### Author:  [@dzeiger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dzeiger)
#### Post date: [January 3, 2013, 4:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whom-would-you-rather-call-for-help-the-doctor-or-thor/645858/41 "2013-01-03T04:05:37Z")
Hang on…does this problem more resemble a nail, or a screw?
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### Author:  [@foolsguinea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/foolsguinea)
#### Post date: [January 3, 2013, 4:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whom-would-you-rather-call-for-help-the-doctor-or-thor/645858/42 "2013-01-03T04:28:17Z")
My uninformed prejudice:
Marvel Thor \> The Doctor (as much as it pains me to say it) \> Snorri Sturlsson’s Thor.
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### Author:  [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)
#### Post date: [January 3, 2013, 4:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whom-would-you-rather-call-for-help-the-doctor-or-thor/645858/43 "2013-01-03T04:35:39Z")
> [@Anaamika](#):
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> Besides, it was so worth it to watch him shitkick Loki.
> [@Lasciel](#):
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> I swear to God, that scene made my month.\
That scene made my short list of favourite all time movie scenes. Close second is the Hulk punching Thor out of the frame of the picture after he goes rampaging and is still all fired up. 😃
> [@dzeiger](#):
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> Hang on…does this problem more resemble a nail, or a screw?
Heh.
I would go for Doctor Who - he _always_ gets the problem solved. Sure, Thor is better at smashing things, but he doesn’t have a lot of finesse or brainpower. Well, not the brainpower of Doctor Who.
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### Author:  [@foolsguinea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/foolsguinea)
#### Post date: [January 3, 2013, 4:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whom-would-you-rather-call-for-help-the-doctor-or-thor/645858/44 "2013-01-03T04:42:15Z")
> [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](#):
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> “Anyone who harms Amelia Pond must be violently, cleverly, and disproportionately punished. That includes all their friends.”
That’s _a_ rule, not the first one (according to Melody).
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### Author:  [@SeaDragonTattoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SeaDragonTattoo)
#### Post date: [January 3, 2013, 4:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whom-would-you-rather-call-for-help-the-doctor-or-thor/645858/45 "2013-01-03T04:46:31Z")
I’ll take my chances with The Doctor.
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### Author:  [@The\_Second\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Second_Stone)
#### Post date: [January 3, 2013, 5:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whom-would-you-rather-call-for-help-the-doctor-or-thor/645858/46 "2013-01-03T05:00:00Z")
Thor. He gets help from friends. Doctor trips up over slow moving robotic trash cans.
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### Author:  [@Kobal2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kobal2)
#### Post date: [January 3, 2013, 5:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whom-would-you-rather-call-for-help-the-doctor-or-thor/645858/47 "2013-01-03T05:55:51Z")
Thor. Not the Marvel one, the real one. I mean the traditional one. I mean you know who the fuck I mean **Skald** , don’t play games with me, old man.
Tell him the alien chief rogered Sif behind his back and called him a big fat sissy, sit back and watch the immediate lightshow. Marvel’s Thor would ask for actually moral incentives to act and that takes some time to make up ; the various Doctors would need a visa from England which takes even longer.
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### Author:  [@Kobal2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kobal2)
#### Post date: [January 3, 2013, 6:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whom-would-you-rather-call-for-help-the-doctor-or-thor/645858/48 "2013-01-03T06:08:55Z")
> [@Bakhesh](#):
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> The Doctor. If there is a giant alien mothership, hovering over my city, The Doctor will get rid of it with a tirade of technobabble, and a wave of a screwdriver.
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> If it was Thor, then the giant alien mothership, hovering over my city will soon become a smashed alien mothership, falling on to my city
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> There is less tidying-up to do with the Doctor
Ah, but that’s a big plus of Thor : smashed technology to reverse-engineer, dead aliens to dissect in spades, clean-up jobs ! Juicy military contracts to make replicas of the alien ship when it’s decided the only way to be safe is to go and conquer \*their \*planet, eat \*their \*people ! Think of _that_, all of y’all resolve-things-pacifically hippies !
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### Author:  [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)
#### Post date: [January 3, 2013, 10:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whom-would-you-rather-call-for-help-the-doctor-or-thor/645858/49 "2013-01-03T10:19:45Z")
> [@dzeiger](#):
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> Hang on…does this problem more resemble a nail, or a screw?
If screwing–James Bond.
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### Author:  [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)
#### Post date: [January 3, 2013, 10:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whom-would-you-rather-call-for-help-the-doctor-or-thor/645858/50 "2013-01-03T10:56:05Z")
Why would I want Sturluson’s version? Give me the original god over the euhemerized human version!
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### Author:  [@KRC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KRC)
#### Post date: [January 3, 2013, 11:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whom-would-you-rather-call-for-help-the-doctor-or-thor/645858/51 "2013-01-03T11:25:35Z")
Thor. He almost got me twice, he got one of my friends, he almost got my college roommate, and he got my sister (fortunately Baldur the Beautiful told him to rein it in a bit and she only got a shock.) But I can verify on my own experience, when Thor is having a bad day, you don’t mess with him.
