Thor Lightning

He's Impressively Resilient

Having the strength to battle the Hulk and come out on top is one thing, but being able to take a prolonged beating from the green giant (who also has a rather low opinion of “puny” deities) is another.

Thankfully, the immense power of Thor’s body is coupled with extreme resistance to damage.

On a human level, Thor’s Asgardian physiology is utterly resistant and immune to such trivialities like poison, illness, fire, viruses, freezing temperatures and, of course, lightning.

In the movie, we’ve seen him get brutalized by the aforementioned Hulk, resist the direct sunlight and radiation from a star, and also take blasts from the Destroyer head-on, but in the comics, his list of survivable events are on an entirely different tier.

He’s been hit by a planet-destroying Doomsday Bomb, assaults from the uber-powerful Celestials, has been crushed under the weight of planets and, even with his powers reduced to half, was able to live through a hit from the Bloodaxe.

Thor is a 2011 superhero film, based on the Marvel Comics superhero of the same name. It is the fourth film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, and the fourth installment of Phase One. The film was released on April 27, 2011, internationally and on May 6, 2011, in the United States.

The film is directed by Kenneth Branagh and stars Chris Hemsworth as Thor, Natalie Portman as Jane Foster, Tom Hiddleston as Loki, Stellan Skarsgård as Erik Selvig, Colm Feore as Laufey, Ray Stevenson as Volstagg, Idris Elba as Heimdall, Kat Dennings as Darcy Lewis with Rene Russo as Fr**ga, and Anthony Hopkins as Odin.

The film spawned three sequels: Thor: The Dark World in 2013, Thor: Ragnarok in 2017, and Thor: Love and Thunder in 2022.

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Thor (2011)
To technically get your first taste of the MCU's Thor story, you can watch Iron Man 2 just to check out the credits scene, which features Agent Phil Coulson (Clark Gregg) coming across Thor's hammer, Mjolnir, in New Mexico. But you can get the gist of that by just hitting play on the very first Thor movie, which was directed by Kenneth Branagh and released all the way back in 2011.