>>104910332>Meanwhile Thor...Has some of the same virtues and flaws as Superman.
It's not quite the same, but Thor's at times alienated from his fellow Asgardians for his experiences as Donald Blake. There's times he feels lonely even when he's surrounded by his own people, individuals who have known him for hundreds of years.
Thor loves Midgard and all of its people, but he doesn't let that stop him from opposing evil. Remember that Thor stood up to Iron Man who had the US Army behind him to oppose ethnic cleansing and genocide.
He's not as altruistic as Superman is, or at least, there's a different character to it. But there's parallels to be drawn, I think, between how Superman witholds, in the main, the Kryptonian technology he has access to and how Thor sharing Asgardian magic/science (whichever it happens to be this week) blowing up in his face 9 times out of 10 (remember when he gave Tony Stark a magic crystal so Tony could free Midgard from using fossil fuels and Tony used it to build the Thorbuster armor instead?).
And Thor likes to show off and be loved. Not so much as during the Viking era. Arguably less so than in the Viking era, because it comes up here and there that Thor holds back his strength in the main so as not to embarrass the other Avengers.
But it's a terrible waste to think that the places where they differ and don't overlap somehow diminishes one character over another. That's one of the great things about comics! We've got all these different characters that lend themselves to these great stories, and there's no reason to get bored because even if you've had enough of one character, there's other, different ones having other adventures.
