It may shock you to hear that Stan Lee and Jack Kirby did not do an precise job bringing the Norse god Thor and his mythology into the Marvel comics universe back in 1962 . If they had , they would have been hold , because Norwegian myths are full of murder , mayhem and unearthly sex , most of which still would n’t be publishable today . Here are eight major mode Thor and his world differ between the comics and the myths .
1 ) Thor
lease ’s start up with the God of Thunder himself , shall we ? Marvel ’s Thor is a blond , often clear - shaved humanity who verbalise in Shakespearian speech patterns , with circle of “ thee ’s ” and “ thou ’s . ” trust it or not , the idol of the ancient Norseman did not speak English of any sort . The original Thor also had flushed hair’s-breadth , was never volitionally without his byssus , and glory in conflict to the power point where Marvel ’s Thor might have thought him a supervillain . The Norse Thor call for witching glove to have Mjonir fly back to him , and a special belt to use Mjolnir at its full power While Marvel used the whang in the substitute creation Ultimates comics , the gloves have not been advert in the regular Marvel U. at all . The original Thor ca n’t fly except with the manipulation of his chariot absorb by the goats Toothgnasher and Toothgrinder ; these have seem in the comics at times , but Thor mainly flies by fling his hammer around . Oh , and while Marvel ’s Thor saves his philia for the human Jane Foster , in Norse mythology he marry the warrior goddess Sif ( although he still does n’t listen stepping out from time to prison term ) . And obviously , unlike the myth ( as well as the recent movies ) Thor was never punished by Odin to take the air the terra firma as the gimpy Doctor of the Church Donald Blake .
2 ) Loki
While Marvel ’s version of the god of mischief is outright evilness most of the prison term , in Norse mythology , he was in reality just a god of balefulness , sometimes playing prank on his fellow gods , sometimes insulting them , but many time helping them ( avowedly , often out of hassle he himself caused ) . Case in point : When the giantess Skaldi invaded Asgard to revenge her father ’s death ( part Loki ’s fault ) , she demanded the gods make her laugh , so Loki compiled by tying his balls to a Capricorn the Goat — not a level that has made it to the Marvel comics . In Norse mythology , Loki gave birth to many eccentric immortal and freak including Hela , the death goddess ; the dragonJörmungandr ; and Odin ’s eight - legged knight Sleipnir . While the Marvel comic strip have recognize that these are Odin ’s offspring , they adjudicate not to remark it too often . Most importantly , while the Norse variation of Odin did find Loki as a baby — after killing his giant beginner — Odin never embrace him … although the “ real ” Thor and Loki did consider themselves bloodline brothers .
3 ) Baldur
The original Baldur ( usually spelled Balder or Baldr ) was plausibly the closest affair that Norse mythology actually had to a dependable good guy . Baldr was the god of light , felicity , looker , and all that good stuff and nonsense ; meanwhile , the Baldur of the Marvel funnies is basically a less hot - headed and less powerful version of Thor — just as much the hero , but less probable to do something stupid , get tricked , or , regrettably , get the job done . In both scenarios , all the gods fuck Baldur — all except Loki , who in Norse mythology hated the dude . Although Baldr ’s mother had asked everything in existence not to harm her boy — meaning anything anyone tried to hit him with would just glint off his body — she forgot to take mistletoe , because it was so innocent . Loki talked a guy named Hodr into shooting Baldr with a mistletoe flit , kill the god . When Odin take Hel to let Baldr come back to life , she tally , as long as every living thing cried for him . Everything did … except one old woman who did n’t care because Baldr had done her no favour . That cleaning woman was Loki in disguise , because Loki really hated Baldr . Anyways , in the comedian , Loki accomplish the same murder , but Balder is successfully resurrected .
4 ) Sif
While the comics ’ Sif balance being a badass warrior with pining over Thor , the original Sif is much more traditional . She was Thor ’s wife and the goddess of the harvest time , and was n’t much for slaughtering enemies ( or even pick up steel ) . She was renowned for her long blond haircloth until a prank by Loki cut it off , at which full stop she was so distressing that crop would not grow . Her married man Thor , naturally , wash up the support shit out of Loki until he harmonise to make it right , and asked the midget to build her some novel hair .
