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The Asgardians are a humanoid race of extradimensional beings that hail from Asgard, a small pocket-dimension adjacent to Earth. They travel around the Nine Realms including Earth via an interdimensional nexus known as the Bifrost. They are also known as the Aesir gods who have been worshiped by the Homo sapiens
Powers and Abilities
Powers
The Asgardian gods all possess certain superhuman physical attributes:
- Superhuman Strength: All Asgardians are superhumanly strong with the average Asgardian male god able to lift (press) about 30 tons under optimal conditions and the average Asgardian goddess able to lift (press) about 25 tons under optimal conditions.
- Superhuman Speed: All Asgardians have the potential of being able to run and move at speeds much greater than the finest human athlete. Only Hermes and a few others can supersede the majority of the Asgardian gods.
- Superhuman Stamina: The musculature of the Asgardian gods produce considerably fewer fatigue toxins during physical activity than the muscles of human beings. An average Asgardian god can exert themselves at peak capacity for about 24 hours before fatigue impairs them. Odin, Thor, and Tyr are physically stronger than most of the Asgardian gods.
- Superhumanly Dense Tissue: The skin, muscle, and bone tissues of the Asgardian gods are about three times as dense as the same tissue of a human body, contributing to their superhuman strength and weight.
- Superhuman Durability: The bodies of the Asgardian gods are considerably more resistant to physical injury than the bodies of human beings. Asgardian gods are capable of withstanding conventional injury including great impact forces, exposure to temperature and pressure extremes and falls from great heights without sustaining physical injury. According to Norman Osborn , most Asgardians at their base level are about as physically durable as Spider-Man (although this was most likely a lie he told to push his employees to fight during Siege).
- Regenerative Healing Factor: Despite their natural durability, it is possible for any of the Asgardian gods to sustain injury. However, if injured, their highly advanced metabolism enables them to recover with superhuman speed and efficiency. As with most of their other powers, the speed and extent of these powers varies from one Asgardian god to another and is greater for more powerful Asgardians. According to Doom during an Asgardian vivisection, a normal Asgardian can heal from having their heart removed for five minutes after the removal in addition to having his or her neural system continue to function normally.
- Superhuman Longevity: The Asgardian gods are extremely long-lived, but they are not truly immortal like the Olympian gods. They age at a much slower rate, but they are not immune to the effects of aging. Their bodies are also immune to all known Earthly diseases and infection.
- Energy Manipulation: The Asgardian gods have some potential to manipulate mystical or cosmic energies for some purpose. These powers are mostly limited to changing their appearance or shape and teleporting across great distances. However, a small minority of the Asgardian gods are capable of manipulating vast amounts of energy for a variety of purposes including teleportation, shape-shifting, matter manipulation, augmentation of their physical capabilities, erecting powerful force fields, firing powerful blasts of energy for destructive purposes, and granting superhuman attributes to objects and beings. According to Doctor Doom, every Asgardian has a spark of the Odin Force inside them, giving them their mystical nature.
Abilities
The Asgardian gods possess specific skills associated with their personalities or area of expertise. For example, as the Asgardian god of thunder, Thor has complete control and mastery of the weather, whereas Amora is highly skilled in all forms of physical and sexual pleasure. Most of the Asgardian gods have had some degree of training in armed and unarmed combat through private tutors or through the other gods.
- Riding/Horsemanship: Many of the Asgardians are proficient horseback riders trained in riding conventional horses and winged horses in addition to other enchanted animals.
- Combat Proficiency: The Asgardians are exceptional warriors in both armed and unarmed combat including swordsmanship and archery.
- Weapon Proficiency: The Asgardians are known to carry swords, battle axes, and war hammers among other weapons.
- Allspeak: Thanks to the Allspeak, Asgardians can communicate and be understood by or races.
Average Strength level
Unknown.
Weaknesses
The Asgardians are not highly advanced in technology, and unlike many of the Olympians or other pantheons, very few relatively wield magic; even Ares has been shown using it for various effects. The Asgardians were doomed to die and be reborn in the eternal cycle of Ragnarok, until Thor ended it, their lives bound to the Norns, Yggdrasil, Hela, and Those Who Sit Above in Shadow. Even on Midgard without Ragnarok, it has been shown that "the touch of mortality upon" the Asgardians are greater than in Asgard, and, like Odin, their natural powers are weakened.
Habitat
Habitat: Earth-Like
Gravity: Normal
Atmosphere: Normal
Population: Unknown
Miscellaneous
Type of Government: Monarchy
Level of Technology: Magic
Cultural Traits: The Asgardians were worshiped as gods by the people of Scandinavia and Germania, occupying parts of Britain, Gaul (modern-day France), and North American outposts.
Representatives:
Notes
- No special notes.
Trivia
- No trivia.
See Also
- Appearances of Asgardians (Earth-3116)
- Race Gallery: Asgardians (Earth-3116)
Links and References
- None.