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[–] [email protected] 112 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Meme makes fun of people who argue about thing.

OP immediately engages in argument.

[–] [email protected] 119 points 2 months ago (7 children)
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[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago (1 children)

They're playing both sides so they always come out on top.

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[–] [email protected] 79 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I miss this version of Donald Duck, his anger kinda made sense, he was tired, overworked and everyone around him were idiots, something I can deeply relate to.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago (2 children)

The inspiration for Squidward?

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[–] [email protected] 73 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Magneto controls the hammer in Super-Villain Team up issue #14.

Now go to bed.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago (3 children)

That kind of seems lame... I thought the hammer was protected by some magical power that required to user to be worthy.

But this would indicate it just takes strength.

Which makes it kind of silly that Hulk couldn't move it an inch 🤔

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Maybe Magneto is worthy. He is trying to save his people from discrimination after all.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

Didn't the MCU movies make a point to say it only matters if the person is worthy by Odin's standards? I guess it just means Magneto meets Odin's standards, whatever they are.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

It is, but the patch that prevents you picking it up only applies to physically lifting it. The devs forgot about other methods of moving objects.

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[–] [email protected] 47 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (5 children)

The hammer is effectively immovable by sentient beings. IIRC, if Thor left it on a elevator it'd still go up and down, unless it was a magic talking one. Edit: Note sentient and living. Vision could lift it in the movie. He's not alive so no powers though.

Magneto can move the hammer with his omega level mutant magnetism powers. He isn't worthy though, so no Thor powers. Hulk has also moved it, with raw strength. He similarly wasn't worthy.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Since vision is clearly sentient, couldn't one argue that his sort of absolute sense of morality just made him worthy?

Might not be a biological life form, but defining life is hard and he clearly is sentient.

Like imagine Commander Data. I think he could be worthy to lift the hammer, if it's about the lifter being "good". And TNG had a lot of arguing if he's alive or no.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

We know from the movies that Stan Lee driving a truck couldn't budge it, nor could Stark's Iron Man glove when he was wearing it. To me that signals that inanimate objects being wielded by others can't move it. However it was also on the floor of the S.H.I.E.L.D. Helicarrier at one point so that could be indicative that intent is important too. Hence I'd posit that Thor could leave it on a truck without the owner knowing, and it could be driven around, or leave it on a elevator and the guy calling the elevator from the ground floor isn't going to end out staring at wreckage.

Vision isn't being wielded by others. One can also argue that the absence of darkness in Vision made him worthy, however, he didn't get powers, so I feel like that rules that theory out. I think the hammer seeing Vision as both not alive along with not acting upon it as a vessel of something/someone else attempting to move it is the more logical take. Basically Vision is the aforementioned elevator in this scenario. Ground Floor, Hammers.

Or the writers could be implying something in the hammer handover scene, and poorly writing elsewhere. Take your pick really.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I think the easiest thing "plot-wise" is to endow the magical object itself with a sort of sentience. Like not as much as the Sorting Hat in HP, but to the tune of that.

I strongly feel Vision definitely is sentient, as anyone who's seen TNG would know the arguments made for Data, and they very much apply here. If we assume the first, and there is something in the hammer that judges people, then yeah, it's hard to explain how some can move the hammer a bit, but not gain the power, despite the wording of the spell. Cap almost moves the hammer, even making tor raise an eyebrow slightly. So perhaps there's "degrees of worthiness". And Vision is pretty high up there, but not "have all the power" high. Or perhaps the power just didn't manifest at all because Vision didn't even try to "tap into" it. Who knows, comics can explain it however they feel like.

But I would not agree that Vision is "an elevator".

"Prove to the court I am sentient." - Captain Picard (from "ST:TNG The Measure of a Man")

These are fun to talk about but yeah, it does boil down to "take your pick." Still, doesn't mean we can't have fun theorising.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

He similarly wasn’t worthy.

Or was he?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It would help explain Thor-Hulk vs Hulk-Thor:

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[–] [email protected] 42 points 2 months ago

Yes, but it would be an effort that does not come down to any strength, machinery, physics or logic, because in his universe the Narrative Force is infintitely stronger than any natural laws.

And the hammer is ruled by a strong narrative: Thor's storyline.

So he would have to create a compellig narrative where he moves the hammer in a way that makes an interesting Thor story.

He can't just move it with a planet-size magnet powered by the sun itself, but he could move it with a planet-size magnet powered by the sun itself if it could be explained in a cool way and gives Thor a great struggle to overcome, causes tension to test his relationship to Odin, or moves his character arc.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 months ago

Wife: "I bet he's thinking about other women."

Husband: "Marvel 'nerds' are now just normies."

[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 months ago (6 children)

What's the mythical-scientific reason for Thors hammer being immovable? Very high mass/density or protected by some invisible godlike force?

[–] [email protected] 45 points 2 months ago (1 children)

In the movies, it's a worthiness/ pure heart thing. In the comics it's just really heavy. I guess the question is, is magic space metal ferrous enough to be magnetic?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I think Magneto can control nonferrous metals, too.

[–] Brown5500 21 points 2 months ago (2 children)

It has always bothered me that he used super strength magnetic fields to manipulate non-magnetic metals. yes, that is the thing in the xmen universe that breaks reality for me, everything else is fine

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago (3 children)

That is realistic though, he just needs to move the magnetic field to induce a current in them. He should be able to affect any conductor.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Pretty much both.

Stormbreaker is completely different metal with no such restrictions placed on it, so anyone can pick it up.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago (1 children)

After captain america picked up Mjølner, he then turned water into wine and came back to life three days after dying.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Captain America and Mjølner were in the closet making babies and I saw one of the babies and the baby looked at me!

[–] Iamsqueegee 6 points 2 months ago

Baby looked at you?

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Protected by a literal god but I have no idea why it wasn’t movable after oden died.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Enchantments are a one-off thingy. They don't require the enchanter to stay alive.
Otherwise, buying an enchanted sword from someone would mean, you would have to depend upon that person not getting killed by some random robber, when you are in the middle of battling the dungeon boss.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago (2 children)

New DnD Idea just dropped.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago (1 children)

No you don't... Don't apply enchanter DRM!!

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Your enchanted sword refuses to turn on without the bladesmith's proprietary Dongle of Unlocking

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 months ago (3 children)

According to the comics, Thor’s hammer only weighs 42.3 lbs. (19.1 kg). Odin’s enchantment prevents anyone who is not worthy from lifting it. It’s a question of Magneto’s purity of heart, not strength of power.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

It's Sunday morning. Plenty of time to debate this important matter.

EDIT: The answer is yes.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Yes, and IIRC he's done it. But he has to use his powers to do it; he can't just lift it with his hands.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago (6 children)

He doesn't physically pick up the hammer in the comics. He uses his magnetic abilities to get around the weight and worthiness issue.

Fucking cheater.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago

Magneto would be able to lift the hammer, not because his powers give him control over magnetism, but because he is worthy to!

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago

could not be me in the second frame

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Magneto is a mutant who can manipulate magnetic fields.
Thor is a god.

If Magneto could move Thor's hammer, anyone with a magnet could.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

anyone with a magnet or forklift or such can move the hammer.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Iirc he could but he couldn't wield the power of Thor

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (3 children)

That actually gets around my questions above nicely. Moving Mjølnir ≠ using Mjølnir. If the hammer can be moved by natural forces, it's just a chunk of metal - it won't have the devastating impact it does when Thor throws it.

And I guess if Thor woke up and called the hammer back, it'd go regardless of natural forces acting on it.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

Keep a notepad besides your bed and wrote it down

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