Unworthy Thor #5

[lordultimus]

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[stubbleupdate]

I was satisfied with this conclusion.

[cyberghostface]

[euphoria intensifies]

[skjam]

And now the War Thor must team up with the War Doctor.

[xakko]

OK, I laughed.

[cainofdreaming]

So, Marvel's next event will be the Last Great Time War then?

[locuatico]

Day of the Thor it will be named.

[cainofdreaming]

Not Day of the Doc-Thor?

[locuatico]

................... Maybe?

[scorntx]

BOO! BOO!!! BOOOO!!!!!

[lascoden]

Wouldn't Doc-Tor just be Donald Blake?

[thanekos]

Won't work- books ship the day before.

[starwolf_oakley]

Well, that only took three years. Which I think was the same amount of time it took to learn what Mary Jane whispered to Mephisto in ONE MORE DAY, as revealed in ONE MOMENT IN TIME.

[captainbellman]

"I AM FURY THE UNSEEN, AND IN THE WORLD *YOU* KNOW, I AIN'T GIVING AWAY NUTHIN', SONNY JIM, NOT NUTHIN', UNTIL I GET MY HAM-ON-RYE AND GET IT MADE *FRESH*, DAMMIT."

"Dad! You know that's impossible! There are no deli counters on the moon! Just tell us the damn story!"

"YEAH, THAT'S WHAT I THOUGHT. NOW WHO WANTS TO HEAR THE STORY OF 'WHAT-IFS-MYSTERIO-GOT-BOUGHT-OUT-BY-CHEERIOS-AND-CALLED-HIMSELF-MISTER-O-INSTEAD'? TRICK QUESTION, YER GUHNNA HEAR IT ANYWAYS."

"Jesus Christ!"

[remial]

a Watcher that tells of the world of Dad Jokes instead of the Worlds of What if?

I'd read it...

[glprime]

I am now imagining Nick Fury as the Watcher telling What-Ifs as Baby Boomer rants ala an unfiltered twitter feed.

[lamashtar]

"You kids here don't know how good you got it! Why, in this OTHER universe, the SKRULLS WON. That's right! I'm a Skrull! You're a Skrull! And you're a Skrull! It's a whole goddamned planet of greenie meanies! Just like that time in the Battle of the Bulge!"

[captainbellman]

"I AM FURY THE UNSEEN, AND I KNOW THIS IS ONLY *ONE* OF ALL POSSIBLE WORLDS! F'RINSTANCE, IN THE WORLD *YOU* KNOW, SOMEHOW IT'S IMPOSSIBLE FOR A YOUNG PERSON WITH TWO DEGREES AND A WEALTH OF JOB EXPERIENCE TO PUT FOOD ON THE TABLE WITHOUT WORKING RETAIL!"

"It's hard out there. Every interview they tell me I need more experience, unless it's an unpaid internship."

"OH WAH WAH WAH, SUCK IT UP. ANYWAYS, JOIN ME...THE UNSEEEEEENNN...NN...TODAY IN ASKING THE QUESTION '*WHAT IF* THESE WHIPPER-SNAPPERS JUST PULLED THEMSELVES UP BY THEIR BOOTSTRAPS AND *TRIED*'-- I MEAN, '*WHAT IF* YOU YOUNG BUCKS *GAVE 110*--'...UH..."

"...Yeah? Gonna finish, gramps?"

"JUST HAVING SOME, ER, TROUBLE...LOOKING THROUGH THE OLD...MULTIVERSES...AH, YOU KNOW WHAT'S FUN? COSTUME CHANGES ARE FUN! TODAY WE ASK '*WHAT IF* LOGAN HAD CALLED HIMSELF THE MARVELLOUS MOOSE-MAN?' EVERYONE CAN ENJOY THAT!"

[q99]

Hm, as reveals go, better than I though. I'm not 100% sold it'd work but... it makes sense and fits better than a lot of reveals Marvel's sat on before (like What Scott Did or What MJ Whispered), so I'll give it a B.

[locuatico]

I will say, the recent "Mighty Thor" comic does give credence to the "Mortals would be better off without us"

[bruinsfan]

The only problem with that is that without the intervention of gods at various points I'm pretty sure humanity would have been wiped out by non-divine forces. Thor himself, for example, was instrumental in stopping Thanos from extinguishing the stars one by one in Avengers Annual #5, and without his help fighting Galactus in Fantastic Four #244 the latter might have sucked all the life energy out of the planet before Dr. Strange could show up and knock him into a coma.

[locuatico]

oh sure. it's just the whole "let's kill millions of mortal to win a petty popularity contest"

[beyondthefringe]

It's a little bit of a letdown, if you ask me. We've had years to build it up in our head, the question of what could make Thor unworthy, and it all comes down to... a severe break in confidence? But I guess Jason Aaron's had long enough to set everything in place from Gorr to Original Sin to this, so hopefully he had a plan all along.

War Thor. Heh.

[zylly]

I admit, I didn't start reading Thor until Jane picked up the hammer, but I had to look up who Gorr even was. So for me, that the whole thing rang as anticlimactic.

[locuatico]

I did read it, The "Godbutcher" saga is pretty good (and the rest of the series... not so much).
As a fun note, remember the dude who wanted to destroy all magic in Aaron's strange? his motivation was basically a rehash of Gorr ( I did not finish it so i am not aware if the strange story arc ended with the bad guy becoming that which they despised without even being aware of it)

[malitia]

It ended with Strange locking the villain in the basement after casting the misery externalizing spell on him. So yeah... SuperScienceMan might got that revelation about becoming what he hated, but not on panel at least.

[bruinsfan]

Now that magic's seeping back, Strange ought to use the Eye of Agamotto to show SuperScienceMan exactly how he'd become a malevolent, oppressive force just like the ones he was crusading against. Back in the 70s he used to win philosophical victories over opponents in addition to just beating them up.

[malitia]

Would be nice... Aaron has exactly 2 issues to pull that off. :/ (Then Hopeless takes over and I don't have much hope that he'll follow up upon anything Aaron might left hanging.)

[zachbeacon]

That's it?

[jaxjyls]

'Gorr was right' sounds like a freaking joke

[lamashtar]

Magneto is going to sue over copyright infringement.

[lbd_nytetrayn]

So... are we getting Thor Odinson, Jane FosThor, and Ultimate Thor, all at once?

[malitia]

If it makes things better solicits indicate that all 3 will be in the Mighty Thor. (And I fully expect the pacing slowing to a near standstill from this as Aaron already has trouble juggling the cast. Joy.)

[jaxjyls]

introducing John Hurt as the War Thor

[bruinsfan]

Yeah, because a viking god of thunder known for killing giants with a hammer has been such a pacifist when dealing with problems up to this point.