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* IntimacyViaHorror : Implied in ''Film/ThorLoveAndThunder''. During Thor and Jane's relationship montage, Jane gets scared while watching a movie and clings to Thor, who grabs Mjölnir to protect her.
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* BackForTheDead: [[spoiler:Jane makes her official return in ''Film/ThorLoveAndThunder'', only for it to be revealed that she's dying from Stage IV cancer, and that her using Mjolnir to become Mighty Thor is only making it spread faster. By the end of the movie, she succumbs to said cancer after using Thor's power one final time to help defeat Gorr the God Butcher.]]
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* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:Jane takes up Mjolnir one last time, knowing that the strain of doing so will kill her, in order to help Thor defeat Gorr. She uses her last bit of strength to destroy the Necrosword, ending Gorr's power and allowing she and Thor to talk him out of using Eternity to destroy all gods.]]
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* JumpedAtTheCall: While she initially sought out Mjolnir thinking that its power would make her "healthy" again, she took to the Mighty Thor role with particular gusto, is thrilled at the chance to save the world that way, keeps trying to come up with heroic catchphrases, and doesn't hesitate to join the fight for one second. Even Valkyrie says to Odinson, with a sly smirk, that "[They]'ve been seeing a lot of that new 'guy'" when he asks who said new guy is.
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* LastKiss: [[spoiler: After declaring their love for each other, Jane and Thor kiss one last time as she succumbs to cancer and disappears into molts of light.]]
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* LegacyCharacter: Played with since Jane is referred to as the "Mighty Thor" to distinguish herself from Thor (although Thor himself has been called the "Mighty Thor" several times in the MCU long before Jane gets her powers). [[spoiler: She ultimately succumbs to her cancer in the end while Thor lives on.]]
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* MemorialStatue: [[spoiler: After she sacrificed her life to help Thor stop Gorr the God-Butcher and rescue several Asgardian children, Valkyrie has an immense statue of Jane wielding Mjölnir erected in her honor on a cliff of New Asgard.]]
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* PowerDyesYourHair: Jane's normally dark brown hair is lightened to a dirty blonde shade as a result of Mjolnir [[SuperEmpowering granting her Thor's lightning-based powers]], and it reverts to her natural dark brunette when not empowered.
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* SilentWhisper: At the end of ''Film/ThorLoveAndThunder'', Jane whispers a catchphrase she came up with into Thor's ear [[spoiler: shortly before she dies]], but the audience doesn't get to hear what it is.
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!!''Dr. Jane Foster / [[ComicBook/Thor2014 Mighty Thor]]''
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[[caption-width-right:300:''"Well, 'magic's just science we don't understand yet.' Creator/ArthurCClarke."'']]
[[caption-width-right:300:[[labelnote:Click here to see her as Mighty Thor]]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/thorloveandthunderjanefoster.png ''"Catchphrase!"''[[/labelnote]]]]
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!!!'''Species:''' Enhanced human
!!!'''Citizenship:''' American
!!!'''Affiliation(s):''' Culver University (formerly), S.H.I.E.L.D. (formerly), University of London (formerly), Asgard
!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/NataliePortman, Creator/ElsaPataky [[note]]body double for Portman in the post-credits scene of ''Film/ThorTheDarkWorld''[[/note]], Ava Caryofyllis (young)
!!!'''Voiced By:''' Creator/CristinaHernandez (Latin-American Spanish), Creator/MaayaSakamoto (Japanese), Flávia Saddy (Brazilian Portuguese)
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Film/{{Thor}}'' | ''Film/ThorTheDarkWorld'' | ''Film/AvengersEndgame'' | ''Film/ThorLoveAndThunder''
->''"First off: The name is MIGHTY Thor! And secondly: If you can't say Mighty Thor, I'll accept [[TheyCallMeMisterTibbs Dr. Jane FOSTER]]! And thirdly: [[PunctuatedForEmphasis EAT. MY. HAMMER!]]"''
An astrophysicist who finds out that a wormhole she's been observing is the Bifröst Bridge from Myth/NorseMythology, created by a race of SufficientlyAdvancedAlien gods, the Asgardians. After helping their exiled prince, Thor Odinson, find his way back to Asgard, she and Thor have had an ongoing RelationshipRevolvingDoor.
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* ActionGirl: Jane becomes this when she transforms into the Mighty Thor in ''Thor: Love and Thunder''.
* ActionSurvivor: How she deals with gods and robots and TheMenInBlack. She eventually evolves into an ActionGirl in ''Thor: Love and Thunder''.
* ActorAllusion: Her being levitated by Malekith on Svartalfheim looks [[Film/RevengeOfTheSith very familiar]].
* AdaptationalAttractiveness: In the comics, Jane [[spoiler:while dying of cancer]] was {{bald|ness means sickness}} and very emaciated. In ''Love and Thunder'', [[spoiler:Jane still has a full head of hair and looks a bit frailer than she did before the diagnosis, but isn't bone-thin.]]
* AdaptationalAngstDowngrade: While she still gets cancer like her comic book counterpart, she at least doesn't have to deal with divorcing her husband, losing custody of their son, and then losing them both to a car accident like her comic counterpart did because both of them got AdaptedOut.
* AdaptationalDyeJob: She has blue eyes in the comics, but has her actress' brown eyes in the MCU.
* AdaptationalIntelligence: Not that Jane is in any way unintelligent in the comics, but there she was a nurse, while in the MCU, not only is she an astrophysicist, which is already an extremely hard field on its own, but she also has ''three'' degrees.
* AdaptationalJobChange: In the comics, she was a nurse, and later a physician. Here, she is an astrophysicist.
* TheAdjectivalSuperhero: To differentiate her superhero persona from her namesake, [[https://twitter.com/TaikaWaititi/status/1153033515375587328 she's referred to as "The Mighty Thor"]] in contrast to Thor Odinson (although Thor has been called the "Mighty Thor" several times in the MCU long before Jane gets her powers).
* AdrenalineMakeover: Jane greatly invokes this trope when she becomes the Mighty Thor in ''Thor: Love and Thunder''.
* AffectionateGestureToTheHead: After Thor is mortally struck by the Destroyer in the [[Film/{{Thor}} first film]], Jane runs to him and caresses his cheek as he dies from his injuries.
* AfterlifeWelcome: [[spoiler:Jane is welcomed to Vahalla by Heimdall after her death by cancer at the end of ''Love and Thunder''.]]
* AlmostKiss: When Jane and Thor reunite in ''Film/ThorTheDarkWorld'', the two are happy to see each other after years apart and lean in to kiss, but they are interrupted by [[MomentKiller Darcy]]. However, they get their kiss in later on Asgard.
* AlternateSelf:
** In ''Avengers: Endgame'', Thor and Rocket time travel to 2013 to extract the Aether from her past self.
** She has one on Earth-72124 who joins in on Thor's massive party in Las Vegas, Nevada.
* AmazonianBeauty: As the Mighty Thor, Jane's arms gain considerable muscles and it is clear Thor still holds attraction for her.
* AmicableExes: Thor implies this to be the case in ''Thor: Ragnarok'', with both him and Jane deciding not to be in a relationship without any hard feelings. However, in ''Endgame'', he laments that he isn't together with her, suggesting that it might not have been as smooth a breakup as he implied, though considering that she was a victim of the Snap and Thor was drunk, he may have been focusing on their failed relationship instead of the fact that she was dead at the time. ''Thor: Love and Thunder'' confirms that despite their breakup, they are still on friendly terms.
* AndThisIsFor: When she meets Loki for the first time in ''Thor: The Dark World'', she slaps him across the face, saying that that was [[Film/TheAvengers2012 for New York]].
* AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence: At the end of ''Thor: Love and Thunder'', [[spoiler:she dies of her cancer and, like Odin did in ''Thor: Ragnarok'', turns into golden sparkles. She then finds herself at the gates of Valhalla, greeted warmly by Heimdall.]]
* BackForTheDead: [[spoiler:Jane makes her official return in ''Film/ThorLoveAndThunder'', only for it to be revealed that she's dying from Stage IV cancer, and that her using Mjolnir to become Mighty Thor is only making it spread faster. By the end of the movie, she succumbs to said cancer after using Thor's power one final time to help defeat Gorr the God Butcher.]]
* BackFromTheDead: She is confirmed to be a victim of Thanos's Snap before she is resurrected by Bruce Banner. [[spoiler:However, she dies a year later from cancer.]]
* BadassBookworm: She relies on her intellect and her inventions when taking part in the action. The "badass" part is given more emphasis when she becomes the Mighty Thor in ''Thor: Love and Thunder''.
* BadassCape: Just like Thor, Jane wears an awesome red cape as the Mighty Thor in ''Thor: Love and Thunder''.
* BadassNormal: In a world of gods, aliens, and superheroes, Jane is just a normal person with no enchantments or physical enhancements. Yet she uses her intelligence to solve problems and remains an active part of the conflicts. Subverted when ''Thor: Love and Thunder'' reveals that [[EmpoweredBadassNormal she has gained the same powers as Thor through being worthy of Mjölnir.]]
* BadMoodRetreat: In [[Film/{{Thor}} the first film]], Jane takes Thor to the roof of her lab and explains that this is where she goes whenever she's having trouble sleeping, or wants to work in peace, or is fed up with Darcy. She then realizes that she goes there quite often, actually.
* BarrierWarrior: When she is possessed by the Aether, anybody attempting to aggressively manhandle her gets very violently deflected away, as shown first when a constable tries to grab her for trespassing to look at the portal activity, and then when two guards try to grab her to return her to Earth.
* BashSiblings: ''Thor: Love and Thunder'' shows that she becomes this with Valkyrie and Korg.
* BattleCouple: She and Thor work together in ending the Dark Elves' campaign. ''Thor: Love and Thunder'' shows them fighting together almost a decade after their breakup.
* BeautifulDreamer: During the flashback montage in ''Film/ThorLoveAndThunder'', Thor watches Jane sleep with a smile on his face.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: She's usually easy-going, but she will throw a punch at people who get her mad. And that is before she becomes the Mighty Thor.
* BigDamnHeroes: [[spoiler:Just as Gorr is about to kill Thor, Jane abandons her chemotherapy and transforms into the Mighty Thor one last time to turn the tide of the final battle before she succumbs to her cancer.]]
* BigNo:
** In the [[Film/{{Thor}} first film]], Jane exclaims "No!" when Thor gets struck to death by the Destroyer.
** She also says a softer one in the [[Film/ThorTheDarkWorld second film]] when Loki seemingly betrays Thor and stabs him with a dagger.
