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The Marvel movies may be smash hit , but thecomics just delivered one of the best consequence in years withThe War of The Realms … and in the process , showed exactly why The MCU hascompletely wastedthe entireThorfranchise .
It is n’t the first clock time that an Asgardian threat has become the main event in Marvel ’s Universe , but the War of the Realms evidence acrosssixtyissues of tie - Indiana is handled like few crossovers before it , allow an opportunity to re - analyse dear heroes and villains in the context of a warfare of the gods . There are too many incredible , but pitch thoroughgoing moments to call out – Spider - Man communing with Pegasus of the Valkyrie , and evenDaredevil replacing Heimdall , to name just a few . But through it all , there was no question who stood at the inwardness of it all .
The All - Father Thor , King of Asgard , and God of the Unworthy . The bad intelligence ? It reminded reader that the MCU has wasted the potential of Thor , Asgard , Jane Foster , Mjolnir … and there is but no way anything like Jason Aaron ’s heroic story could ever find in Marvel ’s movie macrocosm .
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The MCU’s Thor Could Never Be This Epic
It ’s no closed book that Marvel Studios has never been altogether sure what to do with Thor . When Marvel launched the franchise back in 2011 , they were unsure of whether or not the God of Thunder and Immortal Asgard would be set into a share cinematic universe built on a bedrock of pseud - science . Director Kenneth Branagh held to his vision , but Thor still had to excuse to Jane Foster that he comes from a realm where " skill and magic are one and the same . " It was a subtle nod to Arthur C. Clarke ’s First Law , that " any sufficiently advanced engineering is identical from magic . " Marvel ’s gotten more relaxed over the years , but that ’s made Thor ’s arc wildly inconsistent .
Take the first , and most obvious motion : where does Thor ’s power come up from ? InThor , Odin strips his Logos of his ability and binds them to Mjolnir , have in mind Thor can only regain his powers once he ’s evidence suitable of them . tight - forward toThor : Ragnarok , when Mjolnir is shattered , only for Odin to afterwards reveal he never needed the hammer in the first place – it was just a television channel , helping him control it . " Are you the god of hammer ? " Odin even quipped , in a mystic experience . And yet , abruptly , Avengers : eternity Warditches those lightning powers altogether until Thor gets a new arm . seem at through a vital middle , there are so many detours and redirects , it shows Marvel still has n’t grasped a clear musical theme of Thor ( and sports fan have gotten used to it ) .
This all explains why Marvel chose Taikia Waititi toessentially reboot Thor inRagnarok . Waititi ditch the " Shakespeare in the Park " feel , or else go for a much more comedic vibe . Chris Hemsworth loved it , delighting in the chance to demonstrate his comedic skills . AndAvengers : Endgamecommitted to the mind , with Thor miss his divine right wing and duty to safeguard New Asgard , instead heading off with the Guardians of the Galaxy .
After shifting to full - blown legal action funniness , it made sense forEndgameco - director Joe Russo to identify Thoras nearer to the Guardians : " It just seemed like … well , where does a lose soul like that go ? That ’s basically what the Guardians are — a collection of lost person . "
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But one affair is for sure : this misfit adaptation of Odinson could never be the Thor used as the lynchpin of a story like Marvel’sWar of The Realms . In Jason Aaron ’s epic poem , Thor is the one wedge who turns the tide ; not just because of his mightiness , but because of his leadership skills and inspirational fibre . When the war breaks out , Thor is the one the Avengers must find and deliverance . Thor is the only one who can step forward with a program . He is n’t play for drollery ( and has n’t been for the totality of Aaron ’s acclaimed ravel ) , and as a result emerges as the most powerful and substantial of all the Avengers … which he obviouslyshouldbe . By the end of the event , Thor has evidence his worthiness on an unprecedented scale , and earn even Odin ’s loyalty asAsgard ’s new king , All - Father Thor .
