What is the plot of thor love and thunder

Along the way, Thor reunites with his old allies King Valkyrie (Tessa Thompson) and Korg (director Taika Waititi) to fight the villain.

However, the biggest change to Thor's life comes in the form of his ex-girlfriend Dr Jane Foster (Natalie Portman) making a comeback and wielding his hammer Mjolnir as the Mighty Thor.

Can this team of warriors take on this dangerous new threat before it is too late?

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Thor: Love and Thunder plot

The main plot of the film sees Thor, the newly-empowered Jane (Natalie Portman), King Valkyrie (Tessa Thompson) and Korg (Taika Waititi) tracking down Gorr the God Butcher (Christian Bale), who has vowed to kill all Gods and captured a cartload of children from Asgard in the process.

Eventually, Thor and co find out his plan – to reach the personification of Eternity, and be granted one wish, which he’ll use to wipe out every God at a stroke (rather than bothering with all the admin and commuting he’d had to deal with thus far). To stop him and rescue the kids, they head to Gorr’s lair in the Shadow realm, where it turns out he needs Thor’s axe Stormbreaker (and its ability to summon the Bifrost) to reach his goal.

Valkyrie is injured and the group retreat – leaving Gorr with Stormbreaker – and back in Asgard, they learn that Jane’s cancer is getting worse thanks to her use of Mjolnir, leaving Thor to beg her to stay away as he faces Gorr alone with Zeus’s Thunderbolt.

What happens to Gorr in the Thor: Love and Thunder ending?

In their final clash, Thor imbues all the captured Asgardian children with a portion of his power and has them fight off Gorr’s creations while he tries to stop the God-butcher himself. Unfortunately, he gets beaten, and Jane ends up bursting in to come to his rescue (using Valkyrie’s Pegasus, which was previously established as capable of interdimensional travel) sacrificing the last of her mortal life force.

Still, Gorr just about managed to reach Eternity – but Thor persuades him to do things another way. Instead of killing all Gods in vengeance for their indolence and arrogance, he tells Gorr to remember why he started all this – the daughter who died in the desert.

Gorr (who’s dying from his wounds) agrees but begs Thor to make sure that his daughter is looked after. Thor agrees – "she won’t be alone," he says.

Gorr’s daughter does return, and in the watery ground of Eternity’s gates, she appears as a reflection of Eternity itself. Gorr dies with some final words to his revived daughter – "keep your heart open," he tells her – and soon after, Jane succumbs to her illness as well, dissolving into gold dust like an Asgardian God.

The final battle has been won, at great cost. But it’s not quite the end of the movie…

Thor: Love and Thunder final scenes

We return to Korg’s voiceover for the end of the film, where he fills in a few details about what happened next.

Recovering from his face-ectomy, Korg found a boyfriend called Dwayne and (it’s implied) had a child together. Lady Sif (Jaimie Alexander) recovered from her wounds and came to New Asgard, where the Asgardian kids trained in arms under the watchful eye of a statue of Jane Foster, Mighty Thor.

The original Thor, meanwhile, has his own duties. It’s revealed that he’s taken to raising Gorr’s daughter as a single parent, taking her out on strange battles in a very homey spaceship with both Mjolnir and Stormbreaker on hand.

It’s revealed that Gorr’s daughter didn’t come back the same, imbued with some of Eternity’s power – or as Korg puts it, she’s a "girl born from Eternity with the powers of a God".

As a duo, they travel the universe righting wrongs, and are known as…you guessed it…Love and Thunder. And that’s the end of the movie, and some very snazzy end credits begin to roll.

Well, we say it’s the end of the movie. As is the tradition in Marvel movies, there’s one more bit to enjoy.

Thor: Love and Thunder end credits scenes

As you would expect from a superhero movie (especially a Marvel one), there are a couple of post-credits scenes smuggled into the end of Love and Thunder that hint at what’s next for Chris Hemsworth’s hero.

The first post-credits scene sees Russell Crowe’s Zeus plotting his revenge. It turns out he didn’t die at Thor’s hands after all, but their clash – and his general dissatisfaction at the Gods’ fall in prestige thanks to the rise of superheroes – has him out for blood.

"No more – they will fear us again when Thor Odinson falls from the sky," he says, enlisting his son Hercules (newcomer and Ted Lasso star/writer Brett Goldstein) to take out his new nemesis. Looks like we’re in for a clash of the titans!

The second post-credits scene catches up with Jane in the afterlife, where she appears in another swarm of gold dust to be greeted by Idris Elba’s Heimdall (who died in 2018’s Avengers: Infinity War).

"Jane Foster – I see you’re dead now," Elba says, thanking her for helping his son survive Gorr’s plan. "Welcome to Valhalla."

