Why Marvel Wasn't Really Ready For Thor Until Ragnarok
Chris Hemsworth's Thor is the only original MCU Avenger to get a fourth solo film, Thor: Love and Thunder, proving that the studio wasn't ready for him until 2017's Thor: Ragnarok. With the return of Taika Waititi as director, it's clear that Marvel Studios have finally found their winning formula for their Thor movies after some false starts. The hugely positive response to Waititi's looser, goofier take on the Norse God of Thunder revitalized the character. This new Thor continued into the final two Avengers movies and showed there was a lot more to explore with the character, whereas both Tony Stark and Steve Rogers' character arcs had reached a clear endpoint by the conclusion of Avengers: Endgame.
The success of Ragnarok and Thor's subsequent appearances in Avengers: Infinity War and Endgame were reflective of an MCU trend towards the pleasing mixture of cosmic high concepts and irreverent humor that started with James Gunn's Guardians of the Galaxy. It's therefore unsurprising that Thor was teamed up with Peter Quill and co during Infinity War. As Marvel continues to expand on this mixture of the cosmic and comic in the likes of Ms. Marvel and Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, the character of Thor feels more at home in the current MCU than he did in its first two phases.
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Thor: Love and Thunder will expand this tone of cosmic comedy even further, with Thor embarking on an intergalactic and multi-dimensional odyssey of self-discovery. He'll reunite with his former girlfriend and new God of Thunder, Jane Foster (Natalie Portman), to battle the terrifying Gorr, the God Butcher (Christian Bale.) As ominous as that sounds, it's clear from the
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