The Guardians of the Galaxy return in this exclusive Thor: Love And Thunder deleted scene
The latest Marvel Cinematic Universe movie hits Disney Plus and digital retailers on September 8
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If you thought that Thor: Love And Thunder could have used a little more of the Asgardian god’s team-up with the Guardians of the Galaxy, you’re in luck. In a deleted scene, debuting exclusively here on The A.V. Club, Thor (Chris Hemsworth) gets an extended interaction with Peter Quill, a.k.a. Star-Lord (Chris Pratt), and Mantis (Pom Klementieff).
As you’ll recall, Thor initially ran into the band of spacefaring misfits back in Avengers: Infinity War, striking up an unlikely friendship with Rocket (Bradley Cooper) and Groot (Vin Diesel). After his extended stay on Earth during the Blip, he took off with the Guardians in the Milano after the final throwdown against Thanos.
The scene, titled “Wasting Time,” delivers an alternate version of what was seen in Taika Waititi’s follow-up to Thor: Ragnarok, released in July and hitting Disney+ on September 8. In the clip, Star-Lord and Mantis approach a meditating Thor, asking him to join in the fight to protect Indigarr. The telepath is charged with convincing him, but what she sees in his mind is not exactly battle-ready.
“Many he loves perish, he feels their blood is on his hands,” Mantis says, recalling the deaths of Loki (Tom Hiddleston) and Heimdall (Idris Elba), amongst others.
It turns out that superpowers aren’t necessary, and the god of thunder’s friendly rivalry with Star-Lord is enough to spur him into action.
“This way they’ll make a statue of me when I save the planet,” he taunts. “You stay there and don’t be a hero!”
The Guardians will next be seen in a holiday special for Disney+, anticipated later this year, followed by Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol. 3 in theaters on May 5, 2023. Thor is also expected to return, but it remains to be seen as to when–or which version, after Thor: Love And Thunder introduced Natalie Portman’s Jane Foster as the Mighty Thor.
Thor: Love And Thunder will be released on Digital September 8 and 4K, Blu-ray, and DVD September 27.
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Welp, that was unnecessary.Also: boy does this new video player suck. Can’t full-screen it, can’t see the video length, can’t navigate around… hell, I can’t even replay the video (not that I want to).(edit: Oh, wait, I can replay it— you have to click on the screen, and not the play button. Stupid.)
In Chrome on desktop at least, right click the video and click “Show all controls” to get volume, timestamp, fullscreen, playback speed, and a download button
Wtf, why is that disabled by default?Still can’t click anything on that slider bar though.Also, I’m seeing that clicking the video to pause it doesn’t work. It stutters for a sec, then keeps playing. Only hitting the spacebar made it pause for good.This player just seems like something that’s not actually finished.
Also, I’m seeing that clicking the video to pause it doesn’t work. It stutters for a sec, then keeps playing. Only hitting the spacebar made it pause for good.I bet turning off your ad blocker will fix this. If so (from their perspective), working as intended.
THANK YOU! These videos have been bothering me.Although that doesn’t excuse their use of a video player with non-intuitive controls or that the time slider only works in full screen.
Silly me, I’ve been clicking on the controls instead of the other controls I couldn’t see.
There’s tons of free, decent video player widgets out there they could use, so naturally they pick the worst possible one.Reminds me of the YouTube “shorts” player. No timecode, no seeking, no fullscreen. Someone literally said “What if we took our really good video player and made it a fucking pain in the ass to use?” That person should be catapulted into the Sun.
Some of my subscription channels are cross posting from TikTok, now. just…why? @_@
No volume control on the ad. Which is of course at maximum volume about Man Wipes.
Ah there’s the weird looking Chris Pratt again. What is up with how he looks in this film.
His facial hair is a tad unkempt. Maybe it’s a subtle hint of his inner turmoil of missing Gamora, although I doubt they put that much thought in it.
I’m guessing it’s a Jurassic World related thing.
That makes more sense.
I assume it’s a Henry Cavill thing where he had a much bigger mustache for a Mission Impossible film.
Chris Pratt is going to be in Mission Impossible? Huge if true.
“Thor is also expected to return, but it remains to be seen as to when–or which version, after Thor: Love And Thunder introduced Natalie Portman’s Jane Foster as the Mighty Thor.”
So, um, you haven’t seen Thor: Love and Thunder, have you?
“Wasting Time” was an appropriate name for that inessential scene.
Got a few good chuckles but yeah I can see why they cut it. I like that his axe literally starts to take root.Anyway, why would Star Lord need to ride it? He has jet boots!
Why are people complaining that a deleted scene was bad? Isn’t it good that a dull scene was deleted?
Would have been better if they had deleted the whole frigging movie.
I don’t think I’m rude enough for this website anymore.
Uh, editing that out was the correct move.
Note Stormbreaker was blade up when Mantis climbed on, but was blade down when StarLord was hoping on? Yeah, I wouldn’t want to sit on that blade!!