The MCU Erased Thor’s Cycle of Death & Rebirth
It ca n’t be look across that the MCU has never really embraced the Asgardian mythology , either . Take the conception of Ragnarok : in the comics , Thor learned the gods are trap in an interminable cycle of destruction and rebirth ( he is n’t the ' first ' Thor , for illustration ) . In contrast , the MCU envisions Ragnarok as a one - off event . Just as the universe move towards heat death , so Odin cautions his Word that all thing move towards Ragnarok . In other words , every story must come to a permanent end . That means junior-grade graphic symbol likethe warrior Three are go for secure , bring by deadly rules . Volstagg ca n’t be chosen as the War Thor , forget remotely pilot the Asgardian Destroyer against an army of Dark Elves .
It also intend that Asgard itself is gone . The Realm Eternal was beautiful and exciting in 2011’sThor … flat and dissatisfactory inThor : The Dark World , and at last demolish inThor : Ragnarok . Unsurprisingly , Taika Waititi admittedhe was n’t inspired by cartoon strip forThor : Ragnarok , set about with Asgard itself : " I was n’t really that stabbing on what Asgard take care like . It ’s completely made of gold , it ’s just full of nerds and scholars . Does n’t seem like a party townsfolk , does n’t seem like my kind of company townsfolk . “His distaste showed through in the way Asgard was demolish , complete with a line of dialogue turning its full annihilation into a punchline .
Without that Hz of death and reincarnation , there is no expire back to the sprawling fantasy of the Nine Realms . Asgard is gone . AfterAvengers : Infinity War , Eitri is the only Dwarf alive in Nidavellir . The Dark Elves have been pass over out . So no matter how muchWar of The Realmsimpresses reader , it actually can not happen .
Malekith & Jane Foster Were Both Wasted
ultimately , we make it at some of the major fictional character of theWar of The Realmsevent , beginning with the villain who may be themostwasted , in terms of voltage , of any MCU antagonist . In the comics , Malekith the Dark Elf acts as the mastermind of the intact state of war , spread across all Ten Realms . A wrathful , venomous , evil digit who want nothing but conquest and blood . liken him to the version introduced inThor : The Dark World , and Christopher Eccleston ’s Malekith is a one - dimensional scoundrel whose motives – restricted to " turn the population dark”–are impossible to join with .
Eccleston was primitively interested in Malekith because of fit that flesh him out as a character , including one in which his byname " The Accursed " was explicate , but all these consequence injure up dropped from the script and left on the cutting elbow room trading floor . Malekith give way as one of the MCU ’s least - developed villain , played byan histrion who understandably detest the part he was toy . And unlike Ronan the Accuser , there ’s not even story potency to do prequels or next appearances to bushel the damage .
And then … there’sJane Foster , the with child Thorto lift the first Mjolnir . An important constituent of Jason Aaron ’s run on the serial , Jane was promoted from being a setting love interest of the Odinson to an epic incarnation of the god of thunder . She demonstrate herself desirable of Mjolnir ’s superpower because she understood that the world would always need a Thor . In the end , she was even willing to make up the ultimate price to give the Realms their friend . Her story eventually revealed that Jane was die of malignant neoplastic disease , and that every time she magically transformed into Thor , the burden of her chemotherapy were nullified , allowing her cancer to spread . Naturally , Jane became Thor to relieve Asgard , and diedas a result .
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Of of course , Marvel has gravel some thing right . Tom Hiddleston ’s Loki is one of the studio apartment ’s biggest success story , to the extent that the comics have basically mimicked Hiddleston ’s depiction . But considering everything else , and whereAvengers : Endgamesends Hemsworth ’s bomber , it ’s difficult to imagine theThorfranchise ever building up to something even faithful to aWar of The Realmson the handsome screen . Too many opportunity have been missed , too many characters kill off , too much potential mold aside for funniness . Which means this is one area where the funnies will eternally exceed the moving picture .
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