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Mjolnir

Mjolnir

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Official Name

Mjolnir

Aliases

Pronunciation: Mmyol'-neer
Colloquial Spelling: Mjöllnir

Version

Original

Origin

Lead Designer

Odin

Additional Designers

Dwarves Eitri, Brok, and Buri

Place of Creation

Asgard

Origin

Unique, Magical, Asgardian

Characteristics

Dimensions

Made primarily out of Uru metal, it has an oblong head about a foot long and a handle of equal length. The handle is wrapped in leather that is stated to be unbreakable that ends in a loop .

Owners

Current Owner

Thor

Previous Owners

Odin, Eric Masterson

First appearance

Journey into Mystery #83
(August, 1962)

1 History
2 Properties
3 Alternate Reality Versions
4 Destruction
5 Others Deemed Worthy to Wield Mjolnir
- 5.1 Earth-616 reality
- 5.2 Alternate Realities
6 Mjolnir's Duplicates
7 Notes
8 Trivia
9 See Also
10 Links and References

History

Whosoever holds this hammer, if he be worthy, shall possess the power of ... Thor

--Mjolnir's enchantment

Mjolnir (literally, "that which smashes") is the hammer wielded by Thor, the Norse god of thunder.

Odin, chief of the Norse gods, ordered the dwarfs to forge Mjolnir. The blacksmiths Eitri, Brok, and Buri used the core of a star as the mold. In the process the star exploded and almost took Midgard (Earth) with it; that event may explain the extinction of the dinosaurs, about 65 million years ago. Although powerful in and of itself, the hammer also received several potent spells from Odin, who slew the frost giant Laufey with it. Much later, Mjolnir was bequeathed to Thor, after he proved himself worthy through several trials.

With few exceptions, Thor has carried Mjolnir throughout his adventures. Thus, the history of Mjolnir is the history of Thor. Although Asgard was destroyed in Ragnarok, Thor, and thus the hammer, survived.

Properties

Mjolnir itself is already extremely durable and nigh invulnerable like the Earth metal Adamantium or the Olympian metal Adamantine, and combined with the various enchantments placed upon it by Odin, is for all intents and purposes, indestructible. It has survived heat as extreme as the heart of suns, blasts powerful enough to destroy planets, and it has contained energy sufficient enough to destroy an entire galaxy and even energy sufficient enough to destroy one fifth of the Universe. Mjolnir also grants its user, such as Thor, countless mystical attributes and powers such as manipulation of the fundamental forces of the Universe such as the electromagnetic spectrum^[1], gravity^[2] etc. Mjolnir can be used both offensively and defensively. Thor often uses the hammer as a physical weapon, with almost nothing being capable of withstanding a hammer blow or throw. It has been described as impacting with sufficient force to "destroy mountains"^[3] and has proven capable of shattering the armor of a Celestial.^[4] A rare exception is primary adamantium. ^[5]

A few other examples of the countless abilities Thor has shown with Mjolnir are:

Transformation: At first, Thor, in his secret identity as Don Blake, could strike the handle on the ground once and become Thor, twice and become Blake again. He lost this enchantment when he gave up his Donald Blake persona.

Worthiness Enchantment: This enchantment surrounding Mjolnir prevents it from being wielded by anyone save those who have been found worthy or anyone Thor deems acceptable to wield Mjolnir for a time; certain Asgardians, such as Skurge, have successfully lifted its handle from the ground, but not entirely lift Mjolnir itself. Thus far, this includes Thor, the Awesome Android, Odin, Tiwaz, Red Norvell, Beta Ray Bill, Bor and Captain America. To anyone else, Mjolnir cannot be lifted from the ground nor wrested from Thor’s grip.

Mystical Link: Mjolnir obeys Thor’s commands as though it were alive, and if Thor’s will is strong enough, the hammer can pass through nearly any barrier to reach him should he so desire; Mjolnir will even carve its way through the very center of entire planets to get back to Thor.^[6] Mjolnir can also transform Thor into his civilian guises. When Thor is a civilian, the hammer most often becomes an old wooden cane. While employing a mortal guise, Thor would transform back into his mortal form should he be separated from Mjolnir for more than sixty seconds. The sixty second enchantment no longer applies.

Weather Control: Mjolnir grants Thor the ability to command the weather; controlling the base elements of a storm, ie. rain, wind, thunder and lightning. He can create giant raging electrical storms complete with thunder, lightning, hurricane-force winds, tornadoes, tidal waves, exploding volcanoes, earthquakes and torrential rains across entire planets at a moment's notice. He can also create any of these phenomena individually. Another aspect of this power allows him to stop any of these weather conditions instantly as well. Thor can create storms on a planetary wide scale, as Thor once did at Spider-Man's request to spread a chemical agent around the world to counteract another set of chemicals released by Doctor Octopus that risked destroying the ozone layer.^[7] and is not limited to the normal limits of Mother Nature and can go beyond what natural weather can do. Thor can also channel the storm's fury, and magnify it into extremely powerful energy blasts capable of destroying objects of high durability, such as Adamantium etc.

