“It is a tale that you sing. As long as you believe it, it makes you powerful.”
-Kieron Gillen, via Persephone

(Credit to DJTiki for the intro gif)

Thor, Asgard’s God of Thunder and son of Odin.

Wonder Woman, Themyscira’s warrior princess and daughter of Hippolyta.

They say superheroes are the modern myth, and perhaps no others take that epithet as literally as this pair of unmatched warriors. Hailing from lands of valour and justice, these two founding heroes enter the world of man to prove that the gods we pray to can save us right before our eyes. When it comes down to this rematch between Avenger and Justice Leaguer, will the prince of the golden realm finally claim victory, or will the archetypal wonder prove her initial win was no mere false truth? You better believe it’s time to find out!

Before We Start…

Unlike most of our other blogs, this blog was undertaken entirely by two of our members, with one covering the entirety of Thor’s history and the other the entirety of Wonder Woman’s history. If the formatting seems slightly different from usual, that’s why.

Just for fun, they also decided to put together small ‘retrospectives’ on these two characters’ previous episodes after having completed research and looking at them through a modern lens. Keep an eye out for that before the verdict!

Thor

In Case You Were Wondering…

The backstory of Thor and the Asgardian race is fairly inconsistent. While the comics would start out essentially recounting the traditional stories of Norse myth, it was eventually explained during writer Roy Thomas’s run that this was not the truth, and that the gods operate as a cycle, reincarnating out of Ragnarok every 2160 years in entirely new forms and identities, with only Odin retaining memories of the previous cycle. This would be contradicted later by the appearance of Odin’s grandfather, Tiwaz, during Walter Simonson’s run, who strongly implies the prior story isn’t real, the truth instead being a more conventional backstory mixing Norse myth and an original story regarding Odin’s brothers. The contemporary Official History of the Marvel Universe series would acknowledge these differing backstories, and give favour to the Simonson backstory.

During the Ragnarok storyline, the comics initially presented a brief description of the Norse myth backstory, before revealing the true cyclical nature of Ragnarok, the gods experiencing unending death and rebirth, though seeming to lack the idea that the gods are also reborn into new identities from the Roy Thomas run. Thor would end the cycle of fate at the end of the storyline, but despite the narrative importance of the idea of the Ragnarok cycles, very few comics have actually acknowledged them, and since then elements contradictory to all of the prior backstories, such as the existence of Heven and Odin’s dark brother Cul, have been introduced. Even the comic run which came right after in 2007 depicted Odin and his father, Bor, as having walked the Earth before any life existed on it. Just about the only comics to actually depict the gods being cyclically reborn were a series of self-contained one-shots set in Asgard’s past, which claimed that at least 23 Ragnarok cycles had occurred, and which the Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe would try its best to mesh together with everything else.

The most notable contradictions came in Jason Aaron’s work on Thor, which would entirely ignore the idea of Ragnarok cycles and depict Odin and Thor existing 1 million years ago as the very same beings who appear in modern comics. The History of the Marvel Universe series from 2019 would try and explain this as these being early Ragnarok cycles, but this contradicts the depiction of Odin and Thor as contiguous beings with their present day selves, especially with Thor’s link to the Phoenix from 1 million years ago manifesting in his modern day self. This has continued into Immortal Thor, which has once again depicted Tiwaz and established him as one of the Elder Gods of Earth who existed 4 billion years ago, but also makes heavy reference to the events of the Ragnarok storyline. The actual explanation for all these contradictions in modern comics is that the gods are living stories formed into existence retroactively by human belief, meaning the history of the gods is mutable, differing stories and tales blending into each other, and the end of Jason Aaron’s tenure on the character would even depict many of Thor’s previous comic storylines as literal tales recounted as books in-universe. Mjolnir itself is acknowledged as having many different stories surrounding its origin, reflecting its different origins given in comics. So overall, that makes it so every depiction of Thor and his history, even contradictory ones, can be accounted for and factored in for analysis. The current Thor comics, as of writing, deliberately take elements from all these contradictory stories as a key thematic component, supporting the idea that it should all be viable.

Feats and text highlighted in boldindicate the feat was done while Thor had some form of the All-Power, also known as the Odinforce or Thorforce. For a time, the mantle of Thor has been held by other characters, namely Eric Masterson and Jane Foster. Feats from these two will be marked with [Eric] and [Jane] respectively. Feats from other hammer wielders which should still apply to Thor, such as Beta Ray Bill or Dargo Ktor, will be marked [Other]. Similarly, feats from old King Thor, the Thor from Earth-14412, who held the All-Power for over 10,000 years and has wielded it for longer than Odin did, and who was for a time the mainline Thor’s canonical future, will be marked with [Old King].

Background

• Full Name: Thor Odinson (ᚦᚢᚱ)
• Mortal Identities: Donald Blake, Siegfried, Siegmund, Sigurd Jarlson, Eric Masterson, Jake Olson, Arkin Torsen, Arthur
• Age: ~1 million years old (variable)
• Height: 6’6” | 1.98 m
• Weight: 640 lbs | 290.3 kg
• Son of Odin and Gaea (with the Phoenix acting as midwife)
• Founding member of the Avengers
• Favourite Foods: Mutton, oxtails, lamb shanks, boar, hot dogs (with mustard, relish, and sauerkraut), potatoes, cauliflower, double chocolate malted ice cream, Broxton rye bread, finger sandwiches, Jarvis’s chicken piccataand chicken BBQ
• Favourite Drinks: Mead (best heated to 78 degrees fahrenheit), Asgardian ale, lattes, coffee (best in Oklahoma), Fimbulvinter, Shake Shack, the “Asgard Special” at his favourite milkshake place
• Mets and New York Jets fan
• Reads gardening magazines and Modern Bride
• Has said some form of “I say thee nay” about 218 times across his comic history
• Email address: Thor@AvengersHQ.com
• Signatures:  (source), (source)

A storm is brewing. Rain begins to shatter against the roof of a wooden hut, material yawning and creaking. The elements drip down to the floor below, a chill seeping through. Thunder roars from beyond. Those inside huddle together, seeking safety. They have only themselves. They survive by telling a story. A story of a far-off land of beauty, of gleaming spires and rainbow bridges, of benevolent gods watching over them. They tell of the storm, and what it signals. That the storm is not dangerous, but a symbol of awe, and wonder, and nobility, and heroism, and power, power to protect others. The power, and the majesty, of the mighty Thor.

Thor Odinson was born eons ago to the skyfather of the Aesir, Odin, and the mother-spirit of the Earth, Gaea, destined to one day take his father’s place as the All-Father of Asgard, the realm of the gods at the crown of Yggdrasil. The young prince was raised from birth by Odin and his adoptive mother, Freyja, to be the ultimate symbol of Asgardian splendor, a patrician in all things of warriorhood and leadership. Boasting strength far beyond his kin, his tears the very storm, the only thing Thor lacked was humility. The boy was, perhaps, too strong for his own good, no adventure providing sufficient challenge to humble him.

Odin, ever wily and wise, devised a challenge for his prideful son; he was to pick up a diminutive hammer, hardly the size of a war-mallet, and wield it as a symbol of worthiness. Yet, no matter how Thor exerted his prodigious strength, the hammer would not budge. For centuries, it was Thor’s obsession, seeking to prove to the hammer, and himself, his worthiness through ever-more daring contests and battles. Only through a truly selfless act, seeking to save a loved one, would the hammer, Mjolnir, kowtow to the prince.

Even the trial of the hammer would fail to fully curb Thor’s ego, which, paired with the world-shaping abilities of Mjolnir, now had the strength to overturn the peace Odin had so carefully devised. When Thor’s bullheaded battles risked sparking war between Asgard and the giants, Odin banished Thor from his birthright. He would be sent to the land of Midgard, the Earth which worshipped the gods, and be stripped of his identity and power. Believing himself to be no more than a feeble, physically-impaired, mortal, Thor had become the human Donald Blake.

Blake quickly excelled in mortal achievements, graduating from the New York State College of Medicine with top honours and soon becoming recognised as one of the best physicians on the planet. In-spite of his accomplishments and kindness, dedicated purely to the healing of others and a love for his fellow man, a gnawing feeling of desire lingered in Blake’s mind, a feeling linking him to the Norse gods of myth. It was this surreal feeling which drove him to a cave in Norway, where-in lay an enigmatic cane. Compelled by the forces of divinity, Blake tapped the cane, and yet again became the god of thunder Thor, his godly past flashing back into his mind once more.

Living as Blake is what truly completed the trials of Thor’s pride. No longer would he use his strength for strength’s sake, but to protect those who could not protect themselves. Thor soon became one of Earth’s foremost superhuman heroes, joining the ranks of the Avengers in adventures and battles just as daring as the ones he had faced on Asgard. No matter where a villain emerged on any of the Ten Realms of Yggdrasil, or what power they wielded, they would find themselves facing justice from Thor’s hammer.

Through his struggles, Thor was now a being of two worlds. Part human and part god, born of both Midgard and Asgard, his love for Earth was something none of his fellow Aesir could understand, least of all Odin. Father and son clashed many times over where Thor’s true duties belonged, and it strained his relationships with his loved ones, mortal and divine, in a manner mere power alone could not solve. The schemes of his wicked sibling Loki, the calamitous power of Surtur, the unending menace of the Frost Giants and trolls, it all paled in comparison to the dilemma Thor faced in his heart.

Yet, Odin was wiser than Thor could realise. While Thor was raised in the realm of the gods, was his mother not still Gaea? Was Thor not still a child of the Earth just as much as he was a child of Asgard? In-truth, Odin knew that the secret to Thor’s strength, the same secret which separated him from his fellow gods, was his humanity itself. Humanity shaped the gods through belief, and this belief would end in Ragnarok, the ceaseless cyclical death and rebirth of the Aesir, never granting the warrior gods of Asgard the glorious final battle which had been weaved into their story. Only Thor, born via gods but walking alongside man, could defy his destiny. Only Thor could sacrifice more than Odin himself to gain true wisdom, and end the cycle of the gods, fading back into myth in a well-deserved rest.

When the gods awoke from their slumber, they woke amidst the humans who had worshipped them. Through rebirth, all of Asgard now began to understand the love Thor felt for humanity. How humanity’s ability to change and grow past the challenges they faced gave just as much glory as the mythic, static feats of the gods. Even as Thor himself struggled with doubt and guilt, his love, for both of the realms he called home, could overcome it, emerge stronger, and claim the throne of Asgard as was foretold. This new All-Father of Asgard could stare down death at the end of the Rainbow Bridge and embrace it, knowing that his actions would save all those he cared for, no matter realm or identity. For the story of Thor, told in hushed narration by pensive men in wooden huts of the past, is the story of love for your fellow man, a love that will overcome the dangers of the storm and pass into sunlight. And it is through humanity, and love, that we all become worthy.

Experience & Skill

It should come as no surprise that Thor is one of the most skilled warriors in the Marvel universe. While Asgardians are generally known to be unequaled as warriors, Thor in particular stands out, with experience in both Asgardian and Earth-based conflicts. Ever since he was a child, he’s trained in weaponry at Asgard’s warrior school and was taught the art of war by Odin, having been trained for both standard combat practices such as horse-riding and more specific fields such as use of Mjolnir, and having gone on many adventures even during his youth. Captain America has described Thor as an expert combatant trained for centuries in the arts of war, with his understanding of tactics and strategies encompassing the teachings of cultures over several centuries, noting him as proficient in both swordsmanship and Mjolnir use and overall one of the most reliable Avengers members, while the likes of Red Hulk consider his combat skills legendary. Thor learns from every conflict he’s been in, able to counter strategies used against him previously, and records all his adventures in the Avengers’ Archives, also reading the mission reports of other members to ensure his familiarity. He regularly participates in training sessions with the Avengers and even has specially co-ordinated attacks with them. He’s fought in thousands of campaigns and battles with the reflexes to match, has switched between his mortal and godly form thousands of times, and has centuries of combat experience. He trained with the Warriors Three at a young age, and helped them fight Fenris Wolf in their first battle together. Even when totally depowered, he’s skilled enough for Black Widow to consider him Avengers material, and he’s spent years specifically fighting weaponless to hone his skills. Even at a young age, Thor had more combat experience than gods twice his age, and Captain America has said Thor has been in more battles than anybody he knows.

All that begs the question of how old Thor actually is, which is a tricky question both due to inconsistencies between writers and the inherently fluctuating nature of the mythic gods in Marvel and their cyclical existence, described at the beginning of this sheet. He’s been described as being active several thousand years in the past, over 5000 years old, and as having thousands of years worth of memories. Other comics, especially more modern ones, suggest him as having existed since before mankind even existed, having opposed the god Nuada in a time before man roamed the Earth, having walked the realms for more years than there are stars, having been on Earth before man developed tools, and being stated to have been alive longer than the entire human race, with Loki similarly being claimed to be older than humanity’s ability to walk upright. The most definitive answer we have for his age in modern comics is that he was born around 1 million BC, which generally lines up with most of these statements. Even the age at which he first picked up Mjolnir varies significantly between comics, with one depicting him as having it 4000 years ago while a more recent one depicts him as having started using it around the 11th century. Another still claims he was 18 when Odin first banished him to Earth, even though that’s clearly contradictory with it also being stated his growth from adolescent to man took place over centuries. Even in-spite of all of that, Thor’s lifetime was still not long enough to perform all the heroic feats he’s prophesied to perform, and so had to be expanded by Eternity’s children. The modern-era Thor is considered to be in his “adolescent” stage, still young by Asgardian measure.

Whatever the specifics are, Thor has proved his experience countless times. He regularly fights Asgardians comparable in age and training to him, such as the 200,000 year old Kartag, or Angela, his own older sister who’s trained since birth under the elite warriors of Heven to be a hunter. He’s fought alongside Runa, who’s nearly as old as Asgard itself. He’s a match for Hercules in pure wrestling and hand to hand, and faced the Elder God Set, who’s even older than the entire Asgardian race, before going on to take out even more Elder Gods as the All-Father. He has battled Surtur, who’s been described as the oldest being in Asgardian cosmology and older than any living god in Olympus, as well as the similarly ancient Ymir and Midgard Serpent. In terms of Earth’s history, Thor walked the Earth in 275 AD and has met Atilla the Hun’s general and even Jeanne D’Arc, and participated in the siege of Paris by the Danes in the 800s, having wandered the limits of the world in his youth. He’s been depicted as being present for the Trojan War (later justified as being due to time travel). Circa 1047, after only recently having lifted Mjolnir for the first time, Thor fought alongside an early version of the Avengers against the likes of Mephisto and Suma-Ket. His life is so long-lived that years are remembered as seconds for him and battles alongside the Avengers slip by. He’s defeated Ulik even when the latter’s strength was growing a thousandfold past Thor with each moment, and is perfectly willing to fight dirty if the situation demands it. Should pure combat not be enough, Thor is also in possession of a keen wit and strategic mind, having formed plans alongside military generals to take down the likes of Loki. Of particular note is him consistently being able to match and defeat Ares, who is war personified on every plane in every future, to the point Nate Grey couldn’t figure out a counter to him, and whose handbook profile notes him to be a master of all forms of weaponry and gives him a 7 on the power grid for his fighting skills (corresponding to mastery of all forms of combat). Even Donald Blake adds to his experience, having extensively studied the Norse myths and travelled to every continent, including both poles, and climbed Everest. While it’s sometimes stated otherwise, generally Thor and Blake are treated as sharing all of each other’s knowledge, which has been directly confirmed by editors.

A key point to note is that Thor’s strength isn’t static over comic history, and he gets stronger with age. This is not only directly stated, but demonstrated with his performance against foes like Durok, where it’s specifically noted that while Thor needed Mjolnir to stand against him in the past, he is now able to match him purely with his physical strength and break his grip. This is backed up by Thor’s enemies as well, with it being stated that the Midgard Serpent, the Mangog, the Destroyer, and Gorr all grow stronger each time they’re fought. Likewise, Hela, Surtur, and the Wrecker have all faced Thor after receiving an explicit power boost making them stronger than they were in previous encounters. Ironically, other Asgardians who don’t have Thor’s link to the planet become more vulnerable and mortal when present on Earth. It was stated in 2015 that Asgard’s overall forces were not what they used to be, though in-context this statement could be referring to a whole host of other problems Asgard was going through at the time.

Thor was also the best sex the god Zephyr ever had, and while depowered, was able to perfectly simulate the sound of thunder with his mouth enough to terrify a skinhead. I’m not sure which one of those was funnier to end on. Pretty good cook too.

• General
  • Beats down Absorbing Man by outskilling him
  • Jousts like a master, knocking Volstagg off-balance
  • Faces the Man-Beast, who has the intelligence and combat skill of a million years in the future. The beast attacks Thor’s pressure points, hits him with a karate chop, and destroys his time sense with an advanced form of science, but Thor quickly recovers
  • While he is KO’d by Mantis crippling the nerve passages in his neck with a pressure point attack, a letters page mollifies an angry fan by noting that this only worked because Mantis caught him off-guard with an attack he never expected, and that Mantis wouldn’t last 10 seconds in hand-to-hand against Thor
  • Even while depowered, Thor fights and defeats the Enchanters
  • While power-swapped with Loki, uses his power to drain voltage from an electric sign and stun Balder to escape. Since the power is new to him, he cannot control it well and accidentally lights the building aflame
  • Outpaced by Wolverine, but anticipates his superior speed and strikes the ground to send him flying
  • Deflects Captain America’s shield with a strike. Cap comments Thor knows him too well and can anticipate his moves
  • Through just his Viking knowledge, guides a ship across the North Sea to the British coast
  • Endures a kick from a copy Man-Beast, and rolls out of the direct line of his blow to avoid his ribs being shattered despite Man-Beast’s million years advanced karate
  • Thor is surprisingly knowledgeable about Ravonna and time travel mechanics
  • Young Thor wrestles Volstagg naked, and manages to lift him up before slipping and being crushed by Volstagg. Odin says Thor has never lost a fight like this
  • The Vizier says Asgard’s soldiers possess neither the fighting skill nor the power to stop Thor, and Odin calls his mastery of battle legendary
  • Loki with Thor’s power fires an energy blast from Mjolnir, which Balder dodges, the latter remarking that Loki moves slowly and awkwardly unlike the skilled Thor
  • Alongside Hercules, fights against all seven Exemplars, with Thor clashing with the super-skilled Conquest. Narration notes that their skill and strength rivals anything in Earth’s history and that even against 4 Exemplars their centuries of experience might win the day, but against all 7 they’re defeated
  • Young Thor trains a group of Viking teenagers in the ways of combat, and teach Cedaric how to be a warrior in a training sequence, teaching him hand to hand combat, swordplay, and movement while giving him the sword of Baldric
  • Cap notes that only Thor is comfortable fighting in freefall
  • As a child, was an impressive bowman who went hunting
  • Thor uses satellite telemetry to track Iron Man’s communicard
  • Sif mentions Hogun’s grappling moves having been taught to her and Thor, and she and Thor grapple each other in a mock match
  • Thor spent a year fighting without any weapon, and managed to defeat Odin disguised as Orlog, a monster 4x stronger than him physically, via nimble dodging and his sheer instinctual strength
  • Thor creates a plan to trick Odin into leaving Asgard
  • References the Aeneid to determine Cap’s strategy
  • Described as a skilled swordsman
  • Knew a group of orc assassins were after him and so lured them up a mountain and pretended to be drunk in order to reduce collateral
  • While weakened and barely conscious, deflects Thialfi’s sword swing with his own sword and clashes blades with him
  • Disarmed Shang-Chi
  • Odin never fought a battle he did not know he could win, and would often retreat. Thor uses the same tactic

• Against Groups
  • Alongside three others, fight off the 40 horsemen of Satan
  • Fights off a whole army of Pluto’s trolls, even as they overwhelm Balder and KO him
  • Thor is able to defeat Odin’s guards in an explicitly one-sided fight
  • Fights through a horde of Malekith’s minions
  • Fights off a constantly spawning army of Hulk clones
  • Alongside Cap, fights off an entire armada of Seth’s forces
  • Even while depowered, keeps fighting an army of Seth’s minions
  • While depowered, uses both his own sword and Baldric’s sword to fight off a horde of mummies
  • Alongside Fandral and Hogun, takes out 50 Asgardian soldiers with his fists, which he considers barely enough for an amusing respite
  • Fights off a group of New-Men and turns the tide of battle by himself
  • Easily fights off Asgard’s imperial forces singlehandedly
  • Fights off an entire swarm of Yggdrasil soldiers while dying
  • Fights off a group of men using skilled Viking warswords, and notes their unprepared for a warhammer
  • While depowered, defeats an entire group of criminals armed with bats and gun using just a powerless Mjolnir, and throws Mjolnir to take out three at once
  • Alongside Hercules and the Destroyer, fights off hundreds of Dark God soldiers
  • Holds off a swarm of constantly duplicating Servitors, each strong enough to knock him down, on his own
  • Young Thor fights off a group of colossal Storm Giants with a series of strikes
  • Pilots the Blood Colossus, a giant skeleton mecha, and fights for 40 days, killing every single person to have ever died in human history
  • Fights through the Collector’s army
  • Fights in a war for 40 years straight
  • Tears through an entire prison of Heven warriors experienced in warfare
  • In the past, Thor fought for two years straight against an army of thousands without food or sleep and emerged victorious. Thor forgot said battle as to him, two years is just a fraction of a second

• Dexterity
  • Leaps towards a pole and spins around on it mid-air
  • Flies freely and does a pinwheel around a plane
  • Raises the Hulk over himself even while his hands are gripped
  • Halts his momentum after being launched by hooking his hammer
  • Evades and swerves between a set of planetoids hurled by the Odin-Power
  • Hurls the Crusher off his back as he grips him
  • Breaks free of a lasso winding his body and takes control of it to spin around the one holding it
  • While Super Skrull raises him over his head, Thor grips him between his legs and sends him flying
  • While depowered, leaps from a car to hang on to a post while wresting the Wrecker’s crowbar from his hands using his feet
  • Catches the leader of the mutates’s weapon between his legs and swings him over his body
  • Fires a blast from his hammer behind him towards Durok who has him in a hold in order to break his grip
  • Breaks his fall while battling Kartag by landing on Kartag’s body
  • While chained up, KOs a lizard soldier with just his leg grip
  • Trades blows with Loki physically and defeats his chokehold by slamming his fists against his ears
  • Saves himself from falling while disarmed by catching a rock mound before swinging to kick a demonic harpy, all while exhausted
  • Rolls with a hit from Grendell to avoid the worst of his strike, though his body gives out on him
  • Swings mid-flight after being thrown by Hulk to graze against a bus instead of toppling it
  • Breaks out of Wrecker’s grip and flips him
  • Dodges a swing from a troll and slides between another’s legs

• Tactics
  • Loops around a building to intercept the Cobra from the other side
  • Thinks of and executes a plan to save a boy from across the state in 1.2 seconds
  • Defeats Sigurd, whose power increases by touching the ground, by attaching his hammer to him and launching him into space with a swing towards an asteroid
  • Thor throws his burning cape at the beast Lutefisk’s eyes to blind it
  • Dodges the Indestructible’s gamma-powered immobilizer beam, and redirects it to hit the Indestructible itself
  • Grabs Brona by the leg and throws him off into space
  • Thor fires a bolt of lightning from his hammer towards Mangog, who is unharmed, but the continuous blast heats the soil beneath Mangog’s feet until it erupts like a volcano and traps Mangog in a pyre
  • On a dock, Thor swings his hammer to summon a massive thunderstorm and typhoon, blinding the Thermal Man with its winds, and also causes a massive tsunami which washes over the Thermal Man and the city before Thor commands it to subside, the storm taking the Thermal Man to the frozen North and leaving him immobile under ice
  • Swings the hammer around him to combine the strength of himself, Heimdall, Balder, the Warriors Three, Sif, and Karnilla, sending the combined energy streaking across space from Asgard to Odin in short time, where it frees Odin from his possession
  • Thor attempts to surprise attack Hela by using his hammer to traverse space and get the jump on her
  • To avoid harming his friends, creates a vortex to transport his brainwashed allies directly to a distant peak, before summoning a hundred-weight of boulders around them to seal them away
  • Defeats a group of enemies by summoning a lightning storm
  • Spins a large tornado to defeat a group of soldiers, which travels across the country to the president’s palace to deliver the soldiers unharmed before dissipating
  • Counters Hulk spinning him into the ground by digging further himself and then emerging out from behind
  • Traps himself and Shiva inside a vortex created by Mjolnir which transports both to the Bifrost, giving Thor a home-field advantage and letting him beat down on Shiva
  • Throws his hammer behind him and makes it circle back around to strike Graviton from behind, distracting him to leave him open for an attack
  • Smashes the ground to remove Balder’s footing
  • Sealed in a heavy density plasma restraining device, which he can’t break out of with strength. He instead whirls his hammer to create a semi-permeable space warp, which the restraint, as a material object, can’t pass through, letting him step out of it
  • Steals a monster’s hammer from it to substitute Mjolnir
  • Summons a rainstorm to blind a giant robot dinosaur with lightning
  • Summons a rainstorm with a tap which turns the ground beneath Mongoose to mud, causing him to slip and fall
  • Realises he can fell two birds with one weapon and banishes Thermal Man to Asgard to stop a swarm of Frost Giants there
  • While in Warrior Madness, taps his hammer on a comet to fire a lightning bolt from his hammer at Drax, stating that this is a strategy being called for
  • Takes out Bill with a single strike by attacking him before he can brace himself, and KOs Fandral by slapping his back
  • Snakes his hammer around Wrecker’s crowbar in a clash to wrench it out of his hand
  • Disarms a troll of their weapon and uses it for himself
  • Disarms Heroes Reborn Thor of his Mjolnir with a throw
  • Defeats Storm by unexpectedly kissing her, sucking the breath from her lungs to knock her out
  • Thor acknowledges Mangog has withstood all his blows from the outside, and so fires a hammer blast inside his mouth, burning him with energy
  • Uses dimensional banishment as a regular strategy
  • Removes his cape to throw off the aim of a griffon
  • KOs Quicksilver by smashing the ground, noting he’s dealt with foes faster than him since his youth
  • While bloodlusted, throws Mjolnir into space with Spider-Man attached, causing his eyes and lungs to explode
  • Throws Mjolnir through the pillars holding up a hall, collapsing the roof on his enemy which he says is a trick he learned from Odin
  • Pins an enemy with his hammer
  • Disarms Angela with a strike

• Exploiting Weaknesses
  • Bends the vents on a vapor-emitting robot to force the vapor back in its sack and cause it to explode
  • Jabs and strikes Space Phantom Hercules while he’s being bear hugged to weaken him, before covering his eyes with his cape and sending him off-balance
  • Moving too fast for the eye to follow and with too much power to block, Thor strikes Heimdall with enough force to cause a sonic boom, exploiting his sensitive ears
  • Tricks Super Skrull by running away to give him time to whirl his hammer, creating a storm of rain which douses Skrull’s nova flame
  • Prevents the Guardian from reviving by spinning his hammer around his body, creating a sphere of force strong enough to shield against Infinity’s blasts
  • Melts a massive girder with a blast, the iron rain disrupting the Fourth-Dimensional Man’s balance of heat and cold and killing him
  • Tricks Absorbing Man by running away mid-fight to a toy store and making him absorb a cardboard toy Mjolnir
  • Determines a Storm Giant draws strength from contact with the ground and learns to punch him while he’s in the air
  • Figures out how to defeat Stilt-Man by summoning a lightning strike which fuses his armour’s platinum circuits, collapsing him
  • Summons lightning from a storm to strike Dracula in mist form, the blast ionising his drifting molecules and shocking his system
  • Calls down lightning in a cave to illuminate it, preventing Malekith from sinking into the shadows and harming him and later smashing open a large hole in the roof to cause the dark elves to flee from the light
  • Rips off Hela’s cloak from underneath her
  • Affected by Vertigo’s dizziness, but counters by creating a vortex with Mjolnir which drops Vertigo off her balance
  • Charges at Doom with a whirl, but hurls his hammer away at the last possible instant to strike the one unprotected point on a large robot, its chest
  • After noting Thermal Man fights with more intelligence and that a different strategy is required, he spins Mjolnir to summon his armour and belt of strength
  • Taps Mjolnir twice against a cliff while restrained to summon storm clouds which block out the sky and turn day to night, defeating Jinni

• Environmental Use
  • Launches a large pipe at the mid-air Loki to trap him in water
  • While disarmed, digs into the floor beneath him to burst a water pipe and short-circuit some robots
  • Crumbles a mountain with a hammer strike, making it collapse on an incoming group of storm giants
  • Makes a makeshift hammer out of nearby wood to defeat some tree monsters, and then does the same with some nearby uru
  • Knowing his own strength won’t be enough, strikes the ground with his sword, causing a geyser to erupt to take out Skoll and Hati
  • Shatters the environment around him and hurls the fragment at Seidring
  • Subdues Loki by wrapping a pole around him mid-fight
  • Tosses the Wrecker onto a charged train rail, allowing Thor to add the power of his hammer to the current by stamping the ground
  • Shatters a mountain with a strike, letting the sea behind it rush through to engulf Surtur’s flames
  • Fires a blast which creates a pit into the ground, allowing Thor to hide
  • Strikes the ground to create a rain of debris before generating a windstorm by whirling which blows the debris away
  • When fighting the giant Servitor, sends Mjolnir through a crack in the ground before making it burst out, shattering a huge section of ground beneath the giant’s feet to trip it up and make it drop its weapon
  • Rips out a pipe from the ground to blow Blastaar away with a water torrent
  • Crumples a multi-ton tank and compresses it into the shape of hammer as a Mjolnir substitute

• Deduction
  • Immediately figures out the trick behind Zanadu’s location, it being a mountain which reaches underground
  • Thor knows how mortal men work due to his time as Blake, and can tell the 3 Kangs being held are all actual people
  • Recognises an energy absorbing monster by comparing it to Absorbing Man
  • Thor fought against the embodiment of Fear and his bride, Desire, and ultimately defeats them by showing love for his father in his final moments instead of fear. Odin defeated them the same way as Thor did
  • Figures out why Malekith’s forces aren’t attacking fully and strikes him with a thrown iron bar
  • Thor deduces that having the Twilight Sword must make Surtur stronger than he was before and so it must be his power source
  • Recognises that the giant robot dinosaur he’s fighting regenerates and needs to be atomised to be destroyed
  • While submerged in Muspelheim’s lava and fighting off demons and pain, manages to deduce and work through Loki’s plans in his head

• Trickery
  • Tricks Loki with a plastic dummy
  • Tricks Absorbing Man into tying his mace around a poll and turning into glass
  • Disguises himself as Harokin
  • Feigns being KOd to learn more info
  • Tricks Loki into throwing Mjolnir and having it out of his hand for 60 seconds, causing Loki to revert to Donald Blake
  • Transforms to Blake and disguises himself to trick Kang
  • Endures hits from the Wrecking Crew and breaks their grapple, faking being restrained
  • Tricks Dracula into entering mist form to weaken his control of the storm
  • Uses a flash of lightning to escape the villains on Battleworld and trick them into thinking he’s been disintegrated while he escapes
  • Thor tricks Hela into thinking he lost control of the Destroyer when in reality he always had its spirit restrained by his own will and was always in control, misleading her into restoring his body
  • Tricks one of Seth’s minions into opening a dimensional portal for him
  • Tricks Juggernaut into grabbing Mjolnir, wrapping his hand in its thong and sending it flying to a distant asteroid with a throw
  • Sends his hammer to a different dimension with a gesture to keep it out of Loki’s hands and then resummons it slightly later to trick Loki into moving him closer to where he wants
  • Tricks Malekith using Sif as a decoy to misdirect him, while he sneaks to Odin’s throne room

• Aim
  • Kicks the hammer to disarm a mobster before it returns to his hand
  • Lassos the tip of the Washington Monument with his hammer and puts it back in place
  • Uses his hammer to dislodge the Executioner’s axe from his hand
  • Hooks the Cobra’s foot on to the hammer’s handle to pull him
  • Catches Hercules on his hammer’s thong, sending him away
  • Even depowered, Thor still possesses his natural strength and skill, and accurately breaks through a granite target with a hammer throw
  • With a single hammer throw, defeats a dozen of Pluto’s soldiers surrounding him in a circle
  • Smashes the battery of a set of spotlights with a throw before ricocheting it back to take out the guards
  • KOs a storm giant by ricocheting the hammer off his weapon and into his head
  • Ricochets the hammer off a wall to KO opponents around a corner
  • Ricochets his hammer across a room to take out three aliens at once
  • Throws the hammer precisely enough to take out the wheels on a speeding car, the hammer changing directions mid-air
  • While falling, throws his hammer to intercept and retrieve a ruby which is also falling a distance away and carry it back to his hand
  • Throws the hammer to thrust a tree trunk from a storm giant’s hand into its face, before KOing another storm giant on its return trip
  • Latches a far away Beast mid-jump on Mjolnir’s thong and drags him back
  • Precisely strikes Mar-vell’s nega-bands with a ricochet throw, activating them to open a portal to the Negative Zone and suck Mar-vell’s excess energy into it
  • Throws his hammer to ricochet off the ground and bounce it up against a speeding car, bouncing it over some children and into his hands
  • Throws his hammer to a different room and ricochets off multiple walls until it finds and hits a small area of circuitry which disables Bi-Beast’s machines
  • Strikes a bit of falling debris as a projectile to ricochet off Frost Giants and take them all out
  • Throws his hammer so accurately as to catch Mongoose’s ankle on its thong, carrying him into the sky and making him fall when he slips free
  • Throws Mjolnir at a falling Hercules and latches its thong around his foot to guide him safely to the ground
  • Wielding Cap’s shield while depowered, takes out an entire group of Zodiac soldiers charging at him with guns, and throws the shield precisely enough to block incoming bullet fire mid-air and then ricochet to take out two snipers
  • While depowered, throws Mjolnir hard enough to redirect a small crashing aircraft and ricochet it back to himself
  • Precisely deflects a hail of 1000 tons of concrete debris launched by Torrent’s hurricane force winds
  • Throws Mjolnir through a portal to catch a falling Kevin Masterson on its return trip and save him
  • Feels an enemy force approaching him from behind and throws Mjolnir behind him without looking to take them out, the hammer also taking out other soldiers on its return trip
  • Throws Mjolnir 4000 km to a hospital across the world to deliver an organ transplant
  • Throws Mjolnir from the Bifrost across all Ten Realms in one shot to target a monster on Earth before the hammer returns to him
  • Throws Mjolnir to Jane from Vanaheim to Earth

• Precision Strikes
  • Strikes the ground in such a skillful way that it dislodges a boulder into the mouth of a dragon
  • Slams his hammer into the ground with such specific force that it reverberates across half the state at the speed of sound and causes a truck to jump into the air and miss a boy it was about to hit
  • Strikes the ground precisely enough to dislodge Sif’s spears from a pole, before throwing the hammer precisely enough to smash through all three spears in mid-air, the hammer bending in mid-air
  • Smashes a car in such a way as to launch a tire as a projectile at Loki
  • Smashes the ground, creating an erupting shockwave which precisely breaks the Mutates leader’s weapon
  • Strikes the ground with enough precision to cause a shockwave which knocks the guns out of a bunch of criminals’ hands without injuring
  • Precisely times his strike to match Grendell’s swing, the force of the blow shattering his own hand and causing him to drop the hammer
  • Repeatedly throws his hammer on top of Sue’s moving force-field in space, the force of the hammer returning his hand each time counteracting the force-field’s momentum and slowing it down while Thor shifts his balance each time to guide the force-field down to Earth
  • Smashes mile-wide wreckage hurtling to Earth by throwing with all his strength, doing so with exact aim to avoid shattering it

• Against Esoterics
  • Counters an invisible foe by summoning a rainstorm and spotting where the rain lands
  • Summons an intense lightning storm to strike the Lion-God’s totem stick, the lightning dissolving his form and undoing his magic, Thor not knowing this would work and just doing the only thing he could
  • Unable to see an invisible Skrull, but finds him by summoning a rainstorm to reveal his location using the drops
  • Unable to see an invisible enemy, so conjures up a storm inside Avengers mansion to douse him and reveal him
  • Summons a storm with a tap which cleanses his eyes of sand
  • The Dark Dweller tries to escape by turning into a gaseous state, but Thor whirls Mjolnir to draw him to the hammer and blast him into space into the sun to bypass his immortality
  • Alongside She-Hulk, continuously punches out of a regenerating Lava Man cage fast enough to break out, and lets himself get absorbed to bust a hole through it
  • Summons a large storm over New York which draws a giant Absorbing Man into a vortex. Absorbing Man absorbs the winds and his atoms are scattered into the jetstream
  • Uses Mjolnir to spark a loose electrical wire and forces Absorbing Man to touch it, shocking him with several thousand volts due to the conductivity of his steel form

• Medical (as Thor)

As mentioned, it’s sometimes suggested that Thor loses his medical knowledge when the Donald Blake identity is removed from him, but this has been contradicted multiple times, in-part due to the general inconsistencies in how the Donald Blake/Thor dichotomy works.

• Thor seems to retain all of Blake’s medical knowledge even while transformed
• Ego tries to confound Thor with scientific parlance, but Thor understands it because he’s a learned physician in his human form
• Thor retains Blake’s knowledge of his patients and medical reports, and Blake retains memories of what he did as Thor
• Thor can tell Wasp’s condition as he has the skills of a healer
• Even as Thor, is able to assess a priest’s wounds
• Thor uses Blake’s medical knowledge to assess his own injuries and expresses pretty intimate knowledge of concussion symptoms
• Thor is treated as a top medicalist or engineer due to being Blake, and Rick describes him as having special scientific or medical knowledge in the vein of other scientists
• Thor assesses what his Blake identity would evaluate Vision’s medical conditions and current state with
• Blake acquires sodium pentathol and Thor injects it into Graviton as a syringe, forcing him unconscious. Thor calls this co-operation between his two selves, and says he also had stimulant prepared in case Graviton called his bluff
• Blake grabs enough penicillin to put down two bull elephants and Thor uses his strength to pierce Hrungnir’s skin with a needle, instantly curing him
• Thor says he’s had occasion to be well trained in the healing arts and suggests some general knowledge about Gilgamesh’s condition
• Alongside Jane, while as Thor, performs impromptu surgery on an injured man and manages to stop his bleeding
• Thor, in his identity as Jake Olson, is a paramedic, but is able to identify a seeming heart attack as an obstruction in his larynx and performs impromptu cricothyrotomy, citing his knowledge from Donald Blake
• Thor offers to heal Ceranda and says he has the skills of both a warrior and a physician
• Jane calls Olson the best emergency medical technician her hospital has
• Thor uses his medicinal skill to try and resuscitate Hogun, but he’s already dead. Thor realises he needs a defibrillator and summons a massive storm which covers NYC just by raising his hands before calling down repeated lightning bolts on Hogun’s body, just barely resurrecting him
• Olson is New York’s best EMT has a knowledge of medicine greater than his colleagues
• Thor accurately explains Wasp’s medical condition to a nurse, identifying it as a GSW to the chest, her pulse a 40 PALP, and to start an IV type and crossmatch

• Medical (as Blake)
  • Blake studied to become a surgeon on his own
  • Graduated from the New York State College of Medicine with top honors in a degree in medicine
  • Blake is able to save Strange from the damage caused by a spell
  • Blake is the physician of the Avengers and one of the 10 most gifted surgeons in the world
  • Donald Blake, using Thor’s knowledge, is able to surgically operate on Sif to cure her from an Asgardian malady. Blake needs to be in his human form to do the operation as Thor’s hands are too big for the delicate aspects
  • Blake’s diagnoses are so good they’re considered divine. He’s studied enough toxicology to figure out the specific kind of poison used to try and kill a man
  • Blake heals Balder from his injuries. His fellow physicians say that despite his youth, Blake has no equal as a surgeon
  • Blake is said to be the only man alive with the skill to perform surgery on a man with a bullet near his heart
  • While in Asgard, Thor transforms to Blake to get the calm, analytical mind of a physician
  • Transforms into Blake as he needs his surgical skills
  • Blake saves Krista from death through his surgical skills, with it being remarked that very few surgeons match his skill
  • Blake cares for Cap, and Hank Pym calls him maybe the world’s finest surgeon. Performs delicate surgery on Cap, with it being stated not another surgeon alive could perform an operation so careful as this
  • Blake and Pym develop an antidote for the poison inside the masks of some assassins
  • Blake performs a surgery which saves Whizzer’s life, described as an operation nobody else could do
  • Blake does the work of three medics
  • Blake and Jane worked on 1000 patients together
  • As Blake, heals a grievously injured woman. Jane says there isn’t a doctor alive who could have saved her other than Blake

• Engineering
  • On the fly, Donald Blake creates a device to find Mjolnir within 10 miles
  • Donald Blake invents a bio-synthetic android down to the last cell, which is able to solve the world’s most complicated mathematical problem instantly, built with an IQ of 375
  • Blake helps work on a device that can perfectly clone living beings and objects
  • Time with Iron Man over months gives Thor the knowledge to rewire a complex electrical system to send an electric pulse throughout an entire building
  • Apparently familiar with nuclear physics to know how anti matter works
  • Investigates the mechanics on an alien enemy by reading through their technological databases

• Craftsmanship
  • The great blast furnaces of Pittsburgh allow Thor to reforge Mjolnir. The engineers note Thor did in an hour what would have taken them a month
  • Uses Mjolnir as an actual hammer to construct a boat-bed for Odin, narration remarking on his skill with it
  • Thor forges Asgardian steel in Pittsburg, the deadliest bane of Elves, over an entire week
  • Uses Mjolnir as a hammer to help forge the Avengers logo
  • Thor and the Warriors Three build a great temple in a land between Asgard and Jotunheim
  • Thor can wield Mjolnir more expertly than any smith who lived

• Horseriding
  • Evades a whole group of mountain giants with his horse riding skills
  • Tames and rides an Yrrl-Beast, basically a dino Chocobo
  • Rides on horseback from Asgard to Valhalla through the mists of midnight. The horse gets so scared it ends up dying of heart attack
  • Rides across Asgard on horseback for 3 days
  • Rides his horse through an avalanche
  • Young Thor didn’t know much about Asgard, and so rode away on horseback to see the lands. He journeyed to multiple realms until he committed all Asgard to memory
  • Charges into battle on Sleipnir against Mogul, taking out soldiers on horseback
  • Tames a winged horse belonging to an enemy quickly and rides it through the sky for an hour
  • Thor has soared on Sleipnir through a thousand stars
  • Rides on Sleipnir to Hel for 9 days and nights

• Leadership
  • Thor marshalls the armies of Asgard on horseback
  • Commands his warriors to cover his flank and rallies them against mountain giants
  • Commands and rallies Asgardians on horseback to charge at Surtur
  • Summons a storm to encourage the forces of Asgard to battle
  • Thor leads Asgard’s army across the Rainbow Bridge to Earth
  • Leads the Einherjar to victory against Hela’s forces
  • Thor inspires such confidence as to lead effectively strangers into battle against an army, and alongside them fights off thousands of Seth’s minions
  • Plans out a battle strategy with other high ranking Asgardians
  • Successfully rallies an army from across the Nine Realms to fight Hela
  • Only days into his leadership, rallies the depleted forces of Asgard against a troll army

• Stealth
  • Described as moving silently and undetectably throughout a story arc
  • Moves so silently he can barely hear his own breath to take out an Asgardian soldier from behind
  • Decides to approach Darkoth in stealth and see what’s up
  • Sneaks behind Malekith’s Dark Elves through a distraction

• Holding Back
  • KOs Gemini with a single punch, with Iron Man noting that if he didn’t pull his punch Gemini’s jaw would be dislocated
  • Holds back against Daredevil, saying he only applies a fraction of his strength
  • Surfer realises that Thor was holding back on him during their fight and that Thor knew Surfer was duped
  • Thor says he feels no need to hold back against the Taurian as he has done with weaker foes
  • Held back against a Sentinel to avoid harming Wanda
  • Subdues and defeats Iron Man with a single swing to avoid embarrassment
  • After encouragement from Moondragon, Thor realises that since fighting on Earth to avoid murdering men or humbling his teammates, he’s been holding back and gradually became accustomed to it
  • Stuns Hyperion with a hammer throw, remarking that the last time he fought a Hyperion it ricocheted because he was holding back and didn’t know Hyperion’s strength
  • Narration says Thor wasn’t using his full force against Odin and so was felled by a swing from Gungnir
  • Upon realising Air-Walker is a robot, stops holding back, and blows through his body with a throw
  • Thor notes Bi-Beast’s strength indeed equals the Hulk, and employs the Hulk’s full savagery to repeatedly smash Bi-Beast into a machine, KOing him upon getting serious. Thor later says he stops holding back since Bi-Beast is an android, KOing him in one strike
  • Clashes with Stellaris, taking hits from him. Thor says he held himself back to test Stellaris and learn the extent of his strength
  • Letters page says Thor was holding back against Valkyrie when fighting her in Avengers Annual 11
  • Thor says only Algrim’s sneak attack let him down Thor with a blow, and that his strength is nothing compared to Ulik or himself before KOing him with a punch
  • Stops holding back against Hulk
  • Quicksand realises Thor has been holding back on her and pulling his punches because she’s a woman
  • The editor response to a complaint that Thor is struggling against Quicksand despite fighting Hulk and Celestials is that he’s having an off day
  • When enraged, is able to penetrate through Terminus’s chest with a charge despite previously being unable to do so
  • Strikes Juggernaut with the full-force of Mjolnir to no effect, claiming that he rarely strikes with the full force of his hammer but dares not hold back here
  • Strikes the ground with enough precision to cause a shockwave which knocks the guns out of a bunch of criminals’ hands without injuring them. Thor says that the earthquake didn’t hit the cops because Thor muffled Mjolnir’s power
  • Throws Mjolnir at Thing, who endures it, but he notes that he didn’t throw it as hard as he knows is required to take out Thing due to not wanting to hurt him
  • Thor says that in the past battles with Hulk he’s restrained himself for fear of succumbing to berserker rage, and that in this fight he’ll let himself go all out
  • Thor says he never had to use anywhere near his full might to equal the strength of Mister Hyde, Radioactive Man, and Man-Beast
  • In a battle with Replicus, Thor says life amid mortals has often caused him to withhold his full strength
  • Thor says that he previously hesitated to use his full force against Perrikus but that he isn’t holding back anymore
  • Tempest notes Thor is still holding back against her
  • Thor says over the years he’s battled so many mortals he hesitates to strike with his full force for fear of killing them, and he stops holding back against the Wrecking Crew
  • Stops holding back against Gladiator and KOs him with a series of hammer strikes
  • Thor says living on Midgard has tamed him and that he’ll now be untamed before smashing an amped up Frost Giant, killing it
  • Thor accidentally almost killed Hulk with a hammer strike off-screen, and says he tries to hold back
  • Thor says when he last fought Angela, he was tired and didn’t have the heart to fight her
  • States that while Thor held back, Odinson does not
  • Iron Man remarks Thor must have been working out, and Thor retorts that the only difference is that he’s no longer holding back
  • Odin says Thor often holds back displaying the sheer scope of Mjolnir’s power. Iron Man says Thor has only barely beaten Hulk in the past, but Bill retorts that Hulk has never fought the real Thor and that Thor has always held back with mercy until now
  • Admits he’s holding back against Captain Marvel
  • Thor says that without civilians, there’s nothing to hold him back

Mjolnir

Overview

Mjolnir (alt. Mjollner, lit. The Crusher) is the legendary hammer wielded by Thor. Forged by the dwarves of Nidavellir in the heart of a star over 17 days in a process so intense the star itself died, imbued with the magic of Odin and fueled by his very life-force, the hammer is a symbol of not just Thor’s strength, but his divinity itself. It acts as the Norse myth counterpart to other legendary weapons such as Kusanagi no Tsurugi and Gae Bolg. The runes on its side describe its function best: “Whosoever holds this hammer, if they be worthy, shall possess the power of Thor”. Only those deemed worthy by the one controlling the hammer’s magic can wield it. Don’t ask what worthiness actually is, it’s never been exactly defined. Your favourite character can be worthy if you want, it’s ok.

Mjolnir is two feet long and initially had a leather handle. It is primarily composed of especially pure uru, a special mineral found in Asgard which originates from a destroyed moon, making it exceptionally strong and a good receptacle for Odin’s magic. Per the Marvel Anatomy handbook, the shaft of the hammer is also reinforced by uru. The hammer grants Thor a unique cloak of power and unerring accuracy, ensuring it is more likely to strike its intended target, and has been described as having a specific “vibratory essence”. This is possibly its Haltija, a term referring to the spirit and true “thatness” of an object.

Later sections will go into more detail on the specific abilities and functions of Mjolnir, but a general rundown of its primary abilities has been given in the comics themselves:

• It allows for Thor to fly with a single throw of the hammer, with Thor being able to control the course of his flight through means beyond mortal comprehension with no known top speed or distance
• It can only be wielded by those deemed worthy, not even the Hulk can lift the hammer under normal conditions
• It’s described as being nearly indestructible and able to shatter mountains and pulverise “minor planetoids”, and will always return to Thor’s hand no matter how far it’s thrown or what it hits
• It can manipulate weather. Two taps of the hammer on the ground summons storms, wind or lightning, three taps end said storms, and Thor can also fire various forms of mystical energy from the hammer without having to tap it on the ground
• It can open dimensional portals to transport to distant dimensions and planes of reality.
• It allows Thor to transform between his godly and mortal forms by stamping the hammer and willing it to occur. In the past this took the form of fully turning him into the mortal Donald Blake, but it also just lets him switch between civilian clothes and his Thor costume when Donald Blake isn’t a thing
• It allows Thor to fly by holding on to the hammer

Beyond its use as a weapon, Mjolnir is a religious artifact, able to consecrate treaties and marriages. This allows it to function as a holy weapon, capable of setting vampires ablaze like a stake and even harming the spirit of vengeance Johnny Blaze when pinned against him. The uru metal also makes Mjolnir reflective enough that Thor could use it as a prism for sunlight to kill a bunch of vampires. When not in his hand, Thor keeps Mjolnir attached to his belt. In his guise as Sigurd Jarlson, he kept it in his satchel, and when he was running around completely shirtless for a time during the 90s, he had it chained to his wrist.

Mjolnir has undergone numerous alterations and status quo shifts across its history. While it has been stated that the Odin-magic imbued inside it is so potent that if the hammer is destroyed, it risks causing a shift in the cosmic balance and that the forces inside it would ravage the realms, the hammer has been broken and reforged numerous times across its history without such a thing occurring (minus a special exception coming up in the next section). Most notably, both Thor and Odin lost the ability to wield Mjolnir for a time, with the hammer instead being held by Jane Foster taking the mantle of Thor. During this period, Mjolnir displayed numerous unique abilities not seen before or since, and Thor himself admitted Jane wielded the hammer in a way he had never seen before, which can be attributed to the sentience of the hammer preferring Jane as its wielder. At the end of the War of the Realms event, Mjolnir was reforged by Thor in the sun, now with a shaft made out of a root of Yggdrasil. After the hammer was destroyed and reforged again later, it for a time held the spirit of Odin inside it, who could control the hammer telekinetically. In its current status quo, Mjolnir was finally fully repaired by the All-Father Thor using cosmic lightning, which served to make the hammer stronger than ever and fully link Thor to it. Most notably, this means Thor is now the one who decides who is worthy and who isn’t, with him being able to freely give and relinquish worthiness as he so chooses. For those other than Thor who are granted worthiness, the power of the hammer goes away after 60 seconds of not wielding it.

Properties

Strength
Mjolnir has been described on multiple occasions as doubling Thor’s strength.

• Thor says without the hammer, his strength is halved
• Sif says without Mjolnir, Thor’s power is halved
• Odin says Mjolnir is the most formidable weapon known to man or god, and that without it Thor’s power is halved
• Thor’s struggle with the Demogorge saps his strength, causing him to throw Mjolnir more weakly

Magical Properties
The magic imbued inside Mjolnir is the primary source of its power, and has several unique properties.

• When the hammer loses its enchantment, Thor can’t transform back to Donald Blake
• Ulik says that in order to gain more power, Thor must spin his hammer faster and faster
• Under Loki’s unskilled control, the hammer fires blasts at random
• When Odin dies and the hammer loses its enchantments, it’s noted that it still retains its powers like dimensional travel
• Letters page says that the hammer has both natural properties and Odin-given ones, with the latter being its return flights, who can lift it, and the ability to transform
• Magic is trapped in the molecules of Blake’s cane
• Mjolnir is able to activate Celtic standing stones

Uru Properties

The uru Mjolnir is composed of has been used on multiple occasions to achieve specific effects due to its innate conductivity for magic.
 

• Uru is an excellent conductor of electricity, allowing Mjolnir to draw in Thor’s lightning bolts to harm an exact duplicate of himself
• Magnir reverses Mjolnir’s uru power and makes it glow with the heat of a million suns, which not even Thor can touch, though the hammer itself is unharmed

Powering
Due to the amount of magical power contained inside Mjolnir, it is able to be used effectively as a power source for technology. The Avengers frequently employ this for their spaceships during interstellar missions.

• Uses Mjolnir’s elemental energy to power a device made by Reed Richards, which serves to draw out Galactus’s energy and restore him. It draws power very quickly from the hammer and seizes Thor’s own life-force for energy through the hammer
• The hammer is powerful enough to fuel machinery with enough energy to activate all the world’s volcanoes at once
• Thor can override the Space-Quinjet’s engines with his hammer power, allowing it enter warp
• The hammer powering the Quinjet allows it to travel across the galaxy from Kamo Tharnn’s planet to Earth in days
• Empowers the aged Eilif by letting him touch Mjolnir, restoring some of his youth. Thor being hurt reduces the empowerment
• The combined energy of Mjolnir and Stormbreaker channeled through Energizer defeats Kurse, though it costs all the energy of Mjolnir and leaves Thor without his power. The Beyonder then restores the energy in Mjolnir
• The hammer’s mystic energies fuel Doom’s country-wide time stop device
• Via siphoning power from Mjolnir, a Quinjet is able to travel from Earth to the Black Galaxy in hours instead of years
• Iron Man channels Mjolnir’s power into his armour and the time-sled to light up a black hole and break free of its grip. The energy Mjolnir produces overtaxes Iron Man’s circuits
• Empowers the Thing’s Ultimate Nullifier with Mjolnir to neutralise Galactus’s Power Cosmic, but the energy feed back ends up defeating them both
• [Jane] An Avengers ship draws warp energy from Mjolnir, allowing it to travel across the galaxy. Tony Stark says without Thor, the ship is basically just a box in space
• Uses Mjolnir to imbue a jewel with enchantment and his power, replacing a nuclear plant with it. Thor claims the jewel will fuel Cincinnati for a decade, with a fragment able to be replicated for the entire world by Tony Stark
  • Utilizing this same energy, the Thorbuster is able to stop a thrown Mjolnir and toss it aside, absorbing any energy used against him and rechannelling it through the armour as it’s powered by the same enchantment fuelling Mjolnir

Duplication

While Mjolnir has been duplicated a few times, it’s also been stated it can’t be duplicated in normal space-time.

• Orikal manages to duplicate Mjolnir
• Odin cannot duplicate Mjolnir’s essence as he decrees it can never be duplicated in any space or time
• A Xartan is able to duplicate Thor and his power and create a replica Mjolnir
• Was duplicated by Doop (doop-licated)
• Replicas of Mjolnir created from its mold would be weaker due to not being blessed by the Odinpower but more numerous. The mold cannot be broken due to being made from a star’s heart and blessed by Odin, and burns even eons after forging Mjolnir

Weight

Mjolnir’s weight, enchantments aside, has been officially listed as 42.3 pounds, but it’s also been described in the comics as having immeasurable weight.

• Loki says that no earthly scale exists which can measure the hammer’s true weight
• Mjolnir was forged in the furnace of Geirrodur and is too heavy for mortals to lift
• In space, Iron Man can carry Mjolnir due to it being weightless. When pulled back into Earth’s gravity, the hammer pins his arm down with its weight
• Linnea fails to lift the hammer and recognises that it must be an enchantment and not weight, as otherwise it would crumble the stones underneath it
• The weight of Mjolnir is beyond mortal means to measure
• Was once used as an anchor to drown Thor
• While used by King Thor of a future timeline, is described as heavier than a world

The God Tempest

Mjolnir is powerful, enormously so. Its strength defies even Odin’s comprehension. Sometimes, it even seems to have a will of its own. It would take decades before the truth behind it came to light.

Eons ago, Odin engaged in a pitched battle with the God Tempest for the fate of Asgard. Known also as the Mother Storm, this entity was the elder god of storms existing since the dawn of time, comparable to the likes of Knull, the Phoenix, and the Black Winter, which manifested as a galaxy sized thunderstorm with winds strong enough to snuff out stars. When it made Asgard its next target, Odin battled it for several days straight, and, through the total power of his magic and the strength of Gungnir, managed to defeat the entity and seal it in a hunk of raw uru. The dwarves of Nidavellir would forge this possessed uru in the heart of a dying star into Mjolnir, now infused with Odin’s magic and still possessed by the raging God Tempest.

Initially, Mjolnir would defy Odin’s command, preventing him from moving and wielding it due to the God Tempest’s resentment, the hammer only yielding to him when Odin placed the worthiness enchantment on it and the God Tempest’s will seemed to fade. Thor would go most of his life unaware of the truth behind his hammer and the sentience lurking inside it, the hammer possessed by both the God Tempest and the spirits of the dwarves who died during its forging.

Jane Foster would come to learn of the truth of the God Tempest’s existence during her time as Thor. The God Tempest took a liking to the girl, guiding her on where to go and obeying her commands almost as more of a companion than a weapon. The God Tempest has shown preference for certain wielders of the hammer, and has allowed those it considers allies to wield it in desperate situations while preventing even Odin in the modern day from wielding it. It was even able to read Jane’s thoughts and manifest as a duplicate of her to perform surgery, though this took tremendous power and over a century of rest even for Mjolnir. Upon learning where Mjolnir’s sentience stemmed from, Jane learned to unleash the God Tempest from the hammer, essentially able to now drop a galaxy sized elder god supernuke on her problems whenever she wanted. The first time she did this, the God Tempest created lightning which stretched from one galaxy to another and shook worlds half a universe away. She would do it again to fight off the Phoenix Force, the God Tempest able to hold its own against its fellow cosmic entity. When Mjolnir was destroyed in the sun in a battle against Mangog, the God Tempest was freed, threatening to rip apart the moon until Thor and Odin channeled its power to resurrect Jane and seemingly killed it (retroactively, this is likely what the prior statements about the hammer unleashing cosmic destruction if broken were referring to).

When Mjolnir was reforged by the combined might of 4 Thors, a remnant of the God Tempest lingered inside it, granting it sentience once more. However, the God Tempest wasn’t resurrected unscathed. Being reforged in the sun ended up merging the God Tempest with Mangog’s corrupt energies, twisting its eldritch moral compass. It grew bored with Thor’s duties as All-Father, preventing him from wielding it while allowing anybody else to pick it up, and secretly shattering Odin’s enchantments to cause chaos on Asgard. This would come to the fore when the God Tempest challenged Thor directly, manifesting a form of electricity while wielding complete control over Mjolnir, strong enough to endure direct attacks from Thor. It took Thor using the total force of the All-Power and the flames of Nidavellir’s forges to slay the God Tempest, burning it into nothing and shattering Mjolnir in the process. When Mjolnir was reforged by Thor, it was deemed to be stronger than ever, and now seems to lack the sentience of the God Tempest, fully obeying Thor’s commands.

Durability

Mjolnir is physically scarred by countless battles, but remains enormously durable through the combination of uru’s natural strength and the magic inside of it. It takes immense power to damage Mjolnir, let alone completely destroy it. Thor frequently uses the hammer to deflect projectiles.

Against Force

• Doctor Doom cannot harm it with power blasts
• Blocks a blast from a Neuro-Blaster, which has the power to devastate stars
• Blocks energy blasts from Korvac
• Deflects a blast from the Cobalt-Cannon, to the point that its wielder has to expand its range so the blast covers Thor’s whole body instead to avoid it being blocked
• Blocks a thunderbolt from Zeus
• Blocks a blast from Zeus
• Throws the hammer at Annihilus, with it resisting the force of his cosmic control rod and forcing his own energies back at him, causing a massive feedback
• A replica Thor deflects Cyclops’s beam with a swing of Mjolnir
• Deflects a robot’s force beam with Mjolnir, which he admits could cripple him if it landed
• Thor claims Mjolnir can take a blast which would destroy the entire Earth
• Blocks a blast from Blastaar with Mjolnir. Thor says Blastaar has enough force to shatter worlds
• Blitziana attempts to stop Thor’s flight by throwing her mace into the whirling Mjolnir, but the hammer just smashes her mace
• Survives the epicentre of the gamma core rupturing, which destroys Galactus, all the Avengers including Thor himself, and the entire solar system
• Blocks a strike from Thunderstrike with Mjolnir’s hilt
• Blocks a punch from the Destroyer
• Tarene fires a blast at Thor which he blocks with Mjolnir, noting it was mighty enough to topple a mountain range and that if he didn’t block he could have been laid low
• Intercepts a pulse cannon energy beam after its fired by throwing Mjolnir, which reflects the beam back to the cannon and destroys it
• Blocks a rain of boulders thrown by Hulk with a whirl, reducing them to pebbles which are launched at Hulk
• Olson blocks King Thor’s eyeblasts with the hammer, though the blasts encompass the rest of his body and kill him
• Blocks a blast from Phoenix-Cyclops
• Blocks a blast from Ymir
• Thor Bor-kin, an AU corrupted version of Thor, breaks his hand punching Mjolnir
• Blocks a blast from the Thorbuster
• Blocks a blast from Galactus
• Shatters Stormbreaker against Mjolnir
• Thor breaks his arm punching the hammer
• An amped Mr Hyde breaks his hand punching Mjolnir

Against Cutting

• Blocks a strike from Wolverine’s claws
• Blocks the Disir-blade
• Blocks Flame’s sword with Mjolnir’s hilt
• Clashes Mjolnir’s hilt with Hela’s blade. A charged strike from Hela with her Nightsword is unable to damage or move Mjolnir
• Blocks a sword strike from Surtur
• Clashes with Jarnbjorn’s blade
• Clashes evenly with the Ebony Blade, which can cut atoms
• Blocks a strike from Bor
• Pierced by Promethium arrows
• Blocks a strike from Kemur’s sword with Mjolnir, ringing like a bell but withstanding the slash

Against Heat

• Sent off-balance by a firebolt from Surtur towards his hammer
• Immune to the Melter’s melting beam
• The colonisers cannot destroy it even with peak intensity cremation level flames
• Unharmed by the heat of a million suns
• Unharmed by flames “hotter than the blackest pit of Hades”
• Thor says Mjolnir can withstand Mecurio’s heat and cold
• Endures a hit from Firelord’s staff
• Blocks a blast of hellfire from Ghost Rider
• Throws Mjolnir through a sun monster, whose body is extremely hot and melts everything around it
• Radioactive Man reacts to and deflects the thrown hammer with his energy field
• Endures being knocked into the fires of Mephisto’s realm and Thor recalls it to his hand with a summon
• Unharmed by being in the core of the sun
• Deflects Gladiator’s heat vision with a whirl
• Throws Mjolnir at an incoming blast of fire from Flame, which Mjolnir barrels through, heating it up to be red but not breaking
• Survives the heat of re-entry
• Mjolnir was forged in metals that would melt the sun
• Endures Cosmic Ghost Rider’s flames
• Endures Hyperion’s atomic vision
• Blocks Dark Phoenix’s flames

Against Esoteric Damage

• Mjolnir survives Terminus consuming his own molecules and imploding on himself into a black hole, and recalls to Thor’s hand from inside the black hole

Damaging & Reforging

Mjolnir has been significantly damaged a limited number of times across its history, and is usually reforged fairly quickly. Thor has shown the ability to repair a broken Mjolnir through his own power, though in other instances it requires more elaborate intervention.

• Long in the past, was destroyed after clashing with the Odinsword, presumably Odin repaired it later
• A blast of force from the Destroyer breaks Mjolnir. The great blast furnaces of Pittsburgh allow Thor to reforge the hammer
• Mjolnir is chipped by a barrage of lightning from the godstorm, but Thor says it can be repaired and Thor gives the chipped piece as a gift to a viking, who can lift it freely
• Destroyed after firing a Godblast with the Belt of Strength wrapped around it and is repaired by the Celestials
• The Destroyer fires force bolts which crack Mjolnir the same way they did in one of the earliest encounters, causing Thor to think the Destroyer is more powerful than ever before. Thor is able to repair the damage on his own by summoning a lightning bolt to fuse its pieces back together
• Cleaved in two by Perrikus. Odin thrusts the broken Mjolnir deep into the Flame of Scirorrak, infusing his power into it with intensity never conceived before. It ends up fully repaired and stronger than ever
• Hyrm strikes Mjolnir hard enough to create a mountain sized and shattering explosion, shattering Mjolnir into 3 pieces while Thor endures the blast. Rune King Thor is able to restore the hammer himself, but he lets Surtur repair it instead
• Thor strikes Bor hard enough Mjolnir is destroyed, and claims Mjolnir has only ever been broken when weakened by magic and never by striking something harder than itself. It’s restored when Strange helps Thor sacrifice his Odinpower to restore it, binding it and Thor together so closely that Thor will now die if the hammer breaks (definitely not true btw)
• Destroyed when Jane launched the hammer into the heart of the sun. The combined power of 4 Thors would later command the God Tempest to re-forge Mjolnir and launch it to Earth. The hammer now has a handle made of Yggdrasil root
• Thor destroys the hammer after slaying the God Tempest by repeatedly smashing it against the mountains of Nidavellir. It’s reforged through the power of the angels of Heven, who imbue it with Odin’s spirit to replace the God Tempest, and is later fully repaired by Thor himself using the lightning of the Odin-Storm

As a Cane

Even when transformed into a cane when used by Donald Blake, Mjolnir has shown a few durability feats, though it is usually treated as just being an ordinary cane which can be easily broken.

• The hammer’s cane form is durable enough to withstand a slash from Sif
• Blake smacks the cane against Frankenstein’s monster, with the cane not breaking
• Thor describes his cane as bearing runes, which channeled the power of the universe through him

Carrying

Mjolnir can carry immense weight when thrown, Thor frequently using it to tow others with him in flight.

• Thor carries all of the Warriors Three on him in flight
• Lassos the Washington Monument
• Allows Beast to fly up a living mountain by latching him on to his hammer as he throws it
• Whirls Mjolnir at “optimum speed” before throwing it with an adamantium cable connected to the Living Monolith, who weighs thousands of tons. The Monolith leaps with an impact that shatters the earth as the cable goes taut, allowing Mjolnir to break inertia and carry him from the earth, lifting him to the edge of Earth’s atmosphere before returning at will with an abrupt stop, the force of the sharp turn snapping its leathery thong and connection to the cable

Grip

While Thor can be disarmed with enough force, he has immense grip on the hammer, and it takes more than an ordinary attack to make him break his hold. He’s even been able to use it as a latch to climb up cliffs, though the hammer’s thong was once cut to make him lose grip.

• Silver Surfer fires a cosmic energy blast at Mjolnir to break it from Thor’s grip, but Thor endures it and keeps hold of the hammer. Repeated energy blasts from an amped Silver Surfer, each hit sending Mjolnir from his hand and forcing him to grasp it again, before Thor is eventually downed by the blasts
• Endures the pain of Ulik slamming his metal pounders on to his wrist and does not let go of the hammer
• The Destroyer wrests Mjolnir from Thor’s grip, with Thor remarking that only the Destroyer has the strength to do that
• Restrains Ultron by the neck with Mjolnir
• Disarmed by Ulik charging at him, but is able to endure Ulik repeatedly pounding on him until he’s nearing a fatal blow and manages to grab his hammer
• Some New Men wrap Mjolnir in steel cables and try to pull it from Thor’s hand, but Thor’s resistance puts inconceivable strain on them. Thor throws the hammer and it ends up pulling the New Men along and dragging them on the ground in its return flight

Enchantments

Mjolnir is defined as having 6 primary enchantments. These are detailed below in-order. Mjolnir has also done a bunch of other random bullshit that doesn’t really fall into any of the 6 primary enchantments, so those will be listed separately.

Enchantment 1: Worthiness

Mjolnir’s most significant enchantment, which ensures that only those deemed worthy by the one in-control of the hammer’s magic can lift it. Thor himself first became worthy instinctively upon seeing his mother in danger. For most of Thor’s history, the worthiness requirement was decided by Odin and his definition of a worthy warrior. The enchantment persisted after Odin’s death, to the point that Thor as the All-Father could lose worthiness if he crossed the line. During Jane Foster’s tenure as Thor, the God Tempest decided who was able to wield the hammer as detailed above. In current canon while wielding the All-Power,Thor has complete control over Mjolnir and its enchantment, and so can grant and strip worthiness as he pleases.

Those deemed unworthy to wield Mjolnir will be unable to even budge the hammer. Throughout Marvel history, there has never been a single entity who’s been able to overcome Mjolnir’s enchantment with sheer strength. Even the Hulk in one of his strongest states could not move the hammer when it pinned him down, instead needing to let the hammer blow through his chest to escape. In-universe, Bruce Banner has raised two theories for how exactly this works: Mjolnir either emits graviton particles via something akin to nanotech that increases the rate of graviton emission to increase its effective mass when held by an unworthy person, or it’s just magic. It’s been confirmed by the author Mark Waid that the graviton theory is true, with this also being the explanation for how someone like Metal Master can manipulate the hammer; by manipulating its inertia, he’s capable of stopping it dead in relation to the Earth’s rotation without actually moving the hammer itself. Though of course, it is still magic, so it’s not exactly a hard science.

Notably, there can be ‘levels’ to worthiness. Prior to becoming worthy, Thor would struggle to raise the hammer past a certain height before being overwhelmed, and during his unworthy period, Thor was able to lift a small sliver of the destroyed hammer with strain when the angels of Heven could not. Captain America has also been shown needing to “think worthy thoughts” to get in the right mindset to wield the hammer.

Beyond Mjolnir’s natural abilities, those who wield the hammer are granted the power of the God of Thunder, and so become resistant to lightning and are given enhanced physical strength. If you’re curious, there’s no real reason ever given why someone like Captain America has never displayed any extra special abilities while wielding Mjolnir while others like Jane Foster gain all of Thor’s abilities.

Mechanics

As you’d expect, the worthiness requirement comes up pretty frequently, and so has numerous intricacies.

• A bunch of hippies are unable to lift the hammer, with Thor saying that even though they’re pure of heart, they’re misguided and unwise
• Thor is knocked unconscious by Loki’s living mask, which swaps his and Loki’s faces, strength, and powers, preventing Thor from lifting Mjolnir
• The Odin-Ring gives Loki control over Mjolnir
• Hulk attempts to grab the hammer and is pinned down as a result
• Red Norvell wields Thor’s old iron gloves alongside his belt, allowing him to grab Mjolnir from Thor’s hand and wield it
• While mind controlled by Doctor Spectrum, he’s tainted by the gem’s evil, causing him to no longer be worthy of the hammer and so unable to wield it
• Mjolnir’s enchantment has no effect in Limbo, allowing Immortus to wield it
• Loses this enchantment when Thor is depowered of his godly strength
• Tricks Loki into grabbing his hammer after tossing it, sending him plummeting through a glass floor before it returns
• Mjolnir has to be carried on a slab by two giants to be dragged around
• Hyperion is pinned down by it
• Even after Rogue drains Thor’s power, she’s unable to lift the hammer
• Surfer cannot move Mjolnir even summoning the full Power Cosmic
• Doc Ock controls Thor’s mind, but Ock being the one puppeting his body prevents him from wielding Mjolnir
• A corrupted Thor is unable to wield Mjolnir
• When infected by the Brood, Thor fully succumbs when he loses worthiness
• Gwenpool says Mjolnir is stronger than Hulk and hops through Gutterspace to grab Thor’s arm from when Malekith severed it, allowing her to intercept Mjolnir and wield it (given the above, this probably shouldn’t actually have worked)
• A variant of the Super-Adaptoid copies Mjolnir, but reading Mjolnir’s inscription instills morality on him
• Jericho is unable to break Mjolnir’s pinning of Blade due to it being an Asgardian enchantment
• Infamously, Red Hulk once leapt into space while grabbing Mjolnir and Thor, before disarming him in zero gravity and beating him with his own hammer. As Thor has control over his hammer in zero gravity, this also probably shouldn’t have worked
• When Starship Hulk is pinned by the hammer, Hulk has to change to Level 8 and recall every fight he and Thor ever had to burst free, Mjolnir ripping through his stomach

Magnetism

Despite its enchantment, Mjolnir is still a metal object, and so has consistently been shown to be vulnerable to magnetic fields.

• Repelled by Iron Man’s magnetic repulser
• Magneto is able to halt Mjolnir’s flight for 60 seconds
• The Orb of Orikal overcomes the hammer’s magic and draws it to itself
• A plate of magnetised Uru pulls Mjolnir from Thor’s leather holster
• Magneto is able to toss Mjolnir around and drag Thor along with it
• Mjolnir is magnetised by Ajak’s magno-bolts, but Thor uses that to pull him along and crash into him, KOing Ajak
• Uroc magnetises his body, drawing Mjolnir and Thor to him. Thor says none can forcibly remove Mjolnir from his grasp and releases his grasp, which causes Uroc’s arm to plummet to the ground and forcing him to release it as it flies back to Thor’s hand
• A giant robot replica of Captain America deflects a thrown Mjolnir with a magnetic deflection shield
• Ulik blocks the hammer with a magnetic shield to disarm Thor of it. When Thor tries to recall it, the person holding the shield is able to hold it back with some difficulty

Trapping

Mjolnir has also been shown to be vulnerable to being trapped in some way.

• Magnir halts Mjolnir’s thrust with his sword, and turns into energy, catching Mjolnir’s strike in his energy body and preventing Thor from removing it
• Quicksand traps Mjolnir in her body
• Terminus absorbs Mjolnir into itself for power and casts out Thor
• Trapped by Doom in a null gravity field
• Thor is launched away by Invisible Woman creating a barrier around his hammer while he holds on to it and launching it into the sky

Power Bestowal

Normally, those who hold Mjolnir are granted the thunder god powers of Thor. Thor can use this to restore his powers if they’ve been otherwise lost.

• An exact duplicate of Thor is unable to wield a cloned Mjolnir because he’s not worthy, despite lifting it, meaning the hammer is powerless in his hands
• When Thor is turned into a frog, lifting Mjolnir empowers him back to human sized and allows him to speak
• After having lost his power due to a bet, Thor could use Mjolnir to get it back at the cost of losing the bet

Non-Sentients

Usually, those who aren’t properly sentient, such as robots or magical constructs, are able to freely wield the hammer, though there are inconsistencies. Sometimes the hammer can be lifted by an atomic-powered hydraulic hoist, while other times even ships strong enough to yank moons out of orbit could not budge the Ultimate Universe Mjolnir (which is depicted as functioning the same as the 616 Mjolnir in this comic).

• A magic hand created by Strange is able to tear the hammer out of Thor’s hand, preventing him from flying
• Loki summons a pair of mystic hands which smack Thor and steal his hammer from him, able to wield it as well
• A hand shaped out of the earth is able to pick up Mjolnir
• Tricks Locus into holding his hammer, sending him crashing down into the ground. He says that mind constructs and machines can lift the hammer
• Air-Walker is able to wield it due to being a robot
• Letters page says someone with a bionic arm couldn’t lift Mjolnir as it’s still controlled by nerve impulses which are part of a living being
• Hephaestus is only able to get Mjolnir on to his forge through a complicated series of levers and winches
• An alien ruler’s mightiest cranes are unable to move Mjolnir
• Allows Rock to take Mjolnir from his hand in his rock exoskeleton
• Hank Pym claims Odin’s enchantments should prevent Terminus from lifting or absorbing Mjolnir, with Terminus being suggested to be an exception due to his nature and having somehow nullified the enchantment by absorbing it

WHO’S WORTHY????

The most important question of all, the following is a list of everybody who’s been able to wield the hammer in some form. It’s divided into three categories: those traditionally worthy and able to wield it conventionally, those granted worthiness for a specific purpose, and those who only held it via some sort of loophole.

Traditionally Worthy

• Odin: As the creator of the hammer, Odin initially had complete control over it which superseded even Thor, able to make it drop with a command and prevent Thor from lifting it. Eventually, the God Tempest would rebel against Odin, preventing him from lifting it.
• Tiwaz: As Thor’s great grandpa, Odin’s grandpa, and the first in his lineage, he’s been shown to be able to lift the hammer freely
• Bor: Rounding out the lineage, Bor, the son of Tiwaz and father of Odin, is worthy
• Beta Ray Bill: Famously, Bill was the first character after Thor and Odin to be actually worthy and is the one who really introduced the idea that characters other than Thor could match the qualities required to lift the hammer
• Jane Foster: When Thor was rendered unworthy due to Nick Fury telling him Gorr was right, Jane held the hammer and became the Mighty Thor for about 4 years of publishing. She’s been consistently depicted as being able to wield it since even after giving up the mantle
• Dargo Ktor: A lesser known hammer-wielder, Dargo is a man from a dystopian future timeline of 616, who became Thor by being worthy of Mjolnir. He’s he’s been identified as one of the worthy by official sources and was featured as part of teams like the Thor Corps, having briefly held the 616 Mjolnir during these periods
• Captain America: Like in da movies, though he does somewhat struggle to wield it normally, which is probably why it’s usually saved for big event-ending moments
• Eric Masterson: This lovable underdog was the Thor for the early 90s. Initially an ordinary man who was merged with Thor as his human persona, he replaced Thor as the title character for a while, and it’s been been shown he could wield the hammer even as a civilian
• Red Norvell: Initially, this milquetoast cameraman was given Thor’s iron gloves as part of a scheme by Loki, allowing him to wield Mjolnir and rip it from Thor’s hands despite not being worthy. After sacrificing himself, he would eventually be resurrected to serve as a replacement Thor, wielding an exact copy of Mjolnir called Crusher and proving his worthiness
• Jake Olson: Another one of Thor’s human identities. When he was separated from Thor, Olson was able to wield Mjolnir against Thor, who was going mad with power
• Donald Blake: Thor’s most important and complex mortal persona. In a classic comic, Blake is shown to be able to wield the hammer in his mortal form for the split-second before he transforms to Thor. After being separated from Thor and having gone completely insane due to merging with the Midgard Serpent, he was able to use the hammer against Thor, though this may have been due to the God Tempest’s rebellion at the time
• Magni: Thor’s son from an alternate future, he initially became worthy during the future timeline of the Reigning. When he was resurrected in 616, Magni was able to hold Mjolnir even without Thor deeming him worthy, due to being the God of Strength
• Devil Dinosaur: Rather inexplicably, the big DD is worthy cause he’s a nice dino, becoming the Thunder Lizard. He can get away with it since it’s a kids comic
• Squirrel Girl: Learned she was worthy in a battle against an antagonistic (not evil!) copy of herself. She can get away with it due to her all-around lovability
• Throg: Initially a human named Simon Walterson, he was transformed into a frog and ended up helping Thor out when the thunder god was also frog-ified. It was later shown that he was worthy of Mjolnir, wielding a small sliver of the hammer dubbed Frogjolnir to become the mighty Throg. Due to being an import from an AU comic, none of this is really actually shown on page, he’s just re-introduced as Throg and you’re expected to already know him
• Awesome Andy: A power copying robot developed by the Mad Thinker, it was able to take Mjolnir out of Thor’s hands via said ability. However, doing so gave the robot a conscience, with Thor speculating Andy must have copied his worthiness and befriending him, making him properly worthy
• Mosi: The first Black Panther, he was a wise chieftain for his tribe and a trusted confidant of Odin, noted to be able to wield Mjolnir when even Odin was struggling to tame the God Tempest inside of it
• Doctor Doom: More specifically, the purely good half of Doctor Doom, split off from the dark parts of his soul, is able to wield Mjolnir. If you want a frame of reference, the idea of Doom wielding Mjolnir normally is so absurd that even Doom himself is willing to admit it’s beyond him, which woke him up from the illusion he was being placed in
• Thor’s three granddaughters: In the future of King Thor, which was for a time 616 Thor’s canonical future, Thor has three granddaughters named Ellisiv, Frigg, and Atli, who each proved capable of wielding their own versions of Mjolnir
• Thor’s Tsum-Tsum: A Tsum-Tsum copy of Thor was capable of wielding the hammer while it was in-use by Jane Foster. Can you tell this comic came out in 2016?
• The Destroyer: Slightly unconventional, but due to having Odin’s enchantment, the Destroyer can lift Mjolnir. This applies to anybody possessing the Destroyer armour. Since Thor is now the one who controls the enchantment, it’s unclear if this still applies
• Loki: Fittingly, Loki fits into all three categories when it comes to wielding Mjolnir. Initially, Karnilla’s magic combined with his own let him lift the hammer directly during a plot against Thor. Later on, when their morality was inverted for a time during the AXIS event, the now heroic Loki proved actually worthy in their fight against the corrupted Thor, though no-one except themself was there to see it for this brief period. During Immortal Thor,Thor ended up granting Loki worthiness in the fight against Toranosas a symbol of trust in his sibling
• Wonder Woman: As shown in the Marvel VS DC crossover from the 90s, Wonder Woman is worthy under normal circumstances. Thor is actually aware she’s worthy too. This is definitively canon, having been referenced in a 616 comic. The recent (as of writing) 2026 Marvel/DC crossovers have again depicted her as being worthy of the hammer
• Silent Bob: Lifted and politely handed the hammer back to Thor. Is this Kevin Smith self-inserting? You decide.

Granted Worthiness For a Specific Purpose

• Superman: Despite common conceptions, Superman isn’t normally able to lift the hammer, but did so when Odin briefly removed the enchantment on Mjolnir due to the severity of the situation occurring during JLA/Avengers
• Black Panther: When Khonshu took control of the hammer, T’Challa was able to wrest control of it, as even though Khonshu commands the moon rock the hammer is made of, the God Tempest’s spirit inside the hammer recognised T’Challa as an ally and wanted to be released from Khonshu’s control, thus granting him the ability to hold it for a time
• Venom: With the power of the god of light, Venom was able to summon Mjolnir from All-Father Thor’s hand and merge it with Surfer’s board into a battle axe. Why he could do this isn’t exactly clear, and this did happen during the period where the God Tempest inside Mjolnir was rebelling against Thor and allowing others to wield it, but my best guess to the intent is that Mjolnir recognised the threat Knull posed and Venom’s divine right now that he had Captain Universe powers, and so allowed itself to be held by him
• Adam Aziz: An ordinary Oklahoman mechanic, Adam Aziz wielded Mjolnir and was given a pretty nice outfit for a time. This occurred due to the God Tempest’s corruption, making Mjolnir rebel against Thor and allow anybody except him to wield it
• Iron Man: In the same boat (and issue) as Aziz, Iron Man briefly held the hammer during its rebellious phase
• Hulk: The Starship Hulk wasbriefly permitted to wield Mjolnir through Odin’s power in-order to stop the rampaging gamma mutated Thor. Surprisingly, I don’t think this extremely toyetic concept has had an action figure made of it
• Storm: Storm has a history with Asgardian artifacts, but was granted proper worthiness by Thor to help stop Toranos, which imbued her with some of Thor’s All-Magic and strengthened her physically
• Toranos: Toranos was allowed to wield Mjolnir by Thor, forcing Toranos to feel empathy and nobility, ‘infecting’ him with conscience. The hammer also grew to giant size to allow Toranos to wield it
• Skurge: In the climax of Immortal Thor, Thor allowed Skurge the Executioner to wield Mjolnir, deeming him worthy in recognition of his storied history
• A basement floor: The hero Powerstone transferring his power to Mjolnir caused the hammer to briefly become ‘overpowered’, which took the form of the worthiness enchantment becoming 100% literal as the floor itself was deemed unworthy. This led to Mjolnir piledriving through the ground. Thor had to quickly deem the basement floor itself worthy to stop it from falling further. It’s unclear if the floor is still worthy or not

Wielded Through a Loophole

• Absorbing Man: Can lift Mjolnir physically by absorbing the hammer’s Uru
• Grog: A servant of the god of death Seth, Grog held Mjolnir during a period where Thor was depowered and so the enchantment on the hammer was lifted. The editors counted this so I’m counting it too
• Ulik: Was one time able to wield both Mjolnir and a replica of it. This isn’t explained and is definitely an error, or more likely Stan Lee and Jack Kirby not really having a clear idea of how Mjolnir was supposed to work at this point
• Mephisto (possibly): Mephisto caught a thrown Mjolnir and seemed to melt it in his hand before restoring it, with it being said he can wield it as he’s above its enchantment, but it’s suggested this could all just be an illusion
• Wonder Man: When empowered by Thor’s drained life-force during a very brief villainous phase, Wonder Man could lift the hammer
• Enrakt: Due to literally possessing the hammer and building up control over it, Enrakt gained the ability to wield it against Thor and Odin. Scarlet Witch ended up adding a protection to the hammer preventing Enrakt from controlling it further
• Immortus: Mjolnir’s enchantment apparently doesn’t take effect in Limbo, allowing Immortus, its primary resident, to swing it around without issue
• Air-Walker: Was able to lift the hammer due to being an inorganic robot. It’s debatable if this should count since he’s a robot, but he’s a well-defined character in his own right so it’s worth mentioning
• Captain Marvel: While Carol Danvers was briefly empowered by the abilities of all the Avengers, Mjolnir flew from the Earth to the Moon at her command and was wielded by her to KO Vox Supreme. When Thor’s essence is burned out of her, she loses the ability to wield Mjolnir. What she was imbued with from Thor that let her wield Mjolnir isn’t entirely clear, but is said to be beyond DNA and is described as the very soul of the Avengers
• Hydra Cap: Throughout Secret Empire, the Captain America serving Hydra was depicted as wielding Mjolnir. It was revealed at the end that the reason he could lift Mjolnir is because Elise used a Cosmic Cube shard to change its enchantment and inscription. With the hammer restored, he could no longer wield it, but normal Cap can
• Moon Knight and Khonshu: While empowered by the supermoon and acting as the direct servant of Khonshu, Moon Knight explained that Uru is as old as the universe itself and is a rubble from the very first moon, allowing Moon Knight to stop Mjolnir mid flight and wrest control of it from Thor. The same applies to Khonshu himself
• Sindri: Sindri, as one of the dwarves who forged Mjolnir, is able to catch the hammer and wield it

Enchantment 2: Returning to User

This enchantment dictates that when separated from its wielder, Mjolnir will always return back to their hand. Most commonly, this manifests as the hammer returning to Thor’s hand whenever he throws it, cleaving through any obstacle to do so.

This property doesn’t just apply after the hammer is thrown. It’s been stated by Red Norvell that the wielder just has to think and the hammer will always jump right back to them. While it has been stated occasionally that the hammer won’t automatically return if dropped, this has been clearly contradicted many times and these statements mostly come from earlier comics where the rules hadn’t been established well, as acknowledged by editorial. It’s also been stated early on that Mjolnir only returns to the exact spot it was thrown from, but this is also clearly contradicted. In general, the hammer can always return no matter where Thor is or how it was lost.

Additionally, Mjolnir has a secret name which causes it to automatically return to the hand of whoever says it, known only to Thor and a select few others. If the hammer has been compromised, Thor can sing a prayer to restore its enchantment and drag the hammer back to him. This works even when Thor and Mjolnir are a solar system apart. Thor can freely send the hammer into an alternate dimension to keep it out of the enemy’s hands before summoning it back.

When simultaneously summoned by two who are equally worthy and comparable in strength, the hammer remains in a deadlock between them.

Mechanics

Since the mechanism of the hammer returning is obviously based on magic and not physics, how exactly the concept of momentum applies to the hammer has somewhat varied between stories.

• Returns to his hand after kicking it
• Even when the hammer is dangerous to Thor, he has to actively dodge it as it will always try and return to him when thrown
• Mangog hits hard enough to reverse Mjolnir’s momentum in flight with strength equal to Thor, the hammer being launched hard enough Thor has to recall it with a command
• A weakened Thor is able to will his hammer closer and closer to him until he can grab it, striking Pluto away
• The Servitor deflects Thor’s thrown hammer with a blast, but the deflected hammer still returns to Thor’s hand after veering off-course
• Summons a dropped Mjolnir to his hand after it stops being pinned to the ground by a giant
• In Limbo, the enchantment forcing Thor’s hammer to return to his hand has no effect
• Mjolnir sees Thor’s hands are occupied when it returns and so settles to rest next to him on the floor
• A thrown Mjolnir is unable to outspeed Ghost Rider on his bike. When the force of the throw is spent, it turns around, allowing Ghost Rider to grab onto it. Right before it strikes Thor, it tears itself from Ghost Rider’s hand and returns to Thor to avoid hurting him
• After the hammer is magically ripped from him, the moment the telekinesis is undone, it returns to Thor’s hand
• Repeatedly throws his hammer on top of Sue’s moving force-field in space, the force of the hammer returning his hand each time counteracting the force-field’s momentum and slowing it down while Thor shifts his balance each time to guide the force-field down to Earth
• Iron Man says Thor wouldn’t be able to recall Terminus if his mass was too great to be yanked so far or if his absorption cancelled out Thor’s runespell
• After Wonder Man throws Mjolnir, it automatically destroys a large construct binding Thor before returning to the latter’s hand
• Loki in War Machine’s body deflects Mjolnir right as it begins to return after a throw, adding the armour’s power to its own and so harming Thor upon impact with him
• Thanos deflects a thrown Mjolnir with a wave of his hand, dropping it to the ground before Thor recalls it
• Seth magically redirects a thrown Mjolnir
• Despite being unworthy at the time, King Thor could unleash the power of Odin to draw Mjolnir from Magni’s hand and place it near his own, though he avoids actually directly touching it and instead hovers it around him

Mechanics That Are Established At One Point But Are Contradicted

As mentioned previously, multiple ‘weaknesses’ have been given to Mjolnir’s recall ability over the years, but a good number of these have only come up sparsely and are contradicted by later or previous showings.

• Mjolnir only returns to Thor if it’s thrown, if it’s dropped it stays in place
• The Destroyer is a creation of Odin and so can seize Mjolnir from Thor, but the hammer cannot strike its master, and so buries into the ground when thrown at Thor
• Thor hits a plane with a hammer throw, and the pilot comments that as the hammer is enchanted, it never misses
• While buried under rubble, Thor is unable to summon his hammer to his hand
• Letters page explains that the reason Thor can lose his hammer is that it can only return to the spot from which Thor first threw it, so if he moves from that spot before the hammer returns he has to grab it manually
• Pierces a force field by throwing Mjolnir, but due to being on a moving rocketship, he moves from his original position before Mjolnir can return to him, causing it to miss and for him to be blocked from it when the force-field returns
• As soon as Thor’s hand is unbound, he’s able to recall Mjolnir to himself, implying he otherwise can’t do that

Distance

Mjolnir has been shown to quickly return to Thor from across universal distances and even between entirely separate dimensions. How fast the hammer does this varies, but it’s almost always fast enough for whatever the situation calls for.

• Thor attaches Loki to his hammer and launches it back to Asgard. It returns back to Earth just before 60 seconds pass
• Returns to Blake from Asgard to the World Beyond, which is at the edge of the universe
• Throws Mjolnir a great distance away across a city, so it will take minutes to return to him
• Throws his hammer to the farthest reaches of the galaxy, noting it will take quite some time to return. It returns right as 60 seconds pass and he reverts to Blake
• Tricks Juggernaut into grabbing Mjolnir, wrapping his hand in its thong and sending it flying to a distant asteroid with a throw. Taking more than 60 seconds, the hammer returns to Thor and leaves Juggs stranded
• Thor’s soul in the afterlife manages to recall Mjolnir to his hand from Earth, the hammer outspeeding Silver Surfer in flight to the point he remarks on its speed before opening a dimensional warp to Thor’s location and fully restoring his powers and memories
• Recalls Mjolnir to him from a large distance, the hammer darting to reach him underwater
• [Other] Dargo Ktor’s hammer returned to him after he threw it through a portal
• [Jane] Reaches her location in the Negative Zone from a different dimension. Vision says Mjolnir always returns to Thor’s hand on command, and that while it’s improbable for it to escape the Negative Zone, the lingering nega band radiation helped weaken the barrier between realms to allow traversal
• [Jane] Mjolnir is recalled by Jane from Vanaheim to Ginnungagap, bloodying War Thor
• Traverses across the planet to reach Thor
• Quickly recalls Mjolnir from Jotunheim to an alien planet
• Recalls Mjolnir from Earth through the Ten Realms back to Asgard
• Recalls Mjolnir through multiple dimensions
• Returns faster than sound to smite Hulk and shatter the arena they’re in
• Recalls Mjolnir to him, but since it’s in orbit, it takes time to reach him
• [Old King] Thor recalled Mjolnir to him the moment he was stranded in Battleworld. It takes a while, but eventually it manages to traverse from Thor’s timeline to his location in Battleworld. This is attributed to the hammer’s ability to travel through time and space

From Others

Even when held by others, Thor has some ability to recall Mjolnir to him back from their hands.

• Even after Absorbing Man absorbs Mjolnir’s uru to grab it, Thor can recall it back from his hands
• Recalls Mjolnir back to his hand while Ulik is wielding it
• The Destroyer rips Mjolnir from Thor’s hands, but cannot contain it before it rips out of its grip and returns to Thor
• Thor says Mjolnir’s name and returns it to his hand, breaking free of the Destroyer’s grip
• Zeus is able to grab a thrown Mjolnir and briefly halt it, but even his grip can’t prevent it from returning to Thor’s hand
• Eric throws Mjolnir at Thor as an attack, who just catches it and takes it in his command
• Drax is unable to lift Mjolnir, and when Thor summons it back to his hand, it rises off the ground and breaks Drax’s grip despite him trying to hold it back
• When the Destroyer, possessed by Donald Blake and Garm, wields the hammer, Thor is able to steal it back when Blake’s will overcomes Garm’s
• Attempts to break the Destroyer’s grip on Mjolnir, but fails, though he’s later able to wrest it back mid-fight
• After King Thor became unworthy, Olson is able to intercept a thrown Mjolnir on its return trip and wield it against Thor
• Sindri throwing Mjolnir returns it to its rightful owner, in this case the hammer flying towards Blake’s grip
• Thor attempts to recall Mjolnir to his hand while Beta Ray Bill holds it. Bill resists but it threatens to rip off his arm, Thor stating no power in the universe can stop Mjolnir’s return. Thor instead summons Stormbreaker from Bill’s hand to avoid hurting him
• Wrests control of Mjolnir from the God Tempest

Through Objects

Mjolnir can smash through any obstacle in its path if needed to return to its master. Stronger objects will take more force and time to break through, but good luck trying to stop Mjolnir through power alone.

