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#1  Edited By El_Nastro

By the way, it's really hard to find halfway cool images of non-MU Thor.  
 
I especially liked this one:     

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 Other than the Autobot belt-buckle, pretty cool. 
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What with the new movie coming out, I thought it would be fun to mainly compare/contrast the differences between the two. (& of course argue that Marvel Thor would get his tights-wearing ass creamed :) ) 
 
First, the look: 
 
Being that he's a character of the oral tradition, myth, & folklore, we don't have a lot to go on with regards to exactly how Trad. Thor is "supposed" to look, but we know he's a Viking God, so: 

  •  he doesn't wear tights. 
  • he doesn't wear aerobic wristbands
  • he doesn't have those goofy circles on his torso
  • he doesn't shave (or wax his chest, which I suspect MU Thor does. Often)
  •  he's got red hair
  • he probably adorns himself in various armors and hides
 
MU Thor looks like, well....this: 
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  Powers: 
 
Trad. Thor: 
  • Absurdely mighty. Was tossing around bundles of bear-skins as a baby. Lifted the Midgard Serpent. Severely damages mountains, wrestles abstract concepts like old age, eats entire oxen, and gets thirsty enough to lower the ocean's water level by a couple inches.
MU Thor: 
  • Can lift about 100 tons.
  • damage resistant (can take a punch by the Hulk and not die)
 
Gear: 
Trad Thor's stuff: 
  • Mjolnir - forged by the greatest smith in all of Svartlheim, it never misses it's target, magically returns to Thor's hand, and destroys anything it hits. So heavy that only Thor is strong enough to lift it, let alone wield it. Also, it brings goats back from the dead (see below).
  • Meginjarder - Belt of strength - doubles Thor's already ridiculous strength
  • Jarngrieper - Metal glove (or pair of gloves..no one's sure). Magic metal gloves that let Thor handle Mjolnir
  • Tanngrisner & Tanngjost - Thor's mean-ass magic goats. Magic. Goats. They pull his chariot. He can kill them, eat them, then resurrect them by waving Mjolnir over their slaughtered remains. 
 
 MU Thor's stuff: 
  • Mjolnir - made by MU Odin. Let's Thor fly, shoots magic energy, controls the weather, opens doors to other dimensions, and seems to have whatever magic power the plot finds handy. One thing MU Thor's hammer does not do: not fail to destroy anything it hits. 
  • Belt of strength - double's Thor's strength, but leaves him weakened after he removes it.
  • aerobic wristbands
  • tights with goofy circles on the torso
  • a fabulous cape
  • long, flowing, beautifully brushed cornsilk blond hair
  • magical chest wax
 
Other miscelanneous differences: 
  • Loki is MU Thor's stepbrother. He's not Trad Thor's stepbrother - Trad Loki is Odin's blood-brother. And Trad Loki & Thor weren't mortal enemies...they wen't on all sorts of adventures together. Later on though, Trad Loki turned straigh-up evil...at first he was just kind of a smartass & a bit of a prick.
  • MU Thor was sent to Earth so he could learn humility, because he was too arrogant. The Trad. Norse gods wouldn't understand the concept of "Humility-As-A-Virtue" at all.  Trad Thor isn't humble & see's no reason he should be. None of the other gods would expect him to humble, & it would never occur to any of them to banish him because he's "too arrogant".
  • MU Thor inexplicably speaks Elizabethan English. Trad Thor speaks all languages.
  • Trad Thor loves drinking, fighting, killing, eating, carousing, and wenching. MU Thor...not so much.
 
So...in a contest betwixt the two, there's really no contest. Trad Thor simply kills MU Thor. We know this would happen because Trad Thor kills stuff all the time, and has no problem with it whatsoever. MU Thor has his MU-Superhero-Avengers problem with killing, and MU Thor's hammer doesn't seem particularly lethal anyway - for the most part it tends to knock his enemies back & cause them to crash through a wall or something. Trad Thor's hammer straight up kills stuff. All the time. Oh, and Trad Thor is waaaay stronger. He's ridiculously strong...he's like SA Superman-level strong. MU Thor can lift 100 tons. Trad Thor eats 100 tons of oxen for breakfast (literally...he really does this.) 
 
But none of that really matters. The assertion, "Trad Thor effortlessly murders MU Thor" really needs no more argumentation than this: Look at them. Just....look at them: 
 
MU Thor: 

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versus:  
 
 

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#4  Edited By El_Nastro

Damn images won't work. Let's try this again. 
 
*ahem* 
 
Traditional, mythologic Thor: 
    

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#5  Edited By El_Nastro

Traditional, mythologic Thor...before Jack Kirby put the Chippendale-spin on him: 
 
       
 
    
  
 
  
vs. this guy:  
       

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#6  Edited By El_Nastro

I likes me some vs.-threads, so here's my take: 
 
First: The entire point of Galactus, conceptually, is that he's completely invincible, aside from 2 things:  
 
1. Starvation 
 
2. The Ultimate Nullifier.  
 
Other than that, the whole dramatic point of Galactus is that he's the ULTIMATE THREAT. He can't be defeated in any sort of straight fight, & if he shows up, your entire planet is doomed. Read again: your entire planet is gone. And he's not going to conquer it a la Dr. Doom or Lex Luthor...he's not going to enslave the population, or steal all the gold in the world....he's going to completely physically devour & destroy the entire world, and there's only 1 thing in the entire universe that can stop him: the Ultimate Nullifier.  
 
Again, the point of Galactus is to provide the Hero with the ULTIMATE THREAT. At least that was his function originally. Over the years, however, it seems that Galactus, and the threat-level he represents has been gradually depowered at about the same rate Wolverine's invincibility has increased. 
 
So, when thinking about Superman vs. Galactus, we have to decide which version of Galactus is Supes going up against? If it's Galactus as originally conceived, then Supes has to do what the FF did - go get the Ultimate Nullifer & shove it in his face. Otherwise, there is absolutely nothing Supes can do to him, while Galactus can do anything he wants to Superman...de-power him, blast him with kryptonite radiation, blast him with red-sun radiation & forget about him....basically anything. And it doesn't matter which version of Superman we pick, either - Galactus will always be totally & completely un-harmable by anything except the Ultimate Nullifier, because that's the essence of the character. As powerful as Superman is, Galactus....well....he's Galactus. 
 
(by the way, it's fun to take note that while Superman's only weakness is a substance (kryptonite), the Big G's only weakness is one specific object (the Ultimate Nullifier).  
 
If , on the other hand, we pick a later, de-powered version of Galactus, then I suppose it's anyone's game. Note that if we pick a version of Galactus that Superman actually has a chance against, then we're talking about a universe wherein Wolverine probably represents a bigger threat to Superman than Galactus does.