Flight: Thor is capable of hurling Mjolnir with great force and, by holding onto the leather thong, is capable of flying through the air at tremendous speeds. While in an Earth-like atmosphere, Thor generally flies at roughly the speed of sound, roughly 770 miles per hour. However, he is capable of achieving speeds far faster than light. He can use the winds to hover and has shown the ability to fly without the aid of Mjolnir. Once airborne, Thor can change direction, speed, and altitude.

God Blast: An Immortal such as Thor is capable of channeling different amounts of his godly energies through Mjolnir for a single massive blast known as the God Blast. His godly energy is so vast and powerful, that even when reinforced with the Belt of Strength, which should double Mjolnir's fortification and durability, when Thor channeled his godly energies into Mjolinr to destroy the Brain Dome of the mighty Celestial Exitar, the hammer shattered from the amount of power Thor channeled^[4] (This is a testament to the power Thor wields as Mjolnir has been able to contain blasts powerful enough to destroy an entire Galaxy without so much as cracking). The God Blast is so immensely powerful and destructive that it has proven capable of destroying beings as large and as powerful as the Midgard Serpent and even causing such a great degree of damage to a being such as Galactus that he was forced to flee for his life. Thor has used this ability only a few times.

Anti-Force: Mjolnir is capable of producing an indescribably powerful blast known as the Anti-Force which is capable of annihilating entire planets. This blast is so powerful that with just a single emission, Thor was capable of putting down and seemingly killing the powerful entity known as Mangog himself.

Thermo-blast: Mjolnir has the ability to produce a Universe shaking thermo-blast capable of decimating even entire planets and beings as powerful as Ego the living planet.^[8]

Barriers: With Mjolnir, Thor is capable of creating powerful barriers, force fields and vortexes that are impenetrable. These vortexes and barriers are so immensely durable that Thor was able to completely contain the explosion generated by a life bomb, which is so powerful it would have completely destroyed a fifth of the Marvel Universe, without the vortex even faltering, meaning that Thor literally contained a blast that is capable of annihilating millions upon millions of galaxies.^[9]

Energy Absorption and Redirection: Mjolnir is able to absorb, magnify and return any type of force, directed towards its user. Once the energy is absorbed, its user can redirect it back towards the source and/or use it as a weapon of his own. Mjolnir has been able to reflect the vast and hazardous amounts of energy being emitted by the biological weapon implanted within the Wasp's body by the skrulls back at her while all of Earth's other super humans were helpless (though possibly aided by Thor's weather abilities). Mjolnir's ability to absorb energy is so powerful he managed to absorb, contain and redirect the entire energy of the Null Bomb, which was powerful enough to destroy the entire galaxy.^[10]

Teleportation: By grasping Mjolnir by the leather thong and rapidly swirling it, the wielder of Mjolnir can channel energies for the purpose of opening gateways which he and others can pass through. He can open gateways which allow him to travel across locations no matter how great the distance within moments or even across entire dimensions, as he does when he travels from Asgard to Earth and vice-versa. The hammer can also be used to create portals to travel great distances within the same dimension.^[11] Mjolnir formerly possessed the ability to enable Thor to travel through time and even turn back entire events through the generation of chronal displacement inertia, but the temporal energies of the hammer were drained when Immortus, possessing mastery over time exceeding that of the Earth deities themselves, asked Thor to use Mjolnir to save the planet Phantus and brink it back out of limbo and into the space-time continuum^[12], though Thor, as part of the Avengers, has been shown to be able to stop time with Mjolnir.^[13]

Undead Lethality: Also a former religious relic, Mjolnir is lethal to undead. Thor once threw Mjolnir at a vampire, with contact causing the vampire to burst into flame and crumble to dust.^[14]

Resurrection: While channeling his power through Mjolnir, Thor was able to resurrect a man he had wrongly killed, Union Jack, and also endow the hero with electric generating powers.^[15]

Life Force Absorption: Thor used this ability on the supervillain the Presence, who was forced to surrender before being reduced to a lifeless husk.^[16]

Illusion Detection: Mjolnir distinguishes images and holograms, differentiating illusions from reality: Thor once commanded the hammer to strike the meta-physical villain Mephisto, who was hiding amongst false images of himself.^[17]

Alpha Particles: Mjolnir can harness Alpha Particles from the atmosphere and could use it to atomize any weaponry.^[18]

Negation of Mystic Energy

Energy Sensing: Mjolnir can detect practically all types of energy. It reacts particularly strongly to evil psychic energy.

