Are The Thor: Love and Thunder Trailers A Bait And Switch?
The Marvel Cinematic Universe has an interesting approach when it comes to adapting material from the beloved source material. Fans often have a hard time guessing which details, characters, or storylines, will make the jump without significant changes and which will be unrecognizable.
Thor: Ragnarok was almost certainly the most beloved of the three films starring The God of Thunder, so fans are obviously thrilled to see director Taika Waititi return to the franchise. The visionary filmmaker tends towards screwball comedy alongside his deeply emotional family tales, lending Thor a sense of humor he'd mostly lacked in the past. While most fans loved the new direction, others felt that the film might have pushed the jokes a bit too far.
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The trailers, production stills, poster, and title of Thor: Love and Thunder all seem to suggest a similar tone to the previous film. The trailers are full of jokes, the soundtrack seems to be dominated by a classic rock track, and everything seems extremely colorful. The lone exception is the film's villain, who stands as a remarkable digression from every other element of the film thus far.
The villain of Thor's fourth solo outing is Gorr the God-Butcher, a deranged serial murderer who seeks to commit genocide upon all the universe's deities. He looks a bit different from the source material, but his goal and execution seem to be quite familiar. The limited evidence of his work even mirrors actions he took in the comics. The strange aspect of this reveal is that Gorr's storyline in Marvel Comics does not gel with the tone presented by the Love and Thunder trailers.
The «God-Butcher» storyline of the Thor comics is contained within issues one
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