History Characters / MarvelComicsThorOdinson

* DropTheHammer: [[PublicDomainArtifact Mjölnir]] is a ''very'' important part of Thor's character. It lets him focus his innate weather powers, and also grants him the ability of faster-than-light flight. It was once said that Thor by himself comprises half the full wartime might of Asgard... but that half of ''Thor's'' might resides in Mjölnir. After Mjölnir is [[spoiler:destroyed]], Thor begins wielding a number of new hammers, many of which have their own abilities. However, they are also not as strong as his old one and break easily if he's not careful.

* TimeAbyss: Downplayed in that he's certainly not an elder of the universe or eons old like the Skyfathers, but he's well over a few thousand in his years. He's fought Apocalypse in 1013 A.D. and even in WWII for the Nazis (he was duped by Hitler at the time). His future self, Old King Thor, goes on to live for countless millennia, to the point where he's described as being far older than any god to have ever lived. Considering how old deities can be in Marvel's cosmology of gods, that speaks volumes.

* AlternateCompanyEquivalent: ''Many'' comic fans see him as one to Creator/DCComics' Franchise/{{Superman}}, due to both having red capes, both being very close to each other in terms of power scaling, both coming from other worlds, both being seen as gods (though Thor is literally a god in this case), and both being [[NiceGuy nice guys]] to a fault.

** In issue 3 of ''War of the Realms'', a strike team composed of ComicBook/CaptainAmerica, Franchise/SpiderMan, ComicBook/LukeCage, ComicBook/IronFist and ComicBook/{{Wolverine}} were sent to Jotunheim to rescue Thor after he had been stranded there by Malekith. ComicBook/{{Daredevil}} (with Heimdall's powers) even told them that he heard him screaming from across the universe, so they made haste. This ends up being subverted, as he was screaming in fury and killing all of his enemies in his [[TheBerserker Warrior's Madness]].

** Whilst it hasn't happened in the main continuity, Thor and ComicBook/{{Storm}} has shown up in several extra-canon Marvel stories. They were shown dating in Marvel Adventures, whilst X-Treme X-Men #2 featured a Thor & Storm from an alternate universe who were married. WordOfGod has even revealed that a character named Thunderstorm, who was the daughter of Thor & Storm, was planned to be introduced in the Exiles.

* NotQuiteFlight: Thor's method of flight involves holding onto Mjölnir after throwing it and traveling on the momentum of his throwing strength. Of course, since the hammer is magic and can fly around unaided, he doesn't even need to throw it to let it take him places. However, he has sometimes been depicted flying without it, but reasons tend to vary on whether or not he's channeling his hammer's power to let him levitate or if he's taking a page out of ComicBook/{{Storm}}'s book and manipulating the wind to stay aloft.

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* AdaptationPersonalityChange: Marvel's Thor is more classically noble, polite and inspiring than the Thor in myths. While mythological Thor was also a well-doing protector of mankind, he was a hot-tempered BloodKnight who several times had to be talked down out of his fury, such as when he would have broken all of Loki's bones after he cut Sif's hair had he not sworn to ask the dwarves for a replacement and would straightway have cracked the skull of the giantess Hyrrokkin when she pushed Baldr's enormous funerary ship hard enough to shake the ground if the other gods hadn't stopped him. This is occasionally adressed in stories set in Thor's younger days, in which he is portrayed as more impulsive and reckless.

* RoyalHarem: In Jason Aaron's continuity, Thor (or at least, previous iterations of him during the Ragnarok cycles) kept a harem of concubines to serve him. This is in keeping with his mythological stories, where he also kept a host of concubines and sired a number of children with unknown mothers.

* TheAlcoholic: Not quite to the same degree as [[ComicBook/IronMan Tony Stark]], but he does love his mead and ale. His younger self was far more of a drinker than his future versions.

** Roz Solomon is an agent of ComicBook/{{SHIELD}}, and thus a fully licensed and trained secret agent with skills in espionage, counter-terrorism and martial arts.

* ButForMeItWasTuesday: Thor once fought against a massive army for two full years without any rest, but he doesn't even remember the fight. This is because when your a god who's fought in so many battles over the centuries, a two year long fight means nothing.

* CameBackStrong: {{Subverted|Trope}}. After he returns from the final Ragnarok cycle and gets into a fight with Iron Man, Tony comments on Thor being much stronger than he was previously. Thor tells him that he hasn't grown any stronger, [[IAmNotLeftHanded he's just not holding back anymore]].

