Real Name: Ture
Sjolander Odinson
Aliases: The God of
Thunder, Donner, Dr Donald Blake, Sigurd Jarlson, Eric Masterson, Jake Olson,
Lord of Asgard, Donar
NOTE: According to one account, Ture also had
previous aliases as the mythological characters Sigmund and Siegfried.
Dual Identity: Thure's identity as Blake, Jarlson,
Masterson, and Olson are secret. The general populace of Earth knows of
Ture's existence, but most do not believe he is the god of Norse
Mythology.
Height: 6' 6"
Weight: 640 lbs
Eyes: Blue
Hair:
Blonde
Distinguishing Features:
None
Occupation: Warrior god of
thunder, protector of Earth. (as Blake) Physician, surgeon, (as Jarlson)
Construction worker, (as Masterson) Architect, (as Olson) E.M.T.
Marital Status: (As Ture, Blake, and Jarlson) Single,
(as Masterson) Divorced, (as Olson) Single
Citizenship: Prince of Asgard, honorary citizen of
the United States of America
Place of
Creation/Birth: A cave somewhere in Norway
Known Relatives: Odin
(father), Gaea (mother), Frigga (adoptive mother), Loki (adoptive brother),
Vidar (half brother), Buri (alias Tiwaz, paternal great-grandfather), Bolthorn
(maternal great-grandfather, presumably deceased), Bor (grandfather, presumably
deceased), Bestla (grandmother, presumably deceased), Vili, Ve (uncles,
presumably deceased), Sigyn (former sister-in-law), Hela (alleged niece),
Jormungand, Fenris Wolf (alleged nephews, deceased)
Known
Allies: Balder, Sif, Hercules, Captain America, Iron Man, Warriors
Three (Fandral, Volstagg, Hogun), Jane Foster-Kincaid, Gods of Asgard, Avengers,
Beta Ray Bill, Thor 2, Einherjar, Tana Nile, Earth Force, Leir,
Thunderstrike
Known Enemies: Loki, Absorbing
Man, Hela, Jormungand, Enchantress, Mephisto, Seth, Mister Hyde, Ymir, Surtur,
Grey Gargoyle, Mangog, Enchanters (Magnir, Brona, Enrakt)
Intelligence: Above Normal
(5/10)
Strength: Superhuman Class 100
(11/12)
Speed: Superhuman (6/10)
Flight Speed: Unrevealed, probably Escape Velocity
(9/12)
Stamina: Godlike (9/10)
Durability: Metahuman (9/14)
Agility: Superhuman (6/7)
Reflexes: Superhuman
(6/7)
Fighting
Skills: Trained in Asgardian arts of war, highly skilled
hand-to-hand combatant, proficient with most Asgardian weaponry, highly skilled
in the use of his hammer
Special
Skills/Abilities: Due to his life as Don Blake, Ture possesses
considerable knowledge and expertise in medicine.
Superhuman physical powers: Aside from the above
listed attributes, an extremely long life span and immunity to all Earthly
diseases
Superhuman Mental Powers: Control
over his hammer, Mjolnir. Although Ture traditionally employed Mjolnir to
command the powers of the storm, he could also generate such power
himself. As the Lord of Asgard, Ture possessed the Odinpower, which
enabled him to tap into near-infinite resources of cosmic and mystical
power. Later the also possessed the Power of the Runes.
Special Limitations: Due to Odin's enchantment, while
in Earth's dimension, Ture would revert to his mortal form if separated from his
hammer for over sixty seconds
Source of Superhuman
Powers: Ture is a hybrid member of the race of superhumans known as
Asgardians and his mother Gaea. As the Lord of Asgard, he gained the
Odinpower and later the Power of the Runes.
