Gorr’s Comic Backstory Compared To The Movie
Warning: This article contains spoilers for Thor: Love and Thunder.
The backstory given to Gorr the God Butcher in Thor: Love and Thunderis quite different from his origins in the comics and it's worth doing a comparison of the two. In the transition from the comics to Love and Thunder, Gorr has undergone a variety of changes that manage to keep the core elements of his character intact, with some of the bigger details shifting around him. The changes in Thor: Love and Thunder make for a compelling on-screen villain, even if he differs somewhat from his comic book counterpart.
Gorr the God Butcher is the titular villain of the God Butcher arc of Jason Aaron’s Thor run, many elements of which were adapted into Thor: Love and Thunder. Gorr grew up in a religious culture on a famine- and poverty-stricken planet, but one tragic circumstance after another left Gorr a broken man wishing for death while cursing the gods who never helped him and his loved ones. At his lowest point, Gorr obtained a powerful weapon called the Necrosword and decided to use its power to kill all gods in the universe which, naturally, brought him into conflict with Thor.
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Thor: Love and Thunder maintains the most basic aspects of Gorr’s character, but there are still significant differences between the histories of each version of the character. Love and Thunder isn’t a complete adaptation of the God Butcher arc, with the movie only using certain aspects of it for an otherwise original story. Here are the biggest changes made to Thor: Love and Thunder's villain and why Gorr the God Butcher was changed for the MCU.
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