In Marvel Studios’ Avengers: Infinity War, Rocket and Groot find themselves traveling to Nidavellir with Thor on a mission to forge a new hammer strong enough to take out Thanos. En route to their destination, Rocket strikes up a conversation with the God of Thunder, asking him about his personal life. It comes out that Thor’s brother is dead (this time for real), and so are his father and sister. As for his mother, Thor tells Rocket she was killed by a Dark Elf, and his best friend was stabbed through the heart. And that’s on top of the fact that he’s without Mjolnir and his home planet was destroyed. And he recently lost an eye.

Realizing that he might not be in the best headspace for a mission, Rocket questions if Thor is ready for what lies ahead. Without missing a beat, Thor reassures his new rabbit friend that yes, he’s faced worse things in his life already, so what’s one more? He might have been broken many times before, but that hasn’t stopped him yet.

Though any one of these things could have easily kept Thor down for the count, he tells Rocket that, “Rage, vengeance, anger, loss are tremendous motivators to clear the mind. So, I’m good to go.” But, it’s not like Thor just woke up one day with the outer and inner strength to stand up to adversaries. The Thor we see in Avengers: Infinity War is much different from the Thor we first met in Marvel Studios’ Thor.