Editing Marvel Comics (section)

====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 except as a continuity gag when Thor has to pretend to be mortal.

Thor's iteration of [[Ysgard|Asgard]] is markedly different from 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. They actually went through with the Ragnarok thing in 2004, leaving Thor dead for three years before reviving along with Asgard in a stretch of empty land near Broxton, Oklahoma. This was 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.