Thor: Love and Thunder, Part 2

Released May 23rd, 2022

So we finally got our first glimpses of Gorr the God Butcher. WHY DOES HE HAVE A NOSE?!?!?! More on that in a minute…

A recent GoCollect article introduced an interesting point that I hadn’t thought of: Jane Foster dies in the comics (if only briefly, because… comics), because every time she transforms into the Mighty Thor, it eradicates the chemotherapy in her body that she’s undergone for her cancer. After she dies, Thor uses the power in Mjolnir (a God named Tempest) to revive Jane. She goes on to continue her chemo treatments, beat cancer, and eventually becomes a Valkyrie.

In the newest trailer, Jane says “What’s it been? Three? Four years?” to which Thor replies that it’s been eight years, six months etc. This throwaway line could lead us to infer that Jane got snapped out of existence by Thanos, and was just another reason Thor was so upset over his failure back in Infinity War/Endgame.

Losing Jane could also also be another step in Thor’s character arc. He lost Frigga in Dark World, Odin in Ragnarok, and then Loki and Heimdall in Infinity War. However, I think that we’re going to see a specific character make their debut into the MCU towards the end of Love and Thunder.

Thor’s sister, Hellspawn Hunter, Asgard’s Assassin, Angela

One way I could see this introduction working has mainly to do with the demise of Hela at the end of Ragnarok. Hela was the Queen of Hel. In her absence, I can see Feige and company using Angela’s stint as “Queen of Hel” where she retains all the powers that Hela once had, meaning she can “raise the dead” (so to speak) like Hela did with the army buried under Asgard in Ragnarok. What if she uses this power to revive Jane and help defeat Gorr? It would be an excellent debut for a bad ass new female character, further putting Thor’s machismo in check by being saved by a woman.

Lastly, but definitely not least, Gorr: My immediate thought was that if they could digitally remove Ralph Fiennes’ nose for him playing Voldemort in the Harry Potter series, Disney, with their seemingly infinite amount of money, could’ve splurged on the VFX/CGI department to make Gorr look more in keeping with his comic book namesake.

Left: Christian Bale as Gorr the God Butcher (2022) // Right: Esad Ribic’s depiction of Gorr in “Thor: God of Thunder” (2012)

I think it’s a really interesting choice, visually, that Taika Waititi chose to drain the color around Gorr’s character to focus on the contrasting Entropy (the black stuff he uses to catch his victims) and the golden colored eyes, which look uncannily like Heimdall’s. Could he have taken a similar power to Heimdall’s, that allows him to see all the trillions of cosmic souls (but can he see why kids love Cinnamon Toast Crunch?), thus knowing where the Gods reside? Only time will tell, I suppose.

One of the more recent things I noticed while searching Google for pictures for this post, is that in this one:

The Gorr toy has the same blackened fingertips we first saw on Agatha Harkness, and then on Wanda Maximoff in WandaVision and subsequently Doctor Strange and the Multiverse of Madness. This suggests to me that Marvel and Feige might (I *REALLY* hope) be going the ‘Chaos Magic’ route with the Necrosword (or the All-Black) over it’s Knull origins. Because as previously stated, I would rather see Ernie from Sesame Street wield the Infinity Gauntlet and turn the entirety of the MCU into puppets than see Knull get screen time.