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)
Dazes Loki with a punch strong enough to shatter a small mountain
Sends Firelord flying into a set of steel trucks, destroying them
KOs Tyr with a punch which sends him crashing through a tree and boulder
Clashes with Beta Ray Bill barehanded across Skartheim, their battle uprooting mountains. A fist clash creates a blast which levels the surrounding countryside and knocks both out
Hits Hulk with a blow that narration says would fell a mountain
Punches Grotesk through the ceiling of an underground cavern into a building, collapsing it
While empowered by rune magic, punches Jaekelsson into orbit
Clashes fists with a plummeting Hercules, the impact creating a large shockwave and crater
Punches Minotaur high above Broxton into a floating island hard enough to create an explosion
Punches Bodolf through the planet to the other side of the globe
Charges his fist with electricity and smashes the ground, blowing away Proxima Midnight and Black Swan and creating a thunderbolt visible against and bursting through the curvature of the Collector’s solar system sized ship
During a vision from the Odinforce, Thor shatters planets with nudges and ignites stars
Strikes Odin over a Nidavellir mountain, which are as big as moons
Striking (Unarmed, Scaling)
Defeats an empowered Ares and sends him flying hard enough to shatter a large stone column
Clashes with the Destroyer for minutes straight and frees its spirit
Batters Kang’s force field with his fists to the point it starts reaching its limit
Harms Namor with a strike, with Namor admitting that out of the water he’s no match for him
While exhausted, defeats Ulik with a series of punches in a burst of rage
Beats down Juggernaut with a series of blows, dazing him but not KOing him
Draws blood from Heroes Reborn Thor with a punch, with HR Thor claiming his power matches his own
Dazes Pagan with a punch, when the rest of the Avengers combined were performing worse against him
In the Reigning timeline, kills both the Thing and the Hulk after a multi-hour fight
Headbutts Silver Surfer hard enough to send him skidding, denting both of their heads. Loki describes this as denting Surfer’s skull
Young Thor bloodies Gorr with a punch and bites out his eyes
Crushes Beta Ray Bill’s throat and launches him with a backhand
Uses the Destroyer as a punching bag, punching holes in it and bloodying his fists
Gripping
Grips the soil hard enough to create a whip, knocking away Hercules
Bends down to seize the floor and hurl it up, knocking Doom away
Shatters an enchanted stone casing created by Loki which Asgardian soldiers could not damage
Crumples a multi-ton tank and compresses it into the shape of hammer as a Mjolnir substitute
Grips on to a sheer cliffside while falling, his strength allowing him to create his own handholds
Breaks Vidar’s chains, which were forged to withstand the might of 10 giants
Grips the Thorbuster’s core in its armour enough to cause pain and rips its arm off
Gouging
While exhausted, tears through the stomach tissue of Demogorge
Rips apart a Celestial container which is made of the same material as their armour
Tears off and lifts a large chunk of land holding all of Bilskirnir, Asgard’s greatest hall
Flexing
Sends several rock trolls restraining him flying just by flexing his muscles
She-Hulk is unable to restrain Thor for more than a few seconds
With a burst of anger, Thor breaks Kurse’s grip and strikes him away before tossing him aside
Breaks out of binding cables made out of adamantium alloy with a burst of rage
Ordinary doctors are unable to stop Thor from walking forward
Able to walk through Sue’s moving force-field even while the acceleration pins Reed Richards
Charging
Thor and Hercules push evenly against each other, crumpling a truck
Collides into Hulk with a flying charge with enough force to produce an ear-drum rupturing explosion
Legs
Lifting
Whirls Ugarth around and tosses him into space and out of the solar system
With only the slightest pressure from his finger, can topple the Leaning Tower of Pisa
Pushes a large slab off of himself with arms “far stronger than all the bulldozers of earth”
Pushes an entire building out of the way in order to make space for him to fly
Lifted a paw of a cat, which was in-truth the Midgard Serpent who girdles the Earth and holds the sea in place (recounted again here)
Grapples the Midgard Serpent out of the ocean with a fishing line
Hooks the planet-sized Midgard Serpent off of Earth and into space, before wrapping it around Yggdrasil’s roots (note the serpent’s size varying is attributed to magic)
Manages to hold up a large collapsing building, though it heavily strains him
