THOR: LOVE AND THUNDER Rumored To Include An Appearance From An Unexpected MCU God - Possible SPOILERS

THOR: LOVE AND THUNDER Rumored To Include An Appearance From An Unexpected MCU God - Possible SPOILERS

It appears Thor: Love and Thunder will explore more of the Marvel Cinematic Universe's mythos than we first suspected as a new report suggests the God of Thunder will cross paths with an unexpected ally...

By JoshWilding - Feb 10, 2022 04:02 PM EST
Filed Under: Thor: Love and Thunder
Source: The Cosmic Circus

Marvel Studios clearly plans to tell a lot of ambitious, groundbreaking stories in Phase 4, with Thor: Love and Thunder set to pit both the God of Thunder and the Mighty Thor against Gorr the God Butcher. With Russell Crowe set to play Zeus, it's clear this movie will explore the MCU's mythology in a meaningful way, and we may now know of another God who is set to appear. 

The Cosmic Circus has done some digging and believes we'll meet Black Panther Goddess Bast. It sounds like actress Akosia Sabet will portray the character who is a crucial part of Wakandan culture as the Panther Goddess who first led one of their warriors to the heart-shaped herb). 

In the comic books, Bast is also Khonshu's half-sister, and we'll meet him in Moon Knight next month. 

Common sense says we'll find Bast either in the past or present, squaring off with Gorr. She could be one of his many victims (he killed plenty of Gods before meeting Thor) or someone who lends the Avenger a hand near the end of the movie. Either way, this deep dive into the MCU's mythology should be welcomed after Eternals similarly addressed the cosmic origins of Earth. 

Whether this has ramifications for Black Panther: Wakanda Forever remains to be seen, but with T'Challa seemingly set to be killed off, new heart-shaped herbs need to come from somewhere! 

Marvel Studios still has Moon Knight and Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness to promote, but we are expecting the first Thor: Love and Thunder trailer to arrive likely sometime in April. 

Thor: Love and Thunder is set to blast into theaters on July 8!

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Ha1frican
Ha1frican - 2/10/2022, 4:06 PM
That’d be really cool. I like the idea, which has existed in the comics, that multiple pantheons of gods actually do all exist and are valid so it would be a nice thing to tie into since Wakanda has one of the more rich and previously established mythologies on the MCU
URCOMMENTSUCKS
URCOMMENTSUCKS - 2/10/2022, 8:29 PM
@Ha1frican - I think by this point we should know that "an idea that existed in the comics" isn't on Taika Waititi's watchlist.
Hulkh8liars
Hulkh8liars - 2/11/2022, 2:31 PM
@URCOMMENTSUCKS - taika has done more good comic accurate things in his one movie than any comic film detector excluding the russos
URCOMMENTSUCKS
URCOMMENTSUCKS - 2/12/2022, 6:00 AM
@Hulkh8liars - CB Thor mourns the deaths of his dearest friends:




MCU/Waititi Thor mourns the deaths of his dearest friends:



And that's, like, one percent of what's not accurate about Thor Ragnarok. I wonder which you've been reading. Definitely not the ones I've.
Hulkh8liars
Hulkh8liars - 2/21/2022, 10:16 AM
@URCOMMENTSUCKS - None of the films are completely accurate to the comics. Thor is more similar in spirit and execution than the previous films. Thor is usually a space faring action comedy in the comics
URCOMMENTSUCKS
URCOMMENTSUCKS - 2/21/2022, 10:25 AM
@Hulkh8liars - 1. The first one was at least trying to be. It created somewhat accurate mythology of Thor, with references toward the Asgard vs. Jotunheim war, Slepneir, Yggdrasil, etc. Having an actual writer of Thor comics (JMS) as the screenplay writer didn't hurt, either. 2. What spirit, what execution? 3. What comics you've been reading lately with Thor? Definitely not the ones I've. What comedy, where and when? CB Thor is even more of a no-nonsense warrior than Aragorn. And his adventures, which aren't rooted in space most of the time, are not comedic. They're dead serious. In Journey Into Mystery, one of the earliest appearances of Thor, he went on a dangerous quest to bring Mimir a branch of Yggdrasil so that he could create Ask and Embla (Norse Mythology's Adam and Eve). That's a comic from the 60s, written for kids, and it has a pagan deity help to create homo sapiens. Thor comics are esoteric more than anything.
URCOMMENTSUCKS
URCOMMENTSUCKS - 2/21/2022, 10:27 AM
@Hulkh8liars - Taika can't even have Thor say "Aye!", my man. There's nothing comic accurate in Thor Ragnarok outside of the most surface-level shit, come on. In what comics did you see Brunhilde as a cowardly space garbage collector who would refuse to let Thor go and save his people? You won't, because Brunhilde is do-or-die for Asgard and honor.
Hulkh8liars
Hulkh8liars - 3/2/2022, 9:36 AM
@URCOMMENTSUCKS - The first 20 years of the Thor comic was full of cosmic encounters and all versions of the character have always been sprinkled with comedy. I recently finished reading every volume of Thor and many of them are quite funny and involve cosmic settings and physical comedy. Maybe the last few years have him more serious but outside of your fear itself type of events the Thor comic is often lite. Can't wait until taika does an avengers film(only a matter of time)
GhostDog
GhostDog - 2/10/2022, 4:15 PM
This sounds like an amazing idea. I’m all for more deity mythology.
Hulkh8liars
Hulkh8liars - 2/11/2022, 2:34 PM
@BlackBeltJones - as long as they are all aliens or extra dimensional beings(like in the comics) I'm okay with this. I've always appreciated marvel for including every mythology while simultaneously making them all fake
GhostDog
GhostDog - 2/10/2022, 4:15 PM
Sounds like Moon Knight will really be laying some groundwork for more gods in the MCU and their place in the universe.
PC04
PC04 - 2/10/2022, 4:19 PM
[frick] YEAH
NightBoyWonder
NightBoyWonder - 2/10/2022, 4:27 PM
Dope! I wonder if that’ll tie in what’s to come for Black Panther’s sequel
Razorface1
Razorface1 - 2/10/2022, 4:36 PM
So will she die in 5 seconds or speak in jokes? Make your predictions now!
JFerguson
JFerguson - 2/10/2022, 4:38 PM
Screw it. Let the Mephisto in Thor rumors commence!
NoobNoob
NoobNoob - 2/10/2022, 4:44 PM
im the only one who though that the news was Hercules related?
IcePyke
IcePyke - 2/10/2022, 4:47 PM
Meh...
Bring the Prince of Power!!! 💪

