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Panel of the Week #26:
Rock paper scissors
Gambit (2012) #9
Osborn's Avengers are able to temporarily take down Thor by combining their power and blasting him with everything they've got. The rest of the world is watching, and Steve Rogers in particular is pissed the hell off.
Seige (2009) #1 & Thor (2007) #607.
I think if I had it my way, Thor would've gotten an anime-style second wind while on the ground, fought to his feet, then powered through the pain to beat the big bads on his own. What we get instead is Maria Hill charging at eight elite superpowered fighters with a machine gun and a dream.
Which is objectively way funnier and cooler.
My favorite thing about this fight is the Warriors Three slashing at these bots with actual metal weapons meanwhile Sif's out here with her fists and a tie-front crop top like. Wow, you need swords for this? Literally just punch them. Punch the robots.
Thor Giant-Size Finale (2009) #1.
And you know what she's fucking winning.
VOLSTAGG WITH A STEEL CHAIR???
My favorite thing about this fight is the Warriors Three slashing at these bots with actual metal weapons meanwhile Sif's out here with her fists and a tie-front crop top like. Wow, you need swords for this? Literally just punch them. Punch the robots.
Thor Giant-Size Finale (2009) #1.
And you know what she's fucking winning.
Thor & Ororo Munroe | Avengers (2023) #18
Thor invoking the power he inherited from his birth mother, Gaea, to create a chasm that spans an entire region.
Thor (2007) #4.
I would love to see Thor's connection to the earth and Gaea explored more in fan works.
the painting on that one yygdrasil map is sooo cute to me 🥺
avengers: age of ultron (2015)
Okay you know what? I don’t want this to get lost in tags. Basically, Thor is allowed to have feelings and be messy and imperfect all on his own without it having much if anything to do directly with Loki. Or even indirectly. A huge amount of Thor’s character arc has to do with his relationship to Odin, and his relationship with who he himself is outside of being who he was brought up to believe he was meant to be.
Like he should not have been 1500 years old the first time his mother tells him he can be himself. And see, the trade off of this is that Thor has almost no self-worth nor self-actualization outside of who he thought he was supposed to be. And when the person he was supposed to be fucks up so badly (in his mind), that half the universe disappears…
Well, who is he after that? What purpose does he have? He can’t be the king he was expected to be, because that person doesn’t actually exist.
And because he can’t be that version of himself because of his trauma and grief and guilt, he doesn’t know who he is at all. And so the traumatized, grieving version of himself, the one that can’t get off the couch and has completely, as Chris Hemsworth said, “checked out” isn’t the king he was expected to be, so why bother even trying? He needed some time to not have to try. Valkyrie gets it, she was right in the same place, so she picks up the slack for him, which makes it that much easier to check out more and more. By the time Rocket and Bruce show up, he’s basically decided that this new version of himself is happy, while he’s right on the verge of a breakdown pretty much at all times.
He’s been taught his whole life not to show his people his feelings. His dad’s advice to him about having feelings was basically, go drink, and put on a goddamn happy face because a future king needs to keep his weird gross sadness to himself.
So Thor does exactly that: his feelings are too overwhelming to translate into productive anger (how he usually copes), so it turns inward. And that’s not good because he’s been told not to show his feelings so many times. It’s ingrained. So he drinks and he pretends to be happy, but it doesn’t mean he’s got any sort of sense of identity.
He leaves with the Guardians to try a different version of himself, to middling success in terms of helping him form his own identity, one that had started to heal from all the horrible things that have happened in a time period that, to him, is like a long weekend.
It’s a journey he’s still on, and ultimately it only peripherally has much to do with Loki.
where is all my thor whump with protective loki lol? so much the other way around. we need equal opportunity distribution of thumping lolol.
right??? all the thor whump i've seen ends up being loki whump in a trenchcoat meanwhile which of them has the literal canon punishment of having taken their magic and immortality away to dump them on earth?? HM????
Never Doubt by Kairyn on AO3 is a good Thor whump one-shot
thank you!
also, i have not read them all but:
Prologue: Who Mourned For Loki by eirtae and works after this one in the same series
If I Could Start Again by Taaroko is an ongoing monster-length fic
Stormbreaker strikes Thanos a couple inches to the left of where it does in canon, with much more satisfying results. However, revenge alone won't fill the voids left behind by all that Thor has lost. The Time Stone might be able to help with that.
Infinity War Thor is thrown back into his younger body on the night of the botched coronation. He's going to be doing things a lot differently this time.
Bend or Break by petreparkour
When Loki saw Thanos’ ship rise into view from where he stood beside Thor, all he felt was dread. He had no idea what would be coming.
