How close could thor come to bench pressing the earth once?

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Silent Master Senior Member

Re: Re: Re: How close could thor come to bench pressing the earth once?

Originally posted by Sundipped
While that may be true, people would be less stunned with Thor doing one rep (like op states) as opposed to Superman doing it for five days straight and asking "that's all you got"?.

IMO, Given the feats each person had prior to this one, it would have been far less sruprising for Thor to have done it.

Mindset Senior Member

Thor could bench press the sun.

dmills Centurion Prime
Originally posted by carver9
He was hooked to a machine that was generating earth weight.

Like that machine that made Thor like a neutron star? Or the one that simulated the weight of a score of planets?

pym-ftw Mizukage

I think Thor could physically move the planet if needed the relatively microscopic distance of chest to outstretched arms.

-Pr- Hey Yo!

Sure, Thor could do it.

And no, we don't all agree.

DarkSaint85 Bonified abstract

Lol I can see Thor trying, then the weights slamming back down on him, knocking him out.

Fool should've had a spotter.

PillarofOsiris Senior Member

Re: Re: Re: Re: How close could thor come to bench pressing the earth once?

Originally posted by Silent Master
IMO, Given the feats each person had prior to this one, it would have been far less sruprising for Thor to have done it.

DcNU Superman was growing stronger by the day though. He started out pretty weak. It kind of reminded me of smallville.

SamZED Senior Member

Iirc from that scan the Midgard serpent circled the earth few times, Thor not only lifted it but broke its grip. I wont be stunned if some writer has Thor or Glads replicate that feat tbh. Not more surprised than when DCnU Supes did it out of the blue.

Juntai Divine Vengeance

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Originally posted by PillarofOsiris
DcNU Superman was growing stronger by the day though. He started out pretty weak. It kind of reminded me of smallville.
Only because the initial showings in JLA, and in Action, were actually set in the past, as "year one" type of stories. After that, it's business as usual for Superman.

leonidas MWHAHAHAHA!

imo it would be more out of character for thor to perform that type of feat than it would be for kal. i'd be surprised if i saw him do it and i think it would raise more eyebrows and questions of consistency. dcnu clark has been slowly building feats so i don't think this scene stunned me like i guess some were. maybe because there has been precedent for this in dc before.

TheGodKiller True Killer

Originally posted by celeyhyga17
I know that Thor is still the same Thor of today in terms of continuity, but that feat was quite a long time ago. (Midgard Serpent feat)

Sure, but based on size alone, there should be a couple of orders of magnitude of difference between The Asgardian landmass that he and Bill held up and the planet sized Midgard Serpent. Thor struggling to do the former(despite having the Odinforce in that instance) seems to imply that he hasn't(and probably won't be for some time to come) be written at a planetary scale of strength in quite a while.

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Originally posted by leonidas
imo it would be more out of character for thor to perform that type of feat than it would be for kal. i'd be surprised if i saw him do it and i think it would raise more eyebrows and questions of consistency. dcnu clark has been slowly building feats so i don't think this scene stunned me like i guess some were. maybe because there has been precedent for this in dc before.
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celeyhyga17 Yawning Void

Originally posted by TheGodKiller
Sure, but based on size alone, there should be a couple of orders of magnitude of difference between The Asgardian landmass that he and Bill held up and the planet sized Midgard Serpent. Thor struggling to do the former(despite having the Odinforce in that instance) seems to imply that he hasn't(and probably won't be for some time to come) be written at a planetary scale of strength in quite a while.

I know it's still not planetary level, but during Siege the Thunderbolts stealth group commented on how everything in Asgard seemed so much heavier than normal. One example they gave were doors. Grizzly who was the strong man of that group complained by saying "Are all the doors here minimum 5 tons? Jeez!!" Besides the land mass, the building and probably many other objects in Asgard were made of very heavy material. Understandable because an ordinary fodder god of Asgard is easily a class 20. Just wanted to add that little tidbit.

PillarofOsiris Senior Member
Originally posted by celeyhyga17
I know it's still not planetary level, but during Siege the Thunderbolts stealth group commented on how everything in Asgard seemed so much heavier than normal. One example they gave were doors. Grizzly who was the strong man of that group complained by saying "Are all the doors here minimum 5 tons? Jeez!!" Besides the land mass, the building and probably many other objects in Asgard were made of very heavy material. Understandable because an ordinary fodder god of Asgard is easily a class 20. Just wanted to add that little tidbit.

