Captain America's Daughter Was Worthy of Mjolnir 20 Years Before Endgame
The moment when Captain America lifts Thor's hammer Mjolnir in Avengers: Endgame had theater audiences cheering, but comic fans saw Cap's daughter accomplish the same thing 20 years earlier. The Marvel Comics series What If…?has always been a place to throw just about any narrative concept at the wall. Such was the case in the 1998 story "Secret Wars: 25 Years Later" from What If...? #114 by Jay Faerber and Gregg Schigiel, which shook up a medley of popular Marvel heroes in a baby-making blender and composed a team from their offspring. Some of these pairings made more sense than others, and the oddest had to be the union between Steve Rogers and Rogue of the X-Men, whose daughter Sarah, a.k.a “Crusader”, proved worthy of lifting Mjolnirdecades before the Russo Brothers had her father do it in Avengers: Endgame.
The conceit of the story is pretty simple: Victor Von Doom has a rebellious young son called Malefactor, whose ambition overleaps itself and sets him down a power-hungry path of domination. This leads him afoul of the proto-Young Avengersgroup that includes his half-brother Balder, the somewhat insecure son of Thor. Their climactic confrontation seems one-sided until a familiar weapon comes hurtling through the walls of Castle Doom and returns to the hand of Sarah Rogers, who stands proudly wielding Mjolnir when Balder could not. But before she gets a chance to use it, Doctor Doom returns and teleports his disobedient child away.
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Precisely what determines “worthiness” as Mjolnir’s prerequisite for being moved has long been a subject of debate among comic fans and even characters themselves. The Uru hammer was originally created by Odin’s demand as
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