# New pics of THOR costume. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 3, 2010, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-pics-of-thor-costume/541819 "2010-06-03T19:20:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Drunky\_Smurf](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drunky_smurf/32/449_2.png) [@Drunky\_Smurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drunky_Smurf)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2010, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-pics-of-thor-costume/541819/21 "2010-06-03T21:49:04Z")
My female friend has suggested this costume. It goes along with what **Kaylasdad** was saying about armour. > **[Telling “Thor” is he the Greatest of Norse Gods???????](https://seshdotcom.wordpress.com/2008/04/01/telling-thor-is-he-the-greatest-of-norse-gods/)** > > Thor the Teutonic god is Portrayed to be the Most Powerful of the Norse Gods “God of Thunder”/”God of Rains” and he is also called DONAR which is the term associated with Th… I like the classic Thor costume with arms uncovered, the winged helmet and yellow boots. EDIT: I also like **B. Serum’s** idea. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2010, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-pics-of-thor-costume/541819/22 "2010-06-03T22:16:00Z")
> [@B.Serum](#): > > If the character is indeed the mythical god of thunder (trapped in a mortal body) rather than some mortal that just gets imbued with his power, the costume looks to contemporarily stylized to me. 😕 Trapped in a MORTAL body? Where in the name of Asgard did THAT come from? Only thing I ever heard of Thor being trapped in was a Coke machine. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2010, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-pics-of-thor-costume/541819/23 "2010-06-03T22:23:23Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > 😕 Trapped in a MORTAL body? Where in the name of Asgard did THAT come from? [The mind of Stan Lee.](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thor_%28Marvel_Comics%29#Character_biography) ---
**Author:** ![Fenris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fenris/32/498_2.png) [@Fenris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fenris)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2010, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-pics-of-thor-costume/541819/24 "2010-06-03T22:34:56Z")
Ok–backstory: When Thor (henceforth “Thor” only refers to the Marvel Comics character and his history) was first created in ~1963, he was a crippled (“lame”) doctor who was on vacation in…Switzerland I think. He was hiking and saw a UFO land. He ran away, braking his cane. He hid and overheard THE STONE MEN FROM SATURN (I am _not_ making this up) talking about invading. He crawled into a nearby cave to hide. He found an old, gnarled stick in the cave and tried to use it to move a boulder blocking a back exit. He couldn’t and in frustration struck the stick on the boulder and was transformed into Thor and the staff was changed into a hammer which read “WHOSOEVER HOLDETH THIS HAMMER, IF HE BE WORTHY, SHALL POSSESS THE POWER OF THOR!” So, as originally conceived, he was a doctor who gained the powers and appearance of a god. (He also kicked the asses of the Stone Men from Saturn so badly that to the best of my knowledge, they didn’t reappear until about a year ago.) Soon after, Stan Lee introduced Loki…who kept treating the doctor (who just happened to have this magic power) as his actual brother. Then Odin appeared as well as the rest of the Asgardians. Pretty quickly (like within 2 years) it became obvious that no-one except long-suffering nurse Jane Foster (“O Dr. Blake, if _only_ you weren’t lame and could love me. :(”) cared about Dr. Blake and Stan Lee in one of his three most creative periods\* started doing these bizarre yet wonderful Norse Gods in Outer Space stories and Don Blake was totally forgotten. And I mean…literally forgotten. I think there was a 2 or 3 year run where the character of Blake didn’t appear. Somewhere in there, someone pointed out to Stan Lee “Um…this is supposed to be about Don Blake, real person with the power of a god. You’re making it about Thor, god, who was sometimes Don Blake shaped”. Lee wrote a couple attempts to try to fix this (I may have the order wrong): He tried to change the concept back–he’s not actually “Thor”, he just looks like him. Then “Don Blake” is real and “Thor” is imprisoned inside him by Odin (to teach Thor that arrogance\*\* is bad) and finally, that Thor was turned _into_ the false identity of “Don Blake” by Odin (to teach Thor that arrogance is bad). That ended up being the status quo for years. Since then, various Don Blakes have taken on lives of their own with more or less (usually less) interesting results. Generally , the more Don Blake, the duller the run. \*Spider-Man 1-42, Fantastic Four 32-ish-67-ish and Thor like 118-150-ish (it started with #83. Don’t ask.) created probably more of the Marvel Universe than any other runs. \*\*Something that Odin knows quite a bit about, if you get my drift and I think you do… ---
**Author:** ![Fenris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fenris/32/498_2.png) [@Fenris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fenris)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2010, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-pics-of-thor-costume/541819/25 "2010-06-03T22:38:08Z")
_Damn_ you, Miller. I curse you to HELL! 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/intergalactic_gladiator/32/112_2.png) [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intergalactic_Gladiator)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2010, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-pics-of-thor-costume/541819/26 "2010-06-03T22:46:30Z")
Why can’t Thor look like [This](http://www.internapse.com/gallery/d/52829-1/02.jpg)? ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2010, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-pics-of-thor-costume/541819/27 "2010-06-03T23:00:07Z")
What, all green and bare chested? Oh, you mean the other guy… ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2010, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-pics-of-thor-costume/541819/28 "2010-06-03T23:00:38Z")
> [@Fenris](#): > > _Damn_ you, Miller. > > I curse you to HELL! > > 😉 You know, this sort of reaction is exactly why I post here. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2010, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-pics-of-thor-costume/541819/29 "2010-06-03T23:32:06Z")