** Whether or not he can fly without Mjölnir has occasionally shifted depending on the story or media. Sometimes he needs Mjölnir to be able to fly, but other times he can fly perfectly fine without it. After ''Original Sin'', he seems to have lost the ability to fly for good now that he can no longer use his hammer, though ''A New Start'' reveals that it doesn't necessarily require Mjolnir - just a magic hammer. By the time of Donny Cates' run, [[spoiler:even after he loses his Herald powers]], he's shown being able to fly perfectly well without his hammer.

** His exact level of strength also fluctuated over the years, largely in relation to the Hulk. Is he stronger than the Hulk? Is he dead even with him? Is he substantially weaker when the Hulk is enraged? This tends to alter depending on the writer. In 2013, Creator/StanLee gave his stance on the issue and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHfJ_NjJTM8 stated that]] [[PopularityPower it was a matter of whether the writer in question is a bigger fan of the Hulk or Thor]].

* DumbMuscle: Thor's impulsive nature and preference for acting without thinking things through can often leave this impression when it gets him or his allies in trouble. {{Subverted|Trope}} in that when he bothers to think he can come up with reasonably intelligent battle plans.
* ElementalPowers: Lighting and Wind, befitting the God of Thunder. He also has DishingOutDirt thanks to his (disputed) heritage as the son of Gaea and PlayingWithFire to a smaller degree with his "Atomic Flare" technique.

* FunPersonified: A common interpretation of his character presents him this way.

* HybridPower: One of the reasons Thor supersedes every other member of his race barring his father is because of his special heritage. He's the son of the All-father, Odin, who is the most powerful Asgardian overall and the holder of the all powerful Odinforce that he will one day inherit, but he's also either the son of Gaea, the immensely powerful Elder Goddess of Earth, or Firehair, a human mutant and host of the Phoenix. Let's just say that Thor hit the SuperpowerLottery big time with genetics like that. [[spoiler:Gaea is the mother, but Firehair 'rebirthed' him through Phoenix Fire when Laufey killed him moments after birth]].

* LukeIAmYourFather: Thor gets this in ComicBook/TheAvengers (2021) "Enter the Phoenix" arc. The mutant [[NubileSavage cavewoman]]/[[CosmicEntity Phoenix Force avatar]], Firehair tells Thor that Odin hid the truth and she's his real mother. [[spoiler:This turns out to be MetaphoricallyTrue. Firehair convinced Gaea to accept Odin's courtship after she herself rejected Odin's marriage, and later 'rebirthed' Thor through her Phoenix fire when Laufey killed him instants after he was born - and, apparently, got attached. Gaea herself said that Firehair is just as much the mother as she is]].

* MamasBabyPapasMaybe: Inverted. There's never been doubt on Odin being his father, but it was after the gods fought the Celestials with the Destroyer and Odinsword, that Gaea was established at his mother. And in 2021, his maternal parentage is called into question again with the "Enter the Phoenix" arc. [[spoiler:Gaea is Thor's boilogical mother, but Firehair was the one who convinced her give Odin the chance, and sort of 'rebirthed' Thor in Phoenix fire after he was killed instants after birth]].

* PlayingWithFire: ''ComicBook/{{The Avengers|JasonAaron}}'' reveals that Thor has cosmic fire powers stemming from him being the son of the Phoenix. [[spoiler:The actual reason is because while Gaea is the true birth mother, Laufey killed the new born Thor in mere moments after his birth. To save the newborn Thor, Firehair used the power of Phoenix Force to "rebirth" the child]].

* AnAxeToGrind: In his youth, he wielded a large battle axe called Jarnbjorn and uses it whenever his hammer is unavailable for whatever reason. Aside from being [[NighInvulnerability nearly indestructible]] and being able to cleave through nearly anything when backed by Thor's strength, it's also specifically enchanted to be lethal to Celestials and anything made by them. He later takes up his battle ax again after he loses Mjölnir following the ''ComicBook/OriginalSin'' story-line. Even after he gained new hammers, a couple of them feature an axe component.

* DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu: Something Thor is known for is taking on the most powerful beings ever and knocking them down a peg or two. He's defeated the World Serpent, struck a starving Galactus with a God Blast powerful enough to send him fleeing, and knocked out the Phoenix Force, just to name a few.

* DivineParentage: Granted, all Asgardians can be considered this due to being gods, but Thor takes this up to eleven by not only being the son of the All-Father Odin, but the offspring of Gaea, the Earth mother and an actual Elder God. Though this gets called into question when the 2021 ''Avengers'' storyline, "Enter the Phoenix", heavily implies that he's the offspring of Odin and Firehair, an ancient avatar for the Phoenix Force. Either way, he still qualifies for this trope. [[spoiler:He's actually Gaea's child, but, to square the circle, he was killed by Laufey almost immediately after birth, and was 'rebirthed' by Firehair's Phoenix fire. Per Gaea, that makes them both his mother]].

