I wanted to love Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey. Nolan is one of my favourite directors, and there are very few filmmakers left who can turn a cinema release into a genuine global event. The Dark Knight, The Prestige, Inception, Interstellar and Oppenheimer all show what happens when ambitious ideas, technical innovation and unforgettable performances end up in the same film.

That is exactly why The Odyssey is such a frustrating experience.

This is not an incompetent film. It is not visually ordinary, technically lazy or creatively safe, and Nolan’s adaptation of Homer’s ancient epic is full of breathtaking landscapes, powerful sound design, brutal battle sequences and moments of genuine cinematic scale. But I still did not particularly like it. The craftsmanship is visible in practically every frame, yet the emotional connection is missing — Nolan has built the physical shape of an epic without consistently delivering its soul.

Most critics strongly disagree with me. As of July 19, 2026, The Odyssey holds a 95% critics’ score and a 97% verified audience score on Rotten Tomatoes, while Metacritic reports an 89 Metascore — although its user score is a far more divided 5.0 out of 10. That gap reflects my own reaction. I can recognise the achievement without accepting that it is a masterpiece.

For me, the movie contains too many creative misses, and the largest of them is the casting.

Nolan Still Knows How to Create a Cinematic Event

Before getting into what went wrong, it is only fair to acknowledge what works — and visually, The Odyssey is frequently fantastic.

The islands, coastlines, cliffs, caves and endless stretches of sea are photographed with enormous confidence. Nolan understands that the environment cannot simply function as a backdrop here. The sea has to feel like an unpredictable force separating Odysseus from his kingdom, his family and his former identity, and it does. The landscapes often communicate more than the dialogue.

There are moments when the scale becomes genuinely overwhelming. Ships look fragile against open water, men seem insignificant beneath cliffs and storms, and the natural world feels ancient, hostile and completely indifferent to whether Odysseus survives. That side of the movie works beautifully.

Nolan also succeeds in creating the feeling of a story being told rather than simply displayed. The narration, abrupt breaks, voices and transitions occasionally produce an atmosphere closer to ancient theatre or oral storytelling than to a modern blockbuster, and at its best the film feels like a legend being spoken across generations.

I enjoyed the rhythm Nolan was reaching for, too. The movie refuses to rush through every destination like a conventional action film. It wants you to feel the exhaustion, the repetition and the psychological weight of a journey that appears to have no end. The intention is clear and often admirable — the execution is less consistent.

The Pace Works — Until It Does Not

I appreciate deliberate filmmaking, and I do not need every historical epic to move at the speed of a superhero movie. The slower passages give the landscapes and the mythology space to breathe, and Nolan clearly wants the audience to understand that returning home is not just a geographical problem for Odysseus. It is a slow struggle to hold on to his identity after war, loss, temptation and years of uncertainty.

Eventually, though, the pacing becomes uneven. Some conversations run well past their dramatic purpose while several of Odysseus’s most famous adventures feel strangely compressed, and the film spends a lot of time preparing us for emotional moments that never completely arrive. There are scenes that could have been cut without losing anything, sitting right next to parts of the journey that should have felt dangerous and unforgettable but pass in minutes.

Nolan is clearly building the whole movie around the final return to Ithaca. I understand that decision, but the journey cannot exist only to serve the ending — every encounter should change Odysseus and deepen our understanding of the man coming home. Instead, some episodes feel like spectacular stops on an expensive cinematic itinerary. We see that Odysseus has travelled far. We do not always feel what the journey has taken from him.

The Cyclops Sequence Is Almost Perfect

The encounter with Polyphemus is one of the strongest sections of the movie. The cave is dark, oppressive and genuinely frightening, and Nolan uses confinement brilliantly, building tension out of space, sound and uncertainty. For a while the film stops feeling like a celebrity-filled Hollywood production and starts feeling like a primal myth.

The sequence also captures the qualities that should define Odysseus: intelligence, deception, courage and dangerous pride. He does not survive through strength alone — he studies the situation, manipulates his enemy and uses language as a weapon. That is the Odysseus I wanted to see for the entire film.

Unfortunately, the design of the Cyclops itself is a letdown. Polyphemus never has the grotesque, unnatural presence such an iconic creature demands. His face looks designed rather than discovered, and the visual effects never quite match the physical atmosphere Nolan creates inside the cave. The surrounding scene is convincing; the creature at its centre is not. It is one of several moments where Nolan’s practical filmmaking builds something powerful, only for a digital element to weaken it.

The Film’s Biggest Problem Is Its Cast

The cast of The Odyssey is filled with talented actors. That does not mean they are right for these roles.

This is the central problem with the movie. Nolan appears to have assembled a list of major contemporary stars without always asking whether each of them could disappear into the ancient world he was building, and too frequently I stayed aware of the celebrity instead of the character.

I did not see Odysseus — I saw Matt Damon. I did not see Telemachus — I saw Tom Holland. I did not see Athena — I saw Zendaya. That distance between actor and character kept breaking my immersion.

The official ensemble includes Matt Damon as Odysseus, Anne Hathaway as Penelope, Tom Holland as Telemachus, Zendaya as Athena, Robert Pattinson as Antinous, Charlize Theron as Calypso, Samantha Morton as Circe, John Leguizamo as Eumaeus, Jon Bernthal as Menelaus and Elliot Page as Sinon. I like nearly all of these actors. The problem is not talent — it is credibility, chemistry, physical presence and whether they feel like they belong to the same mythological world. Too many of them do not.

Matt Damon Is Good, but He Is Not a Great Odysseus

Matt Damon clearly committed himself to this role. The physical preparation is visible — he looks weathered, capable and believable as a man who has spent years fighting, travelling and surviving — and he handles the tactical and physical side of the part professionally.

