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[PLAYER INFO]
NAME: Meg
AGE: 24
JOURNAL: valhalla
IM: notenoughgil
E-MAIL: hitsthemoon@gmail.com
RETURNING: YEP also have Daken.
[CHARACTER INFO]
CHARACTER NAME: Thor Odinson.
FANDOM: Marvel 616.
CHRONOLOGY: Just after Siege because I hate Matt Fraction.
CLASS: Hero.
SUPERHERO NAME: Thor.
ALTER EGO: He probably won't bother with one because AVENGERS, AVENGERS EVERYWHERE
BACKGROUND:
Thor is, for all intents and purposes, the Marvel universe version of the actual Norse thunder god. This means, among other things, that he comes from Asgard, which is one of the so-called Nine Worlds: the other eight are Midgard (Earth/humanville) and seven others (which, just for context, are the homes of giants, elves, and other such things), all interconnected through Yggdrasil, which is a giant tree. Yes. Anyway, Asgard is the home of the Aesir, Thor's specific brand of god. Just like you'd expect of viking gods, they consider themselves warriors first and foremost. Asgard is kind of perpetually stuck in its own Middle Earth-y era: swords, magic, and various mythological beings are all commonplace there; anything modern is emphatically not (it sort of used to be, in that Asgardians could do anything humans could, except better, and they had inexplicably fantastic technology to do it - e.g. sophisticated surgical equipment - but that's been almost completely retconned at this point. Now they just have magic health potions).
The people of Asgard are considered - both by themselves and by others - gods or demigods, with some being greater than others. As the god of thunder and son of Odin, Thor commands instant respect among other Asgardians (Odin is also called the all-father, which in the greater Marvel universe is the same thing as a "sky-father", a hugely powerful being in charge of his respective family of gods, Zeus being another example). Odin is sometimes referred to as Asgard's king, and Thor, naturally, as its prince; his upbringing and general social stratus are somewhat comparable to human royalty, except more VIKINGY.
One day, when Thor was still a boy, the Aesir were attacked by a band of giants, and Odin killed their leader. The son of this leader, who was about Thor's age (and smaller, despite being the son of a giant), attacked Odin. GUESS WHO HE WAS!!!! Odin took Loki back to Asgard and raised him as his own son, which was actually a really complicated scheme of future-Loki's, but I'll go ahead and not get into that. Loki adopted the appearance of the Aesir and was accepted as one of them, but never liked, not even by Thor. Thor was kind of the quintessential popular kid; he was athletic and gregarious, whereas Loki was always reading books (FUCKING SUSPICIOUS) and playing tricks on people. However, it was Odin's wish that they should grow up as brothers, so he sort of forced them to get along. Much of their childhood involved Thor being brave and open-hearted and basking in Asgard's love while Loki just sort of stared jealously from the bushes and studied sorcery and gained everyone's dislike and mistrust.
Thor grew up to be strong and and fiery and arrogant, and though everyone respected his strength, he continually disappointed his father. Odin felt that he was becoming too headstrong and full of himself to grow into a good leader, and tried to teach him that the road he was going down was a bad one. In service of this, Odin occasionally set trials for Thor which were intended to teach him humility, prudence, or whatever other virtue. Some of them made lasting impressions, but for the most part they were just slowly chipping away at the insurmountable block that was Thor's pride.
Finally, sometime in the 20th century, Odin decided to completely ground him. He sealed Thor's entire consciousness inside Donald Blake, a by-all-appearances-normal medical student who went a few years without knowing a single thing about Thor. He found Thor's hammer inside a cave, disguised as a walking stick, and when he struck the stick, it turned into the hammer, and he turned into Thor. Thereafter, Thor and Blake were intertwined -- Blake led a relatively normal human life as a doctor, and when there was something Thor needed to do, he'd turn into Thor. At that point, Blake's life was dominant; Thor couldn't really go home (and later on he didn't particularly want to), so he let his mortal half do most of the living. Blake thought of himself as Thor, so he had no issue with the frequent disruptions to his life. (He later did, and there was some kerfluffle over whether he was a REAL PERSON!!!, but he got over it. At present, Thor's life is definitely dominant.)