• Frozen solid, but throws his hammer right before he freezes over so it returns and smashes the ice
• Thor and his hammer are sealed in energy shields by Locus. The hammer returns to Thor’s hand when thrown, breaking out of it shield and all additional barriers, and the sheer pressure exerted on the shield around Thor as it tries to return eventually breaks through over the course of a minute
• Right before falling into a pool of magma, recalls his hammer from far above, the hammer plowing through solid rock to reach Thor and allow him to fly up before he lands
• On its return path, the hammer is blocked by the Lava Men turning themselves into a monolith. It pulls to Thor like a magnet but can’t reach him until Thor destroys the monolith himself
• While Mjolnir is underwater, Thor summons it to his hand, it breaking through an ice sheet and returning to his hand with stinging force
• Thor says Mjolnir would carve through the center of a planet to find its way to Thor and that no force in the universe can prevent it returning to his hand, bursting from the gut of a sea monster. Notably, it returns even when Thor calls it in human form as Jake Olson
• Recalls Mjolnir to his hand, its return trip punching through Angrir-Thing’s chest
• While bound, recalls Mjfolnir to his open hand, breaking his bindings
• [Jane] Bloodies War Thor when recalled
• Crushes the Keep’s hammer by recalling Mjolnir
• [Old King] Recalls Mjolnir to his hand hard enough to blow away Black Berserkers
• [Old King] Blows a hole through Phoenix with Mjolnir’s return
• [Old King] The recall of Mjolnir blows a hole through Korvac’s chest

Against Esoterics

Various esoteric abilities have been used to prevent Thor from recalling Mjolnir, with varying degrees of success

• Mjolnir is frozen by a weapon from Zarrko, but breaks out immediately when Thor calls it to return
• Kang reacts to Mjolnir in flight and sends it into subspace before it can hit him
• Silver Surfer uses his cosmic field to keep Mjolnir out of Thor’s grasp, but admits that the hammer is greater than his own cosmic force and that only his empowerment by Loki lets him do this
• Graviton binds Mjolnir in a gravity field and then Thor in a separate one, leaving him unable to recall his hammer to his hand. The moment the field dispels, it flies to Thor’s location, but not fast enough to reach him before he reverts to Blake
• It’s said not even the Champion can separate Thor from his hammer and prevent him from returning to Blake. When they fight, the Champion banishes Mjolnir to a nether dimension, but the hammer immediately returns to Thor anyway. It’s unclear if this was the hammer’s doing or if the Champion teleported it back
• Mjolnir is forcibly transported through time by one of Doom’s time rays, allowing him to steal it from Thor
• Mjolnir survives Terminus consuming his own molecules and imploding on himself into a black hole, and recalls to Thor’s hand from inside the black hole
• Sends his hammer to a different dimension with a gesture to keep it out of Loki’s hands and then resummons it slightly later
• Mjolnir is imprisoned in an immutable crystal he can’t break with his strongest blow, neutralising its powers. It’s described as a solid field of anti-probability which negates all magic, or what’s really the psionic manipulation of probability. It permeates the hammer’s essence, meaning if the field was destroyed, Mjolnir would be destroyed as well
• Throws Mjolnir at Doop, who absorbs it into his body. Thor commands it to recall, and Doop spits it out duplicated. When he tries recalling the real one, they all respond to his command and batter him, though the real one lands in his hand
• Sandu banishes Mjolnir through a portal into his own mindscape, Thor unable to recall it
• [Jane] Kang freezes Mjolnir in-time mid throw
• Able to summon Mjolnir from Venom’s battle axe, undoing its fusion with Surfer’s board
• Zhilan is unable to slow down a thrown Mjolnir with her magic sound
• A Cosmic Cube warps reality to melt Mjolnir
• Thor recalling Mjolnir allows it to break out of a stasis field

Ricochets

Mjolnir has the ability to precisely ricochet against targets per Thor’s whim.

• Ricochets his hammer of the walls of a cave for 58 seconds straight
• Throws his hammer to a different room and ricochets off multiple walls until it finds and hits a small area of circuitry which disables Bi-Beast’s machines

Control

Beyond just returning to his hand, Thor has the ability to essentially telekinetically control Mjolnir after it has been thrown, making it turn in different directions mid-air and adjust its speed. The extent of this control varies, and it was noted that Jane’s ability to precisely dart Mjolnir around her enemies was something beyond Thor’s ability to do with the hammer. This is backed up by old King Thor considering Jane the best wielder of Mjolnir.

• Ties a bus to his hammer and whirls it underwater before launching it out of the ocean, the hammer guiding it towards a smooth glide and landing
• Lassos the tip of the Washington Monument with his hammer and puts it back in place
• Sends his hammer into a sewer and remotely controls it
• After being thrown, the hammer continuously whirls in the air under Thor’s command to try and attack Mr Hyde
• A throw of the hammer curves to precisely takes out an entire group of aliens
• Controls his thrown hammer precisely enough to only target Hercules while avoiding the mortals around him
• Throws the hammer precisely enough to smash through three spears, the hammer bending in mid-air
• Collects 3 snake women in its path as its thrown, drops them off a cliff, and then returns to Thor’s hand
• Throws the hammer behind the Destroyer, with it pinning the monster when it returns, bearing it upwards, carrying it away to a bridge, and dumping it into the water, all before actually returning to Thor’s location
• Throws the hammer down and steers it mid-fall to ricochet off debris and destroy it all before returning, with narration noting that the hammer falls faster than gravity should allow
• When fighting the giant Servitor, sends Mjolnir through a crack in the ground before making it burst out, shattering a huge section of ground beneath the giant’s feet to trip it up and make it drop its weapon
• Throws his hammer to fly through a mine field, noting that he can’t alter Mjolnir’s course much and can mostly only move straight
• Throws his hammer behind him and makes it circle back around to strike Graviton from behind, distracting him to leave him open for an attack
• Takes out an armada of aliens in mid-air one by one
• Mjolnir lifts Living Monolith to the edge of Earth’s atmosphere before returning at will with an abrupt stop, the force of the sharp turn snapping its leathery thong
• Throws Mjolnir at a falling Hercules and latches its thong around his foot to guide him safely to the ground
• Quasar uses a light blast to prevent Thor from seeing Mjolnir and making his throw go wild, implying Thor’s control of Mjolnir is based on sight
• Has it curve in mid-air so it intercepts Hercules on its return trip and carries him to Thor
• With a chant, throws Mjolnir and has it change directions mid-flight to precisely take out an entire group of monsters
• Mjolnir is thrown towards Skurge and weaves all around his body in precise directions to knock him off guard and hurl him off a cliff
• Quickly throws his hammer out of Hala and into space. The hammer circles a sun before returning, changing direction mid flight to punch straight through a Builder and return to Thor’s hand
• Changes Mjolnir’s direction to take out both Ulik and the Minotaur
• Flies Deadpool to Chicago, abruptly stopping when it reaches the city before returning
• Commands Ultimate Mjolnir to travel back to Old Asgard
• Pauses a thrown Mjolnir right before it hits Loki, stating that as the All-Father, he now has the power associated with the title
• [Old King] Creates a portal and launches Mjolnir into it. Mjolnir returns from Asgard attached to the Destroyer arm, and Thor equips himself with both
• [Old King] Sends Mjolnir out across the cosmos for days. It returns and tells Thor of the universe dying
• [Old King] Recalls Mjolnir from the sun, the hammer taking a detour to Asgard to retrieve his sword before returning to Thor

Other

• Mjolnir returns to Thor, but pulls some bricks alongside it accidentally blinding him

Enchantment 3:
Weather Control + Energy Projection

Thor’s signature ability is to create and control weather phenomena. While Thor does have a latent ability to control weather as the God of Thunder, Mjolnir enhances this even further. Thor has said that all the power of all storms in the world flows through him and can be summoned any time in any place. These storms can last for up to 50 years, and Thor is frequently depicted as being able to manifest storms on different planets and dimensions. Thor can summon and control many kinds of weather, from rainstorms to lightning to snow, with lightning in particular being one of Thor’s primary offensive options. He can also summon rainbows.

Notably, the storms Thor creates are alive and sentient to some degree, having been tricked by Loki to turn on him during the Godstorm mini-series. This is prominently shown off during Immortal Thor,where the All-Father Thor is frequently depicted as literally talking to his weather to control it.

Also filed under this enchantment is Mjolnir’s ability to project energy for attacks, ranging from generic energy blasts to mystical beams, allowing Thor to attack from a long range.

Storms

Thor frequently summons storms as the situation requires, whether to douse flames with rain, disrupt enemies, or blow them away with the storm’s intensity. These storms can be intense enough to overwhelm the Hulk, damage Ego, raze cities, and match planet-destroying attacks.

Early on in Thor’s history, Mjolnir’s ability to conjure weather was described as occurring after he tapped it twice on the ground, but Thor has since been shown manipulating weather many times without needing to do this, having summoned storms at the speed of thought before purely via mental command, and there’s never been an instance of him being unable to manipulate weather due to not being able to tap the hammer.

• While untransformed, Blake strikes the cane twice to create a massive blinding thunderstorm
• Clears a burning building by summoning rain to quell it
• Summons a storm within seconds of tapping his hammer, strong enough to buffet a spaceship
• Summons a rainstorm to spot an invisible foe
• Summons a thunderstorm in an “instant”
• Thunderstorm is potent enough to bog down an army’s motorised equipment
• Rainstorm rusts Iron Man’s armour
• Whirls to create a storm of rain which douses Super Skrull’s nova flame
• Creates a rain so intense it blinds Mangog and blows him away with a flood, though the storm soon fades
• Thor commands the thunder, winds, lightning, and gale to combine and attack Ego with a “universe-shaking thermo-blast”, damaging him and forcing him to surrender
• Summons a thunderstorm with a swing, blanketing a city in dark clouds in seconds
• Summons a storm by stamping the ground, the rain dousing Pluto’s stygian flames
• Thor swings his hammer to summon a massive thunderstorm and typhoon, blinding the Thermal Man with its winds, and also causes a massive tsunami which washes over the Thermal Man and the city before Thor commands it to subside, the storm taking the Thermal Man to the frozen North and leaving him immobile under ice
• Creates a rainstorm on an alien planet to halt the brainwashed Warriors Three
• Summons a storm at the World Beyond to douse Odin’s flames
• Summons clouds to cover the Eye of Horus in the sky
• Summons a lightning storm in timeless mists while time travelling, the winds sucking away Thor’s enemies and threatening the Warriors Three, with only Thor undisturbed by it. He de-summons the storm on command
• Summons a rainstorm so intense it douses a volcano
• Creates a thunderstorm intense enough to seemingly blind the Celestial Arishem
• Threatens to summon a tempest over Mimir which would douse his flame, which Mimir seems to take as a credible threat. Notably, Mimir is normally intangible
• Summons a storm in Mephisto’s domain, though it doesn’t quench the fires
• Summons a rainstorm with a tap which turns the ground beneath Mongoose to mud, causing him to slip and fall
• Calls a storm in the Dimension of Death of such force it blows away a group of demons menacing him
• Taps Mjolnir twice against a clif while restrained to summon storm clouds which block out the sky and turn day to night, defeating Jinni
• Summons a windy storm by whirling his hammer, the winds intense enough to uproot trees and send cars flying while blowing away hundreds of men and the lightning bolts precisely targeting individuals while the rain strikes hard enough to harm people
• Thor and his Heroes Reborn counterpart throw their Mjolnirs at a shield created by Loki to no effect. Heroes Reborn Thor threatens to summon a storm from heaven which will rend the magic field to atoms, but 616 Thor says it could destroy Manhattan if unleashed
• Summons the winds and lightning of the most powerful of storms on an alien planet against a Thanosi
• While on an alien planet hundreds of galaxies away, summons a storm on it by raising Mjolnir, commanding winds to converge and lightning to strike with full fury as to dispel an energy beam that had enough power to devastate a planet and create country sized explosions, bringing rain over the planet
• Raises his hammer to summon a lightning bolt which hits Mjolnir, before striking the ground to summon an intense rainstorm. The rainstorm appears too fast for Hulk to react and is so potent as to blind him, make it impossible for him to move, and washes him away in a flood. Hulk manages to jump away before Thor clears the storm with a raise of his hammer
• Summons a storm which shorts out nearby electronics
• Brought rain and life to Gorr’s dead desert planet
• [Jane] Wills a falling set of bombs into the air with a storm
• [Jane] The combined storm of 4 Thors is heard across the entire World Tree (the Thors involved were young Thor, Jane Foster Thor, present-day unworthy Thor, and future old King Thor with the All-Power)
• Thor and Odin summon a thunderstorm using their Mjolnirs, the thunder being heard by Phoenix from worlds away
• Grants rain to drought-stricken areas
• Waters enchanted seeds with rain
• Creates a great storm which restores the lobster population across an area
• If the Government attacks Thor, he would summons thunderstorms so intense it would flood the White House and prevent any sky travel, which we see in a vision
• Channels a colossal storm over Loki’s prison planet, the lightning causing an explosion visible against the curvature of the planet and scouring the ground to bedrock

Storm Range

Thor’s storms can be so precise as to be localised entirely inside small areas, or so big as to cover the entire planet or affect other dimensions. Thor can even conjure storms underground.

• Creates thunderstorms across the entire planet
• Loki with Thor’s power created a localised thunderstorm inside the UN building, striking the audience with lightning
• Whirls his hammer to summon a vortex so intense it blows all of Asgard’s invaders away while also clearing the mists of night, allowing Thor to see the distant Odin and Infinity. The sweep of Mjolnir is so powerful that even on the far distant Earth, skyscrapers are easily shattered and mountain peaks are toppled
• Summons a storm even in Pluto’s underworld caverns
• In seconds, summons a thunderstorm over the entirety of Mexico city to speak with Odin. He ends the storm instantly with a tap
• Unable to see an invisible enemy, so conjures up a storm inside Avengers mansion to douse him and reveal him
• Summons a rainstorm localised through a tunnel, which blows out a group of people and Spider-Man
• Summons wind and rain underground to douse a train’s flames
• Summons a thunderstorm inside a building, the lightning blinding Mole Man and forcing him to run away
• Summons a storm over Asgard so intense it obliterates all sight and sound and douses the flames of Surtur’s realm, though some remain unquenched
• Taps his hammer to create a storm beyond the upper atmosphere around a meteor shower
• Conjures a storm over Metropolis in the DC Universe
• Taps his hammer while deep underground to create a small rainstorm inside a cave, rejuvenating Namor
• Raises Mjolnir to summon a storm reaching across the horizon in seconds, described as one of the largest storms ever. Thor channels the winds through his hammer as one massive air blast, intensifying it even further as the Destroyer doesn’t budge and noting that it’s like his own hammer is beyond his control and that this is the greeted storm he’s seen. The wind blows at 100+ mph and caves in warehouses and docked ships without budging the Destroyer
• Summons untold storms and floods on Earth
• Floods and famishes the planet
• While inside Glory’s body in an other-dimensional sky, summons the wind of a thousand worlds which decimates Glory’s inner landscape and severely hurts it
• Summons a thunderstorm across Ego, the lightning bolts intense enough to wake him up and large enough to be the size of the tip of his nose
• Creates a localised superstorm, where only a small area is drenched in rain and obliterated by lightning
• Creates a massive storm visible along the Earth’s curvature while in orbit by pointing his hammer
• [Jane] Summons a thunderstorm over Alfheim by raising her hammer, the wind reaching all Ten Realms
• [Jane] Summons a storm in Ginnungagap which becomes visible from Heven over the course of the fight
• Sends a thunderstorm across the world while chilling in a hot tub
• Creates a localised supercell thunderstorm underwater, producing hurricane force undercurrent and surface to seafloor lightning
• As the blue area of the moon has an atmosphere, Thor is able to summon a massive storm over it visible across its curvature which brings rains to it
• Creates a storm over Broxton
• Frees the souls of every Asgardian on Earth, conjuring a thunderstorm which engulfs the entire planet
• Summons a single raindrop from Mjolnir, which, due to the hammer being amped, is strong enough to wake up Powerstone
• Summons the storm in Utgard, smiting the Elder God Mejed and hurting him while reducing the Utgard monsters to rubble

Storm Duration

Thor’s storms can last however long he pleases, from at least a week to as short as a single panel.

• Creates a thunderstorm in Asgard that lasts a full 7 days and continues even while Thor leaves Asgard’s dimension. The storm only ends when Thor returns to stop it
• Summons a storm over New York which persists even after he’s removed from the fight
• Creates a small brief thunderstorm to scare away a crowd
• Whirls a huge thunderstorm over Oklahoma, covering a large portion of the state, so intense it can knock people off their feet. Across a whole week within the thunderstorm, Thor summons Asgard’s capital and clears the storm

The Godstorm

The Godstorm is a specific sentient storm known to the deities of Asgard, described as the most powerful storm of them all, with lightning strong enough to damage Mjolnir and rob it of its momentum. When Thor first called upon the Godstorm, it attempted to resist him before buckling under his will. Thor ended up commanding the Godstorm to the bottom of the sea to trap it forever. When the Godstorm was later freed, it proved resistant to Thor’s control and battled him. It took an encounter with Loki for the Godstorm to realise its foolishness and begin obeying Thor, the Godstorm summoning storms from across the whole world to beat down Loki and drain his powers with a lightning bolt.

Air Manipulation

Thor has free control over air currents, frequently using this power to create whirlwinds and batter enemies with unnaturally powerful gales so intense they can harm the likes of Surtur. He’s able to channel winds from across the whole planet and even alternate realms, and has such precision with them as to target specific objects while leaving those around unharmed. He arguably does this more than he actually creates storms.

Vacuum Creation & Suction

Thor can remove the air from an area to do things such as draw in items via suction and quell flames.

• Whirls the hammer so fast it creates an air pocket which rips apart two planes
• Creates a suction of air which spins a spacecraft
• Creates enough suction force to whisk the Eiffel Tower into space
• Throws his hammer to create a vacuum, splitting Surtur’s flames
• In a split-second before a Latverian missile strikes him, whirls his hammer at lightning speed before throwing it up to hurl the missile skyward through suction for over 60 seconds
• Quells Pluto’s flames by creating a suction and throwing his hammer
• Whirls a localised tunnel of wind to suck in the debris of a crumbling building and hurl it to the sea
• Throws the hammer at hurricane speed, creating a vortex which sucks nearby weapons into its path and drops them at Thor’s feet when it returns
• Throws Mjolnir at Godstorm and whirls it around him to create a vacuum of air, effectively suffocating him

Wind Manipulation

Thor frequently employs wind blasts to batter enemies in combat, but has also employed gales for traversal.

• Spins the hammer so fast it creates an updraft which breaks through a wall
• Summons hurricane level winds against Seth
• Creates a blast of wind so intense it hurls Surtur back and quells his flames, with Surtur remarking he’s never felt such force
• Blows away a forest of trees by conjuring a large wind
• Spins his hammer to summon “the winds of a thousand worlds”, which subdues Heimdall
• Twirls his hammer to create winds on Ego so powerful they trigger an earthquake while the lightning fires the molten soil around him, defeating his effigy
• Thor is able to float all the Avengers with him in flight with his hammer with “the speed of a perfectly controlled cyclone”
• Summons a light breeze to push a washed-up boat crew back to shore
• Channels all the winds of the Dark Dimension through his hammer and blasts them at Umar, who undoes the attack
• Spins around an array of rocks and fires them at Zeus
• Strikes the ground to create a rain of debris before generating a windstorm by whirling which blows the debris away
• Thor questions if he’s able to command the weather on an alien world, but actually takes control of the raging dust storms native to the planet, defeating an armada of aliens
• Generates hurricane force winds by whirling to slow down the quinjet’s descent to the ground, though he admits precisely controlling it is difficult with his injuries
• Summons a wind in the upper atmosphere to disperse the gases released by a satellite across the atmosphere
• Summons winds to carry the Avengers from Mexico to Manhattan in minutes
• [Eric] Whips up a large gale which pushes back Annihilus and destroys his control room, with Balder having to brace himself to withstand it
• [Eric] Alongside Crystal, creates a hurricane force wind inside a chamber which blows away a group of robots and sends Hercules and Black Knight off their feet
• [Jane] Creates a wind vortex around the Quinjet to boost it across the planet, threatening to rip apart the ship itself
• Instantly dispels a large fire by removing the oxygen feeding it
• Disrupts Idol Alabaster’s flying by manipulating the winds
• Commands the winds of Earth to push Toranos into a portal, though it exhausts him

Whirlwinds

Thor frequently applies whirlwinds either for offense or to contain large expenditures of energy, his whirlwinds being supernaturally resistant to force. These whirlwinds can overwhelm the likes of Ghost Rider and counteract tsunamis.

• Spins the hammer so fast it creates shockwaves which break stone walls
• While in a chasm, young Thor creates a whirlwind which sucks in all the surrounding rocks
• Traps the Lava Man in a whirlwind which spins faster than the speed of sound, launching him high into the sky in less than 60 seconds and returning him to the volcano he spawned from
• Throws his hammer to create a whirlwind around Super Skrull, dousing his flame
• Defeats a serpent lady binding him by twirling his hammer to create a vortex, which traps her and grows tighter the more she struggles
• Creates a whirlwind around himself to attempt to blow away Absorbing Man’s weapon
• Whirls Namor into Iron Man’s attack
• Whirls hard enough to blow the statue of Lincoln back into place
• Blows away Cobra’s missiles with a whirlwind
• Throws the hammer at Heimdall, where it whirls around and through him like a whirlwind and sends him off the Rainbow Bridge
• Whirls his hammer to create an air blast which snuffs out Jim Hammond’s full power flames
• Throws his hammer out of an alien city ship and makes it a whirl a huge vortex beneath the falling city, slowing its descent and making it settle to the ground
• Restrains a mob of cops by whirling his hammer around them and trapping them helplessly in a vortex which deprives of them oxygen and knocks them unconscious
• Pins Ghost Rider to a wall by whirling his hammer to make a wind vortex
• Forms a vortex around a sun monster, sucking it out of Earth’s atmosphere and letting it detonate outside of Earth. The vortex contains its blast, which Iron Man says could destroy the entire Western hemisphere
• While weary, whirls Mjolnir harder than ever before to create a whirlwind which launches a massive snowslide into space
• Creates a whirlwind inside the Celestial Exitar’s head which launches the bat creatures inside his mind away
• Thor is able to hang in mid-air without moving, held up by his whirling hammer which rips apart planes with cyclones without injuring the pilots
• Swings his hammer at “lightning speed” to create a tornado-force whirlwind which traps a thrown bus and sends it to a garage, carefully controlling the wind to drop it on a roof
• Conjures a tornado-force wind to counteract the suction of a breach on the hull of a spaceship
• Pins Nebula against a wall with a whirlwind. She breaks out of it by noting the blasts of wind come in waves and finding the exact instant of the lull between waves
• Blows away a group of corrupted Avengers with a whirlwind, including Quicksilver, and then increases the fury of a whirlwind to form a wall around himself and the Presence
• Summons a large storm over New York which draws a giant Absorbing Man into a vortex. Absorbing Man absorbs the winds and his atoms are scattered into the jetstream
• Whirls a whirlwind which holds back a tsunami
• Sucks up a torrent of water in a cyclone wind then hauls it into space to make it freeze
• [Eric] Creates a large whirlwind to whisk the radioactive fallout of a gamma bomb into space
• [Jane] Creates a whirlwind on an alien planet which sucks up a tidal wave large enough to kill millions of people, dissipating it completely
• Spins his hammer to instantly engulf Surtur in a massive vortex bludgeoning him with force-waves which bring him to his knees, the pressure increasing as the vortex contracts until it implodes, knocking Surtur out, though Thor admits this only stunned Surtur and that he’s reached his own limits
• Whirls a vortex to contain and dispel nerve gas across a battlefield

Atmosphere Restoration

Thor has twice been able to restore the atmosphere around celestial bodies to aid his allies.

• Using the power that bound Loki to his rock and Fenris to the nether regions, restores the atmosphere of a shattered planetoid back into one place to give his allies a breathable atmosphere in space
• Iron Man notes that Storm and Thor kept the atmosphere of an ice moon survivable for days and that it must have exhausted them. Thor agrees but is still able to fight

Tornadoes

Thor has summoned tornadoes/typhoons/cyclones to whisk himself or others across large distances and overwhelm enemies. He has precise control over the level of damage the tornado can cause, and can summon them even underwater and underground.

• Creates a tornado which launches the Radioactive Man to China within hours
• Creates a tornado strong enough to blow away the Taj Mahal
• Creates a typhoon to propel himself across the globe faster than he can fly, matching the speed of a jet
• Spins his hammer to create a cyclone which shreds the ground beneath him and moves towards Mangog, who disperses it
• Summons a hurricane on an alien planet, which the brainwashed Warriors Three walk through
• Spins a cyclone which banishes two Storm Giants from Asgard. Thor describes himself as “Master of all the worlds’ winds”
• Creates a powerful hurricane a half-mile wide which is controlled so that outside of it is entirely calm while its inside is destructive
• Creates a tornado around the Evil Eye, wrecking the surrounding village. He claims he can keep it up for 50 years, and threatens to increase the power of it, even if it ends up killing Thor himself
• Dives into water and unleashes a hurricane beneath the river, parting the water and halting the flood. Pushing the flood back pushes his powers beyond their limits and tires him
• Creates a vortex to physically carry himself to the nearby Quinjet
• On a distant planet, summons a tornado to whisk some alien monsters from his allies
• Whips up a full scale hurricane underground against a giant Lava Beast, with Cap telling him to stop as he’ll bring down the whole chamber before the beast falls
• Creates a hurricane by whirling which is controlled enough to specifically hold off anybody from entering his battle with the High Evo without causing any further damage, compared to running into a brick house. Even bullets ricochet off the wind wall

Sound Manipulation

Thor’s wind can produce high-frequency waves.

• Whirls his hammer to create a whirlwind of ultrasonic waves, shattering a nearby falling sheet of glass into harmless fragments

Lightning Control

Thor’s primary offensive ability beyond smashing things with his hammer is, of course, firing lightning. This usually appears as either summoning lightning from the sky, or firing blasts of lightning directly from his hammer. Said lightning is naturally quick, quicker even than speedsters like Angela, can be heard from worlds away, and can range from being big enough to be visible against planets to precise enough to burn away an infection on an individual person and target small objects. It can be summoned underwater or in space and can be controlled in potency. Thor can also channel the lightning, either through his hammer or himself for targeted strikes which amplify the lightning’s potency a hundredfold. This also allows Thor to directly attack with electrically charged hammer swings, which can subsequently transmit electricity through whatever Thor strikes in precise patterns.

While Thor’s lightning is still normal electricity and is composed of ordinary electrons, it has been suggested a few times to be innately magical and divine, and has been referred to as “living lightning”. The bolts can ionise individual molecules to strike gaseous entities, hurt normally intangible beings like Atum, and are extremely hot, able to melt solid materials. Jane Foster’s lightning has been described as 30,000 kelvin hot specifically, which is about the same as lightning in real life.

Thor will frequently employ lightning when his physical offense isn’t enough. The lightning is strong enough to knock out the Hulk in a single strike, vaporise monsters strong enough to kill Thor, defeat entities he had otherwise stalemated, blow through the Chaos King, and can even KO Thor himself. More directly, it’s been able to match and disperse planet-destroying energy beams. In Avengers scenarios, Thor can use this lightning to supercharge teammates like Iron Man and Captain Marvel.

As seen in Immortal Thor, like his storms,the lightning itself is sentient, and All-Father Thor can speak to it or the lightning summoned by others like Storm to control it, even from the likes of Zeus, repeatedly commanding his bolts to turn away before they can hit him.

Lightning From the Sky

As you’d expect, Thor has on many occasions called upon lightning from the clouds above to smite his target, though the lightning can actually strike upwards as well if he wants.

• Creates lightning bolts strong enough to destroy monuments around the world
• Dramatically summons a lightning bolt so powerful it blasts Aries’ ship to atoms
• Quickly whirls his hammer to summon a lightning bolt from a previously cloudless sky which fuses the debris Hercules throws into a pothole with the ground, sealing it up
• Summons an intense lightning storm to strike the Lion-God’s totem stick, the lightning dissolving his form and undoing his magic (Thor didn’t know this would work and was just doing the only thing he could)
• Summons a lightning strike which fuses Stilt-Man’s platinum circuits
• Blinded by the world being coated in darkness, but counters by summoning lightning to reveal his enemy
• Summons a tempest to down and subdue Mar-vell with lightning
• Bolts from a storm threaten to kill Ulik
• Summons a storm of lightning without rain to form a wall of fire around an encampment with strikes
• Strikes Galactus with a massive bolt of lightning, knocking him off a building, and batters him to the ground with further bolts
• Summons lightning from a storm to strike Dracula in mist form, the blast ionising his drifting molecules and shocking his system
• While wearing the Belt of Strength, commands lightning on an alien planet to strike Arishem, the force shaking nearby mountaintops, though Arishem is unharmed
• Summons a lightning bolt inside Exitar’s head
• Commands a lightning bolt from the sky which melts an entire armoured craft used by Seth’s forces to seal a hole, with Black Knight remarking on the bolt’s pin point accuracy
• Summons a lightning bolt against Hulk which downs him, described as enough electricity to light up a hundred broadways
• Draws the lightning on an alien planet into Mjolnir and fires it out as a blast to defeat Galfrax
• Summons thunder through Captain America’s shield to restart Iron Man’s heart
• Defeats the Void with a lightning bolt, incinerating Sentry’s corpse
• Raises his hammer and summons a colossal surge of lightning which destroys a large moon base
• With help from the Enchantress, burns an amped Hela’s face with a thunderbolt from the sky
• Raises his hammer to summon a massive lightning bolt through the Chaos King’s chest, distracting him
• Burns the mountain sized Skidbladnir
• A lightning bolt fully recharges Iron Man’s power packs, shown again here (though in this same comic it’s also shown ordinary robots could absorb the thunderbolts)
• Hits Red Skull with a sky bolt which disrupts his electrodes, temporarily removing Professor X’s powers from him
• Obliterates a half-mile wide chunk of wreckage
• Dazes Death Seed Sentry with a sky bolt on an alien planet
• Blasts down Hyperion
• While under Warrior Madness, slays Nidhogg with a giant island sized bolt
• [Eric] While possessed by Ares, endures Hercules wrestling him to the ground and forcing him to tap Mjolnir twice. Crystal adds her power to the summoned storm, the lightning bolt striking both Eric and Hercules, separating Ares from him and KOing all three. It frees Eric as only the chosen god of thunder can wield the true power of Mjolnir as decreed by Odin
• Shakes the pillars of the Ten Realms
• Channels a bolt of lightning from the sky into Mjolnir and fires it at Order (who is half of the In-Betweener)
• Summons a large lightning bolt from the sky towards Iron Man, which shatters the ground around him. Iron Man’s sensors detect Thor summoning a lightning bolt before it strikes, and the bolt obliterates a house and creates an electromagnetic pulse which shuts down Iron Man’s armour, completely frying it
• Burns a hole through Knull’s hands
• Cauterizes the Deathlok Celestial’s wounds with lightning from the sky at the God Quarry
• Channels the Odin-Power into a huge lightning blast against Toranos, shaking the Earth but to little effect
• Summons the storm in Utgard, smiting Mejed and hurting him while reducing the Utgard monsters to rubble
• Summons a lightning bolt to a thrown Mjolnir while Hulk is attached, throwing Hulk off of it
• Breaks out of Oizys binding and trapping him mentally in misery by summoning a thunderbolt to break its grip

Lightning from Mjolnir

Mjolnir can send out blasts of lightning directly from itself, giving Thor a useful ranged option at any time. He’s used Mjolnir’s lightning to match the power of Zeus for an extended period.

• Creates a bolt of lightning so intense it blinds even Seidring with the Odin-Power
• Casts a bolt with the force of “a thousand thousand thunder-bolts”
• Fires a bolt of lightning from his hammer towards Mangog, who is unharmed, but the continuous blast heats the soil beneath Mangog’s feet until it erupts like a volcano and traps Mangog in a pyre. Volstagg says the volcano Thor created would have killed him, and the lava from it is white-hot
• Combined with the other Avengers, strikes Korvac with a blast of living lightning from his hammer, which Thor thinks only stunned him
• Clashes a blast with Zeus’s thunderbolt, creating an intense blinding light even the gods of Olympus can’t see past. Time itself seems to vary as while Thor takes the pain in an instant, months pass on the ground below (which is apparently literal)
• Ignites a gas main using the spark of his hammer
• Recharges a near-death Silver Surfer with a lightning blast from his hammer
• Blasts Iron Man, Cap, Wasp and Drax with a set of lightning bolts spawned from his hammer. Iron Man says if he hadn’t absorbed most of it, it would have fried Cap and Wasp instead of stunning them all, and he says the lightning bolt is multi-million kilowatts (actually about on par with irl lightning bolts)
• Uses a flash of lightning to escape the villains on Battleworld
• Strikes the ground and fires a bolt of lightning from his hammer at Balder, stripping him of the magic tokens binding him
• Using Mjolnir’s power, Vidar fires a bolt of lightning which harms Ymir and repeatedly strikes him, causing him to grunt, and later combines his lightning with Thor’s to create a huge chasm which Ymir falls into
• While in Warrior Madness, fires a lightning blast from his hammer which one-shots Super Skrull and later blows away Adam Warlock and Silver Surfer with a burst of lightning from his hammer. Just tapping his hammer to charge it with lightning causes both to flee, and a lightning blast subsequently defeats Silver Surfer
• Downs Red Hulk with a point-blank bolt from Mjolnir
• Fires electric blasts from his hammer which produces strong EMPs that destroy Otto’s robots
• Shocks a bunch of Asgardians, including Tyr, by tapping Mjolnir on the ground
• Destroys a military outpost by striking the ground, producing a large surge of electricity
• A lightning bolt in Alter Ego’s core shocks the entire planet and causes him to scream and be stunned
• Fires a lightning blast from Mjolnir which, alongside Silver Surfer and Rachel, hurts the Other, before channeling the two’s combined energies into a massive discharge which disrupts Galactus, the Other, and the Scrier
• Temporarily holds back the Phoenix Force with a thunder blast from Mjolnir
• Channels lightning through his hammer to cauterise a woman’s wound
• Ymir reacts to and grabs onto Thor’s lightning blast to form the Casket of Future Winters. A later bolt harms Ymir’s shell
• Strikes the ground while channeling lightning, the bolt reaching Deadpool and Madcap across the ground and disintegrating both into ash
• Prepares to draw out the “Lorn Bolt” from Mjolnir, the energy of a long dead star, to obliterate millions of tons of debris and level a city as a result
• Matches and overpowers Malekith’s magic
• Fires a lightning blast from Mjolnir at a Cosmic Cube empowered Magus alongside Captain Marvel and Iron Man, seemingly dazing him. Magus admits the lightning did slightly hurt (notably the Cosmic Cube is stated to not be at full power, but Magus still was using it to rewrite reality)
• Long in the past, Thor was able to smite Grendel with a bolt from Mjolnir, the blast so powerful it severed Knull’s connection to his hivemind
• [Eric] By tapping his hammer while Living Lightning is holding it, Eric is able to recharge a power-nulled Living Lightning and restore his powers
• [Jane] Summons a lightning bolt in the vacuum of space bigger than Asgardia
• [Jane] Blows away Loki with a large burst of lightning from her entire body
• [Jane] Blocks Silver Samurai’s sword with Mjolnir and conducts lightning through it, charging his suit
• [Jane] Strikes a giant monster with an electrically charged swing to defeat it, Rocket commenting that it looks like she vaporized it
• [Jane] Alongside Living Lightning, is able to just about generate a few hundred thousand gigawatts of electrical energy to stop the world engine. Living Lightning channels his energy through Mjolnir and is left completely drained
• [Jane] Fires a thunderbolt from Mjolnir at Mangog which melts a statue of Odin on top of him
• Shocks Sunshine Joe Hulk
• Takes out a group of men with a lightning burst from his hammer, the burst shattering a mountain
• Takes out all satellites and radio/cable communications across the entire planet for 60 seconds with a jolt of lightning
• Harms Galactus
• Thor, empowered by the blood of Yggdrasil, uses the Thor-Force to fire a colossal thunderbolt which echoes across the “infinite canyons” of the Ten Realms and acts as a beacon for Thor’s ravens to find him
• Burns out poison from the air with a lightning burst
• Channels thunder throughout all the realms to send a message
• Odin and Thor fire lightning from their hammers against Killmonger’s Destroyer, which injures him
• Channels lightning through Mjolnir to precisely knock out an enemy’s worshippers across a city
• Takes control of a ship built in his image by firing lightning into the circuits and wires, allowing him to channel the All-Power through it
• Obliterates Varnae’s Darkforce tentacles and launches him with a bolt from Mjolnir
• [Old King] Breaks out of Gorr’s Necro-Sea with Mjolnir’s thunder

Water Manipulation

While much less common than his use of storms and tornadoes (as you can tell from the length of this section LOL), Thor and Mjolnir can flood areas with rain and create tsunamis directly to wash over targets. He can also more precisely use Mjolnir to create water spouts or whirlpools.

• On a dock, Thor swings his hammer to summon a massive thunderstorm and typhoon, blinding the Thermal Man with its winds, and also causes a massive tsunami which washes over the Thermal Man and the city before Thor commands it to subside
• Summons a storm over Asgard so intense it begins flooding it
• Creates a rain so intense it blinds Mangog and blows him away with a flood
• Spins the hammer to create a whirlpool underwater
• Creates a large water spout
• Throws the hammer and whirls it around a fountain to create a water spout and douse some nearby fighters
• A rainstorm washes away the Hulk with a flood
• Summons untold storms and floods on Earth
• Floods and famishes the planet
• Throws and whirls his hammer around a boat, creating a pillar of water which raises it into the air
• Creates a water spout by whirling to dispel a flood of water and carries the monsters inside to the four corners of the earth through it, emptying the entire vast river bed
• Commands the waves around a boat, turning the water into a vortex which safely drops a ship and deposits a bunch of lobsters on it, adjusting the ocean

Earth Manipulation

Mjolnir can create high-magnitude earthquakes which Thor has precise control of to avoid damaging specific entities.

• Creates earthquakes across the planet which fissure the ground, triggering natural disasters
• Strikes the ground with enough precision to cause a shockwave which knocks the guns out of a bunch of criminals’ hands without injuring them. Thor says that the earthquake didn’t hit the cops because Thor muffled Mjolnir’s power
• With a tap, he creates a powerful earthquake across the park which sends cars flying, all precisely enough to avoid harming hostages. It’s stated to create a “minor earth tremor in Manhattan” which blows out glass

Cold Manipulation

Despite being shown off in his very first appearance, Thor’s use of snowstorms and blizzards is pretty uncommon, to the point even the editors were tripped up and admitted at one point they didn’t know if he could make snow or sleet. He can create snow across cities and release cold winds, including specifically the winds of Niflheim, the realm of the dead. For whimsy, he can also spin his hammer on snow to create a snow bath.

• Spins his hammer to unleash the icy winds of Niflheim, but Absorbing Man merges with the winds
• Whirls his hammer at “hurricane speed” to halt the flow of molten metal from Hephaestus’s forge and cool it to a hardened state in seconds
• Summons a frigid wind which hardens some molten slag
• Cleanses the city of the stench of a battle by summoning a cleansing snow
• Raises his hammer to summon the winds of the frozen north, the Wrecking Crew unable to make headway against the wind’s force
• Whirls a snowstorm against a raging fire

Heat Manipulation

Mjolnir can produce flames in a variety of ways. It can project fire from its head directly, which can also form a wall to bar opponents. Due to the hammer’s metal and speed, it can also whirl fast enough to light itself on fire, which Thor can then strike with in an “atomic flare” far above his normal attacks.

• Rubs his hands against the hammer, creating intense friction which emits sparks to blind enemies
• Uses the hammer’s “cosmic power” to harden molten lava
• Projects a blast of fire from his hammer
• Thor spins his hammer so fast that it begins to heat its own atoms, lighting it on fire, and striking an Indestructible like an atomic flare, though it is unharmed. Thor describes the blow as a “planet shaking atomic storm”
• [Other] Red Norvell uses Mjolnir to create a wall of mystic fire around himself and Thor
• Spins his hammer to twirl what appears to be fire at a Storm Giant
• Whirls his hammer faster and faster “than the speed of thought” until the air around it ignites with “the might of a thousand suns”, lighting the hammer on fire and throwing it at Surtur, who deflects it with his Twilight Sword
• Whirls Mjolnir so hard the air around it ignites and Thor’s hands blister and burn, throwing it with enough force to disarm Surtur from his sword
• While wearing the Belt of Strength, swings Mjolnir to create searing heat similar to the lava pool which felled Kurse
• Whirls his hammer faster and faster until his bones grind to produce the necessary heat to emblazon the sacred runes of Odin upon the metal of his armour
• Whirls Mjolnir to blow a wave of divine fire against a swarm of Terminus’s insect monsters, burning him
• Stills volcanoes
• [Old King] Throws Mjolnir to a distant star and back to set it ablaze and ignite a planet of napalm

Cosmic Storms

Mjolnir’s control over the storm is broad and all-encompassing, and Thor has used it to deploy and take command of cosmic storms with celestial power that test even his limits. Naturally, he’s more frequently produced cosmic storms when he has the All-Power.

• Summons the fury of the storm to hurl a distant planetoid far bigger than Surtur right towards him
• With two taps, bends the vortex of a celestial maelstrom to take control of its space winds. He says the maelstrom is too powerful even for him to tame, but he can tap its limitless energies to empower his hammer
• Rick Jones and Genis-Vell are trapped in a temporal storm, which Thor has mastery over and is able to draw into his hammer, freeing them
• Loki and Thor combine their power to break Odin’s seal on Heven, Thor unleashing a cosmic storm which shakes worlds to pierce the barrier, which also reconnected Heven to Yggdrasil
• [Jane] Slams two Mjolnirs together, cracking the walls of time and space and summoning the lightning that forged the cosmos itself to banish All-Father Ultron through time
• [Jane] Takes command of a 400 year old planet-sized super-storm on Jupiter’s spot and blasts it at Odin
• Uses the All-Power to summon a cosmic storm in Jotunheim drawn from the farthest reaches of the galaxy
• Uses the All-Power to call upon the Odin-Storm, cosmic lighting from beyond the sky itself which is the full might of All-Father Thor, to repair Mjolnir and reforge it, healing its cracks, though it’s stated doing this comes at the cost of putting him into All-Sleep later
• [Old King] Unleashes a cosmic thunderstorm from within a black hole, shattering multiple nearby planets and shaking “the length of infinity” which destroys the black hole. The attack destroys the very foundations of the universe and threatens to collapse it. It also nearly shakes Earth apart and wipes the Necrosword from existence

Controlling Other Weather

Mjolnir can hijack weather phenomena, either natural ones or those created by others, and put them under Thor’s command.

• Takes control of a storm to summon lightning, which shatters Loki’s firesword and somehow permanently blinds Loki
• Banishes Infinity’s cosmic mists through his control over the storms
• With a sustained blast, vanquishes an extremely intense storm which initially resisted his attempts to vanquish it and which Thor states could rip apart the planet
• Disperses an 180 mph cosmic windstorm created by the Air-Walker over Manhattan by tapping twice. Air-Walker says Thor’s power over the atmosphere rivals his own, and that not even Silver Surfer possesses such power
• Initially unable to dispel an artificial storm created by a weather controlling machine. Later, he takes control of the series of artificial storms across the planet, merging them into one massive thunderstorm over a good portion of the planet which discharges its electricity into massive lightning bolt striking upwards at a station in orbit
• Forcefully stops a rainstorm on Asgard
• Attempts to summon a storm while Dracula does the same, ultimately stalemating with the storm obeying both but striking neither
• Thor could quell the current storm over Asgard which is extremely heavy and neverending, and which was summoned by a Storm Giant. The giant says Thor has always shredded any gale he created
• Controls the lightning of an intense storm and unleashes it as a nearly mountain sized blast into the sky, abating the storm
• Intensifies a thunderstorm with a raise of his hammer
• Commands an unnatural storm caused by weather modulators over Manhattan to cease, but says that though the storm calms where he wills it, it just starts up again somewhere else
• Blocks Tempest’s wind blasts with a whirl. Later matches Tempest’s wind control with his own, and taps his hammer to turn her own wind and rain against her, making her tangible and allowing him to punch her. He notes Tempest’s storm control rivals his own
• Dispels a magical whirlwind created by Wanda
• Could dispel Alter Ego’s planetary storms with just a thought
• Thor could have stopped New Orleans’ hurricane and flood

Energy Projection

Mjolnir can fire generic energy blasts from its head at Thor’s mental command. These blasts are extremely powerful relative to Thor’s own strength, and have been described as all the power Thor has to command.

• Disintegrates a gun with an energy blast
• Strikes the Haag with his hammer to no effect, so instead unleashes a super-powerful energy blast from his hammer, causing it to glow with flames. Thor remarks that the fury of thunder comes out of his hammer, and the blast blows back the Haag even with her Norn enchantment
• Fires a blast which creates a pit into the ground
• Powers Iron Man’s interdimensional scanner by projecting a beam, but overloads it to the point it threatens to break
• KOs a Storm Giant with a blast from his hammer
• Blows away a group of trolls crushing him with a blast
• During Ragnarok, Thor is prophesied to fire a blast from his hammer at the Midgard Serpent which will strike him down
• Blinds Ego Prime with a hammer blast, sending it reeling
• Fires repeated blasts at Ego Prime, who just grows stronger by absorbing their “mystic” energy
• Destroys a thrown building with a blast
• Melts a massive girder with a blast, the iron rain disrupting the Fourth-Dimensional Man’s balance of heat and cold and killing him
• Severely damages Druid with a hammer blast
• The Dark Dweller tries to escape by turning into a gaseous state, but Thor whirls Mjolnir to draw him to the hammer and blast him into space into the sun to bypass his immortality
• Over minutes, carves a path through a cavern by blasting with Mjolnir
• Destroys an alien bubble ship with a blast
• Stuns Ego’s brain with a hammer blast, admitting that nobody, not even Galactus, has the power to destroy Ego
• Fires a blast which clashes with Firelord, stalemating him with Thor saying they’re so evenly matched they could clash for hours
• With a blast alongside every other hero present, destroys a Mindless One, lighting up the far reaches of the Dark Dimension
• Blasts the Celestials with enough power to level mountains
• While restrained, fires a blast from his hammer which stuns Mephisto
• Matches Umar’s spell with a hammer blast and destroys a vine monster with a blast, before matching her Baleful Bolts of Bishru
• Frees Thing from his mind control by hurting Seth with a blast
• Channels energy through Mjolnir to pierce Wonder Man’s skin, allowing for an injection
• Fires a hammer blast at Alioth. He says his mightiest blast, powerful enough to shatter mountains, didn’t even make it blink
• Burrows underground with a blast
• Blasts Gladiator from underground into the sky
• Fires a hammer blast which blows away radioactive monsters, though they just absorb the energy
• Destroys a large alien ship
• [Eric] Counters Ronan’s blast with a hammer blast, which eventually overpowers his attack and forces him back
• Dazes Perrikus with a hammer blast
• Slays Toranos with a blast from Mjolnir(sorry for using this as a feat Ewing)
• [Old King] Fires a Thor-Force blast at Galactus from Mjolnir, hurting him

Unique Energy Projection

Thor has sometimes projected unique forms of energy from his hammer which seem distinct from his more general generic energy blasts.

• Glows his hammer head with “the untapped power of the nether worlds”, though due to his power being reduced it has little effect
• Harnesses the alpha particles from the atmosphere on the head of his hammer and launches them as energy rays to atomise the weapons of some guards
• Channels the full godly power of Mjolnir into Wrecker’s body through him touching it, his body unable to let go and unable to contain the energies and so passing out
• Channels concentrated magic through an Asgardian chalice
• Fires a blast of mystical energy at Terminus
• Fires eldritch energies as a blast from his hammer at Galactus’s siphon, to no effect
• Summons a light from his hammer and uses it as a torch
• Able to locate his hammer in darkness by making it light up with sparks
• [Eric] Fires a blast of Asgardian magic from his hammer which hurts Gladiator and ricochets back at him, which he endures
• Summons “energy from within” and channels it through his hammer to create an EMP which destroys a Tri-Sentinel

Anti-Force

A subset of Thor’s general energy projection is his anti-force blasts, which are particularly potent, and can be used to counteract opposing forces

• Creates an anti-force with his hammer which launches Super Skrull across space
• Fires a blast of “anti-force” at Perrikus, which seems to stagger him
• Enrakt draws Mjolnir from Thor’s hand and summons an anti-force blast, but Thor commands Mjolnir to fire at Enrakt, the anti-force channeling through Mjolnir’s handle into Enrakt holding it “with a strike faster than even the most sudden of lightning bolts”, dazing him
• Fires an anti-force blast powerful enough to shatter mountains at Mangog, which brings him to his knees
• Fires an anti-force bolt at a Thanosi which sends him flying, with the Recorder noting that the combined onslaught of energy and the storm seeming capable of tearing the entire planet apart
• Thor acknowledges Mangog has withstood all his blows from the outside, and so fires a hammer blast inside his mouth, burning him with energy. He then strikes Mangog off a cliff, his plunge ending in a fiery explosion of anti-force which defeats him
• Endures the pull of the Other’s mind and creates an anti-vortex which resists its pull

Limitations

On various occasions, Thor has been unable to take control or manipulate weather for one reason or another. What exactly prevents a storm from being one Thor can control isn’t really defined and there’s no consistent rules for it beyond what’s convenient for the plot.

• Unable to take control of a magic storm summoned by Necrodamus
• Thor is unable to break through the walls of the Limbo Labyrinth and cannot call upon Odin to send storm and lightning while there
• Is unable to stop an unnatural snowstorm summoned by Bora
• Unable to dispel Red Tornado’s cyclone, it resisting his control
• Unable to control the weather when it’s gone mad due to weather controlling machinery
• Diablo uses transmutation magic to turn a storm Thor whirls into existence against him
• Unable to take control over the thunderstorms produced by the origin bombs
• States he could create a worldwide storm to route Man-Thing’s burning clouds, but that it would challenge even him to do so, and needs Storm’s help to do it(notably, this is practically the only time Thor has ever struggled to create a weather formation and it contradicts his other feats)
• A Tri-Sentinel blocks Thor’s weather control using nanoclouds which corrupt the lightning he calls
• Alongside Storm, attempts to dissipate the storms of Reality Zero’s ice moon, the winds resisting but still abating considerably. Storm notes that he’s the thunder god of 616 and not this dimension

Enchantment 4: Dimension Travel

(kind of breaking the theme of the enchantment images i’m aware)

By far one of Thor’s most used abilities is creating dimensional warps in space-time. Beyond the obvious utility of being able to hop between dimensions freely, Thor frequently creates these warps to chase down opponents, remove others from the battlefield, and banish away large bursts of energy. Thor only has to think of his destination and visualise it in his mind before spinning Mjolnir so it would carry him there instinctually, even to places he’d never seen before, allowing Thor to go pretty much anywhere imaginable. Thor has good knowledge of alternate planets and dimensions, and can warp to specific ones for specific purposes. Mjolnir’s space-spanning abilities are described as innate, and not a property of Odin’s enchantments, meaning they were still usable even when Odin was dead, likely due to the God Tempest’s power.

Notably, Mjolnir’s dimensional warps are what actually let Thor travel between Asgard and Earth, even when it sometimes seems like he’s flying between dimensions on page. Even when he’s drawn as a streak flying across cosmic realms, Sif’s similar ability, which has been drawn in the same manner and directly compared to Thor’s, is depicted elsewhere as a form of teleportation, indicating Thor’s power is similarly more teleportation than movement. It’s stated on multiple occasions that the use of dimensional winds is how he travels, through a form of “hyperspace”, and he’s shown intimate familiarity with how to navigate wormholes. This dimensional travel between Earth and the Ten Realms has been suggested on multiple occasions to be linked specifically to the Bifrost. The likes of Odin, Sif, and the Enchantress have stated the existence of the Bifrost is what facilitates their ability to travel dimensions, with Sif’s ability having occasionally been depicted as being directly summoning the Bifrost for travel. When the Bifrost has been destroyed, Thor has had difficulty trying to reach Asgard via Mjolnir’s normal dimensional warps, sometimes taking weeks or even being completely unable to do so. Thor himself has used the hammer’s ability to travel dimensions to send others back to Asgard, and Mjolnir has some sort of ability to lead Thor to the Bifrost and carry him between Earth and Asgard or just summon the Bifrost outright. When travelling between the other Nine Realms, Thor uses the connecting branches of Yggdrasil as a guide. It should go without saying that crossing the Bifrost in a short time does not require any particular speed, given Captain America was able to ride his motorbike across it. All of this should apply to other showings of Asgardian characters traversing between realms, making said feats questionable to use for speed as has been argued in the past, though also note that none of this is likely to apply to the realms other than the ones directly connected to Yggdrasil and the Bifrost. This reliance on the Bifrost also becomes less of a factor when Thor has the All-Power,as Loki has stated that All-Father Thor’s ability to summon the dimensional winds lets him travel to Earth and back even with the Bifrost broken.

Mechanics

Due to being so esoteric and malleable, the dimensional winds have been depicted in many different forms across Thor’s history.

• Tokkots is able to hitch a ride on Thor’s dimensional vortex without Thor knowing
• While traveling to Asgard via vortex, Heimdall is able to detect Thor and Iron Man coming but can’t discern who they specially are
• Counters being teleported to another dimension by whirling a vortex which tears at the fabric of reality
• Flashback to the first time Blake ever visited Asgard, where he still didn’t think he was actually Thor. His cane glows when Odin summons him. With a throw, Thor unintentionally travels faster than he’s ever gone before until at “unmentionable speed” he pierces the fabric of reality to enter Asgard
• The process upsets Jane’s stomach
• Thor explains that his rifts depend on many factors from the cycle of season to the alignment of stars, and doesn’t know if he can create one big enough to transport a massive Hulk-clone, though he begins to try. This is the only time this ever comes up
• Carries Hulk with him as he whirls into Earth’s dimension. Hulk wakes up mid-transport and knocks him and Thor through the inter-dimensional void, ending up on alien planet
• Even a chunk of a broken Mjolnir could be used to call on the Avengers from Asgard, it seems to create a portal which takes him and the Midgard Serpent to Earth and the Avengers’ location, though its transport is a few miles off. It could also be stamped to forcibly send Cap and Iron Man back to Earth
• Cho calculates that Mjolnir’s interdimensional transport is near instantaneous within 5 microseconds
• Ghost’s ion-stream connects Mjolnir to Man-Thing’s portal, throwing off the warp Thor is in
• It’s stated Thor needs to know the dimension he’s currently in to open a portal back to Earth. This is also the only time this ever comes up and has seemingly been contradicted

Between Space

Thor frequently employs his vortexes to carry himself and others between locations in the Earth dimension, allowing him to transport himself instantly to the other side of the universe.

• Spins Mjolnir to fly from Asgard to the World Beyond, space twisting around him as he double and triples the speed of light towards the void at the edge of the infinite universe
• Thor attempts to surprise attack Hela by using his hammer to traverse space and get the jump on her, but all of time and space are one to Hela so she keeps up even as Thor flies across distant lands, before forcing him back to Earth
• Vision says the hammer could take the Avengers to the Andromeda galaxy
• Creates a portal to the Inhuman’s refuge, with it being said to be so painful only Thor, Iron Man, and Vision could survive the trip
• Creates a space-time warp to take himself and Human Torch to Hawaii, noting that few outside him and Torch could survive the warp
• Opens a dimensional portal to help the Micronauts breach a spacewall, it feels like they’ve traversed countless light-years in a blink, but is unable to breach the spacewall as it’s a barrier fortified by Captain Universe and Doctor Strange. Thor notes he’s opened many dimensional portals over the years
• Creates a dimensional vortex which spirits some children to their home
• Opens a portal to shorten his trip through space and spit him out at his point of choosing, the location of Terminus well outside of the solar system
• Creates a vortex that carries Thor and his allies on their vehicles millions of light-years to a time bubble, later returning back to Earth at a specific location through another warp
• Whirls a vortex transporting himself and his allies from a black hole to the Sh’iar Empire in a blink of an eye
• Creates a vortex right as a spaceship approaches Galactus’s black hole to teleport away and trick the Dreaming Celestial into entering the black hole
• [Eric] By being told Starcore’s coordinates, is able to concentrate and let Mjolnir transport him and his allies there

Between Dimensions

Thor most commonly uses his warps to ferry himself between dimensions. He, of course, does this almost every time he goes from Asgard to Earth and back, but he can also send himself and others to numerous other dimensions freely, even ones unconnected to the Ten Realms. His warps are strong enough to bypass cosmic storms blocking entry to dimensions, though it does require effort, at least without the All-Power.

• Whirls to teleport from Asgard to Earth
• Spins his hammer to create a “space warp” which envelops Zemo’s ship. Thor claims a space warp can lead anywhere from a different city to a different universe
• Over the course of a few seconds, creates a dimensional space-warp which launches him, the Avengers, and their enemies countless dimensions away to a barren planet. In said dimension, the natural laws are reversed, making Melter and Black Knight’s weapons ineffective, before Thor warps them back
• Creates a space-time distorting vortex to reach the Rainbow Bridge
• Spins his hammer to create a space-spanning vortex which sends him, Captain America, and Goliath to different corners of Earth
• Thor’s hammer tears a hole through space to reach Arkon’s dimension and later takes the Avengers back from Arkon’s dimension to Earth very quickly
• Transports himself and 5 others to Asgard as a streak, narration describing them as briefly existing as six new stars
• Whirls himself, Ms Marvel, and Marcus through a rift to Limbo
• Traps himself and Indra inside a vortex created by Mjolnir which transports both to the Bifrost, giving Thor a home-field advantage
• Thor instantly transports himself from Asgard to the Dark Dimension through a gateway
• Tricks Umar by transporting himself and Jane Foster to Earth right as her blow lands. Umar blocks him from returning directly to Asgard, which he gets around by going to Earth first and then Asgard
• Despite Asgard being surrounded by cosmic storms which prevent entry, the combined efforts of Thor and Bill whirling their hammers at the same speed creates a large enough portal to Asgard to transport all the Asgardians home
• Opens a gateway from the Dimension of Death to the living world
• Very dramatically swings his hammer to transport himself, the Avengers, and Avengers mansion from Arkon’s dimension back to their original locations, including sending the Black Knight to Stonehenge, while accidentally sending 4 of the Avengers to Earth-712 in incorporeal form. He describes this as calling upon Odin’s power
• Flies out of Nobilus’s ship through a portal into a “multiverse away” to Mephisto’s realm
• Though Thor is unable to reach Asgard, he’s able to still travel to the dimension of the trolls through a vortex
• Whirls his hammer while Hulk charges him to transport himself and Hulk to “a universe away”
• [Eric] Acting on instinct, swings Mjolnir to open a portal separating the myriad dimensions to Asgard
• [Eric] Transports himself and Balder to Mephisto’s realm by shattering the fragile walls separating dimensional planes, directed by Balder’s enchantment
• [Jane] Warps her and Iron Man from the Negative Zone and back
• [Jane] Transports herself and War Thor from Muspelheim to Ginnungagap
• Whirls the Avengers from Krona’s lair back to their universe
• Warps to Slokovia, doing so too quickly for Iron Man to follow him
• Whirls from Earth to the Council Elite, described as “far beyond the gleaming path of gods” where the pantheon heads meet
• Warps the Cotati from the Moon to a distant planet
• Portals between Valhalla and Asgard
• Warps across Zeus’s empty plane, noting Luki’s rune-spell forces them to remain in the realm

Chasing

Should an enemy try to escape a fight by hopping between dimensions, Thor can chase after them in hot pursuit using Mjolnir’s own warps. Thor can also warp to whoever he needs to find in a short time.

• Adam Warlock escapes to another dimension, so Thor chases after him with Balder by swinging his hammer three times to form a vortex
• Creates a vortex which takes him to Kryllik’s asteroid near Jupiter by following his mystic trail
• Crosses dimensions, Mjolnir guiding him to the location of Odin’s eye
• Thor is able to detect Wizard’s lingering energies of teleportation and tap into them with Mjolnir to portal to his location, the alt dimension of the Isle of Silence
• Thor uses Mjolnir to track Demonstaff to the void which exists between alternate planes of reality and transport there
• Thor says he can follow Enrakt no matter which dimension he escapes to, and prepares to create a vortex to it
• After Firelord tracks where a Thanosi is, Thor creates a dimensional gulf to Thanos’s location to instantly portal there
• Uses Mjolnir to travel to Desak’s location hundreds of galaxies away instantly, presumably via portal, despite not knowing specifically where he is
• Rips a portal through space and time to take him to Loki’s location, which he currently doesn’t know, in this case the Isle of Silence
• Now that Thor knows the location of his subjects in a breach, Mjolnir can transport him there with just a thought

BFR

On multiple occasions, Thor has banished an opponent to end the fight. He’s done this to both people and to huge structures. With the All-Power, he can even banish beings as powerful and huge as Toranos to realms as distant as the Far Shore.

• Creates a vortex which launches the Enchantress and Executioner from Earth to Asgard along the Rainbow Bridge
• Whirls his hammer faster than light around Kang’s time machine, placing it in a “universal infinity vortex”. Since nothing can endure long in a faster-than-light continuum, the time machine is banished beyond all time and space to the 41st century
• Hits Ulik with a blast which banishes him from Earth back to his realm in an instant
• Creates a vortex which banishes all the surrounding humans to the limbo of space to avoid hurting them before later restoring them
• To avoid harming his friends, creates a vortex to transport his brainwashed allies directly to a distant peak, before summoning a hundred-weight of boulders around them to seal them away
• Spins his hammer to create a portal to a far plane of existence, which begins sucking Count Nefaria in. Nefaria blocks it by choking the hole with a skyscraper
• Sends a giant living volcano through a space-time vortex to the furthest reaches of the galaxy
• Throws Mjolnir to open a warp in space which swallows the souls of two alien creatures, banishing them
• Whirls his hammer faster than the mortal mind can conceive and whips it around the power planet, it speed increasing by the microsecond until it transcends the boundaries between time and space to send a building, foundations included, through a dimensional seam to a distant dead world, leaving a hole on Earth a mile deep
• Opens a portal through time and space which banishes Juggernaut and an obelisk to a distant dimension (or space)
  • Later takes Excalibur there instantly by piercing space-time and wrapping them in a cocoon of energy and taking them where he wants to go
• Banishes Rune from the Ultraverse to 616 New York
• Taps into dimensional energies and create a rift between realities to hurl himself and Doom into
• Opens a dimensional portal to transport the Kree Omni-Projector through, but is blindsided by a hit from the Kree Universal Weapon, causing the portal to shrink as his attention is shifted. Firestar is able to juice up the portal with her microwave blasts allowing the projector to be pushed through it
• Whirls a vortex through the fabric of time and space to banish the Destroyer to the depths of space
  • Later flees from a battle with Perrikus by vortexing to the alien planet he banished the Destroyer to and carries it back to Earth
• Banishes Tokkots to an endless void existing between all time and space
• Whirls a space vortex into existence which begins sucking up the street into it, sucking the Harbinger into another dimension. Harbinger is able to adapt to Thor’s magic and travel across dimensions back to Earth
• Thor says using a dimensional warp is an unseemly way to end a conflict, but Enchantress convinces him to warp a group of Frost Giants to an unknown dimension
• Thor notes that Ymir can reform endlessly and does not tire like they do, and so creates a huge vortex which banishes him to a nether-realm of Asgard
• Forcibly transports a group of enemies away from the battlefield with a vortex, fast enough they don’t even realise what happened
• Thor plans to send Mangog to an uninhabited solar system in a distant dimension, but needs time to prepare. Combined with Kevin and Gruenhilda’s own weapons, they banish him through a portal
• Banishes Spider-Man from Asgard with a whirl
• Commands the sky against Toranos, summoning a lightning bolt to rip open a portal to the Yawning Void, or the Far Shore. Thor says that with the Odinforce, Mjolnir can create a portal big enough even for Toranos
• Banishes Loki from the Shadow Kingdom and Asgard with a blast of All-Power from Mjolnir combined with words spoken with power. This banishment has little sway in Utgardand Loki is seemingly able to appear on Asgard in a different manifestation

Channeling Away Energy

Thor can create vortexes and portals to channel large outbursts of energy through and safely disperse them away from wherever he is.

• Reacts to an explosion and channels its entire force into a vortex through an other-dimensional rift
• Spins his hammer at a speed approaching that of light to warp the fabric of space and time and channel a city-block destroying explosion into another dimension
• Channels the Phoenix’s energy into a portal to a dark matter field on the outskirts of existence
• States he will teleport Exitar’s energies to a dying star to save its solar system
• [Other] Dargo Ktor, another Mjolnir wielder, reacts to a blast from Varley by opening a rift into an unknowable realm of dimensional space, redirecting the blast. Dargo then re-opens the rift at a perfectly timed moment to send the energy back at him, defeating him
• Creates a vortex around a contained nuclear explosion and transports it away

Closing Portals

Mjolnir’s power over dimensional warps has also allowed it to close portals manifested by others.

• Colliding Mjolnir with Stormbreaker releases a burst of energy which closes a portal summoning demons which was bigger than stars
• Closes the portal Mephisto’s demons came from
• Whirls a vortex from Mjolnir which, combined with the other Avengers, repels an adamantium wave pushed by Loki and seals his energy vortex
• By whirling his hammer, stills the storms of dimensional energies of the gamma core nuclear reactor
• [Eric] Calls upon the enchanted energies within Mjolnir to fire a blast which implodes a stargate and seals it forever, trapping Gladiator

Other

As you can probably imagine, these warps aren’t super well-defined despite how common they are, and so have done a lot of random bullshit. Thor has been able to use dimensional warps as shields, and once used a semi-permeable warp to simply step out a restraint around him. The portals can also directly link to stars, which Thor has used to kill Uriel by dragging him into one.

• Creates a dimensional disruption around himself by whirling his hammer, which not even Hulk can break through
• Opens a portal to a star and drags Uriel through it before collapsing it, killing Uriel
• Throws Mjolnir and uses it to connect the Rainbow Bridge from Valhalla to Asgard
• Tries escaping a fight by using a dimensional vortex, but Absorbing Man absorbs the vortex and turns into a growing tornado which accidentally sends him to Limbo
• Sealed in a heavy density plasma restraining device, which he can’t break out of with strength. He instead whirls his hammer to create a semi-permeable space warp, which the restraint, as a material object, can’t pass through, letting him step out of it
• [Other] Dargo whirls his hammer at speeds defying description to shatter the barriers between dimensional planes and throws it through the vortex, sensing that the path he threw it through will lead it back to the OG Thor
• Creates a pathway to a pocket universe to summon forth his satchel, which contains his battle armour and belt of strength
• Realising he’s faring badly against Varnae, he summons a dimensional vortex to the surface of the sun, causing sunlight to pour forth and force Varnae to retreat
• Opens a portal to a world galaxies away from the alien planet he’s on to wash away fires with the oceans of a distant planet. It’s stated that if he misremembers, he could open a portal to a sun or star and destroy the planet instead
• [Other] Bill creates a portal to send a giant comet hurtling at Ego
• [Eric] Due to the hammer’s space-warping enchantment, a thrown Mjolnir is able to pierce a forcefield created by Kang
• [Jane] Mjolnir can traverse dimensions, and Jane says attenuating planetary vibrations is not a task so far afield. She replicates the precise frequency to phase the Avengers into Counter-Earth
• Upon the death of Asgard during Ragnarok, Mjolnir moves through the tears in Hell’s dimensional plane, leaving behind a trail of energy which tears at Doom. The hammer hurls itself across time and space, depositing doom on Earth and crashing in Oklahoma. The hammer is inert until Doom touches it

Enchantment 5: Changing Form

Did you know Thor was meant to be Marvel’s equivalent to Superman and the original Captain Marvel? This enchantment should make it obvious. For the first two decades of his publication history, Thor operated with a mortal identity known as Donald Blake, which had been created by Odin (sorta). While outwardly an ordinary doctor with a limp, whenever Blake tapped his cane, he would be transformed into the mighty Thor, with the cane becoming Mjolnir itself. If Thor was separated from his hammer for more than 60 seconds, he would revert back to Blake, though this only occurred on Earth and not in space or Asgard. If Thor’s mortal self is killed, Thor dies as well.

Eventually, Odin would remove this enchantment from Mjolnir and transfer it to Beta Ray Bill’s Stormbreaker, effectively removing Blake from existence. The remaining enchantment left in the hammer served to simply allow Thor to swap clothes to his guise as Sigurd Jarlson, meaning Thor was now always in his godly form all the time. Thor would later be merged with a human construction worker named Eric Masterson, and would again swap between his godly and mortal states by striking the hammer while reverting to mortal form if separated for 60 seconds. Unlike with Blake, Mjolnir would not transform into a cane even when Eric Masterson was active. Eric would actually replace Thor for a time until Thor returned, now once again absent any mortal identity.

In the late 90s, Thor would use this enchantment again when he merged with the deceased paramedic Jake Olson. Jake Olson wasn’t a separate persona like Donald Blake or an actual human being coexisting with Thor like Eric Masterson, but clearly Thor himself, just forced into a mortal form resembling the deceased human. Olson would transform to his godly state by striking his fist, which summoned Mjolnir to him, though he did still need the hammer somewhat nearby to transform and to command it to materialize in his hand. After some very complex drama, Thor’s godly and mortal selves would again be completely merged. When Thor returned to life in 2007, Blake inexplicably came back with him, and the two now operated as essentially two different beings sharing the same body, even able to speak to each other in their head. When Thor was killed and resurrected at the end of the Fear Itself event in 2011, Blake was separated from him and became entirely his own person, even acting as essentially Thor’s arch-nemesis for a time. Since then, Thor has lacked a human identity, so this enchantment has seen little use for him.

Of note is that Mjolnir’s ability to change someone’s appearance and alter their state from mortal to god doesn’t just apply to the one wielding it. Thor has used this power to revert a series of monster-fied humans back to their mortal forms and turn his horse into a winged pegasus. A man wielding Mjolnir at the time could tap the hammer to remove his armour and powers and become a mortal again. Due to the transformation being an enchantment created by Odin, it takes more than Mjolnir’s power alone for someone to affect the transformation. Even when Tarene copied Mjolnir’s power, for instance, she was unable to turn Jake Olson into Thor, and it was noted to specifically require the Odinforce.

The transformation from mortal to god doesn’t just affect one physically, but mentally. Grabbing Mjolnir would cause Jane Foster to literally shift perspective as the chemistry of her mind changed to match that of a god, in this instance choosing to resist the feeling and remain as Valkyrie even while holding Mjolnir.

Donald Blake

Donald Blake is Thor’s classic and most common alter-ego, a highly-skilled yet humble doctor with a limp in his left leg (though it did heal over time), having been introduced in Thor’s debut comic and remaining a recurring element of his story since. Fittingly, what Donald Blake actually is is very, very convoluted and inconsistent across Thor’s history. The initial explanation given is that Odin wanted to teach Thor humility after a particularly tumultuous incident, and so stripped Thor of his power and memories before sending him to Earth in the form of Donald Blake. Odin then placed Mjolnir in a cave in Norway so Blake would find it when his lesson was learned and transform him back into Thor. As a result, while being Donald Blake in spirit, Thor is the true identity. A later retelling of this origin depicted Blake as initially being like a split personality and soul from Thor inside his head, before Odin explains that he and Thor are in-truth the same soul and he effectively merges with Thor, freeing Thor from his mind control. It’s been described as Thor and Blake sharing a mental link and knowing all each other’s thoughts, and classic comics depict Blake as still retaining elements of Thor’s brain., though they’re also sometimes treated as having different brains and thought processes. For instance, by stripping his mind of earthly thought processes, Blake is able to essentially think as Thor for a while. It’s been stated that even as Blake, his soul is still that of Thor’s, but Thor himself has described Blake as like a spirit inside him. More explicitly, when Loki swapped bodies with Thor, reverting to Blake immediately caused Thor’s spirit to enter Blake’s body while Loki’s spirit returned to his own body due to Odin’s spell. All this inconsistency even came in the editor answers in the letters pages, with one noting that unlike Clark Kent, Blake is his own person with his own personality and consciousness, while a later one explicitly describes them as just being different personas of the same being who share all each other’s knowledge.

More elaboration would come in a Thor Annual issue, describing Blake as a mortal shell created by Odin’s enchantment at the moment of Thor’s banishment, possessing a form and memories based on a template of a human medical student. Odin is depicted as the one who instilled the urge in Blake to travel to Norway and find Mjolnir after 10 years of living as a human, and eventually makes Blake realise his true identity as Thor by lifting the veil on his mind, causing Thor to remember events buried in his past. Generally from around this era and onwards, Thor and Blake were, for the most part, depicted as being more like different personas of the same fundamental being, simply being a change in mental state and syntax and clearly one contiguous being, though still sometimes called different personalities. When Thor was hit by a device which draws out someone’s inner shadow-self, it took the effect of putting Blake’s conscience in Thor’s body, until a speech from Spider-Man made Blake realise he and Thor aren’t different entities but reflections of the same soul, causing Thor’s personality to reassert himself in his body. Even though Blake is still a mortal who ages normally, he has the eyes of a god, and is depicted in Marvel Graphic Novel as able to instantly switch to speaking in the manner of a god when needed. This story in particular depicts Blake as being entirely the same personality as Thor, his human identity simply acting as a relief from his godly duties.

A large wrinkle would come in when it was revealed that the human template Blake was based on was the character Keith Kincaid, a fellow medical student, as this would later be used for a huge retcon to the nature of Blake circa the mid-90s. Long after Thor had already lost the Donald Blake identity due to transferring the enchantment, he wound up finding the human form of Donald Blake in a cave in Wundagore, frozen in time from the moment he first touched the cane in Thor’s debut issue. Odin would soon reveal the extremely convoluted truth; Blake was actually a real person, who Odin forced Thor’s spirit into to save him from a prophesied death. When Blake struck the cane in Norway for the first time, Odin popped in, froze time, released Thor’s spirit from his body, whereupon it gathered solid matter around itself to form a new body. Every time Thor transformed to Blake, he was apparently just reshaping his body using Mjolnir without realising. The real Blake, meanwhile, was stored inside a cave in Wundagore which Odin transformed into an exact duplicate of the cave in Norway (I still have no idea why he did that last part???)..

The retcons wouldn’t even stop there, as only a few issues later it was revealed that the Donald Blake who Thor had found in Wundagore wasn’t even the original, but an exact duplicate created by Loki’s wife Sigyn after she accidentally killed the actual Blake, which eventually imploded like a black hole. This sucked Thor into a limbo-space until the Blake construct let him free, shattering the Blake construct and restoring Thor.

So all of that is obviously a frankly ludicrous retcon, stating that not only was Blake actually a real person, but that Thor never was the actual Blake, and he was essentially just larping as a human doctor until his head got sorted straight. Despite how absurd and wide-reaching the effects of this retcon are, it has essentially never been acknowledged again in the slightest, and is in-fact actively contradicted many times, with basically every subsequent story just sticking with the idea that Blake is a construct created by Odin to teach Thor humility and completely ignoring the retcon. For instance, a guidebook that came out less than two years later described Blake as being a construct created by Odin based on Keith Kincaid. When Thor returned after Ragnarok in 2007, it was stated that the Odinspell which had created Blake had also made him stop existing, and that when the gods fell in Ragnarok, Blake was in-turn restored to life on Earth, and summoned Thor back to reality from the void. The two acted as separate personalities sharing a body, able to observe the ongoings of Earth from the void. When Thor was placed in a state in-between life and death, Blake was briefly freed as a result. Blake was later fully freed upon Thor’s death during Fear Itself, somehow separating the two into discrete beings, with Blake commenting on how he only started having memories the day he entered med school at 21, when he was created by Odin. In modern canon, it’s definitive that Blake was a human soul created as camouflage by Odin via his knowledge of the runes, separate from yet linked to Thor’s godly soul, which, through a complex series of events, has currently wound up reincarnated into the form of the human Sigurd Jarlson, leaving that elaborate Wundagore retcon entirely forgotten. Blake’s body, and for a time his soul, became a vessel for the Midgard Serpent, where he was a super-badass who could solo Asgardians via his surgical skills applied to combat.

Where Thor and Blake go when dormant has had multiple answers. It’s been shown that while Thor is active, Blake’s spirit exists in the limbo of Vidblainn, and is able to talk to recently deceased souls. Later, it was stated that when Thor swaps places with Blake, Thor goes to the Elder-Sleep, allowing him to commune with spirits and old dead kings. Blake meanwhile goes to an imaginary idyllic world created by Odin. Striking his hammer let Thor turn Mjolnir into a cane and sent him from the Elder-Sleep to Blake’s dream world, which had been invaded by the Midgard Serpent after Odin’s death.

He has the balls to deck Molecule Man in the face.

Eric Masterson

Eric Masterson was Thor’s second true mortal persona, a down-on-his-luck but kind-hearted architect who Thor was merged with to save both of their lives. Despite the pair being merged both mentally and physically and sharing memories, they remained discrete individuals, with Masterson present inside Thor’s mindscape while the latter was active and the two having distinct personalities, POVs, and emotions. When the two were separated, they were able to merge with each other again by touching each other’s hands (rip Yuji).

Eric would, for a time, replace Thor completely, taking up his mantle and hammer while the thunder god was indisposed. During this period, the magic which would switch Eric between his mortal and godly selves also healed his wounds. Transforming from his godly self to mortal self and back could fully recover him from injuries, and reverting to his mortal self allowed him to heal from near-fatal wounds and broken bones. Later, he would become the hero Thunderstrike, before tragically dying to stop the threat of the Bloodaxe.

After Eric’s death, Thor would reflect on the experience, and describe his and Eric’s merging as two personalities who shared every thought and desire, physically and mentally bonded on every plane of reality, perhaps explaining the influence they had on each other as people.

Wasn’t that so much simpler?

 Jake Olson

After Thor was nearly killed in battle by the Destroyer, his life was saved by Marnot, one of Odin’s ravens in disguise, who used the Odinforce to merge Thor with the deceased EMT Jake Olson, both to save his life and to hide his presence from the threat of the Dark Gods. Unlike previous mergings and human identities, it was clear right from the start that Jake Olson was Thor through-and-through. Since the real Jake Olson was deceased, all Thor was really doing was taking on his image and mortality as a guise, feeling only vague recognition of Olson’s memories such as his wife and not knowing the details. When Thor transforms to Olson, he ends up wearing whatever Olson had on the last time he had transformed, and unlike with previous transformations, Thor would revert to Olson after 60 seconds without Mjolnir even when on Asgard.

Thor’s disguise as Olson proved effective, as his transformations caused him to disappear from Adva’s scanners, someone who can sense all worlds and planes of existence, every time he turned into Olson. Due to Thor’s godly abilities, injuries Olson receives will be healed when transformed into Thor. For instance, when Olson was burned by Gladiator’s heat vision, transforming to Thor seemed to heal it, but the wounds returned when he transformed back to Olson, and he would need to turn into Thor again to save himself. Likewise, turning back to Olson could help Thor escape the consequences of grievous injuries as well. It’s been stated by Jane Foster that they don’t have a complete understanding of his relationship with his godly self and how the body shifting works, but think that if he suffers a wound as Olson, becoming Thor heals it, while if Thor suffers a wound, Olson retains it.

Odin would eventually summon Olson out from Thor and draw him out as an independent person existing alongside Thor, possessing all his memories and skills of the real Olson. This Olson was essentially a duplicate of Thor stuck in mortal form, retaining all of Thor’s memories and medical knowledge, making it more like Thor was in two places at once. After Odin died, Thor and Olson remained separated, both having the same personality and memories in different forms. As Olson was the human part of Thor’s soul, this would have dire consequences on Thor’s personality, and they would eventually be merged back together by the All-Father Thor of a bad timeline to prevent said timeline from occurring.

Sigurd Jarlson

After Thor’s death at the hands of Loki, the human soul of Donald Blake was reincarnated into a new form on Earth, Sigurd Jarlson, taking his name from one of Thor’s previous mortal disguises. Despite thinking of himself as a new being and having no memories of his past, he retained Blake’s surgical skills and drive to protect others, with only the visage of Thor in his dreams alluding to his true identity. With his story still ongoing, it remains to be seen if Sigurd will be able to save Thor from the afterlife and bring about a new spring for the gods. He is, after all, just a man.

Swapping Form

The actual mechanism and properties of the transformation process has several unique effects, which this section documents.

Form Properties

As explained above, how distinct Thor is from Blake or his other mortal personas, and how their very nature works, has varied a lot. Blake differs from Thor at a molecular level, and has all the needs of a human which he lacks in godly form, such as needing regular sleep.

• When Thor transforms into Blake, his entire nuclear and molecular structure changes
• Letters page says that if Thor wants to be Thor when he sleeps, he needs to have the hammer’s thong on his wrist
  • A later letters page affirms Thor stays Thor in Asgard due to Odin’s enchantment
• Blake and Thor have a full identity and mind conflict
• Letters page notes that the writing on Mjolnir disappeared after Blake first found it and that it’s inconsistent whether the hammer transforms into cane upon reversion. It explains how the transformation from Blake to Thor upon tapping the hammer/cane is based on intent and mind, which is why Thor can tap the hammer twice to summon storms
• Being stuck in-between Limbo causes one side of his body to be subject to normal time, causing only half of his body to revert to Blake
• When Odin is dead, the enchantment no longer takes effect and Thor doesn’t revert to Blake
• A tired Blake turns into Thor and explains that his god-like vigor will sustain him, but in-turn it will cause him to be even more tired when he turns back to Blake
• Thor needs to sleep as Blake to prepare him for a big day
• Beta Ray Bill wields Mjolnir by striking Blake’s cane
• Surfer is able to sense Blake’s cane exists in two spaces and transforms it into Mjolnir from beyond, empowering Thor
• Striking Blake’s cane manifests Thor’s body around his spirit in the Destroyer and frees him, also summoning Mjolnir to him from Bill’s hand
• Grabbing Mjolnir produces a huge lightning strike in Vidblainn which blows away a group of monsters and turns Thor into his godly self and outfit
• A damaged Mjolnir is still able to turn back to Blake with some difficulty, though doing so later knocks him out for 20 minutes

Transformation Properties

The act of transforming from mortal to god and vice-versa is actually pretty powerful, and releases a noticeable amount of energy. Thor’s mortal identities have been able to transform just by touching the cane with the intent to do so, and can swap between forms instantly.

• Transformation happens in an instant
• The flash of the transformation is a lightning bolt which blinds people around Thor
• Transforms from Blake to Thor in “a microsecond”
• Transforms mid-air by slamming his cane against a wall
• Blake transforms to Thor even when someone else taps his cane as it turns it into Mjolnir which flies into his hands
• The Fourth-Dimensional Man absorbs the passive energies emitted over months by Blake transforming into Thor
• Blake is able to transform into Thor just by touching his cane as someone swings it at him with a flash of blinding light
• The power released by Thor reverting to Blake shatters the rocks trapping him
• As Blake, manages to jump Kro and make him tap the cane to transform into Thor with a lightning
• Blake, while free-falling, holds the cane under him so that upon it touching the ground he turns to Thor right before impact
• Striking his hammer in his bag against a wall turns Jarlson into Thor
• Turns from Blake to Thor “faster than mere words can describe”
• Blake chokes out in space but is able to tap his cane against his shoe to turn to Thor
• Masterson strikes his cane right as he impacts the ground, causing a large crater and a transformation to Thor, though he admits the impact makes him sorely used
• Even while broken, Mjolnir leaks out its mystic forces and responds to Thor’s touch, turning him from Olson to his godly form
• Olson changes forms upon tapping the hammer even while unconscious
• When Thor reverts to Blake, the hammer turning into a cane erases the gem which is bonded to it, and Blake speculates that as he and Thor aren’t precisely the same person, the consciousness of the gem had no place to go and ceased to exist. He speculates the reason for this enchantment is to ensure that the Earth wouldn’t be harmed by a thunder god gone berserk
• The lava man witch doctor casts a nuclear blast from his rod, which, in a freak one-in-a-million combination of molecules, turns Thor back into Donald Blake
• The effects of the electro-chemical reaction of Kang’s tech causes Thor to revert to Donald Blake
• Thor being separate from his hammer and the 60 second timer is described as his power “fading” and “draining”. Thor describes it as feeling the change to Blake approaching
• Thor transforming to Blake breaks the grip of a Storm Giant, forcing him to release him due to the shock and power of the transformation
• [Eric] Eric counters Absorbing Man trying to grab Mjolnir by tapping it so that the backlash of magic energies from his transformation to mortal form dazes Absorbing Man
• Blake strikes his cane in a field, creating a thunderbolt from a clear sky, and with onlookers noting they heard the thunder before they saw the lightning

Breaking Spells

Due to the distinction between Thor’s mortal and godly identities, transforming between them has the unique property of breaking spells inflicted upon him. Any spell affecting Thor will not affect Blake when he transforms back, and vice-versa, which has allowed Thor to break out of spells on multiple occasions.

• Thor transforms to Donald Blake after 60 seconds of separation, which breaks Loki’s hypnosis as the spell does not apply to Blake
• Turned to stone by the Grey Gargoyle, only reverting due to his hammer striking the ground and turning him into Blake, with it being noted no earthly power can prevent the hammer from weaving the spell Odin cast into it. Blake cannot turn back into Thor or he’ll become stone again
• When Thor reverts to Blake, the hammer becomes a walking stick, disrupting a machine trying to use it as a power source
• Reverting to Blake breaks the Puppet Master’s link with Thor, as Thor ceases to exist
• When Thor reverts to Blake, the hammer turning into a cane erases the gem which is bonded to it, and Blake speculates that as he and Thor aren’t precisely the same person, the consciousness of the gem had no place to go and ceased to exist. He speculates the reason for this enchantment is to ensure that the Earth wouldn’t be harmed by a thunder god gone berserk
• While being mind controlled by Moondragon, Thor has enough control to purposefully transform to Blake, which undoes the control. Thor says Blake was beneath Moondragon’s notice and Blake says they’re different personalities
• Sedna begins transforming Thor into her mate using her magic, but it’s interrupted by Thor reverting to Olson due to the hammer being separated for too long

Enchantment 6: Time Travel

The last of Mjolnir’s primary enchantments is also the one he may not actually have anymore. Due to the God Tempest’s ability to feel future events, Mjolnir had a latent ability to time travel, able to travel anywhere from the dawn of creation to the end of the universe. Thor would use this power in classic stories to freely traverse the future and past as the plot required. Unfortunately for Thor, the writer Mark Gruenwald thought Thor having this power was dumb since it was way too obviously overpowered, and so wrote a story where Thor depleted his hammer’s time-energies to close the time vortex on Space Phantom’s planet and restore it to normal space-time, permanently preventing him from time travelling, which was later revealed to be part of a plot by Immortus to strip the Avengers of their primary means of time travel. The remaining energy of this enchantment was later completely expended to fuel a time travelling device to travel a couple of hours into the past. Since then, it has been consistently stated that Mjolnir’s ability to time travel was lost, with a more recent comic even seemingly trying to retcon it so that Thor never had any ability to time travel on his own at all, somehow. You can’t really blame Gruenwald for his grievances though, classic era Thor once used this power to reverse time with Mjolnir and send him back to the beginning of the issue, completely undoing the events which had happened while retaining memory of them. Why did he not do that more often?

Other hammer wielders have shown some capacity to affect time themselves. Beta Ray Bill once opened a dimensional portal to travel across time by duplicating the energy pattern that got him and his allies to the past, and he, Dargo Ktor, and Eric Masterson were able to synchronise their hammers to travel through time to Zarrko in Limbo, notably doing this after Mjolnir had lost its time-travel enchantment. Later, the trio could unite their hammers to call upon the power supreme and summon the original Thor from the timestream. Most bizarrely, in a comic that came out in 2016, Jane Foster described Mjolnir as being able to travel through time, with Kang seeking the hammer to utilise this ability, and she could use Mjolnir to time travel from her future back to the present day. How she was able to do this when this is well after Mjolnir completely lost its time travel ability is never explained. My best guess is that Thor having reforged the hammer with the Odinforce previously may have restored some of its lost enchantments, but since the hammer’s time travel ability is implied to stem from the God Tempest’s power and not Odin’s enchantment, that explanation doesn’t entirely make sense. In current canon, given Jane’s showing with it, it’s unclear if Thor with the All-Power is able to time travel again. While All-Father Thor could time travel to the past during the events of the storyline The Reigning in the early 2000s, this required help from both the goddess Tarene and Zarrko’s time-travel device, and he explicitly could not do it on his own.

Time Travel Usage

• Spins Mjolnir faster than light to enter the fourth dimension of time and reach the future before returning to the present
• Returns to the present day from the 23rd century by swinging his hammer at twice the speed of light
• Thor’s time-warp leaves Zemo’s ship stuck “between the sixth and seventh dimensions”
• Creates a wind vortex and drags a man into it, taking him on a trip “beyond the very bounds of time and space” into the past, threatening to drop him into the world of dinosaurs. He takes him then millions of years into the future and threatens to drop him as the Earth collides into another planet
• Uses Mjolnir to transport Pluto, Sif, the Mutates, and the entire Atomic Research Building through the time vortex and back into the 20th century in a flash that illuminates the entire city
• Uses Zarrko’s time machine as a temporal compass to pinpoint the exact moment in time he has to return to. With Tarene’s help, he manages to find the moment where Zarrko planted charges and time travel to it

Mechanics

• Time travelling leaves Thor exhausted and requires him to briefly rest
• Attempts to time-travel back to when the Celestials first appeared, but he loses his hammer in the time-stream due to it being attracted to Phantus’s core, causing the vortex to dissipate and stranding Thor in limbo
• A sliver of Uru from Mjolnir is able to act as a time machine, sending Banner to the past, It’s described as being able to visit the entire space-time continuum at random
• Alongside the other Thor, spins Mjolnir to form a gateway which prevents Doom’s time platform from banishing them through time and transports them to Asgardia

Flight

Mjolnir is what allows Thor to fly, holding the power of flight within itself. Thor is “pulled” by his hammer’s forward momentum when flying, and he learned to use this to fly soon after becoming worthy, with his son Magni being able to do so instinctually. While Thor is able to briefly hover in the air after throwing Mjolnir, he will fall if it doesn’t return to him quickly enough. Thor can hover in the air by whirling and rise into orbit, but he has also been seen standing in the air with his hammer on its hilt and not in his hand. This would imply that it’s less that Mjolnir allows Thor to fly through strictly its forward momentum, and more that Thor is given the power of flight so long as Mjolnir is on his person.

When holding his hammer, Thor can fly freely through both the air and space, able to change directions, halt in mid-air, and perform precise aerial maneuvers. The hammer’s movement defies Newtonian law, and Moon Girl has noted that the gyroscopic forces from twirling Mjolnir shouldn’t be enough to fly on their own. Thor’s flight is incredibly fast, and can travel across the Earth and large portions of the cosmos in a short time. But if you’re a Death Battle fan, then you must already know that, right?

Without Mjolnir and when not imbued with the All-Power, Thor cannot fly, and must rely on other means to travel through the air, usually his goats (though there have been occasional errors depicting Thor as flying without Mjolnir).

Mechanics

• Flies by whirling his hammer and throwing it while attached
• Thor rises into the air like a helicopter by whirling his hammer over his head
• Without the hammer, Thor falls mid-flight
• Can initiate flight with his hammer even while falling through the air
• Dodges an attack in mid-air by releasing his hold on the hammer and plummeting down
• Halts his own fall by grasping on to his hammer to fly upwards
• Affected by Graviton making him weightless, throwing off his flight
• Thor carries Blake in flight, and Blake says he’s shielded from the wind and cold despite the speed
• Thor’s departure to Asgard creates winds of the severest storms which topple cars

Hovering

• While in mid-air, whirls his hammer to raise himself and dodge an attack
• Struck out of the air by a lightning bolt but uses his hammer like a helicopter rotor to slow his fall and steer himself
• Thor remains in mid-air even with his hammer thrown

Control

• Thor cannot check his flight easily enough to evade crashing into a building, but instead turns in mid-air to bounce off the wall and continue
• When damaged, the hammer cannot fly properly and sends Thor crashing into the ground. He confirms he normally controls his flight
• Says that in flight he’s propelled by the hammer’s power and guided by his right arm’s strength

Energy Absorption

Mjolnir and other weapons like it are built to drink the energies of stars, allowing it to freely absorb various kinds of energy, typically forms of radiation and electricity, though it has also been seen absorbing things like magic or cosmic energy. The hammer can absorb energy fired towards it and reflect it back, or it can absorb energy from an object or person directly. Thor can also combine the energies of himself and others to produce more powerful effects, able to amplify absorbed energies “a millionfold”. Thor can even absorb entities entirely into Mjolnir, such as the gaseous Dark Dweller or Electro. The latter would seek revenge on Thor by turning into a state he couldn’t absorb, namely anti-matter.

