The Mighty Thor is a long standing characters of Marvel Comic, created by Jack Kirby and Stan Lee back in 1962. Thor started out as crippled Doctor Donald blake, who while hiking was attacked by aliens and fled to a cave, found a stick and in frustration hit the wall with it and was Transformed! Second only to the enraged Hulk in strength he is\was a longstanding member of the Avengers with a VERY convoluted history. Turns out he was Thor first and his pop, Odin stripped him of his memories and locked him into a mortal body to teach him humilty. Later the spell was broken and then re-fixed etc. He assumed new mortal identies and the 'essense of Thor' was added and subtracted to many others. An alien named Beta Ray Bill was thor for awhile , Eric Masterson was kinda thor. There was a Red Headed bearded thor and so on.
Sometimes Thor was on earth, sometimes he was in the mystical realm of Asgard. Sometimes he was a superhero other times he was a sword and sorcery hero. Odin was always working behind the sceans and chastising Thor and then seemed to be working at odds with him and so on. It really just became a tangled up mess. At the same time the Fantastic Four and Iron Man and Captain America had good storylines and some bad ones but nothing that continually changed the essence and personality like what happened in Thor.
I dont DISLIKE Thor I just have just accepted he is there and pretty much ignored his comic. Actually his Comic book is currently in Hiatus due to the BENDIS! Dissasembled storylines that ran a refreshing scythe through Marvel as of late.
Now, the Ultimate Thor is one of my favorite characters in the Ultimate Universe (as opposed to the regular Marvel Universe or Earth 616) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth_616
No one knows if he is as he claims, a Norse God on earth. Or a mental patient with stolen super gear. He is very strong and very durable, he has traded blows with the Ultimate Hulk and came out with nary a blemish. Offical records have him as a Male Nurse Thorlief Goimen, who had a nervous breakdown just before turning 30 and spent 18 months in an asylum. His brother Gunnar Goleman claims to have developed the Belt and Hammer that give Thor his powers. Thor or Thorlief considers Gunnar to be in fact, Loki, his 1/2 brother nemisis.
Thor has had long conversations with an apparent Norse God Volstagg in a restraunt only to have it pointed out that there was no one there.
Later he teleported a bomb into another place (realm?) to the astonishment of his non-believing teammates. He is an active environmentalist who gives seminars and stops whaleing ships.
He is a much less convoluted and more interesting character. Or in his words "A pacifist with a BIG SCARY HAMMER"
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