But Odysseus needs more than competence. He is a king, warrior, husband, father, strategist, liar, survivor and deeply flawed hero, brilliant and arrogant, tender and cruel, loyal and unfaithful, carrying the psychological damage of war while remaining dangerous enough to reclaim a kingdom. That contradiction demands extraordinary emotional depth, and while Damon communicates intelligence and exhaustion, I rarely felt the internal storm underneath. The performance is technically accurate without ever becoming emotionally unforgettable.

There were moments when I could not stop seeing Will Hunting wearing ancient Greek armour. That may sound unfair, because Damon is far more versatile than one role, but the familiarity of his screen persona works against him here. Odysseus should feel larger than life while remaining painfully human. Damon gives us the human part; he rarely becomes legendary.

I kept thinking about actors Nolan has directed before. Christian Bale could have brought a darker, more unpredictable intensity, and Matthew McConaughey proved in Interstellar that he can carry enormous emotional pain while staying physically convincing as a leading man. Either might have given the role more danger, desperation and gravity. Damon is not bad — he is simply not the Odysseus this movie required.

Penelope and Telemachus Feel Like a Modern Family Drama

The relationship between Penelope and Telemachus should be the emotional foundation of The Odyssey, because the journey only matters if we believe in the family waiting at the end of it. Unfortunately, Anne Hathaway and Tom Holland never convinced me as mother and son.

Their scenes feel strangely hollow. I never sensed the accumulated grief, uncertainty and pressure of a royal family that has survived roughly twenty years without its king. Penelope should be holding a kingdom together while resisting the men trying to replace her husband; Telemachus should be a young prince forced into adulthood in the shadow of a father he barely remembers. That relationship should be full of love, frustration, resentment, fear and desperation. Instead, several scenes play like a contemporary teenage family drama.

Holland is talented, but his energy, expressions and unmistakably modern screen personality make it hard to accept him as an ancient prince slowly growing into authority. Hathaway carries more dramatic weight, yet the chemistry between them never clicks. And because their scenes matter so much to the structure, the weakness bleeds into everything else. The eventual return to Ithaca should land with overwhelming emotional force. It does not. Nolan builds toward the reunion as though it will destroy the audience, but the relationships have not been developed strongly enough to earn it.

Zendaya Does Not Have the Required Gravitas as Athena

Zendaya’s casting as Athena does not work for me — and this has nothing to do with her race.

Athena is the daughter of Zeus, the goddess of wisdom and strategic warfare. She should radiate authority, intelligence and divine distance, and when she enters a scene, mortals should seem smaller around her. Zendaya is talented and charismatic, but she feels too youthful and too contemporary for this interpretation. I never felt I was watching an ancient goddess who understands human conflict from a perspective mortals cannot reach; I felt I was watching a major modern celebrity performing a mythological supporting role.

Athena does not need to shout or physically dominate anyone. Her power should come from control, certainty and the quiet suggestion that she already knows how everything ends. That authority is missing here, and a more mature performer — or simply one capable of projecting greater severity and timelessness — would have strengthened every scene involving the gods. The problem is presence, not ethnicity.

Robert Pattinson Is Entertaining but Not Dangerous Enough

Robert Pattinson is one of the more enjoyable performers in the movie. As Antinous he brings instability, arrogance and a genuinely unpleasant energy to the Ithaca storyline, and he knows how to make the smallest gesture feel uncomfortable. He is never boring.

Still, I expected Antinous to feel more dangerous. He should be an infection inside Odysseus’s home — a man so confident in the king’s absence that he already behaves as if Ithaca belongs to him. Pattinson delivers the entitlement and the cruelty, but not enough political or physical menace. He is interesting rather than terrifying. It remains one of the stronger casting choices, but another actor might have made the threat feel more immediate.

Agamemnon Works Better Than Menelaus

The scenes involving Agamemnon are brutal and visually effective. Even when the character is not shown clearly, there is a physical credibility to him — he looks like he belongs to a world of war, kings and Greek mythology, and those sequences briefly give the film the heavier atmosphere it otherwise lacks.

Jon Bernthal as Menelaus is less convincing. Bernthal is a strong actor with real screen intensity, and he has been excellent in roles built on modern violence and emotional volatility, but I never fully accepted him as the king of Sparta. The performance feels like Jon Bernthal placed inside a historical production rather than a character emerging naturally from it. Again, that is not an attack on his ability — it is a question of fit.

Charlize Theron Is the Best Casting Decision

Charlize Theron as Calypso is easily one of the film’s strongest choices. Calypso has to embody beauty, comfort, temptation, affection and imprisonment all at once — she offers Odysseus an escape from suffering that would cost him his home, his family and his human identity — and Theron has exactly the maturity, beauty and screen authority the character demands.

She can seem compassionate and dangerous in the same breath, and she is entirely believable as someone who could persuade an exhausted traveller to stay on her island and forget the world outside it. Her scenes carry the mythological presence several other sections lack, and even when the writing slows down, Theron herself stays compelling. Honestly, I would probably eat the lotus flower and stay on that island too.

Circe Is Another Missed Opportunity

Samantha Morton plays Circe, the witch-goddess who transforms Odysseus’s men and becomes his lover in Homer’s poem. Morton is a respected performer, but this version of Circe never has enough mystery, danger or seductive power. The encounter should feel transformative — Odysseus is walking into the territory of someone who can change the physical nature of the men around her — yet the sequence feels oddly restrained.

