Thor FalkenHauser

This article is about the Viking warrior who wields a magic hammer against Scotsmen. For the Viking god who wields a magic hammer against supervillains, see Thor.

Thor FalkenHauser is a human from the Transformers vs. G.I. Joe portion of the Generation 1 continuity family.

Shown on the right, going for a run after a long day housing falcons.

In medieval times, Thor FalkenHauser and Aberneth the Hawk-Helmed led Vikings from Giant Island Jotunheim in raiding the Scottish shores. He is a distant ancestor of G.I. Joe's Conrad "Duke" Hauser.

Fiction

Transformers vs. G.I. Joe

Thor FalkenHauser received a mystical warhammer from "metal gods" to commemorate his role in a "war of the worlds". Its magic only activated in the hands of FalkenHauser and his descendants. The War Never Ends

FalkenHauser carried the hammer into battle on a raid he led with Aberneth on Laird Mac Cullen's village. Mac Cullen fought back and perished, but the Scotsman's younger brother entered the fray with an invention of his own making: the very first firearm. He shot and killed FalkenHauser, and the Vikings retreated. But Aberneth had retrieved the hammer, and it became an heirloom of his own family, passed down for centuries with its magic powers hidden and unknown. Meanwhile, FalkenHauser's killer used a cache of Cybertronian technology he and his brother had discovered to extend his own life indefinitely and become the feared arms inventor and dealer known as Destro. Stick To Your Guns

In the modern day, Aberneth's descendant General Hawk took the hammer into battle as his "lucky tomahawk", but its perceived luck didn't protect him from being mortally wounded by Cobra. He dropped the hammer, and Destro almost picked it up, but Duke snatched it instead without realizing his pedigree would activate the weapon's magic. He swung the powered-up hammer at Destro and smashed the amulet on his chest, killing him instantly. Thus, many centuries later, was Thor FalkenHauser's death avenged. The War Never Ends

Notes

• The thematic connection between this magic-hammer-wielding Thor and the figure of Norse myth is surely intentional, but what to make of it within the fiction is up to the reader.
• FalkenHauser and Aberneth's co-leadership of the raid is an echo of how Duke and Hawk have both led the G.I. Joe team at different times and in different continuities.
• Obviously we're meant to infer that the name "FalkenHauser" evolved into Duke's surname, "Hauser". But it's also a reference to Duke's half-brother, Vincent "Falcon" Falcone. Whether he is also a FalkenHauser descendant, and their bloodlines had reunited via Duke and Falcon's mom, is unclear.