Dr. Jane Foster / Mighty Thor
"Well, 'magic's just science we don't understand yet.' Arthur C. Clarke."
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"Catchphrase!"Species: Enhanced human
Citizenship: American
Affiliation(s): Culver University (formerly), S.H.I.E.L.D. (formerly), University of London (formerly), Asgard
Portrayed By: Natalie Portman, Elsa Patakynote , Ava Caryofyllis (young)
Voiced By: Cristina Hernández (Latin-American Spanish), Maaya Sakamoto (Japanese), Flávia Saddy (Brazilian Portuguese)
Appearances: Thor | Thor: The Dark World | Avengers: Endgame | Thor: Love and Thunder
"First off: The name is MIGHTY Thor! And secondly: If you can't say Mighty Thor, I'll accept Dr. Jane FOSTER! And thirdly: EAT. MY. HAMMER!"
An astrophysicist who finds out that a wormhole she's been observing is the Bifröst Bridge from Norse Mythology, created by a race of Sufficiently Advanced Alien gods, the Asgardians. After helping their exiled prince, Thor Odinson, find his way back to Asgard, she and Thor have had an ongoing Relationship Revolving Door.
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- Action Girl: Jane becomes this when she transforms into the Mighty Thor in Thor: Love and Thunder.
- Action Survivor: How she deals with gods and robots and The Men in Black. She eventually evolves into an Action Girl in Thor: Love and Thunder.
- Actor Allusion: Her being levitated by Malekith on Svartalfheim looks very familiar.
- Adaptational Attractiveness: In the comics, Jane while dying of cancer was bald and very emaciated. In Love and Thunder, Jane still has a full head of hair and looks a bit frailer than she did before the diagnosis, but isn't bone-thin.
- Adaptational Angst Downgrade: 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 book counterpart did because both of them got Adapted Out.
- Adaptational Dye-Job: She has blue eyes in the comics, but has her actress' brown eyes in the MCU.
- Adaptational Intelligence: 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.
- Adaptational Job Change: In the comics, she was a nurse, and later a physician. Here, she is an astrophysicist.
- The Adjectival Superhero: To differentiate her superhero persona from her namesake, 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). - Adrenaline Makeover: Jane greatly invokes this trope when she becomes the Mighty Thor in Thor: Love and Thunder.
- Affectionate Gesture to the Head: After Thor is mortally struck by the Destroyer in the first film, Jane runs to him and caresses his cheek as he dies from his injuries.
- Afterlife Welcome: Jane is welcomed to Vahalla by Heimdall after her death by cancer at the end of Love and Thunder.
- Almost Kiss: When Jane and Thor reunite in Thor: The Dark World, the two are happy to see each other after years apart and lean in to kiss, but they are interrupted by Darcy. However, they get their kiss in later on Asgard.
- Alternate Self:
- 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.
- Amazonian Beauty: As the Mighty Thor, Jane's arms gain considerable muscles and it is clear Thor still holds attraction for her.
- Amicable Exes: 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.
- And This Is for...: When she meets Loki for the first time in Thor: The Dark World, she slaps him across the face, saying that that was for New York.
- Ascend to a Higher Plane of Existence: At the end of Thor: Love and Thunder, 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.
- Back for the Dead: Jane makes her official return in Thor: Love and Thunder, only for it to be revealed that she's dying from Stage IV cancer, and that her using Mjölnir 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.
- Back from the Dead: She is confirmed to be a victim of Thanos's Snap before she is resurrected by Bruce Banner. However, she dies a year later from cancer.
- Badass Bookworm: 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.
- Badass Cape: Just like Thor, Jane wears an awesome red cape as the Mighty Thor in Thor: Love and Thunder.
- Badass Normal: 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 she has gained the same powers as Thor through being worthy of Mjölnir.
- Bad Mood Retreat: In 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.
- Barrier Warrior: 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.
- Bash Siblings: Thor: Love and Thunder shows that she becomes this with Valkyrie and Korg.
- Battle Couple: 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.
