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Shortly after the release of Ragnarok, Thompson confirmed that, even though any explicit reference to the character's sexuality was cut, she played Valkyrie as queer, like she is in the comics. In part, this disappointment is all a matter of expectations.

#VALKYRIE THOR HOW TO#

It's almost as if two female heroines were just too much for anyone to figure out how to handle-especially when one is bisexual. But this time around she feels even more like a sidekick, and is eventually completely sidelined for the finale so that Thor and Jane can have their big moment without her interference. (As I said: She looks extremely cool.) When Christian Bale's Gorr the God Butcher threatens the galaxy and kidnaps a bunch of children, she joins the crew, which includes Thor, Jane, and Waiti's rock monster Korg.

One war with Thanos later, she's been crowned King of New Asgard, a community of displaced Asgardians-slash-tourist attraction where she hawks Old Spice in a tux. In Taika Waititi's first Marvel outing, she's introduced as a Asgardian expat with a tragic past who guzzles beer and doms Hemsworth when she feels like it before eventually teaming up with him. And, yet, somehow it always feels like she's failed by the narrative. Aesthetically, Valkyrie is the most interesting character on screen in the two Thor movies in which she has starred. But instead I'm talking about Tessa Thompson's Valkyrie wearing an oversized Phantom of the Opera t-shirt as she strikes down shadow monsters. Naturally, you may think I'm talking about when Chris Hemsworth's godly superhero sees his ex-girlfriend Jane assume the mantle of the Mighty Thor for the first time wearing a silver helmet and a breastplate.

During one of the first big battles in Thor: Love and Thunder, there's a big costume reveal.

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