When watching Thanos sacrifice Gamora, I got a vibe of Abraham preparing to sacrifice Isaac. Am I the only one who thinks that?
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.
I've seen people mistake Moses parallels for Jesus parallels before, so there's that too.
Writing a post-post apocalypse LitRPG on RR. Also fanfic stuff.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
Heh. Only now do I see the funny side of Stark's defeat here
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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
I'M MR. MEESEEKS, LOOK AT ME!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.
Tony Stark is the enemy of all living things, and that includes Tony Stark.
Thanos had to murder half the universe just to rank as #2.
One Strip! One Strip!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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