Rage.Of.Olympus
Senior Member
Originally posted by Juntai
Your stance is funny. . . . OK, I'll agree. . he was his peer because he hit Superman. . . . until Superman stopped his ending blow, overpowering him from a position with less leverage, made him go bug eyed and call him mightier than anyone in the nine worlds, and then knocked him out. Even to where he was still contemplating it issues later.
And then at the end of the story, when Thor realized he wasn't the man for the job, because it was a job for. . .
Because if Thor was Superman's peer, he would have cut swathe through the villains and smashed open the barrier.
He isn't a peer just because he hit Superman. His a peer because he rocked his world, knocked him on his ass twice and was going toe to toe with Superman. And the fact Thor apparently one shotted Doomsday in the same arc along with Solomon Grundy, and was taking on beings like Amazo and Despero on his own.
After Thor waded through a blast of heat vision, which clearly affected him to a degree in that issues context. We'll that is true if we ignore beings like Odin. Contemplating it? Aquaman brought it up. And Superman brought up the instance later as well. He himself stated that he beat Thor, but just barely. Simply based on that you can come to the conclusion that Thor and Superman are peers for the most part.
It was pretty clear to me that in that arc they intended them to be physical rivals with them being so close something as heat vision can give Superman the edge to put down Thor.
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Ignore the fact that Thor was taking on Amazo, Despero, and other multiple villains alone while fighting like a brick for god sakes. If that doesn't show that Thor was meant to be a physical peer and rival of Superman in that crossover then I don't know what will.
Thor was busy taking on multiple villains and saw that Superman could not breach the barrier hence he lent him Mjolnir to give him the power necessary to do what needed to be done as he lacked it.