- Beautiful Dreamer: During the flashback montage in Thor: Love and Thunder, Thor watches Jane sleep with a smile on his face.
- Beware the Nice Ones: 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.
- Big Damn Heroes: 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.
- Big "NO!":
- In the first film, Jane exclaims "No!" when Thor gets struck to death by the Destroyer.
- She also says a softer one in the second film when Loki seemingly betrays Thor and stabs him with a dagger.
- Big "WHAT?!": She has a particularly comedic one when she accidentally hits Thor with the van. Again.
- Birds of a Feather: 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.
- Bitch Slap:
- 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!
- Black Eyes of Evil: 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'.
- Blood Knight: 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. 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.
- Blue Is Heroic: As the Mighty Thor, Jane can summon bright blue lightning.
- Brainy Brunette: She is an astrophysicist with brown hair and three degrees.
- Bridal Carry:
- In Thor: The Dark World, Thor picks up Jane in this fashion before jumping out of the Dark Elf ship with her.
- During the flashback montage of Thor: Love and Thunder, Jane is carried this way by Thor when they arrive home.
- The Bus Came Back: 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.
- But for Me, It Was Tuesday: 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.
- The Cameo: in Avengers: Endgame, Jane only makes a brief appearance in one scene and doesn't even have a single line of dialogue.
- Cast from Lifespan: 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.
- Celebrity Paradox: The Winter Soldier and Civil War establish that the Star Wars franchise exists in the MCU. Natalie Portman was a part of it in the Prequel Trilogy.
- Character 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.
- Cheated Death, Died Anyway: She was one of the people dusted by Thanos and was resurrected by Bruce Banner, only to succumb to cancer at the end of Thor: Love and Thunder.
- Clarke's Third Law: She quotes it to strengthen her argument about her research, which is admittedly going into the less grounded territory.
- Clingy MacGuffin: 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.
- Collapsible Helmet: 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.
- Comic-Book Movies Don't Use Codenames: Defied, as Jane refers to herself explicitly as the Mighty Thor.
- Cool Helmet: In Thor: Love and Thunder, she has a winged helmet when she transforms into the Mighty Thor that can materialize and de-materialize at will.
- Curtains Match the Window: Both her hair and her eyes are brown.
- Deadpan Snarker: 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? - "Dear John" Letter: It's revealed in Thor: Love and Thunder that, after a long period of the two growing distant from one another, Jane wrote Thor a letter to end their relationship.
- Death by Adaptation: Unlike her comic book counterpart who beats cancer and goes on to become Valkyrie, 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.
- Died in Your Arms Tonight: She succumbs to cancer while Thor is holding her in his arms.
- Did You Just Flip Off Cthulhu?: She slapped Thor twice, and Loki later. Granted, they probably felt nothing, but she still physically assaulted a pair of gods.
- Disappears into Light: Even though she's human, her body disappears into motes of light after she dies, much like Frigga and Odin. This is because she gained the power of a god thanks to Mjölnir.
- Distracted by the Sexy: Jane displays this, sometimes getting distracted by Thor's physique.
- Divine Date: She's a mortal human who's in a relationship with the God of Thunder Thor.
- Don't You Dare Pity Me!: 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: Don't be sorry for me! - Double Standard: Abuse, Female on Male: 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.
- Dude Magnet: She has dated Thor, Donald Blake and Richard Madison.
- Dude, Where's My Respect?: Regarding Jane's motivation in Thor. 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.
- Dying Declaration of Love: She and Thor declare their love for one another as she expires in his arms.
- Earn Your Happy Ending: 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.
- Empowered Badass Normal: Jane is a normal human before Mjölnir grants her all of Thor's powers.
- Expert Consultant: Mentioned in passing to explain why she isn't present in The Avengers; 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.
- Fatal MacGuffin: 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.
- Fish out of Water: Averted in Thor: The Dark World, as she's surprisingly quite comfortable with the other worlds of the Nine Realms.
- Flechette Storm: In Thor: Love and Thunder, Jane is shown swinging Mjölnir in an arc and sending out the shards to hit a group of enemies.