* LukeIAmYourFather: Thor gets this in ComicBook/TheAvengers (2021) "Enter the Phoenix" arc. The mutant [[NubileSavage cavewoman]]/[[CosmicEntity Phoenix Force avatar]], Firehair tells Thor that Odin hid the truth and she's his real mother. [[spoiler:This turns out to be MetaphoricallyTrue. Firehair convinced Gaea to accept Odin's courtship after she herself rejected Odin's marriage. Gaea herself said that Firehair is just as much the mother as she is]].

* MamasBabyPapasMaybe: Inverted. There's never been doubt on Odin being his father, but it was after the gods fought the Celestials with the Destroyer and Odinsword, that Gaea was established at his mother. And in 2021, his maternal parentage is called into question again with the "Enter the Phoenix" arc. [[spoiler:Gaea is Thor's boilogical mother, but Firehair was the one who convinced her give Odin the chance]].

* DivineParentage: Granted, all Asgardians can be considered this due to being gods, but Thor takes this up to eleven by not only being the son of the All-Father Odin, but the offspring of Gaea, the Earth mother and an actual Elder God. Though this gets called into question when the 2021 ''Avengers'' storyline, "Enter the Phoenix", heavily implies that he's the offspring of Odin and Firehair, an ancient avatar for the Phoenix Force. Either way, he still qualifies for this trope. [[spoiler:He's actually Gaea's child]].

* HalfHumanHybrid: In the 2021 ComicBook/TheAvengers ''Enter the Phoenix'' arc, Firehair who's an ancient human mutant/Phoenix avatar tells Thor that she's his actual mother and the Gaea story is a lie (Firehair says the reason why the Phoenix has returned is to see if it can dump its reawakened memories of her by getting a new avatar). If she's telling the truth then Thor is part human mutant (and CosmicEntity). [[spoiler:Turns out Gaea is still Thor's birth mother, so no human, or mutant DNA]].

* HybridPower: One of the reasons Thor supersedes every other member of his race barring his father is because of his special heritage. He's the son of the All-father, Odin, who is the most powerful Asgardian overall and the holder of the all powerful Odinforce that he will one day inherit, but he's also either the son of Gaea, the immensely powerful Elder Goddess of Earth, or Firehair, a human mutant and host of the Phoenix. Let's just say that Thor hit the SuperpowerLottery big time with genetics like that. [[spoiler:Gaea is the mother]].

* NonHumanHumanoidHybrid: Possibly. Part of why Thor is so much stronger than any other Asgardian is because he's half-Asgardian on his father's side, but he's also half-Elder God from his mother, Gaea's, side. Though since Odin is also half-Frost Giant from his mother's side, this makes Thor 1/4 Asgardian, 1/4 Frost Giant, and 1/2 Elder God. However, the 'Enter the Phoenix' arc of Aaron's ''Avengers'' suggests that his mother might actually be Firehair, a human mutant and the first Phoenix host.

* ManOfKryptonite: He's this to Max Dillon/Electro. Thor can manipulate and is completely immune to being harmed by electricity while Max is a being made of electricity. When they fought, Thor easily absorbed him into Mjölnir and blasted him into the sky, humiliating the electric supervillain.

* DivineParentage: Granted, all Asgardians can be considered this due to being gods, but Thor takes this up to eleven by not only being the son of the All-Father Odin, but the offspring of Gaea, the Earth mother and an actual Elder God. Though this gets called into question when the 2021 ''Avengers'' storyline, "Enter the Phoenix", heavily implies that he's the offspring of Odin and Firehair, an ancient avatar for the Phoenix Force. Either way, he still qualifies for this trope.

* HalfHumanHybrid: In the 2021 ComicBook/TheAvengers ''Enter the Phoenix'' arc, Firehair who's an ancient human mutant/Phoenix avatar tells Thor that she's his actual mother and the Gaea story is a lie (Firehair says the reason why the Phoenix has returned is to see if it can dump its reawakened memories of her by getting a new avatar). If she's telling the truth then Thor is part human mutant (and CosmicEntity).

* HybridPower: One of the reasons Thor supersedes every other member of his race barring his father is because of his special heritage. He's the son of the All-father, Odin, who is the most powerful Asgardian overall and the holder of the all powerful Odinforce that he will one day inherit, but he's also either the son of Gaea, the immensely powerful Elder Goddess of Earth, or Firehair, a human mutant and host of the Phoenix. Let's just say that Thor hit the SuperpowerLottery big time with genetics like that.

