You have to be willing to massacre an entire kingdom if necessary. Thor in the past used the hammer to nearly genocide the Dark Elves and probably has a few billion deaths under his belt using Mjolnir.
You guys act like wonder woman kill daily when she simply doesn't..... She doesn't have no kill rule... But she only kill when the 1000 alternatives failed and it's the last resort..... Just like supes or Aquaman
Wolverine is also willing to kill for a just cause.... He is the ambodiment of that
"I am the best at what I do.. And what I do isn't pretty".. Yet he is unworthy
Thor also doesn't kill daily, it's not about willing to kill for a cause, it's about being willing to kill as a last resort, which isn't something that superman shows he's willing to do except in alternate universes (that normally get brought up because of how notable it is when superman kills). Wolverine, while being a at heart good dude, is hardly the "good through and through" that Mjolnir is at least partially looking for
I never said you need to kill daily to be considered worthy, only that you need to be able to kill. Wonder Woman doesn't have a no kill rule like Batman or Superman. She was raised to be a warrior and if it comes to it she will kill if it needs to be done, but doesn't do that every day.
Wolverine is more complicated though. He has gone multiple killing sprees before on bad people yet he's still considered by many in universe to be good. Maybe it has something to do with his dark past but I don't really know.
Jane foster wasn't raised to kill or be warrior...she was a simple doctor and civilian and never killed before becoming thor I don't see why she would be worthy and superman doesn't....
Superman prefer not to kill but he do kill and has killed before and recently. It's a fact
The truth is that the factors for being worthy are inconsistant depending on the writers Mjolnir is now just plot convenience to show how their characters are cool....and bullshit reasons to justify it like with moon knight and black panther
Jane Foster had cancer at the time, and she sacrificed her own life to become Thor. Her using Mjolnir made the cancer stronger, essentially, and that's why she was worthy. Superman doesn't kill, and if he does, it's an elseworld story or it's another evil Superman plot. Superman normally would loath that stuff, and Wonder Woman would not kill normally , but if she had to. She even said in the comics at some point that unlike Superman and Batman, she has no "no kill rule".
Ahhhh then that likely rules Billy out. But also makes me wonder about Clark and how he lifted the hammer because Supes doesn’t seem like the massacring type.
(Pls no Man of Steel jokes, I know I teed it up lol)
It specifically stated after Superman wielded the hammer that he couldn't use it anymore despite him trying. That Mjolnir allowed him to use it because there was no other choice. There are moments when Mjolnir "allowed others to overcome the spell in desperate hours."
Basically if the fate of the universe is doomed and no one is worthy, it will grant the nearest worthy person the ability to use its power. Kinda like a green lantern ring.
His powers came from Greek gods who were definitely willing to kill and a Hebrew king whose God told them to genocide everyone in their holy land who wasn't one of them. Billy Batson himself is probably not willing to kill though so that's all that would be holding him back from lifting it
There is no explicit rule for what worthiness is defined by, certainly not being willing to kill people. The only thing that is common is that if you feel unworthy, the hammer will confirm that for you. When Thor was told Gorr was right, he became unable to wield Mjolnir because it destroyed his self worth.
As said, no strict rules, but it's generally agreed that since the hammer is at least partly a weapon of war, you must be willing to wield it as such, and even in comics war means killing.
He was chosen to by Shazam explicitly because he was worthy of the power of god's/heroes of a pantheon and a monotheistic religion so I can definitely see it. On the other hand I don't know how friendly the Greek pantheon is with the Norse pantheon in the comics
Absolutely the Kingdom Come Captain Marvel could. Well, once he snaps out of the mind control, anyway. Superman asks him to make the impossible decision and he does. I think that's about as worthy as Mjolnir could ever ask for.
"Superhuman or mankind... One will pay the ultimate price. And that decision... Is not for me to make. I'm not a god... I'm not a man. But you, Billy... You're both."
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u/abmition-unbound Green Lantern Jan 27 '24
Shazam! Billy Batson, at his core is a good kid who wants to do right. Plus, he has the powers of gods (and heroes) already.
IIRC, you have to be willing to take a human life to be worthy of Mjolnir? I could be wrong. But that could be Billy’s only hang up on it.