History ComicBook / WarOfTheRealms

* FaceHeelTurn: [[spoiler:Sabretooth, having spent a few years in real time as a hero, returns to being a villain. ''ComicBook/WeaponX''[='s=] final issue revealed that Sabretooth's reversion to villainy was due to Wolverine's return and going insane while trapped in hell.]]

* LetsSplitUpGang: Act 2 of the event features three one-shots revolving around Earth's heroes forming a Strikeforce split into three five-person teams, each with its own purpose. One team, consisting of Freyja, ComicBook/ThePunisher, ComicBook/{{Blade}}, [[ComicBook/AllNewGhostRider Ghost Rider]], and ComicBook/SheHulk head to Svartalfheim to bring down the Black Bifrost. Another faction, consisting of ComicBook/CaptainAmerica, ComicBook/SpiderMan, ComicBook/{{Wolverine}}, ComicBook/LukeCage, and [[ComicBook/ImmortalIronFist Iron Fist]], go off to rescue [[ComicBook/TheMightyThor Thor]] from Jotunheim. The last group, consisting of [[ComicBook/CarolDanvers Captain Marvel]], ComicBook/WeaponH, ComicBook/CaptainBritain, ComicBook/{{Venom}}, and ComicBook/{{Deadpool}} (with support from [[ComicBook/BuckyBarnes the Winter Soldier]] and ComicBook/BlackWidow), stay on Midgard to take on Malekith's forces directly.

** Arthur Adams's first cover depicts one between Thor and his allies from ComicBook/TheAvengers (ComicBook/{{Blade}}, ComicBook/BlackPanther, ComicBook/CaptainAmerica, [[ComicBook/CarolDanvers Captain Marvel]], ComicBook/DoctorStrange, ComicBook/IronMan, ComicBook/SheHulk), ComicBook/FantasticFour (The Thing), ComicBook/XMen (ComicBook/{{Wolverine}}) and several street-level heroes (ComicBook/{{Daredevil}}, [[ComicBook/LukeCageHeroForHire Luke Cage]], [[ComicBook/ImmortalIronFist Iron Fist]], ComicBook/ThePunisher, ComicBook/SpiderMan) fighting it out with [[BigBad Malekith's]] army of Dark Elves, Fire Giants, Frost Giants, Trolls and Angels in the streets of what is likely New York City.

* LetsSplitUpGang: Act 2 of the event features three one-shots revolving around Earth's heroes forming a Strikeforce split into three five-person teams, each with its own purpose. One team, consisting of Freyja, ComicBook/ThePunisher, ComicBook/{{Blade}}, [[ComicBook/AllNewGhostRider Ghost Rider]], and ComicBook/SheHulk head to Svartalfheim to bring down the Black Bifrost. Another faction, consisting of ComicBook/CaptainAmerica, ComicBook/SpiderMan, ComicBook/{{Wolverine}}, ComicBook/{{Luke Cage|HeroForHire}}, and [[ComicBook/ImmortalIronFist Iron Fist]], go off to rescue [[ComicBook/TheMightyThor Thor]] from Jotunheim. The last group, consisting of [[ComicBook/CarolDanvers Captain Marvel]], ComicBook/WeaponH, ComicBook/CaptainBritain, ComicBook/{{Venom}}, and ComicBook/{{Deadpool}} (with support from [[ComicBook/BuckyBarnes the Winter Soldier]] and ComicBook/BlackWidow), stay on Midgard to take on Malekith's forces directly.

'''Malekith:''' [[spoiler:''[[IRejectYourReality I HAVE NO FEAR!]]'' [[FamousLastWords I am... Malekith... the Accursed. King of the Dark Elves. I]] ''[[FamousLastWords laugh]]''[[FamousLastWords ... in the face of fear.]] Ha. ''[is torn to shreds by the Wild Hunt]'']]

** Arthur Adams's first cover depicts one between Thor and his allies from ComicBook/TheAvengers (ComicBook/{{Blade}}, ComicBook/BlackPanther, ComicBook/CaptainAmerica, [[ComicBook/CarolDanvers Captain Marvel]], ComicBook/DoctorStrange, ComicBook/IronMan, ComicBook/SheHulk), ComicBook/FantasticFour (The Thing), ComicBook/XMen (Franchise/{{Wolverine}}) and several street-level heroes (ComicBook/{{Daredevil}}, [[ComicBook/LukeCageHeroForHire Luke Cage]], [[ComicBook/ImmortalIronFist Iron Fist]], ComicBook/ThePunisher, ComicBook/SpiderMan) fighting it out with [[BigBad Malekith's]] army of Dark Elves, Fire Giants, Frost Giants, Trolls and Angels in the streets of what is likely New York City.

