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  • When Korg tells Thor's story in the beginning, Thor can be briefly seen wearing his classic costume from the comics.
  • Thor has a variation of the Ravagers' red jacket with a matching pair of boots on. This gives him a notable resemblance to Eric Masterson a.k.a. Thunderstrike, the Thor from the '90s.
  • Thor's gaudy blue and gold armor hearkens not only to his classic costume, but also his Battle Armor forged from Damascus Steel.
  • A shot of Thor and Korg looking at the corpse of Falligar the Behemoth is a near-perfect recreation of a panel from Thor: God of Thunder #3.
  • A literal one to Norse Mythology: the Warrior God Tyr also famously sacrifices an arm to protect Asgard as Lady Sif did in the film, albeit he willingly gave his to placate Fenris the titanic Sky-Eating Wolf (Loki's son in mythology), whose MCU equivalent was already slain by Hulk in Ragnarok, from eating Asgard (the MCU version also already having been obliterated by Surtur the Fire Giant).
  • Another literal Mythology Gag as the concept of Thor having a daughter (played by Chris Hemsworth’s real daughter) is actually quite true to Norse myth where Thor has a daughter with Sif called Þrúðr.
  • As the Mighty Thor, Jane Foster wields a badly cracked Mjölnir, a nod to the War of the Realms, where she pieced together the shattered Earth-1610 version of Mjölnir to temporarily become Thor again.
  • As in Thor: God of Thunder, Gorr gets the Necrosword from the corpse of a dark god clad in black armor (though this dark god is unlikely to be Knull) and uses it to kill a golden-armored god.
  • Gorr and the Necrosword draws their power from the Shadow Realm, which in the comics was first introduced in Marvel Spotlight as the home dimension of Mister E and other shadow-men; with King in Black retconning it to be the primordial void that existed before the universe, and from which Knull created the symbiotes — including All-Black the Necrosword and Mister E.
  • To literal Mythology again: The tour boat is pulled by two goats, Tanngrisnir and Tanngnjóstr — localized as "Toothgnasher" and "Toothgrinder" — who pull Thor's chariot in Norse mythology. The side says "Aegir Asgard Tours". Aegir is a Jotunn personifying the ocean. Thor's line about eating them may be a reference to the fact that in mythology he did — repeatedly, as he would resurrect them the next day.
  • Another literal Mythology Gag: the blood of the Greek gods is golden, referencing the Ichor from Greek Mythology.
  • The Mighty Thor arrives at the final battle riding Val's pegasus. In Jane Foster: Valkyrie, she gets a winged horse of her own.
  • In The Stinger, Zeus sends Hercules to get revenge on Thor. Herc and Thor are frequently portrayed as rivals in the comics, with Herc's first appearance being an issue of Thor in which he starts a fight with the Odinson for basically no reason.
  • When Thor and the Guardians begin receiving numerous distress signals regarding Gorr's deicidal rampage, one of the on-screen images shows a room full of dead gods hanging from chains. Thor comes across that very sight in person while investigating Gorr's killing spree in Thor: God of Thunder.
  • Following his and Korg's discovery of Falligar's corpse, Thor encounters a wounded Sif in the same way young Thor came across Hinkon while tracking Gorr in Thor: God of Thunder. Unlike Hinkon, however, Sif lives to fight another day.
  • When Thor is imploring Omnipotence City to fight Gorr, Zeus states they aren't a "god police". In the comics, Omnipotence City does in fact have a police squad that King Thor will be a member of before he becomes Allfather in his timeline.
  • Thor erroneously has Nick Fury misnamed as "Nick Furry" in his phone contacts, which could be a reference to Fury's Spider-Ham counterpart, a bear named "Nick Furry".
  • One of the gods on Omnipotence City looks like the attired form of Amatsu-Mikaboshi.
  • Sif's Asgardian armor is lifted straight from the comics, complete with a headpiece and fur-lined cape.

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