Shortly thereafter, Loki decided to fuck shit up on Earth, and coincidentally, Thor wasn't the only superguy trying to find out what was going on. The others were Ant-Man and Wasp, who could shrink and communicate with ants, and Iron Man, who was super rich blah blah, and they ended up working with the Hulk as well. Once everything had been solved, they decided to form THE AVENGERS!!!!, a group of superpeople who go around doing super things! And then the Hulk left because basically he gets really mad and smashes everything. Almost immediately they discovered World War II Nazi-punching hero Captain America, and the five of them became the 'founding' core of the Avengers. The next three to join were Hawkeye, the Scarlet Witch, and Quicksilver, who would also be longtime on-and-off Avengers. The roster changed about a million times in the following years, but those seven are the ones Thor has known the longest. He pretty much considers himself friends with anybody he's hung out with for like an hour, but the founding and near-founding Avengers are really important to him (with possible exceptions Ant-Man, who kind of turned out to be a dick, and Quicksilver, who definitely turned out to be a dick). In order of closeness, I'd say it's Iron Man/Tony Stark, Captain America/Steve Rogers, and the Wasp/Janet van Dyne. Tony's first because he and Thor figured out each other's alter egos before anybody else and had to cover for each other sometimes, and they essentially ran the Avengers together for quite a while.
And then Odin died fighting a sort of demon/titan thing named Surtur, a longtime enemy of Asgard. As Odin's only non-crazy son, Thor was the clear choice for successor. He thought he would be a terrible ruler, but everyone kind of forced him into it. And then he turned out to be totally right, which led to a future where the Earth was one big totalitarian state ruled by well-meaning but harsh paternal figure Thor, who eventually realized what a douchebag he was and went back in time to reverse a turning point. And then the book got a new writer and Ragnarok abruptly happened, probably to kill that stupid storyline. For Marvel's purposes, Ragnarok means that all of the Norse gods die, and are reborn, and their lives are part of a really long cycle. All the suffering and whatnot endured by the gods was kind of a battery for SUPERGODS, the tier above regular gods. In the course of trying to figure out what he should do in the face of the death of his people, Thor ripped out both his eyes and threw them in a well because VIKING GOD MAGIC, and kind of became the ultimate realization of his potential, which allowed him to do all kinds of crazy things, such as literally destroy the threads of fate, thus ending the Ragnarok cycle. Anyway, the end result of this was that Asgard and accompanying Norse gods completely disappeared.
But Donald Blake didn't. He was alive and on Earth, and Thor was kind of lingering somewhere in a vague mental place where only Don could reach him (with, it is important to note, both eyes and not so much fate-destroying power). Don convinced Thor that the Aesir lived as long as they were legends, and that Thor, being king of Asgard, was Asgard. So Thor was once again linked to Don as an alter ego, and he reconstructed Asgard by the magic of his awesome willpower!! in a field in Oklahoma. It was empty - his fellow Asgardians were trapped in human bodies, so he went to find them and re-deify them. He had meant to be careful with reviving what you might call dissidents, but at one point he was forced to revive a whole lot of Asgardians at once, and Loki was mixed in with that lot, as were others who'd been Thor's enemies over the years.
Meanwhile, stuff was happening elsewhere which would indirectly lead up to bad news for Asgard. A law had been passed in the U.S. requiring all superhumans to register with the government (which would also effectively draft them into a specialized police force), and a huge chunk of affected people were against it. Iron Man, who was essentially in charge of superhuman affairs, was for it; and to help out his cause, he and other brains on his side had created sort of a half-clone, half-robot Thor in lieu of the then-missing one. The real Thor was already pissed off that his friends had been fighting amongst themselves, so the clone thing pretty much pushed him into FUCK YOU IRON MAN-ville. Thus, when Iron Man approached him about the legal status of Asgard now that it was sort of in the U.S., Thor essentially told him (with a lot of lightning and rage) to get out of his face and leave him alone.
So the Avengers mostly went without Thor for a while. Loki told Thor's good friend Balder that he, Balder, was actually Odin's second son, and insinuated that Thor had known for a while, but had never told him. This was all true; Thor admitted it, and it put Loki in a good position, because Balder had a reason to trust him, and should anything happen to Thor, Balder would become king.
Thor's a hard dude to kill, so the next best solution was to get him permanently removed from Asgard. Zillions of years earlier, Odin's father, Bor, had been turned into snow via enchantment. But he hadn't been killed, and that made it possible for Loki, with the help of magic, to bring him back. He cast a spell on Bor that made everything he saw seem hostile, and since he was surrounded by mortals, Thor had to stop him from hurting them, and ultimately he had to kill him. Because killing the king of Asgard required punishment, and Bor was technically a king of Asgard, Thor was exiled from Asgard.
