Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-5544388-20160428080923/@comment-25322628-20160526172958

GliderMan wrote: Aggression25 wrote: Last time I checked, Asgard was responsible for keeping the peace between the Nine Realms. Nova Corps was responsible for the worlds not affiliated with the Nine Realms. This stuff actually confuses me too.

Like, why does Asgard only protect nine realms? Why are the nine realms connected? What about all the other stuff in space like Guardians of the Galaxy?

It's just kinda confusing. The Nine Realms relate to Norse Mythology, particularly the Tree of the Worlds called Yggdrasil, which, according to Thor, only has nine planets under Asgard, which is the primary planet.

In The Avengers, Thor explains what he knew and didn't know about the Chitauri; they weren't associated with Asgard or any of the Nine Realms, according to him, and he was right.

With Guardians of the Galaxy, we're shown a much larger place in the ocean that is space, none of which relates to Asgard or the Nine Realms, just like The Other explains to Loki that the Space Stone/Tesseract could open doorways to greater worlds because it relates to space and the universe.