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MudMan@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

No, that's the opposite of that logic. As... I explicitly say above.

See, people think meaning is a puzzle. "What is actually happening in such and such movie?", but that's not it.

Meaning is communication, it's put together from a lot of shared cues. It's not Picross, it's more like a coloring book. Like I said above, Thor movies, if anything, make an explicit point of explaining how humans confused a race of aliens for gods. They were so worried about that distinction that at some point in Avengers they make Cap say "There is only one God and I'm pretty sure he doesn't dress like that".

Which is also a very Christian statement but not an honest statement of belief because of the way it's presented, when it's presented, who says it and the history of Marvel being very afraid to call Thor a "god" in media. Context cues!

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