Originally posted by -Pr-
It's called "reality".
Yea, Carver is batshit insane.
Marvel obviously prefers the Hulk, not admitting that at this point would just be self delusion on my part.
Another friend described the movie to me (He focused on all of the characters), and man, I'm actually kind of ticked at myself because I can't wait to see some of Hulk's scenes. None of the trailers have even shown half of what he does in the movie, and it all sound awesome.
Thor on the other hand,
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comes in 40 minutes into the movie, and besides the Hulk fight (Which ends up with him flat on his back), slams down a metal slab that Hulk threw into one of those giant serpents. That's about all Thor does of note, everything else is apparently him just fighting canon fodder and a decent fight with Loki (Their original was supposedly better).
There's even one scene
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where after defeating some guys and standing side by side, Hulk hits Thor in the back and sends him flying into a wall. For absolutely no reason! He just does it, and I gotta admit it sounds kind of funny. Although it really feels like a kick in the pants to me. On top of that, after Loki talks shit, Hulk solo, beats the utter living shit out of him, he then calls him a puny god.😂 It's like they're trying to piss off Thor fans.
Heck, even the parts where a flying brick would be perfect for are taken by the Hulk such as saving Iron Man or uppercutting one of those Serpents (This sounds like a ridiculous strength feat by the way, greater than anything else he's done before; tears the thing to pieces and rapes it's corpse). Thor comes off feeling really useless compared to the big guy, not just because Hulk's strong, but Thor comes off as ineffective for a god.
I wouldn't have as much of a problem with it if we didn't already have a Thor movie which obviously tried to make him formidable and nigh unstoppable in combat. A shame, but whatever, shit happens.
There's already talks about a new Hulk movie, let's not kid ourselves, the guys in charge obviously tried very hard to push the Hulk (While for some reason neglecting Thor), it's probably going to happen. I'm no assh*le, I hope it's successful and this time around it probably will be. A new Hulk cartoon is coming out as well.
I am disappointed with the fact that there still seems to be this idea that Thor's a hard sell. If handled well, we know he can be successful and magic/mythology really can be popular based on what we've seen. I hope the cancelled Thor animated series sees the light of day but I doubt it.
Being the Wonder Woman of Marvel really sucks, I don't know how her fans have handled it so long. I guess their character wasn't Superman for 70 years, which makes it a lot worse in this case.