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Edited by Mrph1 on Jul 29th 2024 at 3:09:00 PM
I suspect it's logistically impossible for the Ejyptian pantheon to turn up as Moonknight would have been in predevlopment at the same time so locking in what those gods are like would be difficult.
I'm looking forward to seeing the Guardians be the comparatively competent and out together party in a cross over for a change.
I hope that it Sif does appear she doesn't become just an off-screen Gorr's victim to establish how powerful the villain is. I mean, Thor lost so much that at this point, I think Sif would be his last close friend from before he came to Earth. The same to Zeus to a degree, it might be a bias due to how I always liked Greek mythology, but it'd be a shame to introduce a character with so much potential and kill him off in one movie, especially right after the series introduced the Egyptian gods.
Edited by good-morning on Apr 18th 2022 at 1:17:20 PM
oh hey how are you doing?Well, if we're throwing around titles here:
Avengers Assemble offered to adapt Jane Foster as Thunderstrike, the alias of the other Thor named Donald Blake Eric Masterson.
Thanks!
Edited by XMenMutant22 on Apr 18th 2022 at 12:44:43 PM
Thunderstrike was Eric Masterson.
I totally want to see Thor call himself Sigurd Jarlson.
Oh, I don't think they'll have any trouble coming up with something to call her. She'll go by "Jane".
The MCU aren't embarrassed to say the superhero names the way other superhero films are, but they still sneak around here and there. Like Tony's suit being "the Iron Man weapon" while everyone just addresses Tony Stark by name. "The Mandarin" being a racist nickname that some American gave to his fake Wenwu. Villains like Iron Monger, Crossbones, or Vulture given sly references instead of being named outright. Etc. etc.
The MCU is more brazen about superhero names, but they're still pragmatic about it. They use the names where they make sense to be used, and scrub them when they don't. So when she's powered up, Jane Foster's name will almost certainly be "Jane Foster". Perhaps with a continuity gag somewhere in the film where someone calls her Thor 2.0.
Edited by TobiasDrake on Apr 18th 2022 at 9:46:24 AM
My Tumblr. Currently side-by-side liveblogging Digimon Adventure, sub vs dub.I'd be very curious if they decide to bring in Ares into this. I know he's been an Avenger in the comics, but it'd be interesting to see if they'll bring him into the films. Especially given DC had a very different take on the character in Wonder Woman (2017).
Ah, public domain shenanigans
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Edited by chasemaddigan on Apr 18th 2022 at 3:17:30 PM
Y'know what? Screw Ares. Him and Hades being the bad guys is incredibly overrated.
If there's a Greek God bad guy Thor should face, I'd vote for either Poseidon, Aphrodite, or Dionysus. Or all three at once.
"I'm Mr. Blue, woah-woah-ooh..."
Okay, I'm actually down for Hera as a villain. Kinda sick of the Everyone Hates Hades trope though, especially given that he's actually one of the better gods out there.
Eh, I'm fine with Ares being a bad guy. Hades gets dunked on a lot because Christians hear "God of Underworld" and immediately think of Satan. And, to be fair, basically every Greek deity has their shitty moments, Hades included.
But Ares genuinely is basically a Complete Monster. Being the villain who gets dunked on by the end of the story is pretty much his whole job in actual Greek myths. He's the #1 go-to Olympian Villain, to the point that even in his core domain (war), he has the rare distinction of a direct rival: Athena, the goddess of better war.
Ares is a complete fucking clownshow of a god whose whole job is to be a violent, brutal monster that spurs on carnage for funsies. Even the other gods are repulsed by his monstrous cruelty. In The Iliad, Zeus outright tells Ares that he's a fucking dick and nobody likes him.
"Do not sit beside me and whine, you double-faced liar. To me you are the most hateful of all gods who hold Olympus. Forever quarrelling is dear to your heart, wars and battles. ... And yet I will not long endure to see you in pain, since you are my child, and it was to me that your mother bore you. But were you born of some other god and proved so ruinous long since you would have been dropped beneath the gods of the bright sky."
Ares sucks, nobody likes him, and using him as a villain is the most true-to-text thing you can possibly do with a Greek adaptation. The Norse pantheon has Loki as its perpetual troublemaker and the Greeks have Ares.
Edited by TobiasDrake on Apr 18th 2022 at 12:48:43 PM
My Tumblr. Currently side-by-side liveblogging Digimon Adventure, sub vs dub.The Olympians as a giant dysfunctional family where everyone hates each other and everyone is fucking everyone else should be the MCU characterization, and Zeus being a tyrannical hypersexual douche and Ares being an idiotic fight-crazed, ultraviolent scumbag would be a). accurate to mythological and comics lore and b). great for comedy if done right.
DC Ares is also way too competent as a schemer to be accurate, and nowadays Marvel Ares is too much of an antihero. I just want Ares to be a bloodthirsty dingdong who starts a fight with Thor or Jane that he shouldn't have started and gets his ass beat.
Edited by HasturHasturHastur on Apr 18th 2022 at 12:54:58 PM

Same, Thor is the name, not an Alias.