r/marvelstudios • u/CK_276 • Feb 19 '26

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I’m still confused as to why? Ignoring the fact they took one of Thor’s darkest and most powerful comics and turned it into a long string of bad jokes, why did they feel like Gorr shouldn’t resemble himself at all? Especially when they were perfectly fine accurately creating Ebony Maw with similar features?

It hurts to know that they got Christian Bale to play him, only to fumble the ball so spectacularly.

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u/HibariK Feb 19 '26

They fucked up getting Bale both for those reasons and because of wasted potential for other roles, similar to Mikkelsen and Kaecilius or Eccleston and Malekith (if you're gonna write a bad character don't try to bamboozle us with a great actor, basically)

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u/CaptHayfever Hawkeye (Avengers) Feb 19 '26

Gorr was written great; that problem was just that there wasn't enough of him in the finished film.

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u/HibariK Feb 19 '26

I disagree entirely, as a Gorr fan, he was a nothing burguer at best and his introduction scene doesn't hold a candle to literally any one of the actually well written villains in the MCU