Your average MCU viewer sees the fact that Odin has one eye and probably attributes that to some nasty battle damage. Pretty much ALL the sexy stuff.īut it’s the way in which Rune King Thor achieves these new powers that is the most intriguing and disturbing part of his story. Powers like telepathy, teleportation, the ability to travel between dimensions and to alter reality. What we’re talking about here are powers that put the likes of Thanos and Galactus to shame. Now, you can argue that Thor is already a god anyway, but in reality the MCU Asgardians are actually more like aliens who encouraged lesser races to worship them as gods. In a distant future, with Odin long dead and another Ragnarok cycle approaching (this time facilitated by Loki), Thor takes a desperate gamble in order to save his people, and gains god-like powers in the process. It’s a version of Thor that appeared in the Avengers Disassembled storyline, and is easily the most bad-ass incarnation of the Odinson that you’ll ever see.

If you’ve never heard of The Rune King, then you’re far from being alone, as only the more devoted of Marvel readers would be able to talk at length about the character if pressed for significant detail.

Put down by most observers and commentators as being the result of director Taika Waititi’s own personal and humorous take on the source material, this new suggestion teases the fact that Waititi was in fact facilitating the agenda of Marvel’s creative masters, and may have been laying the foundations for the Thor’s eventual evolution into The Rune King. You only have to watch just five minutes of Thor: Ragnarok before you realize it’s VERY different to any of the other preceding MCU movies. Every one of the team’s founding members has been molded and shaped by their one personal tragedies and battles, and now an interesting theory has suggested that it is Thor who will ultimately be the hero with the biggest and most spectacular future ahead of him as the franchise moves forward. As the Marvel Cinematic Universe has evolved during the last passing decade, so too have each of the original Avengers lineup (and we’re not just talking about Natasha’s ever-changing hairstyle here…).

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