Before I give my opinion and analysis, for the record, it's pleasant to see some actual effort put into this, even if it is towards a misguided perspective on Thor's combat speed and reaction times.
Probably Thor highest reaction feat, Ego comes by Thor while Ego is flying in space at MFTL speeds (hyperspace) and Thor chases after him, very clear cut.
Yes I do believe it is very clear cut. A clear cut travel speed feat that is. How can this be related to Thor's combat speed when Thor isn't even travelling, reacting or operating at these supposed MFTL speeds, Mjolnir is. And Mjolnir does not act this way in combat speed when Thor uses it either.
So first we have Quicksilver rather easily dodging Thors lightning the Thor hitting him with a small AoE attack. What this is implies is that Thor can doe AoEs faster than lighting...however some things to note, Thor appears to be leaping during his lighting blast suggesting it was just a diversion to open QS up for a attack so thats a possibility, but nothing really concrete.
I fail to see how this is even remotely close to a faster than lightning feat in the slightest. Quicksilver clearly dodges Thor's lightning bolt casually commenting on how easily he can outrun lightning. Thor took advantage of this cockiness and slams the ground with an AOE ground pound to stop Quicksilver from avoiding him any longer. Quicksilver is much faster than Thor but he's not invulnerable to shockwaves nor can he run on ground that's been smashed. This isn't nearly as impressive as feats such as Hulk directly tagging Pietro with a backhand whilst Pietro is running to attack him.
Here we have Thor bullrushing DS Sentry, however it is to note Thor had just hit him with a Omnidirectional lighting blast so he was probably phased so nothing to suggest he could do this again without stunning Sentry again.
The very context you admit defeats the point of this scan, DS Sentry had just been hit by Thor's lightning and was vulnerable to an attack from Thor. And secondly this is Thor being pulled along by Mjolnir again, not Thor moving at said speeds himself.
Why is this a "high" showing you may ask? Well because Iron Mans blasts are light speed...
And you can see Thor deflecting one. If it was a block or dodge you could suggest Thor was reacting to Tonys aim, but Thor deflected it which is pure reacting to the blast itself.
Well then I guess by that logic Ian Zola, Captain America's adopted son from Dimension Z, has about 4-5 times FTL reaction times considering he dodged half a dozen repulser blasts from Iron Man. Plus, I believe Thor is knocking away a blitzing Iron Man in that scan, not reacting to the repulser beams. When Iron Man shoots repulsers at Thor, he just shrugs them off.
This scan shows Thor moving like a blur and speeding past Silver Surfer who has MFTL combat speed, this can suggest 2 things, 1 that Thor can bull rush so fast not even Silver Surfer can react to it or 2 he simply tricked Silver Surfer who thought they were just gonna kamikaze each other.
Unfortunately for the few nanosecond reaction time feats Surfer has, he's been caught off guard and unable to react to street levellers too. He's definitely faster and quicker to react than Thor to be sure but he has inconsistencies in his feats as well. As for this explanation, it's clearly the second explanation. Surfer thought Thor was flying towards him but Thor went for Galactus' head instead which caught Surfer by surprise. Not Thor's speed itself, which again was travel speed and performed by Mjolnir.
Here Thor is fast enough to land a punch in a couple of microseconds then catch Mjolnir. This suggest he can fight in microseconds. This is one scan I dont get why it causes so many on the defensive when Iron Fist is also stated to have Microsecond combat speed
Because it demonstrates how Thor's speed feats can be replicated by street levellers thus placing him squarely in that category of speed and reactions. Thor has moved almost faster than the eye can see whereas Wolverine has moved faster than the eye can see speeds. Thor has deflected a sniper bullet in an Inhumans comic (couldn't block them all though) whilst Daredevil has batted bullets out of the air with his batons. Plenty of Thor's speed feats have street levellers replicating them. Moreover, this is a classic scan which is outdated and inconsistent with Thor's more recent speed feats.
This scan shows Hyperion bullrushing Thor then being swatted away, however it is to note Hyperion was able to actually make contact with Thor before Thor swatted him away. This is honestly a better durability scan than a combat speed scan considering Hyperion barely hurt Thor at all.
I agree, it's exactly a durability feat. It doesn't count as a showing of reacting to an opponent if the opponent has already landed hits on you, just as Hyperion had already blitzed Thor before Thor landed his blow on him.
Here we have a Warrior Madness Thor beating up Silver Surfer and Adam Warlock and Warlock commenting that he moves like the lightning he commands. However this is a amped Thor so we dont know if Thors combat speed got increased or not.
Technically, it wasn't true Warrior's Madness according to Dr Strange, Silver Surfer and Odin. But Thor's showings in Blood and Thunder have not been replicated in his other earlier and subsequent comics. Not to mention that Adam Warlock is not a qualified judge on speed compared to someone like Jay Garrick admitting that Superman is his equal in speed. This feat is again not mirrored across the board.
Here we have a manipulated Wolverine vs a holding back Thor, in these scans Wolverine is dodging Thors strikes, but Thor grabs Wolverines leg and tosses him, Wolverine even comments on how Sabretooth (who he thought was Thor) had "traded speed for strength". Then Thor uses a AoE to knock down Wolverine. The statement where Thor thinks "he is faster than I-" is probably not Thor admitting Wolverine is faster than him considering the previous thought where it was clear Wolverine interrupted him when he thought "he dodges my fiercest blows with the ease of a-".
