Thor's New Power Could Corrupt Him Into His Darkest Form

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Warning: Contains spoilers for Thor #22

After Odin is killed by Mjölnir, his son Thor is inheriting the Odinforce and his father's responsibilities, but readers may not be aware that this has already happened in the past—and things did not turn out well.

In the most recent issues of Thor, the God of Thunder has been dealing with the rise of the God of Hammers, an enemy that, according to prophecy, would lay waste to the Ten Kingdoms and kill the King of Asgard. It was revealed that this mysterious foe was none other than Thor's (formerly) trusted weapon, Mjölnir, whose spirit took form after joining with the essence of the Mangog, one of Asgard's most powerful enemies. Mjölnir's many powers derived from the God Tempest, a primordial foe that Odin defeated and trapped inside a chunk of Uru metal. After Jane Foster used Mjölnir to throw the Mangog (together with all of Asgard) into the Sun, the hammer was destroyed and the essence of the God Tempest, long presumed dead, was freed. When Mjölnir was later reforged, at the height of the War of the Realms, the God Tempest returned, but after being tainted with what was left of the Mangog spirit she became a creature of wrath and destruction, taking control of Mjölnir and using his great power to destroy the Realms.

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The God of Hammers represents nothing more but Odin's past sins, coming back to haunt the old god and his descendants. It was Odin who decided to trap the God Tempest, and then left it locked inside Mjölnir for eons when he was unable to harness her power. The one-eyed god, in fact, rarely demonstrated the wisdom of an All-Father in the millennia he has lived. Too often he was arrogant, conceited,