While he was mostly out of the picture, Loki conspired with Norman Osborn, a man who was in charge of superhuman affairs as Iron Man's replacement, and whom the masses trusted despite that he was former criminal, to bring about a catastrophe in his eternal quest to make Thor sad. They fixed it so that an Asgardian looked like he was attacking helpless innocent humans, and Osborn used this as an excuse to attack Asgard. Since he did this with reality-altering cape-wearing emotionally unstable godmoder the Sentry (someone Thor sort of considered a friend, in a distant way, it's worth noting), Asgard was mostly destroyed. Thor helped save it despite being exiled, killed the Sentry (who had just killed Loki), and was welcomed back to both Asgard (though not as king) and the Avengers. He has, for the most part, outgrown the childish tendencies that his father disliked in him, as a direct result of spending so many years among humans, but he's also gained a pesky loyalty to them. SEE BELOW HEH
PERSONALITY:
Thor's major conflict, the core of his character, is how he relates to the mortal world vs. the immortal world. Put another way - but this is simplifying it - whether he considers himself a man or a god. When he has to choose between Earth and Asgard, which happens like once a week, he has a big angsty debate with himself: does he honor his father and go to his people, or does he stay with mortals, whom he loves, and who need him? Most Asgardians are apathetic to Earth and its inhabitants, further compounding the pressure on him to stay in Asgard. Thor's really the only one who cares; he's gotten into a lot of arguments about why humans are worth his time (the implication being that Asgard isn't - he'd never think that way, but other gods often take offense). One of his primary reasons is that humans fascinate him. To most gods, they're sort of like fireflies: short-lived and generally insignificant; briefly interesting at best. What Thor finds so compelling about them is their capacity for bravery, brilliance, invention, and love in the face of their very imminent mortality; they have one shot at life, and just about anything can kill them. In his mind, that makes it ten times more amazing and noble that they do and create such incredible things - he's happy to wax poetic about city skylines, for instance (and once again, he's usually the only Asgardian who's really massively impressed by things like that. For example Sif, his longtime friend and on-and-off fiancee, when introduced to Chicago via Thor Airlines, was kind of like "are you fucking kidding me, who cares," and Thor was all BUT BABY LOOK AT ALL THE BUILDINGS).
In contrast with his whole hammer-toting quasi-barbarian image, he has several times said that love is the greatest of virtues and the worthiest thing to fight for. He's not shy about showing or being shown affection, but it's nearly all platonic in nature: he loves his friends; he loves his brothers; he loves humanity - all things he'd readily admit to. In classical terms, he's all about agape and philia; not so much eros. Those stories that do present him as the eros type also present him as an asshole who needs to grow up as opposed to his usual self, and it's worth noting that these stories are few, recent, and set in the distant past (you might call them darker or perhaps more realistic takes on his character, whereas, for instance, Tony Stark has been depicted as a playboy since like forever). Compared to just about everyone he knows, it's almost like he doesn't really consider women sexual beings (or men, in case that's...even a question...I GUESS I'LL JUST THROW THAT OUT THERE, he's like a zero on the Kinsey scale). That's not quite the case; but most of the time he never really flirts with women, evades their flirting and general advances as politely and inoffensively as he can, and generally displays unreasonably high levels of fairytale prince virtue.
Another thing that sets him apart from most characters in the Marvel Universe is that he acts somewhat removed. Others, even people he considers his close (mortal) friends, have often described the effect as "regal" and so on; but what it comes down to is that he's not perfectly integrated with mortals, and as much as he loves and admires them, he knows that. He relates to mortals and immortals in vastly different ways. His closest inner circle consists of his family and oldest immortal friends (which on rare occasions may include Loki, not so much as a friend as someone who knows him well, depending on what he's done lately). Other Asgardians fall somewhere outside the circle of even his good mortal friends, but he still treats them differently - he's tougher on Asgardians, almost how you'd imagine a well-liked general to treat his soldiers (or a viking chief, for that matter); but there are things that Asgardians understand that mortals, by Thor's own admission, never will. So he tends to be more formal with them, even his friends. Most notably, though, he's gentler - especially with women. He's more accepting of faults and fallibility. He treats them, in short, like they're more fragile. Being reminded that they can weather difficult things on their own tends to make him awestruck at their bravery and resilience all over again, but his attitude persists. With people he considers enemies, he can be pretty brutal, but his enemies can usually take it. If they can't - e.g., if they're just powerless humans - he maintains a somewhat paternal air, like GO TO THY ROOM AND THINK ABOUT WHAT THOU HAST DONE. He's very fair, though - quick to anger, but he can forgive just about anything. He's a huge believer in the potential for good in anyone.
