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Thor Movie
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Bass
Nexus of the World
I agree. Black and asians can't breed together.
Captain Canuck
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Dr.Strangefate
He Sees You When You're Sleeping. He Knows When Yo
The asian guy as Hogun the Grim isn't that strange... He's described as the comics as coming from the east, although he's usually depicted as more Russian than anything else. He's definitely not one of the Aesir, but an adopted son of Asgard.
As for Heimdall, this whole racist outlash is ridiculous, although I do find it funny that he's playing "The White God." Then again, Heimdall of myth has virtually no connection to the Heimdall of the Marvel Cosmos. I'm sure he'll do a great job, and I'm even MORE sure that he'll end up being in the film for about 10 minutes, if even, because his whole point is that he stands alone on Bifrost, the Rainbow Bridge.
In other news: I'm finally reading Walt Simonson's run on Thor from the 80s, and it's freaking great. I finally understand why people actually care about Beta Ray Bill, and I would be TOTALLY down with him showing up in a future Thor movie (hell, his first appearance comes hand-in-hand with a Nick Fury/Thor Team-Up, so it seems practically tailor-made for the Marvel Universe).
Iceshadow
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Walt Simonson's run has been on my "to read" pile for a while, I need to get on that.
Bass
Nexus of the World
Don't pretend that isn't what you meant.
Captain Canuck
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okay, i don't know much about Thor from the comics or mythology. I guess I just expected viking gods to all be norwegian
Bass
Nexus of the World
Racist.
Captain Canuck
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you think that's bad? I almost said i expected that viking gods would all have blonde hair and blue eyes.
Bass
Nexus of the World
Norwegians don't all have blonde hair and blue eyes?!
What was Hitler on about? Crazy foo'.
What was Hitler on about? Crazy foo'.
Ice
Teh Sexy Monkey Queen
He used to be on about 10:00 at night, but with little people caring about him during then, he re-invaded the 11:30 slot.
mike3717
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Oh...and NASCAR. (If you happen to be poor and stupid enough)
One of my favorite runs on any comic ever. Epic.
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Grocer Man
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At risk of fan-wank, the Marvel Norse god aren't actually gods. They're race of crazy-powerful, shapeshifting aliens formed by belief that took up the identities of the Norse Pantheon. Same goes for the rest of the Pantheons, though it doesn't comes up much and I don't think they know this.
So it's possible (and this is where the fan-wank part comes in), that Heimdall was watching the Wire, saw Elba being awesome, and decided to copy him.
(Oh my god, Norse Gods doing the Wire. I think I just found brilliance.)
Is that Earth X? Because I believe that's non-canon.
Bass
Nexus of the World
You're right, that's the EARTH X origin (which should be canon). The canon is that they are aliens who came to Earth (because everyone rips off Arthur C Clarke) and humans built a religion off of them.
Spoken for truth.
Langsta
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For some reason, I remember reading in one of those hardcover encyclopedias that the Celestials created all the pantheons and the Norse gods were actually an early form of protohumanity created from the Celestials' experiments. I know the Earth X has a similar origin for the Asgardians but in the encyclopedia it didn't mention anything about Earth X.
Zombipanda
My Boom-Boom's mostly gay
Earth X is stupid.
Subsequently, I think coming up with some over-complicated explanation for the pantheon is counter-productive.
The Asgardians are crazy Kirby transdimensional space gods. They were worshiped by humans and are still intrinsically tied to them. That's all we really need to know. Once you start taking away the mystique of the characters, it's no longer mythology.
And I think the same holds true for all of Earth X's back story.
Subsequently, I think coming up with some over-complicated explanation for the pantheon is counter-productive.
The Asgardians are crazy Kirby transdimensional space gods. They were worshiped by humans and are still intrinsically tied to them. That's all we really need to know. Once you start taking away the mystique of the characters, it's no longer mythology.
And I think the same holds true for all of Earth X's back story.
Ice
Teh Sexy Monkey Queen
Get out.
