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dimasku August 09, 2022

Thor: Love and Thunder (Film)

"Kids, get the popcorn out. Let me tell you the story of the space viking, Thor Odinson."

— Korg

Thor: Love and Thunder is a 2022 superhero space opera romantic comedy film from Marvel Studios. It is the 29th feature film, 13th Phase Four installment, and 36th installment overall in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, as well as the fourth Thor film. Taika Waititi from Thor: Ragnarok returns as director.

Following the events of Thor: Ragnarok and Avengers: Endgame, Thor Odinson has left the people of Asgard relocated to Earth in the hands of their newly christened king, Valkyrie, and joined up with the Guardians on their galactic adventures. However, after finding his heart just isn't in it anymore, Thor decides to retire from superheroics and set off on a Journey to Find Oneself with Korg across worlds, realms, and mythologies instead— a plan that is soon complicated by the threat of a God Butcher named Gorr, and the revelation that his ex-girlfriend, Jane Foster, has gained the powers of his mighty hammer Mjölnir.

The film stars returning MCU actors Chris Hemsworth as Thor Odinson, Natalie Portman as Jane Foster / the Mighty Thor, Tessa Thompson as King Valkyrie, Jaimie Alexander as Sif, Taika Waititi as Korg, and Chris Pratt, Dave Bautista, Pom Klementieff, Bradley Cooper, Vin Diesel, Karen Gillan and Sean Gunn as the Guardians of the Galaxy, as well as new cast members Russell Crowe as Zeus and Christian Bale as Gorr the God Butcher.

Love and Thunder was released in theaters on July 8, 2022.

Previews: Official Teaser, Official Trailer, Team Trailer, Journey Trailer, Final Trailer

