Thor (soundtrack) director Kenneth Branagh's big-screen adaptation of Marvel Comic's iconic Norse superhero Thor with appropriate gravitas. The longtime Branagh collaborator ("Henry V", "Dead Again") sets the stage with "Chasing the Storm," a tense and surging unveiling of the main theme, which sounds a bit like a cross between the James Newton Howard and Hans Zimmer's "Batman Begins" cue and Zimmer's "CheValiers de Sangreal" theme from "The Da Vinci Code", and like Zimmer, Doyle knows how to whip a circular melody into a frenzy. Elsewhere, the lovely and appropriately stoic "Sons of Odin" is awash in traditional fantasy elements, while the epic
Thor Eskil Winge's 1872 painting "Thor's Fight with the Giants"; K. Ehrenberg's 1883 drawing ; several illustrations by published in 's 1901 ("Thor"; ; ; ; ; ; ); J. C. Dollman's 1909 drawings "Thor and the Mountain" and "Sif and Thor"; G. Poppe's painting "Thor"; 's 1914 drawing ; H. Natter's marble statue "Thor"; and U. Brember's 1977 illustrations to by . Swedish chemist (1779–1848) discovered a chemical element that he named after Thor – thorium. In 1962, American comic book writer Stan Lee and his brother Larry Lieber, together with Jack Kirby, created the Marvel Comics superhero Thor Odinson,