49 Fun Facts About Thor: Love and Thunder

Which actress plays Valkyrie, the king of New Asgard, in Thor: Love and Thunder?

Tessa Thompson. Her Valkyrie is thriving as king but stuck with the paperwork: Taika Waititi said she spends her days on infrastructure, the economy and visiting delegates instead of fighting.

Who plays Gorr the God Butcher in Thor: Love and Thunder?

Christian Bale. He said the thing he stared at most while building Gorr was the unsettling music video for Aphex Twin's 'Come to Daddy'.

What becomes of the girl Love at the end of Thor: Love and Thunder?

Thor adopts her. He raises the girl as his own and takes her along on his heroics, so the film ends with a god and a little girl going into battle side by side.

What is the name of the god-killing weapon that chooses Gorr?

The Necrosword. It gives Gorr the power to kill gods, but it corrupts and slowly kills whoever carries it, so he was dying whether or not he won.

Rapu, the first god Gorr kills, is played by Jonathan Brugh from which Taika Waititi comedy?

What We Do in the Shadows. Brugh played the vampire Deacon in Waititi's 2014 mockumentary; here his god Rapu mocks the starving Gorr and becomes the God Butcher's first victim.

Which team is Thor travelling with at the start of Thor: Love and Thunder?

The Guardians of the Galaxy. Their own director, James Gunn, read Taika Waititi's script and said he 'asked for some things to be adjusted and they were adjusted'.

Which Asgardian warrior's distress signal sends Thor after Gorr?

Sif. Jaimie Alexander's warrior had sat out Thor: Ragnarok; here she loses an arm to Gorr but survives to help train New Asgard's children.

Why can Jane Foster wield Mjolnir in Thor: Love and Thunder?

Thor once enchanted it to protect her. He did it without realising while they were together, so years later the shattered hammer reforges itself for Jane and lends her his powers.

What illness does Jane Foster have in Thor: Love and Thunder?

Stage four terminal cancer. Wielding the hammer makes it worse: each transformation stops her body fighting the disease, so the weapon that makes her strong is also killing her.

Taika Waititi changed Gorr's face from the comics because it looked too much like which film villain?

Lord Voldemort. In the comics Gorr has a flat, noseless face, and Waititi said people were 'just gonna automatically make that connection' with the Harry Potter villain.

Where does Gorr take the kidnapped children of New Asgard?

The Shadow Realm. The kidnapping is bait: Gorr needs something Thor carries to open the way to Eternity, and the children bring Thor straight to him.

Where do Zeus and the other gods gather, hidden from Gorr, in Thor: Love and Thunder?

Omnipotence City. Thor goes there to raise an army of gods, but Zeus refuses to help and tries to lock the group up so they can't give its location away.

Who plays Zeus in Thor: Love and Thunder?

Russell Crowe. He wanted a Greek accent and Taika Waititi feared it would sound silly, so every scene was shot in Greek and British versions; the Greek one won.

New Asgard, the seaside town Valkyrie rules in Thor: Love and Thunder, lies in which real country?

Norway. The surviving Asgardians settled in the old village of Tønsberg and turned it into a tourist stop, complete with an ice cream parlour called Infinity Conez.

Which weapon does Thor use to share his power with New Asgard's kidnapped children?

Zeus's thunderbolt. Valkyrie grabbed it as the group fled the gods' city, moments after Thor had run Zeus through with it.

What does Gorr ultimately wish for at the gates of Eternity?

To revive his daughter. Gorr reached Eternity meaning to wish every god dead, but changed his mind after watching Thor comfort the dying Jane Foster.

Where does Jane Foster arrive after the credits of Thor: Love and Thunder?

The gates of Valhalla. The Norse 'hall of the slain' is for those who die in battle, and the film counts Jane's last stand against Gorr as exactly that.

Which Ted Lasso actor plays Hercules in Thor: Love and Thunder?

Brett Goldstein. Marvel boss Kevin Feige 'really wanted him' as Hercules, whom a wounded Zeus sends after Thor in revenge.

The screaming of Thor's goats came from a meme that added goat screams to which singer's hit?

Taylor Swift. Taika Waititi said the goats 'were never meant to be screaming' until someone in post-production found the goat remix of 'I Knew You Were Trouble'.

Valkyrie's horse Warsong in Thor: Love and Thunder shares its comics name with which Tolkien hero?

Aragorn. The film gave the horse a new name after it had flown unnamed through Thor: Ragnarok and Avengers: Endgame.

Which Guns N' Roses song plays in the first teaser for Thor: Love and Thunder?

Sweet Child o' Mine. Taika Waititi called Guns N' Roses one of his all-time favourite bands, and the song ran under a teaser that drew 209 million views in a day.

Who scored Thor: Love and Thunder?

Michael Giacchino. He had already worked with Taika Waititi on Jojo Rabbit, and he titled the film's main suite 'Mama's Got a Brand New Hammer'.

What is Jane Foster's profession in the Thor films?

Astrophysicist. In Thor: Love and Thunder her science can't cure her illness, which is why she turns to New Asgard and the broken hammer for help.

Thor: Love and Thunder borrowed its LED-wall 'volume' and its cinematographer from which Star Wars series?

The Mandalorian. Taika Waititi had directed its first-season finale and voiced the droid IG-11, so he brought the show's virtual sets and cameraman Baz Idoine with him.

Which actor got controversial special permission to enter Australia during the pandemic for a Thor: Love and Thunder cameo?

Matt Damon. He said he was let in 'because this production is creating jobs', then spent two days on set as the Asgardian actor who plays Loki while many Australians abroad couldn't get home.