The adaptation also drastically reduces the time Odysseus spends with her. In Homer’s poem he stays for a year; the film moves him along far more quickly, and Calypso is similarly softened and romanticised compared with the original story. Those changes are not automatically wrong, but they strip away some of the moral and emotional complexity of the journey.

John Leguizamo Needed More Age and Weight

John Leguizamo is a good actor, and parts of his Eumaeus work, but I do not think he was the right choice. Eumaeus is defined by endurance and loyalty — a man who stayed faithful to Odysseus while the kingdom crumbled and a new generation grew up without its king. The role needs someone who looks deeply weathered by time.

Leguizamo performs the material well enough, but he never projects the age, patience and accumulated wisdom I imagined. An older performer with a heavier physical and emotional presence could have made Eumaeus feel like a living link between the old Ithaca and the kingdom Odysseus finally returns to. It is another case of a good actor who does not fully fit the role.

Elliot Page Never Convinces as Sinon

Elliot Page plays Sinon, the Greek soldier tied to the Trojan Horse strategy — and my criticism of this casting has nothing to do with Page being transgender. Page simply does not convince me as a Greek warrior.

The role calls for military credibility, cunning and the confidence to walk into an enemy city and manipulate it during the final stage of a brutal war, and I never felt sufficient physical danger or warrior presence in the performance. Page’s recognisably contemporary screen identity makes it even harder to disappear into the period.

This is the same standard I apply to Holland, Zendaya, Damon and everyone else in the ensemble. The question is never whether an actor deserves to be in a major production — it is whether the actor makes us believe the character. In this case, I did not.

Diversity Is Not the Real Issue — Coherent World-Building Is

The ethnically diverse casting will inevitably become one of the most debated parts of this film, so let me be precise about my problem. It is not that people of different races appear in a mythological story. Ancient Mediterranean societies were connected through trade, migration, conquest and slavery, and The Odyssey is mythology, not documentary footage — filmmakers have enormous room for interpretation.

The real issue is visual and cultural coherence. The cast often feels assembled from modern celebrity culture rather than drawn from one believable cinematic civilisation. Nolan presents a deliberately contemporary, ethnically varied ensemble, but the screenplay and the world-building do not always integrate those choices into a unified vision — so the casting strategy itself becomes visible. Instead of disappearing into ancient Greece, I kept noticing the modern production decisions behind it. That is what damages the immersion.

A filmmaker can reinterpret mythology in practically any direction, but the world has to stay internally consistent. The audience needs to believe these characters share a history, a culture and a civilisation. Here, many members of the ensemble look like they belong to different movies.

Troy and 300 Created More Convincing Ancient Worlds

Neither Troy nor 300 is historically accurate. 300 is deliberately exaggerated, stylised and adapted from a graphic novel, while Troy rewrites major parts of Homeric mythology and compresses a decade-long war into something far simpler. Yet both films build internally coherent worlds.

Brad Pitt’s Achilles, Eric Bana’s Hector, Peter O’Toole’s Priam and Sean Bean’s Odysseus all feel physically and dramatically suited to the interpretation Troy created. The cast of 300 commits completely to its heightened visual language — the performances, bodies, costumes, dialogue and cinematography all belong to the same brutal fantasy. Those films understood that historical and mythological cinema lives or dies on screen presence: the performer has to look capable of existing inside the legendary world, even when that world is historically wrong.

Nolan’s production is technically more sophisticated and visually more naturalistic, but his cast rarely achieves the same unity. Prestige and celebrity cannot replace credibility.

Nolan’s Nonlinear Structure Is Faithful in Spirit but Uneven in Practice

One criticism of this film deserves pushback, so let me make it clearly: Homer’s Odyssey is not told in chronological order either. The poem begins in the middle of the story, and Odysseus’s earlier adventures — the Lotus-Eaters, the Cyclops, Circe — are recounted by Odysseus himself to the Phaeacians, with Books 9 to 12 forming one long embedded narrative covering the previous ten years. Nolan’s nonlinear approach makes sense and is faithful to the spirit of Homer.

The problem is not that the movie tells events out of order. The problem is that the reordering does not always create the emotional or dramatic momentum we expect from Nolan. In Memento, The Prestige and Oppenheimer, structure changes how we understand the characters — information arrives exactly when it can transform the meaning of what came before. In The Odyssey, the structure sometimes feels merely decorative. The fragments, narration and time shifts build atmosphere, but they do not consistently deepen the characters, and some sequences end up disconnected from the emotional journey. The structure is intelligent; the dramatic accumulation is weaker.

A Spectacular Production With Too Many Creative Misses

There is no question that The Odyssey should be seen on the biggest screen you can find. The scale, the landscapes, the sound and the physical filmmaking deserve it, and Nolan remains one of the few directors who can make a blockbuster feel handcrafted rather than assembled by committee.

But technical achievement cannot replace emotional conviction. The family relationships do not work. Too many cast members do not fit their roles. The screenplay races through some of the most interesting adventures while stretching scenes that add little emotional weight. The Cyclops sequence is brilliantly staged but undermined by its creature design; Circe lacks danger; Athena lacks authority; Telemachus feels too modern; and Odysseus never fully becomes the legendary king the story demands. The result is a movie I can admire frame by frame while disliking as a complete experience.

Final Verdict: Is The Odyssey Worth Watching?

Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey is worth seeing for its cinematography, its landscapes, its sound design and its moments of enormous theatrical scale. It is not one of Nolan’s best films.