* BigWhat: She has a particularly comedic one when she accidentally hits Thor with the van. ''Again''.
* BirdsOfAFeather: When fighting breaks out at the crater site, Jane calls Selvig to confess she did exactly what he told her not to do, paralleling Thor's confrontation with Odin in the first act of ''Thor''.
* BitchSlap:
** She does this twice to Thor during their reunion in ''Thor: The Dark World'', one to make sure that he is standing right in front of her, and two for being gone for so long.
** Averted when she later does the same to Loki for his attack on New York.
--->'''Jane:''' ''[slap]'' That was for New York!\\
'''Loki:''' I like her!
* BlackEyesOfEvil: She has these several times as a result of the Aether possessing her. When on Svartalfheim she gains these as well as startlingly blue pupils, not unlike the Dark Elves'.
* BloodKnight: Throughout ''Thor: Love and Thunder'', Jane repeatedly expresses a desire to continue fighting, becoming almost as much of a warrior as Thor was when they first met. [[spoiler:This is at least in part due to her time as the Mighty Thor allowing her to escape from her rapidly deteriorating physical condition due to cancer. Even being told that using the hammer might be killing her faster doesn't deter her.]]
* BlueIsHeroic: As the Mighty Thor, Jane can summon bright blue lightning.
* BrainyBrunette: She is an astrophysicist with brown hair and three degrees.
* BridalCarry:
** In ''Film/ThorTheDarkWorld'', Thor picks up Jane in this fashion before jumping out of the Dark Elf ship with her.
** During the flashback montage of ''Film/ThorLoveAndThunder'', Jane is carried this way by Thor when they arrive home.
* TheBusCameBack: After being absent from the MCU since 2013's ''Thor: The Dark World'', Jane Foster made a small but significant return in ''Avengers: Endgame'', in a scene that was made up of archive footage from the former film with additional dialogue dubbed in. She eventually makes a full-fledged return in ''Thor: Love and Thunder''.
* ButForMeItWasTuesday: In ''Thor: Love and Thunder'', Jane can't even remember how many years it's been since she and Thor broke up. Thor's been counting every day. It doesn't help that she was a victim of the Snap and thus counts it as five fewer years than Thor does.
* TheCameo: in ''Film/AvengersEndgame'', Jane only makes a brief appearance in one scene and doesn't even have a single line of dialogue.
* CastFromLifespan: [[spoiler:Transforming into The Mighty Thor is gradually killing her. Technically, Mjölnir cleanses every poison from her body...the problem is, the cancer is '''not''' the poison, but the chemotherapy drugs she takes are.]]
* {{Catchphrase}}: She spends a good chunk of ''Love and Thunder'' trying to come up with her superhero catchphrase. To say that she arrives at "mixed results" is a very generous way of putting it.
* CelebrityParadox: ''The Winter Soldier'' and ''Civil War'' establish that the ''Franchise/StarWars'' franchise exists in the MCU. Natalie Portman was a part of it in the Prequel Trilogy.
* CheatedDeathDiedAnyway: She was one of the people dusted by Thanos and was resurrected by Bruce Banner, [[spoiler:only to succumb to cancer at the end of ''Film/ThorLoveAndThunder'']].
* ClarkesThirdLaw: She quotes it to strengthen her argument about her research, which is admittedly going into the less grounded territory.
* ClingyMacGuffin: She unwittingly becomes the host to the Aether, a shapeless mass of energy, and part of the movie is trying to remove it from her while it serves as the MacGuffin for Malekith, who wants to use it for his own reasons.
* CollapsibleHelmet: As the Mighty Thor, she has a helmet that can materialize and disappear at will, which comes in handy when she wants to hide her identity from or reveal it to somebody else.
* ComicBookMoviesDontUseCodenames: Defied, as Jane refers to herself explicitly as the Mighty Thor.
* CoolHelmet: In ''Thor: Love and Thunder'', she has a winged helmet when she transforms into the Mighty Thor that can [[CollapsibleHelmet materialize and de-materialize at will.]]
* CurtainsMatchTheWindow: Both her hair and her eyes are brown.
* DeadpanSnarker: Not very often, but by ''Thor: The Dark World'', she reacts like this at times.
-->'''Darcy:''' It's okay, we're Americans!\\
'''Jane:''' Is that supposed to make them like us?
* DearJohnLetter: It's revealed in ''Film/ThorLoveAndThunder'' that, after a long period of the two growing distant from one another, Jane wrote Thor a letter to end their relationship.
* DeathByAdaptation: Unlike her comic counterpart who beats cancer and goes on to become [[ComicBook/JaneFosterValkyrie Valkyrie]], [[spoiler:Jane instead loses her battle with cancer and ascends to Valhalla]].
* {{Determinator}}: It's clear from her very first scene that she's ready to do anything for her research, namely ''driving directly into a tornado''.
* DiedInYourArmsTonight: [[spoiler:She succumbs to cancer while Thor is holding her in his arms.]]
* DidYouJustFlipOffCthulhu: She slapped Thor twice, and Loki later. Granted, they probably felt nothing, but she still physically assaulted a pair of gods.
* DisappearsIntoLight: [[spoiler: Even though she's human, her body disappears into motes of light after she dies, much like [[Film/ThorTheDarkWorld Frigga]] and [[Film/ThorRagnarok Odin]]. This is because she gained the power of a god thanks to Mjölnir.]]
* DistractedByTheSexy: Jane displays this, sometimes getting distracted by Thor's physique.
* DivineDate: She's a mortal human who's in a relationship with the God of Thunder Thor.
* DontYouDarePityMe: When Jane reveals to Thor that she is dying of cancer and he says that he's sorry, she tells him not to feel sorry for her.
-->'''Thor:''' Jane, I'm so sorry…\\
'''Jane:''' [[DontYouDarePityMe Don't be sorry for me!]]
* DoubleStandardAbuseFemaleOnMale: She smacks Thor for not returning when he said he would in the last film, though given Jane is a rather small non-combatant and Thor is a very powerful god, it makes it far less serious a matter.
* DropTheHammer: She becomes the new wielder of [[ThunderHammer Mjölnir]] in ''Film/ThorLoveAndThunder'', and uses it as her main weapon throughout the film.
* DudeMagnet: She has dated Thor, Donald Blake and Richard Madison.
* DudeWheresMyRespect: Regarding Jane's motivation in ''Thor''. [[http://www.tribute.ca/news/index.php/black-swans-natalie-portman-flies-high-with-your-highness-and-thor/2011/03/17/ Natalie Portman explained]] that her theories about connecting dimensions have her being looked down by the scientific community. If the post-credits scene is anything to go by, she finally got it. ''Thor: Love and Thunder'' confirms that she's become world-renowned.
--> '''Natalie Portman:''' Everyone thinks she's on the fringe of science and that she's this kook, so this is her opportunity to prove herself.
* DyingDeclarationOfLove: [[spoiler:She and Thor declare their love for one another as she expires in his arms.]]
* EarnYourHappyEnding: [[spoiler:Endures a losing battle with cancer while fighting as a hero for others. But after she succumbs to her illness, she is welcomed to Valhalla by Heimdall.]]
* EmpoweredBadassNormal: Jane is a normal human before Mjölnir grants her all of Thor's powers.
* ExpertConsultant: Mentioned in passing to explain why she isn't present in ''Film/{{The Avengers|2012}}''; S.H.I.E.L.D. set her up as a consultant for a distant, remote observatory to keep her out of harm's way.
* FatalMacGuffin: When the Aether is inhabiting Jane's body, it is slowly killing her from the inside. However, Malekith is able to extract it out from her.
* FishOutOfWater: Averted in ''Thor: The Dark World'', as she's surprisingly quite comfortable with the other worlds of the Nine Realms.
* FlechetteStorm: In ''Thor: Love and Thunder'', Jane is shown swinging Mjolnir in an arc and sending out the shards to hit a group of enemies.
* FlyingBrick: Becomes this after becoming the Mighty Thor in ''Thor: Love and Thunder''.
* {{Foil}}: To Gorr. Both of them were once mortal beings that gained god-like powers from divine weapons [[spoiler:that are slowly killing them]]. The difference is that Jane wishes to use her powers to save the people she loved, while Gorr wants to use his powers to kill all the gods for abandoning him and his people.
* FoldThePageFoldTheSpace: In ''Thor: Love and Thunder'' Jane tears a page out of her own book and folds it to explain to a man how wormholes work. For bonus points she mentions ''Film/EventHorizon'' and ''Film/{{Interstellar}}'' while doing so.
* FullNameBasis: Even to the non-Asgardians. Selvig and Darcy are the only ones who use FirstNameBasis with her. [[spoiler:Valkyrie starts referring to her by FirstNameBasis in ''Love and Thunder'' as they begin working together after she gains the power of Thor]].
* GadgeteerGenius: In ''Thor'', she mentions that she built most of her equipment herself.
* GenerationXerox: [[spoiler:Just like her mother before her, Jane eventually succumbs to her cancer.]]
* GeniusBruiser: She is a brilliant astrophysicist and has Thor's powers in ''Thor: Love and Thunder''.
* GirlinessUpgrade: Downplayed and lampshaded early on in ''Thor: The Dark World'', complete with her first outfit of the picture incorporating ProperTightsWithASkirt. Later scenes show her wearing something like "Asgardian noblewoman casual wear".
* GirlsAreReallyScaredOfHorrorMovies: Implied in ''Film/ThorLoveAndThunder''. During Thor and Jane's relationship montage, Jane gets scared while watching a movie and clings to Thor, who grabs Mjölnir to protect her.
* GroundShatteringLanding: She often does this as Mighty Thor, notably during the climax when she jumps off the flying horse Warsong and causes some cracks upon landing on the ground.
* HairOfGoldHeartOfGold: As the Mighty Thor, the color of Jane's hair transforms from dark brown to dirty blonde, and she has proven herself to be as heroic as Thor.
* HandicappedBadass: In ''Thor: Love and Thunder'', she's [[spoiler:dying of cancer and still is after becoming worthy of Mjölnir and getting Thor's powers. In fact, it's later revealed that the hammer is accelerating her cancer and will eventually lead to her death, but she decides to use it anyway to help Thor take down Gorr, allowing her to ascend to Valhalla when she dies.]]
* HealthyInHeaven: A post-credits scene in ''Love And Thunder'' shows [[spoiler:her in Valhalla with no cancer symptoms.]]
