Comic-book writer Jason Aaron not only created Gorr the God Butcher and inspired the story of Taika Waititi’s Thor: Love and Thunder (2022), he also transformed Jane Foster from a love interest into a superhero in her own right – The Mighty Thor – who first appeared in Aaron’s Thor #1 (2014). Though Foster was created by comics legends Stan Lee, Jack Kirby and Larry Lieber back in the 1950s, it’s the 2014 to 2017 comics run, collected in Jane Foster: The Saga of the Mighty Thor (displayed here), that proved Foster was worthy of wielding enchanted hammer Mjölnir and being far more than a damsel in distress.
Early promotional material for the fourth Thor movie extensively featured Natalie Portman’s return as Jane Foster and her transformation into The Mighty Thor, bringing one of the MCU’s greatest superheroes from page to screen.