Thor: Love and Thunder May Share a Powerful Story With the Comics

Since the second Natalie Portman first held Mjolnir on stage at San Diego Comic-Con 2019, audiences all over the place have anxiously awaited the second we’d lastly see her as the Mighty Thor. The second occurred earlier this week with the discharge of Thor: Love and Thunder’s first trailer and it was all the pieces we wished and extra. The “more” being key to this explicit story.

Fans of the Marvel Comics run the place Portman’s character, Jane Foster, turned the Mighty Thor knew the story was far more advanced. And now, a rogue description on a collectibles web site strongly suggests the film and comics share the identical connection.

Note: what follows is, if true, definitely a spoiler for Thor: Love and Thunder however it’s a key component to the multiyear Mighty Thor arc so, it’s on the market. Be suggested.

So earlier this week, collectible retailer Eaglemoss revealed its prop duplicate of the Mighty Thor’s Helmet from Thor: Love and Thunder (which you’ll be able to see above). With it got here the next description, according to Slashfilm. (In the interim, the outline has since been barely edited, however we’ll get again to that.)

Suffering from most cancers, astrophysicist and Thor’s ex-girlfriend, Jane Foster, visited New Asgard and her life was modified eternally. Mysteriously, the damaged items of Mjolnir, the hammer of the thunder god, remodeled her into the Mighty Thor and gifted her the superpowers of Thor, to battle threats inside and exterior. Wielding Mjolnir herself, she had develop into a godly protector and a brand new hero was born!

With the assistance of Thor, Valkyrie, and the Guardians of the Galaxy, the Mighty Thor was confronted by the highly effective Gorr, the God Butcher. With divine powers himself, Gorr was pushed to rid the universe of gods wherever he discovered them. Battling most cancers in her human kind and Gorr in her godly kind, Jane Foster was embroiled in an epic battle with loads of love and thunder!

Okay now, there’s quite a bit there. And earlier than we dive into the implications, let’s follow the details. The truth is that this description was, reportedly, up on Eaglemoss’s web site however at a sure level, it was drastically edited. As of publication, your entire second paragraph is now gone and the primary one reads solely as follows:

While visiting the damaged items of Mjolnir in New Asgard, Jane Foster’s life is eternally modified when she mysteriously transforms into the Mighty Thor. Now armed with Mjolnir and the ability of Thor herself, Jane embraces her new life as a godly protector.

That’s it. No mentions of sickness, no mentions of bigger plot implications, simply quite simple. So what occurred and why? io9 reached out to Disney, which might not touch upon this, and a request for clarification from Eaglemoss has not been responded to as of publication.

Those are the details. But now let’s dig in. The authentic description makes it appear pretty probably that Thor: Love and Thunder will observe the comedian ebook storyline which is that Jane is sick with most cancers and, as soon as she turns into the Mighty Thor, it retains the illness at bay. The stuff about Gorr coming for the Mighty Thor, and never Thor Odinson, looks like it’s a part of the movie’s plot, although Gorr did issue a bit into that general comedian ebook story.

Now, what occurred right here? We can solely speculate however it appears probably that Eaglemoss had extra data than Disney wished on the market and when Disney came upon, it requested them to take away it. Is it attainable Eaglemoss was simply following the comics and never the film storyline? Sure, however that second paragraph about Gorr and the Guardians certain looks like the corporate had movie-based specifics. It definitely did regarding the helmet design.

All of this leads us to imagine that Thor: Love and Thunder will likely be a few sick Jane Foster turning into The Mighty Thor, Gorr the God Butcher coming for her, Odinson and the Guardians coming to assist and, finally, effectively… there’s no remedy for most cancers. Not even within the Marvel Universe.

What? You simply thought Thor: Love and Thunder was gonna be large dumb motion sequences and many laughs? It appears probably that’s not the case. The movie opens July 8.

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