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Characters Who Should Pop Up in the Comic Again

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Method of Madness:
Wait, Skew, are you saying that just because trolls are Norse that anything from Norse mythology will be seen as a reference to them?  Dude, that's not cool.  That's like saying someone with the name Poseidon is referencing pederasty, since the Ancient Greeks were all about that shit.

Skewbrow:
MoM, you're right, of course. I should retract that statement, but let it stay there as a sign of my stupidity. It felt like a curious coincidence at one point, but that's all it is... :oops:

jwhouk:
Psst: you're thinking Loki, not Odin.

Carl-E:
Well, to be fair to Skewbrow, Odin did behave more like a Loki...

DJRubberducky:
Moreover, from what I've picked up in Norse mythology (which is high school texts and Asatru websites, so take this with some salt and tequila), the Allfather was actually seen as sort of remote and uncaring.  He was respected, and to be picked as one of his warriors in Valhalla in the afterlife was awesome.  But it was Thor who seemed to be more concerned with the mortals' welfare and more responsive to their petitions.

(Though it was *Loki* who gave mankind the secret of fire.  I really have to wonder what it is with the ancient pantheons and not wanting mankind to have fire.  Was there a "we don't trust them to not burn the planet down" motivation, or was humanity's ability to use fire a possible threat to their divinity, or what?  Add that to the list of things I don't have time to research right now and will forget I wanted to look up when I *do* have time to do it. :D )

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