* HeartbreakAndIceCream: According to Darcy, Jane was in this mode ever since Thor returned to Asgard after the events of ''Thor''.
* HeldGaze: When she and Thor first meet after she crashes into him with her van.
* HenshinHero: Becomes this in ''Thor: Love and Thunder'' after becoming worthy of Mjölnir.
* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:Jane takes up Mjolnir one last time, knowing that the strain of doing so will kill her, in order to help Thor defeat Gorr. She uses her last bit of strength to destroy the Necrosword, ending Gorr's power and allowing she and Thor to talk him out of using Eternity to destroy all gods.]]
* HoldingHands:
** During Jane's stay in Asgard, she and Thor have a romantic moment when he takes her hands to teach her about the Convergence, which leads to them kissing.
** When they arrive at the Shadow Realm and discover that the captured children are not there, Jane gets nervous and grasps Thor's fingers for reassurance.
** In a later scene, Thor visits Jane at her hospital bed and takes her hand as he tries to convince her not to come with him to fight Gorr due to her deteriorating health.
* HorsebackHeroism: [[spoiler:During the final battle of ''Film/ThorLoveAndThunder'', Jane arrives at the Gates of Eternity riding on the winged horse Warsong just in time to save Thor from being killed by Gorr the God-Butcher.]]
* HowIsThatEvenPossible: She asks this in ''Film/ThorTheDarkWorld'' when Thor explains that she has been briefly transported out of Earth due to the Convergence.
-->'''Thor:''' Heimdall had lost sight of you, you were no longer on Earth.\\
'''Jane:''' [[HowIsThatEvenPossible How's that possible?]]
* HugeGuyTinyGirl: With Thor, who is both much taller and broader than her. (Portman is 5'3", Hemsworth is a foot taller at 6'3")
* IMadeCopies: She is thorough enough to make copies of her research. Unfortunately, this doesn't help her when S.H.I.E.L.D. takes it.
-->'''Jane:''' They took our back-ups. They took the back-ups of our back-ups. They were ''extremely'' thorough.
* ImmediateSelfContradiction: After they hit Thor with their car, Selvig tells Jane they should take him to the hospital, but she assures him that he doesn't need it. She immediately changes her mind when the guy starts shouting at the sky like a madman.
-->'''Erik Selvig:''' Jane, we have to take him to the hospital.\\
'''Jane:''' He's fine, look at him.\\
'''Thor:''' ''[To the sky]'' Heimdall! I know you can hear me! Open the Bifrost!\\
'''Jane:''' Hospital. You go, I'll stay.
* ImNotHungry: Says this word-for-word while rejecting a meal brought by an Asgardian guard.
* InASingleBound: As the Mighty Thor, Jane can jump just as high and as far as Thor himself.
* InsistentTerminology:
** When they take Thor to the hospital in [[Film/{{Thor}} the first film]], Darcy mentions to the receptionist that Jane hit him with her car, but Jane insists she just ''grazed'' him.
** In the same film, anytime a character references S.H.I.E.L.D. 'taking' Jane's equipment, she insists they ''stole'' it.
--->'''Thor:''' You need to return the equipment that you took.\\
'''Jane:''' That you ''stole''.\\
'''Coulson:''' Borrowed.
** [[spoiler: When Gorr refers to her as "Lady Thor" she insists that she be referred to as either "''Mighty'' Thor" or "Dr. Jane Foster".]]
* InstantCostumeChange: Upon wielding Mjolnir, Jane can switch between normal attires and her Asgardian battle regalia in a flash of lightning.
* InstantExpert: Much like Captain America, she manages to use Mjölnir masterfully upon being worthy of it. It's much more surprising in her case as unlike Cap, she didn't beforehand have incredible hand-to-hand combat skills nor use a nigh-indestructible melee weapon that can return to its user like Cap's vibranium shield does.
* InterspeciesRomance: With Thor, an Asgardian.
* InTheHood: She keeps her hood on when she comes to New Asgard in ''Love and Thunder'', probably so that people won't notice how sick she looks due to her cancer.
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* JumpedAtTheCall: While she initially sought out Mjolnir thinking that its power would make her "healthy" again, she took to the Mighty Thor role with particular gusto, is thrilled at the chance to save the world that way, keeps trying to come up with heroic catchphrases, and doesn't hesitate to join the fight for one second. Even Valkyrie says to Odinson, with a sly smirk, that "[They]'ve been seeing a lot of that new 'guy'" when he asks who said new guy is.
* JustJokingJustification: After blurting out that she has cancer to Thor, Jane tries to pretend that she was joking in a less-than-convincing manner.
-->'''Jane:''' I have cancer.\\
'''Thor:''' I’m sorry, what?\\
'''Jane:''' I’m sick.\\
'''Thor:''' Wait. What’s happening? No, no, no. Jane, Jane, Jane. Wait, wait, wait. Jane.\\
'''Jane:''' What did I say? I didn’t mean that. Just kidding. I… don’t have cancer. Let’s go smash something!
* KilledOffscreen: She was killed by Thanos's BadassFingersnap but it's only stated by WordOfGod. She was brought back to life by the Hulk five years later.
* LastKiss: [[spoiler: After declaring their love for each other, Jane and Thor kiss one last time as she succumbs to cancer and disappears into molts of light.]]
* LegacyCharacter: Played with since Jane is referred to as the "Mighty Thor" to distinguish herself from Thor (although Thor himself has been called the "Mighty Thor" several times in the MCU long before Jane gets her powers). [[spoiler: She ultimately succumbs to her cancer in the end while Thor lives on.]]
* LifeWillKillYou: Despite her harrowing journey of encountering and fighting Asgard’s most dangerous enemies and monsters, as well as almost being the fatal host to the Aether, [[spoiler:Jane ultimately passes away from cancer.]]
* LightningBruiser: Obvious pun aside, Jane is just as strong, fast, and durable as Thor himself when she is in her Mighty Thor form.
* LightningLash: As the Mighty Thor, Jane can use lightning as a form of electrical whip.
* LivesInAVan: At the time of the [[Film/{{Thor}} first film]], Jane had to live in her camper van. She is quite embarrassed about it when Thor comes to see her, and claims that it's just a "temporary living situation".
* LivingMacGuffin: She becomes one for a while in ''Thor: The Dark World'' after inadvertently becoming the host of the Aether.
* TheLostLenore: [[spoiler:Becomes this to Thor at the end of ''Thor: Love and Thunder''.]]
* MayflyDecemberRomance: With Thor; it's brought up several times that human lifetimes are extremely fleeting compared to Asgardian ones. [[spoiler:And then she died.]]
* MemorialStatue: [[spoiler: After she sacrificed her life to help Thor stop Gorr the God-Butcher and rescue several Asgardian children, Valkyrie has an immense statue of Jane wielding Mjölnir erected in her honor on a cliff of New Asgard.]]
* MomentKiller: She inadvertently ends up doing this to Darcy, warping her in just as she's kissing Ian.
* MugglesDoItBetter: In ''The Dark World,'' the Dark Elves are able to bypass the defenses of the Asgardians, yet they're no match for the gravitic stabilizers that she jury-rigged into field disrupters.
* NeutralFemale: In ''Thor: The Dark World'', this is averted. The sensors she and Selvig build, combined with the Convergence, come in handy to fight the Elves and save people's lives.
* NeverASelfMadeWoman: Jane is the daughter of an astrophysicist, mentored by her late father's colleague Erik Selvig. She only has access to any knowledge of Asgard or Asgardian technology by way of her romantic relationship with Thor, and it's not-so-subtly implied that her primary interest in continuing her research is to reconnect with him. Of course, it's [[Creator/ChrisHemsworth Thor]], so that last part is understandable.
* NiceGirl: One of the clearest examples of the MCU. She's kind, easy-going, and quite willing to take part in solving conflicts.
* NoBodyLeftBehind: [[spoiler:''Twice.'' The first one was offscreen when Thanos snapped her out of existence but she was brought back to life by The Hulk and the second one was when her body dissolves into particles of light when she succumbs to cancer and her spirit ascends to Valhalla.]]
* OddFriendship: With Darcy, the perky ''political'' scientist.
* OffscreenBreakup: Much like Tony and Pepper, she and Thor broke up at some point between ''Dark World'' and ''Thor: Ragnarok'' due to Thor's duties as an Avenger and the Asgardian Prince coming between them. His obsession with finding out what was behind his visions in ''Age of Ultron'' was the tipping point.
** ''Thor: Love and Thunder'' finally shows how they broke up. Both of them were afraid of losing each other and had started building up walls to keep themselves from getting too close. Eventually, Thor runs off again on a mission while Jane breaks up with him with a handwritten note.
* OneWomanArmy: As the Mighty Thor, she has nothing to envy to her predecessor in this regard. She is introduced slaying multiple Shadow Monsters during Gorr's attack on New Asgard, and later she takes out dozens of Olympian soldiers with ease in Omnipotence City.
* OneSteveLimit:
** She shares her last name with several other MCU characters, such as fellow scientist [[Film/AntManAndTheWasp Bill Foster]].
** In addition, Korg keeps confusing her name with those of famous actresses who share her first or last name, such as Creator/JaneFonda or Creator/JodieFoster.
* TheOneThatGotAway: Korg calls her as such to Thor. They reconcile midway through the film [[spoiler:but she dies of cancer in the end, playing this trope straight again]].
* OneTrueLove: Korg mentions in ''Love & Thunder'' that while Thor has loved a number of women, and he flirts with Valkyrie occasionally in ''Ragnarok'', Jane is his one true love with Thor clearly still broken up by their break up and admits that he's always loved her. Their variants from Party Thor's reality also immediately fell for each other shortly after meeting, seemingly confirming that they are this trope.
* OnlySaneWoman: She easily buys into Thor's story, but does so in a scientific way. Her photographs show that Thor was inside the Einstein-Rosen bridge, and she points out that it has to lead somewhere.
* OnlyTheChosenMayWield: In ''Film/ThorLoveAndThunder'', Jane becomes one of the very few individuals in the MCU who are considered worthy of wielding [[LoyalPhlebotinum Mjölnir]], alongside Thor, Odin, Hela, Vision and Steve Rogers.
* ParentalSubstitute: Selvig became this to her after the death of her father.
* PercussiveMaintenance: When Darcy interrupts Jane's dinner in ''The Dark World'' to show her that their Phase Meter started acting up, Jane thinks it must be malfunctioning and starts smacking it against the side of the table. Darcy mentions that she already tried the same thing before bringing it to her. When the readings don't change, Jane realizes it's not actually malfunctioning.
