The Hero's Journey Of The Epic Hero: Thor And The Epic Hero

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Our galaxy is just a branch of the tree connecting all the galaxies of the universe together. Every galaxy has its epic hero with their own physical and mental battles. The life an epic hero lives follows the Hero’s Journey model. In the movie, Thor the epic hero goes through a separation, initiation, and the return. The epic hero, Thor, goes through a series of battles and completes deeds for others in order to save his friends. His father, Odin always has a plan for his son and saves him many times from death. During the separation, Thor is about to be pronounced king and their rivals, the Frost Giants showed up. Thor lives on a planet called Asgard, the Asgardians stole a capsule, the tesseract containing the Frost Giants powers. Thor …show more content…

Thor wants to return home but believes he cannot because Loki said he was banished and that he had killed their father. After Thor doubts his return home the gatekeeper opens the portal for him to return home. At the end of Thor Loki also gets an opportunity to live, even though he tried tricking Thor into believing he could not return home because he killed their father. After Thor and Loki have their brother battle in Asgard they almost fall of the bridge, but, Thor holds on tight with Loki hanging from them. Odin awakes from his rest and grabs Thor’s arm, but, just as he is pulling them up Loki feels he is now unworthy and Let's go of Thor and falls off. He becomes the leader of his people, the Frost Giants. Using this evidence, the Hero’s Journey model and the movie Thor work well together thus can be plugged in to create a story that goes along with the model. Thor demonstrates the characteristics of a Hero’s Journey very well and Thor, the character, demonstrates the qualities of an epic hero just as well. Think about this now, if we are on a leaf of the branch that is our galaxy, on the tree of the universe, where do the other branches lead? To more life like the people of Asgard but just on another branch? There are more epic heroes out there we just have to find their battles to reach

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