The maxim of the magical Mjolnir of Thor is direct and straightforward. Whoever carries this hammer shall possess the strength of Thor, if he is deserving of it. That’s the message inscribed on the hammer, Mjolnir, but in fact, it gets a little less straight cut; the determination of honor determined by an inanimate if a mystical, entity can be easy, as the story demands, to go one direction or another. Not everybody has the purity of intent to wield the Norse god’s signature weapon, despite being in a world dominated by powerful superheroes.
The last Avengers: Age of Ultron had a lovely party scene that dealt head-on with the issue of honor, with each Avenger offering it their best shot, to no avail. To receive the hammer, even Thor himself had to make his mark on his father Odin, and he forgot it a fair few times over the years, too. Worthiness is not a set attribute but relies strongly on factors and can change over time. Because of that, many characters, sometimes through loopholes, some through cheating, have had a chance to access Thor’s power. But, no concern how they all got a feeling of that power for a minute or two.
Recently the Captain America Steve Rogers Lifted Mjolnir to save Thor and fight Thanos. He also unlocked the powers of Thor yet, it made people go crazy in the theatres.
Not everybody has proven worthy of wielding the hammer of Thor, Mjolnir, but here are a few characters who have still managed it.
Deadpool
Anyone partly acquainted with the roguish, fourth-wall-breaking vigilante Deadpool would lift an eyebrow to learn that Thor’s hammer had once taken possession of him. Loki, Thor’s adoptive brother and persistent pain in his side, who deceives Deadpool into stealing the Mjolnir, coordinated the whole debacle. Deadpool does so as Thor is on a quest for heroism. Thor loses Mjolnir, and Deadpool takes advantage of the great confusion to find it first; Thor takes on the look of his human alter ego, and Deadpool unexpectedly sprouts a mask, stripped of the item that helps him to change into his godlike form.
On the usual iconoclastic Deadpool misadventures, he carries the Mjolnir along, buying fast food, playing festival games, and batting around those mid-game baseballs. There is a catch, conversely: Deadpool was simply not in the hands of the original Mjolnir. The true one was already lying where it had been dropped by Thor, rendered invisible by Loki, who also produced the fake one that would send the appearance of Thor’s abilities to Deadpool and cause everyone a lot of trouble in the meantime. Even while it existed, it was enjoyable.
Beta Ray Bill
After being annihilated by a demon from Thor’s homeworld Asgard, Beta Ray Bill became a partly cyborg guardian of his own planet, emerging from an alien from a species known as Korbinites. Bill has come into contact with Thor himself on a quest to find a better place to live. They clashed, and Mjolnir got away from Thor, where he could get back up when Bill found out. It was merely because he was deserving and wanted to defend his people; there was no deception involved.
Odin understood this and agreed that it would be for Bill and Thor to battle it out again the rational way to fix this issue. Bill won also, but that didn’t mean he had to hold the Mjolnir; instead, Odin produced for him a new hammer called Stormbreaker as a pretty good moral victory, which Bill could wield instead. One curious thing about Bill is that before his inner nobility was exposed, he was intentionally grotesque to throw viewers off.
Rogue
The Marvel What If the…? The series presents plots that depart slightly from the established canon, diverge and delve into a parallel reality at critical times. One such story is where the Avengers are targeted by Rogue and many others in Evil Mutants’ Brotherhood. Rogue’s capacity to consume the life energy saw her annihilating Carol Danvers of her power and strength in the daily canon. Instead, what if… the Rogue had Thor’s power? Rogue made Thor do the same, killing him and acquiring enough of his inherent Thor-ness in the process to be able to handle the hammer. Instead of being useful on her own, Mjolnir appears to remember her as Thor.
Vision and Iron Man are defeated by the ensuing surge of force, and it also leads to the death of all in the Brotherhood. Rogue is naturally at a shallow spot, at which stage Loki smarms in to take control of the opportunity. His strategy is to use Rogue to take Odin down, leaving both Asgard and Earth open to overpower them. At first, she goes along until a visit from Thor’s spirits reassures her to respect her current role as Thunder’s Goddess and do some good about it.
Magneto
Marvel’s Ultimate Universe is an alternative dimension known for taking on traditional heroes for its dark and grimmer version. Magneto suffered the loss of his children Quicksilver and Scarlet Witch in that universe. He was forced to extreme acts by the resulting sorrow. The electric powers of Magneto provided him with the ability to control all sorts of metals. It turns out that Mjolnir was no exception to the area of influence of Magneto. Probably, Magneto did not raise the Mjolnir, but he could control the air around it with almost the same effect.
