Acting ability aside. This is why I thought TripleH from the WWE would have made a great Thor appearance wise.

Well, what we are seeing from the trailer is that this is a YOUNG Thor. He is just getting a grasp of what it means to be a God.

So him not being as massive as he is in the comics, I feel is the correct way to go.

So Mjolnir at the end of the Ironman 2 was not only a joke...

Only a matter of time before the racists got involved link

All I read was the first paragraph but why would you have a black person play a norse god? What is racist about not liking that?

Like I said... lets have a white guy play Kunta Kente or Shaka Zulu and see how the "racist" react tot hat.

That said, a boycott is 100% ridiculous over some dumb shit like that.

I think people will avoid the movie based off the trailers that have been released so far anyways....lol

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Actually, there was a black "Captain America"... technically there are three of them. The first was Isiah Bradley, who was the first successful victim of an unethical government project that was trying to re-create the same Super Soldier Serum that made Steve Rogers into Captain America by using unwilling African American soldiers as test subjects. He actually went into service as Captain America during WWII on a suicide mission to destroy Nazi Germany's attempt at creating their own Super Soldier (he lived, but was captured).

The second was Isiah Bradley's son, Josiah, who inherited similar abilities from his father and never actually went by the name "Captain America". He instead called himself "Justice" (among other things) and wore a variation on the Captain America costume similar to the one his father wore.

The last is Isiah Bradley's grandson and Josiah's nephew, Elijah Bradley, who goes by the name "Patriot", wears another variation on the Captain America costume (somewhat similar to the "Bucky" costume) and carries a shield that is a replica of Captain America's original WWII shield. He originally had no super abilities, but through a treatment with the Mutant Growth Hormone and a blood transfusion from his grandfather, he now has abilities virtually the same as other Super Soldiers.

Was there ever white versions of T'challa of Shang-chi?


Marvel does probably need more non-white characters, I dunno, I only read silver-copper age comics so I have no idea what it is like now. Using the norse gods for that is just stupids though.

Difference being, in the case of characters like Black Panther and Master of Kung-Fu, their ethnicity is a key part of the character and changing that in the slightest would completely invalidate the story. The Norse gods in the Marvel universe are gods of the Norse people, but they are not Norsemen themselves. They are essentially aliens from an alternate dimension. There is nothing in the characters themselves that declares any kind of ethnicity, so altering that aspect for the sake of casting the right actor for the role shouldn't be that big of a deal.

To be honest as long as Baldur looks similar to how he did in his miniseries I dont care about the others.


Baldur is da best.

Gods have been known to be free from the constraints of mere image. Also, just because a mythology is Norse, doesn't have to mean everything involved in that mythology will have a certain skin color. I suppose it could be a problem if skin color was defined explicitly in that mythos. But I don't think this is the case here. I'm half Norwegian myself, and I don't see that inclusion as sullying anything. Whether the film is actually good remains to be seen.

We´ll see, superhero movies (with exceptions) use to be not very good. Even now I remember Daredevil, Elektra, Punisher, Catwoman and the Hulk ones... Ah, bad memories flowing :-(.

It is not mentioned because it is a given. However, Marvels version can do whatever they want.

Those are masterpieces compared to the Spawn movie.

That was even more awful.

I disagree that it is a given. If anything, it's an assumption. Not a given.