ThorLoveAndThunder is “so gay,” according to Natalie Portman. But... is it? V.F.’s christress investigates:
. His blowhard Zeus sounds like the first draft of an Italian accent, but Zeus is famously Greek. It was confusing and confounding and reminded me of his Javert, and there’s something inherently queer about that.The so-called gayness of Valkyrie is confusing. At one point she tells Dr. Jane Foster—with whom she clearly has no romantic chemistry—that she misses her “sisters.” Does she mean sisters like relatives, sisters like girlfriends , or sisters like girlfriends ? We never find out.
When she’s escaping the Kingdom of the Gods. Valkyrie briefly stops to make bedroom eyes at one of Zeus’s female concubines, who I am pretty sure is played by Rita Ora. This happens so fast that I am actually not sure if it’s Rita Ora or not. But it does happen, and is a moment—the only moment—of girl-on-girl “action” in the film, if you can call it that.
At one point, Thor is involved in a little bit of a love triangle between Jane Foster and his ax, Stormbreaker. Many laughs are to be wrung out of Stormbreaker’s seeming jealousy of Jane. It was confusing to me, a Marvel-neophyte, as I assumed that Thor’s ax was a genderless object—and not to gatekeep the word gay, but I’m pretty sure a love triangle between a man, a woman, and a magical ax doesn’t qualify as “so gay.” But I’m happy to keep an open mind on the matter.
The most explicit “gay” moment: Valkyrie and Korg have a heart-to-heart about romance while Thor and Jane full on make out. In the scene, Korg explicitly says that he has two dads, and that his species are conceived when two Kronan men hold hands over a lava pit. It’s a sweet moment, but the scene is placed in such a way that, again, it feels like it could be entirely removed in other markets.
At the end of the film, there’s also the briefest of shots of Korg holding hands with another rock Kronan over a lava pit, in an attempt to maybe make a baby. Did Marvel just show us our first scene of gay Kronan sex? It’s hard to know.Natalie Portman using this film as a showcase and then having her character die, hopefully releasing her from the MCU and allowing her to get back to projects like
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