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Contains Spoilers for The Immortal Thor # 1 - 5 !
Thor’sfather , Odin , always had a skinny - infinite source of tycoon in the Odin - Force . Now that Thor has taken Odin ’s place as All - Father , this powerfulness has been retconned , tying it closer to Asgardian myth and the themes of the paladin ’s New saga , Immortal Thor . This power could potentially do anything , but it now swear on Thor ’s ability to conceive and explain exactly what he ’s doing in ordering for it to operate .
The Immortal Thor – written by Al Ewing , instance by MartÍn Cóccolo , colored by Matthew Wilson and letter by VC ’s Joe Sabino – has transformed readers ’ intellect of the All - Power by retconning its origination and reframing how it act . The series ' 2d number includes a flashbackshowing Odin receiving his famous knowledgeby taking out his eye beneath Yggdrasil , the World Tree .
As the narrator explains , knowledge is power , and therefore , the ‘ All - Knowledge ’ deed over to Odin and passed to Thor is alsothe All - exponent . This significantly empower Marvel ’s God of Thunder in a elbow room not seen previously – heralding an exciting new geological era for the case .
Thor has always been one of Marvel Comics ' strongest submarine sandwich , but his late feat of strength proves that he ’s now also it ’s most hefty god .
The Asgardian All-Power Has An All-New Origin
Thor(Vol . 1)#349 – drop a line and illustrated by Walt Simonson , colour by Christie Scheele and letter by John Workman Jr. – was exhaust in 1984 .
The All - Power , antecedently known as the Odin - Force or Odinpower , is the business leader of the Asgardian All - Father , and has ostensibly unbounded potential . As recite by Odin himself inThor(Vol . 1)#349 , the Odin - Force was make when Odin ’s brothers Vili and Vi died in the land of Musphelheim , gifting their own power to Odin . Theonly downside to the All - Poweris that it requires its user to undergo a thick ‘ All - Sleep ’ subsequently , a time of rest in which they ’re vulnerable to physical or wizardly flak . WriterAlEwing clarified his understanding of the All - Power inImmortal Thor#5 ’s alphabetic character column , writing :
My intellect is that the All - Power is part of the noesis granted to Odin by his ritual killing to himself on the World Tree . Odin was capable to bequeath that exponent to his son along with the title of All - Father , but as we ’ve often get a line in the past , the cost of the Odin - Power is the periodic Odinsleep . Since Odin had centuries to get to know the baron , he only had to Odinsleep every so often , but as Thor is less experient with it , it makes sense that the All - Sleep is harder for him to nurse back .
This is a young origin for the All - Power , one that ties into one ofImmortal Thor’smain themes .
This theme is the power of stories . Immortal Thor#1 called gods themselves " animate being of level " , and the serial publication has afterwards shown how narratives superpower Asgardians . InImmortal Thor # 2 , Thor used the idea of the God of Thunder metaphorically ‘ opening the sky ’ to literally open a space hepatic portal vein , and inImmortal Thor#5 , he uses the tautology of Thor ’s major power being " worthiness " to endow the Thunder God Toranos with the morality that come with such a distinction . The All - Power now literally works via Thorhaving the knowledge and wisdom to make an argument for something .
The All-Power’s New Origin Weaves It Into The Tapestry of Asgardian Myth
The previous origin of the Odin - Force was n’t bad per say , but it did n’t tie straightaway into what make Odin or the Asgardians special . By linking the All - Power to Yggdrasil , it now ties it directly into the very root of the Asgardians . It also feed Odin gaining noesis , a holdover from real Norse mythology , a much more specific intention in the Marvel Universe , where before it just think of that he would have general ‘ knowledge ’ depending on a narrative ’s need . This is the perfect path to reframeThor’snew power , giving it thematic resonance as well as intelligible convention and limitation on how it works .
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