Thor Comics Confirm The Best Way To Bring Odin Back To The MCU
Losing his father Odin is often depicted as one of the most challenging things that Thor has to experience in either comics or movies. For movies, audiences will recall that Odin, played by Anthony Hopkins, met his inevitable fate via old age in Thor: Ragnarok. Odin's death is still attached to the pile of unfortunate circumstances that Thor is forced to mourn through over the course of one movie.
More recently, in the comics, Thor mourns again following the events of Thor #23 by Donny Cates and Nic Klein. Leading into the conclusion of the «God of Hammers» storyline, the spirit of Mjolnir is laying waste to the world around it and neither Thor nor even The Avengers are capable of stopping it. It doesn't help that this spirit is also infused with the spirit of Mangog, a villainous entity. Odin, guilty in the part he plays to enrage the mystical hammer's spirit, sacrifices his life to help give his son the ultimate power boost in the form of The Odinforce to finally vanquish Mjolnir-Mangog's spirit for good. Despite his death, this isn't the last time readers get to see Odin's presence.
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At the issue's conclusion, one final twist appears as Thor hears a familiar voice emanating out of his hammer. It is then confirmed in Thor #750 by Cates and Klein that the voice in which this rekindled Mjolnir hammer speaks to Thor in is the voice of his father, Odin. As Odin obviously understands the Odinforce better than anyone else, it would appear as though he made some special post-death preparations to ensure he'll always be by his son's side.
Since this moment, Odin's voice — one which only Thor himself seems to be capable of hearing — has echoed out of Mjolnir,
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