* PercussiveTherapy: Just before the departure for Omnipotence City, Jane goes to the bathroom and transforms back into her mortal form in front of the mirror. She realizes that her body has become weaker than before, so she grabs Mjölnir and smashes the sink in frustration.
* PleaseDontLeaveMe: A flashback scene shows Jane as a child begging her mother not to leave her as she's dying of cancer in a hospital bed.
-->'''Jane:''' Mommy, don't leave me!
* PowerDyesYourHair: Jane's normally dark brown hair is lightened to a dirty blonde shade as a result of Mjolnir [[SuperEmpowering granting her Thor's lightning-based powers]], and it reverts to her natural dark brunette when not empowered.
* PowerMakesYourHairGrow: Getting powers from Mjölnir makes her neck length hair grow to an armpit length. It also goes from brown to blonde.
* PrimaryColorChampion: ''Thor: Love and Thunder'' shows Jane having blonde hair, wearing a red cape, and controlling bright blue lightning with the aid of Mjölnir as the Mighty Thor.
* PunctuatedForEmphasis:
** Her reaction when she sees Thor get Mjolnir back and change into his godly self in the [[Film/{{Thor}} first film]].
--->'''Jane:''' Oh. My. God.
** She also does this when Gorr calls her "Lady Thor" in the final battle of ''Film/ThorLoveAndThunder''.
--->'''Jane:''' First off, the name is "''Mighty'' Thor". And secondly, if you can’t say "Mighty Thor", I'll accept "'''Doctor. Jane. Foster!'''" And thirdly, '''Eat. My. Hammer!'''
* PutOnABus: S.H.I.E.L.D. put her on one to safety before the events of ''The Avengers''. Then TheBusCameBack and she appear in ''Thor: The Dark World'' where she's quite miffed that Thor didn't come to see her during his last visit to Earth, and she had to learn about it from the news, before being out again for ''Age of Ultron''; apparently she has been kept quite busy with work ever since her work on the convergence took off. She reappeared again via time travel to the ''Dark World'' era in ''Endgame'' before making her full-fledged return in ''Thor: Love and Thunder''.
* RealAwardFictionalCharacter: Thor mentions in ''Age of Ultron'' that the people are talking of her winning a Nobel Prize for her work on the convergence.
* RedEyesTakeWarning: When the Aether enters her, her eyes glow red.
* RedIsHeroic: ''Thor: Love and Thunder'' has Jane wearing a red cape that greatly resembles Thor's while empowered by Mjölnir.
* RelationshipUpgrade: To OfficialCouple with Thor as of the end of ''Thor: The Dark World''. Unfortunately, it underwent a mutual break-up before Ragnarok but they [[spoiler:reconnect and get back together in ''Thor: Love and Thunder''... just in time for her noble sacrifice.]]
* SameCharacterButDifferent: She is a nurse or similar role in most portrayals, is in the MCU she is an astrophysicist.
* SamusIsAGirl: The first time Thor sees Jane as Mighty Thor from afar while she's fighting Shadow Monsters and shooting lightning bolts, he assumes that she's a man and asks Valkyrie who "the new guy" is. He is quite surprised when he realizes that she's not only a woman, but his ex-girlfriend to boot.
* ScienceHero: In ''The Dark World,'' Jane's research and scientific knowledge help to propel the plot forward and ultimately resolve the conflict. The "hero" part is upgraded when she becomes the Mighty Thor in ''Thor: Love and Thunder''.
* ScienceWizard: As of ''Thor: Love and Thunder'', Jane is an astrophysicist who can access and harness Asgardian magic while wielding Mjölnir as the Mighty Thor.
* SecretlyDying: Tries to keep the fact that she has cancer from Thor, though she eventually lets it slip.
* ShockAndAwe: ''Thor: Love and Thunder'' has Jane wielding Mjölnir and utilizing its lightning powers.
* SilentWhisper: At the end of ''Film/ThorLoveAndThunder'', Jane whispers a catchphrase she came up with into Thor's ear [[spoiler: shortly before she dies]], but the audience doesn't get to hear what it is.
* SingleWomanSeeksGoodMan: Thor's noble behavior and [[IKissYourHand hand kissing]] won her over.
* SlapSlapKiss: When Thor makes his first appearance after leaving her two years ago, she slaps him, then apologizes, explaining she's just checking that he's real given the RealityIsOutToLunch events she's just witnessed. She then slaps him for not coming back to her, despite [[Film/TheAvengers2012 turning up in New York]]. When Thor comes up with a reasonable excuse, they lean in for the inevitable kiss... then Darcy provides a MomentKiller.
* SummonToHand: ''Thor: Love and Thunder'' reveals that Jane can summon Mjölnir back to her hands just like Thor.
* SuperheroesWearCapes: She gets a red cape that looks very similar to Thor's as part of her armor after becoming worthy of Mjölnir.
* SuperCellReception:
** In ''Film/{{Thor}}'', Jane has no problem making a phone call despite being in the New Mexican desert and Thor's hammer scrambling electronics.
** It's a plot point in ''Film/ThorTheDarkWorld'', Jane receives a phone call in the cave on Svartalfheim while she and Thor are stranded there. This helps her find a portal back to Earth.
* SuperSpeed: When empowered by Mjölnir, she can fly around the Earth twice in a row in an instant.
* TheyCallMeMisterTibbs: When Gorr refers to her mockingly as Lady Thor, she tells him to call her either "Mighty Thor" or "Dr. Jane Foster".
* TimeShiftedActor: She's portrayed by Creator/NataliePortman as an adult, while Ava Caryofyllis portrays her as a child during flashback scenes of ''Film/ThorLoveAndThunder''.
* TokenHuman: She's the only human to be part of Thor's team in ''Film/ThorLoveAndThunder'', with the others being two Asgardians (Thor and Valkyrie) and a Kronan (Korg).
* TookALevelInBadass: ''Thor: Love and Thunder'' shows that she has taken a HUGE level in badass when she becomes the female counterpart of Thor himself.
* TheTopicOfCancer: [[spoiler:She was diagnosed with Stage 4 cancer roughly six months before ''Thor: Love and Thunder'' takes place. Chemotherapy doesn't appear to be working and while Mjølnir temporarily boosts her strength it also prevents her body from fighting the disease, so her condition rapidly deteriorates.]]
* TouchedByVorlons: Jane touching the Aether. It turns her into an ApocalypseMaiden and LivingMacguffin.
* UncoveringRelationshipStatus: In ''Film/ThorLoveAndThunder'', Jane asks her ex-boyfriend Thor if he is a relationship with someone else shortly after their arrival in Omnipotence City.
-->'''Jane:''' So, you got a girlfriend?\\
'''Thor:''' Oh... No, no. Too busy, don’t have time, you know. Just the work and everything.\\
'''Jane:''' Cool.
* UptightLovesWild: She has shades of this, as a serious science student who falls for the FishOutOfWater demigod Thor who (initially) likes to smash things.
* UseYourHead: After Gorr calls her "Lady Thor" during the final fight, Jane responds by giving him a strong headbutt. She was wearing her helmet at the time, so it must have been quite painful.
* ViolentlyProtectiveGirlfriend: [[spoiler:During the climax of ''Film/ThorLoveAndThunder'', Jane can feel Thor being beaten by Gorr the God-Butcher from her hospital bed and decides to transform into Mighty Thor one more time to go and save him, despite knowing that she might not survive. Upon arriving, Jane sees that Gorr has pinned Thor to the ground and is about to kill him with the Necrosword, so she throws Mjölnir at Gorr's face before beating him to a pulp.]]
* VolcanicVeins: The Aether causes her veins to glow red when she is examined by Odin.
* WasntThatFun: After Jane Foster goes through the Bifröst for the first time, she quips, "We have to do that again!"
* WeaponTwirling: Like Thor and Captain America, she often spins Mjölnir around her hand.
* WhenThingsSpinScienceHappens: In her lab, there are a lot of gizmos that must do some technical scientific purpose that only Jane understands, but to laymen, they just spin.
* WhoAreYou:
** In [[Film/{{Thor}} the first film]], she finally asks Thor this question while they're driving towards the crater site where Mjolnir was found.
--->'''Jane:''' But who are you? Really?\\
'''Thor:''' You'll see soon enough.
** She asks something similar when she meets Odin in ''Film/ThorTheDarkWorld'' and he compares her presence in Asgard to that of a goat at a banquet table.
--->'''Jane:''' Did he just...? Who do you think you are?\\
'''Odin:''' I am Odin. King of Asgard. Protector of the Nine Realms.\\
'''Jane:''' Oh...
* WithGreatPowerComesGreatHotness: Becoming worthy of Mjölnir makes her to go from a pale, sickly cancer patient to a taller AmazonianBeauty. [[spoiler:Unfortunately, this transformation makes her cancer much worse and eventually kills her.]]
* WorkingWithTheEx: ''Thor: Love and Thunder'' shows Jane working alongside her ex-boyfriend Thor in taking down Gorr the God Butcher.
* WrittenInAbsence:
** Creator/NataliePortman was pregnant when ''The Avengers'' was filming, so Jane only appears in a still photo, with Phil Coulson explaining that S.H.I.E.L.D. moved her to a remote observatory under the guise of a lucrative consultation gig to protect her after Selvig's capture.
** Defied for ''Thor: The Dark World'', as the crew delayed filming until she was out of bed rest.
** At the beginning of ''Age of Ultron'', Maria Hill expresses her surprise at Jane's absence from the Stark Tower party. Thor explains that she is very busy with her work as an astrophysicist, and that he doesn't even know what country she's in at the moment.
** Early on in ''Thor: Ragnarok'', Thor offhandedly mentions that he and Jane broke up sometime after ''Age of Ultron'', and she's never brought up for the rest of the film.
* YourDaysAreNumbered: Early on in ''Love and Thunder'', she's dealing with stage IV cancer and is told by Selvig that her treatment isn't working. The inevitability of her death drives her to find more supernatural means of trying to cure her cancer.
* YouSeeImDying: During their travel to the Shadow Realm, Jane finally tells Thor that she is dying of cancer when he tells her that he still has feelings for her.
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!!''Dr. Jane Foster''
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!!!'''Species:''' Human
!!!'''Citizenship:''' American
!!!'''Voiced By:''' Creator/NataliePortman
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''[[WesternAnimation/WhatIf2021 What If...?]]''
On Earth-72124, Jane found Thor when he came to Midgard to throw a party.
