Born the first son of King Odin and Queen Frigga of Asgard, Thor Odinson was raised
as heir to the throne, becoming a strong and courageous warrior.
Thor proved himself so mighty Odin even gifted him Mjølnir, a magical hammer with tremendous
power.
And while Odin taught Thor the ways of kings, his younger brother Loki spent time with their
mother, learning sorcery and stealth, using traps and deception in battle.
For years Thor led some of the greatest warriors in the realm as a small group of companions
which included his brother Loki, the famed Lady Sif and Fandral, Hogun, and Volstagg,
also known as the Warriors three.
Together they went on many dangerous adventures on behalf of Asgard, defeating those that
threatened the peace of the Nine Realms.
King Odin was proud of his son’s accomplishments and so felt ready to pass the crown onto Thor,
so he might enter Odinsleep, in the knowledge the Realm was safe under a new ruler.
However the coronation was interrupted when a small group of Frost Giants infiltrated
Odin’s Vault in an attempt to steal the Ancient Casket of Winters, a powerful weapon
once used by their kind to wage war against the Nine Realms.
But the Vault was protected by an Asgardian Destroyer, who killed the intruders before
they could escape.
With the culprits dead, King Odin was prepared to let the matter rest, in order to preserve
the peace of the Nine Realms but Thor was convinced they must show strength by sending
an army to Jotunheim to ensure they would never threaten Asgard again.
And so Thor disobeyed his father’s instructions, leading his companions through the bifrost
to Jotunheim.
Even gaining the cooperation of Heimdall, the all-seeing guardian of the bifrost bridge,
who wanted to learn how the Frost Giants had entered Asgard undetected.
Thor confronted King Laufey, who told the Asgardians to leave his realm while they still
could.
And while Loki attempted to accept his proposal to ensure their safe departure, Thor was provoked
into anger and engaged the Frost Giant forces.
Although they killed many, Thor and his companions were eventually surrounded and may have been
captured or killed if not for Odin, who had learned of their journey and followed them
in an attempt to preserve peace with Jotunheim.
However King Laufey informed Odin that the war had already begun, and so the Asgardians
returned to their homeland to prepare for the conflict.
The King was furious with his son and heir, who had acted so foolishly and brought war
to the realm.
And to make matters worse, Thor proved unrepentant, and even insulted Odin in his anger.
Realizing that Thor was not ready to be King, the Allfather stripped him of his powers and
banished him to Earth, also sending the hammer Mjølnir, but enchanting it so that only one
who was worthy could wield the weapon.
On Earth, Thor struggled with the loss of his powers, but even so proved a formidable
warrior, able to defeat a number of trained SHIELD agents at a compound where they studied
the Hammer which had fallen out of the sky.
However when Thor realized he could no longer lift Mjolnir, he lost hope of the restoration
of his powers, and allowed himself to be arrested.
Loki then visited Thor and explained that Odin had died, making Loki King of Asgard
and that peace with Frost Giants was now dependant on Thor’s exile to Earth and that even their
mother Frigga had forbidden his return.
Devastated by the news, Thor thanked Loki for the information, and resigned himself
to life on Earth.
Phil Coulson of Shield, wanting to learn the truth about Thor and his associated, released
and tracked him, watching as he reconnected with Dr. Jane Foster and Dr. Erik Selvig,
who found him when he first arrived on Earth.
Thor proved to have a connected with Dr. Foster, even explaining Yggdrasil and Earth’s place
in the nine realms.
But soon Lady Sif and the Warrior’s Three arrived, seeking their old leader to inform
him that Loki had been behind the entire ordeal with the Frost Giants, having shown them how
to enter Asgard undetected, to orchestrate the attack during Thor’s coronation.
Further, Loki had lied about Odin’s death, instead having taken the throne of Asgard
while their father was in Odinsleep, and their mother distracted by Odin’s side.
Loki meanwhile sent the Destroyer to Earth to track down Thor and his companions, but
rather than fight, Thor chose to give himself up in the hopes of stopping the destruction
of the town and so his companions might be sparred.
But it was not enough to sway Loki who controlled the monster, and so he knocked Thor back,
breaking his bones and leaving him to die.
But his sacrifice and humility were sensed by Mjolnir, which flew back to Thor’s side,
and restored his powers, allowing him to defeat the Destroyer, and return to Asgard to depose
his usurper brother.
Loki had been working with King Laufey to help the Frost Giants kill Odin and recover
the Casket of Ancient Winters.
But it was yet another deception, instead killing Laufey and using the bifrost and Casket
to destroy Jotunheim once and for all.
Thor, then broke apart the bifrost bridge with his hammer, to stop the attack and defeat
Loki, who fell into the abyss as the bridge collapsed.
