Mighty Musings
After seeing the Thor trailer several times and pondering it a bit, I’ve come to realize precisely what bothers me about the trailer. Thor is a god. He should be superhuman. However, the various trailers never convincingly depict him doing anything particularly awesome and godlike. He throws around some doctors and beats up some soldiers – one at a time. He seems to oppose some supernatural foes, yet they’re not especially imposing antagonists, and Thor seemingly fights them one at a time. Thor opposes the fire-breathing suit of armor, but it only appears to be moderately taller than him. The difference in scale between Thor and the armor suit is like Bruce Lee fighting Kareem Abdul Jabar. That difference is impressive on a normal scale, but it’s certainly not godlike. In the various trailers, Thor does cause a lightning bolt to start an earthquake, but the earthquake doesn’t appear to impact anyone, so its scale and impressiveness are muted. There’s simply nothing at all presented in the Thor trailers that makes Thor seem any more godlike or awesome than Arnie battling a predator. Thor should be on Superman scale, not merely tough-guy scale. Even the Hulk, human that he is, seemed more imposing and powerful in his two movies than the mighty Thor appears to be in his own movie trailers. I want to see Thor taking on armies. I want to see Thor standing up against towering foes. I want to see Thor engaged in epic battles worthy of Norse legend. Not only do I not see that in the trailers, I don’t even get an implication of that.
My point:
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I’m guessing the idea is he loses his powers, or most of ’em, on Earth.
Yeah, if you watch other trailers you’ll see he was cast down by the other gods. Not being an avid comic fan I think it looks pretty good but I’m sure that readers will be disappointed as usual.
In the original Thor comic, he is a normal human without his hammer. He regains all his godlike powers when he has his hammer in hand.
Though in the current Thor comic, Thor has assumed Odin’s position in Asgard.
If Marvel throttles back the godlike Thor’s power, that would be pretty sad. Sort of like the TV Hulk who couldn’t even catch a flying helicopter.
I had forgotten, but a cheesy Thor was in that TV Hulk episode, and neither the Hulk or Thor could catch a helicopter that was flying away.
Betcha the little girl Thor fan in “Adventures in Babysitting”, will be watching.