@thorverine: Really you know for certain that it's a magic enchantment? All evidence points to the asgardians being high tech aliens, not magic gods. The enchantment you saw was more like a voice activated encryption that manipulates the hammers density based on a predetermined algorithm that scans the user to determine worth. Worth which is never explained and could be something as simple as direct blood of Odin. This theory why thor had to be mortal to not lift the hammer, and when Odin determined thor had learned his lesson and restored his godhood the hammer was sent back to him. If you recall thor didn't just lift the hammer, the hammer was sent to him. Unless you believe it has a mind of its own and seeks out the worthy like a green Lantern power ring. Vision can lift the hammer because he is not biological, and as such whatever encryption prevents mortals from manipulating it does not activate when vision holds it. The base weight of the hammer is what precluded the truck from moving it and from iron man and war machines hand gauntlet alone being able to lift it.
And while there are holes in this argument. If the hammer is that heavy in its base form than it would damage whatever surface it is placed on, this can be explained through practical plot purposes.
They went through great lengths to have the asgardians not be magical gods, it would seem counter to that to have the only aspect of magic be the enchanted hammer. It is often shown that thor requires to charge the hammer with electricity from the sky, which runs counter to the magic nature of thor from the comics.
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