Is Thor: Love & Thunder Set Before Or After Guardians Of The Galaxy 3?
Warning! SPOILERS for Thor: Love and Thunder.
The Guardians of the Galaxy feature in the Thor: Love and Thunder opening scenes, but does the fourth Thor movie take place before, or after the upcoming Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3? Thor's (Chris Hemsworth) partnership with Peter Quill (Chris Pratt) and the Guardians was one of the surprise highlights of both Avengers: Infinity War and Avengers: Endgame. Thor's rivalry with Quill and his gleefully violent warrior partnership with Rocket and Groot lent some much-needed lightness to the apocalyptic gloom of the Avengers' battle against Thanos.
At the end of Avengers: Endgame, Thor decided to leave New Asgard behind to find himself by traveling the galaxy with the Guardians. Love and Thunder opens with Thor bailing the others out of a battle to protect a religious temple from invading forces, before they part ways to deal with Gorr the God Butcher (Christian Bale). While this may have disappointed, viewers who were hoping the team would feature more, this moment helps set up the MCU timeline.
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The brief appearance by the Guardians of the Galaxy in Love and Thunder, but it strongly suggests that the timeline will see Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 set after the events of Thor: Love and Thunder, rather than before. That said, it's not unheard of for movies in the MCU to not follow a parallel timeline to their release dates. 2021's Black Widow was a flashback movie that took place prior to her death in Endgame, while 2018s Ant-Man and the Wasp and 2019's Captain Marvel were released between Infinity War and Endgame, but their stories took place prior to Thanos' snap. So it is possible that
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