The Evolution of Thor (Animated)
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Thor is one of the OG Avengers, but just how has the hammer-wielding god evolved on film? Let’s find out now!
warning: spoilers ahead!In The Incredible Hulk Returns, Donald Blake uses Mjölnir to summon Thor. He sports a Viking-inspired outfit, with added fur, small gauntlets, embossed wings on his armour, and an egg-shaped helmet. He teams up with the Incredible Hulk to beat up a bunch of bad guys, setting up a Thor TV series...that uhhh...never got made.
In his MCU Thor 2011 debut, Thor wears plated boots, has a single thigh bracer, torso armour with added circular disks, and his arms are fitted with chainmail sleeves and large gauntlets. He has a flowing red cape and unnaturally blond brows. Plus, he occasionally wears a ceremonial winged helmet. His father forces Thor to prove his worthiness, banishing him to Earth, where he meets his future girlfriend, Jane Foster. Then alongside his B.F.F.s, he takes on a giant robot, controlled by his Brother Loki, earning Thor his powers back. He then heads out to thwart his brother’s diabolical plan.
In The Avengers, his outfit is bluer, with brighter armour, a red stripe down his sides, no thigh bracer, and slimmer gauntlets. He also has longer hair, naturally coloured eyebrows, and a more stubbly beard. This film introduces his occasionally sleeveless arms, here paired with a less armoured and cape-less look. Thor, together with his fellow superheroes, helps take down reptilian aliens and his own slippery brother.
Thor: The Dark World, features a much darker suit, with gold accents, chainmail on his thighs, simplified gauntlets, a protective flap, taller boots, and his hair is even longer. He also occasionally wears a dark cloak. In this film he portals a wanna-be world-destroying Elf to his demise.
In Avengers: Age of Ultron, his only wardrobe change is his gold accents turn silver. This time, he helps defeat evil sentient robots, and he also takes a quick bath, giving him a magical Infinity Stone-filled dream.
In Thor: Ragnarok, Thor’s suit is leathery, lacking most of his armour, and his cape is more weathered. After his father passes, his wicked sister unleashes herself, destroying his hammer and sending him to the junk planet of Sakaar, where he’s given a much-needed haircut and enhances his look with various scavenged parts, weaponry, and a fancy helmet to battle against the Hulk, only to later team up to protect Asgardians from a monstrous Wolf and Thor’s awful sister. While Thor loses his eye in the fight, he gains the Asgardian crown, and quickly covers his wound with an eye patch. Then he, the Hulk, and the people of Asgard take off on a passenger ship.
In Avengers: Infinity War, Thor sports an all-black suit, with no cape, and scratched circular disks. This film starts with Thanos slaying his brother and destroying his ship, leaving Thor floating through space, but he’s found by the Guardians of the Galaxy. The considerate rabbit member kindly gifts him a brown iris eye. Later on, he adds a black-lined cape and darker chainmail to his look. He also uses his newly forged Stormbreaker axe to nearly defeat the Mad Titan, but he should have gone for the head.
Avengers: Endgame starts with Thor doing just that, and 5 years later he’s let himself go and reluctantly rejoins the Avengers, suiting up in a grey quantum realm suit to go back in time to help collect Infinity stones and say hello to his deceased mother. Plus, he grabs his old hammer. Afterwards, he suits up in a refitted Infinity War outfit, with braided hair and a man-bun, to help defeat a second-timeline Thanos. He then hands off his kingship to his pal, Valkyrie, allowing him to join the Guardians of the Galaxy for epic adventures.
Flashback scenes in Thor: Love and Thunder, feature him as an adorable armoured baby, then as a young child, and finally as a teenager in a comic-accurate costume. In the present, he regains his God-Bod, and his right eye has somehow turned blue. He wears a red Ravager vest ensemble to fit in with the Guardians before they leave him behind. His first armoured look is more streamlined with a fur-collared cape, while his second armour is a shiny yellow and blue outfit, with a large mask. In the last scene, this design is given a darker repaint. Earlier on, he’s even seen wearing nothing at all...but we definitely can’t show you that.
This film also includes a terminally ill Jane Foster, who becomes the Mighty Thor, wearing red and silver armour, with an added bicep bracer, and her own helmet. Together, the two Thors face off against Gorr the God Butcher, however, only the original Thor survives, adopting Gorr’s orphaned daughter.
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