Death Battle Analysis: Beetlejuice

Ahh, Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice, Beetleju- Oh wait, gotta be careful about that. This series was a huge staple of Horror comedy that helped set up the Tone that the genre would take for the 90s decade. It may have only been one film, but it spun off into Comics, Games, and cause this was the 80s, it got its own Kids Cartoon despite not being a film made for Kids. With the recent Resurgence of The Ghost With the Most with both the Broadway Play and Sequel Film, I figured it was a good time to cover the verse and grab all those obscure feats and powers he had in that long, LONG cartoon series.

Background:

On the Mortal coil there are two sides of the same coin, the struggles faced by the living, and the struggles faced by the dead. The Human world has its own problems sure, with annoying things like the need to work and get money for food and shelter, and having to watch out for the odd Axe Murderer who decides they Hate You specifically every now and then. But, the life of a Ghost isn’t all sunshine and rainbows either, and that's case in point with our main man, Beetlejuice. 

The origins of this mysterious ghoul are shrouded in mystery with many contradictions, but the most consistent tale is Beetlejuice was born in Europe in 1322, 666 years before the first film took place, where he was a Grave Robber during the Black Death, who was interested in Occult Mysticism and Demonology. When he was in his 30s, he was betrayed by his Newly Wed literal witch of a wife Delores, resulting in them both Murdering Each Other.

Next thing ol’BJ knew he was waking up in The Neitherworld, the realm of the Dead which is a dark, abstract and gothic reflection of our own world where everyone who died, including Beetlejuice’s own family resides. The Neitherworld is not like Heaven or Hell being some kinda reward or punishment for the deceased, rather just the next step on the endless train that is existence. The Neitherworld is both a Universe but also primarily takes place on its own topsy turvy reflection of Earth. Here Space is Warped and Time is bendable, allowing ghosts and people to slip in and out of different realms, and be gone for periods that are seconds for some and hours for others. In the Neitherworld Ghosts resemble the state their body was in where they died, basically every single object, policy and law is a Pun, and people that died via Suicide are forced to work in customer service. Needless to Say Beetlejuice felt pretty at home.

Beetlejuice for some reason, was an unbelievably powerful Ghost upon his arrival there, much more so than the vast majority of other beings. The exact reason for this has never been made clear but it's likely due to his dark soul or past knowledge of mysticism in life. Initially BJ was made the assistant to the Afterlife Caseworker, Juno due to this power, intended to help newly departed souls adjust to the Afterlife or the House they were made to haunt. But as you might imagine, Beetlejuice was a massive troublemaker and was quickly fired from this role. 

With that cat outta the bag, Beetlejuice became a Freelance Bio-Exorcist. Unlike a regular Exorcist, which is a human hired by humans to purge Ghosts from the Home they are living in, a Bio-Exorcist is a Ghost hired by Ghosts to purge Humans from the Home they are Haunting. And Beetlejuice’s methods for Bio-Exorcising could range from scaring the living daylights outta people, to trying to actually kill them, real lose canon like that.

This all led into Beetlejuice’s most important case, when he was summoned to Peaceful Pines, Connecticut and hired by Adam and Barbara Maitland, two Ghosts of a recently deceased couple who wanted to get the frankly insane new Deetz family who moved into their home, out. 

This changed everything because the Deetz’s sweet yet VERY goth Daughter Lydia had Extrasensory Perception, being essentially a young Psychic Medium who could see and hear ghosts normally.

Lydia tried to resolve things between the humans and the Ghosts peacefully but could not pull it off alone, and in order to save the spirits of Adam and Barbara, agreed to Marry Beetlejuice in exchange for him saving them with his powers. 

Beetlejuice wanted this due to some loophole in the policies of the Neitherworld would allow him to return to the human world if he got married via some kinda Greencard policy, but also because he had never quite connected to someone in the way he did to Lydia and her dark sense of things, wanting to keep her around.

But they managed to stop Beetlejuice using the one thing he truly fears, Sandworms, giant sand serpents from the Deserts of the Neitherworld, and natural predator of ghosts, able to permanently kill them should they manage to consume them.

