Thor: Tales of Asgard

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of Stark Industries. Oh. Lionsgate. Game of Thrones

-y. Yeah, I was literally thinking that. The

music's not as epic. Somewhere between Game of

Thrones and Harry Potter. I like it in either

case. Oh, same, same. Our first venture into

this universe. Indeed. And it's a good one. Yeah,

this one will spend quite a few decades for us.

Yeah, it's a good one. Oh, Feige's part of this.

I didn't realize that. Yeah. Well, Feige's been

involved since the original X -Men. Yeah. Good

for him. Just just doing it, you know? Yeah.

I mean, I like him. I can comfortably say. I'm

a fan. Yeah. Yeah. Right. Oh, arrows. More arrows.

Always with the arrows. That's true. These are,

these are some hefty credits. They need sheets.

Well, you know, I don't, I don't think that they

had gotten to a point where sheets were mainstream

at this point on the sheet area of animating

this. Yeah. Oh, I like that transition. Yeah,

that was cool. Yeah, that was cool. Oh, dude,

I'm excited. All right. Yeah. Settling in. I

wonder who that is. I have my guesses. He's got

a sword, though, so a little confusing. Yeah,

I don't know what that's about. I mean, I guess

he didn't get the hammer immediately. He wasn't

like born with it. Are you Thor, god of hammers?

I should assume so. Man, teenage angst Thor is

going to be exciting. Get the whole Warriors

3 angsty. That'll be fun. Ooh, Loki angsty? As

if he's not already? I was about to say, yeah.

What else is new? Everyone else gets armor and

shields and he's just there in his little cutoff

vest. Let me get his haircut. No. Flowing locks.

No beard yet, though. Which actually is the classic

Thor look. Yeah, yeah. Slick. So is this is this

Loki? Yeah, I could. I presume. I would only

assume so. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, man, sticking

your hand right in the goats. Dude. That feels

weird and kind of awesome. So what she said.

Nailed it. I think they prefer to be called vertically

challenged. Oh, wow. Hands off, Thor. Right.

Got him. Yeah. Put that in your pipe and smoke

it. Mm hmm. Look at that horse in the background.

Not true. A lot of people pray to him. Well,

maybe has he been has he been to Midgard yet?

You know, fair point. Oh, that means something

different. Mm hmm. Oh, hit her with a winch.

Damn. And she's going to hit you with a pitchfork.

Hey, buddy, fork you. Oh, OK. All right. I was

looking forward to watching him get forked. Yeah.

Boy, you just got your ass handed to you. Hit

her with the lightning. Oh, Pegasus. Oh, Pegasus.

Flying horses are cool. Exhibit A. Yes. Fact.

I like how their feet are unnaturally big. You

know what they say about guys with big feet?

They wear big socks. They're drawn weird. Yeah.

Yeah, that too. Two things. One thing could be

two things. Oh. Oh, is that... Edward Forty Hansing,

two women. One of the warriors. What's his name?

Flynn? I can't remember. There's another one.

Yep. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Bob. Look at those guys.

Yeah. Talk about oddly drawn. Yeah. Yeah. Oh,

man. I feel like sympathy laughs. Openly making

fun of the prince doesn't seem like an overly

wise idea. Right? Yeah, that's what I said, see?

Like, literally everybody just did. Yeah. And

why are you picking up Volstagg? Well, he's got

the shortest vest. At least it's not a short

tie. It's true. Man, we are really running into

a lot of heavy, short clothing in this. Stark

Industries theme. Shorter than usual clothes.

I don't know how I feel about that. Brumhilde.

That's amazing. That's pretty good. Didn't we

get a drow? Oh, yeah. Dark Elves, yeah. I guess

Dark Elves, but yeah. Were they from Niven? Niver?

Niverheim? Nivengard? Niver? There's some kind

of... I almost said it's an N -word. That's something

I shouldn't say. Careful. Yeah, yeah. Careful.

Well, every stable person refers to themselves

in the third person. I was just about to say,

I love it when people talk about themselves.

That man has a rib cage. Yeah. Of a God and a

waistline. He's been waist training. He's been

he's got a he's got a girdle on. So there's the

representation of the lamb, not the lambs, the

goats. Tooth grinder and tooth gnashers, maybe.

Yeah, them's the ones. That'd be them, yeah.

Obviously, I didn't read a whole lot of Thor

comics. It's okay. No one's perfect. Nah, man.

Oh, yeah, that's Odin. That checks out. Always

works. Yeah. Every single time. Because I said

so, and I'm your daddy. Oh, okay. I saw the order

right there. Yeah, I think so. Yeah. I took it

and threw it on the ground. Oh, he's probably

not worthy yet. That's why. Okay. Okay. Okay.

He goes and gets a different one. Interesting.

Yeah. A test of manhood. Is that supposed to

be Gungir up there? I was wondering that. I'm

seeing, I'm looking at all the weapons. I didn't

see it on Odin's person, which surprised me.

Yeah, that's a good point. That's probably gun

gear then. He's got fingerless gloves. I think

Stormbreaker was also there in that display,

which doesn't make a whole lot of sense, but.

Maybe at least you're right. Let my people go.

For as long as possible. And I'm snitching. Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah, that's not what I needed. I needed

you to just say you would just not say anything.

Not as long as possible. Right. No, no, that's

not what I asked. It's offensive. I'm a waterbender.

What are you doing, Peter? Oh, is that Enchantress?

Yeah, gotta be. Good job, Lokes. Yeah. Only Enchantress

is talking that close to somebody's ear. Well,

yeah. I mean, kind of her thing. That's right.

He also has fingerless gloves. Oh, and he's wet.

Oh, well, I mean, also kind of her thing. Being

wet? Well. Careful. He's a kid. This is weird.

I need an adult. He needs an adult. Safety check.

He has one. That's the problem. Yeah. She doesn't

look as young as the rest of them here. This

is problematic. No, she really doesn't. I just

splashed myself on the face with it. If you're

asking. How's your magic and why are you wet?

Yeah. That's amazing. That never bothered. That's

a quick tune change. Yeah. I can't do it, actually.

Are they going to sail to Jotunheim? That's certainly

seems to be the the goal here. This man still

has the women somehow. They're like going to

load up and they're just like. Or. Or what? See

what I did there? Yep. I'm surprised I didn't

go with him. Looks a lot like that thing's floating.

I'm not sure there's water under there. It is

floating, right? Yeah. Okay. Well, there's Heimdall.

Oh. Is that Idris Elba? Doesn't quite look like

him. Similar, but not the same. Yeah. Slight

differences. That's kind of cool. It looks like

there's a rainbow coming out from behind the

boat. Yeah. I don't hate that. Bifrost boat.

Mary. Your dad's Odin. I feel like you're equipped

to handle a lot of stuff. And you're Asgardian.

I mean, you're kind of durable. Oh, he's not

going to last very long at all. Always a reason

to be concerned with that, man. We had a tussle.

Yeah, no joke. Let's not forget that casting

him out is one of the options. Yeah, that won't

happen for a while. Yeah, or will it? Well. Yeah,

Loki's wet. Probably not anymore. No, he still

is. It's a persistent wet, man. Wouldn't that

be like the worst spell ever? I would like persistent

wet. Oh, God. Eternal moist. Everywhere you walk.

God. Awful. I hate it. I'm deleting that. And

they ran away. Yeah. Oh, good for him. Good for

him. Yeah, he didn't do it. He didn't break.

