Remember how Disney did two whole franchises in a row where they let the popular indie director destroy the hero's legacy weapon and have a climactic scene where they realize they didn't need it, then in the next film they built a bullshit new weapon?4 https://twitter.com/hiddlesgold/status/1245554212416749569 …
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Remember furthermore how in both franchises, not only did they have a bullshit new weapon, but then they brought back the exact original weapon with bullshit so a DIFFERENT hero character could use it for applause?
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Replying to @BootlegGirl
Ok, but Thor's relationship to Mjolnir is explicitly pointed out as rather more than *just* a power source, and is imo a lot better. also, bluntly, Power of Heart don't kill people, use the best weapon you got for that situation. Thor's not gonna go Goku & take levels in Monk.
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Replying to @loudpenitent @BootlegGirl
the whole point of Ragnarok is that his focus on mjolnir was holding thor back /he is not the god of hammers, and he never was/
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the point of TLJ is painfully similar the obsession with recreating the rituals of the past isn't a source of power, but of weakness--not just stagnation, but repetition of the past's failures
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and like, not to put to fine a point on it but that stupid ax did nothing for thor! the hammer did nothing for thor! neither of them actually mattered to him and somehow he convinced himself they did and that set him back over and over!
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Replying to @perdricof @BootlegGirl
It's a weapon he used effectively in combat, not some sort of moral crutch.
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Replying to @loudpenitent @BootlegGirl
did he use it effectively in combat tho and more to the point, it's not as combat and morality are even separable in superhero movies, that's sort of the point "right makes might," so to speak
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Yeah if I actually trusted the Russos to be thinking about theme and message consistently the whole time then the Stormbringer sequence is a cruel parody of superhero epic-ness porn All that effort into making this ultimate mythic axe thing and he still doesn't go for the head
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Stormbreaker, sorry See even the new name is stupid
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