Warning : SPOILERS forWar of The Realms # 6

The solar day has finally come whenThorbecomes the truthful King of Asgard , All - Father and protector of the Ten Realms of Marvel ’s Universe . The god of thunder is more than ready for the throne , buthow he gets itis a whirl few will have see coming .

The heroic scale of theWar of The Realmsmay have made Thor ’s personal journeying seem like one of dozens of others . But for those keeping an middle on how Aaron would use this issue to forge Thor into the King he one day becomes , the pieces occur together perfectly . After being stranded on Jotunheim , Thor lose his famous Hermann a bloody Berserker Rage . Naturally , he prepared for the coming engagement by giving himselfan Asgardian Destroyer rise . And after following in his forefather ’s step andlosing his eye to the World Treefor the wisdom to make unnecessary the Ten Realms , he was transform into theKing Thorof his future …. with one final instant that even his fans never expected to see .

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Before the war damp out , the force of wickedness had already succeed in break Odin down to his worst , least effective , and drunkest ego . With his realm lost , he even goaded his own son into a fight , all the whole thinking – but never articulate – that his rough words and poor parenting were rooted in his own issues , refusing to acknowledge what he knew in his warmheartedness . That beneath all his ego and bluster , he was n’t half the hero that Thor had become all on his own .

While Odin survived Malekith ’s initial character assassination to formally begin the war , it was only the thinking of his married woman being murdered that activate any fighting spirit in the older king . Becomingthe Iron All - Father with help from Tony Stark , Odin fought to the death with his wife … until it was revealed both had exist , but were now hold as bait to run Thor into a competitiveness against Malekith . Giving Odin a front row seat for the fight Thor writer Jason Aaron had spent years work up to . And what a show he witnessed .

As Odin watched , helpless in the face of full death of the Ten Realms he was once tasked with protecting , Thor did more than just fight . He revealed his subordination of the Mother Storm – which Odin had once imprisoned inside Mjolnir – to not just spread its winds and fervour across the Earth , but forgea new Mjolnir , more powerful than ever before . And with that weapon on his hired hand , and his genuine cosmic power last understand , Thorwon the War of The Realms with one reverse .

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So with the dust fall , the innocent exultation , and the heroes allow themselves to hope , as the Ten Realms all showed mansion that they were not vanquished by Malekith ’s darkness … Odin realizes the time has at long last come . It may be far , far too late for him to make up for being a terrible father and wise man to his sons . Far too late to even hope for Freyja to fully accept him after they parted ways before the war . But not too late for him to show how much lovemaking and pride he feels for Thor .

Officially , it was the very first clock time that Thor met his future ego ( in the Page of Aaron’sThor : God of Thunder ) that both he and the reader find out he would someday become King Thor , lord of Asgard . surely , it might conflict with the Norse mythology surrounding the end and rebirth of Odin , Thor , and the rest of the gods . But as Jason Aaron ’s epic story stay to show glimpse of the Old King Thor at the end of Marvel ’s existence , it was well-defined that it was Thor ’s fate . After all , Odin can only exist for so long , before the throne of Asgard pass to Thor … right ? It turns out that ’s NOT how Thor becomes the All - Father , after all .

The figure of speech will be a historic one for sports fan of Thor and Marvel Comics , no matter which interlingual rendition or story they may have first read . Declaring himself a patriotic subject of the true King of Asgard , and savior of the Realms , Odin bows before Thor the All - Father . While sports fan of the Marvel movies may have seen Thor become Riley B King in Thor : Ragnarok , that was only following Odin last … and Thor vacate the role almost immediately . But Odin setting aside the high-handedness , the ego , and the pride he garner in his resplendent , untried days , and declaring Thor the more expansive , the more noble , and the more desirable ruler of Asgard ? That ’s a game twist even Thor fans will have a gruelling time processing .

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Ironically , Thor is named the raw King of Asgard before long after declare himself " The God of The Unworthy , " substantiate that it was his journey towards greatness , not the achieving of it , that made him suitable . That would be the elbow room a hero like Thor would see his own greatness , but Odin is n’t half the hero Thor has always been , assume a knee in reception . Readers will see how Thor respond to this unexpected , but completely deserving promotional material when War of The Realms Omega releases in July , tease that"for Thor himself , destiny has finally go far . The God of Thunder expunge out for a whole young adventure ! "

As the current Thor becomes King in the modern Marvel Universe , his older self will be revert to his own sentence , at the oddment of the universe , when only Loki remain . That final battle will take position inhis ownKing Thorcomic series , promising to end Aaron ’s time at the helm of Thor in grand fashion . The sound intelligence is that no matter how the old King Thor ’s battle turns out , Marvel fan will have a novel King Thor to adopt in the present day . It ’s arduous to say what the throne will have in mind for Thor ’s role among Earth ’s Avengers , but a new daytime is penetrate … and we ca n’t look to see King Thor begins his sovereignty .

War of The Realms Omega#1 will give devotee their first coup d’oeil of All - Father Thor , as well as the introductions to Jane Foster’sValkyrie , the Punisher ’s new missionary work , and Loki ’s young solo series when it arrive on July 10th at your local comic book shop , or unmediated fromMarvel Comics . KingThor#1will set out Aaron ’s ( and Thor ’s ) net chapter on September 18th , 2019 .

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