History ComicBook / TheMightyThor

* DemotedToExtra: Some proeminent characters from the original myths get much less focus in this adaptation compared to Thor, Loki, Odin and original creations. For example, Frey is a widely attested god in Norse mythology who appears in multiple recorded myths, but in the comics he is a rather obscure minor character who's only appeared in a handful of stories.

* FloweryElizabethanEnglish: The MarvelUniverse version of Thor used to speak in archaic English resembling [[Creator/WilliamShakespeare Shakespearean]] prose. This was dropped in the most recent restart of the series; the Asgardians now speak modern English, though their speech patterns are both formal and faintly archaic.

* SadlyMythtaken: Many details were changed or invented for the series. Notably, Thor is blonde, clean-shaved, unmarried and spoke with a Shakespearean accent! One of the more notable changes was reimagining some gods into brave warriors, like Balder and Sif, partly so Thor could have other gods go on adventures with him/partly to answer the question of who's protecting Asgard with all the time Thor spends on Earth fighting human villains. It was all justified eventually, though; in the MarvelUniverse, Ragnarok isn't a one-time event. Every time it happens, Asgard [[ResetButton resets]], and the same gods, giants, etc are reborn, but with mostly minor changes in appearance and personality. For more details, see SadlyMythtaken.TheMightyThor.

* SmallReferencePools: This trope is part of what inspired Creator/StanLee to create this character: the Greek myths were well known in North America, but the Norse ones were much less so, thus giving Lee a fresh source of material for stories for the MarvelUniverse. In doing so, Lee and Kirby provided generations of kids their first exposure to this mythology.

See the [[Franchise/TheMightyThor franchise page for more details on the adaptations]]

* SelectiveMagnetism: Thor has displayed some power over magnetism. He's used it to overcome '''Magneto's''' magnetic force field before [[http://i388.photobucket.com/albums/oo326/OneDumbG0/Thor%20Mjölnir/ThorMjölnir34-Magnetism.jpg in ''Journey into Mystery'' #109.]]

* DreamTeam: Thor and [[spoiler:Superman]] in ''ComicBook/JLAAvengers''.

* ShoutOut: Walt Simonson's use of "beyond the fields we know" to indicate a transition to Asgard was a homage to the works of Creator/LordDunsany, who originated the phrase in his own fantasy stories.

* PlaygroundSong/NinetyNineBottlesOfBeer: One issue has Asgardian children singing "99 Bottles of Grog on the Wall."

** Thor is, of course, [[http://daveslongbox.blogspot.com/2006/04/thor-smack-talker.html "the consummate smack-talker of the Marvel Universe."]]

** To Tony Stark, after obliterating the Iron Man suit and tearing it off Tony's body in a very one-sided fight: [[http://scans-daily.dreamwidth.org/2631834.html?thread=87413146 "Give your orders and ultimatums to those who choose to obey, or are too cowardly to fight. Not to me. Or learn again the difference between a god of thunder and a mortal man in a metal suit."]]

--->''"Thunder."''\\

* BigNo: When [[spoiler:Jane Foster is killed (don't worry, she gets better)]] in ''Thor'' #371, Thor spends an entire page smashing stuff up while shouting [+"NO!"+]. He ends up kneeling in the wreckage, saying one final, very small, [-"No."-]

* ClueFromEd: Marvel is infamous for its overuse of the "[[YouAreTheTranslatedForeignWord Midgard = Earth]]" caption whenever Thor is in a comic. Many have asked why not just translate it into Earth then, or why make that note when people can just Google it these days. Nevertheless, they have kept doing it, with at least one case reading "Earth, because we're [[RunningGag obligated to do this]] in every comic Thor appears in."

* DeflectorShields: Thor can create "dimension disruptions" with his hammer to protect himself or his allies. In ''Journey into Mystery'' #112, he created a disruption around himself that was "impossible for the Hulk to break through."

** [[invoked]] Marvel rolled out a new incarnation of Thor, a female one, to substitute the original male version. They specified that she is not "She-Thor, Lady Thor, Thorita" or anything like that, just plain Thor." (Though a different Thor from the original, and not simply him turned into a woman).