But hey, the breakup wasn’t as dramatic as that implies, cause apparently shortly after this Lydia kept talking to and managed to legitimately befriend Beetlejuice, as she found him to be interesting and fun and he basically never takes anything personally. 

Full disclosure here, The Beetlejuice Movies and Cartoon are clearly not in complete continuity with each other, like at all with certain details and events being clearly different, including most likely that wedding part. This blog is Primarily focusing on Cartoon canon as that is the most powerful version of BJ, having all the powers of the films and then some, but they also give next to no details on his backstory or how he and Lydia met so I think it's fair to use the films to fill in those blanks, as the show was at least BASED on the movies.

Anyway in the Series, Beetlejuice and Lydia are best friends and he comes around with her to do magical antics and adventures, in a similar dynamic to something like the Genie and Aladdin, Cosmo and Wanda with Timmy, or Grim with Billy and Mandy. 

Lydia is a very good influence on Beetlejuice helping him become way less of a complete jerk the longer the series goes on, and despite her gothic demeanor she does want to help the world be a better place and gets Beetlejuice to help with those means, albeit usually by going full Beetlejuice on some bad actors. It's quite the crazy “FIENDship” but it's never a dull day in Peaceful Pines when Lydia Deetz and Beetlejuice are on the scene.

Personality:

Beetlejuice is a Wild, Disgusting, Unhinged and Unpredictable Rule-Breaking force of Chaos and a proud menace to society and common decency. The film's creators based his personality off the archetype of a sleazy manipulative Car Salesman and he has the infamous reputation in the Neitherworld to back it up. Though he is often an obnoxious, emotionally unaware trickster, he is often shown to be crafty, manipulative and charismatic to the point he can sway others to agree to work with him or fool them into doing what he wants, often to their own or possibly both of their detriment. Beetlejuice has done innumerable messed up things, especially in the films, from killing people to assaulting women and attempting to forcibly marry a teenager, something that would legitimately be shocking even for Freddy Krueger. So it's pretty understandable that pretty much everyone in the entire Neitherworld hates his guts. But that is all before he got to know Lydia Deetz, THE Cartoon Goth crush of all the 80s kids. While BJ was a Cynical, Self Serving Jerk early in the series, Lydia with her peculiar affinity for the strange and unusual, eventually let her befriend the ghost who once tormented her and help him be slightly less of a cynical, self serving jerk. While he's still getting used to not being the worst person in the room by default, Beetlejuice is a crazy, fun loving lunatic who will get up to Hijinx no matter what anyone does. Because anywhere this Ghost with The Most goes, It’s always Showtime!

Intellect/Skill:

Despite not looking or acting like it, Beetlejuice is actually incredibly intelligent and has many impressive feats showing it off throughout the series. He is a super manipulative trickster who constantly fools humans and ghosts alike with his wacky disguises and cover stories, he Speaks fluent French, and he has displayed enough stealth to sneak past all the Neitherworld Mayors Private Eyes to break into his office. Him being smart is something which I guess makes sense when you consider he is actually over 600 years old and has a huge Snake Oil Salesman rep going for him, but even that doesn’t fully explain what’s going on here.

Beetlejuice is an expert at building cybernetics to an absurd degree. Being able to build several Actually sentient vehicles from scratch, including his own Sentient Motorcycle, and his trademark car Doomie, who is not only sentient but can also fly, communicate and transform into several other forms. Heck he also built Rusty, an attractive sentient robot woman to be his prom date when he was just a teenager, and if anything he should be much smarter than this now.

Beetlejuice is apparently also a master of chemistry, as his actual most impressive intelligence feat is when he Invented a Perfume that fundamentally reverses the personality of whoever is exposed to it, and it somehow even effects objects like their clothing to reflect their new personality on top of that. On Top of this Beetlejuice is also obviously quite knowledgeable with Magic and Spells. He was skilled enough to beat Three Witches of comparable magic power to himself all at once in a Dual at one point.