I'm surprised. Me too. Always starting with fighting

the Giants. He can't not touch. He can't not

touch. Oh, man. Well, she was barely. She's basically

naked. Interesting. That guy's furry. This bar

is an exciting place. Well, yeah. This waitress

is making. Oh, OK. Never mind. It's over. Still

uncomfortable. Yeah, it's gone. I lost it. Oh,

man. Oh. How many drinks is it going to take?

Wow. That's amazing. That was ridiculous. That

liquid's coming out of that cup into his mouth.

Yep. Oh, that's weird. This is a place of magic.

Turn into what? Like the waitress did? Oh. Roasted

mystery meat. Thanks, I'll pass. That doesn't

sound like the best. It is I, Thor. You. I was

in your boat. You did. What? Who? Scooby Doo.

Well, that one's not a crazy harpy thing. Yeah,

that one's just a normal one. Just a normal harpy

thing. Oh, boy. Oh, I mean, he's daring. Oh,

the son of Odin. Soulless machine. Is that supposed

to be Fenris Wolf? Fenris? He's not supposed

to be like that, I don't think. Uh -uh. Not at

all. That's more werewolf by night. Yeah. Oh,

he's going to be wet. Do it. Do it. As soon as

he said something, he was getting wet. We've

established that wetness is the move. Oh, I mean,

that's the cartoon version of getting hit by

something. Yeah. Getting hit in the face with

a pie. Yeah. Little dwarves up on the chandelier.

What was that? Oh. We've got a good barroom brawl

scene. I'm not mad about that. Yeah. Every good

anything's got to have a good barber and brawl

scene. Oh. Go back after the waitress. Right.

Oh, man, he's going lethal. Oh, there they go.

Yeah. Yeah, he's using the Morningstar. Yeah,

the Morningstar. Yeah. Everyone else is just

punching that guy's out there out for blood.

Oh, right. I think Fenris was out for blood,

too, to be fair. But then again, he is wet because

of Loki. Stick out your hand and see if it comes

to you. Let's establish some lore. Oh, or just

stand there and let Fenris get smacked instead.

Oh, that guy's very white. I think that's Geralt.

Could be. Could be. Oh, he's right where he wants

to be. Yeah, that's not to say. Well, not anymore.

They all turn into a monster. That's just this

whole war is just full of that. Harpies. Yeah,

pretty much. Oh, yeah. Now we're cooking. Oh,

man. That's pretty good. Oh. Coming back. Oh,

no. The Barnes. There you go. You're just really

good at throwing hammers, Thor. Think about that

for a while. Yeah. Yeah. Stew on that. Well,

the door's right there. I was going to say, we're

missing two. Why'd you go and do that? There's

more wet. Oh, that was handy. Well, that's one

way to do it. Yeah. Ste -roke. I mean, he was

right. He said we're about to get another story.

Yeah. I say thee nay. Nay. Weird Loki having

Thor's back. Yeah. Yeah, he's not gotten or yet.

That comes with puberty, baby. I don't know.

I mean, I guess it was kind of even in the movie

had his back until he found out he was half giant.

Yeah, that's true. Oh. Get him right in the pee

pee. Froop Hilda. Amazing. Isn't that the gal's

name in Young Frankenstein? I don't know. Froop

Hilda's got a lot of connotations. Yeah, fair,

fair. The Valkyries. Cool armor. Oh, boy. It's

overtly sexual. It's very... mantis talk there

i know the matriarchy just bite their head off

afterward yeah oh no they crashed uh you know

i guess it seems that way Yeah, she did. Oh yeah,

he said it too. I love it. A quality I've grown

to appreciate. Women, am I right? No hood up.

It's about to get chilly. He doesn't even have

his hood on anymore. Can't mess up that hair.

That's right. Lucky's good. Certainly didn't

look like he was whistling. Yep, that's the explanation.

You figured it out. I guess it's not quite a

morning star. It's only nubbed. It's a nubby

star. It's a just before dawn star. No, that

actually sounds kind of cool. Well, I mean, that

wasn't nothing. Better be ready than not. Hey,

she took a piece of his clothes. Always vigilant.

Just yell. They won't be looking for us. Yeah,

I'm glad that none of them think it's that weird

that Loki's just like, I'm good. Everyone's freezing

to death. I guess Loki is pretty tough. All of

this just looks the same. Yep. Where's the Frost

Giant settlements? Yeah, well, probably under

the ice. Don't worry, Loki's got this. He's about

to make somebody wet. Well, do I have some news

for you. Well, you don't. Yeah. I was about to

say. Your brother just sits there, cheeks out

on the ice. No issue. Chilling. Literally. Well,

not. Not literally. Unliterally. Showing their

breath when they talk is a nice little attention

to detail. Yeah. Yeah, it's kind of fun. Oh,

well, we got Surtur. Yeah, that's cool. He's

kind of goofy looking. I like it. Oh, yeah. So

there's the confirmed. The spear back in the

room was indeed gun gear. It was indeed. Got

the horse with the extra legs. Thus exposing

his chest. That means something different, depending

on who you're talking about. He is a goofy looking

demon and I kind of love it. What you do with

dragons? Wait till they take a breath in? Expose

their chest? I always wait for an exposing of

the chest. Very charged episode. No, it really

is. It is heavy. Whoever wrote this was going

through some stuff. Right. Lonely times. The

fat guy's tired. I mean, felt. It's hard to carry

all that weight. Yeah. My hair was longer. I

kind of look like that guy. He's about to fall

through. You should have done the beard like

that too. I should have, yeah. It's not too late.

I've got lots of good beard years left. Yeah,

yeah. Do it. I was just like regretting his life

choices. Speak friend and enter. Uh oh. Interesting

that he opened one eye first. Okay. This guy

from the bar? Yep, it is. Yep. Well, we had a

wrestling match in my bar, and then they went

away. Oh, man. Yeah. Huh. Like, stabbing it into

the ground was unnecessary. Right. One of them

left this. It just kills two guys. Also, what

is your ground made of? Yeah. Just cut through

it. Soft butter. These are our soft butter floors.

Oh, man. Call back. Look over there. It's glowing.

Found it. Well, there you go. It stuck butt end

into the ice somehow. Right. The blade might

be heated. Maybe. Or it just looks cooler this

way. Well, of course, there's that. That is pretty

impressive. Stupid. Yeah, can you break it free?

But impressive. Starting a landslide inside this

cave? Yes, I can. Hope you don't like your weapon

because you're not getting that thing back. You're

just before dawn start. Oh. Shrinkage. Not uncommon.

Performance issues, especially in the cold. It

just works. It's got a little face on it. And

he's happy to see you. Are you Thor got a fire

stuff? Oh, man. Why doesn't he have any Thor

powers? The powers don't come from the hammer.

Yeah, I don't know. That seems like a fun sword

to have. Yeah. Luckily, you stick it in that

scabbard and it just calms down. Right. Seems

a magical scabbard. Yes. It was never a harmless

quest. Right? Who ever thought that? You lost

your last sword. You're going to leave that one

too in a bar somewhere? No, the dwarves didn't

make this one. You can't blame it on them. That's

true. Or the little people. Wow. Vertically challenged.

We've already been over this. Vertically challenged.

You're absolutely right. Apologies. Yeah. Jerk.

