Thor Odinson (Earth name: Dr. Donald Blake) is among the principal superheroes of the Marvel Ultimate Alliance games. He's a starting playable character in the first and second games.
Character History
Thor Odinson is the blood-son of Odin, All-Father of the Asgardians, and Jord, who was also known as Gaea, the goddess who was one of the Elder Gods. Odin sought to father a son whose power would derive from both Asgard and Midgard (as the Earth realm is called by Asgardians), and hence he sought to mate with Jord. Odin created a cave in Norway where Jord gave birth to Thor. Months after the infant Thor was weaned, Odin brought him to Asgard to be raised. Odin's wife, the goddess Frigga, acted as Thor's mother from that time onward. Not until many decades later did Thor learn that Jord was his birth mother.
The young Thor was raised alongside Loki, who had been adopted by Odin after Loki's Frost Giant father Laufey had been killed in battle. For all of their childhood, Loki was jealous of Thor. Loki's jealousy, which grew into hatred, resulted in a desire to kill Thor. Thus began Loki's enmity for Thor, which persisted for many centuries. When Thor was old enough, Odin sent him to Nidavellir, the land of the Dwarves, to bid the dwarf lords Brokk and Eitri to create three treasures for Asgard's ruler. Among the three treasures that Brokk and Eitri created was the Uru hammer Mjolnir (although Loki sabotaged the creation of the hammer so that its handle was made too short by distracting the dwarven weaponsmiths). Odin bestowed various enchantments upon the hammer, including one that made it impossible for anyone to lift it except someone who was truly worthy of wielding it. Odin then declared that he was reserving the use of Mjolnir for Thor, who would receive it on the day that great deeds of selfless valor had proved him worthy of its power.
He is one of the Aesir, the supreme group of Norse gods. He is the god of thunder and his one of the foremost champions of Asgard. However, Odin, who is the leader of the Aesir, exiled Thor to Earth because of his arrogance. He wiped Thor's memories and locked his power in a stick, knowing he will need it someday. True enough, Donald Blake, a doctor and Thor's human form, found the stick and reactivated his power, restoring his memories. However, Thor grew to love humans, becoming one of Earth's protectors in turn. He became a founding member of the Avengers alongside Captain America, Iron Man, Hulk, Black Widow, Hawkeye, Black Panther, Ant-Man, Wasp, and War Machine. The Avengers would later disband and Thor returned to Asgard to face new challenges throughout the nine realms. Years later, He joined a strike force of heroes known as the Ultimate Alliance alongside his former teammates Captain America and Iron Man. He also gained new allies like Spider-Man, Wolverine, Elektra, and Storm, to stop Dr. Doom and his Masters of Evil from stealing Odin's powers and taking over the Universe.
Marvel: Ultimate Alliance: Story
Heeding Nick Fury's distress call to defend the UNN Alpha from the attack of the Masters of Evil, Thor used his powers to bring Wolverine, Captain America and Spider-Man aboard the Helicarrier. Possibly, he brought also all other heroes who received Fury's call, though they seem to have been deployed to other parts of the carrier. After helping save the Helicarrier. Thor along with Spider-Man, Wolverine, and Captain America joined the Ultimate Alliance. With the Ultimate Alliance, he saved the S.H.I.E.L.D. Omega Base from crashing into a dam, Stopped Attuma's attempt to overthrow Namor as ruler of Atlantis.
When Doctor Doom, having stolen Thor's father; Odin powers he attempted to kill Thor and the others only for them to be saved Uatu the Watcher who tells them that to defeat Doom before his use of Odin's Powers destroy all of reality they must get a shard of the M'Kraan Crystal from the Sh'iar empire and the Muonic Inducer from Galactus where Thor and the team end up saving Lilandra from being overthrown by her sister Deathbird and saving the Skrull home planet from being devoured by Galactus. Returning to Earth, Thor and The Ultimate Alliance fought Doom and after a lengthy battle manage to drain enough of Dooms power to defeat him and Odin having been freed and regained his strength teleports Doom to punish him for his crimes.
Marvel: Ultimate Alliance 2: Story
Thor accompanied Fury and other heroes to invade Latveria and stop Lucia von Bardas and participated in the Civil War that followed. When the government created the Superhuman Registration Act, since Latveria's attack on New York led by Lucia, Thor is one of the few heroes who registered. However, his friend and rival, Hercules Panhellenios joined Captain America's Anti-Registration side. Unfortunately, when the Fold emerged, Thor and the heroes put everything aside to work together and successfully defeat them.
Gameplay
Trivia
- The Thor that appears in the third game is not the same one who appeared in the first two games, as the third game is set in a different continuity.
- In the second game, it ignores the event of Ragnarok on Asgard where Thor was presumably died and Iron Man took one of his hair sample where he and both Mister Fantastic and Hank Pym created a robotic clone Ragnarok during the Civil War I, to Thor's anger when he was reborn after the war is over. Therefore, the actual Thor joined Pro-Registration side in the second game, just as how Spider-Man (Peter Parker)'s MCU counterpart remained on Pro-Registration side during his debut on Captain America: Civil War.
- His design in the third game is based on Marvel NOW! and his MCU counterpart.
- In the first game, Thor and Daredevil use to share the same voice actor, Cam Clarke.
- In the third game, Rick D. Wasserman reprises his role from Avengers: Earth’s Mightiest Heroes, (Ultimate) Marvel vs. Capcom 3 and MMO game Marvel Heroes.
- Thor is the only hero mentioned by name during the Villains' cutscenes, otherwise, the heroes are only referred to as "the heroes".
- He is one of the many characters to appear in every game as a playable character alongside Captain America, Spider-Man (Peter Parker), Wolverine, Iron Man, Hulk, Deadpool, Luke Cage, Storm, The Fantastic Four, and Black Panther. Not counting Blade, Cyclops, Magneto, and Venom (Eddie Brock), due to in their special playable appearances in the second game.
- In Marvel: Ultimate Alliance, he is seen mostly in the cinematic cut scenes with Spider-Man, Captain America, and Wolverine.
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