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Thor and Odin are together again and as the estranged father and son duo confront each other, they realize they are not alone.
WARNING: The following contains spoilers for Thor #16, on sale now from Marvel.
While the Marvel Universe is full of complicated father-son relationships, nothing quite compares to the dysfunctional dynamic between Thor and his father Odin. The two Asgardian regents have feuded over Odin’s heavy-handed treatment of Thor for centuries, with Thor also deeply resenting the trickery and secrets that Odin often resorted to while keeping his family in the dark. And while Thor would succeed Odin as the new King of Asgard following the crossover event War of the Realms, things between the two men have not mellowed since, with an uncomfortable family reunion between the two poised to grow even bigger.
Thor #16 — by Donny Cates, Michele Bandini, Elisabetta D’Amico, Matt Wilson and VC’s Joe Sabino — has the God of Thunder enjoying a day catching up with Jane Foster in New York City. This happy outing is interrupted when Thor is summoned by his mother back to Asgard. Having Lady Sif use the Bifrost Bridge to transport him across the cosmos, Thor instead finds himself in a strange wilderness with his father waiting for him. This unhappy reunion is undercut by Freyja and Angela, Thor’s mother and half-sister, respectively joining the ensemble, for the first meeting between the family since Odin and Freyja decided to separate after the royal couple left Asgard to their son. And judging by Angela’s presence alongside Freyja while Loki remains noticeably absent, it appears that there is some ominous news about those in Odin’s bloodline.
Angela originated as a supporting character in the Spawn Universe, a battle angel that served as a bounty hunter for Heven and formed an adversarial relationship with Spawn. Following the 2013 crossover event Age of Ultron, Angela was integrated into the Marvel Universe when the walls of reality were weakened by Wolverine’s tampering while the subsequent crossover event Original Sin revealed Angela’s secret Marvel history. Angela was revealed to be Aldriff, the long-lost daughter of Odin and Freyja who was raised in the secret Tenth Realm of Heven after an enraged Odin cut it from the Norse World Tree Yggdrasil. Since then, Angela has appeared as a contentious ally to Asgard, largely going her own way through the cosmos.
Thor, however, has even more grievances to mount against Odin than ever before. After narrowly emerging triumphant over his alter ego Donald Blake, when the rogue persona revealed the tragic truth behind his creation at Odin’s hands, Thor learned startling news about his own parentage. Rather than his biological mother being Gaea, the Earth’s Elder Goddess which at least partially accounted for Thor’s connection to Midgard, Thor learned that his mother was actually the Phoenix, with the fiery entity and Odin striking up a relationship while they served together on Avengers 1,000,000 B.C. The revelation struck Thor to his core as everything he thought he knew was called into question.
Thor and Odin are now both at the mercy of Freyja, with the two Asgardians poised to have a thoroughly uncomfortable conversation after all the recent personal drama. And with Angela in tow, Odin is likely going to have to come clean about much from his complicated history, answering the secrets he’s kept from his wife and children for centuries as he now stands without the powers of the All-Father to make a commanding presence. And Thor isn’t off the hook either, with Freyja ready to have words with her son.
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