Anna Daniels
With production on Thor: Love and Thunder beginning in August, fans are eager to learn more about who and what to expect from the first-ever fourth standalone from an original Avengers member. But with practically no plot details out and only a handful of casting tidbits, nailing down the storyline — and how Beta Ray Bill might fit into it — is no easy feat.
There is one comics plotline, though, that seems to provide a potential answer– and it conveniently aligns with several of the characters already confirmed for the 2021 Thor film. That comic run is the 2015 Thor spin-off of Marvel’s Secret Wars run. It recalls the 1980s series of the same name, and in it, you could say practically everyone becomes Thor. Jane Foster (who will be played by Natalie Portman in Love and Thunder) is at the center of the storyline, both as a victim of an alternate-universe Thor murder spree and as a Thor, perhaps the Mighty Thor version of her in Love and Thunder that has long been confirmed by Waititi.
The event requires Thors who have seen their various Earths merge band together to stop an alternative universe version of themselves from killing Janes across time and space. Beta Ray Bill appears as part of this team-up, as does Jane’s incarnation of Thor. Considering the time and universe play of Avengers: Endgame, Thor: Love and Thunder going in this direction doesn’t seem too impossible.
Without any confirmed details, though, we’ll just have to wait to see what the future holds for Beta Ray Bill and Thor: Love and Thunder.
Written by: Looper
