LNHY: Biblical Avengers #2: Apocalypse!

[Scott Eiler]

On 6/22/2014 3:27 AM, April White wrote:
> Sorry I didn't respond to this sooner.
>
> On Friday, June 6, 2014 9:32:31 AM UTC+8, Scott Eiler wrote:
>
>> One could
>> say Satan *thinks* Mohammed is serving him, and Mohammed *thinks* God is
>> testing his commitment to God's struggle.  Jihad, that is.
>> It sounds here like Mohammed is actively rebelling against God, which
>> seems out of character.
>
> Well, see, Mohammed rebelling against God is required for the story to
>have conflict. It basically mirrors Jesus' rebelling against God in the
> previous story or Thor's rebelling against Odin in the movie Thor. For
> that matter, Odin was pissed when Thor disobeyed him in the first movie
> but Thor disobeyed him again in the second movie so he could rescue Jane
> Foster.

Well, there's rebellion and there's rebellion.  Loki's in *continuous* 
rebellion against Odin, but in the comic books he's downright psychotic 
about it.  His subtle approach in the movies seems to be a lot more popular.


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