Thor 4 spoilers follow: It’s hard to get tired of someone as beautiful as Chris Hemsworth, but the MCU has done a great job over the past 11 years. Thor 4: Love and Thunder hits theaters this week. The Thor quadrology adds up to 4 Avengers appearances. Again: 4 solo films. That’s a lot, even in the Sequel Machine MCU. The most popular superhero/actor combos of the last 20 years put the capes aside after 3 individual entries: Christian Bale’s Batman, Tobey Maguire’s Spider-Man, Chris Evans’ Captain America and Robert Downey Jr.’s Iron Man.
Chris Hemsworth has given the Marvel character far more life than superhero laws require. Now the Australian certainly doesn’t need any career tips. It works for him. But because every additional Thor minute after the Love and Thunder finale would be detrimental to the actor and his character, I feel compelled to make this really nicely meant appeal: Dear Chris Hemsworth, dear MCU, it’s time to unleash the Thunder God.
Thor 4 in the cinema: Chris Hemsworth got everything out of the god of thunder
Chris Hemsworth’s first and never sufficiently emphasized achievement was making a character who wears a helmet with feathers cool in the comics. They have that too blond colored eyebrows not prevented, which the performer wore for some reason in the early Asgard years. (Seriously, who came up with this?)
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The character has grown together with its actor – also physically. The closet-like body ideals of comic book superheroes cannot actually be imitated. The fitness freak Chris Hemsworth got closer to them than humanly possible.
In Thor 4, a minute-long gaff scene is dedicated to the results of his irrepressible urge to exercise. Physically, Hemsworth pulled everything out of the character. (He should be taken off the reel for health reasons alone, because building muscle doesn’t get easier with age.)
Most importantly, during the Thor years, Hemsworth proved his ability to bring depth to massive characters and balance them with humor. That’s also why he was cast for the Hulk Hogan biopic.
He worked purposefully on the skinning of the hero. After Thor 2, he was so bored with his own flawless image of manliness that he and Taika Waititi systematically hurt the character.
Thor 3 was about breaking all the rules. Like, ‘Once it feels familiar, do something else’, and Taika Waititi has the same vision and ‘anything is possible’ thing.
Hemsworth gave the Avenger an MCU character journey even more accomplished than his breadbox-like biceps. The Norse god started out as a mindless playboy in 2011. In Thor 4 we see him… again as a mindless playboy. Only wider than 11 years ago, better dressed – and deeply traumatized.
Thor 4 has suffered enough for 20 superhero lives
In order for a muscle to grow, it must first be stressed. When he recovers, he will be bigger and stronger. In this fitness analogy goes without saying Thor the muscle and he’s been charged more times than any other Avenger.
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Thor 4 begins with a condensed account of what the superhero has had to go through in his career: betrayed by brother Loki, lost his beloved brother multiple times, mother died, father died, friends like Heimdall died, homeworld Asgard destroyed. When you see all of this together, you feel sorry for this fictional character. It’s more than enough for a superhero life.
Taika Waititi’s new film features a hero who has recovered from those losses. Thor seems happy, having fun. He just hasn’t arrived yet. There is a special reason for this: The fact that the god of thunder was able to return after this ordeal and even has something to tell is one thing MCU glitch owed. The series had some catching up to do.
Thor 4 resolves the last open conflict in the Thunder God Vita: Jane Foster
While Thor 4 pretends it was all planned, Natalie Portman’s sudden departure as Jane Foster after Thor 2 was obviously not intended. A falling out with MCU officials prevented the earlier return, and Jane Foster’s absence has long been an elephant in the room that MCU scripts wrestle around.
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The Thor story would have felt truncated without a final reconciling conversation between Jane and Thor. In Love and Thunder we learn that the couple grew apart and Thor, of course, never talks about the separation from his great love got over. Arrived at new points in their biographies, both find each other again. The great love story that shaped the first two films comes to a tragic conclusion.
Jane dies of cancer, Thor’s next loss. Your complex story thus becomes a narrative element that at the end especially Thor grows. The unfinished relationship tied him to the past. Jane’s death liberates him into adulthood, so to speak, which the film tries to convey (I think) by gluing the kid of the villain he’s just met and defeated to the thunder god’s cheek.
It’s a quirky but beautiful ending that comes at just the right time. The hero had already passed his zenith before Thor 4.
Chris Hemsworth’s amazing MCU journey has reached a natural ending point
We see the happiest Thor in Love and Thunder – but not the best Thor. Really great was the thunder godwhen he joked numb with pain at the destruction of his homeland by a veil of tears with the Guardians of the Galaxy in Avengers: Infinity War. Or in Avengers: Endgame, as a failed, humiliated man who then aimed grimly at the previously missed Thanos head.
Thor 4 is the contrast program – a superhero comedy with lots of jokes, screaming goats and a fantastic Russell Crowe-Zeus, which also cleans up a bit in Thor’s soul. She doesn’t want to make her hero suffer any more, she wants to have one last time with this great character. Now the MCU has to let go.
Chris Hemsworth is the biggest muscle in this movie universe. But when muscles are stressed too much, they first tire and then tear. Chris Hemsworth knows that best.
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