What if Zod just flies in and punches and grabs the axe to create a struggle over it? I mean, omnidirectional Thor is a toughy, but I do believe Zod can get near him and disarm him. Maybe he even baits an axe swing and moves slightly to the left or possibly the right in an attempt to directly deal with the axe.
Fighting a hammerless Thor doesn't create a funnel where the only option is to run into an axe. And I believe he can disarm this theoretical Funnel Thor, even moreso since the axe has no special abilities against it besides Thor's grip. If you're going to make Funnel Thor, you could at least assume Zod doesn't pretend the axe is invisible. That Thor could go axe swing for every Zod punch. That Zod rushing in and punching him would only have an immediate retaliation.
At least when he had the hammer, you could let things play out because there are ways he could stay in the fight or ways something could happen. Options and shit, two sides, etc. Both sides think the other side annihilates the other but it's largely based on "something" so whatever.
Acting like Zod firing off HV is only not an option because of Thor's Frieza cage of lightning and he has to be funnelled right into the axe where it's bad news bears seems like a blatant misrepresentation of everything though. Thor isn't Flash and they aren't fighting in a hallway where the walls are magic. Even if Zod gets close it doesn't instantly assume axe time. He's not a giant green cock sucker with comparable speed.
Oh yeah, that's another thing... asian Hulk. I bet Carver just laps that shit up though like a discarded tampon.
That's fair, Zod isn't a f*cking idiot. He can disarm Thor. By the same token, Thor isn't a f*cking idiot either, wouldn't let himself get easily disarmed and has fought enough flying super bricks to know what's good.
That's a weak strawman. When did I ever make any such claim? Am I assuming that Zod is most likely going to brawl it out with Thor? Yes. Definitely. It's what he f*cking does. And when it doesn't work, he usually tries it again, just harder. Thor's not some idiot who's going to stand there and get helplessly bombarded by Zod's masterfully planned attacks and lose every single time. Zod would have obviously won a majority if this was drunk and depressed "I'm the God of Hammers" pre-Unworthy Thor. Not now.
I'm just countering your point that Thor is clipped Green Lantern....As if that is at all comparable.
Odinson is a ****ing idiot though.
A seasoned GL is far more effective than Odinson though.
Hal is straight up more powerful than Odinson at this point.
And it wouldn't take Zod a hundred punches to ko Odinson either in which he has time to swing his axe in slow motion and hit him. It'd take at most five or six punches.