DOCSLIB.ORG

Assemble Arc Outrider Grandmaster Talos Odin Thanos

Total Page：16

File Type：pdf, Size：1020Kb

Download full-text PDF Read full-text
Assemble Arc Outrider Grandmaster Talos Odin Thanos Assemble Arc Grandmaster Odin This 3-Issue Arc is our second Who’s Having Fun? puts a +1/+1 Odin introduces Level Down foray into cards featuring the counter on two different Supporting Powers to the game. A Level Down Marvel Cinematic Universe Characters. If you only have one, Power works just like a Level Up (MCU). This Issue features the you’ll have to put a +1/+1 on an Power, except instead of gaining intergalactic characters in the enemy Supporting Character XP which advances it to a higher MCU, like Groot, Talos, and Thanos if possible. With Contest of level, it gains XP which regresses ® and his children. The first Issue Champions you can choose any it back to a lower level. When a focused on the mighty characters two Supporting Characters, even character gains Level Down XP, in the MCU who hail from Earth, two on the same side. put an XP counter on its Main like Killmonger, Hawkeye and Nick Character card that is one level ® L1 G Fury. The third Issue will feature RANDMASTER lower than its current level. MAIN CHARA the awesome female characters in CTER If a character has both a Level the MCU like Captain Marvel and Up and a Level Down Power, it’s GRANDMASTERCTER MAIN CHARA Who’s Having Fun? Black Widow. Main L2 possible for it to gain and have both supporting characters. : Put a +1/+1 counter on two different No One Loves You More Than the Grandmaster Level Up (7) Grandmaster gains an XP. kinds of XP. However, once it levels 0 - When a character strikes, | 6 MCU6-001 up or levels down, all of both types ©2019 UDC. of XP will be removed. 5 Who’s Having: Put a Fun?+1/+1 counter on two Main different supporting characters. Contest :of Choose Champions two face-up Main Here’s an example of how supporting characters to strike 5 each other. MCU6-002 0 |10 ©2019 UDC. Odin works: Odin actually starts off as his most XP will be removed. But if he gets Talos Thanos powerful self at Level 1. But after a two Level Up XP instead, he’ll The Photographic Universe This issue adds a new Level 2 and few turns of gaining power through level up to Level 3 and realize his includes all cards with Level 3 Thanos to the MCU. Now The Odinforce (or other means) time has come. photographic artwork. Currently when your Level 1 Thanos levels he’ll level up and then take a nap. Outrider this includes four teams: up with Fine. I’ll Do It Myself. you While he’s asleep he can gain both , , , . But I want to believe can choose which Level 2 version We Have Blood to Spare gives you Level Down XP and Level Up XP. If there will be more out there soon! he becomes. If you choose the six Main Characters to start the he gets two Level Down XP, new version, he can now level up a game, and you’re only out of the DIN TER he’ll wake up and O C second time to his Level 3. MAIN CHARA game once they’re all KO’d. L1 L2 TALOS level down back MAIN CHARA At Level 3, when it’s time to Bring CTER to Level 1, and Balance to the Universe, you must both kinds of his reveal the six Locations OUTRIDERCTER The Odinsleep L3 ODIN (they have at the bottom) Odin can’t attack, strike, or have +1/+1 MAIN CHARA CTER MAIN CHARA You Can’t Trust Anyone counters. DIN - At the end of each Talos has every Photographic Universe O CTERHe May Never Awaken L1 team affiliation. Level Down (2) - When Odin is MAIN CHARA enemy turn, Odin gains an XP. 7 Skrulls Have Infilitrated C-53 and snap. Then count all of the Level Up (2) Level Up (8) stunned, he gains an XP. attacks, he gains - When 1 XP Talos for team L1 each attacker. 