  • The '80s: Like Ragnarok, the heavy metal rock music (Guns N' Roses, among others) used in the movie and the logo design (chrome colouration and spike-like font) just drip with a 1980s vibe.
  • Achievements in Ignorance: Thor thinking he was merely confiding in Mjolnir somehow has the same effect as Odin's spoken enchantment back in the first movie, creating a loophole that allows Jane to weild it.
  • Adapted Out: Knull and his connections to the Necrosword are completely removed due to Venom's rights being tied up with Sony (though it still remains an Artifact of Doom wielded by a dark god as in the comics).
  • Adaptation Amalgamation: The film mixes elements of Thor: God of Thunder (Gorr the God Butcher, Black Berserkers, Asgard being on Earth) and the 2014 Thor series (Jane Foster becoming Thor by taking up Mjolnir).#
  • Adaptational Late Appearance: Toothgnasher and Toothgrinder were Thor's draft animals in the original myths, and the comics followed suit — they don't actually appear until 1976, but that establishes that they've been around since the days Thor was actively worshipped. Here, Thor is gifted them during the events of the movie.
  • Adaptational Ugliness: Invoked in-universe. When the playwrights-and-actors performing Loki (Matt Damon) and Thor (Luke Hemsworth) do their take on the events of Thor: Ragnarok—they choose to portray Hela with Melissa McCarthy, who despite being a Big Beautiful Woman is made up to be as unflattering compared to the original by Cate Blanchett.
  • Advertised Extra:
    • Jaimie Alexander is given fifth billing as Sif despite appearing in 3 short scenes. She does however reference an important plot point that is referenced later.
    • The Guardians of the Galaxy were heavily featured in the trailers, but they go off on a separate mission early in the movie, and are never seen again.
  • Age Cut: While Korg narrates Thor's story, we see him running: first as a child, then as an adolescent and finally as an adult.
  • Alien Arts Are Appreciated: Heimdall's son renames himself from Astrid to Axl, expressly after Axl Rose, a reference that Korg also shows recognition towards.
  • Alien Blood: The blood of the various gods is golden, referencing Ichor from Greek Mythology.
  • Amazonian Beauty: Jane has gained a considerable amount of muscle mass and she's still played by Natalie Portman.
  • And Starring: With Russell Crowe and Natalie Portman. Featuring the Guardians of the Galaxy (with all of the actors playing the Guardians listed in the same billing)
  • Appropriate Animal Attire: Miek, whom Korg identified as an insect in Ragnarok, is wearing a blazer and a skirt at the conference in the teaser trailer.
  • An Arm and a Leg: Sif loses an arm during battle against Gorr.
  • Artifact of Doom: The Necrosword appears to have a will of its own, having "chosen" Gorr. It also physically corrupts and destroys him, such that he dies once it's destroyed, and mentally corrupts him as well, driving him to kill all gods, regardless, not just the Jerkass Gods that mocked his daughter's pointless, drawn-out death.
  • Ascend to a Higher Plane of Existence: As per the Norse myths, Thor mentioned that every time an Asgardian dies in battle, their spirits will ascend to Valhalla, the Asgardian afterlife. This is where Jane Foster ends up in the second Stinger after she passed away from her cancer. Due to taking up the power of Thor and joining the final battle despite the strain it caused to her own health, Jane died in battle as an Asgardian, and thus her spirit was permitted entrance to Valhalla, where she is greeted by none other than Heimdall.
  • Asshole Victim: It's really hard to feel any sorrow for Rapu when Gorr sticks the Necrosword through his throat.
  • Author Appeal: When Thor and co. are preparing to head to the Omnipotent City to try and rally an army of gods to fight Gorr, Korg mentions that one of the gods they may encounter is Tūmatauenga, the Māori god of war, hunting, and fishing, among other things. During the convocation of the gods, there are also a few shots of a Māori woman in full regalia (credited as Māori Princess). These are pretty clear references to Taika Waititi's own Māori heritage.
  • Autobots, Rock Out!: Of the four times Guns N' Roses is played, two are in battle scenes, with "Welcome in the Jungle" against the temple raiders and "November Rain" against the shadow monsters.
  • Baby Planet: The planet where the gang first fight Gorr is one of the larger examples but you can still tell that it's spherical when they're on it.
  • Back for the Dead:
    • Doctor Jane Foster succumbs to her cancer and dies in Thor's arms, with her soul going to Valhalla in the post-credits sequence.
    • Subvertedwith Lady Sif. She's introduced fatally wounded after her off-screen battle with Gorr when Thor arrives and wants Thor to leave her to die. However, once Thor tells her she wouldn't go to Vallhalla for not dying during the battle she gets back her will to live and agrees going to Asgard. She's seen again in the end, training Axl.
    • Also subverted for Korg, who gets nailed by Zeus's thunderbolt (get its name right!) and collapses into rubble. However, it turns out the only part of his species that's actually alive is the face and he ends up pulling himself back together in the end.
  • Back from the Dead:
    • In a sense, Mjolnir. The Hammer has been left broken and not reforged or repaired (or even moved, as the ground around it appears to have been dug down for its pedestal) since Hela destroyed it during Ragnarok. However, upon sensing Jane Foster is Worthy of the Power of Thor, and because of an enchantment Thor unknowingly placed on the Hammer years ago, Mjolnir pulls itself back together again (though it still bears all the marks of Hela's damage).
    • Gorr uses his wish in front of Eternity to bring his daughter back to life.
  • Bad "Bad Acting": The actors of New Asgard's theatre group are just as bad as they were last time. Odin's actor crawls awkwardly off stage after his "death" and Loki's actor sprays water into his eyes to represent tears.
  • The Bad Guy Wins: Zig-zagged. While there are still gods living at the end of the movie, Thor admits he couldn't stop Gorr from reaching Eternity to get a free wish. However, his wish is way less dangerous than everyone thought, as after a heart-to-heart with Thor and Jane, he wishes for his daughter to live again before he dies.
  • Badass Adorable: The Asgardian children, once Thor temporarily empowers them. Especially the girl using her stuffed toy bunny to shoot electric Eye Beams at the enemy. Also Gorr's daughter, Love, who charges into battle wielding Stormbreaker.
  • Bathos: Thor gives an inspiring speech to New Asgard, and is then interrupted by Miek making a lot of squeaking noises transcribing it with a marker on a whiteboard.
  • Big Bad: Gorr the God Butcher is an alien being who despises all gods for their hubris and apathy towards mortals due to his family's death, and seeks to butcher the lot of them using his pitch-black, deity-slaying blade, the Necrosword. To this end, he captures Asgardian children to force Thor to give up his ax so it can let him reach the godlike Eternity, a being who he can convince to do the task.
  • Big Damn Heroes: During the Final Battle, Gorr is about to kill Thor with the Necrosword...and then Jane arrives through the Bifrost, as Mighty Thor, and smashes him with Mjolnir.
  • Bigger Is Better in Bed: Zeus flicks too hard and strips Thor nude. Cue multiple people (men and women) fainting.
  • Big "NO!": Thor screams "No!" when Zeus seemingly kills Korg.
  • Bittersweet Ending: Thor loses Jane to cancer, Gorr dies after knowing what he actually wanted and an injured and irate Zeus sends Hercules after Thor. However, Gorr's request to revive his daughter is fulfilled, allowing him to see her before he dies, the Asgardian kids are returned home safely and are under training by Lady Sif, Thor find closure from his latest adventure and continues on more to help others with Love by his side and Jane passes on to a better place, also known as Vahalla.
  • Bizarre Alien Reproduction: Kronan babies are made by two Kronans holding hands over a lava pit for a long time. In the end, Korg makes a baby with a Kronan called Dwayne.
  • Blood Knight: In the "Tickets on Sale" promo, Valkyrie exclaims a relieved "I get to fight again!" when Thor adds her to his team to fight Gorr.
  • Blood-Splattered Warrior: Thor, Jane and Valkyrie fighting the Greek gods leaves them splattered in their golden blood, a scene which would be a lot gorier if the blood were red.
  • Bookends: The film opens and closes with Korg narrating the story of Thor.
  • Bratty Teenage Daughter: Groot II is still in a gender-inverted version of this phase, with Rocket needing to literally pull binoculars out of his mouth.
  • Brick Joke:
    • While getting back into shape, Thor is wearing a trucker hat that says "Strongest Avenger" on it, something Thor had been insisting multiple times was him rather than Hulk since Thor: Ragnarok.note The "Strongest Avenger" title has been wielded by Wanda Maximoff until her Face–Heel Turn and apparent demise and Carol Danvers by a far margin
    • Darcy brings candy and snacks for Jane at the start of the movie. Closer to the end, Thor brings more to her after she's bedridden and Thor reacts poorly (smashing the vending machine) to the doctor's news.
    • Sif references wanting to die in battle and be admitted to Valhala. This happens to Jane, who succumbs to cancer using Mjolnir to destroy the Necrosword for good.
  • Bring It: Thor and Gorr can both be seen making taunting hand gestures at each other when Gorr tries to take Stormbreaker.
  • Broken Pedestal:
    • This trope plays a big role in Gorr's origin: In the beginning of the movie a desparete and suffering Gorr meets his god shortly after his daughter died. He expected help and a reward for his worship, but instead gets mocked by his god as the latter sees mortals as pieces of crap who only exist to worship gods. This leads to Gorr killing him and vowing to kill all gods.
    • Thor mentions that Zeus was a huge inspiration for his own powers and godhood and is severely disappointed when Zeus refuses to do anything and instead engages in mockery, self-aggrandizement, and self-indulgence.
  • The Bus Came Back:
  • Call-Back:
  • The Cameo:
  • Canon Foreigner: Kieron L. Dyer stars as Axl, Heimdall's son. Axl has no comic book counterpart.
  • Canon Immigrant: A very minor one, but Daley Pearson played Thor's roommate Darryl in the non-canon Team Thor-One Shots. A character named Daryll, portrayed by Pearson, appears in the movie.
  • Cast from Lifespan: It's revealed near the end that turning into Thor is exacerbating Jane's cancer and killing her.
  • The Cavalry: Literal example. During the Final Battle, Jane rides an Asgardian Pegasus as she teleports in Just in Time to save Thor from Gorr.
  • Celebrity Paradox: When Jane is explaining the concept of Einstein-Rosen bridges to a fan of her book, she asks him if he's seen either Event Horizon or Interstellar, since both of those movies feature a simplified demonstration of the concept. Event Horizon starred Sam Neill, who appears in this film and in Thor: Ragnarok as the Asgardian actor who portrays Odin; Laurence Fishburne, who played Bill Foster in Ant-Man and the Wasp; and Kathleen Quinlan, who appeared in Runaways. Interstellar, meanwhile, featured Matt Damon, who is the Asgardian actor portraying Loki in this film and in Thor: Ragnarok, and Josh Stewart, who portrayed John Pilgrim in the second season of The Punisher.
  • Central Theme: Love.
    • Star-Lord gives Thor a pep talk about love (or in his words, having something to feel "shitty" about).

      Star-Lord: If you ever feel lost, just look into the eyes of the people that you love. It'll tell you exactly who you are.

