Who Are Marvel’s Most Powerful Gods?
Since their appearance, later appearances have revealed that those sitting in the air in the shadows are not gods, but rather cosmic parasites. In Marvel’s Norse mythology, Ragnarok and Asgardian death are cyclical, a circle of death and rebirth for them. Thor (Vol. 2) 85 – Written by Michael Avon Orming, Daniel Berman, Pencil and Ink by Andrea DeVito – People seated above enjoy the energy Ragnarok creates, their own death and rebirth is revealed to be feeding the Asgardians. Subjects”. Thor is able to shatter the loom of destiny spun by Norn, seemingly destroying those sitting in the shadows above, finally ending the cycle.
Those Who Sit Above in Shadow Might be Back Soon
This Ragnarök doesn’t mark the end for Those Who Sit Above, however, who return in Loki: Agent of Asgard 14-17 – written by Al Ewing, penciled and inked by Lee Garbett – when the impending death of the Multiverse in Secret Wars (2015) is similar enough to a cycle of Ragnarök to resurrect them. Those Who Sit Above claim that they can never truly die, as long as the Asgardians believe in them. In Loki: Agent of Asgard 16, the god of stories suggests that if the Asgardian Gods were born from humanity’s belief in them, Those Who Sit Above in Shadow were perhaps created by the Asgardians’ belief in a higher power. Those Who Sit Above in Shadow haven’t been seen since Secret Wars, but Thor’s newest adventure may hint to their return, in one form or another. In the recent Immortal Thor 1 – written again by Al Ewing, with pencils and inks by Martin Coccolo – the concept of the ‘gods of the gods’ returns, as Thor remembers a journey to “the Utgard-Lands. The shadow-lands home to those who sit above even the Gods”, which sounds similar to Those Who Sit Above. It would seem to be too direct a reference to “those who sit above” and to “shadow” to not be setting up their return.