Love & Thunder Sets Up A Thor 5 Villain Who Makes Thanos Look Weak
Warning: SPOILERS for Thor: Love and Thunder Below!
Thor: Love and Thunder might have set up the God of Thunder's next villain for Thor 5, and he might be even more of a bigger threat than Thanos. The story of Thor: Love and Thunder picks up some time after the ending of Avengers: Endgame, with Thor (Chris Hemsworth) on a mission to stop Gorr the God Butcher (Christian Bale) from eliminating all the gods in the universe. Thor also reunites with his old love Dr. Jane Foster (Natalie Portman), who has taken on her own Asgardian powers as Mighty Thor, complete with the reconstructed hammer, Mjölnir.
Thor's quest eventually brings him to Omnipotence City, where a conflict with the Greek god Zeus (Russell Crowe) unfolds. As part of Love and Thunder's highly comedic tone (even by MCU standards), the Omnipotence City sequence is played for laughs to a large extent even as its action begins. Russell Crowe leans into the comedy of the film with his campy performance and fake Greek accent. In contrast to the much darker antagonist Gorr, the Omnipotence City scene wouldn't seem to be the setup for the MCU's next big villain.
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However, for as much of a campy goofball as Crowe's performance portrays the king of the Olympian gods, it could also be case of misleading the audience. Despite the silliness and the brevity of Zeus' appearance in Thor: Love and Thunder, the movie gives some reason to think he will not only return, but be quite a threat to the God of Thunder. Here's why Zeus might be the villain of Thor 5, and how powerful a villain he might be in it.
In the Omnipotence City, Zeus refuses to lend Thor and his allies assistance with stopping Gorr, with Thor instead forced
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