Full spoilers for Marvel’s Avengers comic series below! As the previous issue of Jason Aaron‘s Avengers revealed, the Phoenix and Thor have a history that goes back, all the way back. The flaming, bird entity from space revealed to the god of thunder that while Odin was his father, she was his mother. No further context came in that issue but this week’s Avengers #43 revealed more about the conversation between the Odinson, ahem, the Phoenix-Son as she calls him, and his newly revealed mother. In fact, the entity revealed to Thor that one of the reasons she even returned to Earth was to reunite with him.