I understand what he was reaching for — a fusion of Homeric storytelling, ancient theatrical atmosphere, nonlinear structure and modern IMAX spectacle — and there are moments when all of it aligns and the film genuinely becomes epic. But those moments are surrounded by too many mistakes. The cast is full of talented performers who feel wrong for their characters, the emotional relationships cannot carry the weight placed on them, and the screenplay lacks the dramatic depth a story about war, family, identity and twenty years of suffering demands.

Nolan’s greatest films balance technical ambition with human emotion. Interstellar makes cosmic scale intensely personal. The Dark Knight matches every major character with an actor capable of defining the role. The Prestige turns rivalry into psychological destruction. Oppenheimer makes history feel like an immediate moral crisis. The Odyssey gives us the images of an epic without consistently giving us the emotional force of one.

I wanted to watch Odysseus fight desperately to return to Penelope and Telemachus. Too often, I watched Matt Damon trying to carry an ensemble that never became a believable family or civilisation. This is an ambitious, beautiful, technically exceptional film — and a major disappointment.

Final rating: 7/10

A magnificent-looking journey that never fully convinces us why returning home matters.

Frequently Asked Questions

Is Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey a good movie?

It is technically impressive and visually exceptional, but its casting, uneven pacing and limited emotional depth prevent it from becoming a truly great film.

Is Matt Damon good as Odysseus?

Matt Damon gives a committed and physically convincing performance, but he lacks some of the emotional darkness, authority and mythological presence the character requires.

Is The Odyssey faithful to Homer?

The movie retains the central journey, major characters and nonlinear storytelling approach of Homer’s poem, but it alters, shortens or removes several relationships and episodes.

Who gives the best performance in The Odyssey?

Charlize Theron is one of the strongest casting choices as Calypso. Robert Pattinson is also entertaining as Antinous, although the character could have been more threatening.

Why is this review rated 7 out of 10?

The cinematography, natural scenery, narrative ambition and several major sequences are excellent. However, widespread miscasting, weak family chemistry, inconsistent pacing and limited emotional impact significantly weaken the complete film.

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Our list is populated with characters spanning various titles, and universes. They may differ in shape, size, power, and medium of presentation. Some are animated, some belong in comic book frames, others exist (so, to speak) as playable video game characters. However, they all possess power enough to alter reality.

10. The Mask

The Mask – a green jade mask of obscure origin. Apparently stolen from a remote tribe by an unnamed explorer during a ritual in honor of the object. Inhabited by a nameless entity that needs a host to do its thing. It has been worn by various individuals and has drawn out a darker side in its hosts.

The mask grants the wearer reality-warping powers that are pretty cartoon-like. The mask enables the wearer the ability to alter their shape, size, and produce weapons from thin air. The Mask’s powers seem to only be limited by the wearer’s imagination.

The only reason the Mask isn’t number one is that no wearer has ever tested the relic’s limits. Potential-wise, it may have the world-breaking ability. A drawback to the item is that it is incredibly evil.

9. Broly (Dragon Ball Universe)

When the topic of the strongest Super Saiyan in the DragonBall universe comes up, Goku – the protagonist of the Dragon Ball narrative – is usually the first on everyone’s list. There is, however, another vegetable-themed member of the extraterrestrial ape race, Broly (a play on Broccoli,) whose power is so great that he may rival the most powerful being yet to be revealed, Beerus.

The Character’s appearance in the DragonBall series has mostly been restricted to movies and OVA’s. Broly’s appearance and origin story have also been reworked since first seeing the light of day, back in 1993.

Broly, in his current iteration, is more mild-mannered, and naive from growing up on a remote planet. He and his father, Paragus, were banished there by Vegeta’s father. Though he is, generally, a gentle giant, the Legendary super sayian is prone to fits of rage – states in which he cannot control his immense power.

He has bested, both Goku, and Vegeta. As well as all most known surviving members of the Saiyan race. It has always taken a concerted effort, and a bit of luck, to defeat him.

8. Asura (Asura’s Wrath)

The lead character in the gaming title, Asura’s Wrath, Asura ‘exists’ in a fictional realm, that is very Dragon-Ball-meets-God-Of-War. Asura is a rage-powered deity who reigns, along with seven other Cyborg-like gods over a Hindu/Buddhist/Sci-Fi-themed world.

As with God of War, Asura’s journey begins with a betrayal by his fellow gods which see him raging through the millennia to enact revenge. The character can draw power from mantra without the aid of a conduit, which other members of the pantheon thought is impossible.

Aided by rage, the fellow goes to fight his way in a duel with the creator of the universe. Whom he dispatches, rip apart the fabric of space and time in the process.

7. Saitama (One Punch Man)

Though not a deity, Saitama, better known as One Punch Man, possesses the ability to knock an opponent into the next world with a single punch. He claims to have grown that strong from a strict workout routine.

However, there appears to be more to the character’s strength as he has walked away from blasts that would have disintegrated a regular human being, and withstood shots from powerful extraterrestrial beings. Saitama spends his time frustrated by the fact that all his challengers end up underwhelming him.

As a result, he has never used his full potential. Which suggests that he has near-limitless potential.

6. Kratos (God of War)

Kratos is the main character of the God of War series of games. The ‘Ghost of Sparta’ – following a betrayal at the hands of the Greek god of War – Aries, Kratos kills a deity and takes its place in the pantheon.

In subsequent games, Kratos goes on to take on and defeat the entire pantheon. Even going as far as killing Zeus. He doesn’t stop there, the parents of the gods, the Titans, eventually also get a taste of the new gold of war’s rage.

5. The Hulk

Representing the comic book sphere, Marvel’s green rage beast, The Hulk is so powerful it has taken out literal gods. The Hulk, in its ultimate form, is powerful enough to break worlds.