Powers:

Beetlejuice is easily the most powerful and versatile Ghost in his entire series. Whether this is due to his Age, Training, Evil or just sheer Willpower is unclear, but what is clear is the ghost with the most sure packs a wicked punch. While some of his abilities come with the territory of being a ghost, the vast majority of his abilities are the result of Magic spells he can cast with no more than a thought. With these magical powers Beetlejuice can do basically whatever he wants, and its only major weakness is that he weirdly can’t use most of his powers if his head is detached from his body…. Not cause that’d kill him, just his still living head and body can’t cast spells.

• Shapeshifting:

Easily the most common power he utilizes, Beetlejuice can shapeshift his body into…quite literally anything really, and I do mean anything. Any animal you can imagine complete with their abilities and traits, single celled organisms, 

Technology that actually functions, any element you can think of including fire, water, light, darkness, plasma and gas, you name it. He can even make his own head rotate 1,800,000°.

Beetlejuice can take on the form of several giant monsters larger than buildings, become an actual miniature sun, and turn his body into a variety of weapons like Spikes, Mallots, Chainsaw hands and an actual Tank. 

He can disguise himself as specific individuals to impersonate them for extended periods of time, or transform into surrounding objects like Snowmen or instruments. 

His elasticity can let him shrink to the size of microscopic Amoeba, or even stretch his arms to wrap around the entire circumference of the planet. The applications of Beetlejuice’s shapeshifting are truly astounding.

• Body manipulation:

Beetlejuice also regularly detaches and reattaches his own body parts like his head or limbs, and can control them remotely when they are disconnected from him ala Universal Animacy.

• Regeneration:

When your shapeshifting is that good, it's only natural that Regeneration comes with the same territory. 

BJ has shrugged off basically any kind of damage you can imagine, including multiple decapitations, being cut vertically in half, being flattened into a sheet of paper, having his body parts rearranged, being smashed into tiny pieces and 

even being burned completely to ashes on two separate occasions, and can always just reform himself in a snap. Considering his ability to come back from said ashes, BJ should have what is classified as a Mid-High Healing Factor.

• Radiation Resistance: 

Beetlejuice, likely due to being a ghost let’s be real, is unable to be harmed by radioactive waste.

• Logia/Anti-Logia:

Beetlejuice can use his shapeshifting to turn himself into alternate states such as liquids and even an actual shadow, which gives him immunity to conventional damage due to lacking form. 

On the flipside, Beetlejuice can also counteract the Logia of others, being able to pick up an Oil Footprint to examine it as if it were made of paper.

• Flight:

As a ghost, Beetlejuice is not bound by gravity and can levitate and fly without limitation, being an extremely common one of his powers.

• Intangibility:

Naturally, as a ghost, Beetlejuice is an astral plane entity and can turn himself completely intangible to any solid matter, enabling him to walk through walls and normal forms of attack.

• Invisibility:

To complete the Danny Phantom Theme Song reference, Beetlejuice can also turn himself completely invisible, allowing him to disappear from sight at a moments notice. In the original Beetlejuice Film, Ghosts were unable to be seen or heard by the living, other than those with ESP like Lydia, Beetlejuice is able to allow living humans to see, hear and touch him due to his greater power, but can totally achieve a similar level of stealth if he wants.

• Teleportation:

Teleportation is one of Beetlejuice’s most common abilities and his version is rather versatile compared to most. 

Beetlejuice can teleport himself across the planet and between different dimensions like the Living and Neitherworlds. 

But he more commonly uses this power to teleport others, not only letting him take Lydia with him but also just remotely teleport people to other dimensions for kicks. He once just dimensionally BFR’d Barbara into the Sand Worm Desert where she had to survive being hunted by those soul eating monsters.

• Telekinesis:

BJ has telekinetic powers that allow him to attack and fling people and ghosts around at a distance, lift and control huge swells of objects and do some pretty precise pranks like telekinetically ripping all a man's clothes off in an instant.

• Precognition:

Beetlejuice can give himself premonitions of the future, and once used this power to literally look into an alternate future timeline, where he didn’t help Lydia, to know what he needed to do.

• Illusions:

Like many of the scariest ghosts, He can also make a variety of mental illusions appear to others, ranging from illusionary versions of people to nightmarish creatures.

