Warning! Spoilers for X-Men: Curse of the Man-Thing #1!
Thor has always been known as Marvel’s ultimate God of Thunder, but in a surprising twist, he just admitted that he isn’t the most powerful one! Luckily Marvel’s other Storm God, the iconic X-Men member known as Storm, is ready to lend a helping hand to make sure Thor can accomplish his task without worry.
Brought up in the epic finale to the Man-Thing mini event dubbed Curse of the Man-Thing, X-Men: Curse of the Man-Thing #1 by Steve Orlando and Andrea Broccardo picks up as the heroes of the Marvel universe struggle to beat back the various dangers sprouting up from the evil machinations of Harrower and her forcibly controlled Man-Thing. Needing to disperse the toxic pollen still hanging around the atmosphere, Thor comes up with the idea to conjure a giant storm to scatter the pollen up and away from the innocents on the ground below, effectively rendering its toxicity impotent.
Saying that creating a worldwide storm to get rid of the pollen would be something that would, “…test even the God of Thunder’s might,” Thor casually admits that his power alone isn’t enough to accomplish an enormous task such as this. Cut to the mutant island nation of Krakoa where Storm is trying her best to convince her fellow mutants to allow her to help in these human affairs, and fans can probably assume what other God of Thunder can give Thor a run for his money.
Arriving on the scene to help finish what Thor couldn’t, Storm immediately shows her strength as a weather goddess, even getting Thor to subtly admit yet again that he isn’t as powerful as expected by saying, “No contagion, no matter how foul, could hope to overcome our combined might!” Replying, “It’s good to be a Storm God, Thor,” Storm simultaneously shows that Thor isn’t the most powerful God of Thunder and that when it comes down to it, she could probably out-thunder him any day.
Having wielded the power of Thor before via the weapon known as Stormcaster, Storm is a no-brainer when it comes to helping out not only the Avengers, but also helping with anything in the natural world that has to do with weather. And although Thor is incredibly powerful in hand-to-hand combat, his weather powers are clearly something he needs to work on. With his offhand comments about his own strength and the need for help in the weather conjuring category, Thor shows that while he might be handy in a pinch when the next overpowered and omnipotent villain shows up, he just simply isn’t always up to snuff where the “thunder” part of his title is concerned.
So while the moniker of God of Thunder is and always will be Thor’s, him informally admitting that he doesn’t have the power to handle the situation at hand without Storm’s help is a huge point to be made in regards to his weather controlling powers and what being called a God of Thunder actually means. Storm may only be known as a Storm God in some parts of the world, but she can clearly pick up the slack when Thor can’t handle things on his own.