Which actress plays the Asgardian actress portraying Hela in Thor: Love and Thunder?

Melissa McCarthy. Her husband Ben Falcone joined her as the troupe's stage manager, in a play that re-enacts Hela smashing Thor's hammer for New Asgard's tourists.

Which two returning MCU actors had their scenes cut from Thor: Love and Thunder?

Jeff Goldblum and Peter Dinklage. Their Grandmaster and Eitri scenes were shot with the film's villain, who let slip before release that neither had made the final cut.

Which Game of Thrones star played one of three witches in a scene cut from Thor: Love and Thunder?

Lena Headey. She said the coven was Taika Waititi's own invention, meant to guide Thor through the underworld, and called the three 'very, very funny and kind of insane'.

Who plays Thor as a child in Thor: Love and Thunder's flashbacks?

Chris Hemsworth's son. Tristan Hemsworth is credited as the young Thor, and his father called it 'a one-off, fun family experience', adding that he didn't want his kids to 'go and be child stars and actors'.

Korg's Kronan boyfriend in Thor: Love and Thunder is named in tribute to which wrestler-turned-actor?

Dwayne Johnson. Korg's partner is a rock creature called Dwayne, and when a fan spotted the nod to The Rock, Taika Waititi replied: 'No coincidence baby.'

Thor's red leather vest and tight jeans are a homage to Kurt Russell in which film?

Big Trouble in Little China. It is one of Taika Waititi's favourite films, and costume designer Mayes Rubeo said the jeans were so tight that her assistants 'were kind of worried'.

Taika Waititi said Thor: Love and Thunder feels as if its contents were chosen by whom?

A bunch of 10-year-olds. Waititi said it was as if the filmmakers asked children what should be in a movie 'and just said yes to everything'.

Which weapon does Gorr steal from Thor to open the way to Eternity?

Stormbreaker. The axe can summon the Bifrost, which Gorr needs to reach Eternity, so he kidnaps New Asgard's children to lure Thor and the weapon to him.

What heroic name does Jane Foster take when she wields Mjolnir in Thor: Love and Thunder?

The Mighty Thor. The name comes from Jason Aaron's comics, and the actress who plays her told a talk show Jane is 'called The Mighty Thor', not the 'Lady Thor' of online nicknames.

Thor: Love and Thunder's $144.2 million US opening set which record?

The largest debut in the Thor franchise. The glow faded fast: takings fell about 68% in the second weekend, one of the steepest drops any MCU film has had.

The boy Axl, who helps Thor find New Asgard's kidnapped children, is the son of which fallen Asgardian?

Heimdall. Axl inherited his father's all-seeing sight, which lets him reach Thor from captivity and show him where Gorr is holding the children.

Which Jurassic Park star returns in Thor: Love and Thunder as the stage actor playing Odin?

Sam Neill. He first played the part in Thor: Ragnarok, and warned beforehand that travel between New Zealand and Australia was 'problematic' during the pandemic.

Why did Malaysia, Kuwait and several other countries never screen Thor: Love and Thunder?

Disney refused to cut its LGBT elements. Malaysia's censors asked for cuts the studio chose not to make, and a minister later confirmed the film had failed because it 'touched on LGBT'.

Taika Waititi planned, then dropped, a cutaway gag in the gods' city featuring which religious figure?

Jesus. Valkyrie mentions a 'God of Carpentry', and Waititi said there 'was supposed to be a cutaway to you-know-who', which never made the finished film.

Chris Hemsworth later said that in Thor: Love and Thunder he had become what?

A parody of himself. He told Vanity Fair he 'got caught up in the improv and the wackiness' and 'didn't stick the landing', a year after calling the film 'too silly'.

What did Taika Waititi suggest a fifth Thor film could be?

A low-budget road trip with no fights. Waititi said only 'something surprising and unexpected' would bring him back, citing the road movie Nebraska, and in 2023 confirmed he would not make a fifth film.

Which character narrates Thor: Love and Thunder, telling the tale to a group of children?

Korg. The rock-bodied Kronan is voiced by director Taika Waititi, so the film's storyteller really is its storyteller, recounting how Thor went 'from dad bod to god bod'.

Thor: Love and Thunder's end-credit names are styled as what?

1980s rock band logos. Design studio Perception studied hair-metal and classic-rock bands, then styled each credited name as if it were a band's own logo.

Which goddess worshipped in Wakanda appears among Zeus's gathered gods in Thor: Love and Thunder?

Bast. The panther goddess had only been seen in a vision in Black Panther, so Akosia Sabet's cameo ties Wakanda's faith into Thor's corner of the universe.

Which Marvel film shot at the same Australian studio immediately before Thor: Love and Thunder?

Shang-Chi. Marvel planned the two shoots back to back so that local crews would have what it called 'sustained, continuous employment'.

When Zeus magically removes Thor's disguise before the assembled gods, what else comes off?

All his clothes. Zeus 'flicks too hard' while exposing the intruder, and the accidental nude scene was already on show in the film's second trailer.

Besides voicing Korg, which Kronan god does Taika Waititi also voice in Thor: Love and Thunder?

Ninny of the Nonny. He is the god of Korg's own rock people, so Waititi ends up voicing both the worshipper and the worshipped.

In which Australian city was Thor: Love and Thunder filmed, at the Disney-owned Fox Studios?

Sydney. The previous Thor film had shot in Queensland, and the move south came with more than A$24 million in state and federal subsidies.

One heroine's armour in Thor: Love and Thunder was built from synthetics, without leather, because which star is vegan?

Natalie Portman. Her Jane Foster suit is mostly plastic, and she took her soft practice hammer home to rehearse the stunts, which she said finally impressed her children.