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Thor Annual Vol 1 7

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Strange! Though thou and I be godlings born, we can see the future no more clearly than do the mortals who crawl the Earth below!

—Thor

Appearing in "And Ever -- the Eternals!"

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  • Thor (Main story and flashback)

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  • Mjolnir (Main story and flashback)
  • Arrow of mistletoe (Only in recap)
  • Gjallahorn (Only in flashback)
  • Neutralizer Helmet ⏵ (Only in flashback)
  • Deviant Coagulation Cannister (Only in flashback) (First appearance)

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Synopsis for "And Ever -- the Eternals!"

As Odin sends Hermod to Hel to see if there's anything to be done to save Balder, Thor begins wandering. He eventually finds himself in front of Mimir and asks the fiery guardian of the Well of Wisdom if Earth is doomed to die with Asgard in Ragnarok. When Mimir mentions that Thor, of all the gods, should know how the Earth will truly end, Thor doesn't understand what he means, prompting Mimir to mention that he had forgotten that Thor didn't remember certain events that had befallen him an Earthly millennium earlier. Mimir then begins to recount those events that began shortly after the brief war between the Asgardians and Olympians.

Still wishing to extend Asgard's borders, the young Thor had left Asgard for Midgard. During his travels, he met the Eternals, learned of them, the Celestials and the Deviants, and fought several dangerous Mutates. Then, after Thor had spent months on Midgard, the starship carrying the Celestial Third Host arrived and Valkin, to prevent Thor from possibly doing battle with the Celestials, suppressed his memories of meeting the Eternals, the Mutates and the Celestials, and filled his brain with false memories instead.

In the present, Thor has now regained those lost memories but is puzzled as to why they should matter when Ragnarok is so near. Mimir responds by showing him an image of a scene occurring at that moment in the Andes Mountains of South America: Arishem of the Fourth Host standing unmoving as he prepares, in less than fifty years, to judge whether on not Earth shall perish at the hands of the Celestials.

Notes

  • Shooter is consulting editor.
  • Although a few elements from the mainstream Marvel Universe had appeared in the original Eternals series, "And Ever -- the Eternals!" is the first story featuring the Eternals that unequivocally takes place on Earth-616.
  • This issue takes place place during Thor #275, with Thor's appearance in this annual taking place between pages 5 and 11 of that Thor issue while Sif's appearance on this annual's first three pages takes place between pages 5 and 7 of that Thor issue.
  • Most of this annual's page count (33 out of 35 story pages) is devoted to an extended flashback during which Mimir reveals to Thor some events from a millennium ago that he had been made to forget. However, Mimir doesn't bother to restore Thor's memories of his adventures in the vast continent to the north (i.e., North America).
  • This story implies that Virako was the Quetzalcoatl worshipped by the Aztecs, the Kukulkán worshipped by the Maya and the Viracocha worshipped by the Incas. However, since Thor & Hercules: Encyclopaedia Mythologica #1 established that those three deities actually existed as members of the godly pantheons known as, respectively, the Ahau, the Tēteoh, and the Apu, clearly this was actually a case of Virako being mistaken for those gods.
  • The Eternals in this story were on a "civilizing mission" among the savages/primitives who inhabited Central America and Mexico a thousand years ago, and it was the knowledge they had provided that enabled the Maya and the ancestors of the Aztecs and the Incas to build great monuments and pyramids. This is a bit inaccurate because, although the Aztec Empire and the Inca Empire were not founded until centuries after the time of the visit, the golden age of the Maya city-states had already ended. Plus, the Maya had built their first pyramids almost a thousand years earlier.
  • Although the story states that Thunder was formed of Dromedan's mind, a myth from the minds of the Incas that had been made real, some online sources state that he was a Deviant Mutate. As far as I know, there had never been an in-story evidence to support this idea.
  • Balder, Loki and Hoder appear only in a recap of events from Thor #273, and there's a one-panel recap of the Asgard-Olympus War from Thor Annual #5.
  • Since Thor's encounter with the Eternals began soon after the conclusion of the brief Asgard-Olympus War and ended when the Third Host of the Celestials arrived on Earth, this retroactively established that the Asgard-Olympus War was fought about one thousand years ago, only months before the Third Host's arrival.
  • Aside from that one-panel recap of the Asgard-Olympus War, the Olympian gods only appear as images that accompany mentions of their names. Volstagg makes a similar not-quite appearance when Thor mentions the Asgardians.
  • Virako tells Thor that the Eternals have monitored the Graeco-Roman legends of the gods of Olympus but had always assumed that they were either only mythological or at least never intruded on the Earthly plane. He also states that, although some of the the Olympian Eternals have names in common with some of the Olympians gods, neither group is named for the other.
  • Dromedan's prison in this issue is a cave in the Andes Mountains of South America, while in Eternals #16 he is buried in a crypt beneath a city on the East Coast of the United States. The Eternals presumably move his paralyzed body there after the battle in this issue.
  • Although the battle against Dromedan ends soon after Ajak drops what he calls "Druig's helmet" on the Mutate's head and Thor hammers it on securely, that orange helmet was actually the Neutralizer Helmet (from Eternals #16–17) that Dromedan had been shown wearing when Thor first encountered him earlier in the story. In contrast, the neutralizer helmet that Druig had created was blue and much smaller, and Druig was wearing it as part of his attempt to control Dromedan.

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