Oh, you got it back. Yeah, well. He doesn't have

the recall thing like Mjolnir does. He had to

go pick it up somewhere. They didn't show that

walk of shame. Yeah. Under all the ice. Yeah.

Spent like two hours digging through ice trying

to find it. but Sif will. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Now

kiss. Man, their feet. How do I? What artistic

design? I was like, you know what? All of this

looks really cool, but let's make their feet

to be about seven sizes too big. Giant stumps.

How are they going to get to the Valkyries without

a way to get off of Jotunheim? I was wondering

that. That's that's a that's a I assume Heimdall's

watching. Do they have a do the Valkyries have

a satellite campus on Yotenheim? Outpost. Oh,

oh, that's cool. OK. All right. I like that.

Not so harmless. Hey, bro. Yeah, right. I stole

their mustache. Oh, it's a piece of material.

Yeah, yeah, no, I know. That's what she took

off his jacket. Yeah, yeah. Sniff it. Yeah, I

knew it. Hunting bears. Yeah, these polar bears

made for hunting. I wonder if one of these is

supposed to be Laufey or they're all just nameless

giants. Yeah. I'd be curious. I'd have to look

at the credits. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, man. The wood

guy gets to ride on the little cart and everybody

else has to walk. Right. Coming, boss. Yeah,

they're going to be getting left behind something

fierce. They're frozen. The guards stand there

so long till they just freeze. Yeah. Oh, wow.

Those are not. Apparently those polar bears were

like 30 feet away. We just saw them take that.

It's going to be like never ending story. You're

going to shoot him with their eyes. Oh, don't

worry. He's got Serger's blade, so. You know

what really doesn't agree well with Frost Giants?

Fire swords. Fire. Yeah. Upper body shots of

everybody just walking. See, I told you. Yeah,

dude. I told you that's what was going to happen.

I knew it. They just stood there until they froze.

Man. Wow. Quick, hit it with the water spell.

Ah! Oh, yeah. As you draw your beat stick. I'm

like, well, what do we do? Oh, damn. That guy

just disintegrated. Oh, that whole bridge is

gone. Oh, there goes the polar bears. Oh, man.

Yeah. Holy smokes. Yeah. He just started an international

incident. Luckily, they were on the world's tallest

bridge over the world's biggest chasm. Right.

Oh, yeah, those ones are OK. Oh, he's I wonder

if he's mad. I can't tell by his face. Oopsies.

Well. Well, you did. Maybe not that specific

thing, but you definitely swung the death blade

at him. He's got a little double axe thing. Oh

no, they're going to inform the king. I imagine

the king is Laufey. Gotta be, right? Yeah. This

is just bear giant number one. General giant.

Yeah, I think that's how he's going to be credited.

Oh, now they're in a jungle? Question mark? Yeah.

I wouldn't call them beasts. Yeah. That's a whole

self burn. Those are weird. Oh. Yeah, yeah. Father.

That means that's Loki's brother. Yeah. Oh, here

we go. They're just going straight to Asgard.

Yeah, yeah. Like I said, international incident.

Did I miss something? I'm trying to figure out

why they're in a terrarium all of a sudden. And

there's Valkyries there. What's happening? I

feel like I missed something, too. Yeah. I'm

confused. How is he just scaling it? A sheer

wall. All right. All right. Seems pretty silly

to have a thatched wall. If you ask me. He doesn't

know how to fly yet either, apparently. Hmm.

Yeah, I'm really trying to figure out how the

Valkyries are just in here naked. Yeah, this

this guy, the overtly sexual continues. Yeah.

We're about to see like full frontal here. Oh.

Oh, well, he might be into that. Luckily, that

room's holding together. Without the sash. Yeah.

I came here to get a bath. How did he get there?

Yeah. We're going to have to do some research.

Figure out how they went from Jotunheim to the

Valkyrie Sanctuary where everyone's naked and

taking a bath. Yeah, right? A little rainbow

bridge between the two. Male. Oh, they all got

dressed real fast. Okay. It says as it's snowing.

Yeah. Thank you. All father. All father. What's

the weather report? My hand is wet. It's raining.

It's cold today. Oh, man. OK. Maybe we'll figure

it out here. Maybe this is the secret to whatever's

happening. I mean. I feel like they're just marching

up to the gates of... We're ignoring travel here.

They've unlocked fast travel. Yep. There's Toothcrowder

and Toothnasher. Hey, there they are. He looks

goofy as hell in his... Not the absolutely absurd

version of them that comes in Love and Thunder

where they just scream the whole time. Oh, God.

Obnoxious. Oh, man, look how big that polar bear

is. He's a... That's a hefty boom. It's large.

Damn. Wow. It's like, yep, that sounds about

right. King Thrine. That's not a... Yeah. Familiar

name to me. Yeah, Normie. It's a pretty rad scepter.

Yeah. Why did you even come up here and ask?

Go sit back up there in your chair. Yeah. What?

You didn't know? Not too bad. Yeah. Sucks to

be you. Your eye. Oh, man. I was really hoping

he'd have a patch on his eye. He hadn't got that

for you. That's pretty rad, though. Yeah. Proud

dad moment. Mm hmm. Well. Oh, there we go. That's

how. OK. Apparently they're in the tree. Yeah.

What is it? What is the name of that tree? Yggdrasil.

Yggdrasil. Yeah. Yeah. All right. So there's

the connecting points of the world tree. That's

how we're explaining just crossing over. Why'd

they get in the boat? Just traveling. I just

don't know. Maybe it's easier. Shortcut. You

don't have to take the bridge. If you can just

sail across the nothing. I mean, you can't get

to that bar. That's right. You don't take the

boat. The bar's connected to no branches of the

world tree. That's right. That's right. We've

seen this before. Well, I guess not. We will

see this again. We will see this again in many,

many, many years. That's dead. Kills me. Yeah.

That was a weird angle. I didn't like it. Man.

Oh. They just keep it there and let it smell

until it's completely disconnected from Asgard?

I guess that's what we're supposed to do. One

of them is. Not whores, horses. Big distinction.

All right, Loki. Get everybody wet. Go splash.

Squirtle. Squirtle, squirtle. If he does a wet

spell, I'm going to actually lose it. Oh, God.

Wow. Attention, wenches. I'm going to go. I'm

going to go somewhere for the women and say that

and I'll report back. I feel like you won't report

back. He's a no nonsense. Well, you did kill

a couple of them and then just apparently walk

across the bridge. Yeah, yeah. Oh, we got Frost

Giants versus Valkyries. This is not a fight

I expected and I'm kind of excited about. Yeah.

There's all the arrows from the opening sequence.

Yeah, right. Come on, Thor. Yeah. Be Thor. Yeah.

He's not been Thor this entire movie, which I

understand. This is a coming of age tale, but

come on. It's got to start with a little something.

Give us a little bit of Thor. Man, that polar

bears. Just massive. Just doing it. The rope

was already framed. That's going to be enough.

Yep. Should be. Should be. Come on, Thor. There

you go. Yeah. They use those as little weapons.

Yeah. Oh, dear. Oh, that's like stepping on a

Lego. We're so cool. Right. It's almost like

both of us have kids. Yeah, that's right. Well,

you got a stick in your foot. So many. I don't

know. Right. Oh, that's incredible. Wow. Polar

bears is apparently the dumbest animal on Earth.

Yeah. And snap. Yeah. Oh, and here goes the polar

bear off the thing. Yeah, there you go. Perfect.