Throws Hulk with one-hand through multiple mountain peaks, destroying them
Throws Karnilla’s prison as hard as he can so it stays away from Asgardia forever
Young Thor chucks a bomb a huge distance to the moon sized Godbomb
Young Thor, Bor, and Odin all read the Asgardian book of kings, which contains infinite pages
Alongside Bill, lifts Asgard and prevents it from touching the ground
[Old King] Hurls Gorr’s entire planet into a black hole
[Old King] Commands three suns and slams them into Gorr, who cleaves one in two
Grappling
Clashes with Ulik, the battle collapsing the bridge they’re on
Clashes with Hercules, evenly grappling him through a stone mound
Hulk and Thor grapple, and stalemate for a whole hour with neither budging or tiring
Arm-wrestles with Hercules, unleashing so much force it shatters the table before either gives
Breaks out of Firelord’s chokehold and slams him into the ground
Able to grapple continuously with Kurse despite him being twice as strong as Thor
[Old King] Defeats Old Man Phoenix in arm wrestling
Striking (With Mjolnir, Objective)
Note that, as Thor feels the reflected force from every strike he makes with Mjolnir, his feats of striking with the hammer double as durability feats
The first thing Thor ever does upon Blake tapping the hammer is smash open the side of a mountain
Smashes hard enough to crush a pyramid into rubble and tear the golden gate to shreds
Smashes through an ice wall made by Loki which was strong enough to deflect the hammer
Unleashes a strike so powerful against Pluto’s army that the letterers can’t do it justice
Breaks out of Fafnir’s grip with a hammer strike, causing the mountains to quake
Crumbles a mountain, making it collapse on an incoming group of storm giants
Shatters a mountain with a strike, letting the sea behind it rush through to engulf Surtur’s flames
With a swing, launches an entire swarm of Storm Giants off his body
Young Thor shatters the crust of a mountainside with a strike, sending him into a chasm
Smashes an incoming meteor and carves a path through a meteor storm by throwing the hammer
Digs through the bottom of a volcano to an underground cavern
Repeatedly smashes Kang’s force field with enough force to threaten to collapse the walls of Limbo
Creates a large chasm by striking the ground, big enough to swallow a flood
Shatters Graviton’s barrier, which was previously stated to need a nuke to pierce
The backlash of wind from a swing can take out a normal person
Strikes a Celestial to no effect, with narration noting the same blow has toppled cities
Smashes a hole through Manhattan’s bedrock to surface from underwater
Strikes Korvac with a combined blow strong enough to shatter a planet
Shakes an entire mountaintop cavern by striking it from the outside
Strikes Vidar, who parries his hammer with a staff, the clash shaking Asgard to its rafters
Hits a copy Man-Beast with a strike that would shatter a mountain, breaking his guard
Clashes with Hephaestus, shaking Olympus with a rage rivalling Zeus’s according to Hermes
Unleashes “mountain-shattering force” on Ulik with a strike, startling him and breaking his grip
Defeats Bill with a hammer strike that destroys the very small planetoid he’s on
Strikes a Celestial container with enough force to shatter a small planet
Rampages across creation for 40 days straight, shattering the root of Yggdrasil
Smashes apart MODOK’s forcefield which can withstand the force of a nuclear bomb
Clashes with Gorr, their blows shattering the moon they’re fighting on and producing shockwaves which crack worlds around them, creating tremors on Gorr’s planet light-years away and causing Yggdrasil to bleed
The All-Power leaking from Yggdrasil empowers Thor to shatter the fake city in Blake’s dimension
Striking (With Mjolnir, Scaling)
Downs Loki with a single hammer strike, later breaks his arm
While at half-power, crumbles the axe Odin used to kill Ymir with a strike
Downs Mangog with a hammer strike, something Mangog says only Odin has done before
Smashes apart a large container containing Hercules’s essence, later revealed to be the armour of a Celestial
Alongside Bill, smashes out of the Midgard Serpent’s stomach and kills it
Matches and manages to briefly KO Millenius, who boasts that Odin needed help to defeat him
Shatters Invisible Woman’s forcefield with a series of strikes, the pain knocking her out
Strikes at Superman, who catches Mjolnir and with great effort manages to deflect it
Defeats Apep and Sekhmet
Beats down Nul-Hulk with a series of strikes, drawing blood, before whirling his hammer to charge his body with electricity and smacking him, creating a city block sized explosion which launches Nul Hulk into space and knocks Thor out
