Why Thor: Love & Thunder Had No Choice But To Kill [SPOILER] Off
Warning: This article contains Thor: Love and Thunder SPOILERS.
While Thor: Love and Thunder is funny, Jane Foster's death is a dark, heartbreaking twist that simply had to happen. Thor: Love and Thunder's ending is surprisingly uplifting, given the triumph of hope and love over pain and vengeance, the death of Mighty Thor is still a down note. And though the post-credits scene sees Natalie Portman's hero ascend to Valhalla, it's clear that her life has not reached a satisfying end.
Before becoming Marvel's Mighty Thor, Jane is shown desperately trying to get her ideas out, to the point that she attempts to speed up her chemotherapy to get back to the lab. She isn't a Tony Stark type, obsessed to the point of self-destruction, but rather is working against a fatally quick timer, wanting to further save the world in her own way. That she's doomed to have her genius cut off is the movie's true tragedy — far more than the lost love story with Thor — which Love and Thunder's post-credits fails to balance out with positivity.
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It's possible that Jane Foster will return after Thor: Love and Thunder, given the hints offered by Marvel Comics and Jason Aaron's Thor tenure, but Jane had to be killed off by the ending. This wasn't a valiant death at the hands of a villain, or a brave sacrifice in battle, or even the result of an Infinity Stone poisoning her body; Jane Foster's death was fated by rules that go well beyond superheroism and fantasy. Even Marvel movies cannot magically cure cancer, because the real-world grip the disease has on the world would make that flippant conclusion deeply insensitive.
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