It could at least give you the right to rename it to “The Hammer of Excalibur”.

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    The sword in the stone was not Excalibur. Excalibur was given to Arthur by the Lady in the Lake after the sword in the stone was broken during a duel.

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    Sounds like the kind of chenanigans a tabletop rpg party would come up.

    And then the dm lets out a deep sigh, starts going through his notes and decides all his prep work is out of the window (again) so now a random angry mob of high level ogres appears.

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    There was a 2 part TV movie called Merlin staring Sam Neil and in that retelling the stone was actually the hand of a rock giant who held the sword until Merlin told the giant to let go.

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    The stone is but the tip of a buried house-size boulder, which you would be standing on, and therefore unable to lift no matter how strong.

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    I think I’ve seen a webcomic featuring a big dumb barbarian wielding a boulder on a sword like this. The sword was sentient and very frustrated by its predicament. It might have eventually warmed up to the barbarian or guided him through honorable deeds.

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    I think it was castlevania that had a weapon that was Excalibur with the stone still attached and you could swing it like a regular weapon haha

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      Well, more like; if Mjolnir is inside box, would The Hulk be able to lift the box?

      If Mjolnir was on a spaceship, abd someone is flying the spaceship who isn’t Thor… Does the spaceship move the hammer?

      Tony Stark in the MCU posited the question in relation to Vision; “If you place the hammer in an elevator, and the elevator goes up, does that mean the elevator is worthy?”

      It didn’t receive an answer.

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        Tony Stark in the MCU posited the question in relation to Vision; “If you place the hammer in an elevator, and the elevator goes up, does that mean the elevator is worthy?”

        That was a genuinely hilarious moment. Honestly, I love it when super heroes acknowledge that some of their shit makes absolutely no sense.