* LetsSplitUpGang: Act 2 of the event features three one-shots revolving around Earth's heroes forming a Strikeforce split into three five-person teams, each with its own purpose. One team, consisting of Freyja, ComicBook/ThePunisher, ComicBook/{{Blade}}, [[ComicBook/AllNewGhostRider Ghost Rider]], and ComicBook/SheHulk head to Svartalfheim to bring down the Black Bifrost. Another faction, consisting of ComicBook/CaptainAmerica, ComicBook/SpiderMan, Franchise/{{Wolverine}}, ComicBook/{{Luke Cage|HeroForHire}}, and [[ComicBook/ImmortalIronFist Iron Fist]], go off to rescue [[ComicBook/TheMightyThor Thor]] from Jotunheim. The last group, consisting of [[ComicBook/CarolDanvers Captain Marvel]], ComicBook/WeaponH, ComicBook/CaptainBritain, ComicBook/{{Venom}}, and ComicBook/{{Deadpool}} (with support from [[ComicBook/BuckyBarnes the Winter Soldier]] and ComicBook/BlackWidow), stay on Midgard to take on Malekith's forces directly.

* GiantSpaceFleaFromNowhere: Unknown to the heroes and villains alike, the High Evolutionary's mutates from Counter-Earth were among the participants in the war. During the chaos, the mutates went out to kill people for fun or kidnap them for experiments. The Punisher finds this out and had a moment of shock in ''Punisher Kill Krew'', when an orphan gives him a picture of a giant shark with bionic limbs killing their parents.

* FantasyAxisOfEvil: [[LegionOfDoom The Dark Council's]] armies fit this to a tee:
** '''Savage''': King Ulik's [[AllTrollsAreDifferent Trolls of the Realm Below]] and King Laufey's [[OurGiantsAreBigger Frost Giants of Jotunheim]] are the most brutish and destructive of the armies.
** '''Eldritch''': Sindr, Queen of Cinders [[PlayingWithFire Fire Giants of Muspelheim]] are rarely shown to be as giant as the Frost Giants (or their former king, Surtur) and largely appear as elemental beings literally made of flame.
** '''Humanoid''': Dario Agger's [[HumansAreTheRealMonsters ROXXON agents]] have been scouring the Ten Realms for resources since first aligning with Malekith and don't care how many worlds fall so long as they profit.
** '''Fallen''': Malekith's [[TheFairFolk Dark Elves of Svartalfheim]] are the most common enemy seen amongst the armies and serve the BigBad directly.
** '''Crafty''': [[OurAngelsAreDifferent The Angels of Heven]], the Tenth Realm have hidden themselves away for millennia, are greedy by nature and are far more vindictive than other races thanks to being banished by Odin.

* MonsterOfTheWeek: The ''Journey into Mystery'' books have the larger narrative of the heroes trying to protect Thor's baby sister Laussa and Sindr sending Ares to hunt them down, but largely the stories are one-offs as the team has one adventure after another as they travel across the country - Skrulls in a trailer park, ghosts in the Old West, "Hench-Fest" in Las Vegas, and so on. The Creator/McElroyBrothers have stated that their goal was to emulate the wild self-contained adventures of the Silver Age, but there's also a reason for it in the narrative itself: [[spoiler:Laussa's been using her power to guide her babysitters towards an eclectic array of potential allies.]]

** Perhaps the oddest is the Punisher Kill Krew which was assembled to avenge war orphans on Earth. They consist of the Punisher, Toothgnasher (Thor's giant goat that Frank "borrowed"), Belith the navigator - a Dark Elf that the Punisher captured and press-ganged into his mission, the lawyer Foggy Nelson, supervillain and occasionally superheroic powerhouse the Juggernaut and crazed ex-Avenger with a magical sword, the Black Knight.

** [[spoiler:Don't forget Cul the Serpent, though he didn't to be remembered.]]

* TheStateless: Happens to the Angels of Hevn in the ''Asgardians of the Galaxy'' tie-in. Angela decapitates the Queen of the Angels and releases a legion of undead gods on Heven itself. The angels are massacred until Angela spares a handful of survivors and instead exiles them into the far corners of the galaxy.