Magneto seems unable to manipulate Thor’s hammer at all in the core Marvel universe, however. The hammer is constructed from a unique metal called Uru, which is not native to Earth. Since it is not native to Earth, Magneto is less capable of handling it. That doesn’t really describe what’s new in the Ultimate Universe, but well, if they don’t have a few plot gaps, they’re not comics.
Thunderstrike
Eric Masterson has the beginnings of a noble backstory that is very conventional: he was a very average man who found himself in exceptional situations and rose to the occasion. When he fell into touch with the God of Thunder, Eric was just an ordinary man, a construction worker. In a throw-down among Thor and the villain Mongoose, he was the secondary harm. Still, Odin remembered Eric’s inherent goodness so that he saved his life in the only way he could: Odin fused Thor and Eric into one human.
Eric worked as Thor’s identity when he wasn’t running around with a cloak and helmet-he assumed Eric Masterson’s role. At the same time, Thor wanted to be a civilian. This was how Mjolnir was able to be used by Eric. Though, Thor and Eric were finally able to split again, with Odin creating a new weapon only for Eric: a mace named Thunderstrike. It looks like, The Allfather is just handing those away on Halloween like candy.
Black Widow
In yet another What If…? Natasha Romanoff had her shot at Mjolnir Via the tragic events of Ragnarok, a catastrophe based on Norse mythology that took the lives of all superpowered heroes, Thor is, once again, gone. This leaves no unique powers behind all the superheroes and, when its time comes to combat the Frost Giants, that’s a concern.
Natasha has been sent out to grab the Mjolnir when everyone is getting confused. Aside from the novel’s general alternative reality concept, there are no tricks or gaps involved with her being able to lift it; she is clearly deserving of Mjolnir at that moment. Some have theorized that using Thor’s hammer, possessing a fighter’s heart is of immense importance. It requires nobility and respect, and specific attributes that a civilization of Norse warrior gods will admire. Natasha may have a morally ambiguous past, but she’s a fighter for sure.
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Awesome Android
Awesome Android is constructed by an evil inventor named the Mad Thinker. As both a slave and an acolyte, Awesome Android was built to do the Thinker’s business without posing any questions. However, he was also crafted to be able to consume others’ talents and abilities to become more formidable; this had the unfortunate aspect effect of making Awesome Andy humanoid (for the inventor). He is about to be released from the Insane Thinker’s grasp and strikes himself out.
His ability to replicate whatever quality he came into contact with led Amazing Andy to copy the remarkable quality that made Thor who he is: his integrity and purpose-purity. Andy was able to raise Mjolnir because of that, which was the incident that sparked his search for liberation in the first place. Witnessing the sense of social justice of Thor made him capable of finding justice for himself.
Vision
In the shape of the newly formed humanoid robot, The Vision, the film Avengers: Age of Ultron presented a mini twist, being able to casually pick up Thor’s hammer and give it to him. While it worked properly in the film as a short joke, it also fulfilled the purpose of showing that the Illusion was credible because no one had any other facts to go on. This is exclusive to the Marvel Cinematic Universe; it has not been seen to raise the Mjolnir by the comic book equivalent of The Vision.
Part of Vision’s ability to do so includes factors similar to Awesome Andy: he does not abide by the same rules as his human colleagues as a robot. Even though they can lift the Mjolnir, either Android doesn’t give Thor’s full powers by doing so. Even so, it’s a quick way of telling you a lot about a different storyline; gaps aside, watching someone else with Mjolnir besides Thor has an influence on the viewer.
Storm
X-Men associate Storm has much connected with the God of Thunder straight off the bat, as a mutant with the abilities of weather control. However, her knot with Mjolnir is once again due to Loki’s intrusion; he really stays true to his character as the God of Mischief.
As part of his continuing manipulations for the Asgardian throne, Loki developed a similar hammer called Stormcaster that he gave to Storm. Like Thor’s, it gave her abilities, but Storm wasn’t involved in Loki’s games and roughing penalties. She declined Stormcaster, but she came back to keep it several years later. She clashed with Thor as the newly elected Goddess of Thunder, but she grabbed Mjolnir instead of hurting him so that she could smash Stormcaster once and for all. Not just would Storm prove worthy of herself, she even gave up unbelievable strength twice happily, seemingly further confirmation that she merits the honor.
