History Characters / MCUThorOdinson

** In ''Thor Ragnarok'', after realizing his true strength as the God of Thunder, he can destroy Hela's army mostly all by himself without taking any damage. In ''Infinity War'', he can go head to head with Thanos with all six Infinity Stones when he wields Stormbreaker, and is so strong that the Outriders -- one of Thanos' strongest armies -- [[MookHorrorShow would rather flee]] than fight him, and Thor takes most of them out without a scratch on him. At this point, he ''is'' the Strongest Avenger.

* WhipItGood: In ''Thor: Love and Thunder'', Thor uses two chains to fight off Zeus's soldiers.

* MagicKnight: One of the physically strongest beings in the universe, a skilled and warrior, and uses various enchanted weapons that also let him cast potent spells including weather manipulation and energy projection.

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* LogicalWeakness: For all of Stormbreaker's power, it does have a notable drawback: one doesn't have to be "worthy" to hold Stormbreaker. This means that it's possible for someone to use Stormbreaker to kill Thor, which wouldn't be possible with Mjölnir because an unworthy person wouldn't be able to move it an inch much less hold it. In ''Endgame'', Thanos very nearly kills Thor by driving the blade of Stormbreaker into Thor's chest, and if it weren't for Captain America's timely intervention, Thor would be dead. [[spoiler:In ''Love and Thunder'', Gorr is able to take Stormbreaker away from Thor and use it to open the Bifröst.]]

* TokenWizard: Of the original Avengers line-up, Thor is the only one whose powers are magical in origin.

** This is confirmed to be one of the reasons why he was absent during the conflict in ''Captain America: Civil War'', as he's so much more powerful than any of the Earth-based Avengers (barring Scarlet Witch and Vision) that having him on either side tips the conflict into that side's favor. That, [[SupermanStaysOutOfGotham and he was busy]] [[Film/ThorRagnarok with other problems around that time]], but also because it wasn't his fight.

* AdaptationalVillainy: He apparently goaded Captain America into committing war crimes.

* SpoiledBrat: Never grew out of this, as he refuses to get a job and his reaction to losing a game of ''TabletopGame/ConnectFour'' is to destroy the game.

The Norse GodOfThunder, son of Odin and Frigga, brother of Loki and Hela, and the heir to the Asgardian throne. Naturally as the son of Odin he possesses SuperToughness and SuperStrength much higher than the Asgardian norm. On top of that he carries Mjölnir, the mythical hammer that [[OnlyTheChosenMayWield only those deemed worthy may wield]] (or even lift), which grants him the powers of flight, storm-based WeatherManipulation, energy projection, and [[ComboPlatterPowers whatever else is convenient.]]

To teach his son humility after Thor nearly reignites a war with another world, Odin exiled Thor to Earth, where the Asgardian met and began an [[RelationshipRevolvingDoor on-again-off-again relationship]] with a scientist named Jane Foster. While Thor's visit to Earth helped teach him to rein in his more questionable impulses, he continues to be a bit of a BloodKnight and GlorySeeker, seeing his work protecting the Nine Realms and fighting with Film/{{the Avengers|2012}} as grand adventures.

The Norse GodOfThunder, son of Odin and Frigga, brother of Loki and Hela, and the heir to the Asgardian throne. He carries Mjölnir, the mythical hammer that [[OnlyTheChosenMayWield only those deemed worthy may wield]] (or even lift), which grants him the powers of flight, storm-based WeatherManipulation, and armor that gives him SuperToughness and SuperStrength much higher than the Asgardian norm.

