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A brand new warrior is wielding the hammer within the teaser for Thor: Love and Thunder. Marvel has launched the primary take a look at Taika Waititi’s rock opera-esque superhero flick, that includes a handful of characters from throughout the MCU catalog coming collectively to rejoice the final (?) unique Avenger member in all his electrical glory.
That features the trailer’s greatest reveal: Buff Natalie Portman.
“My tremendous hero-ing days are over,” Chris Hemsworth’s buff god says within the trailer as “Candy Youngster O’ Mine” kicks into gear.
There’s fairly a little bit of Thor lore you’re going to wish to be able to perceive most of this trailer. The final time we noticed him, he was a brooding mess able to give up his Avengers life, and it looks like that sentiment nonetheless stands. Nonetheless, there’s just a little hearth within the stomach, as Thor works his physique again into form with big metallic chains in a gymnasium straight out of The Darkish Crystal (once more: the ‘80s are again).
This stems from some controversy that tracks again to Avengers: Finish Recreation. Within the MCU’s epic conclusion to their decade-long saga, Thor was subjected to a slew of fats jokes and mocked for melancholy after the occasions of Infinity Conflict. Maybe Marvel will handle these qualms followers had with the movie, or, extra seemingly, they’ll simply make him work out till he’s a chiseled slab of muscle groups once more.
And it’s not simply the occasions of Infinity Conflict, you’ll want to recollect. There’s the entire affair Thor had with the Guardians of the Galaxy troupe. Chris Pratt is again along with his crew, cracking jokes and apparently introducing Thor to Weapons ‘N Roses. What else will it's good to scratch your mind to recall? Oh, Thor can also be friends with Valkyrie (Tessa Thompson), and his brother had an entire spinoff present (Loki) that takes place within the Multiverse.
However like his fellow Avengers’ teammates, Thor’s days as an Avenger could be coming to a detailed. On the very finish of the teaser, Jane Foster (Natalie Portman) wields Thor’s hammer, the mjolnir, an epic feat. She seems superb. You might virtually hear fan applause in the intervening time of the reveal.
(Nonetheless shrouded in thriller: Christian Bale as the brand new villain, Gorr the God Butcher. What a reputation!)
The Avengers, Hemsworth’s second movie taking part in Thor, is developing on its tenth anniversary in only a few weeks. Hemsworth has been taking part in the character for over a decade now, beginning with Thor and persevering with onto Thor: The Darkish World and Thor: Ragnarok, together with the flurry of Avengers movies.
Thor: The Darkish World premieres in theaters on July 8.