thorkizilla:

So, I’m rewatching Avengers for the Thor scenes, as one does, and a thought occurred to me:

They made that cage for the Hulk.  They did their best to make it so that he couldn’t smash his way out of there when they dropped him out of the sky, they made that because they’re fucking terrified of the Hulk!

And with one strike of Mjolnir, Thor cracks that glass.  Yeah, he’s using a hammer to do it, not just his fists, but for all that it’s a magical hammer, it still only swings with the strength of the one wielding it.  And he cracked that fucker on the first swing.

Then, after Loki drops the cage, it spins like hell, it’s turning end over end and it’s not like there’s a whole lot of leverage that Thor himself doesn’t provide, but he still does it:

It’s not like he has a chance to stop that momentum, even if he breaks free of the cage, he’s still going pretty damn fast, he’s still hitting the ground hard enough to send up a massive spray of dirt considering the relative size of him.

He still managed to launch himself across the cage and break the window pretty much on the first try (when he’s falling, though, you could assume it might have been weakened by the one blow he did earlier) and he gets up looking like this:

Like, there’s barely a scratch on him.

Despite that he fell from a huge drop and was trapped in a cage made for the Hulk.

Now, you can argue (and I think I’d agree) that the cage wasn’t meant to contain the Hulk forever, it wasn’t meant to be able to hold him long-term. But it was meant to hold him for awhile, long enough to get him out of the way, and that means it was strong as hell.

And Thor broke through it in two swings of his hammer and came out of that fall just kind of smudged with dirt and maybe one abrasion on his face.

Seriously, Thor is durable and strong as hell on a level that’s kind of terrifying, if he weren’t constantly holding back on this fragile planet.  THIS IS WHY I LOVE THOR, look at what he can do and yet he’s not feared in the same way as the Hulk, because Thor actually does consider other people when he interacts with them.

That’s why he’s so dangerous in the beginning of the first Thor movie, why he’s just fucking wrecking shit on Jotunheim and, once he regains his true strength, you don’t really see that same kind of intense damage.  Thor very rarely shows off his true strength but, shit, it’s there.