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Many heroes of Marvel Comics had to play in cartoons during the 90s (The most famous X-Men who returned last year to "X-Men" 97), but not the powerful Thor. God's thunder did not appear either in "Power Rangers" inspired (and quickly canceled) "Avengers: United they stand."
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However, in the late 1990s, in the development of a cartoon - not just about being familiar with Thor fans they are aware of. One of the men involved was fruitful cartoon writer Henry Gilroy. As Gilroy tells him, he accidentally met the famous model Fabio Lanzoni. When he learned that Gilroy worked in animation, Fabio's interest woke up. Fabio had earlier made a Tournal suit for Stan Lee, who hoped to sell TV TV series. That experience made Fabio want to play Thor, in a cartoon, and then a movie.
Gilroy and Animation Director Seth Kirsley ("Mummies Living! The designs of the characters were drawn by Mike Mignola, the comic artist best known for creating Hellboy and the huge shared universe around himAnd Glenn Murakami, a future creator of "teenage titans".
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Enter "Thor: God of Thunder", who had a two -minute pilot shortly produced - and nothing else. The short is available for watching Kearsley's YouTube channel.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nul2fisjvtk
Again, this was not exactly Marvel Thor, as you can see from what is set in medieval time. The mix of history and fantasy causes "mummies alive!" (But with Norwegian myths, not ancient Egyptian). The setting of medieval Europe is also similar to Disney's "wardrobe", which has just been wrapped in 1997.
However, Thor's premise has been expelled from Asgard to learn humility Whether Suggest the readers of the comics of Marvel Thor or MCCs. In the original comics Stan Lee/Jackack Kirby, Thor was expelled from Asgard for his arrogance. Wrapping as a human doctor Donald Blake, he could only become Thor when he holds Milik. "God of Thunder" would use this backstage for Thor (expressed by Fabio), but he is a child when it is not in God's form suggests another hero with comics with lightning themes: Billy Batson/Captain Marvel.
When is the documentary interview "Mike Mignola: drawing monsters", " Gilroy shared some of Mignola's conceptual sketches for "Thor: God of Thunder". ("Mike was excited because I had to pay him to draw giants and monsters.") This has become a mini-documentary, available for viewing below:
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How the myths of Thor and the Norwegian part affect hell
The characters designed by Mignola included Thor himself, Odin (who was apparently ready to express Charlton Heston), and the goddess of death, Hela. Instead of the complex green head of Kirby, Hela, Mignola will wear a cloak to hide that it is half dead beneath it.
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Mike Mignola
Mike Mignola
Mike Mignola
"Many people in animation consider Mike designs as cold, or too harsh because of the angular parts of the body, they are not real enough or soft and cardboard enough," Gilroy said. "The animation in the late 90's, the characters were circular, they are exaggerated, they are not minimalist. And Mike is a genius in minimalist design."
Since then, Mignola has dipped his fingers in animation. Worked as a designer of production of Disney's underestimated EP "Atlantis: The Lost Empire", What is still the biggest attempt to apply movement in his art style. His biggest heritage is definitely in comics, and you can see a certain impact on Thor (both Norwegian and Marvel versions) in Helboy's adventures.
"Norwegian mythology has always been my favorite because they are the best monsters," Mignola saidAnd he would know because of his massive collection of fairy tales and folk books (looked at "drawing monsters"). Mignola has attracted many of those Norwegian monsters for "Thun: God of Thunder", from giants to dwarfs to trolls.
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Helboy withdraws myths from every corner of the world, including Scandinavia. Take the story "King Wald", with Helboy visiting Norway to meet the title of ancient cavalry that brings his head. Wald's design suggests "Sleepy Hollow Legend", but Mignola says his main influences were two Norwegian myths: "" Flying hunting (silent king Volmer and his dogs) and "Green Giant" (dead mermaid and burning gold) ".
There is some Norwegian mythical impact roast even deeper in Helboy. The Nazi occult-scientific project called Helboy on Earth in 1944 was called the "Project Ragna Rock", as in the twilight of the gods of the Norwegian day. But in those same myths, the destruction of Ragnarok is just a prelude to a new world.
Hellboy: Giants' bones join it with Thor
"All of my biggest villains (...) are aside from evolution - moving the world forward to its destruction, which can restore birth." Mignola said. "All the destruction of this world to make a way for the next, it rises immediately from Norwegian mythology - Ragna Rock."
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In 2001, Mignola wrote the illustrated novel "Helboy: Giants Bones" with Christopher Golden. Twenty years later, Mignola and Golden turned the story into a four -place comic book, with art by Matt Smith.
In both narratives of "Giants of Giants", Thor's ancient body was discovered in Sweden. The Paranormal Research and Defense Bureau (BRRD) sends Helboy and Abe Sapian to investigate. Helboy raised the Milolira and was tied to the right hand of the accident, unable to descend or remove. Through the hammer, Thor's spirit owns Helboy and we see Ragnarok flashes, including he beat Midgard Snake.
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Dark horse comics
Dark horse comics
Mignola reiterated her design for Mi -Thorn: Thunder God for the appearance of the hammer in the "giants of giants". Haft is shorter in the "giants of giants", but the shape and tags on the hammer head are almost identical. Speaking, those bones belong to the Norwegian giants of Jotunheim. In the culmination of the story, Helboy/Thor destroys the giant king with lightning, and then Valkiri descends to take the Thor spirit.
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If hellboy can use Excalibur (as he does in "storm and rage"), then why not the Holyer? He looks like a devil, but is on the side of the angels and always moves away from his apocalyptic fate. Mi -giants in the "giants of giants" have no "worthy" barrier to use it that makes Marvel comics, but Helboy still has to qualify as worthy - if not by nature, then definitely through nurturing.
The way Mike Mignola shows the world of Norwegian mythology in "Giants' Bones" is wonderful, but I'm still sick we were This Close to the full cartoon "Thor" made in his style.
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