The first Galactic Republic wrote:Tbh it doesn’t seem like any major movie can agree on a characterization for Thor.
So at this point it seems they’re throwing their hands in the air and going for whatever’s entertaining.
Hey, if it works.
Ragnarok just turned Thor into a troll rather than giving him an entirely new story arc, which is what happened between Ragnarok and IW.
Given that Thor had been flying around in space for years with no company but Mjolnir whilst failing to find Infinity Stones and having prophetic dreams (can we just talk about that for a moment) I think it's reasonable to expect some kind of personality change. Certainly, it's better than what happened with Drax. I mean, they were both used for unintentional humour in earlier appearances but it took four months for Drax to become a joke machine.
However, it has become clearer that they really screwed up with how they depicted Thor prior to Ragnarok. Whether fans would have accepted a Thor movie that played into the absurdity of the premise or not back in (iirc) 2011 or not I don't know, but it's definitely what people want now.
That being said, I reckon maybe a quarter to a third of fans really didn't buy into Endgame Thor's characterisation. Don't get me wrong, I think we should absolutely be very disappointed with the story that the Russo's told with Thor across both films but what I'm talking about is fans who dislike the depiction regardless of the story. It reminds me of a video I watched about The Last Jedi. The point the person was making was that people might have really liked that film if Luke had crossed the salt flats or whatever it was and faced the army down by himself and died like a boss. This is what a lot of people wanted to see with Thor.
Bombadil wrote:Thor’s on a mission of vengeance. And then we were like, he was on a mission of vengeance in the last movie. This is all this guy ever does! And fails, all the time. Let’s drive him into a wall and see what happens.”
This is very disingenuous. I mean, we can probably say that Thor's got revenge motives in Ragnarok ("Revengers") and maybe even in The Dark World (because of his mum) but the key thing is "fails, all the time". If you're not going to give Thor another revenge story because he does it all the time, why do they then proceed to make his story be about complete failure... something else he also does all the time. The reason given to reject one direction is the same as the other.
And it's a problem because Ronin is not a character I can get behind and support. Not just because it's another case of lifting a look from the comics and then doing nothing with it, but because they put Clint
When it comes down to it I just don't believe them when they say that. The Russos are terrible at handling characters who are a lot more powerful than the other ones. We've seen it in all of their post Winter Soldier MCU projects and it's manifested in a bunch of different ways. I really cannot defend how contrived Infinity War is as a film. And this is a problem because, strictly speaking, nothing Thor experienced in IW is new to him. The logical step for the character is complete denial and the solution that IW says Thor turns to is to try and power up. I mean, maybe they'd never do something like Rune King Thor in the MCU (they certainly won't now) but then you look at the pool in Ultron. If Thor was going to continue along the vengeance path all it would have created is a more powerful Thor and, hence, a bigger headache than he already was. After all, at least with Carol they can just leave her in space without raising questions but Thor is a main character.