* VillainDecay: It's on full display for Sabretooth here, the man who gutted Psylocke & took out numerous X-men in the 90's. Here, he has his throat bitten out by Rahne, who usurps him as alpha of the wolf army. Then to add insult to injury, he's beheaded by Magik while attempting to beg for mercy.

* WhatTheHellHero: In the ultimate issue of the Agents of Atlas tie-in, it's revealed that the Pele everyone has been following is actually a convincing robotic duplicate built to get close to Sindr and drain her strength. Cho calls out Woo on doing this, both for manipulating his teammates and impersonating a goddess, something he knows is going to come back to bite him.

* ZergRush: This is the Dark Council's plan for keeping Thor out of Midgard's defense, stranding him on Jotunheim and throwing wave-after-wave of Dark Elves and Frost Giants at him.

*** In issue #3, Malekith captures the Venom symbiote, and in issue 4 he magically tortures it to bend it to his will... and he evidently succeeded since he turns it into a blade in emulation of Knull's Necrosword.

* {{Spinoff}}: At least three new titles will spin off from the main series — ''Valkyrie'', in which Jane Foster takes over the late Brunnhilde's job; ''Punisher Kill Krew'', following Frank Castle on a personal crusade throughout the Ten Realms; and ''Loki'', which supposedly deals with [[spoiler:him returning from the dead after the events of issue #1]].

* StatusQuoIsGod: Sabretooth had years of character development trying to atone for his sins, deciding to become something other than the lie of his inverted self and truth of his evil self, and even fell in love with X-Man, ''ComicBook/MonetStCroix''. [[spoiler:Erase all of that because he's now back as a villain who wants revenge on the X-Men for making him a pet.]]

* NiceJobBreakingItHero: In the ''New Agents of Atlas'' tie-in, ComicBook/AmadeusCho does this in their mission in Korea in a sequence of EpicFail. First, he ignores Jimmy Woo's advice to perform reconnaissance and tries to land the ship to help the Korean heroes, even though the heroes clearly had the advantage over the invaders. This leads to their ship getting shot down and Woo getting knocked out in the resulting crash. The Korean heroes then mistake Amadeus for working with the fire demons due to his attempt to take over America last time, which leads to the two groups fighting each other. Amadeus trying to help, tries to dose the fire demons with water, only to hit [[AnIcePerson Luna Snow]] and accidentally freeze her instead. Whoops...

** The Strikeforce tie-ins have strange team gatherings. ''Dark Elf Realm'' has Freyja leading Punisher, She-Hulk, Ghost Rider and Blade to take down the Black Bifrost and ''The War Avengers'' has Carol Danvers leading Sif, Deadpool, Venom, Black Widow, Winter Soldier, Captain Britain and Weapon H in protecting the Earth. ''The Land of Giants'' isn't as Ragtag-y as Captain America, Spider-Man, Wolverine, Luke Cage and Iron Fist are essentially the New Avengers.
** The ''Journey Into Mystery'' series (written by the Creator/McElroyBrothers as a love letter to the bizarre pulp comics of the '60s) dials this trope UpTo11 by putting the misfits in a ''Winnebago''. Kate Bishop, Miles Morales, Wonder Man, Baldr, Druid, Deathlocket, and Thor's dog Thori go on a cross-country road trip to keep Thor's baby sister out of the clutches of Malekith.

** Perhaps the oddest is the Punisher Kill Krew which was assembled to avenge war orphans on Earth. They consist of the Punisher, Toothgnasher (Thor's giant goat that Frank "borrowed"), Belith the navigator - a Dark Elf that the Punisher captured and press-ganged into his mission, the lawyer Foggy Nelson, supervillain and occasionally superheroic powerhouse, the Juggernaut and crazed ex-Avenger with a magical sword, the Black Knight.

--->'''Thor:''' Nay! There's only '''one''' who will lead this fight! And his name is '''[[AC:Thor!]]'''

* MercyKill: Both Kurse and Ymir want one. Kurse was originally a member of the League of Realms who's now under the control of Malekith, while Ymir is helpless while Moonstone has her slaves chip pieces off of him. Neither gets their wish, instead something better happens. The Vanir shaman of the League of Realms, is able to free Kurse from the armor and mind-control, while the group of Giant Men are able to liberate Ymir and let him escape from Earth.

