The questions we still have after Thor: Love and Thunder

polygon.com:

One of the more surprising things about Thor: Love and Thunder is how (seemingly) self-contained it is. There’s always a chance that a later MCU film might suddenly make this stand-alone cosmic romp balloon in significance, the way 2013’s Thor: The Dark World took on greater meaning years later, when Avengers: Endgamepremiered. Butfor the most part, Love and Thunder is just a goofy road trip on a Goat Boat.

But by the ending of Thor: Love and Thunder, we do still have some questions. After all, what hope could mere mortals have in understanding the affairs of gods?

While the idea that Thor’s current weapon and his former one are sapient (and that Stormbreaker is a weirdly jealous creeper) seems like a gag made up for Love and Thunder, Thor’s hammer Mjolnir actually does have a comics history of awareness! Long story short, Mjolnir isn’t just magic metal and godly enchantment, it’s implied that it contains the god Tempest, Mother of All Storms. It doesn’t really communicate, but it does have a preference for Jane over Thor, as illustrated by the Jason Aaron/Russell Dauterman Thor comics that inspired a lot of Love and Thunder.

Stormbreaker’s jealousy over Mjolnir is more of a movie-original gag than an extension of this comics lore, but it is an enchanted axe with a handle fashioned from one of Groot’s arms, so the idea that’s it’s similarly alive, or at least aware, is not that far-fetched.

Yes! A very important one for Marvel. In Greg Pak’s Marvel Comics circa the mid-2000s and onward, the character became more closely associated with the Hulk — Pak’s The Incredible Hulk briefly became The Incredible Hercules when Hulk was out of commission for a while after the World War Hulk story. (It’s a long one.) But