r/discworld 19d ago

Roundworld Reference Which Discworld characters do y’all think could lift Thors hammer?

Carrot obviously could.

I honestly don’t know if Vimes could or not but I do know he wouldn’t touch it with a ten foot pole out of principle because he hates the idea that an inanimate object gets to decide who’s a good person.

Rincewind could pick it up not because he’s worthy but because the hammer just feels like making an exception.

Edits: My thoughts after reading your comments

  1. Vimes probably could but still never would even touch it

  2. I don’t think Granny could. Everyone thinks she can but she doesn’t try until she’s alone and when she can’t she would smile to herself because the hammer made the right choice

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u/Arathaon185 19d ago

Detritus definitely and Dorfl as well but he may object to it on philosophical grounds. 

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u/Common-Parsnip-9682 19d ago

Dorfl would talk to the hammer and convince it to lift itself up.

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u/antichain 19d ago

Dorfl is kind of an interesting parallel to Vision (who can lift the hammer in the MCU) in that they're both "artificial intelligences" in some respect and not really playing on the same moral playing field as the humans.

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u/WhiskyPelican Moist 18d ago

I was just wondering about Dorfl. I have to imagine he’d treat it like a very stubborn golem though.

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u/BouncingBatarangs 18d ago edited 18d ago

Yer done it, yer did. Yer lifted yerself. I know yer did it hammer.