They sing no songs in Hel, nor do they celebrate heroes, for silent is that dismal realm and cheerless. But the story of the Gjallerbru and the god who defended it is whispered across the Nine Worlds... and when a new arrival asks about the one to whom even Hela bows her head, the answer is always the same. "[[https://imgur.com/gallery/i53B8 He stood alone at Gjallerbru.]]"... and that answer is enough."

* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: Originally, Thor's hammer in Marvel Comics was simply called the "Uru Hammer." However, from the Tales of Asgard story "The Fiery Breath of Fafnir" onwards (Thor #135) by Kirby and Lee, the name Mjolnir began to be used.

* GagPenis: In one issue, an Asgardian named Volstagg the Mighty (an exceedingly... [[BigBeautifulMan large-boned]] fellow), attacks a [[Characters/MarvelComicsDoctorDoom Doombot]] who is firing an energy beam, which destroys his clothing... but he wrecks the Doombot. Sif and the other two members of the Warriors Three stare at him and comment that they now know where his title of "The Mighty" comes from. When Volstagg notices where Sif is staring, he admonishes her to "cast thine eyes elsewhere... though it may take them some time to make the journey."[[note]]Volstagg is generally portrayed as HappilyMarried, with several children, and his other nicknames include the Voluminous and the Enormous.[[/note]]

* SuperSpeed: In ''Thor'' #354, Thor described himself as having the "swiftness of the very lightning itself." He has flown fast enough to catch Hermes, attacked Quicksilver faster than his SuperReflexes could register, and moved so fast that even fellow Asgardians Heimdall and Hela could barely see him. One of Thor's attacks, the [[FlamingSword Atomic Flare]], requires Thor to whirl his hammer "faster than thought" in order to set its molecules ablaze. Finally, in order to use Mjölnir's time travel abilities in ''Journey into Mystery'' #85, Thor must spin the hammer "faster than light."

-->''"I would have words with thee."''

* YouDidntAsk: In ''Thor'' #337 -- though, since it's Thor, it's "Thou didst not ask."

* CanonForeigner: Several characters from the mythological side of the stories, such as the Warriors Three and Enchantress, were created by the comics and are neither based on nor inspired by any specific characters from Myth/NorseMythology[[note]]Amora, the first Enchantress, shares attributes with Freyja and Iðunn, but both appear as different characters[[/note]]. Lorelei also doesn't have a counterpart in Norse myths, but she was based on a [[OurSirensAreDifferent siren]]-like being from Germanic folklore rather than created as an original character.

* AdaptationRelationshipOverhaul: [[TricksterGod Loki]] is portrayed as the title character's brother, having been adopted by his father, Odin. In Myth/NorseMythology, Odin and Loki were more along the lines of BloodBrothers.[[note]]In the first comic depicting Loki's backstory, it was accompanied with a note saying, "Many are the legends of Loki's birth[=--=]but this is one we favor!"[[/note]]

* SadlyMythtaken: Many details were changed or invented for the series. Notably, Thor is blonde, clean-shaved, unmarried and spoke with a Shakespearean accent! One of the more notable changes was reimagining some gods into brave warriors, like Balder and Sif, partly so Thor could have other gods go on adventures with him/partly to answer the question of who's protecting Asgard with all the time Thor spends on Earth fighting human villains. It was all justified eventually, though; in the MarvelUniverse, Ragnarok isn't a one-time event. Every time it happens, Asgard [[ResetButton resets]], and the same gods, giants, etc are reborn, but with mostly minor changes in appearance and personality.

* CanonForeigner: Several characters from the mythological side of the stories, such as the Warriors Three and Enchantress, were created by the comics and are neither based on nor inspired by any specific characters from Myth/NorseMythology. Lorelei also doesn't have a counterpart in Norse myths, but she was based on a [[OurSirensAreDifferent siren]]-like being from Germanic folklore rather than created as an original character.

* EndlessWinter: The "Cask of Winters"/"The Casket of Ancient Winters" is used to create this effect by several enemies of Asgard, especially Malekith "the Accursed". Probably inspired by the [[Myth/NorseMythology Fimbulvinter]].

* EverybodyHatesHades: Hela, the Norse goddess of the dead (well, the dead who didn't die in heroic battle, anyway) is given this treatment. Sometimes it is justified, as she on occasions took the role of a villain and tried to take over Valhalla, but it still doesn't justify the hatred she gets when she only tries to care for the souls under her charge.

