Figuring out how long it takes Thor to age

I always wondered about this, so a little bit ago I decided to do some math on this.

So, Thor says he is 4'000 years old in Infinity War. Now, he could be rounding up or down, I have no clue but I'll just take it as 4'000 straight up. But, I decided to work backwards to when Thor first appeared in the MCU in Thor (2011), which is 7 years prior, so 3'993. Hemsworth was 26 when filming the movie in 2010, but for this one I'll just round up to 2, which he would be later in the year.

Anyways, so Thor should be physically 27 at this point and maybe most the MCU. Obviously Chris has aged 15 years in real life since then, but can't do anything about that. Anyways, so, I took 3'993 ÷ 27, which equalled 148. So it seems it could take him 148 years to age physically a year. This is what I think, but has anyone used different methods instead? Like do you go backwards from 4'000 exactly, and do you use Chris's age when he filmed Infinity War. I'm interested to hear thoughts.

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PezDiSpencersGifts2026-01-01 06:07

I thought he said he was 1500 years old

miraclequip2026-01-01 09:18

He did, in the original Thor movie I think

peteofaustralia2026-01-01 09:21

No, in the cockpit, talking to Rocket on the way to Nivead... Novlado.... the forge at the heart of a dying star.

miraclequip2026-01-01 09:30

Ah, that's when it was

Consistent-Annual2682026-01-01 10:26

Interesting tidbit that you can NEVER ever unhear after I tell you this:

For the first several times pronouncing the planet's name, Chris Hemsworth calls it Nivadellir (note the spelling) and only in that one scene with Rocket when they reach the planet does he correctly pronounce it, "that...is Nidavellir".

Try watching Infinity War again and not hearing that. You're welcome.

peteofaustralia2026-01-01 11:46

I bloody _knew_ I'd caught that too! I knew it! But I didn't know why.

Omg_Shut_the_fuck_up2026-01-01 11:48

Fuck. Sake.

Cheers. You bastard.

Consistent-Annual2682026-01-01 11:53

The Game.

Dissidence8022026-01-02 01:22

Well, Fuck You very much.

Drahcir1172026-01-01 16:56

Maybe the first one is what you call it when it's out there but when it's right in front of you then you use the second name? (All words are made up)
Edit: spelling

Front-Advantage-70352026-01-01 20:29

Caught this in theater first watch 😂

Chiming in another MCU fact I love: in avengers 1, when they say the nuke will detonate in 2 minutes 30 seconds, it’s almost exactly 2:30 later that it blows up through the wormhole (down to the second I don’t know about Millie’s and nanos)

JeremyDaBanana2026-01-02 02:16

Maybe space has regional differences in pronunciation too

Educational-Ad30792026-01-01 10:35

Nidavellir

peteofaustralia2026-01-01 11:44

That's a made-up word!

CultureMindless85942026-01-01 14:05

all words are made-up

DarkDonut752026-01-01 17:20

Nidavellir!

(thank you, God of War:Ragnarok!)

MacGyvini2026-01-01 06:09

He said he 1500 and he killed twice as man as that (3000)

BrendanBatman522026-01-01 07:21

... Oh wait damn he did say that... where did I get 4000 from? Now the post won't let me edit, so I look like a fool, lmao.

Okay, so with that info, my math would actually lead to 55 years it would take. If that is how it works.

rememberpogs32026-01-01 07:55

Well, Norse mythology likely goes back 3000+ years or so…

UnpredictiveList2026-01-01 09:48

I love you 4000

CAP10T0052026-01-01 12:21

Probably from Thor: The Dark World

brokeNbricks252026-01-01 12:35

I feel like Thor kills more than 2 enemies per year

Ok_Confection_102026-01-02 03:54

He takes a break from killing to do some fuckin’

PraiseRao2026-01-01 06:21

I'd say even longer. Odin has live for so long that we can't even date him. As we haven't been given dates for him. He's old enough to have Hela conquer the 9 realms. For a civil war with Odin. Then all of Asgard forgot about her. That takes a hell of a lot of time. So much time before Thor was Born. Thor is 4000 years old truthfully his body might not age gracefully but in the end he's going to live forever to age. He could age like a human then stop at old age. He could age extremely slowly.

Truthfully based on the data we have. I would say if Thor is physically in his 20's you can then separate that by thousands of years. He looks mid 20's so 4000 divided by say 27 like you said the math works out. Now he might age extremely slower as well. He might age rapidly to adulthood and stay that way for thousands of years. So he might have looked like 27 for 3073 years now. We don't know.

In the comics Thor should outlive every Aseir. He doesn't need the fruit the rest do because he is half Elder God. The others need the fruit to maintain their ages and such. The fruit could be int he MCU we don't know they don't go into that shit.

BrendanBatman522026-01-01 07:31

I didn't think about that with Odin. That is true. Someone did point out to me that I made a mistake, and he said 1500 in Infinity War. I have no clue where I got 4000 from, but with that said now, it would take 55 years instead.

Your idea about his body aging like a human would work to reach that point makes sense, and then maybe it stops for a while. What can be looked at also, maybe as an example, is Loki's aging, because he presumably was born in 965 A.D. in the opening of Thor. Which would make Thor younger.

bushwickauslaender2026-01-01 07:59

> We can't even date him.

