Thor: Love and Thunder‘ by Taika Waititi is the fourth Thor movie and the director’s second God of Thunder project. In typical style, the New Zealand-born filmmaker has peppered the plot with moments of light humour. A lot of it arises from the character Korg, voiced by Waititi himself. 

The Kronan warrior, and Thor’s friend, cannot seem to keep Jane Foster, Thor’s ex-girlfriend’s name straight in his head. The first time he refers to her as Jane Fonda, the actor and film icon. Fonda, 84, won two Academy Awards and is known for comedies like ‘Period of Adjustment’ but has also left a mark in dramas like ‘They Shoot Horses, Don’t They?’. 

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The second time he mixes her up with Jodie Foster, the actor who made a mark in films like ‘Taxi Driver’ and ‘Silence of the Lambs’. The 59-year-old has also won two Academy Awards, after gaining teenage stardom for her role opposite Robert De Niro in Martin Scorsese’s 1976 Palme d’Or winner. 

Korg’s mixup includes getting the first name right when calling Natalie Portman’s Fonda, and the second name right, when calling her Foster. In the ‘Thor’ movies, Foster is not an actor but a scientist who eventually wields the power of Mjolnir and becomes the Mighty Thor. 

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This is not the only hilarious moment Korg has had. The character was initially supposed to appear for a couple of scenes in ‘Ragnarok’, but Chris Hemsworth found the lines funny, and Waititi now voices a mainstay in the MCU. 

In ‘Love and Thunder’, Korg also gives viewers a rundown of Thor’s love life and makes a subtle reference to Dwayne ‘the Rock’ Johnson, when conveying that he’s trying to have a baby the way members of the Kronan race do – by holding hands with another male of their species, over hot lava.