History Art / ThorsFightWithTheGiants

* SadlyMythtaken: The fact that the explicitly [[BeardOfBarbarism bearded]] red-head [[HornyVikings Viking]] thunder-god is portrayed as clean-shaven and [[{{Hunk}} towheaded]] like [[WesternAnimation/Shrek2 Prince Charming]] probably didn't help dissuade the MasterRace proponents that interpret it as proto-Fascist/Nationalist propaganda.

* DropTheHammer: Like in the myths, Thor is battling the giants with his Mjölnir hammer.
* ElementalMotifs: Lighting can be seen leaping from [[DropTheHammer Mjölnir]], solidifying the fact that this is the GodOfThunder doing the smashing.

* AdaptationDyeJob: In the myths, Thor is stated to have red hair and a beard. Here, he's blonde.

* AlwaysChaoticEvil: The giants that Thor is fighting --the Ettins-- are commonly seen as [[AllegoricalCharacter allegorical]] for general wickedness, Thor's battle against them being a mass-smiting of the evil that blights the world.

* ProtagonistTitle:

It depicts the Norse god Thor in a battle against the jötunn. Thor rides his chariot pulled by the goats Tanngrisnir and Tanngnjóstr ("teeth-barrer and teeth-grinder"), wears his belt Megingjörð and swings his hammer Mjölnir.

* AlwaysChaoticEvil: The giants that Thor is fighting - the Ettins - are commonly seen as [[AllegoricalCharacter allegorical]] for general wickedness, Thor's battle against them being a mass-smiting of the evil that blights the world.
* ChariotPulledByCats: Like how Myth/NorseMythology portrays him, Thor is seen riding his chariot pulled by the goats Tanngrisnir and Tanngnjóstr ("teeth-barer" and "teeth-grinder").
* DropTheHammer: Thor's hammer, which he uses against the giants.

* SadlyMythtaken: The fact that the explicitly [[BeardOfBarbarism bearded]] red-head [[HornyVikings Viking]] thunder-god is portrayed as clean-shaven and towheaded like [[WesternAnimation/Shrek2 Prince Charming]] probably didn't help dissuade the MasterRace proponents that interpret it as proto-Fascist/Nationalist propaganda.

''Thor's Fight with the Giants'' (Swedish: ''Tors strid med jättarna'') is an 1872 painting by the Swedish artist Mårten Eskil Winge.

* OlderThanTheyThink: The painting shows that mistaking Thor for a blond has been going on for at least ninety years before Creator/MarvelComics did it.

* NonNaziSwastika: Despite the painting's popularity among skinheads, the swastika present on Thor's belt is ''not'' used as a German nationalist symbol. The painting was made around 50 years before the Third Reich came to power, and the German incarnation of the swastika pre-Nazi was originally a religious symbol long before Germany was even officially recognized as a country, various historians believing that it meant "thunder" and "sun" and that it was Thor's official symbol.

It depicts the Norse god Thor in a battle against the jötunn. The thunder god rides his chariot pulled by the goats Tanngrisnir and Tanngnjóstr, wears his belt Megingjörð and swings his hammer Mjölnir. The painting was made using oil on canvas, has the dimensions 484 x 333 centimeters and belongs to Nationalmuseum in Stockholm.

It depicts the Norse god Thor in a battle against the jötnar. The thunder god rides his chariot pulled by the goats Tanngrisnir and Tanngnjóstr, wears his belt Megingjörð and swings his hammer Mjölnir. The painting was made using oil on canvas, has the dimensions 484 x 333 centimeters and belongs to Nationalmuseum in Stockholm.

* ElementalMotifs: Lighting can be seen leaping from [[DropTheHammer Mjölnir]], solidifying the fact that this is the god of thunder doing the smashing.