Hello dear judges, fellow audience and house of opposition. In this thread, I, Josh_Alexander, shall prove to you all that the Hela-Mjolnir feat is an invalid strength feat to debate in the Movie Versus Forum.
Considerations:
- In no moment am I claiming that there is no strength being applied to Mjolnir by Hela, nor that the feat requires no strength.
Context:
This is the feat being debated:
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As we can all bear witness to, Hela didn’t only crush Mjolnir, but did it with not even the slightest effort! She had no trouble destroying Pre-IW Thor’s most powerful weapon
Characters:
Hela Odinsdottir:
Hela, Goddess of Death, is Odin’s first-born, and as such wields great power. Initially, Hela helped Odin conquer the nine realms and ensured Asgard’s position as one of the greatest empires the MCU has seen. But she did this wielding no other than Mjolnir itself.
We can already grasp at Hela’s great power. However:
Odin Borson:
She draws her strength from Asgard and once she gets there her powers will be… limitless
So, we already have an idea how much powerful Hela is on her natal worldMost importantly, however, is the fact that Hela is a magical being just like her father and family members. She can turn her soft and apparently harmless hair into deadly spikes with a single stroke of his hands. She can pull daggers out of thin air by a simple movement of her hands.
Her magic is so powerful, that even, whilst outside Asgard, she effortlessly managed to spam hundreds of daggers and slaughter the mighty Valkyries!
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She slaughtered hundreds if not thousands of Asgard’s best warriors with daggers that she pulled out of thin air, with not the slightest effort! If Hela’s hands, aren’t outcome of Lucifer phucking Houdini, then I don’t know what they are!!!.
Summary: Hela is a powerful magical being, not only that, but she knows the victim of this case, Mjolnir.
Mjolnir: Thor’s mighty hammer, and previously owned by her sister, Hela. Mjolnir is made out of an extremely strong and powerful metal, Uru. Uru is forged by the “full power” of a neutron star. Clearly, this metal is like no other found on earth. Not only that, but it is like no other material used by us humans. We’ve seen this metal easily breaking other materials without visible damage, reflect energy attacks without turning red, and channeling vast amounts of electricity with 0 effects.
Not only is Uru an extremely strong metal, but it is susceptible to magic:
Minute 3:23:
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We clearly see Odin being able to nullify Thor’s influence/magic over Mjolnir. Ofcourse, we all know that Odin’s magic>Thor (But so is Hela’s 😉 )
Odin Borson:
Whosoever holds this hammer, if he be worthy, should possess the power of Thor
We can see that Odin could effortlessly use magic on Uru/Mjolnir.
Furthermore:
Minute 1:04
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Odin All Father:
That hammer was to have you control your power, to focus it. It was [B]never your source of strength
Summary:
- Mjolnir is made of an extremely strong material, like no other found in our periodic tables
- It is susceptible to magic
With all this background, which is going to be vital for my debate, I can now move to introduce the arguments:
1. Character’s arc and feat consistency:
Unless specified by the thread starter, a character’s feats/powers are determined by the latest iteration of the character. For instance, if in the MVF there is this thread where we debate Iron Man, unless specified by the OP, we would and should assume that this is Tony’s latest suit (displayed in the latest movie) being debated. That’s what we called as a character’s arc. A character evolves from movie to movie, and is his abilities change as time progresses (in his/her universe).
Considering that, in a thread in where the character isn’t limited to an specific timeline (in this case movie or scene), the latest feats will always overrule the previous ones. This is where consistency comes into play.
In order for a feat to be valid, it must be consistent with the other feats performed by the character. Specially those that are in direct succession to it. Otherwise, the feat is overruled (again, so long as the OP doesn’t limit this). A pretty good example of this would be Thor.
[COLOR=crimson] Example 1 (characters arc):
Take Thor prior to being worthy of his hammer:
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That’s clearly a feat of him not being able to lift up Mjolnir. However, in the end we see that Thor is able/worthy to lift up his hammer:
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This is a pretty good example of how the character arc/timeline is important and how a feat nullifies the other in this terms.
Should there be a thread called “Thor (as of Thor 1) vs Loki” for instance, any debater saying, “Thor can’t lift up his hammer for this fight” would be wrong (unless the OP states, “Thor prior to having Mjolnir”), as of the end of the movie, we see him getting his hammer back (The feat of him not being able to lift up Mjolnir gets nullified by the feat that succeeds it).
Example 2 (consistency):
An example of this kind is hard to find, since it is often the outcome of movie plot-holes and lack of continuity.
But take this hypothetical scenario not taking into consideration timeline:
- Feat 1: Character X lifts up a car.
- Feat 2: Character X lifts up an elephant
- Feat 3: Character X can’t lift up a motorcycle
- Feat 4: Character X lifts up a house
- Feat 5: Character X lifts up a tree
There is clearly an inconsistency in strength in the feats presented before. Can we therefore say, that character X can’t lift up anything heavier than a motorcycle? The answer is no. As the inconsistent feat in this case is Feat 3. In this case, there is more evidence/feats supporting that he can lift up objects heavier than a motorcycle.
If we plot timeline into the previous feats, this becomes even more evident. Assume that the feats are listed in chronological order (as the movie progresses). Not only is the feat inconsistent but it has outright been nullified by its successors (just like the Thor example).
Summary:
- A feat will be valid only and only if it is consistent and falls within the debated timeline (if the timeline isn’t specified by the OP, the latest iteration/feats are the heaviest).
- Given this I will prove that the Hela-Mjolnir feat isn’t only inconsistent with the rest of the movie, but is outright nullified by successive feats
1. Unknown factors --> Magic:
As proven before, Hela’s magic is astonishingly powerful in terms of magic.
Not only that, her magical powers/abilities are unknown.
Thor Odinson:
It’s not possible
Hela Odinsdottir:
Darling, you have no idea what’s possible
If Thor, who is 1500 years old and has vast knowledge over Asgardian magic/powers can’t fully grasp what’s going on, why should we?
Following that using only strength on the Mjolnir feat would be inconsistent, we've got to assume that there are unknown factors playing into the equation. In that aspect, an unknown factor could be magic.
Now I am fully awared of MVF rules and that there is no visual indication of magic being used to destroy Mjolnir
However, the MVF rules don’t BAN the use of logic. We know that Mjolnir/Uru can be affected by magic, and as I will prove, that Hela destroying Mjolnir with solely strength is INCONSISTENT. So, using logic, and the fact that Hela’s magic and powers are unknown and as proven previously has a connection with Mjolnir (was it's original user), we can safely assume that magic is playing a role in the feat. This is perfectly okay, because then the inconsistency would be explained and the feat would be, under that criteria, valid.
However, since we can’t know what percentage of strength and what of magic would require performing the feat (we can assume that there is such factor influencing on the experiment, however we can’t assume how much does it affect it), we can’t quantify how strong such feat is.
In that aspect, the feat becomes invalid to debate in the MVF.
A feat must provide a character with stats, otherwise, the feat is useless. If we can’t estimate how much strength Hela applied to Mjolnir, there is no safe way to compare her with other strong character.
Summary:
- To remove the inconsistency in the feat, we can assume the presence of unknown factors. However, not being able to know how this factors influence the feat makes this invalid due to it being vague for debating.
In conclusion, the Hela-Mjolnir feat is INVALID to debate in the MVF because it lacks consistency and is nullified by successive feats. Furthermore, the magic could be playing a role in the feat, making it impossible to quantify this.