Thor must return to Asgard to stop his brother Loki from taking the throne. He initially refuses due to being banished to Earth by his father Odin. However, he accepts the call when he learns Odin is alive but in a deep sleep. Thor battles Loki's robot and forces, defeats him in an epic battle, and is recognized by his father Odin as worthy to be king, completing his heroic journey.
Thor must return to Asgard to stop his brother Loki from taking the throne. He initially refuses due to being banished to Earth by his father Odin. However, he accepts the call when he learns Odin is alive but in a deep sleep. Thor battles Loki's robot and forces, defeats him in an epic battle, and is recognized by his father Odin as worthy to be king, completing his heroic journey.
Thor must return to Asgard to stop his brother Loki from taking the throne. He initially refuses due to being banished to Earth by his father Odin. However, he accepts the call when he learns Odin is alive but in a deep sleep. Thor battles Loki's robot and forces, defeats him in an epic battle, and is recognized by his father Odin as worthy to be king, completing his heroic journey.
Thor must return to Asgard to stop his brother Loki from taking the throne. He initially refuses due to being banished to Earth by his father Odin. However, he accepts the call when he learns Odin is alive but in a deep sleep. Thor battles Loki's robot and forces, defeats him in an epic battle, and is recognized by his father Odin as worthy to be king, completing his heroic journey.
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Joseph Campbell
The Hero with a Thousand Faces
The Heros Journey Chart
Movie: Thor (2011)
Separation Call to Adventure: How Thors' friends come down to Earth to bring Thor back does the character to Asgard to stop Thor's brother Loki. receive the call to adventure? Refusal of the Call: Loki came to visit Thor while he was on Earth and Does the character Loki told Thor that his father has died because of the accept the call actions Thor took in the beginning of the movie. Loki immediately? also told Thor that he cannot come back to Asgard and must stay banished from Asgard on Earth forever. When Thor's friends come to Earth to take Thor back to Asgard, Thor denies their request and tells them that he must stay on Earth because of what he has done to his father. Answering the Call: Thor's friends tell Thor that his father is still alive, he is What motivates the just in a deep Odin sleep. Loki sent a robot to Earth character to accept the to kill Thor and his friends. Once Thor realizes that his call? friends cannot destroy the robot, Thor sacrifices himself to his brother. Supernatural Aid Hammer Guide/Mentor: Is there There wasn't a guide/mentor in this movie but the girl, a specific character who Jane, that Thor falls in love with on Earth changes helps the hero Thor. Since Thor is in love with Jane, he will do understand the life anything to protect her and the planet she lives on situation or provides the which is why he ends up sacrificing himself so that hero with special she and Earth will live. Also in the beginning, Thor training? was arrogant and conceited but after meeting Jane and getting to know her better, Thor starts to change and begins to care for others instead of himself. Talisman: Is there a Thor has his hammer which is the source of his particular item that has power, without it he is just a mortal. Thor loses his special significance to hammer when he was sent down to Earth and goes the hero? about 50 miles of where he landed to get his hammer, which was also sent down to Earth. However, before Thors father, Odin sent down Thor's hammer, he put a spell on it. It was similar to the Sorcerer and the Stone where only Arthur, who would later become king, was able to pull the sword from the stone. Thor's hammer was in rocky dirt in the middle of a desert and the only person who would be able to pick it up was the one who is worthy of Thor's power. Companions: Who is While Thor is on Earth he meets a team of scientists with the hero on his who help him along on his journey until Thor goes journey? How do these back to Asgard. The main one he travels with is companions help the Jane who he later falls in love with. hero face the challenges? Crossing the After the battle between Thor and Loki's space robot, Threshold: At what Thor and his friends go back to Asgard to fight Loki. point in the story does Since Loki is the acting King while his father is the hero leave the asleep, Loki froze the gate keeper of the bridge familiar world and move between the nine realms. Since he is frozen he into a new, unfamiliar cannot open the bridge to let Thor and his friends circumstance? back into Asgard. The gate keeper ends up breaking free from the ice and lets Thor and his friends into Asgard. Threshold Guardians: Since Loki is 'acting King' of Asgard, he freezes the Are there characters that gate keeper because he disobeyed Loki. Loki told the try to prevent the hero gate keeper to not open the bridge for anyone and from crossing over into since the gate keeper has sworn his loyalty to the the unfamiliar territory or King he cannot open the bridge. The gate keeper circumstance? gets around this when Thor's friends come to take the bridge to Earth and the gate keeper walks away so that technically he did not open the gate. Loki doesn't care however and goes to freeze him in a solid block of ice so that no one can open the bridge besides Loki. Initiation / Road of Thor is originally cast out of Asgard and stripped of his Trials: What specific powers and his hammer. Thor is sent to live on Earth challenges does the and since his father fell into a deep sleep, Odin hero face? cannot release his banishment. Brother Battle: Does Yes. Thor and Loki battle it out while in Asgard. Loki is the hero battle physically trying to destroy the planet Jodenheim and starts to or mentally with destroy it and that is when Thor and Loki begin to someone who is a fight. Thor wants to stop Loki from destroying an relative or close friend? entire race. Meeting with the Thor does not meet a character with special beauty Goddess: Does the and power. He does meet a human scientists that he hero meet with a falls in love with and promises to come back to Earth character with special for her. beauty and power? Abduction: Is the Thor was never abducted in this film however he did character kidnapped, or get in trouble with the FBI and was being held for is someone close to the questioning after he attacked the guards to get to his hero kidnapped? hammer. Night or Sea Journey: Thor starts in Asgard and then he is banished to Earth Where do the heros and then the movie ends with Thor going back to travels take him? Asgard. Dragon Battle: Does Thor