Must be equal to the task - Avengers #63

[sherkahn]

With the possible casting of Chris Evans as Captain America and as Siege event heads to a close, let us reflect on the gravitas that will be required of the Sentinel of Liberty and the last time Asgard took arms against U.S. forces in Avengers #63 (or #478, depending on what you follow).



Scene - the conclusion of the Standoff storyline, as he European country of Slovokia has come under attack, and people are praying to King Thor of Asgard for help. As their adopted deity, the Mighty Thor comes into battle with the full of Asgard at his back, with the other side using Stark technology and U.S. support. Which brings in Iron Man, in his custom made ThorBuster armor. Dr. Doom is playing both sides and triggers the fight between Odin powered Thor and Iron Man in his version of the Destroyer armor.


The fight itself between the two friends is awesome, but I don't bring up that fight for the raw power both warriors unleash on one-another.

I bring it up for this crowning moment of respect.

Cap comes in, knows Doom is playing both sides and wants to stop them. He talks Thor down, but then Doom remote triggers a weapon on Thor, and Thor swats Cap away to the U.S. army's side of the conflict. And scene....









Above the rage of a Thunder God and the arsenal of the deadliest battle armor on the planet unleashed upon one another is the sound of Captain America. Your damn right your going to listen.

*mods, the subsequent panels above come from two pages of the comic, minus the Thor vs. Iron Man faceoff.


suggested tags:

char: Captain America/Steve Rogers
char: Thor Odinson/Donald Blake
char: Iron Man/Tony Stark

Comments

[icon_uk]

Was there any comeback on Tony for conveniently having Thorbuster armour using Asgardian enchantment on hand?

[sherkahn]

Can you elaborate on that question?

[icon_uk]

Not sure how to be honest.

Tony mentions the armour is empowered by the same spell that gives Mjolnir it's power. Thor is not happy at Tony co-opting Asgardian magic to use as his own personal weapon system, not to mention one specifically targetting Thor. (If it were called the Lokibuster Armour, Thor might have had less of an issue with it, but calling it the Thorbsuter is a little... well, somewhere between disrespectful and downright bloody suicidal)

[sherkahn]

Well, it was never officially called a Thorbuster in the comics, it's just the name that obviously fit, as the HulkBusters armors are meant to take on the Hulk. I was looking up these pages looking for the Iron Man Asgardian Destroyer armor and got zip, but found the King Thor pages and got the Thorbuster armor. It's stuck since then.

As to the comic story itself, Thor had given Iron Man a magic crystal similar to the Norn stones as an alternative power source compared to nuclear power as a good will gift of a monarch to the world. When Thor's rule became more aggressive against other sovereign nations of the world, the power source was then adapted to an existing HulkBuster armor, with modifications to behave like the Asgardian Destroyer and channel Odinforce energy. Tony was simply planning ahead, in case Thor overstepped himself... which he did.

[icon_uk]

So did A) Tony ever actually try to create a useful power source from it, as it was intended or was the personal battlesuit the only thing he did with it?

B) Thor claim the crystal back since Tony seems a little eager to try and turn it into a weapon. (And if he had done it before the world leaders felt Thor was getting out of hand, "just in case", it does smack of being a REALLY shitty thing to do, utterly lacking in trust for his ally... not that Tony Stark would ever behave like that... oh, wait...)

[sherkahn]

Thor destroyed that which he gave to Tony, the crystal. Tony had to bail out the ruined ThorBuster armor and try to take on Odin Powered King Thor with one of his old suits (He was wearing a suit within a suit... like two comdoms).