    • Thor and Jane's relationship comes back into play years after their breakup, and they slowly begin to rekindle their love throughout the film.
    • Thor also gets caught up in a Love Triangle between himself, Mjolnir, and Stormbreaker, with the latter clearly getting jealous of Thor's ex-weapon.
    • At the end, Gorr realizes that Thor and Jane's love for each other reflects his own love for his daughter, and he uses his dying wish not to exact revenge on the gods, but to reunite with his girl and give her a second chance at life.
    • In the epilogue, Korg himself finds love in the form of a fellow Kronan named Dwayne.
  • Cessation of Existence: Gorr turns villainous when his God tells him that there's no afterlife waiting for him though the Asgardians discuss Valhalla a few times. It's confirmed to exist in a post-credits scene.
  • The Chains of Commanding: Valkyrie is shown looking bored out of her mind at a political meeting with various world leaders, several empty martini glasses stacked next to her. In the "Tickets on Sale" TV spot and "Team" trailer, she's also overjoyed to get to fight again.
  • Continuity Cameo: This tweet points out that one shot in the trailer shows what appear to be statues depicting Death,note The cosmic entity Infinity, the Living Tribunal, and the Watcher.
  • Continuity Nod:
  • Continuity Snarl: Eternals says the titular aliens were the inspiration for the legends about Greek gods. Here we're shown that the gods actually exist and there's no mention of the Eternals. Interestingly two of their bosses, the Celestials appear amongst the gods on Omnipotence City.note Although this is in keeping with the comics in which the Greek pantheon and the Eternals co-exist but some ancient people mistook the two such as Gilgamesh taking credit for some things Hercules did.
  • Cool Boat: Thor, Korg, and Valkyrie set out for Omnipotence City from New Asgard in what the LEGO merchandise dubs "the Goat Boat" — an Asgardian longship with "New Asgard Tours" signs on the sides and a neon cocktail bar sign on the cabin, pulled by supernatural goats Toothgnasher and Toothgrinder. The Goat Boat is also capable of interstellar flight, being shown approaching a planet from space later in the trailer.
  • Creative Closing Credits: The first of them are shown in a similar manner to getting summoned by the Bifrost with the text and/or accompanying pictures shown within the rush of colour.
  • Crossover Cosmology: The movie introduces many deities from different mythologies and folklores who even are shown to hang out with each other in Omnipotence City. Not really a surprise as this is also the case in the comics and the MCU has already introduced us to Egyptian gods on top of the Norse gods in the Thor franchise.
  • Curb-Stomp Battle: The movie opens with a hostile alien force attacking an otherwise peaceful people who are being defended by the Guardians of the Galaxy. Just as all seems lost, Thor joins the battle and ends it quite quickly and decisively.
  • Darker and Edgier: A literal example. Most of Gorr's scenes show him in dreary lighting and a monochrome palette. The Shadow Realm is also monochrome. The film also gets a sad subplot regarding Jane's terminal cancer.
  • Deadly Upgrade: Jane begins wielding Mjølnir in the hope that the Asgardian magic it contains will act as a miracle cure for her cancer. It ultimately has the opposite effect as it is a magical Asgardian weapon which is more powerful than a normal human can handle, slowly sapping the strength from her already weakened body and leaving her even more susceptible to the cancer.
  • "Dear John" Letter: It is revealed that Jane broke up with Thor via a letter.
  • Deliberate Values Dissonance: In Asgardian culture, Astrid is a unisex name whose meaning is derived from elements such as "god" and "beloved". On Earth, it's primarily a girl's name, meaning "divinely beautiful". Thus, Heimdall's son decided to change his name to "Axl" to avoid embarrassment.
  • Destructive Savior: After he knocks over the temple he was there to save, Thor is referred to as “God of Destruction” by the alien king.
  • Died in Your Arms Tonight:
    • Gorr's daughter dies in his arms in the beginning.
    • Jane decides to use Mjølnir one last time despite knowing that it will kill her, and she dies in Thor's arms.
    • After Gorr uses his wish to ressurrect his daughter, he dies in her arms.
  • Disappears into Light:
    • Anytime a god dies, they fade away into golden sparks. The same happens when Jane dies.
    • This effect is replicated by New Asgard's theatre group. When they reenact Odin's death in Thor: Ragnarok, they use golden glitter to represent the sparks as Odin's actor crawls off-stage.
  • Distress Call: Thor finds out about the gods being killed when monitoring distress calls. It's implied the Guardians Of The Galaxy's modus operandi is to check the space waves for distress calls.
  • Does Not Know His Own Strength: Zeus attempts to use his powers to flick off Thor's hood, but accidentally (or "accidentally"?) ends up flicking off his entire robe. The now completely naked Thor sums it up:

    Thor: You flicked too hard, damnit!

  • The Dog Bites Back: After his god gives him a thorough kicking while he’s down, Gorr takes up the Necrosword, slays his god, and pledges to kill all gods in the universe.
  • Dramatic Irony: Minor example. Loki's name on the tattoo of a list of the people Thor lost that's on his back includes a question mark after it. Even half a decade after Thanos snapped Loki's neck, Thor still isn't certain whether or not his brother's truly dead (almost certainly out of both grief and Loki's successes at Faking the Dead). The irony, of course, is only the audience is privy to the confimration from Loki (2021): The Sacred Timeline Loki is dead and gone (though Loki is still alive in a sense thanks to the temporal variant the Avengers indirectly created during the Time Heist.
  • The Dreaded: Everyone is scared of Gorr, including Zeus.
  • Dressed in Layers: Miek, working as Valkyrie's secretary, is wearing his combat Mini-Mecha under a blazer and skirt.
  • Early Personality Signs: During the montage of Korg telling about Thor's life, there is a moment where baby Thor is strapped to Frigga's front in a baby carrier during a battle, and he is holding a small wooden hammer trying to participate in the battle.
  • Eating the Eye Candy: Zeus's entire entourage collapse at the sight of Thor's body when the Olympian accidentally strips Thor naked. Notably, the woman furthest of Zeus's right holds her gaze for as long as she can before fainting with a smirk. Even Jane and Valkyrie hold off on immediately helping him and instead literally eat candy as they watch.
  • Embarrassing First Name: Astrid, Heimdall’s son, does not like the name his father give, possibly since on Earth and in present day, Astrid is a girl’s name. Instead, he calls himself Axl, after Axl Rose.
  • Empowered Badass Normal:
    • Like in the comics, Jane Foster gets the powers of the Mighty Thor via Mjolnir after being a normal astrophysicist in her previous appearances in the franchise. In the climactic fight against Gorr, Thor empowers the children of Asgard with (for a limited time only) the Power of Thor.
    • At the end of the movie, Gorr's resurrected daughter is shown to have been empowered by Eternity, giving her laser vision, and who knows what else.
  • Establishing Character Moment: Gorr gets two:
    • The opening scene, where Gorr and his daughter trek a seemingly endless desert shows Gorr both praying to Rapu, demonstrating the piety, and him caring for his daughter, whom he holds as she dies of thirst.
    • Gorr's attack on New Asgard demonstrates his control over shadows and his ability to summon the Black Berserkers, while his fight with Thor shows off his newfound sadism and deadly combat skill; he holds his own against Thor while taunting him over how painful his death by the Necrosword would be.
  • Even the Guys Want Him: When Zeus accidentally strips Thor naked, his muscular physique is exposed to a large crowd in Omnipotence City's arena. Cue numerous women and men fainting.
  • Facial Markings: Gorr and his daughter have tattoos on their faces. Since Gorr apparently cuts them off after repudiating and killing his god, it’s possible they may have had some kind of religious significance.
  • Fanservice: Thor's muscular physique is put on full display after Zeus flicks off his robe, with his bare ass — censored with pixelation in the trailers — on full display as well.
  • Fantasy Pantheon: Several alien gods appear amongst Gorr's victims and Omnipotence City alongside the Earth gods.
  • Feet of Clay: Turns out the gods of Omnipotence City aren't nearly as badass and awesome as they'd like everyone to believe. Zeus in particular turns out to be a Broken Pedestal for Thor, and then Thor, Mighty Thor, and Valkyrie give a Curb-Stomp Battle to his guards before Thor drops Zeus himself with his own favored weapon.
  • Finale Title Drop: In the last scene, when Thor and the resurrected Love charge into battle, Korg gives this final piece of narration:

