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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
Entertainment
Brigid Delaney

I’ve never seen a Marvel movie – so why not start with Thor: Love and Thunder?

In a shot from the film Thor: Love and Thunder, Thor is standing on a rock with a group of people behind him, they are surrounded by smoke
‘Being a Marvel newbie, there was a lot I didn’t understand. Why is Natalie Portman’s character called Jane, but also called Thor?’ Photograph: Disney/Allstar

There are 29 movies in the Marvel universe – and until recently, I had seen none of them.

Once there are that many movies, that many heroes, villains, plots, deaths, worlds lost, worlds regained, monsters destroyed, it’s too late to start. But out of the blue, an email arrived from Marvel Studios. It was an invitation to enter the universe – albeit at this late, decadent stage of the empire. Would I attend the Australian premiere of Thor: Love and Thunder?

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