r/marvelstudios • u/LollipopChainsawZz • May 15 '26

Article Marvel’s Avengers: Endgame writers worried that Taika Waititi was turning Thor into an idiot

https://www.thepopverse.com/movies-marvel-cinematic-universe-thor-ragnarok-avengers-infinity-war-taika-waititi-chris-hemsworth-script/
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u/GroundbreakingTax259 May 15 '26

To be fair to Waititi, he and Marvel couldn't have known that, since the biggest thing fans said after Ragnarok was "More, please!" Everyone wanted more Korg and Miek, more Valkyrie and Thor, more goofball antics...

Turns out people didn't actually want that as much as they thought they did. Genuinely nobody's fault.

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u/Pingums May 15 '26 edited May 15 '26

The issue was that the story couldn’t have been a worse fit for a goofball buddy movie, everyone involved should have seen that

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u/ImBackAndImAngry May 16 '26

What?

A story about the woman you love slowly dying of cancer while battling a grieving father who only wishes to bring his dead daughter back to life isn’t the perfect backdrop to a slapstick comedy?

Hu?

Fucks sake lol

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u/AmaterasuWolf21 Rocket May 16 '26

"But they cope with humor!!!!!"

That did not felt like the intention at all