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He did at one point but I don't think he wielded it so much as he just got really pancaked, picked it up and lobbed it.

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Thor #390 was the issue. Agents of Seth the Egyptian god of death attacked THOR on Earth at Avengers HQ. Steve Rogers was there in his identity of "The Captain" since he had recently been forced to step aside as Captain America.

They fought the invading army together and were winning until THOR was separated from his hammer. The leader of the invaders of course tries to lift it and can't so he starts blasting THOR and is hurting him badly. Cap knows THOR needs his hammer and reaches for it wondering how if the other guy couldn't lift it then how could he lift it but still was determined to try. As he reaches for it he gets dogpiled but then comes up swinging the hammer and knocks the enemies away from him. He feels the power of the hammer but realizes it is meant for THOR and throws it to THOR. THOR was relieved to have his hammer returned but also surprised and greatly impressed that Cap was able to wield the hammer. His already great respect for Cap increased considerably.

In the last issue of Fear Itself, THOR is fighting the Serpent using Odin's armor, the Odinsword and his hammer. He gets separated from his hammer which crash-lands near Cap. The civilians and the heroes are all worn out and some feel defeat is inevitable, but Cap just tells the civilians that today they are all Avengers and picks up the hammer and yells Avengers Assemble! Cap then used the hammer in battle against Red Skull's hammer empowered daughter, Sin. Cap kept the hammer with him after the battle was done until THOR's memorial when he returned the hammer to him.

Steve Rogers is the only hero on Earth that is confirmed as being able to wield Mjolnir.

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I don't think he has ever tried to but there have been so many issues over so many years that I cannot recall if he ever tried to lift the hammer of THOR.

Beta Ray Bill is worthy

Don Blake has his unique link/merged relationship with THOR

Eric Masteron may not have been worthy at first but eventually proved himself worthy before and after he was merged with THOR, and later took over for THOR when THOR was "exiled". After THOR's return he entrusted Mjolnir to Eric so that he could defend Earth while THOR retired to Asgard.

Dargo K'tor: an alternate future human who was deemed worthy. The THOR cult he was part of kept hoping for one to come and claim the hammer and fight the evil corporation, Dargo's attitude was that they didn't need some stupid hammer and that humans should fight their fights themselves. Loki's forces attacked to claim the hammer and Dargo instinctively reached for a weapon and grabbed the hammer without realizing it and was transformed.

Steve Rogers, the original Captain America has wielded the hammer twice. Granted both times were emergency situations but still he is worthy of the power of Mjolnir.

I know of no one else as being confirmed as being worthy of the hammer.

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Wikipedia adds Spider-Man 2099 to that list. There are also some non-canon examples, including Rogue (after absorbing Thor's power), Superman and Wonder Woman (in a DC/Marvel crossover). There are also a ton of androids in the Silver Age who were able to lift the hammer after imitating Thor...but the Silver Age was a strange time.

Ah but an android or robot isn't classified as a living being in the eyes of ODIN who enchanted the hammer. A robot CAN lift the hammer but not receive its power.

The Asgardian robot/construct the DESTROYER has picked up the hammer (and also damaged it once)

The robot Air Walker, herald of Galactus also.

Thus by such a defintion, the android Human Torch, the Vision, and Machine Man could also lift the hammer but not gain its power.

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I think that was an Xmen annual or something, can't be sure. However it was at the time that Storm was stripped of her mutant powers and I think it was Loki that approached her with a hammer that he had created to be similar to Thor's. It was not Mjolnir.

When Marvel and DC did the whole Amalgam thing, as I recall Thor was beaten and his hammer was on the ground and Wonder Woman was able to wield it and she fought Storm.

In the JLA/Avengers, towards the end THOR tossed the hammer to Superman who wielded it in the final fight and after the fight was done the hammer was on the ground. Superman went to get it for THOR and couldn't budge it. THOR picked it up and stated that ODIN has a provision in the enchantments that in times of great need or something like that, THOR can allow another to wield the hammer if necessary. He assured Superman that he was a good wielder of the hammer. The fact that Superman couldn't normally pick it up I thought was a bit surprising, but then again its never been disclosed what criteria makes someone "Worthy". Perhaps the hammer sensed Superman had too much power already and thus was unworthy of the hammer? Just a thought.

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Yeah that sounds familiar. I'm sure that's what I was thinking of. There is a What If..? that examines what would have happened if Storm and some of the other X-Men characters had stayed in Asgard after all that happened, which I read, but I don't know if I ever actually read the original story it was based on.

I think that may have been the strange Amalgam universe.

No I don't think so. I never read any of that stuff. Read the rest of the thread after the post you quoted...