• Rubs his hammer along the ground to pick up the natural energy and redirect it towards the Master Machine
• Absorbs the “blue flame from countless cosmic suns” used by Heimdall and projects them as raw power bolts
• Absorbs Kang’s radiation and reflects it with even more power, bypassing Kang’s own immunity (described as tenfold the power)
• Draws Silver Surfer’s cosmic energy bolts into his hammer’s head
• Swings the hammer around him to combine the strength of himself, Heimdall, Balder, the Warriors Three, Sif, and Karnilla, sending the combined energy streaking across space from Asgard to Odin in short time, where it frees Odin from his possession
• A thrown Mjolnir absorbs Pluto’s magical flames when hit, quenching them, with these flames capable of paralysing Hercules
• Taps the limitless energies of a celestial maelstrom to empower his hammer enough to shatter a huge cosmic barricade, described the strongest blow he’s ever dealt
• Carefully absorbs the power leaking from Ultron’s body through Mjolnir’s head to contain it, and discharges it into space
• The Collector traps Thor’s hammer in a negative energy field, causing it to absorb the negative energy
• Using Mjolnir, quells an electrical discharge from Indra’s spear
• Channels the life-force of every godly pantheon and fires it as a blast at Odin which resurrects him
• Uses Mjolnir to draw electric power from an entire convention down to the wall outlets and channel it at Megatak with enough power to melt a city, turning the surrounding oxygen into ozone, before siphoning all of his electrical energy and dispersing it into the sky
• Absorbs Monica Rambeau’s gamma rays with his hammer head
• Absorbs the radiation fired by X-Ray and even the radiation coursing through his body until he’s depleted, before unleashing the stored radiation at Vector and KOing him
• Uses his hammer to draw all the null energy from the Null Bomb and fire it out into a single beam which instantly slings across the universe into a sun with enough energy to reignite
• Despite not knowing if it would work, uses Mjolnir to tap into the flow of energies around the Atomic Compressor, but admits they’re far beyond the greatest forces he’s tried to dominate in the past. He feels the forces welling up inside him and says that unless he breaks his hold, he would explode as the energies are too much
• While wearing the Belt of Strength, blocks the full power of Thermal Man’s blasters with Mjolnir, containing all the energy and firing it back as a solar blast at Thermal Man to defeat him. Thor says the blast could reduce Asgard to cinder
• Contains Firelord’s supernova with Mjolnir
• Alongside Iron Man and Hank Pym, siphons the energy of the Gamma Core using Mjolnir and separates it from Loki
• Drinks the energy Perrikus hits it with
• Mjolnir draws Photon’s electrical energy out of the bodies of the Wrecking Crew and fires it as a blast into the rings surrounding Polemachus, removing their amp, though Photon aids in the process
• Blocks a lightning blast from Storm with Mjolnir and fires it back at her
• Blocks an eye-blast from Thanosi with Mjolnir and absorbs its energies before firing it back at Thanos with its power magnified a hundred-fold
• Channels Tarene’s energy into Mjolnir and magnifies it a millionfold, which still isn’t enough to defeat Surtur
• Draws out the Presence’s energy with Mjolnir. Presence attempts to overload it but cannot turn his power blast off. Thor threatens to kill him by sucking out his life-force
• Cesium fires electric blasts at Thor, which he just absorbs with Mjolnir, boasting that lightning from any quarter is his to command
• Endures the totality of Glory’s power as cosmic fire, sending him across worlds, and absorbs the fire into Mjolnir before channeling it back at Glory as a quantum tsunami that tears through reality and destroys him
• Mjolnir is able to pull faint traces of the Phoenix Force into itself while fighting it, more effectively than the Phoenix cage specifically built to do just that, which Thor attributes to Odin’s power
• Using his Mjolnir alongside his older self’s Mjolnir, absorbs the Godbomb’s blast into himself
• Channels several gamma bombs worth of She-Hulk’s energy through Mjolnir into a gamma lightning blast which launches Cosmic Ghost Rider and hurts him
• [Eric] Reacts to and absorbs a lightning-absorbed Absorbing Man into Mjolnir, noting it can contain lightning as well as control it, but the electrical backlash and strain is too much and Masterson is forced to release him as a bolt into the sky
• [Jane] Catches a lightning bolt from the sky
• Blocks an energy cannon with Mjolnir, seemingly absorbing the energy
• Forcibly takes the Power Cosmic from Galactus. While wielding the Power Cosmic, he does this again in the same manner to drain Galactus completely of his new power
• Absorbs the Zodiac Key’s magical energy via a blast from Carol, before launching Mjolnir into orbit to allow the energy to safely detonate

Forcefields

Mjolnir has the ability to create both traditional energy-based forcefields as well as wind-based vortex shields, strong enough to protect from cosmic events or contain enough energy to wipe out 1/5th of the universe.

Energy Fields

• Prevents the Guardian from reviving by spinning his hammer around his body, creating a sphere of force strong enough to shield against Infinity’s blasts
• Loki with Thor’s power creates a defensive field around the UN building which soldiers cannot break through
• Creates a protective forcefield with Mjolnir to shield his allies from the cosmic upheaval destroying the entire planet, though he says it can only endure so long and thinks the destruction will kill him
• Spins his hammer to attract interdimensional cosmic matrix energy which forms an indestructible shield around an operating room, later removing it with a blast, the surgeons noting that air in the room was finite
• Creates a protective vortex around himself and Black Knight to shield them from the eyes of reporters
• [Other] Bill uses Mjolnir to create a forcefield from Volcana’s fire blast
• Endures flame breath from the Phoenix Force, which he seemingly guards against with a force field from Mjolnir, through is KOd

Vortex Shields

• Creates a whirling vortex to protect himself and a civilian from a rain of debris
• Whips up a vortex which shatters the laws of time and space around himself and a Life-Bomb, which completely contains its force in the wind tunnel at the cost of killing Thor himself. The Life-Bomb was one of 5 bombs meant to destroy the universe via chain reaction
• Generates a wind shield with a whirl which protects him and his allies from the debris of an exploding planet
• Creates an impenetrable cocoon of hurricane force winds to defend against a swarm of space sting rays, which is then harnessed into a single cone of energy which launches Thor to safety across an asteroid belt

Magnetism

Mjolnir has the surprisingly consistent ability to manipulate and produce electromagnetic fields, either to produce magnetic force or absorb the electromagnetic fields of others even on the scale of Magneto.

• Rubs the hammer along the ground to soak up the strong flow of magnetic currents and draw Loki in
• By tracking a spaceship’s location, uses his hammer to create a torrent of cosmic magnetic waves to rip it from the ground, when even Giant Man couldn’t budge it
• Draws the magnetic forces of the galaxy into his hammer to magnetise a robot monster and force it to its knees
• Mjolnir is able to follow Magneto by drawing on his magnetic force and draws Magneto’s magnetic force field from him
• Slowly rotates his hammer on the ground to draw out the magnetic energy field from the core of an alien planet, containing the energies in his hammer and firing them out at Arishem in a blast that shatters mountain peaks for miles, which Arishem barely notices. Thor says Mjolnir can’t contain such energies for long and needs to release them quickly
• Creates a magnetic field effect which pulls the Avengers’ room to a building 15 miles away
• Generates a strong electromagnetic field by whirling, siphoning Eiderdurm like water through a sieve
• [Other] Bill whirls Stormbreaker to create a magnetic field with opposite polarity to Ego’s own, forcibly drawing out Ego’s living energy and expelling it

Matter Manipulation

(I want you to look at how insanely ugly this outfit is)

Mjolnir is able to precisely manipulate atoms, either through sheer force or through its magical ability to transmute elements. Jane Foster used Mjolnir to match the specific frequencies needed for dimensional travel, and was able to produce counter vibrations to cancel out opposing effects.

• Strikes a tank with such force that the vibrations cause the molecules of the steel to disassemble and fall apart
• Whirls his hammer at “cyclotronic speeds” to transmute the elements, turning Absorbing Man into helium and letting him disperse
• The lightning Thor hits a mechanical chest with changed its properties, meaning that when FAUST absorbed it he also absorbed its properties, destroying his adamantium’s invulnerability and making FAUST destroyable
• Whirls Mjolnir to create a vortex which reassembles the very molecules of his outfit into a new garb of rags and steel leggings
• One depiction of Donald Blake’s backstory describes Thor as actually just refashioning his own body into the form of a mortal each time he transforms
• [Jane] Mjolnir reacts to high frequency vibrations from a meteor, and is able to strike the ground precisely enough to send an opposing vibration which cancels it out across a building
• [Jane] Mjolnir has the ability to turn a magic mirror shard into stardust. She throws the hammer to convert the shard into stardust sprinkling around them
• Mends Cap’s shield with a strike, commenting that the power of Odin is stronger than one might think

Sensing

Mjolnir has potent sensing abilities, Thor using it to track down specific entities via its magic.

Tracking

• All Asgardians such as Loki emit an “aura of free-flowing electrons”, which Thor is able to detect using his hammer to track them. This path can be obstructed, requiring Thor to fly up high into the sky to track Loki. He implies this ability would work even at the edge of the universe
• The hammer’s magic allows Thor to track where the magic of Strange came from, though it dissipates when Loki leaves for Asgard
• The hammer tingles when it senses a supernatural presence, alerting Thor to Absorbing Man behind him
• Uses the hammer as a divining rod while flying over the Earth’s surface in order to locate where underground Mole Man is
• Locates a specific doctor in Norway through his hammer and can tell a doctor is actually an alien
• When high above the Earth, Thor’s hammer can tell which pole some aliens are hiding in
• Tracks Lucifer all the way from America to the Balkans
• By flying above the surface, the hammer senses and is attracted to Loki’s mystic items
• The hammer guides Thor to the location of Hercules
• Tracks Replicus’s location using his hammer’s senses
• The hammer automatically guides Thor to Daredevil in flight
• Guides Thor in flight to Kronin Krask’s castle
• Raises his hammer to the sky, with it emitting a beam of light pointing in the direction of Kartag who Thor is looking for
• Mjolnir detects emanations from underground beneath a volcano
• Due to Mjolnir having been bathed in the rays of the Cobalt-Cannon, it can now trace the power of the cannon to its source and locate it
• The hammer is able to guide Thor to the Kremlin via electronic impulses received from a Nazi device
• Mjolnir traces the energy trail of Peace’s vehicle from NY to halfway across the country
• Can sense Juggernaut’s current location
• Mjolnir tracks Karkas and Ransak by tracing the lingering residue of their life essences. Thor loses the trace when he enters a city amidst the cacophony of life forces
• Mjolnir is able to track a fleeing criminal across quantum barriers, also implying it returned to Thor’s hand against said barriers
• [Eric] By concentrating on Absorbing Man, Masterson is able to use Mjolnir to guide him to his location in flight
• [Eric] Eric, Dargo, and Bill can use their hammers to track the enchanted energy Zarrko absorbed and follow him. Stormbreaker is able to locate Zarrko through time through his energy trail

Other

Mjolnir’s sensory abilities extend beyond finding things. It’s been able to alert Thor of evil presences and identify power sources, as well as block incoming electromagnetic signals.

• Can determine the strength of an evil based on the hammer’s emanations
• Fires a blast from Mjolnir towards Juggernaut’s force-field which identifies somehow that Juggernaut’s powers are magical in origin
• Mjolnir throbs whenever demons set foot on Earth to alert Thor
• [Other] After Dargo Ktor uses Mjolnir to track Demonstaff via his energy signature, Demonstaff evades him by changing the energy signature
• Grabs Mjolnir wielded by the Destroyer and is able to sense both the Destroyer’s destructive power building and the presence of Donald Blake inside the armour
• Scarlet Witch is able to draw out Enrakt’s mystic trail from Mjolnir and show his location across the barriers of time, space, and the dimensional rift, saying that if it knows where someone is, it can determine a way
• Mjolnir is able to sense the power influencing a group of villains and follow it
• Automatically detects an energy surge that transports him through dimensions
• By touching Thor’s hammer, Hulk and Thor block the wavelengths of the Leader’s gamma signals with electricity and bounces the transmission back to its source
• [Other] Beta Ray Bill’s hammer resonates with the enchanted shockwave of Masterson and Dargo’s clash, and he senses he’s needed on earth, referencing Mjolnir’s sacred bond
• [Eric] Galactus transports Thor to the moon so that his instruments can operate via the wavelength of Mjolnir to collect data. The hammer transmits telemetry to Thanos letting him know the status of Earth, and provides data such as the energy levels being up in the target dimension and alterations in Galactus’s own reality

Soul Manipulation

Mjolnir has ferried souls with its winds, having done so to both loose souls and to purge others of possession, and can be used to draw out the souls of the Asgardian people.

• Creates a vortex which purges a group of humans of the demons possessing them
• Whirls his hammer to create a vortex from Asgard to Earth, riding a group of human lost souls on his goat chariot back to their bodies, and then creates a wind by whirling Mjolnir which ferries the lost souls to their bodies
• Was planned by Odin to restore the Asgardians from their mortal states back to their godly selves by striking Mjolnir. Red Norvell does this in his place, restoring even Odin in Asgard to his god form. Norvell striking his hammer released the enchanted energies which returned the Asgardians to their true forms, and also restores Norvell to his old form and restores him to life, giving him back his emotions

When Thor was resurrected in Oklahoma while wielding the All-Power, he set out to restore all his fellow Asgardians, whose souls had been trapped in mortal bodies. To do this, he used Mjolnir and the All-Power to restore the Asgardian souls from their human vessels, and was capable of doing this on a planetary scale, albeit at the cost of much of his energy.

• Thor senses Heimdall’s spirit is hidden in a mortal man, having been drawn to New Orleans to find him, and whirls Mjolnir to draw Heimdall’s soul out and separate the two
• Perceives the Warriors Three’s souls in mortal men, which drove them to work together, and whirls a storm around them to bring back their Asgardian selves
• Whirls a storm into the sky which strikes the remaining Asgardians underground, turning them back to their godly selves
• Frees the souls of every Asgardian on Earth, conjuring a thunderstorm which engulfs the entire planet. The effort causes Thor to collapse and require the Odinsleep
• Thor says Mjolnir can pierce the veil between life and death and travel all Nine Realms, and summons Captain America’s spirit from the afterlife to talk with him
• Summons out Sif’s soul from her mortal vessel

Power Nullification

Thor has been able to drain other of their powers before, most prominently doing this to siphon others of their divinity and turn them into mortal beings. He can also cancel out all magic in an area for a limited time.

• Throws his hammer to whirl around Firelord, creating a vortex which saps his power
• Summons a storm and lightning strike to sheathe Mjolnir in energy, before blasting towards Darkoth’s firehorn blast, the lightning prevailing until it hits Darkoth and purges him of Mephisto’s corruption. Thor then channels more light into Darkoth and ultimately kills him. The dialogue implies Thor’s light is like a fundamental opposite to Mephisto
• Fires a blast of lightning straight from his hammer which drains the power of the Norns from the Wrecking Crew and draws it back through Wrecker, making them mortals again outside of Wrecker
• Tosses the Wrecker onto a charged train rail, allowing Thor to add the power of his hammer to the current by stamping the ground, draining the Wrecker’s strength and turning him back to being a mortal while not killing him
• Throws Mjolnir spinning around an entire castle to encircle it in a cone which negates all magical energy in its area, nullifying Juggernaut’s force-field. Thor has to finish the fight in 60 seconds to get his hammer back before reverting to Eric Masterson
• Uses Mjolnir to sap Marduk’s power and drain his divinity, making him as strong as a mortal, though still immortal in nature
• Charges Iron Man’s suit with divine transformative energy summoned as lightning from Mjolnir, which Iron Man calibrates to siphon Diablo’s divinity completely. The energy blast also reverts Thor to Blake

Time Stopping

Thor has stopped time in specific areas on a couple of occasions, and has even protected himself from time-stopping effects in-return. This ability hasn’t been used since his classic comics, at least without Thor having the All-Power, so it’s unclear if Mjolnir still has this power after it lost its time-travel ability or if the two abilities are related in some way.

• Spins a time-warp around a whole house which freezes Jane Foster and stops time around her, though it can’t last forever as it would otherwise cause a temporal displacement across the entire universe
• Thor freezes time using his hammer around Odin to prevent Hela from touching his soul. He says that unless he maintains the time-freeze, Odin will be taken. Thor’s time barrier is structured so even Hela can’t pierce it, leading Hela to consider Thor’s power worthy, and it lasts for over a day
• Identifies a phenomenon in the sky, and creates a vortex with his hammer which protects both himself and Spider-Man from a time-stopping mirroring effect

Stasis

Similarly to the time stop, Mjolnir has a rarely used ability to place others in stasis for a time.

• Fires bolts from his hammer which keep the Warriors Three in stasis until he frees them
• Creates a stasis vortex around Black Knight with a whirl, which spins harmlessly, invisible and intangible to everybody except Thor, until he returns or dies

Mind Manipulation

Through either its ability to reflect light in such a manner as to induce trance or through its magic, Thor has used Mjolnir to alter the minds of others, usually doing so to wipe mortals of their memories regarding Asgardian events. Touching the hammer also once let Iron Man see a vision of Asgard and cause him to realise Thor was telling the truth about being a god.

• Holds his hammer at just the right angle to catch the sun’s rays and out some guards in a hypnotic trance
• Wipes Jane’s memories of the events of the past issue
• Wipes a reporter’s memory, though the reporter recognises his memory has been wiped, and Thor says some aspect of the memories will be in his dreams. It’s later shown the reporter was able to recover his memories through hypnosis, but also that the dreams he had of Asgard were implanted in him by a foreign source
• Wipes the memory of a large group of humans
• Thor attempts to restore Hercules’ memories using Mjolnir and a Tony Stark machine, but it fails. Iron Man attributes this to Hercules being resistant
• Creates a vortex which purges a group of humans of the demons possessing them and wipes their memories
• Uses Mjolnir to awaken an unconscious Virako
• Returns to Asgard through a vortex, wiping the Invaders’ memories of him in the process
• Broken out of the Leader’s control by Iron Man reflecting light off of Mjolnir
• Seems to cast a spell of forgetfulness on Blake’s nurses through Fandral, making them forget Blake
• Forces two children to sleep with a light from his hammer

Healing

Mjolnir can emit rays to speed up the healing of others. It once also acted as a kind of magical defibrillator, with Thor slaying Union Jack with a blastand then using his hammer to draw out the lightning-force he hit Jack with just enough to save his life as he was dying, the remaining power granting Jack electrical abilities.

Image Conjuring

Mjolnir is what facilitates Thor and Donald Blake’s ability to call upon Odin for advice. This can also be used to scry upon distant locations and contact other figures highly important to Thor, such as Hitler.

• Summons Odin for advice by creating a thunderstorm
• Calls upon Odin through a thunderstorm to destroy a fortress with lightning
• Uses Mjolnir to conjure a memory of Odin giving Thor advice
• Bends the fabric of existence with Mjolnir to conjure an image of Hitler and his allies and communicate with them
• Whirls a gate of timeless space to observe the location of Odin’s eye and figure out where it has gone, witnessing a distant alien planet

Sealing

Mjolnir has been used to seal Thor’s enemies, either creating and reforming seals on entities or dimensions, or doing whatever this weird thing with Hyperion is.

• Whirls his thrown hammer around Hyperion, the vortex trapping him in a bubble form of glazed sand and shrinking him in size, sealing him away by duplicating and reversing the atomic process that gave Hyperion his powers
• The stone from the seafloor where Godstorm is imprisoned is imbued with the magic Thor placed which kept him confined, and so causes him pain
• The magic of Mjolnir helps reform the seal between Duat, the land of the dead, and the land of the living

Anti-Matter

Mjolnir was once able to project what was described as anti-matter particles by rotating fast enough, with Thor spinning the hammer as a super-fan to blow the particles towards the “negative” people and reverse their atoms to turn them positive. These really didn’t actually behave anything like real anti-matter.

Illusion Breaking

Mjolnir seems to have some kind of ability to break conjured illusions with its power, having been used to do so on multiple occasions, though it’s never been clearly defined.

• Strikes a giant demonic monster hard enough to shatter “a small portion of reality”, breaking the night-time illusion around him
• Thor is affected by Mephisto’s illusions, but throws his hammer to see through his illusions and strike the real form, downing him. Thor needs to actively will his hammer to see through Mephisto’s illusions, as it will miss if he doesn’t
• Creates a vortex in Hel which blows away the landscape and unveils the illusion Hela cast to reveal the true environment
• Whirls Mjolnir to dispel Loki’s illusionary clones and expose the real ones
• [Jane] Dispels Loki’s illusions with a burst of lightning from Mjolnir, burning the real Loki

Reality Warping

Even more ill-defined are abilities which I don’t think can really be classified as anything other than general reality warping. Thor once threw his hammer to whirl around a massive pyramid, the vortex transporting the pyramid away and replacing it with the grove it emerged from. With the All-Power, he was able to tell his mind was being affected and that the fabric of the universe was being manipulated just below sight, exposing that layer of reality with his hammer’s twirl. You could say Mjolnir’s true power is plot convenience, but that joke is too obvious so you shouldn’t.

Astral Projection

A fairly well-defined but still pretty bullshit one-off ability, Mjolnir can be used to conjure the astral selves of Thor and those around him and go on essentially a vision quest. He did this with a tap, summoning his and Fusion’s astral selves out of their bodies and showing him a vision of multiple possible futures in 50 years.

Time Reversal

In Immortal Thor, All-Father Thor was able to channel the All-Power through Mjolnir’s latent power over time and space to reverse time and undo the damage done by Toranos over NYC. As Thor puts it, this is, in a poetic sense, the God of Storms having the ability to summon the calm that comes before it.

Resistances

As an object imbued with the power of both Odin and an elder god storm, Mjolnir is protected by its binding enchantment known as the Odin-spell, and has displayed various resistances to esoteric effects against itself.

• Magic
  • Strange’s spells will not work against “so alien” an object as Thor’s hammer

• Matter Manipulation
  • Endures Kang channelling the full force of his dissolution ray through Mjolnir
  • Molecule Man disintegrates Thor’s hammer, but comments that the molecules in it were unusual and had an odd force interweaving that made them tough to separate, likely referring to Odin’s enchantment. He’s able to restore the enchantment alongside the hammer
  • Mjolnir survives Terminus consuming his own molecules and imploding on himself into a black hole, and recalls to Thor’s hand from inside the black hole
  • Mjolnir withstands the presence of antarctic vibranium even as it destroys all other metal in the area
  • Mjolnir seems unaffected by antarctic vibranium even while it disintegrates Phastos’s hammer
  • [Eric] Blocks a blast from Ronan with Mjolnir. Ronan states that his weapon can create and destroy matter, but that Mjolnir confounds him and he’s unable to even analyse its true physical nature, though it does put strain on Thor
  • Charges through the Destroyer’s visor blast, imbued with the power of Odin
  • Blocks the Destroyer’s disintegration ray

• Decay
  • Mjolnir is unaffected by the Rot, which decays and disintegrates all living things

• Transmutation
  • Due to being forged by Odin himself, the hammer cannot be turned into a snake by the Enchantress’s magic
  • [Old King] Thor is transmuted into statue form and Mjolnir is melted by Korvac. The writer notes that Korvac reconstituted Mjolnir after he destroyed it, but that Mjolnir might soon have re-formed on its own anyway

• Non-Physical Interaction
• Positive
  • Asgardian weapons can hit and hurt Ghost while he’s phasing
  • Throws his hammer, dissolving the light conjuring an image of the Enchanters
  • Mjolnir channels mystic energy which harms Vision and causes him immense pain when he tries to phase through it, though it’s said Vision’s phasing could otherwise harm Thor
  • Threatens to summon a tempest over Mimir which would douse his flame, which Mimir seems to take as a credible threat. Notably, Mimir is normally intangible
  • Blasts away an energy monster summoned by Umar
  • Spins Mjolnir through electrically manifested constructs of videogame enemies
  • Summons lightning from a storm to strike Dracula in mist form, the blast ionising his drifting molecules and shocking his system
  • Taps twice to summon a lightning bolt from Mjolnir which converges on Vapor in her gaseous state and shocks her back to her human form, KOing her
  • Atum exists on a different plane than Thor, so Mjolnir phases right through him. Thor fires a thunderbolt from his hammer which are the essence of the sun Atum dwells in, which Atum actually feels
  • Deflects a telepathic blast from Rachel Grey Phoenix
  • Shatters Loki’s magic spells
  • Dazes Plasma with a strike and smites her with a bolt of lightning from the sky
  • Initially unable to harm Tempest in her wind form, but uses his control over weather to render her tangible. He was also able to fire a lightning bolt which could hurt her even in wind form
  • Hits the Enchanters in their state as living energy
  • Able to strike the Disir and block their attacks, who are spirit forms and have been depicted as intangible (though it is inconsistent if they’re intangible or not). In a comic by this same writer, Kieron Gillen, they’re referred to as intangible to weapons, and they do note that Mjolnir being able to block their blades is unusual, which makes me think the intent is that Mjolnir has the ability to touch them in their intangible state. That being said, it is noted Mjolnir isn’t unusual enough to seriously harm them and it seems to phase through when attacking
  • Shatters Saturnalia’s binding energy rings with Mjolnir, noting that their composition doesn’t matter
  • Channels a bolt of lightning from the sky into Mjolnir and fires it at Order (who is half of the In-Betweener). Note that it’s unclear if the Order has the In-Betweener’s intangibility
  • Breaks the hand of Surtur’s spirit with a smash
• Negative
  • Loki bypasses Mjolnir by willing his blade into another dimension
  • An empowered Kang phases through Mjolnir
  • Phases through the Silent One
  • The thrown hammer harmlessly passes through a barrier only Black Bolt can break
  • Mjolnir is unable to affect a phasing Darkoth
  • Throws Mjolnir at a creature made up of an insect swarm with control of its density, with it passing through with no effect
  • Phases through Tokkots

• Freezing
  • The hammer’s enchantment allows it to easily break Thor out after he’s been frozen over

• Anti-Matter
  • The hammer bounces off Kang’s anti-matter screen, but is not destroyed
  • The Collector traps Thor’s hammer in a negative energy field, causing it to absorb the negative energy. A build up of negative energy in the hammer causes a positron blast’s positive energy to stun Thor, so it behaves like anti-matter

• Telekinesis
  • The colonisers are able to briefly block the hammer in flight with combined mind-thrusts, but it breaks through their force and begins accelerating

• Existence Erasure
  • Deflects Darkseid’s Omega Beams with a whirl of MjolnirWas able to briefly endure Nullitor’s energy field, which erases objects, though we don’t get to see what would happen if the attack wasn’t interruptedEndures the Unbinding Stone unravelling realityThe Collector states Ultimate Thor’s Mjolnir didn’t die even as a universe collapsed around it and it tore through the walls of reality like tissue paperOdinson and Jane begin to disappear due to a time paradox, but note that while they may be subject to the vagaries of time, Mjolnir is eternal, and they unite their hammers as one to throw it against the alien altering their timeline and KO him
  • Odin’s Mjolnir, alongside many other Thors, helps plug the holes in the omniversal tidal wave. Notably the Mjolnirs are able to resist the energy of the First Firmament without being destroyed

• Energy Absorption
  • Haechi attempts to absorb energy from Mjolnir, but is blown away by Thor’s lightning

• Spatial Cutting
  • Can clash with the Executioner’s Bloodaxe, which can cut through space and dimensions
  • Clashes Mjolnir with Skurge the Executioner’s Bloodaxe

• Miscellaneous Negative Showings
  • Mjolnir is unable to breach a wall of mystic forces which transport people through time
  • Some aliens siphoning Odin’s power are able to remove Mjolnir’s enchantment, with the enchantment returning upon Odin’s resurrection
  • Doctor Spectrum’s gem embeds in Mjolnir and uses it as a focal point to mind control Thor
  • Pluto somehow enchants Blake’s cane/Thor’s hammer with an aura leading to Jane Foster
  • With a throw, breaks through Annihilus’s null-field when no other force from the Avengers could, though the hammer settles to the earth after due to its force being totally spent and does not return to Thor’s hand due to its energy being cancelled and drained. The null-field prevents the hammer from reverting to a cane even as Thor turns to Blake
  • Throws Mjolnir at Juggernaut, who’s force field slows it down and kills its momentum as it approaches him, though it still goes for a return trip to Thor’s hand
  • Mjolnir is imprisoned in an immutable crystal he can’t break with his strongest blow, neutralising its powers. It’s described as a solid field of anti-probability which negates all magic, or what’s really the psionic manipulation of probability. It permeates the hammer’s essence, meaning if the field was destroyed, Mjolnir would be destroyed as well. While power-nulled like this, Vision could phase into it
  • Enchantress seals it in a container, also reducing Thor’s power
  • Wanda uses her magic to alter the hammer’s probabilities and make it lose its kinetic energy, causing it to fall until Thor calls it back
  • Once got possessed by Enrakt, who messed with its abilities and slowly built up control over it until he could emerge, allowing him to control its power with his soul

Arsenal

Helmet

Thor’s classic outfit is Asgardian formal wear, probably most defined by his iconic winged helmet forged of Asgardian steel. Thor’s attachment to it comes from it being the very first war helmet given to him by papa Odin when he became an adolescent, with the wings adorning it being hawk wings signifying Thor’s command over the winds. Beyond its sentimental and cultural value, the helmet has some practical use. By taking off his helmet and tying his cape around it, he can make a makeshift battering ram to break through a field of thorns capable of piercing even the strongest armour, which is pretty handy if he’s absent from other weapons. Thor’s connection to his helmet is so strong that the Scarlet Witch was able to use it to manifest part of Thor’s essence in a rewritten timeline.

During his time incarnated as the human warrior Siegfried, his helmet was called Tarnhelm, and allowed for shape-shifting.

Cape

Completing Thor’s classic outfit is his cape. Thor has worn this outfit for over 1000 years and can summon it around himself at any time. Beyond the style points, the cape is surprisingly flame retardant, capable of shielding from flames hotter than the fires of Hades, attacks from Firelord, and fireballs from the Incan god Thunder. The flame can be used to protect against poisonous gasses and fumes, to blind others, to restrain beings as strong as Namor underwater, for bullfighting, and as a mask or make-shift bag to prevent touching dangerous things. Thor also frequently uses it as an impromptu bandage for his wounds. Most appropriately, it can be used as a cloak and a blanket.

Much less iconic than his cape and helmet are his arm-bands, but their signature red striped look originates from them being wrapped in Sif’s band, making it actually a symbol of Thor’s love.

Battle Armour

Bitter at yet another defeat at the hands of Thor, Hela would curse the thunder god for a time with ‘immortality’, manifesting as his bones becoming extremely brittle and unable to heal while preventing him from actually dying. It wouldn’t take long for Thor to find himself practically unable to move his broken left arm without suffering agonising pain. Thor’s initial solution was a biomechanical cast over his arm, which responded to his nerves so that he could move the arm without moving his broken bones. After suffering even more unhealable damage to the rest of his body, Thor needed a way to protect himself, and used the famous blast furnaces of Pittsburgh and the sacred runes of Odin to forge Asgardian steel armour. This armour essentially became Thor’s body, with his flesh and bones commanding it as they once commanded his actual body to counteract Hela’s curse. The armour held his shattered bones together so he wasn’t paralysed by pain, even as his battles ended up reducing him to a literal quivering mass of jellied flesh maintained only by the armour. The armour was tough enough to withstand a blast from the Destroyer, though its more intense matter-manipulating attacks allowed it to destroy and reconstruct the suit repeatedly.

After Thor overcame Hela’s curse, he would stash away the armour, and kept it inside a satchel contained inside a pocket universe alongside his belt of strength to allow him to recall the armour to him whenever he wanted. He would don the armour alongside the belt in his battles against Arishem and the Thermal Man. All that being said, the armour was ultimately made for specifically the purpose of defending against Hela’s curse, and outside of that context isn’t really actually that useful, so Thor rarely calls upon it. Its last appearance was during Ragnarok, where Thor would wear it while he gained the power of the runes.

Also if you’re wondering about that one armour that’s in Rivals which people confuse for Rune King Thor,

^this one, it was only seen for a few pages where it did nothing and the sentience of the Odinforce called it useless before forcibly shedding it from him.

Iron Gloves

Thor’s old iron gloves were used to wield Mjolnir before he became worthy. The gloves are imbued with Thor’s essence and allowed Red Norvell to grab Mjolnir from Thor’s hands. Thor himself has used them alongside a mask to prevent Hela’s deadly touch from reaching him.

Belt of Strength

Just like his mythic counterpart, Thor’s arsenal includes a belt of strength known as Megingjord. It’s imbued with the Odinforce, is kept in Asgard’s vaults by Odin and doubles Thor’s strength, designed to increase his power in his younger days. Initially seen being phased to his location by the valkyries to help him out of a tricky situation, Thor doesn’t actually like using the belt if the stakes aren’t high enough due to its association with his youth. The belt is tailor-made for Thor specifically, with those other than him receiving an electric shock if they put it on and needing some kind of specific way to bypass that effect to wear it. When the ordinary human Red Norvell wore it while being empowered by Loki’s magic, he became exactly as strong as Thor. This turned out to be because Odin had duplicated Thor’s essence into his iron gloves and the belt, meaning one adorned with both like Norvell would gain all of Thor’s strength and an affinity for Mjolnir. The belt also doesn’t just increase Thor’s strength, but Mjolnir’s strength.

While it was originally contained in Asgard’s vault, Thor is also able to summon the belt to him directly and has been seen keeping it in a sack on his person or in his chariot’s locker. Most prominently, Thor kept it in his satchel which he contained inside a pocket universe, allowing him to summon forth the belt mid-situation whenever he wanted. Thor has used it to battle the Beyonder-empowered Kurse, the Celestials Arishem and Exitar, and to overcome a losing battle against the Thermal Man. The belt has one major downside, which is that use of it drains Thor so badly that he’s barely able to walk after it’s removed. After the battle with Kurse, Thor was still tired out by the belt’s use several issues later.

The belt can be wrapped around Mjolnir to help it to contain the energies of particularly powerful attacks like the Godblast. When Thor was transformed into a frog, the belt’s power ensured he was still far beyond an ordinary frog in his reduced state, and the belt allows Thor to restore some of his lost power if worn. Its last appearance was during a battle with Mangog and Thanosi. While adorned with it and several other Odinforce-powered artifacts, Odin manifested to tell Thor to discard the weapons due to their corrupting nature. Despite initially wanting to keep them, Thor ended up discarding and destroying them after he nearly went berserk from their power. This occurred in the late 90s, and after its destruction, the belt hasn’t been seen since.

Shield of Life &
Gauntlet of Tomorrows

Like the Belt of Strength, the Shield of Life and Gauntlet of Tomorrows are two Odinforce-empowered pieces of equipment, which Thor used to battle against the threat of a Thanosi. The shield is strong enough to endure blasts from an empowered Thanosi which would lay Thor himself low, while the gauntlet has the ability to extend or drain life. Like the belt, these items were destroyed by Thor after their usage due to their corrupting effects.

Jarnbjorn

An Asgardian steel battle axe forged by the dwarves of Nidavellir for the valkyrie Runa, it would end up in the hands of a young Thor Odinson and served as one of his primary weapons prior to his becoming worthy. After an embarrassing loss to Apocalypse, Thor would be tricked by Kang the Conqueror into enchanting the weapon to make it capable of piercing Apocalypse’s Celestial armour. After being lost for centuries, it would most prominently end up back in the now fully matured Thor’s hands after he had lost the worthiness of Mjolnir and served as his primary weapon during this period. Early on, it was depicted as being capable of returning to Thor’s hand after being thrown, but later (and more important) comics confirm that it does not have this ability, and that Thor must manually retrieve it after he throws it. When not in use, it’s held on his back. Since Thor is back to using Mjolnir, he no longer has need of Jarnbjorn, and the axe is currently back with Runa.

Of note is that the axe’s ability to cut through Celestials and their technology seems less indicative of its strength and more indicative of the axe’s enchantment acting as a sort of kryptonite to Celestials. Jarnbjorn lacks feats comparable to its showings against Celestials, and was prominently able to clash evenly with Mjolnir despite the fact that Jarnbjorn was used to easily kill the Celestial Exitar while Mjolnir, even when used by an amped Thor, could barely chip that same Exitar’s armour. Beyond that, the axe is durable enough to block enemy laser blasts and endure the heat of the sun.

Spoilers but this thing is probably going to be way less significant than the reaction to Thor vs Wonder Woman would have you believe.

Cleaving Strength

• Cleaves through Apocalypse’s armour
• Jarnbjorn is used by Uriel to cleave open the Celestial Gardener’s armour, killing it
• Throws Jarnbjorn through a Frost Giant’s neck
• Slays Exitar
• Thor states the Destroyer’s metal can’t withstand Jarnbjorn forever
• Stated to be unable to crack a Dark Celestial’s armour
• Atli severs Gorr’s head with Jarnbjorn
• Blake uses Jarnbjorn to begin chopping through Yggdrasil
• Jarnbjorn was unable to cleave Utgard-Loki’s knot, and a full strength swing to his forehead was registered as a leaf falling on his head. It’s revealed that the knot is a thread of Eternity and that striking the forehead in reality cleaved a mountain in two
• Cleaves through Red Onslaught’s skull
• Cleaves through Genesis’s armour
• Clashes with Angela
• Evenly matches Jane Foster’s Mjolnir strike
• Draws blood from Jane with a throw
• Clashes with Ultimate Thor’s hammer
• Clashes Jarnbjorn with Proxima Midnight’s blade
• Splits the ground with a cleave, blowing away Black Swan
• Cleaves apart a large cliff
• Strikes the ground with a burst of thunder from Jarnbjorn, blowing away Hydra soldiers
• Cleaves off Mangog’s arm
• Repeatedly slashes a non-holding back Cho Hulk, dropping him to his knees
• Cleaves the ground, blowing Cho Hulk away and splitting the arena hard enough for lava to gush out
• Draws blood from Thor himself

Prosthetic Arm

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Soon after Thor became unworthy, he lost his left arm after an attack from Malekith, and shifted through multiple prosthetics to replace it. The first of these was a new arm forged of black uru in the same forge which made Mjolnir, which was designed to outlast even the stars and is tough enough to block strikes from Jane Foster wielding Mjolnir and Proxima Midnight’s darts. After it melted due to Thor channeling the God Tempest, it would be replaced with a new golden arm, which would itself be replaced with the arm of the Destroyer itself. Since it comes from the Destroyer, it’s obviously very strong, able to block hellfire blasts from Johnny Blaze. Thor would finally regain his left arm upon being given the Power Cosmic, which also shattered the Destroyer prosthetic.

Discount Hammers

After Mjolnir was destroyed during Jane Foster’s battle with Mangog, Thor Odinson would reclaim his title, and needed a new hammer to go along with it. Unfortunately, the best Asgard and its limited resources could do was a series of discount Temu hammers, forged out of impure uru by the dwarves and enchanted by a weakened Odin. These hammers are still able to create portals and, most importantly, allow for flight, though they’re not capable of traversing between realms other than going between Earth and Asgard. While they could be crushed by the likes of Namor, the hammers are still strong enough to bloody an empowered Juggernaut, and their enchantment is powerful enough to allow Thor to recall them out of mini black holes and destroy the gravity well in the process. They can also fire lightning bolts against large swathes of enemies.

The hammers boast a limited form of the traditional worthiness enchantment, zapping those who try to touch it and only allowing the god of thunder to wield it. Their most useful property is probably simply their sheer numbers, since Thor can telekinetically control multiple of the hammers at once to blow away entire swathes of enemies. There also exist specialised hammers with unique abilities, such as the Bomb Hammer which was used to blow up a large bridge, and a hammer made of blood frozen as hard as iron which was used to aura farm. Ultimately, they got the job done.

Skidbladnir

A magical flying ship forged by the dwarves, which is normally tiny but shrinks to massive size at command. It’s able to sail soundlessly through realities, dimensions, and time, and was used by Jane Foster to sail into the Splinter Realms.

Thor has also used a couple of other space-faring ships of similar nature. He once used an unnamed ship adorned with jewels later used by the water elemental Sedna, and most prominently journeyed on the Star-Jammer, an interstellar viking ship which has magic which lets it sail through space and lets people breathe even with no air. It can cross thousands of light-years quickly, and despite being made of ordinary wood, could sail between dimensions from Asgard to Rigel, boasting speeds proportional to stellar light and able to travel to the edges of the universe. It would later be upgraded with alien weapons. If you ask me, it kind of mogs Skidbladnir.

Communication Devices

Thor has used a variety of communication devices to talk with his Avengers team-mates during missions. These include: two-way radio, a communicator on his belt, a throat-mike transceiver in space, a micro-transmitter, and an Avengers phone which somehow works across dimensions. Most prominent of these is his Avengers communicard ID, which Thor keeps in the hollow of his belt.

Gem of Infinite Suns

A personal treasure belonging to Odin which contains the power of a multitude of suns. The gem was forged in the fire of a star eons ago and contains unlimited solar power. Thor used it to burn away an empowered ice demon and sear Kurse before melting the ice across all of Asgard and closing the Casket of Ancient Winters. He would then transport both the casket and the gem to a distant dimension to prevent Malekith from getting his hands on either.

Crimson Hand

An enchanted Asgardian relic, which forces anybody it shakes hands with to speak the truth. Thor only used it once, but why did nobody in Asgard ever use this against Loki?

Summoning Stones

A set of magic summoning stones Thor once used to speak to his mother Freyja.

Eir-Gram

The Eir-Gram is a sword which draws upon the user’s soul, made for the purpose of slaying the Disir, fallen Asgardian valkyries turned into cannibalistic soul-devouring ghosts. Thor managed to retrieve the sword and employ it against the Disir. The blade spoke to Thor, warning him of a betrayal, and purified the betrayer’s soul upon stabbing her, destroying the sword in the process.

Scuba Suit

A (presumably mystical) scuba suit Thor used to dive 660,958 leagues into the spewing light of the World Tree.

Stellar Armour

Crazy looking cosmic armour Thor used to fight against Galactus and the Silver Surfer. We never saw it do anything.

Odin Armour

A set of armour Odin wore when he razed Aezheim to stop his brother Cul. He gave it to Thor to protect him from some of Cul’s power.

Odinsword

Odin’s apocalyptic blade, which he gave to Thor to kill Cul. Thor would successfully use it to slay Cul at the cost of his own life. Cul, at this point, was strong enough to easily beat the Destroyer and shatter Captain America’s shield.

The name “Odinsword” has been used for two other blades in Marvel history, which may or may not be the same sword. Thor has used another blade called the Odinsword to cleave the World Tree in half, trapping the God-Eaters in the universe and causing the tree to fix itself in place and purge itself of impurities. This sword could slice through space-time itself, and its cutting Yggdrasil rendered the bridge of worlds permanent and fixed and shook loose all the different realms hanging from its branches.

Most prominently, the Odinsword frequently appeared in classic comics as a massive blade belonging to Odin. Known as the Oversword of Asgard, if it was unsheathed, the planets themselves would tremble in fear and the end of the universe would come. If anybody but Odin were to draw this Odinsword, the entire universe would instantly be destroyed. Villains like Mangog attempting to draw the sword to end reality would serve as a plot-point for multiple stories, and it was eventually revealed that the sword was formed from the cursed rhinegold ring-halves stemming from the previous Ragnarok cycle’s Mjolnir, and is imbued with the curse of Nieblung, which is why if anybody other than Odin attempts to wield it, they’ll rend the fabric of infinity. Odin himself would use this sword to shatter Mjolnir and cut off the arm of the Celestial Nezzar. Thor subsequently threw it with enough force to pierce Arishem, though Arishem let this happen to study it and proceeded to easily melt and exorcise it.

The connection between all three of these swords, if there is any, has never been alluded to, and the closest thing there is to an official source linking them is the Marvel: Arms and Armor guidebook using an image of the Odinsword used to slay Cul while describing the classic reality-ending giant sword.

Reel-Rifle

A reel-rifle Thor used to hunt an armored beast-fish. His injuries at the time caused the recoil to knock the shot off balance.

Tracker

A device given to Thor by Iron Man to allow him to track the Absorbing Man via his pager’s signal.

Odin-Scepter

The royal scepter which marks the authority of Asgard’s All-Father. When Thor first became Lord of Asgard he donned the royal helmet and wielded the scepter.

Bloodaxe

The Bloodaxe is the enchanted axe wielded initially by Skurge the Executioner, notable for its ability to cut space and its corrupting nature. After being crowned All-Father, Thor was given the axe by his follower Thialfi, and used it to kill the god-slayer Desak after a losing battle. Thor would use the axe again in his battles with Perrikus, grabbing the Bloodaxe off a wall and using it to chop off Perrikus’s arm all the while resisting it controlling him. After that experience, Thor chose to destroy it.

Hofund

Hofund is Sif and Heimdall’s enchanted sword which allows them to call upon the Bifrost whenever they wish, wherever they wish. All-Father Thor borrowed it from Sif in the battle against the God Tempest to summon the Bifrost around the entity, binding it and sending it to Nidavellir, before returning it to her.

Magical Mirror

A gift from Zeus to the newly crowned All-Father Thor which reveals one’s inner self. As this was during the Reigning, this ended up showing a power-mad and angry Thor.

Feather

A feather All-Father Thor attempted to give to Storm to allow her to summon him when she most needed it, though she rejected it. Given he died immediately after this, that was a good call on her end.

The Destroyer

The Destroyer is an enchanted battle-suit which serves as one of the most powerful, and most dangerous, weapons in Asgard’s arsenal. Millennia ago, Odin faced down the Third Host of Celestials, and was humbled by their truly omnipotent power. They left with a warning that they would return, and Odin immediately got to work preparing any way he could to take them down when they finally arrived. For this purpose, the Destroyer was forged by the Dwarves of Nidavellir out of uru and rhinegold, and was blessed by the power of every sky-lord from every known pantheon, making it even harder than adamantium or raw uru.

When someone touches the suit, or otherwise has their lifeforce transferred into it, the Destroyer comes to life, absorbing their soul into itself while their body remains lifeless on the ground, and will immediately begin targeting whatever is in its sight with utmost impunity. The Destroyer’s programming overrides the will of whatever lifeforce is animating it, ensuring that it will always attempt to destroy whatever it is fighting. It has the physical strength to do it too, the Destroyer is far stronger than Thor and has beat him to near-death before. While fighting in the vacuum of space, it was able to beat the shit out of Gladiator, with him stating he’s never felt such power.

It’s been stated only Odin could match it, and the suit could overpower Thor even while he had the All-Power, requiring Thor’s power alongside an entire army of Asgardians to give it pause. Its individual blows can fell mountains, and it wields the power to reduce all of Asgard to rubble. It’s also enormously durable, capable of enduring repeated strikes from Jarnbjorn, a lightning blast from Jane Foster Thor, and a combined assault from Scarlet Witch, Karnilla, and a bunch of other heroes without a scratch. It endured the heat of the Phoenix Force and its metal can survive inside of the sun. Even Loki’s full power could do nothing to it. All the more terrifying, then, that it gets stronger every time it’s activated, and can fight for an eternity without rest. Due to being powered by Odin’s enchantment, the Destroyer can wield Mjolnir regardless of the life-force animating it.

The Destroyer’s true deadliest ability lies not in its physical strength, but in its large variety of energy projection. By firing kzippa particles, the Destroyer can annihilate even gods to nothing. Its energy aura alone is enough to shatter a planet. Its blasts, via sheer force, have cracked open Mjolnir on two separate occasions. It can fire heat blasts comparable to Surtur, more powerful than “a dozen suns”, which can be controlled as rings of arcane fire. It was capable of electrifying a huge swath of water, and then turning that entire tidal wave into steam with a touch. More esoterically, the Destroyer can manipulate matter itself. It was capable of magnetising the floor to draw Thor to the ground before converting the floor around Thor into liquid and solidifying it into diamond to trap him, and then attempting to hit him with a blast that would turn him into another form.

It could instantly turn the floor beneath it into lava and transmute loose rubble around Thor and Thunderstrike into a solid encasing harder than diamond. It was capable of telekinetically launching Thor with a blast of “eldritch energy”. When attempting to destroy Thor’s battle armour while he was inflicted by Hela’s immortality curse, it hit it with “molecular disruptors, nuclear ripsawas, and anti-matter particle beams”, having “reduced the armor and the body to plasma and reconstructed them completely”. As a result of this, the Destroyer can hurt low-density intangible foes by adjusting the density of its blasts to match, and can even hurt spirit forms like Loki’s astral self. Most deadly of all is the power of disintegration from its visor blasts, strong enough to kill the likes of Thor (including with the All-Power), the Hulk, and Odin, obliterate foes to nothing, and melt the planet to cinder. Even with all that offensive power, the Destroyer can still survive its own energy projection from its visor imploding in on itself.

Odin, as the one who created the Destroyer, has complete control over it and doesn’t succumb to its corruption, able to make it kneel and remove the soul animating it. He’s used it on multiple occasion, most famously piloting it while merged with the entire life-force of Asgard and growing it to near mountain sized while wielding the Odinsword to fight the Celestials, the entire purpose for the suit’s making.Its blows in this state could pulverise a planet and its armor could survive a supernova, but it was ultimately reduced to slag by the Celestials despite its efforts. It was later revealed that not even the Celestials could totally unmake the Destroyer, and its slag was restored by the presence of living beings whose life-essences it absorbed when they got close. Odin has also been seen using the Destroyer to discipline Thor in the past, wearing it as literal armour described as strong enough to face universal armageddon itself and easily defeating his son. In his last appearance with it, he summoned the Destroyer to himself to fight Galactus after downing himself with a headbutt, which was enough to make Galactus retreat. Given Galactus has made the Destroyer his herald before and has even merged with it, he certainly recognises its power.

As for Thor, he’s also used the armour multiple times, though he’s more often fought it. While usually overpowered by it, he has been capable of freeing the soul inside the suit with a well-timed strike. The first time he used the suit was in a brawl with Loki, accidentally touching it and being immediately overtaken by its drive to destroy. He almost disintegrated Loki with its visor blast before Odin showed up to free his spirit. Later on, Thor, while completely jellified as a result of being cursed with immortality by Hela, was able to clash with the Destroyer on the spiritual plane and defeat it, actually taking complete control of the armour and resisting its corruption, symbolised by him donning the suit with his helmet and cape.

With this level of power, Thor immediately turned Garm into barren rock before blasting straight to Hel to get some sweet revenge. Thor rampaged through Hel’s forces, even discarding Mjolnir as unnecessary when the Destroyer’s blasts were strong enough to split words apart. He turned all of Hela’s soldiers into stone while Hela ran away in fear, knowing getting hit would kill even her. Thor fired a blast of transmutation which turned the floor around her to clay, and his blasts outsped Hela’s own, racing across dimensional barriers at speeds faster than light to encase his body on Earth in an impenetrable crystal which prevented Hela from touching it. He beat the shit out of Hela and had her on the ropes, his blasts able to magnetically draw her in against her will and causing mass destruction to Hel, and his visor blast of disintegration threatening to eradicate her. Ultimately, he managed to trick Hela into restoring his physical body before transferring his soul into it, undoing her curse and successfully humiliating her. Note that while Hela could break said crystals at the cost of much of her power, they are still strong enough to completely seal both Hela and the Destroyer itself.

After receiving the All-Power, Thor gains complete control of the Destroyer just as Odin did. When fighting Donald Blake, Thor had his ravens remove his spirit from his body and transfer it directly to the Destroyer from across dimensions to confront Blake.Despite Blake being empowered by the Odinforce, Thor was capable of blasting him away with the armour and beating him senseless, only stopped when Blake attempted to absorb Odin’s magic from out of the armour. When the fight was over, Thor stepped out of the armour directly, somehow manifesting his physical body located in a different dimension back around his soul. Like Odin, Thor should be capable of summoning the Destroyer armour directly to him using the All-Power. Given that, and the fact that his ravens can transfer his soul to it whenever he wants with him having complete control over it, I would consider the Destroyer standard for Thor when he has the All-Power, though obviously it isn’t standard when talking about Thor’s baseline incarnations.

Misc. Weapons

As a highly-experienced Asgardian warrior, Thor has been trained in and used many kinds of weapons. Most prominently, when absent any of his special weaponry, he’s been seen using generic swords.

• In his boyhood, wields a sword and a shield
• Without Mjolnir, Thor wields a sword instead
• While depowered, uses both his own sword and Baldric’s sword to fight off a horde of mummies
• Slashes at Hela’s dragon’s neck with his axe
• In his youth, battled for 80 days straight with sword, spear, and axe
• A young Thor bloodies Gorr with the hilt of his axe

Tormod

To prepare him for his battle with the elder gods of Utgard, the teller of the tales Loki placed the All-Father Thor in a series of trials, requiring him to forge three new relics linked to the three runes in his name for use in the final battle. In his first trial, Thor forged his Asgardian steel helmet with lightning and rain into an ax-head, which he dubbed Tormod, before using it to shave his beard off. He would then add a branch and bindings to the ax-head to forge it into a true weapon and imbue it with magic so that it always returns to his hand.

Tormod is a highly potent weapon, capable of piercing the flesh of the elder god Kemur, clashing with Skurge’s space-cutting Bloodaxe, and recalling to Thor’s hand with enough force to cleave through the elder god Mejed’s body to kill him. Tormod is the symbol of Thor’s wisdom and cunning, and as such can only be wielded by the wise, such as Skurge. As it represents knowledge and the solving of riddles, it is the end of all mysteries.

When not in use, Thor carries it on his belt, and he can keep it in storage at his hall for easy access.

Yolgjord

The second of All-Father Thor’s three relics. After Loki placed him in a battle against the corrupt skyfather Zeus, Thor managed to absorb the god’s energy, resisting his corrupting Utgard darkness and shaping his lightning into a golden belt, Yolgjord, to seal Zeus’s power safely. Thor shaped Yolgjord with the purpose of defending against magic, including rune-magic and skald-magic. This ensures that when Thor wears the belt, he is immune to Loki’s powers and Enchantress’s skald-magic draining his wits on Earth. When he was turned to stone by the Grey Gargoyle, the belt resisted the effect, requiring all of Gargoyle’s power to keep Thor petrified. If the Gargoyle removed his hand from Thor, Thor would be free from the stone in a minute or less. The belt isn’t perfect though, as it’s unable to protect Thor from Utgard-Loki’s magic due to him being the very embodiment of the trick and magic itself.

Beyond its immunity to magic, the belt also increases Thor’s endurance. The belt allowed Thor to endure the same cycles again and again, and is the reason Thor could constantly fight while in the cycle of Utgardhall. In the meta-narrative of the comic, where the reader is encouraged to flip a coin to determine which direction they go while reading, this cyclical loop can theoretically occur endlessly if the reader has bad luck and ensures the loop of events Thor experiences continues forever. Thor can also shape the belt freely, using the All-Power to reshape it into a nose ring to humiliate and hurt the elder god Kemur. Like Tormod, Thor can recall the belt to him, and keeps it stored in his hall.

Thor mistakenly believed the third and final relic to be Mjolnir itself, an error which would cost him his life. What’s the true third relic Thor needs to overcome the elder gods? Find out in the upcoming pages of Thor written by Al Ewing.

Support

While he’s not listed here due to not being used by Thor for combat, I want to say that I am aware of Thori the murder dog, and now you are too.

Toothgnasher & Toothgrinder

Far in the past, Loki tricked Thor into attempting to tame a pair of brother goats, the most unruly and stubborn of animals. After a summer of attempting to ride them, Thor managed to break them in using the magical Bregd-Thrall, and adorned his two new steeds with the names Toothgnasher and Toothgrinder.

Typically, the goats carry Thor by pulling his chariot. The goats are capable of flying through space and dimensions at speeds well beyond that of light, able to operate possibly indefinitely without rest. They have been seen riding the Bifrost to Earth, travelling across galaxies, returning from the far ends of the universe to Asgard, and traversing the border between realms and breaking through space to Yggdrasil itself. When the Bifrost was destroyed, Thor used his goats to ride through the cosmic storms between realms. Thor can summon his goats to him whenever he wants, such as through a burst of lightning or a whistle. When Thor was unworthy and lacked Mjolnir’s ability to fly, his goats served as his primary means of flight and realm travel.

The goats are sapient, having spoken to Thor when he was transformed into a frog, and are highly intelligent, with Loki needing to enchant them to follow her command as otherwise they would sense her intent to do Asgard harm. They’re also extremely loyal, having saved Thor’s life by dragging his unconscious body from Earth’s oceans to Asgard when he was nearly killed by Malekith. If killed, the goats simply come back to life the next day. Loki needed to break their bones to ensure they couldn’t regenerate during Ragnarok. Killing them isn’t easy though, as they’re also enormously strong, frequently aiding Thor in his fight by ramming into his opponents. While Toothgnasher was killed for a time by Mangog, it would later be resurrected by Loki. With Thor dead, they’re currently under the ownership of his son Magni. Taika Waititi loves them and you should too.

Physical Strength

• Rides his chariot through Garm, knocking him down
• Commands Toothgnasher to take out a dark elf
• Clear a path through Heven’s angels
• Toothgnasher hurts Ulik with a ram and endures a blow from him
• Toothgnasher catches Thor mid-fall and rams through a ship
• Endure Phoenix flames
• Knock down War Thor with a ram
• Toothgnasher charges War Thor into Old Asgard, destroying several buildings. It’s left behind by Thor to guard the hammer but is killed by Mangog
• Endure a blast from Apocalypse
• Toothgrinder rams Mangog through several floors

Horses

Thor is a skilled horse rider, having used a variety of horses over the years, from ordinary ones to winged pegasi. Named ones include the white horse Trelbold, which he rode in his youth for several days to reach Nornheim, and 8 named horses with the ability to resurrect if killed, who he would later merge using arcane magic into the 8-legged horse Sleipnir. While Sleipnir is normally Odin’s steed, Thor has also ridden it into battle before and has been given it for specific adventures by Odin. Sleipnir can gallop between dimensions and reach Valhalla, and is even faster than the Asgardian god of speed Hermod.

Hugin & Munin

Hugin and Munin are Odin’s magical elemental ravens. Dubbed ‘thought’ and ‘memory’ respectively, Odin would use the ravens as his eyes and ears across the realms, sending them out to retrieve information before reporting back to him. When Thor became All-Father, the ravens transferred ownership to him. As fully sapient and highly intelligent ravens, they act as an invaluable lookout for the All-Father.

The ravens serve as Thor’s sight, allowing Thor to see all they have gleaned and remembered, even more abstract events such as Odin’s feelings as he died. They can respond even to barely conscious commands from a weakened All-Father. The ravens are incredibly fast and can traverse dimensions, able to fly across the universe at the speed of thought to find Hela in her merged realm before instantaneously returning to Asgard, scour the galaxies for weeks to find the Heralds of Galactus, quickly travel from the planet Clypse to the Rainbow Bridge, and ferry people across all Ten Realms. They’re imbued with runes which allow them to travel anywhere in existence and bypass a barrier in the Burning Galaxy which kept out Thor himself, and they’ve been described as being able to travel through any dimensional barrier in existence and, in the time it takes for a raindrop to fall, travel from Fortnite island to Asgard. They’ve also been seen bypassing forcefields around Odin to survey for him. They are guided by senses beyond sight, allowing them to act as effective trackers. Thor has used them to locate Hulk in a different dimension, search all the realms for Tyr, contact Sif from a distant alien planet to summon the Bifrost, and read books and relay the information back to him. When Thor first gained ownership of the ravens, he cast Munin into the Path of Shattered Infinity with the Bell of Endless Reach attached so that no matter how far across the void the raven travelled, the bell’s ring would reach Thor, with Thor hearing the bell after a week of travel. Per the Marvel Handbook, they’re immune to all holding spells.

Under Odin’s command, the ravens have displayed precognitive abilities, telling him about the coming of Ragnarok and of a future attack by the trolls which even Heimdall could not see coming.

The powers of the ravens are fairly esoteric, and their ability to act as Thor’s eyes and ears is quite literal. He’s been able to speak directly through the two, noting they never truly were ravens, and Sif has given Hugin her eyes to allow Thor to see what she sees. When Thor was trapped in a vision of a different universe, his ravens were able to link with him and show him reality, allowing him to locate Mjolnir. When he was more literally trapped in a pocket dimension beneath Yggdrasil by Donald Blake, a burst of All-Power allowed Thor to contact his ravens from across infinity, before making them remove his spirit from his body and traverse dimensions to implant it in the Destroyer. In Immortal Thor, he was seen commanding both his goats and his ravens at the same time while traveling to Antarctica, so he can command his entire animal menagerie at once.

They also served as the hosts of the letters page for Thor’s 2020 solo series written by Donny Cates.

Powers

Asgardian Physiology

The Asgardians, also known as the Aesir, are the denizens of the realms of Yggdrasil, considered true deities worshipped by the humans of Midgard. As an Asgardian, a god like Thor boasts a unique physiology. At a baseline, Asgardian bone and tissue is three times denser than that of a normal human’s, meaning even ordinary Asgardians boast superhuman strength and can lift at least 25 tons. For reference on how superhuman this strength is, even the Asgardian equivalent of a farmer with a shotgun was able to beat Moon Knight to near-death with his bare hands, and required the entire Midnight Mission to take him on. This strength is also connected to their speed, with the average Asgardian being faster than their human counterparts. It’s been stated that every Asgardian boasts a spark of the Odinforce inside them, and all of them emit an aura of electrons.

Asgardian physiology differs down to the cellular level. Earthly bacteria isn’t compatible with it, and even individual cells boast immense power, rendering Asgardians immune to traditional sickness and disease.Their blood contains divine power, able to repel corruption and poisons such as vampirism and empower others to the level of Asgardians, with Thor in particular having the ice blood of his great-grandfather Tiwaz. A future timeline Thor, wielding the All-Power, was able to rejuvenate the Earth with just his godblood. Even their flesh takes hundreds of years to rot. Captain Marvel has said that out of the Avengers, only Thor has his powers contained inside his very DNA. Despite this, they are ultimately similar enough to humans in physiology for certain hallucinogens to work.

Ultimately, gods like the Asgardians are as much creatures of myth and story as they are of flesh. Their existence is predicated on the belief in their myths, and this means they have some more esoteric properties. A spell which transported those who use magic failed on Hercules and Jane Foster Thor due to them being more than magic as gods. Hela was once able to split her soul into a hundred pieces as weapons and said that any god could bring forth their soul to then recombine afterwards. By virtue of being worshipped, Thor just touching a vampire viking caused the creature to burst into flames. At the most extreme, Thor has said that despite inhabiting the material world, he is also a god who is not bound by the perceptible, his divinity transcending dimensions, allowing him to escape a tesseract pocket universe by feeling along its seams and bursting out. Similarly, artist Alex Ross has described Thor’s existence as breaking reality via being an extradimensional entity. In Thor’s own words, his power is relative to the need for it, and he can do anything if the cause is great enough, just like anybody else.

Enhanced Physicals

Thor’s strength is innate to him and has been described as his own by royal right, meaning that even when his powers are removed he retains it to some degree (though this has varied). Being the son of Odin grants one strength beyond that of a normal Asgardian. Thor has used his strength to level mountains with his blows and endure the weight of planets. Controversially, Thor has also been described as having super-speed. It’s been implied that his powers grant him a degree of enhanced speed which allows him to dodge attacks too fast for mortals to react to.

Endurance

Asgardians have extremely high stamina. While they do still need food and sleep, Thor can go extended periods of time without either. He’s fought without rest or sustenance for years straight against entire armies. When Magni, his son, held the All-Power, he was able to continuously hammer at a door for 80,000 years, only stopping whenever he needed to recuperate the All-Power.

Stamina

• Swims for miles and minutes after taking a breath
• Grapples with Hulk for a whole hour with neither budging or tiring
• Hercules and Thor stalemate for an hour, and the Asgardian forces prevail after two straight days of battle
• Arm-wrestles with Hercules for an entire night
• Thor and Zeus clash lightning bolts for seemingly months straight
• Creates a tornado around the Evil Eye and claims he can keep it up for 50 years
• Mephisto says he and Thor would stalemate for eternity, while Thor claims he can fight until the end of time
• While in the Dimension of Death, where every instant equals a year, his limbs rapidly grow weaker, and he keeps fighting even as he has only minutes of life left
• Claims he could keep evading Juggernaut at current pace for days or weeks at a time
• Hela says that even if Thor and Hulk are equals, Thor is immortal and can fight for years, a century, unlike Hulk
• Offers to fight Doom for an eternity
• Explored Asgard without eating or sleeping right to the shores of eternal night past Hel and Valhalla. He explored for long enough without rest to grow a beard
• Thor fights for hours with the Avengers against hundreds of Ultrons, Thor being the only one able to stop the ones made of secondary adamantium, and only now begins to tire
• There have been 11 Ragnaroks, perhaps 10000, and Loki has marched for what feels like 10000 years
• Fights for 40 days straight against an undead army, and then for another 40 days against every single to have ever died in human history, before terrorizing Midgard personally for 100 days straight
• Rampages across creation for 40 days straight
• Thor and the Asgardians fight for 9 months straight against Frost Giants, though it pushes even Balder to exhaustion
• A thrown Mjolnir one-shots Grog. It exhausts Thor, but he finds the strength to keep going and restore his vitality via his drive to protect others
• In his youth, battled for 40 days straight against Hel’s forces without food, drink, or sleep alongside other warriors, before fighting another 40 days singlehandedly and ultimately prevailing
• Recovers his stamina mid-battle against Bodolf with mead and women
• Hasn’t slept since he became unworthy, which was 9 months, 3 weeks, 4 days, and 7 hours ago
• Young Thor battled Storm Giants for 9 days straight without nourishment
• Fights in a war for 40 years straight
• While being tortured by Heven, Thor sleeps only when too exhausted to stay awake and eats once a month
• In the past, Thor fought for two years straight against an army of thousands without food or sleep and emerged victorious. Thor forgot said battle as to him, two years is just a fraction of a second
• Has stamina in bed and fucks for a whole night
• While weakened and barely conscious, deflects Thialfi’s sword swing with his own sword and clashes blades with him
• [Other] Magni, while empowered by the All-Power, hammers at a door for 80,000 years straight, only taking breaks whenever he needs the All-Sleep
• [Old King] Fights Doom for 99 years straight

Enhanced Lung Capacity

Thor’s lung capacity is far beyond that of an ordinary human. His lungs can swallow oceans and his voice can echo across all creation in the right place. Even early in his history it’s been noted that he still needs to breathe in some form, but that he and other gods get around the universe so fast they don’t run out of oxygen. Generally, Thor is able to survive in space or underwater to a prolonged degree, but how prolonged is fairly inconsistent. Sometimes he can only handle a vacuum briefly, other times he’s able to have extended confrontations and fights in space with no apparent issue, even when knocked out. Exact figures for how long Thor can hold his breath range from an hour, multiple hours, or even days. Even beyond this, two comics which came only a year apart gave entirely opposite answers on if gods can drown at all, but more modern comics have depicted Thor as being able to have extended fights underwater with no visible struggle, so it shouldn’t be an issue by and large. It’s also been noted that Thor has the ability to speak in space due to being a god and that his Asgardian nature allows him to breathe fine on an alien planet with an atmosphere so thin there wasn’t enough breathable oxygen to sustain the Hulk. Even without Mjolnir, Thor has enough control of his body in space to drift himself in certain directions and reach solid land. Since Thor still needs oxygen to some degree, it is possible to try squeezing the air out of his lungs to weaken him.

As a result of this large air capacity, Thor also has a rarely used super-breath ability. He can breathe whirlwinds at his foes and subdue entire groups of people with hurricane breath. Bizarrely, he was once able to exhale with hurricane force while fading into another dimension, which pierced a dimensional veil before it could be fully closed, allowing Thor to return to the third dimension.

In classic Superman-style, Thor once used his “super-developed vocal chords” to throw his voice and trick a gangster into thinking the police had arrived. Super-Ventriloquism is inescapable.

Super-Senses

Asgardians have naturally enhanced senses, most prominently in their sight and hearing, and Thor is no exception. His eyes are strong enough to stare into supernovas unharmed and precise enough to identify chemicals in his food, while his ear can hear sounds from light-years away. Even beyond just his godly physiology, Thor knows every rock, tree, castle and pillar of all Nine Realms and can recognise them by sight via being Odin’s son. More esoterically, Thor is able to spot and traverse the Bifrost, existing alongside the curvature of the Earth, and even when Hela magically makes the Bifrost invisible, Thor is able to somewhat tell where it is and use it. Gods can also see and detect entities invisible to mortal eyes, and even entities like trolls have shown the ability to see Loki’s astral form. Similarly, Thor has on many occasions displayed some kind of mystical sense which has allowed him to find his loved ones or detect danger.

Sensing

• Senses someone he loves, in this case Jane, is in danger across dimensions
• Thor can detect Sif’s location as immortals always know the presence of each other, even as Donald Blake
• Odin appears as a visage on earth next to Loki, having seen his entire battle with Blake, and forces Loki back to Asgard, leaving an aura of transcendental energy in the air which Blake can sense
• Instinctually senses the danger of the Stranger from far away
• Senses an alien’s presence as being from beyond Earth and senses that they’re far from earth and possibly in an adjacent dimension
• Both Thor and Odin sense Ragnarok is coming, Thor through a dream
• Is able to sense a disturbance in the electric field around Black Bolt due to being the lord of lightning and determines his antenna is enhancing his physical strength
• Can sense the magic of the norn stones in the hands of the ones who razed Asgard, sensing them precisely enough to know the 5 locations they’re being kept on Earth
• Able to detect the sorcery in a magic castle and avoid a magic drink
• Able to sense Zadkiel’s war in Heaven through thunder
• Able to detect Loki’s presence while he is invisibly astrally projecting
• Senses the coming of Fimbulvetr, which is actually Iceman going berserk, and is left in shock from it
• Able to sense his younger self’s storm far away on Gorr’s planet
• Senses Yggdrasil’s roots having grown through Midgard to determine how far in the future he is
• Senses Freyja’s near death
• [Eric] Senses the Mandarin’s explosion across the planet
• [Jane] Senses magic
• [Jane] Senses the Phoenix burning the cosmos
• Feels all of Asgard being paralyzed
• Listens to the storms across Japan and uses the wind to locate the person the Avengers are looking for
• Thor is naturally able to sense his allies, and is instinctually guided to the reality warped Peter Parker
• [Old King] Thor is able to sense Earth dying from “half a cosmos away”
• [Old King] Senses Omnipotence City dying from galaxies away

Super-Sight

• Blake leaves a message for Balder which apparently only immortals can read, to humans it’s just illegible scribbles
• Only Thor can see the Vizier in his Asgardian image and not his earth disguise
• Thor’s Asgardian eyes let him see in polluted water
• Has the ability to see Aphrodite’s form due to being divine
• Thor, as Siegmund, sees Brunhilde due to being a doomed soul
• Thor’s godly eyes see better than Cap, allowing him to see a structure on the horizon first
• Able to perceive Malekith’s Dark Elves to some degree, stating that though he can’t see them very clearly near their centre of power, he can see enough, compared to a mortal who can’t see them at all
• Thor sees Hermes and notes that no mortal eyes could see him when Monica mentions she saw nothing
• Able to see Loki’s astral self
• Thor is so focused on the Destroyer he can’t hear a man talking to him. He says his eyes aren’t as keen as Heimdall’s but is still able to spot the Destroyer across NYC
• Guides a ship with the eyes of a god
• [Jane] Her goddess eyes allow her to withstand looking at the Phoenix without going blind
• [Jane] Goddess eyes allow her to perform brain surgery without a microscope
• Able to “zoom in” on some grains of sand and see their inner shape, figuring out that they’re actually living organisms by connecting the environmental clues
• Thor senses Heimdall’s spirit is hidden in a mortal man
• Perceives the Warriors Three’s souls in mortal men, which drove them to work together

Super-Hearing

• Thor is able to hear Gladiator approaching their spaceship when Thing doesn’t
• Hears a note from Malekith’s horn from miles away, despite it being completely inaudible to humans
• Able to detect soundless vibrations through space via experience
• Olson hears a voice in the winds that draws him to Norway, portenting the Godstorm’s return
• Hears the screaming of gods from light-years away

Super-Schnozz

• Able to hunt Nidhogg’s spawn over 90 miles by smell
• Able to smell Loki’s presence

All-Speak

Gods in Marvel bypass language barriers via the All-Speak, a mystical language which lets them understand and be understood by anybody. Whatever Thor says, it will be heard in the language of whoever is listening, though on Thor’s end it doesn’t translate specific slang. Thor has been described as knowing most earthly languages and can instantly understand alien languages upon hearing them, even highly esoteric tongues such as the Builder code language. This extends to different dialects, with Thor speaking all languages on Earth and variations on top of countless alien languages, including languages long dead and hidden from history, allowing him to perfectly slip into Orange County dialect. Thor can also talk to frogs, with all animals understanding and swearing loyalty to Thor. Hercules has similarly used the All-Speak to decipher alien text and, bizarrely, to read the body language of others to win at card games.

Of note is that the actual reason Thor talks the way he does is that Thor and the other Asgardians learned how to speak English from Geoffrey Chaucer, which is why they speak in a Shakespearian manner. Volstagg, meanwhile, learned English from Benjamin Franklin and taught him the secret of electricity.

Resilience & Healing

Asgardians have a high threshold for damage and a superhuman ability to heal from damage received. In the very explicit words of the Marvel handbook, it takes dispersion of a major portion of an Asgardian’s bodily molecules to actually kill him. A completely ordinary Asgardian can survive for 5 minutes after their heart is removed and could even recover if it’s put back in place, seen with Kelda. This healing is enhanced further when Thor wields the All-Power, which lets him instantly recover from severe injuries, though it has been noted that not even the All-Power could let Thor survive decapitation or being ripped to pieces.

That last point is worth harping on, since there’s a few instances one could use to argue Thor having a higher level of regeneration. In one depiction of Donald Blake’s backstory, it was stated that Thor’s spirit “gathered solid matter unto itself” in an instant upon being released in-order to create a new body for himself. With the All-Power,it’s been stated that as long as the All-Power exists in some form, Odin cannot truly die. While Odin has personally been able to heal from getting stabbedand his skull being caved in from a headbutt, at the most extreme, Hank Pym, after Ultron destroyed his body and devoured his soul to leave just an echo in Ultron’s systems, was able to use Odin’s power to reconstitute himself from that echo, body, mind, and soul. Obviously, these are very high-end showings, and it’s most consistent that sufficient physical damage will put down Thor, even with the All-Power.

Healing

• Stranges notes Thor’s injuries such as his broken arms heal quickly
• Suddenly heals from the severe wounds he received from Hela on his own after a short time
• Claims he will heal from being stabbed in the back on his own
• Endures torture in Heven’s Pain Cloister, his hands repeatedly broken and his teeth pulled out before they regrow
• After searing most of his arm’s flesh off in a star, it quickly began to heal
• Thor flies into the sun and keeps going until his hammer melts and his eyes begin to roast
• Thor begins healing from his Brood infection
• Quickly heals from second-degree burns
• Endures Desak slashing him across the chest, though it seems to leave him lying in a pool of his own blood. He gets back up next issue and continues to fight while showing no bleeding
• Endures a Juggernaut clapping his head, drawing blood and blowing out his eardrums. He heals quickly from this
• Heals his broken hand with the All-Power
• Heals his eyes and brain using the All-Power
• Thor is able to resurrect when Enchantress puts his stone body back together and break free of the Grey Gargoyle’s petrification. Thor says the All-Power cannot pull together a pile of sundered meat and that he needed the Enchantress’s help to do this
• When a blade is removed from his forehead, Thor is able to return to the fight and instantly begins healing
• [Old King] Thor awakens from his sleep restored and with his body fully healed, regrowing his arm
• [Old King] After his chest is exploded from the inside out by nanites, begins to heal

Pain Tolerance

Thor’s pain-tolerance is immense, able to keep fighting even after being stabbed and having his body parts flayed. He’s been undeterred by having his insides frozen and liver turned into glass, and was able to withstand torture from Gorr the God-Butcher for 17 days straight. While cursed by Hela with immortality, he endured the pain of being hit so hard he was literally jellified.

• Endures walking through Skornheim even as it sets his lungs aflame
• While exhausted both physically and emotionally, endures pain which would KO a mortal man and continues to fight Absorbing Man
• Endures the heat of the Troll kingdom, it blistering his flesh but enduring the pain
• Even while extremely beaten and weary, is able to summon new strength to clash with Loki
• Zeus says not even the Titans together or the Gods of Olympus resisted him like Thor does. Thor continues getting back up even while battered
• Halts the full thrust of an adamantium rocket car of similar durability to Ultron, the thrust breaking his bones. Not even a bombardment of demolition charges is able to break Thor’s grip
• Hulk complains he can’t defeat Thor, as he beats him down but Thor keeps getting back up
• Endures the pain of being phased into a floor
• Endures repeated blows from Flame, with Thor saying the punches did hurt but that he endured them to the point it looks like he just shook them off to Flame
• While depowered and suffering agonising pain from an illness that ravages his insides, smashes apart a group of Yggdrasil soldiers. Thor is so ill he feels his blood stop moving for a second. While suffering the pain of his near-death from before, pushes back the wheel of the Worldengine across minutes, reversing Ragnarok and fighting against Yggdrasil and the engine
• Smited by a blast from the empowered Thanos, enduring the excruciating pain of the energy field as the Recorder says his chances of escaping are 0.00012%. Even Firelord doesn’t risk entering the energy field
• Strikes at Jaekelsson with his broken hands and headbutts him
• While empowered by rune magic, endures Jaekelsson slashing his shoulder, biting the flesh off his hand, and crushing his arm before strangling the life out of him, enduring the pain and continuing to fight on his own
• During the Reigning, kills the Hulk and Thing after a multi-hour fight while bereft of the Odinforce and after having lost his left arm during the battle
• Endures Brunhilde stabbing him through the chest and continues to fight afterwards
• An ordinary Asgardian, weaker than Thor or Loki, could survive for 5 minutes after his heart is removed and could recover if it is placed back
• Fights off a powerful demon with a large wound in his chest
• Goes through the entirety of the Fear Itself event with a large space-time wound on his chest
• Young Thor is able to somewhat keep fighting after Gorr stabs him in the chest, and survives wounds from Gorr which would have killed a normal man 1000 times over
• Young Thor endures extended torture from Gorr, who boasts he once tortured a god of torture to the point of making him give up his own kids. He later endures being tortured by him for 17 days until his will breaks
• Endures the force of his blows cracking his bones and the pain of Gorr’s weapon devouring him from the inside with maggots
• Young Thor endures Apocalypse throwing Jarnbjorn at him, embedding it in his chest, and is able to keep fighting
• Endures the chill of a berserk Iceman, who freezes his blood, heart, and brain, and immediately breaks out, and subsequently keeps fighting after being stabbed through the chest
• Malekith turns one of Thor’s livers into broken glass, but Thor spits the glass in his face and keeps fighting unimpeded
• Endures Heven’s torture without screaming
• Keeps fighting with his arm completely flayed
• Endures an energy blast from the Promotor, the pain burning him from the inside. Both Thor and the Champion are in intense pain due to it, but Hulk is still able to move
• Endures a punch from Juggernaut which causes a tooth to rip through his intestines
• Endures torture in Heven’s Pain Cloister, his hands repeatedly broken and his teeth pulled out before they regrow
• Endures Desak twisting his blade to torture him, with only the Odinpower keeping Thor alive
• Endures Desak stabbing him in the stomach and gets back up
• Endures Knull stabbing him through the chest and is able to keep fighting soon after
• Endures Zeus summoning lightning from inside him to burn him alive, even as Zeus uses his full power
• Rips out his own eyes to escape a stasis field
• Still alive after being stabbed through the foreheadand instantly heals when it’s removed to keep fighting
• Endures Blake burning out his eyes with Hellnir
• [Old King] Endures Loki slashing his guts out, and proceeds to strangle Loki with his own intestines, using them as a rope to throw Mjolnir into the sun. It’s stated he holds his guts inside himself through sheer force of will
• While afflicted by Hela’s curse, which makes his bones brittle and prevents him from healing while simultaneously making him completely immortal so that he can never enter Hel (essentially meaning his body would continuously get more and more injured and completely unable to heal any of it):
  • Fights for minutes against Absorbing Man even with a broken rib
  • Still stands after having multiple bones broken, collapsing from his injuries later
  • Is injured so severely he’d be out of commission for two months in a normal hospital. He manages to get out and traverse to Steeltown, but every movement causes him excruciating pain
  • Forges his armour, with every blow causing him agony as the concussion is too much for mortals, over an entire week
  • Blows away a horde of dark elves constraining him after his right leg is broken by a strike from Grendell, at this point tapping out
  • Still able to stand despite all his broken bones and pain
  • Whirls his hammer until his bones grind
  • Endures being stabbed through the heart by his future self’s sword, but is kept alive through Hela’s curse
  • Says that Nephaestus is a mighty opponent but that he would humble him if it weren’t for Hela’s curse making his bones brittle and incapable of healing, and that his armour holds his shattered bones together so he isn’t paralysed by pain
  • Describes it “agony beyond imagining”
  • Not even Apollo can fix Thor’s bones, and he remarks it’s a wonder Thor can even still move
  • Thor’s battle with the Serpent leaves him a quivering mass of jellied flesh maintained only by his armour, but still alive due to the curse
  • Even as Thor’s physical body is broken, his soul doesn’t stop fighting and Mephisto says he can’t break him, returning his soul to his body (though he is partially lying)
  • The Destroyer hits the cursed Thor with molecular disruptors, nuclear ripsaws, and anti-matter particle beams, reducing the armour and body to plasma and reconstructing them completely, yet it realises that even its total disintegration beam will not be enough to kill Thor. Thor was alive through this entire process

Immortality

Asgardians are immortal, but not in a conventional sense. They’ve been described by official sources as simply being extremely long-lived and not true immortals like the Olympian gods. Thor himself has said his lifespan is normally endless, with his classic fate being to die in the events of Ragnarok, and Zeus has stated he couldn’t kill Thor due to his fate being transcribed in the Book of Ragnarok. Thor’s exact age is imprecise, but has been called incomputable, which makes sense when you consider that a century passes like a year to the Asgardians.

Of course, the Asgardians can still be killed conventionally, with the Marvel Handbook very precisely noting that an Asgardian will be killed once a major portion of their bodily molecules have been dispersed. Upon death, an Asgardian will typically go to the afterlife of either Valhalla, Hel, or Niffleheim based on the actions they took in life. If these realms are destroyed, Asgardians simply cease to be upon death, and reaching the realms upon death requires the Valkyries to ferry the soul there. Thor has been seen travelling to Valhalla and back while alive and ferrying spirits there. Thor, of course, has also died multiple times, with his soul being in the contention of multiple death gods simultaneously, meaning it’s inconsistent what realm he goes to upon death. He’s been seen going to Hel, Valhalla, and, uniquely, the Limbo-Place, a realm where gods go to die outside of space-time, via a space-time rift on his chest. While in this limbo, Thor began to slowly lose his identity and was about to be consumed by the Demogorge, but was able to recall Mjolnir to him from across dimensions, restoring his identity and allowing him to smash through the Demogorge to return to life. Fafnir once claimed that there needs to be an intact body for the body to be transmigrated to Valhalla or Hel, though this is the only time this ever came up and it doesn’t really make much sense, since it’s explicit that the soul is what’s transported to Valhalla and Hel and not the body, and we’ve seen someone who died in a huge explosion still go to Valhalla.

Another notable example is early on in his history, where, after being killed, a spark of life still existed in Thor, with his astral self rising to confront Hela who was unable to ferry his soul, and he operated as a living wraith to defeat Wrecker. In his astral form, Thor could not be seen or touched. After Hela had departed, Thor was able to re-enter his body and return to life, with his body having grown stronger in the meantime. It’s unclear what exactly happened here or if it would constitute resurrection. I would interpret this as basically being Thor having one more in him as opposed to true regeneration, as it’s later specified Thor was able to resurrect the first time because Hela lost power over him when she turned away, and that Thor can live until he’s mortally wounded again, at which point Hela will claim him. Even with this in mind though, it speaks to the extent of Thor’s survivability.

After All-Father Thor ended the cycle of the gods in Ragnarok, he ascended to a higher plane and went to a well-deserved rest, which took the form of his absence from Marvel’s present-day comics from 2004 to 2007. Despite Thor’s slumber, Mjolnir itself was able to tear through dimensional planes across Hell to reach Earth. Due to Doctor Doom having been touched by the Asgardians’ energies while trapped in Hell, his touching of Mjolnir ‘woke up’ the hammer, and seemed to summon Donald Blake back to Earth, who activated the hammer upon contact. Doing this contacted Thor in the void he was slumbering in, Vidblainn, and Blake managed to convince Thor to return to life. By grabbing on to Mjolnir, which Thor seemed to summon to himself in Vidblainn, he was able to restore his powers, and live again, Blake summoning him back into reality with a strike.

While a soul in Valhalla, there is no exit except for the summons of the All-Father, who can grant leave from it on a whim. If the All-Father ‘kills’ a spirit in Valhalla, the spirit returns to life, at the cost of sacrificing their place in Valhalla and ensuring their next death is a permanent one. Similarly, as Odin built Valhalla and knows its entrance and exit, he could simply walk out of it to return to life at the cost of losing his ability to return to Valhalla. This was also seen earlier on when Odin sacrificed himself to give Thor the full All-Power, his spirit reaching Valhalla, seeing it was empty, and then returning back to life by itself by inhabiting Mjolnir as a vessel. When Thor was acting as the All-Father, Loki suggested Thor could do similarly to return to life upon death, but Thor himself rebuked this by stating that death is a force even he has to bow to, and Sif later noted that while Thor can briefly bring back someone from Valhalla, he cannot resurrect them, as unlike Odin he did not build Valhalla. This was shown to be true at the end of The Immortal Thor, where the All-Father Thor’s death sent him to Vidblainn, now revealed to be a void-land outside all realms from which there is no escape, described as true death for even a god. Notably, when Thor is briefly killed earlier in the run, he is also sent to Vidblainn before being resurrected in the physical world.

Other esoteric methods of resurrecting upon death have been used by denizens of the Ten Realms. Most notably, prior to Ragnarok, Surtur invested a portion of his soul in the Netherworld, allowing him to return to life if he gets through the portal, but Odin stops him every single day, both dying and coming back to life each time ever since Surtur’s death in Ragnarok and up to eternity. As the All-Father, Thor noted he could resurrect Odin’s spirit in the Netherworld if he wanted, specifically noting that anything he can touch he can bring back from the dead, which he later did by smashing his casket (note that by the time he actually did this, Thor had lost the All-Power).

As noted prior, the Asgardians are not true immortals, but seem to operate as such. The reason for this is due to the true source of their immortality, Idunn’s golden apples. These apples are plucked by the goddess Idunn, and provide the gods with their youth. If starved of the apples, the gods will grow old and decay, eventually falling into the death sleep. The apples provide the gods their vitality, and it’s been seen that Thor becomes decrepit rather quickly when deprived of the apples past the point he has to eat them. Eating an apple instantly restores a god’s youth, and has also been shown to grant a god immortality, healing them from fatal wounds. They’ve been described as giving the gods wisdom, youth, vigor, and verve, their divinity and power. The apples also only work on Asgardians (though this has arguably been contradicted on occasion). Eric Masterson has claimed each Asgardian only has one apple corresponding to them at a time.

If you’re wondering why we don’t constantly see Thor scarfing these apples down, it’s because they’re only needed on Asgard. On Midgard, gods remain as true immortals, so Thor doesn’t age while he’s there (though there have been instances of the gods needing the apples on Earth in spite of this). How often an Asgardian needs to consume one of the apples to retain their immortality isn’t clear, but writer Al Ewing has suggested once every 10 years as a possible timeframe, which seems reasonable to me.

Worship & Belief

A consistent and key element of gods in Marvel, even from early in their history, is that their existence and strength is fuelled by belief and worship from others. Odin has explained that gods believe in men while men believe in gods, and that gods only exist because of this belief, meaning gods only have power in the domain of their belief, with the fate of all gods being tied to Midgard. Similarly, Gaea has explained that gods are manifestations of a world’s spiritual life-force given shape and sustenance by the collective consciousness of its highest physical life-form. They draw power from the energy of the human mind, so as long as there is belief or knowledge of a god, they will live. Since belief in Asgard had waned at the time of her saying this, what little was left was not strong enough to survive their recent destruction. Without their followers, a god will ultimately cease to exist. As gods are living stories as opposed to true history, it is the magic of human storytelling which conjures the gods into existence retroactively. This also explains why the history of the Asgardians is so inconsistent and contradictory, as like the myths that created them, the history of the gods is mutable and stories blend into each other. A god’s power is (at least partially) influenced by the plane they are on and the amount of worship they receive there, explaining Odin’s large variances in power. Similarly, magic itself is dependent on belief, described as telling a lie so convincing the universe believes it to be real.

Ironically, Thor is partially an exception to the above. Odin mated with Gaea for the express purpose of creating a son whose strength would not be derived from the same source as his own. As a son of Gaea, Thor has greater strength on Earth than any other god, and a natural affinity for the planet, since he derives strength from the Earth-spirit itself. This means Thor is able to draw power on any plane of reality, even ones where Odin cannot. That said, Thor does still draw power from belief to some degree. While bouncing through time, the Vikings’ belief in Thor pulled Eric Masterson Thor into the 9th century, so when they stopped believing him, he disappeared into the early 20th century. The most extreme example of belief affecting Thor occurred during Chaos War, where Thor was physically, spiritually, and psychically torn to shreds by the Glory, and ended up manifesting on Earth in the form of a memoryless Donald Blake. Despite this, an individual woman’s prayer and belief restored Thor from Blake’s form and fully regenerated him, her merging into him as he transformed. It’s specified that Glory ripped apart Thor’s very being, and he only survived due to the woman’s prayer, her belief resurrecting Thor from Blake. As Thor is the most famous god in all creation, known even in the most remote corners of the universe, he certainly isn’t likely to run out of belief any time soon.

Weather Manipulation

While it is more limited without Mjolnir, Thor is still the God of Thunder, and has a natural ability to control the weather via inheriting Odin’s sky-powers. Mjolnir has been described as being what gives him “true control” over his latent abilities. Electricity literally courses through his body constantly, to the point a clone of Thor had electricity in his very cells, and all storms of the world are his to command, with him being able to sense incoming storms. Rainstorms are stated and shown to be capable of restoring Thor’s fading strength, and he’s claimed being hit with electricity just leaves him refreshed. Ironically, some of Thor’s most impressive weather manipulating feats have been when he’s without Mjolnir, with him able to create lightning bolts as big as planets and storms intense enough to shake all of Yggdrasil..

Worth noting is that as the God of Thunder, Jane Foster was once able to move “like lightning”, performing brain surgery on an entire ward of people simultaneously at super speed so fast Doctor Strange couldn’t even see her and melting the scalpels via speed. She says she didn’t know she could move this fast, and it’s suggested to be an ability innate to being the God of Thunder, so it’s unclear if Thor can do the same.

With the All-Power, Thor’s ability is enhanced further, and his intuitive mastery of the storm has allowed him to navigate time storms and has interfered with the storms of other weather manipulators like Storm, able to redirect any lightning thrown at him even from the likes of Zeus. He can also wield lightning as a sword. Odin and others have frequently employed the All-Power’s control over the skies for drastic effects Thor may be able to replicate when he has the All-Power. These include summoning meteor bolts, commanding the bed of the sea to soften, subjecting Absorbing Man to a “molecular cyclone”, Odin’s brothers summoning an arctic storm in Surtur’s domain which freezes his demons, Odin making it rain fire on Svartalheim, and Heimdall summoning meteors from the heavens to smite Thor.

Storms

• Prior to gaining Mjolnir, a young Thor could barely control the wind and rain. When he had a passionate dream, he accidentally flooded part of Asgard
• As Thor fights to his last, he calls on a massive storm around Asgard to safely awaken Odin from the Odinsleep and get his aid
• Raises his arm to summon a rain over Kurse’s body
• Unable to summon thunder on Gorr’s planet as it is too barren, but manages to channel one storm to help him
• Makes love with Erika under a raging thunderstorm, their sex causing seas all around the world to roil
• Thor’s mood leads to him subconsciously changing the weather across Earth, triggering a tsunami in Hawaii, which he stops and parts in two
• Creates a storm the size of a realm which engulfs Midgard, creating lightning and hurricanes across the world which target Malekith’s forces, affecting all of Midgard
• Summons storms across the globe which zap an angel. The storms are strong enough to suck trolls into them
• Jane and Odinson combine their storms against the Phoenix in space, which helps tear it apart
• As a child, created a storm so intense it rattled every building in Asgard, fiercer than any god could remember. The storm is Thor’s way of crying
• Baby Thor created storms every time he cried which shook the world tree and every realm perched along its branches
• Thor’s birth shakes the planet with storms, threatening to destroy the world before he’s even born
• Thor normally nullifies intense storms before they can do damage
• Even while suppressed by moons, Thor’s thunder is audible from Earth. Creates a thunderstorm around the moons sealing him, visible from Earth, which begins to tear them apart
• [Old King] Able to sense his younger self’s storm far away on Gorr’s planet

Wind

• While hammerless, whirls his cape fast enough to create a small tornado and blow a gun out of Mr Hyde’s hands
• He says Mjolnir is what grants him true control, but even without it is able to calm the winds with a command
• Thor and Zephyr’s love-making a millenia ago nearly split the planet in two from their combined weather powers

Lightning

• Casts lightning bolts from his hands, which bounce off the Radioactive Man
• Thor uses his medicinal skill to try and resuscitate Hogun, but he’s already dead. Thor realises he needs a defibrillator and summons a massive storm which covers NYC just by raising his hands before calling down repeated lightning bolts on Hogun’s body, just barely resurrecting him
• While being choked by Hercules’s grip, commands lightning from the sky to separate him and Hercules and striking Hercules down.
• Produces a shockwave of lightning from his body which vaporises a group of monsters grabbing him
• Generates electricity from his hands which lights up a pitch black area
• Summons a lightning bolt from the sky which breaks Gorr’s grip
• Charges his hands with lightning and bloodies Malekith
• Thor’s superbolts are so powerful they can be seen from space
• Odinson charges lightning through Jane’s Mjolnir, which doesn’t affect her as she also commands lightning
• As the blue spot of the moon has air and weather, Thor is able to summon a lightning bolt
• While imprisoned and without Mjolnir, Thor commands storms to traverse the realms and reach Heven (which is otherwise devoid of any clouds) over time and covers Heven with them, the lightning completely obliterating Heven’s fortress
• With his bare hands, channels lightning into a future version of himself’s internals, blowing out his nanotech
• Charges his fist with electricity and smashes the ground, blowing away Proxima Midnight and Black Swan and creating a thunderbolt visible against and bursting through the curvature of the Collector’s solar system sized ship
• The combined thunder of the two Thors defeats Apocalypse
• Hurts Mangog with a lightning blast
• Creates a burst of lightning comparable in size to the moon
• Unleashes a lightning bolt visible across the angels’ planet sized prison
• Thor channels enough otherworldly electricity to scramble Leader’s gamma signals
• [Jane] Channels lightning which blows apart Skyrmir from the inside
• [Jane] Fires a blast of lightning from her hands which creates a huge explosion
• [Jane] Seems to create a forcefield of lightning around herself
• [Jane] Downs Oubliette with a blast of lightning from her hands
• [Jane] Intercepts and grabs a lightning bolt with her bare hands right before it hits somebody, who notes she’s quicker than it, before hurling the lightning bolt away. She then endures Yod’s lightning breath and grabs it out of his mouth, taking control of it
• [Jane] Fires a lightning blast from her hands to break lava webs
• Burns a lake around himself dry by calling on a bolt
• Fires a burst of lightning from his body which decimates part of a city
• Summons lightning dogs which charge at Corvus Glaive. Thor doesn’t know how he did it, and Runa suggests it’s due to the magic of the area they’re in. The magic in the amber cave of Niffleheim twisted Thor’s lightning dogs, causing them to destroy Corvus’s soul when they killed him
• [Old King] Breathes lightning at Gorr, blasting him into orbit

Earth

• Can control landslides and avalanches due to being the god of thunder, and closes a pass with a landslide
• Knows a magic incantation to erupt a volcano
• Thor can even fix global warming
• Parts the seas with his weather control

Cosmic

• Commands solar storms and interstellar winds to push his ship faster than the speed of light, galaxies passing by in a blur
• Takes command of the Mother Storm and channels it through his body even when Freyja thinks it’s too strong. He uses its power to attempt to resuscitate Jane and resurrect her. Odin channels the Mother Storm alongside Odinson and the to unite their power to resurrect Jane, creating a burst of lightning bigger than the moon and quelling the storm permanently
• Commands the Mother Storm around the sun, causing it to rain fire on Earth and reforge Mjolnir

Prayer

Thor can pray to summon the visage of those he might need help from, having done this multiple times to call upon Odin to solve a problem, though he can also do it with other beings, even non-gods like Doctor Strange. Thor is also Highly Responsive to Prayers, able to hear those praying to him from across the universe or between dimensions.

