Asgard

**Asgard** is a mythical realm from Norse mythology, featured in Marvel Comics.

## Description

Asgard is one of the Nine Realms, nine celestial locations connected by the cosmic nexus or, "World Tree", Yggdrasil. Asgard resembles a giant island, floating in space. Asgard is populated by Asgardians, humanoid creatures of great power who inspired the Norse Gods of human mythology. Asgard can connect to the other realms via the rainbow bridge of the, "Bifrost".

### Locations

* **Bifrost Bridge**:
* **Royal Palace of Valaskjalf**:

## History

### Background

Asgard is an ancient realm involved in invading, "The Nine Realms", primarily under rulership of Odin. On one instance, Odin's war agains the frost giants lead to him adopting Laufey's son Loki as his own, to be raised alongside his biological son Thor. Asgard's interactions with the ancient human world inspired the creation of the Norse gods.

### Battle of New York

Loki grew up to be a cunning and overly ambitious magic-user with goals of conquering the realms. One of Loki's earlier schemes involved manipulating Odin into exiling Thor to Earth, attempting to usurp Odin, and sending Asgard's robotic enforcer, "The Destroyer" to fight Thor on Earth. Loki's schemes were foiled by Thor before Loki disappeared and joined forces with the Mad Titan, Thanos.

In 2012, Loki lead a Chitauri army against Earth to try and conquer the planet and steal a powerful artifact known as the Tesseract. During this time, he was equipped himself with a sceptre containing an Infinity Stone, gifted to him by Thanos. This resulted in the *Battle of New York* which caused the Thor to be involved in the formation of the Avengers and Loki's arrest. Following his defeat at the hands of the Avengers, Loki was imprisoned below the palace of Asgard. Loki would also be considered one of the most wanted super-criminals in the data-base of SHIELD.

### Dark Elves attack

After these events, Odin arranged for an exhibit on Asgardian culture to be held in the Expo Centre of Tomorrowland in California to promote peace between the realms. This exhibit was curated by Thor's lover, Dr. Jane Foster.

## Appearances

### Disney’s Hotel New York – The Art of Marvel

The chandelier of the Manhattan Restaurant is modelled after Asgard.

### Doctor Strange: Mysteries of the Mystic Arts

In some versions of this show, Doctor Strange creates a portal to Asgard to summon Thor.

### Guardians of the Galaxy - Mission: BREAKOUT!

Asgard is mentioned in the description for the *Asgardian War Hammer*, known as, "Stormbreaker" in the comics and the films. Other Asgardian artifacts in the Collector's fortress include the Golden Apples of Idunn, weapons of Lady Sif and the Warriors Three, Thor and Loki's childhood Skiff toy, the Warlock's Eye and the Book of Yggdrasil.

### Innoventions

This attraction featured an exhibit curated by Dr. Jane Foster on Asgard, and ended with guests passing through the Bifrost into Asgard.

### Iron Man Experience

Amongst Howard Stark's belongings is Asgardian letters which he worked to decipher.

### Marvel Super Hero Academy

There are multiple references to Asgard here. On display are ruins with Asgardian glyphs. On the bulletin board is a flyer for, "ASGARD the Exhibit" and reference to Thor teaching Asgardian lore.

### PYM Test Kitchen

The Silver Age Brewing Company is labelled as coming from New Asgard.

## References

1. ↑ https://www.flickr.com/photos/diaz/32161224561/in/album-72157675406220963/
2. ↑ https://disneycruiselineblog.com/2017/04/look-re-imagined-oceaneer-club-lab-aboard-disney-wonder/
3. ↑ https://www.laughingplace.com/w/articles/2021/06/02/avengers-campus-at-disney-california-adventure-is-loaded-with-marvel-and-disney-easter-eggs/