5 MCU6-004 | ©2019 UDC. 5 3 | 4 characters on all sides and KO half MCU6-007 ©2019 UDC. 6 main of them. (If there’s an odd number, My Time Has Come We Have Blood to Spare At the end of your turn, wound Odin. You start the game with six Outrider characters on your side. KO one more than half.) Swarm You can have any number of characters named The Odinforce Outrider on your side. This power can’t be turned off. At the start of your turn, put a +1/+1 counter 3 on Odin. Ferocious . While in melee combat, this character You choose which characters to - At the end of your turn, if Odin The Most Powerful Being in the Nine Realms strikes beforeFerocious characters Level Up (1) 7 3 3 without has 10 ATK or more, hegains an XP. | 1 MCU6-006 MCU6-005 3 | ©2019 UDC. ©2019 UDC. 7 KO. If you want to win the game, we MCU6-003 7 | 7 ©2019 UDC. recommend KOing each enemy Corvus Glaive Surtur Select Keywords Main Character, but it’s up to you. Glaive Mastery prevents an Ragnarok triggers right when Creature: This character can’t enemy character from gaining Surtur attacks. There’s no have Equipment. This power Talos and Yondu +1/+1 counters or an increase chance to play a Plot Twist or can’t be turned off. In the films, these characters are in ATK or DEF. For example, use a Super Power to increase Fearless: While attacking a sometimes “Good” and sometimes if an effect would give an his ATK at that point. However Main Character, this character “Evil”. In the game, you get enemy combatant +2/+0 and other effects that trigger when strikes with double its ATK. to choose. Lethal, and Corvus uses Glaive someone attacks could be Ferocious: While in melee Note: They don’t have any team Mastery, that character would ordered to increase Surtur’s ATK combat, this character strikes affiliations until you recruit them. If only gain Lethal. before Ragnarok resolves. before characters without CORVUS GLAIVE 6 they appear on your side some other If an effect adds SUPPORTING CHARACTER Note: If there Ferocious. ATK but subtracts 9 SURTUR way, they won’t have a team. Talos’s are no enemy SUPPORTING CHARACTER Lethal: If this character wounds Pragmatist power affects all DEF (or adds DEF resources left but subtracts ATK), a defending Supporting characters on your side, regardless for Ragnarok Character, KO it. of whether you chose or . Glaive Master will to KO, you’ll Child of Thanos While Thanos is on your side, Corvus Glaive Monstrous: While this character has . For example, if he has all prevent the gain Stealth Glaive Mastery have to KO Reaction : When an effect gives an enemy Ragnarok character in combat with Corvus Glaive When Surtur attacks, KO resources is defending against a melee but not the loss. +1/+1 counters or ATK/DEF, instead equal to his ATK. characters on your side (including that character gains no +1/+1 friendly ones. 6 | 5 counters and no ATK/DEF. MCU6-015 2 team attack, it strikes back Talos himself) have Fearless. ©2019 UDC. 1 | 15 MCU6-019 against each attacker. ©2019 UDC. 3 Stealth: This character Supporting Characters Credits Additional Development: can melee attack back row • 4 Yondu Game Design: Ben Cichoski and Chad Daniel, Garry Hewitt characters even while • 4 Korath Danny Mandel Director of they’re protected. • 4 Talos (Super Awesome Games) Creative Services: Violent: While attacking a • 4 Cull Obsidian Brand Manager: Travis Rhea Mike Eggleston Supporting Character, this • 4 Corvus Glaive Assoc. Brand Manager: V.P. of Operations: character strikes with double • 4 Groot Corinne Deng Suzanne Lombardi its ATK. • 4 Ebony Maw Director of Game Development: President, • 4 Fenris Bubby Johanson Upper Deck Company: • 4 Surtur Assoc. Product Manager: Jason Masherah Mark Shaunessy Checklist Locations Project Managers: Main Characters • 4 The Bifrost Louise Bateman, Tonya Lashley • Grandmaster (Levels 1-2) Graphic Design: • Odin (Levels 1-3) Krista Timberlake • Outrider (6 copies) Rules Management: • Talos (Levels 1-2) Chad Daniel (lead), • Thanos (Levels 2-3) Garry Hewitt ©2019 UDC. 5830 El Camino Real, © MARVEL Carlsbad, CA 92008. All rights reserved. Printed in the USA..