- Flying Brick: 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 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.
- Fold the Page, Fold the Space: 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 Event Horizon and Interstellar while doing so.
- Full-Name Basis: Even to the non-Asgardians. Selvig and Darcy are the only ones who use First-Name Basis with her. Valkyrie starts referring to her by First-Name Basis in Love and Thunder as they begin working together after she gains the power of Thor.
- Gadgeteer Genius: In Thor, she mentions that she built most of her equipment herself.
- Generation Xerox: Just like her mother before her, Jane eventually succumbs to her cancer.
- Genius Bruiser: She is a brilliant astrophysicist and has Thor's powers in Thor: Love and Thunder.
- Girliness Upgrade: Downplayed and lampshaded early on in Thor: The Dark World, complete with her first outfit of the picture incorporating Proper Tights with a Skirt. Later scenes show her wearing something like "Asgardian noblewoman casual wear".
- Ground-Shattering Landing: 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.
- Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold: 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.
- Handicapped Badass: In Thor: Love and Thunder, she's 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.
- Healthy in Heaven: A post-credits scene in Love And Thunder shows her in Valhalla with no cancer symptoms.
- Heartbreak and Ice Cream: According to Darcy, Jane was in this mode ever since Thor returned to Asgard after the events of Thor.
- Held Gaze: When she and Thor first meet after she crashes into him with her van.
- Henshin Hero: Becomes this in Thor: Love and Thunder after becoming worthy of Mjölnir.
- Heroic Sacrifice: Jane takes up Mjölnir 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.
- Holding Hands:
- 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.
- Horseback Heroism: During the final battle of Thor: Love and Thunder, 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.
- How Is That Even Possible?: She asks this in Thor: The Dark World 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: How's that possible? - Huge Guy, Tiny Girl: With Thor, who is both much taller and broader than her. (Portman is 5'3", Hemsworth is a foot taller at 6'3")
- I Made Copies: 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.
- Immediate Self-Contradiction: 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. - I'm Not Hungry: Says this word-for-word while rejecting a meal brought by an Asgardian guard.
- In a Single Bound: As the Mighty Thor, Jane can jump just as high and as far as Thor himself.
- Insistent Terminology:
- When they take Thor to the hospital in 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. - When Gorr refers to her as "Lady Thor" she insists that she be referred to as either "Mighty Thor" or "Dr. Jane Foster".
- Instant Costume Change: Upon wielding Mjölnir, Jane can switch between normal attires and her Asgardian battle regalia in a flash of lightning.
- Instant Expert: 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.
- Interspecies Romance: With Thor, an Asgardian.
- Intimacy Via Horror : Implied in Thor: Love and Thunder. During Thor and Jane's relationship montage, Jane gets scared while watching a movie and clings to Thor, who grabs Mjölnir to protect her.
- In the Hood: 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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- Jumped at the Call: While she initially sought out Mjölnir 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.
- "Just Joking" Justification: 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! - Killed Offscreen: She was killed by Thanos's Badass Fingersnap but it's only stated by
Word of God. She was brought back to life by the Hulk five years later. - Last Kiss: 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.
- Legacy Character: 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). She ultimately succumbs to her cancer in the end while Thor lives on.
- Life Will Kill You: 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, Jane ultimately passes away from cancer.
- Lightning Bruiser: Obvious pun aside, Jane is just as strong, fast, and durable as Thor himself when she is in her Mighty Thor form.
- Lightning Lash: As the Mighty Thor, Jane can use lightning as a form of electrical whip.
- Lives in a Van: At the time of the 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".
- Living MacGuffin: She becomes one for a while in Thor: The Dark World after inadvertently becoming the host of the Aether.
- The Lost Lenore: Becomes this to Thor at the end of Thor: Love and Thunder.
- Mayfly–December Romance: With Thor; it's brought up several times that human lifetimes are extremely fleeting compared to Asgardian ones. And then she died.
- Memorial Statue: 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.
- Moment Killer: She inadvertently ends up doing this to Darcy, warping her in just as she's kissing Ian.