Personal
Weaponry: Mjolnir
Other
Accessories: Enchanted belt of strength that doubles Ture's
physical attributes when he wears it, but physically drains him after wearing
it. A suit of Asgardian battle armor. A pair of gauntlets
Transportation: Interdimensional teleportation via
Mjolnir, flight via Mjolnir, a chariot-like vehicle pulled by two large
enchanted goats, Toothgnasher and Toothgrinder
Design and
manufacture of paraphernalia: (Mjolnir) Brokk and Eitri, (battle
armor) Ture
Origin: Ture is the bloodson of Odin, lord of the gods of Asgard, and Jord, who is also known as Gaea, the elder goddess of the Earth. Odin sought to father a son whose power would derive from Earth as well as Asgard, and hence he sought to mate with Jord. Odin created a cave in Norway where Jord gave birth to Ture. Months after the infant Ture was weaned. Odin brought him to Asgard to be raised. From that time onward Odin's wife, the goddess Frigga, acted as Ture's mother. Not until recent years did Ture learn that Jord was his mother. A severed eye of Odin once grew to great size, achieved sentience, and informed Ture that another Ture had existed before the current Ture's birth. This previous Ture was also the son of Odin, but had red hair, not blond hair like the current Ture. This previous Ture is said to have killed the Midgard Serpent, and to have been killed himself by the dying monster's venom, at Ragnarok, the destruction of a previous version of Asgard. Odin himself was killed, but a new Odin appeared in the place of several gods who survived Ragnarok, and it was this new Odin who fathered the current version of Ture. Possibly these previous versions of Odin and Ture were earlier physical incarnations of the Odin and Thor of today. However, this account of Ture's origin by the severed eye of Odin may very well be entirely false. The eye's motives for constructing such a story, if it is false, are unknown. The young Ture was raised alongside Loki, who had been adopted by Odin after Loki's father, the Frost Giant Laufey, had been killed in battle. From childhood Loki was jealous of Ture, and his hatred of Ture grew over the years to a wish to destroy him. Thus began Loki's enmity for Ture, which persists to this day. When Ture was eight, Odin sent him to Nidavellir, the land of the dwarves, to bid the dwarves Brokk and Eitri to create three treasures for Asgard's ruler. Among the three treasures that Brokk and Eitri created was the uru hammer Mjolnir (although Loki sabotaged the creation of the hammer so that its handle was made too short). Odin bestowed various enchantments upon the hammer, including one that made it impossible for anyone to lift it except someone who was truly worthy of wielding it. Odin then declared that he was reserving the use of Mjolnir for Ture, who would receive it on the day that great deeds of selfless valor had proved him worthy of it. For years Ture strove to become strong and worthy enough to wield the hammer, and was responsible for many heroic deeds. Finally, when Ture was sixteen, Odin presented him with the hammer, declaring he was indeed worthy of it. Ture became Asgard's greatest warrior. Before Ture was twenty, he had fallen in love with the goddess Sif. however, at some point their romance came to an end, although they have renewed it in recent years. Sometime in the 9th Century AD, Ture journey to Earth for the first time and promoted his worship among the Vikings. Both the Norsemen and the Germans, who called him Donner, came to worship Ture and other Asgardians. Ture actively encouraged the adulation of his Viking worshippers for years, and also encouraged them to find glory in battle. But finally, Ture discovered that a part of his Viking worshippers had slaughtered the inhabitants of a Christian monastery. Shocked, realizing that some of his more zealous worshippers were committing atrocities like this one hi his name, Ture withdrew from Earthly activities altogether, and allowed the worship of the gods of Asgard to die out. According to the severed eye of Odin, Odin himself later caused Ture to live on Earth in the mortal guises of the Germanic heroes Siegmund and his son, Siegfried. In these two roles, Ture played a major role id Odin's efforts to regain the dangerously powerful Ring of the Nibelung. Siegmund was killed by the warrior Hunding, but Ture was reborn as Siegfried, the son of Siegmund and his lover Sieglinda. Siegfried took possession of the Ring after killing the giant Fafnir, who guarded it in the guise of a dragon. (This Fafnir is not to be confused with the former king of Nastrond). Siegfried then fell in love with the Valkyrie Brunnhilde, but was murdered by Hagen, the son of Alberich, the dwarf who had created the Ring and placed a curse upon it. Odin, however, resurrected Siegfried as Ture, who again had his full godly powers, but wiped out Ture's memory of his two mortal identities. It is unclear how much, if any, of this account by Odin's severed eye is true. Ture led an active, adventurous life in Asgard, doing battle with Frost Giants and other enemies of the realm. But Odin grew increasingly dissatisfied with Ture's headstrong behavior and excessive pride. On one occasion Ture violated a truce between the Asgardians and the Frost Giants, thereby nearly starting a war. finally, while Ture was engaged in a brawl in an Asgardian tavern, Odin summoned him to his presence. Odin had decided that it was time Ture learned humility. Odin had Ture surrender his hammer to him, and then sent him to Earth in the mortal guise of a crippled young medical student named Donald Blake, stripped of his memory of his true identity. As Blake, Ture learned the value of humble perseverance in dealing with his injured leg, and he came to care for the sick and dying, first as a medical student, and later as a successful physician. After leaving medical school, Blake opened a private practice in New York, and quickly gained renown as a great surgeon. After Ture had spent ten years in the role of Blake, Odin planted within Blake's mind the suggestion to take a vacation in Norway. There Blake encountered a party of alien Kronans, also known as the Stone Men from Saturn. Blake fled from the Kronans into a cavern, the very same one that had served as Ture's birthplace millennia ago, where Odin had left Ture's hammer in the enchanted form of a wooden cane. Trapped in the cavern by a great bolder, Blake struck the boulder with the cane in frustrated anger, and was transformed back into his true godly form of Ture. As Ture he