    Korg: They traveled far, and have been given many names, but to those who know them best, they are simply known as Love and Thunder.

  • Flechette Storm: Jane can swing Mjolnir in an arc and send out the shards to hit groups of enemies.
  • Flying Broomstick: Thor enters a battle by jumping off a cliff with Stormbreaker between his legs and flies away on it. It even grew a bunch of roots like a broomstick from the time it spent planted in the ground while Thor was meditating.
  • Flying Seafood Special: Thor and Jane have a romantic moment watching "Space Dolphins".
  • Foil: In a bit of Irony, Zeus serves to the "lesser god" he dismisses, Gorr's patron deity Rapu. While Zeus seems to have maintained his exalted state in Omnipotence City and Rapu seems to have been reduced to a small oasis in the middle of a desert, both were ultimately neglectful patron gods who help give a solid basis for Gorr's newfound Nay-Theism. The difference here is that Rapu suffers death at Gorr's hand immediately, while Zeus comes to a realization and is thus motivated to enforce his will again.
  • Fold the Page, Fold the Space: Jane tears a page out of her own book and folds it to explain to a man how wormholes work. For bonus points she mentions Event Horizon and Interstellar while doing so.
  • Foreshadowing:
    • When first bringing up Omnipotence City, Thor mentions Hercules as one of its famous residents, who shows up in The Stinger.
    • Jane ruins the pages of her own book to make sure her co-patient understands wormholes, foreshadowing her willingness to ruin her body and health in order to help others, ultimately sacrificing her life to save Thor and rescue the New Asgardian children.
    • Gorr grabs at Stormbreaker while fighting Thor in New Asgard. The axe is the crux of his master plan, to use the Bifrost to reach Eternity and use the omnipotent entity to destroy all gods in one fell swoop.
  • Gender Flip: In the comics, Gorr had a son named Agar who died from thirst and hunger during a drought, contributing to Gorr's despair and hatred of the gods. In Love and Thunder, he instead had a daughter (known to the people she saves as Love), whose death occurs in the same manner.
  • God of Thunder: Thor calls himself the God of Thunder and Zeus the God of Lightning. He looks up to Zeus rather than seeing him as a rival until he realizes that Zeus cares more about his orgies than protecting the gods from Gorr.
  • Good Scars, Evil Scars: Though Thor still has the scar over his right eye from his fight with Hela, it's now a thin, barely noticeable line. Gorr, meanwhile, is Covered with Scars, all of which are thick and ugly.
  • Green-Eyed Monster:
    • When he first sees Jane wielding Mjölnir, Thor, who doesn’t recognize her, is clearly jealous - his immediate reaction is to change his costume into a more ostentatious blue and gold with an over the top helmet. Through the remainder of the first act, Thor actively tries to summon Mjölnir to his side away from Jane and even makes a point of proving that he’s still worthy by picking up his former hammer in front of her.
    • Thor’s jealousy over Jane wielding Mjölnir has the knock-on effect of making Stormbreaker jealous, with the axe effectively being portrayed as someone who keeps seeing their lover making eyes towards their ex.
  • Hate Sink: Rapu, Gorr's own god, is clearly meant to be despised for his scant screentime; confronted with the last of his worshipers, Rapu only complains that Gorr is eating some of his fruit (of which the god has plenty), and he cruelly dismisses the loss of all of his devotees, as well as mocking Gorr for believing in a life after death and for his losses. When Gorr renounces him, Rapu quickly resorts to trying to strangle him, and, although the entire scene is Gorr's Start of Darkness, it's meant to be very satisfying when Gorr beheads the jerkass god with the Necrosword.
  • Have You Seen My God?: The driving force of Gorr's angst: when he and his daughter were the only ones of his faith left behind, they were forced to survive in the elements until she dies. This trope further gets twisted on when he realizes his god has not only abandoned his people, but seems perfectly satisfied in indulging himself at the expense of everyone else. After the Necrosword has chosen him to become the God-Butcher, it becomes Gorr's additional modus to impart his subsequent Nay-Theist beliefs to everyone he meets. The antipathy of Zeus and Omnipotence City, unsurprisingly, helps give greater weight to his beliefs. However, this really only lasts until he goes directly against Thor, realizing he's still the kind of god who believes in doing what he believes is good even when everyone else does not.
  • Healthy in Heaven: One of the post-credits scenes has Jane appear in Valhalla with no cancer symptoms.
  • Heaven: Fittingly for a movie about gods, there is much talk about whether they offer an eternal reward upon death. Gorr initially believed he and his daughter would live forever after death due to their faithful worship of his god, but a chance encounter proved his god was a deceiver. This contrasts with the Asgardians like Thor, Sif, and some actors, who casually make references to enjoying Valhalla after their deaths. In the end, we see that Valhalla is real and heroes like Jane and Heimdall can exist in peace there.
  • Hero of Another Story: The Guardians of the Galaxy set off, unseen afterward, to answer multiple other distress calls.
  • Heroic Sacrifice: Despite knowing the cost, Jane again assumes the mantle of Mighty Thor, and dies saving Thor from Gorr.
  • Home of the Gods: As well as New Asgard we get Omnipotence City where the top gods from several religions exist.
  • Homoerotic Subtext: As Star-Lord talks about looking at the people he loves while looking at the other Guardians, Thor attempts to slide into his line of sight.
  • Honorary Uncle: Love calls Thor "Uncle Thor".
  • How the Mighty Have Fallen: Although here the "fall" is only a revelation of a subverted moral instead of a loss of status, this trope is quoted verbatim by Thor after he witnesses Zeus' behavior regarding Gorr's actions.
  • I Kiss Your Hand:
    • Before fleeing with Thor and Jane, Valkyrie kisses the hand of one of Zeus's maidens.
    • Thor kisses Jane's hand when he says goodbye to her in Asgard's infirmary.
  • I Meant to Do That: Thor attempts to summon Mjölnir from Jane's hand into his. Mjölnir doesn't react; instead, Stormbreaker slowly floats into view and Thor pretends that he was actually calling it.
  • Innocently Insensitive: Right after New Asgard's children are kidnapped and all the citizens are on edge, the actors playing Thor and Loki ask Valkyrie if they should reenact the event in their play. She just gives them an annoyed look and doesn't even answer.
  • Insistent Terminology:
    • Zeus says his weapon is called the Thunderbolt, not Lightningbolt.
