• He looks more like Ryld Argith. The problem is they are not supposed to be ebon-skinned drow from D&D. About the only thing they have in common with Marvel's version is the fact that they both prefer living underground. Marvel's dark elves their have an innate talent for sorcery and are natural shape-changers. They are more neutral with evil tendencies than outright evil. Furthermore they have ghostly pale blue-white skin and wild manes of varying shades (though light brown and dark blond seemed most common). Their leader, Malekith, stood out because he was a 7 foot tall albino with a magical tattoo covering the left half of his face! In other words they got the character designs all wrong for this animation. Once can only hope they don't make a similar error in the LA movie...

• If you can't imagine Cap without a shield you'd better not watch the classic 1944 Captain America serial, then.

• Looks like a nice animated movie but I'm not quite sure it'll be a nice Thor adventure. I'm a big Thor fan, not only Marvel's Thor but also the norse god and I don't like the concept of a young Thor wielding a fire sword with a kid magician Loki. I actually don't see the point in making stories about some young heroes actually. Anyway, I'm not one to judge before I've seen so let's just wait.

• I frickin' hate what Marvel has done to the Norse legends.. Seriously. Hate on a magnificent, glorious level. Pick up an english translation of the Edda at some point or one of the many other contemporary sagas: *Having climbed the roof of his foe, Thorgrim was stabbed by Gunnars bill through the thatch, he limps back to his friends*: "Well, is Gunnar at home?" "Find that out for yourselves," said Thorgrim; "but this I am sure of, that his bill is at home," and with that he fell down dead. Now that is a story!

• I'm good with this just for the Loki thing. I want to see if this sets up the whole Loki-as-villain thing at the very least. It can fail on every level as a Thor movie, if it gives me SOMETHING on Loki that isn't brain-blisteringly stupid, I'll be fine. But yeah, c'mon. "We're royalty" is not gonna cut it in Viking territory. "You're nine? Aw. Thanks for reminding me. You can fight Ulik first."

• I kept thinking of The New Adventures of He-Man while watching this...

• Yeah, WTF? 2011? I'm sorry, but this is way too soon to put this trailer out there. Something's not right. It seems like they've got most of the animation complete, and such. It's like they're stalling the release date for something. Either way, it looks promising, but not Marvel's best, I'm sure. Thor without a big hammer is bad.

• Well..Hal minus ring still equals awesome fighter pilot.... but yea...

• The animation looks kind of shoddy. I'll pass.

• Exactly. This is like a clawless Wolverine fighting with a switchblade. Or "Hal Jordan: Before the Ring." Not interested.

• Groovy. Much appreciated for the history...sadly Thor tends to be a bit of a blind-spot in my otherwise depressingly thorough knowledge of comics.

• Oooh, it's Naruto vs. The Lich King.

• really?... What has the world come to?!...

• "that would be like making a shield-less Cap America" Well he is currently saying no to the shield.

• It did look like he had Mjolnir when he said the line about the sword not taking another life. There was lightning for sure, and a shape that could have been part of the hammer.

• since this film is about a young Thor he is proably has not earned or knows about Mjolinir yet plus any film where Thor and Lokie are friends has got to be interesting as for why marvel animation seems to look like they suck is because marvel out sources and has yet to let Disney step in and do the animatied adventures

• Looks like it was a "Prince Adam" movie (LOOK AT HIM!)

• It's actually based on the same-titled back-up strip from The Mighty Thor (Journey into Mystery) from #97-#147, then irregularly afterwards. It was first drawn by Jack Kirby, but later whoever was drawing the main strip and chonicled Thor's early days, before he came to Earth. These have been reprinted a few times since.

• The line "That sword has taken its last life!" seemed aimed at whoever he was talking to, as in he'd prevent the 'bad guy' from taking another life with 'his' sword.

• I dunno... looks pretty cool, actually, but why do the Norse gods all have English accents?

• I thought I glimpsed Mjolnir for a second. Or at least some lightning.

• I say thee nay!

• I wanna go on record and say the Puppy Bowl is a good alternative to any situation.

• Hm, good suggestion, Balder is the god of justice and is in the tales often the more thoughtful of the bunch

• This looks a little like a miniseries from back in the Jemas days of Marvel. I remember getting it but not being very impressed with it. With the Thor movie coming out, it makes you wonder why they went this route, because the other animated films based on film franchise characters weren't set before the movies.

• Also, why does Odin have 2 eyes?? Also, why does Marvel animation suck so badly when they have all the good artists?

• I'm only surprised it's going to take until 2011 to get this out there. I'm sure they'll be tying it to the movie but waiting a year to see an animated film that they're hyping now seems goofy.

• I think this is actually loosely based on a series Marvel did a few years ago called <b>Thor: Son of Asgard</b>. It started off as a mini, and was good enough to become an ongoing...before getting canceled. If I'm being honest, I don't really remember much about it except that it was about young Thor, and the storyline for the movie, jibes with what I remember about the first story arc. I remember it as being pretty good, actually...but I know I don't currently have any of the issues in my possession, so take that for what it is.

• I love it! I can't wait to see it. Any else think the dark elf in the trailer looks a lot like Dizzt?

• No Mjolnir?..that would be like making a shield-less Cap America or a non-armored Iron Man... They should have made it a Balder (if ya dont know who he is...look him up) movie or yust use some other Asgardian...

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