Butchering Gods and Finding Love: 'Thor: Love and Thunder' Preview

I mean, it is called Love and Thunder, after all, so there's got to be some love in this one, namely between Thor and Dr. Jane Foster, (an astrophysicist also known as the Mighty Thor), who's portrayed by Natalie Portman.

The pair's relationship goes way back, as Jane is Thor's ex-girlfriend whom he met first in New Mexico after he landed there following his exile from Asgard by his father. She played a much larger role in Thor: The Dark World, as she became intertwined in a major mess in another world with Thor, Loki, and Malekith.

This time around, she'll be fully joining forces with Thor not as an astrophysicist, but as the Mighty Thor, and a major force to be reckoned with.

On the "thunder" side of things, our buddy Thor is having to go up against Gorr, the God Butcher, portrayed by Christian Bale. The character first appeared in Thor: God of Thunder #2, which was published in 2013; basically, he lost all of the hope he had in the gods above after his son, Agar, was killed, leaving him to take on this new identity as the God Butcher (very aptly named). Gorr's mission in life is to destroy all gods as they betrayed him and his son—so, in other words, he's a cheap date: all he wants to do is murder some gods.

Thor: Love and Thunder will be Gorr's first live-action appearance as he has only appeared in various comics since 2013; though he doesn't possess any of the same superhuman capabilities as the Avengers we know and love, he has a casual 3,000 years of fighting experience under his belt. So, yeah, he's not going to be an easy foe.