The Psychological Horror Of Godhood In The MCU
Since the early days of Marvel Comics, the creators behind the empire brought figures of myth and legend into their stories of modern heroes. The figures once worshipped as gods by thousands of real humans have been a part of genre entertainment since the beginning, but their role in modern blockbusters is more confused than ever.
The Norse and Egyptian gods are integral parts of the Marvel Cinematic Universe now, deities from whom we still get the names of the days of the week are now franchise mainstays on the big screen. But, in the overstuffed world ripped from the comic book pages, the figures of ancient myth get a raw deal, as do those who once worshipped them.
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In the canonical MCU, in 2011, the Norse deity Thor Odinson and his hammer Mjolnir appeared on planet Earth. Most people wouldn't have heard of that, except that the next year, Loki Laufeyson killed 80 people at a public event in Stuttgart. He then waged war on New York City with armies of inexplicable creatures, doing battle with Thor, and being taken into custody for his crimes. There are no Marvel Comics in the MCU's Earth-19999, but worship of the Norse pantheon is a canonical fact. Everyone knew who Loki and Thor were in the abstract before they appeared on Earth and started killing people. There are at least 7,000 practicings Norse Pagans in the United States and potentially tens or hundreds of thousands worldwide. This means, inarguably, a percentage of the human population saw deities that they spent their lives praying to do battle in manmade cities on international TV.
Events like this begin to occur with exponentially increasing regularity over the years within the canon. A
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