Thor's Blood Brother Reclaims Stormbreaker in Jaw-Dropping Cosplay
An intricate new cosplay brings Thor’s brother in arms Beta Ray Bill to life without sacrificing his unique design. Not only that, the cosplay also allows Beta Ray Bill to reclaim the MCU weapon that should by rights be his: Stormbreaker.
Introduced in Walter Simonson’s Thor #337, Beta Ray Bill is a fierce being from the world of Korbin — a planet destroyed by the demonic fire god Surtur. Chosen as the champion of the remaining Korbinites, Bill underwent a series of cybernetic enhancements, giving him immense strength and deformities vaguely resembling a bipedal horse. Upon meeting Thor during his travels on his ship the Skuttlebutt, Bill discovered his ability to wield Thor’s hammer, Mjolnir, leading to an epic fight between the two to determine who deserved ownership over the weapon. Bill bested Thor, but decided he could not take the hero’s life, causing Odin to build Bill his own enchanted hammer named Stormbreaker. Bill, now an ally and brother of Thor’s, wielded Stormbreaker as a hero throughout the cosmos. However, when the MCU came along, Bill was relegated to a background appearance, and Stormbreaker became Thor's.
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Toward the beginning of Donny Cates’ current run on Thor, Beta Ray Bill and Thor had another confrontation, this time leading to the destruction of Stormbreaker. Though Bill has made amends with Thor, he lost Stormbreaker seemingly for good, replacing the weapon with the Twilight Sword of Muspelheim during Daniel Warren Johnson's recent Beta Ray Bill series. Robert Paul Day’s live-action rendering of Bill for heroes_4_hire_costumes, however, sees Bill reunited with his weapon of choice — or, at least, the MCU's version
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