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[MCU/Marvel] What makes Odin and Thor more 'powerful' than your average Asgardian?

Thor can control lightning even without mjolnir, and Odin has all sorts of abilities. What in universe reason is there for them being able to do that? Could you take any Asgardian and teach them to control lightning, or is it just Thor?
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in the comics, its the odinforce. powers odin has for being the head of the pantheon. all skyfathers (godleaders) are more powerful than your avarage god, and odin more so becasue he absorbed the power of his brothers. thor is the son of odin and the elder god Gaia (literally the earth) and got a lot from that bloodline. even without the odinforce or his godly powers, he is stronger than avarage asgardian due to his elder god parent. example of this is ragnarök, where all his godly powers vanished but he was still superior.l

as for the movies, we dont know yet, since they dont seem to be acutal gods, just magical, extradimension, superadvanced aliens. could be that odin just knows magic the others dont, since he is the king and the oldest asgardian there, royal knowledge and power. 

thor, being his son, probably got a share of that power.