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* BatDeduction: Jane deduces that if Thor and Loki are real, then other members ot the Norse pantheon must be as well, including Heimdall and Frigga. The latter is not Thor's mother in mythology, but Jane makes the correct deduction here that she is.
* DistractedByTheSexy: In her first appearance she is worried that Thor is part of an alien invasion and is responsible for the destruction of a planet. She is immediately drawn to him after seeing him, and after he flirts with her, she quickly joins him in partying together.
* EasilyForgiven: By Thor, whom she tattled to Frigga on about his partying. He tells her she did the right thing and asks her out on a date.
* HangoverSensitivity: After joining Thor's first party in Vegas, she wakes up from a hangover by getting incredibly irritated by the sound of two phones ringing.
* INeedAFreakingDrink: After traveling to Asgard and then to wherever where Frigga is, she explains to her what's going on with Thor on Midgard while downing a cup of Chardonnay ''after each sentence.''
* LoveAtFirstSight: Jane is outright smitten by Party Thor the second she sees him, and ends up getting roped into the party because she likes being with him. It's telling that she goes from desperately trying to contact S.H.I.E.L.D. to warn them of his arrival, to desperately trying to ''stop'' S.H.I.E.L.D. from harming Thor, just because she likes him that much. She also, via a Fruedian slip, accidentally tells Thor she loves him on a phone call the day after they met, and is immediately mortified by this.
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!!''Dr. Jane Foster / [[ComicBook/Thor2014 Mighty Thor]]''
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!!!'''Species:''' Enhanced human
!!!'''Citizenship:''' American
!!!'''Affiliation(s):''' Culver University (formerly), S.H.I.E.L.D. (formerly), University of London (formerly), Asgard
!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/NataliePortman, Creator/ElsaPataky [[note]]body double for Portman in the post-credits scene of ''Film/ThorTheDarkWorld''[[/note]], Ava Caryofyllis (young)
!!!'''Voiced By:''' Creator/CristinaHernandez (Latin-American Spanish), Creator/MaayaSakamoto (Japanese), Flávia Saddy (Brazilian Portuguese)
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Film/{{Thor}}'' | ''Film/ThorTheDarkWorld'' | ''Film/AvengersEndgame'' | ''Film/ThorLoveAndThunder''
->''"First off: The name is MIGHTY Thor! And secondly: If you can't say Mighty Thor, I'll accept [[TheyCallMeMisterTibbs Dr. Jane FOSTER]]! And thirdly: [[PunctuatedForEmphasis EAT. MY. HAMMER!]]"''
An astrophysicist who finds out that a wormhole she's been observing is the Bifröst Bridge from Myth/NorseMythology, created by a race of SufficientlyAdvancedAlien gods, the Asgardians. After helping their exiled prince, Thor Odinson, find his way back to Asgard, she and Thor have had an ongoing RelationshipRevolvingDoor.
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* ActionGirl: Jane becomes this when she transforms into the Mighty Thor in ''Thor: Love and Thunder''.
* ActionSurvivor: How she deals with gods and robots and TheMenInBlack. She eventually evolves into an ActionGirl in ''Thor: Love and Thunder''.
* ActorAllusion: Her being levitated by Malekith on Svartalfheim looks [[Film/RevengeOfTheSith very familiar]].
* AdaptationalAttractiveness: In the comics, Jane [[spoiler:while dying of cancer]] was {{bald|ness means sickness}} and very emaciated. In ''Love and Thunder'', [[spoiler:Jane still has a full head of hair and looks a bit frailer than she did before the diagnosis, but isn't bone-thin.]]
* AdaptationalAngstDowngrade: While she still gets cancer like her comic book counterpart, she at least doesn't have to deal with divorcing her husband, losing custody of their son, and then losing them both to a car accident like her comic counterpart did because both of them got AdaptedOut.
* AdaptationalDyeJob: She has blue eyes in the comics, but has her actress' brown eyes in the MCU.
* AdaptationalIntelligence: Not that Jane is in any way unintelligent in the comics, but there she was a nurse, while in the MCU, not only is she an astrophysicist, which is already an extremely hard field on its own, but she also has ''three'' degrees.
* AdaptationalJobChange: In the comics, she was a nurse, and later a physician. Here, she is an astrophysicist.
* TheAdjectivalSuperhero: To differentiate her superhero persona from her namesake, [[https://twitter.com/TaikaWaititi/status/1153033515375587328 she's referred to as "The Mighty Thor"]] in contrast to Thor Odinson (although Thor has been called the "Mighty Thor" several times in the MCU long before Jane gets her powers).
* AdrenalineMakeover: Jane greatly invokes this trope when she becomes the Mighty Thor in ''Thor: Love and Thunder''.
* AffectionateGestureToTheHead: After Thor is mortally struck by the Destroyer in the [[Film/{{Thor}} first film]], Jane runs to him and caresses his cheek as he dies from his injuries.
* AfterlifeWelcome: [[spoiler:Jane is welcomed to Vahalla by Heimdall after her death by cancer at the end of ''Love and Thunder''.]]
* AlmostKiss: When Jane and Thor reunite in ''Film/ThorTheDarkWorld'', the two are happy to see each other after years apart and lean in to kiss, but they are interrupted by [[MomentKiller Darcy]]. However, they get their kiss in later on Asgard.
* AlternateSelf:
** In ''Avengers: Endgame'', Thor and Rocket time travel to 2013 to extract the Aether from her past self.
** She has one on Earth-72124 who joins in on Thor's massive party in Las Vegas, Nevada.
* AmazonianBeauty: As the Mighty Thor, Jane's arms gain considerable muscles and it is clear Thor still holds attraction for her.
* AmicableExes: Thor implies this to be the case in ''Thor: Ragnarok'', with both him and Jane deciding not to be in a relationship without any hard feelings. However, in ''Endgame'', he laments that he isn't together with her, suggesting that it might not have been as smooth a breakup as he implied, though considering that she was a victim of the Snap and Thor was drunk, he may have been focusing on their failed relationship instead of the fact that she was dead at the time. ''Thor: Love and Thunder'' confirms that despite their breakup, they are still on friendly terms.
* AndThisIsFor: When she meets Loki for the first time in ''Thor: The Dark World'', she slaps him across the face, saying that that was [[Film/TheAvengers2012 for New York]].
* AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence: At the end of ''Thor: Love and Thunder'', [[spoiler:she dies of her cancer and, like Odin did in ''Thor: Ragnarok'', turns into golden sparkles. She then finds herself at the gates of Valhalla, greeted warmly by Heimdall.]]
* BackForTheDead: [[spoiler:Jane makes her official return in ''Film/ThorLoveAndThunder'', only for it to be revealed that she's dying from Stage IV cancer, and that her using Mjolnir to become Mighty Thor is only making it spread faster. By the end of the movie, she succumbs to said cancer after using Thor's power one final time to help defeat Gorr the God Butcher.]]
* BackFromTheDead: She is confirmed to be a victim of Thanos's Snap before she is resurrected by Bruce Banner. [[spoiler:However, she dies a year later from cancer.]]
* BadassBookworm: She relies on her intellect and her inventions when taking part in the action. The "badass" part is given more emphasis when she becomes the Mighty Thor in ''Thor: Love and Thunder''.
* BadassCape: Just like Thor, Jane wears an awesome red cape as the Mighty Thor in ''Thor: Love and Thunder''.
* BadassNormal: In a world of gods, aliens, and superheroes, Jane is just a normal person with no enchantments or physical enhancements. Yet she uses her intelligence to solve problems and remains an active part of the conflicts. Subverted when ''Thor: Love and Thunder'' reveals that [[EmpoweredBadassNormal she has gained the same powers as Thor through being worthy of Mjölnir.]]
* BadMoodRetreat: In [[Film/{{Thor}} the first film]], Jane takes Thor to the roof of her lab and explains that this is where she goes whenever she's having trouble sleeping, or wants to work in peace, or is fed up with Darcy. She then realizes that she goes there quite often, actually.
* BarrierWarrior: When she is possessed by the Aether, anybody attempting to aggressively manhandle her gets very violently deflected away, as shown first when a constable tries to grab her for trespassing to look at the portal activity, and then when two guards try to grab her to return her to Earth.
* BashSiblings: ''Thor: Love and Thunder'' shows that she becomes this with Valkyrie and Korg.
* BattleCouple: She and Thor work together in ending the Dark Elves' campaign. ''Thor: Love and Thunder'' shows them fighting together almost a decade after their breakup.
* BeautifulDreamer: During the flashback montage in ''Film/ThorLoveAndThunder'', Thor watches Jane sleep with a smile on his face.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: She's usually easy-going, but she will throw a punch at people who get her mad. And that is before she becomes the Mighty Thor.
* BigDamnHeroes: [[spoiler:Just as Gorr is about to kill Thor, Jane abandons her chemotherapy and transforms into the Mighty Thor one last time to turn the tide of the final battle before she succumbs to her cancer.]]
* BigNo:
** In the [[Film/{{Thor}} first film]], Jane exclaims "No!" when Thor gets struck to death by the Destroyer.
** She also says a softer one in the [[Film/ThorTheDarkWorld second film]] when Loki seemingly betrays Thor and stabs him with a dagger.
* BigWhat: She has a particularly comedic one when she accidentally hits Thor with the van. ''Again''.
* BirdsOfAFeather: When fighting breaks out at the crater site, Jane calls Selvig to confess she did exactly what he told her not to do, paralleling Thor's confrontation with Odin in the first act of ''Thor''.
* BitchSlap:
** She does this twice to Thor during their reunion in ''Thor: The Dark World'', one to make sure that he is standing right in front of her, and two for being gone for so long.
** Averted when she later does the same to Loki for his attack on New York.
--->'''Jane:''' ''[slap]'' That was for New York!\\
'''Loki:''' I like her!
* BlackEyesOfEvil: She has these several times as a result of the Aether possessing her. When on Svartalfheim she gains these as well as startlingly blue pupils, not unlike the Dark Elves'.
* BloodKnight: Throughout ''Thor: Love and Thunder'', Jane repeatedly expresses a desire to continue fighting, becoming almost as much of a warrior as Thor was when they first met. [[spoiler:This is at least in part due to her time as the Mighty Thor allowing her to escape from her rapidly deteriorating physical condition due to cancer. Even being told that using the hammer might be killing her faster doesn't deter her.]]
* BlueIsHeroic: As the Mighty Thor, Jane can summon bright blue lightning.
* BrainyBrunette: She is an astrophysicist with brown hair and three degrees.
