Thor's Darkest Secret Is the Son He Erased From Existence
The Mighty Thor, the God of Thunder, once had a son with the Enchantress. If readers do not remember Magni, it could be because his father erased him from existence, together with a whole timeline where he ruled over Earth as a tyrant.
From the late '90s to the mid-2000s, Thor was written by comics superstar Dan Jurgens, who carried the character between two of the most important events in Marvel's history: Heroes Reborn and Avengers Disassembled. Jurgens solidified the Thor mythos during a tumultuous time and added his own elements of innovation, such as making Thor the All-Father of Asgard, the same thing that happened at the end of the War of the Realms, twenty years later. The most innovative, and controversial, storyline of the Jurgens era, however, is The Reigning, in which Thor and the Asgardians take over Earth. After moving Asgard to the skies above New York to inspire mortals with its grandeur, Thor triggers a conflict with the governments of Earth, which ends with the Asgardians conquering the planet, after killing most of its superheroes. Two hundred years in the future, Thor rules as a despot and is no longer worthy of Mjolnir (another story element that would be reprised many years later by Jason Aaron), after killing his human counterpart Jake Olson, symbolically cutting his ties with humanity.
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