History NightmareFuel / ThorLoveAndThunder

* While it is PlayedForLaughs, the film establishes that at some point in the past, Thor and the other Asgardians…ate their own children.

* In spite of the raucous theatrics, wasteful debauchery, and hedonism of lazy JerkassGods like Zeus being largely PlayedForLaughs, the awful reality dawns that this is ''precisely'' why in spite of having ''entire pantheons of Gods'' in the Marvel Cinematic Universe who can save humanity and make the world a better place in the blink of an eye, it has not happened because the majority of Gods simply [[JerkassGods DO. NOT. CARE.]] There are [[GodIsGood exceptions]] of course (The Asgardian Race, Falligar, Khonshu, Taweret, and the Eternals being the standout examples), but it doesn't change the fact that the Marvel Cinematic Universe (if not Multi-verse) is ''still'' a war-torn purgatory of suffering plagued by armies of monsters, (often literal) demons and tyrants. As Gorr himself had to learn the hard way, most Gods will gladly laugh with a plate of delicacies and a flagon of wine by their sides, and apathetically watch as innocent mortals suffer and die by the ''millions'' to said horrors from the gold and marble view of their gilded paradise. They never even ''notice'' that you exist... until you personally offend them...

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[[caption-width-right:350:''[[RageAgainstTheHeavens "So this is my vow: all gods will die."]]'']]

** [[FridgeHorror Fridge Horror]] for ''[[Series/MoonKnight2022 Moon Knight]]'' sets in when you realize that Khonshu--the creepy, arrogant, condescending, violent, manipulative god of the night sky--is one of the ''good guys'' by virtue of actually caring about humanity's well-being (at least nominally).

* Regarding the Shadow Monsters, their initial "goofy" looks have a sinister explaination: they were based Gorr's daughter's drawings. Gorr took the last memory he had of her and twisted it into a grotesque, murderous weapon to defile and avenge her suffering at the same time.

** Most of the trailers show Gorr looking grim and speaking in a dour tone, until one “Tickets on Sale” spot flipped the script and showed him sporting a slasher smile and declaring “how exciting!” in a voice that sounds downright ''giddy''. The sheer contrast is utterly unnerving.
* The Black Berserkers. While in the comics they're goofy-looking, vaguely dinosaur-shaped, and eventually revealed to be cousins of the symbiotes, in ''Thor: Love and Thunder''[='=]s trailers they're shown overpowering and devouring several Asgardians while blending into the darkness of the chaotic battlefield save for their bone-white fangs and writhing tentacles silhouetted against the flames.

* Gorr and the Black Berserkers attack the children of Asgard through shadows and kidnap them from their rooms. Their parents were all outside trying to protect them and the city, and it is all for naught.
* Axl spends some time trying to comfort the other kidnapped children, reminding them that Thor cut off Thanos's head and he'll come save them. Cue Gorr showing up, summoning a creature, and ripping its head off before throwing it at the children.
* When caught by Gorr in the Shadow Realm, Thor is BoundAndGagged and ForcedToWatch as the villian slowly strangles someone he loves, ''[[Film/AvengersInfinityWar again]]''. Even though Thor and Jane are both able to break free and keep fighting, the [[TraumaButton psychological number]] this would have done to Thor...

* In spite of the raucous theatrics, wasteful debauchery and hedonism of lazy JerkassGods like Zeus being largely PlayedForLaughs, the awful reality dawns that this is ''precisely'' why in spite of having ''entire pantheons of Gods'' in the Marvel Cinematic Universe who can save humanity and make the world a better place in the blink of an eye, it has not happened because the majority of Gods simply [[JerkassGods DO. NOT. CARE.]] There are [[GodIsGood exceptions]] of course (The Asgardian Race, Falligar, Khonshu, Taweret, and the Eternals being the standout examples), but it doesn't change the fact that the Marvel Cinematic Universe (if not Multi-verse) is ''still'' a war-torn purgatory of suffering plagued by armies of monsters, (often literal) demons and tyrants. As Gorr himself had to learn the hard way, most Gods will gladly laugh with a plate of delicacies and a flagon of wine by their sides, and apatheticaly watch as innocent mortals suffer and die by the ''millions'' to said horrors from the gold and marbel view of their gilded paradise. They never even ''notice'' that you exist... until you personally offend them...
* Regarding the Black Berzerkers, their initial "goofy" looks have a sinister explaination: they were based Gorr's daughter's drawings. Gorr took the last memory he had of her and twisted it into a grotesque, murderous weapon to defile and avenge her suffering at the same time.