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For those who don't know, Throg is a frog with a tiny replica of Mjolnir called "Frogjolnir." But before he was a frog, he was a human named Simon Walterson.

I think being on a team, and especially being one of the star players of a team, gave him a sense of purpose. Certainly, he loved football. Years later, after becoming a frog, he would claim that it was the only thing he missed about the human world.

Walterson's world was soon rocked after a career-ending injury, but he was eventually able to find new purpose outside of football, in his community, but most of all with his wife. Then tragedy struck.

I think Mrs. Walterson made Simon a better man, and she led the way in their community service most of the time. Simon had found a place where he felt he belonged, but then he lost his favorite part of that place, and he once again lost his sense of belonging. He went broke paying mediums because he didn't know how to go on without her. Maybe the reason he never mentions her name in this flashback is because if he did, he'd break out into tears.

His desperation spirals his life so far out of control that he becomes a frog. He manages to find a new purpose and a new belonging as a soldier in the war between frogs and rats, now bearing the frog name "Puddlegulp."

And then Puddlegulp's world was turned upside-down for at least the fourth time in his life. Only this time, it was not tragedy or misfortune that befell him. He picked up a tiny fragment of Thor's hammer, causing the fragment to turn into a little frog-sized hammer, and he himself turned into Throg, the Frog of Thunder.

But this, too, would shake his sense of belonging. He got bored of using the power of Thor to fight mundane rats and alligators. And he found that the other frogs had become weak from overly relying on him. So he left on yet another search for belonging. His entire arc in the miniseries Lockjaw and the Pet Avengers Unleashed is about him feeling like he doesn't belong anywhere.

In the Pet Avengers continuity, he finds his sense of belonging with the Pet Avengers. In main 616 continuity, he finds it with the Asgardians of the Galaxy, then after that team disbands, as king of a place called Foreverglade.