Marvel Movies Jotun

[aubrem]

So, a lot of fic is very Jotun-sympathetic. I get that the winners write the history and we don't know the Jotun side of the story, but still. They did apparently invade earth around 1000AD such that Asgard had to come in and save us. Also, perfectly intelligent people (like Loki for instance) over the course of a thousand years didn't question

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[iibnf]

Zero evidence they ever came to earth - if you look at the climate record for the time specified in the movie, we were on a hot upswing at that time. No record anywhere of cold weather

[aubrem]

Yeah, I kinda figured people were getting all this Odin-suspicion from outside the movies. In the movie only though, the Jotun invasion can be taken as fact, can't it? We even have video! I don't see a hint in the movie that Odin and the Aesir made it up.

[iibnf]

Do you see Jotuns on earth? I thought we only saw As fighting in Jotunheim, when Odin takes the casket and the baby and loses an eye...

[aubrem]

We do. Humans in villages crying and running away and being killed by Jotun. That's right before the Jotunheim stuff.

[iibnf]

Right, I should rewatch. I still think it comes down to winners writing history. A bit like America 'rescuing' Iraq from whatever they were supposed to be rescuing it from, and managing to kill 100,000s of civilians and destroy their civilisation in the process. The most powerful person in the fight gets to say they're right.

Can't really go by mythology, as much as I enjoy fanfic that draws upon it, that changes all the time, with every different story.