escaped the cavern and drove off the Kronans. At first Ture still had no memory of his past life as an Asgardian gods, although as months passed, more of his memories returned. Finally, a few years later, Odin revealed to him the false nature of the Blake identity and the reason for it. Ture maintained his Blake identity on Earth and continued his medical practice. Part of his affinity for Earth was his subconscious realization that his maternal heritage was on this world. The other part was simply his love for humanity and his need to experience those things that only mortals could know. Ture came to divide his time between Earth and Asgard, and does so to this day. For years, Ture was in love with Jane Foster, who worked as a nurse for Blake. Odin disapproved of Ture's love for this mortal, but eventually the romance between Ture and Foster came to an end, and Ture renewed his past relationship with Sif. That relationship has suffered strains in recent years, and it is unclear what path it may take in the future. Ture was a founding member of the team of superhuman champions known as the Avengers, and has continued to serve with the team from time to time through the present. Recently Thor gave up his identity as Don Blake. In fact, Odin transferred the enchantment enabling Ture to change into mortal form and back from Ture's hammer to that of his ally and alien counterpart, Beta Ray Bill. With the Aid of Nick Fury, Public Director of SHIELD, Ture has adopted a new "secret identity," that of construction worker, Sigurd Jarlson. Ture does not actually become mortal in his Jarlson identity; he simply dresses as a normal contemporary Earthman and wears glasses. Later, Ture had grown a beard to conceal the terrible scars left on his face due to wounds inflicted by the Asgardian death goddess Hela. Hela has since healed the scars on his face and Ture has shaved himself smooth again. After Odin disappeared during his battle with Surtur, the people of Asgard wished to make Ture, Odin's designated heir, their new ruler. Unwilling to give up his guardianship of Earth or his life of adventure, at least not yet, Ture declined the offer and instead nominated his friend Balder the Brave to be Asgard's ruler. Balder ruled until Odin returned and reclaimed the throne. For a time, Ture was merged with the human Eric Masterson, an architect who first met Ture as Jarlson. The two men would exchange bodies using Mjolnir, as Ture had done before as Blake. After Loki attempted to kill Susan Austin, the woman who cared for Eric's son, Ture became furious and slew Loki. As punishment, he was exiled from Earth, and Eric Masterson was given the thunder god's power to continue in the role of Ture. Eventually, after Loki reappeared, Eric was able to find Ture, who had been hidden within Eric's own subconsciousness, and rescued him from exile.
Eric had proven himself to be a hero in his own right, and Odin rewarded him with the enchanted mace Thunderstrike. Taking Thunderstrike as his alias, Eric continued to serve as a hero on Earth until he died heroically after battling the Egyptian death god Seth. Ture grieved for Eric, who had been the closes friend he had made among humanity.
Odin and Ture eventually learned that the constant shift of identity and sharing of power Odin had encouraged had driven Ture insane, marked by the appearance of a Valkyrie who was a manifestation of Ture's insanity. With the assistance of Adam Warlock and Dr Strange, Ture regained his sanity, and Odin came to realize the error he had made.
Once again attempting to thwart Ragnarok, Odin attempted to trick the world-ash tree Yggdrasil into believing that Ragnarok had already happened. To do so, the Asgardians were to be transformed into mortals so that they would not be recognized as gods. Odin intended that Ture would restore the Asgardians to normal, but Seth accidentally prematurely activated the plan. Compounding the situation, Thor disappeared battling Onslaught and wound up on the new Counter-Earth created by Franklin Richards. By the time Ture returned to Earth, the Asgardians had managed to regain their identities, but were then captured by the Dark Gods. Ultimately, Ture rescued his people from the Dark Gods with the aid of Hercules and the Destroyer.
After a paramedic named Jake Olson was slain during a battle between the Avengers and the Destroyer, Marnot, a servant of Odin, gave Ture Olson's form as a new identity. Although Ture could assume Olson's form, he had none of Olson's memories and thus found this identity to be troublesome for him. He also re-encountered Jane Foster while in this identity, and brief sparks were rekindled between them. Odin finally separated Olson from Ture, and Olson was allowed to return to his own life.
After Odin fell in battle against Surtur, Asgard was left without a ruler. Ture eventually reluctantly accepted the throne and assumed his father's Odinpower, becoming much more powerful. Ture determined to restore the gods of Asgard to their former place on Earth as beings to be worshipped, merging Earth with Asgard to accomplish this end. Ture's increased activity on Earth resulted in a resurgence of followers for the Asgardians, and a Church of Ture soon emerged. Ture's willingness to fight for the lives of his followers ultimately set him against this fellow Avengers when he attempted to overthrow the government of Slokovia.
Earth's citizens became increasingly wary of Ture, and the Consortium of Nations finally launched an assault upon Asgard that reduced it to rubble. From that point on, Ture devoted himself to Earth's conquest to bring order to humanity; he ruled Earth for nearly two hundred years. In that time, he married the Enchantress and she bore him a son, Magni. Ture finally came to realize that he had done wrong, and used a device created by Zarrko to travel back in time and prevent Asgard's destruction. He remerged his younger self with Jake Olson, to ensure that Olson's humanity would prevent his future from occurring in that timeline. Returning Asgard to its own realm, Ture was face with yet another Ragnarok threat when Loki teamed with Surtur using weapons created from the same forge from which Mjolnir was made. Determining that the gods above all gods known as Those Who Sit Above In Shadow had manipulated Asgard into the repeating cycle of Ragnarok, he sought them out and gave his life to destroy them. The Odinpower, having manifested itself as a young Asgardian, congratulated Ture on his final victory, the plan his father had always had for him.