    • In the climatic battle, Gorr dismissively calls Jane "Lady Thor" as he attacks her. Jane responds by saying that it’s Mighty Thor or Dr. Jane Foster.
  • Invasion of the Baby Snatchers: Gorr kidnaps the children of New Asgard to use as bait to get Thor to bring Stormbreaker to the Shadow Realm.
  • Jerkass Gods: Nearly all the gods except the titular hero appearing in this movie are portrayed that way, not really caring for people other than themselves. It makes it kinda hard to say that Gorr's motivation is unjustified.
  • Jesus Taboo: Valkyrie points at an offscreen god of carpenters who is presumably Jesus.
  • Journey to Find Oneself: Thor is shown exercising to burn off his extra weight, meditating under a tree, and announcing his intent to retire from superheroics and travel the cosmos on a journey of self-discovery. Eventually, Thor parts ways with the Guardians of the Galaxy and goes back to New Asgard together with Korg.
  • Jump Scare: During Gorr’s first attack, Thor spots the God Killer peering at him from afar. As he slowly approaches Thor, he disappears into the chaos a la Vehicle Vanish… then suddenly reappears right in front of the camera. There’s even a Scare Chord.
  • Kaiju: Thor and Korg find the corpse of a colossal draconic god — called Falligar the Behemoth in the comics — who was slain by Gorr.
  • Kick the Dog:
    • Gorr’s deity sneers at his devotion, cruelly dismisses the deaths of Gorr’s family and friends as meaning nothing to him, and tells Gorr that there is no afterlife waiting for him. Unfortunately for him, he does all this while the Necrosword is lying nearby...
    • Your sympathy for Gorr is meant to die away when he kidnaps a bunch of Asgardian children and then jovially terrifies them before telling them that the gods do not care about them and will do nothing to save them.
  • Kill the God: Gorr's end goal is the death of all gods in the universe. He has racked up a divine body count.
  • Knight of Cerebus: Like with Hela, the film gets very serious when Gorr appears.
  • Lady in a Power Suit: King Valkyrie is wearing a black suit at a conference with various world leaders.
  • Leaning on the Fourth Wall:
    • Jane says that it was 3 years since she last seen Thor, while Thor says it was 8 years. A nod that Natalie Portman did not record new footage for Jane's cameo in Avengers: Endgame.
    • In the mid-credits Stinger, Zeus complains about the ascension of super-heroes and how the Gods have been forgotten and are no longer feared. This mirrors the real-life academic argument about how super-heroes are modern day myths and have supplanted the gods and legends of yesteryear in global storytelling.
  • Licking the Blade: In the "Tickets On Sale" spot, Valkyrie licks the blade of Dragonfang during a battle.
  • Logo Joke: The Marvel Studios fanfare is played on an electric guitar.
  • Love Hurts: Star-Lord gives Thor a pep-talk to cheer him up. He tells him that it is better to feel shitty about someone you love and lost, like he did Gamora and Thor did most of his loved ones in the past, than to feel the emptiness of not loving anyone.
  • Make a Wish: Eternity exists at the center of the universe and will grant a wish to the first person who reaches him. Gorr's plan is thought to be wishing the gods out of existence. He ends up wishing his daughter back to life.
  • Married to the Job: This was the reason why Thor and Jane broke up between The Dark World and Ragnarok. Thor was busy with the Avengers and Jane was busy with her science career, and the two of them grew apart.
  • Meta Twist: Previous entries have had a consistent Changing of the Guard as far back as Ant-Man, as new heroes took up the mantle of older heroes. Not only does Jane not replace Thor as the God of Thunder, she actually dies before him. Thor does give Love Stormbreaker, but that is simply an extension of Thor's Character Development that he is not intrinsically tied to his weapons.
  • The Missus and the Ex: Given a twist in that the missus is Stormbreaker, a massive battle-ax, while the ex is Mjölnir, a war hammer. Stormbreaker is clearly jealous that Thor keeps trying to get back with Mjölnir and even throws a couple of tantrums, forcing Thor to try and comfort his weapon as if it were a jealous lover. In fact, it's implied that part of Thor's trouble with trying to close the Bifrost in the climax is because Stormbreaker is refusing to cooperate out of spite.
  • Modernized Gods: The inhabitants of New Asgard don't act or dress much different from modern Americans.
  • Mood Whiplash: The trailer at first is a lighthearted and colorful romp with upbeat music that shows what Thor's been up to since Endgame and how he reacts to Jane now having Mjolnir. Then the music turns ominous, we cut to a ruin in the abyss of space, and Gorr starts monologuing. Then the upbeat music from before returns, and now we have the heroes fighting against Gorr, but the montage is for the most part as lighthearted as it was before. The film also has many serious or sad scenes undercut by a sudden joke.
  • My Name Is Inigo Montoya: "First, it is The Mighty Thor! Second, I also accept Dr. Jane Foster!"
  • Mythology Gag:
    • When Korg tells Thor's story in the beginning, Thor can be briefly seen wearing his classic costume from the comics.
    • Thor has a variation of the Ravagers' red jacket with a matching pair of boots on. This gives him a notable resemblance to Eric Masterson aka Thunderstrike, the Thor from the 90s.
    • A shot of Thor and Korg looking at the corpse of Falligar the Behemoth is a near-perfect recreation of a panel from Thor: God of Thunder #3.
    • As the Mighty Thor, Jane Foster wields a badly cracked Mjölnir, a nod to the War of the Realms, where she pieced together the shattered Earth-1610 version of Mjölnir to temporarily become Thor again.
    • As in Thor: God of Thunder, Gorr gets the Necrosword from the corpse of a dark god clad in black armor (though this dark god is unlikely to be Knull) and uses it to kill a golden-armored god.
    • Gorr and the Necrosword draws their power from the Shadow Realm, which in the comics was first introduced in Marvel Spotlight as the home dimension of Mister E and other shadow-men; with King In Black retconning it to be the primordial void that existed before the universe, and from which Knull created the symbiotes — including All-Black the Necrosword and Mister E.
    • To literal Mythology: The tour boat is pulled by two goats, Tanngrisnir and Tanngnjóstr — localized as "Toothgnasher" and "Toothgrinder" — who pull Thor's chariot in Norse mythology. The side says "Aegir Asgard Tours". Aegir is a Jotunn personifying the ocean. Thor's line about eating them may be a reference to the fact that in mythology he did — repeatedly, as they were reborn the next day.
    • The blood of the Greek gods is golden, referencing the Ichor from Greek Mythology.
