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"Ultimate" Thor is a superhero in the Ultimate Marvel Universe based on the mythological Thor and the Marvel Universe Thor.

Unlike the Marvel Universe Thor, his godhood was deliberately kept in doubt, with contradictory clues that he was both who he claimed and that he was simply a powerful lunatic spread throughout his appearances.

Beginnings
Ultimate Thor was a psychiatric nurse called Thorlief Golmen, until he suffered a nervous breakdown and spent 18 months institutionalized. When he was released, he claimed to be Thor, Norse god of thunder, and attracted rebellious teenagers and conspiracy theorists with his speeches and self-help books. He has spoken against America's military aggression against other world powers.

Ultimates
When General Nick Fury contacted him about joining the Ultimates, Thor refused to work for the military-industrial complex that he detests. When the Hulk appeared in Manhattan, Thor refused to lend his aid unless the President doubled the foreign aid budget. When his request was met, Thor intervened, giving Wasp time to enter Hulk's head and physically manipulate his brain, turning him back into Bruce Banner.

Chitauri
Thor was the first to report that the Chitauri base in Micronesia had been long abandoned. Upon arriving at the base in Arizona, Thor and Iron Man provided air support against the Chitauri spacecraft until the Air Force arrived. When Iron Man was called down to deal with the Chitauri bomb, Thor unleashed a massive electrical burst, blasting every alien craft around him, much to General Fury's amazement, who thought he was a pacifist; Thor corrected him: "A pacifist with a big, scary hammer." Iron Man asked Thor to help him dispose of the bomb that would obliterate the entire solar system, so Thor teleported it to the wastes of Nastrond; its detonation caused only a small ripple in space-time.

Later, Thor ceased aiding the Ultimates, feeling they were being used to advance a partisan agenda. He also began speaking to apparitions of other Asgardians only he could see.

Italy
When an Italian demonstration against the European Defence Initiative's super-soldier program turned violent, Thor intervened. The Ultimates learned from the EDI's head scientist, Gunnar Golmen, Thorlief's brother, that the Norwegian government had chosen the Norse God of Thunder, Thor as their national image and modeled a super soldier after him. They created a power-belt in the image of Thor that granted the wearer unbelievable strength, durability and the power of flight. Their biggest success was the electric power battery in the form of Thor's hammer Mjolnir, which can ionize the environment, control the weather and allow the user to teleport.

Gunnar alleged that Thor had stolen the technology that gives him his powers, and they tracked him to Norway to take him into custody. Thor told them that Gunnar was actually Loki, but the Ultimates attacked him anyway. He shrugged off whatever they threw at him, until Quicksilver managed to remove his belt, and Thor came crashing to the ground. The popular belief behind this states that Loki, using his reality-alteration abilities, simply "ret-conned" reality and made Thor dependent upon his belt for his god-like powers.

Currently
He now occupies Bruce Banner's cell in the Triskelion, where a vision of Gunnar/Loki taunted him about the existence of a traitor within the Ultimates' ranks. In Ultimates (vol. 2) #9, Loki stated that Thor is indeed a Norse God, as he joined the Liberators under the idea that if The Ultimates have a Norse God on their side, so should its opposition, also Loki confirms the existance of Odin when he states he cannot use his powers for fear of being discovered by Thor's father. It is further apparent that Thor is who he states, in the Ultimates (vol. 2) #11, we hear Thor asking his father for a sign that he is still there. A bright light shines on him, and he vanishes from the Hulk's cell in the Triskelion, witnessed by Captain America and the Wasp as they leave the Triskelion to go to Washington.

Alternate Versions
Due to the Ultimate Fantastic Four going to the past and trying to alter the event that gave them their powers, an alternate Ultimate time-line (dubbed Super-Earth) was created, where Thor has become President of the United States, and created a "power sharing" plan, using Skrull/Chitauri techonologies to give everyone on earth superpowers. When the Skrull attack the world, Ultimate Super Skrull states that Thor has "natural powers" unrelated to the power sharing plan.