Thor: Love and Thunder
Avengers : Endgameintroduces many change to the Marvel Cinematic Universe , but it ’s the Thor enfranchisement that may have changed the most . Thor receive a major service by way ofThor : Ragnarok , and with howEndgameleaves both Thor and his fellow Asgardians , it suggests thatThor 4is going to be a very different pic as well .
Endgameis a finis for theInfinity Saga , wrapping up the 22 - film serial in a way that ’s both a culmination and a jumping off point for fresh stories . The MCU is for certain not over , but the films that will exhaust afterEndgamewill see certain heroes raise while introducing unexampled I to fill out the membership . Spider - Man : Far From Home , for example , will see Peter taste to live up to Tony Stark ’s bequest , while the newCaptain America , Sam Wilsonwill need to do the same with that of Steve Roger ’s . Meanwhile , upcoming motion-picture show likeThe EternalsandShang - Chiwill bring unexampled heroes ( and baddie ) into the MCU .
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Endgame has both Tony Stark and Steve Rogersmove on from being Iron Manand Captain America , respectively , and Thor does something standardized - he take a break , involve to focus on himself for a time . It is n’t closely as radical asTony ’s deathor Steve ’s pick to stay on in the past , but it will intend that Thor ’s corner of the MCU will be very dissimilar once the franchisereturns withThor 4 . Here ’s howThor 4will be unlike fromRagnarok , start with the biggest alteration :
Valkyrie Is The Queen Of New Asgard
Thor ’s electric arc inAvengers : Endgameis perchance his most transformative one yet , reconciling the person he mean he ’s supposed to be with the someone he actually is . In doing so , Thor gain there ’s someone well accommodate than him at being the ruler of Asgard - Valkyrie . ThroughoutEndgame , Valkyrie already is a leader to the Asgardian refugee in all but name , but Thor abdicates and turn over the prescribed duties of harness New Asgard over to her at theend ofAvengers : Endgame .
Valkyrie is now Queen of New Asgard and it ’s the first clip a character other than Thor or Odin ( or Loki mask as Odin ) has ever dominate the Asgardians in the MCU . ComeThor 4,Valkyrie is potential to still be in accusation , and having previously spent so much time away from Asgard , she could very well bring a unused view to the usually arrogant and once sequester kingdom . Valkyrie will be a very different swayer than either Odin or Thor , and a New Asgard under her formula is certain to muse that .
New Asgard Is Established (And Prosperous)
Thor : Ragnarokdestroys the realm of Asgard , whileAvengers : Infinity Waropens with Thanos kill one-half of the Asgardian refugee . When Thanos enactsthe Decimation , half of the Asgardians are killedagain . But thanks to Valkyrie - who surely must have play an important role in leading the subsister to safety - the Asgardians have now settled on Midgard ( Earth ) in the village of Tønsberg , Norway ( the same settlement where centuries agoOdinled the Asgardians in battle against the Frost Giants and whereRed Skullfirst discovered the Tesseract ) .
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Tønsberg is renamed New Asgard and under Valkyrie ’s guidance , spring up in to a halcyon fishing village . By the timeThor 4rolls around , there ’s no telling how far New Asgard will have hail . Now on Earth , New Asgard may divvy up some of its noesis with the major planet , advancingEarth sciencebeyond what even Wakanda has attain . New Asgard may never again be as lofty or opulent as the land of Asgard was , but its fix on Earth will keep the land more intimately connected tothe rest of the MCU .
Thor Is A Guardian Of The Galaxy (But Can Return)
Thor has been the main link between the MCU and Asgard since the first , but as his story has germinate , he ’s drop less and less meter among his own people . That all came to a school principal when Asgard was destroyed inRagnarok , and with the realm gone and his people look to Valkyrie for guidance , Thor is free to be his own adult male / god . At theend ofAvengers : Endgame , Thor skip on the Benatar and fly off with the Guardians for adventures yet unknown .
Not untilGuardians of the Galaxy Vol.3will we get to see how this unexampled dynamic play out ( though it ’s obvious Thor will continue incur on Quill ’s nerves ) , but it makes sentiency forThor to join up with a team of misfitsgiven his state of judgement . Of of course , Thor wo n’t necessarily remain a Guardian constantly , but he may still be with the team duringThor 4and absent from the game for a portion of the film . The Guardians may even link up him when he returns . By the timeThor 4happens , however , Thor may have spent enough prison term finding himself that he ’ll want to render to New Asgard . Which is n’t to propose he ’ll retake his seat as king ( not unless something happens to Valkyrie ) , but even god must come home finally . It ’s either that or some scourge will storm him to do back and protect his belovedMidgardonce again .
Loki Is Still Alive (In Another Timeline)
Along with Queen Valkyrie , New Asgard , and an absent Thor , the other big change comeThor 4is Loki . On the one paw , Thor ’s brother is numb , having been killed byThanosat the very beginning ofAvengers : Infinity War . But then the Avenger ’s time locomotion deviltry inEndgameresult in the existence of new timelines - including one in which Loki escapes the Battle of New York withthe Tesseract / Space Stone .
It ’s unclear what time to come ( if any ) Loki will have in the MCU films , butLoki is get a series on Disney+ . Just when that serial is do and which interlingual rendition of Loki it will lead is unknown , but there ’s every chance the scene of Loki escape inEndgameis there as setup for this series . Then again , perhaps this other Loki - and notably , a Loki who has n’t have the sameredemption arc as the Lokiin theprime MCU timeline- will have some role to meet inThor 4 , antagonise Valkyrie and New Asgard , possibly even being what get his brother to come home . If so , Thor and Loki will again be odds , offer up a very dissimilar moral force from where the brothers last left off .
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When Will Thor 4 Release?
Thor 4currently does n’t have a release and , in fact , has n’t even been officially announce by Marvel Studios . The only upcoming MCU photographic film that is officially announced isSpider - humankind : Far From Home , whichrounds out Phase 3 . There have been discussions aboutThor 4 , as Valkyrie actress Tessa Thompson recently saidRagnarokdirector , Taika Waititi has already pitched an ideato the studio .
wonder Studios is also at various stage of development onBlack Widow , The Eternals , Shang - Chi , Black Panther 2 , andDoctor Strange 2 , so it ’s not likeThor 4is a grown priority at the moment - especially if Thor look in the alsoin - developmentGuardians of the Galaxy Vol.3 . That picture is n’t probable to liberate until 2023 at the earliest , so ifThor 4does happen , it wo n’t be releasinganytime in the nigh future .
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