Captain America
To discover that Captain America is worthy, given his sweetheart and strong values, is certainly not a shock. Cap is all about integrity and doing what is best. Still, he’s not scared to lead the fight into combat either, making him suit the bill very well when it comes to raising Mjolnir, which he’s accomplished so far twice.
The Avengers were at a significant risk both times, facing immense challenges that forced Thor out of action and left Cap to take up the pieces.
Cap simply handed the Mjolnir to Thor for the first time (although it didn’t work for Superman, comic gaps don’t necessarily stick). Cap grabbed the hammer for the 2nd attempt after his signature shield had broken in a major brawl. He used it to mobilize the other Avengers to combat against the Hydra, their rival. Sadly, Cap didn’t get a new cool cape out of the bargain.
We all saw how Cap also Lifted Mjolnir in the recent Avengers: Endgame and changed the course of the war. Thor also acknowledged that he had a hint that Captain America is the only one who wields Mjolnir.
Superman
For a long time, until it finally came to fruition, DC Comics and Marvel had been expecting a massive crossover. In 1979, talks began with the agreement to produce a few crossover games, but the idea ended up being shelved for years after a lot of push and pull. It was not until 2003 that JLA/Avengers was released. Fortunately, it had enough flash and drama to compensate for the delay.
Superman had his hands on Thor’s hammer even during the comic’s run and the shield of Captain America, giving the fourth story a pretty famous cover. Superman was once able to use Mjolnir to deal a big blow to the enemy. Still, he could not lift it as he attempted to pick up the hammer to transfer it to Thor. Kurt Busiek, the writer of the series, described worthiness not only as an intrinsic attribute but as something which can shift from moment to time. Often it was connected to a particular action: it was a noble goal to kill the enemy, so Superman was worthy of it then, but only giving the Mjolnir back? It won’t matter.
Wonderwomen
Although JLA/Avengers was a significant crossover decade in the future, a brief series in the 90s pitted Marvel and DC classic characters against each other. They will come out ahead, a little like comics’ Celebrity Deathmatch. Wonder Woman’s adversary was X-Storm, Men’s, but she had a chance with Mjolnir before the roar. In his own fight with DC’s Captain Marvel, Thor misplaced his hammer, where Wonder Woman came across it.
She quickly picked it up (while remarking on the objective reality of “worthiness” to herself). She received a severe jolt of strength that would undoubtedly have given her an advantage over her rival. The dignity that made Wonder Woman so very worthy, though, also made her too brave to compete with a simple advantage, so she did give up the Mjolnir to have a fair contest with Storm. However, Honor doesn’t always win a battle, and Storm finally took the victory home.
Jane Foster
When a female version of the Thor on the cover was included in the most recent Thor title, it captured a lot of media interest, especially when the designers behind it insisted that the new mystery woman was Thor. She was also not Lady Thor. She had been the real deal; still, she wasn’t the Thor that everyone had come to love, and a driving factor in the plot was the revelation of her real motives. It was finally discovered to be none apart from Jane Foster, Thor’s on-again/off-again love interest.
At a time when the first Thor (going through Odinson when du Nord) was no longer capable of Mjolnir, the new Thor had taken over. Although Odinson wants to take his hammer back at first, he comes to appreciate Thor’s ability. He gives her his blessing to carry on in his place. Initially, Odinson had denied the possibility that Jane may be the one who wielded Mjolnir merely because he thought she was doing breast cancer chemotherapy. Still, it turns out she was completely fine when changed, and when she was not, Jane’s cancer was simply getting weaker because of the toll change on her body.
Nonetheless, Jane Foster is indeed the present Thor and has perhaps proved herself to be the most deserving of all.
Bonus: Hulk and Red Hulk
If this list has proven, when it comes to raising Thor’s hammer, gaps can be influential. Without really wanting to lift it, both Hulk and Red Hulk are becoming professionals in using Mjolnir.
To propel both himself and Thor into space, Red Hulk latched onto the traveling hammer’s momentum, where the fusion of his own force and the lack of gravity permitted him to use the hammer on Thor. Hulk himself has performed similar maneuvers (snatching onto the Mjolnir as it is in movement and riding along for the trip). However, he could control the hammer once during a battle with Thanos while Thor was still hanging on to it.
That took good care of the prerequisite of integrity, which liberated Hulk up using the Mjolnir.
