Thor's Forgotten MCU Weapon Is Finally Getting the Credit It Deserves
This article contains spoilers for Jane Foster & the Mighty Thor #1.
Marvel Comics has brought back a forgotten weapon from Thor: The Dark World — and shown just how dangerous it could truly be. Released in 2013 as the second film in the MCU's Phase 2, Thor: The Dark World is generally considered one of the weakest films in the franchise. Its critic score on review aggregate site Rotten Tomatoes sits at a mere 66 percent, in large part because of its inherent weaknesses in direction and characterization.
For all that's the case, though, Marvel Comics has been trying to fix one of the MCU's worst films. Jason Aaron's "War of the Realms" transformed its villain Malekith into a terrifying threat, one who came close to conquering the Nine Realms. Meanwhile, Jane Foster has been given agency in a battle against forces that seemed rather similar to the MCU's Aether. It's often felt as though comic book writers took the movie as something of a dare, to see if they could find a way to make its disparate ideas work.
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The latest example is in Torunn Gronbekk and Ryan Stegman's Jane Foster & the Mighty Thor #1, in which Asgard's enemies launch an attack on the Realm Eternal — after first stripping Asgard of its greatest defender, Thor himself. The Dark Elves launch the first strike, hovering over Asgard and releasing singularity bombs that consume anything they encounter. Readers will find them very familiar indeed, because these were used by the Dark Elves in Thor: The Dark World. The key difference, however, is one of scale; in Jane Foster & the Mighty Thor #1, these singularity bombs can consume massive chunks of buildings. They're a far more chilling weapon.
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