• Possession:

And what would a Good ghost be without the ability to possess people and do some real Exorcist shit! BJ is able to possess seemingly anyone or anything including inanimate objects, plants, forms of media like paintings, and of course people, allowing him to completely take over and control them at will. Humans possessed by BJ are able to use numerous of his ghostly powers while in this state.

Beetlejuice can possess giant pieces of machinery all at once and use them to amp himself in combat, such as being able to beat the crap out of a Sandworm.

• Technopathy: 

While we are on the subject of possessing machinery, Beetlejuice has fantastical Technopathic abilities that allowed him to take control of an entire factory’s operation system all at once. 

He is able to remotely take control of televisions and force them to show commercials of himself, and has done this to every TV in an entire city all at once, and even did it to a Television in the living world while he was in the Neitherworld in the original film. Beetlejuice can even travel through phone lines and power cords as a means of transporting himself.

• Electrokinesis:

Beetlejuice can summon and attack with Lightning and electricity, able to shoot it from his hands, will lightning from the sky with a thought and was even able to generate an electrical power surge when possessing the body of Claire.

• Pyrokinesis:

Beetlejuice can generate various fire attacks, able to breathe it like a dragon or emit it from his body to free himself from being frozen at one point.

• Hydrokinesis:

Beetlejuice regularly summons entire storms and clouds to manipulate the weather. Once he even made a giant snow storm over the city which snowed hard enough to get Lydia’s school canceled. 

Additionally he seems to be able to manipulate water and snow more directly, blasting water spouts for attacks.

• Aerokinesis:

He can generate intense winds and once formed his own body odor into a gas construct of a Bull and used it to beat up a Sandworm.

• Geokinesis:

Beetlejuice can essentially control all the elements and was able to summon large rocks from the ground to cover a stage.

• Chlorokinesis:

I promise this is the last kinesis for a while, but Beetlejuice can also bring plants to life, make them monstrous and force them to attack his foes.

• Color Manipulation:

Beetlejuice can both take away or reinstate the color of both individuals or the surrounding environment, turning them black and white or restoring it, kinda like Mr. Mime on PPG.

• Sound Manipulation:

Beetlejuice can also manipulate sound to throw his voice to come out of any location, including making his voice come out from other people’s mouths forcing them to speak his words. In a related vein, Beetlejuice can impersonate the voice of anyone he has heard before, sorta like shapeshifting his voice into a disguise, Soundshifting? Also Beetlejuice can Mute people, preventing them from speaking or generating any sound, which he uses to prevent people from saying his name 3 times to send him back.

• Odor:

This is sorta a power, as Beetlejuice naturally just smells so bad it can drive off Monsters and when he concentrates it enough it can put powerful foes into a Coma with limited exposure.

• Duplication:

Beetlejuice can duplicate himself into dozens of clones, enough to fill an entire orchestra with himself. These duplicates seem to possess equal stats and all abilities of the original Beetlejuice and can think and act independently, though mostly work together to accomplish single goals. 

Beetlejuice can even duplicate other people as well as objects like Golf Balls into multiple equal copies as well.

• Size Manipulation:

I have discussed how Beetlejuice can manipulate his own size earlier, but he is also able to magically alter the size of others. In the film he was able to shrink other ghosts like Adam and Barbara down to the size of insects and later return them to normal. 

He can also change around the proportions of objects and their surroundings, like when he shrank Lydia’s entire room or expanded a Beach Ball to be larger than a car.

• Transmutation:

He can take this a step further with his Transmutation powers, or the ability to transform people and objects into other things. Transmutation is a power that other much weaker ghosts in the series have displayed, such as Adam and Barbara turning several shrimp cocktails into monster hands, but Beetlejuice’s version is naturally much more extreme. 

Just summoning Beetlejuice transmogrifies Lydia’s entire room into a castle dungeon Complete with different weather and making it night time. 

He was able to turn their entire Home into a wedding ceremony, he turned people into Rats, Monsters into doormats, a Milkshake into a City Wrecking Kaiju, and all with just a wave of his hand. 

He can also reverse the transmutation of others, such as when Lydia’s mom got turned to stone by an outside force and he just undid it.

