History Comicbook / FearItself

* PowerLossDepression: [[spoiler:The epilogue shows Sin has been traumatized by the loss of her powers as [[TheDragon Cul's herald.]]
-->[[spoiler:'''Sin''']]: [[spoiler:I was worshiped -- loved and feared -- ''as a god''! I can still feel it -- like phantom pain. My hammer...I can still feel it in my grasp...The loss of my divinity...it burns!]]

* SeriesContinuityError: ''Fear Itself'' is full of these, mostly written by the same writer. Odin has always been portrayed as the god with a plan for anything to save everyone and willing to sacrifice himself for the good of all. Yet a last resort plan is his only plan. Odin is depicted as defeating [[spoiler: Cul]] only after a massive war the first time around. The prequel Fraction wrote depicted Odin defeating him with ease. Odin mourns [[spoiler:the death of Thor,]] but previously Fraction wrote Thor [[spoiler:resurrecting Odin with ease]], making you think Odin should logically be able to do the same. The Serpent displays vast strength and mystical powers such as shattering Captain America's shield, but forgets these to turn into a giant snake that is easily cut up by Thor.

* SeriesContinuityError: ''Fear Itself'' is full of these, mostly written by the same writer. Odin has always been portrayed as the god with a plan for anything to save everyone and willing to sacrifice himself for the good of all. Yet a last resort plan is his only plan. Odin is depicted as defeating [[spoiler: Cul]] only after a massive war the first time around. The prequel Fraction wrote depicted Odin defeating him with ease. Odin mourns [[spoiler:the death of Thor,]] but previously Fraction wrote Thor [[spoiler:resurrecting Odin with ease]], making you think Oden should logically be able to do the same. The Serpent displays vast strength and mystical powers such as shattering Captain America's shield, but forgets these to turn into a giant snake that is easily cut up by Thor.

* TheDreaded: The Serpent once again; he has Odin scared ''shitless'' of him, to the point where the Allfather is willing to ''raze the entire planet Earth'' just to destroy the Serpent. We later find out the Serpent's real name is [[spoiler: Cul, Oden' older brother and God of fear]].

* TheTeam: The Forgiven.

** [[spoiler: That deal with Surtur? Loki agreed to work to bring him into Asgard to feed on its core to escape his imprisonment. He got out of it by bringing him into the Serpent's Dark Asgard, but due to everything now Surtur is still free.]]

As such, much like Donald Blake before her, Sin is transformed into the powerful Asgardian, Skadi. With the awesome power conferred by the hammer, Skadi sets out at the head of a large Nazi force to lead a blitzkrieg on the UsefulNotes/UnitedStates... but not before stopping off by the prison of a mysterious deity known only as the [[SealedEvilInACan Serpent]] and busting him out, first. Setting the stage for a series of other hammers to fall all over the world with each its [[TheChosenMany "Worthy"]] gaining awesome power and the order to spread fear around the globe.

As such, much like Donald Blake before her, Sin is transformed into the powerful Asgardian, Skadi. With the awesome power conferred by the hammer, Skadi sets out at the head of a large Nazi force to lead a blitzkrieg on the United States... but not before stopping off by the prison of a mysterious deity known only as the [[SealedEvilInACan Serpent]] and busting him out, first. Setting the stage for a series of other hammers to fall all over the world with each its [[TheChosenMany "Worthy"]] gaining awesome power and the order to spread fear around the globe.

At some point during UsefulNotes/WorldWarII, the ComicBook/RedSkull [[{{Ghostapo}} enacted an arcane ritual under the orders of Adolf Hitler]], causing a mysterious artifact to fall from the heavens and crash land in Antarctica. Upon locating the artifact--a large hammer, supposedly tied to the Norse goddess Skadi--and learning that he is incapable of lifting it, the Skull has the Thule Society seal it away in a fortress and guard it with their lives. Fast forward to the present day, where his daughter [[DaddysLittleVillain Sin]], believing the hammer to be her inheritance, comes to collect; and after killing the guards and getting her hands on the hammer, she proves capable of lifting it. Of course, as with any mystical weapon there is a catch to wielding it, and this hammer is no exception; for, as the runic inscription on its shaft states,

At some point during the Second World War, the ComicBook/RedSkull [[{{Ghostapo}} enacted an arcane ritual under the orders of Adolf Hitler]], causing a mysterious artifact to fall from the heavens and crash land in Antarctica. Upon locating the artifact--a large hammer, supposedly tied to the Norse goddess Skadi--and learning that he is incapable of lifting it, the Skull has the Thule Society seal it away in a fortress and guard it with their lives. Fast forward to the present day, where his daughter [[DaddysLittleVillain Sin]], believing the hammer to be her inheritance, comes to collect; and after killing the guards and getting her hands on the hammer, she proves capable of lifting it. Of course, as with any mystical weapon there is a catch to wielding it, and this hammer is no exception; for, as the runic inscription on its shaft states,

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* ArtifactOfDoom, EvilWeapon: The Hammer of Skadi, natch, along with all the other Hammers of the Worthy.

* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: The seven other members of the Worthy, both for their actual names and for their titles. See TheRedBaron for more information.

* TheRedBaron: Every single member of the Worthy, Skadi excluded, is called the "Breaker" of something. To wit, we have:

* SimpleStaff: The Serpent starts out holding a gnarled walking stick. As he gains power, it's upgraded to a very intimidating hammer...

** And yet a third teaser, showing [[spoiler: [[http://www.cosmicbooknews.com/template.php?src=/images1/aaimages/Forgiven_Final.jpg The Forgiven]], a team of Vampires to deal with the [[ComicBook/IncredibleHulk Hulk]]]].

* CuttingTheKnot: Thor finds himself unable to best [[ComicBook/IncredibleHulk Nul]] in a straight up fight. He proceeds to teleport Nul into orbit. Which causes Nul to land in Romania, becoming Dracula's problem.

* DemonicPossession: Those chosen to wield the Hammers of the Worthy find their personalities overwritten or at least subsumed by the deity to whom their respective hammer belongs. Because of this, the villains of this piece are a mixture of actual bad guys like Sin (Skadi), Attuma (Nerkkod), [[ComicBook/XMen the Juggernaut]] (Kuurth), and the Grey Gargoyle (Mokk), and heroic or antiheroic characters whose bodies have been taken over by the evil spirits within these hammers, like ComicBook/IncredibleHulk (Nul) and [[ComicBook/FantasticFour the Thing]] (Angrir).

-->'''Thor:''' And '''him''' I liked. But [[ComicBook/IncredibleHulk you]]? You were always a '''[[SophisticatedAsHell giant pain in the ass]]'''.

** Nul, Breaker of Worlds ([[ComicBook/IncredibleHulk Hulk]]);