Thor Screenwriter Declares a Flash Character Worthy of Lifting Mjolnir - CBR - Comic Book Resources

According to Zack Stentz, who has served as a screenwriter for both The CW's The Flash and 2011's Thor, there is one character from the Arrowverse who would be worthy of wielding Mjolnir.

Stentz responded to comics creator David Atchison on Twitter, who claimed that Joe West, played by actor Jesse L. Martin on The CW's The Flash series, would be able to lift Thor's hammer. "As I believe the only person who's written for both Thor and the Jesse Martin Joe West, I declare this to be canonically accurate," Stentz said.

Stentz wrote the screenplay for 2011's Thor, along with Ashley Edward Miller and Don Payne, and served as a consulting producer and screenwriter on The Flash during its third season. As Atchison said in a subsequent tweet, "Characters in superhero narratives like Joe West tend to impart the morals/insights one needs to lift the Mjölnirs out there. Joe West, Ben Parker, Dr. Lesli Thompkins, Ho Yinsen - they be worthy."

The character Joe West has been a fixture on The Flash throughout its eight-season run. A character created for the show, Joe is the father of Iris West and a Central City police detective. West investigated the murder of Barry Allen's mother Nora, a crime committed by the Reverse Flash, who framed Barry's father, Henry, for the crime. With one parent dead and another in prison, Barry would have gone into foster care, but West took him in and raised him as his own. Years later, an adult Barry became The Flash after the STAR Labs particle accelerator exploded, granting him the power of speed. West then became a father figure and mentor for Team Flash and, along with being Barry Allen's adoptive father, became his father-in-law when he married Iris.

One example of West's authority is in The Flash's recently concluded "Armageddon" storyline in Season 8. Seemingly dead, Joe's absence is a wound in the heart of everyone on Team Flash, save for an unaware Barry, which leads him to unravel the mystery and find the true villain. After things are restored, West firmly set Barry and Iris straight when they contemplated letting the Reverse Flash die to avert the worldwide doom prophesied by Despero, reminding them that such an action is not the way of heroes.

"Let's just say that Joe is going to get an incredibly different perspective on life, and it's going to lead him to, I think, a really big choice," The Flash showrunner Eric Wallace said in a previous interview regarding Joe West's death. "Everybody seems to think the big choice he made was last year, to put down his badge, but there is a much bigger choice coming his way in Season 8 that takes the character down a path that he didn't know he was on, but that will feel like it's the place he always needed to go."

New episodes of The Flash will return after its midseason hiatus on March 6, 2022.

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