Land on his head, even though he's four times

bigger than all of you. He's knocked out immediately.

Yeah, no problem. Help me get these fangs? Is

that what he said? That's what he said. He needs

those for later. Poor polar bear is going to

wake up without teeth. That's terrible. The cool

thing about Bumbles is Bumbles bounce. No, I

mean, all that. He just threw a snowball. There

it is. There it is. And everybody's wet again.

Oh, man. You've been knocked out this entire

time. I think you need to take a breath. Right?

And he did literally protect you. Yeah, he did

the stick jammy in the foot thing or else you'd

be toe jam right now. Okay, that's why Sif's

not a Valkyrie. She defied Broomhilda, the most

unreasonable person ever. With. One of the worst

names. Sorry if there are any Broomhildas. Broomhildas?

Yeah. Yeah. But, I mean, you got to know by now.

I feel confident that if there are, that they

go by something else. Like Hildy. Hildy. Broom.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Broomy. Broomy. Yes. They're

out of sync. It's driving me nuts. It's better

than them being in sync, but I don't like that

angle. Look at that dude with the horns behind

him. Okay. Very special looking, man. There's

a big moon and a little moon. They're all drinking

in unison. Apparently you can lead a pegasus

to water and they'll drink. I don't understand

the disconnect between the Valkyries and Asgardians

here. Yeah, same. You think they'd see a bunch

of Pegasi drink Pegasuses? Pegasi? Drinking at

a lake and they'd be like, oh yeah, these are

our people. We're cool. Yuck, yuck, yuck, yuck.

Yeah, dude, yeah But but but my toy, you know

You've carried this burden for half an hour.

Give it to me. My precious. I was about to say,

yeah, somebody watched Lord of the Rings before

they sat down to make this. Right. It's the same

exact vibe. And something else, because it's...

And also, yeah, apparently some adult entertainment.

Oh man, here it comes. He's been holding on to

another secret for a long time. Mm -hmm. And

he said no. Yep. Oh yeah, I love the thumb sticky

-out -y sort of from the scabbard thingy. So

good. Yeah. Oh, boy. Oh, wow. That was a. Oh.

Oh, wow. OK, well. Glad you've been sitting here

just being a royal advisor for however long,

and then all of a sudden you're like, hmm, never

mind, kill everybody. Also, shoot with your eyes

closed. Now's your chance. He's in water already.

No. I mean, he does have this sword of Surtr.

Feels like something he could do. Yeah, this

man. This man's about to bring about an early

Ragnarok. Uh -huh. Pow. Grab this regular sword.

I guess I'll use a normal one. Yeah, it's still

a sword. We do get a little bit of hammer Easter

egg at the bar. Otherwise, this has been largely

disappointing for who Thor is. Uh -huh. I completely

concur. Love that they brought the throne. Yeah.

Well, you know. Like, you know. If you're going

to do stuff, you might as well do it. I am a

generous God. I think that I would give away

all these polar bears after what just happened

at the Amazon place. Or the Valkyrie place. I

don't think they were there to see it. Yeah,

that's fair. They hadn't got the pigeon from

that. Yeah. There you go. He had to walk all

the way back over there to get gun gear so you

could do something. Right. What a nerd. It is

weird that he doesn't have it on his head. Yeah.

Oh. Oh. Wow. Odin also is sucking. What is happening?

He's all cooked on his left side. Yeah. Why'd

you walk over there, man? Well, it's more dramatic

this way. I'll wait for him near the weapon that

he can call to his side. There we go. Now we're

seeing the Allfather do stuff. Hell yeah. Oh,

yeah. Oh, yeah. This is what we needed. Mm -hmm.

This is what I came for. Yeah. Oh, Odin's giant

now. Whoa. Ah! Smokes. I don't remember this

trick. Yeah. The images of Icon. Oh, how'd he

get him? Come on now. Surrounded by faces and

he chooses the right direction. You can see Odin's

bald spot a little bit every now and then. So

are they saying this is how he loves his eye?

Maybe. He's still got it. At least as of now.

I don't know. It's kind of wincy. Closed. He's

had it close the entire time. Maybe. Maybe. Not

really. Yeah. Everyone toot the horn. Ballista.

Oh, my God. Okay. So way more of the inside of

that thing's mouth than I wanted to. Yeah, yeah,

yeah. Oh, this is some goofy looking things.

Yeah. Man, I'm glad that they're literally enemies

at the gate. There's people just stuck there

in the cafeteria having a cheeseburger or whatever.

Y 'all need to be ready in case something happens.

Didn't you hear the horns? Yeah. Oh, man. Loki

didn't get his own horse. He's got to ride side

saddle. Terrible. Oh, he switched. Bounces to

the other. Change places. Oh. Oh. I mean, maybe

a higher altitude entry would have been better.

Yeah, no, let's stay down where they could just

throw stuff at us. Yeah. Nice hero landing. Excellent.

Oh, she's going to do it. She's going to do it.

Well, you must. Grand would breach it. Oh, boy.

Oh, man. You can kind of see his butt shaking

a little bit there. Yeah. That's right. Oh, does

he have a... Oh, he does. Yep. Okay. Okay, I'm

alright with this. Whosoever holds this spear,

should they be worthy. Yeah. It's wild work that

Mjolnir's literally right there, though. He's

not using it. Yeah. Like, I'm not mad about seeing

him use gun gear. That's pretty cool, but. Yeah.

Well, he's not worthy yet. It's kind of what

this whole thing has been about. He's just unworthy.

Granted, he hasn't even tried it, but. I soaked

up all the light. Now it's going to be nighttime

in here. Oh, dear. He's unnecessarily sweaty.

This is pretty cool. I like this. Agreed. Use

those tears, Loki. Make him wet. That sounded

like a lightsaber for a second. It did, yeah.

This is shortly after Disney got the rights,

too. So, you know. Interesting. Whoa. Got him.

Whoa, there you go. That's amazing. All right,

Thor, we see you. You just impaled that poor

guy to the wall. Okay, finally being Thor. Poor

guy. He was cool until like 10 minutes ago. Yeah,

that's fair. Yeah, I think you're in the right

there. Seems he might have been pretending. Oh,

Loki. Bro. Loki said, hmm. That was kind of cool.

We got to see his flesh and bones disintegrate.

Yeah. Look at that shot. So Loki could forget

the years of friendship. Yeah, he's over it.

He's like, I won't forget the betrayal, but I

can forget those. No problem. Be putting that

thing away. I can forgive, but no, no, actually,

I can't forgive. All right, you can go out there

with your with your dad's spear and defeat the

Frost Giants real fast. Oh, yes, yes. That's

pretty great. Here it is. Oh. Jousting. Man,

they're so big. With all the rest that were just

standing there like, yeah, do this. Go get the

king. Well, that's a mess. You probably could

have just started with the sword and. Yeah. Seeing

where we're not. Road in all crazy on your. Like,

bro, that wasn't for you. Okay. A lot has happened.

Even his feet are giant. Yeah. Look at that.

Even the giant's feet are giant. Right. It's

10 minutes after beginning. But, Dad... Well,

you should, because they've done literally nothing

this entire time. Right. Right. Hmm. I guess

you could stay here. Huh. Oh, okay. Why is he

making that face? It's like, did you not know

you were Odinson? I know, yeah. What do you mean?

