With all the build up for
Avengers: Endgame, I've elected to cover the
MC2 incarnations of the films main cast. I figured the best place to start would be with the god himself,
Thor.
The first of the original
Avengers to appear in the
MC2,
Thor is revealed to be the
Lord of Asgard in
A-Next #1. When
Loki attempts to steal the enchanted mace '
Thunderstrike' from
Kevin Masterson, he transports the assembled heroes opposing him to the
Isle of Silence on
Asgard. However,
Kevin ends up transformed into the heroic
Thunderstrike when he leaps into
Loki's magicks and saves the other heroes by summoning
Thor to their aid with a huge signal in the sky.
Thor greets the assembled heroes with warmth, despite at first mistaking
Kevin for his deceased father,
Eric Masterson, the original
Thunderstrike. After a celebration,
Thor sends the heroes back to
Earth using
Mjolnir, leaving them with the parting words '
The planet spins! The page turns! And the world still needs heroes. May each and all prove worth of the privilege before you!'.
We don't see
Thor for quite sometime until
Last Hero Standing #4 when, as a result of
Loki's scheme to end the Age of Heroes,
Thor encounters his former teammate
Captain America alongside other heroes stranded on
Asgard. With the
Hulk on a rampage thanks
Loki's spell,
Thor and
Captain America discuss the latter's declining abilities and
Cap reveals he intends to retire after this final mission (
Last Hero Standing #5).
Thor transports the group of heroes back to
Earth to confront the
Hulk and find
Loki. When
Spider-Girl reveals
Loki,
Captain America confronts him as
Thor battles the
Hulk.
Loki's spell is almost sealed by the spilling of fatal blood when
Thor nearly kills
Hulk. But thanks to
Captain America breaking
Loki's spell by destroying his dark crystal at the cost of his own life, the day is saved.
Thor banishes
Loki to
Limbo and the
Hulk voluntarily exiles himself alongside the god of mischief to atone for the destruction he has caused. As
Captain America lays dying
Thor intervenes, combining
Asgardian life force with the spirit and power of
Cap's country channeled through
Mjolnir to transform the heroes soul into a new star that will inspire generations to come.
In the sequel series
Last Planet Standing, all of
Asgard is threatened when Galactus launches an attack on the
Realm Eternal, seeking the
Odinsword in his quest to satiate his endless hunger. Despite
Thor leading all of
Asgard Assembled against
Galactus and his
Herald Dominas,
Asgard is destroyed and
Thor is taken captive by the world eater as survivors of the attack flee (
Last Planet Standing #2).
Later, with
Galactus' plan nearing it's completion, his
Worldship containing energy from a thousand worlds is destroyed when energy from
Captain America's Star overloads the containers, freeing
Thor. Thor arrives on
Earth in time to witness
Galactus and the
Silver Surfer merge into a new being and reverse the destruction caused by
Galactus.
While this is
Thor's last present day on-panel appearance we do
meet his daughter Thena on a mission for him in
Avengers Next #2. We also learn that both
Thor and his father
Odin are attempting to revive
Asgard using the
Odin Power in
Avengers Next #3 as well as glimpse a younger
Thor in a
flashback in this same issue.
And that's it for
Thor in the MC2 at present. A more mature
Thor, the loss of
Asgard and the introduction of
Thena certainly lend themselves to future stories, which I sincerely hope we get to see someday.
Until I learn to how to speak like the
Asgardians, I remain
frogoat