This is true, but Asgard is maybe the size of a mountain. Everything on Asgard would have to be HUNDREDS OF BILLIONS of times heavier than its earth counterparts for it to even come close to approaching the mass of the earth, and even then Thor only lifted half of it, with what appeared to be A LOT of effort. I got the impression that him and Bill combined couldn't hold it up for long. Superman, weakened, benched it for 5 days, and then said, "Is that all you've got?"

celeyhyga17 Yawning Void

Re: How close could thor come to bench pressing the earth once?

Originally posted by keiththegreat
I'm pretty sure we all agree Thor couldn't replicate superman's earth bench pressing feat. My question is how close could he come? Could he bench half the earth's weight, a quarter of it? Or is there anyone who thinks he could replicate the feat?

Obviously many are of the mindset that Supes and Hulk easily have planetary level strength. This is mainly due to their RECENT strength feats. Still those 2 feats I consider are somewhat outliers since when both happened, many gave a "holy shiet" reaction. It's not like Supes is hurling planets daily and Hulk is punching an object causing the planet to explode on a regular basis. They are impressive high end eats and still not the norm for both. All the jobbing lately has not helped Thor's case in this matter. It's true he has not exhibited planetary level strength (unless I'm missing something) in recent memory, but to say he absolutely can't press earth weight at least once or come close to it forces us to exclude his previous planetary level strength feats. If pressing earth weight for 5 days and astronomical planet busting force are not the norm, then Thor's planetary strength feats of yesteryear are also outliers that should be admissible as sources for this thread. Thor is essentially the same character which leads me to believe he can press earth weight at least once or come close to it.

DarkOdin Senior Member

In terms of stupid comic feats Thor would do jus tthe same, thor pushed back against the world tree which is so large it spans muiltple dimensions,

Thor and superman will be benching the planet one issue but the next they will have trouble holding up a skyscraper or something

TheGodKiller True Killer

Originally posted by PillarofOsiris
Thor only lifted half of it, with what appeared to be A LOT of effort.

Thor also had the Odinforce in that instance(iirc).

TheGodKiller True Killer

Originally posted by celeyhyga17
I know it's still not planetary level, but during Siege the Thunderbolts stealth group commented on how everything in Asgard seemed so much heavier than normal. One example they gave were doors. Grizzly who was the strong man of that group complained by saying "Are all the doors here minimum 5 tons? Jeez!!" Besides the land mass, the building and probably many other objects in Asgard were made of very heavy material. Understandable because an ordinary fodder god of Asgard is easily a class 20. Just wanted to add that little tidbit.

I know that gods and their realms are supposed to be far denser than Earthly objects, since Athena(based on her bio) is around 400+ lbs, and she seems to be around 5'9" or 5'10" tall.

But, presuming that the city sized Asgard that Thor and Bill supported is, lets go on the ridiculous side and say around a hundred times denser than their earthly counterparts, that still falls far short of Superman's feat(that too while weakened).

So from what I can tell, since his midgard serpent days, I doubt Thor has come close to performing a feat of strength on a planetary scale.

Horrificus Senior Member

Originally posted by SamZED
Iirc from that scan the Midgard serpent circled the earth few times, Thor not only lifted it but broke its grip. I wont be stunned if some writer has Thor or Glads replicate that feat tbh. Not more surprised than when DCnU Supes did it out of the blue.
Yup. That's about 75,000 miles of ultra-dense Asgarding Serpent right there. (Yeah, I know, "that's what SHE said."😉 Anyway... Since ALL Asgardian matter is 3 times as dense as that of Earth, I would say we are seeing something that weighs about the same as the Earth, if not more.

And, this is a beauty right here. Thor's body and all matter in the immediate vicinity is suddenly generating the equivalent gravity of a Neutron Star.
Neutron Star- 1 Sugar Cube of Neutron Star Material = 1 Hundred Billion Tons. His body, plus the mass of all the matter that envelopes him...
At first, he is knocked flat. Then, he is able to stand. Then, finally, he actually throws it all off of his body and moves freely.

Daredevil1 Senior Member

Originally posted by Horrificus

And, this is a beauty right here. Thor's body and all matter in the immediate vicinity is suddenly generating the equivalent gravity of a Neutron Star.
Neutron Star- 1 Sugar Cube of Neutron Star Material = 1 Hundred Billion Tons. His body, plus the mass of all the matter that envelopes him...

Although the gravity is akin(similar) to a Neutron star. It doesn't say it makes a mass of the Neutron star itself. Impressive though.

He has another feat when Kang uses a weapon which he tells Thor, that is applies about the weight of half a planet on Thor. Thor falls down but later it's shown Thor is playing possum and IIRC he gets up easily like nothing was on him.