EDITORIAL: The Collector

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Like I said, I'm a huge cosmic Marvel fan and I realise it's probably the company's least popular area due to the content, yaddah yaddah. Anyway, I want to talk about The Collector in Thor: The Dark World. He appears in the mid-credit stinger and is handed the Aether (Power Gem) by Sif. After Sif and Volstagg leave he utters, "One down... Five to go." Now, people (and I mean nerds like us, not the GA) have taken that completely wrong. Why? I'll tell you why!

"I think he's working for Thanos."

Incorrect, because The Collector hates Thanos in the comics and without Thanos, The Collector wouldn't collect. Collector once had a vision of the universe's destruction. In the vision, he saw Thanos use the Infinity Gauntlet to destroy the universe. In anticipation of this, Collector started gathering samples of life, architecture, art, weaponry and many other things. Amongst this stuff, he'd gather artefacts of immense power. He hoped that collecting and preserving these things would at least postpone Thanos' destruction of the universe. The Collector. Hates. Thanos. Plain and simple, he hates him. If Marvel had them work together, I'd see that as a bigger character bastardisation than the Mandarin, they'd need to alter the character's entire backstory and purpose for collecting, and that doesn't sit well with me. Comparing it to Mandarin is fair enough. Mandarin was never in affiliation with Tony in the past (which he was in IM3), he never had a leadership role within AIM, he did not possess ten rings of power (morseo the terrorist organisation was a metaphor for the rings themselves) and he was never a white man. Back to the Collector, I just think he'd be better off unaltered. The character deserves to be portrayed correctly as he is about as perfect as could be.

I love the character and his hatred of Thanos is a driving characteristic as it can also make it a possibility for him to be a cause for good. The idea of him and Thanos working together genuinely sickens me. I'll probably get hate for this, and I'm willing to take it because I have a serious passion for the characters of the cosmic Marvel Universe and I figure people should learn about the characters before they go off on a theory spree.

What are your thoughts on The Collector, now that you've read this? Be sure to leave your thoughts in the comments section below.