The destruction of all reality is certainly an Avengers-level threat - unless you have more than one Thor. On a journey out into space, the God of Thunder finds himself in the middle of a battle between two cosmic entities. Those these two entities have been battling since before creation, what they didn’t have up until now was Thor.

In 2012's The Mighty Thor: Annual #1 by J.M. DeMatteis and Richard Elson, an intercosmic battle is raging between a manipulative being known as Scrier and his sworn nemesis, the Cthulu-like being known as the Other. Scrier, knowing he needs an army to defeat the Other, reaches into Thor’s mind and splits all the different aspects of his consciousness into fully functioning beings.

It’s a glimpse of a convergence of parallel realities solely coming out of one mind. Suddenly, there are feminine Thors, there are demon and angel Thors - there are Thors from entirely different pantheons. While it's not the first time Thor has created his own team of Avengers, it's the first time the team has had a roster of one.

Thor Has Always Been The Hero of Mankind

The Many Faces of Mythology

Thor is the archetype of the hero god, proposed to be even more powerful than Superman. He has had many names throughout Europe and Scandinavia, depending on the time being recorded and which tribe was recording. Some of these names being Donar and Thunar, all relating back to the Germanic word for thunder. The one guiding image throughout these disparate Thors is the principle of his battling monsters - all to protect Earth, or Midgard.

The gods classically adored are the fusing together of hundreds of folk tales.

Any cohesive religion is the synthesis of mythology, and the gods classically adored are the fusing together of hundreds of folk tales detailing their adventures. To say that Thor is many different Thors in one body is no small aside. A god is defined by belief in him. As there have been many beliefs in a supernatural hero just as we see in The Mighty Thor Annual #1, so those varied aspects of him are his very power, and only a god of such wide power like Thor can defeat an eldritch being of such cosmic horror.

Who Needs Avengers When You Have a Couple Thors?

Every Version of Thor Saves the Day

The many aspects of Thor delve into the realm of the Other’s cosmic lunacy, where time and matter mean nothing. Still, Thor does not lose his resolve nor his calm. In the face of such unreality, neither Iron Man nor Captain America (let alone Hawkeye out in the dead of space) could be trusted to stop a being that has no form at all. Unless they were to take on the mantle of Thor (and some recognizable animals have become Thor too), then this is truly a job for a god.

Being split into all the different ideas and aspects of Thor proves, once and for all, just how powerful an Avenger he is, all by himself (and his many selves, that is). Leave the Avengers to be Earth’s Mightiest Heroes. Thor will take care of anything outside that realm. After all, he’s not really from this realm at all.