#odinforce

2020's Thor Vol.6 #1 cover by Olivier Coipel and Laura Martin.

Thor #22

Sadly, if hit hard enough with any godlike energy, the virtually indestructible shield becomes quite destructible. 🔱

and it’s mentioned two more times that the flames from the Destroyer were from the Odinforce.  But this is the only place I’ve ever seen the Odinforce mentioned in relation to the movies.  (I flipped through the first Thor artbook for the Destroyer section and the Odin section and it’s not mentioned in either of those places.)The Odinsleep however is mentioned and so I’m tentatively willing to accept that the Odinforce might exist, but that still leaves us with the question of--is it a place or a people?  Odin’s words + Hela’s actions weigh towards it being a place, Thor had to destroy Asgard to save the people, because that was the source of Hela’s power.  Thor’s words + Heimdall’s words weigh towards it being a people.But Odin’s words are hard to parse, Hela might just have fixed Asgard in her mind as the symbol of what she felt she was owed, Thor and Heimdall  might have been comforting themselves that the people were worth more than the power.  And such narrative weight was put on “Asgard is not a place, it’s a people.” that it seems against the point to just dismiss it.There’s no real answer to this, we don’t know what the power source is, and without that, we can’t know if it’s a cruel trap or just the way things are or even if it’s nothing at all, it’s just a metaphor the movie wanted to use.  I’m vaguely hopeful the Ragnarok artbook might shed some light on this or at least give us a clue, but it’s still just under a week awaaaaaaaay.And I’m REAL curious to see what Thor’s powers will be like during Infinity War. I assume they’ll still have the eyepatch and no hammer, but will he still have the lightning?  Asgard was still standing while he had those powers, we didn’t see him use them after Asgard fell, so we can’t know.I’m just going to write it up as:  Many Asgardians have some innate power (especially in Odin’s line), but there’s also an Odinforce that puts them over the top if they have access to it, which was situated where Asgard was, at the nexus of the branches of Yggradsil.  That’s why they chose the spot in the first place, that’s why the Bifrost was there, that’s why fragments of those other (less stable) passageways were there (like the one that they used to get to Svartalfheim, those were smaller versions of the bigger branches), because there was a magic there that Odin tapped into.  But once he died, it would pass to the next person in his line--Hela, then Thor, as they draw their power from the same place.

Art by: Joe Jusko

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