Originally posted by h1a8😂
Please read below completely. I may have change some things around while writing.The panel says ethereal form. The OHOTMU says only the A section materialized and that the serpent was magically (not physically) crushing the Earth causing storms, etc. This is all the evidence I need to know that the Serpent was mostly intangible and not wholly solid. Now if the Serpent wasn't intangible then people, automobiles, planes, etc. would have kept bumping into the darn thing while still contradicting the panel.
grip alone vs. weight and grip are two different things. It's no telling how much magical grip strength Thor was overcoming if any at all. That is to say, the grip could have been only 100tons or even 1 pound. Because crushing a planet certainly does not cause storms.
Now, assuming there was a grip, the grip had to be far under the weight of the Earth since Thor didn't pull the Earth with him. Maybe pulling on the head with a hook caused the Serpent to completely loosen its grip naturally. If I had a hook in my mouth then you can apply the gentlest pull and I will let go anything I'm holding and follow you. This is self preservation.
Lastly, even if the Serpent was totally solid then the power than Superman was pulling with still trumps the weight of the Serpent by more than a trillions times. Assuming the Serpent is a very generous 1 ton per foot (even though it was a little wider than Thor) and Earth is 25000 x 5280 ft around then 6.36E23tons/1.36E8tons = 4.68E15 times more. This is 4680000000000000 times more. My billion was somewhat generous.
Now the boat assisted in the pulling and this alone makes the feat invalid. But in the latter paragraph I assumed it didn't.