Thor: Love & Thunder: 10 Questions It Leaves Unanswered

7. Does Jesus Exist In The MCU?

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This one's really fun. When Thor and the other heroes enter Omnipotence City, they gaze upon numerous weird and wonderful gods, such as Bao, the God of Dumplings.

We also hear Valkyrie namedrop the God of Carpentry, though infuriatingly Taika Waititi cuts away from the crowd at that point, so we can't get a glimpse at him (or her).

But it doesn't exactly take a genius to figure out that Valkyrie may in fact have been referring to Jesus Christ, who of course is written about in the Bible as both a carpenter and carpenter's son.

Does this mean that Taika Waititi basically just confirmed the actual existence of Jesus in the MCU?

Waititi was likely playing coy very much by design here, for fear of alienating god-fearing audiences who might be turned off by a "sacrilegious" on-screen appearance by J.C. himself.

Without showing Jesus, Waititi has plausible deniability: Valkyrie could've been talking about the Greek God of Carpenters Hephaestus, or even Lu-Ban, the God of Carpentry from Chinese mythology.

It probably is our Jesus, but you can't really blame Waititi for not wanting to explicitly open that can of worms, right? But now the real question arises: did Jesus partake in any of Zeus' (Russell Crowe) orgies?

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