Dynamite Thor: Difference between revisions

|residence= [[Fox universe]]<br>[[925th Universe]]

|also_seen_in= [[PROSE]]: ''[[Open Sourcing (short story)|Open Sourcing]]''<br>[[PROSE]]: ''[[A Series of Queer Events (short story)|A Series of Queer Events]]''<br>[[PROSE]]: ''[[Family Business (short story)|Family Business]]''<br><small>(mentioned)</small><br>[[PROSE]]: ''[[Workplace Reunion (short story)|Workplace Reunion]]''<br>[[PROSE]]: ''[[A Very Jenny Over-There Christmas (short story)|A Very Jenny Over-There Christmas]]''<br>[[PROSE]]: ''[[Lovie Dovie Stuff (short story)|Lovie Dovie Stuff]]''<br>[[PROSE]]: ''[[Fragment: A & E (short story)|Fragment: A & E]]''<br>[[PROSE]]: ''[[Who Laws the Lawyers? (short story)|Who Laws the Lawyers?]]''<br>[[PROSE]]: ''[[Set Up to Blow Up (short story)|Set Up to Blow Up]]''<br>[[PROSE]]: ''[[Annals of the Jen: One Year of Jenny Over-There (short story)|Annals of the Jen: One Year of Jenny Over-There]]''<br>[[PROSE]]: ''[[A Change in Management (short story)|A Change in Management]]''

Dynamite Thor was highly motivated to do good and become a hero. However, he had difficulty thinking through the consequences of his actions, being blind to how destructive his explosion-based gimmick was and how inefficient he was at stopping crime. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Tribulations of Jenny Over-There (short story)|The Tribulations of Jenny Over-There]]'', ''[[Open Sourcing (short story)|Open Sourcing]]'') He was asexual, something he only realised fairly late in life, having previously thought of himself as straight. Thereafter, he had a childlike enthusiasm for [[Pride Month|Pride]] and other displays of queerness, quickly bonding with [[Jenny Over-There (925th Universe)|Jenny Over-There]] over their shared orientation. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[A Series of Queer Events (short story)|A Series of Queer Events]]'') He was not aromantic, however, and sincerely loved his girlfriend [[Glenda Sif]], for which reason he was greatly distressed by the ways in which he believed his superheroic responsibilities required him to jeopardise their relationship. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Lovie Dovie Stuff (short story)|Lovie Dovie Stuff]]'')

According to the [[Fourth Wall Awareness|meta-aware]] [[The Man in Grey (925th Universe)|Man in Grey]], Thor had once been [[copyright]]ed, being “bound” to the “[[Fox universe]]”. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Open Sourcing (short story)|Open Sourcing]]'') He once noted that he never travelled to [[Wales]] in his home universe. In his original universe, he was a wealthy man, owning and operating a mining company, but he was ultimately ousted by his own shareholders, who had him declared mad for his destructive attempts to become a superhero using his resilience to explosions. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[A Series of Queer Events (short story)|A Series of Queer Events]]'')

 

He was familiar with [[Jenny Everywhere]], [[Jenny Nowhere]], [[Jenny Somewhere]], and also [[Jenny Over-There (925th Universe)|Jenny Over-There]] and her [[Multidimensional Finders Service]]. On multiple occasions, he phoned the M.F.S. for help locating criminals that he could fight, although his question was too vague for Over-There to usually give her a useful answer. However, she was able to help him on one occasion when, shortly after one of his calls, she received a call from [[Robber (The Tribulations of Jenny Over-There)|a robber]] who was in the middle of committing a bank robbery. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Tribulations of Jenny Over-There (short story)|The Tribulations of Jenny Over-There]]'')

 

 

[[File:Dynamite Thor with Jenny Over-There.png|thumb|left|275px|Dynamite Thor at the [[M.F.S. office]] with [[Jenny Over-There (925th Universe)|Jenny Over-There]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[A Series of Queer Events (short story)|A Series of Queer Events]]'')]]He later tried to apply when the Multidimensional Finders Service opened up slots for new hires. Rejected on the basis that they exclusively wanted open-source applicants, he tried again later in the day by tossing a bomb at candidate [[Captain Omega]], slowing him down as he stopped to defuse it, and then showed up to his appointment in his stead, claiming to be Captain Omega himself. Jenny and the Man in Grey immediately recognised him. Panicking, he threw what he thought was a “smoke grenade” to the floor, hoping to make a quick escape, but it was actually a real grenade — although no one was injured in the blast. Taking pity on the hapless hero after he apologised for this incident, Jenny ended up helping him get a new job as an intern at the M.F.S. office. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Open Sourcing (short story)|Open Sourcing]]'') Initially unbeknownst to Jenny, he took up residence there, sleeping in the office at night on a simple cot and pillow thrown on the ground. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Workplace Reunion (short story)|Workplace Reunion]]'')