Also there was that time he turned a bunch of constellations into these sentient forms that he was able to beat back, this could be interpreted as much higher end, but this is also taking place in a dimension where these things to not appear at the scale they should be and the girls he's with can just breathe and survive in space, which may mean these aren’t even real stars around them, it lacks much needed context and would be a notable outlier.

• Mending:

Somewhat related to this, Beetlejuice can also restore any broken items to be good as new just as easily.

• Matter Manipulation:

He’s also done downright weird things like fuse his own and Lydia’s bodies together or force Claire to grow a mustache.

• Matter Generation:

Generally speaking, he can generate basically any objects and props you can possibly imagine from his own thoughts and there are just too many examples to list.

• Conjuring:

Beetlejuice can summon forth a variety of creatures to fight for him ranging from scary animals, to sentient ghost beings to large groups of monstrous creatures that can cause havoc and destruction. 

He can even summon living demonic items from the Neitherworld rapid fire to sell as products to unsuspecting victims.

• Necromancy:

This is a rarely used power, but Beetlejuice has displayed the ability to animate the Dead, once resurrecting Shakespeare’s skeleton to approve Lydia’s designs for one of his plays.

• Animacy Granting:

Beetlejuice can bring inanimate objects to life and command them to attack on his behalf, he was able to bring large structures including the entire Sphinx to life, something you normally only see in Butch Hartman Cartoons and has numerous times brought large amounts of smaller objects to life to make an army of henchmen. 

This includes bringing all Lydia’s Mom’s Statues to life in the original film, turning all of Lydia’s decorations sentient, or making a collection of books into flying biting monsters.

• Simulation Summoning:

Simulation Summoning is basically the ability to turn fictional characters real, bringing them out of the page or screen with the same abilities and personality they have in their actual medium. Beetlejuice briefly displayed this by bringing Lydia’s own drawings to life.

• Bibliokinesis:

This is the ability to alter written text in various mediums with just your mind. Beetlejuice was able to make a message manifest in Lydia’s newspaper from another dimension.

• Lexioconicy:

This on the other hand is the ability to Turn spoken words into Physical written words. Beetlejuice was able to manifest Scuzzo’s words as solid letters and hit him in the face with his own smacktalk.

• Bodily Control:

Ghosts such as Adam and Barbara were able to take complete control of 6 people’s bodies at a dinner party while their conscious minds were aware of what was going on, commanding their bodies to dance against their will. Beetlejuice would scale past this as a more powerful ghost, and also has directly done this to a group of people AND Ghosts later on. Beetlejuice can also just freeze your entire body in stasis with his presence, this even works on other Ghosts like Adam, who he stopped in place when he tried to rush him, and later an entire building full of ghost cops all at once.

• Mind Control:

Beetlejuice has the ability to Hypnotize people and force them to do things or even induce them to fall asleep instantly if he so chooses. 

His mind control once allowed him to force the ENTIRE town to go by all of Lydia’s stuff from her clothing store, giving him roughly City Scale Mind Hax.

• Mind Manipulation Resistance:

Beetlejuice’s Resistance to Mind Control is actually even crazier than this, as he once resisted the mental control of a Fairy who could transmutate AND Mind Control the whole Neitherworld all at once, the Neitherworld being portrayed as at Least an entire planet.

• Memory Manipulation:

Beetlejuice was also able to Erase the memories of everyone he mind controlled to buy Lydia’s stuff giving him City Scale Memory Erasure on top of that.

• Mental Plane Interaction:

Beetlejuice can also physically interact with the Mental Plane and imaginary mental projections, able to both see and grab his own or other peoples Thought Bubbles. 

• Mental Banishment:

He can even actually Seal foes into the mental plane, one time sucking Lydia from another dimension into his own mental mindscape when he thought about her too much, which rendered her unable to escape without his aid.

• Mirror Manipulation:

Beetlejuice constantly shows the ability to Enter into, Exit out from and otherwise travel through Mirrors, even using this to go between different dimensions.

• Dimensional Travel:

While we are on the subject of Dimensional Travel, Beetlejuice can just do that, he can freely travel between the Living world and Neitherworld at will and even warp large structures like whole Rollercoasters and entire Buildings between them. 

