Originally posted by cdtm
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Z characters may lack in strength feats, but look at the size of that crater. I think a SSJ3 Goku could hurt Thor with punches, because of this. (Granted, it's Gotenks feat, not Goku's, but SSJ3 Goku is comparable in power level, if not stronger.)
Edit: Whoops, just noticed Carver put a cap on Goku to SSJ2.
Still, I think he can speed blitz Thor and IM into defeat. Punches, planet busting ki shots (Delivered faster, and at more angles, than Thor could deflect or absorb), take your pick.
Still focusing on strength, do you remember Tao Pie Pie, the assassin that would have killed Goku if not for the 4 star ball blocking his heart?
Check this out:
http://manga.animea.net/dragon-ball-chapter-85-page-12.html
http://manga.animea.net/dragon-ball-chapter-85-page-13.html
http://manga.animea.net/dragon-ball-chapter-85-page-14.html
He throws that pillar so hard, it moves faster than a helicopter, and stays in the air for 30 minutes. And this is a feat from a character that's ultra weak compared to even pre SSJ Saiyan Saga level Goku.
Think Iron Man can reproduce this feat on raw strength? (Thor probably can.)
Here's another very early DB feat:
http://manga.animea.net/dragon-ball-chapter-83-page-9.html
http://manga.animea.net/dragon-ball-chapter-83-page-10.html
http://manga.animea.net/dragon-ball-chapter-83-page-11.html
That's Arale, who's much much weaker than Goku even as of the Tao Pie Pie fight. You know this, because General Blue survives being knocked into the skyline and out of sight by Arale, yet gets killed with Tao Pie Pie's tongue (And Blue also crushed a telephone booth into a pancake, easily), and Goku manages to survive Tao's best attacks in their rematch.
Like I say, DBZ characters are short on hard strength feats, but stuff like this makes you assume they must be pretty damned strong, come Saiyan Saga and up.