Here’s one complication: When the Asgardians were first introduced in 2011’s Thor, they were presented as aliens.īack in the early days of the MCU, the movies stayed away from mystical and magical elements. Gods are just the immortal entities that mortal species worship across the universe, right? Ah, if only it were that simple. The Asgardian Dilemmaĭoesn’t Thor: Love and Thunder answer this question? you might ask. The wide range of beings he encounters in the process brings up a question that haunts the MCU, especially as these mythological deities become more and more central to the movies: What the hell makes a god in the MCU? Thor mourns some of the gods Gorr has killed, and seeks help from some who haven’t been targeted yet. Since Thor (Chris Hemsworth) is a god himself, he disapproves of Gorr’s murder spree, especially when he and other survivors of the destruction of his home, Asgard, become Gorr’s next targets. With his dark, shadowy Necrosword, Gorr is on a quest to kill every god ever, because as far as he (or we) can tell, they’ve done nothing to help their followers, or even to marginally make the multiverse a better place. As his name implies, Gorr’s whole schtick is killing gods, a mission he took on for himself after the god he worshiped wouldn’t lift a finger to help him in his time of need. In Thor: Love and Thunder, the heroes go up against a new villain: the vengeance-minded supernatural assassin Gorr the God Butcher (Christian Bale).
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