Loki had fully expected to receive the same treatment that he had the first time he’d been on Thanos’s ship—Thanos ripping into his head and pulling his mind apart only to put it together again the wrong way, or cruelly defacing his body with burns and brands.
Yes, that was what he had expected. That wasn't what had happened. Somehow, he wished it was.
Or: When Thanos's ship pulls up in front of the ruined Asgard, Loki and the Avengers have to deal with the fallout.
Withering Away by GalaxyThreads
Thor failed. He failed his family, his people, his friends, and drinking solves nothing. When the Avengers arrive to initiate their plan, they find a much different Thor. One who’s only willing to agree on one condition: When they get the Tesseract, it will be on the Statesmen, and Thor will bring back Loki with him. (Fix-it) (No slash, no smut) Avengers as family! Whump!
hope's just hard to find by thorbiased
In which a different brother falls from the Bifrost.
— canon divergence fic. what if thanos used thor to invade earth?
A Long Way Down by TDFawkes
In Avengers: Age of Ultron, the scene towards the end where Tony and Thor destroy the hunk of land crashing to the Earth caught my attention because the last we see of Thor is him sinking into the ocean. Then, he's up and walking and talking like nothing happened. Not on my watch. This is a bit of the in-between.
we could steal time by Beb
With Odin dead and Asgard gone, Thor found the great responsibility lie heavily on his shoulders; the people whose lives depended on him, New Asgard that barely looked anything like a kingdom (more like temporary tents) the fact he had to start it all over. Every thing his father built over the million of years, gone in the blink of an eye.
Or, Thor barely took care of himself, if not at all, and it'd taken a toll on him. Loki would not have any of that.
I Will Cover You by The_Winter_Writer
He had lost far too much in such a short amount of time. His Mother, his Father, Mjolnir, his friends, most of his people, an eye and his home. Now he had lost another friend. Surrounded by the bodies of more dead Asgardians, trapped and injured, Thor could not lose anyone else.
Certainly not him.
He's Asgardian, Not Indestructible by GalaxyThreads
5 times the Avengers were overprotective of Thor, and the one time they should have been. (No slash, no smut!) Avengers as family! Thor!Whump! (One-Shot)
Poison & Wine by Mara_DragonMaster
"You're not scared, are you?" Loki said, turning a sharp grin his way. Thor glared back at him. "Together." "Are you sure you wouldn't rather go first?" Loki teased, then shrugged at the look he received. "Oh well. If you insist. On the count of three?" Thor took Mjolnir from his belt and held it tightly. Loki tensed. "One," he counted. "Two. Three…"
A Moment of Peace by Loxxlay
Thor and Loki share a moment together, locked in a cell on Thanos's ship.
Chapter 2: Loki executes his plan for them to escape. Thor disagrees with most of it. Chapter 3: Thor struggles with the loss of his brother.
Borborygmi by GalaxyThreads
After Thanos's war is over and Asgard's survivors have been settled in Norway, Thor and Loki take up a joint crown. Thor, unable to cope with the stress as well as the trauma of Ragnarok slips into deadly habits; and Loki deals with putting his broken mess of a brother back together again.(No slash, no smut) Thor!whump! (One-shot) (Re-posted)
Never Doubt by Kairyn
... we are brothers.
For once Thor is the one brought low and needs his brother's help.
unworthy by orphan_account
His face slipped naturally into a halfhearted smile, though his tears dripped just like hers. "Do you think I'm still worthy of Valhalla?"
[ aka "the whole worthiness thing with Thor is kinda unhealthy" ]
We're A Mess Now, Huh? by GalaxyThreads
Thor falls off the Bifrost instead of Loki. It changes nothing. (It changes everything)
Or: After years spent with Thanos, Thor's mission gather the Infinity Stones is halted when a young man arrives claiming to be his brother. Thor knows better, though, he is a son of Thanos; and he's never heard of Asgard before. (No slash, no smut) (Two-shot!)
Mad Man by griseldajane (this one is thor/loki)
Summary:
“Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.” ― Kahlil Gibran
In all the years they spent together, it never occurred to Loki that there might be a time when Thor would not be available to him. The god of mischief conceals himself, coming and going as he pleases, doing what he wants. That Thor might one day do the same never crossed his mind.
OR: When Loki discovers that Thor has seemingly vanished from the nine realms, he uses all the tricks at his disposal to find his missing brother, including teaming up with the Avengers.
In the meantime, Thor is pushed past his breaking point and may have forever lost his way.
A story about love, obsession and the mysteries of the heart and mind.
