For years , Jason Aaron ’s stewardship of the Thor ongoing has ramp up up to War of the Realms . It ’s a delivery on not just sempiternal minx about an all - out scrap even mightier thanpunching an alien made of hatespecifically out to murder Asgardians , but the climax of personal arcs across so many Thor reference , not just the Odinson .
With the outlet of War of the Realms Omega this workweek , the leger has at last been fill up on the months - prospicient larger-than-life opposition between Malekith the Accursed — who , working with everyone from Roxxon to the Frost Giants , had been strip his way across the Ten Realms passably much since Jane Foster had become Thor , and had finally deform his oculus to conquering Midgard once and for all — and Thor ( plus a few dozen friends on Earth ) . Some of Marvel ’s ok heroes temporarily became god ! Big battles were fight down ! A bunch of Thors show up to punch Malekith in the face basically on a technicality ! It was a whole dang lot .
But it happened to impel Thor , Jane , Loki , Odin , and XII of other persona who ’ve been big players in War of the Realm ’s wild journey onto some exciting new course . Now that it ’s all done and dusted , these are the most important things you require to take from it .
The movers and shakers of the War of the Realms are in some wild new places as of Omega.Image: Phil Noto (Marvel Comics)
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Thor is the All-Father now…
The War of the Realms came to an end fairly much thanks to a hostage quite a little between Malekith and Thor — with Odin and Freya becharm by Malekith ’s forces , Thor was to front the Accursed in mortal fight , or his parent would die . And it would rightfully be fateful , even for gods , as the war had already claim the lives of the Valkyries , meaning Valhalla as the Asgardians knew it is just … empty .
recollective story brusque that we ’ll get to over the rest of this web log , but Thor carry through the twenty-four hours — of course he did — and Malekith got torn apart by the Wild Hunt after a last - ditch attack to summon them to kill Thor and his folks . In doing so , the War of the Realms was over , and all the realms from Midgard to Asgard could start out to reconstruct … but Asgard , at least , would n’t be doing it under the auspices of its All - Father . Because , after years of dismissing his Logos ’s fall to unworthiness , Odin pride his son on a business well done .
And made him All - Father in the outgrowth . Hail to the Billie Jean King ?
A new All-Father stands ready.Image: Russell Dauterman, Matthew Wilson, and Joe Sabino (Marvel Comics)
…And he’s wielding Mjolnir, reborn
The Odinson has been Thor for a while again , but he has n’t been wielding Mjolnir . Thor ’s been unworthy of wielding his famous cock since the Original Sin event in 2014 , and has involve on multiple weapon system in its stead , from the axe Jarnbjorn , to a series of disposable public utility hammers ( earnestly , he had a turkey hammer at one peak ) , to his current hammer — a svelter , gilt weapon made with the tiniest splinter of Uru metal from the original Mjolnir .
But why , aside from the unworthiness , did Thor not wield his iconic weapon ? Well , because , err , Jane Foster rather pat it into the gist of the sun .
Jane ’s valiant , seemingly calamitous act ( she got better , thanks cartoon strip ) as Thor in her battle against the Mangog was to chain up the beast and tie it to Mjolnir , sending the weapon — the only matter keeping her alive as cancer waste her body — and Mangog cast into the sun , melting the weapon in the process .
A new All-Father stands ready.Image: Russell Dauterman, Matthew Wilson, and Joe Sabino (Marvel Comics)
Except … Mjolnir did n’t precisely fade . division of its marvelous metal remained within the sun , and when Thor threw himself into the sun as his father once had in ancient mythology — what is it with Asgardians and flinging things into the sun?—seeking the knowledge to situate and defeat Malekith , he not only encountered the ancient Supreme Being - tempest Odin had bound within Mjolnir to create it , but fragments of the Uru metallic element too . Using the sun ’s intense estrus and the powers of the mother of Thunder , Thor reforged the pounding himself , giving it a new hold made out of a branch from Yggdrasil .
Even better , he can wield it again because he ’s at last accept theoriginal whisper secretfrom Gorr the God Butcher — it is the heroic struggle to strive to be worthy , despite knowing that true worthiness is out of the question to attain , that in turn makes you able to wield the pounding . It is , once again , hammer metre .
