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Tweak says, "and all i hear is ay ay ay ay "

colonel_green (colonel_green) wrote in scans_daily,
@ 2009-10-14 14:43:00

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char: fandral, char: hercules/marvel, char: hogun, char: thor, char: volstagg, char: zeus/marvel, creator: fred van lente, creator: greg pak, creator: reilly brown, publisher: marvel comics, title: incredible hercules

Xanatos Fail

Four scans from Incredible Hercules #136.

So Herc and Thor duke it out, in the end Herc surrenders (but gives a big speech about how now everyone will know that Thor is inferior to Hercules, which Thor has to let pass, since they're posing as each other).

Then, Malekith, the mastermind behind this whole scheme, reveals himself: only Herc and Thor combined have the strength to stop him, but now, having beaten themselves silly in their fight, they will now be too weak to save themselves from the fearsome Grendell, the most powerful Dark Elf who ever lived! Things are looking dire for our heroes!

Just to be clear, Malekith just showed up on the previous page; that's the whole resolution. Not so clever as he thought, it seems.

"...tell me of this elven tickler?"

Thor says maybe when he's older ("What? I'm tens of thousands of years old already!").

So the moral of the story: being good in the sack compensates for many other flaws.

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	khamelea 2009-10-14 07:46 pm UTC (link)
	Is there a mythological basis for Malekith? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malekith#Trivia It seems like an unbelievable coincidence. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	psychop_rex 2009-10-15 03:51 am UTC (link)
	Doubtful, given that his headquarters is in England. Methinks he's simply a riff on the 'Dark Elves' that show up in Norse mythology. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	wizardru 2009-10-15 05:18 pm UTC (link)
	You seem to be discounting the idea that Warhammer's Malekith is based on the comics one and are wondering if the inverse relationship exists. The Thor villian first showed up in 1985, about 10 years prior to the Warhammer character. I'd guess that he was inspired by the comic character, not the other way around. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	khamelea 2009-10-15 06:54 pm UTC (link)
	Maybe if I hadn't bothered to read the Wikipedia article about the comic character Malekith, I wouldn't know which came first. It's just that the article about the Warhammer Malekith claims that there's no relation, so I was wondering how that could be true, rather than wondering if there existed a time-defying relation between them. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

(Anonymous)
2009-10-16 03:22 am UTC (link)

I never read Marvel comics as a child. I never played Warhammer, either. Running a role-playing game, however, I once created a major villain named Malekith, who was a dark-skinned elf (no, not Drow, this was a system where all the elves were dark-skinned).

Of course, my Malekith actually had a much longer name, which just began with 'Malekith,' but the coincidence stunned me when I later found it. Either there's just something about the name (I was consciously seeking a Mal- sort of obviously evil name), or it's somehow out there in the collective geek unconscious.

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