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Posted: 07 October 2026 at 2:59pm | IP Logged | 1 post reply
Amused to find a couple of rather intense discussions on whether the Scarlet Witch could lift Thor’s hammer. Much back and forth on whether she would be “worthy”.

As I have seen so many times before, tho, this debate overlooks and important element of the inscription on the uru metal: Whosoever holds this hammer, if HE be worthy….”

Of course, it’s all rendered moot by the giant (and poorly considered) retcon that made Don Blake a construct created by Odin and the inscription basically a lie.

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Michael Penn
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Posted: 07 October 2026 at 3:27pm | IP Logged | 2 post reply
It's fun to imagine an alternative series featuring THORR that kept Don Blake as the real person.
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Posted: 07 October 2026 at 4:17pm | IP Logged | 3 post reply
How in the world has one of these newer writers NOT done something built
off that spelling yet?
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Jason K Fulton
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Posted: 07 October 2026 at 4:25pm | IP Logged | 4 post reply
Hickman did, in his Avengers run up to Secret Wars.
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Brian Miller
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Posted: 07 October 2026 at 6:17pm | IP Logged | 5 post reply
Oh, for Chrissakes
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Jason K Fulton
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Posted: 07 October 2026 at 7:21pm | IP Logged | 6 post reply
I don't know, sometimes archeology can be fun? I don't even know if it was a reference to that particular panel, but a THORR did show up during his run (and the hammer stuck around for a bit longer).
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Posted: 07 October 2026 at 9:53pm | IP Logged | 7 post reply
Could almost be a variant of Godwin's Law. 

As online discussion of Thor continues, the probability of someone contending their favourite character should be able to lift Mjolnir approaches one.
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