    • The Mighty Thor arrives at the final battle riding Val's pegasus. In Jane Foster: Valkyrie, she gets a winged horse of her own.
    • In The Stinger Zeus sends Hercules to get revenge on Thor. Herc and Thor are frequently prortrayed as rivals in the comics, with Herc's first appearance being an issue of Thor in which he starts a fight with the Odinson for basically no reason.
  • Naked People Are Funny: Thor is accidentally completely disrobed by Zeus in his arena, resulting in men and women alike swooning (and Jane and Valkyrie literally and figuratively Eating the Eye Candy).
  • Named After Somebody Famous: Heimdall's son Astrid, for obvious reasons, decides to change his name, asking to be called Axl in homage to the Guns N' Roses frontman.
  • Names to Run Away from Really Fast: Gorr the God Butcher is probably one of the coolest and scariest names Marvel’s ever produced.
  • Near-Villain Victory: Gorr is a complex play on the trope, since his strategy of tricking Thor into giving him Stormbreaker so he can access Eternity succeeds completely… but with the Necrosword destroyed in the final fight, Gorr is freed from his curse and changes the wish he was going to make. You might say that Gorr won, and the God-Butcher lost.
  • Never Trust a Trailer: The official trailer suggests that Gorr is the one who hits the small planet with a shockwave. In the film, that's actually Thor's doing.
  • New Neo City: As opposed to the struggling fishing village seen in Avengers: Endgame, New Asgard is regaining some of the original Asgard's former glory, with flying longboats soaring over the town and gold plating on several of the buildings. It's also become a tourist attraction, with cruise ships docked the harbor, a golf course, and the aforementioned flying longboats giving tours.
  • Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: Thor, Jane, Valkyrie, and Korg's quest to Omnipotence City to request Zeus and the gods' help in the fight against Gorr turn out to be this. While Zeus turns out to be a pretty big jerk who actively ignores the galactic affairs in favor of hosting godly parties and hiding away in the safety of his domain, he still doesn't pose any threat until Thor disrespected and almost killed him, at which point Zeus realizes just how far the gods have fallen out of favor with their former worshippers. In the first stinger, Zeus decides to take action to make mortals fear the gods once more by sending his son Hercules on a mission to swat Thor out of the sky.
    • There's another example at the beginning of the movie, but it’s Played for Laughs. Thor single-handedly saves the planet the Guardians have been called to help. In the process, he completely demolishes the palace. The king is clearly upset by this, and in an act of passive-aggression hidden by generosity, rewards the Guardians with two giant space goats who scream incessantly. It’s more than likely that Thor ruined the Guardians' reputation on that planet.
  • No Endor Holocaust: Averted. We see the consequences of Gorr's god butchery first in an invasion that Thor and the Guardians have to try and stop after Gorr kills one planet's god, and then we see that this same scenario is being played out on more than 1500 other planets when the Guardians get their comms working.
  • No Name Given: We never learn the name of Gorr's daughter, despite her importance to the plot of the film. Korg, at least in his tale, gives her the epithet of "Love", shared with Thor who has gained fame as the wandering hero "Thunder", making the film's title a Character Title of sorts.
  • Noodle Incident: The dialogue between Zeus and Thor (particularly after he discovers the entire Asgardian party) suggests that the Aesir (either under Odin or even Bor, Thor's grandfather) once paid court to Omnipotence City. What drove them away from it is not explicitly touched upon. However, the fact that Bor and Odin have once been expansionists that would have likely clashed with Zeus's hedonistic apathy is the likeliest explanation, especially since it is implied Zeus has been long like this.
  • The Nothing After Death: Gorr's Jerkass God Rapu sneers at his suffering with this, suggesting it's the only thing his followers are ever good for. The God-Butcher's subsequent rampages are also likely driven by this realization. However, Thor manages to talk Gorr down from this sentiment and allows him to find inner peace, especially as Gorr manages to resurrect his daughter with his wish. Further defying trope is the reveal that after Jane's Character Death, she ends up in Valhalla.
  • Not Quite Dead:
    • Zeus's lightning seemingly kills Korg. However, it soon turns out that only his face needs to be intact for him to survive, and he regenerates his body.
    • Zeus himself, as shown in The Stinger, was merely badly wounded when Thor nailed him with the Thunderbolt.
  • "Not So Different" Remark: Gorr draws parallels between himself and the trio of Thor, Jane, and Valkyrie: like Thor, he couldn't save those dearest to him, like Jane, Gorr is dying from the very thing giving him his power, and like Valkyrie, he lost everything he loved in service to gods who couldn't or wouldn't do anything to help him. Thor turns it back on Gorr in the finale; recognising that, like his experience with Thanos, Gorr's vengeance against the gods isn't bringing him anything but misery, empathises with him, saying that what Gorr truly wants is love, which convinces Gorr to ask Eternity to resurrect his daughter rather than destroying all the gods.
  • The Nudifier: Zeus telekinetically removes Thor's disguise, but overdoes it and leaves him naked.
  • Offscreen Moment of Awesome:
    • However the gods of Gorr’s world managed to kill the previous wielder of the Necrosword.
    • Most of Gorr's deicidal rampage is left to the imagination; in particular, the audience only sees the aftermath of him slaying Falligar the Behemoth and maiming Lady Sif.
  • Off with His Head!: Axl tells the other children the story of how Thor cut off Thanos’s head with his axe. Gorr then enters the scene with a small serpentine creature and snaps off its head in front of the children, sneering that they were all happy for a decapitation story moments earlier but not so much when he does it.
    • This also appears to be how Gorr slew his god.
  • One-Gender Race: As in the comics, Korg reveals all Kronans are male (or at least male-voiced considering they're Rock Monsters) while discussing the mating practices of his people.
  • Once an Episode: Thor once again has a scene without his shirt on. Unlike the Shirtless Scene of prior movies, Thor here gets straight up naked.
  • Parental Substitute: At the end of the movie, Thor ends up becoming Love's adoptive father after promising the dying Gorr he would look after his daughter.
  • Pass the Popcorn:
    • Jane and Valkyrie eat grapes as they watch Thor naked on-stage in front of the gods of Omnipotent City.