He was also able to casually send both himself and Lydia to Nowhere, a blank nothing dimension and later make a spatial tear to automatically send them back home. So he has a wide variety of ways to BFR foes.

• Spatial Manipulation:

He's also got some more generalized feats of Spatial Manipulation, including warping their locations or even taking away whole locations and leaving only blank voids of space in their place. 

He was able to spatially sever Lydia’s midsection from the rest of her body in the comics, although this does not actually result in real damage but it is a great immobilization tool. He can even use spatial hax to swap the location of himself and his foe, which he once did to defeat someone by jumping off a cliff and then swapping at the last second.

• Time Manipulation:

Beetlejuice has the ability to control time and has used it for a variety of effects. He was able to time travel back to the Dinosaur era and back, and later rewind time back to earlier in the day to force the same customers to buy all his products a second time. 

At another point he was able to trap an entire classroom of students in a Time Loop they could not escape from.

• Age Manipulation:

Beetlejuice can also manipulate age, and was able to De-Age himself into a toddler and later turn himself back to normal.

• 4th Wall Awareness:

4th Wall Awareness is the ability for a fictional character to be aware that they are a fictional character, often able to see transparently that things in their series are tropes and be aware of the limits of their medium. Beetlejuice displays this all the time, often directly talking to the audience, reading and grabbing speech bubbles and even asking for commercial breaks to interrupt his cartoon.

• Immersion:

This 4th wall stuff extends further with Beetlejuice’s Immersion powers. Immersion is the ability to both enter into, and exit out of fictional media directly. 

Beetlejuice has been able to enter into everything from Television and Film, to Paintings and Sketchbooks, and interact with the things inside of these mediums like the commercials playing on tv or the Doodles Lydia made. 

He can reach outside of a TV that is showing him to attack the audience watching it, as well as use his powers to affect people who are inside the TV like transmutating things in the movie he's watching. 

Beetlejuice can also use his Immersion offensively, such as when he trapped two characters in an Endless Television Program, or the time he reached through a telephone line and pulled someone eavesdropping on his conversation out through the phone.

• Broadway Force:

Broadway Force is the power to induce a Musical Number to happen and essentially force others to sing and dance and effectively be unable to attack you until the song concludes.

• Meta Space Manipulation:

Beetlejuice has a slew of different Metafictional powers that I will get into, first up is Meta Space manipulation, or the ability to manipulate the space of the medium you are inside. In the comic, Beetlejuice was able to pull panels away and talk to the audience directly, and could even control what size comic panels were. 

In the cartoon he was able to see, interact with and move the Black Bars of the aspect ratio or even the split screen and scene transition. 

He was also able to enter into this higher plane, literally going through the Camera they film the cartoon with and popping out of the TV Set, making him impossible for anyone limited to the cartoon to attack or even interact with.

• Meta Time Manipulation:

Next up is Meta Time Manipulation, or the ability to manipulate the time of one's medium. He can use this to summon forth actual flashbacks that others can see and acknowledge. These Flashbasks even work if the person it's a flashback for doesn’t remember these events themselves, meaning it can restore any lost memory situations.

• Meta Creation/Destruction:

Destroying something on a Meta Level is effectively to erase their very concept from the cartoon world, reducing everything that was hit by this attack to a blank white void, the empty page that the carton was drawn on. Creating something on a Meta Level is the opposite, generating reality and can allow one to undo this destruction. Beetlejuice via summoning erases and pencils is effectively able to do both. He was able to erase people and the background layer with his eraser and even ‘Rubed Out’ his tattle tale cellmate, leaving nothing of him cept his disembodied eyes and mouth.

Apparently due to being a cartoon character you need to attack him in a meta way. Beetlejuice was once nearly rubbed out using erasers, but he survived by drawing himself Back with pencils.

Feats:

Strength:

• Beetlejuice is so strong he once shook an entire mountain range with one of his forms.

• BJ beat up, easily lifted and f*cking Ate a large shark.

• Was able to harm Bully The Crud, who could tank a fall from outer space.

• Beat up a Sandworm on Multiple Occasions.