Load more

Recommended publications
  • Norse Myth Guide
    Norse Myth If it has a * next to it don’t worry about it for the quiz. Everything else is fair game within reason as I know this is a lot. Just make sure you know the basics. Heimdall -Characteristics -Can hear grass grow -Needs only as much sleep as a bird -Guards Bifrost -Will kill and be killed by Loki at Ragnarok -He is one of the Aesir -Has foresight like the Vanir -Other Names -Vindhler -Means "wind shelter" -The White God As -Hallinskidi -Means "bent stick" but actually refers to rams -Gullintani -Received this nickname from his golden teeth -Relationships -Grandfather to Kon the Young -Born of the nine mothers -Items -Gjallarhorn -Will blow this to announce Ragnarok -Sword Hofund -Horse Golltop -Places -Lives on "heavenly mountain" Himinbjorg -Stories -Father of mankind -He went around the world as Rig -He slept with many women -Three of these women, Edda, Amma, and Modir, became pregnant -They gave birth to the three races of mankind -Jarl, Karl, and Thrall -Recovering Brisingamen -Loki steals Brisingamen from Freya -He turns himself into a seal and hides -Freya enlists Heimdall to recover the necklace -They find out its Loki, so Heimdall goes to fight him -Heimdall also turns into a seal, and they fight at Singasteinn -Heimdall wins, and returns the necklace to Freya -Meaning of sword -A severed head was thrown at Heimdall -After this incident, a sword is referred to as "Heimdall's head" -Possession of knowledge -Left his ear in the Well of Mimir to gain knowledge Aegir* -Characteristics -God of the ocean/sea -Is sometimes said
    [Show full text]
  • Waid Ewing Zub Jacinto Curiel
    PART5 679 WAID EWING ZUB JACINTO CURIEL RATED T+ 6 7 9 1 1 $3.99US DIRECT EDITION MARVEL.COM 7 59606 08766 2 VARIANT 679 EDITION 6 7 9 2 1 RATED T+ $3.99US MARVEL.COM 7 59606 08766 2 VARIANT 679 EDITION RATED T+ • $3.99US •MARVEL.COM 6 7 9 3 1 7 59606 08766 2 The Earth has been STOLEN! The Lethal Legion and the Black Order have arrived on Earth to fight for cosmic objects called Pyramoids, which are wreaking elemental havoc on their surroundings. Most of the world’s heroes and villains have been trapped in a mysterious stasis, leaving behind only a handful of Avengers as the planet’s last line of defense. When Pyramoids landed in Rome and Peru, the remaining Avengers split into teams to investigate, but the battle has already claimed several of them, and Black Dwarf beat the Rome team to the first Pyramoid. After the heroes in Rome saw their Pyramoid inexplicably annihilate Black Dwarf, they sent Lightning to Peru to warn the other team of the danger, but he was too late--the Human Torch had already touched the second Pyramoid… WRITERS Al Ewing, Jim Zub & Mark Waid ARTIST Kim Jacinto Color Artist David Curiel Letterer VC’s Cory Petit CoVER Mark Brooks VARIANT COVERS Editor in Chief Nick Bradshaw & Jim Campbell; Ramon Perez C.B. Cebulski GRAPHIC DESIGN Chief Creative Officer Carlos Lao Joe Quesada ASSISTANT EDITOR President Alanna Smith Dan Buckley EDITOR Executive Producer Tom Brevoort Alan Fine Avengers created by Stan Lee & Jack Kirby THOR HERCULES ROGUE GRANDMASTER JANE FOSTER LIGHTNING SYNAPSE WONDER MAN RED HULK FALCON HUMAN TORCH MIGUEL SANTOS EMILY GUERRERO SIMON WILLIAMS GEN.
