Quote Originally Posted by The Cool Thatguy View Post
I'm not denying that it happened, I'm denying that it should have.

Think about it for a moment. The hammer basically legitimized his depression, his own opinion that he was worthless.

Is that really a good message for any story, that how you feel when depressed, is what you are actually worth?

That's setting aside the fact that Gorr's opinion amounts to racism (against an entirely fictional people who aren't a metaphor for anything, so not exactly super terrible) being legitimized.
Well wasn’t the story more ultimately Thor realising he is worth more than that? It just took him the long way round to get there.

I see what you’re saying, of course. But it’s the story Aaron had and he told it.