Ultimate Thor's last stand.
Thors is a 2015 Marvel Comics limited series written by Jason Aaron and illustrated by Chris Sprouse.
The series is part of the Secret Wars (2015) event, set at a time when reality has been remade and the only remaining planet is Battleworld, a patchwork of different realms held together by the will of Doctor Doom.
In Battleworld, Thor is not a single hero, there is a whole army of Thors that work as Dr. Doom's police. Ultimate Thor (from The Ultimates), has an open case: all the Jane Fosters of the many realms are being killed, and his partner Beta Ray Thor (Beta Ray Bill) is killed during the investigation. Eventually, the killer is found and captured. Just in time for the 616 Jane Foster to show up, and convince the Thors to raise against Doom at the crossover finale.
Thors provides examples of:
- The Ace: The reason behind Ultimate Thor's nickname, as he is the best on the homicide beat.
- Back for the Dead: Ultimate Thor was last seen trapped in the Negative Zone at the end of Cataclysm: The Ultimates' Last Stand. He returns here as the main character of Thors, only to perish in the final issue.
- Big Damn Heroes: Thor the Unworthy rescues Ultimate Thor in the Deadlands when he's betrayed by Rune Thor and Destroyer Thor.
- Bittersweet Ending: Thors ends with the members of the Thor Corps joining in the final battle against God Doom. Ultimate Thor fights valiantly to the bitter end but is eventually overwhelmed and apparently killed. The last shot is of his hammer crashing on Earth-616's version of Asgard.
- Cleavage Window: Stormborn (Storm) has her boobs clearly visible.
- Composite Character: Several member of the Thor Corps are versions of separate characters, who combine their original powers with those bequeathed by their hammer. Examples include Storm, War Machine, Groot, The Falcon, and Angela.
- Crazy Homeless People: The Loki of Thors plays into this trope. Operative word being plays as at least half of the crazy is just Obfuscating Stupidity.
- Da Chief: The Lawspeaker for the Thors, who is Battleworld's version of the future's King Thor.
- Et Tu, Brute?: The killer of the Jane Fosters, Donald Blakes, and Beta Ray Thor was Rune Thor. He tried to kill Ultimate Thor as well.
- Face–Heel Turn: Rune Thor turns out to be the murderer, aided by the Destroyer Thor in Thors #3. He leaves Ultimate Thor in the Deadlands to die.
- Hero with Bad Publicity: Thors has the "original" version of the character, "Thor the Mighty", who falls into this trope. No longer worthy of a hammer (much like his mainstream status quo at the time), he tries to warn "Ultimate Thor" (the central character of the book) that he is on the same path to unworthiness, if he continues to try seeking the truth.
- Hulk Speak: As you may have guessed, Groot Thor only says "I Am Thor".
- Naïve Newcomer: Green Thor, with the "Green" standing for Novice, not for the color.
- Not Me This Time: When Beta Ray Thor was killed, the Thors attacked all the usual suspects, and detained several of them. Hulks, Ultrons, zombies, Ghost Riders, etc. The actual killer was not among them.
- Perp Sweating: Ultimate Thor tries this instead of torture against a suspect. Unfortunately Loki is at best mildly bemused by this and for example outright asks if they are at the Good Thor/Bad Thor already.
- Planet of Steves: Everybody is Thor, so they all use variations of the name. Ultimate Thor, Beta Ray Thor, Rune Thor, Unworthy Thor, Green Thor, etc.
- Police Brutality: When Beta Ray Bill is killed, the other Thors go hunt down everyone else it could be (Hulks, Mr. Sinisters, Ultrons, zombies, mutants, etc.) and beat them senseless in looking for answers.
- Politically Incorrect Hero: Rune Thor of the Thor Corps is openly bigoted against mutants, despite working alongside a talking frog and an Alien-Tree. Subverted in the "hero" part. He's revealed to be the Big Bad in the sory arc he's in. He's the serial killer who killed Beta Ray Bill and several versions of Jane Foster and Donald Blake. So, he's acatually a case of Politically Incorrect Villain.
- Red Herring: Beta Ray Thor asks a man in shadows for info about the case. Next time we see him, he has been brutally killed. The man in the shadows is Loki. But no, he had nothing to do with the crime.
- Sequel Hook: So does Thors. The Ultimate Thor flings his hammer so hard that it enters the All-New All-Different universe and crash lands on the abandoned Asgard, waiting for someone else to become Ultimate Thor.
- Series Continuity Error: When Ultimate Thor hears the name "Donald Blake", he is troubled by it, for reasons he can not understand. The idea is that Donald Blake used to be Thor's secret identity... in the main Marvel universe. Not in the Ultimate Marvel universe, where this identity was taken by Balder.
- Space Police: In the Jason Aaron penned Thors, the various Thor and similarly powered heroes (like Beta Ray Bill) across the multiverse come together to form what is described as "Homicide: Life on the Street with lots of cosmic cops". Aaron elaborates that "It’s every version of Thor you can imagine, all walking beats, solving murders, getting yelled at by their commissioner and blowing off steam at their local Thor-cop bar."
- The Stars Are Going Out: The Thors believe that the stars were plucked out of the sky to create their Mjolnirs.
- Torture Always Works: Averted in Thors. Ultimate Thor refuses to let Rune Thor "interrogate" a suspect because he wants to know that whatever he gets out of them is the truth, not just whatever will stop the pain.
- Un-person: Jane Foster, who is hunted by the serial killer in Thors, doesn't seem to exist (nobody can identify her, no files etc.) which makes the investigation that much harder.
- Wham Shot: The end of Thors, Ultimate Thor's hammer falls to Old Asgard in the new 616.