Strikes away Surtur, with Odin claiming Thor hurt him, later beating him hard enough he has to flee and may be permanently weakened
Smashes open part of Galactus’s helmet while he’s distracted, which is described as a wounding blow
Shatters Phoenix Emma’s diamond form hard enough to launch the shards into space
Clashes with Gorr, striking at his tendrils hard enough the thunder echoes through the depths of space
Strikes Galactus into the ground, creating a huge burst of thunder
Smacks the Phoenix-empowered Moon Knight from space to Earth, defeating him
Repeatedly clashes Mjolnir with Shang-Chi’s Ten-Fist sword (actually a Cosmic Cube)
Batters Fractured Son Hulk across New York, their clash shaking the Earth
[Old King] Hurts Galactus with a strike, toppling him
[Old King] Clashes Mjolnir with Phoenix’s claws
[Old King] Smashes Korvac into the ground
Throwing and recalling Mjolnir (Objective)
Throws Mjolnir hard enough to send the giant Fanfir off his feet
Throws his hammer hard enough to topple a hill and creates a huge wind storm
Throws his hammer hard enough to create a shockwave which takes out a group of soldiers
Throws his hammer to fly through space, crashing straight through an enemy space cruiser
Smashes an incoming meteor and carves a path through a meteor storm by throwing the hammer
Escapes Graviton’s pull in flight as he becomes a pseudo-black hole
Shatters the stone pylons Arishem stands on with a throw, toppling him
Launches the Living Monolith, who weighs thousands of tons, into near-space
Smashes a castle apart with a throw, the sounds of its impact reaching to far off mountains
Ferries the Avengers’ Hydrobase by cable in flight to move it to NY Harbour
Rams through the moon sized Godbomb, creating a blast visible against its curvature
Throws Mjolnir over 30 miles into the water to destroy a submarine
Kills a Frost Giant with a throw hard enough that the sound’s shockwave reaches Hel from Asgard
Commands Mjolnir to dart around and smash through the moons sealing him, completely destroying them
[Old King] Alongside his younger selves, rams Gorr into the sun
[Old King] Rams through the moon sized Godbomb, creating a blast visible against its curvature
[Old King] Clashes with Galactus’s energy blast with a ram, creating an explosion visible across Earth and shaking the planet. The battle is heard across galaxies and shakes the stars
Throwing and recalling Mjolnir (Scaling)
Dazes Ultron before hitting with enough force to tremble the heavens
Alongside Namor and She-Hulk, brings Zeus to his knees with a throw
Throws Mjolnir at the Destroyer, rending the heavens asunder
Alongside his younger and older self, rams Gorr into the sun
Throws Mjolnir through the corrupted Genis-Vell’s shields and smashes him out of a building
Charges through Desak/The Destroyer’s visor blast and smashes his head off
Odin controls Mjolnir to slam into Iron Man’s Celestial Hulkbuster, damaging it
An empowered Doom is unable to stop a thrown Mjolnir and it injures him
Shockwaves
Smashes the ground, creating a shockwave which destroys an underground base
Smashes the ground between Storm Giants hard enough to cause a rock slide
Strikes the ground hard enough to cause a sonic shockwave which knocks a car off the ground
Strikes the ground, creating a huge chasm which a dragon falls into
Creates a large quake with a strike which sends Wolverine flying
Hammer whirling
Rises upwards like a propellor, smashing straight through stone
Twirls his hammer as he does when shielding to shatter El Toro’s horns upon collision
Whirls his hammer like a drill to carve a path out of a cavern
Carves through a huge cavern of rock by whirling his hammer through it
With discount hammers
Strikes a large piece of debris from the Atlantic seafloor to the sun
Lights up the Gjoll river with thunder from a hammer, KOing Fenris with a strike
Fastens Heven’s planet sized prison to one of his hammers and sends it flying through the depths of space with a throw
Beats a weakened Odin into the ground with a hammer and nearly kills him
Other
A young Thor strikes the ground with his sword, causing a geyser to erupt to take out Skoll and Hati
A young Thor bloodies Gorr with the hilt of his axe and later defeats him with an axe strike
Alter Ego draining Thor’s power allows him to survive a planet destroying blast from Ego
Thor’s rageful bellowing in Asgard, leagues under the sea, is heard in all Nine Realms
Statements
Even with his power halved, Thor says his power is still enough to alter worlds
Loki says Silver Surfer is no match for Thor as is, with Surfer admitting Asgard has power beyond compare and that Thor is strongest of all
