The Untold Truth Of Marvel's Asgard

Norse myth refers to the existence of "nine worlds." Marvel's Nine Realms are based directly on these worlds, and many have been seen in the MCU. There's Asgard, the home of Thor, and Jotenheim, the home of the Frost Giants. Then there's Svartalfheim, aka the dark world of Thor: The Dark World, the film that also gave us glimpses of Vanaheim, where Thor battled the Marauders, and Muspelheim, home of Surtur. The realm of Nidavellir is known in the MCU as the home of giant Peter Dinklage, and Niflheim is where Cate Blanchett's Hela spent her banishment. And there's Midgard, of course, also known as Earth. A ninth realm, Alfheim, has been mentioned but not yet explored.

Unmentioned in the MCU, however, is a tenth realm: Heven. Introduced in the 2014 miniseries Original Sin, Heven is a realm inhabited by angels who Odin employs to protect humanity (sort of.) When the Queen of Angels betrays Odin and seemingly kills his newborn daughter, Odin cuts off Heven from the rest of the realms as a punishment. Little does Odin know that his daughter, renamed Angela, is alive and well in Heven.

In a strange bit of art imitating life, Angela was a character originally created by Neil Gaiman for Image Comic's Spawn. After winning custody of his "lost child" in a battle with co-creator Todd McFarlane, Gaiman brought Angela to Marvel, where she found new life in Thor's storyline.