Talk:Norse mythology in popular culture

message: "The game depicts many aspects of Norse mythology, such as the Armageddon - standing for the Ragnarök" - Okay, yes, Armageddon and Ragnarök both involve the end of the world, but one is Christian, the other Norse. I don't se how one can "stand for" the other unless they're used as synonyms in the game. And this: "the Aesir and the Vanir (Valkyries and Fairies) fighting over the control of the land": Are all four terms (aesir, vanir, valkyries and fairies) used? Because Aesir and Vanir are not equivalent to valkyries and fairies in the mythology... Checked the main article on the game, but I can find neither aesir nor vanir there. Hoping someone can clear this up for me. Tales (talk) 10:28, 12 December 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Armageddon =/= Ragnarök 

message: D&D's under the video games section, which is completely inaccurate. I'm not sure what a proper category would be, so I'll leave it up to your august expertise. Also, it might be worth specifically mentioning Tyr- he's been in for longer than the specific Norse pantheon and he's not identical to the Norse god of the same name (but definitely based on him). MorkaisChosen (talk) 12:50, 12 January 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Long time to deal with that: For lack of something better I have moved it to "in other media" and expanded and sourced it. I'll leave it to others to deal with the question of Tyr. Daranios (talk) 14:24, 22 September 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  D&D reference 

message: The Norse Mythology is present in some of the largest grossing films in history. The film industry has tapped into the stories from this mythology to sell and entertain people all over the world. Comic companies’ step into the film industry has made these stories an even bigger attraction than ever before. They have built their own universe based off the many mythological stories passed down or written in previous texts to create their own story. In these cases, they did not stay in accordance with all the truth when telling these stories. They did veer off the path and create their own way to be able to reach the interest of the public. Even though their stories differ and didn’t stay to the exact depictions passed down via word of mouth or literature this has not detracted from their sales and the public’s interest.
An example is Marvel changed many of its characters to conform to what they believed would be more marketable to the public. Some of the key differences would be the language and the hair color, such as Thor being blonde haired and not red haired. Marvel has also created their own story lines for these characters that never truly happened or ever was told to have happened. This is mainly due to the fact that they have taken the mythological stories and expanded on them to create their fictional universe. Marvel has been very successful and have actually added to the public’s interest in the Norse mythology, which can either have people believe what Marvel presents is truth or will have them research into the actually Norse Mythology history.There is alot more to the norse mythology. As the stories survive in the written record, these present the gods as very complicated individuals. Reducing each of them to a single epithet (“god of thunder,” for example) really oversimplifies the history of the Norse Gods. In fact it dilutes the truth and creates false versions of the history of the Gods and the culture built upon these myths.https://www.norsemyth.org/2013/11/the-thor-movies-and-norse-mythology.html
Bricken,Robhttps://io9.gizmodo.com/8-things-marvel-got-wrong-about-thor-and-norse-mytholog-1458989921  — Preceding unsigned comment added by McDanielMuzeyyen (talk • contribs) 20:34, 2 April 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Film Industry 

message: I noticed Norse mythology has influenced White Supremacists. I think this topic needs to be included in the article as its own section and could appropriately be titled "Influence on White Supremacy".  For instance, the mass shooter/murderer in New Zealand on 3/15/19 wrote, “…if I don't survive the attack, goodbye, godbless and I will see you all in Valhalla!” The first link I have provided as a reference shows this quote. 
I think denying this information a place on the article would reflect a bias. Can anyone help develop a section on the article?
https://www.adl.org/blog/white-supremacist-terrorist-attack-at-mosques-in-new-zealand
https://www.pri.org/stories/2017-05-25/white-supremacists-are-killing-name-ancient-nordic-religion
https://www.politicalresearch.org/2018/02/01/white-supremacys-old-gods-the-far-right-and-neopaganism/
2600:1700:7A51:10B0:B1ED:B440:CA68:E8D9 (talk) 16:36, 24 March 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  white supremacy influence section request