Combined with Hercules, the pair wield enough power to “demolish worlds”
Moondragon says the other Avengers, even Iron Man, are nowhere near Thor’s strength
Odin says that without Thor, Asgard’s forces are halved, which Sif later repeats
The fight between Thor and Zeus is mistaken for one between all the gods of Olympus by Homer. Zeus says not even the Titans together or the Gods of Olympus resisted him like Thor does
Odin says Thor would lay all of Nibelheim to waste fighting Alberich
Mjolnir is the mightiest weapon of Asgard and Thor has the mightiest arms of Asgard
Mephisto admits neither he nor Thor can slay the other and would stalemate for eternity
Hela says she can neither stop nor touch an angry Thor, and that if Thor invaded her kingdom, the outcome wouldn’t be certain, with him being too fierce a fighter for her
Eternity says Thor is a danger to a good portion of all that is Infinity and himself
Superman calls Thor possibly the single toughest opponent he’s ever faced. Thor admits he lost to Superman but that he has his measure now and another fight might hold surprises for him
Thor says that in the past, Hela’s nightsword was no match for Mjolnir
Surfer says a war with the Asgardians is beyond even Galactus
Strange thinks Thor and Hercules could defeat a weakened Dormammu through sheer strength
Claims he would have been fine being hit by the nuclear explosion of She-Hulk’s large gamma outburst
Freyja calls Thor the strongest god she’s ever known and the strongest being in all the Ten Realms
Thor states that in his hands, Mjolnir can split a planet asunder
Thor says he knows how to make the Phoenix bleed even if it kills him
Odin and Thor are listed as beings with the power to kill the Phoenix
Scarlet Witch says she and All-Father Thor are equal powers to Nightmare
Loki suggests Thor and the fully restored Nyx in the Dark Cold Room are well matched in power
Direct power comparisons
Drinking
Ties with Hercules in a drinking contest, outdrinking giants
Drinks so much from a horn connected to the ocean that it lowered the level of the waters down to ebb-tide (recounted again here)
Drinks an entire swamp’s worth of grog, though it leaves him very hungover
Outdrinks a fishman from Atlantis who literally breathes water
Thor gets drunk enough his alcohol levels could anesthetize a herd of full grown somethings
Speed
Combat
Rubs his hands against the hammer, creating intense friction which emits sparks
Strikes Magnir in the space of a few micro-seconds before his hammer can hit him
Moves faster than eye-sight to strike Heimdall and creates a sonic boom
KOs Quicksilver by smashing the ground, noting he’s dealt with foes faster than him since his youth
Able to disarm Angela in a clash, who is explicitly faster than both him and Mjolnir
Reactions
While groggy, reacts to a telepathic blast from Rachel Phoenix and intercepts it with Mjolnir
Reacts to and intercepts Hermes speeding at him on his chariot
Movement
In his boyhood, moves with “blinding speed” to intercept a giant
Almost faster than eyesight, rapidly carves a large trench into a mountain
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
Reaches Asgard at “speeds faster than the human mind can comprehend”
Quickly flies across space from a distant planetoid to the site of Odin and Infinity’s battle
Breaches time and space to fly from the Dimension of Death to the World Beyond
Jotunheim is as far from the Bifrost as Earth is. Thor flies to it in short time
Flies from an alien planet to an enemy’s location, which is near a planet beyond the farthest stars
Quickly flies from near Earth to the farthest edges of reality
Hears a prayer from a universe away and travels there in a short time
Quickly flies light-years mid fight to catch Gorr, fast enough that stars flicker
Repeatedly launched to other planets and constantly returns to battle in a short timeframe
Flies from Asgard to a distant planet presumably in the Milky Way
Throwing and returning speed
Returns to Blake from Asgard to the World Beyond, which is at the edge of the universe
Throws Mjolnir and uses it to connect the Rainbow Bridge from Valhalla to Asgard
Quickly throws his hammer out of Hala and into space. The hammer circles a sun before returning
Throws Mjolnir from the Bifrost across all Ten Realms in one shot to target a monster on Earth before the hammer returns to him. The script describes it as hurling like a rocket at the speed of light
[Old King] Thor is able to sense Earth dying from “half a cosmos away” and quickly flies to the edge of space
Whirling speed
Spins Mjolnir faster than light to enter the fourth dimension of time and reach the future
