DEADPOOL

Friday, November 6, 2026Earth-616 canonDeadpool Vol. 2 #37 (2000)

Today's Fact

For one glorious afternoon Wade Wilson was the God of Thunder. The invoice for that afternoon reads: one forged hammer, one hidden original, one extremely smug trickster.

DEADPOOL LIFTED MJOLNIR AND BECAME THOR — UNTIL THE TRUTH CAME OUT: LOKI HAD FORGED THE HAMMER AND HIDDEN THE REAL ONE!
The Featured Fact

The con began with family. Loki, disguised as a scientist, convinced Deadpool that the God of Mischief was his long-lost father — and that Wade's birthright was a place in the Asgardian pantheon, starting with Thor's hammer. In Deadpool Vol. 2 #37 (2000), Wade helped spring the trap: Thor was separated from Mjolnir past the sixty-second limit, reverted to mortal paramedic Jake Olsen, and Deadpool scooped the hammer off the ground.

Lightning answered. Wade transformed into a caped, wing-helmeted Thor and spent his godhood exactly as responsibly as anyone predicted — carnival strength games, a baseball stunt, and announcing himself to a deeply unconvinced Justice. Meanwhile Olsen could not understand why the hammer in his hands would not make him Thor, because it was not a hammer problem at all: Loki had concealed the real Mjolnir and let Wade carry a working forgery.

Wade turned on his supposed father, rescued Olsen and Lady Death, and asked the question that ends every Deadpool story worth telling: could he keep it? Thor answered by pounding him with both hammers. Wade's worthiness was never tested that day — only his gullibility, which failed at god level.

Why It's Obscure

Mjolnir stories are usually about worthiness. Wade's is about provenance — the only man ever fooled into a Thor transformation by a counterfeit.

The pitch
Daddy issues, Asgardian scale — Loki's disguise came with a paternity claim, because Deadpool is the one mercenary alive who might believe a god owed him back allowance.
The sixty seconds
A trap built on a technicality — Thor's enchantment reverted him to Jake Olsen when parted from Mjolnir too long; the whole scheme ran on that countdown.
The forgery
Uru, allegedly — Thor later reckoned the fake was a genuine-uru counterfeit spelled to fly and spark like the original — craftsmanship wasted on a man who used it for carnival games.
The exit fee
Beaten with both hammers — Real Mjolnir recovered, disguise dropped, Wade asked to keep the fake; Thor's refusal was delivered at hammer speed, twice over.

Sources

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Bullpen Bulletins

  1. How Deadpool Lifted Thor's Hammer — CBR CBR's account of Deadpool #37 confirms Loki forged a fake Mjolnir, disguised the real one, and Deadpool's Thor transformation was the trick working as designed.
  2. Deadpool (2nd series) #37 — issue synopsis The detailed issue synopsis walks through the trap, Wade's transformation, and Thor's revelation that the hammer was a forgery possibly wrought from genuine uru.