* AnAxeToGrind: Notably, Thor's old battle-axe Jarnbjorn.

* DefectorFromParadise: "The Reigning" story arc presents a massive version of this trope. The story arc featured a nigh-omnipotent Thor ruling over both Earth and Asgard as All-Father. His dominion was characterized as having "solved all of humanity's ills", including war, disease, hunger, etc. However, the conflict of the story revolved around the idea that the "paradise" Thor had created wasn't earned by humanity and therefore wasn't real. Eventually revealing a [[CrapsaccharineWorld heavy layer of stagnation & injustice beneath the facade]] of a Utopian society run by largely complacent, bigoted or otherwise apathetic JerkassGods. Which furthermore, in part, left Thor to blame when everything went wrong. For one, his adviser [[PoisonousFriend Loki]] engaging in secret executions and other atrocities to silence dissension to [[FascistButInefficient Asgardian supremacy]]. To say nothing in the least of his secretly promoting rebellion by supplying munitions to insurgencies and uprisings all so [[TheBadguysAreCops his security forces]] and Asgard's finest could brutally quell them to start with--something Thor never would've approved of if he'd known. Almost all of Thor's old friends (Sif, Captain America, Jake Olson, even Jane Foster and [[EnigmaticEmpoweringEntity Tarene]] among numerous others) formed a rebellion to reject his false paradise and take Thor down. Eventually all of it resulting, [[MistreatmentInducedBetrayal largely because of Thor's thoughtless narrow mindedness and Loki's own duplicity]], in his imperfect kingdom being utterly destroyed, most everybody in it dying, and King Thor being forced to use all of his power to hit a cosmic ResetButton so that his younger self never came into his rule.

* SignatureMove: Thor's [[DropTheHammer Mjölnir]] [[ThrowingYourSwordAlwaysWorks throw]] is his most common attack ([[https://imgur.com/gallery/RQabb sometimes tricking his opponent into getting hit by it when he summons it back to his hand]]), followed by [[WeatherManipulation summoning lighting]] or just a [[https://dorisvsutherland.files.wordpress.com/2018/09/thorb2.jpg?w=574&h=523 overhead]] [[https://oyster.ignimgs.com/wordpress/stg.ign.com/2017/04/IMG_0436-720x960.png?fit=bounds&width=1280&height=720 strike]]. There's also his "[[https://i.imgur.com/FVsRUix.jpeg God Blast]]" attack which sadly [[WesternAnimation/AvengersEarthsMightiestHeroes rarely]] shows up in adaptations.

* BalefulPolymorph: The memorable storyline, beginning in ''Thor'' #363, where Thor is turned into a frog.

Thor is also a character in the Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse, portrayed by Creator/ChrisHemsworth and appearing in [[Film/{{Thor}} his eponymous movie]] in 2011 and in ''Film/{{The Avengers|2012}}'' in 2012. A sequel to ''Thor'' called ''Film/ThorTheDarkWorld'' was released in 2013, and the character would return in 2015's ''Film/AvengersAgeOfUltron'' and 2017's ''Film/ThorRagnarok'', his third solo film. He then appeared in 2018's ''Film/AvengersInfinityWar'' and in its 2019 sequel, ''Film/AvengersEndgame''. Hemsworth will return in 2022's ''Film/ThorLoveAndThunder'', and is presumably attached to ''Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3''.

* NinetyNineBottlesOfBeer: One issue has Asgardian children singing "99 Bottles of Grog on the Wall."

* ImmortalImmaturity: During Jason Aaron's run the Thor of the future constantly complains about current Thor and past Thor's lack of intelligence and maturity:

* WreckedWeapon: Mjölnir has been broken many times over the years. In terms of numbers, it's been destroyed and restored a total of ''seven'' times. This also happens a lot with Thor's new arsenal of hammers, since they are comprised of less refined Uru. Granted, they're durable enough for Earthly threats, but against Thor's typical weight-class (i.e. TheJuggernaut, Frost Giants, Malekith), they tend to break most of the time.

* BadassBoast:

** To Tony Stark, after obliterating the Iron Man suit and tearing it off Tony's body: [[http://scans-daily.dreamwidth.org/2631834.html?thread=87413146 "Give your orders and ultimatums to those who choose to obey, or are too cowardly to fight. Not to me. Or learn again the difference between a god of thunder and a mortal man in a metal suit."]]