• Calls upon Odin to remove a woman’s memory
• Can send a message to Odin in Asgard from Earth
• Thor can hear prayers to him on Midgard and answer them
• Summons Odin, whose apparition appears inside the dome drains Korgon of his excess energy
• Able to hear someone killing to him in the language of the vikings from far away, and says in the past he could respond to prayers from worlds away
• Creates a dimensional vortex in Set’s domain which transports him to space between worlds. He’s able to contact Gaea there, but Set is too strong for her to help with
• Responds to a prayer on Earth by manifesting from a lightning bolt
• Thor says he can speak to Eternity and make requests since he’s a god
• Prayed to and summoned by Vikings
• Viking marauders are considered to have defied the ways of Asgard. Their adulation of Thor summons him. Thor summons Odin via his speech who manifests to him and tells him it’s important for man to learn on their own and to not interfere
• Resists Glory attempting to subsume him into his consciousness and assimilate him. He lets it happen, and the part of his being that is Donald Blake prays to the one true God, destroying Glory completely
• Norsemen pray for the Aesir, summoning Thor, Odin, and other gods
• Hears a prayer from a universe away
• Coulson praying for a SHIELD agent causes Thor to immediately reach her from space
• Even while incredibly drunk, is able to respond to a prayer

Magic

Thor has a few miscellaneous magical spells he’s occasionally used, such as magic to ascertain Asgard’s defenses or collate the corpses of his 8 horses into Sleipnir. Most notably, he once used a spell to make it appear he had slain a troll ally of his to Malekith. This stunt fooled even Thor’s allies. In his own words, he picked up a few tricks from Loki.

Telepathy

During the period he was turned into a frog, Thor telepathically communicated with Moonstar to reassure her. Much later on, after the living planet Alter-Ego consumed part of Thor’s life-force, Thor was able to communicate with the entity inside his head via that shared link. In one story, Thor let himself be consumed by the god-slaying Demogorge, and resisted its absorption to hijack the Demogorge’s body and briefly pilot it until its will overcame him. Only a year later, Thor would reference this incident and describe it as him entering the Demogorge to achieve mental mastery over it. He tried to employ the same tactic again against the techno-organic being Terminus, smashing into his body to achieve mental control over his being, though in this case Terminus managed to resist. So, Thor has some kind of consistent ability to hijack beings mentally from the inside.

Warrior Madness

Warrior Madness is an Asgardian mental affliction, where the victim is consumed by an insatiable bloodlust and loses all control of themselves. This lack of restraint makes them an enormous threat, and any known to suffer it are punished with banishment from Asgard. To humans, it is known as berserker rage. As a viking warrior who’s been in countless battles, Thor has succumbed to the madness multiple times throughout his history, typically when experiencing some kind of reason for emotional outburst (though he has crashed out for no real reason sometimes).

Typically in versus debating spheres, Warrior Madness has been described as a 10x strength multiplier, based on Thor attempting a magical chant to invoke what’s implied to be Warrior Madness (and failing), which he says increases a warrior’s strength “tenfold”. I think this most likely isn’t literal though, Thor is speaking in a pretty poetic manner here and a letters page makes it clear that all the madness actually does is give a boost via hysterical strength, the violent anger and adrenaline giving Thor a constant power boost while under the madness, which is more consistent with its actual showings. It’s also important to note that Warrior Madness isn’t some sort of magical Asgardian-specific state, as it’s been said many times throughout the comics that ordinary humans or other races enter what Asgardians call Warrior Madness when they’re in a berserker rage, meaning it’s simply just what Asgardians call berserker rage in a general sense. Even Jeanne d’Arc has been implied to have been affected by the madness during the Battle of Orleans. While the madness is sometimes referred to as incurable, Thor has managed to free himself of it on his own before.

The most prominent arc the madness has featured in is the Blood and Thunder story arc from the 90s, where Thor was being mentally influenced by his goth gf tulpa called Valkyrie to lose all control, strengthening him in a way which shocked even gods like Pluto as he rampaged through the cosmos. The Valkyrie was a purely mental construct that had no spirit, but had enough hold over Thor’s mind to challenge the Goddess’s mind control during the Infinity Crusade event. Interference from Moondragon briefly turned Valkyrie into a physical being, and she was only merged back with Thor after a psychic battle with Thor’s madness matching the entirety of the Infinity Watch. It took Odin’s intervention to help Thor overcome the Valkyrie in his head and finally free himself of the madness. The reason I’m bringing all this up is that despite being the most prominent appearance of Warrior Madness by a long-shot, it’s revealed at the end of the arc that Thor’s madness actually comes from the instability in his soul arising from Odin having grafted Donald Blake to him, with Odin stating that this isn’t true Warrior Madness and that Thor can be saved. However, later sources still refer to the state Thor was in during this arc as Warrior Madness, which you can chalk to either a retcon or the writer just not knowing about the reveal at the end. Either way that means I have to count it as an instance of the madness.

Occurrences

• Thor goes berserk at Sif being captured, entering Warrior Madness as Balder explains. In Warrior Madness, Thor is completely single-minded and cannot think properly, meaning he might lose even to a weaker foe. Warrior Madness leaves Thor like a veil, and he realises he’s been mad the entire issue
• Enters Warrior Madness against Kang
• Driven mad by a neural beam from Korvac, which he compares to the madness
• Thor enters Warrior Madness as Hulk punches him flying out of the way of an incoming bomb, narration noting that Thor doesn’t even feel the pain of the impact beneath his fury
• Thor considers sacrificing himself by charging into the Rot, but says the rage of the berserker might have been colouring his thoughts
• Thor succumbs to it against Nidhogg
• Enters Warrior Madness and tears through an army of dwarves and giants
• Enters Warrior Madness, driving him to a berserker rage against Beta Ray Bill

Godblast

The Godblast is well-known in versus debating spheres and is Thor’s most powerful ability, a massive energy blast he can fire from Mjolnir that can threaten and kill cosmic beings like Galactus. Despite that, it’s also incredibly nebulous. The most elaboration it has ever been given is the Marvel Handbook describing Thor as having the power to channel his own godly energies into blasts from Mjolnir powerful enough to slay immortals. The name “Godblast” didn’t even exist until 2011 in Astonishing Thor, where Thor says that through Mjolnir he can fire a Godblast which would render Ego insensate for a time, like he’s done before, and later notes that a Godblast to Alter Ego’s core would render him comatose, with Thor aiming to do the same to Ego after. Writer Jason Aaron would later use this name when answering a fan question.

Despite this, you can generally get an idea of what the Godblast is and when it’s actually been used based on context clues. The key tell is Thor’s own dialogue, as he’ll usually give a speech about uniting his “godly life-force” or “strength” with Mjolnir, specifically with the phrasing “hammer supreme”. Its description as drawing upon the source of Asgardian immortality would actually seem to suggest its source of power is Idunn’s golden apples, though this connection has never directly been made in the comics. There’s also an instance of Thor describing it as channeling Odin’s power, which suggests it’s tied to the Odinforce in some form. After saying these sacred chants, Thor fires out a large beam of energy which has threatened the likes of Galactus, Surtur, Ymir, and the Black Winter, and can also close large dimensional rifts on a multiversal scale. Thor once seemed to use a form of the Godblast to drain Loki of his own immortality, permanently killing him (Loki only came back later via a past version of himself being pulled into the present). The Godblast has been stated to heavily drain Thor upon use, but the extent is inconsistent, and he’s used it multiple times without this occurring and has even said he could do multiple in a row. He also doesn’t seem to need Mjolnir to perform one, though it’s unclear how.

Writer Tom DeFalco is the one who really codified the Godblast as being an actual ability, and the majority of the power’s explicit appearances come from his work on Thor. Thor has used the Godblast roughly 11 times throughout his history, typically against large cosmic threats he deems himself otherwise unable to stop, but since the ability is so ill-defined and doesn’t have a solid indicator, there’s multiple edge-cases and instances that may or may not be a Godblast. Given how vague it is, I’ve elected to just list every instance I think is a Godblast occurring in-order and in-full below.

• NO. 1: Thor puts Mjolnir on a stand and grasps it, channeling his godly strength through the hammer and unleashing the energy as a blast in a single astro-second. The Asgardian energy engulfs Galactus with force waves which hurl him back and drain his strength. Galactus escapes and says that if he does not flee, he will surely die
  • Thor says he once beat Galactus, but only by channeling “the power of Odin” referencing the Godblast, and only after Galactus was weakened by hunger and exhausted battling Ego. He doesn’t know if Odin could beat peak Galactus
• NO. 2: Calls forth his godly life-force which flows within all Asgardians and grants them their immortality, and channels it through Mjolnir in one destructive blast. He has to wrap Mjolnir in his belt of power as not even Mjolnir can safely contain the energies being released. He mouths enchanted words that few immortals know exist and unites his lifeforce with his hammer, joining his power and firing a blast which shatters the dome around Exiter’s brain which is even harder than Celestial battle-armor. Exitar is jostled by the attack while Mjolnir itself is shattered. The belt meanwhile seems mostly intact
• NO. 3: Thor unleashes the most terrifying Asgardian power of all against Juggernaut, which he says hurled back Galactus and gave pause to a Celestial. He calls forth the God-Force which flows in his veins and unites with Mjolnir to become one with it, before unleashing a blast of Asgardian power which actually pushes back Juggernaut
• NO. 4: While Ymir and Surtur are distracted, Thor concentrates all of the mystic power and enchanted energy in his hammer into a single focused blast which will rip open the very fabric of the universe and burst the barrier between myriad dimensions. He becomes one with Mjolnir and fires a blast at the two elementals with the right aim. The energy channels into the Twilight Sword capturing both in its backlash and causing them to vanish into a dimensional warp into the dimension of death, trapping them in suspended animation as they can’t age or die. Thor is left weakened afterwards
• NO. 5: Thor calls upon his most sacred enchantment and becomes one with Mjolnir, beginning the forbidden process of drawing out Loki’s godly life-force to eradicate his essence of immortality. The fabric of space shudders as both are caught in the backlash of energies and flayed to their inner soul, with Loki ultimately exploding and dying
• NO. 6: Thor, Dargo Ktor, Beta Ray Bill, and Thunderstrike all unite their hammers and call upon the enchanted forces within to become one with their hammers supreme, releasing energies of incomparable intensity. The energies bolster the boundaries between collapsing alternate realities, preventing the entire multiverse from collapsing in on itself, which was previously depicted as harming Eternity itself. It’s suggested that their energies alone aren’t enough, and Demonstaff ultimately joins in on the energy burst himself, which ends up actually fixing all the dimensional boundaries to some degree and transporting every Thor back to where they were originally summoned
• NO. 7: To close a chaotic dimensional rift, Thor calls on the most invincible Asgardian power of all, the godly lifeforce which flows through all of them and grants every Asgardian their immortality. He says the sacred chants which merge his godly strength with the hammer supreme, firing a blast which seals the portal. Notably, while seemingly a little tired, Thor is able to immediately keep fighting afterwards, though Surfer says soon after they’re both on the precipice of exhaustion
• NO. 8: Summons the mightiest storm ever conceived by raising Mjolnir on Asgard, described as a living fury of energy which surpasses all others, and focuses it through himself, his godly life force becoming one with the power of the hammer supreme to fire a blast at Zelia, severely damaging her
• NO. 9: Without Mjolnir, taps into a power deep inside himself for a strength never fully realised before, creating a burst of energy from his body which kills Durok. It’s pretty unclear if this is Godblast but I’ve seen it commonly interpreted as such so I’ll label it as one
• NO. 10: While wielding the Power Cosmic, unleashes a Godblast to blow away the Black Winter, thinking that if he can’t kill it, he can at least make it bleed. The Black Winter is hurt and repelled but still active
• NO. 11: Uses the full force of his birthright to fire a blast from his hand at Meridius. Meridius attempts to blocks it with Hellnir but it shatters the hammer and severely damages him, forcing him to flee

Gaea Power

Thor’s mother is Gaea, the elder goddess of the Earth itself, and he combines Odin’s sky-powers with his mother’s earth-powers. Thor is naturally attuned to the Earth as a result, able to hear the planet’s screaming, and can call upon her strength to bend the earth around him to his will, such as calling upon Gaea to withdraw a sealed sword within Hell. His connection to Gaea is intrinsic enough that in one instance it even made him more susceptible to earth-based mind control from Morgan Le Fay. With the All-Power, Thor has invoked her power by striking the ground to create a massive chasm between two areas in Africa which stretches across the entire region.

During the events of the Empyre series in 2020, Thor went on an off-screen journey (cause Covid cancelled the book which was supposed to show what Thor was doing) to learn to harness Gaea’s will, and channeled his power to destroy all the Cotati’s magic vegetation growing across the planet. He would then use this power of Gaea to bring life to a dead planet, causing vegetation to grow across it, though it’s said that doing this sacrifices the ability from Thor for good.

Despite this, Thor has still used Gaea’s power since. While later fighting the God Tempest, Thor would call upon Gaea’s power to conjure a massive energy tornado surrounded by rocks. Reed explains that the tornado acts as a barrier which no force on Earth could break through, and Freyja says that as the son of Gaea, the Earth bends to Thor’s knee. Thor would then use Gaea’s power to crush the Mother Storm in a huge prison of rocks and plant life, trapping Mjolnir in its walls.

Phoenix Power

For a good stretch in the comics it was strongly suggested that Gaea being Thor’s mother was a lie, and that his true mother was the Phoenix, the elder goddess of life itself. Ultimately it was revealed that the Phoenix was actually the midwife for Gaea, the Phoenix Firehair having used her power to resurrect Thor when he was stillborn. This resurrection imbued Thor with the latent flame powers of his godmother. Thor has channeled the power of the Phoenix to launch a flame blast at a dark AU version of himself and burn him away, and later used the power given to him by Firehair to fire a massive flame blast, which provided enough power to push back the omniversal tidal wave of the First Firmament. A few pages later it’s noted the Phoenixes are exhausted of their power, though it’s unclear if this applies to Thor. Thor hasn’t been seen using these powers since, likely just due to them stemming from a widely disliked retcon. Also note that Thor has only used these abilities while he had the All-Power, though since they’re a separate power-source he should likely be able to use them even without it, similar to his Gaea-derived abilities.

Runes

Like in myth, runes act as both the Norse alphabet and a form of spell-casting, with individual runes boasting unique esoteric effects. Famously, Odin hung himself upon Yggdrasil to gain all the knowledge in the world and mastery over the runes. While the Odinforce comes from Odin’s mastery over the runes, writer Al Ewing has said he envisions the Odinforce and rune-magic to be two separate things. Thor would later do this ritual himself during the climactic events of Ragnarok. The runes are described as magic called Seid which can divine the future and cast spells. The magic of the runes and wisdom from Mimir’s well gave Thor the power to know the past, control the present, and guide the future, seeing through the veil of time past quantum structure, seeing the future of all things, and ultimately realising Odin sent him to Earth to end the cycle of Ragnarok. This ritual gave Thor the title of Rune King and allowed him to end the cycle of fate and put all gods to rest. It’s been suggested that even after Thor’s resurrection, he still retains the knowledge gained during this ritual, and has been occasionally seen using rune-magic, most prominently during The Immortal Thor. Doctor Strange considers rune magic particularly tricky, and not something any amateur can use.

Usage by Thor

• Thor takes Odin’s runes, which Frigga says even Odin feared to work, and takes them to the top of the Hlidskjalf, opening one of Odin’s caskets and using 12 of the runes of life and death to summon Angerboda from Hela’s domain and command her to show him the way to Hel
• The lord of Asgard wears the Rune of Kingship
• Carves the rune Thursiaz onto his arm brace, saying it represents the frontier between Asgard and Midgard and the release of the past, while also being Thor’s name
• Upon death, Thor lands in Hel, but draws a rune in the snow which summons Odin’s spirit and carries him away
• Ultron is secured in Wakandan vibranium reinforced with mystic Asgardian runes and bindings by Thor
• Forges a branch into Raidho, the rune of journeys, and flips it to take him back home from a dimension he otherwise could not escape
• Thor uses Tyr’s rune to restore his soul and free him from Oblivion’s possession
• Writer Al Ewing says Loki was able to stymie Thor with a rune because it was one of the runes of Thor’s name, overcoming his own rune power

Other Uses of Runes

Rune-magic is frequently employed by other spell-casters, most prominently serving as the basis of Loki’s repertoire of spells. Since Thor has knowledge of the runes, he may have knowledge of some of its more esoteric applications, though this is speculatory.

• The troll Askella uses the rune of raw winter to summon the wind giant, which is sealed by a magic battle
• Thor’s battle armour is engraved with Odin’s runes
• Odin carves runes into his ravens, allowing them to travel anywhere in existence
• Loki employs “rune-magicks” to possess War Machine
• Strange says rune magic is very tricky and not for amateurs, and the blood feeds the runestone to activate the spell. Due to the spell drinking all of the man’s blood it became 1000 times more powerful and made the vikings immortal and immensely powerful as an actual life force is drawn into the stone
• Strange uses rune magic to empower the descendants of the original caster, Thor and Strange noting how dangerous this kind of magic is. Strange says that the powers that the runes are alien and no humanity constrains them, similar to a genie twisting the words of a wish
• Loki recites rune magic which turns spiders into monsters
• Odin’s ravens watch Sif steal the Mirror of Mycha, which makes anybody who sees it fall in love with the wielder using Loki’s rune magic
• Iceman activates a rune which transports the Vanir across the world and helps summon Ymir
• Loki uses the reversed rune of Raidho, representing disrupted journeys. The rune disrupts all magic, including the All-Power. Loki flips the Raidho rune to ferry themselves away
• Tiwaz’s rune represents justice and sacrifice
• A Thor in Battleworld inscribes runes which teleport him to Doomstadt
• Thor is banished by Loki using the rune Uruz, one of the runes in his name representing endurance and survival, the rune-spell forcing him, Zeus, the fully-powered Nyx, and Hercules to remain in the realm
• The rune Uruz represents Audumbla’s children

Knowledge

You know how I said just before that Thor replicated Odin’s ritual to gain the knowledge of Yggdrasil? He’s actually done that twice, once during the events of Ragnarok and once much later during the War off the Realms, recounted below. As said, Thor retains all these memories and the wisdom given to him by the rituals, with this knowledge being what allows him to tame the All-Power.

• Thor plucks out his own eyes and places them in the Well of Mimir, replenishing it and allowing Thor to drink its waters and journey into mystery. It imbues Thor with the wisdom of the past, and he sees how Ragnarok has happened many times before, with Odin having died many times and the gods continuously having lost in the cycle of Ragnarok, now remembering every time it happened. The Odinforce tells him he must seek the magic of the runes to find the truth.

Thor later hangs from Yggdrasil to gain the knowledge of the runes, magic called Seid by the norse which can divine the future and cast spells. The magic of the runes and wisdom from Mimir’s well gives Thor the power to know the past, control the present, and guide the future, seeing through the veil of time past the knowing of the gods. As Blake, Thor learned the science of man and sees all things animal and mineral, he sees beyond quantum structure and into Gun-Gingap and realises what he has to do. Thor sees the future of all things down to the leaf on every tree and every unseen battle, and realises Odin send him to Earth as part of a great plan to end the cycle of Ragnarok

• Pinned to Yggdrasil in the Sun by Jarnbjorn to gain wisdom. Sacrifices his left eye and a fragment of Mjolnir to Yggdrasil, melting it and granting him wisdom. A great wind begins to tear the sun asunder and he’s launched across the heavens to Old Asgard by an explosion, Thor’s roar shaking the ruins of Asgard

Luck

This is like maybe actually a real thing. The final issue of Walt Simonson’s legendary run on Thor has Loki reveal Thor’s greatest power; Thor isn’t just the greatest warrior in the nine realms, but also the luckiest, and his luck carries him beyond the limits of gods and allows him to bypass even the fates and their strings. This would much later be proven to be true when Thor overcame the fate of the gods during Ragnarok. The robotic Recorder also once calculated that the odds of stopping the Null Bomb and saving Hercules and the High Evolutionary to be one against 4572368^3, before stating that if only one person could beat those odds, it would be Thor.

Ironically, Njoda, the goddess of luck, dislikes Thor and gives him bad fortune while gambling, because Thor accidentally sat on her pet ferret.

Miscellaneous

Random abilities that don’t cleanly fit under any category previously mentioned.

• Combined with Hercules, Thor was able to punch with enough power to “demolish worlds” and close a dimensional portal to Olympus just with his fists
• Spirits away Ultimate Thor’s Hammer and all of Asgard back to its proper location
• Produces a glow around his body

 Esoteric Resistances

• Magic
  • Loki’s spells don’t work on Thor, only Blake
  • Shatters Loki’s magic spells with Mjolnir
  • A frost giant made by Enchantress is formed of magic ruins and spells only known in the Halls of Odin, making it immune to Scarlet Witch’s hexes
  • Enchantress states her spells have no effect on Odin

• Mind Manipulation:
  • Affected by the Enchantress’ mind control, but she notes he’s so powerful her spell will only last for minutes, so she needs to enforce it with a magical brew which makes him perceive the Avengers as villains
  • Forced to kneel by Tana’s mind thrust, but with enough willpower begins breaking out, forcing her to subdue him
  • Immune to Ares’s mind-controlling music
  • Overcomes the Eye of Horus trying to remove his willpower
  • The idea of Jane in danger breaks Thor free from Gypsy’s control
  • Has his memory erased by magic mists and is transported through time, but restores his memory after realising he’s divine
  • With the help of the Evil Eye, Thor’s astral self smashes down a lock in his own mind, allowing him to see sealed memories. It’s noted Thor has to open his mind to let the Evil Eye in
  • Man-Beast says his hate-ray, which drives people mad with anger, will have no effect on Thor due to him being a god
  • Meru hits Thor with his blaster which draws out someone’s inner shadow self, and it takes the effect of putting Blake’s conscience in Thor’s body. A speech from Spider-Man makes Blake realises he and Thor aren’t different entities but reflections of the same soul, causing Thor’s personality to reassert himself in his body
  • Realises Moondragon is mind controlling him, but isn’t able to break free initially. Moondragon notes she barely has enough power to control Thor and says she does it by reinforcing his natural sense of superiority. Thor recognises he’s being controlled even if he can’t fight back, but has enough control to purposefully transform to Blake, which undoes the control as Blake was beneath her notice
  • Resists the mind-controlling effect of Malekith’s faerie cookies. These are later described as sending your soul to Hela’s waiting room
  • Thor is able to resist Lorelei’s control through her magical vapours when she suggest Loki become king, requiring her to use more vapours which Thor still ultimately overcomes
  • Resists Enchantress’s charms, which he claims could seduce even Odin
  • Doctor Druid and Kang Nebula attempt to influence Thor’s mind into voting for him as leader, but Thor notices and resists enough to not vote for him
  • Resists the imposter Stranger’s mind storm while even Moondragon can’t
  • Affected by a mindbender pin from Druid, which he resists but affects him enough it throws off his coordination. Druid says Thor is too strong to succumb to a single mindbender, but that three should restrain him and knock him out. The mindbender’s circuit suddenly overloading gives Thor enough strength to break out of Nebula’s control, though he’s put back under control when the circuit returns to normal, and a beatdown from She-Hulk ends up freeing him
  • Attempts to take over Terminus’s mind while inside him in a mental war the same way he did to the Demiurge, though is overwhelmed and sees Terminus’s memories
  • While in Warrior Madness, a battle-hungry Thor breaks out of the Goddess and Moondragon’s control, freeing himself. Moondragon says his Asgardian spirit is too powerful, combined with the fact that he’s currently insane
  • Under Warrior Madness, his madness could not be cured by the likes of Moondragon, her mind blasts with the Mind Gem not even slowing him down. A letters page compares this to trying to hypnotise a dog
  • Thor fights against Valkyrie in his mindscape and ultimately destroys her, purging his mind of the madness
  • Briefly bound by Loki’s willpower sapping magic, but is able to break out and recover
  • Glory’s psychic toxins hit Thor and permeate every level of his being, including body, mind, and spirit, staggering him but only for a moment. He endures its maggots feasting on his soul and devouring his sanity. Glory’s destruction creates a quantum tsunami that tears through reality and destroys him. The tsunami unravels Thor’s mind, body, psyche, and soul, burning up his very identity as he’s launched to Earth in memoryless Donald Blake form
    • A fragment of Thor’s consciousness still exists in his form as Blake. His cane holds enough power to blow away part of Glory. A woman’s prayer and belief restores Thor from Blake’s form and fully regenerates him, her merging into him as he transforms
  • Endures Glory flooding every cell of his body with rage
  • Resists Glory attempting to subsume him into his consciousness and assimilate him. He lets it happen, and the part of his being that is Donald Blake prays to the one true God, destroying Glory completely
  • Endures a mental barrage and mind tendrils from the Other’s hivemind. Oblivion says by all rights Thor’s mind should have collapsed from the attack, and it only takes a moment or two for him to regenerate. He later endures the pull of the Other’s mind, where sense of self is torn to shreds
  • Even without the hammer, Thor is a god and is too strong for Elisa’s enchantments and Faustus’ mind control to work
  • [Jane] Able to get a hold of herself while the Phoenix telepathically talks to her and manifest Mjolnir in her mental realm, surprising even the Phoenix and breaking free with a strike
  • Breaks out of Oizys binding and trapping him mentally in misery by summoning a thunderbolt to break its grip
  • Enchantress isn’t able to control Thor with just a kiss
  • Able to resist the Bloodaxe attempting to control him
  • Imprisoned in a stasis field and trapped in his own memories of taming the All-Power to serve as a battery for a weapon. Thor still has sub-conscious control of the All-Power and is able to resist it being fully used by the weapon he’s part of, and he breaks out of the virtual memory program and stasis field, ripping out his own eyes to escape
  • Thor resists the corrupting Utgard darkness and Wheel of Fate of Zeus after absorbing his energy
  • Loki is able to probe Odin’s subconscious, but it tires him out and he describes it as a maelstrom of a mind-meld. Loki says two pages later that mortal minds can only be stretched so far before snapping unlike immortal minds which are often stretched to infinity and beyond
  • Odin and Galactus resist the other’s mental invasion and stalemate across the issue
  • The Enchantress’s most effective and powerful seduction spell has zero effect on Odin

• Illusions:
  • Affected by Mephisto’s illusions, but throws his hammer to see through his illusions and strike the real form, downing him. Thor needs to actively will Mjolnir to do this
  • Affected by Lorelei’s enchanted love potion and Malekith’s illusions, though he seems to somewhat resist the latter
  • Seems to see through a Dark Elf illusion of a castle
  • Overcomes Lorelei’s illusions
  • Sees through Hela’s illusion of Sif
  • The Warriors Three all overcome Loki’s illusions
  • Endures Alter Ego’s blast of radiation which basically traps him in an Infinite Tsukuyomi as he feeds on their life-force. Thor realises the illusion they’re in and breaks out in short time

• Mind Reading:
  • Strange attempts to probe Thor’s mind with Thor’s consent, but the power of Thor’s immortal soul in turmoil shows resistance and pushes Strange back before he enters
  • Blake is able to almost see Xavier telepathically communicating with the X-Men and thinks it’s a god. Xavier tries reading his mind and senses that he’s not getting all of his being
  • Thor feels Rachel Grey trying to invade his mind, and tells her that doing so would kill her or drive her mad as the mind of a god is unfit for mortals. Rachel retorts she’s capable of handling it
  • Phoenix Emma Frost is unable to properly look into Thor’s head, him forcing her out
  • Needs to open his mind to let Loki read it

• Corruption:
  • Sif’s divine blood is able to reject Dracula’s corruption and poisons, reverting her from vampirehood
  • Withstands a radiation blast from the Presence which converts the other Avengers into undead radiation monsters
  • Steals All-Black from Gorr, which lingers inside Thor and causes him to vomit blood. King Thor says he can purge it, but it ends up killing him for the “ninth recorded time” before his older self resurrects him
  • Thor is immune to being turned into a Vampire

• Mind Swapping:
  • Krask attempts to switch minds with Thor. Thor’s brainwaves and ego battles Krask’s with such potency that it’s visible to the human eye, before Thor emerges victorious and claims his own body while Krask dies

• Information Dumps:
  • The Evil Eye makes Thor process two millenia worth of visions and history in an instant’s time
  • Endures looking into the Time Storm, which reveals all of history to him. Laussa says it’s beginning to fry his mind, and Odin is able to endure it for a bit, though it hurts him

• Dream/Fear Manipulation:
  • A dream demon attempts to feed on Blake’s nightmares, but is overwhelmed by the feedback of the dreams of a god and is stunned
  • Thor’s ultimate fear is a peaceful death while his friends battle to save the universe. Thor manages to fight off his fear and accept a peaceful death, warding off the Fear Eater
  • Thor and Sif are so fearless that the Lurking Unknown could not feast on their fears
  • The mere sight of Tutinax can cripple armies, and Thor feels no fear against him
  • By focusing on the tangibility of Mjolnir in his hand, is able to snap himself out of the Mares’ communal dream and wake himself up
  • Thor and Jane Foster break out of Dreamqueen’s nightmare realm of Liveworld
  • An alert by Wanda is able to make Thor aware of his nightmare and take control of the dream, which Nightmare thinks is impossible. Thor notes that he can do this because he’s a god before shattering the shared nightmare, alerting every Avenger. Thor says he’s able to break apart the artifice and bring them together but not fully wake them up since dreams aren’t his domain
  • The Mares are seemingly unable to affect Odin with their dream control

• Sleep Inducement:
  • As Thor is a god, he is immune to Nightmare’s ability to force all minds into sleep

• Freezing:
  • Frozen solid, but throws his hammer right before he freezes over so it returns and smashes the ice
  • Breaks free of Ereshkigal encasing him in ice

• Radiation:
  • A mind controlled Thor’s godly form immunizes him to the ultra-violet light which is Doctor Spectrum’s weakness
  • Endures a blast of radiation from X-Ray
  • Summons all his strength to fight of Vector’s power, while using his hammer to absorb the radiation fired by X-Ray and even the radiation coursing through the villain’s body until he’s depleted, before unleashing the stored radiation at Vector and KOing him
  • Able to withstand radiation which the other Avengers need shielding for
  • Endures Alter Ego’s blast of radiation which basically traps him in an Infinite Tsukuyomi as he feeds on their life-force. Thor realises the illusion they’re in and breaks out in short time
  • Endures being dipped in a pool of gamma lava
  • [Jane] Transforming into Thor neutralizes Jane’s chemotherapy and purges the toxic chemicals used to kill her cancer cells, though not the cancer itself
  • [Jane] Thor loses steam the longer she’s in the Negative Zone, noting that it’s not healthy even for an Asgardian god. Characters like Kamala feel sick from staying there even briefly due to the radiation present
  • Endures the Phoenix’s flames enveloping him, described asradiation equivalent to a good sized neutron star

• BFR/Dimensional Travel:
  • Space Phantom attempts to imitate Thor and send him to Limbo, but only sends himself to Limbo as his power only works on humans
  • Umar blocks him from returning directly to Asgard, which he gets around by going to Earth first and then Asgard
  • Bill says the cosmic storms between Earth and Asgard are intense but not intense enough to bar Thor. Later, it’s shown he’s unable to travel to Muspelheim due to the gateway being closed despite being able to breach the cosmic storms around it
  • Forcibly teleported by Loki, hammer included, the strenuous journey through cosmic storms between Earth and Asgard KOing him
  • Thor is pulled into Blake’s mortal shell and is left in a limbo which is a different universe, his hammer unable to take him back. As Jane tries to convince Blake to release Thor, Thor can hear her and feels his grip loosening until with one burst of concentration he manifests back on Earth and the Blake construct disappears
  • Doom’s power spheres threaten to transport Thor to another dimension he can’t escape from. As he’s teleported away and begins fading out, he spins Mjolnir faster than eyesight until he creates a vortex which tears at the fabric of reality, obliterating the spheres in a burst of energy and restoring him to Earth
  • Resists Hela’s cantrips trying to forcibly summon him back to Asgard
  • Alongside the other Thor, spins Mjolnir to form a gateway which prevents Doom’s time platform from banishing them through time and transports them to Asgardia
  • Asgardians are resistant to forced spatial displacement

• Sonics:
  • Endures Set’s silent scream
  • Endures hyper-distorted electronic screeching on his eardrums

• Vertigo/Stunning:
  • Affected by a stun-ray, but recovers near instantly
  • Zapped by Doom’s paralyser, but manages to endure it and bend down to seize the floor and hurl it up, knocking Doom away
  • Affected by Vertigo’s dizziness, but counters by creating a vortex with Mjolnir which drops Vertigo off her balance

• Stasis:
  • Trapped in stasis by the Exemplars, with Thor’s strength unable to break the energy field. Thor instructs Iron Man to grab his hammer and draw out the energies absorbed by his armour, the hammer absorbing the energy and breaking out of the Exemplars’ energy field
  • Restrained in a forcefield by Metron but manages to break out with a burst of energy
  • [Eric] Overloads an electrified stasis field by charging into it
  • Imprisoned in a stasis field and trapped in his own memories of taming the All-Power to serve as a battery for a weapon. Thor still has sub-conscious control of the All-Power and is able to resist it being fully used by the weapon he’s part of, and he breaks out of the virtual memory program and stasis field, ripping out his own eyes to escape

• Magnetism/Telekinesis:
  • Breaks out of Iron Man’s magnetic repulser by hooking his hammer
  • Thor is immobilised by Merlin’s telekinetic paralysis, but it takes all of Merlin’s power

• Gravity Manipulation:
  • Withstands the Gravitron “infinitely” increasing his weight, bearing the excruciating pain to stand up and destroy the device with a throw
  • Hit by a graviton bomb which subjects him to gravity akin to a neutron star, before bursting out and shattering the multi-ton debris compressing on him
  • Rescues Red Hulk right before he slips into the event horizon of a black hole
  • Zephyr, a weaker god, endures being swallowed by a black hole and spit out backwards in time
  • [Old King] Flies into a black hole corrupted by All-Black. When he does this again later, it’s described as threatening to rip him apart at the molecular level

• Chemicals:
  • Withstands a blast of acid with enough force to destroy a dozen mortal men
  • Survives a large tear gas explosion which has enough fumes to “kill a dozen humans” and is only temporarily stunned
  • A mystic poison made by Loki takes out a swarm of flying trolls, but has no effect on Thor and the Argonauts
  • Endures stinging venom from Terminus’s immune system
  • Affected by an intense hallucinogenic mist seemingly knocking him out, but it’s later shown he was just faking being in a coma
  • Endures a slash from Flame to his back, which he compares to him scratching his back as it severs his cape. The slash is coated in poison from the fangs of Cerberus which ends up knocking Thor down, though he fights back against the venom before succumbing
  • Attempts to strike out of the Midgard Serpent’s stomach, but is weakened and knocked out by the poisonous vapors in his stomach, which are what the runes of Ragnarok say will kill him. Bill says his alien frame would have collapsed from the poisonous air in the Midgard Serpent far sooner than Thor did
  • Thor has never been sick before until being made mortal
  • Thor and Odin endure the acidic stomach of a giant monster, though it threatens to dissolve them in time
  • Able to withstand Kree knockout gas which KOs all the other Avengers, noting his lungs aren’t like mortal lungs. The Kree note Thor can go days without breathing but that the gas is absorbed through the skin, causing him to soon become unconscious
  • Nifelhel, which Thor frequently visits, has a toxic atmosphere
  • Endures getting doused in serpent venom
  • Endures a Skrull chemical weapon
  • Overconsuming ale harms even Asgardian livers. Keep that in mind when I list all of Thor’s drinking feats later

• Tracking/Clairvoyance:
  • A device built by Mr Hyde can capture someone’s actions and reverse them to retrace their steps, but doesn’t work on Thor past the point he transforms from Donald Blake
  • Doctor Spectrum is able to sense Thor, but thinks he vanishes when he transforms to Blake
  • Loki is unable to locate Thor when he’s in his Masterson form
  • The Reploicoid can sense Thor’s presence, though notes it’s clouded by an unidentified aura
  • Perrikus is unable to sense Thor’s unique energy on Earth, presumably due to his merging with Olson
  • Iron Man says Asgardian energies are hard to catalogue and he can’t get a good energy reading
  • [Eric] Enchantress is able to sense Masterson until he reverts to mortal form
  • [Jane] No method Odin has available, including his soothsayers, can expose Jane’s identity
  • [Jane] A magic mirror which shows someone’s true identity just shows Jane in her goddess form when she looks at it
  • Heimdall is unable to see Odin in his All-Sight, who hides from him (note this seems to be an active protection Odin puts up, as Heimdall has observed him plenty of other times)

• Matter Manipulation:
  • Immune to an alien ray gun which freezes molecules
  • With a gesture, Pluto slows Thor’s bodily vibrations to a halt, preventing him from moving. A page later, Thor has fully broken free from the vibrational field
  • Endures the full force of Kang’s dissolution beam even as Kang ramps up the power, to the point he uses too much and Kang’s atoms are spread throughout the timestream. A recounting confirms that this attack was meant to disintegrate Thor
  • Endures Kang channelling the full force of his dissolution ray through Mjolnir into Thor’s body
  • Dazed by but endures a vibro-mine, which instantly shatters any object which touches it and would tear apart a ship’s hull made of the strongest metal Space Phantom’s people have
  • Whirls Mjolnir to create a vortex which blows out the dock floor Thor is phased into and frees him
  • Endures a blast from Blastarr, who he says he used the same blasts to scatter the Eternals’ atoms
  • KO’d by the unknown forms of energy Ranskov releases, which dismantle vector bosons and gluons
  • Endures a blast from the Destroyer’s laser vision
  • [Jane] After being turned into a Poison, losing contact with Mjolnir causes Jane to transform back to human form, in turn breaking her free from the Poison. It’s noted the magic that surrounds her must have protected her from the Poison consuming and assimilating her (which is shown to work at the atomic level)
  • [Jane] Jane and Mjolnir endure high frequency vibrations which threaten to rip apart buildings across the globe
  • Endures the sustained energy blast of Desak/The Destroyer’s visor blast, which instantly kills Loki
  • Briefly endures the Destroyer’s disintegration ray, though it causes him immense pain and destroys his cape

• Decaying:
  • Withstands Decay’s decaying touch due to being an immortal

• Dehydration:
  • Endures and rips through the gel of a plasma bomb which dehydrates whatever it hits

• Biological Manipulation:
  • Thor doesn’t need to worry about explosive decompression in space, as his hide is just as tough as Hulk’s
  • Whirls his hammer to clear a path through Alioth’s body, who could otherwise absorb him
  • Blake is able to resist a spell from Loki which should cause beetles to burrow through his flesh, and transforms to Thor to completely stop it
  • Glory’s psychic toxins hit Thor and permeate every level of his being, including body, mind, and spirit, staggering him but only for a moment. Glory’s destruction creates a quantum tsunami that tears through reality and destroys him. The tsunami unravels Thor’s mind, body, psyche, and soul, burning up his very identity as he’s launched to Earth in memoryless Donald Blake form
  • Briggs says that Clean Slate, his DNA-changing nanobots which are able to remove the powers of any superhero, probably won’t work on non-humans like Thor
  • Allows himself to be devoured by Demogorge, and manages to wrest control of Demogorge’s body to fight Set, at least briefly before the absorption is complete
  • Abyss and her Learning Tree are unable to break Thor down into his base bits, as if he doesn’t fully exist or originate from the present, and she registers him as a god
  • Infected by the Brood, with Cap noting that Brood Thor is slower than usual due to this body trying to fight the infection
  • Odin is able to endure wearing the Odin-Ring, which blinds whoever wields it

• Force Manipulation:
  • Summons all his strength to fight of Vector’s power

• Transmutation:
  • Turned to stone by the Grey Gargoyle, only reverting due to his hammer striking the ground and turning him into Blake, with it being noted no earthly power can prevent the hammer from weaving the spell Odin cast into it, though Blake cannot turn back into Thor without becoming stone again
  • The Guardian hits Thor with a blast which is meant to sap his strength and turn his blood to water, with Thor resisting and breaking free
  • While passing out, rejects the spell of a witch which slowly turns him to stone, allowing him to seemingly restore himself
  • When turned into a frog by Loki, he was still intelligent and had his mind. Thor says his strength is his birthright which no magic can completely suppress, which even as a frog lets him take out a man. Wielding Mjolnir restores his strength and stature, albeit still in a froggy form. Thor says the energies of Surtur’s sword would be needed for a transformation like making him a frog beyond Loki’s normal magic
  • Sedna begins transforming Thor into her mate using her magic, but it’s interrupted by Thor reverting to Olson due to the hammer being separated for too long
  • Completely unaffected by Pixie’s pixie dust, which turns people to stone
  • Unaffected by screams which turn blood to stone
  • Turned to stone by Grey Gargoyle, though is somewhat able to summon a storm still. After days, Mjolnir in his hand summons a lightning bolt on his body and he’s able to break out, explaining that storms weather rock and his force of will will always be able to summon Mjolnir

• Anti-Matter:
  • A build up of negative energy in the hammer causes a positron blast’s positive energy to stun Thor and KO him, though not kill him
  • Endures being fried by an amped anti-matter Electro

• Space Manipulation:
  • Endures a strike from Thunderstrike’s Bloodaxe
  • Endures a portal connected to a star collapsing on his arm and the subsequent explosion, which flays his arm but leaves it intact
  • [Jane] Endures space itself tearing around her as she holds the Nega-Band, her body acting as the anchor for the band’s portal
  • [Old King] Flies into a black hole corrupted by All-Black. When he does this again later, it’s described as threatening to rip him apart at the molecular level

• Pain Manipulation:
  • Smited by a blast from the empowered Thanos, enduring the excruciating pain of the energy field as the Recorder says his chances of escaping are 0.00012%. Even Firelord doesn’t risk entering the energy field

• Death Manipulation/Life Absorption:
  • Resists the mind-controlling effect of Malekith’s faerie cookies. These are later described as sending your soul to Hela’s waiting room
  • Feels Alter Ego draining his divine energy and life force and acts quickly
  • Endures Alter Ego’s blast of radiation which basically traps him in an Infinite Tsukuyomi as he feeds on their life-force. Thor realises the illusion they’re in and breaks out in short time
    • Alter Ego consuming a small share of Thor’s life force allows Thor to speak to him in his mind even while Thor is doing other things
  • Allows himself to be devoured by Demogorge, and manages to wrest control of Demogorge’s body to fight Set, at least briefly before the absorption is complete
  • Endures Cressida draining his life energy, noting her powers aren’t effective against someone whose lifespan is so great. She states she needs to find a way to pull from Thor and runs. Note her ability drains both life force and the powers of the person, adding it to her own
  • Swims through the waters of the Gjoll, which are crushingly cold and venomous. The deeper he goes the more he feels his life draining, but he pushes through
  • Endures being possessed by Rokkva, the Anti-Life, a being which passively drains the life-force from both body and soul of everything around it and creates a shadow of death around Thor
  • Endures venturing through Nifflheim’s forbidden area, which kills all who tread upon it
  • The Sea of Eternal Night literally drains Balder’s life-force and strength and can kill him in minutes, while Odin remains there unaffected. None save Odin may survive the dimension of death, with Balder being aged to near-death
  • Not even Hela could conquer Odin as he escaped the Dimension of Death. It’s explained that while in the Odinsleep, Hela tried to induce death in Odin’s body, but Odin was able to resist with only a portion of his being being felled
  • Odin endures multiple blasts from HelaOdin is able to endure wearing the Odin-Ring, which caused Loki to wither away and age
  • Magni is able to wrestle with Death after a hundred billion years of aging

• Existence Erasure:
  • Endures a hit from Darkseid’s Omega Beams which disarms him
  • Dives into the unbinding stone’s maelstrom as it unknits reality. He endures getting near it and appears unharmed even as his armour is erased before he manages to destroy it, though his dialogue implies he wouldn’t survive it unravelling all reality. His entire body and armament is also unaffected by the canister of antarctic vibranium
    • The Unbinding Stone repeals the very laws of physics, loosening the principles binding reality until they spool into nothingness. It pulls apart matter, spatial relationships, and time itself, destroying the creator’s entire continuum. Thor thinks it could waste all of creation, and it is stated to not just rewrite reality, but erase it, able to unravel an entire dimension

• Energy Absorption:
  • Affected by the energy draining papillae of Demogorge, but manages to fight back and snap them off. Demogorge comments that Thor has resisted his metabolic processes and has reversed the rhythms of his body, which couldn’t be unless it’s not time for Thor to die
  • Allows himself to be devoured by Demogorge, and manages to wrest control of Demogorge’s body to fight Set, at least briefly before the absorption is complete
  • Thor strikes away Rune trying to drain his power while creating a vortex
  • Haechi attempts to absorb energy from Mjolnir, but is blown away by Thor’s lightning
  • Beta Ray Bill’s hammer is built to drink the energies of the stars themselves, and a high intensity laser from Iron Man feeds it faster than the magical prison he’s in can drain it, allowing him to escape

• Power Manipulation:
  • A weakening potion made by Loki has no effect on Thor as only Odin can take away Thor’s power
  • A device siphons off half of Thor’s strength, though the user notes his resistance is greater than expected and so takes him longer than he thought
  • The Guardian hits Thor with a blast which is meant to sap his strength and turn his blood to water, with Thor resisting and breaking free
  • While having lost his power due to a bet, Thor says he could use Mjolnir to get it back at the cost of losing the bet
  • Allows himself to be devoured by Demogorge, and manages to wrest control of Demogorge’s body to fight Set, at least briefly before the absorption is complete
  • An energy blast from Mjolnir which completely siphons Diablo’s divinity just reverts Thor to Blake, with him transforming back to Thor with no issue
  • Endures Cressida draining his life energy, with her ability draining both life force and the powers of the person, adding it to her own
  • Olson using Enchantress’ mirror causes the Odinforce to depart Thor and enter him, but Thor is able to draw out the Odinforce from Olson, restoring his strength and turning Olson mortal again
  • Using an amulet from the Council Elite of the Pantheons of Earth, Strange is able to nullify Thor’s Odinforce, which is something specifically considered completely impossible by conventional means or Strange’s own magic
  • Odin is able to endure wearing the Odin-Ring, which takes away power from whoever wields it
  • Odin is affected by Seth’s power dampeners, but only lets himself be restrained by them to avoid being detected and breaks out of them himself

• Sealing:
  • Sealed in a proton coagulant ray. He acknowledges he could break out but should wait for more information, and breaks out three pages later
  • Is trapped in a casing of hardening liquid cement by a monster, but quickly breaks out
  • Thor and his hammer are sealed in energy shields by Locus. The hammer returns to Thor’s hand when thrown, breaking out of it shield and all additional barriers, and the sheer pressure exerted on the shield around Thor as it tries to return eventually breaks through over the course of a minute
  • Sealed by Alibar in Aladdin’s lamp, shrinking him down into it, but his “alienness” to both the lamp and spell allows him to escape unlike Mogul
  • Thor inhabits the material world, but is also a god who is no bound by the perceptible, his divinity transcending dimensions, and so he is able to escape a tesseract pocket universe by feeling along its seams and bursting out
  • Shatters the Doom-Ring’s bindings with his arms
  • While possessed, summons a thunderbolt which shatters a binding spell of Doctor Strange
  • Odin is sealed in an ice cage by the Casket of Ancient Winters but breaks out quickly
  • Odin is imprisoned by Thanos in a black of pure force and instantly breaks out

• Soul Manipulation:
  • Charges through a blast of hellfire from Mephisto for a minute straight
  • Even with Loki’s image and powers, Thor’s soul is so noble his mere touch it makes Mephisto feel pain, and is described as so overwhelmingly pure Mephisto can’t stomach it
  • Unphased by a blast of hellfire from Ghost Rider, which the issue emphasises as searing the soul
  • Mephisto admits neither he nor Thor can slay each other and would stalemate for eternity
  • Thor’s soul resists Mephisto trying to claim him, causing Mephisto to try and torture his soul. His soul breaks out of being tortured and Mephisto admits he underestimated him. Mephisto tries consuming Thor’s soul, but it resists him and breaks out, and Mephisto says Thor is the most contentious soul he’s ever fought. Even as Thor’s physical body is broken, his soul doesn’t stop fighting and Mephisto says he can’t break him, returning his soul to his body. It’s worth noting that at the end of the issue, Mephisto suggests all these events were a farce and a show, though he still seems to think Thor’s soul will resist Hela and disrupt her
  • Resists a karmic blast from Adam Warlock’s soul gem, which Adam speculates is due to his Asgardian spirit being better fortified than a mere mortal spirit
  • Odin astral projects into Thor’s containment field to try and spiritually and psychically cut out the insanity from Thor. Adam Warlock says what transpires is beyond their mortal comprehension as Thor and Odin’s astral forms battle, with the spiritual turmoil nearly overwhelming Adam’s senses. Odin retreats and says he can’t dispel the insanity without tearing apart Thor’s soul
  • Thor’s soul is in a deadlock between Hela and Mephisto, who say a war between them would plunge both their kingdoms into eternal conflict and lead to “omniversal armageddon” beyond even Ragnarok
  • Hela splits her soul into a hundred pieces as weapons, and says that if they wish, a god can bring their soul forth back from these shattered pieces
  • Endures an assault from the soul-eating Disir
  • Glory’s psychic toxins hit Thor and permeate every level of his being, including body, mind, and spirit, staggering him but only for a moment. He endures its maggots feasting on his soul and devouring his sanity. Glory’s destruction creates a quantum tsunami that tears through reality and destroys him. The tsunami unravels Thor’s mind, body, psyche, and soul, burning up his very identity as he’s launched to Earth in memoryless Donald Blake form
  • Endures Robbie Reyes’s hellfire and hellfire breath from Cosmic Ghost Rider
  • Bor used the shell of the Galactus Seed as a tinder to break apart a soul and harness its spiritual energy, as it takes great power to break a soul into pieces
  • [Jane] Endures the heat of the Phoenix up close, which she initially felt from galaxies away, and her “soul beginning to melt”
  • [Jane] While her soul is imprisoned by Mephisto and her physical body acts as a Ghost Rider, her soul still retains her normal personality. It intercepts a blast from Shuma Gorath right before it kills Strange and blocks it with her hammer. Notably, Thor and Jane are depicted as two different souls. The next issue attributes this to the rules of necrotic sub-realms
  • Endures a hellfire blast from Hellnir
  • Endures the bite of Nidhogg, who devours souls
  • Hela cannot tamper with Odin’s soul while he’s in the Odinsleep
  • Odin endures Nidhogg devouring his soul while he’s in Mjolnir
  • [Old King] Restrained by the Crimson Bands and endures Doom’s Penance Stare, causing him unimaginable agony

• Possession
  • Clashes with the Destroyer on the spiritual plane and defeats it, taking control of the Destroyer’s armour. Even when the Destroyer seems to go berserk, it’s revealed Thor always had it under control and was simply playing a trick on Hela, before transferring his spirit from the armour back to his restored body
  • Loki reaches out to touch Thor’s mind, with Thor being unable to break his restraints or summon Mjolnir due to having his strength sapped by the chains. Loki attempts to empower him by merging his spirit with his body, but Thor resists the merging until Loki convinces him. He later casts Loki out of his body with a burst of will
  • [Eric] While possessed by Ares, endures Hercules wrestling him to the ground and forcing him to tap Mjolnir twice. Crystal adds her power to the summoned storm, the lightning bolt striking both Eric and Hercules, separating Ares from him and KOing all three. It frees Eric as only the chosen god of thunder can wield the true power of Mjolnir as decreed by Odin
  • Thor in the Destroyer brutalizes Blake, drawing blood. Notably he seems resistant to the Destroyer making him mad
  • Possessed by a space parasite that eats uru, though is able to somewhat resist
  • Odin is able to control Surtur’s body while transformed into him, the spirit of Odin being in charge but slowly losing influence over the body and losing complete control when the Twilight Sword is lit
  • Hank Pym is able to use a sliver of the Odinforce to free himself from Ultron

• Age Manipulation:
  • Completely unaffected by the Time Twisters’ aging/deaging time-manipulating rays due to being immortal, alongside the other Asgardians
  • Resists a blast from Tempus which attempts to age him to death due to being immortal
  • Crosses a barrier which instantly ages him and a New Man several hundred years, turning the New Man to dust but leaving Thor unaffected due to his lifespan
  • Jake Olson somehow endures Tokkots’s aging touch with no acknowledgement
  • Davis attempts to age Thor to death, with Thor able to resist enough to throw him off

• Duplication (?):
  • Thor’s belief in the true Odin is so strong it eats away at an imposter
  • Space Phantom says Thor’s Asgardian nature was resistant to his replication powers

• Curses
  • Odin was able to purge himself of the Odinsword’s Nieblung curse through the rite of self-sacrifice

• Time Manipulation
  • Endures the energies of the timestream as he’s stuck in a time vortex. Space Phantom says Thor’s godly body should plug a hole in the time vortex
  • Maybe resists a temporal paradox, it’s unclear
  • Able to briefly survive the Godbomb exploding, which kills him over every second of his life and causes “eternity” to wail before he absorbs the blast (though obviously this would have killed him had he not acted immediately)
  • Thor and Jane begin to disappear due to a time paradox, but note that while they may be subject to the vagaries of time, Mjolnir is eternal, and they unite their hammers as one to throw it against the alien altering their timeline and KO him
  • [Jane] The Avengers being killed as children by Kang would wipe them from existence if they weren’t pulled into Limbo outside of time and space as protection, which Vision says Thor’s hammer has opened a portal to more than once. Jane says she can get them back out
  • Ares intercepts Nate Grey as he exits the normal flow of time and steps in to the time between planck instants
  • Thor is now considered an elder god like Zeus who senses changes to the timeline and can remember what happened before the timeline was changed and the universe was dramatically altered

• Time Stopping:
  • Identifies a phenomenon in the sky, and creates a vortex with his hammer which protects both himself and Spider-Man from a time-stopping mirroring effect
  • Jormungand manifesting causes time to stop across the planet, with only mythic creatures like Thor, the Frost Giants, and the serpents being able to move as only mythic creatures can move in the time of beginning
    • A later letters page explains that when the Midgard Serpent reveals himself, he moves through “mythic” time, a time of beginnings and endings of things, so when he entered the world, normal time was suspended, while mythic creatures such as the serpent, Thor, and the Frost Giants share the ability to move in mythic time. Hercules could also move
  • Unaffected by Hercules stopping time across the planet
  • [Jane] Possibly frozen in time by Kang but begins to break out

• Non-Physical Interaction:
  • Mjolnir channels energy which harms Vision and causes him immense pain when he tries to phase through it, though it’s said Vision’s phasing could otherwise harm Thor
  • Thor is able to grab and strike the Enchanters with Mjolnir even while they’re living energy
  • A future version of Thor is able to kill a soul-code version of Loki with his sword
  • [Jane] Intercepts and grabs a lightning bolt with her bare hands right before it hits somebody, who notes she’s quicker than it, before hurling the lightning bolt away. She then endures Yod’s lightning breath and grabs it out of his mouth, taking control of it
  • Breaks the hand of Surtur’s spirit with a smash
  • Punches one of Multitude’s soul constructs

• Reality Warping:
  • Since Thor was alive during Celtic times, he’s too much himself in Morgan Le Fay’s reality warped world, and is able to begin recalling his memories and breaking from her control, breaking free by the end of the issue
  • His willpower aids Scarlet Witch and Green Lantern in overcoming Krona’s reality warping
  • Hela’s conquest of Asgard shakes the realms like dice in a cap and shackles the Bifrost. Thor is stretched between Earth and Asgard and finds it difficult to remain, needing a mortal anchor in the form of a locket of hair, which binds Thor to a woman
  • [Jane] Jane is untransformed due to Kobik’s reality warping and is separated from Mjolnir, but still possesses her innate thundergod strength
  • Able to tell his mind is being affected and that the fabric of the universe is being manipulated just below sight, exposing it with his hammer’s twirl
  • Affected by Phil Coulson warping reality with the Cosmic Cube, but regains Mjolnir when he taps his drink
  • MYTHOS utilizes the stolen shards of the Bifrost as power to draw on the full power of the World Tree. He alters history to wipe away the Avengers, but Thor seems unaffected by it

• Story Manipulation:
  • Travels through the Veracity Vortex even when it’s stated another trip might kill him and KOs his very writer, who turns out to be God of Stories Loki
  • Thor is able to fight back against Enchantress’ story magic, thinking in banter but able to recognize that Chad Hammer is the Keep. The spell which dulls his wits is less potent around friends who know him
  • With Yolgjord, is immune to Loki’s skald-magic and the Enchantress’ wit-draining magic she weaved around his story

• Fate Manipulation:
  • This one gets its own section since it’s both complex and very important to Thor’s story. It’s established early on that the Norns, the weavers of fates in Norse mythology, show that Thor’s fate is to die in Ragnarok, with them intervening to prevent him from dying earlier to Pluto. While Odin’s plans to create false-Ragnaroks which free the Asgardians from their fates are suggested to work at the time and his schemes are able to somewhat avert certain prophecies, it’s later firmly established that Odin, Thor, the Midgard Serpent, and the rest of the Aesir are all bound by the whims of fate, each of them having a thread on the Norns’ Loom of Fate which controls their destiny. Even Loki’s elaborate plots are just done for his own amusement, with his inevitable defeats already being foretold by the fates. Heimdall himself has the ability to see into the future, with whatever he sees inevitably coming true in a way Thor could not avoid.
    
    Despite this, Loki also believes Thor has some kind of innate luck which carries him beyond the limits of the gods and allows him to bypass the fates and their strings. When the true Ragnarok came and Thor gained the power of the runes, Thor confronted Those Who Sit Above In Shadow, the elder gods responsible for the cycles of Ragnarok to feed on his people, and realised Odin found a way to circumvent their ability to see all outcomes by hiding Thor as a mortal. Thor, as a being who draws strength from both god and man, could act in a way the elder gods could not predict. While the Norns could still predict the coming of this day and Thor himself agreed he did not have the power to change what was written on the Loom of Fates, even as the Rune King, he was able to identify the cyclical nature of the Loom and Ragnarok, and smash it to pieces, breaking the cycle. It’s confirmed that Thor’s knowledge of humanity is what shielded his true intentions from the elder gods and allowed him to end their feeding. After breaking the cycle of Ragnarok, Thor and the Asgardian Gods were said to be able to write their own future.
    
    At least, that’s what the intent was at the time, but turns out that’s not really the case. Even after Thor defeated Those Who Sit Above In Shadow, he fell victim to a millenia-old prophecy predicting his death during Fear Itself, and Malekith needed to go out of his way to kill the Norns and destroy Nornkeep for his plans to succeed, as the Norns like Thor and weave his adventures to favour him. When Malekith destroyed Nornkeep, the fates of all the realms became free, and Nornkeep’s later restoration reverted back to the Norns writing the fates of all the gods, including Thor. Thor’s destiny was written as being to become the King Thor of the future timeline who faced down Gorr, but some unknown force severed his connection to that destiny and broke his fate, with his new destiny being to die a grisly death shown by the Black Winter. Thor himself would lament that even in sundering the Loom of Fates during Ragnarok, new cycles started up soon after, even specifically referencing falling victim to prophecy in Fear Itself, and questioned how much influence fate has on him. This would ultimately come to pass at the end of The Immortal Thor, where Thor died his foretold death, but it’s been teased that Thor may find some way to escape the cycle of stories for good by achieving a power different from the power of the runes he used before. It remains to be seen how this will play out. Needless to say, how you treat this in the context of a versus debate is pretty subjective. Maybe you can just call it “limited fate manipulation resistance” and call it a day.

All-Power

Overview

The All-Power, also known as the Odinforce or Thorforce (and a bunch of other names), is the mystical source of power bequeathed on the All-Father of Asgard. It originates from Odin’s brothers, Vili and Ve, who sacrificed themselves to grant Odin their power, an energy that could shake the foundations of the cosmos, level a world or overthrow a universe (though an alternate telling instead depicts it as stemming from the combined life-force of the entire Asgardian race from the previous Ragnarok cycle). The power is derived from Yggdrasil’s magic and is described as the force which all godly energies flow from. Writer of Immortal Thor Al Ewing has explained that he understands the All-Power as part of the knowledge granted to Odin via his sacrifice on Yggdrasil, which was later bequeathed to Thor. This event is depicted in the series itself, showing how Odin’s sacrifice in his younger days caused the sentience of Yggdrasil to bequeath upon him wisdom and the All-Power, which Thor now uses in the present.

The All-Power grants its wielder practical omnipotence over their subjects, making all things possible, with both Odin and Thor having employed it for a variety of strange and esoteric abilities. Odin has called it a near-limitless reserve of power, and even a tiny sliver of the All-Power has been described by Hank Pym as nearly infinite. The All-Power automatically transfers from parent to child upon death, slowly passing to the child over-time, and cannot be given in full unless the parent has died. Being the ruler of Asgard likewise augments the All-Power’s magic and makes it more powerful. Just wielding the All-Power makes the user physically stronger and more durable, able to endure blows which would have otherwise killed them. It also grants a true form of immortality, with Magni lasting until the end of time while wielding it, only passing away when forever and a day had gone by.

The All-Power is sentient in its own right, able to draw Thor to specific locations to speak to him and guide him, teleport him to Yggdrasil, and even leave him of its own volition should it deem him unworthy. The powers of an All-Father are exceptionally difficult to use, with Hercules needing Gaea’s help to unlock the powers fully during the Chaos War and even Thor, circa the events of The Immortal Thor with over a century of memories of using the All-Power, still lacking experience with the power relative to Odin. While multiple characters who lack an understanding of its magic have briefly held and used the All-Power, it is the knowledge granted by Yggdrasil via sacrifice that allows one to properly tame it, which is likely why only Odin and Thor seem to be able to use it to its truest potential.

Thor has held the All-Power on multiple occasions, first having been granted it by Odin temporarily in a battle against Surtur. More prominently, he gained it upon Odin’s death in the late 90s, in a series of events which would come to be known as the Reigning due to Thor slowly going mad with the power he was given, ultimately leading to the timeline being split and undone. Early on, Thor was subconsciously holding back the Odinpower due to believing he could never stack up to Odin, and even after he believed himself to no longer be holding back, the Odinpower informed him that his efforts were still minimal compared to the power’s limitless potential, before guiding him to understand the true potential of the power. After Ragnarok, Thor would continue to use the All-Power until sacrificing it to repair Mjolnir. He gained the power back upon becoming king of Asgard after the War of the Realms, though it was later revealed that when Thor took the throne, Odin held back the full Odin-Force from him, forcing Odin to sacrifice his life to grant Thor the full Odin-Force. Thor would continue to wield the full All-Power, renaming it the Thor-Force, as his own up to his death. After Thor’s death, it passed to his son from the future, Magni.

As you can probably figure, Odin has many more showings with the All-Power than Thor does. As Thor underwent the ritual of sacrifice to gain knowledge from Yggdrasil in the same way Odin did to tame the All-Power, and as the power’s natural successor, Thor has the best argument out of any character for being able to replicate Odin’s abilities. For this section, I’ll also cover Odin’s showings with the All-Power in order to be comprehensive. In order to make the distinction clear, for each ability, I’ll list what Thor did with it first, and then what Odin (and other users of the All-Power) have done in a separate paragraph.

All-Sleep

The All-Power is not without its drawbacks, most prominent of which is the All-Sleep (or Odinsleep/Thorsleep). Extensive usage of the All-Power will cause the user to grow increasingly weaker and wearier, forcing them to undertake a special sleep to rejuvenate themselves. Odin would typically enter the Odinsleep one full day every year to preserve his immortality, though it can last longer or come quicker depending on how much he exerted himself. Awakening the All-Father from their sleep is dangerous, though it can be done safely and they do have some ability to detect danger to themselves while in this vulnerable state. If awoken early, the All-Father’s power is reduced. Thor has been seen entering the All-Sleep multiple times after particularly strenuous use of the All-Power. During the Reigning, he delayed the All-Sleep by decades to protect himself, at the cost of steadily reducing his power. When he finally underwent the sleep, he awoke pretty quickly and emerged replenished and stronger than ever. Near the end of Immortal Thor, writer Al Ewing explained that Thor initially seemed to enter the Odinsleep fairly often due to only having picked up the All-Power recently, but that he had been seen doing so much less in recent issues due to Thor having gained more familiarity with the power. The All-Sleep usually only comes after a fight has ended anyway, so it’s unlikely to factor into an individual battle.

• Using all of the Odinpower, gathers every fragment of the demolished moon and pulls it together molecule by molecule to completely restore it, imprisoning the Gardener inside the same way Odin imprisoned Surtur in Earth when they first fought. This effort left Thor so drained he plummeted to Earth and passed into a light Odinsleep until his power was replenished
• Thor frees the souls of every Asgardian on Earth, conjuring a thunderstorm which engulfs the entire planet. The effort causes Thor to collapse and require the Odinsleep
• The Odinsleep (or Thorsleep) causes Thor to access the Netherworld where Odin constantly does battle with Surtur, stabbing him and enduring his slashes. Thor returns to the world of the living when the Odinsleep ends, it takes a day
• Sif states Thor is using too much of the Odin-Force battling the God Tempest and that he risks falling into the All-Sleep
• Thor says the Odin-Power is still not enough to fight Toranos, and that using it for a blast has caused the All-Sleep to come over for him. The more All-Power Thor uses, the longer and deeper the All-Sleep will be, and resisting it only extends it further. He sleeps the All-Sleep for many days, during which he is completely vulnerable. His full strength is returned when he wakes up
• The Odinsleep balances out the All-Power and lets it be saved for important purposes, like winning internet arguments (hi Ewing)
• The battle against Zeus brings the All-Sleep on Thor

Flight

With the All-Power, Thor can finally freely fly under his own power, able to float in the sky or even walk through the air. It has been explained that, while he prefers to fly with Mjolnir’s aid, he can call storm winds to help carry him fast enough to keep up with a thrown Mjolnir.

It’s not specified if Thor still needs to breathe at all or not when he has the All-Power. Even when wielding it, Thor has been hurt by having his breath restricted, but the old King Thor of a future timeline was able to hold off the entropy at the end of the universe in space for eternity without Mjolnir or any opportunity to recuperate, which would indicate he’s likely able to sustain himself indefinitely, so your mileage may vary.

Odin has been seen hovering in the air with the All-Power, and can traverse across large swathes of the cosmos with it, having battled Forsung from one end of the universe to the other. Sif was also able to use the power to freely fly.

Teleportation

Thor can instantly transport himself alongside others to specific locations, and can teleport others into places from far away.

Odin has been able to freely teleport himself and others between realms and across space. He’s been seen summoning a vortex which transports him as a comet from Asgard to The World Beyond at the other edge of the universe. He frequently teleports and banishes others, such as: using his scepter to send Thor and the Black Knight to Earth(notably being able to do so even with Asgard in dimensional flux when Thor himself couldn’t), casting a spell which transports the entire human race to an alternate dimension where they’re all frozen, shifting all of Asgard and its inhabitants and Mangog to a new location beyond the furthest galactic barriers in a lonely dimension at the cost of much of his energy, transporting all of Asgard’s forces to Earth with a wave of his scepter, banishing the Enchanters to the Lost Limbo of Infinity Unending, banishing Loki to Mephisto’s realm, banishing Seidring to another part of the universe beyond Asgard, banishing Hulk to Earth, banishing Heimdall to the realm of Nightmare, sending Seth back to his domain to defeat him, and sending Annihilus back to the Negative Zone.

Portals

Similarly to his teleportation, Thor has been seen creating a portal which he and Thialfi crossed to reach Egypt.

Odin has on occasion employed portals as well. Most notably, he channeled and routed the explosive energy Surtur held, which was going to destroy the realms, through a portal into Asgard-space to dissipate it.

Energy Projection

Thor can fire blasts of extremely powerful godly energy from his body. A particular favourite of his during the Reigning was firing out eye-lasers, Homelander-style, which were powerful enough to shatter Captain America’s shield.

• Fires a blast of pure Odinforce at Desak, which begins burning him away. Desak matches with his own fires of all hell combined and creating a building sized explosion, with Olson noting Desak drinks god-power like a vampire. Desak appears unharmed afterwards
• Destroys the Bloodaxe with a blast of energy, noting only the Odinforce is powerful enough to do it
• Fires an Odinforce energy blast from his hand at Desak, who calls it impressive but endures it. Thor keeps pumping the power on, the lightning surges ripping apart the castle and creating a huge energy burst, but Desak seems to absorb it
• [Old King] Blows away Gorr with an energy blast from his hands

Eye Blasts

• Fires eyeblasts at Olson who blocks with Mjolnir, the blasts encompassing him and killing Olson
• Disintegrates Wolverine with his eye-beams, even seeming to warp his adamantium claws
• Fires an eye-blast which disintegrates Captain America and shatters his shield, burning through it. Notably he can still fire the eye lasers even without his left eye

Odin has employed the All-Power to manifest fire and lightning which he fused within his body to create a force wave on Earth, create a large explosion, and unleash a blast of anti-energy across realms. His bolts can reach from Asgard to Earth, and can kill incorporeal entities like Mimir and hurt Loki’s astral self. In his battle with Forsung, he channeled energy through the sceptre of power in a contest, the energy shaking the universe and merging into a fireball with Odin and Forsung in the middle, as they crashed through planets and created new suns across the galaxy, with their battle raging beyond all time and space. Similarly, against Infinity, his energy blasts lit up the galaxy and shattered distant planets. Their battle swirled surrounding planetoids, created light visible from distant planets, and was so great it caused Asgard itself to begin collapsing and the Rainbow Bridge to shake.

Telekinesis

The All-Power grants wide-scale telekinesis, most prominently having been used multiple times to lift the entirety of Asgard’s capital and ferry it across dimensions.

• Thor shifted Asgard’s capital from its realm to floating above New York
  • Asgard is left in a partial ghostly form of existence in its own dimension. Thor transported its people to earth but the city itself more a mix of partial transportation and partial construction, leaving the ghostly Asgard still in its own dimension
• Fires a lightning bolt from his hammer which rips out a massive chunk of earth containing Asgard’s capital and lifts it 8 feet into the sky
  • Osborn calls this chunk of Asgard the size of Brooklyn
• Thor unleashes the power of Odin to draw Mjolnir from Magni’s hand and place it near his own, though he avoids actually directly touching it and instead hovers it around him
• Commands two huge pillars of Earth to rise and swallow Desak while keeping Magni and Amora in an energy field. Magni is shocked and says he had no idea Thor was capable of all this.
• Telekinetically grabs pieces of debris to prevent Asgard’ capital falling apart
• Commands Asgard to fall, crushing the Godkiller Super Skrull
• Raises rocks into the air
• [Old King] Commands three suns and slams them into Gorr

Others have used the telekinesis of the All-Power for a variety of effects. Odin was able to reach through space “to the very end of infinity” to, in a split-second, slam down the frozen remnants of a dead planet on top of Surtur, cold enough to subdue Surtur’s snakes. Later, he dragged a nearby meteor storm from over the Rainbow Bridge to attack Thanos, and even while dead in Valhalla, could use the “power beyond power” to take control of Skurge’s own axe telekinetically and kill him with it. He altered the course of an alien ship from Asgard to make it land where he wants, and Iron Man has said Odin could make Asgard rise up from the ashes of its ruin with a snap of his fingers. With just a gesture, he was able to make Loki and Absorbing Man weightless and careen off into space, or summon the Worthy’s hammers out from their hands. Likewise, Seidring could use the All-Power to cast a ray into the cosmos and seize three (very very small) planetoids before instantly hurling them down to Asgard against Thor, and Marnot has fired a telekinetic blast with the All-Power to slow a falling bed.

Heat Manipulation

Thor can project balls of fire from his hand, which are potent enough to ignite the forges of Nidavellir and conjure the heat of a billion suns to unravel Mjolnir’s enchantments and burn away the Mother Storm. Thor himself is unharmed in the heat and the Mother Storm and Mangog’s merged soul seems to die from the fires. Thor has notably stated in a separate context that the fires of Nidavellir could melt Ultron’s body.

Odin has also been seen manipulating the elements more generally. He could cast a flame across Asgard’s torches, which, when lit up on the Mount of Eternity’s beacon, can be seen even “at the opposite end of the infinite void”, reaching far into space to Loki’s location. His fireballs can instantly dissolve the trolls’ vehicles into nothing and he can entrap people in circles of fire. Beyond just fire, he can manipulate the elements to split apart the earth at will, using this to bury Surtur underneath in a tomb of rock.

Sealing

The All-Power can seal things in a variety of ways, either containing outbursts of energy, sealing others in mystical spheres, or trapping them in physical objects.

• Smashes two nuclear missiles and endures the explosion before containing it in an energy sphere of Odinforce, though he admits he can’t hold it forever
• Fully embraces the Odinpower, flying into space and dragging the Gardener behind him in an energy sphere
• Seals Jane Foster, Wanda, and her daughter in a sphere, teleporting them into it from far away, and transports them to Asgard
• Using all of the Odinpower, gathers every fragment of the demolished moon and pulls it together molecule by molecule to completely restore it, imprisoning the Gardener inside the same way Odin imprisoned Surtur in Earth when they first fought. This effort left Thor so drained he plummeted to Earth and passed into a light All-Sleep until his power was replenished
• Puts Mjolnir in a containment bubble
• Commands two huge pillars of Earth to rise and swallow Desak while keeping Magni and Amora in an energy field. Magni is shocked and says he had no idea Thor was capable of all this

Odin has used the All-Power to seal the likes of Mangog, Surtur, and Cul. As was mentioned, he sealed away Surtur by forming the Earth around him and binding him with the centrifugal force of its rotation. He sealed the Vizier in a cube which also shrunk him, bound Loki inside a tree with a scepter blast, sealed the God Tempest inside raw uru purely through his magic, and somehow sealed Lorelei and Sigurd’s hearts in goose eggs. He’s able to work magic to bar the likes of Thor from entering Asgard. Seidring could use the All-Power to seal Heimdall in “a block of ethereal force” and the warriors of Asgard in ethereal energy bands.

At its most extreme, Odin is even capable of sealing away entire dimensions. He sealed away the Asgard dimension, cloaking it even from Heimdall’s vision, and requiring Loki to find a weak spot in its barrier and break through with a few billion megatons of exploding warships. He tore Heven, the 10th realm, loose from the roots of Yggdrasil itself and sealed it away, making it unable to be sensed, his winds sweeping the angels to the Endworlds at the edges of the universe. The Odinforce curse prevented the angels from ever returning home, and the angels used the energy of the curse as an engine to power their world. The end of the curse threatened to make it implode and turn into a black hole. Odin has even said he could seal the World Tree as a whole, and he sealed Donald Blake’s dream dimension deep in the World Tree to prevent intruders.

Summoning

Thor has summoned Asgard’s entire capital from the void, having done so over a week after returning from Ragnarok. Using Mjolnir, he was able to summon Storm through the dimensional winds, which not even she could overpower, and forcibly summoned Ulik through a portal. He can also more indirectly summon the Avengers by shouting “Avengers Assemble” intensely enough to echo across Manhattan.

Odin has sounded a summon through Asgard to draw the Warriors Three to him, summoned guards out of nowhere with the All-Power, and summoned the Rainbow Bridge next to him. Via his transportation abilities, he can generally just summon whoever he wants to appear at any time, such as when he summoned Hercules, Beta Ray Bill, and Kurse to aid in a battle without them even realising. Ultron has used the All-Power to summon Asgardian demons from portals.

The Knowing

Usually just called ”omniscience”, this allows Thor to sort of just intuitively know key information regarding his current objectives, ranging from upcoming events to the locations of key items. While it is powerful, it is not true omniscience, since Thor isn’t aware of everything going on in the world, and Thor has been unable to tell when someone is lying on occasion (though this contradicts other showings). As an elder god, Thor is also able to sense changes to the timeline and can remember what happened before the timeline was changed and the universe was dramatically altered.

• Genis-Vell says the Odinpower lets Thor tell if what Genis shows him is a lie or not
• Thor’s Odinpower lets him know the vision Genis showed him about Odin is true, the storm giants being his secret shame
• The Odinpower warns Thor of betrayal by showing him a fully accurate recollection of his fight with the Avengers in a dream
• During the Reigning, Thor hadn’t undergone Odinsleep in decades and his power was at its lowest now. He says he could possibly know more about the incoming betrayal he senses if his power wasn’t depleted
• With a flash in his eyes, suddenly realises the exact plan he needs to do to undo the events of the Reigning
• When Thor reached out with his senses, he was able to find Zarrko’s time machine
• Younger Thor is able to use Odin’s power to sense that future Thor is his own older self and isn’t lying
• Using their connection and his All-Father powers, Thor is able to see the universe an evil AU version of himself comes from and use the Bifrost to send him there back in time to give him a fresh start

Odin has similarly frequently employed his cosmic senses to detect danger. It’s been stated that Odin is aware of everything going on in all realms, and that he could perceive certain forces taking shape to resolve things with Eric Masterson, later noting he predicted the events of the story would happen. As the all-wise, Odin was aware of Thor’s battle with the Destroyer even without his crystal ball. Even when unable to clearly grasp the nature of a threat, his mystic senses still alert him of something amiss. Attacks on Yggdrasil alert his senses directly, and he was likewise able to detect Thanos’s use of the Infinity Gauntlet as a threat to Asgard, though he was caught off guard before he could respond. Even when diminished, he was able to sense Freyja’s near-death.

Odin generally has some degree of prescience, having seen visions of future events via dreams such as Thor slaying Surtur and Balder’s future. He sensed the events of Masterson’s corruption as a long time coming and foresaw many of Loki’s escapades, even somehow becoming aware of the Reigning before it actually happened. Despite this, he has made clear that omniscience does not grant him the ability to control fate and that he can only set things in motion and hope they play out. As an All-Father, Hercules noted he could see numbers the same way Amadeus Cho does if he focuses.

Scrying

Through flames, Thor is able to observe individuals on Earth from Asgard.

Odin has employed a large variety of celestial screens, magic crystals, spatial screens, mystic waters, scrying pools, Omni-Runes, and more to observe the ongoing events on Earth or in-space. His Enchanti-Scan is able to determine the exact location of a specific thought on Earth, his monitor can observe Galactus’s vessel and look inside it, and he can fire blasts from his scepter into a crystal ball to observe where specific individuals are. Of particular note are the flames of truth, which Odin has used to reveal the truth behind Jake Olson. He noted that even though Loki is invisible in spirit form, he can command the flames to reveal his presence and does so to see Loki before using the flames to carry his words to Earth. Balder has suggested the flames of truth obey only whoever is on Asgard’s throne. Given that, and the fact that this is from the same run and writer as the showing of All-Father Thor observing individuals using flames, these may be the flames Thor is using in that showing, though it’s not explicit.

Mind Manipulation

When battling the Yggdrasil-empowered MODOK, Thor used the lightning to “reach into” MODOK’s mind and give him a gift. What it is isn’t exactly clear but it seems to be something like self-awareness or empathy, and ended the fight. Thor is also able to give all of his memories to a younger version of himself.

Odin frequently employs forgetfulness spells when convenient, having stripped Thor of his memory to turn him into the human Donald Blake, sent a beam towards Loki to close his mind of all thought and sever his connection to the Destroyer, wiped Jane Foster’s memory to make her forget Thor (alongside altering Thor’s mind to make him perfectly ok with Jane leaving him), and removed the memory of all of Infinity’s cosmic destruction from humanity. He was able to put the entirety of the human race into a catatonic state and wiped their memory of the event. He can even wipe his own memories to ensure certain contingency plans won’t be compromised. Beyond manipulating memories, he can plant suggestions in people’s heads and make them kneel in his presence. He was able to block the senses of the Menagerie so they see and hear nothing while on Asgard, and place a spell which forces Loki only to speak the truth via riddle. One time, just to fuck with the dude, he showed Iron Man a vision of the infinite scale of the cosmos and caused him to reailse how meaningless he was.

Odin also has telepathy, able to talk to people in their head from realms away. He’s been able to look into Moondragon’s head, bypass Thor’s mental barriers to enter his mindscape, and stalemate Galactus in a telepathic battle. Similarly, Heimdall used the All-Power to imprison Thor inside Eric Masterson’s own mind.

Illusion Dispersal

Thor can use the All-Power to fire blasts which break illusions.

Odin has likewise been able to fire a blast to reveal the true form of the Enchanter past his transformed disguise. Magni would later use it to reveal Ulik’s disguise as Tanarus was a lie, despite the fact that this disguise was empowered by skald-magic which had altered Ulik’s very story.

Soul Manipulation

While separated from Jake Olson, the mortal part of his soul, it was noted that Thor could use the Odinpower to undo the separation from Olson, but chooses not to. An older Thor would later merge his younger self and Olson together again with a raise of his hand, while giving younger Thor all his memories. Much later still, Thor would do something similar for offense, casting magic to draw from Doom’s reservoir of souls and free the controlled spirits.

Odin’s showings of soul manipulation are pretty vast and varied. The entire origin of the villain Mangog is Odin merging a race composed of a billion, billion souls into a single entity, and he’s shown the capability to undo this spell to restore the race to life. He later defeated Mangog again by cutting off the spell which connected Mangog to the hate that fuels him. More generally, Odin has forced Thor’s soul out of the Destroyer and back into his body, distilled Thor’s essence into mortal form, absorbed the entire life-force of Asgard, contained souls in his scepter, imprisoned a spirit in an Asgardian relic, summoned Volla’s spirit to appear in Valhalla, and imprisoned Loki’s spirit in Jake Olson’s body, stripping him of all his godly power and making him fully mortal, which Karnilla noted would be a challenge to undo.

Of particular note to Thor are the times Odin has merged or unmerged Thor with another being. In order to save Eric Masterson’s life, he merged him, body and soul, with Thor, a process which Thor has described as physically and mentally bonding him with Eric on every plane of reality, which was later undone by Heimdall when he held the All-Power. The aforementioned separation of Thor and Jake Olson occurred when Odin drew out the part of Thor that was Jake Olson and made him his own entity, essentially creating a mortal duplicate of Thor who shared all his memories.

Odin’s power over souls is great enough that he was able to break Mephisto’s hold over a child’s soul, with Mephisto admitting his contract was nullified by a power equal to his own.

Matter Manipulation

Using all of the Odinpower (at least as he understood it), Thor was able to gather every fragment of the demolished moon and pulls it together molecule by molecule to completely restore it, imprisoning the Gardener inside the same way Odin imprisoned Surtur in Earth when they first fought. This effort left Thor so drained he plummeted to Earth and passed into a light All-Sleep until his power was replenished.

Odin has frequently employed matter manipulation in a variety of forms. As mentioned, in myth, he used his great sword to draw all the electro-magnetic particles of the cosmos and concentrate them around the planet to make it spin around the sun, trapping Surtur in the center of the planet through centrifugal force. He laid waste to the land of Nastrond so that not a single form of life could live there, searing the water to fuse them into crystals. In a different telling of his backstory, he reconstructed the Rainbow Bridge from its shattered old remnants, and fired a magical ray of transmutation at rhinegold ring-halves to form them into the Odinsword. He was also able to transmute an apple of Iduna into pure gold with a gesture.

Odin has also employed matter manipulation against living beings. He turned Mimir to fire to make him his advisor, has forcibly transformed Thor into Blake, transformed the Menagerie from their monster forms back into human selves, turned a frog into a giant dragon rivalling Fafnir, dissipated Zelia and the Dark Gods among the solar winds, and transmuted the Scarlet Centurion into an hourglass. When Odin fought Galactus, Sif herself raised the question of how beings like them can fight, saying either could just turn the other into a moth in a jar or cause an inferno in the other’s skull. Thor responded that omnipotence has its down side. On multiple occasions, Odin has undone transmutation against others, having reversed Enchantress’s spell which near-instantly turned Dazzler into light and would have killed her, and having unleashed a massive magic wave across Paris, undoing Grey Gargoyle’s stone transmutation of the population.

Creation

The All-Power can simply manifest objects out of thin air with a gesture, such as a banquet or a set of golden armour and sword.

Odin has used the All-Power to do things like create chains binding Loki to his wife before later erasing them, reconstruct a path from Earth to Asgard’s dimension with a wave of his hand, and craft a prison to restrain Thor while also reshaping Asgard, turning it into a war engine capable of razing Earth. In myth, Odin first formed the Rainbow Bridge himself to head to Earth. Seidring has used the All-Power to create a globule of liquified wolfbane to suck Thor in.

Restoration

Pretty vague, but Thor once projected his power to restore two burned down churches, saying the process should take an hour or two. It seems Thor doesn’t need to be there for the process to continue.

Odin has used this ability on multiple occasions to undo severe damage. He was able to wipe out all the damage Infinity caused across the universe in an instant, restore all the damage done by Ego-Prime on Earth and wipe mortal memory of it, and fire eye beams through a projection of himself to repair the Recorder and restore him to life. It was stated Odin could repair Asgard with a snap of his fingers, and even as a spirit, he managed to restore the damage done to the World Tree.

Time Manipulation

In the climax of the Reigning, Thor stopped time around himself with a wave of his hand to prepare to travel back in time and undo the bad future. The old King Thor of a future timeline was able to send his younger selves back to their own times with the Thor-Force. As noted previously, All-Father Thor could time travel to the past during the events of the Reigning, but this required help from both the goddess Tarene and Zarrko’s time-travel device, and he explicitly could not do it on his own.

Odin, similarly, has stopped time around Thor on Earth and frozen the fabric of time across the planet with just a gesture. Beyond just stopping time, he can send people to the future or past and reverse time (at least to an extent). He tore apart the fabric of space to retrieve Cosmic Ghost Rider from a dead timeline, and stated he has the magic to send him to any time and place in all of creation before sending him to the 616 timeline’s past. An old edition of the Marvel Handbook states Odin can’t time-travel unaided, though Hank Pym has been able to use a sliver of the Odinforce to free himself from Ultron and snap himself back through time like a rubber band.

Life Manipulation

The All-Power can be used to grant life, which can be applied as healing of the wounded. According to Ulik and Orikal, the realm of Asgard itself endures by the grace of the Odinpower, with the land growing decrepit without it. Thor has implied healing others with the All-Power can take time.

The All-Power can fully restore life in a sense, but it’s considered taboo to do so, Thor managed to successfully restore to life a dead girl by willing it to happen and supplying more life force, but it leaves her a catatonic emotionless zombie with no soul. When Thor remarked that the All-Power should have brought the child back, Sif retorted that if it was proper to restore life, Odin would have done it more often. When a decapitated Volstagg was restored to life by a magical apple, this effect was specifically compared to the limitless magic of the Odin-Power, so it seems like while the ability does exist in some form, it is not ‘true’ resurrection. Later on, Thor channeled the All-Power into Ullr’s flame to resurrect Magni “past all doorways, across all voids, past fate itself”, with it being suggested he could have resurrected Iric from Valhalla instead, though this required the Enchantress’s magic and could not be done by the All-Power alone. The old King Thor from a future timeline was able to resurrect his younger self with the Thor-Force and burn out the last of All-Black’s sickness inside him, and later imbued lightning into living clay to make a new generation of humans, noting that he could give them more power to make them live longer past 275 years old.

Odin has frequently employed the All-Power to heal others. He restored Balder to life when he was aged to near-death, healed the wounds of Beta Ray Bill at the cellular level, and cured Thor of his injuries multiple times. Going beyond just healing, he’s resurrected Hela, Hulk, Brunhilde and Siegfried, and restored the entire Asgardian race from the previous Ragnarok cycle using their living atoms. As he commands the life energies of the Asgardian race, Odin can absorb the entire race’s life-force into himself freely to empower himself, and restore them back to life once he’s done. It’s been stated that while he can’t grant life or preserve its past when it’s supposed to go, he is able to ignite the sparks of life of those fading to revive them, such as when he flowed the Odinpower into Balder to put him in a half-death state. The Marvel Handbook references this incident, and makes explicit note Odin can’t resurrect someone who’s passed into the realm of Hel, though during the events of Ragnarok, his spirit did that exact thing to save Thor from Hela.

Beyond healing others, Odin can manipulate life in general. He was able to make a plant grow to save Balder, and grew a flower in Hela’s domain due to being the god of life. In myth, it’s said Odin and his brothers set a ring around Earth from which Yggdrasil bloomed, and it’s known that in the past he cast a spell on the land of the trolls that made their crops grow. Odin is also able to alter the bodies of others, having completely removed and restored Thor’s mouth before, and Marnot (one of Odin’s ravens given the All-Power) having snapped away a woman’s mouth. Odin was able to undo Ego Prime’s mutation of some humans with a wave of his hand. He once cast a delayed spell, set to only activate if a specific event occurred, to transform one of his ravens into the humanoid Marnot, imbued with the All-Power. After Thor’s death, Magni has used the power to prevent a Frost Giant from melting while in Muspelheim.

Odin has been able to use the full breadth of his ability to create life outright. Most obviously, via his knowledge of the runes and a combination of science and sorcery, he created a human soul and construct in the form of Donald Blake, banishing Thor into that form. He employed a similar method to reconstruct his people in mortal guise, stripping them of their powers, memories, and immortality to convince Yggdrasil that Ragnarok had killed them and bypass it. He was also able to create an exact doppelganger of Loki for Thor to fight.

Energy Absorption

With the All-Power, Thor’s ability to absorb energy becomes especially powerful. He was able to forcibly take an amped Galactus’s Power Cosmic from him using Mjolnir. In his battle with Zeus, Thor absorbed Zeus’s lightning as he tried burning him with it, before draining the rest of Zeus’s power by grabbing him. By taking all his power, Thor now had the power of Zeus and the power of Odin in one god, and resisted the corrupting Utgard darkness and Wheel of Fate of Zeus he had also absorbed to shape his lightning into a golden belt, Yolgjord, and seal Zeus’s power safely

Odin has absorbed cosmic power blasts with his scepter and drawn the limitless powers of the gods by plunging his sword into the ground. With a touch, he could drain the strength from Hela’s body until she’s helpless. He was able to absorb the power and very essence of Surtur into his body, restoring himself to full power. When the Dark God Zelia stole his power, Odin was simply able to grab her to reclaim his energy. He can draw forth power from allies such as Tarene and Zeus, in his backstory having done this to fuse with his brothers into one being which fought evenly with Surtur. When Odin’s spirit was trapped in Mjolnir, it was able to use the magic of Mjolnir to drain the gamma out of a Hulked-Out Thor, which is particularly impressive given that just prior, Odin and Asgard used the united of power of every realm in the known and unknown universe and all the magics and enchantments known to the runes and fates to try and leech off Thor’s rage, and it didn’t work.

Power Manipulation

Thor has control over the All-Power of others, able to draw out the All-Power from Olson when it had been stolen from Thor, restoring his strength and turning Olson mortal again. Like Odin, he can imbue his magic into weaponry to grant them mystical properties, such as returning to his hand after being thrown.

Odin has, of course, manipulated the powers of others on many occasions, frequently having stripped Thor and others of their power to render them effectively mortal, also having done this to create Donald Blake. He’s been able to halve Thor’s power with a command without Thor even realising, once took away Brunhilde’s godhood in full with a kiss, and with a gesture stripped every Asgardian of all their powers instantly. In combat, he was able to channel his full power against Surtur to sever his connection to the Eternal Flame, fire blasts of Odinforce to return Surtur’s minions to their mortal form, strip Tempest of his powers, and reduce the strength of the Dark Gods, preventing them from opening their gateway. He was able to drain Skagg’s strength through his sword, enough to overcome Loki continuously refuelling Skagg, and knock him out, though it left Odin exhausted. Similarly, All-Father Ultron was able to neutralize Ant-Man’s Pym Particles via the All-Power.

Odin has enchanted many weapons using the All-Power as well, including Mjolnir, Balder’s sword and Sif’s blade to allow them to traverse dimensions, Heimdall’s blade to create an illusion around himself, and weapons for all the Avengers to transform them into super forms. Odin has duplicated Thor’s essence via mystic fires to then imbue that essence into specific items. Beyond just weapons, Odin can grant others his powers directly, able to turn mortals into gods or imbue his power into spaceships. He’s even done this to forcibly return Cosmic Ghost Rider’s powers to him, noting he does his best to mitigate the mental change of it. It’s only fitting, then, that Odin can also make himself mortal if he so chooses, having once wiped out his powers and memories in order to live as a mortal named Orrin.

The All-Power can also break spells. With Odin’s power, Loki freed Skagg from the circle of flame and Surtur from the spell imprisoning him within the Earth, and it was stated Loki’s tower of sorcery is protected by spells only Odin could undo.

Existence Erasure

Thor claimed while battling Desak that he had the power to simply remove him from existence with an energy wave. Desak boasted in response that he’s killed thousands of gods and just as Thor is immune to a common cold, Desak is immune to his power. We seem to see this actually take place later on, when Thor begins erasing Desak by touching his face, though Desak manages to resist and fight it off.

Additionally, Ulik has stated that Odin could have just blinked the trolls out of existence if he so wished but understood the need to live and let live. Odin once made a group of humans fade into nothing before restoring them at the end of the issue, and Thor has stated Odin could vanish Seth’s soldiers with a gesture.

Size Changing

The very first thing Thor ever used the All-Power for was whipping up a vortex with his hammer that caused him to grow, matching Surtur in size for battle. Surprising seeing an image that isn’t from one of like three comic runs, right?

Odin has used this power to grow in size to match Seth’s giant height, and shrunk the both of them down to human sized by bear-hugging Seth. He’s also done this to trade blows with a cosmically empowered Doctor Doom.

Other Abilities

Odin and others have used the All-Power to perform many abilities Thor has never explicitly shown. To make the distinction between what Thor himself has done and what Thor can hypothetically do clear, I’m isolating all of those abilities here. As mentioned before, Thor likely should have the capability to do any of this, beyond any other non-Odin character, given his knowledge of the runes allowing him to tame the All-Power and his centuries of experience with it, but even by the time of his death he had yet to achieve the same mastery of it Odin had, making it still a bit hypothetical.

God-Sight

When Ultron had the All-Power, he described himself as having the God-Sight, allowing him to see everything and even look inside himself. Odin has frequently shown supreme observation, able to directly observe events on Earth from Asgard and vice-versa. He can perceive Loki in their astral form, and Zeus could similarly see past Pluto’s helmet of invisibility.