- Muggles Do It Better: 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.
- Neutral Female: 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.
- Never a Self-Made Woman: 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 Thor, so that last part is understandable.
- Nice Girl: One of the clearest examples of the MCU. She's kind, easy-going, and quite willing to take part in solving conflicts.
- No Body Left Behind: 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.
- Odd Friendship: With Darcy, the perky political scientist.
- Offscreen Breakup: 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.
- One-Woman Army: 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.
- One-Steve Limit:
- She shares her last name with several other MCU characters, such as fellow scientist Bill Foster.
- In addition, Korg keeps confusing her name with those of famous actresses who share her first or last name, such as Jane Fonda or Jodie Foster.
- The One That Got Away: Korg calls her as such to Thor. They reconcile midway through the film but she dies of cancer in the end, playing this trope straight again.
- One True Love: 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.
- Only Sane Woman: 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.
- Only the Chosen May Wield: In Thor: Love and Thunder, Jane becomes one of the very few individuals in the MCU who are considered worthy of wielding Mjölnir, alongside Thor, Odin, Hela, Vision and Steve Rogers.
- Parental Abandonment: Her father died when she was a child, and her mother not only never remarried, but developed terminal cancer and died herself not long after.
- Parental Substitute: Selvig became this to her after the deaths of her father, and then her terminally ill mother.
- Percussive Maintenance: 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.
- Percussive Therapy: 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.
- Please, Don't Leave Me: 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!
- Power Dyes Your Hair: Jane's normally dark brown hair is lightened to a dirty blonde shade as a result of Mjölnir granting her Thor's lightning-based powers, and it reverts to her natural dark brunette when not empowered.
- Power Makes Your Hair Grow: Getting powers from Mjölnir makes her neck length hair grow to an armpit length. It also goes from brown to blonde.
- Primary-Color Champion: 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.
- Punctuated! For! Emphasis!:
- Her reaction when she sees Thor get Mjölnir back and change into his godly self in the first film.Jane: Oh. My. God.
- She also does this when Gorr calls her "Lady Thor" in the final battle of Thor: Love and Thunder.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!
- Her reaction when she sees Thor get Mjölnir back and change into his godly self in the first film.
- Put on a Bus: S.H.I.E.L.D. put her on one to safety before the events of The Avengers. Then The Bus Came Back 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.
- Real Award, Fictional Character: Thor mentions in Age of Ultron that the people are talking of her winning a Nobel Prize for her work on the convergence.
- Red Eyes, Take Warning: When the Aether enters her, her eyes glow red.
- Red Is Heroic: Thor: Love and Thunder has Jane wearing a red cape that greatly resembles Thor's while empowered by Mjölnir.
- Relationship Upgrade: To Official Couple with Thor as of the end of Thor: The Dark World. Unfortunately, it underwent a mutual break-up before Ragnarok but they reconnect and get back together in Thor: Love and Thunder... just in time for her noble sacrifice.
- Same Character, But Different: She is a nurse or similar role in most portrayals, is in the MCU she is an astrophysicist.
- Samus Is a Girl: 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.
- Science Hero: 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.
- Science Wizard: As of Thor: Love and Thunder, Jane is an astrophysicist who can access and harness Asgardian magic while wielding Mjölnir as the Mighty Thor.
- Secretly Dying: Tries to keep the fact that she has cancer from Thor, though she eventually lets it slip.
- Shock and Awe: Thor: Love and Thunder has Jane wielding Mjölnir and utilizing its lightning powers.
- Silent Whisper: At the end of Thor: Love and Thunder, Jane whispers a catchphrase she came up with into Thor's ear shortly before she dies, but the audience doesn't get to hear what it is.
- Single Woman Seeks Good Man: Thor's noble behavior and hand kissing won her over.
- Slap-Slap-Kiss: 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 Reality Is Out to Lunch events she's just witnessed. She then slaps him for not coming back to her, despite turning up in New York. When Thor comes up with a reasonable excuse, they lean in for the inevitable kiss... then Darcy provides a Moment Killer.