* BridalCarry:
** In ''Film/ThorTheDarkWorld'', Thor picks up Jane in this fashion before jumping out of the Dark Elf ship with her.
** During the flashback montage of ''Film/ThorLoveAndThunder'', Jane is carried this way by Thor when they arrive home.
* TheBusCameBack: After being absent from the MCU since 2013's ''Thor: The Dark World'', Jane Foster made a small but significant return in ''Avengers: Endgame'', in a scene that was made up of archive footage from the former film with additional dialogue dubbed in. She eventually makes a full-fledged return in ''Thor: Love and Thunder''.
* ButForMeItWasTuesday: In ''Thor: Love and Thunder'', Jane can't even remember how many years it's been since she and Thor broke up. Thor's been counting every day. It doesn't help that she was a victim of the Snap and thus counts it as five fewer years than Thor does.
* TheCameo: in ''Film/AvengersEndgame'', Jane only makes a brief appearance in one scene and doesn't even have a single line of dialogue.
* CastFromLifespan: [[spoiler:Transforming into The Mighty Thor is gradually killing her. Technically, Mjölnir cleanses every poison from her body...the problem is, the cancer is '''not''' the poison, but the chemotherapy drugs she takes are.]]
* {{Catchphrase}}: She spends a good chunk of ''Love and Thunder'' trying to come up with her superhero catchphrase. To say that she arrives at "mixed results" is a very generous way of putting it.
* CelebrityParadox: ''The Winter Soldier'' and ''Civil War'' establish that the ''Franchise/StarWars'' franchise exists in the MCU. Natalie Portman was a part of it in the Prequel Trilogy.
* CheatedDeathDiedAnyway: She was one of the people dusted by Thanos and was resurrected by Bruce Banner, [[spoiler:only to succumb to cancer at the end of ''Film/ThorLoveAndThunder'']].
* ClarkesThirdLaw: She quotes it to strengthen her argument about her research, which is admittedly going into the less grounded territory.
* ClingyMacGuffin: She unwittingly becomes the host to the Aether, a shapeless mass of energy, and part of the movie is trying to remove it from her while it serves as the MacGuffin for Malekith, who wants to use it for his own reasons.
* CollapsibleHelmet: As the Mighty Thor, she has a helmet that can materialize and disappear at will, which comes in handy when she wants to hide her identity from or reveal it to somebody else.
* ComicBookMoviesDontUseCodenames: Defied, as Jane refers to herself explicitly as the Mighty Thor.
* CoolHelmet: In ''Thor: Love and Thunder'', she has a winged helmet when she transforms into the Mighty Thor that can [[CollapsibleHelmet materialize and de-materialize at will.]]
* CurtainsMatchTheWindow: Both her hair and her eyes are brown.
* DeadpanSnarker: Not very often, but by ''Thor: The Dark World'', she reacts like this at times.
-->'''Darcy:''' It's okay, we're Americans!\\
'''Jane:''' Is that supposed to make them like us?
* DearJohnLetter: It's revealed in ''Film/ThorLoveAndThunder'' that, after a long period of the two growing distant from one another, Jane wrote Thor a letter to end their relationship.
* DeathByAdaptation: Unlike her comic counterpart who beats cancer and goes on to become [[ComicBook/JaneFosterValkyrie Valkyrie]], [[spoiler:Jane instead loses her battle with cancer and ascends to Valhalla]].
* {{Determinator}}: It's clear from her very first scene that she's ready to do anything for her research, namely ''driving directly into a tornado''.
* DiedInYourArmsTonight: [[spoiler:She succumbs to cancer while Thor is holding her in his arms.]]
* DidYouJustFlipOffCthulhu: She slapped Thor twice, and Loki later. Granted, they probably felt nothing, but she still physically assaulted a pair of gods.
* DisappearsIntoLight: [[spoiler: Even though she's human, her body disappears into motes of light after she dies, much like [[Film/ThorTheDarkWorld Frigga]] and [[Film/ThorRagnarok Odin]]. This is because she gained the power of a god thanks to Mjölnir.]]
* DistractedByTheSexy: Jane displays this, sometimes getting distracted by Thor's physique.
* DivineDate: She's a mortal human who's in a relationship with the God of Thunder Thor.
* DontYouDarePityMe: When Jane reveals to Thor that she is dying of cancer and he says that he's sorry, she tells him not to feel sorry for her.
-->'''Thor:''' Jane, I'm so sorry…\\
'''Jane:''' [[DontYouDarePityMe Don't be sorry for me!]]
* DoubleStandardAbuseFemaleOnMale: She smacks Thor for not returning when he said he would in the last film, though given Jane is a rather small non-combatant and Thor is a very powerful god, it makes it far less serious a matter.
* DropTheHammer: She becomes the new wielder of [[ThunderHammer Mjölnir]] in ''Film/ThorLoveAndThunder'', and uses it as her main weapon throughout the film.
* DudeMagnet: She has dated Thor, Donald Blake and Richard Madison.
* DudeWheresMyRespect: Regarding Jane's motivation in ''Thor''. [[http://www.tribute.ca/news/index.php/black-swans-natalie-portman-flies-high-with-your-highness-and-thor/2011/03/17/ Natalie Portman explained]] that her theories about connecting dimensions have her being looked down by the scientific community. If the post-credits scene is anything to go by, she finally got it. ''Thor: Love and Thunder'' confirms that she's become world-renowned.
--> '''Natalie Portman:''' Everyone thinks she's on the fringe of science and that she's this kook, so this is her opportunity to prove herself.
* DyingDeclarationOfLove: [[spoiler:She and Thor declare their love for one another as she expires in his arms.]]
* EarnYourHappyEnding: [[spoiler:Endures a losing battle with cancer while fighting as a hero for others. But after she succumbs to her illness, she is welcomed to Valhalla by Heimdall.]]
* EmpoweredBadassNormal: Jane is a normal human before Mjölnir grants her all of Thor's powers.
* ExpertConsultant: Mentioned in passing to explain why she isn't present in ''Film/{{The Avengers|2012}}''; S.H.I.E.L.D. set her up as a consultant for a distant, remote observatory to keep her out of harm's way.
* FatalMacGuffin: When the Aether is inhabiting Jane's body, it is slowly killing her from the inside. However, Malekith is able to extract it out from her.
* FishOutOfWater: Averted in ''Thor: The Dark World'', as she's surprisingly quite comfortable with the other worlds of the Nine Realms.
* FlechetteStorm: In ''Thor: Love and Thunder'', Jane is shown swinging Mjolnir in an arc and sending out the shards to hit a group of enemies.
* FlyingBrick: Becomes this after becoming the Mighty Thor in ''Thor: Love and Thunder''.
* {{Foil}}: To Gorr. Both of them were once mortal beings that gained god-like powers from divine weapons [[spoiler:that are slowly killing them]]. The difference is that Jane wishes to use her powers to save the people she loved, while Gorr wants to use his powers to kill all the gods for abandoning him and his people.
* FoldThePageFoldTheSpace: In ''Thor: Love and Thunder'' Jane tears a page out of her own book and folds it to explain to a man how wormholes work. For bonus points she mentions ''Film/EventHorizon'' and ''Film/{{Interstellar}}'' while doing so.
* FullNameBasis: Even to the non-Asgardians. Selvig and Darcy are the only ones who use FirstNameBasis with her. [[spoiler:Valkyrie starts referring to her by FirstNameBasis in ''Love and Thunder'' as they begin working together after she gains the power of Thor]].
* GadgeteerGenius: In ''Thor'', she mentions that she built most of her equipment herself.
* GenerationXerox: [[spoiler:Just like her mother before her, Jane eventually succumbs to her cancer.]]
* GeniusBruiser: She is a brilliant astrophysicist and has Thor's powers in ''Thor: Love and Thunder''.
* GirlinessUpgrade: Downplayed and lampshaded early on in ''Thor: The Dark World'', complete with her first outfit of the picture incorporating ProperTightsWithASkirt. Later scenes show her wearing something like "Asgardian noblewoman casual wear".
* GirlsAreReallyScaredOfHorrorMovies: Implied in ''Film/ThorLoveAndThunder''. During Thor and Jane's relationship montage, Jane gets scared while watching a movie and clings to Thor, who grabs Mjölnir to protect her.
* GroundShatteringLanding: She often does this as Mighty Thor, notably during the climax when she jumps off the flying horse Warsong and causes some cracks upon landing on the ground.
* HairOfGoldHeartOfGold: As the Mighty Thor, the color of Jane's hair transforms from dark brown to dirty blonde, and she has proven herself to be as heroic as Thor.
* HandicappedBadass: In ''Thor: Love and Thunder'', she's [[spoiler:dying of cancer and still is after becoming worthy of Mjölnir and getting Thor's powers. In fact, it's later revealed that the hammer is accelerating her cancer and will eventually lead to her death, but she decides to use it anyway to help Thor take down Gorr, allowing her to ascend to Valhalla when she dies.]]
* HealthyInHeaven: A post-credits scene in ''Love And Thunder'' shows [[spoiler:her in Valhalla with no cancer symptoms.]]
* HeartbreakAndIceCream: According to Darcy, Jane was in this mode ever since Thor returned to Asgard after the events of ''Thor''.
* HeldGaze: When she and Thor first meet after she crashes into him with her van.
* HenshinHero: Becomes this in ''Thor: Love and Thunder'' after becoming worthy of Mjölnir.
* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:Jane takes up Mjolnir one last time, knowing that the strain of doing so will kill her, in order to help Thor defeat Gorr. She uses her last bit of strength to destroy the Necrosword, ending Gorr's power and allowing she and Thor to talk him out of using Eternity to destroy all gods.]]
* HoldingHands:
** During Jane's stay in Asgard, she and Thor have a romantic moment when he takes her hands to teach her about the Convergence, which leads to them kissing.
** When they arrive at the Shadow Realm and discover that the captured children are not there, Jane gets nervous and grasps Thor's fingers for reassurance.
** In a later scene, Thor visits Jane at her hospital bed and takes her hand as he tries to convince her not to come with him to fight Gorr due to her deteriorating health.
* HorsebackHeroism: [[spoiler:During the final battle of ''Film/ThorLoveAndThunder'', Jane arrives at the Gates of Eternity riding on the winged horse Warsong just in time to save Thor from being killed by Gorr the God-Butcher.]]
* HowIsThatEvenPossible: She asks this in ''Film/ThorTheDarkWorld'' when Thor explains that she has been briefly transported out of Earth due to the Convergence.
