Thor: Ragnarok vs. the Real Ragnarök

[used_songs]

I'm back with more from Tor on Thor. :)

One of my favorite series on Tor is Medieval Matters. The author published Thor: Ragnarok vs. the Real Ragnarök which breaks down some of the differences between myth and MCU. I had forgotten a lot of what I once knew about Norse mythology, so I found the article interesting, especially when thinking about why the film makers made the choices they did with regard to how they handled the myths.

It's definitely a light-hearted analysis, and I think you might enjoy it:

And, truthfully, it’s hard not to be delighted with how much they did manage to sneak in, including Bruce Banner wearing Tony Stark’s t-shirt featuring Duran Duran’s hit album Rio … whose second single was “Hungry Like the Wolf.”

That’s seriously clever foreshadowing, filmmakers.

Now, if y’all could somehow incorporate having part of Thanos’ ship in Infinity War be made with the fingernails of dead men, that’d be super.

Comments

[lazaefair]

*raises hand* Add me to the ranks of nerdling children who got started on Norse mythology early on. This was a very enjoyable article - I especially like how he gave his son a chance to show off his shiny Norse knowledge.

I did, as I read down the list, start to realize - and find kind of funny - that Thor: Ragnarok is essentially the exact reverse of so much of Western media. Namely, this time around it's a member of a historically marginalized people appropriating Western European-originated mythology the way colonizers normally appropriate the cultures of the colonized. (Though, I guess the comics did it first. Plus I got no particular beef with the Norse people, so this wasn't an excessively gleeful realization.)

But then I thought it would be super funny if someone did this with the Christian Armageddon. The Left Behind series really needs to die in a fire, and what better way to do it than through the lens of some weird punk indigenous director with a massive chip on their shoulder.

[dhampyresa]

Thank you for the link! And omg I had picked up on the shirt but not that it was foreshadowing!