Originally posted by Newjak
Nope Thor just threw it at him and Zeus grabbed it and was holding it. He didn't show any spell. Thor was absolutley shocked. They even made sure to show it as a pure strength feat because then the Hammer flies from Zeus' hand even with Zeus trying to resist it.Thor makes mention after that moment that even to hold hold the hammer for as long as he did was amazing feat all by itself.
zeus was unique. he IMPEDED the progress. he stopped it (not THAT huge a feat -- count nefaria did the same) but zeus actually held it and was able to prevent it momentarily from returning to thor. that was about zeus's ability to momentarily overcome the enchantments on the hammer. impressive that he stopped a throw, but not THAT impressive. as a skyfather he was able to hinder odin's spell for a bit. he couldn't overcome them though. i think that was a way to say that zeus and odin are pretty much equal.
anyway, hulk's strength feats defy the purely physical. he has literally done impossible things via strength -- kept seperate matter and anti-matter, punched through time, literally struck and harmed ENERGY. the list goes on and on.
i'm not at all convinced that theoretically odin could increase his strength beyond what hulk could do. it also only takes a moment for hulk to increase his strength exponentially, so odin would need to amp (something i've not seen him do) instantly and ko hulk before hulk could react or withstand the blow. if we assume an enraged hulk to start with, this would be tough for odin using (again) ONLY strength. (clearly odin wipes hulk out with less tha a thought if he uses all his powers . . .)