Surprise! Spoilers, God. Right? Oh, he's at the

wet pool again. It's a pensive. Oh, yeah. I come

from a land from a far away place. I don't want

to be wet this time. Oh. I'm not hiding. I'm

freezing this water instead of getting wet. Yeah,

that was. That was pretty much vengeance. There

was no... Yeah. Wow. Funny, because... Yeah,

I know. He's a... Will your big feet carry you?

Yeah. Stomp in here. Look, he's got you above

his bed. That's cute. Yeah. It's like having

a map of the world above your bed. Nope. That

eye is still closed. No, his eye is not covered.

Come on, man. It's closed at least still. It

is. It is. I just wanted to. Apparently you didn't

learn anything here and you're going to do this

exact same kind of thing. So hundreds of years

later. Just wanted to prove himself. Destroyed

a bar. Started a war. You know, whatever. Just

kid stuff. Good dad, Odin? That's weird. Does

it feel right? Yeah, right? There's no safe guess

for the first part. Still looking just as dumb.

Faithful listeners. Yeah, right? Wow. Wow, he

actually growled. Nary a torch lit. Oh. with

my club yeah i disembowel with my like the one

person that can't disembowel my big ball okay

oh i was about to say what am i looking at here

i figured it out chicks dig scars that's true

Frigga agrees. Let's wrestle. I'll bet you would.

I almost saw you naked that time. There it is.

There it is. And I'm going to see you naked this

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Snark Industries. We just got finished watching

Thor Tales of Asgard. John, what was that about?

All right, so we get to see younger, teenage,

dare I say, versions of some sort of familiar

favorites to anyone who enjoys the MCU or these

comics. Thor, obviously the title character,

and Loki as well. The Warriors 3 and Lady Sif,

all of who make appearances again in the Thor

movie, the live action one that will come later

in our timeline. But here we get to see some

of their sort of... Origins? Beginnings. In a

manner of speaking, yeah, beginnings. I mean,

they're all kind of established already, and

we see very early Thor, who, strangely enough,

and I still have not fully over it yet, is using

a sword to sort of fight in these arena -style

matches that's all just for kind of show, not

really having seen any sort of real combat himself

outside of these sort of staged events for crowds.

The Warriors Three are spinning. fanciful, embellished

tales. Loki seems to be sort of learning bits

and pieces of magic from the Enchantress, which

was kind of cool to see her. Yeah, that was an

interesting drop. Yeah, kind of see her here.

I don't think we see her anywhere else, at least

not in the sort of main MCU continuity, at least

not as of yet. But so kind of neat to see her,

though I was a little disturbed how she was kind

of hitting on a teenage Loki when she did not

appear to be of that young of age. I don't know.

We don't know the age differences there. We might

need to call Chris Hansen. It's not clear yet.

So anyway, but that was kind of cool to see her

teaching him some magic and everything else.

And ultimately, we get this sort of scene where

we get to see what Lady Sif is doing, who seems

to be the most accomplished out of all of them

at this point of their stories. She kind of does

a little battle with, you know, a play battle.

of sorts in the stalls of the horses and Pegasuses

that are there in Asgard and smacks them around

pretty good, really, with a pitchfork and a bucket

of oats. Yeah. So we get to see these things

and Loki kind of, you know, as Loki does, but

I think less in a less mischievous way and more

of just maybe supporting his brother way here.

It certainly seemed to be. Yeah. Sort of convinces

Thor that he needs to be doing more. real stuff.

And by telling him this story about this weapon

that is in Jotunheim, we kind of learn to be

the weapon of Surtur, the fire sword, death,

or whatever, and does this thing. And Thor kind

of goes to Odin, and I don't think really shares

this necessarily, but kind of has this argument

with him about how he's just doing these kind

of dumb things. And so this is a trope that we

get to see again later. Ultimately, between all

these things kind of happening, Thor's feeling

a little less than. And we all know that Thor

doesn't like feeling less than. So he takes the

bait of this story from Loki and the two of them

stow aboard a ship that the Warriors Three are

taking to Jotunheim for an unrelated thing? Question

mark? Supposedly. I don't think they were actually

taking it to Jotunheim. I think they were just

going to drink. Yeah, so that's the story they

were telling. Yeah, I guess that kind of checks

out with how they're telling these embellished

tales. So they're saying they're going to Jotunheim,

but in reality, they're going to just waste time.

But if it was planned to make another stop or

not, unclear, because when they get to the bar,

this sort of whole thing sort of unleashes into

a ballroom brawl as Thor is there, and Loki ultimately

uses a little bit of one of the spells he's learned

from the Enchantress to splash some water on

Fenris, who... Was it like Fenris? It wasn't

how Fenris should have been, but it looked more

like a werewolf, which was kind of strange. And

they kind of had this big barroom brawl. And

I mean, this bar that they went to is left in

shambles. And so they load up aboard the boat

to decide, why not go to Jotunheim? Why not?

Yeah, why not us? And so they do so and everything

else. So we see them kind of get there. They're

pushing through the Jotunheim tundra. And they,

you know, we see, which is kind of a cool nod

that, you know, all the Warriors Three and Thor

and Loki are all there. And, you know, the four

that we know as Asgardians are all bundled up

in furs and shivering and everything else. And

Loki's just casually walking along because, you

know, we have the dramatic irony of knowing that

it's because he's a frost giant. But they don't

know that and he doesn't know that, at least

at this point. So we see them kind of going and

looking for this, you know, this weapon. And

Thor ultimately does recall this tale that his

father had told him about this battle that he

did with Surtur and is able to sort of use that

tale to envision where the battle took place

somehow. And also where the sword fell after

somehow, because, you know, that's how that works.

Exactly. Yeah, exactly. And they go down to this

like cave system. in the ice to try to locate

this weapon. Meanwhile, back on Asgard, Odin

is being concerned about Thor's well -being.

He's not seen him in a bit. He comes to, who

ultimately was entrusted with this secret, a

dark elf that's named Algrim, who promised Thor

and Loki before they left that he would You know,

we joked about keep their secret as long as he

could, which expected him to crack immediately.

And, you know, he did not actually as Odin kind

of came to him and says, yeah, I was impressed.

Where are they at? What's going on? You know,

kids, am I right? And, you know, that's kind

of that's kind of how that conversation went.

So kind of an interesting thing in this character

that we have in Algrim here that seems to be.

On these guys' side, and is kind of described

to be Thor's mentor, teacher, instructor throughout

the years, clearly someone who's been a part

of his life for a long time. Because even though

these are teenage versions of these characters,

they're teenagers by Asgardian standards, which

I still feel is several hundred years old. But,

you know, because I believe in MCU continuity,

Thor says he's around the 1500s. year old range

in the happenings of the live action movies.

So that, that that's kind of how I put it together

in terms of how old they would be in our years,

but yeah, where the timeframe is. Yeah. Still

teenagers in their years. And obviously this,

this Algrim fellow has been along for a lot of

this. So, you know, we kind of sit in this scene

of this concern that's happening as they're all

building up. We cut back over to Jotunheim and

they do in fact, find the sword of Surtur. How

cool. And, you know, they knock it out of the

frozen icicle with a morning star, an almost

dawn star, as you called it. And it begins to,

you know, glow this bright fire. And I mean,

the sword is, you know, four times longer than

any of them are tall kind of thing. And fortunately.

this particular sword is magical in nature and

you just could just walk up to it. And when you

try to grab it, it just goes and fits, it fits

in your hand. It's, it's, it's really, it's a

good feature. So, you know, that's, that's what

we're saying. So, you know, this thing shrinks

down to fit in Thor's hand. And as he shoves

it into his scabbard, the, you know, flames that

were erupting from all around the blade dissipate

and it is safely tucked away there somehow. That's

not to question the official story. That's what's

going on. So as they're doing this and kind of

moving through the wilderness, Somewhere along

the line, they had also been attacked by this,

not attacked, came across, question mark, this

group of like little ice sprites. It was kind

of a weird thing. They didn't do anything, but

they plucked a piece of one of their clothes

off and took it to this group of frost giants

that are clearly some kind of scouting party.

