I’m on the waitlist for this guy now. I really like the fact they took him down the path they did in endgame.
I recall him saying at the start of Ragnarok
“I make grave mistakes all the time... everything seems to work out”
showing he was self aware but also that he was still very cocky and always found a way to win. After that he lost his hammer, his Father, his girlfriend, his brother, his friends, his home and missed the kill shot on Thanos meaning he also lost half the universe.
Where you see him in endgame is a man who has lost everything. He said “F- it!” And started drinking because no matter what he does after the snap, he will always be the man who failed to save half of everything. All the pain that people felt, the loss, the depression, the suicides, the deaths that occured when people disappeared while driving, planes crashing, trains derailing etc he dove inside a bottle hoping to muffle the cries of anguish heard throughout the galaxy. No one could feel as low as him and for good reason “you should have gone for the head” he keeps hearing. No amount of booze blocks it out.
The comedy is there because ultimately it’s a family orientated blockbuster but the subtext behind it is there if you want to look a little deeper. A lot of the jokes made by other characters are there because its a coping mechanism. They know how tragic the whole thing is and mask it with crude one liners. There’s a term called “gallows humour” very evident in professions like police, nursing and morgues. These people see horrific things all the time and use dark hunour to help cope with it. So do the remaining avengers.
Anyway I didn’t mean to write as much as I did, just enjoyed the characterisation and I think he’ll be a better character going forward if they decide to use him further in the MCU. This could be used as another stepping stone to a huge redemption arc for Thor if the write it well.
We’ll see.
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