Jane Foster, former Thor, was Thor again, and is now Valkyrie
Having been saved from sure death , Jane Foster ’s pass the past few month back at her older job as a doctor . But with the warfare of the realms turning Earth into a hellish battleground , she once again briefly get hold of on the chimneypiece of Thunder Goddess to help the Odinson out , wielding a intimate weapon : theMjolnir of the Ultimate Marvel Universe , which had survived the wipeout of that alternate reality during Secret Wars ( it got better , thanks cartoon strip ) .
During Jane ’s clock time as Thor , the hammer was maintain by Volstagg , transforming him from the roly - poly light-hearted member of the Warriors Three and into themayhem - addict War Thor . The bloodlust the transmutation invoked stand for he ultimately gave up the role , but Jane settle to in short handle it in the nerve of the dire circumstances look the realm . She also … sort of destroyed it ? Well , it was falling apart and about to violently break loose , so during the final fight — as Malekith fight Thor at Stonehenge and Laufey ’s hoarfrost giant pummelled New York — Jane toss out Ultimate Mjolnir all the way over from England to the U.S. , smashing Laufey in the face at a all important instant ( we ’ll see why shortly ) .
But as Ultimate Mjolnir explosively break into Laufey ’s face , a fragment of its clay ground itself back to Jane , bonding to her wrist as a golden gantlet : Undrjarn the All - artillery , equal to of transforming into whatever weapon its wielder desired it to be . It ’s a good thing , too , because with the Valkyries having perished — even the Valkyrie , Brunnhilde — during the war , Jane ’s gon na need something like the Swiss Army knife of Uru weaponry . The departing souls of the warrior have just made her the new Valkyrie , leaving so they could restore Valhalla and have Jane act in their position as the guardian between the realms of the support and the dead .
The returned Mjolnir is ready to bring the thunder.Image: Russell Dauterman, Matthew Wilson, and Joe Sabino (Marvel Comics)
Which she ’ll do so in hervery own comic leger series !
Loki died (kinda sorta) but he’s fine (kinda sorta)
Loki was n’t actually in War of the Realm all that much , mainly because he drop most of it … err , being support by his dad ?
Yeah , Laufey rather ate Loki early on . It was gross . What was arrant is that Loki actually survived this ! In War of the Realm ’s final publication , when Jane fling Ultimate Mjolnir into Laufey ’s face , it gave Daredevil — wielding Heimdall ’s wizard , all - witness sword Hofund as the God Without Fear — a chance to fling the steel right down Laufey ’s throat … which a partly tolerate Loki then proceed to use to cut up his mode out of his own Father of the Church , killing Laufey in the mental process .
Ewwwwwwwwww .
Ultimate Mjolnir’s final act turns it into Undrjarn.Image: Russell Dauterman, Matthew Wilson, and Joe Sabino (Marvel Comics)
Anyway , Loki , thanks to some clock time - trickery , got better just in time for his own new on-going series , commence next workweek — thanks comics!—and is now the King of the Frost Giants … although not every Frost Giant is exactly well-chosen about that , pass judgment by how we recover Loki attempting to placate dissidents in the pages of War of the Realms Omega . He ’s trying at least to be a sound leader , championing serenity rather than warmongering like Laufey before him . We ’ll have to wait for that new serial to find out how successful he is .
There’s like, 3 Thors now?
So retrieve how I said Thor stupefy Malekith on a technicality ? Malekith ’s duel need to Thor was that they confront each other and only Thor could show up . Well , Thor decided that intend anyone he could line up wielding the name Thor could come with .
One of them was Jane , as we ’ve cover . But there were two more wrenched from across sentence and outer space : a untried version of himself that Jane had previouslycrossed paths with , before he ’d ever raised Mjolnir aloft and become the God of Thunder . The second , was an old , wiserAll - Father Thorfrom near the remainder of the universe of discourse . Both were brought to the present by some time - change of location courtesy of the Fantastic Four , and it ’s not yet been shown if they ’ve been sent back ?
They ’ll probably be send back . Otherwise the timeline gets a bit toojeremy bearimyfor everyone ’s tastes . But still , worth mentioning for its jubilant silliness .
