WARNING: The following contains spoilers for Captain Marvel #23 by Kelly Thompson, Lee Garbett, Belén Ortega, and Antonio Fabela, on sale now.

The most recent arc of Kelly Thompson's Captain Marvel finds the title hero finds the hero thrown into the future. Specifically, Carol finds herself thrown into the year 2052, in a post-apocalyptic world that has seen the death of many of her old friends and colleagues. Even so, Captain Marvel has still managed to find a group of allies in this new reality, including both old faces and new ones.

Specifically, Carol encounters the likes of Emma Frost, Luke Cage, and even the children of several of her former Avengers allies. One such Avengers child that Carol meets in this potential future is none other than Thor's daughter, Brigid, but is she a hero like her dad, and is she worthy of holding Mjolnir?

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In this dystopian timeline, Thor died while fighting the war against the apparent "alien" threat that killed most of the other Avengers. However, apparently before his death, he was able to leave behind a daughter. One would expect, therefore, that she would take up his heroic mantle and continue his fight. However, Brigid in her own words is "no hero." Carol, and the readers, are left to ponder what she means by this or why she would be so hesitant to offer Carol her help. This is especially the case since Emma Frost can apparently attest to her combat skills, saying "I've seen her in action. We want her." It's only later that we get a better picture of Brigid and why she thinks of herself as "no hero." Apparently, Mjolnir, Thor's famous hammer, the very instrument that grants its bearer the power of Thor, will not come to her. In other words, she is "unworthy" of the power of Thor. Nothing more is said on the matter, and perhaps nothing really needs to be said on the issue. It's not as if Brigid truly needs Mjolnir to be a powerful warrior or an asset to Carol's team. However, it's still worth asking: why has Mjolnir seemingly rejected her?

The fact that Mjolnir hasn't come to her yet isn't necessarily a rebuke of her or her character, nor are issues with Mjolnir anything new. After all, it wasn't too long ago that Thor Odinson himself was deemed unworthy. Toward the end of 2014's "Original Sin" by Jason Aaron and Mike Deodato, after a revelation by Nick Fury, Thor found himself completely unable to lift Mjolnir. In the aftermath of that event, Jane Foster then famously found herself able to wield Mjolnir, and for a period of a few years took up the mantle of Thor that came with it. Thor also found himself unworthy in an alternate-universe storyline involving his future son, Magni Thorson. And it was Magni who would go on to be deemed worthy of lifting Mjolnir. Furthermore, even in Donny Cates's current Thor run, Thor is likewise having issues lifting Mjolnir.

Taking this into account, there could be a whole host of reasons why Brigid doesn't have Mjolnir. It could very well be the case that she did wield Mjolnir in the past and, like her father before her, ran into a situation that caused her to lose her worthiness. This is definitely likely and, if true, does not really impinge on her character as a hero. As previously mentioned, Thor has lost his worthiness before, but it doesn't mean he stopped being a hero or even that he stopped being an important hero. If anything, the struggle with worthiness has humanized Thor, showing that he too has to strive to be the best version of himself. The same holds true for Brigid.

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Furthermore, even if she never was deemed w0rthy in the first place, there are a lot of characters that have never been worthy of lifting Mjolnir who have shown themselves to be heroes. Either way, Brigid has shown herself a worthy combatant, creating her own hammer, which she brings into battle with Carol's assembled team. So, regardless of whether Mjolnir sees it or not, Brigid is a worthy daughter of Thor and of Asgard.

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