Originally posted by Damborgson
I agree that magic was involved in a way ?The rest is up to your interpretation i suppose
If this wasn't a PG-13 board, I'd post real life photos of men hanging by their testicles.
Still in one piece. Some strain, some pain, sure. But nothing getting ripped off.
Loki didn't even get lifted off the ground, ffs.
Originally posted by StiltmanFTWYou have:
If this wasn't a PG-13 board, I'd post real life photos of men hanging by their testicles.Still in one piece. Some strain, some pain, sure. But nothing getting ripped off.
Loki didn't even get lifted off the ground, ffs.
-The glowing rune appearing on Thor's hand right before he beheads Loki(which, in the very same issue, only happened right before he used rune magic *see the scans I posted*.)
-Loki's body not even lifting off the ground -- I can assure you that your body would not stay in the same place if someone was exerting enough upward physical force to rip your head off.
-A perfectly even/surgical decapitation -- again, if your head is physically torn from your body, it's not just going to pop off in a straight line like that.
...And unless you think that Loki's pony tail had far greater durability than his spine/muscle/skin, then the hair would have ripped off well before his head gave way.
Everything points to it being a display of Thor's magic, and not brute physical force. Imo.
Originally posted by Galan007-A perfectly even/surgical decapitation -- again, if you're head is physically torn from your body, it's not just going to pop off in a straight line like that.
This one wasn't mentioned before 👆
Yeah, I just don't see it as a physical feat and never have.
You need to be really, really sturbborn to view it as such. Perhaps Dambo is not yet completely free of the brainwashing caused by Rage.
Perhaps I should link him to some extreme xhamster videos.
Originally posted by Galan007
You have:-The glowing rune appearing on Thor's hand right before he beheads Loki(which, in the very same issue, only happened right before he used rune magic *see the scans I posted*.)
-Loki's body not even lifting off the ground -- I can assure you that your body would not stay in the same place if someone was exerting enough upward physical force to rip your head off.
-A perfectly even/surgical decapitation -- again, if your head is physically torn from your body, it's not just going to pop off in a straight line like that.
...And unless you think that Loki's pony tail had far greater durability than his spine/muscle/skin, then the hair would have ripped off well before his head gave way.
Everything points to it being a display of Thor's magic, and not brute physical force. Imo.
Who cares what it was? He had the power to do it is all that matters. You're placing a ton of scrutiny on one thing or the other, while ignoring how easily the Herald King was injured. It seems that since you can't actually find any holes in RK Thor you resort to nitpicking in order to convince others that RK Thor was simply a smidge above Sky Father despite having dealt with one with ease. If he was just a smidge above Sky Father, Loki would've been able to do more than beg. So to recap, this isn't necessarily about how strong RK Thor was, but more to the fact of how powerful he was. The correct answer is that he was far more powerful than Odin, who would be a smidge less powerful than the Herald King. Mjolnir is a contributing factor as to why he did so well against Galactus as well.
Originally posted by StoicLol.
Who cares what it was? He had the power to do it is all that matters. You're placing a ton of scrutiny on one thing or the other, while ignoring how easily the Herald King was injured. It seems that since you can't actually find any holes in RK Thor you resort to nitpicking in order to convince others that RK Thor was simply a smidge above Sky Father despite having dealt with one with ease. If he was just a smidge above Sky Father, Loki would've been able to do more than beg. So to recap, this isn't necessarily about how strong RK Thor was, but more to the fact of how powerful he was. The correct answer is that he was far more powerful than Odin, who would be a smidge less powerful than the Herald King. Mjolnir is a contributing factor as to why he did so well against Galactus as well.
Look at the actual posts/discussions I was responding to before you start ranting. A few people believed that RKT plucking Loki's head off was a physical feat, so I weighed in with my [logical] opinion that he used his magics there.
And regarding RKT's power: literally nothing posted in this thread(or any others so far) points to him being leagues above Odin. As always, your baseless head-canon =/= evidence. But it's what you've been doing for years now, so I'm not exactly surprised.
tl;dr
Don't project.
I don't think Herald King Thor was injured once in the entire run.
The rock thing knocked him down, but it caused no injury and was most likely just surprise. In the same issue, he casually no sold Galactus blowing up a planet in his face, and Galactus' energy beams similar to Zeus:
Galactus has enough energy to destroy planets in one of his digits. As of this arc, he had already buffered his reserves with 100k + planets (Post Annihilation where his core was drained).
Originally posted by StiltmanFTW
It's clearly not a physical feat, Rage.Nothing about it makes sense.
He grabbed Loki's head, and right when his neck was at the stretching point, we see a Rune at the tear:
https://comicvine1.cbsistatic.com/uploads/scale_super/8/80518/1468665-thor084_22.jpg
I'm guessing that's the magic that's keeping Loki alive.
Also, the argument that nothing about the feat makes sense is disingenuous. This is a fictional medium, and Thor is a Skyfather at a cosmic level. He could use a toothpick to pick up a planet and it could still be a strength feat.
Tbh, distinguishing between strength and power at this level is a pointless endeavour (They are as strong as they need to be), so that's honestly my bad. It's a pointless rabbit hole.
Originally posted by Galan007
Lol.Look at the actual posts/discussions I was responding to before you start ranting. A few people believed that RKT plucking Loki's head off was a physical feat, so I weighed in with my [logical] opinion that he used his magics there.
And regarding RKT's power: literally nothing posted in this thread(or any others so far) points to him being leagues above Odin. As always, your baseless head-canon =/= evidence. But it's what you've been doing for years now, so I'm not exactly surprised.
tl;dr
Don't project.
Everything points to him being Worlds above Odin. Don't pretend that I'm projecting, because we've had this very same debate, and you have yet to counter how one becomes gifted, or embued with the power of the Runes. The idea behind him becoming human was a means to remove him from the loop of fate that all Asgardians are tied to. Well all but Thor, as his nature is different than your average Asgardian, he is also equally tied into Midgard because of his mother Gaea.
None of that matters. The Sacrifice is what gave him and Odin (to a far lesser degree) their connection to the Runes' power. He had to go further than Odin to do that which Odin never could do. Was it a lack of power that prevented Odin from doing what Thor was able to do? Of course it was.
It states plainly; To give everything, is to do anything.
Odin gave an eye as an offering, and gained the ability to see, and know everything, He also gained a measure of power over reality. Odin knows everything that isn't mystically hidden from him like the Dark Gods for example, because of his connection to the Runes, but not the power to change many of the things that he knows to exist.
RK Thor on the other hand gave far more, and thus his connection to the Runes was far far far (I can continue) greater that Odin's offering to the Runes. Odin took a sip, while Thor was fully embued by the Runes.
tl;dr
Your reluctance to see this as the truth, would cause a great number of people to project Galan.
Originally posted by Classic NES
Herald Thor stomps lock this.
Does that debunk the great mystery of the Runes? You are, and will remain incorrect on this subject.
Power that would hurt The Herald King, would go unnoticed by RK Thor, and yes it is because of the Runes power. Strength and other physical gifts become irrelevant, because as I stated in the past, RK Thor was a metaphysical entity due to his intimate connection with the Runes. This is exactly why a physical being like the Herald King would helpless before him just like Loki was. Stilt hit it on the head, the Runes protect him. It even said that he pierced the veil, which is life and death. He Sacrificed all. Odin gave an Eye. Do you see the difference?
