Contains spoilers for Immortal Thor #15!Thor has faced down many other gods in his time, but one Avengers villain just might trump them all, at least according to her. The God of Darkness has a long resume of killing gods, but in Marvel’s multiverse, good always triumphs over evil, so there’s only so much she can ever do.
in The Immortal Thor #15 by Al Ewing, Jan Bazaldua, Matt Hollingsworth and Joe Sabino, Nyx, Olympian Goddess of Darkness, boasts that in her new realm, Even an overcharged Thor is no match for her.
in Immortal Thor #14 By the same token, Hercules offered Nyx dominion over an empty dimension filled with darkness where a corrupt Zeus had previously been banished to Guardians of the Galaxy #12 by Ewing and Juann Cabal. in Immortal Thor #15, Hercules then asks Nyx to clean up the same corruption from Thor. The goddess shows herself, she praises Even a twisted Thor is no match for her now that she has a full universe To call her own.
The goddess Nyx is confident that she can beat Thor
And she’s probably right
Nix was the first of the Olympians. However, the emergence of the other Olympians, first among them Zeus, valued light, and everything it represented, as did their followers, whose myths metaphysical twisted Nix into a villain. As the antagonist of the Avengers miniseries Avengers: No Way Home By Ewing, Mark Waid, Jim Zub, Paca Medina, Sean Izaakse, Carlo Barberi and more, Nyx and her children killed all the other Olympians except Hercules with little effortAlthough flashbacks in the series also establish that the Olympians bested them before, trapping her in a similar empty realm.
Nix may have the advantage against him in a pure battle of strength, but the power of the Gods comes from history and words.
Avengers: No Way Home proved that Against a singular God, Nix would come out on topBut Thor is no ordinary god. Thor’s use of omnipotence over Immortal Thor Saw him defeat bigger enemies than himself – by outthinking them. Nix may have the advantage against him in a pure battle of strength, but the power of the Gods comes from history and words. If Thor can come up with a clever trick, Nyx can be bound once again. Not that the two get a chance to test that hypothesis, as Thor and Hercules leave Nyx to her realm peacefully.
Nyx’s powers and weaknesses are intertwined with her divine nature
What does this mean for Thor?
The best thing about Nyx is how her powerset interacts with a metaphysical understanding of the Marvel Universe. in no way home She is defeated by Vision when he channels the single greatest source of light In full Marvel: Bravery. This is the level on which the gods operate. Who cares if Nyx can beat Thor? In a multiverse literally built on heroes beating villains, light will always metaphysically triumph over darkness in the end. Nyx’s earlier defeat also perfectly shows the metaphysical difference between superheroes and gods at Marvel.
Some gods, like Thor and Hercules, are also superheroes, but gods are concepts and ideas made into literal beings. The Greek, Norse and other classical cultures created their gods in part to explain the natural world and to assign life to nature. It just so happens that in the Marvel Multiverse, the stories actually shaped the Gods, and vice versa. What Ewing understands is that godly fights are literal battles of ideas. Nyx might be best ThorBut as long as there is hope, the darkness will never prevail over the light for too long.
The Immortal Thor #15 is available now from Marvel Comics.