Note where the WRITER of the story calls the Godblast magic....Posted by Cain Marko on 7/10/2009, 12:12 am, in reply to "Thor's godblast pushing back the Juggernatu"
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: This was considered a big deal at the time
: because this was the first time anything had
: come close to stopping the Juggernaut. That
: and it was Thor's most powerful attack.
:
: In your view, do you have any problems with
: Thor's godblast stopping the Juggernaut even
: for a moment? Considering the magical
: nature of Thor does it make sense to you?
: Do you think it was the power behind the
: attack, the magic, or just one of those rare
: cases where you have two different forms of
: magic mixing and you get unforseen results?
:
I didn't have a problem with it. I remember way back at the time when I first read this story being anxious to see if the Juggernaut would be resistant to Thor's hammer AT ALL because of it being magic. I really wasn't expecting for Thor to be as impotent against him as he was. So by the time the godblast was unleashed The Juggernaut's power had already surpassed my expectations the way he just shrugged off all of Thor's other attacks. The writer of the story said he intentionally left it ambiguous as to whether the magic was what allowed the godblast to momentarily push the Juggernaut back, showing that he had the mystical nature of the beam in mind when he wrote that scene. And given that the same attack literally made Galactus flee for his life when it struck him and shattered even metal harder than a Celestial's armor, and that this was directly referrenced in the issue as Thor hit Juggernaut with it so there would be no mistake of how powerful this beam was, it was an amazing display for both the Juggernaut and Thor. Thor for being able to generate such unimaginable mystic power, and The Juggernaut for being able to do what not even the most powerful cosmic beings could.
It was just about as good as you can get.