The product of scientist Bruce Banner’s broken psyche, the Hulk is a Gamma-powered personification of the man’s rage. He has single-handedly taken out all the superheroes on Marvel Earth. The Beyonder has even declared the Hulk’s power potentially limitless.

4. Arceus (Pokemon)

The first legendary Pokemon, Arceus, is said to be the reason any Pokemon exists at all. He possesses an assortment of powers, and can apparently bring forth life in addition to creating whole worlds. That’s legitimately powerful.

3. The Presence

The DC Universe’s version of the Judaic God, The Presence is a powerful being with an obscure plan. The Presence is an omniscient, omnipotent, and omnipresent being. The reason time dawned in the first place – DC time, that is.

The first position ought to be a tie, however, what sets the top 3 most powerful entities in fictional existence, is their weaknesses. The Presence, unlike his counterparts, can be harmed, and even killed (though he returns.)

2. One-Above-All

The One-Above-All is the being behind the Marvel Omniverse. This cosmic entity is the most powerful being in all of Marvel’s creation. Unlike his DC counterpart, he is a benevolent being; as opposed to the helicopter-parenting style observed by the Presence.

What also sets the two entities apart is the fact that, although they are similar beings, omniscient, omnipresent, and omnipotent, One-Above-All has no known weaknesses. He is yet to be harmed or murdered, although Thanos did manage to absorb him once.

1. Dr. Manhattan

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Not a god, but a man with god-like abilities. Named after the Manhattan project, DC character Dr. Manhattan (Jonathan Osterman) had a run-in with radiation, which killed him. However, he managed to put himself back together as a being of energy, with god-like abilities.

He’s hyper-intelligent, able to control time, manipulate matter at a subatomic level, and have the ability to perceive the past, present, and future, all at the same time. This guy takes the number one spot because he’s unharmable. In fact, he even reversed and altered his timeline to his existence.

We decided to take into consideration all characters across all fiction universes. However, if you think that there are stronger heroes or beings that we excluded from the list – please let us know.

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The comic book stable’s flagship hero, Superman, being as powerful as he is, would need formidable foes to tussle with. Not to mention allies, to lend him a hand when he’s bitten off more than he can chew. It goes without saying that a being with god-like abilities would have to pit himself against beings of equal, or greater power to be a decent hero.

Without any further platitude, we have prepared a short descending list of some of the most powerful beings that the human mind can conceive. Brace yourself, because we don’t see spiderman taking these guys on and walking out alive.

6. Lobo

Besides being ultra powerful, the Czarnian Bastich is also an archetype of badassery. A law unto himself, Lobo is the last of his kind – routinely making sure of the fact by wacking any of his species he encounters.

The Czarnian enjoys the advantage of being nearly indestructible, he’s even regenerated his entire head after it was blown off. Lobo has pummeled the Caped Wonder on numerous occasions.

5. Darkseid

Darkseid has probably kicked Superman’s but more times than any other villain in the DC universe. Darkseid’s class of being is New God. With that, comes an array of abilities; immortality, invulnerability, superhuman strength, and the Omega Effect which makes him even tougher to defeat.

All anyone ever sees of Darkseid, is an avatar, projected onto any universe through the Omega Effect which is why he keeps coming back from the dead. In fact the Justice League came into being because the world was in danger of having a great evil befall it, that evil, was Darkseid.

4. Dr. Manhattan

Although existing in a separate universe to the main DC universe, and therefore never coexisting with other powerful beings, Manhattan deserves a mention because internet chatter often compares him to Superman.

The energy based member of the Watchmen, is the result of a freak lab experiment (sound familiar?). He was disintegrated in the explosion, but – get this – he managed to put himself together in the following days. He is now so powerful he can perceive and manipulate matter on an atomic level (you know, make himself into a giant, take whole humans apart – molecule by molecule – with a single thought).

There are characters who dwarf him in ability, but the guy’s perception of time is weird. He can sees the past, present, and future simultaneously. One would think such an ability would make him formidable but he’s rather nihilistic.

3. Mr. Mxyzptlk

The number 3 spot could just as easily go to Anti-Monitor, who once bested The Spectre, The Decreator, a destructive force which can’t be reasoned with or stopped, or The Endless, seven nigh-omnipotent siblings who are named after complex emotions. However, due to tenure, Mr. Mxyzptik gets the spot as Mxyzptik has been tormenting the man of steel since the ’40’s

Mr. Mxyzptik does not adhere to any physical laws and can warp reality as he pleases. Unlike the characters he beat out of the 3rd spot, the impish being from the 5th dimension never harnesses his power for destruction, instead he uses his power to annoy his victims for his own amusement (particularly Superman). The only way to “defeat” him is to solve one of his convoluted puzzles.

2. The Spectre

The Spectre takes second place, and is a cosmic being who embodies the vengeance of the creator of the universe. The character came into being after an angel who had taken part in the rebellion against heaven, Aztar, repented for his sins,was subsequently stripped of his memories and became a vessel for the Creator’s wrath.

The Spectre is near omnipotent and capable of bending reality to its will; turning characters to ice for cold-hearted behavior, and wiping nations out of existence for genocidal violence. It wasn’t until the archangel, Michael, informed the entity that it couldn’t roam the earth without being bound to a human soul, that the Spectre took human form (so to speak). Michael Corrigan, and Green Lantern Corps member, Hal Jordan are notable names that have played host to the ancient one.

1.The Presence

The Presence gets first place because this character, aside from the writers and artists, is the reason the endless worlds of the DC universe exist in the first place. The Presence is practically DC’s version of God. From The Spectre, right down to Aqua Man, this is who they would pray to.