• When Beetlejuice was in a crazy race with the rest of the cast, his recurring rival, Scuzzo the Dark Clown, tried to take him outta the race by launching a Car sized Banana Cream Pie at him at Highly Sub Relativistic speeds, which Beetlejuice dodged and it ended up hitting Scuzzo himself for some cruel irony. Banana Cream Pies have an average weight of 213 Grams per cup, meaning the full thing scaled up to the size of a car would weigh over 10,000 Kilograms. An object of this mass traveling at that speed would impact with the Kinetic Energy equivalent to over 916 Megatons of TNT.

Scuzzo tanked this with total ease for the record, and Beetlejuice and other characters physically compete with him no big deal all the time.

• Beetlejuice is the most powerful ghost in the Neitherworld, moreso than even Prince Vince, a powerful character who can casually summon storms and floods. Or the town Mayor, who managed to violently shake an entire floating island with his own power. This island has multiple mountains on it and shakes more than the full distance of said mountains in both directions. Assuming the full island has a similar size and mass to average real world Mountains, the Kinetic Energy here would be 269 Gigatons of TNT. Beetlejuice constantly humiliates this guy by the way.

• Heck, Beetlejuice once directly Drank the entirety of Lake Eerie and was going to spit it back for an attack. If you assume that this has the same volume of the IRL Lake Erie….the 5th largest body of water in North America btw, and that he was gonna spit it at the speed a normal person could, this would be 235 megatons of TNT. If you, on the other hand, calculate the rate at which Beetlejuice sucked it up assuming it covers the same surface area of said lake, that would actually get you just over 2 Petatons.

• In the episode, The Sappiest Place on Earth, Beetlejuice gets into a cartoon battle with Bartholomew Batt, a Mickey Mouse parody character, and the two basically have a contest to see who can survive having the heaviest object dropped on them, where Beetlejuice seems to just, Drop a “Moon” on his head at the end of it. The Moon certainly doesn’t LOOK fully sized so take that for whatever it’s worth, it is shown to be bigger than mountains so should at least get to Teraton levels.

• Beetlejuice also has several joke type feats throughout the show where he screams so loud he ends up shaking entire planets and even a whole Galaxy at one point. These seem like a large outlier for BJ as he never shows this kinda power under normal circumstances so I tend to consider them nonapplicable.

Durability:

• Tanked an Explosion that launched an entire factory into the air Point blank.

• Was able to endure being attacked by a Sandworm which crashed him through an entire house casually.

• Endured the battle with Bartholomew Batt who dropped a whole Mountain on his head.

• Had a building sized baby dropped on him from the clouds.

• Scales to Bully The Kid who could endure a fall from Outer Space.

• Tanked being in the epicenter of a large building sized explosion.

• Scales passed Scuzzo, who tanked an aforementioned 916 Megaton pie to the face with relative ease.

• Though arguably the best dura feat is the time he….Endured hits from The Sun….bit weird to interpret this, as it seems to be a pun about The Sun Beating Down on you, but it's unclear if Beetlejuice used his powers to create this for the joke, or an actual star decided to attack him here.

Speed:

• Beetlejuice has many times shown feats of incredible super speed.

• Beetlejuice was able to physically swim from Connecticut to Florida in seconds.

• He also was able to easily react to and dodge the giant Banana cream pie launched by Scuzzo in the aforementioned feat. After dodging this Pie, it proceeded to fly outside of the Neitherworld Earth, and circled the entire globe twice in only 3 seconds. This would be a speed equivalent to Mach 77,763, which is highly Sub Relativistic speed. Considering this speed was matched by the two’s race cars at the time, and that Beetlejuice could catch up to his own race car on foot, reasonably he could also run this fast too.

• Pulled his arm around the entirety of Earth in seconds.

• Traveled from Earth to the Moon mid sword fight like no big deal.

• Was able to pilot a rocket from mars back to earth in seconds.