      Jane: Should we stop this?
      Valkyrie: Eventually. Grape?

    • In-Universe, Korg encourages a group of kids to get their popcorn as he begins to tell them the story of Thor.
  • Pixellation: When Zeus accidentally strips Thor naked in the ending joke of the trailer, the latter's bare ass is blurred out with pixels. This is not the case in the movie, where Thor’s rear end is on display for all to see.
  • Power Dyes Your Hair: Jane’s normally dark brown hair has lightened to a dirty blonde shade as a result of Mjolnir granting her Thor’s lightning-based powers.
  • The Power of Love: Thor asked Mjolnir to always protect Jane, and it’s revealed that the sheer strength of his love for her enchanted the hammer to do just that, hence why it reformed itself upon sensing her presence. At the end of the movie Thor even manages to convince Gorr to turn away from his deicidal quest by reminding him of just how wonderful love is. Gorr then uses his wish from Eternity to resurrect his daughter and entrust her to Thor's care.
  • Product Placement: Valkyrie is shown shooting a commercial for Old Spice, complete with a guy playing the ad jingle on a pan flute.
  • Rage Against the Heavens: After concluding that all gods are selfish monsters, Gorr decides he's going to exterminate them all.

    Gorr: This is my vow: all gods will die.

  • Redshirt Army: Half of the Asgardian warriors are killed during the initial attack by Gorr. A conversation afterwards lampshades how often their warriors get killed when one resident sarcastically noted half their warriors are always dead.
  • Remember the New Guy?: Heimdall apparently had a never-before-seen son, Astrid, who appears in this film and insists on being called Axl. The boy’s mother also appears, but her relation to Heimdall is not commented upon.
  • Retcon: Korg mentions how he Has Two Daddies via Bizarre Alien Reproduction, even though Ragnarok had him mention that he has a mother (and her new boyfriend, who he hates).
  • Retired Badass: In the trailer, Thor's narration reveals that he intends to retire from his superhero lifestyle. However, that's not really the case in the movie itself, where Thor is continuing his superhero actions alongside the Guardians Of The Galaxy while trying to find inner peace at the same time.
  • Running Gag:
    • Jane's terrible attempts at a Catchphrase, which finally gets played for pathos at the end when she whispers her latest attempt to Thor right before she dies.
    • Thor's terrible attempts at giving a Rousing Speech. It never really works, but he usually manages to cheer people up even so. Especially the kids.
    • The goats that are gifted to Thor scream in every scene that they're in.
    • Stormbreaker getting jealous and cranky every time Thor has eyes for Mjolnir or tries to use the Bifrost. Stops getting played for laughs in the climax when Stormbreaker's pettiness backfires and allows Gorr to achieve his objective of reaching Eternity.
  • Scarred Equipment: Jane wields Mjölnir covered in cracks. Jane weaponizes this by not only being able to send the hammer flying, but also the separated fragments in a Flechette Storm.
  • Self-Serving Memory: Thor’s recollection of his break-up with Jane is that she wrote him a letter to end the relationship; Jane insists that Thor’s recollection is wrong and he’s the one who left, but it’s based on the technicality that they lived together in Jane’s apartment.
  • Serial Spouse: Star-Lord reprimands Kraglin for bringing with him a random women he apparently married, and says that Kraglin has married a random women on any planet they have been to recently.
  • Series Continuity Error:
    • Hela's helmet and the weapons it conjures were referred to as the Necrosword in the artbook for Thor: Ragnarok and What If...?, but its relation to Gorr's Necrosword — if any — is never addressed or even alluded to.
    • Thor says it had been eight years since he and Jane last saw each other. This is meant to acknowledge the fact that eight years had passed between Thor: The Dark World (Portman's last MCU appearance before Love and Thunder), released in 2013, and this movie, originally slated for a 2021 release. However, this fails to account for the five-year Time Skip in Avengers: Endgame; meaning it should be at least thirteen years.note Actually, the math might still check out. Thor and Jane were still together as of 2015, based on Thor's dialogue in Avengers: Age of Ultron, but broke up sometime between the events of that movie and Ragnarok, set in 2017. Assuming that Love and Thunder takes place in late 2024 or early 2025, then Thor saying that it's been "eight years, seven months, and six days" since the last time he'd seen her still works.
  • Shipper on Deck: Valkyrie is very supportive towards Thor in regards of reconciling his relationship with Jane. She and Korg both are visually happy when exactly that happens.
  • Ship Tease: Valkyrie gets a few brief moments showing she's attracted to Jane Foster — especially as the Mighty Thor, though Jane is still mutually attracted to Thor and dies at the end of the movie. Valkyrie also takes a moment to flirt with one of Zeus's handmaidens.
  • Shout-Out:
    • This is not the first fantasy film to feature the music of Enya.
    • Valkyrie is wearing a The Phantom of the Opera shirt during and after the attack on New Asgard.
    • Thor does a full split to stop a pair of charging vehicles in tribute to Jean-Claude Van Damme's signature "Epic Splits".
    • The film revels in its Guns N' Roses influences. Aside from the soundtrack, which is stuffed with GnR tracks, Heimdall’s son Astrid only answers to the name “Axl”, and another child has a very prominent poster of the band in their room.
    • For whatever reason, there is a neon sign identical to the one in Cocktail on the Asgardian ship.
    • When Jane is demonstrating the concept of Einstein-Rosen bridges to a fan of her book, she mentions Event Horizon and Interstellar, then proceeds to use the same visual aid that those movies did (i.e. putting two dots on a piece of paper, folding it, and poking a pen through both dots to represent the way E-R bridges fold space to enable FTL travel.) She also tells him to watch both movies.
    • Korg becomes involved with a rock person called Dwayne.
    • Thor briefly fights some Olympian warriors wielding whips lashed to his wrists.
    • One of the Gods that appears in Omnipotence City is Bao.
  • Silent Whisper: Jane whispers a catchphrase she came up with into Thor's ear shortly before she dies, but the audience doesn't get to hear what it is.
  • Sins of Our Fathers: Averted. Despite his justified anger towards Gorr, Thor does not extend it to Love when he promises to watch over his daughter. On the contrary, Thor is nothing but kind and loving as an adoptive father figure.
  • Small Universe After All: The climax is set at the center of the universe where Eternity resides.
  • Speculative Fiction LGBT: More so than any other Marvel Cinematic Universe movie;
    • Valkyrie is confirmed onscreen to have had a female lover and implied to also be attracted to a naked Thor.