Imagined by Jerry Siegel and Bernard Bailey, The Presence first appeared in More Fun In Comics #52 in 1940 and has often been referred to, by other characters, as Yahweh (incidentally the original name of the Abrahamic God), The Hand, The Source, or The Voice. This character is seldom depicted, but has taken many forms throughout the years.

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If you are using custom Stellar wallet you can find more info here – “how to trustline to your Stellar account using Transaction Builder“.

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Click on manage “Manage Trustlines” button and find BIZNNERD asset. On the final step just click accept and add it to your wallet.

Remember that Stellar holds 0.5 XLM per trustline from your Lumen balance.

How to buy BIZZNERD token?

Go to your Keybase wallet and as Send option choose “To one of your other Stellar accounts”.

If you want to exchange XLM to BIZZNERD make sure that both fields (from and to) are related to your account.

Afterwards, you will see the option “Send other assets”. After pressing that button a new popup will appear.
In the last final stage choose how much BIZZNERD you want to receive and click Send button.

That is it and you have successfully exchanged some XLM to BIZZNERD.

How to Join BIZZNERD Luna Drop And Claim Free BIZZNERD Tokens?

To join airdrop, you’ll simply need to add BIZZNERD to your trustlines and fill out the following form. 

We will send each participant 5 tokens for the first airdrop. We will send additionally 1,5 tokens for following our Twitter or Keybase account.

• 5 BizzNerd tokens for establishing trustline and filling out the form
• 1.5 for following our Twitter account – enter your Twitter username in the form
• 1.5 for following our Keybase team – enter your Keybase username in the form
• 1 token goes to referral

Conclusion

We will release a small amount of BIZZNERD tokens on the market before we start with the official token distribution. If you want to track the latest token news I advise you to follow us on Twitter, Facebook, Telegram subscribe to the BizzNerd newsletter! and join our team on Keybase. Stay tuned, because we will have BIZZNERD airdrop soon.

For more information visit our official token page.

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The operation was subsequently rebranded after the acquisition of the Crypto.com domain name, which had been registered in 1993 by renowned cryptographer, Matt Blaze.

With a name and a new goal – to accelerate the transition to full scale cryptocurrency use – the start-up set forth to make its mark on the industry, with a sleuth of goodies available on the offered on platform.

Crypto.com  CRO Platform Overview

The Crypto.com platform was conceptualized and designed to take on some of the issues seen as being the most significant stumbling blocks on the way towards mainstream cryptocurrency adoption. These – as the platform sees it – are, accessibility and the good old ease of use that the traditional finance sector has gotten most of us used too.

To tackle the aforementioned issues, Crypto.com offers the end user a plethora of products. These are, a cryptocurrency wallet, a prepaid card powered by VISA, an investing service, a credit service, and a service where the user can earn cryptocurrency. All interlinked through the platforms two native tokens, MCO and CRO.

Registration

Download your app from Google Play or App Store. Afterwards, fill out a simple registration form. If you use below code during sign up process – we both can get $25.

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However let me warn you. You will see $25 worth of CRO token in your wallet, but you will not be able to use it until you purchase at least 2500 CRO and hold them for six months. At moment of writing of this article 1 CRO costs around 0.0794.

The Wallet Service

First things first. The wallet service here is quite the same as wallet services offered by other platforms. It serves as a convenient place to purchase, store, sell, send, and keep track of your digital holdings. More specifically, the user can choose from more than 50 cryptocurrencies and buy with seven supported fiat currencies.

A VISA Powered Debit Card

This is possibly the most exciting of all. The MCO visa card was first announced to the world during November of 2018. A partnership between Crypto.com and Metropolitan Commercial Bank (MCB), that offers the user a means to spend cryptocurrency anywhere that accepts VISA card payments. That would mean more or less anywhere.

There are 6 colour coded card types on offer. With each tier affording the is own “level” of added benefits. These include cash back on a Netflix subscription played for by the card. As you may have guessed, the higher up you go , the more you’ll have to put in to get it started, this comes in the form of a required purchase of a certain amount of MCO, and holding it for a period of no less than six months.
Card Type Staking Fee MCO Rewards on card spending.

• Midnight Blue – N/A : 1% spend back
• Ruby Steel – Stake at least 50 MCO for six months : 2% spend back
• Jade Green – Stake at least 500 MCO  for six months : 3% spend back
• Ice White -Stake at least 5000 MCO for six months : 4% spend back
• Obsidian Black -Stake at least 50000 MCO for six months :5% spend back

Investing product

A simple and less intimidating way to start cryptocurrency trading. An interested user can start with an initial investment of as little as $20 into a fund. There after the user would answer a few simple question for the purpose of determining whether they are risk averse or otherwise. Thus determining which investment approach would better suit you.

The strategies used by this feature are – as per Crypto.com – optimized for three to six month holding period, however, the funds can be withdrawn at any point. Another noteworthy aspect of the service is that the user is only charged a fee for profits earned.

Credit Service

As the name suggests, this is a way of getting funds from Crypto.com on loan. Put in simple terms, the user can put down crypto assets as collateral on a loan played out in stable coins TrueUSD and PAX, so there’s no need sell off assets whenever the need arises.

There are several rewards systems. Amongst other, you’ll get a certain discount on your spending’s on your VISA crypto card. Also, you will get $25 worth of CRO token in your wallet, for every referral that purchase at least 2500 CRO tokens.

Earn Product

Using this passive service, the user can earn up to 8% p.a on their cryptocurrency. This service works best for users who have staked MCO tokens to their cards. If the user stakes 50 MCO and above, he/she can earn interest on other cryptocurrencies held in their Crypto.com wallet.

