But Thanos did beat Thor off-screen and more decisively than Hela did, since we saw Thor could barely stand and Thanos grabbed him like a disposable toy, and I don't see Thor replicating what Thanos did to Hulk, Thor would beat Hulk but certainly not that way, not that fast, and not that brutal.
Crushing Mjolnir is indeed very impressive, but I think that a feat that gets overlooked is Thanos' crushing the Tesseract with his bare hands, not on par with the Mjolnir feat, but still worth mentioning, and I don't know why you say Thanos has no physical advantage over Hela, he is superior in everything except speed, and the gap isn't very significant, look at Thanos' moves against Hulk, not only was he pretty fast but he also showed massive H2H skills, Thanos is not a brute and his fight on Titan he was jobbing and was just there for the audience to have a large and badass action scene, but just for a minute picture Thanos fighting on Titan the way he did against Hulk, the heroes wouldn't have lasted 30 secs.
I don't see why you assume Thanos beat Thor decisively, or even on his own power. He had the power stone and the Black Order so there's no reason to think it was a proper physical fight. Thor would beat Hulk fairly decisively. If Thanos is better, the gap isn't large, nowhere near big enough to give him a clear edge over Hela.
The Tesseract has no durability feats, let alone anything comparable to Mjolnir. Mjolnir hasn't even dented from Thor performing all his striking feats with it and even sending it rocketing to Earth from space. I don't think Thanos is even more durable than it. Thanos is, at most, somewhat above Thor. He's not approaching the tier of Thor literally being unable to do serious damage and needing plot to beat him.
Why would her blades have trouble with him? Loki and Gamora killing Thanos via stabbing him was treated as a viable threat by the characters. Hela's blades are vastly above that and Thanos lacks pain tolerance feats to fight through major wounds.
but for a minute just forget about feats (I know, not a sane thing to ask on CV) and look at the hierarchy and concept Marvel has established......you really think Hela would beat Thanos ?
I understand this perspective normally has validity, but it seriously just does not work for this comparison. The Russos did not care for Ragnorak, they even undid most of the effects of the movie on Thor. If they were writing, no, they would never have Hela lose to Thanos. But they probably never even gave Hela a second thought, I highly doubt they cared about her enough to consider whether Thanos should be higher on the food chain than her. If Watteau were writing it, he could very likely give Hela the win.
Thanos never actually did anything, or have any statements surrounding him, pointing to him being a massively powerful threat compared to earlier characters without the gems. He's not some huge jump up power wise. Hela wasn't beaten without plot, while Thanos actually struggled with his opponents quite a bit even with the gems, suggesting that he wouldn't have required plot to defeat without them. So Hela was actually written as far more imposing than Thanos within the context of their respective narratives. Even Malekith was actually.
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