* LukeIAmYourFather: Thor gets this in ComicBook/TheAvengers (2021) "Enter the Phoenix" arc. The mutant [[NubileSavage cavewoman]]/[[CosmicEntity Phoenix Force avatar]], Firehair tells Thor that Odin hid the truth and she's his real mother.

* MamasBabyPapasMaybe: Inverted. There's never been doubt on Odin being his father, but it was after the gods fought the Celestials with the Destroyer and Odinsword, that Gaea was established at his mother. And in 2021, his maternal parentage is called into question again with the "Enter the Phoenix" arc.

* PlayingWithFire: ''ComicBook/{{The Avengers|JasonAaron}}'' reveals that Thor has cosmic fire powers stemming from him being the son of the Phoenix.

* TheBerserker: If really pressed in combat, Thor can enter a state called the "Warrior's Madness", which is claimed to ''increase his strength tenfold'' (keep in mind that Thor has the greatest physical might of all Asgardians already and is one of the few beings powerful enough to go head-to-head with an enraged ComicBook/IncredibleHulk by himself) and makes him more resistant to harm. The problem is that he can no longer distinguish friend from foe in this state.

* NotQuiteFlight: Thor's method of flight involves holding onto Mjölnir after throwing it and traveling on the momentum of his throwing strength. Of course, since the hammer is magic and can fly around unaided, he doesn't even need to throw it to let it take him places. However, he has sometimes been depicted flying without it, but reasons tend to vary on whether or not he's channeling his hammer's power to let him levitate or if he's taking a page out of Comicbook/{{Storm}}'s book and manipulating the wind to stay aloft.

* SuperStrength: Thor's strength is immense, and the super-beings who can match him can be counted on the fingers of one hand (not counting cosmic entities). He's used a fishing rod to lift the World Serpent, held together a moon and used his lightning to mend it back together, and resisted the gravity of a neutron star. In ''Avengers'' Vol. 3 #63, he's shown to be strong enough to dent Captain America's shield. He has proven equal to Hercules in pure physical might, and he once [[UseYourHead headbutted]] the ComicBook/SilverSurfer hard enough to ''[[ChromeChampion dent the Surfer's skull]]''. Keep in mind, the Silver Surfer is a character whose strategy against the ''ComicBook/IncredibleHulk'' was "let him punch me to no effect until he gets bored", which ''worked''.

* WillfullyWeak: Thor often intentionally holds himself back when he's fighting on Earth. Part of this is due to his not wanting to kill his enemies or make his friends feel weak (see NoMoreHoldingBackSpeech on the Comicbook page), but part of it is also likely due to the fact that he's often fighting in urban areas with lots of innocent bystanders. If he unleashed his full power, he could cause a lot of unnecessary collateral damage -- especially as this is someone who has ''shattered planets with the shock-wave of his blows''.

* DivineParentage: Granted, all Asgardians can be considered this due to being gods, but Thor takes this UpToEleven by not only being the son of the All-Father Odin, but the offspring of Gaea, the Earth mother and an actual Elder God. Though this gets called into question when the 2021 ''Avengers'' storyline, "Enter the Phoenix", heavily implies that he's the offspring of Odin and Firehair, an ancient avatar for the Phoenix Force. Either way, he still qualifies for this trope.

!!Thor

!!! '''Alter Ego:''' Thor Odinson

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* IHaveManyNames: Given his long life, he's gone by many names and titles including, but not limited to: Donar, Thunaer, God of Thunder, the Thunderer, Son of Gaea, the Golden Avenger, Donald Blake, Storm-God, Jormungand's Fear, All-Father ([[spoiler:after ''War of the Realms'']]), [[spoiler:God of the Unworthy]], and [[spoiler:Herald of Thunder]].

* EnergyAbsorption: One of Mjölnir's abilities is that it can absorb and redirect an almost unlimited amount of energy. He's redirected Hyperion's atomic vision, the Power Cosmic fueled blasts of the ComicBook/SilverSurfer, and the devastating flames of Glory. The absorbed energy can be redirected with anywhere between 10 to 100 times as much power back at his attackers. One of the hammer's greatest feats was in ''Thor #407'', where Mjölnir managed to contain the galaxy-destroying power of a Null Bomb before using the power to reignite a dying sun. And in ComicBook/{{Thor|2020}}, as Herald of Thunder he absorbed all of the Power Cosmic from an upgraded Galactus