Good Fanon Explanation for What Gods Are?

So, originally, in the MCU, the Asgardians were said to just be super advanced aliens that happened to be worshiped by humans on Earth. So advanced that their tech might as well be magic, with the actual god members of their people having extra powers(Thor, Odin, Etc).

Then Love and Thunder happened, and apparently, all the other gods are real, too. And they lean a lot more heavily into the god thing, and there also our mythological gods too.(Can't remember if they showed that many obviously alien gods not worshiped on Earth)

I know there isn't really an official MCU explanation for this. So does anyone have a good Fanon explanation for it? Maybe combing some of MCU lore with the comics? For both what makes a god, as well as why so many of those other gods decided to get followers on Earth and then just left?(except the Asgardians(kinda), Khonshu, and Bast)

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WildFire2552026-01-06 10:02

Beings that existed early into the dawn of the Universe and were able to soak in enough energy to become Gods.

spidervenom6192026-01-06 13:50

The way that my Family personally explains to me when I was young is that Asgardians and other Non Christian Gods are more like Angels from the bible and not actual Gods if that's make any sense at all.

spidervenom6192026-01-06 19:00

...Of Course this was all before it was revealed that their are actual Gods in the MCU other then Jesus and YVYH. Thank you Love and Thunder for that lol.

KalelRChase2026-01-06 20:06

Jesus was in the MCU? Which movie?

Torazha032026-01-07 04:26

Not actually, there is a reference to an unseen “God of Carpentry” that I think Taika puts there to reference Jesus.

spidervenom6192026-01-07 23:40

Love and Thunder. The God of Carpentry kinda had to be Jesus, he's like the only option.

Prior to Love and Thunder, we didn't know if the Asgardians was actual Gods or just gods with a small g like what Ego say.

MadAdi_34602026-01-06 14:17

A very simple answer meta is, initially marvel wanted to keep things grounded so they said asguardias were very advanced aliens but with doctor strange they decided fuck it we are not doing this shit and started delving more into magic and gods and stuff.

A fanon answer I have is asguardias, greeks etc etc are advanced/magic using aliens who decided to take advantage of their biology and mind to make lower beings like us worship them, I am almost certain their are gods on other planets too (or is that a dc thing i don't remember).

And then entities like Eternity and Death are beings older then the universe itself are like actual gods and creators of universes who keep the universe/multiverse in check.

Agreeable_Car51142026-01-06 14:40

It’s not as complicated as you are making out to be. Asgardians are described as super advanced aliens. But they are also Gods. Yes Odin says something to Thor about how “We aren’t Gods,” but the point of that dialogue is to combat Thor’s unrestrained ego. You could rationalize that it’s an awkward translation of the Aesir language we are hearing or that they are only Gods from the perspective of lesser beings.

In any case, the best explanation is the same one as in the comics. In the MCU, the pantheons of many religions are real and coexist. They are all different and conceptualize divinity and godhood differently. So while the Asgardians blur the line between science and magic, the Egyptian gods and others are more blatantly supernatural.

Youngling_Hunt2026-01-06 20:44

So the Christian God and Jesus would also then exist right? Is the assumption that a character like One Above All would be stronger than God in the marvel universe? Or is the origin of different religions wnd their powers kind of different cultures interpretations of One Above All?

Agreeable_Car51142026-01-06 20:55

The One Above All has gradually gained his own significance and character, but really he is meant as a stand-in for the Christian/Abrahamic God. Most of Marvel’s writers are from the Western/Christian world and thus are kinda scared to approach material sacred to a decent percentage of their readers without creating a layer of separation. That’s why you basically never see Jesus or Mohammed depicted as a character in a superhero book despite angels and demons and other Gods cropping up all the time. The only place you are likely see Abrahamic figures is in a Vertigo book or something third party like Garth Ennis’s Preacher.

Youngling_Hunt2026-01-06 21:05

Interesting. So the comic writers kind of shoehorn One Above All in as God, and give him/the entity a different name so as to avoid conflict with other religions. At the same time i can kind of understand the need to put someone or something at the top of the power scaling, because you can keep getting more and more bizarre but there has to be some sort of endpoint

Think-Location38302026-01-06 15:06

They are literal gods. As defined in their various mythologies. Actual magic exists in that universe so why not gods?

Look at Asgard. Is that a planet? Looks kinda flat to me. Not to mention the 9 realms exist. How does that work in a grounded series?

It started out as advanced aliens but that was pretty much thrown out in phase 2 or 3 when they went more cosmic with GotG and Dark World.

Then Love and Thunder basically confirmed the existence of higher powers so that makes them “lower” higher powers.

Markus28222026-01-06 17:10

That doesn’t work tho, you can’t have capital G god (Jesus technically) be the only one to create earth and have Odin, Vili and Ve create earth/Midgard.

That’s the problem with believing in multiple religions, often times they contradict

Torazha032026-01-06 18:23

What they are saying is multiple *pantheons* can exist together, whatever form that is. Multiple religions don’t often make sense together yes, and that’s why in Ragnarok they make Odin a conqueror, meaning Earth exists as one of Asgard’s Nine Realms, but wasn’t created by Odin (as far as we know).

Also, Marvel doesn’t exactly stick to all the Norse Mythology beats, so there’s lots of things they like to leave out in order to make all the pantheons exist together

Markus28222026-01-06 20:09

So you think all the gods mythology in the MCU just perfectly doesn’t overlap across the hundreds of gods we see? I mean Christianity itself says there’s no other gods and they’re all false gods, and yet the “god of carpentry” a funny nod to Jesus exists. I just don’t see how that works

Torazha032026-01-07 04:23

Not necessarily.

What my thinking/theory is, is that the religious texts, books, myths, stories, etc. that we know of on Earth do not necessarily reflect the cosmos that Marvel has tried to build, i.e. Christianity says only one God due to the Holy Bible, however clearly in the MCU, multiple gods exist.

Another few examples:

1) Thor is married to Sif in written and oral Norse Mythology. They are not in any serious romantic relationship in any of the MCU films (that I am aware of, admittedly).

2) Connecting to my earlier example, in mythology, Odin creates the 9 realms. In the MCU, those 9 realms are worlds conquered by Asgard.

3) Loki and Thor are NOT siblings outside of Marvel.

Necessary_Ad21142026-01-06 16:44

I always figure they are advanced/higher beings from other planets or dimensions and if they refer to themselves as actual Gods they’re just high on their own farts.

KalelRChase2026-01-06 20:08

Define gods? If you stick with all powerful creator of the universe then there’s only one and his name is Stan Lee (a more fun choice than Fiegie)

DefendsTheDownvoted2026-01-06 22:48

When the first Thor movie was being shot the MCU is still very very young. At that point we only had Iron Man, Hulk, and Captain America. All of which could be considered science fiction. They were about to put all of these characters on screen at the same time. Nobody had any idea if it was going to work; taking several characters from separate movies and teaming them up.

Anyway, long story short, I'm pretty sure they tried to blur the lines between magic and technology for the first Thor movie because they were fucking scared nobody would buy these " grounded " characters hanging out with this mythological character.

It was a mistake and they need to find a way to fix it.

dibidi2026-01-07 10:02

read Earth X/Universe X/Paradise X.

considering a huge chunk of it was the inspiration for Eternals, I think this will answer your question

CommunityDragon1842026-01-08 03:33

A wise minor god would not consider themself a god. To them, a god would be a celestial. And to a celestial, a god would be Stan Lee