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===Thor===
Odin has banished [[Thor]] to Earth in the guise of a mortal to learn humility (later retconned as secretly being to protect him), Donald Blake discovers his true identity and powers during a trip to Norway. Originally just a normal superhero with some Norse trappings, to the point he debuted battling against giant alien rockmen, later authors tied him closer and closer to Norse myth and "Donald Blake" has largely been forgotten in favor of him just being Thor.

Thor's iteration of [[Asgard]] is markedly different to the original Nordic myths in many ways, ranging from the subtle (Thor is blonde, not redheaded) to the overt (Sif is a warrior-goddess instead of a fertility goddess, Loki is Thor's adoptive brother rather than Odin's blood-brother). This is actually explained in-universe as a result of the Ragnarok cycle; the Asgardians and their foes perish during Ragnarok, but are then reincarnated to begin the cycle leading up to Ragnarok all over again, leading to distinct alterations between the different iterations. Regardless, Thor still carries his trusty hammer Mjölnir, lightning powers and all, which can only be wielded by the worthy.

For a god, Thor has a surprisingly wide and likeable cast of supporting characters, ranging from his father Odin and stepmother Frigga (Thor's ''biological'' mom is actually the Earth Goddess) to Beta Ray Bill, Sif and the Warriors Three... even some of the villains like Amora the Enchantress and Skurge the Executioner have surprising depth, with Skurge in particular having a notoriously badass and heroic final death in his climatic story. You can generally tell a true old-school Thor fan in Marvel's readers if they get a little misty-eyed at the phrase "He stood alone at Gjallerbrau".

In the early 2000s, Thor was actually killed off as part of the Ragnarok storyline in 2004. He spent three years dead before reviving, and rather literally shaking up the cosmology by recreating Asgard in a stretch of empty plains near the Oklahoma town of Broxton, resulting in the humans having to get used to their new divine neighbors. This is something you either loved or hated.

Sadly, post 2010 Thor has been more or less universally hated, mainly due to the long and dreary "Unworthy Thor" storyline, in which Thor was stripped of his ability to wield Mjolnir, had an arm hacked off, and spiralled into a deep depression, all the while a mysterious woman (later revealed to be Thor's old on-off flame Jane Foster, [[Wat|who was also undergoing chemo during that period]]) took up Mjölnir and ran around calling herself the new Thor. Even some of Thor's enemies thought that this was a bit tasteless.

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====Beta Ray Bill==== 

Thors oath brother and horse monster cyborg buddy, originally an alien of the Korbinite species (wiped out by Surtur, an enemy of the Asgardians as well) Bill ends up fighting Thor assuming he is a demon and proves himself to be the first non Asgardian to wield Mjonlir (Yes, before Captain America). Bills stories mostly involve him running into Galactus, but his latest mini series has him dealing with his hatred for his looks and his jealousy due to being overshadowed by Thor.
He has some crazy feats like surviving a pummeling so hard the planet under him exploded, or how he became a cyborg through being shoved into a meat grinder with dozens of other Korbinite heroes and being the one to come out on top as the species guardian.