Thor losing an eye would definately work on a mythic-resonance level, especially in current Thor canon where he's now kind of filling in for Odin (he already has the floppy hat and walking stick as Don Blake, at least in some issues).
It's not quite the same kind of angsty eye-loss that CLAMP (who are a Japanese writing team) do in their manga, though. CLAMP characters tend to lose their eyes in the service of warped/tragic slashy love or because they've been metaphorically raped by evil (like, if the Living Armor had ripped out one of Tony's eyes and replaced it with the Armor's eye, instead of giving him a cyborg heart). Or they swap an eyeball with someone and gain a soulbond.
So if Thor were a CLAMP manga, Thor wouldn't just lose an eye to gain wisdom and a raven and more daddy issues. He'd lose the eye and then Loki would take it and replace one of his own eyes with it and then the two of them would have a creepy, incestuous bond.
And this had made me realize that I would really love to see an anime about a terribly bastardized version of Norse mythology. Or a BBC/HBO miniseries about it.
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Re: It's got mythic resonance!
Date: 2009-12-21 12:12 am (UTC)It's not quite the same kind of angsty eye-loss that CLAMP (who are a Japanese writing team) do in their manga, though. CLAMP characters tend to lose their eyes in the service of warped/tragic slashy love or because they've been metaphorically raped by evil (like, if the Living Armor had ripped out one of Tony's eyes and replaced it with the Armor's eye, instead of giving him a cyborg heart). Or they swap an eyeball with someone and gain a soulbond.
So if Thor were a CLAMP manga, Thor wouldn't just lose an eye to gain wisdom and a raven and more daddy issues. He'd lose the eye and then Loki would take it and replace one of his own eyes with it and then the two of them would have a creepy, incestuous bond.
And this had made me realize that I would really love to see an anime about a terribly bastardized version of Norse mythology. Or a BBC/HBO miniseries about it.