10 Movie Sequels That MOCKED What Fans Hated

4. Avengers: Age Of Ultron & Thor: Ragnarok Mocked The Jane Foster Romance

By far the most continually criticised aspect of the first two Thor films is the totally lame and unconvincing romance between Thor (Chris Hemsworth) and Jane Foster (Natalie Portman).

Even accepting that the two actors shared no natural sexual chemistry whatsoever, the romantic subplot was embarrassingly low-effort and felt shoehorned in to satisfy an executive's checklist of Things A Blockbuster Needs.

It's no secret that Portman tried to walk away from Thor: The Dark World after original director Patty Jenkins was replaced, and presumably due to this Jane was curiously absent from the MCU for the next six years, until making a brief appearance in Avengers: Endgame (via archive footage).

The interceding MCU films made periodic cracks about Jane's bizarre absence, with Avengers: Age of Ultron seemingly underlining the audience's own apathy when Thor comments, "I'm not even sure what country Jane's in."

But the nail was well and truly hit on the head in Thor: Ragnarok, when a passer-by casually mentions that Jane dumped Thor, and he retorts, "It was a mutual dumping," as if self-reflexively commenting on the very nature of Portman's own departure from the franchise.

Most surprising of all, however, is that Jane will be reintroduced to the franchise in the upcoming Thor: Love and Thunder, reportedly playing a new female iteration of Thor - hopefully without rekindling that prior romance, though.