Quite a bit has been made about Thor’s iconic hammer, Mjolnir, within the Marvel Cinematic Universe. We all know that somebody should be deemed worthy to wield it, which turned a focus throughout Avengers: Age of Ultron as numerous Avengers tried to raise it and failed. Solely Steve Rogers was capable of make it budge, which culminated in him lastly selecting it up and utilizing it in opposition to Thanos in Avengers: Endgame. Lately, Mjolnir was showcased within the trailer for Avengers: Doomsday, as Thor provides it as much as the returning Steve Rogers to show it’s actually him. The 2 wielded Mjolnir and Stormbreaker in the course of the combat in opposition to Thanos in Avengers: Endgame, which looks like it is going to occur once more in Avengers: Doomsday. That mentioned, folks usually neglect that a number of characters in addition to Thor and Steve have lifted the hammer through the years. A few of them might even pop again up in Avengers: Doomsday.
That makes it all of the extra attention-grabbing to look again on the MCU’s historical past. Rumors are swirling all over in regards to the potential for a few of these characters to seem within the upcoming blockbuster, although certainly one of them isn’t actually being thought-about.
3) Odin
It’s comprehensible should you forgot that Thor’s Father, Odin, wielded the hammer. He solely did so means again in 2011’s Thor, in an effort to place the worthiness enchantment on it. He banished it and Thor to Earth, hoping that his son may show that he deserved such a weapon. The previous king of Asgard is worthy and has wielded Mjolnir within the comics, but it was forgotten by many as a result of he hasn’t been round all that a lot since that 2011 movie.
The potential for Odin coming again for Avengers: Doomsday appears odd on paper, but there have been rumors of a number of Asgardians returning for the movie, from dwelling characters like Sif to useless ones like Heimdall. Odin matches into the latter class, although there haven’t been any rumors of Anthony Hopkins within the forged, and the actor hasn’t been seen on set. A flashback or a imaginative and prescient the place Thor will get recommendation from his dad could be good to have after he obtained an identical scene together with his mom, Frigga, in Avengers: Endgame.
2) Jane Foster
The latest character to wield Mjolnir within the MCU was Jane Foster. After spending two movies as Thor’s love curiosity, the good astrophysicist returned for Thor: Love and Thunder, but now she had Mjolnir and have become the Mighty Thor. This put the 2 on equal footing till it was revealed that Jane had terminal most cancers and every use of the hammer drained her energy. She in the end sacrificed herself to make use of Mjolnir and helped Thor defeat Gorr, earlier than becoming a member of Heimdall on the gates of Valhalla within the afterlife.
Jane was spectacular with the hammer, utilizing it as a weapon similar to Thor and changing into one of the crucial highly effective heroes round. Like Hopkins, there isn’t phrase of Natalie Portman returning for Avengers: Doomsday, although she did make a shock look in Avengers: Endgame. Jane may pop up alongside Asgardians from Valhalla, which wouldn’t be too tough for the MCU to clarify.
1) Imaginative and prescient
Avengers: Age of Ultron made a giant deal about who would raise Mjolnir and the punchline got here when Imaginative and prescient was born, as he handed the hammer to Thor with no bother. It made everybody round Imaginative and prescient belief him, and he then used Mjolnir once more in the course of the combat in opposition to Ultron. Nonetheless, Imaginative and prescient by no means obtained the prospect to select it up once more; the following time he encountered Thor, Mjolnir was damaged, and Imaginative and prescient died quickly after. It has been introduced that Imaginative and prescient will return for VisionQuest and Paul Bettany teased an look in Avengers: Secret Wars, however not Avengers: Doomsday.
Imaginative and prescient’s story has turn out to be difficult through the years. “Hex Imaginative and prescient” was resurrected by Wanda in WandaVision, but the true Imaginative and prescient’s physique was introduced again by members of S.W.O.R.D. He and the “Hex Imaginative and prescient” had a debate in regards to the Ship of Theseus, which questions whether or not an object stays the identical after having all of its authentic elements changed. That begs the query of how a lot of the unique Imaginative and prescient stays after all the things he’s been via.
Whereas Imaginative and prescient will be the identical at his core, he now not has the Thoughts Stone, one thing that doubtless performed a component in his means to wield Mjolnir. Imaginative and prescient might retain the flexibility to be noble and honorable, but he was used as a weapon by S.W.O.R.D., which may take away a few of his worthiness. The MCU might by no means deal with Imaginative and prescient and Mjolnir collectively once more, but we hope they not less than give us scenes that discover the complicated nature of who Imaginative and prescient is in spite of everything this time.