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Warning : SPOILERS forThor # 14
It ’s a question so obvious , a story so necessary , Thorfans may have never even thought to ask it . Everyone recognise the God of Thunder is one of the few truly " suitable " enough to rise his power hammer , Mjolnir … but when did he actuallybecomeworthy , for the very first sentence ?
It seems a moment that every comic book devotee should lie with , and thankfully , it has now been discover in Marvel Comics canon . And not only is it as terrific and fabled as lover would hope , but it really pays off a account years in the qualification ( even if fans did n’t realize it was being told ) . But to see the moment Odin ’s son truly became the Thor we know and love , fans will need to prepare themselves for an unexpected wrench . Not only does the taradiddle require time change of location , it also reveals that the first hammer Thor lifted … was n’t his own .
As a bit of backstory , readers are promote to look for out Jason Aaron and Esad Ribic’sThor : God of Thunderseries , in which the hero is unite with both his older and youthful selves . Theancient All - Father Thor … and the Young Thor , God of Vikings . The 3 offer Thor ( and readers ) a glimpse of the ancient King he would someday become , and the youthful , boastful , battle - hungry boy he had once been . The boy who , try as he might , faced only one challenge he could n’t overcome : lifting Mjolnir .
It ’s this younger variation of Thor who score his counter in Marvel ’s massiveWar of The Realms , called upon by the mod day Thor to aid him in engagement . With his parents Odin and Freyja hold hostage by the villain Malekith , Thor is warned that only he may arrive to save them , or they will be forthwith killed . Realizing a loophole in that enchantment , Thor post his champion through time to recruit sometime King Thor once again , along with the untested Prince of Asgard . And when he ’s predict upon , the young Thor has ( for appearance ) given up ever being worthy of the"miserable little uru dirt . "
Taking his renowned , pre - Mjolnir axe Jarnbjorn into struggle instead , the young Thor gain with his fellow gods of roar . This"Thor Corps,“as the Odinson call it , is the only chance his parent have of being lay aside , and theWar of The Realmsending in his victory . Where he carries a load , his young self is pore on pretending like he does n’t like about proving himself as " worthy " as the Thors who stand beside him ( Odinson , Jane Foster , and the succeeding All - Father ) . And once the fight escalates , the unproven Thor is wedge to suffer apart … until he hear his mother ’s screaming .
With his trap outsmarted , Malekith scramble the colored soldier loyal to him , turning this encounter into a free for all . But as this"Storm of Thors"come to realize that any wound inflicted on their untried interlingual rendition get pain in the neck in his future selves , Young Thor takes screening . Before he can even muster up the energy to play off this shame as an worriment , or arrogate that he wasn’treallytrying to lift King Thor ’s dropped power hammer and save the sidereal day moments earlier , the untested hero catches quite a little of his mother , Freyja , moments from being eat up by a blue monster . As he flies to her defence , he find what he was lack :
I hear the call of my other . And my father too , I suppose . And my mind … get going red . And suddenly I no longer give a shucks whether I pall and take every other Thor along with me . My only thoughts are for the one parent who ’s always shown me love and compassion over the years . Even when I did n’t merit it . particularly when I did n’t merit it . I recollect of her and I am make a motion instinctual ly , perforate her grievous attacker over and over . With all the power in my fists . Yet something … feel different somehow . In some way … that I ca n’t quite put my fingerbreadth on .
Thor deliver the goods in defending the All - Mother , and vanquish the repulsive symbiote wolf bent on eating her alive . But what feels different about the triumph is the arm Thor chooses to reach it . As it turn out , when his female parent was threatened , it was n’t Jarnbjorn that Thor instinctively reached for …
Yes , the first prison term that Thor lift Mjolnir , confirming himself to be truly desirable of its power , he was pulled forward through time to wieldthe more sinewy Mjolnir re - forge by his older ego … pull in back through time billions of age , in addition . To make this scene even more mindbending , the Young Thor holds Mjolnir aloft for the very first time … before the present day Thor really re - forges it . Those facts may raise some existential question surrounding the very notion of Mjolnir ’s inscription … hold the Young Thor suitable only after he was shown proof that , deep down , he really was .
But more importantly , taking away all the context of use and specifics of the conflict at hand , it was Thor ’s love for his female parent that at long last apply the headstone to unlocking his rightful character . Only when her life was jeopardise did he place it above his own , and vanish into battle having made the option to die if necessary . To that point ( in much the same way as the firstThormovie in the MCU ) Thor sought only the aureole of warfare and battle , even respond the call through meter for the potentiality of increase his fame and renown .
The truthful sign of Thor ’s maturation , either signaled or because of the fosterage of Mjolnir , is his decision to directly render it to his older self . Still clinging to his youthful bravado and pridefulness , Thor plays the here and now off as anything but a mysterious validation , and the bit he always dreamed might come . But devotee know the truth , and are dependable to assume that after manage Mjolnir for the first time in this struggle , he did n’t wait long after return home to claim the Mjolnir of his own clip . And just as the modernThor became the one - eyed , Destroyer - arm King of Asgardhe met from his own future , the Young Thor also rely upon the War of The Realms to bridge over the gap between the God he was , and the Cuban sandwich he will become .
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