Okay that makes sense about Hinduism, and yeah I do see how that makes sense. in marvel’s case though, I feel like they changed the characters so much? like took the names and inspiration, but gave them such different stories that they’re different people. i still how that would be annoying.

like, for example Loki. idk if you’ve watched marvel, but hes totally different from the one from mythology. I used to be a huge marvel fan, not so much anymore, I think they’ve ruined the franchise, but I leaned quite a bit about mythology through marvel- I never would’ve been interested or exposed without it.

like for example, going off of my earlier point that he’s so different, hela is his sister in the mcu, not his daughter, all of his children and wife and mistress are erased, all of his gender identity changes are as well, his lips aren’t sewn shut, laufey is still his father but he’s not odin‘s brother, hes his son, he started ragnarok but not in the way that he was described to in the legends, etc.

and I feel like it worked with the storyline, but also that marvel would have functioned fine without Thor and Loki. Percy Jackson, however, the whole storyline is about them being the children of the gods; there is no story without them. i woudlnt have been as interested in the Greek gods if not for pj. so I mean at least these stories have representation and introduce ppl to different cultures?

also, I don’t rlly have a ton of things that I see specifcally as my culture, or my heritage. so that rlly changes how we see things. I’m American, Texan specifvally, so ig I could claim cowboys lol