Plot-bunny: Thor

[marbleglove]

Since I've been writing a Thor fanfic, reading a whole lot of Avengers fanfic, and have already seen Avengers in theater as many times as I'm going to, I decided it was time to rewatch Thor. I needed to recalibrate some of my characterizations and remember what is fandom and what is canon. I'd forgotten how much Thor-the-character changes over the

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[frogs_of_war]

I think you hit it. Either that or he's an incompetent idiot with no empathy. At least he knows he's a monster.

[marbleglove]

He knows he's a monster, but it's too bad that no one else seems to realize it.

[anonymous]

...Wow. Have you ever read the viking sagas? Because from the point of view of Old Norse culture, this makes absolutely perfect sense. And really isn't even that ruthless; Loki, being the son of a defeated enemy, could by all rights have been raised as a slave in Odin's household. However, once Odin and his wife adopt Loki, he is their foster son, which makes Odin's subsequent behavior rather less kosher by Norse cultural standards. In the mythology, Odin's wife actually leaves him over it.

[marbleglove]

I haven't read any of the original source material, but from what I've picked up from tertiary sources, that makes a lot of sense. I get the impression that being vicious is perfectly acceptable, it's being sneaky that's frowned upon. I sort of wonder if Loki is the god of lies not because he tells lies but because he's essentially a manifestation of Odin's lie.

I also seem to recall that Frigga is pretty awesome in her own right, but the movie treats her as something of a nonentity.