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### Author:  [@Lochdale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lochdale)
#### Post date: [January 3, 2013, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whom-would-you-rather-call-for-help-the-doctor-or-thor/645858/52 "2013-01-03T14:48:52Z")
Marvel Thor. This really is his thing and he’s good at saving innocents. And I’m presuming we mean classic Thor and not Odin powered Thor or Rune Thor? The latter two were busting galaxies so an alien invasion would be an easy fix.
Thor can still stop time but he can no longer travel through time. He gave up that power back in Thor 147 I believe but can check (well before the excellent Celestial saga of the 370’s).
As an aside, current arc for Marvel Thor is top class.
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### Author:  [@Bakhesh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bakhesh)
#### Post date: [January 3, 2013, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whom-would-you-rather-call-for-help-the-doctor-or-thor/645858/53 "2013-01-03T15:09:51Z")
> [@Lochdale](#):
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> As an aside, current arc for Marvel Thor is top class.
Didn’t Thor “die” during the Fear Itself story line? I know that comic characters don’t stay dead for long, but its becoming a bit of a revolving door for Asgardians recently
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### Author:  [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intergalactic_Gladiator)
#### Post date: [January 3, 2013, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whom-would-you-rather-call-for-help-the-doctor-or-thor/645858/54 "2013-01-03T18:18:48Z")
Is the Doctor worthy of wielding the mighty hammer Mjlonir?
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### Author:  [@Larry\_Borgia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Borgia)
#### Post date: [January 3, 2013, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whom-would-you-rather-call-for-help-the-doctor-or-thor/645858/55 "2013-01-03T18:32:25Z")
Thor, no question. I’d be worried the aliens would do what they should have done in nearly every episode of nu-who, and shoot The Doctor in the face while he is making one of his speeches. Marvel Thor can also get help from the Avengers, but even if he isn’t allowed to here, the warship is toast.
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### Author:  [@LawMonkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LawMonkey)
#### Post date: [January 3, 2013, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whom-would-you-rather-call-for-help-the-doctor-or-thor/645858/56 "2013-01-03T19:33:10Z")
> [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](#):
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> Is the Doctor worthy of wielding the mighty hammer Mjlonir?
Bah! Is Thor worthy of wielding the mighty screwdriver Sonic?
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### Author:  [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)
#### Post date: [January 3, 2013, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whom-would-you-rather-call-for-help-the-doctor-or-thor/645858/57 "2013-01-03T19:40:04Z")
> [@Larry\_Borgia](#):
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> I’d be worried the aliens would do what they should have done in nearly every episode of nu-who, and shoot The Doctor in the face while he is making one of his speeches.
Well, since I picked the Tenth Doctor, in your scenario I guess I inadvertently wound up picking the Eleventh Doctor.
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### Author:  [@StrangeBird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StrangeBird)
#### Post date: [January 3, 2013, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whom-would-you-rather-call-for-help-the-doctor-or-thor/645858/58 "2013-01-03T20:55:01Z")
[QUOTE=Skald the Rhymer]
I just prefer Matt Smith’s odd mixture of goofiness, brilliance, coldness, and warmth.
[/QUOTE]
This a great description. Eleven is my favourite, so I would like him to rescue me. I suppose it’s not likely he’ll bring River along for the ride but a girl can dream.
… also if he could bring some lasagna that would be awesome.
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### Author:  [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)
#### Post date: [January 3, 2013, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whom-would-you-rather-call-for-help-the-doctor-or-thor/645858/59 "2013-01-03T21:27:04Z")
> [@Kobal2](#):
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> Thor. Not the Marvel one, the real one. I mean the traditional one. I mean you know who the fuck I mean **Skald** , don’t play games with me, old man.
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> Tell him the alien chief rogered Sif behind his back and called him a big fat sissy, sit back and watch the immediate lightshow. Marvel’s Thor would ask for actually moral incentives to act and that takes some time to make up ; the various Doctors would need a visa from England which takes even longer.
The hell Marvel Thor would waste time asking for moral incentives. Comics-Thor loves humans; he considers himself humanity’s champion at least as much as Asgard’s. Possibly more. The second you describe the problem, he’ll be opening a space-warp and getting preparing to kick some ass.
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### Author:  [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)
#### Post date: [January 3, 2013, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whom-would-you-rather-call-for-help-the-doctor-or-thor/645858/60 "2013-01-03T21:35:46Z")
> [@StrangeBird](#):
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> This a great description. Eleven is my favourite, so I would like him to rescue me. I suppose it’s not likely he’ll bring River along for the ride but a girl can dream.
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> … also if he could bring some lasagna that would be awesome.
River sometimes travels with the Doctor, just not ALL the time. I think she was leery of doing so “before” Demon’s Run (before in his timeline, that is) because she didn’t want to screw up her own past.
On the other hand, if River’s there you’ll have no more chance of attracting his amorous attention than you would have of attracting Thor’s if Sif comes with him.
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