The Marvel What If ... What If ... Thor Was An Only Child?

25 September 2021

We all know how Odin the Father of All found Loki, the son of the Ice Giant Laufey, abandoned and left to die on the frozen battlefield of Jotunheim. The little blue girl melted Odin's heart and so, along with the Chest of Ancient Winters, he fled with Loki to raise him as his own, as his biological son Thor. This latest episode of What if ... imagine a world where Odin has given Loki back to his people and the kind of person Odin would have become if Thor had been an only child.

It seems that without his foster brother, Thor would have become known as Asgard's "Party Prince". As his father Odin enters the rejuvenating Odin Sleep, Thor's mother, Frigga (voiced by Josette Eales) leaves to celebrate the solstice with his sisters. But before he does, he tells his wayward son Thor to focus on his studies and forbids him from celebrating while Heimdall watches over him. This doesn't discourage Thor because he knows the most backward planet that not even Heimdall pays attention to… Earth! Specifically Las Vegas.

Thor's arrival, accompanied by a who's who from the MCU, as anticipated by What if ... chief writer AC Bradley, is followed by astrophysicist Jane Foster (Natalie Portman) and Darcy Lewis (Kat dennings). Jane makes the first contact with the Norse God to ask him if his previous party at the Alpha Star Icarus is what led to the destruction of the planet. But it quickly turns into a cute moment of meeting, just like in the "sacred timeline", Jane and Thor fall in love with each other and even get tattoos!

Jane quickly joins the spree along with Darcy tying the knot with Howard the Duck (Seth Green)! The morning after one night just out of the Hangover, Jane and Darcy are summoned to SHIELD Hellicarrier by Maria Hill (Cobie Smulders). It appears that Hill is now the acting director. With the party atmosphere spreading around the world, Hill has no choice but to use "the last resort," Fury's pager to summon Carol Danvers / Captain Marvel.

Meanwhile in France, the Loki (Tom Hiddleston) who grew up as an ice giant in this reality joins the party with his "ice bros" to go out with Thor, his "brother of another mother". Soon though, party pooper Captain Marvel (Alessandra Daniels) interrupts the party to try to end Thor's fun. Carol and Thor fight all over the world with Thor eventually beating her by doing the same trick with Mjolnir that he used on Loki in the final battle of the first. Thor movie. Apparently, Carol was holding onto her full power due to the devastation she would cause if she unleashed everything she had.

As the party grows with more guests and destruction (notably Surtur puts the moves on the Statue of Liberty) Danvers kidnaps Thor in Siberia where he doesn't have to worry about any civilian casualties, unaware that Maria Hill has a back-up plan to launch a nuclear strike on Thor in hopes of putting an end to his antics. Opting for more peaceful tactics, Jane and Darcy hijack satellites (with help from off-screen Erik Selvig) to contact Heimdall. Jane is transported to Asgard where she "sells" Thor to Frigga. Just in time fortunately because Frigga sends a message to Thor that he is interrupting his journey to control his "study group" on Earth.

Fearing his mother's wrath, the party prince finally puts an end to his cheating and manages to convince his intergalactic hosts to help clean up the planet, so Frigga is no longer wise. Following the classic Wild Teen Party sitcom trope, Thor and his friends proceed to the chaos wreaked by the party. With Frigga's arrival, it appears that Thor has tricked his mother with his "educational and cultural exchange study group" until he takes a look at his vandalized hammer Mjolnir.

Before leaving Midgard, Thor pays a final visit to Jane Foster to formally ask her for a date. Before The Watcher can say, "They lived happily ever after," he is interrupted when a mysterious portal announces an army of Ultron robots led by an Ultron / Vision fusion wearing all six Infinity Stones embedded in his armor.

Various notes

"What if Thor ... was an only child" is a Where is Waldo? of MCU cameos. It is by no means a complete list, I will try my best to identify the characters I have spotted. Feel free to put what I missed in the comments!
I didn't know the various Sakaaran rebels had names. This particular one standing next to Yondu is called Biff.

The cat Goose (actually an alien from Flerken) is mentioned and Darcy is quick to get the Top Gun reference.

Darcy and Howard have their wedding canceled, so technically Darcy is still Mrs. the Duck!
Although not in the episode "What If Thor Was an Only Child", Erik Selvig played by Stellan Skarsgard in the movies it is briefly mentioned.
At least Selvig doesn't walk around naked in Stonehenge!
I wouldn't be surprised if the Frost Giant Loki or the Ultron Vision eventually get their own Funko figures.
We are all thrilled to see Natalie Portman wield the hammer when Thor: Love and thunder hits theaters next year. In 2019, when they first announced that Portman would be returning as Jane Foster, many fans were genuinely surprised, especially since Portman herself said she had "locked Thor" in a Vanity Fair interview. This was mainly due to his dissatisfaction with Thor: The Dark World and the departure of the original director Patty Jenkins. It's safe to say that Portman's relationship with Marvel Studios improved for her to reprise Jane Foster in both the film and animation.

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