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Losing his fatherOdinis often draw as one of the most intriguing thing thatThorhas to experience in either strip or flick . For movies , audience will recall that Odin , played by Anthony Hopkins , adjoin his inevitable fate via old age inThor : Ragnarok . Odin ’s death is still sequester to the agglomerate of inauspicious context that Thor is drive to mourn through over the course of one moving picture .
More recently , in the cartoon strip , Thor mourns again following the events ofThor#23 by Donny Cates and Nic Klein . Leading into the conclusion of the " God of Hammers " plot line , the spirit of Mjolnir is laying waste to the world around it and neitherThor nor even The Avengersare capable of stopping it . It does n’t help that this spirit is also infused with the spirit of Mangog , a villainous entity . Odin , guilty in the part he plays to enrage the mystical hammer ’s heart , sacrifice his life to avail give his son the ultimate power boost in the shape of The Odinforce to finally crush Mjolnir - Mangog ’s spirit for goodness . Despite his death , this is n’t the last time readers get to see Odin ’s presence .
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At the issue ’s close , one final twist come along as Thor hears a familiar voice emanating out of his cock . It is then confirm inThor#750 by Cates and Klein that the voice in which this rekindledMjolnir hammer speaks to Thorin is the phonation of his begetter , Odin . As Odin obviously realize the Odinforce better than anyone else , it would come along as though he made some peculiar post - death preparations to secure he ’ll always be by his son ’s side .
Since this moment , Odin ’s articulation - one which only Thor himself seems to be up to of sense of hearing - has ring out of Mjolnir , lead to a newly compelling dynamic for the God of Thunder . For the first meter in his Marvel calling as a superhero , he has a weapon that take out treble obligation as a wise man , a voice that test to serve as much as it berate , much like the actual Allfather during his lifetime .
What break this from , say , Iron Man having J.A.R.V.I.S. in his ear or even Batman have Oracle communicate to him is the mixed emotions that all ofthis take for Thor . Thor is still grieving and maintaining his own guilt for the responsibleness he experience for Odin deciding to sacrifice himself . While he may be reassured to have that familiar guidance , Odin ’s voice also work as a reminder of what he ’s really lost . It ’s an absolutely complex moral force that would prove specially compelling if ever put in in the MCU’sThormovie dealership , bringing back Anthony Hopkins ' articulation performing science in the process .
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