Zachary Amaranth said:
Happyninja42 said:
My guess is they are trying to avoid nailing down too much about the magic stuff, to keep the religious freakos from yelling about Satanism!! and ERHMAGURD MARVEL IS TRYING TO CORRUPT OUR CHILDREN WITH THEIR EVIL MAGIC STORY! Notice how in Thor, they made a point to say that "Magic and Technology are one in the same" to sort of handwave away the mystic side of Marvel-verse. I think this is intentional, to gloss over it and avoid ruffling any feather, so they'll just sort of mention it in a short flashback, and then go back to the main events.
Problem solved.
Keep in mind Thor was always about space aliens with advanced technology that resembles magic. Or perhaps not always, but the idea of magic being the same as technology is pretty old in Thor and likely has nothing to do with placating complainers. It likely had to do more wiith trying to reconcile the comics.
Similarly, I don't think the "Sorcerer Supreme" will have fewer complaints if they don't nail down when and how he learned sorcery, but they've done multiple comics that deal with the concept of magic as simply being "interdimensional energy" in a very sci-fi way.
Yes, but the character Thor, is also referred to, and is most commonly known as the
God of Thunder. Which then begs the questions:
Well is he a god? Are they actual dieties, or just aliens like in Stargate SG 1? Is it some subtle attack on Christianity and a declaration against religion?!?! PROTEST!!
I'm waxing fanatic there of course, simply to illustrate some of the likely stupid arguments that some people will make. And they will try and make them, considering their track record over the years with other stories that go against their religious beliefs.
And yes, doing the "magic as just energy" thing, I think is a very concerted effort on the publishers part, to prevent any group from going apeshit about what the story is trying to suggest. Back when Dr. Strange was first created, they probably just didn't care, but over the years, as the moral religious-oids started getting more vocal, and yelling about stuff, it seems entirely reasonable on the part of a publisher, to avoid further bad press and stupid boycott's of their harmless story, by just retconning the source of the power a bit. I mean hell, that's something comics are famous for, rewriting the entire cosmos to fit some new writers story concept.