Returns to the present day from the 23rd century by swinging his hammer at twice the speed of light
Whirls his hammer faster than light around Kang’s time machine
Spins his hammer at speeds he says Mongoose can’t grasp, knocking Mongoose away
Note that Thor was otherwise completely unable to hit Mongoose, indicating his whirling speed is significantly higher than his own reactions
Spins his hammer at a speed approaching that of light to warp the fabric of space and time
Slowdinson
No proper Thor analysis, I feel, is actually complete unless you spend some time on all his terrible, terrible speed anti-feats.
In flight Thor is very fast, but Daredevil just manages to dodge him
Unable to tag or hit Daredevil, who continuously outpaces him
Unable to react to and is blown away by Namor using a hose with 1000 pounds of water pressure
Endures a beat down from Mongoose, who’s super speed lets him land 100 blows before Thor can aim one
Unable to hit Wolverine, who he describes as faster than himself
A Skrull Black Widow is able to outpace and get the jump on Thor
Thor says even at full speed it could take a millenia to reach Earth or Asgard from wherever he is
Durability
Blunt force (Objective)
Endures Jormungand disguised as Fin Fang Foom stepping on him
Endures Terminus crashing into him hard enough to destroy a planetoid
Endures Kang launching Mjolnir at him hard enough to split the moon
Endures Death Seed Sentry ramming him at FTL speeds fast enough to bend space and time into a planet light-years away, and a subsequent hit which shakes a planet
Endures Moon Knight crushing him with moons from galaxies away, KOing him
[Old King] Endures being punched by Galactus through the Earth and into the moon, cracking the Moon apart
[Old King] Endures getting stabbed by God-Butcher Loki and rammed into a different planet
Endures a beatdown and nipple twist from Hercules which collapses a building
Blunt force (Scaling)
Takes a beating from the Devourer, whose strength is compared to Odin
Thor catches a strike from Eric’s Mjolnir and strains against him with ever increasing pressure
Endures Surfer’s board ramming into him at high speeds after Surfer stops holding back
Endures a sustained beatdown from the Destroyer and still doesn’t fall
Endures a beatdown from Tutinax, who is many times more powerful than him and Mjolnir
Endures a punch from Power Princess which she claims would have shattered the Hulk
Explosions
Endures a huge explosion from a mountain sized earthworm detonating with nuclear energy
Endures Asgardia exploding and launching him from the sun to the moon
[Old King] Endures a point blank continent sized explosion which launches him into space
Piercing
Endures Volstagg striking him with an axe unharmed, the blade shattering on his chest
Catches Brunhilde’s blade in his palms, drawing blood, and disarms her
Endures Venomized Superior Spider-Man hurling Cap’s shield into his neck, only briefly being downed
Unharmed by Faira slashing him across the face with her weapon
Endures a slash across the chest from Jarnbjorn wielded by Eirin without visible injury
Endures an assault from the Disir after saying their name, which cuts other Asgardians to pieces from the inside-out when they do the same
Thor thought no razor could cut his beard until he found the Flic Disposable vibranium razor
Knocks aside Power Princess’s rainbow axe with his bare hands
Endures a slash from the Crown’s sword without visible injury
Bullets
Energy
Endures a sword strike from Heimdall with “all the cosmic force of the universe”
Endures the energies of a storm which he claims could tear the planet asunder
Odin launches Thor from Asgard to Earth with a blast, the impact knocking him out cold
Briefly endures Onslaught’s pure psionic energy inside of him, though it threatens to tear him apart
Endures a hammer blast from Loki which destroys the entire island Ymir-Krul
Endures the totality of Glory’s power as cosmic fire, sending him across worlds
Endures the Stranger blasting him from the surface of Ego into space
Survives channeling the Mother Storm through his body even as it begins to melt his uru arm
Heat
Endures “the devastating energy of an exploding sun” from the Executioner
Endures the Super Skrull raising his heat to nova intensity, which could threaten the planet
Endures the Fourth-Dimensional Man molecularly searing and freezing his shoulders, described as the freezing power of infinite space and the fire of a billion stars
Endures Umar hitting him with the full fury of the Flames of the Faltine
Endures heat from a galactic core which is too much for even Bill to bare
