing this. Also, this again confirms that Thanos could literally control reality with the Gauntlet.
The Convergence was creating interdimensional portals. Since dimensions are universes, this means the events of Thor 2 were multiversal.
Thor has near invulnerability. "Invulnerable" means "incapable of being wounded, injured, or harmed." So anything that has done so to Thor simply scales equal to or above him in power.
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/invulnerability
"Hulk's unrelenting power" "prove too much" for the Avengers. Every time Hulk is with the Avengers, so is Thor. So Hulk's power is on par with Thor's.
Carol is "almost invulnerable." That puts her durability equal to Thor's.
The Destroyer has "near invincibility" and its armor is "virtually indestructible." Thor destroyed it with Mjolnir.
Cosmo did in fact hold all of Knowhere in place. Knowhere is the size of a city.
The book thanks Kevin Feige and features the Marvel logo. This book is canon.
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