![]() ![]() ![]() Thor: The Dark World, the next chapter in the God of Thunder's journey, is Marvel's "spaciest" movie yet, diving in and out of several worlds and exotic settings. To follow his story, Marvel has to hit the spaceways and dial up the fantasy. He's the proverbial alien of the bunch, even if he's seen as a demigod. The loosest exception to that is the character of Thor. Still, to maintain the analogical brilliance of RDJ, in another role, that being Tropic Thunder, Marvel made sure to "never go full retard." Even with the fantastical going on, our characters remained very connected to their humanity. In Thor, gods now walked the earth and Earth's mightiest heroes took on aliens from space in The Avengers. They left the plausible behind and entered the fantastical. They upped the scale to go beyond mortal and earthly settings. With Thor and especially later with The Avengers, Marvel took everything a step further and bigger. ![]() Unlike the usual fantastical nature of comic book movies where aliens fly with red capes or wield green power rings of will, one could readily accept and believe the ability of a mortal billionaire industrialist like Robert Downey, Jr.'s Tony Stark to make a suit of armor much in the same way we've watched Bruce Wayne gadget himself up into a crimefighter. Before the Norse "God of Thunder" was cast out of the realm of Asgard and sent to learn a few lessons on Earth, the Marvel movies surrounding Iron Man and The Incredible Hulk before 2011 took a page out of Batman's movie rule book by playing very grounded, realistic, and, for the most part, plausibly believable. Much like within the unified plot thread of the Marvel Cinematic Universe itself, the entire direction of this series of comic book movies changed with the arrival of Thor in 2011. ![]()
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