Endures repeated blasts of fire from Atum while inside the core of the sun
Endures Superman’s heat vision and manages to fight through it
Endures the lava flames of Muspelheim, the essence of Surtur himself. Muspelheim is so hot that bullets turn to molten lead before they can even hit anything, and it’s stated its fire makes napalm look like a joke and burns hotter than the sun itself
Thor flies into the sun and keeps going until his hammer melts and his eyes begin to roast, later enduring being pinned to Yggdrasil in the sun
Cold
Endures the Fourth-Dimensional Man molecularly searing and freezing his shoulders, described as the freezing power of infinite space and the fire of a billion stars
Endures in Asgard’s north, where it’s said the cold kills both man and god alike
Endures a blast of cold from Ymir which buries him in ice, stunning him
Endures the absolute zero contents of Jotunheim. Jotunheim is too cold for Human Torch to use his powers
The Casket was able to freeze over Hel when unleashed in Asgard
Heimdall was able to feel the cold of Malekith using the Casket of Ancient Winters in a different realm, and Laufey using the Casket of Ancient Winters causes temperatures to plummet across all the realm
Electricity
Straight up killed by Durok hitting him with high-voltage electrical cables
This is probably a contender for the single worst anti-feat in fiction
Endures thunderbolts from Zeus and a multi-month sustained blast from him
Endures electrical backlash which knocks out Billy Batson Captain Marvel
Endures multiple strikes of Bor’s full-power lightning, which threatens to destroy the Earth
Endures Storm hitting him with a lightning bolt. It makes him say “ow”
Endures Zeus summoning lightning from inside him to burn him alive, even as Zeus uses his full power
Pressure
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
Rips through an adamantium door that Mjolnir was struggling to break through
Lifts Mangog and throws him from Asgardia to the sun before he instantly leaps back and crushes her
Alongside Hercules and Roberto, helps stop the World Engine and halt the planet’s rotation
Launches Odin from Asgardia into one of Saturn’s moons and draws blood from him with a punch. She endures Odin blasting her with a moon-sized explosion and repeatedly punching her 200 million miles to ping pong her between Saturn’s moons before blasting her into Jupiter. History books describe this fight as Jane having punched Odin through 3 planets
While Odin was weakened and past his prime during this fight, Jane as Valkyrie later fights the Odin of 1 Million BC who is in his prime, and is still able to draw blood and fight evenly with him even while noting he’s stronger than when she fought him previously
Draws blood from one of the Shi’ar gods, who can create and launch supernovas
Cracks Toranos’s wheel with a throw (note that she did this with the modern version of Mjolnir that All-Father Thor wields, which is stronger than ever)
Recalls Mjolnir from Vanaheim to Ginnungagap hard enough to bloody War Thor
The light of Valkyrie’s All-Weapon reaches across every afterlife
Speed
Durability
Completely unharmed by assault rifle shots and by bullet fire to her skin. It takes Asgardian forged medical equipment to pierce her skin
Endures the heat of the Phoenix up close, which she initially felt from galaxies away, before enduring touching the Phoenix Force, which launches her several galaxies worth of distance
Endures Cressida launching Cap’s shield at her head, knocking off her helmet
Eric Masterson
When Thor Odinson was banished from Asgard for the unforgivable sin of killing Loki, the human architect Eric Masterson took his place, becoming Thor and wielding Mjolnir for over a year of publishing in the early 90s. The running theme with Eric’s tenure as Thor was that despite having Thor Odinson’s strength and power, he was still an ordinary guy underneath it all who didn’t think he was up to the task, and would have to come into his own as a hero. When Loki battled Eric, he claimed Eric had only a tenth of Thor’s strength, but Eric dismissed his comments as attempts to shake his confidence. Eric’s belief would essentially be proven true at the end of his tenure, when he and the original Thor fought over Sif’s heart. During this fight they were basically even, Odinson seeming to have a skill edge and slight strength edge while Eric kept up with his mortal chutzpah, the fight ending with both keeled over and coming to their senses. In any case, it proves Thor more than matches Eric’s strength. The same applies to Thunderstrike, Eric’s next superhero identity who had basically all the same abilities as when he was Thor.
