Thor: Love and Thunder is a 2022 Australia/US film by Taika Waititi Starring Chris Hemsworth, Natalie Portman and Christian Bale
Thor enlists the help of Valkyrie, Korg and ex-girlfriend Jane Foster to fight Gorr the God Butcher, who intends to make the gods extinct.
Malaysia: Banned by the film censor in August 2022
Disney likes to add a little preachy moralising about gay positivity and this film is not an exception with a couple of minor script references. Korg (Taika Waititi) mentioned his two dads and briefly ending up with another male Krogan.
The other reference was the female character, Valkyrie, taking an interest in a concubine of Zeus. Malaysia's Deputy Communications and Multimedia Minister Zahidi Zainul Abidin spotted the gay references and said that he would continue to look out
for LGBT content that would continue to censored in future. The film censor did propose that cuts could be made to secure a release but Disney declined and the film was formally banned.
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