Like you might expect from a thousands-of-years-old character, he holds onto a lot of classical values. The trifecta of duty to family/state/gods is an obvious one, even though, of course, he is a god. Asgard will always be a top priority of his - not the top priority, necessarily, but if it's in trouble and Earth isn't, he'll always drop what he's doing and go home. Same for his family: he'd do just about anything to protect Odin, his foster mother, and even - sometimes, depending on who's attacking him and why - Loki. Family means something intangible to him; something that no good man would abandon, and he constantly strives, often unconsciously, to be that ideal good man. Also in the category of classical values: courage, honor, victory, and dying a completely metal death are big for him. In one story, he hears this guy praying to him; he's the last-of-the-last of some tiny isolated viking settlement that managed to stay exactly the same for a zillion years; and what the guy wants is to die in battle. So instead of saying, "listen dude the world isn't really like that anymore, why don't you die peacefully like modern people want to," Thor was like, OKAY I'M GONNA GIVE THIS GUY AN AWESOME DEATH. So he has this kind of old-world respect for certain things, and related scorn for others, chiefly dishonesty and cowardice.
For the most part, though, he's a very tolerant person - not tolerant of things like disrespect, but of people and the (harmless) choices they make. Progressive, even; he's probably the most adaptable Asgardian, and he just sort of unquestioningly accepts that some people are different from him, and that's fine. Christianity is a good example: he's gone out of his way, more than a few times, to assure people that his existence doesn't need to stop them from believing whatever they want to believe, and he's even understanding about people calling him a fraud and so on (although he doesn't like it). He can sometimes be unwittingly insensitive about things that surprise him, but he's never intentionally hateful, even to his enemies. He talks faux-Shakespearean smack to them like it's his job, but, when given the chance to understand a given bad guy's motivations, he'll often try to help them overcome whatever compelled them to badguyhood (as opposed to just beating them up and being like WELP I WIN AND YOU'RE TERRIBLE). His primary impulse is to help people in general, really. Except the Juggernaut. Fuck that guy.
Miscellaneous stuff!!! He tends to be sort of oblivious when it comes to subtle cues directed at him - for instance, if someone were trying to brush him off, it's unlikely that he'd notice, let alone shut up and go away - but he's pretty good atT understanding how people feel just by watching them, which presumably is wisdom born of age (and is sort of reminiscent of Odin, when it happens). Although he can go from happy to THOR SMASH at the speed of light, he's generally upbeat; but the presence of responsibility makes him much more inclined to anger and melancholy. In particular, being responsible for a lot of people such that he can't just run off and do what he wants feels like prison to him - being king did not ever make him happy. Also, although he's pretty straightforward about everything, he does have a sense of humor; it's just one of those awkward ones where people sometimes can't tell when he's joking and occasionally think he's joking when he's not. Asgardians don't seem to have that problem, which is one of many reasons that he comes off as relating more easily and naturally to them.
POWER:
1.) Enchanted hammer: while holding Mjolnir, he can do a bunch of things that he can't do without it. These include flying (described variously as manipulating the wind with extreme precision and being pulled by the force of his own throw), shooting lightning at people, absorbing energy (and spitting it back out - the hammer, not Thor), and warping people into SPACE!!! or wherever else , which hasn't been used in a long time in canon, probably because warping someone into space is kind of a cheap one-hit KO. Also he really should not assume that people will survive that, but he does. I will probably never ever have him use it for those reasons. Anyway: Mjolnir also makes it possible for him to direct lightning strikes precisely, and augments all his elements-related abilities: with his hammer, for instance, he's shown tearing a huge rift in the ground and turning back a tidal wave, and he never really displays that kind of power when he's without his hammer (although, nota bene, he's rarely without his hammer). Additionally, Mjolnir returns to his hand whenever he throws it, and almost no one else can lift it - just those who are 'worthy', which is a nebulous quality that most people apparently don't possess.
2.) GODLY PHYSIOLOGY??? He can withstand much more than a mortal can: extremes of heat and cold (walking in lava hurr), being shot directly, being sliced by magic CUTS-ANYTHING metal (it barely scratched him), etc. He also has superhuman strength, being able to smash through steel walls and whack giant slabs of stone around without his hammer.
3.) Control over the weather - with or without his hammer he can conjure and dispel storms and lightning.