5 ) Odin
Odin , the overbold , peace - loving founding father of Thor and the adopted father of Loki , tries to rule over Asgard justly and peacefully in the comics . If this Odin ever met the Odin of Norse myth , Marvel - Odin would get his ass kicked . The original Odin was a war - god who did n’t give two shits for justice , law , or peace . Odin love warfare , and he loves begin fights — counterpoint that to Anthony Hopkins ’ Odin in the Thor film , where he banishes Thor for picking merely a conflict with the frost giants . Also , the original Odin was not exactly a beloved deity as much as a god to be reverence and weirded out by — he was fickle and cruel , traded his odd oculus for magic , and was a high shaman called a seidr , which in Norse gild meant eschewing all male sex roles , which the Vikings perfectly did not care for . The Marvel Odin traded all this for a faint but massive power called the Odinforce , which he can utilize to do just about anything a author involve him to , but which also demand to be recharged every so often with the Odinsleep — not coincidentally the perfect opportunity for the malefic Loki of the comic strip to schedule most of his schemes .
6 ) The New Gods
Since even “ in effect ” Norse gods like Thor and Odin could be arse , it ’s not surprising that Stan Lee would settle to satisfy their rank with less troublesome heroes and more obvious villains . On the fighter side , the Warriors three — Fandril , Hogun and Volstagg — were all made up ; on the villain side , the Enchatress , Skurge , Malekith the Accursed ( the baddie of Thor : The Dark World ) , the Destroyer ( the semi - sentient anthropomorphic arm of the first movie ) , Kurse , and more .
7 ) The Frost Giants
While the Thor comedian and movies present the Frost Giants as malefic trolls , bent on the death of Asgard , who materialize to live in the snow realm — more like Dungeons & Dragons colossus than anything — the material Frost Giants , a.k.a . the Jotunn , are far more complicated . Why ? Because first they grow out of their father Ymir ’s armpits and feet ( his feet be intimate each other . badly ) . They can be ugly and beautiful , but either elbow room are so in touch with nature that they ’re effectively nature immortal . They were powerful and overbold ; Odin came to them to learn more about Ragnorak , and while he was there was legitimately distressed for his safety should they turn on it . These monster were also the beginning of the universe of discourse ’s verse — poesy at that stage being a liquid that Odin steal , drank , and spit it back at Asgard ( some of it accidentally fell on Midgard , naturally , which is why we have Walt Whitman . He was Odinspit ) .
- Ragnorak
Shockingly , the Asgard of Norse myth and of Marvel comics are somewhat like : They both are part of the human beings Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree Yggdrisil , they ’re both connected to the other kingdom by the Bifrost Bridge , and they ’re both where the gods dwell . Really , other than Marvel ’s insistency that the gods ’ god is through some mysterious sort of science , they ’re work on the same template here . But when it comes to the destruction of the world , the two versions are immensely different — in the main because in myth Ragnorak is the last of the universe , while in the cartoon strip it ’s occur many , many times , without the world ending once .
In the myth , pretty much everybody drop dead when Ragnorak begins — the Frost Giants , the Fire Giants ( led by Surtur ) , and the dead ( lead by Loki ) will all snipe Asgard , and all the elves and dwarves and human race of the other realms will link up in the battle . Odin gets eaten by the great woman chaser Fenrir , Thor dies defeating the Midgard Serpent , Loki and Heimdall kill each other , and eventually Surtur will arrange the whole damn universe on fire . Two mankind and a few gods do survive to get over , though , so that ’s gracious . Meanwhile , the comics ’ Thor fight his first Ragnorak at the goal of Stan Lee and Jack Kirby ’s Thor run in 1966 . It come about again when Surtur arrived during Walt Simonson ’s acclaimed stories in the ‘ LXXX , and then again when Loki made a bunch of Mjolnir - corresponding hammer for his ground forces in 2004 . And this is n’t even count the many times Asgard was decimated our outright destroyed through non - Ragnorak - related mean .
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