Cosmic Energy: Mjolnir allows Thor to produce and control Cosmic Energy to an unknown limit for a variety of purposes.^[19]

Matter Manipulation: Mjolnir is able to manipulate matter on a vast scale, allows him to create other configurations and even allows him to transmute the elements themselves. This ability was evident when he transmuted the Absorbing Man's wood and iron body to the gas helium.^[20]

Electromagnetic Spectrum Manipulation

Invisibility and Intangibility: Its wielder can use Mjolnir to turn themselves or others, completely intangible and/or invisible.^[13] An offshoot of this ability is that Thor can use Mjolnir to completely disrupt the phasing abilities of super humans such as the Vision, Shadowcat etc.^[21]

Transmigration of Souls: Mjolnir hammer has the ability to manipulate and transmigrate souls.^[22]

Interdimensional Messaging: Thor has used Mjolnir to send psychic messages from Earth to Asgard while sending requests to Odin.

Image Projection: Mjolnir can project images, as Thor shows a glimpse of Asgard to fellow Avenger Iron Man.^[23]

Immunity to Other Forces: Even without activating the powers of Mjolnir, Thor's hammer, enchanted by Odin, is impervious to nearly all forms of change, as he himself claimed that no power in the universe but the All-Father's could affect Mjolnir, shown when Amora's magical efforts during her first confrontation with Thor to change it into a deadly serpent availed her naught.

Alternate Reality Versions

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Image	Description	Issue
	On Earth-199999, Thor has been entrusted with the mighty hammer Mjolnir, that was forged from the heart of a dying star. Thor's mystical hammer Mjolnir, which resembles a mallet rather than a war hammer, has a number of elemental powers. It has been stated be Odin himself that Mjolnir's power has no equal. Mjolnir itself is extremely durable like the Earth metal Adamantium and combined with the various enchantments placed upon it by Odin, is for all intents and purposes, indestructible.	Thor (film)
	In the Ultimate Universe Thor has multiple hammers which carry the name Mjolnir, and he can wield whichever he deems fit. His original hammer was forged by Odin and carried with it a piece of Asgard so that even if Ragnarok ever took place, Asgard could be reborn. When Ragnarok inevitably occurred, Thor was reborn on Earth as a human being named Thorlief Goleman and eventually worked for the E.D.I. as a test subject for their Bio-Mech Suit, which came with an axe-hammer hybrid. The hammer actually housed the battery which powered the suit. Thor became a super-powered humanitarian, using the suit as his source of his powers since he was no longer a god.^[24] Through Loki's deceit, Thor was stripped of the harness and hammer, rendering him powerless. Odin was eventually reborn, and thus Thor would regain his godhood. Odin then gave Thor a second version of Mjolnir that resembled the Earth-made axe-hammer.^[25] During a brief battle with with an Alternate Universe, Mjolnir was taken by Hyperion and used against Thor. Hyperion, thinking Thor beaten, simply dropped the hammer as he no longer needed it. ^[26] Thor eventually went back to wielding his original stone hammer. After the Ultimates battled Ultron and Magneto, Thor lost his hammer to Magneto.^[27] Magneto then wielded it as a sign of power while he caused a flood which killed many inhabitants of New York. Thor sacrificed himself to Valhalla in order to save the life of Valkyrie. When the remaining heroes defeated and killed Magneto, Valkyrie became the new wielder of Mjolnir.^[28] Eventually the Defenders managed to steal it from her and deliver it to their master, Loki. Loki then used Mjolnir to transport his Troll Army from Asgard to New York in a plot to bring Thor back from Valhalla. Thor inevitably returned when Loki murdered Valkyrie, and she took his place in Valhalla. Thor once again wielded Mjolnir and the heroes were able to defeat Loki.^[29] Shortly thereafter, Gregory Stark attempted to cause unrest in Korea. When he was confronted by the Ultimates, he managed to take Mjolnir from Thor and use it to subdue him as well as Captain America, before slamming the ground with it causing a massive shockwave which stunned everyone within range. Thor managed to regain Mjolnir and Gregory was defeated.^[30] When the Children of Tomorrow slaughtered the Asgardians and initiated a second Ragnarok, Thor hid his son Modi, in the Room with No Doors along with Mjolnir, in hopes that his son may one day emerge and restore Asgard to it's former glory^[31] When Tony Stark returned an enhanced version of Thor's former power harness, he once again wielded the Axe-Hammer that was given to him by the E.D.I. ^[32]	Ultimates #4
	On Earth-10190, Mjolnir is one of the most powerful weapons in existence, especially in the hands of a violent berserker like Thor, who uses it to kill indiscriminately.	Thor #499
	On Earth-961212, Mjolnir itself, is not magical, but the blows it strikes are. Giant in nature, few can lift it purely because of the weight. When thunder is heard, it is Thor's hammer striking a foe.	Timeslip The Collection #1
	On Earth-37072, Mjolnir is wielded by Thor. In this reality its appearance is that of a mallet, with a long handle.	Exiles #56
	On Earth-2149, Mjolnir is wielded by a zombified Thor. In this reality Thor is no longer worthy to lift Mjolnir (presumably for being a zombie) and thus has adopted a replacement hammer, made of unknown materials.	Marvel Zombies #3
	On Earth-4162, Mjolnir is wielded by Thor. In this reality the head of Mjolnir is curved.	Exiles #52
	On Earth-3459, Mjolnir is in the possession of a boy called D.J., the Thor of this reality is either missing or is a schizophrenic man called Harry Wilson. In this reality the handle is not wrapped in leather (ending in a loop), but ends with a short chain.	Thor Vol 2 #59
	On Earth-9200, Mjolnir is wielded by Thor. In this reality Mjolnir looks more like a club.	Incredible Hulk: Future Imperfect #1
	On Earth-5113, Mjolnir is wielded by Thor. In this reality its appearance is corrupted by Dormammu, with singular spikes at the hammer's end-sides.	Defenders Vol 3 #4
	On Earth-3488, Mjolnir is wielded by Thor. In this reality one side is a circular hammer the other is a bladed axe.
	On Earth-83600, Mjolnir, representing Thor's link with his Asgard home, was stripped away by Crom and buried deep within the bowels of the earth. The mystic hammer was then retrieved by Thoth-Amon's winged messenger and used by the black sorcerer to wreak havoc in the Hyborian kingdoms. In Stygia, after the fight with Thoth-Amon, a dying Thor gave the mystic hammer to Conan, begging him to offer it to Crom, as a symbol of love that deities of a later age will share with benevolent mankind. The Cimmerian swore to do his bidding and ascended Crom's grey mound with Mjolnir.	What If? #39

