Thor: Love & Thunder Easter Eggs & Marvel References
This article contains spoilers for Thor: Love and Thunder.
Every Marvel movie is absolutely packed with Easter eggs, and Thor: Love and Thunder is no different. The Thor franchise has had something of a bumpy ride, with both Thor and Thor: The Dark World failing to perform as Marvel hoped. The studio invited Taika Waititi to essentially relaunch the series with Thor: Ragnarok, which proved to be a phenomenal success, grossing over $850 million worldwide and receiving popular and critical acclaim. It was no surprise, therefore, that Marvel Studios brought Waititi back for a fourth movie.
Thor: Love and Thunder dials everything that worked with Ragnarok up to 11. What's more, it handles MCU continuity rather more effectively, bringing back Natalie Portman's Jane Foster as the Mighty Thor in an arc lifted straight from Jason Aaron's comic book run. This time Portman is no mere damsel in distress, but rather is transformed into a hero in her own right, bringing a rainbow of joy into the MCU and leaving Thor Odinson bewildered as old feelings are reignited.
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This narrative naturally means continuity is a bit more important to Thor: Love and Thunder than it was with Thor: Ragnarok. What's more, this time Waititi is bringing to life some of the most popular comic book stories of the last decade, and he tries to honor them more. As a result, Thor: Love and Thunder contains a lot more Easter eggs and references.
Christian Bale's Gorr the God-Butcher is Thor: Love and Thunder's villain, a tortured soul who resents the fact that the gods did not intervene to save the lives of his loved ones. Taika Waititi adapts Gorr's origin story from Jason Aaron and Butch Guice's Thor:
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