Thread:MaxGoji 2.0/@comment-34587889-20180225044613/@comment-34587889-20180226013706

But I feel like that would trivialize Richard's sacrifice if he just came back in this movie with the rest of the team. The arc I thought would be interesting for Jane & Eric was that they had to be the heroes now and do what Richard normally did, the conflict largely arising for this huge responsibility that's now on their shoulders. But if Richard comes back and is Thor again, why does Jane even still have the hammer? What's stopping him from just turning back into classic Thor and stopping Malekith himself? The reason Valkyrie hired them was because they were all Asgard had left.

The trilogy coming full circle idea I had was that "Thor" would be an idea instead of a person. An idea to do good, save others, display fantastic power, show compassion. That's why Richard, even though he was Thor couldn't lift the hammer for all those decades, and that when he sacrificed himself at the end of Blood Oath he was truly Thor in that moment of heroism. Jane and Eric would learn this too from the events of the movie.