Yeah. One of them has a sled with a couple of

polar bears to pull it around. The rest of them

just had to walk. I guess they drew short straws

that day. And so they give this thing there.

They, you know, they hand this little piece of

clothes over to these frost giants and the polar

bears give it a sniff. And 30 seconds later,

they found them all. So then we have this sort

of big chase scene as they're all trying to get

away from these guys. And as they cross the bridge

over Khazad -dum. Actually, you know, the. Sorry

to interrupt, but the distance that the bridge

went down now makes sense now that we know it's

on the tree. That's true. Yeah. Yeah. That's

the bridge that's going over. Yeah. I thought

it was wild, but yeah, we did figure it out and

we're confused in the watch party, which luckily

we did figure it out that this bridge actually

was one of the bridges between worlds, which

is how they kind of set up how Yggdrasil, the

tree of other world tree, excuse me, works here

is that, you know, these, these. realms are connected

by literal bridge so they do start running across

it you know a couple of the the frost giants

that were look like statues and you were convinced

that they were but i knew better somehow i just

had a sense and they broke out of the ice and

so they're all kind of doing you know doing this

thing and and it looks like for a second that

loki is falling behind that he's going to be

caught captured hurt injured killed by these

things And so what's a young budding god of thunder

to do other than draw the sword of Surtr and

be like, I don't want to hurt you. Be the god

of fire. Yeah, as he, you know, holds a sword

out at him and claims innocence. And, you know,

the frost giants, being frost giants, I suppose,

decide to not heed those words and come at him.

And he puts the sword at him and this big gout

of flame shoots out and disintegrates them instantly

as well as half of the bridge. And they all get

away from there to apparently another realm that

has the Valkyries, who are not part of the Asgardian

kingdom in this tale. Yeah, that was weird. Which

was strange to me. I don't know if that's got

any sort of roots, perhaps in a run that I'm

not aware of. But for this tale, it seemed like

that's where they were going, this group of Valkyries

led by Brubhilda, which is a hilarious name.

And it appears that Lady Sif is being an aspiring

Valkyrie herself at this point of her tale was

there. And as the, you know, Thor and the others

get there, Thor himself kind of is the only one

able to, not really clear, scale the sort of

outer wall of the realm and gets up there and

they're all naked in a pool taking a bath. And

it's just a kind of a strange, strange way to

introduce everybody like that. But he comes to

Sif and the idea is like, hey, give us some horses

so we can go back home. I've got this sword and,

you know, it's cool. I'm going to go give it

to Odin and everything's going to be fine. Everything's

fine. And, you know, immediately all the women

are suddenly dressed and attacked and knock Thor

out pretty immediately and put him in chains.

We see him wake up sometime later, obviously,

from that. And everyone's kind of like, you have

this sword. You're a man. You're bad. And it's,

you know, whatever you expect. You expect everyone

to kind of, you know, well, I've got allies with

me. And then, you know, the Warriors three come

dangling down from a chain because they also

have been captured somehow during this time.

But we don't see Loki, at least as not of yet,

because he's being Loki and doing sneaky stuff.

And he runs in and grabs a sword and is like.

Look at this, you know, and he's going to use

it on these Valkyries for some reason, even though

they're supposed to be on the same side. But

they're not here. I'm so confused by that. Very

confusing. But ultimately, Thor's like, no, don't

do it. We're good guys. We're not here to kill

all the Valkyries. And so they don't. And as

all this is happening, the Frost Giants back

on Jotunheim have gone back to their king. They,

you know, apparently this sword is somehow very

important to them. The most important thing ever.

And so they're not ready to go to war. Yeah.

Not really clear, but I guess they don't want

Odin to have it. I don't know. But at the very

least, it would make sense. You know, the two

of the the two sort of guards that got disintegrated

by Thor's actions, although he didn't, I don't

think really mean to kill them like that. No,

he did swing the sword, but I don't think he

knew that it would just, you know, shoot a laser

of fire at everybody. Yeah. So, you know, they're

ready to go to war. So we've got. Two sets, you

know, we got one party that shows up at the Valkyries

area and, you know, sort of attacks them as all

this is kind of going down. Luckily, between

everything that's sort of played out, Thor is

freed by his own strength, ripping these chains

out of the ground. And, you know, passing by,

Frostrider, you know, knocks down a teetering

Warriors Three, and Lady Sif is there, too, helping

in some way. And there's a big one, and he's

super scary until his polar bear... inexplicably

knocks him off the top of the thing and he just

falls into his doom. And then these warriors

three snapping from their, you know, chain or

whatever, their rope that they were dangling

from falls on its head and immediately knocks

us out. And they just decided that they're going

to take his teeth. I don't know. It was, that

was. So that poor thing's going to wake up. Yeah.

Toothless. Yeah. That's what's going to happen.

That's the new toothless. This is not how to

train your dragon, but we have a new toothless.

So. All this is kind of happening, and as that

kind of folds up, the Warriors Three, Loki, Thor,

and Lady Sif do get their horses. She's basically

kicked out of the training program by Broomhilda

because she's helping the stinky men or whatever,

even though they just totally saved her. It's

very weird. But they do give her the horses,

the Pegasus, to get out of there and get back

to Asgard, which is good timing because, meanwhile,

back there... Meanwhile. Yeah. The king and the

rest of the Frost Giant army has showed up at

Asgard's step that was basically like, hey, give

us a sword back or we're going to attack Asgard.

And then they all stood there and pouted for

a little while. But of course, we know that the

sword isn't there. So Odin sends off a small

group of warriors as well as this Algrim for

some reason to go and find Thor and the sword

to be able to bring it back. And he, you know,

I guess it's just. Counting on that, his planning,

his all -father planning didn't seem very all

-fathery, I tell you. And so as this is kind

of going down, doesn't seem to be overly prepared.

Eventually, they do kind of get back. And as

they stop to, I guess, give the Pegasuses a rest,

they're drinking in a pool. This group of, this

contingent led by Algrim or joined by Algrim

does find Thor and the others. You know, Algrim

comes up to him and says, you know, hey, we're

here to get the sword. This is important. The

frost giants are, you know, going to attack us.

We don't give it to them. So Thor's like, hey,

this is an evil thing. It's a terrible thing.

We, you know, we can't just give it away. We've

got to keep it safe. And, you know, hands it

over to his mentor and instructor who immediately

takes it and says, actually, your dad made all

my people die. And I've just been sitting on

this secret forever. And so. I'm a bad guy now.

And he draws the sword out and kills all the

Asgardians that are there, except for the main

ones that we've been talking about. Naturally.

Yeah, of course. As one does when they've been

a secret bad guy. Yeah, when they've been a secret

bad guy this whole time. And so he, you know,

then takes one of the horses, one of the Pegasus

and says, you know, effectively, like, hey, if

you come back to Asgard, I'm going to kill you.