In terms of senses, he’s been able to sense Loki’s presence without looking, sense a Vanna even while it is merged with the air and grab it, and sense Thor is in danger instinctually. He can hear Thor’s words all the way from Asgard and has been able to sense rifts in dimensions. Once, when Thor flew away from Asgard so fast that Heimdall, who says he can hear a fly buzzing at the nether end of the universe and then count the hairs on that fly, couldn’t tell what it was, Odin was able to actually register it as Thor’s presence. While blinded, Seidring could use the Odin-Power to track Thor as he tried to escape.

Projection

A superpower I employ frequently in conversation. The Marvel Handbook describes this as Odin’s ability to project a 3D audio-visual image of himself visible and audible only to those he wishes across space or dimensions, which he frequently employs to contact Thor on Earth and hie him back to Asgard. Heimdall has likewise done similar during his stint as All-Father. Through this, Odin has essentially occupied multiple places at once, given he can spot happening across space via projecting his consciousness there and even attack from his visages while occupied in battle with something else.

Through projections, Odin has stripped others of their powers, summoned an ally for Thor on Earth at his request, sent Thor his chariot, sent Thor across space to Earth, and forced Loki from Earth to Asgard. While operating in multiple places at once, he had a complete battle with Iron Man, easily defeating him and being unphased by any of his attacks before showing him a vision of the cosmos and undoing Grey Gargoyle’s petrification of Paris. He can project images of things other than himself as well, such as showing the events occurring on Earth with a projection from his hand or manifesting images of ongoing battles. He also has a form of retrocognition, having used his scepter to capture time and bend it back to view an image in the past in detail. He could turn the vision back further to view Galactus’s birth and first ever attack.

Odin has astral projected his soul out of his body on a few occasions, such as astral projecting from the World Beyond to Asgard to warn Thor of a threat. His astral form can physically interact with and hurt those around it, and is potent enough to duel with Thor’s spirit on a level beyond Adam Warlock’s Soul Stone and defeat Loki’s astral self on every astral and metaphysical plane.

Barriers

Odin has created bubbles of force around the likes of Balder and Beta Ray Bill which can protect from those as strong as Hela and Thor. These shields can be large enough to cover a city. Odin’s personal shields can easily deflect blasts from Iron Man and block attacks from Galactus. He’s able to manifest an aura of sheer force around himself. Seidring has used the All-Power to create an impenetrable crystal shield around himself to block rubble thrown by Thor.

Illusions

From Asgard, Odin could create illusions on Earth of Thor bullfighting and repelling an avalanche with winds, which fooled even Hela’s senses. He later created a complete, tangible illusion of Asgard and many individuals to trick both Hela and Thor, and cast an illusion around Balder to make him look like Mangog against Thor.

Shapeshifting

Odin, as in myth, is known as a shape-shifter. He once grew in size and took the visage of the fusion form which banished Surtur in the past, noting he was unable to do this until Surtur stopped blocking his ability to do so. He can transform from his human disguise to his godly form with a tap of his cane, and has claimed he can shape-shift into a hound.

Invisibility

Odin rendered himself invisible to the Vizier while playing chess with Dormammu, and invisibly carried himself on Sleipnir with Blake in tow across the continent to Wundagore.

Animal Control

Odin has dominion over animals, having once turned a hawk to a  servant to protect Balder.

Space Manipulation

Odin was able to repair his own rent in space he used to summon Bill and Sif. Seidring has used the All-Power to warp the fabric of space to deflect a strike from Thor.

Stasis

Odin has frozen Mangog in place with a ray of power, frozen Asgard’s soldiers by paralysing the atoms of the air, and trapped Donald Blake in stasis with a spell so powerful it caused an explosion when Sigyn attempted to free him. Seidring could use the All-Power to immobilise Balder in mid-air, unable to move or speak, and Heimdall has used a fraction of the All-Power to freeze Eric Masterson Thor in place.

Dimension Creation

It was revealed in more recent runs that Odin created a “hidden dimension” beneath the roots of Yggdrasil for Donald Blake to go every time Thor swapped places with him. This dream world is somehow the same thing as the completely separate dream world Blake was trapped in by the Mares in an older run.

Reality Warping

While playing chess with Dormammu, Odin warped reality and affected Lord Chaos and Master Order, having to end the game in a tie to avoid upsetting the cosmic balance. He’s warped the space of the realm between realms, and has warped a city on Earth, making buildings bend and lean to crush Hela before restoring the damage at the end of the issue. For reasons that weren’t even really explained in the issue itself, he also once magically transformed a cavern in Wundagore into an exact duplicate of a cave in Norway where he left Mjolnir. Odin’s battles have been described as a World-Storm, which is when the gods are fighting and the very quantum fabric of reality is ruptured, and he used this quantum foam to merge an army of Asgardians as a gestalt Blood Legion, including Thor, described as channeling “ancient war magic”.

During the Domination Factor series, Odin imbued the apple of Iduna with the mystical power to establish a new kingdom for Knorda on Earth. She held the apple in the present day and it realised her kingdom, remaking Earth in her image and creating a new timeline. In this timeline Odin never recovered from the death of Thor and Asgard was overrun by trolls. Knorda was able to use the reality warping apple to guide the Avengers’ ship to the past Asgard, and Loki used the apple to completely rewrite reality into Earth-1000. This series has a kind of complex plot, but it shows a portion of Odin’s power contributing to an effect which rewrites the timeline.

Fourth-Wall Awareness

Odin once totally answered a letter on the letters page in-character. Perhaps that’s no surprise when the sentience of Odinforce could physically shape the panels around it.

Miscellaneous

Other stuff which can’t cleanly fit under the aforementioned categories.

• Odin uses his power to will the Odinship to depart and guide it to the furthest reaches of space
• Loki says he can’t materialise solidly in astral form as he can in other spheres because he was exiled from Asgard by Odin. Unclear if he means Odin is blocking him or if it’s because Odin would sense him
• Bor cursed his Valkyries to consume only Asgardian spirits, turning them into the Disir, cannibalistic ghosts.  We don’t exactly know what Bor’s power is and how it links to the All-Power beyond that he and Odin seem to be able to do the same kinds of things

Non-Standard Forms

All of these forms are totally non-standard, but are being listed cause they’re interesting and I imagine people would want to hear about them.

Rune King Thor

During the events of Ragnarok, Thor underwent the ritual to gain cosmic knowledge by hanging from the branches of Yggdrasil, revealing him to the truth of the cycle of gods, seeing beyond quantum structure into the nothingness of Ginnungagap. When Thor was resurrected by the spirit of Odin, he emerged beyond all realities in the realm of Utgard, staring down the true puppet-masters behind Ragnarok, Those Who Sit Above In Shadow, who deemed him worthy of their blessings. He now saw through them with sight beyond sight, and knew they fed on the cycle of gods. When the eldritch beings bragged that they know all outcomes past, present, and future, Thor responded that Odin saw a way to hide him from their manipulations by making him live as a mortal, surprising Those Who Sit Above. Thor proceeded to open his eyes and travel from Utgard to Hilstalft, with runes surrounding him, now wielding cosmic power.

Through the ritual of sacrifice and knowing, having sacrificed even more than Odin had done before, Thor regained the All-Power, but more uniquely, also gained total knowledge and mastery of the runes, transcending him to a whole new level of strength beyond just the All-Power. For instance, he knows a spell to catch a witch and turn her into the wind, as well as a spell to bottle said being and empty the bottle, employing this to free Mangog’s soul, dissipating his form. Even Loki admitted he didn’t know these spells, despite Loki’s entire arsenal being based on rune-magic, indicating Thor in this state may have knowledge of any spell Loki has also used. Thor’s rune magic kept Loki’s head alive even after he ripped off his head, and was able to telekinetically grab a hammer launched at him by Muspelheim demons and launch it back at them, disintegrating them.

Thor could also apply this rune-magic more directly offensively, firing huge rune-blasts which decimated Valhalla and blew away fleets of trolls. Those attempting to strike Thor, such as Mangog, would be deflected by runic barriers whenever they tried, with Thor also being physically strong enough to hold back his charge. Thor could also teleport himself and others freely between realms, teleporting from Utgard to Hilstalft as mentioned, travelling to Valhalla and the Loom of Fates, and forcibly teleporting Beta Ray Bill away from the battle and into space to save his life. He was additionally able to sail directly from Valhalla to Muspelheim. When he arrived in Muspelheim, Thor even noted that could restore the broken Mjolnir entirely with his own power, only letting Surtur do it as a show of wisdom. Once it was repaired, he used it to blast a massive path from Muspelheim to Valhalla and Vanaheim, cleaving the ocean in two, and Surtur believed a battle with Thor could crush the world or smite the stars.

Speaking of wisdom, in this state, Thor now knows the unknowable and sees the unseen, knowing why and how Loki has done all his evil deeds. The Odinpower’s manifestation was unable to see into Thor’s thoughts, the lessons Thor learned as Blake shielding his mind. With all this power and knowledge, Thor travelled to the Loom of Fates woven by the Norns to end the cycle of Ragnarok for good. The Norns challenged Thor, claiming they knew of this day from the beginning and refused to let it come to pass. Thor stated even he can’t change what’s been written and doesn’t have the power for that, but he had one thing Those Who Sit Above In Shadow could not comprehend or foresee; his knowledge of humanity, which shielded his true intentions from them. Thor, as the only combination of man and god, who draws power from both, could seek a different path and end the cycle of Ragnarok, giving the Norse Gods their final battle. Those Who Sit Above In Shadow appeared to plead with Thor, offering him a position among them in recognition of his strength and wisdom, but it was to no avail, as Thor proceeded to smash the Loom of Fates, ending the cycle of Ragnarok for good and killing all the gods. Thor ascended to a higher plane, and finally rested the slumber of gods. When he was eventually returned to life, Thor no longer held the power of the runes.

Hulked-Out Thor

When Thor was caught in a gamma burst orchestrated by the Intelligencia, he was hulked-out, becoming the mighty Thorr, the living embodiment of thunder and lightning. In this state, he was strong enough to obliterate buildings with his strikes, beat down the Red Hulk with his hammer, down Skaar, and could produce electric shockwaves from his body which were strong enough to knock out various Red Hulks. He ended up on a whacky misadventure with the hulked-out Spider-Man, taking some hits from him along the way, and his unworthy behaviour caused Mjolnir to become progressively heavier. It took Thor remembering himself to become worthy again and wield the hammer, just in time for him to be cured and returned to normal.

Much later, as the All-Father, Thor would be gamma mutated again, but in a very different and more potent form. During a clash with the Starship Hulk, the Hulk’s gamma exploded at the peak of his rage, and Thor was caught in the country sized burst, turning him into an out of control gamma mutate. Mixing the All-Power, Thor’s natural strength, and the power of a Hulk, this Hulked-Thor immediately smashed through Iron Man’s Celestial Hulkbuster and ripped it apart. The Hulk knocked him through a mountain with a blood-drawing punch, but Thor immediately proceeded to beat down the Hulk and nearly kill him. When Sif attempted to forcibly transport Thor back to Asgard via the Bifrost, he resisted it trying to summon him and completely shattered it, destroying it across all realms.

The only way for Hulk to survive was to receive a power-up of his own, Odin allowing the Hulk to wield Mjolnir for the fight and become a Thor-Hulk. The two insanely powerful entities went at it, and their first clash completely obliterated the planet they were on in a single hit. It soon became evident that the Hulked-Thor was far too powerful and out-of-control to tame, overpowering the Thor-Hulk in their clashes and ripping his arm off even after Hulk took him to Asgard. When he was launched into and bound to Yggdrasil, Odin and Asgard used the united of power of every realm in the known and unknown universe and all the magics and enchantments known to the runes and fates to leech off Thor’s rage. It didn’t work, and Thor proceeded to rip out of Yggdrasil’s bindings and uproot the entire tree, Banner stating that Thor risked the end of reality.

Ultimately, it took a father comforting his son to prevent the total destruction of everything, Odin speaking to Thor from Mjolnir directly and removing the gamma from him while restoring the World Tree, the resulting explosion knocking out everybody nearby. When they came to, the now-cured Thor lied and claimed the Hulk was killed in the blast, and the All-Father now had to deal with the consequences of his rampage

Necrosword

When Gorr the God-Butcher was about to end all gods in time and space via detonating the Godbomb, Thor absorbed the blast into himself, using both the Mjolnir of his present and the Mjolnir held by his future All-Father self. Absorbing the bomb’s necrotic energy in-turn ended up merging Thor with Gorr’s weapon, All-Black the Necrosword. With the power of the Necrosword, Thor blew Gorr away with a blast of lightning, incinerating his weapons. After Gorr was subsequently killed, the Necrosword’s corruption lingered in Thor and began tearing him apart from the inside, soon killing him. Thor was then purged of the Necrosword’s corruption and resurrected by his future self’s All-Power, restoring him back to normal. Said future All-Father Thor would end up wielding the Necrosword in his own timeline as well, though this was the only time 616 Thor ever used it.

King of Hel

During a clash for the throne of Hel while Hela was too busy crying over Thanos dumping her, the unworthy Thor battled with Sindr to prevent her from claiming the Hel-Crown. Thor used the Hel-Crown to bludgeon her, before succumbing to the dark power calling to him from the crown upon touching it. Thor donned the crown, and became the King of Hel. Wielding a hammer made of blood frozen as hard as iron, he quickly overpowered Sindr and forced her to surrender, his thunder shaking the World Tree from root to branch all the while. After Sindr fled, Thor had the will to resist the power’s temptation, and took the crown off to give back to Hela.

Herald of Thunder

Soon after Thor became the All-Father of Asgard, Galactus came to him with an unexpected cry for help. He needed the assistance of Thor to stop the Black Winter, the being which had ended Galactus’s original reality and which was now coming for the current universe. Galactus had to consume 5 special planets to amp himself up to extraordinary levels to face the Black Winter, and granted Thor the Power Cosmic to assist in this task. Thor became the Herald of Thunder, which also finally regenerated his long-since amputated left arm and shattered his Destroyer prosthetic. It was probably a fitting omen that even with the Power Cosmic, Mjolnir was growing heavier and heavier in Thor’s hands.

Thor and Galactus’s partnership wasn’t exactly a happy one. Thor would block Galactus from reading his mind to prevent him learning the locations of the planets in an effort to spare them, while Galactus would respond by blasting him from orbit into the surface of a planet and striking him with lasers, which Thor seemed unphased by. Thor, in-turn, was strong enough to blow off Galactus’s fingers with a throw from Mjolnir and control the hammer to smash through his knees. Still, Galactus needed to feed eventually, blowing up the first planet completely and consuming its energy while Thor endured both the planet destroying explosion and the subsequent volley of blasts from a very pissed Beta Ray Bill and his ship. Thor easily backhanded Bill into a moon when the latter charged at him, and had to give up the Power Cosmic to make it a fair fight.

Thor quickly reclaimed the Power Cosmic after defeating Bill by forcibly taking it from Galactus with a bolt from Mjolnir, downing the empowered giant. When the Black Winter finally came, Thor fired a Power Cosmic-infused lightning blast at the Black Winter strong enough to shatter entire continents, which stunned it for 14 seconds. Thor endured a subsequent assault from the Black Winter and briefly held it off with a barrier from Mjolnir until it overtook him, showing a vision of his own death. He managed to overcome the illusion and unleashed a Godblast to blow away the Black Winter, thinking that if he couldn’t kill it, he could at least make it bleed. The Black Winter was hurt and repelled by the blast, but still active.

When the Black Winter then revealed Galactus was actually its herald, Thor was enraged, downing Galactus with a colossal lightning bolt and charging straight through a blast from him. Keep in mind that at this point Galactus claimed he was stronger than he’s ever been after consuming the 5 special planets, and Thor was still able to continuously block his blast with Mjolnir. Thor would end up defeating this souped-up version of Galactus by blasting him with a bolt from Mjolnir which completely drained him of his newly acquired power, noting he did it in the same way he took the Power Cosmic, before fully killing him with a throw of Mjolnir straight to the chest. He proceeded to channel all his absorbed energy into Galactus’s corpse as a bomb, creating a colossal explosion which destroyed the Black Winter and was felt across multiple galaxies, sacrificing the Power Cosmic and leaving Thor with a lot of guilt on his hands. Keep in mind all of this was done while Thor held a more limited form of the All-Power.

During this story arc, it turns out Thor and Galactus also took a trip to Fortnite for a fully-canonical crossover. Thor’s combined Power Cosmic and All-Power allowed him to resist the magic of Fortnite island, the island slowly draining his memories but allowing him to speak. Even after his memories were drained, he was able to recover them just via seeing Galactus. While there, he took a shotgun blast from Jonesy and multiple shots from various Fortnite guns, and responded by smacking away Jonesy and defeating the group of Fortnite players.

Despite all that, he could still get hurt by a rock.

God in Black

Due to being unworthy, Thor Odinson missed out on the symbiote craze of late 2010s Marvel, but got arguably a better deal a few years later during his solo run. When battling the symbiote-enhanced Darkoth alongside Meridius, a future incarnation of the King in Black Eddie Brock, the All-Father Thor decided to give the symbiote business a try and merge with Meridius, creating the God in Black. By merging as one, the God in Black was capable of brawling with Darkoth, driving away his symbiote with a lightning bolt. Loki explained that together with the King in Black, Thor could trigger ancestral fears of symbiotes like sound and flame. This partnership between kings ended when Meridius split away and revealed his true identity before attacking Thor, and Thor realised he hadn’t read the Ewing Venom run and so didn’t know what the fuck was going on.

Feats

Feats in italics were done while Thor was under Warrior Madness.

Overall

• Became All-Father of Asgard
• Founding member of the Avengers
• Thwarted the many schemes of Loki to take the throne of Asgard
• Prevented numerous invasions led by the enemies of Asgard, including Ulik and the rock trolls, Ymir and the Frost Giants, countless Storm Giants, and many others
• Defeated Hela many times in her quests to claim more souls for her realm
• Assisted in the birth of the Young Gods, ultimately stopping the Fourth Host of Celestials from destroying the Earth
• Blew through many Ultron drones in his attempt to raise a robot army
• Aided in defeating Kang after he had conquered the entire planet
• Shattered the Loom of Fates and overcame Those Who Sit Above In Shadow to end the cycle of Ragnarok for good
• Helped defeat the Sentry after he destroyed Asgard during Siege
• Aided Hercules in his quest to stop the Chaos King from consuming all of existence
• Defeated Surtur during the War of Burning, preventing him from ending all of existence
• Fought against the Beyonders as the multiverse was about to end during Secret Wars
• Defeated Malekith during the War of the Realms and reforged Mjolnir
• Defeated numerous threats to all gods in existence, including Gorr, Desak, and Mangog
• Killed both the Black Winter and Galactus, saving the Eighth Cosmos
• Overcame a corrupt Zeus and purged him of the darkness infecting him
• Stared down and slew multiple Elder Gods before they could claim the Earth, ultimately giving his life to do so
• Helped fight the commies (please don’t ask about what he did with the Nazis)

Strength

Striking (Unarmed, Objective)

• Clashes with Beta Ray Bill barehanded across Skartheim, their battle uprooting mountains. A fist clash creates a blast which levels the surrounding countryside and knocks both out
• Hits Hulk with a blow that narration says would fell a mountain
• Thor and Norvell physically clash, their battle shaking and threatening to destroy Asgard while Heimdall is nearly deafened by the sound
• Clashes with Bodolf under arctic water, their clash shaking the earth for miles, disrupting the seas, and causing a worldwide thunderstorm. The fight is depicted as causing shaking felt across the planet
• Punches Bodolf through the planet to the other side of the globe
• Charges his fist with electricity and smashes the ground, blowing away Proxima Midnight and Black Swan and creating a thunderbolt visible against and bursting through the curvature of the Collector’s solar system sized ship
• During a vision from the Odinforce, Thor shatters planets with nudges and ignites stars
• Strikes Odin over a Nidavellir mountain, which are as big as moons

Striking (Unarmed, Scaling)

• Physically overpowers Loki
• Wrestles with the Hulk and trades blows
• Shatters Silver Surfer’s cosmic energy field
• KOs Abomination with a single punch
• Clashes with the Destroyer for minutes straight and frees its spirit
• Hercules and Thor stalemate for an hour
• Subdues Indra with his fists
• While exhausted, defeats Ulik with a series of punches in a burst of rage
• Clashes with Wonder Woman and Superman
• Launches Sentry
• Headbutts the Collector hard enough to make him recoil
• Headbutts Silver Surfer hard enough to send him skidding, denting both of their heads. Loki describes this as denting Surfer’s skull
• Young Thor bloodies Gorr with a punch and bites out his eyes
• Brawls with Surtur
• Uses the Destroyer as a punching bag, punching holes in it and bloodying his fists

Gripping

• Halts his momentum after being thrown by the Hulk with his hands with such force that the “very atomic fabric of the stones” give way
• Crumples a multi-ton tank and compresses it into the shape of hammer as a Mjolnir substitute
• Seals a chasm made by Mjolnir closed with his bare hands, imprisoning Loki under a million tons of Earth
• Breaks Durok’s grip, forcing his arms together and noting that he needed Mjolnir to barely stand against him in the past
• Catches a tank round in his hands and crushes it
• Grips the Thorbuster’s core in its armour enough to cause pain and rips its arm off

Gouging

• Gouges out the rock of an uru mountain
• While exhausted, tears through the stomach tissue of Demogorge
• Rips apart a Celestial container which is made of the same material as their armour
• Tears off and lifts a large chunk of land holding all of Bilskirnir, Asgard’s greatest hall

Flexing

• She-Hulk is unable to restrain Thor for more than a few seconds
• With a burst of anger, Thor breaks Kurse’s grip and strikes him away before tossing him aside
• Breaks out of binding cables made out of adamantium alloy with a burst of rage
• Young Thor breaks out of his restraints, which Gorr earlier said had been used to restrain mountain sized gods
• Begins to crack the moons sealing him
• Breaks out of Gaea’s restraints

Charging

• Charges Ares through a ship mast, downing him
• Collides into Hulk with a flying charge with enough force to produce an ear-drum rupturing explosion
• Shoulder checks a Beyonder
• As a Brood, slams Terrax into a planet

Legs

• Leaps a large distance in space between two spaceships
• Leaps from the ocean on to the deck of a huge ship
• Makes Hulk reel with a kick
• Kicks Ulik through a wall
• Kicks away Knull, drawing blood
• Leaps over a Nidavellir mountain, which are as big as moons

Lifting

• Whirls Ugarth around and tosses him into space and out of the solar system
• With only the slightest pressure from his finger, can topple the Leaning Tower of Pisa
• Endures Kang hitting him with the Cobalt Force, which makes him feel as though the weight of half a planet bears down on him. Thor says he wasn’t even restrained and was just humoring Kang to learn his plans
• Withstands the Gravitron “infinitely” increasing his weight, bearing the excruciating pain to stand up
• Endures Umar constricting him with an energy field, crushing him with the weight of “a score of planets”
• Lifted a paw of a cat, which was in-truth the Midgard Serpent who girdles the Earth and holds the sea in place (recounted again here)
• Grapples the Midgard Serpent out of the ocean with a fishing line
• Hit by a graviton bomb which subjects him to gravity akin to a neutron star, before bursting out and shattering the multi-ton debris compressing on him
• Hooks the planet-sized Midgard Serpent off of Earth and into space, before wrapping it around Yggdrasil’s roots (note the serpent’s size varying is attributed to magic)
• Calling upon all his strength as his shoulders crack, lifts Jormugand’s (disguised as Fin Fang Foom) foot off the ground
• Wins a weight-lifting competition against Hercules, Hulk, Wonder Man, Namor, She-Hulk, Colossus, Sasquatch, and Power Man
• Throws Hulk with one-hand through multiple mountain peaks, destroying them
• While suffering the pain of his near-death from before, pushes back the wheel of the Worldengine across minutes, reversing Ragnarok and fighting against Yggdrasil and the engine, ultimately prevailing and reversing the damage of the World Tree
• Seals a country sized crack on a world with a push
• Holds up a huge castle and prevents it from being sucked into a black hole for a prolonged period of time
• Young Thor, Bor, and Odin all read the Asgardian book of kings, which contains infinite pages
• Alongside Bill, lifts Asgard and prevents it from touching the ground
• [Old King] Hurls Gorr’s entire planet into a black hole
• [Old King] Commands three suns and slams them into Gorr, who cleaves one in two

Grappling

• Grabs Hela before she can float away and slams her to the ground, with her remarking that she’s near defeat and that no warrior in Hel could best him
• Hulk and Thor grapple, and stalemate for a whole hour with neither budging or tiring
• While depowered, chokes out a Frost Giant
• Able to grapple continuously with Kurse despite him being twice as strong as Thor
• In a hypothetical, generates enough pressure while armwrestling Hercules to shatter the plateau beneath them and knock the planet out of orbit
• Thor locks his hammer around Norvell’s as they clash to make it a contest of pure strength. Their grips clashing begins to shake Asgard and violently vibrates the Rainbow Bridge, blurring its colours while Asgard’s spires collapse
• [Old King] Defeats Old Man Phoenix in arm wrestling

Striking (With Mjolnir, Objective)

Note that, as Thor feels the reflected force from every strike he makes with Mjolnir, his feats of striking with the hammer double as durability feats

• The first thing Thor ever does upon Blake tapping the hammer is smash open the side of a mountain
• In his youth, clashes hammers with Gullin with “planet-shattering blows” repeatedly, ultimately shattering Gullin’s larger hammer
• Unleashes a strike so powerful against Pluto’s army that the letterers can’t do it justice
• Spins his hammer so fast that it begins to heat its own atoms, lighting it on fire, and striking an Indestructible like an atomic flare. Thor describes the blow as a “planet shaking atomic storm”
• Shatters a mountain with a strike, letting the sea behind it rush through to engulf Surtur’s flames
• Repeatedly smashes Kang’s force field with enough force to threaten to collapse the walls of Limbo
• Creates a large chasm by striking the ground, big enough to swallow a flood
• Beats down on a weary Midgard Serpent, subduing it with a blow narration describes as shaking mountains and the starry heavens, and saying that if the fight took place in Asgard, its gleaming towers would be toppled into dust
• Smashes the Rainbow Bridge itself with a strike
• Strikes Korvac with a combined blow strong enough to shatter a planet
• Clashes with Hephaestus, shaking Olympus with a rage rivalling Zeus’s according to Hermes
• The clash between Thor and the Einherjar against Hela’s forces shakes the foundations of the underworld and sends tremors to the furthest corners of the realm, even as far as Gjallerbru
• Defeats Bill with a hammer strike that destroys the very small planetoid he’s on
• Smashes Silver Surfer into a planetoid, creating an explosion visible along its curvature and defeating him
• Strikes a Celestial container with enough force to shatter a small planet
• Using Tarene’s hammer, clashes with the Destroyer wielding Mjolnir. The raw energy causes foundations to crumble and seismologists all over the world to record an Earthquake in Manhattan with only those of a higher plane like Asgard able to actually observe the clash. They clash for minutes with the Destroyer eventually buckling
• Rampages across creation for 40 days straight, shattering the root of Yggdrasil
• Thor clashes with a copy of himself in Nidavellir, the shockwave creating an earthquake in Asgard and Midgard
• Clashes with Gorr, their blows shattering the moon they’re fighting on and producing shockwaves which crack worlds around them, creating tremors on Gorr’s planet light-years away and causing Yggdrasil to bleed
• Using two Mjolnirs, one from his older self, strikes at the Godbomb, the roaring of the hammers shaking the stars
• Repeatedly strikes the de-powered Mjolnir, echoing across the galaxy and shaking the mountains of Nidavellir until the hammer completely shatters

Striking (With Mjolnir, Scaling)

• With a hammer throw and a series of strikes, both with hammer and fist, Thor is able to knock the Destroyer back and ultimately knock it down
• Downs Loki with a single hammer strike, later breaks his arm
• Shatters Loki’s magic spells
• With a single strike, decimates Pluto’s troops and downs Pluto himself, forcing Pluto to admit Thor is stronger than he seems
• While at half-power, crumbles the axe Odin used to kill Ymir with a strike
• Downs Mangog with a hammer strike, something Mangog says only Odin has done before
• Downs Mephisto with a swing. Mepshito admits that with Thor as he is, Mephisto can’t slay him by his hand
• Strikes Galactus in the head
• Clashes with the Midgard Serpent, harming it with strikes
• Downs Surtur
• While wearing his belt of strength, strikes Exitar, the shockwave of his blow instantly shattering nearby mountaintops and shaking the entire planet. Exitar doesn’t feel it, but it does create a small hole in his battle-armour
• Smashes apart a large container containing Hercules’s essence, later revealed to be the armour of a Celestial
• Splits Set’s neck in two with a strike
• Alongside Bill, smashes out of the Midgard Serpent’s stomach and kills it
• Matches and manages to briefly KO Millenius, who boasts that Odin needed help to defeat him
• Downs Perrikus with repeated strikes
• Shatters Invisible Woman’s forcefield with a series of strikes, the pain knocking her out
• Strikes at Superman, who catches Mjolnir and with great effort manages to deflect it
• Strikes away Doomsday
• Defeats Apep and Sekhmet
• Makes a (technically AU) Galactus reel with a strike
• Clashes evenly with Hela wielding the Twilight Sword
• Strikes away Surtur, with Odin claiming Thor hurt him, later beating him hard enough he has to flee and may be permanently weakened
• Smashes open part of Galactus’s helmet while he’s distracted, which is described as a wounding blow
• Smashes through the Demogorge’s teeth and heart
• Strikes at Thanos, clashing with him somewhat evenly
• Smacks away Zarathos
• Clashes with Red Skull’s cosmic cube
• Clashes with Nightmare
• Sends Surtur reeling
• Repeatedly battered the Gardener
• Dents Cap’s shield
• Strikes Galactus into the ground, creating a huge burst of thunder
• Smacks the Phoenix-empowered Moon Knight from space to Earth, defeating him
• Destroys Knull’s jaw with a strike, taking it clean off
• Strikes away both Dark Phoenix and Echo Phoenix
• Repeatedly clashes Mjolnir with Shang-Chi’s Ten-Fist sword (actually a Cosmic Cube)
• Trades blows with Starship Hulk, each drawing blood
• Obliterates MYTHOS’s body with a lightning infused strike, freeing the power he stole from the Bifrost and all of Yggdrasil
• Defeats Zarathos while he possesses Skyrmir
• Batters Fractured Son Hulk across New York, their clash shaking the Earth
• [Old King] Hurts Galactus with a strike, toppling him
• [Old King] Clashes Mjolnir with Phoenix’s claws
• [Old King] Smashes Korvac into the ground

Throwing & Recalling Mjolnir (Objective)

• Shatters a giant mountaintop with a throw, the mountaintop eclipsing a Chicago-sized base in size. She-Hulk says it’s a Gibraltar sized rock
• Throws his hammer at the Midgard Serpent with enough force that narration describes it as tottering Yggdrasil and and making the Nine Worlds shiver to the extent its shaking is mistaken for the Gjallerhorn
• Recalls to Thor from inside a black hole
• Kills a Frost Giant with a throw hard enough that the sound’s shockwave reaches Hel from Asgard
• Overpowers a black hole’s pull
• Commands Mjolnir to dart around and smash through the moons sealing him, completely destroying them
• The Odin-possessed Mjolnir moves on its own, flying into space before returning faster than sound to smite Starship Hulk and shatter the arena
• [Old King] Clashes with Galactus’s energy blast with a ram, creating an explosion visible across Earth and shaking the planet. The battle is heard across galaxies and shakes the stars
• [Old King] Charges Doom through the center of the planet and fights him for 99 years straight, causing fiery earthquakes and volcanoes and roars loud enough to destroy mountains and constantly shaking the planet until Thor eventually wins

Throwing & Recalling Mjolnir (Scaling)

• Causes Galactus pain
• Dazes Ultron before hitting with enough force to tremble the heavens
• Slams into Surtur with a flying charge, causing Surtur pain he hasn’t felt since slaying Odin’s brothers
• Charges at the Midgard Serpent with all his strength in the hammer, crashing into him in a huge light explosion which kills the serpent
• Alongside Namor and She-Hulk, brings Zeus to his knees with a throw
• Throws the hammer at Annihilus, with it resisting the force of his cosmic control rod and forcing his own energies back at him, causing a massive feedback
• Shatters Stellaris’s Celestial Armour helmet
• She-Hulk blocks a throw with Cap’s shield, but the impact of it still knocks her over despite the shield absorbing all force it gets hit with
• Punches a hole through Onslaught’s shell to retrieve Xavier
• Dazes Desak
• Smashes through Ymir’s body
• Throws Mjolnir at the Destroyer, rending the heavens asunder
• One-shots an amped Ulik with a ram
• Rams through Glory’s body
• Stuns Mangog with a ram, making him collapse
• Temporarily shatters the Phoenix Force
• Alongside his younger and older self, rams Gorr into the sun
• Dazes the shell of Ymir with a ram
• Punches through a Builder
• Rips off Cosmic Ghost Rider’s skull by recalling Mjolnir
• Throws Mjolnir through the corrupted Genis-Vell’s shields and smashes him out of a building
• Charges through Desak/The Destroyer’s visor blast and smashes his head off
• A charging Mjolnir breaks Hulk-Thor’s arm
• Odin controls Mjolnir to slam into Iron Man’s Celestial Hulkbuster, damaging it
• An empowered Doom is unable to stop a thrown Mjolnir and it injures him
• Throws Mjolnir coated in Firehair’s Phoenix flames, killing Dark Phoenix and obliterating a huge chunk of the God Quarry and creating a huge explosion which frees the First Firmament’s energy behind it
• Downs Gaea with a throw, blowing her head off
• Thor is able to recall Mjolnir through Varnae’s Darkforce covers, which is so thick Captain Marvel can’t even fly through it
• Downs Kemur

Shockwaves

• Smashes the ground, creating a shockwave which destroys an underground base
• Creates a shockwave by smacking the ground which sends some men flying, with narration saying it’s only rivalled by Hulk

Hammer Whirling

• Spins the hammer so fast it’s used to dig out an underground tunnel, with a scientist remarking that the speed should be impossible
• Rises upwards like a propellor, smashing straight through stone

With Discount Hammers

• Strikes a large piece of debris from the Atlantic seafloor to the sun
• KOs Juggernaut with a hammer, knocking his tooth out
• Fastens Heven’s planet sized prison to one of his hammers and sends it flying through the depths of space with a throw
• Strikes away an empowered Robbie Reyes, destroying his arms

Other

• Thor’s energies help resuscitate Galactus
• The warrior’s cry of Asgardians shakes the foundations of the nine worlds and causes even Hela to pause at the echo
• A young Thor bloodies Gorr with the hilt of his axe and later defeats him with an axe strike
• Diablo, amped by Thor’s divine spark and the Destroyer armour alongside the power of other godly pantheons, begins to re-write the fabric of creation
• Thor’s rageful bellowing in Asgard, leagues under the sea, is heard in all Nine Realms
• Uses Skurge’s axe with all his force to split apart Yggdrasil and cancel Enchantress’ spell, saving all realities

Statements

• Even with his power halved, Thor says his power is still enough to alter worlds
• Loki says Silver Surfer is no match for Thor as is, with Surfer admitting Asgard has power beyond compare and that Thor is strongest of all
• Combined with Hercules, the pair wield enough power to “demolish worlds”
• Narration says Thor is the most powerful Avenger
• Horus says Thor’s power rivals his own
• Moondragon says the other Avengers, even Iron Man, are nowhere near Thor’s strength
• Odin says that without Thor, Asgard’s forces are halved, which Sif later repeats
• Sif says if Norvell is even half as strong as Thor, a battle between them could devastate all the realm
• Hero says Thor is at least his equal in the same page he says he lifted the world in the past like Atlas
• The fight between Thor and Zeus is mistaken for one between all the gods of Olympus by Homer. Zeus says not even the Titans together or the Gods of Olympus resisted him like Thor does
• Odin says Thor would lay all of Nibelheim to waste fighting Alberich
• Mjolnir is the mightiest weapon of Asgard and Thor has the mightiest arms of Asgard
• Mephisto admits neither he nor Thor can slay the other and would stalemate for eternity
• Hela says she can neither stop nor touch an angry Thor, and that if Thor invaded her kingdom, the outcome wouldn’t be certain, with him being too fierce a fighter for her
• Claims his power can shake the universe
• Masterson says Thor can bench press small planets
• Thor says Mjolnir carries enough power to shatter a planet
• Eternity says Thor is a danger to a good portion of all that is Infinity and himself
• Thunderstrike claims that with his mace and the axe, he could probably give Galactus a severe case of heartburn, and Cap says he’s in a power league with the Silver Surfer. Thunderstrike says only Thor has a chance against him
• Superman calls Thor possibly the single toughest opponent he’s ever faced. Thor admits he lost to Superman but that he has his measure now and another fight might hold surprises for him
• Hermes says a match between Thor and Hercules could shatter mountains, and Zeus says he had to stop them before they broke the heavens and sky as well
• Thor says that in the past, Hela’s nightsword was no match for Mjolnir
• Surfer says a war with the Asgardians is beyond even Galactus
• The Stranger admits Thor could be a threat to him
• Jane says a single Mjolnir can shatter worlds
• Mjolnir was forged in metals that would melt the sun and Thor states it is able to shatter whole planets as easily as pebbles, the most powerful weapon in all Nine Realms
• Scarlet Witch cannot defeat Thor in direct combat
• Thor states Mjolnir has the power to destroy or save worlds
• Freyja calls Thor the strongest god she’s ever known and the strongest being in all the Ten Realms
• States he moves moons
• Thor states that in his hands, Mjolnir can split a planet asunder
• Volla thinks Thor could kill both her and Hela now
• Loki says Mjolnir could tear this world in two
• Odin and Thor are listed as beings with the power to kill the Phoenix
• Black Panther says Mjolnir can destroy a planet
• Storm says she doubts she could match Thor’s strength, with Thor claiming his power is unmatched through the Ten Realms and beyond
• Scarlet Witch says she and All-Father Thor are equal powers to Nightmare
• Loki suggests Thor and the fully restored Nyx in the Dark Cold Room are well matched in power

Direct Power Comparisons

• Thor describes the relative power of other characters: Hercules and Loki are both matches for him physically and with magic respectively. Odin’s power exceeds all Asgardians combined and is only matched by other pantheon patriarchs like Zeus. Mangog’s power is immense but Thor thinks the “billion billion beings” part is an exaggeration. The full measure of Odin’s power was necessary to stop Surtur from destroying the Nine Realms. Not even Odin dares to engage the Destroyer in direct combat and Thor questions if it could destroy Galactus, also questioning if Odin could beat a peak Galactus. He notes that Galactus was exhausted when Thor used the Godblast against him, and that he thinks the Beyonder destroying the galaxy must have been an illusion
• Thor gives his personal “measure of power” for many of the foes he’s faced over his career. Of note is that he cites the Midgard Serpent, Ymir, Surtur, Ego, and Galactus as being in the “immeasurable” tier, and Zeus a tier below that alongside Kurse, Thanos, the Destroyer, Mangog, Silver Surfer, and Thanos. Thor ranks his own tier as “merely godlike”, placing himself alongside Tyr, Leir, Pluto, Hulk, Ulik, and Horus

Drinking

• Ties with Hercules in a drinking contest, outdrinking giants
• Outdrinks a giant in elf rum
• Drinks so much from a horn connected to the ocean that it lowered the level of the waters down to ebb-tide (recounted again here)
• Outdrinks everybody in all the realms, even Hercules
• Drinks a drink that has an eyeball on it, which even Mephisto is disgusted by, and drinks him under the table with every drink available
• Outdrinks a fishman from Atlantis who literally breathes water
• Was once drunk for 9 months straight

Speed

Combat

• Rubs his hands against the hammer, creating intense friction which emits sparks
• Strikes Magnir in the space of a few micro-seconds before his hammer can hit him
• Moves faster than eye-sight to strike Heimdall and creates a sonic boom
• Slams two criminals together right as one fires a bullet
• Thor says Mjolnir can “strike with the speed of lightning”
• Evades Hela trying to touch him by leaping over her, and boasts he has the swiftness of lightning. Hela claims his speed is beyond comprehension
• Catches a strike from Adam Warlock, with him noting that Thor moves like lightning and quicker than he remembers
• KOs Quicksilver by smashing the ground, noting he’s dealt with foes faster than him since his youth
• Able to disarm Angela in a clash, who is explicitly faster than both him and Mjolnir
• Young Thor considers Old King Thor slow
• Fights Carol across the entire planet
• Storm jukes Thor and tries to outspeed him. Thor flies after her and retorts that he’s as swift as he is strong, and actually does catch up to her

Reactions

• Catches a missile in his hands
• Deflects bullets with his hammer
  • He does this a lot, so here’s a full compilation of all the times he’s done it (20 in total)
• Reacts to and deflects a sniper bullet with Mjolnir
• Dodges the Indestructible’s gamma-powered immobilizer beam
• Reacts to and smashes a giant ballista
• Thor’s hammer outpaces the Living Laser’s blast, allowing Thor to whirl it and spin to block the laser
• Intercepts Hyperion’s atomic vision with his hammer
• Flies away before a blast of radiation can fully hit him
• Blocks a thunderbolt from Zeus
• Evades a swing from Balder, who blocks an attack from him and who Thor claims moves at “the speed of light”
• Deflects Dazzler’s light-blasts with a whirl
• While groggy, reacts to a telepathic blast from Rachel Phoenix and intercepts it with Mjolnir
• Eric Masterson throws Mjolnir at Thor, who just catches it
• Evades a blast from Silver Surfer
• Whirls to deflect particle beams
• Reacts to and intercepts Hermes speeding at him on his chariot
• Blocks a lightning blast from Storm
• Intercepts Ragnarok’s lightning
• Catches a tank round in his hands and crushes it
• Catches the God Tempest’s swing of Mjolnir
• Thor and Storm evade a swing from Toranos
• Reacts to a lightning bolt thrown by Zeus

Movement

• Races across a park with superhuman speed
• Thor “swims faster than the fastest fish” to rescue Loki
• In his boyhood, moves with “blinding speed” to intercept a giant
• Almost faster than eyesight, rapidly carves a large trench into a mountain
• Young Thor moves like a blur

Thinking Speed

• Thinks of and executes a plan to save a boy from across the state in 1.2 seconds
• Ego hurls Thor and the Recorder from the Black Galaxy to Rigel in “spatial seconds”, with Thor able to perceive the defenses of Rigel going past him mid-flight

Flight Speed

Note that as discussed in the dimension travel section of Mjolnir’s abilities, it’s shown and stated multiple times that Thor and others’ ability to cross from Asgard to Earth and back in a short time is reliant on the Bifrost, leaving it questionable if feats of doing such are actually applicable to speed

• Keeps up with Loki in flight
• Reaches Asgard at “speeds faster than the human mind can comprehend”
• Quickly flies from Earth to high in the atmosphere, and suggests he can quickly fly to the edge of the universe
• Spins Mjolnir to fly from Asgard to the World Beyond, space twisting around him as he double and triples the speed of light towards the void at the edge of the infinite
• Quickly flies across space from a distant planetoid to the site of Odin and Infinity’s battle
• Breaches time and space to fly from the Dimension of Death to the World Beyond
• Flies from the World Beyond to Asgard as a comet
• With a thunderclap, transports himself and his allies as a streak to Asgard, described as an “unimaginable distance” to a land that “is near yet far” in a single wink of time
• Jotunheim is as far from the Bifrost as Earth is. Thor flies to it in short time
• Keeps up with Silver Surfer’s board in flight
• Spins Mjolnir to transport himself and Hamir across the length of the Midgard Serpent from Earth to Asgard as a streak
• Flies from Asgard to the merged Netherworlds
• Initially outpaced by Beta Ray Bill’s ship moving several times FTL, but increases his speed hundredfold to overtake it
• Thor flies away from Asgard so fast that Heimdall, who says he can hear a fly buzzing at the nether end of the universe and then count the hairs on that fly, says that he was moving so fast it was just a blur and can’t tell what it was
• With a throw, Thor unintentionally travels faster than he’s ever gone before until at “unmentionable speed” he pierces the fabric of reality to enter Asgard
• Flies from an alien planet to an enemy’s location, which is near a planet beyond the farthest stars
• Quickly flies from near Earth to the farthest edges of reality
• Hears a prayer from a universe away and travels there in a short time
• Flies from a planet in deep space to Omnipotence City at the “center of infinity” in a short timeframe with all the speed Mjolnir can muster
• Quickly flies light-years mid fight to catch Gorr, fast enough that stars flicker
• Considers the Quinjet too slow before flying away, with it being stated Thor’s been clocked at mach 32. Carol Danvers considers Thor insanely fast
• Thor says he used to spend his mornings outspeeding comets and flying from one end of the cosmos to the other
• Searches the farthest depths of Hell
• Repeatedly launched to other planets and constantly returns to battle in a short timeframe
• Flies from Asgard to a distant planet presumably in the Milky Way

Throwing & Returning Speed

• Thor attaches Loki to his hammer and launches it back to Asgard. It returns back to Earth just before 60 seconds pass
• Returns to Blake from Asgard to the World Beyond, which is at the edge of the universe
• Throws Mjolnir at Loki before Loki can disincorporate, claiming he can throw it as fast as light itself
• Throws Mjolnir and uses it to connect the Rainbow Bridge from Valhalla to Asgard
• Throws his hammer to the farthest reaches of the galaxy, noting it will take quite some time to return. It returns right as 60 seconds pass and he reverts to Blake
• Thor’s soul manages to recall Mjolnir to his hand from earth, the hammer outspeeding Silver Surfer in flight to the point he remarks on its speed before opening a dimensional warp to Thor’s location
• Chases after the Red Dragon, who Hermod says is faster than himself. Thor says he isn’t as quick but a thrown Mjolnir catches up to its flight
• Quickly throws his hammer out of Hala and into space. The hammer circles a sun before returning
• During Ragnarok, the hammer hurls itself across time and space and tears through Hell’s dimensional plane to land in Oklahoma
• Throws Mjolnir from the Bifrost across all Ten Realms in one shot to target a monster on Earth before the hammer returns to him. The script describes it as hurling like a rocket at the speed of light
• Quickly recalls Mjolnir from Jotunheim to an alien planet
• The Bifrost sends the God Tempest and Mjolnir to the farthest point of known existence, an endless abyss beyond the eyes of even the most primordial gods with no known way of calculating its distance. The God Tempest controls Mjolnir to travel back to Earth in the span of a page. Odin intercepts the hammer and blocks it, nearly killing him
• The Odin-possessed Mjolnir moves on its own, flying into space before returning faster than sound to smite Hulk
• Throws Mjolnir to Jane from Vanaheim to Earth
• [Old King] Thor is able to sense Earth dying from “half a cosmos away” and quickly flies to the edge of space

Whirling Speed

• Flies by whirling his hammer with the speed of lightning
• Spins Mjolnir faster than light to enter the fourth dimension of time and reach the future
• Spins the hammer so fast it’s used to dig out an underground tunnel, with a scientist remarking that the speed should be impossible
• Returns to the present day from the 23rd century by swinging his hammer at twice the speed of light
• Whirls his hammer faster than light around Kang’s time machine
• Spins his hammer at speeds he says Mongoose can’t grasp, knocking Mongoose away
  • Note that Thor was otherwise completely unable to hit Mongoose, indicating his whirling speed is significantly higher than his own reactions
• Whirls his hammer faster than the mortal mind can conceive and whips it around the power planet, it speed increasing by the microsecond until it transcends the boundaries between time and space to send a building through a dimensional seam
• Spins his hammer at a speed approaching that of light to warp the fabric of space and time

Slowdinson

No proper Thor analysis, I feel, is actually complete unless you spend some time on all his terrible, terrible speed anti-feats.

• Remarks that Captain America’s speed is unbelievable for a mortal. Cap evades the Avengers for nearly a minute straight
• In flight Thor is very fast, but Daredevil just manages to dodge him
• Captain America dodges Thor’s ricocheting hammer
• Unable to tag or hit Daredevil, who continuously outpaces him
• Unable to react to and is blown away by Namor using a hose with 1000 pounds of water pressure
• Champion comments on his lack of speed
• Monica Rambeau is able to travel across multiple satellites at lightspeed and return before the Avengers can even breathe
• Endures a beat down from Mongoose, who’s super speed lets him land 100 blows before Thor can aim one
• Throws his hammer at Captain America, who dodges it and all its subsequent ricochets with ease. Thor says Cap is the only mortal who could dodge his hammer so easily, to the point it allows him to recognise him
• Cap says both Eric and the original Thor struggled with it as an exercise that sharpens reaction time, which Cap says Eric painfully obviously needs help in
• Unable to hit Wolverine, who he describes as faster than himself
• Ian Rogers easily outpaces Thor in close quarters
• A Skrull Black Widow is able to outpace and get the jump on Thor
• Thor says even at full speed it could take a millenia to reach Earth or Asgard from wherever he is

Durability

Blunt Force (Objective)

• Endures being inside a storm on Battleworld, with rain strong enough to hit like .44 magnum slugs and winds intense enough not even the Thing could survive them
• Endures Jormungand disguised as Fin Fang Foom stepping on him
• Endures a slam from the Midgard Serpent, which sends him flying hard enough to crash into a mountain and shatter it
• Endures Terminus crashing into him hard enough to destroy a planetoid
• Endures a minute long beatdown from Perrikus with enough force to fell a mountain, with Thor able to get back up for a short time
• Easily endures being in the middle of Storm’s powerful gale, which is fierce enough to scour the surface of the world down to its bedrock and cold so brutal even frost giants couldn’t long endure it
• Sif and Thor endure strikes from the Destroyer which shatter windows in a one mile radius and causes seismic activity as far as Washington, called strong enough to fell a mountain
• Endures Kang launching Mjolnir at him hard enough to split the moon
• Endures getting rammed by Silver Surfer from space into the surface of Mars, the impact hurting Surfer but doing nothing to Thor
• Endures Death Seed Sentry ramming him at FTL speeds fast enough to bend space and time into a planet light-years away, and a subsequent hit which shakes a planet
• Endures crashing from space to Earth, does so again later
• Endures Moon Knight crushing him with moons from galaxies away, KOing him
• [Old King] Endures being punched by Galactus through the Earth and into the moon, cracking the Moon apart
• [Old King] Endures getting stabbed by God-Butcher Loki and rammed into a different planet
• Endures a beatdown and nipple twist from Hercules which collapses a building
• Endures his balls slamming on a tree

Blunt Force (Scaling)

• Endures Ulik’s “most deadly blow” from his pounders
• Takes a beating from the Devourer, whose strength is compared to Odin
• Thor catches a strike from Eric’s Mjolnir and strains against him with ever increasing pressure
• Endures a sustained beatdown from Kurse
• Endures Surfer’s board ramming into him at high speeds after Surfer stops holding back
• Endures a sustained beatdown from the Destroyer and still doesn’t fall
• Endures an “all-out” strike from Professor Hulk
• It takes the combined efforts of multiple Asgardians, including Vali, Tyr, Hermod, and Balder, to make Thor succumb in a close brawl
• Endures a beatdown from Tutinax, who is many times more powerful than him and Mjolnir
• Endures a punch from Power Princess which she claims would have shattered the Hulk
• Endures Hyperion striking him into the ground, noting that Thor’s face is even harder than his hammer
• Endures a strike from an amped Champion

Explosions

• Endures an energy blast from a future robot, which narration describes as the same explosive force used to blast entire mountains
• Endures a huge explosion from a mountain sized earthworm detonating with nuclear energy
• Endures the shockwave of a doomsday missile with enough explosive power to devastate an entire world launching him crashing into a planet, creating a huge crater, though he’s left barely alive
• Endures Ultron exploding like a nuke directly next to him
• Endures the Collector’s bomb exploding from far away, which creates an explosion big enough to encompass a solar system, though is knocked out by it
• Endures Asgardia exploding and launching him from the sun to the moon
• Launched across the heavens to Old Asgard by an explosion
• Smashes two nuclear missiles and endures the explosion
• Survives an island-destroying explosion
• [Old King] Endures a point blank continent sized explosion which launches him into space

Piercing

• Sent flying by a strike from Loki with the axe Odin used to kill Ymir, crashing him through rocky peaks
• Endures a slash from Loki wielding the sword of Surtur
• Endures a slash from Valkyrie
• Bursts out of the Midgard Serpent chomping him
• Grabs the blade of the empowered Mogul with his hands to climb back on to his post, enduring the pain of it
• Endures Volstagg striking him with an axe unharmed, the blade shattering on his chest
• Catches Brunhilde’s blade in his palms, drawing blood, and disarms her
• Endures a series of slashes from Wolverine, noting that the thickness of his Asgardian skin prevents the strikes from doing significant damage
• Catches the blade of a disguised Odin in his hands with no visible injury, despite it being able to cut open his stomach on the same page
• Thor says no mortal arrow could easily cut his flesh, and that Hydra must use an enchanted arrow to pierce him
• A sword strike from Fandral does not pierce him
• Endures Venomized Superior Spider-Man hurling Cap’s shield into his neck, only briefly being downed
• Catches Malekith’s sword swing in his hand
• Unharmed by Faira slashing him across the face with her weapon
• Endures a slash across the chest from Jarnbjorn wielded by Eirin without visible injury
• Shatters Gram, the Sword of Truth, with his hands
• Endures an assault from the Disir after saying their name, which cuts other Asgardians to pieces from the inside-out when they do the same
• Thor thought no razor could cut his beard until he found the Flic Disposable vibranium razor
• Endures an axe swing from Desak and Desak stabbing him. When Desak twists his blade to torture him, Enchantress says the Odinpower is the only thing keeping Thor alive
• Endures a slash from Wolverine, and while he grunts in pain he seems not too injured. In particular the slash does harm to his left eye and left arm, but they only fully come off in the subsequent fight
• Catches Bor’s scythe blade in his hands with some cuts
• Catches a giant’s blade in his hand, though it draws blood
• Knocks aside Power Princess’s rainbow axe with his bare hands
• Endures a slash from the Crown’s sword without visible injury

Bullets

• Unharmed by powerful bullets fired by a fighter jet, which do no more than leave welts on his skin
• Shot in the head by Monica’s gun, KOing him. He wakes up moments later and begins fighting back. Narration notes that while the bullet broke Thor’s skin, it didn’t even scratch his skull and he’d only momentarily blacked out from the impact
• Unharmed by a barrage of bulletfire
• Endures Hulk’s shoulder turrets at point blank range
• Endures a blast from Slone’s gun
• States bullets won’t pierce his skin

Energy

• Endures a sword strike from Heimdall with “all the cosmic force of the universe”
• Endures the energies of a storm which he claims could tear the planet asunder
• Endures Cyclops blasting his head
• Endures an energy blast from Galactus
• Iron Man blasts Thor and admits he can’t really hurt him
• Endures a high-energy electron blast, which Banner compares to Thor’s hammer itself and claims is enough to knock anybody present except Hulk senseless
• Fires a blast at Uroc, who’s uru body absorbs the full force of the blast and fires it back at Thor who withstands
• Odin launches Thor from Asgard to Earth with a blast, the impact knocking him out cold
• Endures a blast from Black Bolt
• Briefly endures Onslaught’s pure psionic energy inside of him, though it threatens to tear him apart
• Endures the Destroyer blasting him away, and the Destroyer says he could open his visor and melt the planet to a cinder
• Perrikus hits Thor with a sustained energy blast which Thor suggests can hurl mountains, but Thor walks through it and strikes Perrikus away
• Endures a hammer blast from Loki which destroys the entire island Ymir-Krul
• Endures repeated energy blasts from the Enchantress
• Endures the totality of Glory’s power as cosmic fire, sending him across worlds
• Endures the Stranger blasting him from the surface of Ego into space
• Charges through a combined energy blast from Havok and Scarlet Witch, both of whom state they aren’t holding back, before Scarlet Witch taps directly into her power source to launch him into space, knowing she can’t defeat him
• Endures being engulfed by Exitar’s exploding energies
• Survives channeling the Mother Storm through his body even as it begins to melt his uru arm
• Endures a blast from Loki and Sise-Neg and is mostly unhurt
• Endures Desak’s tool of ultimate negation blasting him through a building, it being noted no god has ever survived said attack
• Endures Bor’s outburst of energy, which he describes as like nothing he’s ever felt before and enough power to destroy the Earth itself
• Endures a blast from MYTHOS using the power of the Ten Realms, which launches him into orbit. He proceeds to endure repeated blasts, which constantly blast him to other planets before he returns to battle just as quick
• [Old King] Endures Phoenix’s cyclone, which is the size of a supernova and sucks up chunks of planets from parsecs away

Heat

• Endures “the devastating energy of an exploding sun” from the Executioner
• Endures the heat of Skornheim, which not even Loki could, and walks through the entire plains even as his “lungs aflame”
• Endures the Super Skrull raising his heat to nova intensity, which could threaten the planet
• Endures the Fourth-Dimensional Man molecularly searing and freezing his shoulders, described as the freezing power of infinite space and the fire of a billion stars
• Endures the troll furnace, covering himself with his cape, with flames “hotter than the blackest pit of Hades” which no god could endure to retrieve Mjolnir from the fire
• Endures ablating through Earth’s atmosphere in re-entry
• Endures Umar hitting him with the full fury of the Flames of the Faltine
• Endures heat from a galactic core which is too much for even Bill to bare
• Endures repeated blasts of fire from Atum while inside the core of the sun
• Endures Superman’s heat vision and manages to fight through it
• Endures the lava flames of Muspelheim, the essence of Surtur himself. Muspelheim is so hot that bullets turn to molten lead before they can even hit anything, and it’s stated its fire makes napalm look like a joke and burns hotter than the sun itself
• Endures sticking his hand through a portal connected to a star and the subsequent explosion, which flays his arm but leaves it intact
• Odinson and his goat endure the flames of the Phoenix
• Thor flies into the sun and keeps going until his hammer melts and his eyes begin to roast, later enduring being pinned to Yggdrasil in the sun
• Endures a blast of flames from Dark Phoenix
• Ignites the forges of Nidavellir with a blast, conjuring the heat of a billion suns which unravels Mjolnir’s enchantments and burns away the Mother Storm. Thor is unharmed in the heat

Cold

• Endures the Fourth-Dimensional Man molecularly searing and freezing his shoulders, described as the freezing power of infinite space and the fire of a billion stars
• Endures in Asgard’s north, where it’s said the cold kills both man and god alike
• Endures a blast of cold from Ymir which buries him in ice, stunning him
• Easily endures being in the middle of Storm’s powerful gale, which is fierce enough to scour the surface of the world down to its bedrock and cold so brutal even frost giants couldn’t long endure it
• Endures being launched by Ymir’s whirlwind, which freezes him in an icicle as Ymir focuses “all his power” on him
• Endures the absolute zero contents of Jotunheim. Jotunheim is too cold for Human Torch to use his powers
• Endures a blast from the Casket of Ancient Winters
  • The Casket was able to freeze over Hel when unleashed in Asgard
  • Heimdall was able to feel the cold of Malekith using the Casket of Ancient Winters in a different realm, and Laufey using the Casket of Ancient Winters causes temperatures to plummet across all the realm
• The Casket of Ancient Winter is the “sum of all cold”. Thor endures the cold of the Casket of Future Winters being released at him and Iceman
• Endures the chill of a berserk Iceman, who freezes his blood, heart, and brain, and quickly breaks out

Electricity

• Endures his own lightning blast from the Absorbing Man
• Endures a thunderbolt from Arkon
• Straight up killed by Durok hitting him with high-voltage electrical cables
  • This is probably a contender for the single worst anti-feat in fiction
• Endures the electrical power of a Celestial ship fired at him, claiming that no amount of electrical energy can harm him and it just leaves him refreshed
• Endures thunderbolts from Zeus and a multi-month sustained blast from him
• Endures electrical backlash which knocks out Billy Batson Captain Marvel
• Endures Storm blasting him with lightning with no issue
• Endures a lightning bolt from a storm created by Loki using a replica Mjolnir. The same lightning kills the Enchantress
• Diablo uses transmutation magic to turn a storm Thor whirls into existence against him, with Thor being hit by his own lightning bolt which craters the ground
• Endures a lightning blast from Mjolnir
• Endures being blasted by his own redirected lightning
• Endures multiple strikes of Bor’s full-power lightning, which threatens to destroy the Earth
• Endures Storm hitting him with a lightning bolt. It makes him say “ow”
• Endures Zeus summoning lightning from inside him to burn him alive, even as Zeus uses his full power

Pressure

• Notes he can withstand the pressure of a planet’s core
• Swims through water pressures so intense that most Atlanteans can’t withstand it and there’s no difference between it and solid earth
• Endures Storm hitting him with the atmospheric pressure of Jupiter, causing his ears to bleed and threatening to break his bones, yet he still stands

Scaling

Some of the links in this section are borrowed from other blogs. These include:

• G1 Team’s Doctor Strange VS Reimu (Used for Doctor Strange, Galactus, Hulk, Heralds of Galactus, Misc. Heroes)
• Bang’s Blogs Dormammu VS Trigon (Hulk, Hell-Lords, Heralds of Galactus, Doctor Strange)
• VSBA’s Gorr VS Zamasu (Gorr, Heralds of Galactus)
• G1 Team’s Ultron vs Brainiac (Jane Foster Valkyrie, Hercules)
• G1 Team’s Sentry VS Superboy-Prime (Doctor Strange, Hercules)
• Bang’s Blogs Doctor Doom VS Vecna (Misc. Heroes, Hulk, Elder Gods, Hell-Lords, Galactus, Phoenix Force)

Jane Foster

During the era Thor Odinson was unworthy, Thor’s classic love interest Jane Foster stepped up to the plate, wielding Mjolnir to become the all-new, all-different Mighty Thor. Jane Foster Thor is a pretty clear-cut featswoman, having a bunch of super impressive feats for both direct showings and scaling. While she did wield Mjolnir better than Odinson due to her strong connection with the God Tempest, the unworthy Odinson fought on par with her near the beginning of her career, and would go on to fight evenly alongside her against threats such as the Phoenix and Malekith. Thor Odinson is also on-par with multiple characters who have matched her evenly, such as Annihilus, Hercules, and the amped She-Hulk.

After Jane sacrificed her life to slay Mangog in the Sun and handed the title of Thor back to Odinson, she would eventually become a new incarnation of the identity of Valkyrie, wielding the All-Weapon transformed out of the Ultimate Universe’s Mjolnir. Jane as Valkyrie also has many impressive feats. While on-paper you’d think she shouldn’t be any stronger than she was as Thor, her actual feats against characters like Odin could indicate her scaling is much higher, so you could argue about if Thor scales to Valkyrie with his traditional powerset or if he needs the All-Power to scale to her.

She’s weak to AC current for some reason.

Strength

• Rips through an adamantium door that Mjolnir was struggling to break through
• Lifts the entire solid gold Roxxon island from crashing into New York, it previously having been described as impacting like the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs. It causes her visible strain before she lifts the island into the sun
• Lifts Mangog and throws him from Asgardia to the sun before he instantly leaps back and crushes her
• Alongside Hercules and Roberto, helps stop the World Engine and halt the planet’s rotation
• Beats down and defeats an entire squad of Berserkers, notable since a single Berserker was a match for young Thor
• Launches Odin from Asgardia into one of Saturn’s moons and draws blood from him with a punch. She endures Odin blasting her with a moon-sized explosion and repeatedly punching her 200 million miles to ping pong her between Saturn’s moons before blasting her into Jupiter. History books describe this fight as Jane having punched Odin through 3 planets
  • While Odin was weakened and past his prime during this fight, Jane as Valkyrie later fights the Odin of 1 Million BC who is in his prime, and is still able to draw blood and fight evenly with him even while noting he’s stronger than when she fought him previously
• Draws blood from one of the Shi’ar gods, who can create and launch supernovas
• Wields both Mjolnir and Ultimate Mjolnir, smashing them together to blow Volstagg from Ginnungap to Svartalfheim. The storm is visible from Heven
• Bloodies Mangog
• KOs a Chthon-possessed Scarlet Witch with a punch
• Downs Kurse with a strike
• Cracks Toranos’s wheel with a throw (note that she did this with the modern version of Mjolnir that All-Father Thor wields, which is stronger than ever)
• Recalls Mjolnir from Vanaheim to Ginnungagap hard enough to bloody War Thor
• Jane is the strongest Valkyrie who’s ever lived
• Draws blood from Doom Above All using Mjolnir
• The light of Valkyrie’s All-Weapon reaches across every afterlife
• Valkyrie is able to use the All-Weapon to briefly shore up Old Man Phoenix against the omniversal tidal wave

Speed

• Intercepts a bullet with her hand after it’s fired
• Intercepts and grabs a lightning bolt with her bare hands right before it hits somebody, who notes she’s quicker than it
• Flies several galaxies of distance in the span of a page
• Recalls Mjolnir from Vanaheim to Ginnungagap
• In the blink of an eye, Valkyrie travels worlds away on her horse, having scoured the Ten Realms and every point in between with her powers
• Valkyrie is faster than anybody in the big battle between Avengers and the Doom Above All, including pre-historic Ghost Rider, the Phoenix, and Odin
• Valkyrie searches every corner of the afterlife to find the souls of dead Avengers
• Multiple Valkyries near instantly pull back the thread that had woven through dimensions, weaving the fabric of reality, through truth and eternity, feeling and seeing everything as the needle moves through the ever and the all

Durability

• Completely unharmed by assault rifle shots and by bullet fire to her skin. It takes Asgardian forged medical equipment to pierce her skin
• Endures a lightning bolt from War Thor, the storm visible and rumble of thunder audible from Ginnungagap to Niffleheim
• Endures shots from an Avengers jet
• Endures the heat of the Phoenix up close, which she initially felt from galaxies away, before enduring touching the Phoenix Force, which launches her several galaxies worth of distance
• Endures a blast from the Destroyer’s laser vision
• Endures Cressida launching Cap’s shield at her head, knocking off her helmet
• Endures a magic blast from Loki

Eric Masterson

When Thor Odinson was banished from Asgard for the unforgivable sin of killing Loki, the human architect Eric Masterson took his place, becoming Thor and wielding Mjolnir for over a year of publishing in the early 90s. The running theme with Eric’s tenure as Thor was that despite having Thor Odinson’s strength and power, he was still an ordinary guy underneath it all who didn’t think he was up to the task, and would have to come into his own as a hero. When Loki battled Eric, he claimed Eric had only a tenth of Thor’s strength, but Eric dismissed his comments as attempts to shake his confidence. Eric’s belief would essentially be proven true at the end of his tenure, when he and the original Thor fought over Sif’s heart. During this fight they were basically even, Odinson seeming to have a skill edge and slight strength edge while Eric kept up with his mortal chutzpah, the fight ending with both keeled over and coming to their senses. In any case, it proves Thor more than matches Eric’s strength. The same applies to Thunderstrike, Eric’s next superhero identity who had basically all the same abilities as when he was Thor.

Strength

• Clashes with fellow Mjolnir-wielder Dargo Ktor, with narration describing it as the most irresistible force in the universe since the big bang. It unleashes a wave of mystical energy erupting simultaneously across all planes of reality, shattering windows for miles, creating a crater, and providing the Radical Time Stabilizer enough energy to operate at peak efficiency. The enchanted shockwave resonates the length of the entire cosmos to Beta Ray Bill’s location. The Radical Time Stabilizer is used to collapse all infinite timelines into a single entity with Zarrko as ruler
• Throws Mjolnir at Nebula alongside attacks from Drax, Hulk, Firelord, and Doom, with narration stating their combined might could easily rend asunder a small planet, to no avail against Nebula
• Beats down Gladiator with a series of hammer strikes, nearly killing him and knocking him unconscious
• Thunderstrike kills Seth’s physical body and forces his physical presence out of this realm, though Seth still survives in the long term due to being Death

Speed

• Reacts to and absorbs a lightning-absorbed Absorbing Man into Mjolnir
• Whirls Mjolnir at a speed which defies description
• Deflects heavy artillery fired by Moon Knight’s plane with a rapid series of strikes

It would be remiss of me to not also note that Eric is also the source of several of the more infamous Thor Slowdinson feats.

• In an Avengers training session, Eric’s reaction time scores lower than Crystal
• Unable to react to stun drones in Cap’s training Exercise. Cap says both Eric and the original Thor struggled with it as an exercise that sharpens reaction time, which Cap says Eric painfully obviously needs help in
• Spider-Man repeatedly evades and attacks Eric, with Eric commenting on how fast Spidey is and how despite being far more powerful, he can’t lay a hand on him. The blows start to wear Eric down

Durability

• Endures a full power blast from Stellaris
• Endures Loki channeling energy through him and beating him down for 60 seconds
• Heimdall physically beats down Eric using the Odin Power, with Eric managing to keep standing through the pain
• Tanks bullets fired by Moon Knight’s plane

Thor Corps

While only Jane Foster and Eric Masterson have actively replaced Thor Odinson as the primary wielders of Mjolnir for extended periods, many other characters have held the hammer or similar weapons, united by their shared valour. When multiple hammer wielders assemble together, the team is known as the Thor Corps. These characters include, among others: Dargo Ktor, the Thor of a future timeline who wields Mjolnir, Beta Ray Bill, Thor’s battle-brother who wields the similarly enchanted hammer Stormbreaker, Red Norvell, a prideful cameraman who wields the copy of Mjolnir called Crusher, and the War Thor, who is Thor’s friend Volstagg wielding the Mjolnir of the Ultimate Universe. Many of these characters have fought on-par with each other and fight evenly together when teaming up, the OG Thor included, so he certainly compares.

Beta Ray Bill

• Bill draws blood from Doctor Strange and defeats Silver Surfer
• Bill dazes Kurse with a throw
• Bill and Hercules’s battle with two gods devastates the surface of a moon
• The Godkiller Skrulls launch Bill to Asgard so fast Heimdall was caught off guard
• Alongside fellow storm god Sugaar, destroys Hadad’s spear

Red Norvell

• Norvell draws blood from an ice giant with a punch
• Norvell reacts to and blocks a light beam fired by Balder with his hammer
• Dazes Seth with a throw and blocks a blast from Seth by whirling his hammer

Dargo Ktor

• As mentioned previously, clashed with Eric Masterson to produce a force compared to the Big Bang which provided energy to merge infinite timelines
• Dargo whirls his hammer at speeds defying description to shatter the barriers between dimensional planes and throws it through the vortex, sensing that the path he threw it through will lead it back to the OG Thor
• Dargo deflects a lightning blast from Mjolnir fired by Eric Masterson
• Hurts Varley with a series of hammer blasts, Varley wielding the power of Korvac

War Thor

• Ultimate Thor hurls his hammer so hard it breaches dimensions to Old Asgard and lands there, creating a huge explosion
• War Thor produces a storm bigger than moons
• War Thor’s rain quenches and shakes Muspelheim
• War Thor clashes with Sindr who claims she boiled oceans and burned stars from the sky
• War Thor begins to rip apart the entirety of Muspelheim with his storm
• War Thor threatens to destroy Svartalfheim with thunder
• War Thor’s hammer is charged with “all the power of a dead universe”
• Enchantress harms War Thor with a blast before he deflects her magic
• Mangog praises War Thor’s durability and says he really might have the power of an entire murdered universe before crushing Ultimate Mjolnir to pieces
• War Thor harms Mangog and knocks out his tooth before shocking him with lightning big enough to cover all of old Asgard
• A thrown Mjolnir is deflected by War Thor’s hammer, knocking it from Ginnungap to Vanaheim

Thor’s granddaughters

• Old King Thor’s three granddaughters blow apart Galactus’s body right after he had devoured the energies of the Earth

Odin

Odin is a well-known character in battleboarding in his own right and has many very high-scale feats. In classic stories by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby, Odin is usually depicted as essentially omnipotent, far above Thor and capable of stepping in to solve whatever problem the plot needs. How strong Odin is depicted relative to Thor and the other Asgardians has varied pretty wildly ever since. In-universe, Odin’s power fluctuates based on factors like belief in him, proximity to Asgard, age, and overuse of the All-Power, making it difficult to tell in some instances how strong he’s intended to be.

Thor, even without the All-Power, has instances of matching threats usually considered comparable to Odin, such as Surtur, the Destroyer, Gorr, Mephisto, Perrikus, and Seth, alongside having fought comparable entities such as Galactus, the Phoenix, and Zeus. Characters he’s a match for such as Jane Foster and Angela have also defeated Odin-level opponents like Bor. Since he also has many clear instances of being far below Odin when the latter is primed up, how much credence you’d want to give those arguments is up to you. The Godblast is also fairly consistently on the level of Odin and his peers. Of course, when Thor has the All-Power, he gains all of Odin’s power, and on-paper should be capable of replicating anything Odin can do, which is supported by him fighting enemies comparable to Odin like Surtur and Galactus.

General

• In the backstory relayed in Norse myth, slew Ymir to create the oceans and formed the land of Midgard from his body, taking his skull and forming the vault of the heavens while shaping Muspelheim’s sparks into the stars in the sky. He and his brothers also create the trolls and form the human race out of trees
• Recounting of Odin, Vali, and Vi slaying Ymir who gave birth to the universe, creating the world from his corpse while Odin breathed life into maggots to make them dwarves
• Odin channels and routes the explosive energy Surtur held, which was going to destroy all realities, through a portal into Asgard-space to dissipate it, described as “negating” the energies
  • Surtur’s flames would have consumed all reality, but the power was pushed into a realm between realms by Odin
• Battles the galaxy-sized God Tempest for days, his spear piercing it and the battle cracking the Rainbow Bridge. The onslaught of the Odin-Force caused the storm to eventually weaken, allowing Odin to strike it and seal it in raw uru through his magic
• Only Odin can rend the Destroyer asunder
• Thor says Galactus’s power rivals Odin, and Odin says Galactus’s power rivals his own
• Masterson says that the Odin-power could devastate the entire universe in Annihilus’s hands
• Even in his own realm, Seth is afraid of going one-on-one with Odin
• Odin says there was a time he could crumble planets with a wave of his hand or snuff out stars with his breath
• Odin was the most powerful god to ever tread the Ten Realms and performed feats even the Watchers went mad witnessing

Strength

• Overpowers Uthana-Thoth, notable since Uthana-Thoth maintains the all-space with his power, and that universe is destroyed when he leaves
• Clashes with Zeus in the Infinite Embassy, shaking the world
• Headbutts Galactus, smashing open both of their helmets and sending both crashing into Earth. Odin seemingly enters the Odinsleep to recover but actually transfers his spirit to the Destroyer, his body recovering when he exits it
• Slams Donald Blake into the ground, drawing blood

Energy

• Clashes an energy blast with Seth, which causes a shockwave which ripples across every plane of reality. Narration says distant planets quiver in the clash and it causes earthquakes on Asgard as it’s described as being forces powerful enough to extinguish stars themselves. The clash is so great it’s even visible on Earth, and Strange describes it as tearing at the very fabric of the multiverse and imperilling untold galaxies. Silver Surfer describes the forces as powerful enough to rock their entire continuum
• Blasts Seth, narration noting long dead galaxies are shattered and distant dying suns are reignited from the blast. Their overall fight lasts hours
• Strikes planets with his blasts
• Channels energy through the sceptre of power in a contest against Forsung, the energy shaking the universe and merging into a fireball with Odin and Forsung in the middle, as they crash through planets and create new suns across the galaxy, with their battle raging beyond all time and space.
• While fighting Infinity, his energy blasts light up the galaxy and shatter distant planets. Their battle swirls surrounding planetoids, creates light visible from distant planets, and is so great it causes Asgard itself to begin collapsing and the Rainbow Bridge to shake.
• Repeatedly blasts Thanos, blowing him through a building and ultimately downing him with an explosion
• Fires a blast from his scepter which slays Hela as she touches Thor, ending death itself and throwing life into chaos
• Unleashes his power against Mangog, creating a huge vortex which blows into a supernova visible across the galaxy
• After fusing with his brothers, hits Surtur with a blow which shakes all of Muspelheim and shatters his sword, the weapon originally meant to destroy all 9 worlds
• Unleashes a blast of electricity via the Odinforce from his spear which obliterates an angel warship, burning with the fire of molten stars
• With a burst of Odinforce, tore Heven, the 10th realm, loose from the roots of Yggdrasil itself and sealed it away

Weaponry

• Uses Gungnir to sever and lift a branch of Yggdrasil
• Clashes blades with Surtur
• Stabs Mangog with his sword, hurting him
• Thor and Odin draw blood from each other with hammer strikes

Speed

• Fights Forsung across the galaxy, battling from one end of the universe to the other
• While deprived of most of the Odinforce, intercepts Mjolnir after it travels across an endless abyss beyond the eyes of even the most primordial gods with no known way of calculating its distance

Durability

• Crashes through planets and endures enough heat to create new suns across the galaxy in his battle with Forsung
  • Thor later states even Odin almost fell to Forsung and that the entire cosmos was their battleground
• Endures a beatdown from Seth. Narration says that while it appears to be a simple slugfest, it is waged simultaneously on every plane of existence
• Surtur, in his first appearance, knows he cannot harm Odin, so instead creates the Moon from the Earth’s core
• Endures an energy blast from Seth, their clash threatening galaxies and tearing at the very fabric of the multiverse
• Surtur strikes Odin with a blow that causes shockwaves rumbling through all of the Nine Worlds

Asgardian Allies

Thor has a pretty great and underrated side cast, who he frequently fights on par with and alongside. While he has many allies in Asgard, special mention should be made to his lover Sif, his half-brother Balder the Brave, and Heimdall the All-Seeing. Of course, who could forget the Warriors Three, composed of Fandral the Dashing, Hogun the Grim, and Volstagg the obese. While some like Balder are known for specific virtues like their speed, as Thor is consistently the strongest Asgardian warrior and has matched many of his allies in combat, he should compare to their showings.

Balder

• Balder blows away the Utgard dragon’s remains to the farthest ends of the universe
• Singlehandedly slew an army of tens of thousands of Hel warriors in a short timeframe
• Thor claims he moves at the speed of light
• Bullet times

Sif

• Sif is able to raise her sword and summon the Bifrost in the time it takes for Mjolnir to travel, intercepting it and transporting it to Jotunheim

Warriors Three

• Together, defeat Cu Chulain, who beat Thor
• Fandral matches blades with Tyr, the most deadly swordsman in a thousand galaxies
• Fandral calls himself the most skilled swordsman in the universe
• Fandral stabs Mangog
• Fandral is able to stab a Super Skrull which had defeated Beta Ray Bill and was going even with All-Father Thor
• Fandral says Taskmaster’s skill matches his own
• Hogun manages to hurt Seth with a strike
• Infinity Watch + Strange and Surfer take on Asgard’s forces. Notably, Hogun is able to defeat Gamora, and Strange and Moondragon are also defeated. Thanos says the Asgardian forces overwhelm them in minutes and that even Silver Surfer will soon fall. Thanos joining the battle manages to turn the tides
• Hogun seems to deflect two bullets after they’re fired

Heimdall

• Heimdall’s Gjallarhorn creates a quake which affects even a far distant planet and can be heard through all Nine Realms

Angela

• Angela draws blood from and defeats Bor

Other Asgardians

• Odin says Ragnarok will shake the entire universe to its foundations and end in an explosion that rips apart Asgard
• Gotron can blow the enchanted dragon horn of Asgard so its roar “reaches to the very end of infinity”
• A handful of Thor’s finest warriors are worth 10s of thousands of soldiers
• Grandmaster uses 12 artifacts, including the Casket of Ancient Winters, to bind Marvel and DC’s universes together
• The magnitude of the Asgardians’ battle with Surtur’s forces in Ragnarok echoes across creation and rends the very fabric of Hell itself, tearing a hole through space in Hell
• Kelda is resistant to bullets
• Gruenhilda quickly travels from Valhalla to Earth

Loki

Despite being Thor’s original arch-nemesis, Loki has undergone multiple reinventions as a character, and now operates to free all of creation from the bounds of narrative. Thor has, of course, matched the classic devious and wicked Loki, having broken his arm, smashed through his magic spells, and even outright killed him by taking his divinity. Their more modern reincarnation from the 2010s has been matched by both Thor Odinson and Jane Foster Thor. With the All-Power, Thor is comparable to her aspect as the Teller of the Tales, her strongest state wielding the full-breadth of their story magic.

• His clash with Sise-Neg threatens to destroy reality
• Loki beats up Silver Surfer a bit and Surfer says Loki’s power can decimate a planet, with Surfer ultimately able to match Loki
• Dormammu says Loki’s powers are nearly equal to his
• Loki flies as a fireball from Asgard to Earth, entering a “strange dimension of transit beyond space and time” and being able to react to entering Earth before he lands
• Stuns Surtur with a blast
• Loki’s spirit traverses from Asgard to Earth in less than the blink of an eye
• Seth is stronger in his own realm, but Loki breaks out of his binds and says his magic is still vastly superior to Seth even in his own realm. Seth says time on his side as he can draw on the resources of the entire dimension while Loki grows weaker. Seth calls Loki a worthy adversary
• Loki slew Laufey when the latter was empowered with the Casket of Ancient Winters and was about to freeze the entire realm
• Loki conjures the Bifrost, stronger than ever, at the cost of also creating the Black Bridge to Utgard
• Teller of the Tales Loki’s rune-magic prevents All-Father Thor, Hercules, Zeus, and the fully powered Nyx from escaping the Dark Cold Room
• Loki’s skald-magic affects the Beyonders in the Beyond, forcing their infinite nature into finite measures, and forces the Beyonder on a narrative arc that ends with him escaping the House of Ideas

Enemies of Asgard

Thor is Asgard’s greatest protector, and so naturally has dealt with many of its threats from other realms who seek to overturn the golden order. He’s matched and defeated Ulik, the greatest warrior of the Rock Trolls, in many encounters, has slain countless Frost Giants ever since his youth, and has defeated Malekith and put an end to his ambitions of conquest. He’s matched many other Asgardian monsters as well and is generally capable of defeating any threat the Ten Realms spawns should it come to it.

Ulik and the Rock Trolls

• Thor says that Ulik can level a planet with his pounders
• Ulik boasts about his speed and dodges every lightning bolt from a storm Thor summons
• Ulik sends Seth flying with a blow
• Trolls are able to beat Moondragon, Adam Warlock, and Gamora, and defeat Drax and Maxam through trickery

Frost Giants

• Frost Giants freeze the entire pacific ocean
• A Frost Giant causes a 40 day snowstorm across Midgard and Asgard which dissipates when she dies
• Frost Giants are able to chop at the roots of Yggdrasil
• Malekith states Frost Giants have been known to freeze stars

Malekith

• Magically binds Odin and Freyja
• Throws a piece of the Casket of Ancient Winters to Earth faster than thought itself, the sorcery preventing it from burning up

Nidhogg

• Nidhogg gnaws at the roots of Yggdrasil
• Yggdrasil is a living thing that renews itself over aeons. Nidhogg eventually chews into deadwood and escapes from its roots, traversing to Midgard up the tree

Fenris

• Fenris physically swallows the sun

The Disir

• The Disir travel across Hell near-instantly
• The Disir are faster than lightning and thought, but not faster than Angela

Other

• Young Thor fought the eagle Hraesvelgr for hours, whose wings are the source of the wind in all the realms, before defeating it

The Enchantress

Amora, the Enchantress, is one of Asgard’s foremost mages, and has made many attempts to win Thor’s heart and claim rulership over Asgard. Thor is, of course, physically stronger than her, and is a match for her magic, having endured sustained blasts from it.

• Enchantress’ magic wounds Yggdrasil, causing 1000 realities to crash together and the Nine Realms to warp, causing Thor and Loki’s memories and bodies to warp. Loki says it will destroy the 9 worlds and all of creation, and it threatens to destroy all realities
• Enchantress’s death song transcends the borders of space time to reach the corner of every single realm, reaching all the pantheons of the gods, though the sacrificial attack has no effect on Seth
• Overcomes Nightmare in his own realm

The Executioner

Enchantress’s frequent partner in crime and love, Skurge the Executioner is a valiant and storied warrior in his own right, who has fought Thor evenly on multiple occasions.

• The Executioner’s axe can cut through dimensions to release the energy binding the Nine Worlds together
• Skurge shatters the Black Bridge with a strike, in turn destroying the Bifrost. This sunders all links between Asgard and Midgard and erases every trace of Asgard from Earth memory, including replacing Thor’s visage with Beta Ray Bill. Sif describes it as rewriting the stories

Hela

Hela is Loki’s daughter (via complicated time travel stuff), a living Death Stone created by Bor and Thanos, and the ruler of Hel, usually at least. As a death god and Hell-Lord, she’s enormously powerful and has many impressive feats, but she has a shockingly poor track record against Thor. She’s lost basically every single 1-on-1 fight she’s had with him, and has straight up admitted she can’t do anything to stop him in a fight, with Thor stating her normal abilities are no match for him. Even when she was empowered by the strength of the Twilight Sword, Thor still managed to match her.

• Thor attempts to surprise attack Hela by using his hammer to traverse space and get the jump on her, but all of time and space are one to Hela so she keeps up even as Thor flies across distant lands, before forcing him back to Earth
• Matches Pluto evenly
• The death gods, including Hela, Seth, Pluto, and Mephisto, merge their 7 realms together, the tremors rocking the cosmic axis
• The Destroyer and Hela both fire blasts from Hel to Earth across dimensional barriers, moving faster than light to hit Thor’s body on Earth, with the Destroyer encasing him in a protective crystal
• Strong enough to break free of the Destroyer’s grip
• Using the Twilight Sword, remade and merged all Nine Realms together, threatening to rip the Nine Realms apart
• Hela’s conquest of Asgard shakes the realms like dice in a cap and shackles the Bifrost

Karnilla

Karnilla is the Queen of the Norns, the fates who weave the destinies of all denizens of the Ten Realms, and the lover of Balder and, as of recent developments, Hela. Despite being probably a lesser known character, she’s one of the strongest sorcerers among the Aesir and is shown multiple times to be equal to Loki, in-turn making Thor comparable to her.

• Karnilla is strong enough to stagger the Destroyer at its peak
• Loki says only Odin and Karnilla are strong enough to defeat the Destroyer

Kurse

Kurse was originally a powerful Dark Elf bruiser named Algrim, who was resurrected by the Beyonder as a test for Thor, granted massively enhanced strength double that of the thunder god which was later boosted even further, and given the name Kurse, actually ending up as an ally of Asgard. While Kurse being stronger than Thor at a baseline is kind of the whole point, Thor has managed to keep up with him for prolonged periods and even break his grip and down him in the past. Kurse also died in battle during Ragnarok against the forces of Loki, which Thor managed to overcome, so Thor should be in the ballpark of what Kurse can do. The same applies to the second Kurse, Waziria.

• Hela says Kurse has destroyed half of her kingdom
• Thor says Kurse’s power can shake the foundations of the nine worlds, and that only Agnar’s sword of frey can maybe stop him
• Kurse was strong enough to open a path to Midgard by chasing Malekith, but he can’t do much to the real Hela
• The Destroyer trades blows with Kurse, Kurse managing to visibly damage it

Surtur

Surtur is one of the biggest threats to the Ten Realms in existence, the harbinger of Ragnarok in both myth and comics. His enormous power is enhanced even further when he wields the Twilight Sword, the blade which can burn all of existence. While Thor does have some showings of being able to match him normally, and in one instance even defeated what seemed to be a previous Ragnarok’s cycle incarnation of him, it typically requires power on the level of Odin to match and defeat him at his peak. Thor can achieve this level of power using the Godblast, and with the All-Power, he’s personally matched Surtur in combat.

• Odin states Surtur’s power rivals his own
• Thor suggests that even at Odin’s most enraged, Surtur transcends him
• Surtur spins with enough energy to destroy an entire galaxy
• Surtur’s molten touch can sear a world
• Surtur destroys the core of Beta Ray Bill’s galaxy
• Surtur breaks and dwarfs stars
• Surtur’s blows echo across the cosmos
• Surtur threatens to destroy all reality by plunging the Twilight Sword in the Eternal Flame, with even the Norns seeing nothing in the future. His power could destroy the entire universe and all Nine Realms
• Surtur shatters the Rainbow Bridge with a strike
• Ymir and Surtur must merge forces and light the Twilight Sword to destroy the universe
• Thor says the Twilight Sword could destroy or remake creation in the hands of the right power. Morgan Le Fay uses it to rewrite reality
• In myth, tore out Earth’s centre to create its Moon
• Surtur shakes all nine worlds with storm and thunder while forging from Jolnir’s mold
• While drawing power from the Engel flames and the Manchester gods, was going to burn the entire World Tree, burning all realities connected to Otherworld to nothingness. The Twilight Sword now risks destroying all of creation. When his power is cut off, the remaining power he already had stored still risks destroying the Nine Realms
• Surtur’s fire can hurt Tyr while he’s possessed by Oblivion

Ymir

Ymir is the king and progenitor of all giants, whose body was used by Odin and his brothers in-myth to create the universe. Despite his mythological importance, he appears much less frequently than Surtur does, so his strength is a little inconsistent. He’s matched both Surtur and Odin in power, so Thor compares to him with the All-Power, but even without the All-Power, he has fought and defeated him multiple times, and is able to hold him off and endure his full power, with Thor’s lightning even being used to fuel his Casket of Future Winters. It’s been explained that the Ymir typically seen is just a shell due to his nature as an ice giant and that he can reform endlessly from physical damage, which could explain Thor being able to shatter his body, but doesn’t necessarily answer how he can still brawl with Surtur or why Thor once needed the Godblast to defeat him. Only Ymir knows.

• Ymir plans to lay waste to the entire universe
• It took all of Odin’s might to stop Ymir
• Clashes evenly with Surtur
• Ymir is an elemental force with no true head, and Ares says both Avengers teams cannot stop it, including Sentry, though not even it can destroy the Twilight Sword, which vanquishes him
• Thor says Ymir’s Casket of Future Winters could end the entire universe

The Midgard Serpent

Jormungandr, the Midgard Serpent who encircles the Earth, is the colossal serpentine middle-child of Loki, who is destined to battle Thor to the death in Ragnarok in a fight that will kill both. As you’d expect, Thor and the Serpent are usually treated as almost exact-equals, and Thor has battled and defeated him multiple times, once even killing him when his power was explicitly undiminished. In recent stories, it’s been revealed that the Serpent managed to manipulate Donald Blake into devouring his body and merging with him, turning Blake into the Serpent. This hybrid being was able to progressively drain the All-Power from Odin’s various enchantments to grow stronger, and was ultimately defeated by Thor using the All-Power and the Destroyer.

• The Midgard Serpent is able to swim across the void from Asgard to Earth. The Midgard Serpent anchors itself to Yggdrasil and begins crushing Midgard, causing worldwide disasters. Its length is used as a bridge to transport Loki and Tyr from Asgard to Earth
• The Midgard Serpent’s body is so big it wraps around all nine realms
• King Loki says Jormungandr can crack Midgard like an egg
• Blake overpowers Doctor Strange, who notes he couldn’t stop Blake and that he was tossed aside like a child

Mangog

The Asgardian gods have multiple extremely powerful enemies who wish for nothing but to eradicate them. Most prominent of these is the Mangog, an entity created from the merging of a billion, billion hateful souls who gets stronger each time he returns. While he is stronger than Thor, Thor has managed to match him with his strikes and has once killed him using a blast of Anti-Force. Even at his peak right before his final death (as of writing), Mangog was contended with by Jane Foster Thor.

• The Rigelians detect Mangog’s power from across the universe and believe he could end all life
• Odin compares his power to himself and Galactus
• Mangog tanks the Sun Shredder, a Rigellian weapon powerful enough to tear apart the core of a star and obliterate 422 square blocks
• Mangog crossed the entire cosmos from Old Asgard to Asgardia and shatters the entire Bifrost with a punch
• Overpowers and rips apart the Destroyer
• Loki as the Sorcerer Supreme says nothing in Asgard’s arsenal can stop Mangog, with Freyja namedropping star-shattering superbombs, the Casket of Ancient Winters, and the Phoenix Forge as possible options
• Jane says Mangog is more powerful than the Destroyer, the War Thor, the Phoenix, and Odin

Desak, Destroyer of Gods

Desak is an alien whose family was laid waste by the carelessness and indifference of the gods, who vowed to slay all gods upon gaining the power to do so via a mystical item. He was a major adversary for All-Father Thor during the Reigning, with Thor needing to utilise the full extent of the All-Power as he understood it to defeat him, while Desak considered Thor the strongest god he had encountered yet. When Desak returned later, Thor had gotten stronger via his understanding of the All-Power, and managed to defeat him even after he merged with the Destroyer.

• In a future that was going to happen until Thor averted it, wiped out the Olympian gods, including Zeus. Beta Ray Bill says the power of one who wiped out Olympus could rival Galactus
• Two random gods who Desak overpowers devastate a planet’s surface with a blast
• Desak says he’s travelled immeasurable distances hunting those of a higher existence
• Loki says Desak is equal to the Celestials as a threat

Gorr, the God-Butcher

Gorr is an alien whose family was laid waste by the carelessness and indifference of the gods, who vowed to slay all gods upon gaining the power to do so via a mystical item. His main distinguishing feature from Desak is that he’s a hypocrite. Gorr famously fought three Thors at once, including a young Thor pre-worthiness, the modern day Thor (at the time), and a future timeline old King Thor who held the All-Power. While Gorr did win, both young and modern Thor, who lacked the All-Power, managed to noticeably damage him. With the All-Power, the old King Thor of the future battled the returned Gorr to the death, and managed to shatter his Necroverse.

• A god Gorr killed wrestled black holes for fun and won the tournament of immortals for 500 years straight
• Slays an elder god
• Turns the sun black and defeats present, young, and old Thor
• Manages to kill Phoenix, though she quickly resurrects
• Necroverse spreads throughout the universe to Asgard in a short time

Hercules

Hercules and Thor are frequent rivals and friends, having clashed with each other many times, and are essentially always depicted as exact equals in strength when neither is being enhanced.

• Hercules claims he has enough power to shake the universe
• Hercules says he helped Atlas shoulder the world once
• Hercules recounts his labours, including lifting Atlas’s burden, here depicted as him lifting the planet. A later depiction shows him lifting the cosmos, which is described as having infinite weight and being the Axis Mundi which also serves as the axis of Yggdrasil
• Thor says Herc has enough strength to shake the heavens

Seth

Seth is the Egyptian God of Death, whose plans to end all life in existence have made him an enemy of the Asgardians on multiple occasions. While he’s matched Odin before in a clash that lasted hours and was threatening the multiverse, Thor and Hogun have both hurt him with their attacks, and Loki was able to prove a worthy match for him in magical power. Red Norvell was even able to block his blasts in the same fight where Seth matched Odin. Odin deemed Thor capable of stopping Seth during the Lost Gods arc had Thor lived, so there’s an argument Thor doesn’t need the All-Power to compare to him. As in, I have seen this argument before so I figured it’s worth mentioning.

