from Wikipedia
Broxton is an unincorporated community in Caddo County, Oklahoma, United States. Broxton had an independent school district until the 1990s, but it was consolidated with the Fort Cobb school district, becoming Fort Cobb-Broxton Public Schools.
The community of Pine Ridge was also served by the Broxton school district.
Broxton in fiction
Broxton and the surrounding regions has been an important setting of Marvel Comics' series Thor since the late 2000s. The Norse god Thor's home Asgard became a floating landmass outside of Broxton. Although the Asgardians were welcomed by the locals, in the 2011 miniseries Fear Itself, Odin, resentful of being made the recipient of humans' altruism, and sensing the return of an ancient enemy, leads his people back to Asgard's former location.
Broxton is also featured in season two of Agent Carter, as the childhood home of antagonist Agnes Cully (aka Whitney Frost).
from ThisLandPress.com
Thor Moves to Oklahoma
by James Vance
06/11/2011
NON-FICTION
Mortals who decided to check out the comic book exploits of Thor after enjoying the thunder god’s adventures at the movies were probably surprised to find that the big blond hunk and his fellow Norse deities are currently hanging out in western Oklahoma.
It’s the fictional town of Broxton, located roughly between Anadarko and Carnegie, where Thor and the gang are hanging their winged hats these days – and the introduction of Caddo County to the bombastic world of Marvel Comics’ fighting gods and goddesses has injected a breath of fresh air into the 50-year-old franchise.
Writer J. Michael Straczynski (whose work includes the TV series Babylon 5, the Clint Eastwood movie Changeling and a pile of comic books) introduced the idea in 2007. At that time, there’d been no new Thor comics for three years, the gods’ ancient city of Asgard having been destroyed and Thor himself forced into mystic hibernation as the entire series went into funnybook mothballs. Straczynski brought the thunder god back with a flourish, rousing the big guy from limbo and sending him to rural Oklahoma, where his war hammer had fallen to Earth following the violent plummet in Asgardian property values.
Why Oklahoma? According to Straczynski, the presence of the Heavener runestone was a part of the appeal, along with the desire to change things up by playing out the cosmic soap opera of Marvel’s Norse gods against a heartland setting. It was a gamble that paid off, lending some sorely needed humanity to the frequently overwrought storylines. The relationship between the revived gods and their small town neighbors quickly became one of the most distinctive and enjoyable aspects of the new adventures of Thor.
The citizens of Broxton were understandably awed at the beginning, particularly one Sam Miller, who drove away with a literal truckload of gold after selling acreage to Thor for the site of the rebuilt Asgard. But it wasn’t long before it became business as usual to see gods on the street, or hanging out in the local diner. For a time, one of the immortal warriors even took on the job of running that diner when its young short-order cook ran off to pursue a star-crossed romance with a beautiful goddess.
What makes the unlikely combination work, even when it’s being mined for comic relief, is the series’ refusal to treat the people of Broxton as low-comedy hicks. There’s the occasional misstep in managing the local color, notably the unfortunately named Mrs. Sooner (one assumes she would have been Mrs. Buckeye if the series were set in Ohio), but in general the citizens of Broxton are granted as much dignity as Thor himself, and frequently a good deal more common sense.
Of course, having the gods as neighbors isn’t all venison and mead. Some serious questions of faith have arisen among the religious community, the town has undergone attacks by various supervillains, and having Thor just down the road hasn’t saved some locals from the housing collapse…but the people of Broxton endure as they always have. Their ancestors survived the Dust Bowl, and they’ll do just fine dealing with that big castle full of gods out on Route 19.