New Avengers Image Spotlights
Thor and Agent Phil Coulson

Nothing says Thunder God like a guy standing around staring at a computer screen with a schmuck in a suit

 Thank you for your deep and thoughtful contribution.

Are you talking about the plastic chest apron thing, or the Nerf wrist bands??

A chair not cracking under the sheer weight of a Norse thunder god? Thor has found a worthy opponent indeed!

I really don’t agree with your opinion on the armor — I’ve been a Thor fan for a long time and one of the best things in recent years has been Coipel’s tunic/mail design. It makes Thor look more mature, more serious and it’s really not a bad design.

I just don’t see how anyone with any taste can like the body-builder look that Thor had before. It was fine during that era but these days it just looks stupid.

Well lets see..
It’s dull and lacks colour. And thus doesn’t stand out in the way his old look did on the page. He doesn’t look as ‘Princely’  as he once did instead, just looking like another regular viking warrior rather than a Prince of Asgard/Superhero.
On film it looks like plastic, which might be why they never used as much of it..(Not on his legs..)

As for realism. This is Thor. He regularly shrugs off getting buildings coming down on top of him, from the likes of the Hulk. So what does a God like him need armour for? The minute you encase a character in armour, it immediately makes the character lose some of his power. (Superman writers take note. He’s the Man of Steel. he dosn’t need armour either..)

The blue pleather pants he’s wearing in the picture above have nothing to
do with Coipel’s design – so I don’t know why you’re discussing that
design here

What are they looking at? Loki?

If anyone is complaining about anything in this movie, do it better! Go out and make a better movie. Until then, argument is invalid. It’s one shot, do you know that this scene takes up probably one one hundredth of a second? Of a movie that will probably be 2 hours long?

Porn.