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Edited by Mrph1 on Jul 29th 2024 at 3:09:00 PM
Hela being a Composite Character of herself and Lady Death was one of those things I was on board for as a rumor, but that I eventually lost interest in.
I will still always be bitter about her not being Loki's daughter, I don't care it puts focus back on Loki but even in the comics she was described as his biological daughter for a long while. Also it raises a lot of questions again about how mythology on Earth looks at her, because she's supposed to be the sister they've never heard of but for some reason the myths describe her as Loki's daughter. Unless there is a younger Hela/Hel who is unknowingly named after her banished aunt.
That was my position on it too. Before Ragnarok came out, it seemed like a cool idea, but after seeing how she's presented in Ragnarok, it really cheapens Thanos's character if his infatuation with the anthropomorphic personification of death itself is reduced to, "He met a crazy madwoman once who likes to kill people, and he thinks that's hot."
They would need to have played Hela very differently in Ragnarok for her being a Composite Character with Lady Death to work. The ship's sailed on that. She's not the embodiment of an abstract force; she's just a crazy lady who stabs f*ckers real good.
My Tumblr. Currently side-by-side liveblogging Digimon Adventure, sub vs dub.So I just found this nice summary of the Infinity Gauntlet comic story (don't watch if you don't want any potential spoiler for the movie), and I don't know if it was posted here before, but as the movie is getting near release, no harm to post it again if that was the case.
I wasn't aware that sexy lady Thanos was a creation of him to get Death jealous, kind of sad that we won't see that in the movies. And besides, we all know he only needed the Thanoscopter to win her heart, chicks dig the Thanoscopter.
Thanos has had a combined, like, two minutes of screentime across the entire MCU. Infinity War is the movie for finally explaining who this guy is, what he does, why he does it, etc. Why would Lady Death have come up before now, when the only characters she really engages with on a regular basis are Thanos and Deadpool, and one of those isn't in the MCU?
What they have done is introduce us to Celestials, which are seemingly being used as a composite for all the ancient primordial forces of the universe. They've also hinted at the bigger abstract deities, as demonstrated by Peter Quill seeing Eternity, the very personification of the universe itself, when hopped up on Ego - for once, not his own.
No, Lady Death didn't pop by in Iron Man 3 and go, "Hi, I exist, I'll be important later," but they've laid the groundwork for the universe to be populated by unfathomable beings.
edited 28th Dec '17 10:20:04 AM by TobiasDrake
My Tumblr. Currently side-by-side liveblogging Digimon Adventure, sub vs dub.I mean, would you believe Thanos was born in our solar system
in the comics? Small galaxy, or what?
So yeah, who knows if the other Eternals will show up in any capacity, or if the Celestials proper even exist in the MCU. They can make it work. I'm comfortable trusting their judgment at this point.
The Kree and everything else all seem to exist in one galaxy in the movies. Hence Guardians of the Galaxy covering space everything.
This has trickled over into the comics where the Kree, Badoon, Spartax, Shi'ar, and etc all seem to exist and squabble over one galaxy even though historically the Kree and Shi'ar and even the Skrulls before it all went bad for them both had their own galaxy as a sphere of influence
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The thing about people theorizing that Hela would be Lady Death is that nobody actually wanted that on its own merits. People just wanted Hela as Lady Death because she could theoretically fill the void left by that character's absence because I think Lady Death was attached to Deadpool's rights. That is no longer a problem.
Lady Death first showed up in the first Thanos story. She is absolutely not with the Deadpool rights. Or was not or whatever.
edited 28th Dec '17 1:45:34 PM by Bocaj
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Looks like the Lego line for IW has confirmed Thor gets his axe in this movie [1]
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I have never read Deadpool, but I always was under the impression that she was a big part of his character/ "mythos".
In any case though, in what's similar to but not quite a Rogues' Gallery Transplant, she's currently messing with Ben Riley.

The comics once drew a difference between Thor's resistance to AC and DC current
Squirrel Girl used a vast quantity of AC current to knock out ANAD Thor reasoning she would only have resistance to DC since that's what lightning is
Regarding substituting Hela for Death I'm not really invested in it but a way that it could work is either Thanos having found old records about her that survived the purg and going oh how dreamy
Or possibly managing to communicate with her while she was banished
The first option let's him have an impression of her that is off base if you want to play it like that. Misaimed fandom
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