16. Some of Stan Lee’s Characters Come From Norse Mythology
Fafnir was a character in Norse mythology whose greed caused him to be transformed into a snake. Thor was one of the chief Norse gods, the son of Odin; he was the god of thunder and the brother of Loki, a notorious trickster god. Surprisingly, many of the Norse characters that inspired Lee also inspired JRR Tolkien when he wrote his Lord of the Rings series: Odin was behind Gandalf, and Fafnir was behind Gollum.