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Edited by Mrph1 on Jul 29th 2024 at 3:09:00 PM
In the comics, Thor lost the ability to use Mjolnir because of a stupid plot point. This led to Mjolnir calling out to Jane to become its new wielder.
MCU Jane is a physicist rather than an M.D. and her role in the two films she's appeared in thus far has revolved around scientifically analyzing Asgardian Magitek. Mjolnir is such a piece of Magitek, and it didn't, like, fall into a black hole or something. It was crushed into a few pieces left on a hilltop in Scotland. That shit was probably on eBay by week's end.
I don't know what Disney will do. But if I was writing it, I'd lead in with Jane having acquired those pieces of Mjolnir and working in a lab to use her understanding of Asgardian Magitek to reforge the hammer.
Edited by TobiasDrake on Dec 31st 2019 at 8:56:15 AM
My Tumblr. Currently side-by-side liveblogging Digimon Adventure, sub vs dub.What was stupid was that it took, like, three years before we finally learned that Old Nick Fury whispered to him to make him feel unworthy.
Edited by alliterator on Dec 31st 2019 at 8:05:20 AM
Wasn't the thing Nick Fury whispered like "that guy who tried to kill all the gods was right", and Thor just had an existential crisis wondering if the universe would be better off with all the gods dead?
Also, didn't Nick Fury whisper that because he turned out to be a galactic super-agent who fought the threats the Avengers couldn't handle, and then he turned into a super-villain?
Sometimes, the comics are stupid.
Yep. After literal years of speculation as to what, exactly, could have caused Thor to become unworthy just from a few spoken words, the answer was finally revealed. And the answer was that Jason Aaron was character-shilling the new Thor villain he'd invented one year prior to writing that event comic.
My Tumblr. Currently side-by-side liveblogging Digimon Adventure, sub vs dub.I don’t think it would have been as much of an issue if it hadn’t been played as a mystery
Since it was, Thor was spinning his wheels the whole time when he should have been tackling the dilemma by like going out on a groove get backing journey to decide whether gods were suck or not
It should have been a character growing time period and it wasn’t
Forever liveblogging the AvengersYeah. Gorr was pretty fresh in audience's minds on account of, as I said, Jason Aaron inventing him just the last year.
If Fury had just convinced Thor that Gorr was right on-panel, everyone would probably be fine with it. Could have even been a bit longer of a scene, too. Like Thor has Fury cornered and then Fury busts out with the philosophy and talks Thor to death, destroying him psychologically until Mjolnir slips from his grasp.
Edited by TobiasDrake on Dec 31st 2019 at 10:01:52 AM
My Tumblr. Currently side-by-side liveblogging Digimon Adventure, sub vs dub.There’s a lot of good plot that’s ruined by the weird belief that it should be played as a mystery
Forever liveblogging the AvengersI mean, until they bring Uatu back and stuff.
And yes, Original Sin was very weird.
Edited by alliterator on Dec 31st 2019 at 9:13:47 AM
Moon Knight updates:
- The show's (fake) working title will be "Spectorcorp Productions".
- Dracula will appear...
Edited by TargetmasterJoe on Dec 31st 2019 at 1:59:21 PM
...seriously? Are they seriously going to that meme
? How weird.
Dracula was never really an enemy for Moon Knight — hell, Moon Knight's schtick at first was that he fought werewolves before he moved into being more Batman-esque. (Or he fought one werewolf, actually, Werewolf By Night.) Dracula's enemy was, well, the people in Tomb of Dracula and eventually Blade. And the X-Men.
Moon Knight's main arch-enemies was Roaul Bushman and Black Spectre.
Edited by alliterator on Dec 31st 2019 at 11:38:33 AM
If the entire show is Daniel Radcliffe Moon Knight trying to get the money Dracula owes him...I don’t think I can be too upset.
Seriously though, they rumored the Moon Knight casting, they confirmed Ms. Marvel’s been cast but probably don’t want to release the news until the poor girl gets some social media defenses in order, but still nothing on She-Hulk.
It'd odd to think about how both Marvel and DC both just have a bunch of literature characters in their universes, sometimes with very important roles - I guess just because it's funny to realize that in the public domain, characters from just over a hundred years ago are in the same boat as characters from eras past like Hades or Odin.
Like, if they were so inclined, Marvel could make Gregor Samsa a mutant and put him on, like, some early 1900's X-Men team.
Edited by KnownUnknown on Dec 31st 2019 at 12:01:31 PM

Being told that Captain Marvel could've easily beaten Thanos if she wasn't distracted by other stuff doesn't really add anything to the scene by itself. It might be an objective factoid, I'm just not sure how it's all that useful.
You're not wrong.
What it boils down to is that no fight happens in a vacuum. If Iron Man wasn't distracted, forced into confined space, and could engage Steve 1v1 under totally neutral circumstances, he could easily have beaten him.
Which. Cool. But it doesn't change the fact that Steve and Bucky kicked his ass. Totally neutral circumstances don't exist, have never existed, and will never exist. A character's ability to think on their feet and adapt to changing circumstances is part of what makes someone a good fighter.
Carol was able to even the playing field with Thanos by absorbing the energy from the Infinity Gems. Thanos, in turn, was able to make her stop doing that via clever Power Gem shenanigans. Both of these things are the individual characters taking advantage of the unique circumstances surrounding their fight, and Thanos's opportunistic cleverness trumped Carol's in this exchange.
Narrative fights rarely take place in Final Destination with Fox Only and No Items. There are always circumstances, because circumstances are the key reason to have the characters fight in the first place.
Edited by TobiasDrake on Dec 31st 2019 at 8:27:42 AM
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