    [Show full text]
  • Coates • Sprouse • Story • Martin
    COATES • SPROUSE • STORY • MARTIN RATED T 0 1 6 1 1 $3.99US DIRECT EDITION MARVEL.COM 7 59606 08421 0 016 DIRECT EDITION MARVEL.COM 0 1 6 2 1 RATED RATED $3.99 EDITION VARIANT US T 7 59606 08421 0 0 1 6 3 1 VARIANT EDITION T US RATED RATED $3.99 DIRECT EDITION MARVEL.COM 7 9606 08421 0 5 016 VARIANT 016 EDITION RATED T $3.99US DIRECT EDITION MARVEL.COM 0 1 6 4 1 7 59606 08421 0 Just as Wakanda is transitioning into a constitutional monarchy and moving toward the future, something from its ancient past now threatens to upend everything. King T’Challa has discovered that the gods of Wakanda – The Orisha – have gone missing. And in their absence, mystical portals have been unleashing deadly creatures upon the populace, while torrential rain threatens to flood the country. To help solve this problem that involves both gods and storms, T’Challa turns to an expert on both: Ororo, his ex-wife. But those are not all of T’Challa’s problems. A group of villains – Zenzi, Fenris, Zeke Stane and Doctor Faustus among them – are moving against him from behind the scenes, with Fenris having just kidnapped Asira, a friend of T’Challa’s from his New York days. 4 part writerpenciler TA-NEHISI CHRIS COATESSPROUSE inkers colorKARL artists STORY, LAURA WALDEN MARTIN WONG & ANDREW& DEXTER CROSSLEY VINES letterer VC’s JOE SABINO design MANNY MEDEROS logo RIAN HUGHES cover by BRIAN STELFREEZE & LAURA MARTIN variant cover by JAMIE McKELVIE & MATTHEW WILSON; JACK KIRBY, JOE SINNOTT & PAUL MOUNTS with JOE FRONTIRRE; JIM LEE & DAVID CURIEL with JOE FRONTIRRE AVENGERS associate editor SARAH BRUNSTAD OF THE NEW WORLD editor WIL MOSS executive editor TOM BREVOORT editor in chief AXEL ALONSO chief creative officerJOE QUESADA president DAN BUCKLEY executive producer ALAN FINE BLACK PANTHER No.
    [Show full text]
  • Issue Hero Villain Place Result Avengers Spotlight #26 Iron Man
    Issue Hero Villain Place Result Avengers Spotlight #26 Iron Man, Hawkeye Wizard, other villains Vault Breakout stopped, but some escape New Mutants #86 Rusty, Skids Vulture, Tinkerer, Nitro Albany Everyone Arrested Damage Control #1 John, Gene, Bart, (Cap) Wrecking Crew Vault Thunderball and Wrecker escape Avengers #311 Quasar, Peggy Carter, other Avengers employees Doombots Avengers Hydrobase Hydrobase destroyed Captain America #365 Captain America Namor (controlled by Controller) Statue of Liberty Namor defeated Fantastic Four #334 Fantastic Four Constrictor, Beetle, Shocker Baxter Building FF victorious Amazing Spider-Man #326 Spiderman Graviton Daily Bugle Graviton wins Spectacular Spiderman #159 Spiderman Trapster New York Trapster defeated, Spidey gets cosmic powers Wolverine #19 & 20 Wolverine, La Bandera Tiger Shark Tierra Verde Tiger Shark eaten by sharks Cloak & Dagger #9 Cloak, Dagger, Avengers Jester, Fenris, Rock, Hydro-man New York Villains defeated Web of Spiderman #59 Spiderman, Puma Titania Daily Bugle Titania defeated Power Pack #53 Power Pack Typhoid Mary NY apartment Typhoid kills PP's dad, but they save him. Incredible Hulk #363 Hulk Grey Gargoyle Las Vegas Grey Gargoyle defeated, but escapes Moon Knight #8-9 Moon Knight, Midnight, Punisher Flag Smasher, Ultimatum Brooklyn Ultimatum defeated, Flag Smasher killed Doctor Strange #11 Doctor Strange Hobgoblin, NY TV studio Hobgoblin defeated Doctor Strange #12 Doctor Strange, Clea Enchantress, Skurge Empire State Building Enchantress defeated Fantastic Four #335-336 Fantastic
    [Show full text]
  • Infinity War
    Article MAST | Vol.2 | No.1 | May 2021 The Journal of Media Art Study and Theory Volume 2, Issue 1, 2021 Total Screen: Why Baudrillard, Once Again? www.mast-journal.org Baudrillard and the Prophetic: Reimagining the Twin Towers in Avengers: Infinity War Loraine Haywood The University of Newcastle, Australia Abstract After 9/11, Jean Baudrillard proclaimed that the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center (the Twin Towers) in New York City, would enter the imaginary space, that: “Even in their pulverized state… No one who knew them can cease imagining them …Their end in material space has borne them off into a definite imaginary space…” (Spirit of Terrorism 36-37). This can now be considered a prophetic statement, not just in the realm of the human memory, a geographical imagination, but in the imaginary spaces of film. The Twin Towers are reimagined and revealed in presence and absence (maps and territories of the Real). They are present and have an origin story in Robert Zemeckis’ resurrection narrative The Walk, where the high-wire walk by Philippe Petite was credited with “giving them a soul.” They are present in their absence in the New York City skyline in Joseph Kosinski’s Oblivion. However, it is in Marvel’s Avengers: Infinity War that the ruined and ghostly remains of the Twin Towers are reimagined, returning to haunt audiences on the screen, associated with one of the key plot elements, the Soul Stone, and its need for sacrifice. Avengers: Infinity War reimagines the Twin Towers as an architectural marker for the Soul Stone.
