‘Thor: Love and Thunder‘ introduces Gorr the God Butcher, and his reason for wanting to kill off all gods becomes clear. His daughter died due to lack of sustenance, as his god remained impervious to his prayers. Gorr plans on reaching Eternity and wishing death upon all gods, but Thor convinces him to choose love instead. The God Butcher decides to ask for his daughter back.

In his quest for vengeance, Gorr takes up the Necrosword, which curses the wielder, and ensures they’ll die eventually. Thus, by the time he’s reunited with his daughter, Gorr is nearing death and trusts Thor with taking care of her. “Uncle Thor” does just that, taking Love, Gorr’s child into battle. 

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This isn’t as much an example of bad parenting as it is a training process, since Gorr’s daughter is also Eternity’s child and possesses godlike powers. She can shoot beams from her eyes, which Thor has to fend off with a frying pan. The young girl also has no trouble rushing into conflict, wielding Stormbreaker, proving that she’s blessed with superstrength as well. 

However, Love doesn’t appear in the comics. India Hemsworth, Chris’ 10-year-old daughter, plays the part in the film.

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Gorr’s son’s death pushes him over the edge in the Marvel comics, and Love isn’t Thor’s child either. Meanwhile, Eternity spawned children, but none of them called Love. In the comics, Eternity gives rise to Empathy, Eulogy, Expediency, Entropy, Epiphany, Enmity, and Eon, but the last is killed and turned into Epoch. Like Eternity, these are all concepts. 

Seeing how director Taika Waititi has veered from the source material, there’s pretty much free reign when it comes to shaping Love’s character arc or her categorizing her powers. However, under Thor’s tutelage, she learns to help those in trouble, as the Asgardian – according to Korg – goes from sad god to dad god, trying to keep his promise to a dying man.