Destruction

Although an incredibly powerful weapon, Mjolnir is not indestructible. It has been damaged several times over the years:

A force beam from the Destroyer slices it in two in Journey Into Mystery #119. Mjolnir was repaired in Journey Into Mystery #120.

The Molecule Man dispels the atomic bonds between the hammer's molecules, vaporizing Mjolnir in Avengers #215. Mjolnir was restored in Avengers #216.

The hammer shatters after channeling an incredible amount of energy at the Celestial Exitar in Thor #388 and was restored by the Celestials' replicoid in Thor #389

Dark God Perrikus slices Mjolnir in half with a magical scythe in Thor Vol 2 #10. Mjolnir was restored in Thor Vol 2 #11

The hammer is shattered when it collides with the uru weapons of Loki's followers, resulting in an atomic-scale explosion in Thor Vol 2 #80. Mjolnir wasn't seen again until Thor Vol 3 #1.

The hammer was shattered by Bor in Thor #600

Others Deemed Worthy to Wield Mjolnir

Earth-616 reality

Alternate Realities

Conan the Barbarian from Earth-83600^[40]
Thoth-Amon from Earth-83600^[40]
Sarah Rogers from Earth-9811^[41]
Dargo Ktor from Earth-8710
Dargo Ktor from Earth-10280^[42]
Bruce Banner from Earth-1610^[43]
Magni Thorson from Earth-3515
Woden Thorson from Earth-691
Superman (Temporally allowed by Odin) ^[44]
Wonder Woman^[45]
Rogue from Earth-941066^[46]

Mjolnir's Duplicates

Thor's sacred uru hammer has been duplicated with varying degress of success over the years:

Three unnamed duplicates of Mjolnir was created by Professor Zaxton using his duplicating machine^[47], all of which eventually faded away into the nothingness from which they came.

Unnamed duplicate of Mjolnir was created by Orikal for Ulik at the beheadst of King Geirrodur.^[48]

Crusher - hammer forged from Uru metal for Red Norvell, who once proved worthy to wield Mjolnir.^[34]

Stormbreaker - was forged by Eitri and the Dwarves of Nidavellir by order of Odin for Beta Ray Bill^[49] after he proved worthy to weild Mjolnir.^[33]

After Thor defeated an unarmed humanoid antibody of Exitar with Mjolnir, more humanoid antibodies swarmed him -- all armed with similar hammers.^[50]

Kevin Masterson carried a toy version of the mystic mallet^[51] because Thor had so often saved his father's life.

Thunderstrike - the enchanted mace that was given to Eric Masterson by Thor^[52], cause he proved worthy to weild Mjolnir^[35] and served Asgard for many years before being returned to Earth.