Just because Thor was holding back doesn't make his shoddy speed showings any less relevant. One leg toss doesn't make up for Wolverine landing 2 square claw strikes on Thor and if you take into account Logan's speed feats compared to Thor's, he would have landed more had the battle continued longer. Even if Thor was just thinking "he is faster than I thought" that does not excuse how badly Thor got shown up in the speed department to the point that Thor had to rely on AOE and lightning attacks to tag Wolverine. It's evident Wolverine was faster than Thor in that fight, raw power and weather manipulation saved Thor from being turned into Logan's scratching post.
Here we have Mongoose avoiding Thor and moving around him, however people ignore that Thor did a rapid span and tagged him plus was keeping pace. However this scan is from Tom Defalcos run which had a lot of inconsistencies such as Thor struggling to hold up a incomplete skyscraper (in the same issue with Mongoose in fact)
You seem to be ignoring that Thor explicitly said "My mystic mallet can attain velocities which are beyond your ability to grasp." It's Mjolnir which spun that fast, not Thor. So it's not ignorance of Thor's spinning which needs to be addressed, it's those who believe Thor was doing the spinning. Whenever Thor tried to tag Mongoose himself, he failed to come close to hitting him. What makes this showing worse is that Mongoose wasn't able to tag Spider-Man either and had to resort to using gas grenades to catch Spidey out. Furthermore, just because DeFalco's depiction of Thor's power level is inconsistent with other showings of Thor's physicals, it does not mean that DeFalco's treatment of Thor's speed is inaccurate. Especially when you compare Thor's history of speed showings. Thus, the Mongoose showings should wholly not be disregarded simply because other aspects of Thor's power level aren't the same as they are now.
Here we have Thunderstrike (not actual Thor) struggling with a exercise about "combat instincts" and reflexes" and Cap comments that Thor had problems as well. This is Thunderstrike who Thor is superior to in combat speed
This was Masterson with Thor's power, not as Thunderstrike. Masterson took on Gladiator, Ronan and even Thanos with the Infinity Gauntlet in his tenure as Thor. Though one can argue Masterson's showings should be discarded, people are all too eager to point out how Masterson beat Gladiator when they want to show feats of Thor's power. Masterson was supposed to possess all of Thor's powers and that includes his low level speed too. Even with Thor as Eric's superior, that's not saying much considering how poor of a standard Masterson set for combat speed.
And another thing to note is that Thor had problems with it, which could mean he still does, trained and its no longer a problem, or he struggled for another reason.
Considering this instance has never been explored since, I doubt there's any point speculating over how Thor did on this particular training exercise. But I doubt Thor struggled because of another reason or that he's surpassed this exercise's difficulty.
Some of you may have seen me post this analogy, but i view Thor the same I view a baseball player, he cant move like what hes trying to hit, but he can react and hit it.
Forgive my usual scepticism but I doubt this analogy has the effect you claim it does. Considering that Thor has trouble hitting other baseball players whom he surpasses in raw strength and power yet cannot land consequent hits on them, that undermines your analogy about Thor's combat speed just to give you something I thought of whilst writing this.
but here is what people miss in the "high" & "low" showings....in Thors "high" showings you usually see him flying meanwhile in the low showings you see him "grounded", so what does that mean?
As I'm probably one of those people you refer to, I can assure you I'm missing nothing about the discrepancies between Thor's high and low showings of speed.
While flying Thors combat speed is greatly boosted due to Mjolnirs speed and momentum which allows him to bull rush at FTL speeds
I do not believe to be true, there is no concrete, consistent or empirical proof that Mjolnir boosts Thor's combat speed. It's Mjolnir that does all the work in your examples and others cited by the defenders of Thor's speed despite not realising what they post. Mjolnir allows him to travel at FTL speeds and those bullrushes are all performed by Mjolnir, not Thor himself. It's pulling him along for the ride and we don't see Thor blitz multiple targets, dodge incredibly fast attacks or perform reaction times in an actual combat scenario. Getting pulled along at FTL speeds is not something which can be applied to a combat scenario. For that to happen, we'd need feats of this happening, of which there are none.
however without it hes not very agile and cant go after anyone of significant speed as shown in the Wolverine scan.
As explained above, this is Thor's normal combat speed regardless of whether he's holding onto the hammer or not. It's just abundantly clear in those scans how fast Thor can move and react, whereas the window of interpretation for Thor's supposed combat speed can germinate like a bad weed.
That does not mean anyone with super speed can "blitz him" as he has the reflexes to react to things that are lightspeed+ as shown in the Ego and Iron Man scan
I'm afraid it does for me, considering that an Odin Force powered Thor still struggled to directly tag Captain America who was able to dance around several of his blows, that Ian Zola was able to dodge a thrown Mjolnir, manaeveur himself behind Thor and leave the "clumsy blowhard" behind him, where another god, a servant of Mikaboshi in Thor Blood Oath #5 was able to hit and stab Thor easily calling him as slow as clouds, where White Tiger was able to land 2 claw strikes on Thor during a Mighty Avengers tie in to Axis, and when Angela was able to also dodge Thor's throw from Mjolnir and outclass him terribly in their first fight by blitzing him into submission.
When people mention the "low showings" they forget that is a grounded Thor whos not flying while the people using the "high" showings forget thats a flying Thor.
The low showings are in reality the consistent showings and there is no proof Thor's combat and reaction speed gets any greater whilst using Mjolnir, nor is there proof Thor has utilised this tactic in character and on panel against the vastly faster opponents he's placed against on the battle forums.
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