Thor Love And Thunders Title Teases The MCU’s First LGBTQ Romance

Thor: Love And Thunder’s Title Teases The MCU’s First LGBTQ+ Romance

The “love” in Thor: Love and Thunder more likely refers to Valkyrie, who will be searching for her queen in the MCU sequel to Thor: Ragnarok.

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Thor Love And Thunders Title Teases The MCU’s First LGBTQ Romance

The MCU so far has been very light on in terms of LGBTQ+ characters and queer storylines, but that could change in Thor: Love and Thunder. While Marvel Studios movies added their first openly gay character in the form of a cameo from Joe Russo in Avengers: Endgame, no major character in any of the more than 20 so-far released movies in the Marvel Cinematic Universe has been depicted as queer. That’s despite many of those same characters – from Loki to Korg to Captain Marvel – having a history of LGBTQ+ identity in the comics where they first appeared. In the same way Marvel has had a spotty record in its depiction of its women heroes or heroes of color, LGBTQ+ heroes have been left off the screen, with the most recent accusations being around queerbaiting in The Falcon and the Winter Soldier.

Thor: Love and Thunder will draw from the beloved Mighty Thor series of Marvel Comics, written by Jason Aaron. It will feature many characters from previous MCU installments, including Thor (Chris Hemsworth) himself, Jane Foster (Natalie Portman), Valkyrie (Tessa Thompson), Korg (Taika Waititi), Sif (Jaime Alexander), and Star-Lord (Chris Pratt). The main villain of the movie will be new MCU character Gorr the God Butcher (Christian Bale). The comics story sees Thor lose his ability to lift Mjolnir, signaling his unworthiness, while Jane Foster inherits the weapon, granting her Thor’s abilities while she deals with a cancer diagnosis. The film will also need to address Thor’s state of mind and physical shape (he’s still Fat Thor) and his place among the Guardians of the Galaxy as seen at the end of Endgame.

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In both comics and MCU films, Thor has typically been depicted as romantically interested in – or guided towards a relationship with – either Jane Foster or Sif. With both confirmed to appear in the Thor sequel, it might be assumed that the “Love” in the title of the film refers to the God of Thunder settling down with one of these two. While Thor has dated Jane Foster in the past in the MCU, they were separated by the time of Thor: Ragnarok. Thor was encouraged by his father Odin towards a relationship with Sif in Thor: The Dark World. Neither Jane nor Sif appears in the third Thor film. But this might all be a feint. The evidence points to Valkyrie, not Thor, being the one to experience the titular “love” in Thor: Love and Thunder.

Tessa Thompson has said in interviews that she portrayed her character to be bisexual – even apart from the glorious image above of the Valkyrie walking the rainbow bridge of the Bifrost. Thompson was aware that the character was historically bisexual in the comics, and brought that into her portrayal in the MCU – and director of Ragnarok Taika Waititi even shot a brief scene (which was elided from the final cut) where a woman is seen exiting Valkyrie’s quarters on Sakaar, hinting at her sexuality. Thompson also says that one of the women who dies in the Valkyrie flashback sequence was the character’s lover. But all overt references to Valkyrie’s bisexuality were cut from the film. Viewers last saw Valkyrie assuming the position of King of New Asgard on Earth in Avengers: Endgame and Thompson has gone on to say that the next Thor film will follow Valkyrie in this plot. At Marvel’s 2019 Comic-Con presentation, per iO9, she said:

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“As new king, she needs to find her queen. That will be her first order of business. She has some ideas. Keep you posted.”

Marvel Studios producer Kevin Feige has also confirmed this will happen in the upcoming sequel, though would not commit to how much of an impact it would have on the storyline of the film. Jaimie Alexander has also chipped into the conversation, saying offering up her character of Sif to play the part of Valkyrie’s queen. Whatever form the relationship takes, it looks as though there’s reason to believe the “love” in the title of Thor: Love and Thunder doesn’t refer to the title character – despite the return of his two main romantic interests. Instead, it might be Marvel committing properly to depicting Valkyrie as a queer hero on screen with an LGBTQ+ romance to match. And if it’s earned a mention in the title of the movie, surely it forms an important part of the narrative. It would be Marvel’s first depiction of such a character, and hopefully not its last.

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