• Seth plans to conquer every plane of reality
• Seth’s forces disrupt the fundamental laws of enchantment and probability over Asgard, removing Balder’s invulnerability and causing impossibly bad luck due to the abilities of Bes, god of probability
• Bes grants Seth good enough luck to ravage the entire multiverse and absorb the power of all other Egyptian gods
• Seth says he always returns, and grows more powerful with each incarnation
• The Celtic, Asgardian, and Seth’s forces all clashing creates a thunderstorm visible in the sky over New York in the shape of the gods
• Rats summed by Seth are able to nibble at Yggdrasil’s roots, and Balder says it would take centuries before Yggdrasil is fully healed
• Sif says Seth wants to eradicate all life from the multiverse
• Seth blows away every Asgardian with a burst of energy, causing Jean Grey on earth to feel as if the universe itself was screaming
• Begins destroying Yggdrasil with an energy blast

Other Gods

Many other gods and pantheons exist throughout the Marvel universe. As Thor has matched the likes of Indra, Leir, Cu Chulain, and Sekhmet, and offered more resistance to Zeus than any god in Olympus, he certainly compares to most of the other gods in Marvel, at least short of Skyfathers like Zeus, who he definitively matches with the All-Power.

• Hermes crosses the universe on his chariot
• Aphrodite flees with “light speed”
• Horus is able to intercept a blast from Demogorge. A full blast from Horus’s Ankh could level mountain ranges and shatter small planets
• Thor says Pluto’s power is second only to Zeus, and Pluto suggests he’s stronger in his realm
• Hera says Zeus would level a world to punish the Avengers, and he blasts Monica in her light form
• Zeus is mostly unharmed by Monica’s strongest energy blast which lights up all of Olympus
• Apollo says the true power of his flames would eat the whole Earth
• Caber races between heavens, eventually reaching Asgardia
• Zeus withstands Nyx crashing the moon into him
• Athena and Ullr’s arrow travels across all Nine Realms
• Hadad kills Oblivion and slew many abstracts in the Dimension of Manifestations

Elder Gods

The Elder Gods of Earth are the original gods created by the Demiurge Primordial, ruling over the Earth until they were largely purged by the Demogorge. Without the All-Power, Thor has proved capable of harming Set, Atum, and the Demogorge, but with it, his scaling becomes a lot more pertinent. During the events of The Immortal Thor, the All-Father Thor set out to stop the Elder Gods of Utgard from destroying the Earth, and prepared himself across the story to take them on. By the time of his death, he had killed Toranos with a hammer blast, matched Kemur, and killed both Mejed and NRGL with a combination of Mjolnir and his new equipment, Tormod and Yolgjord. Earlier in the story, he was able to break out of Gaea’s restraints and blow her head off with Mjolnir. Loki also considered Thor an equal match for Nyx, who had restored her full power and then some, and Thor beat the dark god Zeus who was described as a more dangerous threat than the restored Nyx.

• Set created and maintains a dimension
• An early letters page says Gaea is equal in power to Odin
• Demogorge uses his total absorbed strength to demerge the 7 netherworlds and shake the universe, ceasing the trembling of the cosmic axis
• Toranos quickly journeys from the Far Shore to Earth
• Chthon and Set create their Nether-Planes, while Utgard Loki creates Utgard
• Tiwaz and Utgard Loki fighting would be a war with no winners
• The Utgard-Gods initially placed Toranos as equal, but maimed him together. His death-throes threatened to destroy Asgard
• Utgard-Loki burns away Loki’s narration
• Kemur is able to react to Hermod zooming at him
• Nrgl has grown stronger since the primal times and grows out to infinity
• Har, one of Those Who Sit Above in Shadow, commands the “third land of death”
• Gaea gave Hercules the power to match the Chaos King after he devoured 98.76% of the multiverse and her power later restored the damage to the multiverse
• Nyx is the primal god of the dark, encompassing the Tiger God, and, by entering the House of Ideas, was going to rewrite all of creation

Heralds of Galactus

In a sense the demigods of the cosmos, Thor has encountered many heralds of Galactus and has proven to be a match for them frequently. Thor is pretty consistently stronger than the Silver Surfer, having matched and defeated him multiple times. Even after Silver Surfer received a power boost during the events of Annihilation, Thor still proved capable of fighting on par with him and smashing his skull open with a headbutt. He’s also fought other heralds like Terrax, Firelord, and Air-Walker.

Silver Surfer

• Surfer carries Durok on his board so fast it breaks time and space to the future where he abandons Durok
• Appraises a situation in a microsecond and flies at “incalculable” speeds
• Silver Surfer takes a blast which would reduce an entire world to cinder
• Surfer’s speed increases “geometrically” until he reaches the speed of light, allowing him and Thor to time travel to Asgard’s past
• Defeated the Enslaver leader, who absorbed enough power to challenge Galactus.
• Matched the power of five Soul Gems once and six Soul Gems at another time
• Outraced the death of the Queen of Nevers, which erased all possible timelines

Firelord

• Firelord’s eye blast quickly reaches the edge of known space

Terrax

• Cleaves a planet in two

Galactus

Galactus has a storied history with Thor, and the two have clashed on multiple occasions. While Galactus is usually depicted as superior, Thor has hurt him multiple times, and his three granddaughters in a future timeline were capable of ripping apart a fed Galactus’s body, though they couldn’t defeat him. Thor has also managed to hurt the Other while it clashed with Galactus. With the All-Power, Thor becomes on a level with Odin, who has battled Galactus evenly and is usually depicted as being on the same level of power as him, perhaps a bit weaker. All-Father Thor himself was able to overcome Galactus’s blasts after he was heavily empowered by the energies of a special planet.

• Oblivion says the clash between Galactus, the Other, and the Scrier would destroy the multiverse more thoroughly than even the Chaos War
• Blasted, broke the bones of, and absorbed from Misan-Ha-Gorath, who had previously held his own against the Abstracts and the Living Tribunal
• Defeated Thanos while the Mad Titan was armed with the Infinity Gauntlet
• While fused with The Destroyer as The Destruction, managed to contain an explosion able to destroy the Apex of All Reality from M’Kraan Crystals detonating
• Threatened to consume the 8th iteration of the Omniverse down to the First Firmament when under a conceptual hunger
• Was considered the only entity capable of consuming the Apex of Reality, the intersection of every pathway in the multiverse
• Able to dislodge part of the Zero Point

Phoenix Force

Thor has fought his fake-mom multiple times, both with and without the All-Power. Without the power, while he has struggled against it in the past, he’s also been able to hold his own in combat with it for a time, and, alongside Jane, could tear it apart with his storms even while unworthy. With the All-Power, he’s matched multiple Phoenix hosts, as has Odin, and killed the God Tempest, an elder god storm directly compared to the Phoenix Force which could overpower it in a clash. Thor can also directly channel the Phoenix’s power.

• With Jean as her host, fought Enigma across all space and time, untangled an uncountable number of stitches across history, and scattered Enigma across an infinite number of points across all there was
• After being defeated and killed by Gorr The Godbutcher, Jean fully became one with the Phoenix and her new power easily defeated Gorr.
• Exists beyond space and time
• Beat a number of Black Winters invading the White Hot Room
• With help from other Phoenix hosts, briefly fought off The In-Betweener, Preordained, Continuum, Eternity, Infinity, Oblivion, and Living Tribunal within the White Hot Room before being overwhelmed
• Several Phoenixes working together, including Thor, hold off the omniversal tidal wave of the First Firmament

Hell-Lords

Beyond the aforementioned Hela and Seth, Thor has battled Mephisto multiple times, and has a pretty good track record against him. While Mephisto is a trickster, he has admitted he doesn’t think he could kill Thor in a fair fight, and that a battle between them would likely be a stalemate. The same applies to the other Hell-Lords Mephisto hangs out with, and ex-members and associated Splinter Realms characters like Umar and Nightmare (yes I know they’re not actually Hell-Lords).

Mephisto

• Mephisto maintains his realm, so as he weakens, his realm collapses
• Could shatter the barriers between his realm and Satannish’s
• Defeats Doctor Doom annually for the soul of Cynthia von Doom
• Stated to be the equal of a Well-Fed Galactus, with their fight threatening the universe itself
• Can harm Starbrand & Phoenix Force hosts
• A battle with Hela would cause Omniversal Armageddon that would make Ragnarok pale in comparison
• Considered to be a force comparable to the Universal Manifestations of Abstracts by the Beyonder
• Considered to be a threat by Kubik along with the other evil forces of the universe like Shuma-Gorath and Satannish

Satannish

• A brawl between him and Mephisto could destroy the Earth
• Feared by sentient Cosmic Cubes like Kubic & Kosmos

Umar

• Has enough power to “make two universes shudder”
• Could make a storm that spans dimensions
• Scattered one of Dormammu’s love atoms across 146 universes

Nightmare

• Nightmare created his own realm, which resides within the Astral Plane
• Defeated several Beyonders that invaded his realm
• His bond with the Collective Unconscious once allowed him to become one with the universe and surpass Universal Manifestations of Abstracts

King in Black

With the All-Power, Thor matched Knull and managed to blow his jaw off. Backing this up is his ability to combat Meridius, the future King in Black, even while the latter held Hellnir.

• Knull decapitated a Celestial

M.Y.T.H.O.S

An amped-up version of M.O.D.O.K who had used the shattered Bifrost to usurp the power of Yggdrasil in a Thor Annual from 2023. All-Father Thor managed to endure his blasts and ultimately defeat him in battle

Note that while it’s sometimes argued Thor didn’t have the All-Power when he fought MYTHOS, I don’t think this is the case, as nothing explicitly says he isn’t using it and Odin’s spirit is evidently still inside Mjolnir during this fight. It’s interpretable though.

• MYTHOS twists the World Tree beyond recognition, shuddering all Ten Realms, drawing on the full power of the World Tree to rewrite reality

Hulk

Thor and Hulk is an iconic rivalry, and the two have clashed many, many times. Contrary to popular belief, Thor actually doesn’t win most of their fights. While it is close, Hulk usually has an edge. Intuitively this makes sense, since for it to be a 50/50 matchup despite Thor being way more versatile, Hulk kind of has to be physically stronger to make up for it. The clearest encapsulation of this dynamic is probably a statement from the end of one of their fights, which states that while Hulk is stronger, Thor is more powerful. Regardless, they are near-even, and clearly scale to each other on an average day. With the All-Power, Thor becomes comparable to some of the Hulk’s strongest states, such as the Stage 9 Starship Hulk and Fractured Son.

• Hulk and Umar having sex was felt across Marvel’s multiverse.
• Hulk’s punch clash within the Crossroads sent a shockwave across infinite dimensions.
• Hulk powers a field which briefly stops Exitar the Executioner from destroying Earth.
• Survived being in a realm of infinite density
• Broke chains made of the First Firmament

Doctor Strange

Despite his interactions with Thor himself being relatively curt, Strange has a strong connection to Asgardian magic. Yggdrasil’s magic was strong enough to depower Strange when the tree was going haywire, and the sentience of the tree later empowered Doctor Strange with a tiny fraction of its power into a god of magic with power beyond anything he’s known, who was strong enough to match Sorcerer Supreme Loki and transmute an entire dimension. Strange has compared Yggdrasil’s magical authority to that of the Vishanti. As Thor has matched the power of Yggdrasil multiple times, and with the All-Power wields its magic directly, he should be comparable. All-Father Thor was likewise able to defeat Donald Blake, who easily defeated Strange. Beta Ray Bill has also been able to overpower Strange in a direct fight..

• Strange and Aslak’s clash hurts Yggdrasil
• Held together the Nexus of All Realities for an unknown period before Man-Thing repaired it
• Was capable of recreating the Unreal 616 Dream Dimension that Nightmare ruled over after it was devoid of any further dreams, something backed up by how he fought Nightmare in his own realm, even causing him pain with Agamotto’s light. The Dream Dimension exists far beyond the Outer Plane and is similar in location to the Dark Dimension.
• Storm and Doctor Strange are stated to have the strength of spirit to hold Eternity’s essence, which is proven when Stephen moves Eternity’s consciousness into Storm’s mind to hold it. This is doubly impressive since Eternity is stated to have an infinite consciousness.
• Escaped the expansion of the Big Bang
• Traveled at speeds surpassing any living being before him, carving out an “interdimensional road of repetition,” creating a self-perpetuating endless loop

Miscellaneous Heroes

Various other heroes Thor should be comparable to in some form, especially from his time on the Avengers. Some of these may require the All-Power for Thor to reliably scale.

• Rick Jones’ Destiny Force travels across the universe in a heartbeat
• Mar-Vell’s excess energy creates a star
• The Black Knight’s Ebony Blade is tougher than Wolverine’s adamantium
• Hyperion and Wonder Man clashing shakes a planetoid
• Sersi is able to use her molecular control to shield a room against a Big Bang replacing the old universe and placing it into complete neutrality
• Wanda’s magic disrupts the Enchanters’ Asgardian power
• Carol extinguishes the life of a new-born universe to become Binary
• Gladiator bypasses Heimdall’s senses by moving fast enough to cross galaxies in the blink of his eye
• Hyperion holds back a crashing planet
• Invisible Woman held back an Incursion
• Iceman defeated a Black Winter amped Tyros and could freeze space-time at the quantum level
• Human Torch hit cosmic power levels and restored Galactus’ power with a nova blast
• Sentry helps an amplified Rogue hold a Celestial back.
• Sentry flies through the head of one of Knull’s dead Celestials.
• Genis-Vell kills Eternity
• Storm creates a storm around Yggdrasil which threatens to expand to the Outer Realms. She says the squall she conjured rages out of control, and calms the storm by pleading to Yggdrasil itself. Thor notes Yggdrasil is far harder than Storm realises and that her tempest only served to slake its thirst
• Storm bites off Hadad’s ear
• Storm helped defeat the Shadow King, a dark reflection of the Phoenix in the Dark Cold Room
• Scarlet Witch matches and defeats the Griever at the End of All Things
• Scarlet Witch blows the roof off of a galaxy sized structure and defeats Shuma-Gorath

Miscellaneous Villains

Various villains Thor has either matched in a direct encounter or scales to via being comparable to other heroes. Some of these may require the All-Power for Thor to reliably scale.

• Thanos survives the collapse of a black hole with an event horizon radius of two light-years
• Hyperion has enough power to obliterate Earth
• Heimdall senses Korvac’s power, and Korvac says war between him and the forces of Odin, Mephisto, and Zeus could wreck all of the continuum
• Starhawk battles Korvac on every plane of reality, shaking the universe
• Cap says Stellaris has power similar to the Power Cosmic on level with the Silver Surfer, and she quickly flies across the Black Galaxy. Her armour is identical to Celestial armour
• Black Widow says Onslaught could make Galactus pause
• Corvus’s Glaive, which can split atoms, fails against Asgardian blood magic

Weaknesses

As a highly well-rounded warrior, Thor doesn’t really have any specific weaknesses of note. The weaknesses he does have are pretty conventional. Despite being able to hold his breath for extended periods, he does still rely on air, and so has been frequently choked out by knocking the air out of his lungs and preventing him from breathing. Similarly, while his Asgardian eyes are capable of staring directly at a supernova without issue, physical attacks and debris can disrupt his eyesight and blind him, leaving him open for a counter-attack. He’s also susceptible to being knocked off-balance by striking the ground beneath him. Since he relies on Mjolnir to fly and for many of his abilities, without the hammer, he becomes much less insurmountable. Sufficient blows have been shown to be able to disarm him, requiring him to recall Mjolnir and leaving him briefly vulnerable.

With the All-Power, Thor becomes even stronger, and loses weaknesses like being unable to fly without Mjolnir and possibly needing to breathe. As covered in its own section, the All-Power isn’t inexhaustible, and does require All-Sleep should Thor expend too much of his energy, though he has improved with his usage of it by the time of his current death in the comics. While Thor and the All-Power do have some instances indicating a pretty high threshold of regeneration, it’s more consistent that sufficient physical damage will kill them, as seen with Thor’s death at the end of The Immortal Thor.

Weaknesses for specific abilities are each covered in their own section.

Being Disarmed

• Knocked out of his hand by Cyclops’s force beam
• Disarmed by Replicus’s cables
• Has his hammer arm pinned by a javelin, preventing it from moving
• Ultima’s force-rays stop the hammer and hurl it from Thor’s hands
• Disarmed by the Black Knight slashing
• Disarmed by a blast from Blastaar
• Endures a car being thrown at him by Hyperion which causes him to drop his hammer, noting it takes an especially powerful blow to do that
• Endures a hit from Hulk sending him to the ground and disarming him
• Endures a hit from Man-Beast which disarms him of Mjolnir and then sends him out of a rocketship
• Separated from his hammer by one of Seth’s minions charging him from behind
• Pinned to a wall by a bulldozer and crushed, the pressure causing him to unconsciously release his hammer
• While in Warrior Madness, endures a punch and hammer strike from Bill which disarms him
• Disarmed by a hit from Gladiator

Wonder Woman

In Case You Were Wondering…

Given that recent DC events have re-canonized all eras of DC’s history, Wonder Woman can reasonably be evaluated with the inclusion of Pre-Crisis, Post-Crisis, and Post-Flashpoint events. Worth noting that the adventures of Golden and Silver Age Wonder Woman still happened Post-Crisis, they were just retconned to be Hippolyta instead of Diana. Since Diana is consistently established to be the greatest of the Amazons in every regard and superior to her mother by every conceivable metric, any feats performed by Hippolyta are easily transitive to Diana.

Some Post-Crisis comics have toyed with the idea that early Wonder Woman comics are in-universe propaganda, similar to stuff like the pre-Fantastic Four Marvel comics, to explain things like Diana’s early obsession with Steve Trevor, but other comics have shown that those things still happened within the context of their own continuity. That is to say that like most DC characters, different eras of Wonder Woman can be pretty easily composited. We will however be excluding things like Absolute Wonder Woman, as those are entirely distinct characters from the mainline version.

Background

• Full Name: Princess Diana of Themyscira
• Age: 25 years (+1000 spent in Asgard)
• Height: 6’2” | 1.88 m
• Weight: 175 lbs | 79 kg
• Daughter of Hippolyta & sometimes Zeus
• Founding member of Justice League, Justice Society of America, Justice League Dark
• Notable Love Interests: Steve Trevor, Superman, Batman, Kasia, Mer-boy
• Likes: Liberation, ice cream, rock & roll, saying no thank you
• Dislikes: Bondage, horror movies, soda, Plastic Man
• Twin sister of the head moderator on the Official Death Battle Discord (wait-)
• Has a flying kangaroo named Jumpa

Among the Justice League, there are many superhumans that soar through the sky and save the day, but only one of them can be called a demigod in the literal sense of the word. Stronger than Hercules and faster than Hermes, this is Princess Diana of Themyscira: the Wonder Woman.

Born from clay to the Amazon queen, Hippolyta, Diana was raised by the many women of Paradise Island; the first baby born there in thousands of years. Pure of spirit and noble of mind, the princess was a miracle, showered with love, affection, and unbelievably extensive training and education. On top of this, she was blessed by the Olympian gods to possess powers greater than the other Amazons, and soon she grew into perhaps the greatest warrior to ever live.

Even so, the queen was protective of her daughter. Having experienced the cruelties of man’s world firsthand, she had secluded the Amazons away from the rest of the world, and was fearful of allowing Diana to venture beyond the safety of paradise. So when the outside world came knocking, and the Amazons recognized the need to send forth a representative, Hippolyta forbade Diana from participating in the ensuing contest. Then, a mysterious woman showed up and dominated the competition with her incredible strength, speed, and skill. Who could this mystery woman have been? It was truly impossible to tell.

After emerging victorious, Diana unmasked herself before her mother, who was proud of her daughter, against her will. Now the representative of the Amazons in man’s world, Diana was officially given the name “Wonder Woman,” bestowed with many powerful weapons and artifacts, and set out to explore the world that had been hidden from her.

Unfortunately, Hippolyta wasn’t that far off with her worries. Man’s world is loud, and nasty, and above all, violent. Humanity was at war, under the thrall of the war god Ares, who sought to increase his power through global conflict. But Diana was resourceful, and soon managed to show Ares the error of his ways, thwarting the warmonger and restoring peace. From there, she soon joined the Justice League, standing alongside Superman and Batman and the like against the many threats to the Earth.

It would be a long road ahead of her, to introduce peace and cooperation to a corrupt world, but Diana found herself up to the task. Even faced with villains like Cheetah, Circe, and countless others, Wonder Woman has never stood alone. For one, she has the Amazons and the gods at her back… mostly… but she’s also befriended and trained multiple proteges to follow in her footsteps as Wonder Girl, and made numerous friends among mortals, from sometimes-love-interest Steve Trevor, to Etta Candy, to the Kapatelis family, to the Sandsmarks. Shining examples of the good amongst humanity, that outshines the bad.

Of course, the bad sometimes comes back to bite her. Take for instance any of the ten million times that Hippolyta has died, or when one of those friends, Vanessa Kapatelis, got turned into a robot bird lady, or when Diana was misled by false memories for years to believe Zeus was secretly her father… it’s comic books, things get weird sometimes. But through it all, Wonder Woman has kept fighting for a better world in the name of peace and love. Even when confronted with the greatest Crisis in history, facing down an almighty Batman Who Laughs, knowing that the multiverse would be destroyed even if she won, Diana never stopped fighting. And through her kindness and selflessness, she convinced even the Hands of the Source itself to spare reality. A perfect example of what it means to be a hero – what it means to be Wonder Woman.

Experience & Skill

Wonder Woman is a master martial artist, one of the best in the world in fact, with Batman describing her as the single best melee fighter on the planet, and Deadman describing her as the greatest warrior to ever live. Thanks to her Amazon training, she is a master of every martial art known to man including those used in Ancient Greece, is a match for warriors like Achilles, and has been described to act with “infinite skill” by omniscient narration. She is confirmed to be at least equal to Batman, has matched Deathstroke’s martial arts and swordsmanship, and has fought on par with and defeated Ares, the literal God of War, on many occasions. For reference, Ares can imbue people with knowledge of every martial art form and the strategy and tactics of every battle since the beginning of time. She also has knowledge of pressure points, allowing her to disable foes with precision strikes, with other pressure point users of comparable skill like Batman being able to insta-kill people with such methods. Diana has maintained her superlative martial arts skill even while depowered or mind wiped, notably. If that’s not good enough for you, she’s also skilled in Amazon Karate and Amazon Judo, which she used to take down a dinosaur.

Diana was trained since birth to be the perfect warrior by the best Amazon teachers, and nowadays trains 16 hours a day, 7 days a week to push her body to physical perfection. In terms of physical skills and gifts, she is exceptionally flexible, perfectly precise, and skilled enough to catch knives and giant scimitars with her teeth. Even without flying, she can leap hundreds of feet in the air, and she has a remarkable sense of balance. At one point, she balanced on one finger on top of a stack of marbles while juggling with the other hand. She’s super accurate, super agile, has a perfect memory, and is seemingly skilled in every weapon known, from swords to shields to spears, bows, axes, and more. She’s an exemplary swimmer, and has won footraces while running on her hands. She can anticipate the Flash’s movement via pattern recognition. When fighting the monster Medusa, who can petrify people with her gaze, Diana deliberately sprayed Medusa’s venom into her own eyes to blind herself and remove the risk of petrification. It has been stated that Diana is notably spontaneous in combat compared to the rest of the Justice League, who are described as more predictable and mechanical. In short, the rest of the Justice League are soldiers, she is an artist.

In terms of more general intellect, she is described to be as wise as Athena, having been granted supernatural mental capacity by the goddess herself. She knows all the arts, sciences, and languages of both modern and ancient times (yes, all of them, even Post-Crisis), and her mind is stated to have catalogued all knowledge since time began. She is a genius inventor, having developed the Amazons’ purple healing ray, the telepathic thought radio, and even a thinking machine capable of solving any problem, which in 15 minutes solved an atomic problem that 60 army experts couldn’t solve in a year. She has decoded encrypted messages, has the cleverest legal brain in America, speaks every language that has ever or will ever exist, and is an expert pilot, doctor, astronomer, ventriloquist, engineer, equestrian, and mathematician. She can perform echolocation with her voice, and can play music so well that she can lull people (or pterodactyls) to sleep with a harp. She helped develop a form of alphabet similar to a pictogram, in which paragraphs of information can be conveyed in as few as two characters.

In terms of experience, it’s a major misconception that Diana is chronologically thousands of years old. She’s actually super young! Only in her mid-20’s in every major continuity (a handful of contradictions exist that are typically outside of her solo runs and most likely editorial oversights), and born around the same time that Batman’s parents were killed. Meaning she’s actually younger than Batman. Go figure. That said, she also spent a thousand years fighting a war alongside Superman and Thor, and while time passed weirdly during that event, she does reference it later, confirming she does retain her memory of it. She’s also way more skilled than her age would indicate, far outdoing Amazons who are actually thousands of years old, and even Ares, who has experience equivalent to the universe’s history.

Lasso of Truth

Overview

The Lasso of Truth, also known as the Golden Perfect, is Diana’s signature weapon. Forged by Hephaestus (or sometimes by the Fates themselves) from either gold, Amazonium, or the wool of the Golden Fleece depending on the comic, the Lasso is magic and indestructible, capable of stretching to any length and conferring truth upon that which it binds. Originally, this was pretty straightforward, and pertained mostly to simply forcing a person to tell the truth, but over time it’s basically become that one X-Men power creep meme, where it can essentially do anything that can even remotely be correlated with “revealing the truth.” All specific applications will be listed in subsections below.

The Lasso was originally enchanted to be unbreakable through being heated in the magic rays in the flame pit on Dread Island, until it changed color seven times before becoming gold again. It was then enchanted to become endlessly elastic through lassoing the Giant Roc in its nest atop Eyrie Pinnacle, and then holding on as it flew until it returned to its nest. Lastly, it was enchanted to make people tell the truth due to being dipped in the Pool of Truth Foam. The material used to create it was previously used for Hippolyta’s magic girdle, which had once belonged to Gaea herself. In addition to being Hephaestus-forged, it has been blessed by both Aprodite and Athena.

The Lasso carries the energy of the Godwave itself, and possesses power greater than all of Olympus. But its power to control truth actually comes from Diana herself, with the Lasso acting as merely the focus for that power. It is drawn to her location, and she has shown to be able to use even a normal rope as a Lasso of Truth, with it being stated that “anything can be a Lasso of Truth in the right hands.” That said, the real Lasso of Truth is undoubtedly remarkable, as when Diana once lost belief in it and it was destroyed as a result, this causes chaos and lies to be unleashed and the Fates to begin dying, with truth being described as creation’s one constant. The loss of the Lasso was equivalent to the destruction of truth itself, an occurrence which nearly unraveled the universe.

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Strength & Pulling

The Lasso’s incredible resilience and length, combined with Diana’s exceptional superhuman strength, allows her to restrain extremely powerful foes or tow massive weights with the Lasso.

On the low-end, Diana has lassoed and pulled giant cruise ships, rockets, and spaceships. She’s bent skyscrapers, and pulled glaciers around with her teeth. She’s lassoed sharks and rode them like horses, and snapped an ant monster’s neck. She’s sewn up the cracks in a building and pulled together broken ocean liners. She once hurled a craft into the atmosphere with enough force that it burned up.

On the mid-end, Diana has numerous feats of affecting entire landmasses, or landmass-sized things. For example, she has lassoed a moving mountain, hurled the entire island of Themyscira into the air, and tried to lasso a volcano spout closed. On many occasions, she’s lassoed falling meteors and whipped them around with the Lasso, the largest of which was many times larger than Themyscira. In that instance, she was able to throw it around until it was reduced to ashes.

On the high-end, Diana has lassoed and pulled around entire celestial bodies on a number of occasions. She has towed planetoids large enough to become a moon, and even the moon itself, at incalculable speeds no less. She has helped pull the planet alongside the rest of the Justice League, and once even lassoed a planet, swung it around in a circle over her head, and threw it into a meteor hard enough that it exploded. She has lassoed and pulled the sun, multiple times by her own word, held back Supergirl, and pulled Martian Manhunter out of a black hole. She even lassoed Atomia’s enlarged subatomic galaxy.

Durability & Resistances

Made of tiny unbreakable chain links woven together, the Lasso is indestructible and incorruptible, resistant to a wide variety of outside influences. Diana herself cannot break the Lasso, nor can Superman, even with his heat vision. Flash considers it indestructible and immutable, and it’s been stated that nothing in creation, god or mortal, or even any force at all, can break it. The New God Mantis couldn’t, despite being second only to Darkseid on Apokolips.

Other than Kryptonian heat vision, it has also resisted high heat from other sources, including solar flares, atomic and nuclear explosions, flames beyond what Firebrand could absorb, and even the heat of the sun. Several lightning strikes that were described to hit with the force of an exploding sun couldn’t damage it. Gods like Hermes are unable to absorb its power.

Speed & Accuracy

Naturally, Diana can throw the Lasso with exceptional speed and skill, outdoing even that of her sword. It has deflected bullets and caught planes mid-flight “with hairbreadth accuracy.” She has lassoed an entire fleet at supersonic speed, and outspeeds bullets with the speed of her throw. She can throw it at lightning speed and even catch lightning itself with it, as well as catch a missile flying into space or pull a switch within microseconds. At one point, she was able to throw it out of a black hole. At another, when banished “90 degrees” out of reality, launched perpendicular to the spatial dimension in which she exists, which was described as “the other side of infinity,” she threw the Lasso out of the 90-degree realm to tether herself to reality before she could fall too far out of it.

The Lasso is enchanted to never miss, which is bolstered even further by Diana’s exceptional accuracy and Amazonian prayer. Diana can command it telepathically and telekinetically, and its never-miss property is impressive enough to catch someone whom Diana herself could barely see. She can use 12 lassos at once while blindfolded, and catch the likes of Mary Marvel or Supergirl. The Lasso’s never-miss effect can however be affected by luck manipulation, such as that of Amos Fortune. But when her lasso is interfered with, so as to do the opposite of her commands, she simply commands it to not catch her target (in this case the Flash) and it catches him.

Speaking of Flash, it can consistently catch him, even when he’s running out of control, and Diana has even thrown it fast enough to catch Jesse Quick after she entered the Speed Force. She used it to catch Professor Zoom, even when he was moving ahead of her in time, and she was blind.

Cutting

In addition to binding, the Lasso is occasionally shown to be able to cut things as well. Diana has used it to cut through enemy swords, stone pillars, and Imperiex probes. When binding enemies, it can tear through their bodies, whether biological or mechanical, and it can be used to decapitate monsters and even gods like Zeus. It can also cut through imagination-based powers like Lantern constructs, because “there is no lie that cannot be sliced apart by the lariat.”

Length/Elasticity

The Lasso is able to stretch to whatever length Diana requires. There are statements in every continuity that it has infinite elasticity (nine statements in total throughout the years), and has stretched far enough to ensnare the sun and even enter infinite higher dimensions like the Speed Force.

Forced Truth-Telling

The Lasso’s standard ability, that being the capacity to force anyone whom it binds (or anyone in its presence) to tell the absolute truth. The lasso reveals every choice, every lie, every deal with every devil, the holes in one’s selective memory and the facts they’ve twisted so they can convince themself they’re not the bad guy.It is somewhat inconsistent whether it can only force someone to tell the truth as they perceive it, or whether it can make them tell a truth that they do not know or don’t believe, but the latter is more consistent with the Lasso’s function. It works on both men and women, living and dead, human, alien, animal, and robot, sentient or mindless, mortal and god. When ensnaring a singular member of a hivemind, it can affect all linked beings as well.

Notable people whom the Lasso has affected (or has been stated to be able to affect) include: Diana herself, Superman, Supergirl, Ares, Circe, Cheetah, Uncle Sam, Captain Cold, Phobos, Hawkman, Aquaman, Anarky, Lex Luthor (even with an Orange Lantern Ring), Shazam, Flash, Martian Manhunter, Despero, Giganta, Maxwell Lord, Power Girl, Ma’alefa’ak, Darkseid (even when merged with the Spectre), Mera (even with a Red Lantern ring), a fake Superman, Hal Jordan, Hephaestus, Brainiac-empowered Lois Lane, Donna Troy, Metron, Mr. Mxyzptlk, the Phantom Stranger, Deathstroke, Mister Miracle, Hera, Doctor Psycho, Batman, King Shark, Green Arrow, Deadshot, Grail, Brainiac, Artemis, Gorilla Grodd, Io, Raven, a weakened Upside-Down Man, Big Barda, the Imperium, Akala, the Source, and the Pink Ranger from Power Rangers. Many of these beings have extremely extensive resistance to most conventional forms of mind hax, and a number of them such as Mxyzptlk, the Phantom Stranger, various New Gods, Upside-Down Man, the Spectre, and especially the Source are ontologically transcendent beings with more “complex” minds than are conventional.

The Lasso also has its fair share of failures, but most people who have randomly resisted it have been helpless in other instances. It’s a bit Penance Stare-ish in that regard, albeit with much better feats than the Penance Stare frankly. In general, it’s consistently stated and shown that the power of the Lasso cannot be broken or resisted, not even by the gods who made it. In fact, the Lasso’s magic is explicitly more powerful than Olympus itself, hence why even Diana and the Olympians cannot resist it. Likewise, even with the ability to mimic almost any superpower, Patient Zero could not resist the Lasso.

Oath Binding

When tied between two individuals, the Lasso can be used to bind wills and oaths as well as truths, making promises unbreakable. For example, Diana once used it to secure a binding oath from Ares, ensuring that he would keep his word.

Mind Manipulation

The Lasso possesses extensive control over the minds of others, even people like Superman who can normally resist mind control. This functions through either verbal or mental commands, and is not exclusive to humans, as it has affected animals such as lions and insects. Even telepaths like Martian Manhunter, Doctor Psycho, and Despero cannot overcome the Lasso’s control. It can be used on anyone or anything within its radius, allowing for AoE effects or usage against large groups of people. In addition to forced actions, it can put people to sleep, force them to revert to their base form if transformed, or force them to remain transformed if that is Diana’s preference. She has used it to force androids like Amazo to self-destruct, and command individuals possessing the body that it is affecting.

Mind Reading

The Lasso allows Diana to read the thoughts and minds of others. On the most basic level, this grants her limited perception, such as sensing that Ares is telling the truth or perceiving a great pain in Silver Swan’s soul upon ensnaring her with the Lasso. Sometimes, it allows for deeper readings where she discerns the nuances of an individual, such as perceiving a “void” within Wonderstar’s sense of self that was hiding darker aspects of his personality. Other times, it is much more extensive, such as allowing linked individuals to learn everything about one another.

Prophetic Visions & Clarity

In line with its ability to help people “see the truth,” the Lasso is able to help people achieve mental clarity, often showing them some kind of vision putting things into perspective for them. Most famously, early on in her Post-Crisis run, Diana used the Lasso of Truth to make Ares see the inevitable consequences of his actions, the world destroyed by war, causing him to rethink his plans. Other examples include making a guy realize that he’s a bad person, preventing people from lying to themselves, showing someone the inside of the soul, allowing shared life experiences to pass between two enemies to end a 50-year-war, cause a Nazi to realize that Nazism is bad, and force a person to relive his entire life… at which point he instantly killed himself. Whoops.

There are some limitations, as the Lasso was unable to make Red Panzer see the error of his ways, since Panzer is so insane and racist that he is incapable of comprehending any truth other than prejudice.

It was able to make Flash recognize that he’s possessed by Starro, and it was stated that even the righteous being can doubt the purity of his soul at the touch of the Lasso. It could force the Queen of Fables to perceive the world as it is, negating her imagination-based reality warping. By wrapping it around her fist, Diana can punch people with it and force them to see the truth, which she has done to both Hawkgirl and Grodd. Lastly, it can channel visions and prophecies that the target is attempting to convey willingly, such as in the case of the Spectre.

Memory Manipulation

The Lasso is able to restore and erase lost memories. It has restored memories to Superman and Donna Troy, along with several other miscellaneous examples, and erased memories on at least two occasions, including Diana’s own memories. However, just touching the Lasso does not automatically undo memory erasure, as Diana has used it on mind-wiped individuals without doing so. For example, she once used the Lasso on a mind-wiped Bruce Wayne and asked him whether he knew anything about the Justice League, and he truthfully answered no.

Emotion Manipulation

The Lasso can be used to affect a target’s emotions. This can sap their will and drain their feelings, even in large groups with an AoE effect, and is stated to be capable of affecting anything that lives. It can also make soldiers feel fear, soothe ill animals, or calm fear in others.

Illusion Resistance
& Dispelling

Due to channeling the “spirit of truth,” the Lasso makes anyone who touches it impervious to illusions or other such untruthful effects. This has allowed Diana to see through Trinity’s maddening illusions, break young Bruce Wayne out of an illusion spell, and see through an illusion by looking through a loop in the Lasso. It has broken Diana, Superman, and Batman out of an illusory dream world, can shatter illusions in Diana’s vicinity, and was able to negate Durlan’s disguise by lassoing the plane that he is located within, stripping away the “deceit.”

In some comics, Diana’s civilian clothing is an illusion that the Lasso dispels in order to turn her street clothes into her costume.

Mental Protection
& Mind Cleanse

The Lasso grants the user and those whom it is touching protection from various forms of mind control, and can negate mental effects that are being imposed onto them. It has negated forced movement, brainwashing, madness, mental influence and direct control, possession, corruption, technology-based mind control, and so on. Entities whose mental powers the Lasso has negated include the Queen Bee, Circe, the sirens, Barbatos, Black Mercy, Gorilla Grodd, and even the Source itself. Some of these entities, namely Grodd, were shown to be able to break through mental defenses in the same issue in which the Lasso was able to protect from them, demonstrating explicit layered resistance.

Constructs

The Lasso can be woven and twirled into a variety of special constructs to aid Diana in combat. Notable examples include:

• Net
• Barrier
• Giant flail
• Parachute
• Series of looped knots
• Mesh screen
• Shield
• Battering ram
• Ball
• Propeller
• Barricade
• Wrecking ball
• Drill
• Bolo
• Letters

Soul Manipulation

The Lasso is consistently able to interact with, affect, banish, and even destroy souls. It’s been stated many times that the basic truth-telling effect is a result of interaction with the soul, but it can also alter spirits in other ways. For example, it was able to expel spirits possessing Captain Marvel, burn godly spirits out of mortal hosts, force Doctor Psycho’s spirit out of a man that he is possessing, and guide the soul of a dead griffin to the afterlife. When the Minotaur committed suicide while bound by the Lasso, the Lasso kept his soul bound and thus it could not move on to the afterlife, with Diana subsequently pulling said soul out of his corpse. The Lasso once forced a Keres spirit out of a body that it was possessing, which in turn affected the rest of the Keres which were all possessing entirely different bodies.

Diana can pull people’s souls into the Lasso and interrogate them there, where they can only think and tell the truth (DOMAIN EXPANSION-). She can link her soul to others, such as Superman, with the Lasso. She can see the soul and uncover its secrets, and even destroy them. At one point, she was able to lasso Hecate’s soul and burn it away, despite the fact that Hecate is more powerful than any god and comparable to Source-empowered beings. When separated from her physical body and possessed by Nemesis, Diana was able to use the Lasso to re-merge with herself, forcing Nemesis out of her.

Fire Manipulation

The Lasso can channel the fires of Hestia to burn the deceit from the target, harming those that it is used on in addition to making them unable to lie. This is especially effective against beings that feed on lies, and the flames can be used as a barrier to repel or even incinerate enemies. The fires of Hestia can break Diana out of being frozen, and no man or god can resist the flames. On the other hand, this is a double-edged sword, since the Lasso can conduct heat and thus can be used to burn Diana with great enough temperatures. Lastly, the Lasso can interact physically with fire that is not its own, once being used to lasso a fireball and swing it around to put it out.

Electricity Manipulation

The Lasso is charged with electricity and can be used as a power source, which has actually come up a number of times. It can function as a lightning rod, grounding eight combined electric shocks at once, and can build up a greater electric charge if spun at high speed. In enough volume, the lightning that the Lasso can summon is powerful enough to harm Ares. Even when subjected to a powerful field that nullifies electrical currents, the Lasso still functions, suggesting that either the Lasso resists this nullification, or that nullifying the Lasso’s electrical current will not prevent it from working properly.

Wind Manipulation

The Lasso can be whirled around like a fan, to make massive gusts of wind. This has been used to clear smokescreens, put out flames, dissipate smoke creatures, and create vacuums to suck up fire and toxic gases.

Water Manipulation

Once, Diana was able to magically manipulate water with the Lasso, redirecting a water spell back at Zatanna. I don’t even know what this has to do with the truth tbh.

Matter Manipulation

Though the applications are somewhat limited, the Lasso has a few showings of altering or manipulating matter and atomic structures. Most notably, it was able to “attune the atoms of her clothes” to change her uniform, which is something that it’s done a few times. She was also able to rub the Lasso against the surface of a meteor until it reflected light.

Energy Manipulation

The Lasso can interact with and manipulate energy, for example yanking energy spirals off of Green Lantern. It can disrupt energy fields, as well as channel and absorb massive amounts of energy, such as when it absorbed Anti-Crisis Energy from other time periods during Death Metal.Once, Diana was able to create sympathetic vibrations in the air with the Lasso, which reacted to residue left by a recent energy beam, which she could then use as a trail to locate the source.

Magic Manipulation

The Lasso can be used to amplify magical spells if whirled in a certain way (the other way, conversely, nullfies magic). Diana was also able to use the Lasso to channel her own inherent magic and bring the Tree of Wonder back to life, jumpstarting the magic of an entire world.

Life & Death Manipulation

The Lasso has a degree of command over both life and death. Early on, the primary way in which this manifested was that in the event that someone possessed the means to resist the Lasso, doing so would instantly kill them. This happened to Egg Fu, who shattered from the effort, and a group of people who ended up being shaken apart and reduced to skeletons. On top of this, the latter can keep Diana renewed in order to counter an aging and decay effect, and can kill entities of death by pouring life into them and making them explode. Lastly, due to being a gift from Gaea herself, the Lasso was said to be able to kill an immortal being cursed to never die.

Power Nullification

The Lasso can consistently nullify a variety of powers, whether preventing a person from using their abilities, negating said abilities, or even removing the person’s powers outright.

She can nullify magic spells by whirling her lasso in a certain way. She was able to burn Circe’s corruptive magic out of Superman. She could prevent Silver Swan from using her full power blasts, limiting her output. She could dispel wolves made of shadow and smoke with the Lasso by commanding them to show their true nature. Notably, they weren’t illusory as they physically touched her previously. She can negate Ultraviolet Lantern constructs, because they are nothing more than imaginary. In general, the powers of deceivers are nullified within the Lasso, as she was able to use this to nullify Dolos and Apate’s reality alteration powers. The Lasso could also dispel viruses such as the Maru Virus, and godlike entities such as the Dark Fates.

In terms of outright removing powers, the Lasso is able to forcibly revert anyone to their “true” state, negating any abilities that are not completely natural to the user. For example, she was able to force Clayface to revert back to his normal form, compel J’onn to revert to his natural state, temporarily reveal a vampire’s true self, and turn Plastic Man back into a normal guy. When facing an opponent with unnatural genetic enhancements, it can rewrite their genes at a cellular level to return them to normal, permanently removing their enhancements, which she has actually done on multiple occasions.

Teleportation,
Portals, & BFR

Diana can teleport herself and others with the Lasso. By spinning it around herself, she could teleport to Themyscira. By binding Ares with it, she was able to banish him from this plane of existence. She can also create portals with it; by spinning it at “unimaginable” speed, she created a gateway through time and space to the Underworld, a realm in the Sphere of Gods.

Phasing & Anti-Phasing

Diana can will the Lasso to become either intangible or more solid as the situation calls for it. This has allowed her to phase it through other lassos or diamonds, or even into the fourth dimension. It can also bind foes who are intangible, such as the prisoners of the Phantom Zone, and even stop the Flash while he is phasing.

Illusions

This one doesn’t even make sense because she’s literally creating falsehood, but she once made a dummy Wonder Woman with her lasso and vibrated it so that it looks like her.

Invisibility

Sort of similar to the above example, she can also produce a vibratory field that makes the Lasso invisible.

Language Translation

The Lasso can consistently be used to translate languages, conveying the true meaning of the words rather than the words themselves. This allowed her to introduce herself to Batman and Superman before she could speak English fluently, and has even been used to translate the language of a kaiju.

Information Gathering

The Lasso is able to offer Diana many forms of supernatural information gathering, allowing her to learn information about her foes and her vicinity that she would normally have no means of attaining. In the most basic sense, this allows her to do things like sense her surroundings while blinded, or identify pressure points on a large monster, the Lasso “telling” her where to strike. But it gets much more absurd and useful than that, with the Lasso on several occasions effectively giving her a “lore dump” on her opponents, such as a group of aliens or a monster named R’Goroth. In both cases, she was able to perceive their entire background with the Lasso.

More unusually, she was once able to throw her Lasso into a pool to perform psychotelemetry on it, discerning that magic flows through it and that it had become a prison.

Godhead Attunement

Probably the most absurd showing the Lasso has in terms of unusual abilities. When facing an Aztec deity from the Sphere of Gods named Tezcatlipoca, who was fighting her using an avatar, Diana was able to combine the Lasso of Truth with a different weapon called the Bow of Ra, allowing the bow to pierce Tezca’s true form (his Godhead) rather than his avatar. Although Tezca’s true form exists in Hypertime and thus was uninjured and attacking at millions of other points in time other than the present, the Lasso-empowered bow was able to sever the avatar’s connection to its higher form, and it was stated that it would take centuries for him to recover.

It should be noted that the act of attuning the bow to the Lasso required calculations performed by Aztek’s helmet. But the actual effect of allowing the arrow to hit the true form was because of the Lasso.

Miscellaneous

The following are random, miscellaneous showings either by the Lasso or by Diana with the Lasso, which do not fit into any particular ability umbrella:

• Connects her lasso from the ground to a plane and uses it as a tight rope
• Used her lasso to make inaudible incantations audible
• Uses her lasso to create a counter-rhythm with Flash’s vibrations to destroy a machine that was going to destroy the universe
• Can connect to objects with the Lasso, protecting them with her own magic aura as long as she is connected to them
• Lassos her sword and swings it around to improve her cutting range
• Uses the Lasso to apply Tyche’s Binding, in which she ties Cheetah in such a way that her own sword is held at her throat; the only way to escape the binding is to let go of the sword
• Using the Lasso’s glow to see in the dark
• The Lasso can cure the effects of Joker Venom

Limitations

This section will list various one-off limitations or instances of failure that the Lasso has shown over the years, and discuss the consistency of said limitations or failures.

1. Although it does not destroy it, a disintegration effect causes the Lasso to lose its unique properties. -> Not consistent. The Lasso is a fundamental universal constant, and its power comes from Diana herself, it is merely a conduit.
2. Denatured uranium is able to repel the Lasso (physically, it doesn’t negate its effects). -> Not technically inconsistent since this never comes up again, though the Lasso has interacted with normal uranium just fine.
3. The Lasso doesn’t work on a robot. -> Contradicted, it’s affected Amazo multiple times.
4. The Lasso fails to interact with an intangible opponent. -> Contradicted, the Lasso has countered phasing and bound intangible beings on other occasions.
5. A magic diamond counters the Lasso’s effects and separates it into pieces. -> Not technically inconsistent since this specific diamond never appears again. Reality warping has worked on the Lasso some other times, like by the Queen of Fables.
6. A being made of sand is able to pass through the Lasso. -> Contradicted, the Lasso can bind intangible elements and force transformed beings to revert to normal.
7. A force-field can defend from the Lasso. -> Fine enough, it’s never shown to bypass forcefields elsewhere, though it can phase.
8. Tries to command a shapeshifter to turn human with the Lasso, but in his current form he is beyond her control for some reason. -> Definitely contradicted, the Lasso has countered this exact thing frequently.
9. It’s possible to escape the Lasso before an order is given. -> Semi-consistent, people have broken out of the Lasso without breaking the Lasso itself a few times, but notably the order Diana gives does not need to be verbal and it saps the person’s will on contact, so this should be really difficult.
10. Solomon Grundy no-sells the Lasso. -> Unclear, this is the only time Grundy has ever encountered the Lasso, but it has worked on zombies multiple times so at best this is something unique to specifically Grundy.
11. The Lasso’s power works on “anything human” and nothing else. -> Very contradicted, it’s worked on animals, aliens etc.
12. The Lasso is meant for the living and doesn’t affect the dead, thus fails against Spectre. -> Contradicted, has worked on zombies and the Spectre himself elsewhere.
13. An ensnared target is able to teleport out of the Lasso. -> Not directly contradicted, but the Lasso should drain the target’s willpower so this should in theory not be possible. Diana’s reaction supports this, as she’s shocked that the target in question was able to do this.
14. The Lasso doesn’t work because Diana mistakes the target’s identity. -> This one just doesn’t make sense at all haha, she’s used the Lasso on people whose identity she doesn’t know many times.
15. The Lasso can be used by other people against Diana, if stolen. -> Consistent. This has happened a fair amount.
16. The Lasso’s effects can be negated if Diana drops it. -> Technically consistent but has only been exploited when the Lasso has been used by another person, Diana isn’t this clumsy.
17. The Lasso can be stopped by telekinesis. -> Not contradicted, and I don’t see why not.
18. The Lasso is affected by an ability that reflects attacks back on the user, which reverses its effect back onto Diana. -> Not contradicted, and I don’t see why not.
19. The Lasso doesn’t work on infants due to their less developed brains. -> It works on bees and mindless beings, so contradicted.
20. Diana can’t get the Lasso to respond while she is depowered. -> Not necessarily contradicted but Diana does have resistance to being depowered in the first place so that part is inconsistent.
21. An ice creature resists the Lasso, due to being an alien life form. -> Works on Kryptonians, so contradicted.
22. Lasso doesn’t work against someone under mind control since his mind is no longer his own. -> This is probably the stupidest one. Extremely contradicted on many occasions.
23. Pegasus resists the Lasso. -> Not contradicted, but only happens once.
24. The Minotaur resists the Lasso. -> Contradicted, works on the Minotaur later.
25. An enemy cuts through the Lasso with one of Vulcan’s Daggers. -> Consistent, Vulcan’s dagger is referenced elsewhere as being able to cut the Lasso.
26. The Joker is immune to the Lasso due to his insanity making him unable to tell truth from lies. -> Unfortunately never contradicted, though only happens once. Consistent with Joker’s other showings.
27. Cheetah resists the Lasso. -> Contradicted, works on her later.
28. Deathstroke resists the Lasso because he “knows exactly who he is.” -> Contradicted, works on him later.
29. The Lasso fails to grasp a guy made of fire. -> Contradicted, grasps fire elsewhere.
30. Circe is able to defy the Lasso’s power. -> Contradicted, works on her later.
31. Bizarro breaks the Lasso. -> Contradicted, Superman can’t.
32. Titus resists the Lasso. -> Not contradicted, but never happens again.
33. The Lasso doesn’t work on Superwoman. -> Consistent, established repeatedly.
34. The Lasso doesn’t work on Grail. -> Contradicted, works on her later.
35. Hera made sure that the Lasso wouldn’t work on her when it was forged. As she describes it, “all truths are MY truths.” -> Contradicted, works on her later.
36. Nabu repels the Lasso. -> Not contradicted, and it doesn’t actually catch him to begin with, so not unreasonable.
37. Diana gets yanked around by her own Lasso. -> Happens a few times, consistent enough.

Arsenal

Wonder Woman Costume

Diana’s Wonder Woman outfit, donned either by manipulating the molecules in her clothing or via a boon from Aphrodite, is most commonly lightweight and low-armor, allowing her to maintain her agility in combat. It was created by the artisan Pallas, and was acquired when Diana first became Wonder Woman and ventured out into man’s world.

The outfit does have a few notable traits or variations however, such as:

Tactical Armor

On a few different occasions, Diana has utilized more armored variants of her usual outfit, sometimes forged by Hephaestus. These armored outfits are bulletproof, even against automatic fire from Deadshot’s high-velocity armor-piercing shells.

Amazonian Boots

Diana’s boots, which are made of New Amazon-Material, are especially durable and resilient, able to resist rays that can turn people to stone.

Diving Outfit

Diana has a transparent skin diving outfit that lets her remain underwater indefinitely, with a built in thought transmitter for underwater telepathic communication. It also protects against gases.

Bracelets of Submission

Wonder Woman’s bracelets, originally forged from Eighth Metal and later reforged from Amazonium, are a nearly indestructible pair of arm gauntlets forged by the god of smiths, Hephaestus, from the broken remains of Zeus’ shield, Aegis. They have several key functions, the most important of which being that they can be used to deflect all manner of projectiles, magic and otherwise. Most famously, they can deflect bullets, but also swords (even those designed to kill gods), arrows, energy rays, lightning (even from Zeus), Green Lantern beams, sun rays, magic energy bolts, Kryptonian heat vision, Martian laser vision, demonic lightning from Nekron, blasts from Poseidon’s trident, Raven’s magic, Circe’s magic, telepathic waves, and Darkseid’s Omega Beams. She could deflect thousands of projectiles consecutively that could have individually taken down Mongul, and attacks that can destroy the Bow of Ra, which can harm deities from the Sphere of Gods.

They can resist projectiles designed to paralyze, turn the target to stone, atomically disintegrate things, and heat comparable to a planet core. They can cut through glass and steel, and she can rub them against other hard surfaces (and each other) to create friction, melting said materials. By knocking the bracelets together, Diana can create powerful shockwaves, strong enough to deafen Superman, and shoot sparks of energy to blast foes, or just produce fire. By crossing her bracelets in front of her, she can create a small energy barrier durable enough to take a punch from Power Girl. It was later shown that she can make this barrier omnidirectional as well. During her Post-Flashpoint solo run, it was established that she can summon weapons from her bracelets.

When she needs to get serious, Diana is able to remove her bracelets for a power boost. See “Uninhibited State” section for more details.

Amazonium Tiara

Diana’s tiara, made of the same material as her bracelets, is razor sharp and nearly indestructible. It can be used to deflect attacks, or thrown like a boomerang with enough cutting power to slice through a metal tank or even Superman’s throat. Pre-Crisis, it also serves as a linguagraph that allows her to understand any language, including octopus, and contains a Justice League signal device.

Atom-Cutting Sword

Forged by Hephaestus, Wonder Woman’s sword Post-Flashpoint is so absurdly sharp that it can cut through atoms, allowing her to carve clean through even gods like Darkseid. In the hands of Superman, who is precise enough to see atoms, it can cause nuclear explosions via fission, though since Diana’s vision is much worse she cannot replicate this. It’s also resilient enough to withstand Kryptonian heat vision, but has since been destroyed by the God Killer sword and replaced by a different blade.

Sword of Exoristos

The different blade in question. Acquired as a replacement for her Post-Flashpoint sword, the Sword of Exoristos formerly belonged to an exiled Amazon, and is otherwise more generic than Diana’s previous sword in terms of abilities. However, it can still cut through enemy swords and was able to disperse the Queen of Fables, who was given form by imagination and has notably defeated a chaotic counterpart of Doctor Fate before. The sword was even able to clash with Janus’ God Scraper sword, which could kill the Olympian gods, cut through reality itself, cut people out of existence as if they never existed, and was capable of destroying the Sphere of Gods one realm at a time. So all things considered it’s a pretty strong sword.

God Killer Sword

(Kratos should sue)

In her recent comics, Diana has begun making frequent use of the God Killer sword. It is presently unknown how long she will keep using the sword for, but given that it is her current weapon of choice and is closely tied to her mythos, it should be fair game.

Forged by Hephaestus for the express purpose of killing gods, the blade constantly changes size and weight in reaction to the situation. Its power burns through the user’s veins as though it is a part of them, feels its own emotions – hatred, rage, and killing intent – and no ordinary mortal would be capable of wielding it. It serves as a guide for the wielder, vibrating in the presence of powerful foes and compelling itself toward them out of its desire to kill, even moving itself automatically in combat. If lost, the sword can be called back to the user’s hand, and it can shapeshift into other weapons, such as a staff, or metal tendrils capable of restraining Superman momentarily. Similarly, it can be split from one blade into two for dual-wielding. Even if the sword is shattered, it can immediately reform and return to the wielder.

When the sword first appeared, it was wielded by Deathstroke, and despite how outclassed he himself was, it allowed him to contend directly with Diana in swordplay. Perhaps even more impressively, it allowed him to contend with Superman himself, with Slade even commenting that he might be able to defeat the Man of Steel. This was thanks to the sword’s most powerful ability, which allows it to match whatever oncoming force is directly toward it, double it, and reflect it back onto the attacker. Slade later reiterates that the sword is powerful enough to match Superman and Wonder Woman, chalking up his eventual defeat against the two of them to either himself or the sword holding back.

Due to this immense power, it allowed Slade to clash with the Titan, Lapetus. Subsequently, the sword’s adaptation allowed it to connect with the mystical metal comprising Lapetus’ spear, which granted Slade a sense for Lapteus’ emotions, absorbed energy from the spear, and expelled the spirit for whom the spear was a vessel. Then, by cutting clean through the spear, the sword destroyed the spirit in question. Finally, Slade stabbed through Lapetus’ chest, killing him in one blow.

Later, the sword was prominently wielded by Cheetah, in whose hands it was stated to be capable of killing any god. Indeed, she used it to murder Aphrodite, and noted that it had defeated Ares in the past. Furthermore, it was able to shatter Diana’s own sword, shield, tiara, and bracelets. Diana described it as the oldest and most deadly divine weapon, and said that even beyond that, it had been enhanced to be even stronger. When Diana later attempted to disarm her of the sword, she was unable to, describing it to be as though the metal was welded to her body. Though, this is likely because Lex Luthor had temporarily bound it to her DNA, making it so that only she could wield it. Later, thanks to being empowered by the Erotes, Diana shattered the sword, separating her from it, though it was subsequently restored stronger than ever by the Dark Fates.

Finally, during the sword’s current period, in which Diana has been wielding it, it was able to cut a hole between dimensions into the Underworld, and was shown to be strong enough to carve off Zeus’ leg with a single strike.

Shield of Alcippe

Acquired at the same time as the Sword of Exoristos, the Shield of Alcippe belonged to Diana’s grandmother and is a replacement for her previous shield, which was also destroyed by the God Killer. Over the years, Diana’s shield has been shown to block Kryptonian heat vision, strikes from Doomsday, hits from Green Lantern constructs, bashes from Amazo and Metallo, blasts from Gog (who has effortlessly killed Superman thousands of times), Mr. Freeze’s ice gun, Etrigan’s hellfire, and most impressively, a blast from the Upside-Down Man.

Magic Earrings

Most prominent prior to the Crisis, Diana had a pair of earrings which were magnetized by Queen Desira, the winged queen of Venus, which granted her magnetic hearing that allowed her to hear Desira speaking to her from Venus. This is more so a direct line of communication, to be clear, as opposed to Diana’s hearing being enhanced so much that she can hear between planets. The earrings are supersensitive radio receivers, and can pick up Desira’s thought waves across the vastness of space.

On top of this, while it’s unclear if they are the same earrings or not, Diana has also fashioned a pair of earrings from the metal in her tiara, which grant her a self-replenishing oxygen supply so that she can breathe anywhere indefinitely. Post-Crisis, this actually came up again, except this time they were a gift from Poseidon that specifically allowed her to breathe underwater. It’s unclear if these would work in, say, outer space the way that the Pre-Crisis version could.

Lastly, Post-Flashpoint Wonder Woman has earrings that allow her to communicate by radio with other members of the Justice League.

Invisible Jet

Designed by Themysciran scientists, Diana’s primary means of travel is her Invisible Jet, which is invisible and capable of far greater speed than a normal jet. Though, the stated speed is extremely inconsistent. Numbers provided include:

• Supersonic speed (>750 mph)
• Mach 2 (~1,500 mph)
• 2000 mph
• 40 miles per minute (2400 mph)
• 2500 mph
• 3000 mph
• Mach 5 (~3,800 mph)
• Mach 20 (~15,350 mph)
• 3000 miles per minute (180,000 mph)
• Lightning speed (335,000 mph)
• 100 miles in a split second (720,000 mph)
• 1000 miles in moments (1,200,000 mph)
• 3000 miles per second (10,800,000 mph)
• 47,798,921 miles within hours (~16,000,000 mph)
• Speed of light (670,000,000 mph)
• Faster than light (>670,000,000 mph)
• Far exceeding light (>>>670,000,000 mph)
• Crossing multiple galaxies in a fraction of a second
• Incalculable speed (∞)

While statements are inconsistent, the Jet has shown to be able to fly to the edge of the universe in brief time spans and can even reach such dazzling speed that it passes into another dimension. It has been shown to reach locations like Olympus through flight alone, backing up the claim of incalculable speed.

Outside of sheer velocity, and obviously its natural invisibility, the Jet has a number of other notable traits. For one, it is extremely durable, having been described over the years as indestructible, made out of the hardest known substance, or on par with Earth-2 Superman’s durability. The exact material is  inconsistent, being elastic Amazonium Pre-Crisis and Eighth Metal Post-Flashpoint.

It can fire rays of light, can be summoned telepathically even from thousands of miles away, and flies silently, making it nearly immune to detection. Even Superman, with his superior vision, can barely perceive the Jet. It’s impervious to lightning and can withstand being in close proximity to the Sun without melting. It can function fine underwater and in space, can reflect light rays off of its hull thanks to the metal it’s made from, and has a built-in magnetic tractor beam strong enough to drag around a white dwarf star at MFTL+ speed. With its “omniwave radar,” the Jet can warn Diana of the approach of any object. It can resist any magnetic pull, and even a disintegration effect that was affecting every other plane in the world.

It has an ejector seat, as well as an extendable rope ladder.

Lansinarian Morphing Disk

The Lansinarian Morphing Disk is a living being made of liquid crystal, which can change shape in accordance with Diana’s thoughts. Because it is keyed to her mental patterns, no one else can use it. Predominantly, Diana uses the disk in order to form her Invisible Jet, but it can also transform into a mental radio, other vehicles like submarines or chariots, or stretch large enough to encompass half of the moon. Later on, it turns into a floating fortress called the Wonderdome, which serves as Diana’s base of operations for a while.

Perhaps most impressively, it possesses telepathic capabilities, allowing Diana to search every mind on the planet for Cassie, and later enter Cassie’s mind. Unfortunately, it also happens to be alive and in love with Diana, which is very weird. Eventually, it sacrificed its life to stop a tidal wave, losing its shapeshifting ability and taking the shape of a plane permanently.

Gauntlet of Atlas

More of a “gauntlet” in name only, the Gauntlet of Atlas is an arm bangle that Diana occasionally wears, which boosts her strength tenfold. When wearing it, she became strong enough to punch a fake Doomsday into dust, despite the fact that said fake was stated to be equal to the version of Doomsday from Death of Superman.

Sandals of Hermes

The Sandals of Hermes are a piece of equipment that Diana wore early into her Post-Crisis history, which allowed her to fly like Hermes. Over time, this was phased out and replaced by a natural ability to fly unaided.

Thunderbolt of Zeus

Near the end of Wonder Woman volume 4, Diana inherited the armory of the Olympian gods, and gained access to numerous divine weapons. The one that she incorporated most prominently was the Thunderbolt of Zeus, a weapon capable of conjuring Zeus’ magical lightning to smite foes and shatter mountains. Diana can conjure it in battle whenever she wants, and because it is magic, it is especially effective against foes such as Kryptonians. Notably, absorbing Zeus’ power was enough to restore Darkseid to full strength.

Pelian Spear

The spear that belonged to the legendary warrior Achilles, which Diana gained access to when she inherited the Olympian gods’ arsenal. While details on the spear are sparse in the context of DC, in Greek myth it was cut from an ash tree on Mount Pelion by the centaur Chiron, and was too heavy for any other Achaean to wield, demonstrating Achilles’ unmatched strength. Diana, of course, is more than strong enough to use it.

Apollo’s Bow

Another weapon from the gods’ armory is the Bow of Apollo. Thanks to Diana’s Amazon training, she is an expert marksman, making expert use of this supernaturally powerful bow. Apollo’s arrows can endow those they hit with the power to see the future.

Sword of Peleus

The sword that originally belonged to King Peleus, the father of Achilles, also found in the gods’ armory. It has no known special properties beyond having a cool-sounding name.

Helmet of Hades

The helm of the god of the underworld, which can render the wearer invisible. Out of all the weapons in the gods’ armory, this is one of the few that Diana has explicitly utilized.

Chainsaw of Truth

Forged from her melted-down Invisible Jet during Death Metal, the Chainsaw of Truth is an invisible chainsaw that Diana used to cut down The Batman Who Laughs. Rip and tear!

Godkiller Armor

A special suit of golden armor designed by Pallas, which Diana dons for more serious situations, as it was specifically designed to take on threats like Devastation and Imperiex. It has wings for flight, and grants her protection from gunfire, electricity, and most explosions. It has a retractable and airtight faceplate.

Gram

A sword that belonged to Diana’s friend, the Norse hero Siegfried, and temporarily loaned to her during her adventures in Valhalla in the aftermath of Death Metal. Forged by dwarves, it became one of Diana’s main weapons for a time, but she eventually returned it to Siegfried’s grave after returning to the main reality.

Brunhilde’s Lasso

During her time in Valhalla, Diana temporarily made use of the Lasso owned by the Valkyrie Brunhilde, which has several powers distinct from Diana’s own Lasso of Truth. It could bring Deadman back to life, and bind the two separated halves of the god Janus back together.

Barbed Steel

Fun(?) fact: Amazons weave barbed steel into their hair to cut anyone who tries to harass or assault them. Because even magic comic book women aren’t immune to misogyny.

Wonder-rangs

When filling in for Batman temporarily, Diana made use of W-shaped shuriken that served as her own personalized version of Batman’s Batarangs. She describes them as “Gotham solutions.”

Sun Sword

At one point Pre-Crisis, Diana wielded a weapon called the Sun Sword, which could be used to blind enemies with bright rays of light.

Miniature Time-and-Space Projector

Wonder Woman has a “miniature time-and-space projector” that she wears on her wrist, which she can use to time travel.

Omni-Wave Receiver

Diana also wears an “omni-wave receiver” on her wrist (lots of wrist thingies), which she can use to communicate with her mother.

Glaive

At one point, Diana was shown conjuring a glaive for use in battle. Notably, this was from Wonder Woman volume 4, which were later retconned to be a bunch of false memories, so the actual existence of this weapon is unclear. I’m sure this distinction will be deeply important.

Axe

Diana used an axe at one point during her Post-Crisis solo run. Unlike the glaive, the axe is definitely real and true. Huzzah.

Spear

She do be spearing people. Notably, though she uses spears much less frequently than swords, she is stated to be peerless with spears as well.

Knife

In her most recent solo, Diana conjured a knife and made a guy cut words into his own chest with it. It made sense in context.

Abilities

Amazon Physiology

Though Diana is technically human, her Amazon physiology is especially unusual. Born from clay and transformed to flesh and blood by the gods, she is stronger, faster, and more durable than any ordinary human, or even Amazon. She possesses a high innate resistance to magic and numerous other types of attack, though conversely is susceptible to abilities that can manipulate clay, given that her body is still technically formed from it.

While she has been granted many incredible powers by the gods, she is still subject to a number of human limitations, such as the need to breathe. Though, in many cases her Amazon training has served to mitigate this; for example, thanks to her training, she can breathe through her pores.

Regeneration

As a result of Diana’s divine blood, she heals from wounds quickly, repairing piercing wounds, broken bones, and lacerations in short time-spans. Thanks to this healing, it’s been stated that even if she were continually drained of blood, she would never dry out. Even when broken down into clay by Clayface and absorbed, she was able to pull herself back together within his body and break out.

Additionally, though it is more unusual, she also has some showings of regenerating from more extensive forms of destruction. For example, when a device broke down her molecules to teleport her across space, her “powerful body” reassembled her molecules too quickly, causing her to re-solidify before reaching her destination. Similarly, when transported by a dematerialization machine, the machine malfunctioned, leaving her in an intangible ghost-like state with no physical form. By exerting her “amazing brain power”, ghost Wonder Woman was able to forcibly materialize her physical body by herself… just because.

Lastly, another Amazon named Diana (different one) was able to persist as a ghost after death, journeying to the stars before merging with a meteor of silver and gold and creating a new body for herself. As the most powerful Amazon, and having shown to persist as a spirit after death multiple times herself, Wonder Woman should be more than capable of replicating this.

Idea-Form

Like a number of the deities in DC’s pantheons, Wonder Woman is more akin to a living idea than a normal person. Even before Diana herself was born, she existed as something called an “Idea-Form,” which is the state that all things exist in when they are just an idea in someone’s mind. Idea-forms have existed since the beginning of time, and give off cosmic rays which are caught and materialized into brain waves by inventive minds that are sufficiently sensitive (like inventors and writers and such). These individuals can picture and materialize the cosmic idea-forms in their minds.

While all things have idea-forms, Wonder Woman’s existence as a living idea makes her somewhat special. In the past, before Wonder Woman was born and when she still existed as just an idea-form, a person was able to call on the idea of a “Wonder Woman” and she materialized, conjured from the present into the past by the person’s imagination. Functionally, this means that she can be manifested from merely the idea of her, so long as a person exists to call upon her.

Worship Amps

It is established repeatedly that the Greek Gods, and Wonder Woman by extension, grow stronger through the devotion of their worshippers. For instance, Ares becomes stronger the more devoted humanity becomes to war, and the Olympian gods were able to return to normal after being turned to stone through belief alone. Conversely, without worshippers, a god’s power will wane and eventually die, which is why the Olympian Gods are weaker in the present than they were in the past.

Belief Amps

Amazons are empowered by their own belief in themself. Before the Crisis, it was shown repeatedly that Amazons can lose their powers entirely if they lose belief in themself, with Diana becoming depowered at one point simply because she believed it to be so. In more recent years, this mechanic has made a reappearance, as when Diana’s bracelets were shattered by the God Killer sword, she subsequently managed to block the same sword with her bare forearms. The manner in which she was able to do this (use her arms as though they were her bracelets) is described as “believing in a strength within herself that the loss of things cannot touch.”

Prayer

In addition to being blessed by the gods, Diana is able to pray to them for boons in combat. This can range from simple things like praying to Artemis to bolster her accuracy or strength of will, to more complex applications like praying to Athena to grant her the wisdom to see an enemy’s weak point.

At one point, when assailed by a planet-wide mental attack, she was able to call to Athena to fully restore her mental faculties, which included both the ability to think and lost memories. When fighting the Silver Swan, who controlled birds, she prayed to Artemis to give her telepathic rapport with the birds that overrode Silver Swan’s control. She can pray to Hermes to increase her speed or healing, Hera to boost her strength, and the gods in general to amplify the power of external energy she is channeling. The latter is specifically described to multiply the energy “to the infinite power.”

When stripped of her powers by cobra venom at one point, she prayed to turn back into clay temporarily and then return to normal to counter the effect, though says afterward that she can’t do it lightly or repeat it. As shown by Hippolyta, Amazonian prayers can reach across “immeasurable distance” to realms in the Sphere of Gods, like Olympus.

Superhuman Vitality

Diana possesses a superhuman life force due to her connection with the gods. In addition to vastly superhuman stamina and pain tolerance, she has survived power draining on multiple occasions, sometimes even being especially difficult to drain due to her high level of power. Even when shattered into clay chunks, there was still some life left in her.

Strength of Heracles

From Demeter, Diana was granted the superhuman strength of the earth itself, making her a rival or superior to Hercules in physical might, even when she herself was just a child. Impressive, considering Hercules is the second most powerful Olympian after Zeus himself, and his mythic strength is comparable to Atlas, who can lift the heavens. As an adult, Diana can pull moons, planets, and stars like it’s no big deal, help lift the Spectre’s immeasurably heavy body, and even match might with Superman himself.

Speed of Hermes

To go with her super strength, Diana was also granted super speed on par with or greater than Hermes, the fastest of the Olympian gods, with Hippolyta even commenting that Diana and Hermes are the two fastest beings she has encountered as of the early 2000s. Much like with strength, Diana was specifically comparable to Hermes even as a young child.

For reference, Hermes is fast enough to travel to and from the Sphere of Gods through sheer flight alone, is superior in speed to Wally West Flash in his earlier days, and his speed has been openly described as incalculable. Notably, when utilizing the speed of Hermes, Diana’s body is magically protected from things such as air friction, allowing her to reach these speeds without harming herself.

Time Travel

In case it wasn’t clear enough that Diana’s speed is immeasurable, she can just casually run fast enough to travel through time. Specifically, after being launched back in time, Diana just runs back through time to the present, to slam the hell out of the enemy she was fighting in the first place.

Wisdom of Athena

From Athena, Diana was granted supernatural intelligence and wisdom. This ranges from simple things like being able to discern weak points in an opponent, to more impressive things like having knowledge of all the arts, sciences, and languages of both modern and ancient times, to absolutely absurd statements like cataloguing all knowledge since time began within her mind. Athena’s wisdom protects Diana from mind control and memory modification, and is part of what makes her one of history’s most exceptional warriors.

Multilingual

As alluded to above, Diana is fluent in every language in existence, whether they be past, present, or (somehow) future. This includes caveman languages, alien languages, the language of a continent that vanished 9000 years ago, sign language, and unique dialects of existing languages.

The exact method by which she can do this is rather inconsistent; sometimes it’s just something that she learned under the Amazons in their Theatre of Languages, other times it’s more to do with her superhuman intelligence allowing her to recognize patterns and decipher any language rather than knowing them beforehand. Other times still, it’s a power granted to her by her tiara. Whatever the case may be, this skill has come in handy numerous times, such as when she used it to decipher a magic incantation and reverse the spell.

Mathematical Wizardry

Diana possesses “mathematical wizardry” allowing her to instantly solve complex equations. At one point, she managed to calculate speed and direction to a million decimal points with lightning quickness while falling from the sky. This is not unlike the Superman of the time, who possessed a similar ability.

Powers of the Hunt

From Artemis, Diana was given the “eye of the hunter,” which makes her an expert tracker, marksman, and so on.

Superhuman Senses

Diana’s senses are supernaturally attuned, with sight, hearing, smell, touch, and potentially taste more acute than a normal human.

Sight: Can detect things that are microscopic. Can tell through sight alone that someone has a fever. Can decipher 100 year old writing that would be illegible to a normal person. Could see a green glow that would be invisible to anyone else. Can see bullets in flight. Can force herself to see invisible people via willpower alone. Can see through a magical cloaking enchantment that human eyes cannot.

Hearing: She can detect the sound of a person’s breathing and heart rate. Hear the heartbeat of others. Hear someone preparing to attack her from behind. Detect sounds so faint that no ordinary person can hear them. Dodge things blindfolded via hearing alone.

Smell: Has been described to possess a super keen sense of smell. While blinded, she was able to smell the presence of reptile-humans. On another occasion, she was able to smell the poison on Black Manta’s darts.

Touch: Possesses a marvelous sense of touch that serves as light precognition, communicating to her skin that lightning is approaching and allowing her to dodge it. Her super sensitive fingertips could reassemble a thoroughly shredded piece of paper like a puzzle, through touch alone. She could feel with her fingers when a penny became radioactive. She can also sense tremors from the ground through her feet like she’s Toph from Avatar, for some reason. Or vibrations through water, if she’s underwater. Or the flow of thermal currents through the air.

Taste: The one sense that she has never been indicated to possess to a heightened degree. However, it is stated that the Amazons train all of their senses, so most likely she has super taste as well. But then again, she’s into Steve Trevor, so maybe not.

Sixth Sense: On several occasions, Diana has been referenced to possess a keen sixth sense which can alert her to danger. She can also sense magic within a building, detect the presence of others, and detect invisible heat beams well enough to dodge them.

Superhuman Accuracy

Diana’s accuracy is second to none, whether she is using a bow, sword, spear, lasso, or any number of other weapons. She can easily hit bullseyes with pinpoint precision, and then split the first arrow with the second. She can deflect lightning with enough accuracy to cut through bindings with it, lasso a moving plane, throw the Flash at high speed with perfect accuracy, and so on. Furthermore, she can pray to Artemis in order to improve her accuracy even more. She’ll never miss when it counts.

Animal Empathy

Another boon that Diana received from Artemis is her ability to communicate with all manner of animals. This ranges from birds to lizards to any number of other creatures, and has allowed Diana to call upon their aid in battle.

Sisterhood With Fire

From Hestia, Diana was granted Sisterhood with Fire, allowing her to channel Hestia’s flames through the Lasso of Truth. This can magically burn the deceit from a target, incinerate foes with a ring of fire, or create barriers of flame that monsters can’t pass through. It’s been stated that no man or god can resist these flames, and they were even able to burn away Hecate’s soul, despite the fact that Hecate is more powerful than any other deity.

Power of Aphrodite

Though a less useful power of hers, Diana can famously change clothing by twirling. Before the Crisis, there were a handful of different explanations for this, for example she might have just done it by changing clothes faster than eyesight, or by dispelling an illusion around herself with the Lasso, or by altering the atoms of her clothes to literally transform them. After the Crisis, this was streamlined to be a special power of hers granted by Aphrodite.

Truth Manipulation

Diana possesses a supernatural attunement to the universal concept of truth, allowing her to do things like tell when a person is lying. More importantly, the Lasso of Truth is not actually the source of her power over truth, but rather a conduit for Diana’s own innate power. In the event that she is deprived of the Lasso, she can use ordinary rope to channel her power in a similar manner, though not to the same effectiveness.

Flight

Diana is capable of flying by riding the air currents, a power introduced during the Silver Age that has persisted until the modern day. Originally, this was strictly contingent on air currents and thus could be disrupted if the air was disrupted. But in recent years, this limitation has been soft dropped, as she has been shown flying in space. Her flight speed is great enough to keep up with Superman, Guy Gardner, and Captain Marvel, and greater than Donna to such an extent that Donna thinks she will never be as fast as Diana.

Power Channeling

As Diana constantly channels the power of the gods, it has been shown on occasion that she is capable of taking in larger amounts of godly energy and channeling it through her body for brief intervals. For example, she at one point channeled the combined power of every Olympian god, and later learned how to channel the full might of the Godwave for a temporary power boost (more on this later).

Magic

Though her usage of magic is more rudimentary than master sorcerers like Zatanna or Doctor Fate, Wonder Woman is a magical being and does have some basic ability to cast magic spells. For example, she learned a basic illusion spell from Zatanna to conceal her identity, and knows spells that can enchant, force the gods to speak, blind the eyes or bind reason. When connected to an object by the Lasso, her own natural magic aura can protect the object from damage as well. If she is able to decipher a spell’s incantation, she can nullify it.

Telepathy

Though not as well-known for it as some of her League teammates, Diana is a proficient telepath, especially before the Crisis. This includes a variety of applications that have proven extremely useful in battle.

Sensing

Diana can sense specific emotions in others, such as the pain and suffering in a creature’s mind. She was able to telepathically read the Adjudicator’s thoughts, though possibly via the Lasso. She has “clairvoyant vision”, allowing her to perceive an invisible astral figure. At one point, she accidentally tuned into some alien invaders’ thought waves in her sleep; no one else on Earth but her did so. Conversely, her speed is notably great enough to avoid telepathic detection from others.

Communication

Diana can consistently communicate with others telepathically, sometimes via her “mental radio,” and other times just naturally. Her telepathic communication can summon the Invisible Jet from thousands of miles away, and has even demonstrated interplanetary range on occasion. When linked up with the Duke of Deception’s mind waves, which were altering her mind, she managed to send a single overpowering thought through their connection and turn it back on him.

Mind Control

By sending out super-Amazon telepathic waves, Diana is able to directly mind control others even without the Lasso, which she once used to mind control a group of neutron soldiers.

Memory Manipulation

Diana is able to use her telepathy to alter the memories of others. At one point, she blocked Steve Trevor’s memory cells with her brain waves, to stop him from revealing military secrets, which allowed him to resist truth serum. She was also able to short circuit memory cells entirely, and scales to Hippolyta, whose telepathic power allowed her to undo a mind wipe that had affected Diana.

Illusions

In addition to being able to see through illusions with her Amazon-trained vision, Diana can easily cast illusions herself via telepathy, having placed an illusion on Steve Trevor’s mind to conceal her presence. She can also create optical illusions through sheer speed alone.

Astral Projection

One of the few applications of telepathy that Diana has continued to showcase even after the Crisis is the ability to astral project, leaving her body in the form of a spirit or thought projection. She can do this while awake or asleep, and her projection has shown interplanetary and interdimensional range, having traveled to and from the land of the dead. Her astral form is both invisible and intangible, and specifically stated to be able to move at the speed of light and thought.

After the Crisis, she has shown to be capable of astral projecting into a metaphorical sea, as well as leaving her body in order to communicate with gods like Pan mid-combat. She can once again travel to the Underworld in spirit form, and could persist as an “astral afterimage” when her body was turned to clay. Her spirit form can endure explosions that are able to affect it, and can touch souls and still utilize her truth powers as normal.

Though she must leave her physical body behind in order to astral project, she can easily return to it at any time, even rejoining it from the land of the dead despite the fact that her connection to her body was being cut off. She was also able to survive as a spirit and rejoin her body even when said spirit was forcibly removed. Her spirit is resistant to sealing, as it was able to break free of Psycho’s spiritual chains.

If all else fails, her astral form can also just manifest a new body for herself even if her original physical form is destroyed or dematerialized.

Matter Manipulation

Diana is capable of manipulating matter with her bare hands, by squeezing or stretching or hitting it really hard. For example:

• Throws coins so fast that the friction of the air liquefies them, and then moulds them into a large solid block
• Fuses broken metal pieces back together by squeezing them in her hand
• Rubs a needle in between her bracelets to produce heat and friction, stretching the needle into a much larger version of itself
• Grabs sea sand underwater, rubs it between her hands fast enough to melt it (underwater), and turns it into a pair of contact lenses that allow her to see invisible people via ultraviolet sight
• Lassos a giant ocean liner together with such force, the portions that are broken apart are welded together
• Squeezes sand into a glass lens
• Crushes sand into glass
• Crushes iron and carbon into a steel shovel
• Crushes sand into glass again
• Can squeeze steel hard enough to turn it into a liquid
• Welds an oxygen pipe together with friction from her hands
• Squeezes rocks into liquid
• Fashions a huge glass bottle from a sandy beach
• Casually sews/welds the Invisible Jet back together immediately after it is split in half down the middle mid-flight
• Squeezes a penny and then stretches it to infinite length to create a bridge out of it
• Shapes a missile into a giant needle, and then squeezes it into a liquid to compress it to the size of a normal needle
• Pushes a bunch of magnets together, fusing them into one giant one
• Squeezes a steel tank until it melts
• Uses her hands like welding torches to weld the side of a submarine back together
• Runs so fast that the friction of her feet turns the sand underneath into glass
• Squeezes the destroyed remains of an android into powder

Molecular Alteration

Diana’s matter manipulation also extends to atomic and molecular manipulation as well. For example, she was able to crush iron and carbon into steel, squeeze plants so tightly she changed their atomic structure, and alter the molecules of her own body and clothing. At one point, she vibrated at such incredible speed that her molecular structure was changed, destroying a large ship pinning her down.

Transmutation

Much like her atomic alterations, Diana can transmute matter from one form to another with her bare hands. For example, she was able to press wood into petrified stone, and perhaps most absurdly, squeeze two plants so tightly she changed their atomic structure and converted them into cheese.

Self-Resurrection &
Dimensional Travel

During the aftermath of Death Metal, upon Diana’s death she was supposed to be sent to Olympus to live with the gods, but ended up popping up in Valhalla. While there, she died and was resurrected multiple times (as they do in Valhalla), and each time she died her soul was ferried through a realm called the In-Between by Deadman. The In-Between is a space that exists everywhere and nowhere, between every reality but also outside the multiverse entirely. It’s so distant, in fact, that Janus’ God Scraper sword, which is stated to give her free access to anywhere in the multiverse, including realms like the Fifth Dimension, was completely powerless within the In-Between, unable to create a portal back. Deadman even said openly that a physical being would not be able to return from the In-Between, and would be trapped there permanently.

This is of note because at the end of the story, Diana creates a portal back home and returns to life from the In-Between, despite being there physically. While it’s not highly elaborated what she did exactly, it’s clear that she isn’t using the God Scraper for it because it was already established that it didn’t work there, and it’s stated that she created a portal back herself. Deadman even says that her way back home “lies within,” so it’s clearly a power innate to her. Compounding this, the Olympian gods are also able to casually travel to and from the In-Between at will. Essentially, this just means that the range of Diana’s portals is on a scale beyond the scope of the multiverse.

Superhuman Breath

Pre-Crisis Wonder Woman has very consistently shown superhuman breath and lung capacity. For starters, she can hold her breath for long periods, swimming for thousands of miles while holding her breath or doing so in order to counter gases. When she does decide to start breathing, she can blow hard enough to carve trenches into the ground, shatter icebergs, and blow meteors back into space. She can blow up clouds of dust for a distraction, or super-sneeze with force compared to a hurricane. As a two-year-old, blowing out her birthday candles launched her cake into space. She can also reverse the process and suck in air hard enough to pull Mouse Man from his hiding place.

Freezing

With her super breath, Diana is capable of rapidly cooling things down to the point of freezing them entirely. This was able to cool water enough to turn it to snow.

Superhuman Brain Function

Pre-Crisis, the explanation for Diana’s super strength was that she could channel “brain energy” into her muscles to enhance them, making her powers a matter of mental state more than physiology. She’s also trained to multitask, using both hemispheres of her brain simultaneously to focus on two different tasks at once. Many of her miscellaneous Pre-Crisis abilities are reliant on her brain waves as well, such as transmitting thoughts or manifesting her body from just her consciousness. At one point, though she was affected by a ray that manipulated her brain to reduce willpower, she was able to fight it off somewhat. She has also resisted a planetary mental attack which functioned via brain wave interference.

In fact, Diana’s brain is so powerful that she was able to invent a “thinking machine” capable of computing the answer to any problem, replicating the human brain with machinery. It solved in 15 minutes an atomic problem that 60 army experts couldn’t solve in a year. As an Amazon, her brain has even been trained to remember the talk of a hundred people, making it so she does not need to take notes on conversations at her job.

Super Muscular Control

Not unlike Superman, early incarnations of Wonder Woman possessed remarkable control over her own muscles and body. In addition to channeling mental energy into her muscles to increase their strength, Diana can flex her muscles with enough force to shatter a net holding her, or contort her facial muscles to escape from having her mouth and eyes taped over. She is also incredibly flexible.

Super Vibrations

Diana is capable of vibrating her body to great effect, shattering matter around her, breaking free from bindings, or causing a variety of esoteric effects in the vicinity of her body. She has used vibrations to shatter icebergs, stone statues, balloons that are trapping her, and a large ship that was pinning her down. She once vibrated her hands between prison bars at immeasurable speed to melt them, or vibrated her feet to melt ice that was holding her. She can dig holes in the ground by vibrating her hands.

Perhaps most impressively, she has used her lasso to create a counter-rhythm with Flash’s vibrations to destroy a machine that was going to destroy the universe.

Dimensional Travel

Diana can vibrate herself and objects she is touching so quickly that they travel to and from different dimensions. For example, when dealing with a bomb, she was able to vibrate at such a high speed that she passed into another dimension, dropped off the bomb there, and then vibrated back home. Similarly, on another occasion, she vibrated the Invisible Jet at such a speed that she transported it into Earth-2.  When her Lasso was located in a different dimensional space, she was able to vibrate her hand into said space to retrieve it.

Time Travel & Immunity

By running at “unmeasurable” speed, Diana was once able to vibrate out of the time dimension into the future, so as to stand in front of a mirror without making a reflection. Her vibrations also allowed her to resist a time stop that suspended all matter on the planet, though she could not alter the world around her while it was frozen. Though she was able to interact with things that were also unfrozen.

Levitation

By vibrating her feet at supersonic speed, Diana once created a cushion of air beneath them, on which she was supported above water.

Barrier Creation

Diana’s fast movement can create an invisible wall of vibrations, repelling other beings and incoming attacks. She can vibrate fast enough to shield herself against contamination from the air.

Phasing

Diana has numerous instances of phasing through matter by vibrating. For example, she has used this to pass through multiple doors without opening them, or to vibrate her Lasso to let it pass through a diamond. But she also has some more absurd showings as well, the most notable being that she was able to vibrate the Lasso so fast that it phased into the fourth dimension.

Invisibility

By whirling around with incredible speed, the vibrations that Diana creates are able to conceal her as if by a screen. On another occasion, she was able to create a vibratory field that turned the Lasso invisible.

Tracking

She can create sympathetic vibrations in the air with her Lasso, which react to residue left by a recent energy beam, that she can then use as a trail to locate the source of said energy.

Super Ventriloquism

Another classic Superman power that Diana repurposed for herself; due to learning ventriloquism from the Amazons, Wonder Woman can project her voice to make it seem like it’s coming from somewhere else.

Gravity Manipulation

Diana learned gravity control from the Amazons, which she uses to make herself sink to the bottom of the ocean and then launch herself up.

…wait what

Body Prism Refraction

At one point, her body was able to act like a prism, reflecting a beam of “luck” through it. Yeah, idk.

Non-Physical Interaction

The Lasso is capable of ensnaring fireballs, affecting spirits, binding the intangible inhabitants of the Phantom Zone, and blocking the Flash’s movement even while he is phasing. Diana herself can touch souls while she is in spirit form.

Fourth Wall Awareness

Yes, really. On multiple occasions, Pre-Crisis Wonder Woman has directly referenced the letters column at the end of her comic issues while in the middle of an ongoing story, breaking the fourth wall to directly address the audience. She’s even spoken about this to her mother before, demonstrating a consistent awareness. In said letters column, she has referred to the characters in her story as fictional.