-->'''Thor:''' Heimdall had lost sight of you, you were no longer on Earth.\\
'''Jane:''' [[HowIsThatEvenPossible How's that possible?]]
* HugeGuyTinyGirl: With Thor, who is both much taller and broader than her. (Portman is 5'3", Hemsworth is a foot taller at 6'3")
* IMadeCopies: She is thorough enough to make copies of her research. Unfortunately, this doesn't help her when S.H.I.E.L.D. takes it.
-->'''Jane:''' They took our back-ups. They took the back-ups of our back-ups. They were ''extremely'' thorough.
* ImmediateSelfContradiction: After they hit Thor with their car, Selvig tells Jane they should take him to the hospital, but she assures him that he doesn't need it. She immediately changes her mind when the guy starts shouting at the sky like a madman.
-->'''Erik Selvig:''' Jane, we have to take him to the hospital.\\
'''Jane:''' He's fine, look at him.\\
'''Thor:''' ''[To the sky]'' Heimdall! I know you can hear me! Open the Bifrost!\\
'''Jane:''' Hospital. You go, I'll stay.
* ImNotHungry: Says this word-for-word while rejecting a meal brought by an Asgardian guard.
* InASingleBound: As the Mighty Thor, Jane can jump just as high and as far as Thor himself.
* InsistentTerminology:
** When they take Thor to the hospital in [[Film/{{Thor}} the first film]], Darcy mentions to the receptionist that Jane hit him with her car, but Jane insists she just ''grazed'' him.
** In the same film, anytime a character references S.H.I.E.L.D. 'taking' Jane's equipment, she insists they ''stole'' it.
--->'''Thor:''' You need to return the equipment that you took.\\
'''Jane:''' That you ''stole''.\\
'''Coulson:''' Borrowed.
** [[spoiler: When Gorr refers to her as "Lady Thor" she insists that she be referred to as either "''Mighty'' Thor" or "Dr. Jane Foster".]]
* InstantCostumeChange: Upon wielding Mjolnir, Jane can switch between normal attires and her Asgardian battle regalia in a flash of lightning.
* InstantExpert: Much like Captain America, she manages to use Mjölnir masterfully upon being worthy of it. It's much more surprising in her case as unlike Cap, she didn't beforehand have incredible hand-to-hand combat skills nor use a nigh-indestructible melee weapon that can return to its user like Cap's vibranium shield does.
* InterspeciesRomance: With Thor, an Asgardian.
* InTheHood: She keeps her hood on when she comes to New Asgard in ''Love and Thunder'', probably so that people won't notice how sick she looks due to her cancer.
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* JumpedAtTheCall: While she initially sought out Mjolnir thinking that its power would make her "healthy" again, she took to the Mighty Thor role with particular gusto, is thrilled at the chance to save the world that way, keeps trying to come up with heroic catchphrases, and doesn't hesitate to join the fight for one second. Even Valkyrie says to Odinson, with a sly smirk, that "[They]'ve been seeing a lot of that new 'guy'" when he asks who said new guy is.
* JustJokingJustification: After blurting out that she has cancer to Thor, Jane tries to pretend that she was joking in a less-than-convincing manner.
-->'''Jane:''' I have cancer.\\
'''Thor:''' I’m sorry, what?\\
'''Jane:''' I’m sick.\\
'''Thor:''' Wait. What’s happening? No, no, no. Jane, Jane, Jane. Wait, wait, wait. Jane.\\
'''Jane:''' What did I say? I didn’t mean that. Just kidding. I… don’t have cancer. Let’s go smash something!
* KilledOffscreen: She was killed by Thanos's BadassFingersnap but it's only stated by WordOfGod. She was brought back to life by the Hulk five years later.
* LastKiss: [[spoiler: After declaring their love for each other, Jane and Thor kiss one last time as she succumbs to cancer and disappears into molts of light.]]
* LegacyCharacter: Played with since Jane is referred to as the "Mighty Thor" to distinguish herself from Thor (although Thor himself has been called the "Mighty Thor" several times in the MCU long before Jane gets her powers). [[spoiler: She ultimately succumbs to her cancer in the end while Thor lives on.]]
* LifeWillKillYou: Despite her harrowing journey of encountering and fighting Asgard’s most dangerous enemies and monsters, as well as almost being the fatal host to the Aether, [[spoiler:Jane ultimately passes away from cancer.]]
* LightningBruiser: Obvious pun aside, Jane is just as strong, fast, and durable as Thor himself when she is in her Mighty Thor form.
* LightningLash: As the Mighty Thor, Jane can use lightning as a form of electrical whip.
* LivesInAVan: At the time of the [[Film/{{Thor}} first film]], Jane had to live in her camper van. She is quite embarrassed about it when Thor comes to see her, and claims that it's just a "temporary living situation".
* LivingMacGuffin: She becomes one for a while in ''Thor: The Dark World'' after inadvertently becoming the host of the Aether.
* TheLostLenore: [[spoiler:Becomes this to Thor at the end of ''Thor: Love and Thunder''.]]
* MayflyDecemberRomance: With Thor; it's brought up several times that human lifetimes are extremely fleeting compared to Asgardian ones. [[spoiler:And then she died.]]
* MemorialStatue: [[spoiler: After she sacrificed her life to help Thor stop Gorr the God-Butcher and rescue several Asgardian children, Valkyrie has an immense statue of Jane wielding Mjölnir erected in her honor on a cliff of New Asgard.]]
* MomentKiller: She inadvertently ends up doing this to Darcy, warping her in just as she's kissing Ian.
* MugglesDoItBetter: In ''The Dark World,'' the Dark Elves are able to bypass the defenses of the Asgardians, yet they're no match for the gravitic stabilizers that she jury-rigged into field disrupters.
* NeutralFemale: In ''Thor: The Dark World'', this is averted. The sensors she and Selvig build, combined with the Convergence, come in handy to fight the Elves and save people's lives.
* NeverASelfMadeWoman: Jane is the daughter of an astrophysicist, mentored by her late father's colleague Erik Selvig. She only has access to any knowledge of Asgard or Asgardian technology by way of her romantic relationship with Thor, and it's not-so-subtly implied that her primary interest in continuing her research is to reconnect with him. Of course, it's [[Creator/ChrisHemsworth Thor]], so that last part is understandable.
* NiceGirl: One of the clearest examples of the MCU. She's kind, easy-going, and quite willing to take part in solving conflicts.
* NoBodyLeftBehind: [[spoiler:''Twice.'' The first one was offscreen when Thanos snapped her out of existence but she was brought back to life by The Hulk and the second one was when her body dissolves into particles of light when she succumbs to cancer and her spirit ascends to Valhalla.]]
* OddFriendship: With Darcy, the perky ''political'' scientist.
* OffscreenBreakup: Much like Tony and Pepper, she and Thor broke up at some point between ''Dark World'' and ''Thor: Ragnarok'' due to Thor's duties as an Avenger and the Asgardian Prince coming between them. His obsession with finding out what was behind his visions in ''Age of Ultron'' was the tipping point.
** ''Thor: Love and Thunder'' finally shows how they broke up. Both of them were afraid of losing each other and had started building up walls to keep themselves from getting too close. Eventually, Thor runs off again on a mission while Jane breaks up with him with a handwritten note.
* OneWomanArmy: As the Mighty Thor, she has nothing to envy to her predecessor in this regard. She is introduced slaying multiple Shadow Monsters during Gorr's attack on New Asgard, and later she takes out dozens of Olympian soldiers with ease in Omnipotence City.
* OneSteveLimit:
** She shares her last name with several other MCU characters, such as fellow scientist [[Film/AntManAndTheWasp Bill Foster]].
** In addition, Korg keeps confusing her name with those of famous actresses who share her first or last name, such as Creator/JaneFonda or Creator/JodieFoster.
* TheOneThatGotAway: Korg calls her as such to Thor. They reconcile midway through the film [[spoiler:but she dies of cancer in the end, playing this trope straight again]].
* OneTrueLove: Korg mentions in ''Love & Thunder'' that while Thor has loved a number of women, and he flirts with Valkyrie occasionally in ''Ragnarok'', Jane is his one true love with Thor clearly still broken up by their break up and admits that he's always loved her. Their variants from Party Thor's reality also immediately fell for each other shortly after meeting, seemingly confirming that they are this trope.
* OnlySaneWoman: She easily buys into Thor's story, but does so in a scientific way. Her photographs show that Thor was inside the Einstein-Rosen bridge, and she points out that it has to lead somewhere.
* OnlyTheChosenMayWield: In ''Film/ThorLoveAndThunder'', Jane becomes one of the very few individuals in the MCU who are considered worthy of wielding [[LoyalPhlebotinum Mjölnir]], alongside Thor, Odin, Hela, Vision and Steve Rogers.
* ParentalSubstitute: Selvig became this to her after the death of her father.
* PercussiveMaintenance: When Darcy interrupts Jane's dinner in ''The Dark World'' to show her that their Phase Meter started acting up, Jane thinks it must be malfunctioning and starts smacking it against the side of the table. Darcy mentions that she already tried the same thing before bringing it to her. When the readings don't change, Jane realizes it's not actually malfunctioning.
* PercussiveTherapy: Just before the departure for Omnipotence City, Jane goes to the bathroom and transforms back into her mortal form in front of the mirror. She realizes that her body has become weaker than before, so she grabs Mjölnir and smashes the sink in frustration.
* PleaseDontLeaveMe: A flashback scene shows Jane as a child begging her mother not to leave her as she's dying of cancer in a hospital bed.
-->'''Jane:''' Mommy, don't leave me!
* PowerDyesYourHair: Jane's normally dark brown hair is lightened to a dirty blonde shade as a result of Mjolnir [[SuperEmpowering granting her Thor's lightning-based powers]], and it reverts to her natural dark brunette when not empowered.
* PowerMakesYourHairGrow: Getting powers from Mjölnir makes her neck length hair grow to an armpit length. It also goes from brown to blonde.
* PrimaryColorChampion: ''Thor: Love and Thunder'' shows Jane having blonde hair, wearing a red cape, and controlling bright blue lightning with the aid of Mjölnir as the Mighty Thor.
* PunctuatedForEmphasis:
** Her reaction when she sees Thor get Mjolnir back and change into his godly self in the [[Film/{{Thor}} first film]].
--->'''Jane:''' Oh. My. God.
** She also does this when Gorr calls her "Lady Thor" in the final battle of ''Film/ThorLoveAndThunder''.
--->'''Jane:''' First off, the name is "''Mighty'' Thor". And secondly, if you can’t say "Mighty Thor", I'll accept "'''Doctor. Jane. Foster!'''" And thirdly, '''Eat. My. Hammer!'''