But I'm going to go kill your daddy because he's

the worst. Which, I mean, fair. Well, I mean,

we've seen Odin a lot of times, and it's hard

to argue. Yeah, he makes some very questionable

decisions, for sure. And so he shows up there,

and we see Odin kind of back in this armory,

I suppose, that Thor was in before, which he

once again didn't choose a hammer, even though

Mjolnir was totally there. He got another sword.

That's neither here nor there. But Gungir is

there. And then so he's there, you know, Odin's

there as well as this Algrim guy. And they kind

of have this sort of epic battle. And Odin's

really getting his butt kicked, which was shocking

to me in a way. I guess that just shows you the

power of this blade. I mean, it's the blade that

brings Ragnarok. It's holding up to the hype,

at least in this showing. And meanwhile, the

Frost Giants are attacking Asgard, who, as I

said before, Odin didn't seem to prepare them

for whatsoever. There were a few kind of guards

on the wall, but everyone else was just at home.

Like, we saw people, like, eating dinner and

just normal stuff, even though there was an entire

Jotun army at the gates. Like, I don't know.

It's just very strange. I'd be a bit more concerned.

Yeah, as would I. So, as all this is happening,

you know, we have Thor and the others finally

get here. You know, they're down one Pegasus,

but... It's okay, because Loki's real small and

can ride on somebody else's horse, and it's not

a problem. So they all kind of show up. Thor

and Loki decide to split off from the rest of

the group and go try to find Odin, while the

rest of them try to turn the tide of this battle

with the Frost Giants. Okay, great. So Thor shows

up. After Odin's already beaten down, we see

his eye damaged in this battle, although he doesn't

get his patch. Yeah, kind of disappointed by

that. This is the setup for Odin's single -eyedness

in the future. Thor grabbing gun gear does battle

with this, uh, with this Algrim. And we have

some really actually pretty cool scenes are all,

you know, apparently the blade of Surtur take,

takes all the flames out of the room and then,

you know, he sheathes it. So it's real dark in

there. It's kind of running around. It's very,

very, very, very cool. It's a very, very well

choreographed, very well put together sort of

fight scene. And finally Thor's doing some Thor

type stuff, even though still without, yeah,

finally, I mean the whole time he's just been

this, this mook. It's been awful. Uh, but, Ultimately,

Algrim goes kind of running across the floor

and very, very awesomely Thor hucks Gungir at

him, sticks him against the wall. Oh, it's so

good. Goes and picks up the sword of Surtur,

puts it back away and says, you know, I can't,

I can't, you know, turn my back on all these

years that we've been friends, even though you've

suddenly became this bad guy, just ruined everything

in the last 20 minutes. I can't do it. And then

Loki walks up immediately, grabs the sword, just

kills him. Which seems on brand, to be fair.

I mean, you know. So with that, Thor says, hey,

it's all right, bro. We're cool. You know, he

was kind of a bad guy anyway. I couldn't do it,

but I'm glad you did it. So, you know, give me

that sword. I'm going to go take it to the Frost

Giant so we can stop this war. And so he gets

in his chariot with Toothgrinder and Toothnasher

at the helm. And you think we're going to have

this big, epic, cool Thor thing. And he rides

out there and they immediately just jumps out

of it. And then. Goes through all of the frost

darts. It gets smashed. It gets smashed, yeah.

But, you know, all the other frost darts just

stand there and watch. And he goes up to the

king and he's like, I'm going to give you this

and myself as a prisoner if you stop this. And

the king is like, all right, okay. Sure, why

not? And, you know, then his son is like, wait,

we're almost about to take over the city. And

he's like, well, you know. And so there's a get

ready to leave. Thor's like, all right, I guess

I'm going for mine. You know, I guess I'm going

for my imprisonment now since I offered it. And

the guy's like, no, just go take care of your

dad. It's fine. And then they just leave. Very

sort of anticlimactic ended to this big war that

they were, you know, hiked across the realms

to do. But that's what they did. And then as

things end, we kind of see everybody kind of,

you know, being able to regale people with real

tales. The Warriors three and Lady Sip is there

and, you know, goes and. Plays tonsil hockey

with Thor this time instead of having a real

fight, which, you know, I mean, you know, it

is interesting. Yeah, you definitely kind of

see that sort of connection there in the future,

though they abandon it completely when that time

comes for somebody else. But we'll get there

when we get there. Yeah, yeah, we will. You know,

and Odin is recovering in his bed and everything

seems to be OK and basically tells Thor he's

done a good job, which was off -putting a little

bit to see good dad Odin. We did get a little

piece of that. And good dad and Odin saying good

job, you know, even though he started a war,

killed a couple of people, destroyed a bar. Well,

you know, listen, we don't we don't we don't

we're not keeping track of all the thing. Yeah,

right. So, you know, we kind of have this set

up. And, you know, and finally, our last character,

we have Loki, who is sort of powderly sitting

in a chair. We seem sort of conjured the same

water snake. that he learned from the Enchantress

earlier in the film. And he breathes ice on it

and makes it go icy, which makes me feel like

maybe he's at least starting to suspect, though

he doesn't seem to know later either. So maybe

he just thinks he's got cool ice powers. Tough

to say, but he does do that. And, you know, with

that, the, you know, the film kind of ends and

that's, that's the tale of Asgard that we got

in our first installment of what is. what is

known as the Yoastverse series of animated stuff,

which is kind of a cool thing. This is actually

the first time that I've seen this specific film,

but I've seen a lot of the other ones and a lot

of the TV shows that came from this Earth designation.

But we'll get to that when we get to sort of

some comic book tie -ins and stuff. But in terms

of MCU tie -ins, it's actually more rich with

MCU tie -ins than I would have expected from

an animated film. I made the comment when we

were doing the watch party, I was like, oh, it's

Feige. I didn't realize that he was involved

in this, but he was. And it's very clear that

having these same characters that are in the

first Thor film and everything else, this was

intentional and meant to be part of it. So even

though it actually does have a different Earth

designation as everything else, I think that

it actually... in a quite literal sense, ties

in directly with Thor's story. So we have the

characters, we have the sort of basis of who

they are and where they're coming from and everything

else. And obviously that grows into what we have

later as the first Thor film. So pretty heavy

tie -ins in that sense. Like I said, we do see

Mjolnir, you know, it's already there, even though

he doesn't use it. You know, we do see, yeah,

we do see, you know, I said Odin and, you know,

Thor and Loki and the Warriors Three and Lady

Sif. And even though there's some other things

that, were added in. And as I said, I really

liked, uh, you know, Valkyries being more of

a group of people rather than just a single person.

Um, yeah, that was interesting. Yeah. And everything

else. And, you know, they had the enchantress

that was here, which was pretty neat and cool

to put Fenris Wolf in, even though it wasn't

him. Uh, so it was a little different about that

one. Yeah, it was a little different because

it's interesting, you know, to bring in something.

