Vidar


Vidar

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Vidar
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Publication information
Publisher Marvel Comics
First appearance Thor Annual #12 (1984)
Created by Alan Zelenetz and Bob Budiansky
In-story information
Full name Vidar
Species Asgardian
Place of origin Asgard
Team affiliations Asgard

Vidar is a fictional character appearing in the Marvel Comics universe, based loosely on the Víðarr of Norse myth.

Contents

  • 1 Fictional character biography
  • 2 Powers and abilities
  • 3 Other characters named Vidar
  • 4 References
  • 5 External links

[edit] Fictional character biography

He is the half-brother of Thor and foster brother of Loki. Vidar was a huntsman when he was younger, but became a farmer and warrior, living in a valley in the Asgardian Mountains.

Alongside Thor, Vidar sought vengeance for the murder of his wife Solveig by Storm giants.[1] Armed with Thor’s power, Vidar later fought as Asgard’s champion against an alliance of the Storm Giants and Frost Giants.[2]

[edit] Powers and abilities

Vidar is a member of the race of superhumans known as Asgardians, granting him superhuman strength, speed, stamina, durability, agility, and reflexes. Vidar is 10 feet tall, and his great size is due to his physiology as the hybrid son of an Asgardian father and a Storm giant mother.

Vidar is an expert with the staff and the sword. He wields a six-foot staff, once imbued with by Odin with power equal to that of Thor’s hammer. Vidar rides a flying chariot pulled by a giant ram.

[edit] Other characters named Vidar

The original Vidar of Asgard appeared in Thor #293-294 in an account of how the original Asgard perished and how its nine survivors (including Vidar) gave birth to the present Odin, but this account may be apocryphal. In any case, this earlier Vidar was not the same person as the current Vidar.

[edit] References

  1. ^ Thor Annual #12
  2. ^ Marvel Super-Heroes Vol. 2 #5



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