we have some stuff going on her.
it is not just POC issue and i did not want to derail the thread.
mods might move it cause it belongs to marvel/thor discussion.
hela was superficially imperssiv. great actress, great costume design, etc.
but then we act as if the asgardians have a hidden/secret history? oh, she was the first born. as if that ever mattered. zeus was the youngest among his siblings for example.
so we are expected to believe, that during the thousands of years of asgardian reign, everyone lied to thor?
he did not know about this sister?
and then, in a vulgar display of power, she crushes his incarnation of power? thor in the mythology is not the god of war and battle, he is the protector of family.
even if mythology and marvel differ, there are some qualities that remain. thor is the protector of midgard and its people.
but then the lady takes that all away effortlessly.
then we have the total and easy destruction of asgard and its people. hela is a joke character. boom, she is there, she goes in and destroys everything. there are no stakes!
i have to state that with mocking the white characters, i meant the army of asgard and fandrall and volstagg. and to a degree the scourge.
the scourge had his epic scene from one of the best thor runs, but he still is just a joke. it lacks the respect for the source material.
so we have fandrall and volstagg insta killed. those legendary companions of thor. they are just snuffed. what is that? to me that is just a hired gun making fun of established characters.
the mockery is put to another level when hogun does his last man standing.
i like hogun, but i think it was fundamentally wrong. they are the WARRIORS THREE. let them have their last stand together. but no, hogun is the only one that even shows a slight of a challenge to hela, which would have been okay if the other asgardians would not have been offed like clowns.
it is an epic storyline, but in my humble opinion, marveldisney failed it the same as x-men failed the phoenix-saga.
asgards fall is not epic. or do you think so? was that what you expect of an acient raceĀ“s last stand?
so everybody dies, but the other token POC in asgard organizes the defiance to hela. frag you, norsemen.
to me it is a reversed tarzan. there you have white saviour to guide the poor natives, it is both imbalanced storytelling