Fafnir (Marvel Comics) entities is stopped when Thor agrees to go to Hel's realm willingly. Fafnir later reappears in the 2011 limited series "Avengers Prime" in the aftermath of the "Siege" storyline as, at first, an adversary then ally of Thor, Tony Stark and Steve Rogers with several legions of ogres and elves in battle against a Twilight Sword wielding Hela and her army. Fafnir was originally a normal man until transformed by the properties of a magical pool into a large dragon. Fafnir retains his intellect and speech, possesses superhuman strength and durability, and the ability to breathe fire and cast illusions.
Christian mythology myth throughout the ancient world that a goddess pregnant with a savior was pursued by a horrible monster; by miraculous intervention, she bore a son who then killed the monster". Bernard McGinn suggests that the image of the two Beasts in Revelation stems from a "mythological background" involving the figures of Leviathan and Behemoth. The Pastoral Epistles contain denunciations of "myths" ("muthoi"). This may indicate that Rabbinic or Gnostic mythology was popular among the early Christians to whom the epistles were written and that the epistles' author was attempting to resist that mythology. The Sibylline oracles contain predictions that the