Having any hero - or villain - wield Thor's hammer should instantly denote how big of a threat they really are. Sometimes, however, having a character lift Mjolnir can end up inspiring the opposite effect, as was the case when Red Hulk went on a rampage across the Marvel Universe in 2008.
A Jeph Loeb-Ed McGuinness creation, 'Rulk' marked his introduction by defeating pretty much everyone in the Marvel Universe. It was overkill plain and simple, and while the character has his fans, the image of him lifting Mjolnir in space and tossing Thor around like a rag-doll only epitomised just how childish a creation he was. Not that it would impede his chances of joining the Avengers later down the line...
But how did he end up lifting the world's most unliftable hammer? In his confrontation with Thor, Rulk used the momentum of the hammer to carry himself and the God of Thunder out of Earth's atmosphere, allowing him to wield the hammer in zero-gravity and promptly lay waste to a justifiably shocked Odinson.
WhatCulture's very own resident movie guy, Ewan has been working in the content creation biz for over 10 years now, having started as a freelance contributor to WhatCulture Gaming all the way back in 2015. After graduating with a First-Class Honours in History from Northumbria University in 2017 (where he won a prize for a totally killer dissertation on the Watergate years), Ewan took on the role of Comics Editor at WhatCulture and quickly developed WhatCulture Comics into one of the biggest superhero-focused channels on YouTube. He followed this with a brief hiatus at Screen Rant in 2021, where he worked across the Gaming and Film sections as a writer and editor, before returning to WhatCulture as a Senior Content Producer / Presenter in 2023. He started his own podcast, We Love Dad Movies, in 2022, and has contributed several written pieces to the Eisner-nominated comics website Shelfdust as well.
In his current role, Ewan incorporates his love of cinema, comic books, and history into written pieces and video essays for WhatCulture's Film & TV channel, as well as WhatCulture Gaming and WhatCulture Horror, with a particular focus on nineties-era Dad Movies, old school Westerns, and Golden Age Hollywood Noir. John Carpenter is his fave, and he thinks Batman Beyond should never have been cancelled. If that's your vibe, you'll probably like his stuff.
