Thor: Ragnarok
Thor : Love and Thundermight be using its villain to retcon Hela fromThor : Ragnarok . WithLove and Thundernot set to issue until July , there ’s still not a lot known about the flick , including how the primary antagonist , Christian Bale ’s Gorr the God Butcher , will be adapted from the funnies . However , new material does evoke that he ’ll be conform in a way that difference with previously established elements of the MCU .
leak promotional nontextual matter for the MCU ’s version of Gorr has not only provide a full look at his redesigned facial expression for the MCU , but also the appearance of his signature weapon , All - Black the Necrosword . While the All - Black usually had a slightly jag appearance in the comics when used byGorr the God Butcher , it appear that the MCU version will await more like a traditional full-strength sword . The new show rival how the All - Black looked in later appearances , most notably when used by its creator , Knull , so the change could peradventure be done to keep thing in line with that .
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One other thing the change to the All - Black does is advise that Hela will be subjected to a retcon . In addition to looking dissimilar from how it did in the strip , Gorr ’s Necrosword also looks distinctly different from the original Necroswords used by Hela inThor : Ragnarok . All Necroswords are supposed to be similar in appearance to one another because of their shared line of descent , so Gorr ’s Necrosword look so different from Hela ’s suggests that they do n’t come from the same source and that one might not be a true Necrosword . BetweenThor villains Gorr and Hela , Gorr is the character traditionally connected to the true nature and history of the Necroswords , so if anyone is mean to be using a existent one , it ’s constipate to be him .
A possible retcon is also suggest by how Gorr does n’t have a helmet like Hela ’s . InWhat If … ?episode 2 , it was involve that the Necroswords were develop from Hela ’s helmet when the Collector wore it against T’Challa , so if Gorr is n’t have on a helmet , then that would mean that he describe his power from the sword itself and not a helmet . That would put Gorr ’s variant of the Necrosword nigher to its depiction in the comics both before and after the reveal of its connection tothe dark god Knull , and in doing so , it work out to create less consistency with Hela ’s reading , thus further suggesting a retcon to her case .
A retcon would also be possible if this is meant to set up an eventual show by Knull . As antecedently state , All - smutty the Necrosword was create by Knull in the funnies , but that was n’t discover until the beginning of Donny Cates’Venomrun , which happened years after Gorr made his debut . The existence of Gorr and the All - pitch-black by themselves can already suggest the possibility of Knull appear in the MCU , but Gorr ’s version of the All - Black resembling how it looked when wielded by Knull could mean thatLove and Thunderissetting up aKing in Blackstorylineby establish an even clearer connection between Gorr and Knull . Hela is n’t wholly necessary for that , especially since she was n’t involved with it in the comics , so it would make gumption for her to end up lost in the shuffling .
The All - Black is intend to have shapeshifting abilities , so Gorr ’s could take on an show closer to Hela ’s , but the leaked impression is probably meant to be its nonremittal appearance in the moving picture . If that ’s the typesetter’s case , then that would imply thatThor : Love and Thunderis making Gorr ’s Necrosword distinctly unlike from Hela ’s to the point of possibly retconningthe MCU’sThor : Ragnarokhistory . With only a single picture to go on , there still is n’t a lot of selective information on how everything will play out , but what has been turn over does n’t suggest much in Hela ’s favour , either way .
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