Speak for yourself. I can handle Norse God Daddy.

jaronhays42026-01-01 06:23

I like to think that they accelerate their aging through adolescence, and then it slows significantly in late teens to early 20s, to kind of have a bell curve, with the peak physical point being the extended period

Broccoli--Enthusiast2026-01-01 07:58

Thors a Saiyan now?

JustADutchRudder2026-01-01 08:30

Thor is Bulma asking the Dragon to make him look younger every year.

Cypher_862026-01-01 11:48

It gets weird when you consider the children. Asgard wasnt a hugely populated place - the TVA file in Loki says roughly 10k died in Ragnarok. They live for thousands of years, and presumably have children at a comparable ratio to humans.

So: do they stay children for a comically long time, or do they age to adolescence quickly? The snake story from Ragnarok suggests the latter - so does this mean that they all plan to have children around the same time, or are Asgardian children *really* lonely?

Quick-Ad-29492026-01-01 06:50

who cares... it's made up. Go help some real old people out there.

jakmckratos2026-01-01 07:04

Loki alludes to Odin that Asgardians live about 5000 years longer than humans.

If Thor was 1500 he’d be about 30% of whatever his approximate terminal age would be. So if Odin was say 5000ish when he died but was around 86 ( using Norway’s average Life expectancy) in Earth human years, Thor would be approximately 26-27 years old which was close to how old Chris was when he was cast as Thor

BrendanBatman522026-01-01 07:34

Right, he does say that. Loki is also older than Thor, probably if his birthday is in 965 A.D. That could be taken into account.

Someone else has pointed out though I did get the number wrong for Thor. He said he was 1500 years old in Infinity War. So really, my math should have been 55 years to age physically once. I've been on a rewatch of the mcu lately, and taking down notes of timeline info, so I've just been very curious to see if I could pinpoint this info.

iwannalynch2026-01-01 12:51

> Loki is also older than Thor, probably if his birthday is in 965 A.D.

If Thor is about 1500, that would make Loki younger

BrendanBatman522026-01-01 16:43

Odin's Beard, you're right. I messed up that and Thor's actual age. My brain must have completely fogged up when the new year hit.

afguy82026-01-02 07:25

Which doesnt quite make sense since Odin says in TDW that Bor helps to create the universe. Could mean that time works differently in the Realm Eternal, but I think that the MCU made Thor too young.

jwbrkr742026-01-02 18:00

I don't know if Odin is 5000 years old when he dies. Thor, when speaking to Surtur, says 'I thought my father killed you like half a million years ago?' So does that make Odin over 500k years old? In the comics he's at least a million years old.

Rising-Jay2026-01-06 02:16

He could just be throwing out a random number to imply how old the history is, he did get silly in that movie after all

110999412026-01-07 16:53

Doubtful he's that old, but what makes me think he's older than 5k is... why doesn't anyone know Hela? Not one reaction that implies they know her or even knew of what she did, beyond Odin himself. Given the fact that Odin hid the bloody conquest of the 9 realms, and the fact that he has a daughter, he might well be much older than the 5k lifespan we were given.

jwbrkr742026-01-07 19:56

💯

drew83112026-01-01 08:52

In the 5 years of Endgame he didn't take care of himself very well so he aged like a normal human, so that explains at least 5 of the 15 years hes been in MCU

Shnicketyshnick2026-01-01 12:59

I wonder if he aged more during the time he wasn't worthy of miumiu so didn't have all of his powers.

dwide_k_shrude2026-01-01 09:10

Short answer: Long, very long.

dion_o2026-01-01 09:29

Hey kid, it ain't that kind of movie.

Odd_Arm63282026-01-01 16:46

He never said he was 4,000, he said “I’m 1,500 years old” when talking to rocket

It would take him closer to 50-60 years each time he ages a year

Most Asgardians are said to live until they’re 5,000 years old

BrendanBatman522026-01-01 17:12

Yeah someone pointed that out to me here. I don't know where I got 4000 from. But yeah, the math would instead take him to 55 years. Which will be the outcome from both 2011 and 2018.

Odd_Arm63282026-01-01 17:13

Yeah, no worries tho!! I misquote movies and stuff all the time, the math is still interesting tho!!!

BrendanBatman522026-01-01 17:14

Thank you!

cowpool202026-01-01 22:36

In human years he’d probably be around 30.

seaman1872026-01-02 01:41

There's really no reason to think it's like 1 human year equals 60 Asgardian years. Then he would be a baby for decades and that's stupid. They probably take a similar amount of time as a human to fully develop physically and then just stay that way for a very long time.

3n3quarter2026-01-02 06:23

I love this because it also puts in perspective that if his lifespan is like 60x a humans then the entirety of his time between his movie and endgame (13 years in universe if google isn’t lying to me) is the equivalent of 2-3 months for Thor. Like his whole timeline interacting with avengers is like one summer break for him.

nishlesh2026-01-05 08:45

Thor being 1500 is cool and all, but no way he's younger than Jesus. He should have a BCE birth year