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Thor has faced more than his fair share of strange villains. 1 / 7
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But in Thor #371 and #372 by Walt Simonson, he goes up against a parasite called Zaniac… 2 / 7
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That is made up of vermin who burst from the torsos of their host body at the moment of death… 3 / 7
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And run away to look for a new host in the same fashion as the chestburster xenomorph in Ridley Scott’s Alien. 4 / 7
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Zaniac latches onto human males and drives them to kill women, and was even Jack the Ripper… 5 / 7
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Making him a representation of how persistent gender-based violence is in the past, present, and future. 6 / 7
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Thor manages to kill Zaniac with the help of Justice Peace, ridding the universe of another evil. 7 / 7
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