Let's talk about Balder, the missing son of Odin. Chances of us ever seeing this character in the MCU?
I watched Ragnarok again yesterday, and we're obviously introduced to Hela here, and I can't help but wonder why no reference at least to the other brother.
Seems a bit too late to suddenly introduce him (in Thor 5?), but then his absence seems a shame. Could he simply be written in later? Perhaps he's been time displaced or something?
Well... Hela IS NOT a child of Odin in the comics so...
They changed up from the source material.
And... I doubt they are getting to Baldur any time soon unless Love And Thunder is even MORE stuffed.
This is my usual "check yourself before you wreck yourself" advice especially to the X-Men fans, which after all the nonsense surrounding WandaVision we should be at this point more cautious in how we view these things...
Captain America and Iron Man both appeared in the MCU for many years in team ups and solos.
They BARELY scratched the surface in terms of storylines and characters, supporting, villainous or otherwise from those two characters' storied decades long existence.
And now one is dead and the other is in an alt-timelin/universe.
They change things for good or ill and there are limitations on film and film series that do not apply to comic books far more cheaply produced and with a fraction of the turnaround time. We have to stop both hoping for the moon and stars every time as well as getting OTHERS to come onboard our fantasies about how these properties should be done or are being executed out of our sight.
Referring to WV again... There was no Chtonic forces at work. There was no Fox-verse crossover, just a troll, there was no Fassbender, no oh so cute easter egg that would point to Mephisto, or Eternity or...
Keep it simple, stupid. Show don't tell. Appeals to the mass audience who don't have a working knowledge of all the lore... The supposed cognicenti online always throw these out... And then predict that the way the characters in episoded 7 crooked their left foot in a scene indicates that the kids playing Wiccan and Speed will become the lynchpins of the next Avengers movie...
None of that is happening.
Because they change stuff and they have more limits than just what is put upon a writer and artist duo.
