Hela is the greatest villain that Thor ever faced. She defeated him I battle, destroyed his hammer, conquered Asgard, murdered the Warriors 3, and forced Thor to fundamentally change. That's more than Loki could ever accomplish, and Hela did it in about a day. But none of this explains where the heck Hela was imprisoned for all those eons.
We have a theory that Odin trapped her in soul world--making a bargain with the vampiric soul stone to provide Heimdall with the soul stone's powers. This also ties into the theory that Odin originally sought out the infinity stones and designed the infinity gauntlet.
It's not that big of a stretch. Hela is the goddess of death, and Soul World is a realm of the dead--similar to the spirit world that the Wakandans visit after drinking the heart-shaped herb. This also explains how Odin can continue to speak with Thor after his death, the Odinsleep, and why he turned his heart toward peace.
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A long running theory for many MCU fans is that Odin once sought after the Infinity Stones. He almost gathered them all, only to change his mind once he realized the destructive power of his conquest. To support this theory, we have his possession of the tesseract, which may have been used to invent the Bifrost. There’s also the infinity gauntlet he keeps in his basement, and his knowledge of the reality stone.
And Odin used to be a conqueror, subjecting the nine realms with brute force, with Hela by his side. So it would make sense that he would have pursued the infinity stones. But something made him drop this quest, and turn his heart toward peace. Many people think that Odin’s quest stopped the moment he reached Vormir and learned the price of the soul stone. In Odin’s case, he may have been asked to sacrifice Hela or his wife Frigga.
This idea is the key to our theory about where Hela was locked up, and why it took so long for her to escape. And our theory also explains why she could only escape when Odin became one with the force.
We also think that Odin secretly benefited from her imprisonment-and not just because he was removing a dangerous megalomaniac from the right hand of his throne.
Here’s our theory: What if it was actually Odin who created the Soul Stone’s price of “A Soul for a Soul”? Odin might have built Well of Souls on Vormir-as a way to communicate with the Soul Stone. Oh, hey soul stone, what’s up? Hey Odin, I’m hungry, got any of them sweet, sweet souls?
I mean, someone had already visited the well of souls. Someone had to have drawn the map that led Gamora and Thanos to Vormir, right?
Infinity War establishes that the infinty stones have a kind of intelligence. Maybe the soul Stone was a malevolent intelligence, demanding Odin sacrifice more and more souls for him to feed on. This is how the original Soul Gem operated in the comics, when Adam Warlock was its host in the ‘70s.
When the stone demanded Odin’s soul, he would have made a counter offer. He tells the stone, “what if you only take one soul as a sacrifice?”
And the soul stone responded with, “I need that one soul to be someone who’s loved-someone who was worthy of my hunger.”
And at this point, Odin realizes that Hela would totally sacrifice him to get all the infinity stones. So, it’s him or her. But Odin, the old softie, doesn’'t want to kill his daughter-so he makes a bargain with the Soul Stone.
Odin and the soul stone form a symbiotic bond. He tells the soul stone that it can have Hela-imprisoning her inside Soul World. That’s the orange pocket universe inside the soul stone, that we saw in Infinity War.
The stone agrees to imprison Hela inside it, but with limitations. Odin has to use all of his strength to keep Hela imprisoned so the stone can feast on her-and the focused energy also prolongs his life.
In exchange, the stone allows Odin to use a portion of its power. And maybe, the Odin sleep was a way for him to recharge this energy, to keep her trapped inside soul world. After Odin’s death, this power would return to the stone.
And the stone wants to keep Odin alive. Because, if he were to die, then Hela would be freed, and the stone would lose its grip on Hela’s tasty, tasty soul. While Heimdall continuously shows that he has the powers of the soul stone.
#Hela #SoulWorld #MarvelTheory
0:00 Where Was Hela Trapped?
0:30 Odin's Infinity Gauntlet Quest
2:08 Odin Imprisons Hela
3:40 Odin Sacrifices Hela
4:28 Heimdall Has Soul Stone's Power
6:18 Myth of Ymir's Well
7:52 Odin is in Soul World
9:00 Is Hela Alive?
10:28 Hela is the new Mistress Death
11:36 Soul World Exists in Avengers: Endgame