 

At some point shortly before or shortly after this, he discovered that he was asexual. He became very excited when, with [[Pride Month]] approaching, [[The Man in Grey (925th Universe)|the Man in Grey]] asked him to decorate the M.F.S. office fittingly. Finding the Man's stock of decorations less than enthusing, he and Jenny travelled into the town looking for better ones and found [[Professor Helvetius's Convenient Pride Decorations Shop]], where they found a great number of flags and other decoration. When they brought them back to the office, however, they found the Man in Grey waiting for them, put in a very bad mood by his dismissal from the [[Interdimensional Pride Council]] over having tried to sell out to a number of unethical sponsors. He forbade Thor and Jenny from decorating the office at all, greatly distressing Thor.

 

Seeing how much his first official Pride Month meant to her new friend, Jenny suggested that they use the stock of decorations to throw their own party, which they spent a week planning, using Helvetius's interdimensional, bigger-on-the-inside shop as a venue. The party lived up to his hopes and he had a great time, dancing wildly and socialising with other superheroes present, such as [[the Red Hot Roach]], [[Supertrans]], and [[the Invisible Pink Unicorn]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[A Series of Queer Events (short story)|A Series of Queer Events]]'')

 

When [[Jenny Nowhere (38167th Universe)|Jenny Nowhere]] appeared in the M.F.S. office, Jenny Over-There called for Thor to get the [[teleportation ray]], but before he could get it to her, Nowhere [[shift]]ed out, taking Over-There with her. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Family Business (short story)|Family Business]]'') When she reappeared twelve hours later, having been shifted back by [[Jenny Everywhere (38167th Universe)|Jenny Everywhere]] after Nowhere's scheme was foiled, Over-Thered almost literally tripped over Thor, thus discovering that he slept in the office. Thor was distressed to learn that she had been kidnapped and then rescued without him getting the chance to help; he insisted on giving Jenny one of his “[[Thor Signaller|Thor Signallers]]” (extra-loud grenades) to summon him if she ever found herself in a damsel-in-distress situation again. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Workplace Reunion (short story)|Workplace Reunion]]'')

 

For [[Christmas]] 2022, he gave away most of his stocked sticks of dynamite to his friends, one apiece, but wanted to do something special for his girlfriend [[Glenda]] and flew to [[America]] to get her a collectible from the [[Dibbsy Store]]. As the scramble for exclusive items turned into an outright “minor war”, he ended up fighting a random man for the last [[Dibbsy Toaster]] and knocked him out. After the building caught on fire as a side-effect of the chaos, Thor made his way out without paying because no one was manning the cash register anymore, reasoning that it was probably fine given the ongoing fire. He also carried the unconscious man he'd taken the Toaster from to safety, feeling it was only fair. In the end, he made his way clear of the Store before [[Lady Satan (925th Universe)|Lady Satan]] arrived to put an end to the chaos, and, after putting the man down, phoned [[Jenny Over-There (925th Universe)|Jenny Over-There]] on her personal mobile to ask her for Glenda's current address, which she readily gave him. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[A Very Jenny Over-There Christmas (short story)|A Very Jenny Over-There Christmas]]'')

 

After seeing Glenda for some time, Thor began to be uncomfortable with not confiding to her his secret identity as Dynamite Thor the superhero. (He was unaware that Glenda had figured it out on her own and was getting impatient for him to say something.) Only after a confrontation with an allegedly mysterious supervillain calling herself “[[Jenny Over-There (925th Universe)|The Lovebomber]]” did he confess his secret identity. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Lovie Dovie Stuff (short story)|Lovie Dovie Stuff]]'')

 

One day, while on his way out to get some lunch for himself and Jenny, Thor found himself face-to-face with a visitor, something the M.F.S. got excessively few of. He was [[the Man in Gray]], a counterpart of [[the Man in Grey (925th Universe)|the Man in Grey]] from a [[Universe 925-B|nearby universe]] who wanted to discuss the Man in Grey's lack of a [[Talisman of Restriction]] with him. Thor was oblivious to the difference between them, unlike Jenny, who informed the visitor that the Man in Grey was out. Telling her to inform the Man in Grey that he would return, the Man in Gray left with no further fuss. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Fragment: A & E (short story)|Fragment: A & E]]'')

 

At some point Thor encountered a person calling herself [[Jenny Nowhere|Miss Erewhon]]. She gave him a flimsy story and a lot of explosives, then sent him off to the [[Kablamazon]] offices in search of [[Jenny Everywhere (925th Universe)|a villain]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Set Up to Blow Up (short story)|Set Up to Blow Up]]'')