> [@astro](#): > > Yuck. Biker Thor with leathers and motorcycle policeman boots. It’s like they wanted to slap as much black leather and black rubber on him as possible. The [classic Thor costume](http://moderateinthemiddle.files.wordpress.com/2009/11/thor.jpg)is almost nowhere to be seen. His yellow tiger stripe boots are classics. > > Covering up his arms is also (IMO) kind of a pussy move. **^^THAT** is what Thor should look like. I don’t need Judge Thor, or Mad Thor, or RoboThor or The PuniThor. I need classic '70s viking Thor with the little yellow booties and the wings and stuff. Of course, if I had to guess, I’d say maybe they’re smart enough to use that look then update him in a craptivating high energy [montage](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yLuOl36vamI). ---
**Author:** ![Roderick\_Femm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/roderick_femm/32/14875_2.png) [@Roderick\_Femm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roderick_Femm)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2010, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-pics-of-thor-costume/541819/30 "2010-06-03T23:40:45Z")
> [@Tahssa](#): > > My female friend has suggested this costume. It goes along with what **Kaylasdad** was saying about armour. > > [Telling “Thor” is he the Greatest of Norse Gods??????? « Sesha Utters](http://seshdotcom.wordpress.com/2008/04/01/telling-thor-is-he-the-greatest-of-norse-gods/) > > I like the classic Thor costume with arms uncovered, the winged helmet and yellow boots. > > EDIT: I also like **B. Serum’s** idea. Mmmm, I could get behind this look. Right behind. Roddy ---
**Author:** ![The\_Second\_Stone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bbe5ce/32.png) [@The\_Second\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Second_Stone)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2010, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-pics-of-thor-costume/541819/31 "2010-06-03T23:50:58Z")
Crappy costume, actor way too small. ---
**Author:** ![Eats\_Crayons](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/278dde/32.png) [@Eats\_Crayons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eats_Crayons)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2010, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-pics-of-thor-costume/541819/32 "2010-06-04T00:38:10Z")
That outfit doesn’t scream “ancient Norse Thunder God Thor with smashy-smashy-hammer!” to me. That outfit makes me think it’s Ambassador Thor who is meeting with Captain Picard to discuss Planet Asgard’s admission to the Federation. The costume should look antiquity-otherworldly, not modern-alien. The lines are way too clean and fitted. He looks like he’s going to a Board of Directors meeting. ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2010, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-pics-of-thor-costume/541819/33 "2010-06-04T01:04:39Z")
Like I said in the Cap thread, this Thor costume makes him look like a Nordic Mafioso. The Godfodr, so to speak. ---
**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2010, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-pics-of-thor-costume/541819/34 "2010-06-04T02:35:31Z")
> [@Fenris](#): > > \*Spider-Man 1-42, Fantastic Four 32-ish-67-ish and Thor like 118-150-ish (it started with #83. Don’t ask.) created probably more of the Marvel Universe than any other runs. Stan was the Man. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2010, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-pics-of-thor-costume/541819/35 "2010-06-04T03:21:05Z")
I dunno where Marvel got their costume concept anyway. Shouldn’t Thor be wearing, well, something like a Viking would wear? ---
**Author:** ![kasuo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/8c91f0/32.png) [@kasuo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kasuo)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2010, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-pics-of-thor-costume/541819/36 "2010-06-04T03:28:06Z")
I wonder if they’ll respect any of the actual Norse mythology in a meaningful way. Also, what’s up with AICN always using the “EMBIGGEN” line for the larger images link? I don’t think it’s cromulent to use it anymore. ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2010, 3:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-pics-of-thor-costume/541819/37 "2010-06-04T03:37:03Z")
> [@kasuo](#): > > I wonder if they’ll respect any of the actual Norse mythology in a meaningful way. It’s not like Marvel ever did. The Norse gods in Marvel were always just a more bombastic version of the Inhumans, anyway. Right down to costuming (though that’s definitely a Jack Kirby quirk…all Kirby heroes, villains, gods and cosmic beings apparently went to the same tailor). \*which apparently extended outside the comic world, as well. Check out these [Jack Kirby costume sketches](http://www.kirbymuseum.org/caesar) for a production of Shakespeare’s _Julius Caesar_ at the University of California Santa Cruz. ---
**Author:** ![GameHat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ed655f/32.png) [@GameHat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GameHat)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2010, 4:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-pics-of-thor-costume/541819/38 "2010-06-04T04:26:38Z")
My only thought is - Jesus Christ, they’re really scraping the bottom of the comic universe barrel. Do they really think _ **Thor** _ is gonna connect? Gonna hit? Gonna succeed? ---
**Author:** ![Ephemera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8baadc/32.png) [@Ephemera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ephemera)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2010, 4:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-pics-of-thor-costume/541819/39 "2010-06-04T04:31:46Z")
They’re making an Avengers movie. Thor is one of The Avengers’ big three, alongside Cap and Iron Man, and all their movies are leading up to it as the crown jewel. ---
**Author:** ![Tom\_Tildrum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e95f7d/32.png) [@Tom\_Tildrum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tom_Tildrum)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2010, 4:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-pics-of-thor-costume/541819/40 "2010-06-04T04:46:02Z")
[Here’s](http://www.lat34.com/2009/10/20/dinner-with-chris-haslam-valient-thorr/) an old cameo appearance. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-pics-of-thor-costume/541819.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-pics-of-thor-costume/541819.md?page=3)