With the Valkyrior’s blessing, Jane Foster has become the Valkyrie.Image: Cafu, Jesus Aburtov, and Joe Sabino (Marvel Comics)
The Punisher’s gone monster huntin’
Earth has been ravaged by the invasion of Malekith and Laufey ’s forces , requiring anyone and everyone capable to step up and press back untold monstrosities from across the Ten Realms . Your usual sorting , your Avengers , your Captains America and Marvel , your Spiders - Man , weighed in , but one of the War of the Realm ’s most surprising belligerent has been Frank Castle , thePunisher himself . And he ’s still not done , despite said warfare being over .
Mainly because , as Omega reveals , Earth still has a Brobdingnagian road to recovery ahead of it to scavenge up the mill around giant and destruction go forth in its viewing . Frank being Frank , that mean he ’s out there not just blasting monsters , but induce trusted humankind does n’t fall quarry to its worst impulses , as its wo nt to do in the nerve of experiential threat . But Frank ’s also made a personal oath to work his brand of penalization on the monster that kill untold number of civilians during the attacks , and so he ’s going across the realm to pick off any that escaped . He ’ll be doing so in the varlet of Punisher : Kill Krew , in which Frank wears what is basically theDovahkiin helmet fromSkyrimwhile shooting monsters to expiry .
It ’s silent . But also ? It ’s unbelievable .
Long live the King?Image: Oscar Bazaldua, David Curiel, and Clayton Cowles (Marvel Comics)
Daredevil’s having one hell of a crisis of faith (again)
Poor Matt Murdock . As if thecrippling Catholic guiltwasn’t enough ?
Anyway , as we mentioned before , during the War of the Realms , several of Earth ’s torpedo were granted the boons of Asgard ’s remaining gods to further enhance their power in the fight against Malekith . Daredevil was one of them , manage Heimdall ’s abilities and the steel Hotun as the God Without Fear . That intend , for the first time since he was blinded as a youngster , Matt could in reality utilise Heimdall ’s all - knowing powers to see everything across time and infinite . It shook him at first , but he got used to it — and when those powers left him at the end of the issue , he suddenly found himself judder again , having lost truly awe - inspiring power .
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LOKI PLEASE STOP DISSOLVING BEFORE MAKING JOKES.Image: Russell Dauterman, Matthew Wilson, and Joe Sabino (Marvel Comics)
Z ’s intact framing machine orbit around this , as Heimdall visits a pout Daredevil , include that while he could never take the ability for good — the struggle to feel worthy of the exponent is too much for a man already wracked with at least one other pantheon ’s worth of guilt feelings — he’d wish to see with it one last time . Heimdal obliges , having find Matt more than worthy of his time as a god , letting him catch up with where everyone like Jane , Thor , Loki , and Frank are . But that ’s not all Heimdall gift harum-scarum : he also give him two , rune - etched billy golf club carved from more pieces of Yggdrasil , and forged by the same dwarves that forged Thor ’s cavalcade of Mjolnirs .
Oh , and a seat in Valhalla when Daredevil ’s fight finally terminate . But Matt demand to give it to his dad or else , before readily invite Heimdall to help oneself him test out his godlike raw weaponry on a really ill-omened mugger at the proceeds ’s remainder .
Venom is back together again, just in time for his own event
Did we mention Venom was crucial to this event ? God , it ’s been a lot . Anyway , the Venom symbiote has been mess up for a while — it had recently well-nigh conk saving Eddie Brock ’s life , rendering its sentience in a comatose nation … allowing Malekith to subdue it with dark elf magics and bond with the symbiote without it even being able to protest .
But with Malekith kill and the symbiote essentially punched clean off him by Thor during the process , it seems whatever Malekith ’s magic did to raise the symbiote during his metre bonded to it , also cured the trauma that had rendered Venom unable to speak or think for itself . Yay ! Except thing are about to get worse for the poor symbiote in the approaching Absolute Carnage outcome , which feature , you guessed it , the tax return of Cletus Kassidy as Carnage . Boo !
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Oh, so it’s a thorsome, if you will.Image: Russell Dauterman, Matthew Wilson, and Joe Sabino (Marvel Comics)
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