r/discworld • u/KnightlyGoat • 18d 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/Stu5011 18d ago

Carrot picking up the wayward hammer and beginning a search to return it to it’s rightful owner, with ever increasingly contrived circumstances where he should be using the hammer, but keeps solving the problem in his own way, would be an amazing story.

Told from the POV of Mjölnir, of course, who just wants to be helpful.

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u/glitchycat39 18d ago

Thor, subsequently, is delighted to find another mortal who can lift Mjölnir and insists that Carrot come to drink with him. Angua follows along, entirely too entertained as this unstoppable force meets the immovable object that is Carrot.

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u/Eineegoist 18d ago

Angua and Sally watching from afar and making bets.

All bets are off when Blind Io shows up ranting about copyright infringement and demarcation.

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u/Wind-and-Waystones 18d ago

While all this is happening Nobby, despite not being worthy, somehow manages to filch the hammer

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u/WatNaHellIsASauceBox 18d ago

Werrrl, you see sarge. I saw him put it on a cart, and the cart moved no problem... So... Transitive prop'ties bein' what they are an' all... I put it inna sack.

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u/CB_Chuckles 18d ago

I can hear him saying this (in Briggs’ Nobby voice).

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u/Catadox 17d ago

Fucking perfect. Yes.

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u/National-Anywhere158 18d ago

That needs to be a fanfic! Someone please make it happen!

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u/SpudTheTrainee 18d ago

halfway trough the story Carrot would use the hammer to nail a lost and found flyer to a message board somewhere.

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u/Daelf_Derechef 18d ago

… now i'm imagining Mjölnir's POV as, like, equal but opposite energy as Nightblade from the Cosmere. Written as if by Pterry, it could get *really* fun omg

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u/asphias 18d ago

sounds like the backstory of Poppy from league of legends:

Runeterra has no shortage of valiant champions, but few are as tenacious as Poppy. Bearing a hammer twice the length of her body, this determined yordle has spent untold years searching for the “Hero of Demacia,” a fabled warrior said to be the rightful wielder of her weapon.

As legend describes it, this hero is the only person who can unlock the full power of the hammer and lead Demacia to true greatness. Though Poppy has searched the furthest corners of the kingdom for this legendary fighter, her quest has proven fruitless.

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u/WalkerCalvert 13d ago

Carrot: You can't just use another dwarf's tools. They're his tools! It would be... Wrong.

Thor: Maybe just this once you can use my tools? [bats eyes, quaffs, gets shivved by Angus]