I mean, and for me, like as a fan of, you know,

Thor's one of the comic books that I've read

probably the most of to have, you know, callbacks

like Toothgrinder and Toothnasher, you know,

like obscure, you know, like that. But they,

you know, those things were so obscure, they

didn't even make it until the fourth installment

of the actual Thor films. We'll get to that as

well. Yeah, they just screamed a lot, which was

dumb. But that whole movie was. Got a dub. We'll

get there. Yeah, we'll get there. But, you know,

lots of good comic tie, or excuse me, lots of

good MCU tie -ins. Yeah, for sure. Just across

the board and really looking forward to seeing

how this Yoastverse continues to do so in the

future, because this is the first installment

of those things in that universe. Speaking of

which, why don't you hit us with some comic book

tie -ins and things like that and talk to us

more about this Yoastverse and this Earth designation.

Yeah, absolutely. And the reality of this universe

is 8096. That is the Yostverse. And we will see

many more iterations therein. And I really look

forward to it. The things that come straight

out of comics, this is actually based pretty

loosely on a story called Thor, Son of Asgard.

That was a 2004 -2005 Marvel Ages series. And

it was written by Akira Yoshida, which is a pseudonym

for C .B. I'm going to mispronounce this and

I apologize, but Sibulski, since he doesn't apologize.

Yeah, but it's a series that follows a teenage

Thor getting across Asgard with Sif and Balder,

which I kind of bummed that Balder has never

actually made his way into the MCU. But obviously

for this. film balder was replaced with the warriors

three which funny enough are the only real three

characters that we see like the core cast of

asgard the only three characters that don't come

from norse mythology so kind of an interesting

fact that they're so prominent when they're kind

of the only piece that that didn't actually come

from there but speaking of them uh they did first

appear in journey into mystery number 119 in

August 1965. So they've been around for quite

a while. Wow. And you can really tell the time

that they were made because Fandral was based

very heavily on Errol Flynn. Hogan based on Charles

Bronson and Volstagg on Shakespeare's Falstaff.

If you look at pictures of these folks, they're

virtually identical. It's pretty funny. But yeah,

beyond that interesting little tidbit. that this

film was actually made in 2009 completed and

copyrighted in 2009 but didn't release until

2011 because the film was supposed to release

first finally algrim he was actually a character

from the comics he is a dark elf that is a loyal

lieutenant of malekith which i'm sure most of

us know especially if we've watched a lot of

the mcu But he's noted for being the largest

and strongest of his kind. So they they took

some liberties with him. Yeah. The guy that was

in this movie. Yeah. Yeah. So the name is certainly

carried over. But I'd say that the character

itself is probably not as far as comics and Easter

eggs and things like that. Obviously, you mentioned

seeing Mjolnir. I think I saw Stormbreaker, but

it clipped away too quickly. Don't take my word

on that. But yeah, it's, it was a fun little

watch. What'd you think of it? Yeah. I mean,

I, you know, and like I said, I mean, I mentioned

kind of in the recap, this sort of universities

and this Yoast first that, that, you know, this

is a part of, I've really enjoyed a lot of those

things already. I said, this is the first time

I've seen this one. And it, you know, it did

disappoint. I mean, it certainly had some sort

of strange, I wouldn't call them flaws, but certainly

some design choices that I might not necessarily

agree with. Yeah. And everything else, it was

interesting. You know, it was jarring to me to

kind of see how the worlds were connected. Yeah,

that was a little weird. You know, Yggdrasil

is supposed to be this, you know, all the realms

are connected via this world tree, but to have

a literal bridge that you can just walk across.

I mean, you know, I don't know. Like, yeah, it

was a little off -putting to a point where, I

mean, you know, for those that were with us during

the watch party. We were genuinely confused at

how they got to the wherever the Valkyries were.

What happened? You know, they were just in Jotunheim

30 seconds ago. Yeah, the ship is broken. Where

the hell are they going to go? You know, so,

you know, that was that was kind of off -putting.

They even showed when they showed the ship sailing

away from Asgard in the beginning that I didn't

see any bridges connecting Asgard anywhere. But

then when the frost giants came, they just walked

right up. No issue. I was just, you know. To

the front gate, too. Yeah, right to the front

gate. Yeah, to the front door. And, you know,

knocked and everyone was like, all right, everybody,

stay in your homes. This is nothing to worry

about until they were all getting blown up. Yeah,

yeah. Keep eating your dinner. So I think to

me, that was the most jarring thing. But I still

like the story. It was cool to kind of see these

characters that, you know, Thor is one of my

favorites, you know, just in general for Marvel.

Yeah. So it's cool to see these characters and,

you know, see a lot of familiar tropes. It was

neat to see Loki as. ultimately just a through

and through good guy here. I mean, he, you know,

dare I say the best of them. in terms of his

decision making and what he was doing up until

that time where he killed that guy. Well, yeah,

there's that. You know, they flippy floppy right

there at the very end, you know, as Thor's like,

you know, having these sort of, this sort of

like cathartic moment with Odin of like, you

know, I did the right, I messed up, but I also,

you know, I was like, good job, son. And Loki's

sitting there pouting. Yeah, Loki's sitting there

pouting after he just wiped away his, you know,

friend of how many ever years. But I mean, he

didn't go immediately evil, just crazily. Which,

you know, and I kind of pride myself on being

able to sort of guess how some of these things

are kind of going, just everything. That took

me by surprise. I was not expecting. Because

there was no groundwork laid forth. There was

no groundwork at all, yeah. I was not expecting

him to be a bad guy, you know, this whole time.

So just immediately just go, screw all you guys,

I'm killing them. But even with those things,

like I said, not necessarily flaws, just design

choices that I wouldn't have done if it was me.

I still think it was a fun watch. You know, I

would like to see Thor do more Thor stuff. But,

you know, I guess that's kind of the point. He's

teenage Thor and, you know, he's not learned

all this stuff yet and everything else. So it's

pretty rudimentary. And we did get to see some

cool stuff with him do with gun gear at the end.

So, yeah, overall, I give it a thumbs up. How

about yourself? It was fun. It was fun. I I have

not watched as much as of the Yost first as you

have. I saw. Hulk versus Wolverine. But I think

that's it. I think that's the only one I've actually

watched. So I wasn't I wasn't as as pumped up

for this, but it was fun. It was stories about

teenagers are always a little annoying, just

just a little bit because they do really stupid

things. And it's, you know, but that's what they

are. So you heard it here for folks. Remy hates

kids. Well, you know. No, no, no. But. It was

a fun watch. I did like seeing Loki prior to

his full evil Loki version. I liked seeing Sif.

I liked the Warriors 3. It was a lot of fun to

see kind of their origins, the origins of their

friendship, as it were. But yeah, it was a fun

adventure. I did not like what they did with

Fenris. It's comforting to me that this is not

the main Marvel universe. because that's i don't

want that venerous and it should not exist in

any universe but at least it's not in ours but

yeah i don't i don't particularly care for that

and i didn't care for the the choice with the

valkyries i thought that was really strange it

was very uh themyscira which is has never really

been their bag but again i don't read a lot of

thor comics so maybe there's something i'm missing

that just or something i do and it was weird

to me as well so yeah i agree okay that was all

right that was a strange choice and very much

you said it right a themyscira thing like they

were very much men bad women good in this area

kind of thing for whatever reason right right

so you know it was despite its flaws it was still

fun the animation was quality enough the the

last battle was rad i really enjoyed that The

way they use the lights and everything like that.

That's an episode that I'm probably going to

put on my big screen and watch again because

of that. All in all, thumbs up. Not the best

thing we've watched to this point, but a lot

of fun regardless. Yeah, worth it. Yeah. That

being said, that's that. And I look forward to

the next one. On to the next. Thank you for joining

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