Is Thor Bulletprooff?

Just read this in another thread and it got me a-thinkin'.

The only time I've seen Thor shot at and get hit was just before his first encounter with the Destroyer. The hunter who later found and animated the Destroyer, managed to take Thor out first with a tranquilizer bullet.

As for demoralizing. Hell, what can be more demoralizing that seeing bulletproof skin, as opposed to a whirling hammer or bracelets? I dont know about you guys, but I'd be thinking, "Man, if I could just get one shot past his hammer / her bracelets...!"

Sorry. In my haste to post, put this in the wrong forum. Well, let's just pretend...

You have examples of both in his comic.

Moreso that he is, than he isent IIRC.

Thor can take Power Cosmic blasts.
Bullets hurt him when the writer is dumb.

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bullets can't hurt him....... nuke level explosions don't bother him too much either apparently

Thats why its stupid to have him even bothered with bullets.

Great scan there.

Hey, wasn't that scan Ultimate Thor?

A person who is able to take hits and blasts of cosmic level and survives a nuke without a bruise HAS to be bulletproof.
K3VEL is right wis his comment should Thor be written vulnerable to them.

Originally posted by BlaqChaos
Hey, wasn't that scan Ultimate Thor?

no, it's from Thor Disassembled.... yes, Odin is dead at this point, but No, Thor doesn't have the Odin power there

Originally posted by K3VIL
Thor can take Power Cosmic blasts.
Bullets hurt him when the writer is dumb.

Absolutely right - drive me nuts. He and Wonder Woman should both be declared bullet resistent, at least.

In the secret wars Thor was in an alien thunderstorm that had rain drops hitting as hard as magnum bullets and thor was just hanging out enjoying it.

Thor, like Wonder Woman should be invulnerable to bullets due to the physics involve. If they aren't, then it shows that the writers really needs to go back to High School imo.

I can understand being invulnerable to physical forces and being vulnerable to heat, but against a person who can survive reentry of the Earth, he shouldn't even notice bullets.

Thor's survived in the center of the friggin sun, no way should a bullet should do more than get his attention.

<<Thor's survived in the center of the friggin sun, no way should a bullet should do more than get his attention.>>

nuh-uh . . . that wasn't 'really' the center of the sun when he visited atum. thor states he was in some kind of 'sphere' in the heart of the sun. i've always taken that to mean he was in some sort of 'magical plane' hidden within the sun itself. thor has never been shown (before or since) to be able to fly through stars.

as for bulletproof -- a recent black panther issue caused a stir when thor is ko'd by a sniper bullet that hits his head. he is said to have to spin his hammer because bullets are capable of 'stinging' him. both have been portrayed as true though admittedly, given what thor has withstood, it seems silly to think bullets would bother him.

Puck is bullet-proof and he is a dwarf...an underated dwarf, but still a dwarf that was compressed to maximum density 🙂

I'm not sure about the numbers (ie, pounds per square inch), but possibly a bullet might hurt Thor when a nuclear blast doesnt because a bullet generates more pressure per square inch on the surface of whatever it is hitting than the much "broader" impact of a blastwave. This is why a person with a knife can stab through a bulletproof vest: the p.s.i. at the teeny tiny tip of a blade exceeds the p.s.i. at the much broader tip of a bullet's nose. Ah, physics. Can't live with it, can't live without it.

Originally posted by Mindship
I'm not sure about the numbers (ie, pounds per square inch), but possibly a bullet might hurt Thor when a nuclear blast doesnt because a bullet generates more pressure per square inch on the surface of whatever it is hitting than the much "broader" impact of a blastwave. This is why a person with a knife can stab through a bulletproof vest: the p.s.i. at the teeny tiny tip of a blade exceeds the p.s.i. at the much broader tip of a bullet's nose. Ah, physics. Can't live with it, can't live without it.

brilliant

as wonderwoman said insecret origins featuring the JLA

"there is a big difference between a small point of an arrow or a large surface of a boulder. try hammering in a nail by driving the head into the wood instead of the point. if a surface is small with a great deal of force behind it, like an arrowhead or bullet, it can penetrate when something larger might only bruise"

she was asked
"i dont get it diana. how could you be hurt by an aroow? i've seen u take a hit from doomsday. i mean the rock should have done more damage tahn a puny arrow right?"

thor may have a higher resistance to energy attacks and blunt attacks, but piercing attacks may hurt/sting/annoy

look at a sandbag, u can try to beat a boxers sandbag to a pulp, but it doent change form or appear to be damaged. but a bullet, ir a knife will slash right through it. thor and wonderwomans body may work the same way

Yet, still, there have been inconsistent incidents regarding getting shot with a bullet - by Thor anyway.

not like superman