• He was able to fly himself to a height that he claims to be 4,012 Billion Feet high, and then fall down from this height in 10 seconds. Now visually, the height of this appears to be so high you can easily see the curvature of the Neitherworld so that would be at least MHS assuming that the Neitherworld is the same size as Earth. But if you take Beetlejuice’s statement of the height literally, which I don’t see why we shouldn’t, him traveling 4.012 Trillion Feet in 10 Seconds would require speeds 400 times faster than the speed of light. And even though he did this by falling he would still get these speeds himself as he raised himself this high to begin with in similar time, and was able to react fast enough to use his powers to swap himself with the badguy in the last possible instance before he hit the ground.

General:

• Defeated several Sand Worms, Delores the Soul Sucker, Scuzzo and Fuzzo, Bully The Kid, Bartholomew Batt, Mr. Big and Goodie Two Shoes.

• Won a Neitherworld Death Race Competition.

• Was the MVP of Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice saving all the other characters let’s be real.

• Got his own successful Broadway Musical.

• Proved that you can say Fuck in a movie and still get a PG Rating.

• Lived through the Black Plague and had a Pretty Good Time during it.

• Has seen The Exorcist One Hundred and Sixty Seven times, and it keeps getting Funnier, Every Single Time.

Summary:

Advantages:

• At Least Large Island Level DC and Durability. (Could get to Continental, Planetary, Stellar and Galactic depending on leniency)

• FTL Speeds. (Hundreds)

• Roughly Type 2 Intellect.

• Interdimensional Range.

• Immortality.

• Flight.

• Intangibility.

• Invisibility.

• Possession. (Of Beings and Objects)

• Shapeshifting.

• Regeneration. (Mid High)

• Universal Animacy.

• Logia/Anti Logia.

• Precognition.

• Illusions.

• Technopathy.

• Bodily Control.

• Stasis.

• Mind Control. (City Scale)

• Memory Manipulation. (City Scale)

• Mind Manipulation Resistance. (Planetary Scale)

• Mental Planar Interaction.

• Mental Banishment.

• Telekinesis.

• Electrokinesis.

• Pyrokinesis.

• Hydrokinesis.

• Aerokinesis.

• Geokinesis.

• Chlorokinesis.

• Color Manipulation.

• Sound Manipulation.

• Voice Mimicry.

• Muting.

• Odor.

• Duplication.

• Transmutation.

• Mending.

• Matter Manipulation.

• Matter Generation.

• Conjuring.

• Necromancy.

• Animacy Granting.

• Simulation Summoning.

• Bibliokinesis.

• Lexioconicy.

• Size Manipulation. (Self and Others)

• Teleportation. (Self and Others)

• Mirror Manipulation.

• Dimensional Travel.

• Dimensional BFR.

• Spatial Manipulation.

• Age Manipulation.

• Time Travel.

• Time Reversal.

• Time Loops.

• 4th Wall Awareness.

• Immersion.

• Broadway Force.

• Meta Spatial Manipulation.

• Meta Time Manipulation.

• Meta Creation.

• Meta Destruction.

Disadvantages:

• Saying his Name 3 times in rapid succession can banish him back to The Neitherworld and he needs someone to do it again to undo this.

• If his head is removed from his body, he is somehow unable to use his Magic until he gets it reattached.

• Is Vulnerable to having his Soul Absorbed, Having his Ectoplasm Drained, or being Metafictionally Erased.

• Has a Notable Fear of Sandworms, as even Ghosts cannot survive being eaten by them.

• Is a bit of a zany goofball who can be overconfident and get in over his head.

Recommended Opponent:

Scratch:

Oh My GOD, you have No Idea how weird an experience for me it was to watch The New Ghost and Molly Mcgee series while I was researching Beetlejuice, and find what I consider to be an Actually Perfect Matchup right there. Major Ghosts from TGAMM are every bit as Hax as Beetlejuice is, Including everything from Typical Ghost Powers, to Reality Warping to Meta Stuff, which would immediately make this one of the most crazy fights I have ever considered doing. But Thematically, I don’t think I could find two characters that fit better, they are both gross Asshole ghosts from a dark afterlife dimension, hated by even their own kind, who become best friends with a lonely sweethearted girl after she moves to a haunted house in a small town, and that causes them to develop into a much softer more heroic figure with a warm heart underneath their attitude, it’s like these two were made for each other. I SO wanna do this someday.