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NAME: Meg
AGE: 24
JOURNAL: valhalla
IM: notenoughgil
E-MAIL: hitsthemoon@gmail.com
RETURNING: YEP also have Daken.
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CHARACTER NAME: Thor Odinson.
FANDOM: Marvel 616.
CHRONOLOGY: Just after Siege because I hate Matt Fraction.
CLASS: Hero.
SUPERHERO NAME: Thor.
ALTER EGO: He probably won't bother with one because AVENGERS, AVENGERS EVERYWHERE
BACKGROUND:
Thor is, for all intents and purposes, the Marvel universe version of the actual Norse thunder god. This means, among other things, that he comes from Asgard, which is one of the so-called Nine Worlds: the other eight are Midgard (Earth/humanville) and seven others (which, just for context, are the homes of giants, elves, and other such things), all interconnected through Yggdrasil, which is a giant tree. Yes. Anyway, Asgard is the home of the Aesir, Thor's specific brand of god. Just like you'd expect of viking gods, they consider themselves warriors first and foremost. Asgard is kind of perpetually stuck in its own Middle Earth-y era: swords, magic, and various mythological beings are all commonplace there; anything modern is emphatically not (it sort of used to be, in that Asgardians could do anything humans could, except better, and they had inexplicably fantastic technology to do it - e.g. sophisticated surgical equipment - but that's been almost completely retconned at this point. Now they just have magic health potions).
The people of Asgard are considered - both by themselves and by others - gods or demigods, with some being greater than others. As the god of thunder and son of Odin, Thor commands instant respect among other Asgardians (Odin is also called the all-father, which in the greater Marvel universe is the same thing as a "sky-father", a hugely powerful being in charge of his respective family of gods, Zeus being another example). Odin is sometimes referred to as Asgard's king, and Thor, naturally, as its prince; his upbringing and general social stratus are somewhat comparable to human royalty, except more VIKINGY.
One day, when Thor was still a boy, the Aesir were attacked by a band of giants, and Odin killed their leader. The son of this leader, who was about Thor's age (and smaller, despite being the son of a giant), attacked Odin. GUESS WHO HE WAS!!!! Odin took Loki back to Asgard and raised him as his own son, which was actually a really complicated scheme of future-Loki's, but I'll go ahead and not get into that. Loki adopted the appearance of the Aesir and was accepted as one of them, but never liked, not even by Thor. Thor was kind of the quintessential popular kid; he was athletic and gregarious, whereas Loki was always reading books (FUCKING SUSPICIOUS) and playing tricks on people. However, it was Odin's wish that they should grow up as brothers, so he sort of forced them to get along. Much of their childhood involved Thor being brave and open-hearted and basking in Asgard's love while Loki just sort of stared jealously from the bushes and studied sorcery and gained everyone's dislike and mistrust.
Thor grew up to be strong and and fiery and arrogant, and though everyone respected his strength, he continually disappointed his father. Odin felt that he was becoming too headstrong and full of himself to grow into a good leader, and tried to teach him that the road he was going down was a bad one. In service of this, Odin occasionally set trials for Thor which were intended to teach him humility, prudence, or whatever other virtue. Some of them made lasting impressions, but for the most part they were just slowly chipping away at the insurmountable block that was Thor's pride.
Finally, sometime in the 20th century, Odin decided to completely ground him. He sealed Thor's entire consciousness inside Donald Blake, a by-all-appearances-normal medical student who went a few years without knowing a single thing about Thor. He found Thor's hammer inside a cave, disguised as a walking stick, and when he struck the stick, it turned into the hammer, and he turned into Thor. Thereafter, Thor and Blake were intertwined -- Blake led a relatively normal human life as a doctor, and when there was something Thor needed to do, he'd turn into Thor. At that point, Blake's life was dominant; Thor couldn't really go home (and later on he didn't particularly want to), so he let his mortal half do most of the living. Blake thought of himself as Thor, so he had no issue with the frequent disruptions to his life. (He later did, and there was some kerfluffle over whether he was a REAL PERSON!!!, but he got over it. At present, Thor's life is definitely dominant.)