Superhuman Resistances

• Magic: It has been stated that Diana is resistant to magic. Even Circe, one of the most powerful magic users in the universe, has admitted that she cannot defeat Wonder Woman.
• Mind Control: Her powerful mind is capable of resisting a magic mind-controlling dart, but she needs to constantly do so. Resists a planetary mental attack (which functioned via brain wave interference) temporarily, and calls to Athena to fully restore her mental faculties, which included both the ability to think and lost memories. When linked up with the Duke of Deception’s mind waves, which are altering her mind, manages to send a single overpowering thought through their connection and turn it back on him. Is partially affected by mind control but resists through willpower. Overpowered the mental block that Celestris placed on her through willpower. Resists a mind controlling video. Resisting mind control and breaking out after some time. The deceased Ariadne resists mind control due to her Amazonian loyalty and training. Resists and breaks out of Oblivion’s mind control after being initially affected. Resists Maxwell Lord’s mind hax, even when Superman cannot. Affected by a mental attack from Brainiac Lois but shakes it off. Resists Brainiac’s planetary mental assimilation due to being a demigod, when Lex Luthor and the Lanterns could not, even though the former was psionically shielded. Resists mental control. Hecate BFR’d Diana’s mind into the collective unconscious, since Diana would be able to resist her mind control were she still in her body. Resists Grodd’s telepathy and wraps her head with the Lasso to ward it off entirely; Grodd was shown to bypass mental defenses earlier in the same issue. Doctor Psycho cannot control her. Maxwell Lord needs an amp to affect her with his mind hax, and she can still resist somewhat. Can’t be mind controlled by Queen Bee as long as the Lasso is wrapped around her.
• Hypnosis: Resists Hypnota’s hypnosis through sheer willpower, in turn forcing him to his knees and making him her slave instead. Resists hypnotism. Resists Saturnic hypnosis. Resists hypnotic rays. Resists a mental effect that puts bystanders into a coma.
• Illusions: Sees through a mass illusion with her Amazon-trained vision, even without using the Lasso. Willpowers out of an illusion. Breaks out of an illusion with some difficulty. Breaks free of an illusion from Circe. Immune to Doctor Psycho’s illusions. Can see through a magical cloaking enchantment that human eyes cannot. Breaks out of an illusion in which her memory is modified; remembers who she is.
• Invisibility: Sees Desira’s mental form while Steve Trevor cannot. Through willpower, forces herself to be able to see invisible people.
• Memory Manipulation: Hypnota’s hypnosis also encompasses memory manipulation, and she was able to resist that. Judy, an individual swept up in a time cyclone, has her memories fully modified by the event, while Diana did not. Resists a memory wipe that affects all of humanity. Forces out a memory-eating mnemonic icon from her mind; Martian Manhunter was harmed by it and impressed by her resistance. Resistant to Lethe’s memory erasure.
• Emotion Manipulation: Resists an effect that reverses her emotions, though does not completely overcome it.
• Willpower Manipulation: Affected by a ray that manipulates her brain to reduce willpower, but is able to fight it off somewhat. Instantly regains her diminished power once the ray is broken.
• Mind Transference: Resists an attempt to transfer her mind to Lancor, ensuring that only a projection of her mind is transferred, and uses that projection to change him to a better version of himself (it’s weird).
• Madness: Able to control herself w/o bracelets, but requires great concentration. Resolves to control herself without her bracelets, the first Amazon to do so in a millennia. Resists the madness from losing her bracelets. Uses the Lasso to keep herself and Superman sane while subjected to Barbatos’ power.
• Corruption: The Lasso is forged from the purest gold mined from the foot of Mount Olympus and thus normally incorruptible. Resists the mind altering effects of a Black Lantern Ring temporarily before losing control again. Resists corruption by a god-killing sword and destroys it.
• Possession: After being possessed by Nemesis, some of her essence escapes, and she uses the Lasso to re-merge with her body and force Nemesis out. Resists the darkness temporarily, which if left unchecked will possess everyone on Earth. Resistant to Circe’s possession effect.
• Sedatives & Anesthesia: Through willpower, remains conscious for a short time after inhaling anesthetic gas, though it still affects her. Affected by sleeping gas, though manages to remain conscious albeit weakened. Affected by knockout gas, though regains consciousness almost immediately thanks to her Amazon constitution, with it being noted that the gas would have anesthetized a regiment of soldiers. Resists gas long enough to create a vacuum with her lasso and suck it away. Wakes up despite being drugged with enough poison to knock her out a dozen times. Amazons use a sedative powerful enough to kill a normal human for surgeries. Resists some gas but pretends to be knocked out by it. Affected by knock-out gas which was supposed to put her to sleep for a few days, but wakes up much earlier than expected; was drugged around 6 AM and is up by sunrise, so it should have been at most about an hour, maybe less. It takes an “Amazon-strength” sedative developed over the course of years to knock her out. No-sells knock-out gas.
• Drugs & Poisons: Resists a chemical/drug that would paralyze any normal person. Resistant to mesmerogen, an atmospheric gas that hypnotizes all earthlings, though it’s indicated that it will affect her eventually. Forces herself into consciousness to escape a gas chamber, though struggles substantially. Only half-drugged by a gas that would have killed an ordinary person. Quickly runs through tear gas. Vibrates fast enough to shield herself against contamination from the air. Resists poison mist, passing out instead of dying thanks to her Amazon strength. Resists a poison that would instantly kill a normal person through supernatural stamina, even after being weakened by a number of drugs over the course of several days. Survives “enough poison to kill a sequoia.” Survives cyanide gas. Endures Doomsday’s poison. No-sells tear gas. Affected by Nemesis’ poisonous bite, which inspires rage in the victim, but powers through it and eventually shakes it off fully; Nemesis claims that it can even affect Zeus.
• Fear Toxin: Resists Scarecrow’s fear toxin and does not go insane from it, though is affected.
• Diseases: Trained on Paradise Island to be immune to many diseases, including small dosages of bee venom. Diana’s DNA can potentially cure Royer-Mays Syndrome. Her DNA could potentially be a miracle cure for things like breast cancer, Huntington’s, sickle cell hemophilia, etc.
• Suffocation: Unaffected by Flash creating a vacuum that prevents Batman and Hal from breathing.
• DNA Attacks: Resists Lex Luthor’s Amazo Virus, which suppresses a metahuman’s powers via interacting with their DNA, due to being a god.
• Cellular Attacks: Resists a poison that attacks every cell in her body. In addition to DNA modification, the Amazo Virus causes an auto-immune backlash in a person’s cellular structure, mutates the person into a metahuman, and then causes a complete breakdown of their body, and again Diana is immune to this.
• Blood Loss: With her healing, her blood can be continuously drained and will never dry out.
• Acids: Endures acidic snake venom.
• High Temperatures: Unaffected by a 140 degree jail cell that would be unbearable to a normal person. Withstands the scorching heat of a red-hot floor, which is described as something that only Wonder Woman could do. Her “Amazon resistance” allows her to survive boiling water as long as she escapes quickly enough. Amazons are taught to build up resistances to high temperatures. Withstands lava level heat. Survives the heat of Mercury, though struggles with it. Tanking Supergirl’s heat vision. Survives a fire blast, though prolonged exposure might have killed her. Takes a fire blast and is barely singed. Endures “a few thousand degrees Kelvin.” Takes Superman’s heat vision to the face and blocks it with her hands. Dunked in molten metal unharmed. Endures Wonderstar/Magog’s laser eyes being shot directly into her eyes. Withstands the lightning of Zeus combined with the fires of Hephaestus. Not burned by contact with fire.
• Radiation: Irradiated by a nuclear bomb but unharmed. Tanked a thermonuclear explosion on another occasion. Can also survive in space unprotected.
• Extreme Cold & Freezing: Can survive while frozen for over a year (potentially). Withstands diving in arctic water. Survives being completely frozen in a block of ice and breaks out. Casually survives on Pluto, where the temperature is 10,250 degrees below zero. Resists the freezing cold waters in the Arctic thanks to el Amazon training. Withstands and powers through a freeze ray powerful enough to kill any normal person. Amazons are trained to withstand tremendous heat and cold. Vibrates her feet to melt ice holding her. Endures Superman’s frost breath. Breaks out of being frozen in ice by the sun’s heat getting taken away. Blocking Mr. Freeze’s ice gun with her shield. Breaks out of being frozen in a block of ice.
• Absolute Zero: Trained to withstand absolute zero temperature. Survives the vacuum of space which is near absolute zero.
• Electricity: Survives enough voltage to kill a whale, though is knocked out. Only stunned/knocked out by an electric shock that would kill a normal person. No sells electrocution that would kill a normal person, it only exhilarates her and makes her body tingle. Tanks electrocution via a net that should have killed her instantly. Withstands an electrical charge conducting through her Lasso due to being an Amazon. Recovers swiftly from a lightning strike. Survives a fatal electrical current and compares it to a massage. Tanking lightning. Survives electrocution via giant electric eel. Withstands an electric shock that would paralyze a normal teenager. Survives Jove/Zeus’ lightning. Compares an impact to being hit by one of Zeus’ thunderbolts, implying she has experienced that before. Endures electrocution from Doctor Polaris at a time when he’s amped enough to shift the planet’s axis. Deflects Nekron’s dark lightning with her bracelets. Godkiller Armor is electricity resistant. Survives lightning from Ocean Master, though is harmed. Survives high-intensity lightning strikes. Withstands the lightning of Zeus combined with the fires of Hephaestus. Knocked out but not killed by an electric shock strong enough to subdue a Tarquinian Death Giant. Endures electrocution, though it hurts her. Tanks Thor’s lightning and then crushes Mjolnir with her bare hands (erm, it’s over…??). Unharmed by a lightning strike that fries Eros. Survives Shazam’s lightning and remains conscious. Enduring electrocution from Cassie’s lasso, which channels Zeus’ lightning; also comments that she would know the sting of Zeus’ lightning anywhere.
• Paralysis: Paralyzed by an electric pistol, but by summoning all her “nerve power” is able to overcome the electric force that held her paralyzed. Hippolyta breaks out of paralyzing rays that reduce her power. Merely slowed by beams that would paralyze ordinary humans. With time, is able to shake off the effects of paralysis and vibrate her body enough to shatter an iceberg. Clicks her teeth so fast it nullifies paralysis and breaks her out of the prison containing her. Learning about chaos from Pan cures the paralysis inflicted by the Joker’s drug.
• Magnetic Push & Pull: Temporarily resists magnetic repulsion through sheer strength. Resists Nuclear’s magnetic pull.
• De-Evolution: Resists a de-evolution device that was reverting people into apes thanks to her Amazon resistance. On the next page it instantly reverts everything 60 million years for miles around.
• Transmutation: Affected by a ray that turns her to stone, but is able to resist the effect for several moments, longer than a normal person would be able to; parries subsequent rays with her bracelets. Resists being hit by a number of gold blasts that alter her molecular structure to transmute her into gold; a normal person would have been transmuted immediately but it took many hits before she succumbed. Affected by a strange meteor that was transmuting her into mercury, but was able to resist long enough to swing it around and destroy it from air friction, at which point she returns to normal. Remains conscious after being transmuted into wood/a tree and then breaks out. The gods departing the mortal plane causes all of the Amazons to turn to stone; Diana reverts back to clay over time but holds out longer than the rest of the Amazons. Belief is able to turn the gods from stone back to normal. Zeus’ lightning undoes transmutation.
• Molecular Manipulation: When affected by a device that breaks down her molecules and relocates her in space, her “powerful body” reassembles her molecules. Deflects atomic disintegrator beams with her bracelets. Deflects her own atom-cutting sword with her bracelet.
• Disintegration: Resists a planet-wide disintegration effect that was acting upon the iron in her blood.
• Phasing: Flash cannot phase through her Lasso. Lasso binds intangible Phantom Zone prisoners.
• Anti-Matter: Not destroyed by a fragment of anti-matter which destroys the explosive matter Egg Fu beamed into her and Steve Trevor’s bodies.
• Aging & Decay: Counteracts an aging/decay effect via being renewed by the Lasso.
• Life Draining: With her Amazon immortality, her bio-energy cannot be depleted. Recovers immediately from the First Born’s life draining.
• Physical Absorption: Clayface broke her body down into clay inside of himself, and she was able to pull herself back together and break out.
• Power Absorption: Hermes could not absorb the Lasso’s power. It takes a long time to drain her godly power, though it does work on her. Resists power draining for longer than Flash, Cyborg, or Green Lantern are able to, though is affected by it; it also affected Superman.
• Power Stealing & Nullification: Donna says that Amazon powers cannot be stolen by a power siphoning device. Any woman can have Amazonian powers; all they need is the will and the years of Amazonian training. This is why stealing them is impossible, though they can be removed if an Amazon loses belief in herself. Transferring her powers to Steve Trevor isn’t possible.
• Soul Removal: Somewhat resists a soul-sucking object while depowered. Resists having her soul burned from her body by Astarte. Resists that some more. Astarte reiterates that she could not tear WW’s soul from her body. Rejoined with her body after being separated from it. Survived being stabbed with a sword that pierced both flesh and soul.
• Soul Destruction: Her spirit form withstands an explosion that explicitly affects it. Fights off monsters that can rip apart souls. Implies she could have tanked Neron’s soul-ravaging attack had she not still been weakened by Hippolyta splitting her power with Artemis. Survives Etrigan’s hellfire. Endures the strain of the Witchmark, which is corrosive to the human soul. Fights off monsters trying to eat her soul. Gets up from the gases inside of Nidhogg, which slowly dissolve the soul.
• Spiritual Sealing: As a spirit, broke free from Psycho’s spiritual chains.
• Dimensional BFR: While in the land of the dead, her astral form was able to return to her body in the land of the living, despite the fact that its connection was being cut off. The Lasso and Invisible Jet can both likewise travel between dimensions. Banished to a realm perpendicular to reality (90 degrees off), which is described as a realm of abstract insanity and “the other side of infinity.” Throws her lasso out of the 90-degree realm to tether herself to reality before she can fall too far out of it, and then hauls herself out.
• Temporal BFR: States that she can resist being forcibly pulled through time, but that she will then never know who wants her or why, and so elects to allow herself to be transported. Can return to the present via super speed if displaced through time.
• Time Manipulation: Remembers events from past time loops. Fought the Anti-Monitor in a plane of nothingness, a time before time, before thought or creation. Is able to operate within a void that is described as free from birth or death, uninhibited by time or space, unencumbered with the restraints of form and function.
• Time Stop: Still able to think while frozen in time. Barely manages to move while frozen, electrocutes herself and that shakes her out of the time stop. Her vibrations allow her to resist a time stop that suspends all matter on the planet, though she cannot alter the world around her while it is frozen. She can affect an entity who isn’t stopped in time, however.
• Time Rewind: Unaffected by a time rewind effect.
• Reality Warping/Age Manipulation: Affected by reality warping that ages her down based on her imagination, but figures out it’s fake and is able to regrow to normal.
• Spatial Manipulation: Survives being compressed into pinpoint size along with the surrounding square mile, creating a black hole. Throws the Lasso out of the black hole and escapes it.
• Space Cutting: Clashes with the God Scraper, which can cut through reality itself and destroy realms in the Sphere of Gods.
• Existence Erasure: Was protected from erasure by the Crisis and ascended to Mount Olympus, even though everyone forgot about her except those who fought the Anti-Monitor. The gods’ blessings keep her from fading from existence after the Crisis, but these blessings fade when she leaves Olympus. Blocking Darkseid’s Omega Beams with her bracelets. Doing it again Post-Flashpoint. Tanks Grail’s Omega Beams. Tanks Darkseid’s Omega Beams, though this version of Darkseid is younger and less powerful; Darkseid also says he needs her alive. Clashes with the God Scraper, which can cut people out of existence itself, making it as though they never were.
• Telepathic Detection: Moves faster than the speed of thought, evading telepathic detection.
• Death Manipulation: Survives a psychic killing sphere that instantly reduces lesser people to skeletons.

Forms

Diana has acquired a variety of power boosts over her many years as a superhero. Some of these can be achieved at any time and are thus usable in an individual encounter, while others are no longer accessible to her or are dependent on specific context. This section will be focused on forms and amps that she can access at any time; there will be a section later covering non-standard amps.

Uninhibited State

By removing her bracelets, Diana enters a higher state of power in which she is not bound by their restrictive magics, allowing her to utilize her full strength without temperance. This was actually something originally introduced Pre-Crisis, and was brought back much later during her New 52 solo run.

Pre-Crisis, removing her bracelets caused her to lose control of her strength and emotions, going into a sort of berserker rage state that amped her strength tenfold. Post-Flashpoint, it was much more controlled and focused, with her clearly maintaining her usual level of skill and control in her fights against Artemis and the First Born. It is worth noting, however, that her New 52 solo was later retconned to be a series of fabricated memories, and she has since removed her bracelets for periods without gaining any sort of noticeable power boost. However, guidebooks have since referenced her fight with the First Born, during which she removed her bracelets, so it is most likely intended to still be a state that exists.

Godwave Channeling

Post-Crisis, in the aftermath of Cronus’ attempt to conquer all of reality, Diana learned how to channel the power of the Godwave itself for temporary periods, massively boosting her own strength and speed while she does so. For context, the Godwave is a multiversal energy source which was responsible for the creation of the New Gods, including the Olympian pantheon. If a portion of it were utilized by Darkseid, it was also capable of destroying the Source Wall and potentially the Source itself, so it’s an incredibly strong power source. Even while empowered by an incomplete portion of the Godwave, Cronus was capable of shaking all of reality, tearing his way through numerous pantheons throughout the Sphere of Gods, and believed he could bring down Heaven itself. And he’s not waffling, given that he later cracks the foundations of heaven and oneshots angels. Though he might have been waffling when he said he could extinguish the Presence.

When channeling the Godwave, Diana can see in all directions at once. When Devastation (who was disguised as Diana) channeled the Godwave, she produced power “seeming as if the energy of the universe is erupting, threatening to tear the foundations from reality.” However, as is natural, Diana can only channel the Godwave’s power temporarily before it begins to consume her.

The only condition needed to channel the Godwave is to pray, and Diana can do so at any time. It is a standard amp that she can call upon whenever she needs it, though is of course somewhat risky.

Non-Standard Amps

This section will, for the sake of being informative, cover temporary states that Diana achieved for short periods and has since lost, and can no longer access. She cannot use these amps in a normal fight, so consider this more of an educational section, rather than something that will be factored into the verdict.

Goddess of Truth

For a temporary period of her Post-Crisis solo run, Diana became the Olympian goddess of truth, gaining a much greater control over truth even compared to what she normally has. As a goddess, Diana was able to regenerate from having her soul destroyed by Neron, and can neither lie nor be lied to. She was impervious to having her memories tampered with via alterations to the timeline, and could grant this resistance to others as well, allowing the Justice League to remember Donna in spite of temporal alterations that were made to remove her. Her godhood magnifies the power of the Lasso, and like all of the Olympian deities, she draws power from the belief of worshippers.

However, in spite of her increased power, gods are forbidden from interfering in the daily lives of mortals, as they have the power to alter human lives at all levels. They can only assist when they are directly prayed to, which was severely at odds with Diana’s desire to help anyone she could. As a result, she was banished from Olympus not long after she became a goddess, and not long after that she willingly relinquished her new powers to become mortal again.

Given that Diana has not been the goddess of truth since 1998, it is most definitely not a standard power set of hers.

God of War

During her Post-Flashpoint solo run, Diana became the God of War temporarily, and was depicted to be the physical embodiment of war as a concept. However, this was later revealed to be part of a long series of false memories, so it’s not actually a real state unfortunately. Big rip.

Yellow Lantern

In one instance Post-Flashpoint, Diana was granted the power of a Yellow Lantern Ring alongside several other heroes, granting her the ability to create yellow constructs empowered by the fear of others. Along with everyone else, she lost the ring at the end of this situation, and no longer has access to it.

Star Sapphire

During Blackest Night, Diana was granted the power of a Violet Lantern Ring, turning her into a Star Sapphire for a time. Later on, she regained this power temporarily Post-Flashpoint as well. Empowered by the deep love she feels for all things, she could manifest a love-powered sword capable of harming Karnell, one of the Dark Gods of the Dark Multiverse. Other Star Sapphires can create crystal constructs with their rings, and Diana should theoretically be able to replicate this as well. Unfortunately, her possession of the ring was temporary in both instances, even if it’s technically reoccurring.

Mary Marvel’s Power

During the Lazarus Planet event, Diana was temporarily empowered by Mary Marvel, allowing her to overpower and defeat Hera, the queen of the gods and member of the Quintessence. In defeating Hera, Diana expended this power amp and no longer has access to it.

Witchmark

During her tenure with Justice League Dark, Diana was revealed to have been branded as a child by a magical mark called a Witchmark, by the worshippers of the goddess Hecate. This Witchmark contains ⅕ of Hecate’s magical power, and upon its activation could transform Wonder Woman into a nearly peerless magic user. However, as it is a piece of Hecate’s soul, it allows Hecate to possess the wielder and use them as a puppet in her plan to rewrite the rules of magic itself.

Though corrosive to the human soul, the power granted by the Witchmark can rewrite the fundamental laws of reality, and even a sorceress as talented as Zatanna would be unable to wield it safely. It can rip holes in reality and has been described as carrying enough power to create a universe. When Diana fought using the Witchmark, reality was writing and rewriting itself as the battle raged, and Zatanna commented that she had never encountered anything like it. John Constantine admitted that he didn’t think he could do anything to stop Diana. When Diana was granted an extra ⅖ of Hecate’s power, it was described as more magic than any living host has ever carried. It was stated that she was more powerful than any god who’s ever walked the earth, and could blink Zatanna and Constantine out of existence if she wanted to. She could shake reality with every step, destroy Olympus, and threaten the Sphere of Gods.

Then Hecate died and that power went away. Except, surprise, it didn’t! There was still some leftover magic within Diana, which the Upside-Down Man was able to activate, giving her the ability to tap into “all the magic power that has ever lived inside of her.” She later used that power to challenge the Upside-Down Man, despite the fact that he draws power from the Source itself, and ultimately finished him off and sealed him away. Unfortunately, from that point on she lost the ability to tap into the Witchmark’s power, so it’s no longer standard.

Tenth Metal Armor

During Dark Knights: Metal, Diana and the other members of the Justice League donned armor made of Tenth Metal, the purest metal in the multiverse, in order to combat Barbatos and the Batman Who Laughs. Tenth Metal can wish thoughts into reality, and is responsible for numerous reality-warping objects like Mother Boxes, the Miracle Machine, and Batman’s Final Batsuit. It augments all natural abilities of the wearer, and can change its form in response to the wielder’s desires. Batman used it to rewrite minds and create stars, and it can also grant its user powerful, multiverse-scale clairvoyance. Perhaps most impressively, it was able to destroy the Source Wall.

Diana specifically used the armor to wish for the gods’ return, but ended up accidentally summoning gods from the Dark Multiverse, so she isn’t exactly its most proficient user. Regardless, she no longer has access to this armor.

Anti-Crisis Energy

During Death Metal, Diana channeled Anti-Crisis Energy from heroes and villains throughout history, absorbing it through the Lasso. In that moment, she was able to see the truth of all history, that every human life is part of one story and everyone matters. All of history, all the stories, everything that anyone has done, good and bad, became one history, one story, and Diana was massively empowered to the point of being able to take on the Darkest Knight.

In this big golden form, she was described as “more than a god,” able to see the whole past and present simultaneously and even look into the future. But despite being able to brain the Darkest Knight with entire planets, he was somehow still stronger than her, and punched her back in time through multiple eras. It was then that Diana saw the future and realized that even if she beat the Darkest Knight, the Hands of the Source would arrive and erase the multiverse anyway, so there was no reason to fight.

And yet, she fought anyway. The key to it all is fighting on with no chance of winning. Fighting not for this moment, or even the next, but for something bigger than herself. A dream of who we are, who we can be. A dream that connects everyone across time and space. With her resolve solidified, Diana’s strength increased, and she punched the Darkest Knight back through time. Even with the Darkest Knight offering to kill the Hands and save the multiverse from certain doom, she defeated him anyway.

And when the Hands arrived, they were impressed. Diana’s heroism, the fact that she fought to save the Hands knowing they would kill everyone, is something that the Hands had never seen from any other multiverse before. It caused them to rethink erasing the multiverse, and instead they chose to restore it with all of history rectified. Having judged Diana as the pinnacle of human potential, the Hands elevated her to a higher plane of existence, and she was offered a spot among the Quintessence, the gods who oversee the multiverse.

Naturally, she declined. After all, with a new Infinite Frontier for Earth’s heroes to explore, she wanted nothing more than to rejoin them, and so she did. Leaving godhood beyond godhood behind, to become Wonder Woman once again.

Feats

Overall

• Themysciran ambassador to man’s world
• Founding member of the Justice League and Justice Society of America
• Halted Ares’ attempts to spread global war on numerous occasions
• Defeated multiple Cheetahs, and helped Barbara Minerva regain her sanity
• Thwarted Circe’s plans for universal domination many times
• Helped defeat Darkseid during Final Crisis, Genesis, and several other occasions
• Helped battle Imperiex probes during Our Worlds At War
• Killed Maxwell Lord, stopping his mind control over Superman
• Aided in defeating the Shattered God, a deity from before time began
• Defeated the First Born, ending his campaign to conquer Olympus
• Saved the Olympian gods from countless threats to their existence, such as Cronus, Nemesis, and Janus, among others
• Founded the Justice League Dark, and assisted in defeating Hecate and the Upside-Down Man
• Restored the multiverse from near-complete annihilation in Futures End
• Absorbed Anti-Crisis Energy from across history to defeat the Batman Who Laughs
• Helped fight those damn Nazis and commies! (in some continuities)

Strength

Pre-Crisis

• As strong or stronger than Hercules, even as a child
• Lifted the island of Themyscira
• Swings around meteors on multiple occasions, including some much larger than Themyscira
• Holds a bomb together with her bare hands to keep it from blowing up
• Breaks through the strongest steel ever made as though it were paper
• Breaks out of a supposedly unbreakable net
• Holds onto her lasso while being pulled along by a spaceship moving faster than light
• Lifts a huge crystal sphere while deprived of her Amazonian strength
• Destroys a kingdom within a universe atom while shrunk down to exist within it
• Suggests that she could destroy Atomia’s universe with her bare fists
• Lassos a planet that was falling to Earth, swings it around super fast and hurls it into a meteor, destroying the planet
• Lassos a planetoid and tows it over to a space landmass, where it starts orbiting as a moon
• Lassos a moving mountain, holding it back and halting it
• Invisible Jet pulls around a white dwarf star
• Lassos and pulls a moon at incalculable speed
• Overcomes the combined strength of 100 other Amazons
• Hits Superman so hard the blow would have echoed for a hundred miles on Earth
• Matched an all-out Superman for 15 minutes
• Superman concedes that an opponent who is as strong as Wonder Woman if not stronger is even with him
• Helps throw Superman with enough force to shake infinity
• Superman and Wonder Woman are called out as the two most powerful heroes present, in a group including Flash and the Star-Spangled Kid, who previously charged Superman’s body with energy to perform the infinity-smashing feat
• Lassos Atomia’s enlarged subatomic galaxy
• Throws a tree like a javelin to destroy a meteor miles in circumference
• Hurls a chunk of Kryptonite halfway around the world
• Matches Martian Manhunter when both are going all out and expend all of their strength
• Uses her lasso to create a counter-rhythm with Flash’s vibrations to destroy a machine that was going to destroy the universe
• Shatters a mirror world she is contained within, despite the fact that it could contain infinite reflections of her and was described as “ultra-dimensional”
• Yells loud enough that the sound wave reverberates across a dimension
• She and Martian Manhunter hit together with the force of an atom bomb
• Throws a multi-story building into outer space
• Capable of strangling Plastic Man
• Strength and stamina that rival Superman and Supergirl

Post-Crisis

• Broke chains that Circe believed no mortal could break, shocking her
• Deflects a combined blast from the gods, which is described as destruction multiplied to the infinite power, and is able to destroy Olympus
• Breaks out of Mercury’s magic bindings
• Causing Etrigan pain with her strikes
• Her strength is believed to approach that of Superman
• Tossing around Yellow Lantern Joe Gardner, hurting him through a barrier enough to stun him
• Knocking an off-guard Captain Atom off his feet
• Making Shazam grunt in pain with a punch
• Grabbing Kyle Rayner by the neck and chucking him, he comments that she “hits hard for a truck”
• “Operates on a power level somewhere in Superman’s neighborhood”
• Fighting Morgan Le Fay in the Nether Plane immediately after Morgan created an infinitely sized universe
• Easily breaks through a Yellow Lantern construct
• Nearly matches Superman in strength, and plows through another construct
• Fighting a duplicate Doomsday that she compares to Superman in strength
• With the Gauntlet of Atlas multiplying her strength by 10, punches the fake Doomsday to dust after his bones grew together to the point of immobilizing his body
• Rivals Superman and Martian Manhunter
• Helps move the moon, and halts a chunk of it falling from orbit
• Stabs through Gog, who was noted earlier in the issue to have effortlessly killed future Superman a thousand times over
• Superman is described as the only mortal whose power might be greater than Diana’s
• Diana shatters Cronus’ scepter while significantly weakened, with said scepter having torn through numerous pantheons and containing the power of the Godwave
• Pulls Martian Manhunter out of a black hole
• Helps the rest of the Justice League pull the moon
• Superman implies that Diana and Captain Marvel have a similar level of punching strength
• Pulls the Earth alongside Superman and Martian Manhunter
• Helps lift the Spectre alongside Superman and Kyle Rayner
• Zatanna says that Supergirl is the second most powerful girl on the planet after Diana, specifically denying that she herself is the strongest in the process
• Harming Mongul with her sword
• Punching out Supergirl
• She and Superman are described as the mightiest of the Justice League
• Smashes through a Green Lantern’s barrier
• Makes Supergirl bleed with a punch
• Rocked the heavens and earth in battle with Superman
• Batman (with Superman’s powers) takes a hit from Diana that he describes as the strongest he’s ever taken, and since he knows it’s not Clark it can only be Diana, even though the rest of the Justice League are present as well
• Diana acknowledges that Power Girl is at least as strong and fast as her
• Batman says she’s more powerful than Martian Manhunter, Flash (Barry), Green Lantern (Hal), and Aquaman
• Breaks out of Circe’s magic bindings
• Her clash with Supergirl causes shockwaves that produce earthquakes on planets in different solar systems

Post-Flashpoint

• Gouging out Darkseid’s eye with her sword
• Breaks through Hal’s Green Lantern barrier and makes him bleed with a punch
• Kicking Superman hard enough to make him bleed
• Overpowers Artemis and knocks her out, with her bracelets removed
• Punches Aquaman through a boat and makes him bleed
• Punching Supergirl through a big crystal
• Supergirl thinks she’s as strong as Superman
• Diana says she and Kara are closely matched in strength and speed
• Batman thinks Superman is the only one who could stop her if she crosses the line
• Makes the First Born bleed with a punch, with bracelets removed
• Kneeing Zod hard enough to make him bleed
• Makes Superman bleed with a punch
• Sustains Olympus alone with her existence, after the gods deserted it, also restored it after it was destroyed, says that she literally IS Olympus currently
• Strength, speed, and durability match the Olympian gods
• Blocking a fist bash from Amazo with her shield
• Blocking a punch from Metallo with her shield
• Helps Superman lift a city section that’s 17 miles long
• Making Darkseid bleed with a punch and comboing him
• Slashes Darkseid with her sword and makes him bleed, breaks his finger
• Catches a punch from Darkseid, though concedes she can’t defeat him
• Brings the Tree of Wonder back to life, jumpstarting the magic of an entire world
• Overpowers Tezcatlipoca’s stomp
• Clashing with the God Killer Sword, which defeated Ares and killed Aphrodite
• With the strength of the Erotes, breaks the God Killer
• Cutting through Apex Lex Luthor with her sword
• Blocking the God Killer with Peng Deilan’s shield
• Making Kalibak bleed with a punch
• Blocking a hit from Mongul, but knocked back and clearly hurt by it
• In an alternate universe, she killed all of the Olympian gods, decapitating Zeus with her Lasso
• Catches Thor’s hammer strike and knocks him back (uh oh)
• Lassos and pulls the Sun, mentions having done it before
• Flies into space and seemingly makes a big shockwave on the planet upon taking off
• Catches Big Barda’s punch and then knocks her out
• Beats Wonder Girl (Cassie) in arm wrestling
• Punches can rend mountains
• Oneshotting Etrigan
• Barda hitting her bracelets makes a shockwave that could shake the heavens, or in this case hell
• Trading blows with Lobo, stabs and defeats him
• Blocks thousands of projectiles that were each individually designed to take out a Mongul level threat
• Recreates the multiverse in the distant future after the Anti-Life Equation destroyed all of reality, including Apokolips and New Genesis, the Green, and every being in reality other than Diana, to the point that even the Spectre faded away due to having no vengeance left to serve

Speed

Pre-Crisis

• Faster than Mercury/Hermes, even as a child
• Outruns Hermes again, despite the fact that he’s now faster than he was in the past
• Regularly blocks and outspeeds bullets, even as a child
• Casually deflects bullets while drinking soda
• Stated numerous times to be as fast or faster than lightning (148 total)
• Stated numerous times to be as fast or faster than the speed of light
• Can deflect light bolts just as easily as bullets
• Invisible Jet has numerous high-end speed statements (see Invisible Jet section)
• Lassos a switch within microseconds
• Playing baseball with meteor fragments
• Moves so fast that Diana and Wonder Woman appear in the same place at the same time, via outpacing the reflection of light
• Catches a near-lightspeed lightning bolt with some difficulty
• Rides a horse across space at FTL speed
• Outruns what is essentially a particle beam, which is established to be magnetic in nature
• Catches Badra in her Lasso, who is stated to be FTL
• Reads through thousands of files in seconds
• Throws coins so fast that the friction of the air liquefies them
• Throws a discus all the way around Mars and then catches it
• Crosses a lake by leaping off of stones skipped across it mid-movement
• Puts together a shattered case with a million fragments within 20 seconds
• Casually sews/welds the Invisible Jet back together immediately after it is split in half down the middle mid-flight
• Throws a car with Steve Trevor inside it over a mountain, and tunnels through to the other side to catch him before he hits the ground
• Leaping between asteroids in space, kicking them down into the planet so fast they don’t have time to burn up
• Launches herself through a ray so fast it doesn’t harm her, grabs a spaceship and then throws it into a fleet of spaceships to take out two-thirds of their number
• While moving a lantern, moves so fast that the light illuminates another spot before it can fade from where she was to begin with
• Deflects laser beams with her bracelets
• Deflects numerous laser beams at once with her bracelets
• Reacts to Superman’s heat vision point-blank to deflect it, despite the fact that the beams are invisible even to her
• Moves faster than the speed of thought, evading telepathic detection
• Constructs an entire factory by herself in under ten minutes
• Answers 11 phone calls at the same time
• Invisible Jet flies past far-flung galaxies quickly
• Dodges a blast from Doctor Fate
• Flying at a similar speed as a casual Superman and Red Tornado
• Invisible Jet could reach the Palace at the Edge of Time in a short time
• Invisible Jet is able to fly to Mount Olympus
• Moving with a speed rivaling even the Flash
• Says she’s almost as fast as Flash
• Outrunning Jay Garrick and Alan Scott; wins the race, suspects that Jay was holding back and he denies it, asserting that underestimating her for the first half second was all it took to lose
• Can temporarily run as fast as Flash or Superman, but can’t keep it up for long due to lacking the endurance for it
• Keeps up for a time with the Black Pirate and even claims to be faster than him, which he does not dispute; Black Pirate is stated to be as fast as the Flash on the next page
• By running at “unmeasurable” speed, vibrates out of the time dimension into the future, so as to stand in front of a mirror without making a reflection
• Instantly flies the Invisible Jet into space at such dazzling speed that she passes into another dimension
• Maneuvers her jet through a cosmic jet stream that carries things across the cosmos at immeasurable speed
• Twirls her lasso so fast that it slips through dimensional barriers and is guided by Wonder Woman’s thoughts into the fourth dimension
• Spins the lasso at “unimaginable” speed, creating a gateway through time and space
• Moves fast enough to outpace infinite reflections of herself that are always ahead of her
• Lassos and pulls the moon at incalculable speed, passing into another dimension
• Vibrates at such a high speed that she passes into another dimension
• Vibrates her hands between prison bars at immeasurable speed to melt them
• Runs forward through time, returning to the present via super speed alone

Post-Crisis

• Keeps up with an opponent as fast as Hermes
• Mercury compliments her speed and immediately afterward calls her more of a challenge than Hermes
• Faster flight speed than Donna Troy, to the point where Donna thinks she will never be as fast as Diana
• Flight speed keeps up with Superman, Guy Gardner, and Captain Marvel
• Throws the Lasso out of a black hole
• Dodges an attack from Sinestro’s ring
• Keeps up with Jesse Quick, and throws her Lasso fast enough to catch her after she enters the Speed Force
• Flies into the upper atmosphere repeatedly
• Scours the globe at super speed alongside Superman and Flash
• Diana and Hermes are the two fastest people Hippolyta has seen, as of 2001
• Catches Flash with her Lasso when he’s running out of control
• Blocks the shards of the Shattered God that were retracting from every corner of the universe
• Adapts to Flash’s speed by sensing changes in air pressure around her
• Catches Zoom in her Lasso while he is moving ahead of her in time and she is blind
• Fights Superman while traveling to the sun at FTL speed
• Almost as fast as the Flash
• Perception blitzes Amazo
• Blocking Amazo’s heat vision consecutively with her bracelets
• Says that Amazo is faster than Clark and as fast as her
• Claims to be faster than Superman in combat while he is faster in travel; Batman agrees with her

Post-Flashpoint

• Blocking bullets from an M230 chain gun
• Invisible Jet flies to Mars in a short time-frame
• If she swings her sword fast enough it will superheat and cauterize the wounds she causes, preventing them from regenerating
• Catches Supergirl mid-flight with her Lasso
• Kara comments that she’s too fast, later comments again on her speed
• Dodging around Superman
• Keeping up with Cheetah’s super speed
• Outpaces a fist bash from Doomsday with her flight
• Catches up to Superman’s flight speed even when he’s in a hurry to save his family
• Deflects a blast from a Green Lantern with her bracelet
• Invisible Jet flies to space and travels across the galaxy
• Martian Manhunter’s reflexes are said to be “on par with any Amazon”

Durability

Pre-Crisis

• Withstands being blasted at a million miles a minute by the reverse-gravity gun, which was previously able to alter Saturn’s rings
• Knocked out but not killed by a bullet ricocheting off her bracelet and into her head
• Survives an explosion created by numerous air atoms being split
• Ordinary lightning would be unable to damage the Invisible Jet
• Saves some people from a meteor and then survives getting hit in the head with it
• Survives an explosion that was going to destroy the space-time continuum within seconds (though so did Batman and Green Arrow lol, miiiiiight not be a legit durability feat)
• The force it takes to shock Wonder Woman into unconsciousness is almost immeasurable
• Claims the Invisible Jet is about as durable as Earth-2 Superman’s body
• Survives the shockwave of a planet busting bomb from some distance away
• Endures a copied version of Martian Manhunter’s super breath from Amazo
• Lasso survives several lightning strikes that hit with the force of an exploding sun (probable hyperbole lol)
• Survives Jove/Zeus’ lightning
• Struck by Superman’s strength being rebounded onto her by a villain
• Superman explicitly believes that Wonder Woman is more durable than Green Lantern, stating that an impact that would kill Hal “might” harm her
• Takes a punch with more force than she herself can produce
• Tanking Supergirl’s heat vision

Post-Crisis

• Withstands magical pressure that causes worldwide earthquakes
• Compares an impact to being hit by one of Zeus’ thunderbolts, implying she has experienced that before
• Survives a blast from Hermes
• Survives being launched into a realm beyond and between time and space
• Endures pain beyond what even Darkseid could inflict
• Endures an arrow from Apollo
• Survives being compressed into pinpoint size along with the surrounding square mile, creating a black hole
• Survives 1100 blows in less than a second from Mayfly, who is faster than Flash
• Survives a blast from Circe
• Endures torture from Darkseid and Desaad so extreme that the blood boiling in her veins and her bones being made of broken glass is described as equivalent to a tiny fraction of the pain coursing through her. It is “the kind of pain that seems to fill the universe.” She endures level 13 torture, with no mortal having ever gone above level 3, and it is then upped to Level 16.
• Takes a wrecking ball and machine gun fire from Kyle Rayner
• Survives a blast from the sorcerer Arion that is likened to the universe imploding within her body, ten times ten billion galaxies crashing together in the center of her being, exploding up and out with all the light and fury that ever burned in the heavens
  • Worth noting that Arion was empowered by Morgan Le Fay at the time, who creates an infinite universe in the same issue, so this might actually not be hyperbole
• Martian Manhunter was completely overwhelmed by the pain Diana is currently experiencing, upon reading her mind
• Endures surgery while conscious
• Takes a lightspeed punch from Zoom which she says hurts more than Superman’s punches
• Survives Etrigan’s hellfire
• Blocking heat vision with her hands
• Punched from the sun to the earth, blacks out temporarily but fine
• Takes Superman’s frost breath
• Gets smacked into Superman hard enough to knock both of them out
• Punches and tanks a thermonuclear missile explosion
• Takes hits from an enemy who she says hits harder than Superman, and she compares it to Thor’s hammer
• Making a barrier with her bracelets to block a punch from Power Girl
• Gets punched all the way to Canada
• Bracelets block a sword that was forged to kill the gods
• Tanking machine gun fire and tank shots and rockets randomly one time

Post-Flashpoint

• Survives lightning from Ocean Master, though is harmed
• Bracelets block projectiles that can harm Superman
• Survives a nuclear blast caused by her sword
• Endures Wonderstar/Magog’s laser eyes being shot directly into her eyes
• Survives an explosion that destroys Olympus
• Taking a hit from Simon Baz’s Green Lantern construct
• Tanks Grail’s Omega Beams, and later Darkseid’s, though Darkseid wasn’t trying to kill her
• Withstands the lightning of Zeus combined with the fires of Hephaestus
• Blocking attacks from a weapon that destroyed the Bow of Ra, with her bracelets
• Survives an energy blast from Apex Lex Luthor
• Tanks a fist bash from Phantom Stranger
• Tanks Thor’s lightning
• Enduring Apollo’s lasers
• Circe admits she can’t kill her
• Takes a beating from Newmazo that also hurts Superman; Amazo previously claimed to be as strong as Supergirl and Martian Manhunter combined
• Powers through getting pummeled by Big Barda
• Getting hit by 80 thousand tons of marble (the Washington Monument)
• Fought Grail for almost an hour
• Endures a shockwave that could shake the heavens
• Taking blows from Lobo
• Getting slammed by Hephaestus
• Has fought for hours or weeks on several occasions

Scaling

Superman

Diana has shown to be a consistent rival to Superman in every continuity, having fought him countless times, with numerous statements describing her strength to be equal to his, or oftentimes just shy of it. It is worth clarifying that Superman is most consistently slightly stronger than Diana, being the strongest member of the Justice League, but it is always by a narrow margin, and she is usually referred to as the second strongest after him. As such, she should be in a similar ballpark to the majority of Superman’s feats, outside of amps.

• Restores infinite future timelines in his clash with Jaxxon
• States that a planet-busting bomb strapped to his belt cannot harm him
• Flies around an exploding sun so fast that the supernova’s heat and radiation is sucked inward, causing the star to collapse into a black hole. Subsequently flies fast enough to escape the black hole’s pull.
• Pushes toward the center of the Big Bang and destroys the central pyramid containing its energy
• Twice described by Brainiac to possess infinite/limitless power
• Flies from Earth to the Capella star system in 3 seconds
• Flies across the galaxy so fast that Brainiac’s navigational computers (which facilitate MFTL+ travel) can no longer track him, crossing light years in moments at “multi-light speed”
• Flies so fast that he breaks the time barrier and ends up in the past
• Alongside Supergirl, bursts the bonds of infinity with his speed
• Contributes 1/5 of the energy needed to create a Big Bang with his heat vision
• Able to defeat several characters such as Extant and Triumph who are stronger than Hourman, who possesses infinite power
• Along with Steel, moves a tesseract which was described as infinite space within finite space
• Survived Aztek’s self-destruct, with Aztek’s energy being described as limitless and 4th-dimensional
• Survives the collapse of the universe
• Smashes through one of the Quantum Mechanics, who are on par with Mxyzptlk
• Holds his own against Asmodel, who could have torn down all of reality
• Survives the collision of Apokolips and New Genesis
• Fights and takes hits from the Entropy Aegis, which has the power to destroy and remake the universe
• Fights and overpowers Nebula Man, a living universe
• A clash between two Supermen shatters the boundaries between space and time, putting two universes in peril
• Lifts the infinite Book of Limbo along with Shazam
• Intercepts reality-blitzing missiles
• Staggered the Red King and was capable of fighting him for an extended period of time; the Red King was capable of repeatedly destroying realities which contained multiple universes
• Absorbs red sun radiation 50 times stronger than Kepler’s supernova
• Harmed Mordru and tanked a blast from him
• Briefly fought against Time Trapper Superman-Prime a couple times, though was overpowered
• Acts within an attosecond
• Cyborg Superman mentions that he has flown through supernovas
• Shakes the Phantom Zone with a punch
• One-shot Auteur.io, who created the Archive of Worlds and was capable of destroying the realities within
• Punched out Barbatos, who can shake the multiverse and killed the World Forger in the Dark Multiverse

Wonder Girls

There have been three different Wonder Girls that have held the title over the years: Donna Troy, Cassie Sandsmark, and Yara Flor. Though their powers are not precisely identical to Diana’s, they are very similar, and Diana has consistently shown to be superior to all three of them in every respect, from strength to speed to skill. As such, she scales easily to all three of them.

• Donna survives a moon explosion
• Donna’s super breath blows a meteor back into space
• Donna survives a blast from Monarch that was compared to the Big Bang
• Donna evades a bloodlusted Wally West temporarily
• Donna fights and manages to inflict damage on Eclipso
• Donna has managed to catch up to Jesse Quick mid-movement
• Cassie takes out Superman androids stated to be nearly as strong as the real thing
• Cassie overpowers Despero
• Cassie saves Superboy from being pulled into a black hole
• Cassie deflects Superboy-Prime’s heat vision with her bracelets
• Yara was able to escape from a black hole
• Yara was able to harm Eros repeatedly and slice his hand off

Hippolyta

Diana is frequently stated to be the strongest, fastest, and most skilled of all the Amazons, as all of her traits have been amplified by the gods, so she most definitely surpasses her mother in all respects..

• Hippolyta moves swifter than lightning
• Hippolyta was fast enough to lasso a photon
• Hippolyta is able to cleave atoms with her sword
• Hippolyta tore through an Imperiex Drone while wearing the Gauntlet of Atlas
• Hippolyta makes Darkseid bleed with her spear
• Hippolyta was able to fight evenly with Zeus
• Hippolyta created Dimension Chi and it exists at her will

Cheetah

While Cheetah is perhaps slightly faster than Diana, the two are rivals when it comes to speed, and Diana is her equal or superior in raw strength. With this in mind, she is consistently comparable to Cheetah.

• Ranked among the top 10 fastest characters in DC, just over Diana herself
• Cheetah dons her costume at lightning speed
• Stated repeatedly to be as fast or almost as fast as the Flash
• Has even brutalized Flash on several occasions
• Has knocked out Superman and pierced his skin with her teeth
• Superman compared Sebastian Ballesteros Cheetah’s strength to Shazam

Circe

Despite being one of the universe’s most formidable sorceresses, Circe has met her match in Diana, who has tanked her magic, broken through it, and defeated her various times. This has caused Circe to concede that she cannot defeat Diana in combat, and even that she cannot kill her. With this in mind, Diana certainly scales to Circe’s magic.

• Repeatedly insinuated to be capable of destroying the universe
• Possesses 1/5 of Hecate’s power

Supergirl

Diana has fought Supergirl many times and generally has a favorable record. At best, the two are even in strength and speed, but Supergirl has also commented that Diana is too fast for her, and also consistently much more skilled. Zatanna has also expressed that Supergirl is the second strongest woman on the planet after Wonder Woman.

• Breaks the Anti-Monitor’s armor
• Throws Brainiac’s weapons and ship into the Sun within the span of a sentence, causing a huge explosion on the star’s surface
• Casually chucks several dozen planets into new orbits
• Stated to be able to crack the planet in half
• Claimed to be able to survive an exploding star
• Flew dozens of parsecs in a brief time-frame
• Quickly flew to the Source Wall
• Intercepted Darkseid’s Omega Beams
• Fought Blackstarr, who was stated to control the entire universe
• She and Blackstarr have enough power between them to pulverize the galaxy
• Inputted several quintillion lines of code within the span of an eyeblink
• Took hits from Reactron, who has the power of a thousand galaxies
• Survives a barrage that could have brought down galaxies

Green Lantern

Diana has smashed through Lantern constructs numerous times, and has been described or implied to be stronger than Hal Jordan on various occasions. For example, Superman believed that an attack that could kill Hal only might be able to hurt Diana. She’s also overpowered other Lanterns like Kyle.

• Hal Jordan probes the universe with his constructs in a heartbeat
• Flodo Span encompasses and destroys an evil galaxy
• Hal Jordan survives attacks from Sinestro with the GLC Central Battery, which can become as large as the universe and destroy it
• Ganthet creates a construct to shield himself from the Big Bang
• Kyle Rayner survives being blasted by the Zero Hour Big Bang
• Guardians and Controllers have power on par with the Big Bang
• Alan Scott’s death would have destroyed the solar system
• Mogo is described to possess limitless power
• Kyle Rayner and Anarky reverse the warping of the universe
• Hal Jordan created Willworld, an infinite universe, within his ring, and it is established that this exists within all lantern rings
• Kyle Rayner holds back the Big Bang energies leaking from Imperiex
• A Green Lantern villain, Starbreaker, has laid waste to galactic clusters
• John Stewart creates a solar system with his power ring
• Hal Jordan and Guy Gardner fly across the universe
• Rookie Green Lanterns are capable of creating universes
• Starbreaker overpowered a person who was capable of merging universes
• The Starheart is capable of obliterating reality; Kyle Rayner can kill Alan Scott while he is possessed by the Starheart
• Hal Jordan knocks off Crispus Allen Spectre’s jaw, later stabs him with the Guardians’ help
• Hal Jordan defeats Krona when he had the power of all the Emotional Entities
• Hal Jordan sends tremors across the entire emotional electromagnetic spectrum
• Hal Jordan nearly causes a Speed Force singularity
• Hal Jordan contains the power of the U-Bomb, which would have compressed all matter in the universe into a quark core

The Flash

Diana is established to be stronger than the Flash, in addition to many indirect statements calling her the second strongest Justice League member. Obviously he is consistently faster than her and she has various instances of struggling with his speed, but it is worth noting that she’s been stated to be almost as fast as him on various occasions across all three continuities, and is faster than Hermes who is faster than an early Wally West. She has also thrown her Lasso into the Speed Force, so she should scale above speed feats that Flash has performed without breaching the Speed Force.

• Eobard Thawne reverses the destruction of the universe with his vibrations
• Wally West hits at near-lightspeed with the mass of a white dwarf star
• Wally West outruns the Cosmic Gamblers, reaching trans-time velocity without entering the Speed Force
• Jenni Ognats threatens to rip apart the universe via relativity
• Wally West is stated to possess infinite and incalculable power by Mr. Terrific
• Barry Allen and Godspeed survive attacks from an amped Paradox, who was destroying the time stream
• Barry Allen deforms space-time with his infinite mass punch, toppling the COIE Anti-Monitor
• The birth of the Speed Force shook the Metaverse and created the multiverse
• Barry and Wally generate enough energy to be mistaken for the Source prior to breaching the Speed Force

Martian Manhunter

Diana has been described as a rival in strength to Martian Manhunter, and his reflexes are said to be “equal to any Amazon,” implying in return that her reflexes are comparable to his.

• Pushes against Brainiac’s planet-sized Mothership alongside Superman, halting its 36,000 mph descent into the stratosphere
• Reaches out to every mind on Earth within nanoseconds, zeptoseconds, and Planck time

Captain Marvel

Diana is officially ranked to be faster than Captain Marvel, has withstood his lightning and has fought him on even terms, cementing her as comparable to him overall.

• Rocks the cosmos in his fight with Lobo
• Casts a spell which prevents the seven Magiclands from collapsing into each other
• Lightning can atomize things
• Lightning can reach “600,000,000,000,000,000 mega-volts”
• Can fly to the Rock of Eternity, which exists outside of time and space
• Comparable to Black Adam, who disrupted the fundamental fabric of the omniverse
• Has access to every bit of magic that has ever been cast from the Rock of Eternity
• While amped by more powerful gods than normal, his power was said to be capable of piercing through the Source, and he easily defeated Yuga Khan, Darkseid’s father who could manipulate the Source

Superboy-Prime

Many Kryptonians to whom Wonder Woman scales have harmed, kept up with, and even beaten Superboy-Prime on a relatively consistent basis. For example, Post-Crisis Superman has traded blows with him. For that reason, Diana should be within his ballpark, at least prior to Death Metal.

• Affected multiple timelines by punching the walls of a dimension beyond space and time
• Oneshot his future self, Time Trapper, when he had become a sentient timeline
• Breached Monarch’s armor, releasing enough energy to destroy the space-time continuum
• Clashed with Superboy and destroyed the Anti-Monitor tower, causing the multiverse to collapse in on itself
• Bart Allen needed to absorb the entire Speed Force to outspeed him
• Fought Sodam Yat when he was empowered by Ion
• Insinuated that he would be able to survive the Big Bang
• Stated in guidebooks to be a bigger threat than the Anti-Monitor ever was

Nemesis

Diana fought and directly killed the vengeance god Nemesis toward the end of Post-Crisis, scaling her definitively to her. She would also scale via being comparable to the Olympian gods.

• Nemesis was a threat to the Olympian gods, capable of destroying Olympus

The First Born

The First Born is a villain from Diana’s New 52 solo run whom she fought and defeated after removing her bracelets. While this solo run was later retconned as a series of false memories, the First Born was still referenced in guidebooks after that point, and made a brief reappearance in later comics where Diana fought and defeated him again. As such, scaling to him should still be applicable.

• Was a threat to Olympus, capable of destroying it from within

Queen Atomia

Queen Atomia is a Pre-Crisis villain whom Diana has fought and defeated many times, overcoming the threat posed by her subatomic universe. She also frequently fought and defeated Atomia’s neutron soldiers and other underlings.

• Atomia telekinetically controlled her atomic universe, even after a point when it had swelled by at least thousands of times, possibly trillions, despite the fact that she herself is so small that it is normally universe-sized relative to her
• Capable of disintegrating the planet with her atom-sized universe
• Neutron soldiers were capable of destroying the atomic universe

Olympian Gods

Diana has deflected the combined power of the Olympians, slaughtered all of them in an alternate timeline, and defeated numerous villains capable of posing a threat to the pantheon as a whole. The Lasso is also explicitly described to be more powerful than all of Olympus, and Diana was able to sustain the existence of Olympus by herself when the gods deserted it.

• Zeus created Olympus
• Zeus channels the power of a handful of other gods to defeat the Shattered God
• Zeus defeated Kane Milohai, who can create universes, within his own dimension
• Zeus is capable of combatting a weakened Darkseid, and absorbing Zeus’ power is enough to restore Darkseid to full strength
• Hera is one of the Quintessence, on par with entities like the Spectre and the Wizard
• Hermes is faster than an early Wally West
• Hermes could fly between Earth to Olympus, which is in the Sphere of Gods, between panels
• Apollo is capable of moving the sun
• Comparable to Titans like Atlas, who is capable of lifting the cosmos
• The gods’ combined power is capable of destroying Olympus
• The combined Greek pantheon could supposedly conquer Apokolips

New Gods

Diana has frequently fought lesser New Gods like Big Barda, Kalibak, and so on, and has also harmed and posed a threat to the stronger ones like Darkseid. While she has conceded her inability to defeat Darkseid 1-on-1, she can still gouge his eyes out, break his fingers, and so on. She also scales to Superman who has fought him plenty of times as well. Perhaps most impressively, she was able to overpower and ultimately defeat Tezcatlipoca, an Aztec deity of comparable stature.

• Darkseid flew to the edge of the universe in moments
• Darkseid withstands a punch from Alan Scott when he was empowered by multiversal energy
• Orion contains the power of the Oblivion Bomb, which was reacting with every atom in the universe and going to destroy everything
• Orion destroys a star system with just the shockwaves from his battle with an Nth metal golem
• Orion flew from New Genesis to Earth in less than a heartbeat
• Takion can tap into the Speed Force, and perceive “an eternity” between moments
• Magnar can hit with the power of a hundred galaxies

Cronus & The Godwave

Even while weakened, Diana was able to shatter Cronus’ scepter, through which he channeled a notable portion of the Godwave. When he attempted to channel the Godwave, he was destroyed quickly, while Diana could do so for longer intervals, cementing her as his superior. Obviously, while channeling the Godwave herself, Diana would scale to feats that Cronus performed with his fraction of the Godwave.

• Cronus sent a shockwave across reality from Olympus, shaking Olympus to its roots in the process
• Cronus intends to harness the Godwave and use it to conquer Heaven and rip the wings off the angels
• Cronus shakes creation by killing Shiva
• Cronus tears the Godwave from the realm of the Hindu gods and shakes the cosmos in the process
• Cronus oneshots the angel Echielias with his scepter
• Cronus’ energy spreads through reality itself, corrupting the Godwave
• Cronus cracks the foundations of heaven
• Cronus cuts through the King Angel of the Bull Host with the scepter
• Cronus intends to become all creation
• The Olympian Gods were created by a portion of the Godwave
• Devastation empowered by the Godwave clashes with Artemis, which is described as “seeming as if the energy of the universe is erupting, threatening to tear the foundations from reality”
• Darkseid tries to harness the power of the Godwave to destroy the Source Wall and even the Source itself

Miscellaneous Heroes

Various other superheroes throughout the DC universe that Diana should be comparable or superior to.

• Aquaman blocks Atlan’s blow, which was capable of sinking Atlantis
• Hawkman has battled Barbatos
• Firestorm is capable of triggering a Big Bang
• Karate Kid knocks Mon-El to another solar system
• Captain Atom destroyed and recreated the universe in a nanosecond
• Captain Atom twisted space and time during his fight with Hank Hall Monarch, destroying universes within atoms

Miscellaneous Villains

(hey who invited blud-)

Various villains whom Diana has encountered and defeated over the course of her long tenure, or whom she should scale to indirectly, via being comparable to other members of the Justice League.

• Lex Luthor’s Warsuit survives a planet exploding
• Lex Luthor has a suit powered by a black hole
• Lobo pulls down an alien entity with stellar levels of mass
• Brainiac was capable of downloading and destroying infinite possible futures taken from Hypertime within a few hours
• Doomsday smashes through the Phantom Zone and was noted to have “broken” it
• The Void Hound was able to destroy 10 star systems during a test run
• Sky Riders previously survived their planet exploding, Diana overpowered them at age 7
• Sun Warriors fly from the Sun to the Earth quickly
• Uranian ships fly from Uranus to Earth
• Queen Bravura and her people survive being launched into space by an explosion that dislodged a continent-sized chunk of Earth
• Giant can make matchwood out of Earth
• Black Pirate is stated to be as fast as the Flash

Weaknesses

Pre-Crisis Wonder Woman famously loses her powers if tied up by a man. This is because of the Amazons’ history with being oppressed by men such as Hercules; it was a specification by Aphrodite that should they ever be shackled again they would lose their powers. Much less famously, Pre-Crisis Wonder Woman also has an extremely consistent and explicitly–stated weakness to getting hit in the back of the head, specifically at the base of the skull, which is stated to be the only spot where she isn’t invulnerable. It’s possible that this is a reference to the Greek hero Achilles and his heel, but the comparison has never been explicitly drawn. Regardless, both of these weaknesses went away after the Crisis and are no longer relevant.

More substantially, yes, Diana is explicitly weak to piercing weapons, suffering normal wounds from bullets and arrows despite the fact that she can take hits from Kryptonians. The reason given in-universe is the difference in surface area between a fist and a bullet, no matter how silly that may be. She does have some instances of being bulletproof, but they’re generally isolated instances written by one-off comic authors, and not part of her solo runs. She’s also competitive to a fault and will never surrender in battle, a personality flaw that Batman has taken advantage of to defeat her in the past. Specific weapons and powers have their own individual weaknesses or limitations that are covered in their sections.

Before the Verdict

As mentioned at the start, the two members who worked on this blog put together personal retrospectives and reviews on the previous episodes for these combatants. If you’ve ever been curious about how much of what they said in the original Thor vs Wonder Woman was true, or if Diana really is a victim of the chick from Obsession, wonder no longer!

Thor

Thor VS Raiden

I’m a Mortal Kombat fan and I’m pretty familiar with Raiden, so I can comment on his side of this match as well, though there’s not much to say about this episode research-wise.

Mach 32 Thor

I think the biggest point people bring up with regards to this episode’s research (beyond questioning why they did such a stomp lol) is this little note about Thor’s speed in the side-bar. Obviously, it’s a big community in-joke that Thor gets absurdly faster every single time he’s mentioned, with more recent episodes having outright placed him at infinite speeds. The Mach 32 number is specifically pulled from Thor’s profile from the latest edition of the Marvel Handbook. Volume 12, the issue that had the profile on Thor, came out in January 2010, so relatively close to the episode’s release. The handbook likely came up with the Mach 32 number based on Thor being able to enter space with a throw of Mjolnir, meaning the speed of the hammer exceeds escape velocity. In the time since this episode came out, the Mach 32 number was referenced on-page by the canon graphic novel Avengers: Endless Wartime released in 2013, which depicted it as Thor’s in-atmosphere flight speed.

I think Thor’s speed is a pretty interesting topic, and certainly a pretty well-worn one in battleboarding. While Thor has numerous feats of massively hypersonic or FTL flight, his actual reactions in combat are pretty slim-pickings, and a lot of writers seem to not conceptualise him as having super-speed at all, resulting in some infamously bad anti-feats, which are backed up by some comments by Tom Breevort, Marvel’s long-time executive editor, affirming that he has no superhuman reactions to speak of. On the flip-side, many writers also definitely do write Thor with the idea of him having superhuman reflexes, most obviously Stan Lee/Jack Kirby and Jason Aaron, both of whom make frequent reference to Thor’s speed, and the latter of whom depicting Thor as fighting across light-years in his battles. Aaron’s writing on Jane Foster Thor in particular gives her some pretty ludicrous speed feats both in flight and in reactions, though this discussion gets into a broader topic beyond the scope of this episode. The episode uses the Marvel Handbook as a source beyond just the speed, several lines in the side-bar are lifted verbatim from Thor’s profile in it. Since the handbooks are a very reliable source, I don’t have much issue with that, and I don’t think interpreting Thor as slow in general is particularly egregious. Thor getting so much faster over time in subsequent episodes reflects how scaling standards in the DB-sphere have shifted and gotten ‘looser’ and overall more lenient. Blame Goku if you want.

“Thor Odinson the Mighty”

The sidebar says this is Thor’s full name and I have no idea why. “Mighty” is just his title.

“Superiority complex”

A point brought up in Thor’s analysis and the verdict is that Thor is arrogant and has a superiority complex, and the sidebar in the verdict says Thor consistently beating Loki suggests he’d be able to handle Raiden being cleverer and wise. I think that’s a pretty strange reading on Thor’s character, especially at the time of this episode coming out, which was during the Fear Itself event. While Thor was arrogant in his youth, his whole backstory was overcoming that. In his actual history as a superhero, he’s pretty consistently characterised as being prideful but kind-hearted, and he’s never had issues admitting when he’s outclassed, certainly nowhere close to a superior complex.

By this point, Thor had also already received wisdom from Yggdrasil during the events of Ragnarok, and had just come off of an arc in the comics of serving pretty effectively as All-Father of Asgard. Throughout his history he’s always been characterised as a very intelligent and clever fighter. I don’t really think there’s much difference between how clever he’s usually depicted as and how clever Raiden is usually depicted as by the time of Mortal Kombat 9.

Verdict

I think most would agree Thor obviously wins, even considering the highest end Mortal Kombat arguments, but the calc used for Mjolnir’s strength in the episode doesn’t really make sense. Mjolnir was forged in a dying star, but it’s not made of one. The star was just needed to supply the energy to forge the uru into a weapon. Mjolnir’s weight is inconsistent, but it’s usually depicted as just having the mass of a normal hammer beneath its worthiness enchantment especially considering this episode came out prior to any of the God Tempest stuff. Thor also isn’t immune to lightning, just resistant.

Overall

I think this still holds up as a pretty fun episode, especially for its time. Fighting another thunder god means this episode’s animation actually does a pretty good job of capturing Thor’s fighting style. It’s easy to forget in vs-spheres that Thor’s primary ability is controlling the weather, and he employs storms in combat above all else next to his physical strikes. There’s some obvious mistakes in the analyses given the standards of the time (Thor’s list of fighting styles has no source to my knowledge, Thor didn’t actually tank a planet bust in the panel they showed), but it’s essentially what you’d expect.

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Thor VS Wonder Woman

This was a pretty controversial episode at the time and remains frequently debated (someone should really make a blog on it), since it’s a match between two A-List characters. There’s a good amount to dig into in the analysis, fight, and verdict as a result, so I’ll give more specific breakdowns.

Thor’s rundown

I think it’s overall pretty solid, even watching it with a modern perspective. Most of the feats listed (Mjolnir crossing the galaxy, lifting the Midgard Serpent, destroying planets against Gorr, surviving in the Sun) are the classic feats you tend to see brought up frequently when Thor was discussed in vs-spheres circa 2017, and certainly ones I’ve seen discussed countless times, but the specifics mentioned and how he’s analysed means you can tell Thor had a good number of comics read for his research. Since Thor has so many good feats of his own, you don’t really need to get into scaling for him, especially given DB’s standards at the time. A sore-point at the time was scaling his combat speed to Quicksilver, given the feat in question is just him blowing him away with an AOE attack and not reacting to anything in particular, though that goes back to the debates over Thor’s speed in general. The episode also actually does an ok job covering Thor’s story and the Ragnarok cycles, which is the natural through-line to focus on for his character arc.

There’s a couple of key things I feel could be criticised:

• Mjolnir’s abilities were barely discussed

This was a pretty big talking point when the episode first came out and remains a big issue with it. Thor’s analysis almost entirely focuses on his natural abilities and physical feats, with Mjolnir only really discussed at the beginning. Even then, the coverage of Mjolnir’s abilities is very sparse, and none of it is depicted with any scans on-screen, even pretty specific bits like the God Tempest. While Thor is obviously a powerful warrior, storms and lightning are one of his main offensive options, and have tons of impressive feats to talk about which would be relevant for a fight like this. Likewise, Thor makes use of Mjolnir’s various esoteric magical abilities pretty frequently, and not a single one of them is mentioned. It ends up feeling like a pretty big hole in the analysis and verdict, and it’s stranger still since Diana’s rundown goes out of its way to mention a feat of her tanking lightning that goes undiscussed in the verdict.

Tying in to this point, a lot of the more specific feats which would be relevant to this match-up aren’t discussed either. A big factor in the verdict is piercing durability, yet no mention of Thor’s own piercing durability feats for comparison are made, and it’s not like he doesn’t have ones which would be relevant to discuss. It gives a pretty general overview of his strength, speed, and durability, and so the verdict is kind of un-nuanced. Thor is one of the most used characters in battleboarding, so a lot of people are going into the video with certain expectations of what will be discussed and what arguments should be considered. In that regard, the Godblast having 0 mention is also pretty strange. Thor obviously doesn’t use the Godblast much, but it’s definitely worth at least acknowledging in a vs analysis on the character, and it’s known enough in battleboarding circles that its total exclusion caused a pretty big fuss.

• Thor’s depiction in the fight

I think above all this might have soured people’s opinions on Thor losing the most. Thor is pretty out of character in the fight, both to his comic self and his MCU self. He opens up on making a sexist remark to Wonder Woman despite knowing warrior women exactly like her such as Sif, Hildegarde, Brunhilde, and his own mother Freyja, and he ends the fight in a berserker rage while quoting Superboy-Prime. The inclusion of Warrior Madness makes enough sense, but it ends up causing Thor to be characterised as kind of a man-baby, which I’m sure rubs salt in the wound for a lot of people.

“This is the Realm Eternal, root of the World Tree, and noblest of the Nine Dimensions, Asgard.”

This is a smaller point, but while Asgard does contain Yggdrasil’s roots, it’s most frequently depicted as sitting at the crown of the World Tree. Likewise, by this point in the comics, there were no longer just Nine Dimensions. The existence of Heven as the tenth realm was revealed in 2014, and ever since Yggdrasil has been consistently considered ten realms, though it’s an understandable exclusion since otherwise you might have to go on a weird side tangent to avoid confusion.

“Since ancient times, this colorful realm has been inhabited by warriors so powerful, many believed them to be immortal deities.”

This is kind of a weird line, since it feels like it’s trying to mix in the MCU interpretation of Asgardians just being very advanced aliens. In the comics, the Asgardians are very clearly actual gods, and it was well-established by this point that they were basically living stories. I can’t really speak to what the intent was behind writing it this way but I feel it could be phrased a little better.

“Then they’re born anew with only vague memories of their previous lives.”

This is kind of one of the tricky things about trying to cover the Ragnarok story, since how all this works is pretty contradictory. The episode is correct in this and I’m glad it was covered, but this episode came out right around the time Jason Aaron was beginning to heavily retcon Asgardian lore in a way kind of totally incompatible with the Ragnarok cycles. Even prior to this, the existence of Tiwaz and Bor has thrown a wrench into trying to interpret what exactly the origin of Odin and the Asgardian race is. Of course, in-universe this is explained as the conflicting nature of stories, but it would go way out of scope for the episode to get into specifics.

“This guy is six feet, six inches of pure muscle, and possibly lead, because he somehow weighs 640 pounds.”

I don’t know if this was meant to be just a joke or if it was actual confusion from the writer on how he weighed so much, but I did want to mention that there is a reason why Thor is so heavy. The Marvel Handbook says Asgardians have muscle density 3x greater than ordinary humans to justify their superhuman strength, which is also where Thor weighing this much comes from.

“And of course, being the God of Thunder lets him control lightning and even the Earth itself.”

Thor’s ability to control the earth stems from his connection to Gaea, not his abilities as the God of Thunder, though at the time this episode came out, he hadn’t used his Gaea powers much.

“Mjolnir, in particular, is enchanted to house a cosmic storm powerful enough to shake black holes.”

I mentioned it before, but it’s definitely strange how sparse the first two minutes are on comic panels. The entire time, you’re seeing almost exclusively MCU and cartoon footage. Even something as specific as this, referencing the God Tempest, has no comic pages shown on-screen to visualise what’s being described.

“Thor doesn’t really fly on his own in the same way people like Superman or Captain Marvel do. Instead, he literally chucks his hammer as hard as he can, and hangs on for dear life as it takes him for a ride.”

This is true, but it’s worth mentioning that the way Mjolnir’s flight works definitely doesn’t operate on strictly carrying Thor via forward momentum. As the analysis mentioned earlier, Thor can levitate while holding the hammer, and he frequently does stuff while mid-air that would be impossible through strictly being carried by the force of his throw. It’s more like Mjolnir gives Thor the power of flight whenever he has it on his person.

“Thor has said Mjolnir is fast enough to reach the edge of the universe in 60 seconds. This means it can travel at least 350 trillion miles per hour, or over 500,000 times the speed of light.”

This is a very strange line and calculation which has been criticised a ton since the episode came out. Most obvious is that the actual number is completely wrong. Crossing to the edge of the observable universe and back in 60 seconds would require speeds at least 50 quadrillion times the speed of light, 100 billion times greater than the number they give. This also isn’t what the feat is actually showing. The comic panels on-screen clearly show Thor saying he threw it to the edge of the galaxy, not the edge of the universe. The feat also isn’t Thor just saying Mjolnir can do this, it’s Mjolnir actually doing this for real.

What most likely happened is some mix-ups and typos in the script. Crossing to the edge of the galaxy back in 60 seconds depends on what exactly you define as the edge of the galaxy, but can be calculated as requiring speeds 500 million times faster than light. I imagine this number got mixed up somewhere in the production process to become 500 thousand, and then the word “galaxy” got mixed up with “universe” in the script, creating a pretty big error. Mjolnir actually has reached the edge of the universe and back in 60 seconds in a separate showing, having done so to travel to the World Beyond at the edge of existence.

“And, while he was knocked unconscious, he did survive a bomb capable of planet-busting, equal to a force of over 53 quadrillion megatons of TNT ”

This bomb actually didn’t fully hit him. Thor sped through it fast enough that he was well outside of the blast radius when it detonated, and he only got hit by the subsequent shockwave, which launched him into a nearby planet and knocked him out.

“Hold on, Wiz. I know my snakes, and it looks like that mud-guard serpent is actually constricting the Earth. By squeezing prey, a snake can apply pressures 16 times its normal weight, so Thor didn’t just lift a really heavy snake, he outmatched 272 trillion tons of force .”

I always thought this calc was pretty cool. The logic makes enough sense, but it is worth mentioning that the Midgard Serpent’s size is obviously very inconsistent and inexact, since it’s a magical being..

“If it ever comes to it, he can even enter a state of Warrior’s Madness. While he loses some control doing this, his power increases tenfold.”

This is mentioned in the blog, but while it is a common interpretation in vs spheres, I really don’t think Warrior Madness is actually a ten times multiplier to his strength. Its actual showings don’t really back that up, and it’s been made clear that all the madness does is give you a boost via hysterical strength and fighting without restraint. It’s just berserker rage, not some kind of super form transformation.

“KO’d the Phoenix Force.”

This is shown in a side-bar, and most likely refers to him smashing through the Phoenix Force during AVX. However, if you read the tie-ins in Secret Avengers which show more of their battle, it’s more clear that Thor didn’t really knock out the entity. He dispersed it a bit, but the fight kept going immediately afterwards, and Thor and his team lost pretty soundly. You could still argue it’s a strong showing for scaling, but this phrasing is pretty generous to Thor.

“Thor’s cocky attitude has put him into all kinds of trouble. He’s even lost Mjolnir’s power more than once as a result.”

This kind of depends on what you define as “losing Mjolnir’s power”, but if it’s talking about Thor becoming unworthy, I wouldn’t really say this line is accurate. Discounting the averted future of the Reigning, Thor has only ever been unworthy for more than a very brief situational period during one era, from 2014 to 2019, which of course is also when this episode came out. He also didn’t lose worthiness due to being cocky, if anything it was the exact opposite and occurred due to him losing faith in himself.

“if Thor’s holding onto it, its enchantment can even be tricked, like that one time the Hulk used his own hammer against him by moving his arm. Why are you hitting yourself?”

This is a nitpick but I wouldn’t really say this is the enchantment being tricked. It’s just Thor being hit with his own weapon, same as any other weapon, the enchantment doesn’t really have anything to do with it. Ofc, this is referenced for the kill in the fight animation.

“So, to teach Thor a lesson in humility, Odin banished him to Earth, transforming him into a handicapped human.”

It’s really strange to bring up Donald Blake only at the very end of the analysis.

“4,000 years after the previous Ragnarök, armageddon was stopped for good, and the gods were free; all thanks to Thor. And a giant, time-traveling, floating, sentient eyeball, but mostly Thor.”

4000 years isn’t correct; it’s established that the last Ragnarok took place around 2000 years ago, with writer Roy Thomas conceptualising Ragnarok as occurring once every 2160 years. I imagine they most likely got this number from the comic Thor: Truth of History, which depicts Thor and the Warriors Three operating around 4000 years ago, but this is a comic that ignores the existence of the Ragnarok cycles, and may also just be them time-travelling into the past.

The giant sentient eyeball in question also didn’t have anything to do with the end of Ragnarok. The eyeball was just the being which explained what Ragnarok cycles were when the concept was first introduced, and Thor actually ending the cycle took place nearly 300 issues and 20 years of publishing later. It is very funny though so I get why they slipped it in.

“Thor and Wonder Woman matched each other in some surprising ways: Their weapons were enchanted, their years of experience were similar”

Based on the episode’s incorrect interpretation of Wonder Woman’s age and the time it came out, she should actually be more experienced. She’d have around 3000 years of combat experience, while the Thor of the current Ragnarok cycle is about 2000 years old.

“Mjolnir may have been tough for Diana to defend against, but  it couldn’t exploit her weaknesses to piercing weapons.”

A very common criticism of this episode is that they completely ignored Jarnbjorn, which is a piercing weapon and would have rendered this point moot, but I’ve actually never thought that criticism made much sense. Mjolnir is Thor’s primary weapon, he’s always going to use it if it’s available to him. Thor has only primarily used Jarnbjorn in his youth, when he wasn’t yet worthy of Mjolnir, and while he was unworthy, where it was simply the only reliable weapon he had access to. At the time of this episode, the only time Thor ever really dual-wielded Jarnbjorn and Mjolnir was during Uncanny Avengers, and he specifically only brought it out because it’s enchanted to cut Celestials and he knew the Celestials were coming. Obviously, Thor would think to use a bladed weapon if he knew it was useful, but how would he even know that’s what Wonder Woman is weak to? It’s not like she’s immune to blunt impacts, hitting her with Mjolnir is still going to work. There’s just no reason for Thor to think he should specifically switch to Jarnbjorn in a fight like this.

Of course, I do think this is such an obvious point it should have at least been mentioned in the verdict just to address it ahead of time. But it’s not like Wonder Woman is going to instantly fold if her opponent has a bladed weapon anyway, especially since she was placed at speeds much faster than Thor here.

Overall thoughts on the fight

You can definitely tell it’s unfinished, but what’s there isn’t bad. There’s some pretty cool choreography with the hammer and sword near the beginning, and it conveys Diana’s agility and acrobatics well. Thor gets the shorter end of the stick, in part due to how his MVC3 model just doesn’t do him any favors next to Wonder Woman’s realistic Injustice model, but I think the scale of his tornado and the strength of his blows is conveyed well, and it hits I think most of the beats you’d typically imagine a Thor fight having in terms of choreography. It mainly suffers from how awkward the cut scenes make its pacing, and, as mentioned, Thor’s characterisation as an asshole baby-raging, which is pretty inauthentic.

Thor VS Vegeta

This is a pretty modern episode, and I think most people hold it up to higher standards, so I’ll get into the nitty-gritty. Vegeta’s side of it is a whole discussion in its own right.

Thor rundown.

I actually don’t like it very much, I kind of like it less than Thor’s rundown against Wonder Woman. While it definitely fixes issues like the lack of comic panels in its excellent edit and gives more focus on all of Mjolnir’s magic which I appreciate, the way I’d put it is that it really feels like just reading Thor’s VS Battles Wiki page. All the feats and abilities listed are exactly what you’d find if you looked up Thor’s profiles across various vs debating resources with no extra analysis or unique angle given. It’s hard to precisely explain, but Thor’s analysis and depiction ends up really feeling like it betrays a lack of actual familiarity with his comics. It lists his big feats but doesn’t really tie them together in any way. It mentions Mjolnir’s magic, but still glosses over his weather manipulation and lightning, his most important powers. It gives a very simplified and basic overview of his backstory and doesn’t mention the bits which are actually important like his rundown against Wonder Woman did, such as Donald Blake, Gaea, or him being made to stop the Ragnarok cycles. It also makes the actual factual errors in the analysis really stand out. It gets more ‘objectively’ wrong about Thor than his prior analysis did.

This is kind of compounded with how Thor is depicted in the fight animation. Despite how out of character he was, Thor VS Wonder Woman basically got Thor’s fighting style right, with his use of the weather and hits the beats you’d expect to see in a Thor animation. Thor VS Vegeta, meanwhile, makes Thor incredibly DBZ in a way that’s totally unlike anything he’s ever done. He doesn’t manipulate the weather to attack at all beyond a storm in the background for aesthetic, and he kind of awkwardly brings out Jarnbjorn out of nowhere for no particular reason when that’s not something he’s ever done. Even stuff like the Godblast has none of its actual signifying traits from the comics, such as the speech he gives or what the attack actually looks like. It also commits the cardinal sin of depicting Thor Slowdinson as FTE smh.

I’m being kind of harsh here, and I don’t think it’s a bad episode, but I think since it’s a pretty modern episode and is held to modern standards, the issues kind of stand out.

“Age: many millennia”

It’s worth mentioning that while Thor being born 1 million years ago was fully confirmed a few months after this episode came out, it could already be kind of inferred he was that old by the time of this episode’s release based on some dialogue from Odin throughout Jason Aaron’s  Avengers and Thor. I’m fine generalising it to a few thousand years given when this episode was released though.

“Asgardian/Mutant hybrid.”

This is a very strange note in the side-bar and I don’t know what it’s referring to. When this episode came out, it was still unclear what the exact relationship between Thor and the Phoenix was, but even if the episode was running with the assumption the Phoenix is his biological mother for some reason, that wouldn’t make him a mutant. The Phoenix’s host at the time, Firehair, is a mutant, but being the child of a mutant is shown many times in Marvel to not inherently grant you the X-Gene. And of course, Thor has never been treated as a mutant in any comic.

“We’re talkin’ liftin’ a planet-sized serpent-strong, knocking out the Phoenix Force-strong, arm wrestling with Hercules and almost throwing the Earth out of orbit-strong!”

As mentioned, saying Thor knocked out the Phoenix Force isn’t really accurate, he at best stunned it for a bit. As for the Hercules feat, it’s worth noting that what that feat actually is a hypothetical in a bonus story in an anniversary issue of Thor. The whole joke is that the narration describing what would happen if Thor and Hercules arm-wrestled is the actual writers of the comic trying to come up with increasingly grandiose and hyperbolic ways to describe their fight in order to impress the readers, it’s a very tongue-in-cheek and unserious comic. I am fine overall with including it, but it’s not entirely clear-cut.

“And, he’s got the stamina to match… nice, able to fight for 40 days and 40 nights worth without stopping.”

This isn’t incorrect, but this is a pretty weird feat to focus on for Thor’s stamina. Issue 3 of the 2020 Thor run by Donny Cates opened on narration recounting how Thor was once able to fight for two years straight singlehandedly in a war against thousands without any form of rest or sustenance, and described this as such a short duration to Thor that he doesn’t even remember it. That’s an incredibly explicit feat from a very modern comic, so it definitely would have been better to use.

“And what better weapon for the God of Storms to wield than a sentient cosmic storm?”

This is mostly mentioned for background details, but it’s worth noting the God Tempest was actually killed and purged out of Mjolnir a few months before this episode came out. By the time it was released, the hammer All-Father Thor was using had Odin’s spirit inside it instead, though this episode didn’t give the All-Power to Thor. The God Tempest in general was only really active when Jane Foster held Mjolnir.

“In Norse Mythology, the reason for the short handle was because Loki was messing with the Dwarves who made the hammer.”

This is actually sometimes true in Marvel as well. There’s a Loki mini-series from 2010 which recounts several stories from Norse myth in the Marvel universe, including this one, and explains them as tales which have melded and become entangled with the gods due to their fickle nature as living stories.

“It can channel bolts of lightning, manipulate the weather, open portals to other dimensions, and absorb and redirect energy attacks”

The panel used for Thor’s weather manipulation is kind of random, but more pertinently, his ability to create dimensional portals is depicted with a panel from Avengers 200, one of the most infamous and hated comics of all time. The context of the panel is Thor taking Carol Danvers to an alternate dimension so she can start a family with her new husband, who is also her own son, who reincarnated into their dimension by making Carol give birth to him. Making dimensional warps is one of Thor’s most frequently used abilities, so it’s incredibly funny this is the panel they chose to show. I don’t know if that was intentional or not.

Similarly, the panel shown for Thor absorbing energy attacks doesn’t align with what’s being said. The panel is She-Hulk directly channeling gamma energy into Thor’s body, which he’s then discharging out through Mjolnir as an attack.

“Megingjord”

This is mentioned in a side-bar, but it was actually revealed in a comic that came out only two or so weeks before this episode released that Thor destroyed this belt in a story which flashed back to the Thor series from 1998. Thor hadn’t been seen using the belt since that series, so it served to explain why that was the case. I imagine that was much too recent to fix, but I’m curious if it would still be included if that reveal could be accounted for.

“Mjolnir can transmute the elements, turn Thor invisible and intangible, let him travel through time, and even bring people back to life!”

3 out of 4 of the abilities mentioned here are strange inclusions. I have no idea what Thor being able to turn invisible and intangible is referencing. That’s never something he’s done, and this is the one ability they don’t show a panel for, which makes me wonder if it was a mistake in the script. The closest Thor has to this is being able to create a stasis vortex around people where the vortexes themselves are invisible and intangible, which is obviously pretty different, but might be where the confusion stemmed from. Thor can hypothetically do this with the All-Power, but that wasn’t included for him.

Travelling through time is an ability Mjolnir used in classic stories, but it was explicitly an enchantment the hammer completely lost around 40 years prior to this episode coming out. Jane Foster could use Mjolnir to time travel in a modern comic, but this goes totally unexplained and isn’t something Thor himself has done. It’s hard to say if they were aware of this and decided to include the ability anyway, or if they didn’t know and put it in assuming he could still use it. Death Battle’s rules are malleable and the show has been inconsistent about whether an ability or item being lost prohibits its inclusion for a character. At the very least, I think this should have had a black box to address it.

Finally, I think “bring people back to life” is a strange interpretation of the panel being shown. What’s happening is that Thor killed a guy using a bolt from his hammer, and then when he realised he fucked up, he used Mjolnir to draw out the lightning he hit him with to just the right extent to save his life, while the remaining lightning power still inside his body granted him new electrical abilities. It’s a pretty strange feat, but it seems to be much more like Mjolnir acting as a defibrillator and undoing its own electrical power, as opposed to outright being able to resurrect people from death.

“And if Thor wants to fly, all he has to do is take it for a spin, literally! He throws that motherfucker as hard as he can and holds on for dear life! And when he does, it flies fast enough to cross the entire galaxy in seconds.”

As I said before, Mjolnir’s flight power is a little more nuanced than just carrying Thor via forward momentum. More pertinently, the feat shown on-screen for crossing the galaxy in seconds was a feat done by old King Thor. This version of Thor has the All-Power, so it shouldn’t have been included for Thor in this episode. The feat in question also isn’t crossing the galaxy, but crossing the universe, as the text on-screen shows. This may have been intended to show the feat of Mjolnir being thrown to the edge of the galaxy again, and got mixed-up in editing.

“It’s sharp enough to cut through Celestial armor, and it’s unbreakable”

Jarnborn’s ability to cut through Celestials is more like it being specifically enchanted to be Celestial kryptonite and not a result of its sharpness. The most clear bit of evidence for this is the fact that it clashed evenly with Mjolnir, despite the fact that Jarnbjorn could kill Exitar while Mjolnir could barely chip Exitar’s armour even when used by an amped Thor. It’s also not unbreakable, I’m not sure where that comes from. The axe has no specific enchantment outside of being able to kill Celestials, and is made out of ordinary Asgardian steel.

“Even Galactus, the Devourer of Worlds, shit his pants and bounced at the sight of such an awesome attack.”

It’s worth mentioning that it’s been confirmed that Galactus was exhausted and weakened by the time Thor used the Godblast against him, though the Godblast has hurt similarly powerful beings before regardless.

“The Sentry is strong enough to contend with the Worldbreaker Hulk, a being strong enough to destroy the Marvel universe over a hundred times over. “

This isn’t directly related to Thor, but this bit is incorrect. Sentry didn’t fight Worldbreaker Hulk, he fought the Green Scar Hulk. Hulk became Worldbreaker immediately after his fight with Sentry finished. This creates a problem because it totally fucks up the scaling chain and multipliers used, since the sex calc used for Hulk’s multiplier (which itself doesn’t really make any sense) is based on comparing his normal state to the Worldbreaker, not to the Green Scar. Without the All-Power, Thor definitely isn’t as strong as Worldbreaker Hulk. His one interaction with him is fleeing alongside all the other Avengers the moment the Worldbreaker re-emerged after the events of World War Hulk.

Also, it’s kind of ironic that Thor is maybe the single most scaled-to character in DB history, but his most recent episode bases his stats entirely on chainscaling.

“survived Mephisto trying to consume his soul“

Mephisto confirms at the end of this issue that he was toying with Thor and wasn’t actually trying to kill him. I think it’s still somewhat valid as a resistance since Mephisto was still using his powers and Mephisto has, in related storylines, stated he can’t kill Thor, but it’s a notable caveat.

“Theoretically, Vegeta could’ve ended the fight immediately with Hakai, if not for the fact that Thor has resisted existence erasure before, including physically, spiritually, and temporally.”

This is a pretty strange argument, most obviously because the feat of resisting ‘temporal erasure’ is just Thor being unaffected by being aged a few hundred years due to being very long-lived. There are animals in real life which could have survived what happened to Thor. It’s also pretty capricious to equate having your molecules split apart to being totally erased from reality. Thor has actual feats of being able to resist existence erasing effects which could have been used instead.

Overall thoughts on the fight

As I mentioned, it’s a very, very DBZ-ass DBZ fight, and Thor’s depiction suffers a fair bit for that, though I do appreciate specifically the intro making him a bit more jovial than before (less so the rest of the fight). Most obvious is him getting his shit kicked in by Vegeta for a good portion of the fight and responding by doing very atypical anime-style FTE blitzes, which is never something he’s done before. Beyond that, I wish it had featured more of his weather manipulation, since it’s one of the main parts of his arsenal but gets very little focus, and would have been interesting to see against a Dragon Ball character where powers like that aren’t as common. Vegeta is naturally depicted better, though ofc I would have liked him to have more original lines. The way Warrior Madness and the Godblast are depicted are both really inaccurate to how they’re depicted in their comic appearances too. All that said, I think the Final Flash fakeout is still really cool.

Thoughts on the verdict

There’s not really loads to say here because if you’re reading this blog, you absolutely already have an opinion on who wins this fight that’s probably pretty immovable. I think an interesting point is their scale as characters though. Vegeta, as a Dragon Ball character, naturally has a lot of high-end destruction feats, but especially under Jason Aaron’s pen, Thor matches well in a lot of fields. Jason Aaron’s incarnation of Thor shattered planets with the shockwaves of his blows and fought across light-years, Jane Foster Thor could traverse across galaxies in the blink of an eye and draw out a galaxy-sized storm from her hammer whenever she wanted, and he depicted Old King Thor with the All-Power as being able to toss around stars and threaten the universe with his strongest storms. Probably one of the few cases of a comic character arguably surpassing their Dragon Ball opponent in scale, at least at Thor’s best.

Wonder Woman

Rogue VS Wonder Woman

I’ll note that while I have not read all of Rogue’s appearances, I know a fair amount just through osmosis and through reading X-Men comics where she features. Do note however that anything said here regarding her is going to be based on less comprehensive knowledge than Diana.

“Why didn’t the episode include Diana’s sword??”

This episode came out on January 3rd, 2011, which means it’s the only Wonder Woman episode that came out Pre-Flashpoint. The release window is important to keep in mind, as it explains the absence of a lot of things that people associate with Diana nowadays. She didn’t prominently start wielding a sword as one of her main weapons until New 52, though she did very occasionally use them beforehand.

I think a much more worthwhile question would be why the episode did not include the God Killer Armor, since that existed beforehand and was framed throughout Diana’s New Earth appearances as one of her biggest trump cards for serious situations. Given that a big point in the verdict was her revealing attire, full body armor is a much more serious lapse. Realistically, the answer to this question is that the original episode’s research was very limited, but it is interesting that neither of Diana’s later episodes talked about the armor either. Though with that said, given that Rogue can absorb powers from a distance nowadays, this would be less important.

“Diana Prince”

The episode refers to Diana as “Diana Prince” several times as though it’s her real name, which is inaccurate. Prior to the Crisis on Infinite Earths, when Diana first traveled from Themyscira to Man’s World, she encountered an army nurse named Diana Prince who looked nearly identical to her. In order to take up a secret identity, she paid the original Diana Prince a lot of money to disappear, and assumed her name and identity. Post-Crisis this was adjusted slightly, and she simply receives the false identity via the god of change, Proteus. It’s not her real name in either continuity, it’s an alias.

“Flight up to Mach-5 speed”

I’m not entirely sure where this number specifically comes from. Pre-Crisis Wonder Woman has statements for being as fast as a bullet, fast as lightning, and as fast or faster than light. Post-Crisis, it’s stated twice that she can fly at Mach 3, and once that she could easily hit Mach 2. She has showings of breaking the sound barrier and such, and in the DC Comics Encyclopedia is stated to be able to fly at “sublight” speed.

Obviously she has feats way higher than this as well. But the point is that as far as I know, there’s no statement listing her speed at specifically Mach 5. The Invisible Jet has a handful of Mach 5 statements, but Diana herself? Not that I know of. It’s possible that there’s some statement somewhere that she’s hypersonic or Mach 5, but if there is, I didn’t take note of it. It could also potentially be from the DCAU, or, of course, it may just be completely made up.

“Holistically, how’s her rundown?”

Aside from the horrific misogyny, it could be worse. There aren’t a whole lot of massive inaccuracies or misinformation at least, though the information is, as you would expect, extremely light and surface level. I would say this is definitely her worst rundown by a large margin though, lots of information is missing and season 1 Boomstick is as bad as you remember.

“Thoughts on the fight?”

Eh. I mean it sure is a season 1 episode. They don’t really do anything except hit each other FTE a bunch. Diana uses the Lasso and her crown a couple times, but not for anything interesting. There’s nothing particularly worth criticizing too heavily (other than the kiss ending for obvious reasons) but it’s a very nothing fight.

“In the end, her failure was a result of her thorough Amazonian training.”

This is actually a really funny line with the context of having read her comics, though I doubt it was intended as a joke. Pre-Crisis, a recurring gag throughout Diana’s solo run is that she would frequently do absurd, nonsensical things and then just handwave it by saying it was because of her Amazon training. For example, breathing through her pores, manipulating gravity, juggling with her feet, that kind of thing. Attributing her loss to her Amazon training is pretty on-brand with that in mind, though again I’m sure it was entirely unintentional.

“Wonder Woman’s powers may be godly, but Rogue’s taken similar powers before, so there’s no reason to say she couldn’t here. Adding Wonder Woman’s strength and speed to Rogue’s own power gave her a huge advantage, drastically turning the tide.”

So, the biggest question that people probably have is whether Rogue could realistically absorb Diana’s power in this way. This will probably be the longest section because there have been various arguments made over the years, and I’m interested enough to talk about all of them.

1. Rogue can’t absorb Diana’s power because Diana would just oneshot her instantly.

This is probably one of the better arguments. If you look at direct feats, even at the time Diana had showings of dragging planets and moons around, and a number of universal and higher feats throughout her two continuities (shattering the mirror dimension, being able to destroy Atomia’s universe, deflecting the combined power of the Olympian gods, smashing the Godwave scepter, etc.). While Rogue is way more reliant on scaling. It’s worth noting that DC’s wider cosmology hadn’t been fleshed out yet in 2011, with the Sphere of Gods as a concept only being introduced in November of that year, ten months after the episode. So the episode predates the majority of higher-end arguments for Diana’s strength.

With that in mind, I think if you look at the episode with a scaling mindset, it would have been forgivable at the time to conclude that Rogue could survive for a little while. She has showings of managing to get her absorption off against Thor and Juggernaut, who had showings comparable to Diana’s at the time. I highly doubt the episode knew the ins and outs of specific feats, but “Rogue has fought gods and super strong guys before and didn’t die instantly, so she wouldn’t here either” is a fine enough conclusion by season 1 standards. Though nowadays, Diana scales much higher into DC cosmology than she did back then. Though conversely Rogue has also gotten stronger due to taking on Wonder Man’s power, I doubt it’s to the same extent.

2. Can Diana’s powers be drained or copied to begin with?

Devices designed to absorb her life energy have taken a long time to do so because of how strong she is, and it’s been stated plenty of times that her power can’t be stolen, so draining her is probably a no-go. Copying them, on the other hand, is a different story; that aspect of Rogue’s power should probably just work. It’s worth noting that Pre-Crisis at least, it was established that anyone could be an Amazon if they learn to exert their mental energy correctly, so given that Rogue can also absorb knowledge and memories, I think it would be hard to argue that she can’t replicate Diana’s powers to at least a notable extent.

3. Rogue can’t absorb Diana’s powers since that power is bestowed by external sources (the gods) rather than being inherent to Diana.

I think this was the point of the Juggernaut comparison in the episode. He gets his powers from Cyttorak, which is a similar situation, and her ability worked on him.

4. Rogue can’t copy Diana’s power because her absorption doesn’t work past a certain strength threshold.

This is a pretty inconsistent weakness of Rogue’s, not in the sense that it isn’t a weakness, but in the sense that the threshold in question is impossible to define from the comics I’ve read at least. For instance, Magneto and Mephisto have resisted her touch via being too powerful, but Thor and Zarathos have succumbed. There are also some more neutral showings, such as her managing to absorb from Galactus with extreme difficulty. It’s worth noting that there are showings where Diana endures power absorption for extended periods because she is too powerful for the absorption, so combining that with Rogue’s low showings, you could make an argument that Diana resists. It would be a bit tenuous though, given Rogue’s higher showings, particularly the Thor and Galactus examples.

5. Rogue can’t absorb Diana’s power because her absorption only works on organic beings, and Diana is made of clay.

This is a particularly clever argument that I’ve seen around very rarely, so I wanted to make special mention of it. It is indeed established that Rogue is usually unable to absorb power from things like robots, likely because her mutation is DNA based. Likewise, Diana’s body was indeed formed from clay originally and then given life by the gods. Abilities that manipulate clay have worked on her consistently as well, so it’s clear her body does maintain some kind of clay component even after being imbued with life.

With that said, I still think this is a bit of a stretch. Diana does have blood and organs, and her body undergoes normal metabolic processes such as breathing. While she does maintain a clay component, her physiology is clearly magic in nature and does clearly have an organic component. Coupled with Rogue’s power being able to affect characters like Wonder Man who don’t have a traditional organic physiology, I think it would be fair to err on the side that she would not be limited by this factor. I do like this argument, though, it’s an interesting thought.

6. Diana has a sword now so she would just stab Rogue in the face.

Yeah probably. Rogue has good piercing resistance but not to the point where it would matter, Diana is still stronger than her and her swords have really good piercing. It’s worth emphasizing though that Diana rarely used a sword when the episode came out.

7. Lasso of Truth soloes.

This is the best argument. While Diana wasn’t emphasized as a swordsman pre-52, the Lasso of Truth was always her preferred weapon, and even at the time its hax was vastly more layered and versatile than what Rogue was equipped to deal with. Taking more recent comics into account, it can even rewrite DNA and remove any powers that are not natural to the target. This is pretty much the hardest Rogue counter you could possibly ask for, given that her power involves modifying her own DNA to take on powers that are not natural to her.

“Overall verdict?”

At the time of the episode, I think that there’s leeway to argue that Rogue could survive for a little bit against Diana and that her absorption would work on her, as the episode argued. This would also compensate for the gap in skill, since Rogue absorbs knowledge. However, I think that the big lapse is that this would not allow her to replicate the abilities of Diana’s weapons, and the Lasso of Truth would incapacitate her immediately as soon as she gets caught by it. Diana defaults to the Lasso in-character and has full body armor that she can bring out for serious situations, both of which would make it much harder for Rogue to touch her. Rogue’s ranged draining was not introduced until 2019, so at the time of the episode, touch was required. At worst, Wonder Woman mid diffs, with some room for Rogue to win in fringe cases if she plays a perfect game.

