OK, I should be really, really afraid.

[gridlore]

I'm watching "Minoriteam" on Adult Swim. Quite possibly the most offensive thing ever. In it, one of the characters has been blown up.. all the way past Black Heaven into Nordic Heaven.

Valhalla, in other words. And they got the Aesir right. Thor has red hair and Mjonir looks right. Odin has one eye and ravens.

Why is it this really objectionable little cartoon gets it right and Marvel skill can't get a clue?

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[twfarlan.livejournal.com]

It's even the right eye that Odin is missing. heh

Marvel artists came up with the graphic designs for most of the Aesir they use way the hell back in August, 1962. Leaving aside that details were something that other people fretted over, never Marvel, they're kind of stuck with those designs for the unchanging gods. Doug, we ought to be glad they haven't decided to thrown down with a Ragnarok storyline and then fuck it up by wanting to still use all those characters afterwards.

Come to think of it, they may possibly have at some point.

[twfarlan.livejournal.com]

Oops, pardon me. They very well HAVE done Ragnarok and fucked it up. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thor_(Marvel_Comics)#Ragnarok)

Why the hell...

[seawasp]

would Marvel *WANT* to "get it right" when, after all these years, they have a very clear "branding" and their own take on the mythos? It would be pretty crazy for them to take a popular, and within the industry, well-known setup and throw it away just for the sake of historical accuracy. It'd be like Xena suddenly stopping in the middle to change the characters to historically accurate sequences, changing the gods' relations to the originals, and thus eliminating the main character entirely.

Marvel *WAS* quite aware of the "difference" for a long, long time. They even made some clear referents to it more than once; there was a Thor special in which another man temporarily became Thor, and he was a mighty red-bearded warrior. However, they'd be plumb crazy to go changing their version of Asgard, et.al., to the old one.

Note, also, that the Norse myths themselves evolved and changed over time. Thor was, at one time, the head of the pantheon. So was one of Odin's brothers. This is the modern myth.