    [Show full text]
  • Valda – Gameplay FAQ
    Valda – Gameplay FAQ Territory Control Q: If you control two god area’s: can you take 2 god cards (of the corresponding areas) at the beginning of your game phase or does it stay 1 god card + 1 card from base deck. And what does above mean if you have 2 temples at Freya? A: If you control one god area, you can take 1 god card + 1 card from the base deck. Showing them, depends if you have a temple at Freya are not. If you control two god areas, you can take 1 god card from one domain and the other one from your second area. So no card from base deck in this case. If you have 2 temples at Freya and control two god areas, then you don’t show your cards drawn in the game phase and you take 1 god card from your first domain, a second at your other area and the third card is drawn from the base deck. Q: What happens if you lend a temple with the ‘Infiltration’ card and you can lock a god area? A: If you have a 3rd temple in that area when borrowed, then you lock the area until the end of your turn (as you give back the temple after your turn). You do get a follower for that lockdown. Basic yellow Cards Q: Card Yggdrasil: is this 3x building in your game phase + 2x in the building phase? A: No, when Yggdrasil is played, you’ll get 3 building options instead of 2 in the building phase.
    [Show full text]
  • Norse Game of Tablut
    Norse game of Tablut History “Tafl” are a family of ancient Nordic and Celtic strategy board games played on a checkered or latticed gameboard with two armies of uneven numbers. A king is at the centre of the board, with his small band of loyal defenders, facing a horde of attackers twice their number, who are lined up at the edges ready to attack from all sides. The king must escape from the board, while the attackers must capture him. There are a few versions of Tafl and many variations on the rules. Tablut (this game) is a simpler version with a 9x9 board and fewer pieces. Hnefltafl (also on sale at cheshire.ca) is played on an 11x11 board. Tablut is a unique blend of two kinds of strategy games; “hunt” games, and “war” games. A hunt game is one where the purpose is for one (prey) player to get their piece from one spot on the board to another, while their opponent’s goal is to stop them. On the other hand, war games, like chess, are usually played between two players with equal armies, which create balance & more strategic, compelling play. Tablut gives the prey an army, which can defend & attack, adding a greater level of complexity. Between 400 and 1000 AD, as Viking raiders, adventurers and settlers spread further afield, the game spread to other cultures: the English, Scots, Welsh and Irish all played. Norse traders also took the game east with them to Russia and Ukraine. By the 12th century, the popularity of Tafl games was challenged and overcome by the game of chess in all the lands it had invaded.
    [Show full text]
  • A Player's Guide Part 1
    A Player’s Guide Effective: 9/20/2010 Items labeled with a are available exclusively through Print-and-Play Any page references refer to the HeroClix 2010 Core Rulebook Part 1 – Clarifications Section 1: Rulebook 3 Section 2: Powers and Abilities 5 Section 3: Abilities 9 Section 4: Characters and Special Powers 11 Section 5: Special Characters 19 Section 6: Team Abilities 21 Section 7: Alternate Team Abilities 23 Section 8: Objects 25 Section 9: Maps 27 Part 2 – Current Wordings Section 10: Powers 29 Section 11: Abilities 33 Section 12: Characters and Special Powers 35 Section 13: Team Abilities 71 Section 14: Alternate Team Abilities 75 Section 15: Objects 77 Section 16: Maps 79 How To Use This Document This document is divided into two parts. The first part details every clarification that has been made in Heroclix for all game elements. These 40 pages are the minimal requirements for being up to date on all Heroclix rulings. Part two is a reference guide for players and judges who often need to know the latest text of any given game element. Any modification listed in part two is also listed in part one; however, in part two the modifications will be shown as fully completed elements of game text. [This page is intentionally left blank] Section 1 Rulebook at the time that the player gives the character an action or General otherwise uses the feat.‖ Characters that are removed from the battle map and placed Many figures have been published with rules detailing their on feat cards are not affected by Battlefield Conditions.
