Hey, 
 
I'm having some trouble wrapping my head around Thor's "origin".  As stated in G-Man's Three Minute Expert and Wikipedia's Thor page, Odin punished Thor by stripping his memories and placing him into the body of Donald Blake.  If that's true, does that mean Thor walking around on 616 Earth is just 'piloting' someone else's body?  What does Thor's body really look like? 
 
Is Donald Blake a bone-fide human being who existed before Thor's punishment?  If so, was his consciousness surpressed or something?  It seems highly cruel and unfair to Blake that his body was chosen to house Thor's memory wiped-conscious.  How many years of life did he lose while Thor was inhabiting his body?
 
What is the current state of affairs for 616 Thor?  Is Donald Blake still sharing his existence with Thor? 
 
Me so confused.

I watched G Man's 3 minute expert last night and im confused as well, I was planning on making this same blog today but it turns out I dont need to now.

It's pretty much the same principal as Billy Batson becoming Captain Marvel 

@_jackbauer: I always figured that Donald and Thor were the same person, Odin does have reality warping powers so he could easily make others believe that they'd grownn up with Blake, went to school with him even make Thor wholeheartedly believe that while in the form of Blake he's a completely different person

@04nbod: AFAIK He was banished and his soul was trapped in the body of the person who was born as D.B. He may have lived this full life until the moment his powers were restored and and attended medical school, etc. and grown up, before his powers were restored. For an immortal Asgardian 40 years would be like a week to us.

It also depends on the media; In the current movie Donald Blake is an exboyfriend of Jane Foster, and he simply copies the name and social security data in order to keep out of the hands of the authorities.

@Maikel:

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@04nbod: I know the origin story form the 60's too... One thing is unclear and not put correctly, was thor "incarnated" as Donald and lived his life, developing this personality and had his memory restored by Odin from his true origin, or was Donald an existing person(mildmannered, crippled) who Odin chose to merge with Thor. (in fact the 80's movie(that should have been a pilot for a Thor TV-series) follows the origin story much closer(trapped in a cave, finding the cane/hammer), be it that the script was rewritten(originally in that script Blake would swap places with Thor, the other persona existing as a ghost, similar to the current Cartoon Hulk, but this idea was abandoned because it could not be filmed right).

I think that explains it though. All the memories of Donald's life were inplanted memories and not real. Donald is Thor who doesn't know he's Thor until he goes to Norway. Those 4 pages make it so simple.

@04nbod: Thanks, those are awesome scans.