comic verse identity
Thor odinson is the blood-son of Odin, All-Father of the Asgardians, and Jord, who was also known as Gaea, the goddess who was one of the Elder Gods. Odin sought to father a son whose power would derive from both Asgard and Midgard (as the Earth realm is called by Asgardians), and hence he sought to mate with Jord. The young Thor was raised alongside Loki, who had been adopted by Odin after Loki's Frost Giant father Laufey had been killed in battle. For all of their childhood, Loki was jealous of Thor. Odin decided that it was time Thor learned humility. Odin had Thor surrender his hammer to him, and then sent him to Earth in the mortal guise of a crippled young medical student named Donald Blake, stripped of his memory and of his true identity. As Blake, Thor learned the value of humble perseverance in dealing with his injured leg, and he came to care for the sick and dying, first as a medical student, and later as a successful physician. After leaving medical school, Blake opened a private practice in New York, and quickly gained renown as a great surgeon. Many, many adventures later, while fighting Nick Fury and his army of Life-Model Decoys, Fury stopped Thor by whispering an undisclosed secret to him that caused the God of Thunder to lose the ability to wield his enchanted hammer, Mjolnir. After losing the ability to wield Mjolnir, Thor took up his battle axe Jarnbjorn as a substitute. Later, an unknown woman, who was secretly Jane Foster, proved worthy of wielding Mjolnir, and became the new Thor. After she had defeated some of the frost giants assembled by Malekith to raze the Earth, the original Thor arrived to retrieve his hammer. Odinson confronted her wanting to know his mother whereabouts as he suspected she had something to do with it. Enraged, Odinson attacked her and tried to take Mjolnir back as it attacked the Frost Giants that surrounded them, but it went to its new owner's hands. Sad, he accepted that he was never going to recover his hammer, and asked if she was his mother which she answered by kissing him. Then they joined forces and defeated the remaining Frost Giants. After everything has been resolved, Thor gave his name to her and now attends by Odinson only.


unlocked powers
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locked powers • Asgardian/Elder God Hybrid physiology
long life, enhanced strength, near invulnerability--even without mjolnir, Thor is a physically capable opponent, possessing both greater strength and endurance thanks to his lineage; he also possesses the power of flight and super speed as a result of his heritage


• Allspeak
ability to speak, listen, and communicate in all languages


• jarnbjorn
Battle axe forged by dwarves, strong enough to pierce the armor of an eternal


• earth control
as the son of Gaia, Thor possesses the ability to control earth--both able to create great chasms as well as cause earthquakes and control landslides and avalanches


• knowledge of magic
Odinson's long experience watching Loki has granted him knowledge of Magic. he is not able to weild magic with the exception of a very minor illusion (and memory alteration, see below)


• memory alteration
Odinson has the ability to alter the memories of a mortal, which he refers to as the gift of forgetfulness


• knowledge of Asgard and Yggdrasil/the realms

comicverse tie-ins • Orin and Freya tie to Odin and Frigga, in name and action, they raised two sons (one adopted, one illegitimate) as brothers and primed both for rule: in cv over Asgard and in au over Donaldson shipping

• Name and occupation ties to Donald Blake, Odinson's one-time earth alias--though Donald was a human surgeon and Blake focused on helping animals. His middle name is a nod to his brief time sharing a body with Eric Masterson.

• Moving countries ties into belonging to a different realm, while the choice to move rather than take over the family business ties into Odinson's struggle to balance asgardian politics versus happiness.

• his dog is named for beta Ray bill, ally of Odinson and partner in thors

• attachment to new home echoes Thor's attachment to earth (his mother is born and bred Bostonian)

• early life echoes Odinson's relationship with Loki, including their rivalry