Strength
Clashes with fellow Mjolnir-wielder Dargo Ktor, with narration describing it as the most irresistible force in the universe since the big bang. It unleashes a wave of mystical energy erupting simultaneously across all planes of reality, shattering windows for miles, creating a crater, and providing the Radical Time Stabilizer enough energy to operate at peak efficiency. The enchanted shockwave resonates the length of the entire cosmos to Beta Ray Bill’s location. The Radical Time Stabilizer is used to collapse all infinite timelines into a single entity with Zarrko as ruler
Downs Thanos with a throw and beats him to the ground with a strike
Quasar says he’d be nothing but a bloody smear if Mjolnir hit him
Speed
Reacts to and absorbs a lightning-absorbed Absorbing Man into Mjolnir
Deflects heavy artillery fired by Moon Knight’s plane with a rapid series of strikes
It would be remiss of me to not also note that Eric is also the source of several of the more infamous Thor Slowdinson feats.
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
Bill draws blood from Doctor Strange and defeats Silver Surfer
Bill and Hercules’s battle with two gods devastates the surface of a moon
The Godkiller Skrulls launch Bill to Asgard so fast Heimdall was caught off guard
Red Norvell
Norvell reacts to and blocks a light beam fired by Balder with his hammer
Dazes Seth with a throw and blocks a blast from Seth by whirling his hammer
Dargo Ktor
As mentioned previously, clashed with Eric Masterson to produce a force compared to the Big Bang which provided energy to merge infinite timelines
Dargo deflects a lightning blast from Mjolnir fired by Eric Masterson
Hurts Varley with a series of hammer blasts, Varley wielding the power of Korvac
War Thor
War Thor clashes with Sindr who claims she boiled oceans and burned stars from the sky
War Thor begins to rip apart the entirety of Muspelheim with his storm
War Thor’s hammer is charged with “all the power of a dead universe”
Enchantress harms War Thor with a blast before he deflects her magic
A thrown Mjolnir is deflected by War Thor’s hammer, knocking it from Ginnungap to Vanaheim
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
Thor says Galactus’s power rivals Odin, and Odin says Galactus’s power rivals his own
Masterson says that the Odin-power could devastate the entire universe in Annihilus’s hands
Even in his own realm, Seth is afraid of going one-on-one with Odin
Strength
Overpowers Uthana-Thoth, notable since Uthana-Thoth maintains the all-space with his power, and that universe is destroyed when he leaves
Clashes with Zeus in the Infinite Embassy, shaking the world
Headbutts Galactus, smashing open both of their helmets and sending both crashing into Earth. Odin seemingly enters the Odinsleep to recover but actually transfers his spirit to the Destroyer, his body recovering when he exits it
Energy
Weaponry
Speed
Durability
Thor later states even Odin almost fell to Forsung and that the entire cosmos was their battleground
Endures Jane taking command of a 400 year old super-storm on Jupiter’s spot and blasting it at him
Surtur strikes Odin with a blow that causes shockwaves rumbling through all of the Nine Worlds
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
Has his hammer arm pinned by a javelin, preventing it from moving
Ultima’s force-rays stop the hammer and hurl it from Thor’s hands
Endures a hit from Hulk sending him to the ground and disarming him
Endures a hit from Man-Beast which disarms him of Mjolnir and then sends him out of a rocketship
Separated from his hammer by one of Seth’s minions charging him from behind
While in Warrior Madness, endures a punch and hammer strike from Bill which disarms him
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