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Originally Posted by Optimatron

I'm sick of people saying they are the Disir. Anyone who says so obviously hasn't spent much time reading Thor the past couple of years.

Uhh sorry....but Loki's army is NOT the Disir. The Disir were chicks, there was only about 13 of them, and they were cursed cannibal maidens of Bor. The Disir don't need ships to move around in the atmosphere either, as they are bascially ghosts.

The creatures in the movie are technologically advanced, and look more like the Chitari. They also for the most part, look to be the male species of an alien race.

You really should have read the entire thread before posting this reply. We've moved well past that old post you quoted. I've even said in a subsequent post that I agree that it could not be the Disir as they appeared in the comics.

However, I do like Snow's reasoning that they could have used the Disir as a basis and changed some of the details for the film, like expanding the definition to fallen Asgardians (not just Valkyries) or even that it's Hela's army of the undead.

Also, part of movie Thor's background in addition to being an extra-dimensional alien is that the Asgardians are also highly advanced, technologically-speaking. So much so that their powers/tech look like magic to humans (even in the modern day).