Shortly thereafter, Loki decided to fuck shit up on Earth, and coincidentally, Thor wasn't the only superguy trying to find out what was going on. The others were Ant-Man and Wasp, who could shrink and communicate with ants, and Iron Man, who was super rich blah blah, and they ended up working with the Hulk as well. Once everything had been solved, they decided to form THE AVENGERS!!!!, a group of superpeople who go around doing super things! And then the Hulk left because basically he gets really mad and smashes everything. Almost immediately they discovered World War II Nazi-punching hero Captain America, and the five of them became the 'founding' core of the Avengers. The next three to join were Hawkeye, the Scarlet Witch, and Quicksilver, who would also be longtime on-and-off Avengers. The roster changed about a million times in the following years, but those seven are the ones Thor has known the longest. He pretty much considers himself friends with anybody he's hung out with for like an hour, but the founding and near-founding Avengers are really important to him (with possible exceptions Ant-Man, who kind of turned out to be a dick, and Quicksilver, who definitely turned out to be a dick). In order of closeness, I'd say it's Iron Man/Tony Stark, Captain America/Steve Rogers, and the Wasp/Janet van Dyne. Tony's first because he and Thor figured out each other's alter egos before anybody else and had to cover for each other sometimes, and they essentially ran the Avengers together for quite a while.
And then Odin died fighting a sort of demon/titan thing named Surtur, a longtime enemy of Asgard. As Odin's only non-crazy son, Thor was the clear choice for successor. He thought he would be a terrible ruler, but everyone kind of forced him into it. And then he turned out to be totally right, which led to a future where the Earth was one big totalitarian state ruled by well-meaning but harsh paternal figure Thor, who eventually realized what a douchebag he was and went back in time to reverse a turning point. And then the book got a new writer and Ragnarok abruptly happened, probably to kill that stupid storyline. For Marvel's purposes, Ragnarok means that all of the Norse gods die, and are reborn, and their lives are part of a really long cycle. All the suffering and whatnot endured by the gods was kind of a battery for SUPERGODS, the tier above regular gods. In the course of trying to figure out what he should do in the face of the death of his people, Thor ripped out both his eyes and threw them in a well because VIKING GOD MAGIC, and kind of became the ultimate realization of his potential, which allowed him to do all kinds of crazy things, such as literally destroy the threads of fate, thus ending the Ragnarok cycle. Anyway, the end result of this was that Asgard and accompanying Norse gods completely disappeared.
But Donald Blake didn't. He was alive and on Earth, and Thor was kind of lingering somewhere in a vague mental place where only Don could reach him (with, it is important to note, both eyes and not so much fate-destroying power). Don convinced Thor that the Aesir lived as long as they were legends, and that Thor, being king of Asgard, was Asgard. So Thor was once again linked to Don as an alter ego, and he reconstructed Asgard by the magic of his awesome willpower!! in a field in Oklahoma. It was empty - his fellow Asgardians were trapped in human bodies, so he went to find them and re-deify them. He had meant to be careful with reviving what you might call dissidents, but at one point he was forced to revive a whole lot of Asgardians at once, and Loki was mixed in with that lot, as were others who'd been Thor's enemies over the years.
Meanwhile, stuff was happening elsewhere which would indirectly lead up to bad news for Asgard. A law had been passed in the U.S. requiring all superhumans to register with the government (which would also effectively draft them into a specialized police force), and a huge chunk of affected people were against it. Iron Man, who was essentially in charge of superhuman affairs, was for it; and to help out his cause, he and other brains on his side had created sort of a half-clone, half-robot Thor in lieu of the then-missing one. The real Thor was already pissed off that his friends had been fighting amongst themselves, so the clone thing pretty much pushed him into FUCK YOU IRON MAN-ville. Thus, when Iron Man approached him about the legal status of Asgard now that it was sort of in the U.S., Thor essentially told him (with a lot of lightning and rage) to get out of his face and leave him alone.
So the Avengers mostly went without Thor for a while. Loki told Thor's good friend Balder that he, Balder, was actually Odin's second son, and insinuated that Thor had known for a while, but had never told him. This was all true; Thor admitted it, and it put Loki in a good position, because Balder had a reason to trust him, and should anything happen to Thor, Balder would become king.
Thor's a hard dude to kill, so the next best solution was to get him permanently removed from Asgard. Zillions of years earlier, Odin's father, Bor, had been turned into snow via enchantment. But he hadn't been killed, and that made it possible for Loki, with the help of magic, to bring him back. He cast a spell on Bor that made everything he saw seem hostile, and since he was surrounded by mortals, Thor had to stop him from hurting them, and ultimately he had to kill him. Because killing the king of Asgard required punishment, and Bor was technically a king of Asgard, Thor was exiled from Asgard.
