Rocket giant... How does Starship excel in the race of size and power?

The Starship spacecraft is the largest rocket ever designed, by a huge margin. This giant, towering rocket reaches a height of nearly 400 feet (121 meters), and with the launch of Version 3, it generates about 18 million pounds of thrust upon liftoff.

Here's a comparison between this missile and some of the largest missiles ever built, both past and present: