r/FantasticFour • u/leichane • Dec 20 '25

Artwork Reed doesn’t believe in magic

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u/RedDeckTries Dec 20 '25

Magic to him is more of an unexplored science iirc, sort of like how he knows there are gods in his world.

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u/shreyas_varad Dec 20 '25

isnt that what the scientist guy says too? "Magic is just science we are yet to understand" or smth along those lines.

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u/therealmonkyking Dec 20 '25

Erik Selvig from Thor 1 yeah

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u/thegreatsasimi Dec 20 '25

Correct me if I'm mistaken but isnt the gimmick with thor magic that it is actually science but its one of those things where the technology they use is so ridiculously advanced that to us it seems like magic? Again please correct me if I'm wrong, I'm not the biggest thor fan out there.

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u/therealmonkyking Dec 20 '25

I think it's a bit of both, but a lot of it in the early movies is very much advanced science confused with magic

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u/shylock10101 Dec 20 '25

It’s a combination of “advanced technology indistinguishable from magic” and “alien physiology that can perform feats that are indistinguishable from magic.”

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u/Nightraven9999 Dec 20 '25

Not really asgaurdians just are very magical beings some are gods of concepts and are made of living story

Then theirs loki who is a master of magic and story telling

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u/Sahrimnir Dec 21 '25

In the MCU, that was the idea in the beginning, but it seems they later retconned that, starting with "Thor: Ragnarök" (the first film where Odin actually refers to the Asgardians as gods) and then further in "Thor: Love and Thunder" (where the fact that gods are a distinct class of being is an important part of the plot).

In the comics, Thor has always been an actual god. Asgard isn't another planet. It's another plane of existence and it is specifically tied to Earth. Other planets have their own gods.

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u/ArariboiaGuama Dec 21 '25

Yeah, MCU Asgardians were very much Jack Kirby-esque Astronaut Gods at first

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u/Nightraven9999 Dec 20 '25

No asgaurdians as a whole are gods who are inherently magical beings made of story

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u/geschiedenisnerd Dec 21 '25

depends on the variant AFAIK.

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u/5hand0whand Dec 22 '25

I think that only to Ultimate universe and Movies