While he was mostly out of the picture, Loki conspired with Norman Osborn, a man who was in charge of superhuman affairs as Iron Man's replacement, and whom the masses trusted despite that he was former criminal, to bring about a catastrophe in his eternal quest to make Thor sad. They fixed it so that an Asgardian looked like he was attacking helpless innocent humans, and Osborn used this as an excuse to attack Asgard. Since he did this with reality-altering cape-wearing emotionally unstable godmoder the Sentry (someone Thor sort of considered a friend, in a distant way, it's worth noting), Asgard was mostly destroyed. Thor helped save it despite being exiled, killed the Sentry (who had just killed Loki), and was welcomed back to both Asgard (though not as king) and the Avengers. He has, for the most part, outgrown the childish tendencies that his father disliked in him, as a direct result of spending so many years among humans, but he's also gained a pesky loyalty to them. SEE BELOW HEH
PERSONALITY:
Thor's major conflict, the core of his character, is how he relates to the mortal world vs. the immortal world. Put another way - but this is simplifying it - whether he considers himself a man or a god. When he has to choose between Earth and Asgard, which happens like once a week, he has a big angsty debate with himself: does he honor his father and go to his people, or does he stay with mortals, whom he loves, and who need him? Most Asgardians are apathetic to Earth and its inhabitants, further compounding the pressure on him to stay in Asgard. Thor's really the only one who cares; he's gotten into a lot of arguments about why humans are worth his time (the implication being that Asgard isn't - he'd never think that way, but other gods often take offense). One of his primary reasons is that humans fascinate him. To most gods, they're sort of like fireflies: short-lived and generally insignificant; briefly interesting at best. What Thor finds so compelling about them is their capacity for bravery, brilliance, invention, and love in the face of their very imminent mortality; they have one shot at life, and just about anything can kill them. In his mind, that makes it ten times more amazing and noble that they do and create such incredible things - he's happy to wax poetic about city skylines, for instance (and once again, he's usually the only Asgardian who's really massively impressed by things like that. For example Sif, his longtime friend and on-and-off fiancee, when introduced to Chicago via Thor Airlines, was kind of like "are you fucking kidding me, who cares," and Thor was all BUT BABY LOOK AT ALL THE BUILDINGS).
In contrast with his whole hammer-toting quasi-barbarian image, he has several times said that love is the greatest of virtues and the worthiest thing to fight for. He's not shy about showing or being shown affection, but it's nearly all platonic in nature: he loves his friends; he loves his brothers; he loves humanity - all things he'd readily admit to. In classical terms, he's all about agape and philia; not so much eros. Those stories that do present him as the eros type also present him as an asshole who needs to grow up as opposed to his usual self, and it's worth noting that these stories are few, recent, and set in the distant past (you might call them darker or perhaps more realistic takes on his character, whereas, for instance, Tony Stark has been depicted as a playboy since like forever). Compared to just about everyone he knows, it's almost like he doesn't really consider women sexual beings (or men, in case that's...even a question...I GUESS I'LL JUST THROW THAT OUT THERE, he's like a zero on the Kinsey scale). That's not quite the case; but most of the time he never really flirts with women, evades their flirting and general advances as politely and inoffensively as he can, and generally displays unreasonably high levels of fairytale prince virtue.
Another thing that sets him apart from most characters in the Marvel Universe is that he acts somewhat removed. Others, even people he considers his close (mortal) friends, have often described the effect as "regal" and so on; but what it comes down to is that he's not perfectly integrated with mortals, and as much as he loves and admires them, he knows that. He relates to mortals and immortals in vastly different ways. His closest inner circle consists of his family and oldest immortal friends (which on rare occasions may include Loki, not so much as a friend as someone who knows him well, depending on what he's done lately). Other Asgardians fall somewhere outside the circle of even his good mortal friends, but he still treats them differently - he's tougher on Asgardians, almost how you'd imagine a well-liked general to treat his soldiers (or a viking chief, for that matter); but there are things that Asgardians understand that mortals, by Thor's own admission, never will. So he tends to be more formal with them, even his friends. Most notably, though, he's gentler - especially with women. He's more accepting of faults and fallibility. He treats them, in short, like they're more fragile. Being reminded that they can weather difficult things on their own tends to make him awestruck at their bravery and resilience all over again, but his attitude persists. With people he considers enemies, he can be pretty brutal, but his enemies can usually take it. If they can't - e.g., if they're just powerless humans - he maintains a somewhat paternal air, like GO TO THY ROOM AND THINK ABOUT WHAT THOU HAST DONE. He's very fair, though - quick to anger, but he can forgive just about anything. He's a huge believer in the potential for good in anyone.