fights Loki's robot (after he gets his hammer the hero battle some back) and then goes to Asgard and there is an epic kind of monster? Does battle between Loki and Thor. Loki has the ability to the hero have to face make himself an illusion and has Thor fighting an some inner demon? illusion of Loki which is quite difficult. Ritual Death or When Thor's friends come to bring Thor back to Dismemberment: Is the Asgard, Loki sends a robot to destroy Thor and his hero injured and thought friends. Since Thor doesn't have his powers or his to be dead? Does the hammer, all he can do is try to evacuate the area of hero mistakenly believe the innocent people while Thor's friends fight to someone close to him is destroy the robot. When Thor realizes that his friends dead? Does the hero cannot destroy the robot, Thor walks up to the robot suffer an injury in which and starts talking to Loki saying to take his life since he loses a limb or use of it's the one he really wants. The robot turns to walk some other body part? away tricking the viewers to think that Loki won't hurt his brother however the robot turns back around and back hands Thor which sends him flying and kills him. Sacred Marriage: Does Thor has a special emotional bond with Jane and the hero have a special before Thor went back to Asgard, he promises Jane emotional bond (it could that he will return for her. During the battle with Loki, literally be a marriage) Thor cannot find another solution to stop Loki from with another character? destroying the planet Jodenheim so Thor ends up destroying the bridge that connects the nine realms. This means that Thor cannot travel back to Earth for Jane since the bridge is destroyed. Atonement (at one In the beginning of the movie, Thors father was with) with or furious with him because of his actions towards Recognition by the Jodenheim. Odin falls into a deep sleep and is Father: Is the hero thought to not be able to wake up this time from it reunited with his father meaning this sleep will be his last. Odin has the ability in some way? to see all so even though he is asleep he can still see Thor on Earth and knows what Loki is doing. Towards the end of the battle between Thor and Loki when Thor destroys the bridge, there is a huge blast that sends Thor and Loki flying through the air. The next scene is Odin grabbing Thor's leg and Thor is seen grabbing Loki's spear which Loki is holding onto. They are hanging off the side of the bridge over a dark space abyss. Thor's father has awoken up to save his sons. After this, Thor is on good terms with his father again and Odin tells Thor that he will make a great King. Entering the Belly of Thor's deepest fear is not talked about in this movie. the Whale: Is there The only dark evil that he fights is his brother Loki. some point in the story where the hero must face his deepest fear or the darkest evil in the story? Apotheosis After the battle between Thor and Loki, there is a (Deification): Is there a celebratory feast for Thor although Thor leaves during point in the story where it to go talk to his father and asks if he can see Jane. the hero is held up as an In the beginning of the movie there is a scene where ideal or where the hero Thor is about to become King and every one in is worshipped as a god? Asgard is there cheering him on and Thor is loving every second of it. Thor is even egging them on to cheer louder and clap harder. It is interesting to see the change in Thor from that scene to the end scene where he could care less about the fame and glory. Ultimate Boon / Magic There is no special solution Thor finds to solve the Elixir: Does the hero problem that Loki caused which is destroying an find some special entire planet which in turns exterminates an entire solution to the problem race. Thor breaks the bridge which stops the planet he is attempting to from being destroyed but also because of this action, resolve? This might be a Thor will not be able to return to Earth. This was a magic potion or a key to huge sacrifice and shows that Thor is fit to be King something. because he sacrificed his wants for the greater good. The Return Refusal of the Return: Although Thor falls in love with Jane, Asgard is still his Does the hero initially home and where he belongs. Thor never refuses to refuse to return to the go back home and I think that if Loki was not causing homeland or the place trouble up in Asgard, Thor would still choose to go that he began the back to Asgard. Throughout the movie, it was very journey? evident that Thor wanted to get back to Asgard even though he thought he would never be able to go back because of his fathers death. Magic Flight / Pursuit: I don't think there was a point in this movie where Is there some point Thor was being chased or is trying to escape (generally toward the anything. end) where the hero is being chased or is otherwise trying to escape something? Rescue from Without: When Thor was killed by Loki's robot I normally would Is there so point in the think that that would be the end and would seem like movie, when all seems all hope is lost. However, since we watched the hero hopeless, when it looks stages video in class, I remembered that death is like the hero is going to where the hero is reborn and becomes the hero. die, then suddenly he is rescued unexpectedly? Crossing the Return Thor returns to Asgard to fight Loki but doesn't really Threshold: Is there return to 'home' as Thor knew it before he was some point where the banished until after the battle when Odin wakes up. hero clearly returns Loki ends up letting go of his spear and falls into an home? abyss and is assumed dead. The scene after this is the feast for Thor and everything seems back to normal in Asgard. Master of Two Worlds: Life on Earth was difficult for Thor not only because it Does it appear that the was a new place but also he had no powers so he hero has conquered life was also unfamiliar to himself. Thor saved Earth from in both the familiar and the robot and Loki and also found himself. Thor was unfamiliar worlds? stripped of his powers because his father thought that Thor was not worthy of the powers from the hammer. While on Earth, Thor changed and became 'worthy' of these powers and got them back. Thor also conquers life on Asgard by fighting Loki and saving Jodenheim from being destroyed. Freedom to Live: Since To everyone, the problem seems to be resolved and the hero typically begins all seems to be well. The very end scene, after the the journey to resolve a credits, shows Loki as an illusion on Earth and sees problem, does it appear this device that is thought to have unlimited power. the problem is at last You can see Loki's wheels turn and know that he has resolved so that all can another devious plot. live freely?