    • Zeus is Ambiguously Bi and loves hosting orgies amongst the other gods.
    • Korg reveals he's the biological son of two men and gets a boyfriend at the end.
  • Splash of Color: On a tiny planet in the Shadow Realm, everything is monochrome, except for Gorr's orange eyes. Thor describes the place as one where colour cannot reach. As they battle there, their weapons - Mjolnir, Stormbreaker and Thunderbolt - cause bursts of colour around them.
  • Spoiler Cover: Kamala Khan is seen wearing her official Ms. Marvel's outfit briefly appears during Marvel's opening title card. However, as of Episode 5 of her Disney+ series (the last one to air prior to the film's release), her outfit was not officially finished yet.
  • Status Quo Is God:
    • Literally, as Thor is a God. The training montage shows the Odinson has lost his post-Snap obesity and returned to his pre-Endgame physique. Justified, as undoing the Snap, getting closure with Frigga during the Time Heist, and abdicating the Throne have allowed Thor to heal and move forward again.
    • By the end of the film, and after the teases during Avengers: EndgameThor is wielding a restored (more or less) Mjolnir again — and this time for good.
  • Surprisingly Realistic Outcome:
    • While Thor's physically back to his pre-Avengers: Endgame state, his mental and emotional health are still very much on the mend. Yes, undoing the Snap and getting closure with Frigga during the Time Heist began the healing. But Thor's still grappling with the personal losses of the previous two Thor and Avengers films (on top of coming out of a 5 year long deep depression). While he tries to put on a happy face (such as early on with the Guardians), the scars are still deep, fresh, and active beneath the Asgardian surface.
    • During the preceding Avengers films, the Guardians' interactions with Thor were either brief or were primarily limited to Rocket (and also Groot during Infinity War). They hadn't spent extended time with the Asgardian when they invited him to join them. After having spent extended time, however, Thor's Awesome Ego, boistrousness, and unintended direspect have taken their toll and the Guardians have reached the end of their collective rope.
  • The Stinger: As is tradition for the MCU, there are two, one mid-credits and one post.
    • Zeus is Not Quite Dead and bemoaning how gods are less worshipped than superheroes, and orders his son Hercules to swat Thor out of the sky, in order to remind mortals to fear the gods.
    • Jane arrives in Valhalla and is warmly greeted by Heimdall.
  • The Storyteller: In the beginning, Korg tells the story of Thor to a group of kids in a cave, campfire and all.
  • Summon to Hand: Gorr can summon the Necrosword and it seems to be how he got it in the first place.
  • Tainted Veins: Gorr's veins turn black when the Necrosword claims him and starts to curse him.
  • This Is Gonna Suck: In the "Speech" TV Spot, Valkyrie says "Oh, god. We're gonna die!" after Thor's failed attempt at a rousing speech.
  • Title Drop: The last line of the movie (excluding Stingers) is this. Thor and his new ward charge into battle to save some helpless aliens as Korg’s narration describes them as known throughout the universe as "Love and Thunder".
  • Took a Level in Badass:
    • Thor is shown getting back into shape, and bulks up even more than he was previously.
    • Jane now wields Mjolnir and all the power that comes with it taking on the mantle of The Mighty Thor.
    • Mantis is seen wielding a BFG, and later, a sword in the teaser, a far cry from the pacifist alien who previously used mind control to dispatch her opponents.
  • Training Montage: Thor trains to burn off the extra weight he gained in Endgame. He's seen performing alternating waves with the chains of a deceased giant.
  • The Un-Reveal: We never find out what was Jane’s catchphrase before she dies.
  • Unwitting Instigator of Doom: Gorr’s god sets him on the path to becoming the God Butcher by cruelly dismissing his travails and telling him that there is no afterlife waiting for him.
  • Urban Warfare: The attack on New Asgard is a nighttime battle in the streets of New Asgard between the Asgardians and Gorr the God Butcher's horde of Black Berserkers, with Jane Foster as the Mighty Thor joining the fray by summoning Mjolnir to her hand.
  • Vengeance Feels Empty: Thor tells Gorr killing all gods will not give him what he really wants: his daughter back. Thor speaks from experience.
  • Villain Has a Point:
    • While he's clearly painting with a broad brush, Gorr's point that gods are selfish beings who care nothing for those who worship them is vindicated by his own god (who became Gorr's first victim), and by Zeus, a hedonistic blowhard who doesn't care who Gorr kills and is perfectly willing to wait for the Necrosword to eventually kill Gorr rather than acting to help anyone else. Thor's encounter with Zeus forces him to reluctantly concede Gorr's case isn't wrong when it comes to gods like him.
    • Gorr, recognising Valkyrie as, well, a Valkyrie, asks if the gods to whom she owed allegiance did anything to save her sisters-in-arms (among whom was Valkyrie's lover) when they were slaughtered by Hela. Valkyrie sheds a Single Tear and can't look Gorr in the eye, implying that she knows he's not far from the truth.
  • Visual Pun:
    • In Omnipotence City, the God of the Kronans sits on a throne made of scissors, because rock beats scissors.
    • Korg's boyfriend in the end is called Dwayne.
  • Warrior Heaven: Valhalla is discussed a few times. Thor says Sif won't go if she dies from her wounds after the battle is over but suggests the arm she lost might have ended up there. A post-credits scene confirms it exists when Jane ends up meeting Heimdall there.
  • Wham Shot: The first trailer ends with a shot of Jane in full Asgardian regalia, summoning what appears to be a reforged Mjölnir.
  • Whip It Good: Thor uses the bonds that Zeus uses to restrain him as a whip to fight several armed men.
  • Wins by Doing Absolutely Nothing: The total sum of Zeus' strategy to deal with Gorr is for the gods to hide in Omnipotence City and wait until the Necrosword inevitably kills Gorr. The butcher's bill that would be accrued in the process is of no concern to him.
  • Wolverine Publicity: Despite being featured extensively in trailers and promos the Guardians set off to have their own adventures roughly ten minutes into the movie.
  • The Worf Effect: Lady Sif, previously established as a capable and dangerous fighter, is easily defeated by Gorr, losing an arm in the process.
  • Worf Had the Flu: Sif is left seriously injured by Gorr during their off-screen battle, leaving her sidelined and unable to aid Thor and company for the remainder of the film.
  • World Tree: When Thor temporarily transfers his power to the children, the lightning takes the shape of Yggdrasil.
  • You See, I'm Dying: Jane finally tells Thor that she is dying of cancer when he tells her that he still has feelings for her.

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