Warnings: this story deals with psychological torture and mental illness. Please review all the warning tags before proceeding!
The grief of a god by ClaraCivry (Kat_Of_Dresden)
Loki is dead.
Thor is not too well.
The five stages of grief, on a godly scale.
I’ll Scream But You Won’t Hear by Writing_is_THORapy
“The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.” —James A. Baldwin
OR: Coping after your support system has been violently ripped away from you
I have yet to find Thor whump to the scale of Loki whump around here >:[
Have Tesseract, Will Travel by WinterDusk has a lot of excellent sad-unreliable-narrator-Thor whump + stressed-and-confused-but-doing-his-best-Loki, especially "And the Norns Roll the Dice" and "Flinch," but most of the other works have that dynamic at least to an extent, too.
My problem is that I love reading Thor being sad about his brother being dead, but I can't actually read stories where Loki is permanently dead, so.
trying to find Thor whump in this fandom is like trying to dig for gold in a mine, so here are my offerings:
All of Soroka's Thor whump are absolutely top-tier
Storyteller_of_the_Forest has all the Hurt Thor, Protective Loki fics you need
Avengers Complex Fics series by ThePartyPrince (Thor & The Avengers interactions during Endgame)
cause I fell in love with a war (and nobody told me it ended) series by FloraNina
In the mouth of winter by flesh (Hurt Thor, Caretaker Loki (even if it's kinda his fault Thor got hurt in the first place))
After Loki inadvertently makes Thor the vessel of his magic, Thor gets very ill, so Loki has to make sure he doesn’t die before Loki’s got his magic back.
A King's Work by Sholio
On a ship full of refugees stranded in deep space, there is no opportunity for a king to be less than everything his people demand.
Clint Barton and the Godlet of Thunder by GoddessofThunder (navigatio) (One of my personal favs. Heed the tags)
Thor is kidnapped right out from under their noses. When the rest of the team track him down, they find a little boy wrapped in a huge red cape. He’s got shaggy blond hair and big sky-blue eyes, and he says his name is “Four.” ("Thor?" “Yes, dat’s what I said.”). Steve tells him they are there to take him home and the kid asks for the “Secret code words”.
Luckily Clint is a very good guesser. Now he finds himself the unexpected guardian of a traumatized, pint-sized god of Thunder who just wants his mother and father. Too bad they’re dead.
It's the de-aged Thor fic you didn't know you needed in your life.
Godchild by griseldajane (Another de-aged Thor fic that I absolutely adore)
When Loki finds a de-aged Thor wandering alone on the battlefield, Loki takes the five year old child in and resolves to figure out how Thor was transformed and why...
Right When I’m Near It’s Like You Disappear by guttermud (More de-aged Thor & protective Loki)
Loki pushes down the emotion welling inside him, first and foremost came Thor.
The Truth About Ghosts by LadySilvertongue, ThePartyPrince (I love this one. So, so much. It's a pretty dark fic, so mind the tags!)
After the traumatic and almost mysterious death of their mother, the three children of Odin are sent to live with Heimdall, a family friend. Each of them learns to cope with their terrible loss and grief in different ways, some more healthy than others. As they grow up and away from one another, the memories of their childhood start to fade and change. When Odin dies, also traumatically and almost mysteriously, the siblings are forced back together again, to try to make sense of their family history and the madness that seems to plague them. But what happens when memories are fickle and malleable? What happens when the thing one fears the most... is oneself?
Adventures in Not Dying by theicesculpture (75k words of Brodinsons angst & bonding)
Loki is too busy dealing with not being dead anymore to protest enough when Thor decides the best way to deal with their problems on a post-Thanos Earth is to begin by creating more problems. There have been stories of something monstrous sighted near an Icelandic lake, something long and serpentine, and Thor wants to investigate.
The Path Back to Us by xWitchAlchemistx
Thor went after Loki as he fell from the Bifrost, and the pair ended up in Jotunheim. Thor drained his powers keeping them alive in the void and left himself mortal-weak. Loki has an idea for how to use Thor to gain power in Jotunheim, but they have to survive first. Thor doesn't know Loki plans to betray him, Loki doesn't know Thor isn't the awful brother and person he believes him to be.
They're both going to learn.
Betrayed by days4daisy
One planet and one person. This is all Loki asked Thanos for.
time is the ocean, or a grain of sand by days4daisy (Rocket Raccoon/Thor. No Loki in this one, but the whump is delicious)
Every morning, Rocket finds himself looking for Thor.
Too Late by griseldajane (Thor/Loki)
Loki kneels over him, placing his palms on his shoulders.
"Be still,” he commands, his voice tight.