Conclusion

Crypto.com seems to have done a great job of putting together a host of services that could make cryptocurrency mass use a lot easier, even for those who are less technically astute. Whether or not the masses take to it is a secret that only the passing of time can reveal.

If you want to find more info about Crypto.com Exchange, read our article “Crypto.com Exchange Review“.

And if you use my referral link here to sign up, we will both get $25 each.

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Binance is an exchange that gladly accepts users from all around the globe and it has gotten reviews that are favourable from the cryptocurrency ecosystem. However, to know more about Binance, you will have to keep on reading.

All You Need To Know About Binance Exchange

Binance is a universal digital currency exchange that offers a platform for virtual currency users to trade more than a hundred Cryptocurrencies.

Since the early quarters of 2018, Binance has been considered to be the largest virtual currency exchange in the globe when it comes to down to trading volume. The founder of Binance is known as Changing Zhao

The company was established in China and steadily shifted its headquarters as well as servers out of China and landed in Japan due to the Chinese government’s ban on virtual currency trading.

However, in March 2018, the company made its announcement to open a new office at Malta when the cryptocurrency regulations in both China and Japan became stricter.

Also, in 2019, the company made known to the public about its Binance Jersey. The aim of Binance Jersey is majorly to expand the company’s European influence.

Some major companies have partnered with the biggest Cryptocurrency exchange over time and they include:

• CipherTrace
• Moeda
• IdentityMind
• CertiK, etc.

Furthermore, the exchange has counted more than three hundred and thirteen thousand users daily that are very active and, it is the biggest Bitcoin exchange in the globe just after CoinBase.

Nonetheless, with so many platforms that are currently emerging daily to put virtual currencies, it may not actually be the best alternative for retail investors this year 2019.

About The Founder

The gradual rise of Binance to successfully turn out to be the leading virtual currency exchange may seem quite incredulous to many but it is possible if you actually know its founder; Changpeng Zhao.

Basically, Changpeng Zhao once worked for the Tokyo Stock Exchange as well as Bloomberg before he went on to build one of the swiftest high-frequency trading networks known as Fusion Systems.

The exchange was launched in China back in the year 2017, however, its swift execution times have gotten the attraction of so many expert traders.

Furthermore, when China began shuttering virtual currency exchanges, Binance made the move to shift its offices down to Malta. Note that, Binance Uganda and Binance Jersey were opened to offer fiat currency to cryptocurrency trading.

How Binance Exchange Works

As a prominent company known majorly because of their virtual currency exchange, Binance has a Blockchain innovation incubator known as Binance labs, and it majorly focuses on carefully nurturing promising pre-ICO: initial coin offering projects.

The Binance labs aid deserving virtual currency project teams by offering them vital funding for advancement, advisory resources and also a launchpad for any required listing and exercises for fundraisers.

Also, the company provides a site known as a Launchpad to host new and upcoming Blockchain projects. Users are also able to establish APIs: application programming interfaces.

Additionally, with one of the quickest order execution times and research reports of institutional grade, expert cryptocurrency traders have happily found a good home on the exchange.

OTC; Over the counter trading carried out between two private parties was brought about this year, 2019 for those trades of over twenty bitcoins i.e one million USD.

As a result of the launch of DEX; Binance Decentralized Exchange, Binance exchange focuses on giving traders the choice of having the best of both worlds.

What Binance does is that it tries its best to take care of every level of investors through its provision of not just a basic but also an advanced trade setup. And, there are more than four hundred coins that they provide.

For those interested in having swift accessibility to the new coins that keep emerging, Binance is the place to get all of the hottest altcoins.

The flow of coins from their ICO debuts to all listings of altcoins on Binance makes sure that users get fast access to the ideal supply of these new coins.

For some exchanges, you will have to patiently wait for the liquidity to trade these new coins. But for Binance, you can take part in trading competitions and get to earn a lot while you help to develop liquidity in these new coins.

It’s trading fees are low and affordable for those who also make use of Binance’s cryptocurrency known as Binance Coin (BNB).

Because it is a centralized exchange, it is susceptible to breaches in its security and it has been reported that the exchange gets to fend off so much daily.

Products Offered By Binance Company

The product offered to virtual currency users and enthusiasts alike has to do with its very own Binance coin. It goes with the symbol BNB. The coin is highly prominent and has a market capitalization of over $1.4billion.

Subsequently, it is frequently used as an alternative technique for paying the fees at Binance exchange such as:

• Trading fees: for purchasing and trading coins
• Withdrawal fees
• Listing fees, etc.

Users get a fifty percent discount when making use of BNB for the first year of their account and twenty-five percent for the second year. As for the third year, it is roughly 12.5 percent and 6.25 percent for the fourth year.

Also, Binance coin tokens are utilized for Binance Launchpad as a means of investing in specific ICOs on Binance exchange.

A fact that is not widely known by most users is that Binance gets its name from a selective combination of Binary finance.

As for Binance exchange, it backs up the trading of more than forty-five coins including prominent coins such as Bitcoin, LiteCoin, and Ethereum.

Binance company has gone on to claim quality standards of security and safety with multi clustered as well as multi-tier architecture. Also, the exchange delivers very high processing throughput with its capacity to process over 1.4 million orders every second.

Another thing to note about Binance exchange is its new Binance chain and BEP2. As one of the largest virtual currency exchanges by its volume, Binance has successfully seen more than twenty-seven billion dollars through its open doors as it made headlines.

The headlines have to do with its launch of a mainnet: Binance Chain. Also, the platform executed a huge swap of its token; BNB that is off the Blockchain of Ethereum and it simultaneously launched a decentralized exchange.

