I really shouldn't bother to get worked up about this...

[oneiriad]

So, I stumbled across yet another of those articles about how some so-called fans are bitching about the casting of Idris Elba as Heimdal, and I'm just - seriously, people. This is movie with a blond Thor, not a goat in sight, and where Loki's mother has been mysteriously and inexplicably genderswitched into the king of the jotun (which has lead me

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[piratepurple]

Let's not forget that these particular versions of the Norse pantheon are also SUPERHEROES, coexisting in a universe with aliens, people who regularly die and come back, get superpowers via radiation, spider bite, genetic manipulation etc, etc. That argument is invalid.

[oneiriad]

That argument is invalid
Would that be the Edda argument or my argument? *tilts head, not quite sure*

[piratepurple]

The argument that Heimdall should be white because he's Norse. Comic books are not the Edda. :D If Thor can fight alongside Superman, then Heimdall's skin color can be non Caucasian. There is nothing historically or culturally accurate about the Marvel comics universe.

[oneiriad]

Well, there's a mention in one of the Edda poems of him eating a roasted heart and getting pregnant thereby, but I don't remember it specifically mentioning the terrible three, so maybe them, maybe another myth we won't ever hear. Which is the frustrating thing about Norse myth - we have a handful of stories written down centuries after people stopped actually believing them, or at least, by people who didn't want the authorities to have any reason to suspect them of heresy. There are so many stories - fragments and hints in the Edda - and we'll probably never know them - and it sucks :-(

But yeah, myth Loki probably wouldn't be phased - movie-Marvel Thor's Loki, on the other hand... ;-)

And no, not the one on Thurston Common (which I didn't know about - interesting). When I said Thor's stone, I was thinking of the stone fragment he has had permanently lodged in his forehead since his duel with the jotun Hrungnir. Somehow, modern stories never seem to remember that stone :-)