As Avengers: Infinity War draws closer to its late April release, we're starting to get a solid idea of our heroes' various arcs in the film. For Thor, we know the God of Thunder won't be meeting his fellow Avengers back on Earth for a good portion of the film, or at least until he's in Wakanda for the battle to protect Vision's Mind Stone.

Instead, he'll be teaming up with the Guardians of the Galaxy after he's found among the wreckage of some epic battle involving Thanos and the Black Order. Judging from the small glimpses that we've seen, it seems clear that fight probably won't really go his way, which explains how he winds up in the position that he's in. From there, his storyline will inadvertently make an old Marvel Comics storyline come true in the process.

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Back in 2012, Jason Aaron took over writing duties for Thor with Esad Ribic handling art in the series Thor: God of Thunder. The first storyline for the series saw Thor fight Gorr, an enemy who chained him up and tortured the young Asgardian prince in his pre-Mjolnir days. In the centuries since Gorr first tortured the God of Thunder, he came to earn the title of "God Butcher" due to deploying similar tactics on gods across the cosmos. Told across multiple timelines, readers saw Thor fight the God Butcher in the present day, the past in what would eventually become Russia and Ireland, and a destroyed Asgard in the far future.

Eventually, Thor travels to Asgard's far future where he meets his future self, the King of a destroyed empire. While taking a moment to catch their breath from the onslaught of Gorr's shadow berserkers, King Thor asks his younger counterpart about his status in the present day. Along with divulging that his present day self would eventually become a "cosmic god cop" -- which actually did happen, thanks to the Thors miniseries during Secret Wars -- King Thor accidentally lets it slip that his younger self will eventually become a Guardian of the Galaxy.

In the years since Thor encountered his royal future, the comics have yet to touch upon him becoming a Guardian; in fact, he hasn't really interacted with the team that much. But while that future has yet to pass in the comics, it's on the way to coming true in the MCU. Though he likely won't be referred to as a Guardian in Infinity War, he'll certainly be considered an honorary one just by bonding with Rocket and Teen Groot in his quest for a weapon that can stand against Thanos (part of which likely comes from a piece of Groot himself). After all, Groot doesn't just tear off pieces of his body for just anybody.

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Whether intentional or otherwise, the writers of the Thor films have been working from Jason Aaron's writing playbook for a while now. Thanks to Ragnarok, the God of Thunder is already King Thor, sporting an eyepatch like his comics counterpart. And while he's been slinging Jarnbjorn around in the comics since losing Mjolnir, he'll still sport a substitute for his now-destroyed classic weapon when he creates Stormbreaker, another magical hammer comics-Thor has wielded in the past.

Thus far, there are only two things missing before MCU Thor has caught up with his comics based counterpart. The first, while not as monumental, is the loss of his left arm to be replaced with a prosthetic that comes from black Uru metal. (Though it'll soon be a gold arm, to match the new gold hammer he'll soon have as well.) The second is that the next God of Thunder is actually a Goddess: Jane Foster. Though the character may have recently died in the comics, she would make sense as a way to continue the Asgardian plotline in the MCU as Chris Hemsworth bows out with the Infinity War films.

Ragnarok director Taika Waititi has said in the past that he would be up to do a fourth Thor flick in the vein of last year's cosmic comedy adventure. If the future of the MCU really is leaning more towards a cosmic bent, it wouldn't be entirely surprising if Thor teamed up with the Guardians instead of the Hulk in that likely sequel--and in doing so, become something of a part time member of the motley crew of losers.

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