[Context: he’s talking about Marvel’s portrayal of Thor, both in the comics and the movies]
As a Scandinavian, I feel I can answer this question…
I think theyr portrayal is an attempt to “piss” on our heritage. Nothing less.
Their portrayal of Norse mythology falls in the same vein as everything else they do. They have an agenda, and it’s anti anything European.
8 comments
And yes, its THAT Varg Vikernes, the one and only. Bloody hell, how do they even let people like him create an account there?!?
Scandinavian
heritage
...so sayeth Louis Cachet in France.
Not so concerned about your so-called 'heritage' when you have to change your name and live in another country to escape the fact you're a murderer in Norway, eh Blarg Vicky Anus...?!
I hear that Scandinavians are anything other than 'pissed on' by Kosuke Fujishima when he borrowed from Norse mythology in "Ah! My Goddess" when the Three Norns - Urd, Belldandy & Skuld - live in a Shinto shrine in Japan.
People like it when their culture is promoted like this, especially by those from other countries.
It gets said foreigners interested in the origins of what's being promoted y'see, OP.
“Their portrayal of Norse mythology falls in the same vein as everything else they do."
But it’s NOT Norse mythology they’re portraying. Only a tiny few go to a Marvel movie and bitch about the fidelity to ancient sagas. Like the vets watching a blockbuster about the D-Day invasion bitching about the units being on the wrong beaches….
THOUSANDS of comic book fans, however, bitch and/or squeal in glee about fidelity to Marvel mythology, seize on Easter Eggs, and brag to each other that they caught that reference, or saw that mistake.
And the thing that gets me with this sort of idiocy is, whenever a “foreign” culture gets adapted in some sort of media they’ll cry about “wokeness” and “white genocide”, all that shit. Yet, whenever they adapt something they worship, like in this case the viking mythology of the “superior master nordic race” they will ALSO cry about “pissing in our culture”. There’s no way to please a fascist dickhead, continuously getting angry and always finding a new target to bring down is one of the pillars of their ideology.
Oh hello, Varg, I mean Count Grishnackh, I mean Louis Cachet. You know, when Metallica went to San Quentin Prison, it was just visiting, performing for the video they made, in the Johnny Cash tradition. Slayer were only acting, when they staged a prison riot in one video, featuring only actors. But you were in a real prison, as a convicted murderer, or manslayer.
And you can’t expect everybody to read the classic sagas about the Norse gods, most people will have a fairly cartoonish image of Thor in mind.
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
To post a comment, you'll need to Sign in or Register . Making an account also allows you to claim credit for submitting quotes, and to vote on quotes and comments. You don't even need to give us your email address.