Thor: Love and Thunder will introduce villain Gorr the God Butcher, and a theory explains why he will go after Thor and how his story will change in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Phase 4 of the MCU is introducing new characters, events, and concepts while also continuing the stories of already established characters. Among those is Thor, who after the success of Thor: Ragnarok and the development the character has gone through since, was granted a fourth solo movie, titled Thor: Love and Thunder.
The events of Thor: Ragnarok marked a turning point for the God of Thunder, with the death of Odin (Anthony Hopkins), the destruction of Asgard, and the destruction of Mjolnir, which led him to realize his real power instead of relying on weapons and other artifacts. Thor returned in Avengers: Infinity War and Avengers: Endgame, the latter also being an important part of his development as he sank into a depression that led him to become Fat Thor, but with all these issues he also realized that he’s not made to be a king, and in order to continue with his mission of protecting the Nine Realms, he left Valkyrie (Tessa Thompson) in charge of New Asgard and left Earth with the Guardians of the Galaxy.
Viewers will reunite with Thor in Thor: Love and Thunder, and while plot details remain a mystery, it’s known that it will bring Jane Foster (Natalie Portman) back as she will become Mighty Thor as she did in the comics, and will also see the return of Lady Sif (Jamie Alexander), the Grandmaster (Jeff Goldblum), Valkyrie, and the Guardians of the Galaxy. Thor: Love and Thunder will also have Gorr the God Butcher (Christian Bale), who is on his way to becoming the biggest threat Thor has come across so far. Gorr’s backstory in the MCU will have to change as there are details from his comic book history that don’t match with this universe, and a theory suggests how Marvel will adapt Gorr and why he will go after Thor, and it involves the Celestials.
Gorr the God Butcher has a tragic and complex backstory in Marvel Comics. Gorr was born on a nameless planet where earthquakes, lack of water, and wild animals were common, and its people were on the brink of starvation. Gorr was raised to trust in the gods, but his faith vanished after a series of personal tragedies, as were the deaths of his parents, pregnant wife, and all his children. After his last son, Agar, died of starvation and heat stroke, Gorr lost all hope in the gods and believed they didn’t exist as they never answered his prayers, and this led to his exile.
However, while wandering the desert, Gorr witnessed a battle between two gods – Knull and a gold-armored god with purple skin – and shocked and enraged by the realization that gods do exist, he begged the gold-armored god for help. Knull’s sword, All-Black the Necrosword, transformed into a mass of living darkness and bonded with Gorr, and he used this new weapon to kill the gold-armored god. After this, Gorr vowed to kill all gods in revenge for never answering his prayers, and traveled the cosmos for thousands of years to fulfill his mission. Gorr doesn’t have any powers himself but he has thousands of years of combat experience and is skilled in the use of different weapons and is a skilled torturer (he claims to have tortured a god of torture at some point), so his biggest powers come from the All-Black the Necrosword. This symbiotic weapon grants him constituent-master manipulation, superhuman strength, durability, speed, and reflexes, longevity, and regeneration.
The MCU has a variety of powerful beings, with the Asgardian gods, the Eternals, and the Celestials, and while Thor: Love and Thunder will feature Zeus (Russell Crowe), no other gods have shown up in the MCU. Eternals even revealed that Olympia doesn’t exist and was instead a lie told by Arishem to the Eternals, meaning that the Olympians as seen in the comics aren’t in the MCU (at least not most of them). The closest there is to a god of that magnitude in the MCU are the Celestials, the oldest race in the universe. The Celestials are entities with vast matter and energy manipulation abilities and have been present since before the dawn of creation, and are responsible for the Big Bang and the creation of planets and civilizations, but they are also responsible for their destruction, especially as they plant seeds in planets so new Celestials can be born, but this means the destruction of entire planets.
The Celestials have the power of gods and create and destroy life as they please yet they don’t help the civilizations they create (and task creations like the Eternals to not get involved either), which is exactly what could make Gorr target them. It’s possible that, in the MCU, Gorr’s planet was destroyed as the result of an Emergence event, giving him enough reasons to seek revenge against the Celestials. A theory suggests Gorr has already killed various Celestials, thus earning the name of “The God Butcher”, and through this, the MCU can also explain the mystery of the death of the Celestial Knowhere.
The theory goes on to suggest that killing all those Celestials would grant Gorr possession of cosmic energy, making him the toughest and most dangerous enemy Thor has encountered so far, but although there are many Celestials in the Marvel Universe (and while it’s not confirmed, there might also be many in the MCU), he could be turning his attention to other, less powerful gods. The Celestials have immense power to the point where they can create and destroy life as they please, but they are not the only god-like characters in the MCU, so Gorr surely won’t be satisfied with just killing Celestials. Now, Russell Crowe’s appearance in Thor: Love and Thunder as Zeus is being described as a cameo one, so it’s possible that he will be killed on-screen by Gorr, perhaps marking his murder the start of his hunt for other gods.
While Thor hasn’t been responsible for destroying civilizations and has served more as a hero, there are still ways in which Gorr can target him. In the comics, Thor found the body of a god and later, while accompanying a Viking raiding party, found Slavic gods dead. He was then attacked by Gorr, who tried to torture the God of Thunder for information about the location of Asgard, but Thor was eventually rescued by the Vikings. After that, Gorr and Thor got involved in a battle that lasted centuries and took place in different places and points in time as Gorr used the blood of the Time Gods to traverse the timestream and go after different versions of Thor.
Gorr, then, doesn’t care if a god has been good – he will target them anyway simply for being a god, and that will certainly be the case with Thor in the MCU. If Zeus’ murder is the trigger of the plot in Thor: Love and Thunder, Thor could go on a quest to find the one responsible, leading him to Gorr and to the God Butcher finding a new target in Thor.
Thor’s MCU future after Thor: Love and Thunder is unknown, but with Jane Foster becoming Mighty Thor, Valkyrie now serving as the king of New Asgard, and the original Avengers team no longer active, there are enough reasons to believe this might be his final MCU adventure – now the question is if he will die or he will simply retire. In the comics, Thor finally managed to kill Gorr, but this might take a turn in the MCU. It’s well known that the MCU has a “villain problem”, with very few of them going past their debut movies, but Thor: Love and Thunder can break this by having Gorr survive and kill Thor, which would make Mighty Thor the new leader of this side of the MCU. Gorr’s survival would also be beneficial to Eternals 2, as he could serve as the villain in it due to his past as murderer of Celestials and he could target the Eternals as well, who are also a type of “gods” in the MCU.
With no plot details for Thor: Love and Thunder yet and Thor’s MCU future unclear (although Chris Hemsworth has said Thor 4 isn’t his last MCU movie, this universe is also in constant change and its actors tend to lie a lot), the chances of Gorr killing Thor are 50/50, and unlike many other MCU villains, Gorr has chances of surviving beyond his debut movie. Gorr is one of the most exciting villains in the MCU’s Phase 4, and his actions might have affected this universe long before his encounter with Thor in Thor: Love and Thunder.
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