rychlec
rychlec - 2/10/2022, 5:08 PM
Who cares if it's just gonna be one Waititi joke after another. So many folks complain about the over-abundance of humor in the MCU but Ragnarok gets a pass. Yes, it was 'supposed' to be a comedy yet the story plainly didn't lend itself to that genre. I'm all for a full on comedy in the MCU but not one in which thousands of people die, Asgard is destroyed and Thor and Korg joke it away. Taika...do a Squirrel Girl movie instead, please.
URCOMMENTSUCKS
URCOMMENTSUCKS - 2/10/2022, 8:31 PM
@rychlec -
Zarog
Zarog - 2/10/2022, 8:37 PM
@rychlec - Agreed. Ragnarok is awful. Pulled from Planet Hulk & Ragnarok, then had a punch up treatment to turn two of the most epic, dramatic, and tragic stories in Hulk and Thor's lore into a simple-minded mediocre comedy. This may actually be the least likeable movie in the entire franchise because of what it did to the best Hulk story I've read. Planet Hulk was akin to a Greek tragedy and we got Hulk being stupid and fighting Thor. 0/10, do not think this movie should ever have been greenlit with the script it had.
URCOMMENTSUCKS
URCOMMENTSUCKS - 2/10/2022, 9:00 PM
@Zarog - the worst thing of it all, it's Hemsworth we have to blame for the turn which Thor have taken in recent years. Like known to many, he got bored with the role and frustrated with the lukewarm reception to his character when Iron Man and Cap have pulled the blanket of attention on themselves. So his rationale was, "Well, I suppose it's because my character is so serious. We need to lighten him up." And he was the one to suggest Waititi as the director. The dude's clearly not understanding why his Thor wasn't hitting it big. It wasn't the lack of humor, Chris, because your version of Thor always had it. Every scene he's in in pre-Ragnarok movies, he's either smiling or making funny remarks or being the butt of the joke. And if lack of humor is what makes a character unappealing, I wonder why characters like Aragorn will always remain more popular and beloved than most of MCU heroes.

And don't get me started on what they've done to Planet Hulk. I'm still in awe that more people aren't ripping Thor Ragnarok and its writers along with Feige to shreds for taking one of the greatest, most complex Marvel stories ever published and turning it into a braindead subplot for a comedic Thor flick.

Worst of all, this could've been easily avoided had Feige not go ahead of the curve with the story concept for the 3rd movie before they even had a director, and when they got Taika, they could've chosen the source material that's actually appropriate to his sensibilities. There aren't many comedic stories with Thor in the comics, but they exist. And some of them could work for the premise which Waititi wanted to do, ai 80s road trip, buddy movie. Shit, that story exists even in mythology, it's called "The Story of Thor's Stolen Hammer", and it's about Thor's hammer being stolen and him having to retrieve it with Loki by dressing up as a bride to fool the giant who stole it and get it back. That's the kind of Thor story Taika could do, not make a lobotomized, piss-poor take on one of the grimmest Marvel stories, which to understand its premise requires an esoteric thinking, not the comedic one.

The story of Ragnarok deserves Lord of the Rings treatment, with Amon Amarth blasting from speakers during the title credits, not what the MCU gave us.



rychlec
rychlec - 2/10/2022, 9:50 PM
@Zarog - As a regular sci-fi movie - it's funny. As an MCU movie, it betrays all of it's characters and treats the hard-earned world building like a cartoon.
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