Like you might expect from a thousands-of-years-old character, he holds onto a lot of classical values. The trifecta of duty to family/state/gods is an obvious one, even though, of course, he is a god. Asgard will always be a top priority of his - not the top priority, necessarily, but if it's in trouble and Earth isn't, he'll always drop what he's doing and go home. Same for his family: he'd do just about anything to protect Odin, his foster mother, and even - sometimes, depending on who's attacking him and why - Loki. Family means something intangible to him; something that no good man would abandon, and he constantly strives, often unconsciously, to be that ideal good man. Also in the category of classical values: courage, honor, victory, and dying a completely metal death are big for him. In one story, he hears this guy praying to him; he's the last-of-the-last of some tiny isolated viking settlement that managed to stay exactly the same for a zillion years; and what the guy wants is to die in battle. So instead of saying, "listen dude the world isn't really like that anymore, why don't you die peacefully like modern people want to," Thor was like, OKAY I'M GONNA GIVE THIS GUY AN AWESOME DEATH. So he has this kind of old-world respect for certain things, and related scorn for others, chiefly dishonesty and cowardice.
For the most part, though, he's a very tolerant person - not tolerant of things like disrespect, but of people and the (harmless) choices they make. Progressive, even; he's probably the most adaptable Asgardian, and he just sort of unquestioningly accepts that some people are different from him, and that's fine. Christianity is a good example: he's gone out of his way, more than a few times, to assure people that his existence doesn't need to stop them from believing whatever they want to believe, and he's even understanding about people calling him a fraud and so on (although he doesn't like it). He can sometimes be unwittingly insensitive about things that surprise him, but he's never intentionally hateful, even to his enemies. He talks faux-Shakespearean smack to them like it's his job, but, when given the chance to understand a given bad guy's motivations, he'll often try to help them overcome whatever compelled them to badguyhood (as opposed to just beating them up and being like WELP I WIN AND YOU'RE TERRIBLE). His primary impulse is to help people in general, really. Except the Juggernaut. Fuck that guy.
Miscellaneous stuff!!! He tends to be sort of oblivious when it comes to subtle cues directed at him - for instance, if someone were trying to brush him off, it's unlikely that he'd notice, let alone shut up and go away - but he's pretty good atT understanding how people feel just by watching them, which presumably is wisdom born of age (and is sort of reminiscent of Odin, when it happens). Although he can go from happy to THOR SMASH at the speed of light, he's generally upbeat; but the presence of responsibility makes him much more inclined to anger and melancholy. In particular, being responsible for a lot of people such that he can't just run off and do what he wants feels like prison to him - being king did not ever make him happy. Also, although he's pretty straightforward about everything, he does have a sense of humor; it's just one of those awkward ones where people sometimes can't tell when he's joking and occasionally think he's joking when he's not. Asgardians don't seem to have that problem, which is one of many reasons that he comes off as relating more easily and naturally to them.
POWER:
1.) Enchanted hammer: while holding Mjolnir, he can do a bunch of things that he can't do without it. These include flying (described variously as manipulating the wind with extreme precision and being pulled by the force of his own throw), shooting lightning at people, absorbing energy (and spitting it back out - the hammer, not Thor), and warping people into SPACE!!! or wherever else , which hasn't been used in a long time in canon, probably because warping someone into space is kind of a cheap one-hit KO. Also he really should not assume that people will survive that, but he does. I will probably never ever have him use it for those reasons. Anyway: Mjolnir also makes it possible for him to direct lightning strikes precisely, and augments all his elements-related abilities: with his hammer, for instance, he's shown tearing a huge rift in the ground and turning back a tidal wave, and he never really displays that kind of power when he's without his hammer (although, nota bene, he's rarely without his hammer). Additionally, Mjolnir returns to his hand whenever he throws it, and almost no one else can lift it - just those who are 'worthy', which is a nebulous quality that most people apparently don't possess.
2.) GODLY PHYSIOLOGY??? He can withstand much more than a mortal can: extremes of heat and cold (walking in lava hurr), being shot directly, being sliced by magic CUTS-ANYTHING metal (it barely scratched him), etc. He also has superhuman strength, being able to smash through steel walls and whack giant slabs of stone around without his hammer.
3.) Control over the weather - with or without his hammer he can conjure and dispel storms and lightning.
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