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How are they going to explain Thor's aging?


If he was supposed to be alive since olden times how come he ages like he was born "mere" decades ago?

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Gods age extremely slow. Even in god years Thor is still pretty young and the movies show it.

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In ten or fifteen years time from now, if Hemsworth is still making appearances as Marvels Thor, he will obviously look older, but maybe by then the "young-ifying" CGI technology will be more seemless and less expensive.

Kind of what they did to Michael Douglas in Antman, though it wouldn't have to be as extreme for Thor to maintain his 30 something looks.

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Yeah, he's only 33 years old right now. He can play Thor for as long as he can hopefully as long as he takes good care of his health. Him and Evans are aging really well.

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You really think Marvel movies (superhero genre, in general) will still be around?

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You really think they won't? They've got plans for movies into the mid '20s, and there's not really a sign yet from the box office that people won't see those movies. You might not like the MCU, but you're fooling yourself if you actually think the model that they've created so much success with will suddenly just stop working.

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I'm actually on this forum because I like Thor movies, so it's not like I dislike the MCU.

Ten years in the entertainment industry is a very long time. Audience tastes change, and this current onslaught of superhero movies will reach its saturation point and lead to a decline. And these changes can be swift.

And with the high budgets of Marvel (and other superhero movies), it only takes two big flops for the studio to start scaling down the number of movies they produce and release.



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They won't bother doing anything, too expensive to worry about CGIing him to look slightly younger all the time. It'll just be like Hugh Jackman in the X-Men movies, he looks way older in oarts that are meant to be in the 70's than in the 2000's but nobody says anything lol

I think after Infinity War, Hemsworth will be done with Thor and the MCU anyway, so it doesn't really matter, he won't stick around for afes like Jackman has with X-Men

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They don't. We accept it and suspend our disbelief. I prefer a slightly older Thor (he's still young though) over CGI make-over. The one they gave Galadriel in the Hobbit was awful; same with Professor's X; and I hope they don't take this route with Hemsworth.

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They won't explain it. They'll do exactly what Fox is doing with Hugh Jackman as Wolverine. Just ignore it until the actor retires. That's pretty much all we can do, unless from here on every film is set hundreds or thousands of years in the future.


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I imagine they'll turn to the camera and explain because it's a movie.

What's missing in movies is same as in society: a good sense of work ethic and living up to ideals.

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Thor gets sucked into another dimension with different temporal rules, and when he finally returns to Midgard/Asgard, he's experienced hundreds or even thousands of years, even though time hasn't moved here or only has moved a handful of years.

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Hugh Jackman played Wolverine for 16 years now and most would agree that he does not loo like he aged much from the first movie (his character is supposed to be ageless)..Hugh was 32 when he started off as Wolverine, 47 now...still looks good and can possibly play Wolverine 2 more times with the final movie being about "Old Man Wolverine" which would be pretty cool cause then he would look like someone in their 50's..

Lets hope Hemsworth has Hugh's "australian" genes ...

Life is a joke, but atleast its a good one.

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Except for how Jackman got progressively more ripped and muscular for each subsequent movie, including the movies that show him in the past, indicating, canonically, that he was ripped and muscular in the past, lost definition and mass before X-1, and then apparently roided out and got jacked again.

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got jacked again.


well his name is Hugh JACKman 😀

Life is a joke, but atleast its a good one.

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I left that part out. Thought it was a little on the nose ;)

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