Character Analysis: Thor Odinson (Part 1 - Background, Skill & Mjolnir)

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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 bold indicate 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 piccata and 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 clif 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 fuelled 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

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 and 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 Toranos as 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 was briefly 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 and 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

Mjolnirr 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

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 Utgard and 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.

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.

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

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 blast and 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
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• 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 Mjolnir

• Was 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 interrupted

• Endures the Unbinding Stone unravelling reality

• The 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 paper

• Odinson 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