Character Analysis: Thor Odinson (Part 5 - Feats, Scaling, & Weaknesses)

 

Feats

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

Overall


  • Became All-Father of Asgard

  • Founding member of the Avengers

  • Thwarted the many schemes of Loki to take the throne of Asgard

  • Prevented numerous invasions led by the enemies of Asgard, including Ulik and the rock trolls, Ymir and the Frost Giants, countless Storm Giants, and many others

  • Defeated Hela many times in her quests to claim more souls for her realm

  • Assisted in the birth of the Young Gods, ultimately stopping the Fourth Host of Celestials from destroying the Earth

  • Blew through many Ultron drones in his attempt to raise a robot army

  • Aided in defeating Kang after he had conquered the entire planet

  • Shattered the Loom of Fates and overcame Those Who Sit Above In Shadow to end the cycle of Ragnarok for good

  • Helped defeat the Sentry after he destroyed Asgard during Siege

  • Aided Hercules in his quest to stop the Chaos King from consuming all of existence

  • Defeated Surtur during the War of Burning, preventing him from ending all of existence

  • Fought against the Beyonders as the multiverse was about to end during Secret Wars

  • Defeated Malekith during the War of the Realms and reforged Mjolnir

  • Defeated numerous threats to all gods in existence, including Gorr, Desak, and Mangog

  • Killed both the Black Winter and Galactus, saving the Eighth Cosmos

  • Overcame a corrupt Zeus and purged him of the darkness infecting him

  • Stared down and slew multiple Elder Gods before they could claim the Earth, ultimately giving his life to do so

  • Helped fight the commies (please don’t ask about what he did with the Nazis)


Strength


Striking (Unarmed, Objective)


Striking (Unarmed, Scaling)


Gripping


Gouging


Flexing


Charging


Legs


Lifting


Grappling


Striking (With Mjolnir, Objective)

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


Striking (With Mjolnir, Scaling)


Throwing and recalling Mjolnir (Objective)


Throwing and recalling Mjolnir (Scaling)


Shockwaves


Hammer whirling

With discount hammers


Other


Statements


Direct power comparisons


Drinking


Speed


Combat


Reactions


Movement


Thinking speed


Flight speed

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



Throwing and returning speed


Whirling speed


Slowdinson

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



Durability


Blunt force (Objective)


Blunt force (Scaling)


Explosions


Piercing


Bullets


Energy


Heat

Cold


Electricity


Pressure


Scaling


Jane Foster


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


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


She’s weak to AC current for some reason.

Strength

Speed

Durability



Eric Masterson


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


Strength


Speed


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



Durability


Thor Corps


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

Beta Ray Bill


Red Norvell


Dargo Ktor


War Thor


Thor’s granddaughters


Odin


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

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


General


Strength


Energy


Weaponry


Speed


Durability


Weaknesses


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


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


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


Being disarmed

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