!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/ChrisHemsworth, Samson Alston (teen), Dakota Goyo (young, ''Thor''), Tristan Hemsworth (young, ''Thor: Love and Thunder''), Creator/JaimieAlexander (illusion in ''Thor: The Dark World''), Cameron Chapek (baby)[[labelnote:Foreign voice actors]]Andrés Gutiérrez Coto (Latin-American Spanish dub), Ivan Labanda (European Spanish dub), Creator/KentaMiyake (Japanese dub), Creator/AdrienAntoine (European French dub), Martin Desgagné (Canadian French dub), Mauro Horta (Brazilian Portuguese dub), Tommy Morgenstern (German dub)[[/labelnote]]

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[[caption-width-right:300:[[labelnote:Click here to see him before ''Thor: Ragnarok'']] https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/mcu_thor.png [softreturn] ''"You and I, we fight for the same cause, the protection of this world."''[[/labelnote]]]]

* JerkToNiceGuyPlot: The first film gives him an arc evolving from a spoiled and vain boy [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold (albeit with an inherent sense of decency)]] to a wise man through atonement and humility.

!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/ChrisHemsworth, Samson Alston (teen), Dakota Goyo (young, ''Thor''), Tristan Hemsworth (young, ''Thor: Love and Thunder''), Creator/JaimieAlexander (illusion in ''Thor: The Dark World''), Cameron Chapek (baby)
!!!'''Voiced By:''' Andrés Gutiérrez Coto (Latin-American Spanish dub), Ivan Labanda (European Spanish dub), Creator/KentaMiyake (Japanese dub), Creator/AdrienAntoine (European French dub), Martin Desgagné (Canadian French dub), Mauro Horta (Brazilian Portuguese dub), Tommy Morgenstern (German dub)

* BreakTheHaughty: Thor's banishment serves this purpose in the first movie. He is unable to lift Mjölnir and learns, through Loki's deceit, that Odin is dead and their mother has condemned him to exile. It becomes a [[{{Reconstruction}} reconstruction]] after spending time on Earth and learning from his mistakes causes Thor to gain some much-needed CharacterDevelopment.

* BullyHunter: Thor ''very'' gradually becomes this over ''seven'' movies. Whereas Frigga ''tried'' to teach him to defend the innocent and helpless by taking him into battle with her ''in infancy'', this lesson evidently did '''not''' take after 15 centuries, as by the time of ''Film/{{Thor}}'' in 2011 he is ''still'' a boisterous battle lusting warmonger... with the redeeming quality of generosity to those who have shown him kindness. This allowed his empathy to finally develop when he was cast down to Nevada as a mortal by Odin, and in befriending Jane and her fellow scholars learns the fragility and preciousness of mortal life. Though Thor ''appears'' to have become a heroic defender of innocence by the time of joining ''Film/{{The Avengers|2012}}'' in 2012, this merely made him a glorified attack hound that is bound by the leash that is the prejudices and schemes of politicians, as chillingly shown by [[Film/CaptainAmericaCivilWar the tragedy of the Sokovia Accords]] that he thankfully did ''not'' partake in. He pondered the idea of abandoning politics and becoming a free-roaming protector by the end of ''Film/ThorTheDarkWorld'', but was so throughly traumatized by the double tragedy of [[Film/ThorRagnarok witnessing the destruction of Asgard]] and [[Film/AvengersEndgame The Infinity War]] that he lost the emotional drive of heroism, and regressed to the immortal equivalent of an aimless high-school dropout, goofing-around the universe with the ''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy'' to find a purpose in life. It was not until he ''personally'' witnessed the suffering caused by the Olympians' cynical refusal to use their powers to help the innocent, while hiding in the gold-and-marble oppulence of Omnipotence City in ''Film/ThorLoveAndThunder'' that he ''finally'' understood Frigga's lesson. It is here that Thor refocuses his goal in life to ''sharing'' the bounty of his Divine Birth, unbound by political-interests and bureacratic red-tape like being an Avenger would, and resumes his crusade to ''freely'' travel the galaxy to defend the innocent whenever and wherever he is needed, even going as far as temporarily granting The Power of Thor to civilians to better help them defend themselves against tyrants. By his side fights Love Gorrsdottir, his adoptive niece, onto whom his passes Frigga's lessons of kidness in honor of her memory.