    [Show full text]
  • Aliens of Marvel Universe
    Index DEM's Foreword: 2 GUNA 42 RIGELLIANS 26 AJM’s Foreword: 2 HERMS 42 R'MALK'I 26 TO THE STARS: 4 HIBERS 16 ROCLITES 26 Building a Starship: 5 HORUSIANS 17 R'ZAHNIANS 27 The Milky Way Galaxy: 8 HUJAH 17 SAGITTARIANS 27 The Races of the Milky Way: 9 INTERDITES 17 SARKS 27 The Andromeda Galaxy: 35 JUDANS 17 Saurids 47 Races of the Skrull Empire: 36 KALLUSIANS 39 sidri 47 Races Opposing the Skrulls: 39 KAMADO 18 SIRIANS 27 Neutral/Noncombatant Races: 41 KAWA 42 SIRIS 28 Races from Other Galaxies 45 KLKLX 18 SIRUSITES 28 Reference points on the net 50 KODABAKS 18 SKRULLS 36 AAKON 9 Korbinites 45 SLIGS 28 A'ASKAVARII 9 KOSMOSIANS 18 S'MGGANI 28 ACHERNONIANS 9 KRONANS 19 SNEEPERS 29 A-CHILTARIANS 9 KRYLORIANS 43 SOLONS 29 ALPHA CENTAURIANS 10 KT'KN 19 SSSTH 29 ARCTURANS 10 KYMELLIANS 19 stenth 29 ASTRANS 10 LANDLAKS 20 STONIANS 30 AUTOCRONS 11 LAXIDAZIANS 20 TAURIANS 30 axi-tun 45 LEM 20 technarchy 30 BA-BANI 11 LEVIANS 20 TEKTONS 38 BADOON 11 LUMINA 21 THUVRIANS 31 BETANS 11 MAKLUANS 21 TRIBBITES 31 CENTAURIANS 12 MANDOS 43 tribunals 48 CENTURII 12 MEGANS 21 TSILN 31 CIEGRIMITES 41 MEKKANS 21 tsyrani 48 CHR’YLITES 45 mephitisoids 46 UL'LULA'NS 32 CLAVIANS 12 m'ndavians 22 VEGANS 32 CONTRAXIANS 12 MOBIANS 43 vorms 49 COURGA 13 MORANI 36 VRELLNEXIANS 32 DAKKAMITES 13 MYNDAI 22 WILAMEANIS 40 DEONISTS 13 nanda 22 WOBBS 44 DIRE WRAITHS 39 NYMENIANS 44 XANDARIANS 40 DRUFFS 41 OVOIDS 23 XANTAREANS 33 ELAN 13 PEGASUSIANS 23 XANTHA 33 ENTEMEN 14 PHANTOMS 23 Xartans 49 ERGONS 14 PHERAGOTS 44 XERONIANS 33 FLB'DBI 14 plodex 46 XIXIX 33 FOMALHAUTI 14 POPPUPIANS 24 YIRBEK 38 FONABI 15 PROCYONITES 24 YRDS 49 FORTESQUIANS 15 QUEEGA 36 ZENN-LAVIANS 34 FROMA 15 QUISTS 24 Z'NOX 38 GEGKU 39 QUONS 25 ZN'RX (Snarks) 34 GLX 16 rajaks 47 ZUNDAMITES 34 GRAMOSIANS 16 REPTOIDS 25 Races Reference Table 51 GRUNDS 16 Rhunians 25 Blank Alien Race Sheet 54 1 The Universe of Marvel: Spacecraft and Aliens for the Marvel Super Heroes Game By David Edward Martin & Andrew James McFayden With help by TY_STATES , Aunt P and the crowd from www.classicmarvel.com .