“Loki...” Thor says and he tastes blood.
“Do not move,” Loki hisses. His eyes leave Thor’s, flitting to the wound that has split him open, spilling his insides across the dirt.
Secret Admirer by griseldajane. (Thor/Loki)
A young man approaches Loki with horrifying gift to show his obsessive admiration for the God of Mischief.
Heedless, Helpless, Hopeless by Writing_is_THORapy
Deadcember Day 7: Failed Resurrection
The wizard touches the end of his staff to Thor’s chest, chanting in some forgotten language.
Tony might’ve thought it a load of bull if Thor didn’t start screaming in agony.
Big Damn Hero by AuroraWest
Thor always has to be the big damn hero. Loki gets stuck cleaning up after.
The Measure of Worth by AzureTiger (Thor/Steve, Thor & the Avengers team)
A magical being steals Thor's hammer and power, rendering the god of thunder essentially human. The team dynamic disrupted, and his place within it, Thor struggles to remind himself what worthy even means. If the hammer no longer answers to him, then what place does he have here, or anywhere?
Or: Five times Steve reminded Thor how to be worthy, and one time Thor already knew.
you showed up just in time by thorbiased
After Gorr takes Thor captive, Brunnhilde, Jane, and Korg must find him and get him home—or what’s left of him, anyway.
A hopeless dream of a scene I’d like to see in TLAT, inspired by the torture sequences in the comics.
i was born with hurricanes, now this fire's burning by my place by spoondrifts
On the floor, a foot away from where Thor is doing an admirable job of trying to disappear into the corner, sits an innocuous purple gemstone. An amethyst, maybe. It glimmers prettily in the evening light.
When his gaze finds it, his breath catches in his throat for half a second before he shakes his head firmly, banishing the unwanted memories. It's a regular Midgardian crystal. It isn't the Power Stone.
Then he looks back up at Thor, who still has his face hidden in his hands, still trembling with tension, and realizes.
"Oh," Loki says quietly.
Or; The one where Thor is coping well after Thanos' defeat, until he's not.
hurts like ghosts by bereft_of_frogs (Thor dealing with his trauma after Sakaar isn’t an often-explored concept and this fic has a special place in my heart)
400 years ago, the princes of Asgard and the Warriors Three were sent to break up a group of slavers.
Now, a few months into the Revenger's voyage through the cosmos, an accident aboard the Asgardian refugee vessel sends them in for an emergency landing on a planet whose vices feel eerily familiar. The planet's kinship with a certain immortal despot brings back bad memories. Thor has to keep his head, protect his people, and navigate them through the complicated political world - without letting anyone on to their biggest secrets. But he's perhaps not as unaffected by past trauma as he thought, and he starts to feel that he might collapse under the pressure.
Or: Sakaar left unexpected scars and Thor's not sure he can deal with it.
Crown of Clowns by ADreamer67 (This one's utterly heartbreaking)
Thor's coronation is in a week, and Loki is desperate to keep his block-headed brother from the throne. Committing treason seems a step far, however, so he makes a decision. He'll use a spell to look into the future. If Thor's reign is a disaster, he'll go ahead with his plan. If by some miracle everything is fine, then he'll let Thor be crowned.
The future is not what he expected.
For one thing, Thor thinks he's a hallucination. And that's just the start.
i'm gonna be here (until i'm nothing); by unintentionallyangsty
Nearly a fortnight into the voyage on the Statesman, Loki notices that something is off about Thor.
Determined to get to the bottom of things, Loki begins to pay a bit more attention to his brother.
As it turns out, he isn't happy with what he discovers.
(Whumptober 2020 Prompt #21 Fill: Infection).
behind it all (there's a price to be paid) by ThePartyPrince is a Hurt No Comfort, short one-shot
Thor's hands don't shake all the time anymore. But sometimes they do.
Silent Sacrifice by Mara_DragonMaster (Mind the tags)
It's been almost six years. Loki wakes up. He's not sure how, but Thor is there, and he's smiling, and he says it's all okay... Thanos is gone, defeated, the Snap undone. And now they're safe. They're on Sakaar, and Thor made a deal with the Grandmaster to bring Loki back to life. It's all good. Thor goes to the Arena every morning, and returns every evening.
Except that Loki knows the Grandmaster.
And he wonders what deal Thor made.
readjustment not possible at the moment. try again later. by PUNK_MENACE
It's been a long, hard couple of days. Thor just wants to lie down and ignore his missing eye and the multitude of stab wounds that his sister had inflicted. Fortunately for him, Loki, Bruce, and Brunnhilde aren't going to let that happen.