* AttractiveBentGender: Thor was turned into a woman once; Recently, it was Loki who had been switched (albeit through body snatching poor Sif) and later incarnations became outright OtherworldlyAndSexuallyAmbiguous.

* TheFairFolk: Dark Elves are a recurring enemy to Thor and Asgard, with their King Malekith being first the ArcVillain of ''The Accursed'' arc of ''Thor: God of Thunder'', then becoming the fully fledged BigBad (or at least, leader of the BigBadEnsemble) of ''ComicBook/Thor2014''.

Thor has been animated several times, though rarely on his own and primarily instead with the Avengers or other Marvel heroes: ''WesternAnimation/TheMarvelSuperHeroes'', ''WesternAnimation/TheSuperheroSquadShow'', ''WesternAnimation/TheAvengersEarthsMightiestHeroes'', its SpiritualSuccessor ''WesternAnimation/AvengersAssemble'', and ''Anime/MarvelDiskWarsTheAvengers''; plus his Ultimate version in ''WesternAnimation/UltimateAvengers''. He's also one of [[ComicBook/TheIncredibleHulk the Hulk]]'s two major opponents in ''WesternAnimation/HulkVs'' (the other being ComicBook/{{Wolverine}}), and finally got his own feature with ''WesternAnimation/ThorTalesOfAsgard''.

* ArrogantGodVsRagingMonster: Every fight between Thor and ComicBook/TheIncredibleHulk is basically this. While most of them end inconclusively, and the question of who is strongest [[EvasiveFightThreadEpisode is left unanswered on purpose]], the sometimes arrogant Thor can't stand how the child-brained Hulk keeps on proclaiming himself to be the strongest, and neither can the Hulk stand the idea of not being able to lift Thor's hammer. While it is true Thor possesses a greater variety of powers, the Hulk's ever increasing strength through rage keeps proving to make him more than a match for Thor.

** Mjölnir. It's not how strong you are, it's how ''worthy'' you are. [[ComicBook/IncredibleHulk The Hulk]] and Juggernaut have both tried with all their might to budge it and cannot lift it. However, Captain America can lift it easily. Times it has been mistaken to be lifted by the non-worthy include alternate realities/versions where the enchantment did not apply, fake duplicates, or machines that have no worthiness to measure like robots.

* FusionDance: When Thor and Eric Masterson were in the far reaches of space trying to restore ComicBook/TheIncredibleHercules to normal, Eric was mortally wounded when he performed a HeroicSacrifice to save Thor. Thor saved Eric by binding their life-forces together, which saved Eric but forced him to share a body with Thor. When Thor was later banished from Earth by Odin, Eric was entrusted with Mjölnir and all of Thor's innate abilities.

* NobleMaleRoguishMale: Thor is the noble man--fighting for honor, justice and valor, while Comicbook/TheIncredibleHercules is the rogue--fighting evil [[BloodKnight because it's fun]] and to impress women, and he's more than willing to play dirty.

* WorthyOpponent: Thor has a few; [[ComicBook/TheIncredibleHercules Hercules]], [[Comicbook/IncredibleHulk the Hulk]], ComicBook/TheSentry, the Midgard Serpent, and ComicBook/BetaRayBill, just to name a few.

* UpToEleven: The only reason Thor exists is because Creator/StanLee was stumped as to how he could top his last creation--[[ComicBook/IncredibleHulk the Hulk]], who was the strongest man alive. For Stan, the answer was for his next character to not be a "man" at all!

Later, Thor abandoned his Dr. Blake identity (who may or may not have been an actual person -- it's confusing) and even was replaced temporarily by other heroes such as Beta Ray Bill and Thunderstrike. After Odin was KilledOffForReal, Thor gained his powers and responsibilities. He finally managed to end the Ragnarok cycle, though all of Asgard was destroyed in the process. In 2007, Thor returned and re-created Asgard (and revived its people) ''in the middle of the United States'', on land he legally bought! But Loki also returned, badder than ever (first as a woman, then his regular male form and after a rebirth a CreepyChild), and set on making life miserable for Thor once again. Thor has now returned to the brand-new [[ComicBook/TheAvengers Avengers]] lineup.