Prologue: In Asgardia, Odin is outraged that a woman has dared steal Mjolnir while calling herself Thor and decides she must be punished. He searches for her via the Omni-Runes and sees her…
…in Times Square facing off against the Absorbing Man. Creel mocks the idea of a female Thor and tries to touch Mjolnir to absorb its power. Thor sends it spinning around his head, distracting him while she breaks his jaw with a punch. Creel’s wife Titania enters the field of battle and is surprised to see Thor is now a woman…so responds by knocking out her hubby. Titania announces she is standing down out of respect for a new female hero trying to succeed in the big boys league and allows herself to be knocked out and taken away to jail….
In Asgardia, Freyja and Thor arrive and attempt to defend the new Thor from Odin’s wrath but he won’t have it. Another surprise is in the works: Odin has made his brother Cul Borson his Royal Inquisitor and Minister of Justice, in the mistaken belief that Cul has reformed. Cul apologizes for having killed Thor and, on orders from the All-Father, imprisons the royal viziers for being unable to learn the identity of the new Thor. Old Thor seeks a means of warning his successor of the trouble brewing…
…he finds Sif in the Royal Dining Hall. The warrior lady holds a grudge after their split some time ago and is worried over the return of the All-Father. She has grown comfortable with an All-Mother in charge and fears for the future. When she realizes Thor is trying to find a way to learn if she is the new Thor, she dashes a drink in his face and storms out. Thor crosses her name off the list of suspects….
On the moon, new Thor, trying to unravel her own mystery, is discovered by Freyja. The All-Mother, also chafing in the male-dominated world, warns her of coming trouble and gives her blessing to the new wielder of Mjolnir, telling her to be worthy of the name of Thor….
A drunken Thor is wallowing in misery over what Nick Fury whispered to him that made him unworthy to be Thor. His friends help him home….
Epilogue: Odin, impatient with the failure of all of the standard methods to locate the new Thor, decides to call out the heavy hitter. He dispatches the Destroyer to recover the hammer—and the body of its thief….