Marvel’s Valhalla Explained: Can [SPOILER] Return?
Warning: Contains spoilers for Thor: Love and Thunder.
The Thor: Love and Thunder final post-credits scene shows Jane Foster and Heimdall in Valhalla, but could these dead characters return in the MCU? It’s an established fact that death in comic books tends to only be a temporary thing, and Avengers: Endgame made a big deal about the fact that Robert Downey Jr.’s Tony Stark was really dead. This has been particularly true in the Thor films, in which Loki has repeatedly died, and even when he was officially killed in Avengers: Infinity War, a variant returned for Loki.
In the same scene that saw Loki’s death in Avengers: Infinity War, Heimdall (Idris Elba) was also killed by Thanos. In Thor: Love and Thunder, Jane Foster/Mighty Thor (Natalie Portman) died from her cancer after using Mjolnir too much prevented her body from properly fighting against her cancer. The final Thor: Love and Thunder post-credits scene shows a somewhat surprised Jane arriving in Valhalla and being greeted by Heimdall.
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The Thor: Love and Thunder post-credits scene does not give much away about what it might mean for Mighty Thor and Heimdall. While many of the MCU’s post-credits scenes serve to set up future outings for characters, some (like the auditory homage to Iron Man at the end of Avengers: Endgame) serve to show how a character’s arc ends. However, several key elements of the Thor: Love and Thunder post-credits scene, including Idris Elba’s cameo as Heimdall, suggest that the two characters might not be dead for good.
Jane Foster is welcomed into Valhalla by Heimdall in the second Thor: Love and Thunder post-credits scene, which might seem strange as she was not
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