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#152: Aug 6th 2018 at 8:12:51 AM

Thanks. Also, Tobias was spot on with that Pikachu joke because Ratatoskr looks like a Pokemon there.

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#153: Aug 11th 2018 at 7:20:54 AM

Also, sounds sort of like 'Ratata.'

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#154: Aug 11th 2018 at 10:32:55 PM

When watching Thanos sacrifice Gamora, I got a vibe of Abraham preparing to sacrifice Isaac. Am I the only one who thinks that?

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#156: Aug 11th 2018 at 10:44:25 PM

I don’t know. I think a better comparison would be the Iliad where Agamemnon sacrificed his own daughter Iphigenia in order to summon wind to Troy. Superheroes are compared more to Greco-Roman mythology than Monotheistic figures.

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#157: Aug 12th 2018 at 10:59:22 AM

[up]The one exception (that I can think of) is Superman.

KnownUnknown Since: Jan, 2001
#158: Aug 12th 2018 at 11:11:42 AM

Superman’s probably the Trope Codifier for Greek inspired Superheroes: the comparisons to modern interpretations of Hercules (even at the time he was made) are really obvious.

The Christian analogues are more comparatively recent, and even so are mostly centralized on films (Hollywood is really addicted to turning Superman into Jesus) and Elseworlds (like All Star Superman and it’s adaptation).

The closest I think he gets to being such elsewhere is in stuff like The Death of Superman.

TheShadow Since: Apr, 2009
#159: Aug 12th 2018 at 11:22:40 AM

Personally, I see more Moses parallels than Jesus or Hercules.

Edited by TheShadow on Aug 12th 2018 at 11:22:14 AM

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#160: Aug 12th 2018 at 11:33:03 AM

I've seen people mistake Moses parallels for Jesus parallels before, so there's that too.

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#161: Aug 12th 2018 at 11:37:31 AM

Superman’s creators were Jewish; arguably, he’s the most Jewish-inspired superhero. There’s tons of articles by Jewish people analyzing how Clark Kent’s story is incredibly Jewish.

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#162: Aug 12th 2018 at 1:58:46 PM

There's really no reason an allusion can't be both Biblical and Classical at the same time here. Sacrificing one's child in the name of one's "god" — which in Thanos' case has basically become himself despite the less self-centered ambitions of his MCU self — isn't unique to any one religion or mythology.

Edited by Unsung on Aug 12th 2018 at 3:07:20 AM

Soble Since: Dec, 2013
#163: Aug 28th 2018 at 9:16:55 AM

Heh. Only now do I see the funny side of Stark's defeat here.

When Stark goes to throw down with Thanos he gets impaled with his own weapon thanks to Thanos breaking his arm-blade thing. Everybody else just gets overpowered by either Thanos' brute strength or the cosmic power of the gauntlet. But with Stark, it's his own weapon being used against him that almost kills him.

Is that not exactly what sent Stark down the path to becoming Iron Man in the first place?

Edited by Soble on Aug 28th 2018 at 9:21:28 AM

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#164: Aug 28th 2018 at 11:19:44 AM

Honestly, being nearly hoist by his own petard is a constant theme with Tony.

Nearly dies by his own weapons in his first movie.

Gets upstaged by Whiplash after claiming he's the only game in town in the second movie.

Gets whomped by Thor because he kinda picked that fight in Avengers.

Gets his house destroyed because he called out a terrorist on national tv in his third movie.

Ultron. N'uff said.

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Thanos had to murder half the universe just to rank as #2.

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#165: Aug 28th 2018 at 12:36:54 PM

Watching the movie with my roommates who hadn't seen it, one of them did actually point out how dramatically poetic Stark's near-death via a broken piece of his own armor was.

"This is just what Pepper knew would happen. It was the suit that killed him."

Edited by TobiasDrake on Aug 28th 2018 at 1:39:00 PM

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#166: Aug 28th 2018 at 1:33:25 PM

"This is just what Pepper knew would happen. It was the suit that killed him."

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