Every Character Who Lifted Thor's Hammer Mjolnir

10. Doctor Doom

Hulk Mjolnir
Marvel Comics

Another loophole that can be exploited with Mjolnir is that when it and Thor are on entirely different planes of existence, the rules of the hammer get somewhat wonky. Or at least that's the best explanation I can come up with for how Doctor freaking Doom was able to get his hands on it.

After Ragnarok - the clone of Thor from Civil War - separated Mjolnir from Thor, the hammer fell into hell where, coincidentally, Doom was trapped after the events in Mark Waid's run on Fantastic Four.

Now, Doom had no reason to believe he'd be able to lift the hammer, but the funny thing about Hell is that it is its own motivator for trying to get out, so Doom went to lift it anyway. And shockingly, the separation from Thor had seemingly annulled the worthiness rule of the hammer and Doom was able to use Mjolnir to escape.

Fortunately this problem solved itself when Doom returned to Earth and the hammer subsequently stopped working for him. Close but no cigar, Doc.

Contributor
Contributor

John Tibbetts is a novelist in theory, a Whatculture contributor in practice, and a nerd all around who loves talking about movies, TV, anime, and video games more than he loves breathing. Which might be a problem in the long term, but eh, who can think that far ahead?