* NayTheist: Frank Castle, who has worked for Heaven and been to Hell, scoffs at the notion of swearing on souls, even those of his family, in the final issue of his tie-in solo.

* FantasyGunControl: Zigzagged. The Light Elves don't have this...the Punisher gives them enough assault rifles and machine guns to outfit an army. But the Angels of Heven get nailed with it, when they first debuted in the ''Original Sin'' event, the Angels had laser guns and spaceships. In the ''War of the Realms'', they just have energized swords and spears... making them cannonfodder when the Punisher and the Light Elves shoot them out of the skies.
* FateWorseThanDeath: Hela invokes this on Malekith in ''Thor'' #15 as his eternal punishment: [[spoiler: crucified and his eyes sown open, forever forced to watch... as his younger, innocent self frolic and plays with his War Dogs and Bog Tiger, now regressed to adorable and harmless puppies and kitten, the life Malekith was denied.]]

* GondorCallsForAid: The fact that Thor's calling on his major allies to kick numerous amounts of butt with him is telling. Thor has even attempted this with other [[Myth/ClassicalMythology pantheons]], asking [[ComicBook/TheIncredibleHercules Hercules]] to ask his father, Zeus for aid in the coming war.

* CerebusRetcon: Jennifer "She-Hulk" Walters gets focus in Issue #20 of the Avengers as it ties into the event. There, even though she still beats herself up over her new persona ruining her reputation as a charming bombshell, she monologues internally about how that same persona of being fun and sexy got her a lot of unwanted objectification from villains and paparazzi alike, which fed a growing resentment she's been repressing until her new savage persona gave her an outlet. This also calls back to the central theme of her cousin's current series, of the [[WhatYouAreInTheDark freedom that being a Hulk allows]].

* CoversAlwaysLie: The covers for ''Venom'' Vol. 4 #13 show Eddie and the Venom symbiote back together and using All-Black to fight Magog... but nothing of the sort happens in the book itself. [[spoiler:Eddie acquires a synthetic symbiote created using Dark Elf magic, while the Venom symbiote ends up being captured by Malekith, and All-Black is stuck in the distant future and bonded to King Loki.]]

* CriminalConvention: During Journey into Mystery #4, the crew makes a pit stop in Las Vegas to gamble their pocket change and get enough money for gas and diapers. The band of superheroes walks into a hotel/casino and find out they arrived just in time for ''Hench Con''. While the supervillains are fighting the heroes for control of the planet, the villains' henchmen are busy singing karaoke, comparing health insurance packages, and ''networking.''

** Likewise, Wiccan and Hulkling are slated to make a return in ''War Scrolls'' #2 After being MIA in the comic books for a few years now.
** White Fox was last seen stuck on Battleworld with the Civil Warriors keeping Iso-8 shards out of the hands of villains and she also appeared as a rival to the Black Widow in a ComicBook/{{Domino|MarvelComics}} miniseries. The Agents of Atlas tie-in has her suddenly back in 616.

** At the end of the Uncanny X-Men tie-in, Dani Moonstar discovers her Valkyrie powers are fading away.

* BrainyBaby: Even though she's just a baby who can't even form words yet, Laussa in ''"Journey into Mystery"'' has enough royal strategic instincts to have been leading her protectors into gathering an army to fight in the war. She even managed to hijack by proxy Sindr's handling Ares, so she could also recruit him to their side.

* BoxedCrook: The Punisher hijacks a prisoner van and press-gangs the cons inside into helping refugees from a hospital to escape to New York. Since this is the Punisher, those cons that survived the trip are rewarded... with a bullet to the head.

** Subverted with Loki. Using Heimdall's sword, Loki cuts his way out of Laufey's stomach killing him and making himself King of the Frost Giants. The subversion is Laufey hated Loki and would never willingly crown his son. He was however a believer in the KlingonPromotion so Loki got the crown ''exactly'' the way Laufey would approve of.

*** In issue #3, Malekith captures :the Venom symbiote, and in issue 4 he magically tortures it to bend it to his will... and he evidently succeeded since he turns it into a blade in emulation of Knull's Necrosword.

