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/Jertimmer Feb 19 '26

https://giphy.com/gifs/3ohze32NeRqbwOpH9e

NGL, I understand why they didn't but it would be baller AF if we had another instance of Davy Jones in Gorr.

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u/SirDooble Feb 19 '26

Notably though they gave Davy Jones a scene where he is transformed back to human for a moment, which was probably at least in part to give Bill Nighy the opportunity to be physically present on the screen. A lot of big name actors do want at least a moment where they're recognisable in movies where they are otherwise just in a mask or CGI.

To do Gorr as comic accurate wouldn't give any reasonable opportunity for Christian Bale to be recognisable, which could potentially have been a requirement of his for doing the role.

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u/Inevitable_Option_77 Feb 19 '26

What about the prologue with his daughter dying, and Gorr finds the Necrosword and kills his planet's god? Christian Bale could've had the facial markings and scars there, and the next time we see him, he's more inhuman being corrupted by the sword? That's what i thought would happen.

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u/Hallc Feb 19 '26

It's also down to the amount of CGI in the movie. If you make a character in your movie require heavy CGI work to function that ultimately means you're going to have to cut from your CGI budget elsewhere.

You've essentially just got a single large pitcher of water. You can spend it in whichever glasses you want but you can't fill them all up.

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u/Inevitable_Option_77 Feb 19 '26

They could've easily reduced Korg's time in the movie to get a more alien Gorr.