Thor’s brother Loki is one of the most treacherous villains you can imagine (Brits do indeed make the best Hollywood villains). He is always looking to benefit himself and he doesn’t care who he has to stab in the back to gain power. He doesn’t value the life of others. You can see this most clearly in the way he views humanity in the Avengers movie. He looks at humans as lesser beings–who need to be subjugated–for their own good. Loki uses trickery and deception to accomplish his goals. In Thor: The Dark World, Loki even fakes his own death in order to carry out his grand scheme. Loki doesn’t care that this puts his brother Thor through emotional anguish.

Loki is clearly a disobedient son, but I wasn’t focusing on Loki in the title of this post. I am talking about Thor, who seemingly is the much better more disciplined son. Although his is not the diabolical disobedience of Loki, Thor too quite often disobeys his father Odin.

If you go back to the first movie you see Thor disobeying Odin in order to attack the Frost Giants. Because of his actions, Thor was exiled from Asgard. You might have thought that Thor learned his lesson, but as one soon learns disobedience toward his father is a recurring theme for Thor. Thor spends much of his time thinking about Midgard (Earth) and his love for Jane Foster while Odin wants him to realize that he ought to be concerned about all Nine Realms and not just Midgard.

In The Dark World, Jane Foster becomes infected with a powerful dark energy which the Dark Elf Malekith wants for his own. Thor brings Jane to Asgard in order to protect her inciting Malekith to bring an all-out assault on Asgard. During the battle, Thor’s mom and Odin’s wife Frigga is killed. Jane Foster is protected but the Asgardians are left with little hope of winning when the Dark Elves return for another assault. Thor and Odin disagree on what to do next. Odin wants all the Asgardians including Thor to remain on Asgard to protect Jane from the next attack. Thor disagrees. Rather than obeying, Thor comes up with another plan and goes behind his father’s back to carry it out. Thor clearly disobeys his father. Even though Thor’s plan eventually succeeds, that obviously doesn’t excuse his disobedience.

Thor displays a common weakness. Thor’s insolent disobedient self-reliance is much like  that of the teenager who always thinks he has the right answer. Dear old mom and dad are just being old-fashioned. There is an ingrained attitude in the human heart which doesn’t want to follow the authorities over us. We  prefer to trust in ourselves; rather than trusting in the rules of others. We want to be free from rules and regulations even when those laws are meant for our good. We like our plans because they make us feel like we are in control. Our desire for control is rooted in a sinful heart which doesn’t trust authority. Thor didn’t trust the plan of Odin and we don’t like to trust the rules of our parents or our government and especially our God. We trust in ourselves first and foremost because obedience to others means trusting them rather than ourselves.

When we go to God’s Word, we see that God wants us to obey our earthly parents. Quoting the Fourth Commandment Ephesians 6:1-3 says, “Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. ‘Honor your father and mother’—which is the first commandment with a promise— ‘that it may go well with you and that you may enjoy long life on the earth.’” God wants us to obey our parents and he doesn’t say that if we think we know better, then it is ok to disobey. He doesn’t say if you don’t agree with their plans or have something better in mind that it is ok to disobey. He doesn’t even say that if you end up succeeding then your disobedience is ok. The only time that God would say it is ok to disobey, would be if those in authority over us were seeking to lead us to do something that is clearly against God’s Will.

Part of the issue with our sinful nature is that we don’t like to have anyone in authority telling us what to do. We think that we know best and sometimes, just like Thor, we succeed when we disobey. But is it really success if we have to sinfully disobey to do it? (God is looking both at our heart and our actions). There may be times that we verbally say that we are going to follow the will of those in authority but then we go behind their back to accomplish our plan. God knows that our heart was disobedient. We may obey the government by paying taxes but we grumble and complain and despise our leaders while doing it.
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We don’t like following the rules and even when we try to we can’t keep them all, therefore we needed one who could follow the rules for us. We needed one who would trust in God in our place. One who never deviated from the tasks or commands given to him.

When Jesus appeared on earth to live and walk among us he did so in perfect obedience to his heavenly Father. He never disobeyed even when it meant that he had to die one of the most excruciating deaths in all of history. Think about his prayer of obedience the night before he is crucified. Jesus, being true God, knew everything that he was about to endure. Since he is True Man, he knew how painful it was going to be. In the Garden of Gethsemane, he prayed, “My Father, if it is possible, may this cup be taken from me. Yet not as I will, but as you will” (Matthew 26:39). If there was any other way to save all people, Jesus would have preferred for the cup of suffering to be taken away. But there was no other way. Jesus submitted to the will of his Father and that plan of salvation took him and our disobedience to the cross.

Jesus and Thor are very different. Thor used disobedience to succeed in attaining his personal victory. Jesus used obedience to achieve victory for all mankind. We like Thor are more prone to disobedience and that is why we need Jesus and his obedience. Jesus has been obedient for us and therefore has won for us salvation.

Thor’s disobedience in the movie makes for an interesting plot. And quite often in movies, the character who doesn’t follow the rules and yet saves the day is the one that the audience admires. And yet, we don’t know if Odin’s plan would have worked. Maybe it would have. Don’t get me wrong, Thor is a great character and I love his movies but even he has many character flaws (if he didn’t it would make for a less exciting and relatable plot. In our lives, our only hope is to believe in the True Son of God, the One who has no flaws and who never disobeyed. Because of God’s one and only Son, Jesus, we have forgiveness.

Thor History

“Thor: Son of Asgard” is an interesting look at Thor during his teenage years. I am not sure how old he is actually supposed to be since Asgardians live thousands of years, but parts of the plot take place at school. In the first part of the book, Thor, Sif, and Balder go on a quest to find 4 items which Odin needs to make an enchanted sword.

Later, Thor disobeys his father Odin in order to rescue Sif. Similar to “Tales of Asgard”, it give background information that builds up to the movies that we have today.

Preview

Originally I had planned on writing about Batman next. However, there is a movie coming up very soon that I would like to focus on. Don’t worry Bat-fans, I love Batman and will get to him soon. But taking a cue from Warner Brothers, who has moved back the release of the next DC movie with Batman, I will push back my release date for my Batman posts. So who’s next? Sing the song if you know it, “When Captain America throws his mighty shield …”