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1. OK, if you're going to do the Norse universe, do it RIGHT. DARK DOES NOT EQUAL EVIL. THE SVARTALFIR ARE NOT EVIL. They are the craftsmen, the physical, earthy, underground elves, who balance the light, ethereal, Legolas-bishonen ljossalfir. They are sturdy folk who are practical and sensible and work for pay, not raving evil orcish monsters. Without them, Thor would not have Mjollnir or Freyja Brisingamen (and where ARE Freyja and Freyr in this universe?). Do NOT GO PLAYING IN OTHER PEOPLE'S MYTHOLOGY IF YOU DON'T WANT TO DO THE RESEARCH.
2. You can't kill a Goddess. OK, so she's not a goddess in this universe. You can't kill a Marvel character permanently, either.
3. Yes, Loki runs away with the movie. Amazing, how Tom Hiddleston can communicate with one small smirk...and oh, how Chris Evans was having fun with that little bit...
4. I actually wish Thor had come out with "Curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal!" at the appropriate moment...but then, it would have given too much away.
5. Ah. So Thor, in an act of oathbreaking needed to save the universe from a raving monster, loses his arm (well, sort of). That rings some mythological bells in my mind - and explains why there's no Tyr in this universe, at least. I always did suspect the two deities came from similar mythic roots...
6. That "You can't kill a Marvel character permanently" bit? Applies doubly, no, trebly, to Loki. (And yes, I was thinking that at the time, not just at the end.)
7. Yes, Mr. Lee, you can have your shoe back.
8. Oh, look, _there's_ Loki. What a shocking surprise. (Not.) I wonder where Odin is. I bet he's cooperating. Or orchestrated the whole thing. (Remember, Odin is a Trickster God himself, and this way, his rebel son has a chance to redeem himself - while being forced to imitate his wiser and more restrained father - and his Lawful Good son has a chance to go out and do what he does best, protecting the Nine Worlds, without the burden of kingship...and Odin can retire and go find Frigga, wherever she has gone - where do you go when you die in Asgard? She died in battle, so not Hel's realm - or maybe?
9. Y'know, I'm mostly agnostic/humanist, but Thor is the one deity I can't let go of. Is it blasphemy, that now when I talk to my God, I'm picturing Chris Hemsworth with his shirt off? (It's certainly _appealing_.)