Toranos was summoned by Gaea – the spirit of Earth, another Elder God, and Thor’s mother – in hopes of destroying the humans poisoning her. After a mother-son conversation, Thor leaves to confront Agger again. This is where the metatext of “Immortal Thor” takes root.
Ewing had previously used Agger as a villain in his “Immortal Hulk” series. Halfway through this 50-issue series, Bruce Banner decides to save the world by smashing capitalism. Agger, who proclaims that storytelling is Roxxon’s “most powerful product,” only becomes alarmed once the Hulk destroys the servers of the company’s social media platforms, since these are the tools that slip his agenda in the minds of the masses. (One of the most terrifying issues of “Immortal Hulk” is issue 28, where a middle-aged security guard, radicalized by right-wing propaganda on the Internet, shoots his own daughter when he spots her during a ‘an anti-Roxxon demonstration, saying that “The devil has crept into her.”)
In his brief role as the big bad of “Immortal Hulk,” Agger recruited the alien Xemnu, a white-furred Yeti-like monster with psychic powers, to be “his” Hulk. Through the reach of television, Xemnu broadcast false memories of himself as Earth’s most beloved hero throughout the world, encouraging the masses to let nostalgia rule their minds and fall back into the sleep that Hulk had tried to wake them up.
Agger’s involvement reveals “Immortal Thor” as a thematic sequel to “Immortal Hulk.” Proving once again that billionaires don’t rise to the top with imagination, his plan is basically the same, just retargeted from Hulk to Thor. He buys Marvel Comics in-universe, which still publishes Thor’s adventures (but as historical documents) and reboots them to be more suitable for Roxxon. And he doesn’t stop at propaganda.
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