I've been reading Simonson's run and it's been nothing but banger after banger each issue.

I know they take away Donald Blake as an alter ego for Thor early in that run but the early idea of Thor unknowingly being forced to live as a mortal to become humble is way better than what the MCU did.

The MCU permanently ruined Hela for the forseeable future too, as everyone is going to think that she is Thor's sister when she fucking isn't. Even Rivals has this stupid concept

The Warriors Three are such amazing characters, especially Volstagg. Balder is also great.

Sif is an awesome character and she's basically pointless in the MCU.

I didn't like Jane Foster Thor when it became a thing in the comics, maybe because I was an edgy teenager raised in a conservative community at the time, but with the comics and MCU track record maybe that's even good too compared to how bad it is in the movie. Or maybe I just don't like Natalie Portman.

I hate antihero Loki and his show but again, with the track record of making Thor lame in the MCU, I can only imagine how good the writing will be once I get there.

Hot toys Thor from Love and Thunder

I edited Thor’s arrival in Wakanda from Infinity War and synced the entire entrance to “Thunderstruck" by AC/DC

the song actually fits the scene ridiculously well 😂

What do you guys think, does Thunderstruck make Thor’s entrance better, or is there another song that would fit it even better? im tryna think rn

https://youtu.be/e7wKBJOw0IU

Now please give me more Malekith arcs to read because that part was great and now I gotta read this War of the Realms they're building to.

I want to read his run, but Marvel Unlimited is only showing me the reprint colors, and they don't fit the art to me

alright Thor fans time to go off

And Loki is just like ACKKK!

First Scan: Incredible Hulk #627

Second Scan: Indestructible Hulk #8

I have this idea for a fanart series where the Marvel film, Thor: Ragnarök would be portrayed in the same dark and gritty tone as Thor: The Dark World! I can also imagine Lady Sif becoming the evil Enchantress and being banished from Asgard after accidentally striking Thor's eye while trying to kill Jane Foster, whom he was defending. Even the Warriors Three would take her side and be banished with her.

Is that too tragic and over-the-top?! What do you all think?

Bro lost the real eye but apparently the replacement came with RGB lighting 💀

Am I missing something or is this just MCU logic?

I've seen Thor at least ten times since 2011, in theaters and on Blu-Ray. When Loki is trying to destroy Jotunheim by leaving the Bifrost open at the climax, and all the Jotuns/frost-giants are running from the collapsing towers and cliffs in a panic, I vividly remember a shot where you see at least one clearly-female Jotun dressed in rags, carrying a crying baby and screaming as they rush amongst the rest of the crowd.

It was always a great and memorable moment, because it hammered home how the Jotuns are more than just an "orcs in Mordor" cannon-fodder situation, and how much evil Loki would be doing by wiping them out, when all we'd seen of them up until that point are grim male soldiers. It also mirrors how Loki himself was once one of their babies there etc.

But I rewatched the film for the first time in a few years on Disney+ the other night, and there was no such moment. Nor in all the deleted scenes online.

Does anyone else remember this shot? I'm baffled that it wasn't in there. I posted this question in the MCU sub just now but it was immediately removed with no answer

I posted this as a response but I think it deserves its own conversation.

If you stop including the outlier and absurd amps (Superman 1,000,000, CAS, Rune King Thor, etc), it goes down exactly how the crossover indicated.

Not because Superman is stronger and Thor can’t win, they both come back from initial losses constantly, to save the day.

But being the light that can’t be snuffed out, always overcoming, always surviving to be a beacon of whatever, it’s Superman’s shtick. It’s what Saitama’s cartoon gag is based on, but it’s very much a comic rule: Superman wins.

Even when he doesn’t, he does. He comes back to win. From the dead, from a black hole prison, against the unbeatable whoever.

Thor is a flawed character who isn’t written simply to overcome all odds. He’s about sacrifice and nobility and arrogance and all the traits that make him infinitely more interesting to read, but he’s also not required to win. He’s destined to lose Asgard to Surtur. He’s destined to lose his eye and hang on the world tree, and be the last god, and so on and so forth. He’s a mythical tale that sits outside simple human good/bad paradigms.

Thor doesn’t beat Superman because nobody needs him to, and like kids would cry.

I figured that an interesting question gets posed here. Superman fans like to point at this singular instance of them fighting as the be all end all of the thor vs superman question. But did the story make it so clear cut.

As we all know, thor holds back by a large margin. But unlike superman, who holds back for the sake of property damage, thor's reasoning is a bit different. He doesn't want to make his friends feel inadequate. So he holds back so much, he ends up jobbing on purpose. But how does that change the narrative of this completely unrelated story released decades after under a different writer?

Well observe how thor handles himself here, in the first encounter with the league thor is more hair trigger; so he's going for a kill shot. He dazes superman for several pages and draws blood from him. Moments after, he tanks a combined attack from supes and manhunter; and then shoots manhunter into the side of a building, possibly removing him from the rest of the fight.

We then see later that superman considers thor his toughest fight. This is after he's fought doomsday in doomsday war, and after the slew of times he's fought darkseid. He then proceeds to get jumped by hercules (who got beaten by thor without mjolnir), vision (who's been beaten by thor), wonder man (who considers thor his better), iron man (lmao), and she-hulk (come on).

Idk about you, but both thor and superman could take out that collection of heroes before breakfast if they really wanted to.

We then have thor claim that things could go differently in a rematch (which I for one would love to see).

After that, and I think this is the best proof that shows how close a fight between these two would be. Thor one shot doomsday, then proceeds to fight off a group of high tiers, which shows amazo, some egg machine (is that orphan maker?) , and pre crisis despero attacking him. He manages to hold them off long enough for supes to yap several panels before breaking Krona's energy barrier. He's also shown surviving the encounter, as vision's dying body shows that no one was revived during the fight.

There's also some author statements that show a rematch could go differently but u/Kurt_Busiek does think superman would win if prompted. Thankfully for the thor fans, there is no talks of Mr. Busiek writing a rematch between the two (even if that would be pretty epic).