The film ends after this scene with a "Thor will return" credit – though whether it just means Hemsworth’s Thor or Portman’s Mighty Thor as well, remains to be seen.

And that really, truly, is the end of the movie. We got there in the, er, end.

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Thor: Love and Thunder Plot Synopsis

The main plot of Love and Thunder involves Thor teaming up with Jane Foster aka. Mighty Thor, King Valkyrie and Korg to recruit some Gods and fight back against Gorr the Butcher, who threatens to kill them all; his motivations stem from simple vengeance against the Gods.

The fate of the universe hangs in the balance, complete with all the usual obligatory CGI monsters and a big fight at the end. Do Thor and the gang come out on top?

Do Thor and the others stop Gorr in the Shadow Realm?

Gorr the God Butcher is blinded by revenge, desperate to gain justice for his daughter dying and the Gods brushing off her death as inconsequential. In possession of the Necrosword – which is established early on as able to slay Gods – Gorr goes on a bloodthirsty mission to get revenge.

As the movie progresses, Jane, Thor and Valkyrie mount a counter-offensive and head to the Shadow Realm to stop Gorr. Unfortunately, they come up short and even worse, Gorr ends up in possession of Thor’s new hammer, Stormbreaker. During the three-on-one fight, Gorr injures Valkyrie and the trio are forced to retreat back to Asgard.

With Stormbreaker now in his possession, Gorr heads to the temple, intending to use Stormbreaker to open the Gates of Eternity where he’ll be granted one wish. This wish stems from wiping out every God with one fell swoop in order to avenge his daughter.

Why does Jane’s cancer get worse?

Early on in the movie we learned that Jane had become “worthy” to wield Mjolnir for reasons simply brushed aside without a whole lot of explanation. One could argue it stems from a promise Thor made Mjolnir, telling his hammer to “keep her safe” but beyond that we don’t get a whole lot of rationale.

Anyway, after the earlier failed offensive in the Shadow Realm, Thor learns that Jane’s continued use of her newly acquired powers is actually draining her defences and making the cancer more aggressive. If she continues to wield Mjolnir, she could well die.

Does Thor stop Gorr?

With Valkyrie out the fight and Jane in hospital, Thor decides to head off alone to try and stop Gorr. Along the way, Thor frees the captured Asgardian children, encouraging them to fight off Gorr’s conjured monsters, thanks to imprinting his powers onto the kids.

Thor is made quick work of by Gorr and with all hope lost, Jane bursts onto the scene, riding on Valkyrie’s Pegasus. The pair fight off Gorr together, with Jane hitting the decisive blow on the antagonist. Thor meanwhile, releases Stormbreaker and helps to send the children home, safe and sound.

Meanwhile, Jane uses Mjolnir to destroy the Necrosword, Gorr’s source of power. However, it comes too late as the Gate to Eternity opens and Gorr slips through, despite being fatally wounded.

Thor and Jane follow and try to talk him around. Thor encourages Gorr to remember why he started this fighting in the first place, suggesting an alternate to killing all the Gods. He and Jane offer for Gorr to bring his daughter back and allow Thor to adopt her, taking the girl under his wing. Gorr eventually agrees and passes away.

Does Jane Foster die?

In the midst of all this, Jane Foster ends up succumbing to her injuries. After helping to defeat Gorr and doing what she can to turn the tide of battle, she passes away in Thor’s arms.

Jane turns to gold dust, dissolving into the ether just like an Asgardian God. It would appear her journey is over, although we do see that those on Asgard revere her as a saviour and hero. Plus, this is the MCU so death is never as straightforward as he/she is just gone!

How does Love and Thunder end?

With Gorr defeated and the threat thwarted, Thor heads back to New Asgard where Valkyrie has healed up and ends up training the children in the art of self defence. There’s a big statue of Mighty Thor too, while Korg’s found a new boyfriend in Dwayne.

Elsewhere, Thor is now a househusband, because of course he is. He fixes up some pancakes in the morning for his newly adopted daughter, whom he chooses to fight alongside. And their superhero names? Nope, not Snowflake and Safespace – it’s Love and Thunder!

Is there a post-credit scene?

Yes! There are two post-credit scenes. The first sees Zeus still very much alive and lamenting Thor’s actions. In fact, he’s bitterly angry that superheroes have become the new Gods and wonders when they [the Gods] became such a joke. As a result, he decides they should teach them a lesson. And that comes from using Hercules.

The second scene clarifies that Jane Foster is dead. She ends up in Valhalla after dying in Thor’s arms, heading through the gates of Valhalla and being greeted by Heimdall. He thanks her for helping to look after Astrid and welcomes her in.

Finally, right at the very end of all this, we learn that “Thor will return”, which means that Chris Hemsworth is definitely coming back for more!

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