#I love origins regardless but also Fuck You Origins💥💥💥 DIE

[m-s-justice]

origins HATES me for being hoh. there's too much noise for my stupid ass. I hate you tiny little alarms I can never fuckin see you ever. and my punishment? DEATH.

[tyrannuspitch]

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💥 What is one canon thing that you wish you could change?

[note: i wrote out a whole Thing after automatically assuming this was thor-related, so if you were hoping for a CO-related answer, sorry </3 the answer there is: die sequel die die die and/or he would not fucking go to lse.]

okay so i've gone through a long list of petty and non-petty complaints, and the one thing i eventually landed on is: i wish they had been braver with thor's characterisation. like, i love thor as he is, i don't want him to be a DIFFERENT character, but i wish certain parts of him had been explored in greater depth.

specifically, i wish that they a) had let him show greater depths of negative emotion (while treating him with respect.) and b) leaned into his moral greys/complexities more.

on the matter of emotion: one thing that comes back to me a lot is that in t1, thor, odin and loki all cry; in a1, only loki cries; in t2, tears are only ever implied offscreen (again, loki's tears); and by t3, even implied tears are out, with the closest thing being loki making this face -> 🥺. and like... yes, increasing stoicism is definitely a genuine part of thor's character, but at the same time, i also think this is about like. marvel not wanting to be seen as Cheesy and Over-Earnest. and this hits thor particularly hard. loki gets to be a brooding villain/antihero, but thor has to be an action hero, and it's really suffocating.

on the matter of moral greys: this is, like, 50% the same thing as above, and 50% about them straight up being uncomfortable with the fact that mcu thor isn't really A Hero.

re: emotions again: looking closely at thor's moral greys also means looking closely at his fears, his guilt complex, his child abuse trauma, and his vulnerability in general. he does questionable things for a reason.

re: heroism: thor genuinely isn't a Hero, in my opinion; he's just a protagonist.

first of all, regardless of his medium of origin, he literally isn't a superhero - he's a prince and a warrior, he was born into both roles, and he (mostly) acts legally in interplanetary wars (ie: opposite of a street-level vigilante).

second of all - the story as laid out in old thor is deliberately undermining itself, esp wrt hero/villain/mentor roles, and because thor's hero mindset is inextricable from the role of asgard and the allfather in the nine realms, as Authorities and Protectors by Divine Right, we're meant to question his heroism itself! thor being controlling and overly dutiful in his personal life is not separable from thor being aggressive and reckless-to-the-point-of-self-destruction in his political life.

i'm getting away from the point here, but essentially, it's hard to sell a deconstruction of a hero narrative AS a hero narrative. though t3 damn well tried. (and it gets halfway to making many good points - i know i mostly complain about it, but i genuinely LOVE the destruction of mjolnir - but then it always kind of shies away again.)

a lot of my currently unwritten fanfic is focused on pushing thor's morally grey and sinister sides further while trying to keep him a sympathetic and understandable character. it's a fun challenge, and there's a lot of subtle/subtextual stuff in canon to draw on! i just wish canon had embraced and resolved it instead of just kind of abandoning it.

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