* MirrorCharacter: Thor and Star-Lord are both leaders and [[{{Manchild}} Manchildren]] with a high opinion of themselves and tragic family history. They clash a lot due to their similarities and even play some MiseryPoker together.

* DeathByAdaptation: He's KilledOffForReal before he gets the chance to proof his worthiness and regain his powers as in the Sacred Timeline.

* SpoiledBrat: Never grew out of this, as he refuses to get a job and his reaction to losing a game of connect four is to destroy the game.

!!!'''Known Aliases:''' "Donald Blake"

* TheFriendNobodyLikes: Apparently neither Stark nor Rogers wants anything to do with him, as the former tells Bruce that he doesn't want to talk to him over the phone and the latter doesn't respond to his emails.

--> '''Thor:''' ''[to Love while handing her Stormbreaker]'' Look after those that are picked on: That's what my mother taught me.

-> ''"I'm still worthy.''

-> ''"This ends here and now!"''

** ''Love and Thunder'' reveals that Thor intends to retire from being a superhero so he can go on a quest for inner peace, only for it to be cut short when he learns about Gorr's god-butchering spree across the galaxy.

** In ''Film/AvengersInfinityWar'' when Heimdall is killed and when Thanos kills Loki, but it's muffled because he is gagged by Ebony Maw before the latter. He does it again when Thanos pulls off the BadassFingersnap, culling half of the universe's population.

* TheLoad: He becomes this in ''Endgame'' after the TimeSkip. He doesn’t pull his weight in regards to the Time Heist's preparation: he doesn’t help build or test the Quantum Tunnel. His contribution on the Reality Stone devolves into an absentminded ramble. When he and Rocket are assigned to travel to 2013 Asgard, he wanders off on his own, leaving Rocket to steal the Aether himself. Thor snaps out of it after talking to 2013 Frigga.

** Hilariously subverted in ''Endgame'' - he gets another ShirtlessScene, but after the TimeSkip, when five years of DrowningMySorrows, stress-eating, and leaving the house about once a month to get booze have taken their toll.

** [[ThrowingYourSwordAlwaysWorks Throwing Mjölnir]] is almost always enough to put some serious hurt on its victim, and very few god-level beings can affect its trajectory. When Hela manages to stop it casually in mid-air, she immediately establishes herself as a ''major'' threat.

** The first thing Hela does when she and Thor fight is crushing his hammer to bits and casually kicking him out of the Bifröst. Even when they fight later, Thor still gets put through the ringer until he unlocks his true power, and even then he still needed to cause Ragnarok to defeat his sister.
** One of the first things Thanos does in ''Infinity War'' that shows why he's the deadliest threat in the MCU is beat Thor to a pulp [[OffscreenMomentOfAwesome off-screen]], and this is after he unlocked his full potential in the previous movie.

** A more subtle one in ''The Dark World'', but during his fight with [[TheJuggernaut Kurse]] he never got hold of Mjölnir as it was either dropped off him or blocked mid-flight by Kurse.
** In ''Film/AvengersEndgame'', Thor [[spoiler:is out of shape and practice after the time skip. As a result, he goes from being able to beat Thanos in ''seconds'' when the latter had the Infinity Gauntlet with Stormbreaker, albeit due to catching him off-guard and Stormbreaker's inherent ability, to losing to him in a close fight when the Mad Titan only had a sword, with Captain America performing better than him using Mjölnir. Justified as, Stormbreaker is purposely made to withstand Infinity Gauntlet (both are made by Eitri), and whenever he's fit or fat, Thor is not as physically strong as Thanos, as shown in TheWorfEffect above, and if he got disarmed, Thor would stand no chance in a physical faceoff against Mad Titan.]]

