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Zeus’ Appearance In ‘Thor: Love and Thunder’ Starts a New Niche of Superhero Movies
I like it
Last night, I and my girlfriend went to the cinema to see the new Marvel movie, “Thor: Love and Thunder.” — I must say it was incredibly entertaining and I can’t wait for another part in the Thor series.
The Marvel series started in 2008 with “Iron Man”, who was played by Robert Downey Jr. Shortly after that, the movie was “The Incredible Hulk” and as the series continued to expand their cartoon heroes into live-action movies, the Avengers were born.
This group of superheroes consisting of Iron Man, the Hulk, Thor, Captain America, and more tried to fight all enemies that would threaten the earth.
That movie appeared in cinemas in 2012, one year after the first Thor movie aired. In this movie, we get to know the muscled god of thunder Thor, that was banished by his father and dropped onto earth where he meets a scientist called Jane Foster.
Later they fall in love and Thor has to say goodbye to Jane because there’s another planet waiting for him in the name of Asgard.
The New Director
The first two Thor movies were produced by two different people: Kenneth Branagh and Alan Taylor — they added a bit of dark stuff into the films. Since Thor: Ragnarok, the dumb humor has taken over.
That’s because a new director has taken over. You might know him.
He played Hitler in JoJo Rabbit by the way.
But he’s cool and has a lot of humor. But I think the new Thor has been overkilled with humor.
Love and Thunder
When Thor gets all fat in Avengers: End Game, he also gets depressed and of course, he misses Jane because they broke up. How sad.
But that’s not the point.
The point is that in Love and Thunder they meet again. Jane has now become Thor. That’s weird, right? Well, yes. But no. I’m not spoiling too much but Jane is sick and needs some extra strength.
When they notice some guy is trying to kill all of the gods in the Universe, they try to visit a city of which I can’t remember the name and ask the most famous god of all: Zeus, to help them.
He doesn’t want to and Thor strikes him through his heart with his own thunderbolt.
This makes me wonder the following.
After the series of Moonknight, featuring Egyptian gods and adding a bunch of different Nordic and Greek gods into Thor, is this the start of some new niche of superheroes in the form of mythical gods?
I like that idea.
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