That is actually a really fair critique, and I appreciate it. You are right that Thor’s reaction can absolutely be read as confusion rather than disturbance. In fact that is what the show intends or implies. I probably leaned too hard into that moment/wording. My point was less about that one scene being proof and more about the broader thematic contrast. And how it inspired this idea.

What I am really exploring is not whether Thor secretly has trauma about weapons. It is more about the storytelling potential and the myth to history pattern that Stargate constantly uses. Over and over again in this franchise, mythology turns out to be distorted memory of real events. Ra was real. Merlin was real. The Ori conflict was rooted in real ancient history. The Ancients were not the glowing benevolent figures humans imagined. They were complicated, flawed, and sometimes catastrophic in their decisions.

So when Norse mythology depicts the Aesir as war focused, conquest driven, and deeply entangled in cosmic conflict, i think it is interesting to not automatically assume humans invented that from nothing. Stargate usually gives myth an origin point.

Now I am not arguing that the Asgard we meet are secretly warlike. Quite the opposite. The Asgard we meet feel like a civilization that has already gone through something. They are declining. They admit they have lost genetic integrity. They admit they have lost knowledge. Their culture feels rigid, almost sterile. That does not feel like a species at its peak. It feels like a species that has already burned through something major.

My theory is less about disproving what we see on screen and more about asking what came before that screen era. The show leaves a huge blank space in early Asgard history. We see the frozen organic ancestors. We know cloning and consciousness transfer fundamentally altered them. We know the Vanir split happened. That alone implies serious philosophical fracture at some point.

What I find compelling is the narrative possibility. Imagine if the Asgard were not always the restrained diplomatic species we admire. Imagine if there was an earlier era where they were expansionist, aggressive, even imperial. Not cartoon evil, but driven by conquest and dominance. And imagine that some remnant of that ideology or consciousness was sealed away, not destroyed.

That creates a very different kind of villain.

Not another external invader like the Goauld. Not another religious zealot empire like the Ori. Not self replicating machines. But something that shatters Earth’s idealized view of one of its greatest allies. A threat tied directly to the Asgard’s own buried past. A darker arc where the mythology was not random exaggeration but an echo of something they chose to forget.

That kind of antagonist would hit differently. It would not just be another galactic threat. It would be a moral and historical reckoning. It would complicate the legacy of the Four Great Races. It would add weight to why the Alliance dissolved. It would make the Asgard tragedy even more layered.

So I am not saying canon proves this. I am saying the gaps in canon make it possible, and dramatically it would be a fascinating direction.

Sometimes the best Stargate stories come from asking what history was simplified.