Thor would have fallen as well, if not for Odin who had awaken from his slumber and rescued
his first born son.
Asgard then began to recover from the damage done, when they discovered Loki had not killed
in the destruction of the bifrost, instead landing on Earth and using his powers to attempt
conquest of the planet, so he might rule as King.
Odin then sent Thor to Earth through the use of dark energy, where he met with SHIELD and
the AVENGERS, uniting their forces to stop Loki who had recovered the Tesseract, also
known as the Space Stone, and had allied himself with Thanos, an intergalactic warlord who
sent his Chitauri army through a wormhole to invade Earth at the Battle of New York.
Thanos also gifted Loki the Mind Stone, which he placed inside his Scepter giving him unique
and devastating powers.
Thor and the Avengers however stopped the advance of these cybernetic enhanced creatures
and closed the wormhole, defeating Loki and recovering the Tesseract.
Thor then used the ancient stone to transport himself and his brother back to Asgard, where
Loki was incarcerated and the Tesseract used to rebuild the bifrost bridge.
Sometime later Marauders began an invasion of the Nine Realms, leading Thor and his companions
to fight the Battle of Vanaheim, where Thor defeated the enemy champion Korg in single
combat, ending the two year conflict.
With peace restored, Thor travelled to Earth to visit Jane Foster, the woman he had become
romantically involved with during his exile from Asgard.
Thor then discovered Jane had become host to the Aether, also known as the Reality Stone,
when she accidently walked through a portal to another world, where she encountered a
shrine, and touched it, releasing the Aether into her body.
This portal had appeared on Earth as part of the Convergence, and event that occurred
once every 5000 years, where the nine realms of yggdrassil would align.
Thor then took Jane to Asgard where they could study what had occurred, leading to an invasion
of by Malekith and his Dark Elves who sought the Aether, so they might continue the was
started thousands of years earlier.
Thor was able to repel the invasion, but not before they killed his mother Frigga.
Knowing that Malekith would not stop until he had the Aether, Thor and his companions
freed Loki, who also grieved for his mother, so he could show them the secret passage to
leave Asgard.
Thor’s companion then distracted the guards while Thor, Loki and Jane Foster made their
way to Svartalfheim, in the hopes of destroying the Dark Elf leader.
Loki then feigned betrayal in order to get close to the Dark Elves, so Thor might attack
them by surprise at the Second Battle of Svartalfeim, but their plan ultimately failed, with Malekith
escaping unharmed and with the Aether he extracted from Dr. Foster.
Loki then seemingly sacrificed himself to destroy Malekith’s Lieutenant Kurse, allowing
Thor to escape and pursue the Dark Elves further, leading to Earth where he engaged Malekith
at the Battle of Greenwich Village and ultimately saw him defeated.
The Aether was then returned to the Asgardians who did not feel comfortable having another
infinity stone in their possession, with the Tesseract already in Odin’s Vault.
And so took the Reality Stone to Taneleer Tivan, a famed collector of rare artifacts
and species and leader of the Tivan group.
Thor meanwhile, had chosen to reject the Throne of Asgard, instead returning to Earth to be
Jane Foster, the woman he loved.
Odin allowed him to keep Mjølnir and accepted Thor’s decision, but in truth, it was not
Odin who sat on the throne at all, but Loki, who had somehow survived the fight on Svartalfheim
and taken control of Asgard by using his illusions to pose as King Odin.
On Earth, Thor spent some time with Dr. Foster before reuniting with the Avengers to eliminate
the last of Hydra’s major operations.
After which they were forced to battle Ultron, an artificial intelligence created by Tony
Stark when he attempted to duplicate a code found within Loki’s sceptor to create a
being capable of defending earth from alien invasion.
During the battle of the Salvage Yard, Thor’s mind was taken over by Scarlet Witch, resulting
in a vision which showed him the Waters of Sight.
He then found Dr. Selvig who helped him find these waters, where he saw a horrifying vision
of the future, with Asgard destroyed and his friends dead.
He then saw a glimpse of the infinity stones and a creature who would be born to help the
Avengers defeat Ultron.
This final vision was realized when Thor returned to his friends and used his hammer on Tony
Stark’s Jarvis AI program, which combined with the Mind Stone to create the being Vision,
who joined Thor and the Avengers in stopping Ultron and his army of machines bent on the
extermination of humanity.
This culminated in the Battle of Sokovia which destroyed the city but saw Ultron defeated
though at a cost of thousands of innocent lives.
Thor, still concerned by the visions he saw, realized that the infinity stones which had
been appearing over recent years must be related to a large event being played out, and so
returned to Asgard searching for answers.