(Day 19 of Whumptober: Exhaustion)
we calmed the tides of war by amethystwriter
Loki picks up a book and chucks it across the wide room, practically hitting Thor in the head. “Listen to my words, Thor, and hear them well: You do not understand. And you will never understand. Because everyone favors you.
Thor’s expression drops. “Loki, I-”
OR, Loki's being picked on, Thor tries to help and inadvertently makes himself a target in the process.
The Boy Underneath the Bridge Beside the Palace by mrhiddles (boltedfruit)
There is a boy with long tangled blond hair beneath the bridge beside the palace.
He is dirty. And his wrists have scars. And his hair is in dreadful need of a chop, Loki thinks. He is thin too, and Loki thinks on that some nights. Papa had always told him there were no poor people in their kingdom. But what other explanation was there for the boy beneath the bridge beside the palace?
Loki has not told anyone his secret.
True to Form, True to Self by eighth_chiharu
Right after Hela is defeated and Thor decides on a course for Earth, everything that's happened proves to be too much for him, and he collapses. It's a good thing Loki's on board to help out.
Brother by petreparkour
After destroying Asgard, Thor is hurting and alone.
Until Loki comes, and then he isn't.
feeling like I'm heading for a breakdown by ThePartyPrince
Endgame isnt the first time Thor has battled his inner demons. Following the events of Tales of Asgard, Thor finds himself in a tailspin after being found Unworthy once again. Luckily, this time he has Loki to take care of him.
Carry On by Anonymous
"... But Odin’s throne had been one of lies, and the crown resting upon Thor’s head felt like thorns digging into his skull."
Thor learns that ruling becomes a lot less painful through the comfort of having people who care about him.
Reversed Revenger by beemotionpicture (not whump, but the Revengers taking care of de-aged Thor is really cute)
Thor can be such a child sometimes.
Now is one of those times.
…
No, but really. Thor’s a kid now.
Jane Foster's Thor and the light elf queen Aelsa.
Thor (2014) Annual #1.
Storm with Mjolnir
Goddess of Thunder twice over, worthy AF
Let's do feminism with mama.
Thor (2014) #7 & 8.
I really like this panel in Thor (2014) #7.
She's beat to Hel and she gets back up again.
Thor being good with kids in Thor: God of Thunder (2012)
#12
Thor returns to Midgard after the long battle against the God Butcher. On one of his stops around the world, he brings fantastical gifts to a group of children.
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#1 & 11
A little girl on an alien planet prays for Thor's help to fight the drought that plagues her people. He answers. He brings his storms, spends time with the people, and tucks her in, then learns that all the gods of her planet have died. After defeating the God Butcher, he returns to her, as he promised he would, with new gods who needed a home.
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#24
The town of Broxton, Oklahoma has been destroyed in the conflict between Thor and the Roxxon Corporation. Thor kneels before a little girl as he and the gods of Asgard ask if they may help clean up the mess Thor feels he's caused. Before Asgard finally returns to the stars, Thor tears his own great hall from the ground and bestows it to the people of Broxton. He tells the little girl to choose a room, and she runs towards it in excitement.
#COME PATRIOTIC CAPTAIN #I SHALL TEACH YOU THE DANCE OF MY PEOPLE #AND WE SHALL FEAST AND JEST MERRILY #thor i think i broke a rib can this wait #NAY
The best Storm reading list
Ororo Monroe is one of my favorite X-Men characters, and i’m in a Ororo mood so i thought i give a list of Storm comics cus why not?
X-Men by Chris Claremont.
Claremont’s legendary run on X-Men is essential for any X-Men fan. It spans 16 years and is in my top 3 favorite comics ever.
Now what does this have to do with Storm? Well Storm gets a lot of focus during his run. She became the leader of the group and went through all kinds of ups and downs. Claremonts run is were most of her character grows and is once again essential for any Storm fan.
X-Men: Worlds Apart.
This was made during Storm and Black Panther got married and if you ask me the marriage benefited BP, but it didn’t do anything for Storm. Worlds Apart is about Storm struggle to decide is she an X-Men are a Queen?
For as short as it is (4 issues) its really damn solid with some great art and some badass moments with Storm.
Strom (2014)
The 3rd solo series and arguably the best. The book is mostly a series of one shots. They range from Storm saving a village, to being accused of murder. Its some great stuff and i wish it lasted longer.
As for the future, well Marvel has announce they have plans for another Storm solo witch is great, but its gonna be written by Ta-Nehisi Coates who wrote her pretty terribly in Black Panther & the Crew so i don’t have any high hopes.
Anyways here’s my list of my personal favorite Storm comics. Happy readings.