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This article curb spoilers forAvengers always # 8
Marvel’sThorhas strike rank careen bottom in his in vogue adventure , prove once and for all that the ship’s company believes he works well when he is down on his luck . The God of Thunder is usually fuck for his boisterous posture , his phenomenal power and strength , and his judicioususe of his power hammer Mjolnir in battle . ButAvengers everlastingly # 8is a will to Marvel ’s novel idea for Thor : he is more interesting at his lowest moments .
Thor is one of the few characters that Stan Lee and Jack Kirby did not create wholesale ; rather , he was lifted from Norse mythology . Thor , his family , his powers and his enchanted pounding were all hire from legend , but the details were crafted by Marvel : namely , the complex political sympathies of Asgard andThor ’s farsighted history with his tricky crony Loki , involving numerous betrayals and alliances . unremarkably , Thor is one of the most hefty Avengers in comic history and can turn the lunar time period of engagement merely by arriving on the force field , but late year have greatly diminished Thor ’s power .
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InAvengers perpetually # 8 , by Jason Aaron , Aaron Kuder , Cam Smith & Guru - eFX , readers are introduced to a Thor from an alternative universe who just may have the forged possible fate out of all Thors . This Thor has lost the ability to pluck up his hammer Mjolnir - and the power hammer , not satisfied to sit unaffected as tragedies happen the people of Earth , determine tomockThor by loom near him and never abandoning him . Eventually , Thor slump into a rich depression as a homeless floater who wander the Earth , without tycoon or hope , ashis hammer follows the unworthy Godwherever he goes .
This a la mode weakness of Thor ’s follow a foresighted pattern that arguably began with 2017’sThor Ragnarokin the MCU , in which Thor lost his amor , his hair , his hammer , and eventually his entire realm . Avengers : Endgamefollowed this up witha Thor who slide down into a mystifying depressionafter mislay to Thanos . In the comics , 2021’sHeroes Reborncrossover event follows a Thor who never found his hammer on Earth and spends his nights in parallel bars while wandering the Earth , and 2022’sThorrun imply the God of Thunder retard struggle to lift his hammer - and watching others such as Loki rustle it with simpleness .
All thesevariations of Thor , mallet or no , service to spotlight Marvel ’s unexampled strategy for the character : entomb him under an avalanche of depression , loser and regret . While this has succeeded in craft a Thor with depth , it also runs the risk of creating an indifferent consultation who might find all the moping of the once - proud God dull and depressing . Thoris a more interesting type when he has lose all , but he ca n’t rest that way of life for farseeing .
