Chitauri (Marvel Cinematic Universe)

## Summary

The **Chitauri** are a race of cybernetically enhanced aliens who serve under the leadership of Thanos, who gave them over to Loki for use in his invasion of Earth in an attempt to acquire the Tesseract. Though they successfully invaded the planet through a wormhole created by the Tesseract, they were ultimately defeated by the Avengers.

## Powers and Stats

**Tier:** **9-A**. **High 8-C** with weaponry | **High 8-C**, **higher** with main weapon | **Low 7-C** | **Unknown**

**Name:** Chitauri

**Origin:** Marvel Cinematic Universe

**Gender:** Unknown

**Age:** Varies

**Classification:** Alien

**Powers and Abilities:** Superhuman Physical Characteristics, Weapon Mastery, Flight (via Chariots and for Leviathans), Energy Projection

**Attack Potency:** **Small Building Level** (Harmed Black Widow and Hawkeye). **Large Building Level** with weaponry (Harmed Captain America. Their weapons are more powerful than any similar-sized ones ever created on Earth) | **Large Building Level** (Usually accompanied by two Chitauri Soldiers armed with energy rifles), **higher** with main weapon (Destroyed cars and tore through streets. Caused an explosion that engulfed a rooftop. It took hundreds of chariots with sustained fire overtime in order to eventually draw blood from Hulk) | **Small Town Level** (Tore through multiple buildings with ease. Was too strong for Iron Man to fight directly. Some are armed with energy guns which should be comparable or superior to Chitauri energy rifles) | **Unknown**

**Speed:** **Peak Human** travel speed. **Relativistic** combat and reaction speed | **Subsonic+** flight speed | **Unknown** | **Unknown**

**Lifting Strength:** At most **Class K** (Briefly restrained and pinned down Captain America, but are ultimately weaker and quickly overpowered) | **Unknown** | **Unknown**, possibly **Class P** (Giant-Man struggled to push one through a portal) | **Unknown**

**Striking Strength:** **Small Building Level**. **Large Building Level** with weaponry | **Unknown** | **Small Town Level** | **Unknown**

**Durability:** **Small Building Level** | **Large Building Level** (Can take blasts from other Chariots) | **City Level+** (Completely undamaged from Iron Man's 200 petawatt lasers and he would run out of power before penetrating them) | **Unknown**

**Stamina:** Superhuman (Dependent on internal reactors to power their cybernetic implants. In a deleted scene, they were stated to have fought the Avengers for two or three hours)

**Range:** Standard melee range. Extended melee range with staff. Tens of meters with Energy Projection

**Standard Equipment:** Various laser weapons and vehicles

**Intelligence:** Below Average in combat and strategic thinking (Mainly interested in fighting, though some are shown to go into cover when under fire and shown to capture civilians). Above Average in regards to technology (Reassembled Nebula's cybernetics after she was dismantled by Thanos)

**Weaknesses:** If Command Ship is destroyed, all the soldiers and Leviathans die. Leviathans are much weaker in places not covered by armour

**Key: Chitauri Soldier | With Chariots | With Leviathans | Command Ship**