->''[[AC:I]]n the beginning, there was only darkness.\\

* AmbiguousSituation: Malekith's killing of Brunnhilde the Valkyrie in issue 2 leaves the fate of Annabelle Riggs (who had to share Brunnhilde's life force) unaddressed. To put the situation in context, Annabelle was planning on proposing to her girlfriend Ren Kimura, and the issue was quickly followed by an announcement that Jane Foster would be taking on the Valkyrie title, with Brunnhilde as her SpiritAdvisor. ''Asgardians of the Galaxy'' #9 will address this situation.

* TheBadGuyWins: In issue #2, Dr. Strange casts an evacuation spell to send the city's citizens safely to Avengers Mountain. However, the spell turned out to be too strong and ended up sending nearly all the heroes there as well. Soon, Dario Agger's Roxx News declares Malekith's total domination of Midgard.

* BoxedCrook: The Punisher hijacks a prisoner van and press-gangs the cons inside into helping refugees from a hospital to escape to New York. Since this is the Punisher, those cons that survived the trip are rewarded...with a bullet to the head.

* BroughtDownToNormal: After welding Heimdall's sword and gaining his powers in issue #3, Daredevil loses them by [[spoiler:throwing the sword into Laufey's mouth]] in #6.

* CallBack: At the end of issue #5 of the main series, Jane Foster approaches [[spoiler:the remains of ComicBook/UltimateThor's hammer]], saying, "There must always be a Thor," calling back to [[ComicBook/Thor2014 when she first gained Thor's power]]. [[spoiler:"And sometimes..." she adds as she picks up the hammer to transform, "...there must even be '''''more''''' than one!"]]

* CerebusRetcon: Jennifer "She-Hulk" Walters gets focus in issue 20 of the Avengers as it ties into the event. There, even though she still beats herself up over her new persona ruining her reputation as a charming bombshell, she monologues internally about how that same persona of being fun and sexy got her a lot of unwanted objectification from villains and paparazzi alike, which fed a growing resentment she's been repressing until her new savage persona gave her an outlet. This also calls back to the central theme of her cousin's current series, of the [[WhatYouAreInTheDark freedom that being a Hulk allows]].

** During Issue #3 of the main comic, when Daredevil, empowered by the powers of Heimdall, is about to defend the Asgardian Bifrost against a Dark Elf assault, the narration notes, "Matthew Murdock hears a voice quietly mumble a prayer, and with surprise...realizes it's his '''own.'''" This refers to Matt's {{fake twin|Gambit}} Mike Murdock, who had mistakenly been brought to life by an Inhuman called the Reader in a recent ''Daredevil'' storyline.

* ExactlyWhatIAimedAt: In issue #6, Daredevil throws Heimdall's sword and Laufey, who ends up eating it. Sif declares Daredevil to have doomed everyone, but Captain America wonders why he's smiling. [[spoiler:Eventually, Loki [[GuttedLikeAFish cuts through Laufey's stomach]], emerging with both the sword and the Casket of Ancient Winters which Laufey had been using in an attempt to freeze the world with his breath.]]

* GenreSavvy: Spider-Man swings through New York in the first issue noting that it's been almost a whole day since someone has tried to kill him, Jonah has had laryngitis and it's been awhile [[LampshadeHanging since he's talked out loud to himself, even]], so naturally something terrible is about to happen. Cue: spidey-sense as all hell breaks loose and a group of Dark Elves attack the Asgardians on Midgard, bringing the War of Realms to Earth.

** [[spoiler:Mjolnir returns in issue #6, having been destroyed in ''Thor'' #700, reforged by Thor's force of will. This ends up turning the fragment of the hammer from that issue a ChekhovsGun.]]

* MoodDissonance: In issue #1, [[spoiler:Loki gets gruesomely murdered by Laufey who bites off half of Loki's body and eats him.]] Ghost Rider and Spider-Man's response? [[NoSympathy Crack jokes about it]] in front of [[spoiler:Loki's]] grieving mother.

* NeverTrustATitle: ''War of the Realms: ComicBook/UncannyXMen'' is actually a series involving the ComicBook/NewMutants opposed to the main cast members of the ComicBook/XMen typically associated with the name. Though the characters pictured on the cover of issue #1 (Dani Moonstar, Magik, Karma, Wolfsbane) have all been members of the X-Men over the years the series has more to do with their time spent dealing with Asgardian affairs as New Mutants. The adult members of the current Uncanny X-Men team are busy elsewhere, Wolverine with the Avengers sub-team in the Land of Giants, and Cyclops reuniting with the Champions.