* ForgotAboutHisPowers: The weapon is never used to summon the Bifröst in ''Endgame'', probably {{Justified|Trope}} since the team had the ''Benatar'' which can warp-jump anywhere and the only interplanetary mission was to Thanos' garden planet. Averted in ''Love and Thunder'' where Thor does use it to summon the Bifröst throughout the story. It even becomes an important plot point once the heroes realized that [[spoiler:Gorr the God Butcher intends to take the Stormbreaker so he could use its ability to open the Bifröst to take him to Eternity, where he could fulfill the plan of killing all gods in the universe there.]]

** In ''Love and Thunder'', he yells this when Korg is blown apart by Zeus

* BullyHunter: Thor ''very'' gradually becomes this over ''seven'' movies. Whereas Frigga ''tried'' to teach him to defend the innocent and helpless by taking him into battle with her ''in infancy'', this lesson evidently did '''not''' take after 15 centuries, as by the time of ''Film/{{Thor}}'' in 2011 he is ''still'' a boisterous battle lusting warmonger... with the redeeming quality of generosity to those who have shown him kindness. This allowed his empathy to finally develop when he was cast down to Nevada as a mortal by Odin, and in befriending Jane and her fellow scholars learns the fragility and preciousness of mortal life. Though Thor ''appears'' to have become a heroic defender of innocence by the time of joining ''Film/{{The Avengers|2012}}'' in 2012, this merely made him a glorified attack hound that is bound by the leash that is the prejudices and schemes of politicians, as chillingly shown by [[Film/CaptainAmericaCivilWar the tragedy of the Sokovia Accords]] that he thankfully did ''not'' partake in. He pondered the idea of abandoning politics and becoming a free-roaming protector by the end of ''Film/ThorTheDarkWorld'', but was so throughly traumatized by the double tragedy of [[Film/ThorRagnarok Witnessing the destruction of Asgard]] and [[Film/AvengersEndgame The Infinity War]] that he lost the emotional drive of heroism, and regressed to the immortal equivalent of an aimless high-school dropout, goofing-around the universe with the ''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy'' to find a purpose in life. It was not until he ''personally'' witnessed the suffering caused by the Olympians' cynical refusal to use their powers to help the innocent, while hiding in the gold-and-marble oppulence of Omnipotence City in ''Film/ThorLoveAndThunder'' that he ''finally'' understood Frigga's lesson. It is here that Thor refocuses his goal in life to ''sharing'' the bounty of his Divine Birth, unbound by political-interests and bureacratic red-tape like being an Avenger would, and resumes his crusade to ''freely'' travel the galaxy to defend the innocent whenever and wherever he is needed, even going as far as temporarily granting The Power of Thor to civilians to better help them defend themselves against tyrants. By his side fights Love Gorrsdottir, his adoptive niece, onto whom his passes Frigga's lessons of kidness in honor of her memory.

** ''Film/ThorRagnarok'' takes several inspirations of the ''ComicBook/PlanetHulk''-storyarc with Thor taking on the role of Hulk as the Avenger landing on Sakaar and having to fight in an alien gladiator arena against a fellow superhero before joining forces with Korg and Miek, both members of Hulk's Warbound in the comics. Ironically Hulk, the comic story's protagonist still appears in the movie taking the role of the mentioned fellow superhero ComicBook/SilverSurfer.

* CompositeCharacter: Stormbreaker combines the traits from Mjolnir and several of its' copies. Stormbreaker bears many similarities to the Hammer of the War-Thor, a Mjolnir copy created by God-Emperor Doom, it is a long-handled hatchet hammer, it has near-identical powers with none of the extra powers possessed by Mjolnir, such as storm and lightning manipulation, flight, summoning, physical enhancement, and great teleportation abilities, Thor's transformation during the battle with Thanos greatly resembles when the hammer transformed Volstagg into the War-Thor, and the hammer's personality in ''Love and Thunder'' strongly resembles the hammer's temperamental relationship with Thor. Stormbreaker's name and basic history, background, and powers