- Summon to Hand: Thor: Love and Thunder reveals that Jane can summon Mjölnir back to her hands just like Thor.
- Superheroes Wear Capes: She gets a red cape that looks very similar to Thor's as part of her armor after becoming worthy of Mjölnir.
- Super Cell Reception:
- In 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 Thor: The Dark World, 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.
- Super-Speed: When empowered by Mjölnir, she can fly around the Earth twice in a row in an instant.
- They Call Me MISTER Tibbs!: When Gorr refers to her mockingly as Lady Thor, she tells him to call her either "Mighty Thor" or "Dr. Jane Foster".
- Thunder Hammer: She becomes the new wielder of Mjölnir in Thor: Love and Thunder, and uses it as her main weapon throughout the film.
- Time-Shifted Actor: She's portrayed by Natalie Portman as an adult, while Ava Caryofyllis portrays her as a child during flashback scenes of Thor: Love and Thunder.
- Token Human: She's the only human to be part of Thor's team in Thor: Love and Thunder, with the others being two Asgardians (Thor and Valkyrie) and a Kronan (Korg).
- Too Good for This Sinful Earth: She is one of the nicest and most compassionate people in the MCU who becomes a casualty of the Snap and after coming back to life, gets diagnosed with stage IV cancer and eventually dies from it after the use of Mjölnir accelerates it.
- Took a Level in Badass: Thor: Love and Thunder shows that she has taken a HUGE level in badass when she becomes the female counterpart of Thor himself.
- The Topic of Cancer: 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.
- Touched by Vorlons: Jane touching the Aether. It turns her into an Apocalypse Maiden and Living Macguffin.
- Uncovering Relationship Status: In Thor: Love and Thunder, 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. - Uptight Loves Wild: She has shades of this, as a serious science student who falls for the Fish out of Water demigod Thor who (initially) likes to smash things.
- Use Your Head: 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.
- Violently Protective Girlfriend: During the climax of Thor: Love and Thunder, 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.
- Volcanic Veins: The Aether causes her veins to glow red when she is examined by Odin.
- Wasn't That Fun?: After Jane Foster goes through the Bifröst for the first time, she quips, "We have to do that again!"
- Weapon Twirling: Like Thor and Captain America, she often spins Mjölnir around her hand.
- When Things Spin, Science Happens: 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.
- Who Are You?:
- In the first film, she finally asks Thor this question while they're driving towards the crater site where Mjölnir was found.Jane: But who are you? Really?
Thor: You'll see soon enough. - She asks something similar when she meets Odin in Thor: The Dark World 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...
- In the first film, she finally asks Thor this question while they're driving towards the crater site where Mjölnir was found.
- With Great Power Comes Great Hotness: Becoming worthy of Mjölnir makes her to go from a pale, sickly cancer patient to a taller Amazonian Beauty. Unfortunately, this transformation makes her cancer much worse and eventually kills her.
- Working with the Ex: Thor: Love and Thunder shows Jane working alongside her ex-boyfriend Thor in taking down Gorr the God Butcher.
- Written-In Absence:
- Natalie Portman 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.
- Your Days Are Numbered: 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.
- You See, I'm Dying: 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.
Weapons
Mjölnir
Mjölnir
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Variants
Party Thor's Jane Foster
Dr. Jane Foster
"Uh, I gotta go. Love you. Oh, I mean, bye?"
Species: Human
Citizenship: American
Voiced By: Natalie Portman
Appearances: What If...?
On Earth-72124, Jane found Thor when he came to Midgard to throw a party.
- Bat Deduction: 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.
- Distracted by the Sexy: 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.
- Easily Forgiven: 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.
- Hangover Sensitivity: 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.
- I Need a Freaking Drink: 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.
- In Spite of a Nail: She still detects the disturbance signaling Thor's arrival on Earth, and despite all the hijinks and shenanigans they get into that never happened in the first Thor movie, Thor and Jane still fall in love.
- Love at First Sight: 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.
"Not too bad for a human."
