As the Thor casting rumours rumble ever onwards - although with Chris Hemsworth playing the titular Norse warrior, at least we're spared all that nonsense now - there's one thing fans of the comic-book hero have been dying to learn: whether his alter-ego, Dr Donald Blake, will be appearing in the movie.
The partially disabled doctor was Thor's Earthly persona after he lost his powers and was stranded here with no memory of who he was.
After a while, he came to realise that he could transform between the doctor and the god whenever he wanted. In the comics, his walking stick became his mighty hammer after he tapped it on the ground.
Thanks to a movie source having a little whisper in the ear of Ain't It Cool News, however, it looks as though there'll be no hammer-tapping for us.
The source has confirmed that most of the film's action will be set on Earth rather than the lofty realms of Asgard, but in this treatment, Thor retains his powers and Blake isn't needed.
Should the writers have gone with the comics, or do you trust their judgement on this big-screen reboot? Share your Thorts below (sorry...).
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AYBGerrardo
Nov 27th 2009, 12:16
The "normal" man discovering his powers seems to be the staple of the first movie in a superhero franchise. Perhaps the writers hope to bypass a lot of the Origin stuff and get straight to the action...
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Deadpool
Nov 27th 2009, 22:48
I don't think it's about that Gerrardo. It seems the creators just like the Ultimate versions nowadays. (If you don't know what I'm talking about, there are a different series of comics, called Ultimate comics. Old comics with today's problems. Not radioactive spiders but DNS altered ones, no WW2 but Vietnam and Middle-East. And in these comics Thor doesn't have an alter ego.) Okay, they mix a little because the movie IronMan and Hulk were not exactly like the Ultimate versions, but some ways they were. (Think about Nick Fury as a non-smikong bald black guy) But I like Donald Blake, but he won't fit in if there will be an Avengers movie with Ultimate Versions of Hulk, IronMan, Captain America, Wasp, GiantMan/Antman etc...
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