* NotMeThisTime: In the first issue of the ''Avengers'' tie-in, Phil Coulson is seen talking to Mephisto and asks him if he's behind the invasion. Mephisto tells him that this is all Malekith's.
* OffingTheOffspring: [[spoiler:Laufey kills Loki in issue one by biting him in half and eating him in front of the gathered heroes...or at least he tries. It turns out Loki survived and handily [[SelfMadeOrphan inverts the trope]].]]

** The ''Journey Into Mystery'' series (written by the Creator/McElroyBrothers as a love letter to the bizarre pulp comics of the 60s) dials this trope UpTo11 by putting the misfits in a ''Winnebago''. Kate Bishop, Miles Morales, Wonder Man, Baldr, Druid, Deathlocket, and Thor's dog Thori go on a cross-country road trip to keep Thor's baby sister out of the clutches of Malekith.

** In issue #6 Thor, also through force of will, revives the Mother Storm and with it the original Mjolnir, this time with a branch from Yggdrasil for a handle.

* TheStarscream: In issue #6, Laufey reveals he doesn't really care about Malekith and his cabal, and wants to conquer all of Midgard, not just North America.

* VillainDecay: It's on full display for Creed here. The man who gutted Psylocke & took out numerous X-men in the 90's. Here, he has his throat bitten out by Rahne, who usurps him as alpha of the wolf army. Then to add insult to injury, he's beheaded by Magik while attempting to beg for mercy.
* VillainousBreakdown: Malekith has one in Issue 6 of the core series [[spoiler:after Thor, Young Thor, All-Father Thor, and Jane Thor manage to separate him from the Venom symbiote. This leads to him getting devoured by his Bog Tiger and hounds.]]

* EvenEvilHasStandards: The Juggernaut is so horrified watching the Punisher torture a helpless frost giant, that he [[StressVomit pukes]]...all over Foggy Nelson.

* ZergRush: This is the Dark Council's plan for keeping Thor out of Midgard's defense, stranding him on Jotunheim and throwing wave-after-wave of Dark Elves and Frost Giants at him.
* WorfBarrage: The Punisher unloads a semi-auto shotgun on a pair of Frost Giant wizards, only to see the shots had no effect once the smoke cleared. Good thing a rescued Juggernaut wanted some revenge...

* AvengersAssemble: Captain America gets to belt this out, along with Valkyrie crying out "FOR ASGARD" and Spider-Man crying out "New York is for Lovers!"

* ''ComicBook/KingThor''

* GondorCallsForAid: The fact that Thor's calling on his major allies to kick numerous amounts of butt with him is telling. Thor has even attempted this with other [[Myth/ClassicalMythology pantheons]], asking [[ComicBook/{{TheIncredibleHercules}} Hercules]] to ask his father, Zeus for aid in the coming war.

* ''Comicbook/KingThor''

** Arthur Adams's first cover depicts one between Thor and his allies from ComicBook/TheAvengers (Comicbook/{{Blade}}, ComicBook/BlackPanther, ComicBook/CaptainAmerica, [[ComicBook/CarolDanvers Captain Marvel]], ComicBook/DoctorStrange, ComicBook/IronMan, ComicBook/SheHulk), ComicBook/FantasticFour (The Thing), ComicBook/XMen (Franchise/{{Wolverine}}) and several street-level heroes (ComicBook/{{Daredevil}}, [[ComicBook/LukeCageHeroForHire Luke Cage]], [[ComicBook/ImmortalIronFist Iron Fist]], ComicBook/ThePunisher, ComicBook/SpiderMan) fighting it out with [[BigBad Malekith's]] army of Dark Elves, Fire Giants, Frost Giants, Trolls and Angels in the streets of what is likely New York City.

* GondorCallsForAid: The fact that Thor's calling on his major allies to kick numerous amounts of butt with him is telling. Thor has even attempted this with other [[Myth/ClassicalMythology pantheons]], asking [[Comicbook/{{TheIncredibleHercules}} Hercules]] to ask his father, Zeus for aid in the coming war.

* PoweredArmor: Odin survives the Dark Elves' ambush in the first issue, but due to the wounds sustained from it, he is forced to rest upon being brought to Avengers Mountain. While he recuperates, ComicBook/IronMan, in collaboration with Screwbeard and ComicBook/{{Shuri|MarvelComics}}, builds an "Iron All-Father" armor for him to get him back into the fight sooner.