    [Show full text]
  • Avengers and Its Applicability in the Swedish EFL-Classroom
    Master’s Thesis Avenging the Anthropocene Green philosophy of heroes and villains in the motion picture tetralogy The Avengers and its applicability in the Swedish EFL-classroom Author: Jens Vang Supervisor: Anne Holm Examiner: Anna Thyberg Date: Spring 2019 Subject: English Level: Advanced Course code: 4ENÄ2E 2 Abstract This essay investigates the ecological values present in antagonists and protagonists in the narrative revolving the Avengers of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. The analysis concludes that biocentric ideals primarily are embodied by the main antagonist of the film series, whereas the protagonists mainly represent anthropocentric perspectives. Since there is a continuum between these two ideals some variations were found within the characters themselves, but philosophical conflicts related to the environment were also found within the group of the Avengers. Excerpts from the films of the study can thus be used to discuss and highlight complex ecological issues within the EFL-classroom. Keywords Ecocriticism, anthropocentrism, biocentrism, ecology, environmentalism, film, EFL, upper secondary school, Avengers, Marvel Cinematic Universe Thanks Throughout my studies at the Linneaus University of Vaxjo I have become acquainted with an incalculable number of teachers and peers whom I sincerely wish to thank gratefully. However, there are three individuals especially vital for me finally concluding my studies: My dear mother; my highly supportive girlfriend, Jenniefer; and my beloved daughter, Evie. i Vang ii Contents 1 Introduction
    [Show full text]
  • Frigg, Astghik and the Goddess of the Crete Island
    FRIGG, ASTGHIK AND THE GODDESS OF THE CRETE ISLAND Dedicated to the goddesses-mothers of Armenia and Sweden PhD in Art History Vahanyan V. G., Prof. Vahanyan G. A. Contents Intrоduction Relations between Frigg and the Goddess of the Crete Island Motifs in Norse Mythology Motifs in Armenian Mythology Artifacts Circle of the World Afterword References Introduction According to conventional opinion, the well-known memorial stone (Fig. 1a) from the Swedish island Gotland (400-600 AC) depicts goddess Frigg holding snakes. The unique statuettes of a goddess holding snakes are discovered on Crete (Fig. 1b), which date to c. 1600 BC1. The depiction of Frigg embodies a godmother with her legs wide open to give birth. In Norse mythology Frigg, Frige (Old Norse Frigg), Frea or Frija (Frija – “beloved”) is the wife of Odin. She is the mother of the three gods Baldr, Hodr and Hermodr. a b Fig. 1. (a) Memorial stone from the Swedish island Gotland (400-600 AC) depicting Frigg holding snakes. (b) Goddess holding snakes, Crete (c. 1600 BCE) The Swedish stone from Gotland island depicts the godmother, who is sitting atop the mountain before childbirth (Fig. 1а). Her hands are raised and she is holding two big snakes-dragons. The composition symbolizes the home/mountain of dragons (volcanic mountain). The composite motif of the depiction on the memorial stone, according to the 1 The findings belong to Crete-Minoan civilization and are found in the upper layers of the New Palace in Knossos. Two items are discovered (Archaeological Museum, Heraklion) authors, stems to the archetypes in the Old Armenian song “The birth of Vahagn” 2.
    [Show full text]
  • Sample Pages to Thor
    1 only A Stranger Arrives The air was dry and cold near the small town of Puente Antiguo, New Mexico. Darcy Lewis sat in the driver’s seatReview of an old van full of expensive scientic equipment. She was a college student working with scientist Jane Foster. Another scientist, ForDr. Erik Selvig, sat in the passenger seat. In the back of the van, Jane- opened the roof and climbed onto it. Selvig followed her, and they looked up into the darkness. “So what exactly are we looking for?” Selvig asked. He was a friend of Jane’s father and knew her well. “Why did you ask me to join you here in New Mexico?” “I told youSample. Something strange is happening in the night sky and I need your help,” Jane replied. “It’s a little dierent each time. Once it was a pool of stars in a corner of the sky. But last week it was a rainbow—” A noise from her computer stopped her. “Wait for it!” she said excitedly. Nothing happened. The sky above them stayed calm and black. Darcy put her head out of the window and looked up at Jane. “Can I turn on the radio?” she asked. She sounded bored. “No!” Jane replied angrily. She and Selvig climbed back inside the van. “I don’t understand,” she said. She opened a small book and looked at her notes. She always carried this notebook—inside it was her life’s work. M01_THOR_SB3_GLB_05991.indd 1 3/6/18 1:53 PM 2 “These changes have happened many times, always at night, Erik!” She checked her computer.
    [Show full text]