Love and Thunder, the fourth installment of the Marvel Cinematic Universe's Thor series, will introduce fans to a new Norse god, namely Jane Foster, who is not a new character in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, but is called the new Norse God because she will lift Thor's hammer and become the female Thor in this new Thor series.
In order to be able to better understand this new Norse god in the upcoming movie, we can first look for some clues from the comics. In the comics, Jane Foster and Thor have a long and storied history, dating back to 1962 when she first appeared in Mystery Journey #84. While there will certainly be some noticeable differences between Jane Foster's film and comic book versions, the character's long history in Marvel Comics leaves many elements for the film to learn from.
In the comic, Jane is a nurse
The Marvel Cinematic Universe's Jane Foster was introduced to fans as a brilliant astrophysicist, and her career led to contact with Thor, as she became involved in the investigation of the spatial anomalies caused by Thor's arrival from Asgard to Earth, which directly contributed to the development of the film's plot.
Her career in comics also prompted her to meet Thor for the first time in the classic Marvel Universe. In this version, Thor is not stripped of his superpowers and banished to Earth, as in the film, but is combined with the mortal form of disabled doctor Donald Black to teach him humility. Jane, on the other hand, is a nurse and has a close working relationship with Dr. Black. But it all sparked one of the most complicated love triangles in the Marvel Universe, where she struggled between the love of two people, and she didn't realize they were the same person.
Jane's multiple variants became Queen of Asgard
In the main version of Marvel Comics, Jane Foster eventually lifts Thor's Hammer, and she transforms herself into the legendary incarnation of the Thunder God, which may have inspired the character's depiction of the character in the Marvel Cinematic Universe Love and Thunder. However, decades before this storyline, a multifaceted variant of Jane Foster had preempted her.
In "Whatif? #10 (1978), Jane Foster of Earth 788 finds Thor's Hammer before Dr. Donald Black's version of Thor. After gaining the power of Thor, this version of Jane saves Earth and Asgard from alien invasion, eventually proves her worth, and she herself becomes an Asgardian. Later she gave the hammer to Blake, making him the god of thunder again, and she married Odin and became the queen of Asgard.
She was once an Asgardian
After black's version of Thor eventually revealed his dual identity to Jane, Thor took her to Asgard for the first time in 1967's Thor #136. When Thor expressed his desire to marry the human nurse, Odin thought it necessary to turn Foster herself into an Asgardian, to make her immortal and possess many other divine powers.
Unfortunately for Jane, Asgard's miracles and her newly acquired divinity were overwhelmed by her mortal sensibilities. After encountering an unknown Ancient Lord of Fear, she herself asked to return to her previous form and return to Earth. Odin granted her request, but in the process, memories of Asgard and Thor's identity were erased.
She had fused with Sif
Just as Thor' relationship with the mortal Dr. Donald Black, Jane Foster found herself inextricably linked to the Asgardian warrior Sif. Once, at a critical moment of her illness, Jane was injected with Sif's life force, a force that desperately saved her. Although Jane was spared, the process fused the two men, and Jane subsequently gained the ability to transform into Shif when needed.
It was later discovered that these "transformations" were actually spatial exchanges between the two women, and when this transformation occurred, the other would be teleported to an invisible dimension. A joint adventure between Thor and Schiff eventually unleashes Jane from that invisible dimension, and the two are separated.
She had been married, but not with Thor
Although Jane Foster expressed her love for both Thor and his other human identity, Donald Black, she eventually fell in love with another character: Dr. Keith Kincaid. What Foster doesn't know is that Kincaid was actually the template for Odin to create the personality of Donald Black when Thor first exiled from Asgard.
Jane and Keith lived together for many years, and later had a son and worked together as a medic at the Avengers Mansion. During her marriage to Keith, the woman, who had been a nurse for a long time, eventually became Dr. Jane Foster. However, although the couple seemed to be a match made in heaven, they eventually divorced. A few years later, both Keith and their son Jimmy died in a car accident.
She opposed the Superhero Registration Act
The comic book version of the Civil War is one of the most important events in Marvel Comics, and it is much larger than the movie, including almost all of Marvel's main characters, with only a few exceptions that were not involved, one of which was Thor, when he died with the other Asgardians during the Twilight of the Gods incident (temporarily). However, even in Thor's absence, Jane Foster had to take sides after years of dating the character.
The main divisive elements in the Marvel comics Civil War are similar to the Avengers regulation proposed in the movie Captain America 3: Civil War, but on a much larger scale, requiring anyone with superpowers to register. Foster sided with Captain America, protesting the legislation and joining the Secret Avengers underground team as their doctor. After the End of the Civil War, with captain America's surrender, the Superhero Registration Act was implemented, and Jane always opposed the law, refusing to register after she changed her identity to Thor.
She was diagnosed with breast cancer
After years of working with Marvel's heroes, she discovers that she has breast cancer, and her diagnosis was made while Thor was fighting Gore the Slayer on an alien planet, and in the upcoming movie, Gore the Slayer will be played by Christian Bell, so jane's cancer plot may take place in the movie.
Even after Thor's return from an alien planet, Jane hid her cancer. When she finally chose to share the prognosis of her treatment, she rejected any divine intervention from the Asgardians and instead chose to face the battle against the disease alone.
She, as Thor, is actually a double-edged sword
When the original Thor found that he was no longer qualified to lift Thor's Hammer, Jane Foster was selected as a new user by the artifact, gaining the power and identity of Thor, becoming one of Marvel's powerful Thor's Hammer users. In Thunder God, Jane proves her worth, grows into a legendary hero, and eventually joins the Avengers.
Although Foster's Asgardian form is immortal, unaffected by all human diseases, and even makes the threat of cancer negligible, she will still return to her human form and continue to fight. As a superhero, she must continue to take on earthly responsibilities, so she is forced to detour between these two forms. This is like a double-edged sword for Jane, as she finds that every time she becomes Thor, she removes all foreign elements of her physiology, including chemotherapy drugs, which makes the treatment of cancer ineffective.
She sacrificed herself for the sake of fighting
As Jane's role as Thor led to increasingly frequent shifts, her cancer metastasized to stage four. Other superheroes had warned her at some point that it would be fatal if she turned into Thor again, but she let herself fight again, and after the last battle to save the entire Asgardian Pantheon, she eventually died of cancer.
Jane's experience as Thor earned her a place in the Temple of Valguism in Asgardians, but she hesitated to enter the door. Her hesitation instead gave Odin and the original Thor a chance to revive her with the full energy of the destroyed Thor's Hammer. However, after the resurrection, Jane abandoned the Asgardian form, and she encouraged the original Thor to return to his duties, while she chose to focus on cancer treatment, which eventually completely alleviated.
She became the Valkyrie
The Valkyrie was a team of nine Norse demigods whose female warriors guided the dead Asgardian heroes to the Temple of Valguard, often alongside Asgardian armies and often entangled with the affairs of earth heroes, a connection that was even stronger when their leader, Brunnhilde, became a long-time member of the Defenders.
It was while defending Earth that Brunnhilde's soul visited Jane Foster, and because of the courage and heroism she had previously shown, Brunnhilde invited her to take on the role of Valkyrie. Jane accepts, is transformed into a Valkyrie, becomes a hero again, and gains a new Asgard ability.
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