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THOR: Love and Thunder expands the Marvel Cinematic Universe in so many ways. New characters, new realms, new cosmic entities! The movie is filled with Easter Eggs and conenctions to past MCU films, TV shows, and shorts. There are connections to Black Panther, Moon Knight, Avengers: Endgame, Loki, and we're here to break them all down for you.
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We open on the sands of a distant, alien world, with Gorr-he will be known as the God Butcher. Gorr’s origin here is mostly taken from the comics, where he was a very devout man, whose gods ignored his prayers, and his family died. But the comics have a slightly more supernatural view of the gods. For instance, at the beginning of this story a girl on a desert world prays to Thor to rain-he hears her prayers and answers. There are nods to that moment that I’ll talk about a little later in the video.
One thing that’s important about this opening is that Gorr does not pray for his own life. As a follower, he expects to be sacrificed to his gods. But he does pray for the life of his daughter. This foreshadows the end of the movie, when he surrenders his quest to bring her back to life.
Spoilers. I guess. If you made it this far, I assumed you’d be okay with spoilers. Anyways, I loved that the movie started with the death of a child, because after that, anything goes, right? They broke the one rule
Afterwards, the Necrosword calls out to For. Now this sword is slightly different from how it appeared in the comics. There, it was more of a shapeless goo that Gorr could manipulate-because it was created by Knull, the god of the symbiotes. Everything related to the symbiotes is off limits form Marvel studios because sony owns the film rights to those characters. And thank goodness too, because otherwise we would never get awesome content like this [morbius clip, good luck]
Now we are going to do a whole video about the Necrosword, where it came from, wildly speculating about how it fits into the MCU. We hear that it has been around since the dawn of time, like the infinity stones. Perhaps it enlisted before this universe, like galactus? Mayhem it was used by a god later to chop the head off of a celestial, dreaytoing Knowhere.
And maybe the necrosword orphaned little baby ego.
But what I thought were most interesting about this sword is the way it shepshed and called out to Gorr…much like the ebony blade called out to Dane Whutman in the eternals.
Now the eternals kind of glossed over this point, but this sword is a very ancient, cosmic artifact that could actually be a kind of cousin to the necrosword. In the comics, Merlin forged the ebony blade from a meteor, and gave it to Dane’s ancestor. Each generation passed it on, becoming the Blck knight. But the blade actually corrupted people, and slowly brought out the words in them
This is very much like the necrosword. They are both weapons that seem to grave death, ooze with a black liquid, and corrupt the people who use them. It is possible that the ebony blade and the allblack were forged from the same primordial substance, and they serve the same dark master. A dark master who wants all gods to be killed.
Of course, I’m talking about [not the bees] mephisto. Or Dracula, or whoever else Blade is going to fight in the midnight sons movie.
So, Gorr stumbles onto an oasis in the desert, where his god Rapu is wasting resources having a great time, ignoring the prayers of his people. Rapu is played by Johnathan Brugh, who was in what we do in the shadows with writer-director actor visionary plus actor Taika waiittii.
Gorr’s god is shown as having a long beard, and a headdress that seems like light, emanating from his head. This is in keeping with traditional depictions of gods on earth. Michalengelo drew God as an old man with a beard-like zeus was always depicted. And in eatsrenn and western religions light emanating from the head is a sign of divinity.
So, for a moment I want to talk about the subtext of this movie. Taika Waitit's Thor Ragnarok is my favorite MCmovie, because it’s disguised as a quirky comedy. But it;s actually about the dangers of colonialism and nationalism. Made a whole video about that that we are all very proud of.