Thor is a nice guy and everything but as far as good qualities go Steve Rogers should be above him right? does something else go into the test besides their relative “goodness”?
Cultural context - I suspect Viking “worthiness” differs from American worthiness. It’s probably more about bravery, fierceness and alcohol consumption.
Odin defines what worthy means, for one thing. Cap’s values are not necessarily Aesir values.
Also, I expect that the hammer is freaking heavy. Cap is probably the strongest non-superpowered human on Earth, but he’s still just a guy. Wouldn’t surprise me if an uru hammer weighs over a ton.
Funny, I seem to remember a story once where cap actually was able to at least move mjolnir. And not from the new avengers clip. I’ll see if I can research it.
Oh, you’re right about that. Comics!Cap has been able to budge Mjolnir at least once, and on other occasions been as unable to move it as, say, Stark (whose unworthiness is unsurprising even to those who like him).
I bet Kal-El could wield it, one way or another.
I believe he did, in one of those DC/Marvel crossovers.
He couldn’t in the Avengers/JLA crossover. Well, more accurately he was able to do so during the climactic battle but could no longer do so afterwards, and Thor explained that Kal’s being able to do so was a temporary grace of Odin. Superman has the appropriate nobility, sure, but lacks the killer instinct of a Asgardian warrior.
Fair enough, but movie-Cap is all over that, right? He got the job by bravely throwing himself on a grenade, and after single-handedly liberating prisoners-of-war to lead against their enemy on the battlefield he consumed alcohol while lamenting that no amount sufficed to get him drunk enough while mourning a fallen comrade-in-arms.
Movieverse-wise, I’ll bet there’s some “loyalty to Asgard” written into the spell.
Admittedly, my knowledge of Thor is almost exclusively from 1960’s-70’s comic books, but I don’t remember Thor, or any of the Asgardians, having a notable killer instinct. Even Antlers, for all his scheming, seemed intent mostly on monologuing.
He was able to pick it up, whirl it around and throw it back to Thor. Thor complimented him about it afterwards.
Ferocity isn’t a necessary quality to pick it up. I never saw it myself, but I recall it being mentioned elsewhere there was a scene after a battle where some nameless emergency worker passed by Thor and the other Avengers, said something like “Oh, Thor, here’s your hammer, we found it over there”, handed it over and left. Cue everyone doing a double take.
So…If the hammer was on a roof, couldn’t Hulk just go into the house and lift the entire roof, hammer and all?
But he didn’t get the power, though, unless I’m mistaken.
Nah, the roof would immediately collapse. 
Except in Thor 2, he hung it from a wooden coat rack in Jane’s apartment.
Haven’t seen it.
Mjolnir is exactly as heavy as it wants to be at any given time. 
At the moment, Thor is in fact not worthy enough to wield the hammer. A woman (possibly Frigga) is the current custodian of Mjolnir. She’s using the title “Thor” while the Odinson has an axe and a robot arm. I suspect things will be back to normal by the time Avengers 2 opens.
A bunch of people have lifted or used the hammer in the last few decades, including Red Norvell, Beta Ray Bill, Storm, Wonder Woman, Superman and Eric Masterson. Thanos just used one this week, but it was an evil version.
So… it’s like a wizard did it?