Thor is the next feminist film you’ve been waiting to see since Wonderwoman (spoilers!)
* Hela is a badass female villain who is so powerful and unbeatable they have to create a super-powered team to combat ONLY her
* Thor admits Hela is the rightful heir to the Asgardian throne (over him)…and the only reason he fights her for it is because but she’s a warmongering asshole
* Valkyrie drinks like a sailor, is drunk half the time (and not in a cute, giggly, girly way – the chick is hammered) and gives zero fucks about your sob story – plus, instead of getting the usual tragic victim backstory reserved for women, she has the guilt-ridden backstory and character arc usually reserved for male anti-hero characters
* The movie is female-gazey af – Valkyrie is fully covered in utilitarian armor the whole film, but Hulk has a naked ass shot and Thor walks around like a Chippendale dancer half the time…and the camera is super into it
* The most elite warriors in Asgard were a group of women on flying horses
* Thor admitted he wanted to join the Valkyries as a boy – when he learned they were all women it didn’t make him want to join less, he was just bummed out bc he knew they wouldn’t take him
* Nobody ever calls Hela a ‘bitch’, and nobody underestimates her scary ass just bc she’s a woman – she might be the most frightening villain Marvel has had outside of Thanos
* Though there are definitely stirrings of romantic interest between Valkyrie and Thor that may be explored in future films, she’s not the *love interest* character – Thor wants her around bc she can fight
THOR WANTED TO BE A VALKYRIE WHEN HE WAS A LITTLE BOY!!!!!
of course i wanted you.
you forest made flesh,
your heart one dark bruise
and kinder than anything
that’s been done to you.
you god. you promised land.
heart the size of paradise
and golden honey.
of course i’m afraid.
there is nothing i have held
without it coming away in blood.
i have a mind like a mousetrap,
savage like whole cities burning.
you tender bird, violet sprig.
your mouth is so soft
my kiss will hurt.
of course i dreamt you.
you impossible boy, you miracle,
look at how the sun is jealous.
it knows: when you want
something badly enough,
you must create it.
Do you know what’s another moment I loved about this movie? When Loki makes his grand YOUR SAVIOR IS HERE! entrance, this is Thor’s reaction:
He’s delighted to see that dramatic little shit!
It complements the moment that comes not too much later, when Thor finds his lightning powers again and comes raining lightning down on the bridge, Loki does this absolute fucking smirk:
THEY ARE SO DELIGHTED BY EACH OTHER.
After all the years we had to struggle our way through the breaking of their relationship, the losses they both suffered, the cracks to both their foundations, the bitterness and strife that kept wedging itself in between them, literal years of watching them break apart and break apart and break apart.
And this movie could have broken them for good. But instead it understood that they cannot go backwards, but that does not mean they cannot still go forward. That they can’t both be grow and change and find each other again.
The death of the last of their family might have split them apart, it almost did, but when it really came down to it, they both chose to move on, to be something more, and that allowed them to come back together.
It allowed them to smile when they saw each other again, genuine and real. After all that hurt–when Loki shows up again, their first reaction to the sight of the other is one of being glad to see the other, both of them.
Loki is the Philosopher King 