* PutOnABus: S.H.I.E.L.D. put her on one to safety before the events of ''The Avengers''. Then TheBusCameBack and she appear in ''Thor: The Dark World'' where she's quite miffed that Thor didn't come to see her during his last visit to Earth, and she had to learn about it from the news, before being out again for ''Age of Ultron''; apparently she has been kept quite busy with work ever since her work on the convergence took off. She reappeared again via time travel to the ''Dark World'' era in ''Endgame'' before making her full-fledged return in ''Thor: Love and Thunder''.
* RealAwardFictionalCharacter: Thor mentions in ''Age of Ultron'' that the people are talking of her winning a Nobel Prize for her work on the convergence.
* RedEyesTakeWarning: When the Aether enters her, her eyes glow red.
* RedIsHeroic: ''Thor: Love and Thunder'' has Jane wearing a red cape that greatly resembles Thor's while empowered by Mjölnir.
* RelationshipUpgrade: To OfficialCouple with Thor as of the end of ''Thor: The Dark World''. Unfortunately, it underwent a mutual break-up before Ragnarok but they [[spoiler:reconnect and get back together in ''Thor: Love and Thunder''... just in time for her noble sacrifice.]]
* SameCharacterButDifferent: She is a nurse or similar role in most portrayals, is in the MCU she is an astrophysicist.
* SamusIsAGirl: The first time Thor sees Jane as Mighty Thor from afar while she's fighting Shadow Monsters and shooting lightning bolts, he assumes that she's a man and asks Valkyrie who "the new guy" is. He is quite surprised when he realizes that she's not only a woman, but his ex-girlfriend to boot.
* ScienceHero: In ''The Dark World,'' Jane's research and scientific knowledge help to propel the plot forward and ultimately resolve the conflict. The "hero" part is upgraded when she becomes the Mighty Thor in ''Thor: Love and Thunder''.
* ScienceWizard: As of ''Thor: Love and Thunder'', Jane is an astrophysicist who can access and harness Asgardian magic while wielding Mjölnir as the Mighty Thor.
* SecretlyDying: Tries to keep the fact that she has cancer from Thor, though she eventually lets it slip.
* ShockAndAwe: ''Thor: Love and Thunder'' has Jane wielding Mjölnir and utilizing its lightning powers.
* SilentWhisper: At the end of ''Film/ThorLoveAndThunder'', Jane whispers a catchphrase she came up with into Thor's ear [[spoiler: shortly before she dies]], but the audience doesn't get to hear what it is.
* SingleWomanSeeksGoodMan: Thor's noble behavior and [[IKissYourHand hand kissing]] won her over.
* SlapSlapKiss: When Thor makes his first appearance after leaving her two years ago, she slaps him, then apologizes, explaining she's just checking that he's real given the RealityIsOutToLunch events she's just witnessed. She then slaps him for not coming back to her, despite [[Film/TheAvengers2012 turning up in New York]]. When Thor comes up with a reasonable excuse, they lean in for the inevitable kiss... then Darcy provides a MomentKiller.
* SummonToHand: ''Thor: Love and Thunder'' reveals that Jane can summon Mjölnir back to her hands just like Thor.
* SuperheroesWearCapes: She gets a red cape that looks very similar to Thor's as part of her armor after becoming worthy of Mjölnir.
* SuperCellReception:
** In ''Film/{{Thor}}'', Jane has no problem making a phone call despite being in the New Mexican desert and Thor's hammer scrambling electronics.
** It's a plot point in ''Film/ThorTheDarkWorld'', Jane receives a phone call in the cave on Svartalfheim while she and Thor are stranded there. This helps her find a portal back to Earth.
* SuperSpeed: When empowered by Mjölnir, she can fly around the Earth twice in a row in an instant.
* TheyCallMeMisterTibbs: When Gorr refers to her mockingly as Lady Thor, she tells him to call her either "Mighty Thor" or "Dr. Jane Foster".
* TimeShiftedActor: She's portrayed by Creator/NataliePortman as an adult, while Ava Caryofyllis portrays her as a child during flashback scenes of ''Film/ThorLoveAndThunder''.
* TokenHuman: She's the only human to be part of Thor's team in ''Film/ThorLoveAndThunder'', with the others being two Asgardians (Thor and Valkyrie) and a Kronan (Korg).
* TookALevelInBadass: ''Thor: Love and Thunder'' shows that she has taken a HUGE level in badass when she becomes the female counterpart of Thor himself.
* TheTopicOfCancer: [[spoiler:She was diagnosed with Stage 4 cancer roughly six months before ''Thor: Love and Thunder'' takes place. Chemotherapy doesn't appear to be working and while Mjølnir temporarily boosts her strength it also prevents her body from fighting the disease, so her condition rapidly deteriorates.]]
* TouchedByVorlons: Jane touching the Aether. It turns her into an ApocalypseMaiden and LivingMacguffin.
* UncoveringRelationshipStatus: In ''Film/ThorLoveAndThunder'', Jane asks her ex-boyfriend Thor if he is a relationship with someone else shortly after their arrival in Omnipotence City.
-->'''Jane:''' So, you got a girlfriend?\\
'''Thor:''' Oh... No, no. Too busy, don’t have time, you know. Just the work and everything.\\
'''Jane:''' Cool.
* UptightLovesWild: She has shades of this, as a serious science student who falls for the FishOutOfWater demigod Thor who (initially) likes to smash things.
* UseYourHead: After Gorr calls her "Lady Thor" during the final fight, Jane responds by giving him a strong headbutt. She was wearing her helmet at the time, so it must have been quite painful.
* ViolentlyProtectiveGirlfriend: [[spoiler:During the climax of ''Film/ThorLoveAndThunder'', Jane can feel Thor being beaten by Gorr the God-Butcher from her hospital bed and decides to transform into Mighty Thor one more time to go and save him, despite knowing that she might not survive. Upon arriving, Jane sees that Gorr has pinned Thor to the ground and is about to kill him with the Necrosword, so she throws Mjölnir at Gorr's face before beating him to a pulp.]]
* VolcanicVeins: The Aether causes her veins to glow red when she is examined by Odin.
* WasntThatFun: After Jane Foster goes through the Bifröst for the first time, she quips, "We have to do that again!"
* WeaponTwirling: Like Thor and Captain America, she often spins Mjölnir around her hand.
* WhenThingsSpinScienceHappens: In her lab, there are a lot of gizmos that must do some technical scientific purpose that only Jane understands, but to laymen, they just spin.
* WhoAreYou:
** In [[Film/{{Thor}} the first film]], she finally asks Thor this question while they're driving towards the crater site where Mjolnir was found.
--->'''Jane:''' But who are you? Really?\\
'''Thor:''' You'll see soon enough.
** She asks something similar when she meets Odin in ''Film/ThorTheDarkWorld'' and he compares her presence in Asgard to that of a goat at a banquet table.
--->'''Jane:''' Did he just...? Who do you think you are?\\
'''Odin:''' I am Odin. King of Asgard. Protector of the Nine Realms.\\
'''Jane:''' Oh...
* WithGreatPowerComesGreatHotness: Becoming worthy of Mjölnir makes her to go from a pale, sickly cancer patient to a taller AmazonianBeauty. [[spoiler:Unfortunately, this transformation makes her cancer much worse and eventually kills her.]]
* WorkingWithTheEx: ''Thor: Love and Thunder'' shows Jane working alongside her ex-boyfriend Thor in taking down Gorr the God Butcher.
* WrittenInAbsence:
** Creator/NataliePortman was pregnant when ''The Avengers'' was filming, so Jane only appears in a still photo, with Phil Coulson explaining that S.H.I.E.L.D. moved her to a remote observatory under the guise of a lucrative consultation gig to protect her after Selvig's capture.
** Defied for ''Thor: The Dark World'', as the crew delayed filming until she was out of bed rest.
** At the beginning of ''Age of Ultron'', Maria Hill expresses her surprise at Jane's absence from the Stark Tower party. Thor explains that she is very busy with her work as an astrophysicist, and that he doesn't even know what country she's in at the moment.
** Early on in ''Thor: Ragnarok'', Thor offhandedly mentions that he and Jane broke up sometime after ''Age of Ultron'', and she's never brought up for the rest of the film.
* YourDaysAreNumbered: Early on in ''Love and Thunder'', she's dealing with stage IV cancer and is told by Selvig that her treatment isn't working. The inevitability of her death drives her to find more supernatural means of trying to cure her cancer.
* YouSeeImDying: During their travel to the Shadow Realm, Jane finally tells Thor that she is dying of cancer when he tells her that he still has feelings for her.
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!!Variants
[[folder:Party Thor's Jane Foster]]
!!''Dr. Jane Foster''
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[[caption-width-right:300:''"Uh, I gotta go. Love you. Oh, I mean, bye?"'']]
!!!'''Species:''' Human
!!!'''Citizenship:''' American
!!!'''Voiced By:''' Creator/NataliePortman
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''[[WesternAnimation/WhatIf2021 What If...?]]''
On Earth-72124, Jane found Thor when he came to Midgard to throw a party.
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* BatDeduction: Jane deduces that if Thor and Loki are real, then other members ot the Norse pantheon must be as well, including Heimdall and Frigga. The latter is not Thor's mother in mythology, but Jane makes the correct deduction here that she is.
* DistractedByTheSexy: In her first appearance she is worried that Thor is part of an alien invasion and is responsible for the destruction of a planet. She is immediately drawn to him after seeing him, and after he flirts with her, she quickly joins him in partying together.
* EasilyForgiven: By Thor, whom she tattled to Frigga on about his partying. He tells her she did the right thing and asks her out on a date.
* HangoverSensitivity: After joining Thor's first party in Vegas, she wakes up from a hangover by getting incredibly irritated by the sound of two phones ringing.
* INeedAFreakingDrink: After traveling to Asgard and then to wherever where Frigga is, she explains to her what's going on with Thor on Midgard while downing a cup of Chardonnay ''after each sentence.''
* LoveAtFirstSight: Jane is outright smitten by Party Thor the second she sees him, and ends up getting roped into the party because she likes being with him. It's telling that she goes from desperately trying to contact S.H.I.E.L.D. to warn them of his arrival, to desperately trying to ''stop'' S.H.I.E.L.D. from harming Thor, just because she likes him that much. She also, via a Fruedian slip, accidentally tells Thor she loves him on a phone call the day after they met, and is immediately mortified by this.
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