{{Superherobox| image= |caption= |comic_color=background:#ff8080 |character_name=Thena |real_name=Azura |publisher=[[Marvel Comics]] |debut= ''Eternals'' #3 (1976) |creators= Jack Kirby |alliance_color=background:#ffc0c0 |status= |alliances=[[Eternals (comics)|Eternals]] |previous_alliances= |aliases=Thena Eliot |relatives=[[Kronos (comics)|Kronos/Chronos]] (grandfather, deceased), [[Zuras]] (father), [[Mentor (Marvel Comics)|Mentor]] (uncle), [[Cybele (comics)|Cybele]] (mother), [[Donald & Deborah Ritter]] (children by [[Kro (comics)|Kro]]) |powers=Eternal body is superhumanly fast, strong, tough, and can regenerate.
Cosmic energy manipulation allows energy blasts, flight, illusion generation, matter transmutation, mind control, telekinesis, telepathy, and teleportation. |}} '''Thena''' is a [[fictional character]] appearing in the [[Marvel Comics]] [[Marvel Universe|universe]]. She is a member of the [[Eternals (comics)|Eternals]]. ==History== Originally born under the name Azura, but her father [[Zuras]] had her name changed to resemble that of [[Zeus]]' daughter [[Athena]] to seal the treaty between their two peoples. Due to this, she has often been mistaken for [[Athena]]. The city of [[Athens]] was apparently built for her, not the goddess, although Thena later allowed it to be conquered by the [[Spartans]] in 404 B.C. Encountered [[Kro (comics)|Kro]] in [[Babylon]] 2,500 years ago. He had a chance to slay her, but did not; as the years passed, the two of them grew closer together. Thena and Kro made love during the [[Vietnam War]], resulting in Thena becoming pregnant with twins. She placed them inside of Ms. Ritter, an infertile woman, who raised them as her own twin children, [[Donald & Deborah Ritter|Donald and Deborah]]. When Kro led his armies in an attack on [[New York]], Thena opposed him. After Kro called a truce, he showed her [[Ransak the Reject]], a genetically stable [[Deviant (comics)|Deviant]]. Thena was convinced by the Deviant [[Karkas]] to grant both of them sanctuary. After Zuras' death & the subsequent departure of most of Earth's Eternals, Thena became [[Prime Eternal]], but she was traumatized by her father's death & was being subtly influenced by a Brain-Mine Kro had placed upon her. She turned against [[Ikaris]] to help save Kro's life, but later relinquished her title to Ikaris. When she learned of the Brain-Mine, she was furious with Kro, but has since forgiven him. ===The Eternals (2006)=== {{spoiler}} In the 2006 Eternals title, Thena is married to Thomas Eliot, and is a researcher at Stark Enterprises. Like Sersi and [[Makkari (comics) | Makkari]], she appears to have no memory of her past as an Eternal. The story is on-going. {{endspoiler}} {{Marvel-Comics-stub}} [[Category:Marvel Comics Eternals]] [[Category:Fictional immortals]]