Thor: Love And Thunder Easter Eggs
The following contains spoilers for Marvel’s Thor: Love And Thunder.The fifth solo outing for Thor in the Marvel Cinematic Universe borrows heavily from two different Marvel comic book storylines. The first is Thor’s quest to stop Gorr the God Butcher from destroying all of the deities in the universe. The second is Jane Foster becoming Mighty Thor when she wields Mjolnir.
Because both movie storylines borrow from these two comic book arcs, there is plenty in the movie that provides nods to those stories while they are weaved together here to create a new one. The movie also provides plenty of callbacks to earlier adventures in the MCU for fans who might have forgotten a plot point or two, making the movie rich in Easter eggs and connections all around.
Thor: Love And Thunder Makes The Case For Creative Freedom
Marvel fans have become accustomed to the iconic comic book page flip and the MCU scenes used to create the opening Marvel logo. This time around, it’s not just the movie characters that appear in the logo.
Characters who have only appeared in Disney Plus shows so far also make their first appearances in the Marvel logo in Thor: Love And Thunder. Fans can spot both Marc Spector's Moon Knight and Kamala Khan's Ms. Marvel.
The Necrosword is the weapon Gorr uses when he decides to begin slaying all of the known gods in the comics as well. While the sword “calls” to Gorr in the same way that Mjolnir calls to Jane, its sentience is never explained in the movie.
In the comics, the sword is created by Knull, the god of the symbiotes like Venom. He uses it to begin slaying gods himself, but it eventually ends up with Gorr. It’s likely the symbiote aspect of the sword has been eliminated from the screen story because Venom and
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