Divine Misfortune Book

In the Avengers mansion, Thor, Iron Man, Hawkeye and Black Widow sit playing Monopoly and talking about A. Lee Martinez' book Divine Misfortune.

Hawkeye: - and then she says, "You're Thor? I can barely walk!"

[all laugh]

Iron Man: OK, I get $200 for passing go.

Black Widow: Like you need it.

Iron Man: Pay up. Soooo, Thor, did you like being included in Martinez' book Divine Misfortune?

Thor: Don't start with that again, it was artistic license, he was making a satire, a funny parody of theology.

Iron Man: Or you're mad because in the book you get smacked by a devilish god of chaos, I can appreciate your distaste.

Thor: And I can appreciate that you understand distaste.

Hawkeye: But I thought the book was about some raccoon god who sleeps with the fishes.

Black Widow: That's Luca Brasi, from The Godfather. He wasn't that lucky. This minor god was a god of prosperity, a god of luck, if you will, and his nickname was Lucky.

Iron Man: I liked Lucky, he had an attitude I can relate to.

Thor: Of course, he was carefree and irresponsible.

Iron Man: And your point is?

Hawkeye: So what? Some raccoon luck god, Thor gets smacked, what's the book about?

Black Widow: Thor is right for the most part, it's a fun play on animistic theology. In the book, a couple logs onto a video god finding site -

Iron Man: Pantheon.com! That was awesome.

Black Widow: Right, Pantheon.com, [laughs] and so they pick out a god to worship and they pick Lucky. Then there is all kinds of misadventures around this world where everyone has a god to look out for them.

Iron Man: Sounds fun.

Thor: It's all fun until someone lands on Park Place with a hotel! Pay up, Tony!