Binance Chain And BEP2

This is a Blockchain platform that was created by the prominent Binance crypto exchange.

Differing from so many relatively new blockchains, the Binance Chain is not a decentralized application platform actually. Also, it does not back smart contracts.

However, it is strictly aiming at being a very effective platform for the issuance of tokens and their trade. Nonetheless, its functionality may likely be modified in the near future in a bid to support not just smart contracts but other features too.

Furthermore, its traditional asset is BNB. Meanwhile, in the broad sense of the word, it actually performs the exact same operations as ETH does on the Ethereum platform.

What this means is that it is used in paying fees for the performance of diverse actions on the system. Note that, the token standard being used by Binance Chain is known as BEP2.

Binance has described Binance Chain to be a public blockchain whose focus is to send and trade Blockchain assets and also provide new possibilities for the future flow of assets on the Blockchain.

The focus of the Binance Chain is on:

• Liquidity
• Performance, and;
• Ease of use

What you will need to know is that BEP2 is a token that is pegged to Bitcoin. Also, Binance will be issuing some Cryptocurrency pegged tokens on the Binance Chain and it will begin with BTCB.

All of the pegged tokens are a hundred percent supported by the reverse native coin which in this case is Bitcoin. Addresses on the reserve are also published for everyone to audit.

Furthermore, its Blockchain provides a much simpler way to successfully audit a Cryptocurrency reserve than the usual bank balance tether. Also, trading pair will be developed on Binance site with a price of about 0.1%.

Ultimately, this will end up providing an easy way for everybody to easily convert from the pegged token back again to the native Binance coin.

And, should the buy order be completely filled, another new order will be put in position while an equivalent amount of money will get deposited from the reserved address and into Binance.com.

The major benefit of these cryptocurrency pegged tokens is that it makes available to the Binance DEX traders the surplus coins that practically have their very own blockchains and are not native on the Binance Chain.

Due to the increase in the token section that is available in Binance DEX, there will be a rise in both liquidity and trading volume. It will increase the utility value further of Binance DEX.

Is Binance A Safe Exchange?

The question on most people’s minds pertains to the fact of whether Binance exchange is safe or not. Basically, as a virtual currency exchange platform, Binance provides hot wallet facilities for storage.

As a safety measure, Binance makes use of highly advanced security protocols to safely guard the platform and transfer alerts in case of any form of breach.

Also, users have the chance to secure all of their funds with the Google authenticator; two-factor authentication.

Binance has experienced some setbacks like:

Attempts of hacking

Back in March 2018, there was a hacking attempt on its platform, though it did not turn out to be successful because the automated systems on its site quickly reacted on time.

Moreover, the malicious cybercriminals were making use of a phishing site in a bid to gather logins and discretely set up API accessibility to accounts that have been targeted.

On the day it happened, these cybercriminals converted all the available altcoins in their target’s accounts to Bitcoin and purchased ViaCoin thereby pumping up the price in a considerable way.

Next, they did was to sell off the ViaCoin at the best price point and made moves to withdraw Bitcoin to their own wallets.

Nonetheless, it did not work out since they were immediately caught as it was occurring and all of their funds were donated straight to charity.

The hack of May 2019

Recently within the year, hackers successfully managed to siphon over seven thousand bitcoins that were worth a total of forty million dollars from the Binance exchange.

In reactions to the hack, the founder made it known that the exchange will be responsible for covering every loss of its users from its SAFU; Secure Asset Fund for users.

However, the hacking incident did not turn out to be permanent harm to the credibility of Binance exchange.

Nonetheless, users are advised not to keep their virtual currencies on exchange’s hot wallets because all of these make them susceptible to attacks when compared to the cold storage facilities.

Advantages And Disadvantages Of Binance

Some of the pros of Binance are:

• The process of opening an account on the site is quick
• It entails low fees
• It has hundreds of virtual currency pairs
• Binance actively secures multi-currency wallets
• It has good liquidity

For its cons, they include:

• Its trade partners are actually not validated under two Bitcoin
• It has restricted deposit options
• There is no fiat to cryptocurrency trading on its main exchange.

To Wrap It Up

Binance is known for its low trading fees in all markets available in the world today. It has an ideal variety of virtual assets to actually trade, there are varied trading alternatives for newbies and professionals plus a friendly interface.

All of these reasons make it the favourite to most of the Cryptocurrency users in the crypto sphere.

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To earn crypto the first step is that you have a Coinbase wallet already. If you don’t have one please read first our post “How to Create Coinbase Bitcoin Wallet?” .

To start earning crypto please visit Coinbase Earn.

To earn each crypto you’ll need to watch video tutorials to discover how specific cryptocurrencies work. Afterwards, you’ll need to answer two questions to earn crypto. Don’t worry questions are easy and videos are short – so it is not time-consuming, but you can learn some useful info.

They’ll notify you when you are able to earn and you will receive an email notification from Coinbase with the following title „You’re invited to earn the ZRX/XLM/BAT/ZEC/DAI/EOS“. For each crypto, you’ll receive a separate email.

Once you receive a notification email, visit Coinbase Earn once again and start earning crypto.

How to Earn Stellar Lumens (XLM) with Coinbase?

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If you want to claim more Stellar for free, I suggest that you read the following articles: “How to Claim Free 25$ Stellar Lumens (XLM) with Blockchain wallet?” and “Keybase App Tutorial and Stellar Space Drop“.

If you want to find more info about Stellar and Stellar Lumens (XLM), in general, read our article “Stellar Network and Stellar Lumens (XLM) an Overview“.

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