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Thor became mortal?

posted 7 years ago by cooljayb1994
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Know after Odin takes away Thor's abilities and banishes Thor to Earth, did Thor became mortal?

[–] hubcap18 7 years ago

Thor retained a limited amount of his strength and durability, so I wouldn't say he's mortal. He survived being hit by a car and the blow to the head from The Destroyer didn't permanently kill him, but he can still be taken down by taser or a shot of Thorazine. Sacrificing himself to The Destroyer was enough to earn the "worthiness" to reacquire Mjolnir and all the powers that come with it.

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[–] justanicknamed 7 years ago

I disagree. He was mortal. He's a big dude, so he's not going to be smashed when he gets hit by the car, but he also didn't get drilled. You see videos of people getting hit and the ones who get hurt are the ones who are hit at a high rate of speed. Neither time that he got hit was the vehicle going that fast. I don't know about the spin-out, but the other time was when Jane was backing up.

Also, when he got decked by the Destroyer, he was killed. It was his sacrifice which moved Odin to tears and led him to restore Thor to his former self.

[–] DracTarashV2 (4475) 7 years ago

He says it himself right before he faces the Destroyer... "My friends, I am just a man."

Unless his size and Asgard training alone helped him take down all those SHIELD guards easily (then there is Jane's first run in with him), then it's quite likely he retained some of his abilities. It was ultimately not enough to keep him anywhere near as powerful as he was before. As for immortal, well… probably compared to humans.

Thor gained a lot by being stripped of his powers.

[–] NorrinRad (5059) 6 years ago

Thor was never Immortal nor Indestructible nor Omnipotent. He just wasn't human.

Asgardians live and die and are more durable than humans even without Asgardian enchantment and Asgardian science.

Ragnarok.

[–] Otter (24464) 6 years ago

That's the logical answer, that no matter what happens with his powers he's still an Asgardian rather than a human.

But come on, this is a Thor script! Logic is not a big part of the creative process here, face it.

[–] NorrinRad (5059) 6 years ago

I wasn't approaching anything logically. Even in the comics Thor and all Asgardians were subject to death which is why both Hel and Valhalla existed. When stripped of his power by Odin he is even more vulnerable. Within the comics Thor is stripped of his power many times by his Daddy. And of course there is that whole Don Blake alter ego thing when he is made quasi-human and even more of a mortal by Odin, which is what he was during Thor 1.

[–] GreenGoblinsOck8 (7442) 3 years ago

I've read Thor comics now so I am aware of his Donald Blake alter Ego he had for a long while. I think it's just as well though that they didn't do it in the movie cause it would've made him too similar to other superheroes who have to have a secret identity. Then again secret identities aren't really much of a thing in the MCU. They even had Spider-Man reveal his identity to a majority of his supporting cast.