Summary
Contains Spoilers for Giant-Size Thor #1!Thoris Marvel’s God of Thunder, and one new comic has shown that his control over lightning is more impressive than anyone could have imagined. Thor’s expansion of his ability to create lightning constructs is a fascinating upgrade, but it’s hard to say whether this is a true evolution of his powers, or rather something he just never thought of doing before now.
InGiant-Size Thor#1–written by Al Ewing, with art by Brian Level –Thor demonstrates his mastery over lightning by projecting his voice and shape in the form of a lightning construct.
Theability for Thor to create constructs of lightningisn’t new, but being able to talk through them is. While shaping lightning is a natural extension of his power set, the ability to talk through it, however, feels a little more mythical, apropos of the character’s nature as Marvel’s current Asgardian All-Father.
Thor Finally Discovers a Weapon More Powerful Than Mjolnir (With 1 R-Rated Drawback)
Thor’s All-Power has just been channeled into an awesome new weapon, but the God of Thunder must pay a heavy, R-rated price to wield it.
Thor Displays The Incredible Ability To Make Talking Lightning Constructs
Giant-Size Thor#1– Written By Al Ewing; Art By Brian Level, Guru-eFX, and Joe Sabino
Thor’s powers are only really limited by his imagination, by him conceptualizing what the God of Thunder should be able to do…In myths and stories, a god can do anything needed for the tale to be told, and it’s exactly the same with Thor.
Giant-Size Thor #1 spins out of the concurrentImmortal Thorongoing series, which has featured Thor expanding his control over lightning like never before. Not only can he shape it, butThor can talk to lightning, deflecting attacks by simply asking them to move. This is exactly what Thor does inGiant-Size #1; he tells the electricity stored within a giant robot to obey him and carry his message. This isn’t him summoning lightning via Mjölnir, it’s himshaping existing lightning into a new form, showing a mastery of his powers.
It’s also possible that Thor could have always done this, and just never thought of it before.Al Ewing’s version of Thoris constantly pushing the bounds of his powers – not with feats of strength,but feats of wisdom. Thor’s powers are only really limited by his imagination, by him conceptualizing what the God of Thunder should be able to do. ‘Divinity’ isn’t exactly a set list of powers. In myths and stories, a god can do anything needed for the tale to be told, and it’sexactly the same with Thor.
The ‘lightning’ [Thor] shapes inGiant-Size Thor#1, is electricity from a machine, which suggests he can channel more than just natural lightning.
Marvel’s “Giant-Size Thor” Renegotiates The Extent Of The God Of Thunder’s Abilities
The Undefined Upper Limit Of His Power
This lightning construct also raises the question of the precisemetaphysics of Thor’s power. The ‘lightning’ he shapes inGiant-Size Thor#1, is electricity from a machine, which suggests he can channel more than just natural lightning. It might be just that the machine in question was specifically built to channel Thor’s power, butif Thor could control more forms of electricity, that changes the extent of his abilities significantly.This new power upgrsde forThoronly raises more questions aboutthe God of Thunder’s true power level.
Thor
Associated with the mythical realm of Asgard, Thor is a Marvel Comics hero who channels the power of thunder to slay their foes. Though the name is chiefly tied to Thor Odinson, several other characters also take on the role of God of Thunder, including Odinson’s love interest, Jane Foster. Odin is portrayed as a physically imposing hero with incredible strength and typically wields the dwarven forged hammer, Mjolnir.
