He doesn't get to have much fun these days, especially in a series with a title like The Unworthy Thor.
Other beliefs were promoted and accepted, notions like lives unworthy to live, races unfit to reproduce, and the elimination of the unfit.
A recent documentary on the award charged that the principles of the Legion are often violated, and that the awards are sometimes given as political and personal favors to people in unworthy professions, like journalism.
"If it's something that developed simply in the 12th century for unworthy motives like inheritance," he said, "then it's difficult for me to see it being sustained".
On the minus side, BMX increasingly looks like a demolition derby unworthy of the Games and Team GB's domination in the velodrome should not make us ignore the flaws in the rejigged track programme, which is now too thin and too dependent on timed events, underlined in London by spreading five days of competition into six.
Or why, in past playoffs, we were advised that a place like Phoenix is unworthy because the bagels aren't up to snuff there, an observation made to sound as if it were an anthropological discovery worthy of Margaret Mead.
"Although the match means paying attention to the strategies and tactics, to do it like this was unworthy of those who bought tickets and sat in front of the TV waiting to watch.
These two scenes sound pretty risqué, and they are, but they also seem slightly unworthy, like dirty jokes that aren't dirty enough and so seem even dirtier, in the same way that Bob Eubanks, the icky host of "The Newlywed Game," made the expression "making whoopee" sound filthy.
"In the tradition of men in my blood," she discovers that her husband is unfaithful and, like her father, unworthy of faith.
He explains, "One of the homes I lived in as a foster child was awful, there was constant arguing and criticizing and making me feel like I was unworthy of love.
You need to learn to embrace failure and to look at what you can learn from it, instead of letting it make you feel like you're unworthy of success.