With modern scaling taken into account, I think Diana would just scale way higher into DC cosmology than Rogue would into Marvel’s, so she would just oneshot. Her sword is also an instant win condition that would make touch even harder, and the Lasso has gotten numerous new powers, including the ability to remove any powers that Rogue has absorbed via reverting her DNA. Wonder Woman low diffs.

Thor VS Wonder Woman

The OG episode. Since this one happened much later down the line than Rogue VS Wonder Woman, I’m going to be much more granular in how I talk about it, taking a look at specific scans and critiquing the accuracy of various things. I will say that I do think this is a much better episode than Rogue VS Wonder Woman, it just has way more to talk about because it was made at a time when DEATH BATTLE! had reached a higher standard of quality.

“How was Diana’s rundown, overall?”

I would say it’s actually okay, especially by the standards of season 4, a pretty hit-or-miss season. It was largely very light on scaling, which was characteristic of the time that it was made, and a lot of the direct feats in the episode (moving planets, tanking nukes, Shattered God feat, her fight with Zoom) account for most of the good direct showings that you would expect to see discussed in a Post-Crisis/New 52 composite. There were a handful of exclusions even in this regard (mostly the more esoteric universal or multiversal arguments), but those were also characteristic of the time the episode was released and are thus forgivable.

I would say overall there are three key criticisms I would have toward the episode’s coverage.

• Nothing Pre-Crisis was covered at all outside of the BDSM joke.

Infinite Frontier hadn’t happened at the time of the episode, so Pre-Crisis wasn’t as integrated as it is now, but even from fairly early on, Post-Crisis comics established that Pre-Crisis events had happened in-universe; it’s just that the Wonder Woman of the time was Hippolyta, rather than Diana. Perhaps the episode didn’t want to focus too much on scaling Diana to Hippolyta, or they believed those comics were apocryphal, but I’d be more inclined to believe that they just missed this detail and/or didn’t have time to cover her Pre-Crisis appearances.

• There was notably subpar coverage of Diana’s origin, character arc, and supporting cast.

This is another thing that was a hallmark of 2017-era DEATH BATTLE!, and thus not something I’m going to hold their feet over the fire for, but it is worth noting from a modern lens that they really didn’t talk at all about pretty much any major Wonder Woman character other than Diana. None of the Amazons, none of her villains, not Steve Trevor or Etta Candy or anyone else. By extension, they didn’t cover her personal journey or elaborate on what makes her a compelling character. It was mostly just a purely VS-centric coverage, which is fair given that this is a VS show and ultimately Diana’s combat abilities are the important part, but I do think it contributes to the general opinion that none of her episodes have been very good or memorable.

• The Lasso of Truth was extremely underevaluated.

Speaking of VS-centric coverage, I would say that this is the only part of Diana’s arsenal that was notably poorly explained. The Lasso has always been her primary weapon and has many, many powers outside of just making someone tell the truth, but it only got a sentence or two in her rundown and was used once for a couple seconds in the fight. This is an issue that is not just exclusive to Thor VS Wonder Woman; the Lasso has been used once apiece in each of Diana’s episodes and has never gotten good coverage. This would be kind of like if, throughout Thor’s three appearances, they barely talked about Mjolnir and made him use Jarnbjorn for 95% of his screentime. Most likely, though, a lot of this is because of the animation difficulties that come with implementing a rope, as those are much harder to get right physics-wise than something static like a sword or hammer. With that in mind, it’s understandable, but definitely a massive lapse.

“Despite their paradise isle far from civilization, the women of Themyscira are more dangerous than you’d think. They are Amazons, immortal warriors created by the Olympian gods. Their mission: To spread the peace and justice of the gods to a barbarian world.”

This is technically true, but only initially, as in, when the Amazons were first created thousands of years ago, well before Diana was born. They were initially made for this purpose by the Olympian goddesses, but most of the male gods were indifferent toward this goal. Eventually, they became outcasts and retreated from the world, starting their isolation on Themyscira, and abandoning their original purpose. Nowadays, they aren’t really focused on spreading anything, so it’s kind of misleading to insinuate that this is still their intention during the period where Diana is alive.

“and the ability to heal from most wounds almost instantly”

The scan that they show here can be reasonably interpreted as healing, and Diana does explicitly have a healing factor, but it is worth noting that it’s debatable whether she actually heals from this arrow wound. The wound isn’t visible on her shoulder when it shows her again a few panels later, which is probably why it was interpreted that way, but the blood just reappears there again later, despite her having appeared clean before. With this in mind, coupled with the fact that she doesn’t mention healing, it’s pretty likely that the art was just inconsistent. This is a nitpick, though, she does have a healing factor.

“Forged by the smith god Hephaestus using the remains of Zeus’ legendary Aegis shield, the bracelets are impervious to nearly anything, including gunfire, demon lightning, and Kryptonian heat vision.”

They show scans and examples for everything listed here except “demon lightning” which does not get any accompanying footage. Most likely, this is in reference to the Bracelets deflecting Nekron’s lightning. It would probably have been optimal to focus on this more heavily, given that her ability to withstand or block lightning is more relevant to this fight than gunfire or heat vision. There are also better examples of her defending against lightning that could have been used instead, most notably Zeus.

“They can summon Zeus’ lightning or even the indestructible Aegis they were made from.”

The scan shown alongside this is Diana conjuring a small energy barrier to block a strike from Power Girl. Frankly, I’m kind of confused as to what this is talking about exactly. This ability is described in handbooks as generating a small energy shield, and Zeus’ original Aegis shield was destroyed and then reforged into the bracelets. Diana has never summoned the original Aegis shield, which makes sense given that it was, y’know, destroyed and reforged.

“Well, he’s not responsible for Diana’s final weapon, the Lasso of Truth.”

Hephaestus absolutely did create the Lasso of Truth, in both Post-Crisis and New 52, the two continuities being focused on in the episode. No idea what they’re talking about when they say he didn’t.

“According to Batman, Diana is the greatest melee fighter in the world, which is no small feat in a universe with people like Karate Kid, Deathstroke, and Batman himself.”

I recall a lot of people taking issue at the time with the episode saying she’s more skilled than the Karate Kid. I do not know enough about that character to comment on his skill level, but I will say that Batman did absolutely say this. They weren’t wrong about that, though it’s always possible Batman might have been wrong. Again, not a Karate Kid scholar, can’t say.

“The point is, Wonder Woman is a master martial artist who’s trained all her life, and while she has no official birthdate, we do know she was born during the age of the Roman Empire, specifically when they employed centurions. Including the additional time she spent fighting in Valhalla before going back in time, this means Wonder Woman must be about 3,000 years old.”

Whoo boy, this is a complicated one. First of all, context for the centurions scan. Basically, this takes place during a flashback focused on a different Amazon named Myrina, who was born on the same day as Diana. Her mother takes her away to the mainland as a baby, encountering a bunch of men ransacking a village – this is the centurion scan here: baby Myrina and her mother.

After this, Myrina and her mom go into hiding, and it’s stated that “several decades pass,” after which Myrina’s mother assists in a major war. The exact war in question is unspecified, but given that modern tanks were involved, it was most likely World War 1 or World War 2.

This is, obviously, a very strange discrepancy, if Roman centurions were ransacking villages a few decades before the 1900s. It’s very unclear in the comic exactly when everything is supposed to be taking place, but setting all that aside for a moment, it’s worth mentioning that this is not from a Wonder Woman solo run. It’s from Darkseid War Special, which was written by Geoff Johns, who has otherwise only prominently written for Wonder Woman in the New 52 Justice League run. The point being, it’s from a writer who is not especially knowledgeable on the character, and is very likely an editorial error.

Why do I think this? Well, it was stated not too long before this comic that Diana had entered Man’s World immediately after becoming an adult. This is actually very consistent with important plot beats. The most prominent is that she had a twin brother named Jason, who was taken off of Themyscira as a baby, and grew up in the outside world. An Amazon loses their immortality upon leaving the island, so he should have aged at the same rate as a normal human. Despite this, when he and Diana reunite as adults, they’re still the same age. With that in mind, there’s no way Diana spent thousands of years on Themyscira before leaving, it simply would not make any sense. And if you don’t believe me, it’s stated in guidebooks that she’s 25 years old. Born around the same time that the Waynes were shot to death in that alleyway. She’s just not that old.

And, frankly, it’s actually very narratively important for her to be very young relative to the rest of the Amazons. The entire point is that Diana was a miracle child, the first new baby born on Themyscira in thousands of years, and the only Amazon who isn’t old enough to have experienced the world’s cruelties. That youthful innocence and optimism is what makes her a fitting ambassador to Man’s World in the first place. The notion that she’s extremely old and experienced is a pretty notable misunderstanding, with that in mind.

The war in Valhalla, on the other hand, is a different story. It takes place Post-Crisis, and it is a legitimate thing that did happen exactly the way they described. While time was funky during that situation, Diana does reference back to it later, confirming that she does retain her memories of those thousand years. With that in mind, while she is chronologically 25, she should have 1000 or so years of extra experience due to her time there.

As a final note before moving on, the thousand year war and the centurions scan are from different continuities (the latter is Post-Flashpoint). Even setting aside the legitimacy of the centurion example, you can’t add the two of them up, since they aren’t concurrent with one another.

“She’s kept pace with Superman”

Diana is actually stated multiple times, by herself, Batman, and AMAZO, to be faster than Superman in reflexes and combat. So this is actually underselling her speed a bit.

“Moving thousands of times the speed of light can do that.”

Everyone already knows this, but the Shattered God feat is obviously much faster than this.

“She punched Doomsday into literal dust”

So, this wasn’t actually Doomsday, it was a fake duplicate. She also didn’t destroy him with her own base level of strength; she used the Gauntlet of Atlas which multiplied her strength tenfold. While you could reasonably give her the Gauntlet of Atlas as part of her arsenal, the episode did not do so, so this is important context to just omit.

As for how strong the fake Doomsday was, Diana does compare said fake Doomsday to Superman in strength, but Superman comments that he doesn’t think she could have replicated the dust punch thing against the real Doomsday. Later on, it’s stated that the fake Doomsday was equally strong as Doomsday was during Death of Superman, which is a pretty good qualifier since Doomsday gets stronger after that. That is to say, Diana was right that the fake Doomsday was comparable to Superman/an earlier version of Doomsday, and Superman was also correct to say that she could not have replicated the feat against the current Doomsday.

This is further backed up by Diana’s actual showings against the real Doomsday. He always beats the hell out of her, in every continuity. It’s happened three times, and is actually really embarrassing, because she always talks a big game and then gets completely humiliated. One of those instances has her get oneshot four times in a row after talking shit each time, and another one has her start out saying “I can take him alone” and ends with “Clark, we need the entire Justice League for this guy.” It’s kind of funny.

“She’s also incredibly tough; nuclear explosions hardly even phase her.”

The scan shown here isn’t a nuclear warhead, it was an Imperiex Probe detonating. It also almost killed her. However, she did no-sell the thermonuclear warhead explosion that they reference and show right afterward, so that one is indeed valid.

“and then one day, Superman, who could see atoms, decided to split one to test her magic sword”

Superman did not do that just to test her sword haha. This is definitely a case where they were explaining things more briefly than is accurate, because the actual context was unimportant.

“You! No man can enter Themyscira unannounced.”
“I don’t think you’ve ever known a woman like me.”
“Poor, misguided fool-”
(Regarding Diana’s general characterization)

I’m not really one to harp on a character being “out of character” in a fight animation over the setup; ultimately they’re here to fight and comic characters like Diana have a long history of various different characterizations anyway. So her exact personality is pretty malleable and can be adapted to fit the desired situation. That being said, however, I don’t particularly like this depiction of Diana creatively, because it leans a lot into her worse stories.

Without getting too deep into it, the more aggressive personality is most closely in line with her portrayal during New 52, where Diana was a lot harsher and more jaded than other, prior depictions. This was a “new” direction for the character, as her previous personality was centered around her being a lot younger and more optimistic than both her fellow Amazons and Man’s World as a whole. A patient, caring defender who was determined to bring peace and wisdom to a violent world, hence the name “Wonder Woman.” New 52, on the other hand, characterized her more as a warrior who harbored a deep distrust of the outside world, before gradually developing over time to become something closer to her Post-Crisis personality.

Ultimately I can understand why the episode decided to go this route because this specific depiction of Diana is a lot closer in her general arc to Thor’s initial banishment to Earth. That being a warrior prince/princess who starts out kind of bloodthirsty and arrogant, and becomes kinder and humbler over time. All this being said, however, it’s worth mentioning that nobody likes New 52 Wonder Woman lol, and not just because most of the comics aren’t super well-written. While the new personality is interesting as a departure, Diana being a blessed miracle child full of love and joy who was raised in paradise and is then forced to reckon with the harshness of Man’s World without letting it change her is the entire point of her character, and is in many ways a lot less cliche. There’s a reason she was course corrected back to normal pretty quickly.

“Time to stop holding back, Diana!”

I don’t really like this line. It’s corny and she usually doesn’t really talk to herself in the third person like this.

Diana gets back up and notices Mjolnir flying right at her once again. She clangs her Bracelets of Submission to summon a powerful force field that protects her from Thor’s attack that ends up destroying the moon.

The bracelets’ energy barrier, at the time the episode came out, wasn’t an omnidirectional force field like this, only constituting a single-directional circle of energy that can block attacks. However, the bracelets have been shown to be able to create omnidirectional barriers more recently.

“General thoughts on the fight?”

It was okay. You can really tell that it’s unfinished in a lot of places and the characterization on both sides is kind of lame. The choreography was fairly good for what it was, and Diana uses a decent chunk of her kit, though there are some notable exclusions, most notably the lasso as mentioned previously. “You will, to me!” was a cool line. All in all, an okay fight that could definitely have been much better in most aspects.

“She was even able to catch Zoom in her lasso, despite how he wasn’t just running ahead of her in physical space, but he was also ahead of her in time. Wrap your noggin around that one.”

It’s kind of funny that Wonder Woman was stealthily one of the first characters in DB to have been given immeasurable speed verbally, and basically nobody noticed. Yeah, this feat did happen and is just exactly what they’re saying haha.

“Mjolnir may have been tough for Diana to defend against, but it couldn’t exploit her weaknesses to piercing weapons. Meanwhile, Diana’s magic sword could slice at a microscopic level. Something Thor couldn’t possibly be prepared to defend against.”

The actual effect of Diana’s sword is a bit debatable. It can cut through atoms, but Diana’s eyesight isn’t precise enough to see atoms, and thus she says that she’s never actually done it before. However, the likely answer is that while Diana can’t necessarily target specific atoms, her sword is cutting with such a miniscule surface area that it can effectively bypass durability even with imprecise strikes. Additionally, given that the sword has harmed Darkseid before, it’s probably going to be slicing through 99.999% of opponents regardless of how you judge this.

She-Ra VS Wonder Woman

This episode’s Wonder Woman coverage is largely almost identical to the Thor episode, with only a few additions, so less to cover. But there’s still some neat stuff to talk about that happened between 2017 and 2020.

“She has carried many blades, but her tried and true was crafted by the God of the Forge, Hephaestus. The edge of this immaculate sword is so fine, it can shear electrons off of atoms.”

Shearing off electrons was never stated, this is a strange thing to throw in. However, the much more interesting thing to note is that this sword was destroyed in 2019, well before the episode, and replaced by a weapon with no such atom-splitting power. It’s possible that they knew about this and decided to give it to her anyway, but given that there was no tab acknowledging it, and no one on the team has ever mentioned it, I would guess they just didn’t know.

Better question: if they did know, would or should they have given it to her anyway? Death Battle’s rules are malleable, so it’s really hard to say whether a weapon that has been destroyed would be included in most cases. Lobo’s biological ability to regenerate new versions of himself was included in his season 6 episode, even though he lost it, but plenty of other characters have been excluded abilities or equipment on the grounds that they were lost or destroyed. It’s a grey area that’s impossible to answer, but given how heavily the verdict hinged on the inclusion and use of this sword, it probably should have at least been mentioned that it was gone by then.

“They’re made of Eighth Metal, one of the strongest elements in all of creation.”

Historically, Diana’s bracelets have always been made of Amazonium, but were retconned to be made of Eighth Metal in Dark Knights: Metal, after the Thor episode and before She-Ra. However, in 2019, in the same comic where Diana’s sword was destroyed, her bracelets were destroyed too. And reforged out of… Amazonium. Go figure lol. This means that by the time the episode came out, the Eighth Metal retcon had already been un-retconned, and the bracelets were made out of Amazonium again. Meaning this is wrong.

As an aside, the fact that they didn’t know about this is another reason why I think they probably didn’t know about the sword being destroyed.

“But it’s Batman, a guy who knows 10 times more than Google ever will.”

Saying that the skill statement is reliable because it came from Batman is fair, I don’t take issue with Batman being a reliable source. But it’s kind of crazy to show the scan where Batman temporarily became the God of Knowledge here lol. That happened way after Batman made the statement about Diana, and wasn’t remotely permanent.

“She’s basically defeated every other Justice League member in a fight at some point”

In the scan they show here, she does fight the entire Justice League by herself, but it’s established that they were all holding back except for Batman.

“Thoughts on the rundown overall?”

It’s basically identical to the Thor rundown for the most part. It comes off a bit worse though since in addition to being a copy-paste, it came out three years later, by which point DEATH BATTLE! had a higher quality standard for research. Saying that Wonder Woman is planet level in season 4 was fine, given the research at the time was consistently not very encompassing. In season 7? Much harder to defend. Overall it was fine though, not really offensively bad, but nothing special and maintains a lot of the same weaknesses as the prior rundown.

“Zeus, Heracles, Hippolyta, give me strength!”

So this line is weird. Like super duper unbelievably weird.

First of all, to get the more nitpicky one out of the way, Hippolyta is a) not typically a god, and b) Diana’s mother. I don’t particularly know why Diana would be praying to her for strength, and if she were to pray to her I don’t know why she would call her by her full government name rather than just saying “mother.” She’ll occasionally call her “Queen Hippolyta” and the like when they’re speaking in formal settings, but she wouldn’t say Hippolyta if she were addressing her mother directly in an informal context like this. This line comes off like the writer didn’t know that Hippolyta was Diana’s mother, which is very strange.

But it’s kind of overshadowed by the “Heracles” here. For those of you who don’t know, DC Heracles isn’t a gym bro like Marvel Hercules and isn’t singing show tunes like the Disney guy, he’s super, extremely, incredibly evil. Like, “famously laid waste to Themyscira and raped Diana’s mother” evil. Diana absolutely despises him and would never pray to him for anything, this is arguably one of the most out of character lines in Death Battle history and nobody ever talks about it.

…Now, with that said. OBVIOUSLY, this was an innocent mistake on the part of a writer who was just throwing out cool-sounding Greek names. They clearly weren’t actively like “hrm yes let’s make her pray to the rapist,” they just didn’t know the context of her relationship with DC Heracles. So don’t take this criticism as a scathing indictment on the episode’s quality or something that makes their portrayal of Diana unforgiveably terrible or something. It’s just an accidentally really bad line for anyone who knows the context.

“So other than… uh, that, how’s the fight?”

It’s remarkably well-animated and enjoyable to watch for the most part, but Diana still has a harsher characterization than I would prefer for her, and she really doesn’t use most of her kit here, sticking almost entirely to the sword. She-Ra also basically has no personality in the fight, which is a shame given how effective He-Man VS Lion-O was at incorporating Filmation cheese.

Ideally, a fight like this should have leaned way harder into old school Wonder Woman comics and had them do a ton of whacky zany shit. I already kind of had this opinion before reading Wonder Woman comics, but now that I’ve done so it’s drastically reinforced that notion. Pre-Crisis Wonder Woman comics have pretty much exactly the same tone and a similar style as classic Masters of the Universe, and it’s a real shame that the fight was written to be a pretty generic sword fight. A very pretty looking and well-animated sword fight, I will reemphasize, because the animators deserve their flowers, but generically written nonetheless.

“Who do you think would win this fight?”

I mean, I would need to go through all of Masters of the Universe to really be sure, but based on what I know now, I would assume Wonder Woman probably stomps. DC cosmology is much bigger than what’s established in Masters of the Universe, and She-Ra matching up in stats would require you to cross-scale her to DC based on their crossovers. At which point Diana’s amps would still scale her higher, she would have much better hax with her equipment, and she would be much more skilled. The Lasso is probably too layered for She-Ra to resist, and could potentially revert her to Adora. But it’s always possible that there’s something hidden that could make it more of a toss-up.

“Didn’t this very blog say before that you guys think She-Ra wins? What’s with the switch-up?”

I mean, it’s a few things.

• The blog you’re reading right now was made by different people than the She-Ra VS Wonder Woman blog.

Different G1 blogs are put together by different volunteers who may have varying opinions. I’ve seen a strange amount of people get really aggressive over different G1 blogs “contradicting” each other and it’s just like… yeah, those blogs were probably made by different teams. Chill out lol.

• The She-Ra VS Wonder Woman blog came out over 6 years ago, and obviously people can change their minds.

Speaking personally as the person who read all of Wonder Woman’s comics for this blog, I thought back then that She-Ra’s arguments made more sense, since multi+ stats were accepted for Masters of the Universe at the time, and DC had only been gradually getting pushed toward those kinds of stats. In the time since then, DC cosmology has been researched much more substantially, and standards have become more lenient, so under a modern lens of course Diana would stomp. It was widely considered to be a debatable match back in 2020, not really anything deeper than that. While I have not spoken to all of them about it, I would be willing to bet that most if not all of the people who worked on that blog side with Wonder Woman now.

• The She-Ra VS Wonder Woman blog didn’t cover all of Diana’s comics.

The team for that blog made it over the course of two weeks. People often have very little regard for context, but that was the year that there were 20 episodes, and barely any gaps between those episodes. Of course they didn’t have time to read 4,000 Wonder Woman comics and watch all of Masters of the Universe and write a blog in less than 14 days. They were working off of the information that they already knew, so of course it makes sense that there was plenty missing. This is not something that I think you can reasonably judge that blog team for. They did their best with the time and knowledge that they had.

Verdict

Strength

As always with big two comic characters, there’s multiple avenues to go when approaching their overall strength. Fortunately, these two’s extensive histories provide a good place for comparison when working your way up their varying strength levels.

At a baseline, Thor was famously able to crack open planets with the shockwaves of his blows when fighting Gorr the God-Butcher. This aligns with many statements from throughout his history that he and enemies like him are capable of shattering planets or destroying worlds with their power. His lightning was able to create a hole comparable in size to Jupiter against the Collector’s solar system-size spaceship, and his storms have matched planet destroying energy beams, proving this level of power extends to all his offensive options. Similarly, he’s managed to endure the weight of multiple planets before, and has lifted the Midgard Serpent multiple times, whose full size encompasses the planet Earth and who can crack the world open with their constriction. With a weaker hammer, he was able to launch a planet-sized prison through space with a throw. Combine this with his frequent matches against the likes of the Hulk and the Silver Surfer, and it’s a fairly solid realm of power for him.

While Wonder Woman isn’t as known for her strength feats as Thor is, she can certainly still match to some degree. Of course, she’s helped the Justice League pull the Moon and the Earth out of orbit before, and has even been able to shift the Sun by pulling on it with the lasso. In terms of striking power, she was able to clash with Supergirl hard enough to cause earthquakes felt on planets in different solar systems, and has matched multiple other heavy hitters on numerous occasions, like Superman and Shazam. It would be remiss not to mention her Pre-Crisis feats as well, where she was able to not only lasso and move an entire planetoid, but outright throw it hard enough to completely destroy it.

Going a step further, Thor has several different feats suggesting a cosmic scale of power. In his clashes with the Midgard Serpent, Hela’s forces, Ultron, and a copy of himself, his blows were described as shaking the heavens and shifting the entire realm, with the last one in particular producing an earthquake which could be felt across multiple different realms, each of which is an entirely separate dimension. His lightning was able to provide enough energy to produce Ymir’s Casket of Future Winters, which could lay waste to the entire universe, and he similarly endured a direct blast from the Casket of Ancient Winters when its power was used to freeze over multiple realms. His cosmic storms were strong enough to re-attach the realm of Heven to Yggdrasil, and he matched Loki’s magic, which was strong enough to risk destroying all of reality when the latter fought Sise-Neg.

Wonder Woman still can match this universe-scale power, having shaken the universe both by throwing and clashing with Superman, and having endured those same-such blows in-turn, such as recently in DC K.O. when Big Barda shook Hell by striking her bracelets. More directly, Pre-Crisis Wonder Woman matched Queen Atomia, who possessed complete control over her universe, which Wonder Woman herself threatened to destroy with her bare fists, even when she was shrunk down to the point that it was the size of a universe relative to her. This is backed up by that same incarnation of Wonder Woman shattering an infinitely-sized mirror dimension she was sealed in. Even Post-Crisis, Wonder Woman matched Morgan Le Fay, who could create an infinitely-sized universe (in the same story where Wondie got hit with an attack compared to “ten times ten billion galaxies” exploding inside her lmao), showing that multiple Wonder Woman feats across different continuities exist for this level of power.

Finally, you get to the cosmological interpretations of the two characters. Thor has multiple different feats for affecting the entirety of Yggdrasil and its infinite realms. He’s shaken it with his bellows and strikes, shattered a root of it while rampaging, caused it to bleed while fighting Gorr, and, as you probably already know if you watched that one Death Battle episode, overcame the rotation of the Worldengine, which was linked to Yggdrasil, and so ultimately overpowered the tree’s strength and reversed the damage caused to it. Probably most direct is his being able to match Amora the Enchantress, who once risked destroying the entirety of Yggdrasil with her magical power, an attack which was described as causing 1000 universes to crash together and as having almost destroyed all realities in existence. Similarly, he’s a frequent match for Hercules, who has lifted the Greek Axis Mundi which serves as the cosmological equivalent to Yggdrasil, and is equals with Eric Masterson, his fellow Thor who provided enough energy to merge infinite timelines which clashing with other fellow Thor Dargo Ktor.

Even higher arguments for the unenhanced Thor’s level of power exist. When Jane Foster held the power of Thor, she was capable of conjuring storms in Ginnungagap visible from the Ten Realms. As established in Immortal Thor, Ginnungagap is actually the same realm as the Far Shore, the very outskirts of Marvel’s multiverse which exists at the boundary of the multiversal Eternity, meaning Mjolnir conjured a storm which might have been visible from across the entire multiverse. Likewise, Thor Odinson’s own lightning blew a hole through the Chaos King, who devoured that very same multi-Eternity, and hurt the cosmic entity called the Other right as they were about to destroy all of existence. One could support this with Thor’s various feats of fighting Odin or opponents comparable to him like Surtur or Mephisto, but the higher you push, the more consistency for this power and narrative intent naturally comes into question, making it somewhat dubious.

Diana’s own higher-end feats are no less diverse. Not only has she blocked an attack capable of destroying Olympus, but she was able to sustain the entire existence of Olympus itself for a time Post-Flashpoint. It’s no surprise, then, that she’s a frequent match for gods like Zeus and Darkseid, the former of whom can create and destroy Olympus and the latter of whom endured multiversal energies. As Olympus is a realm existing in the Sphere of the Gods, these feats are especially impressive. Likewise, she matched Janus’s God Scraper, which could outright erase realms in the Sphere of the Gods, and shattered Cronus’s scepter. Cronus used this scepter to channel part of the Godwave, through which he was overturning Heaven and threatening the godly realms, shaking all of creation in the process. Most impressively, the future version of Diana featured in Future State was able to recreate the entire multiverse through her power, even including realms like Apokolips and forces such as the Green after they were completely destroyed.

Much like Thor, one could push Diana even higher depending on certain avenues. She’s a consistent superior to Supergirl, who, at her most pressed, ripped apart the Anti-Monitor’s armour. This could be backed up with her being somewhat relative to the pre-Death Metal incarnation of Superboy Prime, who was stated to be a bigger threat than the Anti-Monitor ever was, suggesting he exceeds even the heavily amplified, multiverse-destroying version of the Anti-Monitor seen in Crisis on Infinite Earths, and Barry Allen toppling that same amplified Anti-Monitor. Again, though, the higher you push, the more the consistency for this level of power can be called into question.

So, since we’re firmly in the realm of cosmology wanking now, how does this comparison actually stack up? To avoid giving another extended cosmology breakdown for both series when that’s been covered many times already, including on this very own blog, and taking away from the intended purpose of this blog which is to focus on what Thor and Wonder Woman have actually done and not the settings they happen to live in, we’ll mainly be referencing the cosmology breakdowns featured in this recent blog created by multiple G1/community members. Feel free to disagree, and just shift around the tierings based on your personal judgement, since as always it’s going to be a heavily contentious and shifting topic.

Thor’s comparison to Yggdrasil would place him on the level of the universal Eternity, which Yggdrasil encompasses and weaves through, supported by Eternity describing the berserk Thor featured in the Blood and Thunder arc as a threat to a good portion of his existence. This would constitute the Astral Plane and its fellow Inner Planes, which are described as existing from the real to the fictional and housing abstractions of the mind, as well as the Outer Planes, which exist even further beyond that, and the Splinter Realms, which exist on the outskirts of the 616 reality and seem to bleed into the broader multiverse. So like, 1 or 2 layers above a reality-fiction transcendence, possibly more depending on what you want to count or where you place the Splinter Realms. Wonder Woman’s comparison, meanwhile, would be with the Sphere of the Gods, which transcends the Heroverse and the Speed Force Wall where the multiverse looks like comic panels in comparison. So like, 1 layer above a reality-fiction transcendence, possibly more. Together, that would mean the two are generally equal-ish but with Thor having higher arguments depending on how you stack up their cosmologies.

But we’re not done yet (sorry you still have like five paragraphs left to read if you’re in this far). All of the above was talking about Thor at his baseline level of strength, but with the All-Power, he reaches a whole new level of power (perhaps even all of it). While there are many routes you could go for his power, the most direct would be his defeat of the Elder Gods of Utgard, who were able to create the realm of Utgard itself. Utgard is no ordinary realm, and exists in the Mystery/the Outside beyond the Far Shore (evident with Heimdall’s appearance in it after he had previously been sent to explore the Mystery), transcending the multiverse and existing beyond Eternity. It’s been described as the “Land-Of-True-Things” in comparison to the false world of reality. This can be supported with Thor being directly compared to Nyx at her full power, whose darkness is suggested to encompass the Tiger God (green cat god who matched the Phoenix Force in the White Hot Room), and arguably Beta Ray Bill, who could help destroy the thunder god Hadad’s spear after he outright killed Oblivion, who helped jump the Phoenix in her domain. Similarly, even a portion of Yggdrasil’s magic granted Doctor Strange a level of power beyond anything he’s ever previously felt, possibly including the magic he used to hold together the Nexus of All Dimensions.

While it isn’t permanent, Diana has a form of divine empowerment in her own right through the Godwave. By channeling the Godwave, her strength skyrockets, directly tapping the power of the energy which created all gods. Even a portion of the Godwave allowed Darkseid to destroy the Source Wall, and posed a threat to the Source itself, and it makes its wielder more than comparable to Yuga Khan, whose abilities are capable of manipulating and tearing apart the Source, and who Shazam defeated when empowered by a more potent set of gods than normal. Backing this up is Barry Allen and Wally West’s ability to produce so much energy during their great race that it was mistaken for the Source Wall, having reached this level of power even before entering the Speedforce during the race.

Comparing them now, creating Utgard, a realm in the Outside, which exists completely transcendent to the multiversal Eternity and would bump up to a new tier of power (I’m not unironically saying “High-Outer”). Thor’s arguable scaling to the Phoenix in the White Hot Room would then give an additional layer on top of this. In comparison, the Source exists beyond the Source Wall (shocking) which is the barrier between DC’s traditional cosmos and the Greater Omniverse, and so similarly provides a transcendent boost in power.

So finally putting it all together, the comparison in strength generally works out relatively neatly. Comparing their traditional levels of power when neither is being enhanced, they’re roughly comparable in their more consistent cosmological standing. Thor matching Yggdrasil can compare to Wonder Woman matching the Sphere of the Gods, but while both have even higher-end arguments, Thor can generally be pushed higher depending on how you choose to interpret their cosmologies. With the All-Power and Godwave, they both become comparable to the transcendent realms of their cosmologies in the form of the Outside and the Source respectively, with Thor again having a higher avenue for scaling depending on how you judge his comparability to the White Hot Room. More pertinently though, while the All-Power is a permanent amp for Thor which he’s had for over 5 years now up until his current death, the Godwave is a temporary boost Diana must actively channel, which she can’t use for long lest it risk tearing her apart. While the exact time she can use the Godwave isn’t specified and she was still capable of having a full fight while channeling it, it’s at least short enough that it’s something she was actively concerned about.

In general, that about lines up with what you’d expect for a strength comparison between the two, where even looking at their more direct visual feats, Thor seems to have a slight edge and more frequently does stuff on a cosmic scale, especially with the All-Power. Given he at least matches Diana’s power and can be arguably pushed higher, and his peak power isn’t reliant on a temporary boost, we’re giving Thor a slight (but likely not overwhelming) edge in strength.

Speed

You could probably tell this category was going differently the moment we decided to split them up. This is a lot simpler to cover in general.

In terms of flight speed, Thor has multiple feats of crossing universal distances in flight, most directly having reached the edge of creation to battle against the Other during Mighty Thor Annual 2011. Similarly, he can recall Mjolnir to his hand from the edge of the universe to his current location in a short time, and has reacted to others throwing Mjolnir back at him. In terms of more direct reaction feats, pickings are somewhat slim, but he has reacted to light-based attacks before. At the higher end, he swung Mjolnir at speeds fast enough to transcend space and time. Jane Foster Thor, who Thor Odinson is comparable to, has many impressive speed feats, but has a particularly impressive feat in recalling Mjolnir to her when she was located in Ginnungagap and the hammer was in Vanaheim. As previously mentioned, Ginnungagap is synonymous with the Far Shore, which exists at the edge of creation in Marvel’s cosmology, meaning she possibly recalled Mjolnir across the length of the entire multiverse. Even in terms of finite numbers, Jane Foster as Valkyrie was able to search every point in all realms and every point in the afterlives in short timeframes. The Elder God Toranos, who Thor killed, was similarly able to cross from the Far Shore to Earth in a relatively short time. Everything mentioned should apply to Thor both with and without the All-Power, though there are of course many other possible speed arguments.

Wonder Woman, meanwhile, is kind of known for her speed. You almost certainly already know about the Shattered God feat, where she deflected countless shards coming at her from the edge of the universe in quick succession. What you might not know is that she’s been fast enough to throw her lasso into the Speed Force itself to catch Jesse Quick, and has been, on multiple occasions across multiple continuities, described as being almost as fast as the Flashes themselves. On paper, breaching the Speed Force could scale her above practically almost every speed feat in DC history when you consider the amount of speed feats which haven’t risked entering the Speed Force. Perhaps it shouldn’t come as a surprise, given that Diana has directly been capable of moving at incalculable speeds multiple times, and has done things like run fast enough to breach through time in pre-Crisis. While her exact comparison to Superman has fluctuated, she has multiple statements of being as fast or even faster than him in combat and reflexes, and is a direct match for other Leaguers like Martian Manhunter, who can think between Planck instants, or fellow gods like Hermes, who’s fast enough to traverse from Earth to Olympus in the span of a couple of panels, with Olympus being a transcendental realm which exists above the multiverse in the Sphere of the Gods. Note that while she is depicted as fast while channeling it, it’s unclear if channeling the Godwave makes Wonder Woman faster than normal.

So, in terms of both quantifiable and unquantifiable speeds, they generally match up, both having performed direct feats on the scale of crossing the universe, and their allies having ludicrously high finite value speed feats with Valkyrie and Martian Manhunter. It becomes a little more dubious when discussing said unquantifiable speed tier, due to the flexible nature of how people interpret speed comparisons at that level. Diana lassoing into the Speed Force is very direct and allows her speed to ‘scale’ incredibly high in the DC cosmology should one choose to interpret the comparison that way, but Jane Foster recalling Mjolnir to the Far Shore could arguably match it as another very transcendent cosmological realm.

All that said, the more pertinent comparison is a little simpler. We’ve been kind of dancing around it, but Thor Slowdinson is a thing for a reason. It’s undeniable that Thor, with or without the All-Power, simply doesn’t have the same emphasis on speed that Wonder Woman does, and doesn’t have nearly as many explicit speedster feats, which makes it a little difficult to faithfully argue he should be an exact equal to her in this category. We’re not going off of just vibes for this either. Remember, Wonder Woman has been described as having faster reflexes than Superman on multiple occasions, and has outpaced him in combat. Superman himself has many speed feats similar to the ones Thor has and scales to (breaching infinity, transcending space-time), yet Wonder Woman is still able to outpace him. Her entering the Speed Force only supports this, as it means that in that instance, she was likely moving faster than any of Superman’s speed feats where he hasn’t done such a thing, including multiple incalculable ones comparable to Thor’s scaling. This gets even broader when you consider all the other speed feats in DC which haven’t breached the Speed Force. Even Wally West and Barry Allen only breached it at the very end of the same race where they generated so much energy they were mistaken for the Source.

Given everything described, this category should solidly be in Wonder Woman’s court. It doesn’t mean she’s blitzing Thor, in the same way she doesn’t blitz Superman when they fight, but it does mean she should be able to outpace Thor in pure reflexes and close quarters combat, given she can do exactly that to characters who have all the same arguments that Thor does. Unfortunately for Thor, he’s not getting the speed upscale this time, and speed goes to Wonder Woman.

Skill

Martial Arts & Combat Ability

On average, Diana is depicted as an incredibly skilled martial artist on a more regular basis. In addition to the basic “has mastered every martial art” that every comic character and their mother has under their belt, she’s also stated to be equal to Batman, acknowledged as the greatest melee fighter in the world and the greatest warrior in history, has been described as an “artist” in combat compared to all of her League teammates, and is a match for warriors like Ares who have the inherent skill of every battle in the universe’s history, alongside her general dexterity and visual showings in the average comic. Needless to say, matching her skill in battle is a tall order.

That being said, tall orders can be met, and if you take Thor at his best, he should be capable of holding his own. For starters, he’s matched martial artists like Captain America and Wolverine in direct combat, who have both mastered every martial art in the world. He’s got good showings against Top 1 martial artists like Shang Chi, and has battled foes like Man-Beast, whose combat skills are a million years more advanced than modern-day martial artists. Of note, he’s also fought his own version of Ares, who is not only acknowledged to have mastery over every fighting style, but also personifies the concept of war and battle across every plane of reality and in every possible future, comparably absurd to the statements made about DC’s Ares.

Altogether, while Diana is probably going to be depicted as more skilled in an average comic issue, the two are on par in overall skill when you take them both at their best.

Pressure Points

Diana is established to have knowledge of pressure point combat, with pressure points in DC being oftentimes presented as a magic insta-win button, a lot more absurd than they are in real life. In fact, Batman – whom Diana is at least equal to – knows pressure points that can kill a person instantly with a single well-placed strike. The exact location of these pressure points might vary depending on a target’s species, but the Lasso of Truth can identify pressure points and weak spots, so Diana will always know where to strike to do the most damage.

Fortunately for Thor, he’s fought multiple opponents with similar skills and come out the other side no worse for wear. The most notable example is Man-Beast, who attacked with pressure points that could inflict eternal paralysis if not death. Though successfully struck, Thor recovered quickly. Corroborating this, while he has been defeated (though not killed) by Mantis’ pressure point crippling the nerves in his neck, a letters page has clarified that this was because he was off guard, and that she wouldn’t last ten seconds against him otherwise. Meaning he’s thankfully not a Batman victim. Thor survives this challenge.

Conventional Intelligence

Though not widely reputed for it, both Thor and Wonder Woman have showings of genius level intellect outside of combat, be it Blake’s world-class medical skills or Diana’s invention of the purple ray. Taking a look at their most absurd showings, Blake was able to build an android with an IQ of 375, capable of solving the world’s most complicated mathematical problem instantly. Meanwhile, Diana built a thinking machine capable of solving any problem, which solved a complex mathematical problem 35,000 times faster than sixty army experts combined. Diana’s mind is so powerful, in fact, that it has catalogued all knowledge since time began. Likewise, Thor possesses the wisdom of the ages, with knowledge of the entire universe down to the finest detail, and the future of all things.

The exact consistency of this near-omniscient intellect is… capricious, for both of them, to say the least. But once again when you compare their high-end showings and statements, neither side gains a clear advantage.

Tactics & Information Gathering

Both fighters here are cunning tacticians, with Thor having fought in more battles than anyone Captain America knows and led the forces of Asgard against ancient deities, and Wonder Woman being trained in battle tactics by the Amazons and comparable to Ares, who embodies every combat strategy to ever exist.

On top of this, they both possess mystical ways of gathering information and coming up with new plans. With the Knowing, Thor can intuitively understand the most effective approach to a situation, even against seemingly impossible odds, and may possess powerful clairvoyance with the God-Sight, which can see anything across time and space. Similarly, the Lasso of Truth can give Diana full loredumps on her opponent, allowing her to see their entire life and understand their nature, giving her full intel on everything Thor can throw at her.

While Odin has concealed himself from Heimdall’s clairvoyance, this seems to be an active defense that Thor hasn’t used before. Likewise, most of his other showings for resisting clairvoyance are mainly related to various individuals being unable to track him in his mortal forms, and not pertinent to the lasso’s ability. While not canon, this is supported by Diana’s encounter with Jane Foster Thor in the recent Marvel/DC crossovers, where she was able to use the Lasso to learn information about her. Meanwhile, Diana has no special resistance to clairvoyance in the first place, and thus Thor’s abilities should also come in handy here.

While spoiler alert, this category is going to end up a tie as well, it’s important that we don’t skip over the ramifications of this. Effectively, Thor and Diana are both going to reasonably know most everything about one another going into the fight, which is compounded by the fact that they canonically know each other and have met multiple times. This means that unlike most fights, where you could reasonably say that a character wouldn’t know to be cautious of a specific weapon or ability that the opponent has, Thor and Diana are a different story. They will know what dangers they need to avoid, and what strengths they need to play to in order to win the fight. Both sides gain a powerful advantage from this knowledge.

Experience

If you’ve been paying attention, it should come as no surprise that Thor is quite a bit older than Wonder Woman. For most of his history he was sitting at a few thousand years give or take, versus Diana’s single millennia spent fighting in Asgard, but more recent comics have retconned his age to be more in the ballpark of a million years. That being said, Diana’s mind possesses all the knowledge since the beginning of time, and she regularly beats the hell out of Ares, who has the experience of every battle in the universe’s history, so their base ages don’t paint the full picture. With that said, though, Thor has likewise frequently battled foes nearly as old as the universe, such as Surtur, Ymir, the Elder Gods, and so on.

In terms of combat experience specific to this match, both have fought many characters who act as comparable analogues to their opponent. Thor has fought lasso users before, and has matched several highly-skilled speedsters with bladed weapons who could outpace him in close-quarters, namely Angela, Balder, and Thialfi. Diana, meanwhile, has directly overcome her universe’s incarnation of Thor, who has a similar general powerset to his Marvel counterpart, and has clashed with the lightning-wielding skyfather Zeus on multiple occasions. With all this in mind, while Thor is technically older, neither side has a clear experience edge. They’re both on a level of skill at which a difference in age is insignificant, and shouldn’t be too surprised by anything the other brings out.

Aim & Accuracy

Thor and Wonder Woman have comparably absurd feats of accuracy, with Thor being able to throw Mjolnir precisely across the Ten Realms and tag things at effectively infinite distances, and Diana having sufficient accuracy with the Lasso to snag speedsters while they’re moving inside the Speed Force, a higher plane of reality. She was also able to catch Zoom when he was moving ahead of her in time. This makes sense on both sides, because there are statements that both Mjolnir and the Lasso are enchanted to never miss their target (though obviously both have missed before in-spite of this). The Lasso arguably has more statements of such, but they exist for both, so once again we have a tie.

Horseback Riding

The most important category fo sho. Thor has rode horses for days on end, even across multiple realms or through a thousand stars. He’s even tamed and ridden specific creatures like Yrrl-Beasts. In comparison, even an average Amazon possesses surpassing equestrian skills, making them unlike any cavalry ever seen in the world of men. Diana herself has rode horses across space to distant planets, and has wrangled sharks to ride them like horses.

Altogether, Thor has greater stamina feats with horses and has arguably rode them across greater distances, but their skill in combat on horseback is comparably strong. Neither one shall out-horse the other.

Stamina

Diana’s best personal stamina feat without any unclear aspects is going 23 days and 14 hours without sleep. She also fought in the thousand year war, during which they were noted by narration to have not slept, though there were break periods when they were not fighting, so some degree of rest. More notably, she is noted to have comparable stamina to a god, with godly beings such as Atlas having infinite stamina. She’s also stated to have stamina near that of a Kryptonian, with Superman having feats of fighting until the end of time.

Thor, in comparison, is much simpler, with Yolgjord giving him infinite stamina. Even without it, Asgardians with the All-Power can keep going continuously for 80,000 years, and Thor himself has fought for years straight with explicitly no rest. Needless to say I don’t think the fight will be lasting long enough for either of them to tire out. Stamina is effectively even.

Pain Tolerance

Both Thor and Diana possess almost peerless pain tolerance, having withstood “super torture” for extended intervals and come out the other side no worse for wear. Time to power scale torture guys let’s fuckin’ go.

Thor has endured being flayed, having his insides frozen, his liver turned to glass, and his body being jellified while he was cursed with immortality. At the hands of Gorr the God Butcher, he endured 17 straight days of torture and survived. In comparison, Diana has thugged it out through torture from Darkseid and Desaad, to the point where the blood boiling in her veins and her bones being made of broken glass was described as equivalent to a tiny fraction of the pain coursing through her. It was “the kind of pain that seems to fill the universe,” which is consistent with other showings like enduring a blast from Arion comparable to 100 billion galaxies crashing together inside her body.

While you could perhaps debate whether one of these might “technically” be more impressive than the other, in practice, they both can endure full body agony beyond what a normal human could reasonably experience. No amount of damage that either could inflict upon the other would exceed the sort of pain that they can tolerate, so both have the endurance to keep up the fight as long as they are alive.

Conclusion

Thor and Wonder Woman match each other in most if not all tertiary areas. While one or the other might be slightly better on average in one category or another (Diana is more frequently depicted as a skilled martial artist, Thor is quite a bit older) both will always have similarly impossible high-end statements and showings, to where none of the above factors will decide the fight singlehandedly. However, given how highly Diana relies on her skill in combat, a tie in skill is a slight problem for her. It means that things like her martial arts, information gathering, and genius tactical ability will not sway the fight, as Thor excels in all those areas as well.

With that said, skill is a tie across the board.

Powers

Regeneration & Immortality

The key question to start out with is what it even takes to kill these two, and so what their opponent must do to win.

In terms of more “standard” regeneration feats, Thor is probably more impressive than Diana on average. He’s healed quickly from being flayed, stabbed, or having organs ripped out, while most of her feats are moreso healing from cuts, puncture wounds, and broken bones, sometimes over long periods. However, she does have one showing of having her body broken down by Clayface and pulling herself back together inside of him to break out. Per handbooks, Asgardians can explicitly be killed by having a large enough portion of their bodily mass dispersed, so regenerating from chunks is probably beyond most of Thor’s conventional regen feats. But it is worth emphasizing that this is a high-end showing for Diana’s conventional healing factor.

Diana also has some more extensive and “debatable” showings of regen or immortality, such as pulling her body back together when molecularly deconstructed, manifesting a new body from just her spirit via sheer willpower, other Amazons regenerating their bodies from their souls and the environment, and Diana being able to manifest herself from the very idea of her throughout history. She’s also been killed or erased from existence before and just respawned in Olympus, with the other Olympian gods having similar regen showings of just respawning from being erased across history as if they never existed. She also implied she would have been able to regenerate from Neron destroying her soul, had she not been weakened due to her power being split with Artemis.

Thor has equal showings against most of these things. He was able to reform his body from just his spirit using the solid matter around him. He’s reconstituted his body around his spirit within the Destroyer armor, and he’s regenerated from Glory’s attack, which flayed him to nothing, body, soul, and mind. Hela has established that all gods can bring forth their soul, fracture it to pieces and then reform it afterward. Hank Pym used the All-Power to regenerate from his body, mind, and soul being destroyed within Ultron’s systems, and the All-Father of Asgard may be able to simply resurrect himself if sent to Valhalla. Marvel gods can regenerate just based on prayer, and can respawn from total destruction even if they are fully destroyed or erased.

It’s worth noting that both Thor and Diana have been frequently threatened by a level of damage far less than what these high-end regeneration showings would imply. They both were recently killed via a simple stabbing, and Diana has been placed in critical condition by a bullet nailing her in the throat when she was off-guard. As previously mentioned, having a large portion of their body destroyed can explicitly kill an Asgardian.

With all this in mind, the summary is as such:

• Thor has better average feats of conventional regeneration
• Diana has one showing that would be better than Thor’s conventional feats, that being regenerating from chunks
• Both of them could be argued up to High-Godly Regen, as they can come back from complete destruction of body, mind, soul, temporal erasure, and can come back from mere ideas or thoughts
• Both can theoretically respawn indefinitely even if properly killed
• These levels of regeneration are inconsistent for both, so while neither can “permanently” kill the other regardless of interpretation, if one of them kills the other conventionally that should be considered the end of the fight
• If you were to take them at their highest end showings here, the fight would probably just be a tie.

Given all that, the safest and most reasonable angle is that either will die if hit with a conventionally fatal attack, so that’s what either has to achieve to put the other down.

Thor’s Powers VS Diana’s Counters

Suffocation

Perhaps a strange place to start, but something Thor and Diana have in common is still needing to breathe air despite having had multiple extended confrontations in the vacuum of space. Thor in particular can exploit this by creating air vacuums with his control over wind. That said, since both have feats of lasting extended periods without oxygen without issue, and since Diana in particular has endured an air vacuum being created around her before, it’s unlikely to be an actual issue for her. Goku should watch out though.

Freezing

Thor can unleash snow frigid enough to harden molten slag, and can conjure the icy winds of Niffleheim, the Asgardian realm of death. Diana has broken out of being frozen over multiple times, and has endured Superman’s freeze breath. She was able to endure on Pluto, which she described as being 10,250 degrees below zero temperatures. Given that that’s colder than what any actual temperature scale can go to, that’s “writer didn’t know what absolute zero was” levels of impressive!

Heat

On multiple occasions, Thor has conjured fire out of Mjolnir, and can whirl it fast enough to ignite the hammer in an atomic flare with immense power. With the All-Power, he can conjure the heat of a billion suns to ignite the forges of Nidavellir, which were hot enough to break apart Mjolnir itself. Diana’s direct heat resistance isn’t quite up to par, with her best direct showings being surviving close-range nuclear explosions. That said, she has consistently been able to endure Kryptonian heat vision before, which, at the high-end, has matched the power of the Big Bang and hurt characters who have survived the Big Bang. The Big Bang is, as you can probably expect, estimated to be really really hot, possibly up to the Planck temperature, the highest possible temperature in traditional physics. While it is a little indirect and more dubious, if you take that, Diana would be fine against any of Thor’s high-temperature attacks.

Lightning

How Diana deals with lightning is a pretty key question for this match. Thor naturally has many showings with his lightning demonstrating a high-degree of potency. His lightning is strong enough to blast things to atoms or vaporise them, one-shot the Hulk, down the Void, blow through Knull and the Chaos King, cauterize wounds on Celestials, match Zeus, hurt Galactus and the Phoenix Force, damage the Elder God Mejed, and shake every realm across Yggdrasil down to its roots. Thor can channel the totality of the All-Power into his bolts to empower them, and he’s used this to attack the likes of Toranos. His bolts can be as big as planets, and his cosmic storms are potent enough to threaten the entire universe and re-attach the realm of Heven to Yggdrasil. Thor also has multiple ways of attacking with lightning, whether calling it from the sky, firing it from his hammer, charging it directly through his body to either strike with or launch as a projectile, or even wielding it as a sword. Since Thor can summon storms and lightning with just a thought, he’ll effectively never be unable to call upon it.

Diana isn’t without electricity resistance in her own right, having multiple showings of enduring high-intensity electricity shocks and natural lightning. Fortunately for her, she’s a character associated with the Greek pantheon, so she’s had multiple encounters with DC’s incarnation of Zeus, having endured his lightning bolts on multiple occasions, while similarly having remained conscious after being hit by Shazam’s lightning, which is derived from Zeus. Backing this up is her ability to endure her universe’s version of Thor’s electricity. Her equipment also offers additional means of protection; her bracelets have been shown to be effective at warding off lightning before, and have blocked lightning blasts from the likes of Zeus and Nekron, while her Godkiller Armour is a full-body protection which is specified to give some resistance to electricity.

Comparing the two, DC Zeus stacks up in a few key areas, with Shazam’s lightning having disintegrated and atomised people before, and with Zeus himself having hurt and empowered Darkseid with his lightning. Black Adam was likewise able to disrupt the fundamental fabric of the omniverse with his lightning in Future State. All that said, keep in mind Thor is at the very least slightly stronger than Wonder Woman with the Godwave, and can channel his full power into his lightning bolts, with many similar showings of damaging extremely powerful cosmic entities. Her showings against Zeus mean the lightning certainly won’t be one-shotting her, and she has means to deflect it, but it will still definitely hurt, and since it’s one of Thor’s primary offensive options which he can call upon repeatedly with just a thought, it’s definitely a pretty good means of attack.

Weather Manipulation

Not really a hax, but Thor has many powerful weather manipulation feats, and frequently employs intense storms, winds, and cyclones to batter even powerful enemies like Surtur and Ego. Wonder Woman does have some control over the elements in her own right, but obviously it’s not nearly as extensive as Thor’s is. She’s definitely not going to immediately job to wind or anything, but Thor having a pretty overwhelming offensive arsenal in the form of his weather and a huge AOE with it gives him some solid options in a fight.

Transmutation & Matter Manipulation

Mjolnir has an occasionally-used ability to alter molecular structures, having re-arranged the molecules of Thor’s outfit or altered the innate properties of materials. This can be used against others, such as forcibly changing the Absorbing Man’s form into helium. Thor has used the All-Power to pull together the moon molecule by molecule, while Odin has multiple showings of dissipating others or transmuting them in order to end a fight. In-turn, Diana has a high degree of resistance to transmutation, having endured blasts meant to turn her into gold and returned to her normal form even after being converted, and has resisted disintegration and molecule-manipulating effects before, ensuring she won’t be one-shot by any of this should Thor choose to employ it.

Magnetism & Telekinesis

Mjolnir’s ability to conjure intense magnetic fields is something Diana has directly resisted on two separate occasions, and is something Thor rarely uses for combat anyway, meaning it won’t be an issue. What might be more of an issue is the telekinesis Thor has access to via the All-Power, which he’s used to restrain beings as powerful as Desak with objects, and which his future self could use to toss around stars. Diana has no direct resistance to telekinesis, and it isn’t something she frequently encounters. That said, her feats of resisting strong magnetic pulls are at least similar and prove she should have at least some resistance to being telekinetically dragged around. Given that Thor doesn’t really use this ability to directly restrain people as opposed to restraining them with objects, it probably won’t be a major problem for Diana.

Sound Attacks

Mjolnir was once able to conjure ultrasonic waves. Diana has technically never resisted a direct sound attack before, but she’s personally yelled loud enough to shake an entire dimension before, so her ears are durable enough to withstand it. Thor has also done the same actually. They both get pretty mad sometimes.

Stasis

Mjolnir can fire blasts which put people into stasis, and Odin has similarly trapped people in place before. How this works is unclear, but it’s been described as paralysing the atoms around the target. Diana has no direct resistance to stasis, but has resisted and overcome sustained paralysing force before, which, given the ability is kind of vague anyway, is probably enough to say she can handle it.

Soul Manipulation

While Thor’s own soul manipulation showings are mostly for utility and not really something he’s applied for combat before, Odin has multiple showings of manipulating the soul and drawing it out of the target’s body which are worth considering. Diana has resisted attacks meant to rip the target’s soul from their body, has been described as being immune to it, and can rejoin with her body should her soul be removed anyway, as well as having broken out of her soul being sealed before. While you could argue about the level of potency in this comparison, given Odin’s power over souls has been compared to that of Mephisto’s, since Thor himself has never used soul manipulation offensively before, it won’t be a game-ender either way.

Mind Manipulation

Mjolnir has some relatively basic showings of hypnotising people and wiping memories, both of which Diana has resisted and countered. With the All-Power, Thor’s telepathy could possibly match Odin’s level, which was strong enough to stalemate Galactus, so pretty high in potency. Diana has resisted Maxwell Lord’s mind-control on multiple occasions, despite him being able to control Superman, which is what led to their well-known fight prior to Infinite Crisis, and the lasso provides mental protection which should be comparable to its own incredibly potent showings of affecting entities like the Source. As always, you could debate the exact potency of mental comparisons, but Diana’s showings reasonably should be plenty strong enough to match, especially given Thor has never employed telepathy offensively in that manner before.

Time Stopping

Thor can use Mjolnir to create fields in which time is completely frozen, and has used the All-Power to freeze time with just a gesture. Diana has encountered time stops a few times before, though her resistance to them is technically a little weird, since while she can move in frozen time, she can’t affect anything that is frozen. That said, that still means she can hurt her opponent, who obviously isn’t frozen in time, which is really the only part relevant for a fight, so this shouldn’t be effective on her overall.

Time-Reversal

By channeling the All-Power through Mjolnir, Thor has reversed time to undo damage from a fight. Diana has been unaffected by time running in reverse, and Thor’s time-reversal doesn’t seem to affect people anyway, so.

Temporal BFR

Whether Thor can time-travel or not is pretty up for debate, but the All-Power should at the very least allow him to send people across time, given his future self was able to do this and Odin has done it multiple times. It’s not like it matters anyway, since Diana can explicitly resist effects meant to launch her through time, and can return to the present via her super-speed even if it works on her.

Power Nullification

Mjolnir can conjure fields which disable all magic in the area for 60 seconds, and has siphoned divinity from other gods to render them mortals, having done so with a Godblast to permanently kill Loki. Diana has resisted power removal before, so she’s probably fine against the ability to disable magic. More interesting is how siphoning divinity would work on her, but it’s been a key point in the comics that Amazonian powers can’t really be removed due to how they’re innate to training, meaning any woman can reach the level of an Amazon with the right skill-set. This means that Diana’s powers aren’t tied to her godhood, but to her nature as an Amazon, which Thor likely shouldn’t be able to disrupt. That said, Mjolnir’s ability to affect godhood could possibly interfere with her various blessings from the Gods, though this is more theoretical.

Size-Changing

Thor can grow big. Lasso can also grow big. She can topple the puny god so long as she believes.

Anti-Matter

A very random ability Thor has is being able to fire anti-matter particles which, despite being called that, behave nothing like real anti-matter. Diana endured being hit by a chunk of anti-matter reacting with her body, but completely ordinary human Steve Trevor also survived that same process. Thor has a weird iffy version of anti-matter and Diana has a weird iffy anti-matter resistance, so it cancels out and shouldn’t be a factor.

Existence Erasure

Thor has stated he can erase beings from existence, and Odin has seemingly done this to a group of humans before restoring them. Diana has taken hits from Omega Beams before, which can make it so people never existed in the first place, and survived the Crisis on Infinite Earths, as well as matching the God Scraper which can cut things from existence, more than enough to match Thor and Odin’s pretty general showings with it.

Reality Warping

This is very theoretical and will pretty much never actually come up, but Thor may have the power to warp reality across the universe to alter the timeline, as Odin could empower an apple for Knorda to do just that. Intuitively, the lasso should be able to dispel a false reality in that manner, and has done something similar by dispelling the Queen of Fables’ imagination-based reality warping, so even if this does somehow come into play, Wonder Woman should be protected.

Sealing

Mjolnir has a vague ability to form seals, and was able to somehow shrink and imprison Hyperion in a sphere of glass in a pretty infamous feat. With the All-Power, he was able to seal the Gardener in the Moon itself, compared to how Odin sealed Surtur inside the Earth in classic stories. Diana has no specific resistance to sealing, but she was able to shatter a mirror world she was trapped in despite the fact that it was big enough to contain infinite reflections of herself, which is probably enough to resist the Hyperion showing. It’s more questionable if that would be enough to resist the Moon showing, since Thor and Odin were able to seal away incredibly powerful beings with this, and Surtur was specifically kept at bay via the Earth’s centrifugal force. It’s certainly arguable that shattering the mirror world is comparable enough for Diana to deal with it, but they aren’t the exact same thing, meaning this is a possible wincon for Thor (though of course, one he rarely employs).

BFR

Thor has relatively frequently ended fights by simply sending the opponent away via dimensional vortexes, which can reach as far as the Far Shore near the edge of Marvel’s cosmology. With the All-Power, he did just that against Toranos, conjuring a massive portal to the Far Shore and blowing Toranos through it via his winds when he saw no other way to end the fight. Diana has been able to haul herself out of dimensions before, and the lasso provides her with dimensional travel of her own, so she’d be fine against the traditional forms of banishment. The real question is if she can escape the Far Shore, given it’s very high up in Marvel cosmology, but she does have a comparable showing of being able to escape the In-Between, a realm which exists beyond the multiverse which the God Scraper sword couldn’t escape despite the fact that it can reach the Fifth Dimension. The exact cosmological standing of the In-Between, as well as Diana’s escape from it, are both pretty weird, but it should be enough to return back to the fight should Thor send her to the Far Shore.

Similarly, Thor was able to kill Uriel by creating a portal to a star and dragging him into it. While Diana has never directly survived being inside a star, her heat and radiation resistance should at least on-paper be enough to deal with it, and since she can resist dimensional banishment and provide strong resistance to Thor trying to drag her in, it should be something she can handle.

Luck

Thor has been suggested to have some form of supernatural luck, which allows him to overcome fate. Does the Story of Thor solo???? No, his luck is a general thing and he’s lost plenty of fights. Loki describes it as being what allows Thor to defy the fates, but that only played out in full over an extensive story arc and portion of the character’s history. It’s probably more of like, a Master Chief kind of thing, so Wondie won’t have to worry about the Tunnel Effect or Thor Path-To-Victory-ing his way through the fight Contessa style, it’s not gonna be a big deal.

Odinsword

At least one version of the Odinsword which Thor has used can cut through space-time and was able to sever apart Yggdrasil, so if given to him it would be a useful weapon (the same applies to the Bloodaxe, though it’s not really standard). Diana has matched the God Scraper, which can cut through space-time and could destroy realms in the Sphere of the Gods, so her resistance to spatial cutting is equally potent. Though of course, the Odinsword is strong enough to kill the likes of Cul, and is a piercing weapon, so it would still hurt. Speaking of!

Jarnbjorn/Tormod/Sharp Stuff

Diana has a well-known weakness to piercing weapons. Thor has multiple piercing weapons. Is it GGs?

Right off the bat, Jarnbjorn is basically irrelevant. He’s only ever dual wielded it with Mjolnir for specific purposes, and he no longer has it in current canon, since it’s back with Runa, its original owner. While it is pretty sharp and powerful, it has no specific enchantment beyond being Celestial kryptonite, meaning Thor can’t throw it without having to manually retrieve it, and it doesn’t have any super amazing durability feats beyond what’s implied by its strength.

Thor especially has no reason to use Jarnbjorn when he now has Tormod, a much better axe. Tormod is enchanted to recall back to Thor’s hand in the same way Mjolnir is, and is sharp enough to cleave through Elder Gods like Kemur and Mejed. It can resist spatial cutting given its showings against Skurge’s Bloodaxe, and Thor frequently uses it alongside Mjolnir for his big battles up until the current time of his death.

Obviously, having an enchanted axe helps when the opponent is vulnerable to piercing weapons, and you could argue Thor would be aware of this weakness via the Knowing giving him insight. But, like, it’s Wonder Woman LOL. She deals with piercing weapons literally all the time. Not only does she have many showings of use her skill and agility to dance around or counteract bladed weapons, such as matching Deathstroke in a sword duel, her bracelets provide an extremely powerful protection against bladed weapons as strong as Nemesis’s god-slaying sword, and she’s adept enough with them to literally deflect bullets with her eyes closed. Even if the bracelets are destroyed, she was able to replicate the same effect with her bare arms against the God Killer sword just by believing in herself. On top of that, she has full body armour such as the Godkiller Armour (no relation) to provide protection against blades in serious encounters.

Make no mistake, Tormod and Thor’s possible other bladed options definitely are useful, and a clean hit with any of them could end the fight there, but if Diana was that easy to take down with a piercing weapon, she would have been shot in the head by her tenth issue. She has plenty of options to work around such weapons and plenty of experience against them, so in spite of how potent Tormod is, it won’t be what decides the fight.

Worthiness

On the topic of Thor’s enchanted weapons, Diana explicitly is worthy. She held Mjolnir in the canonical DC/Marvel crossover from the 90s, and this instance was referenced in a later 616 comic. Without the All-Power, this could cause some disruption for Thor, since we’ve seen that the hammer can be fought over between two equally worthy characters, though Thor has dealt with this scenario before, such as in his fight against Eric Masterson. With the All-Power, it becomes a non-factor, since Thor in current canon controls the enchantment on the hammer, and can give and relinquish worthiness as he so chooses. Since he also saw for himself that Diana is worthy in that same crossover, he can anticipate this from the start.

Animals

As a true Disney prince(ss), Thor has multiple animal companions which aid him in his fights, namely his ravens, Hugin and Munin, and his goats, Toothgnasher and Toothgrinder. While his ravens generally provide him with a lot of utility, able to link to his mindscape to break him out of mental traps, ferry his soul across dimensions, bypass dimensional barriers and holding enchantments, and provide eyes and ears for Thor from across anywhere in reality, his goats are particularly useful for offense. They can travel at faster than light speeds and are totally loyal to Thor, and are strong enough to hurt Mangog at the peak of his power by ramming into him.

Diana doesn’t really have comparable animal companions to assist her. Cute as Jumpa is, she probably can’t box with angry screaming goats. However, we do know Thor’s goats are vulnerable to mental attacks, as Loki did just that to prevent them from targeting him, so the lasso should be able to disable them. Still, it is a decent advantage for Thor that he has very powerful battering rams at his beck and call, which Diana would need to actively deal with first to avoid being caught off-guard.

The Destroyer

The Destroyer is an incredibly powerful battlesuit with incredibly powerful matter-manipulating abilities. While Wonder Woman does resist most of its matter-manipulation, stuff like anti-matter may arguably still work on her, and more pertinently it’s just really fucking strong, tougher than adamantium and able to beat up beings as strong as the empowered Donald Blake and All-Father Thor himself. In a direct fight, it’s basically a nuclear Doomsday, so Diana probably can’t do much against it 1-on-1.

The question then becomes if she could find a way to disable it. If the Destroyer is used in its traditional manner, with Thor’s soul being transferred into the suit, then the lasso should be able to remove his soul from it with no issue in much the same way Odin has done. If Thor uses the Destroyer as a literal suit of armour around his actual body, which Odin has done and which Thor seemed to do at the end of his fight with Donald Blake, it becomes a lot trickier, since it’s questionable if the lasso could necessarily disable that. Basically, it’s a 50/50. If the lasso can disable it, it’s not anything Diana has to worry about. If it can’t, it becomes a pretty strong wincon for Thor.

Godblast

The Godblast will probably fuck Diana up if it hits her. The best frame of reference we have for its strength when Thor has the All-Power is that it was able to shatter Hellnir and defeat Meridius, despite the fact that Hellnir is Mjolnir’s exact equal and Meridius had just downed Thor. Given that it can also flay you down to your soul, Diana needs to avoid it, but given that the lasso will likely inform her of such an ability ahead of time, and her immense agility and traversal options, she has a pretty good toolkit to do so. Of course, Thor is also aware that enemies can dodge the Godblast, and has taken steps to prevent the likes of Surtur and Ymir from evading it. He could possibly do things such as trying to lock her in place with wind or earth to make the attack likely to hit. Still, Wonder Woman needs to dodge it, and she has a solid shot of doing so.

Energy Absorption

Thor’s energy absorption is very potent, and he uses it fairly frequently with Mjolnir to absorb energy attacks or drain the enemies out of foes. With the All-Power, it reaches extremely high levels of power, able to forcibly drain an empowered Galactus’s Power Cosmic, drain the dark god Zeus’s powers completely and absorb his Wheel of Fate, and drain the gamma out of Thor himself, when the combined runes and enchantments of all known realms couldn’t do the same.

Wonder Woman’s energy absorption via her lasso is potent in its own right, having drained Anti-Crisis Energy from across the multiverse to empower her to fight the Darkest Knight, but her resistances aren’t up to par, so Thor’s energy absorption should work on her. In particular, it’s possible he could drain the Godwave out of her directly, given his similar showings of draining Galactus and taking Zeus’s esoteric Wheel of Fate. While the Godwave will destroy those who absorb it, Thor has shown the ability to discharge harmful energies such as the Wheel of Fate out from his body and into physical objects, which we know could likely work given that Cronus could seal the Godwave in his physical scepter. Energy absorption is a very solid option for Thor in this fight.

Diana’s Powers VS Thor’s Counters

Piercing Damage

Wonder Woman’s swords are incredibly, incredibly powerful. Obviously there’s the famous atom-cutting sword from New 52, but even Post-Crisis Hippolyta with no special sword to speak of is able to slice through atoms, and the Sword of Exoristos can match the space cutting, existence erasing power of the God Scraper. The Sword of Exoristos can also dispel magical entities such as the Dark Fates, and Diana’s New 52 sword could harm Darkseid, who’s obviously absurd.

With all this in mind, getting slashed or stabbed in a vulnerable area would definitely at least hurt Thor, but it probably wouldn’t be enough to kill him in one hit. Even without the All-Power, Thor has endured slashes from Wolverine’s claws, which can cut through the likes of Thanos and Gladiator, and endured being cut from the inside-out by the Disir, who can cut other Asgardians to ribbons. With it, he’s caught Bor’s scythe blade with his bare hands, which is sharp enough to damage Mjolnir, despite the fact that Mjolnir can clash with the atom-cutting Ebony Blade. Mjolnir has also clashed with Skurge’s Bloodaxe and Thor has taken hits from the Bloodaxe before, shoring up any possible arguments for scaling the Sword of Exoristos to the God Scraper.

Now, this doesn’t mean that Diana’s blades just can’t hurt Thor at all. With enough good hits, she could probably whittle him down enough to take him out. But he’s not just going to die instantly when faced with a slashing attack, even one as powerful as what she can dish out, and that’s not insignificant.

Lasso of Truth

Mind Control

The Big One. The Lasso’s mind hax is, in technical terms, “fuckin’ busted,” and probably Diana’s best and most powerful win condition. If it would work on Thor, that gives her an extremely versatile tool with which she can compel him to her will in a number of ways. So the billion dollar question is: would it work?

And the answer is… well, it’s complicated. It’s not really as simple as “the Lasso has mind hax, Thor resists mind hax,” because it consistently works on Superman, and Martian Manhunter, and Diana herself, all of whom have countless high-level feats of mind hax resistance. Not only that, but it’s worked on Mxyzptlk, and the Spectre, and the Phantom Stranger, and the Upside-Down Man, and the goddamn Source itself, so it has a long and storied history of being able to affect or subdue powerful abstracts and conceptual beings very high up in DC’s hierarchy. These beings have minds far more complex than any ordinary being, but were subservient to the Lasso’s power anyway. With this in mind, the overwhelming majority of Thor’s resistance showings aren’t going to cut it, even some of the more impressive ones like resisting the Mind Gem.

The best feat of resistance in Thor’s repertoire, ironically, isn’t traditionally a mind hax resistance feat at all, but rather his experience dealing with the Enchantress and her skald-magic. This power allowed her to affect his mind and drain his wits via manipulating Thor’s story and narrative itself, changing the perception of everyone on Earth so that they viewed him as stupid, in turn altering his story to reflect that, indirectly manipulating his mind. While Thor was affected by this power at first, he was rendered immune to it by Yolgjord, a belt which made him immune to magic entirely.

Now, this resistance might not sound impressive at first glance compared to the Source, but Enchantress’ skald-magic was a superior version of the power wielded by God of Stories Loki, which allowed them to manipulate the mind and narrative of the Beyonder himself. A cosmic being near the top of Marvel’s hierarchy, on a similar level of existence to the Source, and thus on par with the Lasso’s better showings. With that in mind, while all of Thor’s personal showings fall short of the Lasso, the belt should be enough to stave it off, as it is also specifically noted to protect against Loki’s own skald-magic directly.

…Well, probably. There are a few things you could maybe use to argue against this kind of indirect counter. The Lasso has worked on the Upside-Down Man, after all, who is a living concept, horror itself and capable of altering the laws of reality itself passively. He was comparable to Hecate, who was magic itself, so if magic immunity was a problem for the Lasso, it would probably have come up here. While UDM was weakened when the Lasso affected him, it’s worth noting that his absurd power comes from the Source itself, so affecting the Source would be an even greater feat than this. With that in mind, you could maybe argue some kind of additional upscaling or immunity negation to bypass the belt… but it would be a bit shaky. The exact mechanics of the Lasso working on him weren’t really elaborated on, and he isn’t entirely immune to magic, given that Doctor Fate was able to damage him by channeling the full power of the Helm of Fate into a suicide blast. With that in mind, the belt would probably still work.

But it’s possible that it wouldn’t. It’s also possible that Diana could find a way to remove the belt, or negate or destroy it with her other hax options, which might open Thor up to the Lasso’s effects. This would be a big hurdle eliminated for Diana, but it would not singlehandedly end the fight. Thor has more defenses on top of this that Diana would then need to overcome in order to win. Namely, Hugin and Munin are able to ferry the soul from his body and link with his mind to  break out of mindscapes, giving them options to keep him in the game even if his mind is affected. At this point, Diana would need to divert her attention to getting rid of them in order to eliminate this option.

Which brings us to the ultimate point which is that there are a lot of criteria that need to be met for the Lasso to finish Thor off. First of all, Diana needs to actually get him with it to begin with (which in fairness is doable since she’s faster), then she needs to get rid of the belt and get rid of the birds, and then maybe she could compel him to kill himself or something. It’s not the worst situation to be in, but it does take a lot of setup and work on her part to pull off, which gives Thor breathing room and flexibility to work around the Lasso. In short, a win condition, but not an immediate one.

Willpower & Emotion Draining

Thor has resisted attempts to drain, absorb, or negate his willpower on multiple occasions. He overcame the Eye of Horus trying to remove his willpower, and is immune to Enchantress’ wit-draining magic with Yolgjord. Thus the Lasso likely would not be able to passively pacify him.

Memory Manipulation

Diana has occasionally erased memories, whether telepathically or with the Lasso. Sometimes this functions via physically frying memory cells in the brain. However, in addition to having memory erasure of his own, Thor has restored his own memories after they were erased before, simply by remembering his own divinity. Likewise, Jane Foster has resisted the Phoenix’s telepathy, and Odin has resisted Galactus’. Finally, given Thor’s healing factor, frying memory cells likely would do temporary damage at best.

Soul Manipulation

The Lasso can both remove and destroy souls, burn and purify them, and banish them to the afterlife. Thor has resistance to soul destruction, having resisted Mephisto’s hellfire, blasts from the Soul Gem, attacks from Odin’s astral form, and so on. While there are fewer examples, he should also resist removal, given that he was unaffected after being devoured by Nidhogg, which in the same comic removed Odin’s soul from Mjolnir just by biting it.

Somewhat of interest is Diana’s ability to ferry spirits to the afterlife with the Lasso. It’s a bit debatable exactly which afterlife this would send Thor to; presumably it would either be Valhalla, the Greek Underworld, or to Vidblainn, the true realm of death for a god. If he’s sent to Valhalla or the Underworld he could just leave, as the All-Father can come and go as he pleases. Vidblainn is a bit trickier and harder to escape in the event that he’s dead, but if he’s sent there while still alive he can come back just by striking with Mjolnir. So trying to cheese BFR him to the afterlife probably wouldn’t be a permanent solution unless she actually kills him first.

Mind Reading

Diana can read minds both telepathically and with the Lasso, but even Doctor Strange couldn’t read Thor’s mind without being repelled, nor could Rachel Summers or Phoenix Force Emma Frost. The likelihood of this working is thus fairly low.

Life & Death Manipulation

Thor has resisted effects that drain his life force on multiple occasions, endured possession via the Anti-Life, and ventured through Nifflheim’s forbidden area, which kills anyone who enters it. The Lasso’s showings in this regard are all pretty basic, so he would be fine.

Power Nullification

The Lasso can nullify powers and broadly undo, negate, erase, or destroy anything “false” or that is in some way opposed to truth. This is a pretty broken power in the sense that it’s very broad and can be applied to a variety of different things. But for the most part there aren’t too many exploitable aspects of Thor’s arsenal in this regard. Thor himself is the “real” person after all, with Blake being an identity forced upon him later, so even if Blake were included the Lasso probably couldn’t transform Thor back into him. It’s possible that it could separate the two of them, but not only would that do nothing to kill Thor, but Thor has full control of the transformation and can resist being forced back and forth, even by a duplicate of Mjolnir, and he’s merged back with his mortal personas before just by touching them.

Thor does also resist power nullification, broadly speaking. Devices or powers that can sap his strength have had little effect, Mjolnir can restore his powers if they are lost, and Doctor Strange has needed amps to nullify the All-Power. Attempts to completely depower him would likely prove fruitless with that in mind, though in fairness the Lasso’s nullification is fairly powerful.

Even aside from depowering Thor himself, the Lasso could potentially remove enchantments placed on Mjolnir with its ability to undo or cancel enchantments, but Thor has shown to be able to re-add enchantments if they’re removed. One of the more notable discussion topics that we had is whether it could revert Yolgjord back into lightning or something else along those lines to remove its magic immunity, but while this is an interesting thought, it’s difficult to say definitively that it would work. The belt is not exactly in a “false” state, just a different one. In this regard, the ability being so broad is a double-edged sword, as it can be difficult to make solid judgements in a situation where there is not a 1-to-1 comparison. At worst, Diana might be able to get rid of the belt with difficulty, but the fact that she would need to go out of her way to strip Thor of such a powerful defense in order to make headway otherwise is a disadvantage no matter how you look at it.

Energy Absorption

The Lasso of Truth has very potent energy absorption. While the actual power boost that Diana achieved by absorbing Anti-Crisis Energy during Death Metal is nonstandard, it’s very noteworthy that the method by which she absorbed that power to begin with was via the Lasso. Given that it granted her a power boost on the level of the Darkest Knight, and involved manipulating the power of everyone’s stories across history, this ability is both high-scale and esoteric.

While this is a useful ability, Thor has a few workarounds. The most notable being his own energy absorption that is also absurd in scale. With the All-Power, he has taken Galactus’ Power Cosmic by force via Mjolnir, and absorbed the Wheel of Fate from Zeus. Perhaps most impressively, Odin’s spirit once used Mjolnir to siphon the gamma from Hulked-Out Thor, who had previously resisted the combined absorption powers of every realm in the known and unknown universe and all the magics and enchantments known to the runes and fates. With this in mind, even if the Lasso could potentially absorb energy from Thor, Mjolnir could undoubtedly absorb it back, and likely Diana’s own energy and power on top of that.

Additionally, Thor himself has resisted Demogorge’s energy absorption, with Demogorge being an Elder God of immense power. While you could perhaps debate whether this puts Thor’s resistance on the level of the Lasso or not, it’s at minimum a more potent resistance feat than Diana’s own energy absorption resistance. Meaning that at the very least, Thor’s absorption is comparably potent to the Lasso’s, and his resistance is greater than Diana’s. In a battle of absorption VS absorption, he would likely win.

Phasing

While the Lasso (and Diana herself) have powerful phasing abilities, allowing them to pass through solid matter and even into higher dimensions, Thor and Mjolnir have countless showings of affecting intangible beings. He’s blocked attacks from the intangible Disir, struck Vision when he tried to phase through Mjolnir, and even lesser Asgardian weapons have managed to hit phasers like Ghost. Likewise, while Diana’s phasing sometimes works via vibrating her molecules, Thor has been able to harm Dracula while he was transformed into mist via ionising his drifting molecules. It’s unlikely she could phase through his attacks to any effective extent.

Illusions

Occasionally, Diana or the Lasso have shown to be capable of producing visual illusions to hoodwink foes. Thor has seen through or overcome illusions from the likes of Lorelei, Hela, and the Dark Elves, and could pierce Mephisto’s illusions with Mjolnir. Coupled with the fact that Diana rarely does this, he would be fine.

Invisibility

Likewise, while Diana and the Lasso can turn invisible via vibrations, Thor can detect entities invisible to mortal eyes, such as Loki’s astral form. The All-Power can also be used to reveal invisible beings, and on the occasion when Thor is depicted as unable to naturally see through invisibility, he can conjure rainstorms and track the invisible person by their outline in the rain. Not a tactic Diana frequently uses, and a useless one if she were to bust it out.

Conclusion

The Lasso is a powerful tool to be sure, and pairing its mind manipulation with some of its other applications could allow Diana to get through Thor’s many defenses and subjugate him with mind hax. However, he resists the majority of its miscellaneous abilities, and would have time to adapt and work around its more dangerous options.

God Killer Sword

The God Killer Sword, which Diana wielded prominently before her recent demise, has the power to absorb and reflect oncoming force, striking back at an assailant with double the strength directed against it. While Thor has encountered similar abilities before, he has no direct counter or immunity to such a tactic, making the God Killer a fairly dangerous option that Thor would need to be careful of. It can also destroy souls and cut through space, incidentally, but Thor can resist those particular applications.

Thunderbolt of Zeus

While it’s easy to write off Zeus’ lightning as useless here given Thor’s status as the God of Thunder… uh, well, you’d be right, it is pretty much useless. But worth discussing anyway, since DC Zeus’ lightning is remarkably powerful. Billy Batson, who utilizes Zeus’ lightning, can casually output quadrillions of megavolts, atomize the things he hits, and unleash lightning massive enough to cross the universe. Zeus himself is powerful enough that his energy could restore Darkseid to full power, and Black Adam’s comparable lightning has disrupted the fundamental fabric of the omniverse. It’s really, really strong lightning.

With all this being said, Thor would be fine. His lightning can also blast things to atoms, has similar universal scale, and can harm the likes of Hulk, or even the Chaos King. Despite this, he frequently channels it through his body with little effort, and can absorb outside lightning via Mjolnir. With that in mind, if Diana pulls out Zeus’ lightning, it’s realistically going to have pretty much no effect on him, not helped by his ability to redirect any lightning thrown at him with a single command, as he did to his own universe’s version of Zeus. Worth mentioning as well that while it’s not entirely canon, there was a recent crossover comic where base Thor’s lightning was depicted to be on par with Shazam’s. Supporting the idea that it would be nothing he can’t handle with ease.

Astral Projection

Both Thor and Diana have fairly potent astral projection, though they use them in pretty different ways. Diana can astral project to realms in the Sphere of Gods, and remain alive as a spirit or astral image even in the event that her soul is removed or her body destroyed. While in this spiritual state, she can still use her truth powers, and potentially her other abilities as well. Conversely, Thor’s astral form can be used for spiritual combat, with him having battled Odin’s astral form on a level beyond Adam Warlock’s comprehension. While Thor hasn’t directly astral projected for battle in the same manner Odin has, he should be able to with the All-Power, and his ravens can similarly ferry his soul out of his body. While the fight probably wouldn’t go this route in most circumstances, if they tried to fight in an astral state, Thor would probably win due to better combat feats, and their more technical applications such as traversal and body rejoining are comparable.

Matter Manipulation

Diana has some pretty advanced matter manipulation Pre-Crisis, being able to squeeze matter into other shapes, rearrange molecules, and transmute substances, all with her bare hands. The Lasso can likewise manipulate atoms. While a very interesting ability, Thor generally has it covered. He’s endured dissolution beams from Kang capable of dispersing atoms, and an alien ray gun that freezes molecules. The Destroyer’s laser beams can likewise atomize matter, and Thor has endured those. Even Molecule Man had difficulty separating Mjolnir’s molecules thanks to Odin’s enchantments, though he was still capable of doing so. He’s likewise been unaffected by pixie dust that turns people to stone, and Mjolnir has broken him out of the Grey Gargoyle’s transmutation.

Freezing

This is a pretty simple one. Diana has freezing with her super breath, but it’s only been used like, once or twice, and it’s nothing particularly special. Mjolnir has broken Thor out of being frozen, and he’s broken out of Ereshkigal’s ice on his own before. It would be no trouble for him.

Vibratory Powers

Diana has a variety of powers that she can achieve via vibrations, such as traveling through time and to other dimensions, phasing, negating phasing, creating powerful forces, and so on. Most of these are more useful as a counter to Thor’s powers rather than an offensive option in and of themself, but it’s worth noting that Mjolnir can create counter-vibrations to negate existing frequencies. It’s a bit debatable whether he would be able to precisely cancel out all of Diana’s vibratory abilities. Among other reasons, it’s plausible that she could just shift to a different frequency and remain unaffected. But the fact that he can force her onto the defensive like that is still helpful.

BFR

Diana has a few different options for BFR beyond just teleporting souls to the afterlife. For instance, she’s used her vibrations to transport objects to other dimensions and leave them there, and she could presumably also transport them to other time periods, since her vibrations allow for time travel as well. That being said, dimensional travel is one of Thor’s most important abilities, and his portals can reach as far as the Far Shore, so he would have no trouble returning. Likewise, even if she were to send Mjolnir to another dimension, it has plenty of feats of returning to Thor’s hand even when removed from him in this manner. Returning from a different time period takes a while for Mjolnir, but that’s just a theoretical application on Diana’s end anyway.

Summary

Both fighters have an absolute boatload of counters here, with pretty much no ability between the two of them that the other hasn’t encountered and resisted in some manner. With that in mind, the comparison isn’t as simple as “one of them has a power the other doesn’t resist.” Even when you get into potency arguments, there are a handful of key advantages on either side, abilities that one of them has on a higher scale than the other. That being said, broadly speaking, this is Thor’s category to win.

Diana’s biggest boons are her powerful piercing weapons – which she uses more regularly in-character, compared to Thor’s axes – and the incredible potency and versatility of the Lasso of Truth. But Thor’s iron hide is more than tough enough to weather her slashes for a while, and Yolgjord’s ability to shut down magical mind hax on the level of the Beyonder would be enough to keep him protected, at least as long as he’s wearing it. Even if Diana manages to get it off him or nullify it, she also has Hugin and Munin to worry about after that, and would need to get rid of them as well to score a win with the Lasso.

In comparison, coupled with his strength advantage, Thor’s advantages in this department are fairly numerous. While Diana can endure, deflect, channel and dodge godly lightning from the likes of Zeus, Thor’s lightning is on par with his own AP and thus fully capable of hurting her very badly with a solid hit. It’s also got incredible range, area of effect, and a variety of applications such as charging it into physical strikes, making it a versatile method of attack. On top of that, Thor also has multiple animal companions to keep Diana busy, the Godblast which could oneshot her with a good hit, and more potent energy absorption than what she has resisted, which could siphon off the Godwave and increase the strength gap between the two significantly.

And speaking of the Godwave, the biggest issue for Diana is the simple fact that her ability to match Thor’s strength to begin with is reliant on a temporary amp that’s going to be burning away at her from the inside the entire time they’re fighting. Sure, Wonder Woman has nearly incomparable skill, can counter most of Thor’s abilities, and can block or dodge a lot of his deadlier options. Especially given the Lasso’s loredumps, she should be fully aware of the more dangerous aspects of Thor’s arsenal, giving her a lot of tactical breathing room. But can she employ ALL those counters flawlessly, avoid ALL of his most dangerous options coming at her all at once, get rid of the belt, get rid of the birds, and get a kill off with the Lasso while the Godwave is microwaving her from the inside all the while? At some point, even given her many counters, the amount of stuff that she has to deal with in the limited time available to her becomes too overwhelming. Thor claims the advantage in Powers.

Conclusion

“If there are but a thousand on the Earth who embrace the warmth in their souls–Who seek kindness, who share justice and love–I will fight for that thousand! If there are but a hundred, I will fight! If there are ten–I will fight! If there is only one soul remaining upon the whole Earth who knows love, I will battle to the end for that one! And they for me! To say otherwise is to give up! And I will not give up, Thanos. I cannot give up. We cannot give up.”

Advantages:

• Slightly stronger
• Offensive options like his lightning, the Destroyer armor, or the Godblast can exceed Diana’s durability and resistances
• Yolgjord renders him immune to magic, giving him a preliminary defense against the Lasso of Truth
• Some abilities like energy absorption are more potent than what Diana can resist
• Support options like Toothgnasher, Toothgrinder, Hugin and Munin give him extra backup and utility
• Has resistances to all of Diana’s abilities to varying extents, and can withstand her piercing weapons for at least a little while
• His higher AP is not restricted by a time limit, while Diana’s is
• High-end showings of skill are comparable to Diana’s
• More consistent conventional regen showings, and can match high-end esoteric stuff
• The Knowing could give him full knowledge of Diana’s background and abilities
• Overall wider and more overwhelming range of abilities
• Weather manipulation is useful for battlefield control
• Older and more experienced
• Ragnaroks the house

Disadvantages:

• Slightly slower
• Less consistent in terms of skill and martial arts ability
• Could in theory be worn down over time by swords or the Lasso
• Diana has resistances or counters to all of his abilities, albeit to varying extents
• About to get little bro’d by Doctor Doom in a few months
• Unsolicited opinions on Israel???

“We have a saying, my people: Don’t kill if you can wound, don’t wound if you can subdue, don’t subdue if you can pacify, and don’t raise your hand at all until you’ve first extended it.”

Advantages:

• Slightly faster
• Godwave can put her close to Thor’s strength
• Better martial arts and skill showings on average
• Lasso of Truth is incredibly potent and versatile
• Piercing weapons can damage comparably powerful beings to Thor
• Has resistances or counters on some level against all of Thor’s powers
• The Lasso would give her full knowledge of Thor’s abilities and background
• Highly mobile and has numerous options for dodging, blocking, or negating dangerous attacks
• Better high-end showings in terms of conventional regeneration, and can match high-end esoteric stuff
• Her rhymes are signed, sealed, and delivered on time

Disadvantages:

• Slightly weaker
• Needs the Godwave to keep up in strength, and it can only be used temporarily, else it becomes life-threatening
• Thor has resistances or counters on some level against all of her powers
• Abilities like Thor’s lightning or the Godblast are on a level of potency that she can’t easily tank
• Would need to overcome several layers of defense to score a clear win (Yolgjord, Hugin and Munin, etc.)
• Would likely be at a significant disadvantage against the Destroyer armor, assuming the Lasso can’t get rid of it
• Thor’s energy absorption is more potent than her resistance, allowing him to potentially siphon off the Godwave or her divine blessings
• DC editorial
• Unsolicited opinions on Israel???

In summation, Thor with the All-Power is stronger than Diana is normally, though she can amp her stats temporarily with the Godwave to make the comparison close. Conversely, while both have similar immeasurable speeds, Diana is faster on average and upscales more from the immeasurable feats on her end, cementing her as slightly faster, though not to the extent that Thor can’t keep up.

Skill-wise, while Diana is portrayed as more skilled on average, Thor has high-end showings to match. Both have experience against fighters similar to one another, and canonically know each other on top of that. Most other tertiary aspects like stamina, pain tolerance, tactics and so on are equivalent on both sides. In terms of their healing factors, Thor has better feats on average, Diana has better high-ends, and funky esoteric showings equal out on both sides. While their high-end regeneration feats and respawning could in theory make them both unkillable, they’ve both been consistently threatened by more conventional levels of damage, making a “normal” K.O. enough to conclude the fight.

From there, while Diana can hurt Thor with her swords and could potentially win with the Lasso if she can eliminate enough of his defenses, Thor’s lightning is a very powerful means of attack, as is the Godblast, the Destroyer armor, his various support animals, his potent energy absorption and so on. He could potentially siphon off the Godwave to decrease her AP, or interfere with her divine blessings to remove some of her abilities.

Ultimately, the biggest nail in the coffin is that the Godwave is a temporary amp, and Diana needs it in order to stay in the game. If it’s siphoned off, or if the fight lasts long enough for it to kill her, it’s GG. The All-Power is a more stable power source that Thor has used for much longer, and has no time limit to worry about. Thor has fewer obstacles that he needs to overcome in order to win, and that gives him the advantage in most cases.

To paraphrase a great man… or, well, to paraphrase a man… she was done Thor.

✨BONUS ROUND✨

Base Thor VS Wonder Woman
(Was the episode right at the time?)

A lot of Thor’s biggest advantages are diminished without the All-Power, and a lot of his counters to Diana are lessened. For instance, he wouldn’t have Yolgjord or his animals to fall back on as counters to the Lasso, and would mostly be relying on the notion that his mental resistance is “good enough” to get attacks like lightning or his portals off before succumbing.

Similarly, his piercing resistance would be worse in base. He does still have the feat of withstanding Wolverine’s claws, but whether that would be enough to withstand a blade with atomic level surface area is… debatable. Mjolnir has clashed with the Ebony Blade even normally, but Thor’s own piercing resistance can only be argued to be comparable to Mjolnir with the All-Power. Best case scenario, he can still hold out for a bit, but not nearly as long.

Finally, the Godwave amp would put Diana above Thor physically rather than just on par. The big comparison in this case would be Godwave VS Godblast, with the former being a full body amp and the latter being an attack. These do have benefits and drawbacks on either side – for instance, Thor has used the Godblast a fair bit more than Diana has used the Godwave, and it doesn’t risk killing him, but conversely it’s a directional attack and can be dodged.

Altogether, you could definitely still debate it both ways, and both still have huge arsenals and many showings with lots of back and forth, but Wonder Woman winning is more than likely accurate without the All-Power. Meaning the episode was likely right at the time.

Rune King Thor VS
Witchmark Wonder Woman

Rune King Thor is on par with Those Who Sit Above In Shadow, who are implied to be Beyonders, and knows every type of rune magic. He’s arguably roughly the same level as Thor is now given current Thor’s scaling to the Elder Gods of Utgard, just with all the rune magic on top of that. Witchmark Wonder Woman meanwhile is on par with Hecate and the Upside-Down Man, and beyond anything Zatanna had ever encountered. This would put her roughly at Source level, so probably at least on par with Thor and generally having clearer showings. Both of them theoretically have access to some busted magic, but even in this regard, Rune King Thor is mostly working with theoreticals. Wonder Woman probably wins, depends on cosmology as usual but she has more showings overall.

Next Time…