For decades, one of the most prominent members of Thor's supporting cast was Volstagg the Valiant (better known as Volstagg the Voluminous), one of the Asgardian trio known as the Warriors Three.
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That doesn't mean the Thor comics have been free of fat jokes, though. Unlike the listless Thor of the movie, however, Allfather Thor was more than willing to take up his hammer and fight - although his goal was a glorious death in battle, another desire that indicates his severe depression.
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Like his movie counterpart, "Allfather Thor" was dealing with isolation and depression and the toll of millennia of battle that had left him with one arm and one eye. Sadly, that's a pretty relatable element for a lot of viewers, too.Īs far as his mental state, the closest we've gotten to seeing a truly depressed Thor came when we got a glimpse of a distant future where Thor was the last surviving Asgardian. Thor's weight gain isn't because he's lazy or overeating, it's because of inertness and substance abuse. Like a lot of people with depression, Thor is self-medicating, and his physical change is the result of that. Thor's legendary appetite for beer has always been a source of comedy in the MCU films - the gigantic, magically refilling mug that Doctor Strange gives him in Ragnarok comes to mind - but Endgame shows us the darker side of that. There's another element of his depression that manifests itself in the film, too: He's become an alcoholic. We see Thor laughing, yelling at people over the Internet, and hanging out with friends, but the underlying idea, and the one that comes out when he's confronted with the idea that he could do something important - literally the thing he failed at before - is that it just doesn't matter. For all the film's over-the-top visuals and eventual jokes about his weight, this isn't a cartoonish portrayal of what it's like to deal with depression.
He failed, so why try? Why do anything if nothing matters?Īgain, that's a very common and very relatable symptom and consequence of depression, and so is the idea that he's not just sitting around in the dark being sad. So if that strength is within him and defines him, but it couldn't save his father, his brother, Asgard, or the billions of lives lost in Infinity War, if literally avenging their deaths didn't change anything, what's the point? That's the existential crisis Thor's dealing with in Endgame: nihilism. He failed to kill Thanos before he could snap, and when he finally did finish off the Mad Titan, it was too late to fix anything. He is - or sees himself as - personally responsible for what happened. He's a nearly effortlessly powerful warrior, and the entire arc of Ragnarok is devoted to the way he learns that that strength is an inherent part of his nature that comes from within, not from any of his magic weapons.
Thor, as we know from Ragnarok, is the God of Thunder, who storms in with a bolt of lightning and the boom of his hammer, laying waste to his enemies. While Tony Stark's life post-snap is far more idyllic than the other heroes', he's still completely given up on the attempts to make the world a better, safer place that defined his life as Iron Man, refusing to use his genius to help others because, well, what's the point? These are all very different and very relatable ways of dealing with a trauma. Black Widow loses herself in her work, trying to fix everything she can. Hawkeye goes to an incredibly violent extreme, trying to personally enforce a fairness that's absent in the seemingly random deaths by killing off the guilty to balance the loss of innocent life. The others, however, aren't quite as healthy in the way they deal with tragedy. It highlights the empathy and moral center that makes Steve Rogers such an appealing character, and works as a tribute to his fallen friend, Sam Wilson (alias the Falcon), who was leading a support group for veterans when they met. In what's probably the most productive response, we see Captain America leading a support group for survivors scarred by what would unquestionably be the biggest tragedy in the history the planet, which works on a lot of levels.
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