Thunderheart

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Name:	Thunderheart
Abbreviation(s):
Creator:	Michael Apted (director), John Fusco (screenwriter)
Date(s):	April 3, 1992
Medium:	Film
Country of Origin:	United States
External Links:	Thunderheart at Wikipedia
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Thunderheart is a 1992 Neo-Western film starring Val Kilmer and Graham Greene.

The fandom juggernaut ship is Ray Levoi/Walter Crow Horse, tagged in 194 of 200 Thunderheart fanworks at Archive of Our Own as of October 2021. There is currently no FanFiction.Net category for the movie.

Some Thunderheart fiction appeared in multimedia fanzines in the 1990s, such as Wild Cards (1992–1997), Dyad, and Uncharted Waters (1995).

Fan Art

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  from Wild Cards #3 (1995), artist is Angi Towski

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  from Wild Cards #5 (1997), artist is KOZ

Fan Comments

THUNDERHEART is a movie I love, [and has] a pairing that made itself absolutely blatant to me from the first moment where one of the guys beats the shit out of the other one and then realizes he's a cop. Guy #1 is an FBI agent,

played by the lush-lipped Val Kilmer, sent to investigate a murder on a Sioux reservation because he (Kilmer's character) is 1/8 Sioux and they want to be able to say they are sending an Indian in to help the Indians. The FBI man, of course, knows nothing about his heritage. Guy #2 is a tribal police officer, Walter Crow Horse, played by Graham Greene of the long shining black hair and keen sense of humor. The course of their relationship as it develops throughout the movie will trigger the knowing recognition of any slash fan.

Links & Resources

• Thunderheart (1992) at Archive of Our Own
• youmustgoastwo, a LiveJournal community founded in 2011
• thunderheart, a fansite and fanworks archive
• You Must Go As Two by myhappyface, a Ray Levoi/Walter Crow Horse essay for ship_manifesto (26 May 2005)