[Powers] Triggering Alternate Form Upon "Death"

[Ze'Manel Cunha]

Originally Posted by the_matrix_walker

I don't remember that version of Thor, but I certainly haven't read all of every run... but that seems kind of pointless.. the mortal form was to teach humility, if it worked as you suggest, he would just kill himself and be THOR again, in effect, sacrificing Donald Blake to himself or his father.

It's not an uncommon trope in fiction and even in historical religious fantasy, having a mortal form and an immortal form such that when the mortal form is killed the character once again becomes incapable of empathizing with the mortals, which often results in the immortal leaving the mortal plane to return to Asgard or assorted other planes.

In that situation it's almost as a version of morph with single instance Duplication where the Duplicate has a different form and can die.