How did Thor lose one eye and have it returned before Love And Thunder was born?

After first appearing in the MCU in 2011, Thor is one of the longest-standing characters in the Marvel universe and it goes without saying he’s seen his fair share of action in that time.

Thor has even lost an eye for his efforts but fans heading to the cinema to see Thor: Love And Thunder have been left with questions as the God of Thunder’s eyes are seemingly back to normal in the latest Marvel entry.

How did Thor manage to get his eye back in front of Love and Thunder?

*WARNING: Spoilers ahead for Thor: Ragnarok and Avengers: Endgame*

How did Thor lose one eye?

Thor’s eye was damaged in Thor: Ragnarok 2017, while he was fighting with his sister, Hela.

After Odin’s death, Hela, the Goddess Of Death, was cast as the villain in the third Thor movie. This allowed her to escape from the prison where she had been held captive for many years.

She quickly conquered Asgard and claimed its throne. After some antics on planet Sakar, Thor returns to confront her in a dramatic finale confrontation.

Hela strikes Thor with the sword during battle, causing him to lose his right eye. This mirrors what happened to Odin their father.

Thor leaves the film after a climactic battle with darkened wounds. Thor then receives an eye patch. This is the look that he will carry into Avengers: Infinity War.

How did Thor get his eyes back?

In Avengers: Infinity War Thor was given a new bionic eye by Rocket Racoon.

Thor is left floating in the air after Thanos attacks the Asgardian vessel at the beginning of the film. The Guardians Of The Galaxy then arrive to inspect the wreckage.

They bring him onboard and quickly put a plan together to stop Thanos, with Thor travelling to Niðavellir with Rocket and Groot to have a new weapon forged.

Rocket realizes Thor must be at his full strength to defeat Thanos and gives him the bionic replacement. He also reveals that he stole the bionic from a Contraxia member with whom he had won a bet.

Thor takes some time to get used to his orange left eye.

As fans noticed in Thor: Love and Thunder, the bionic eyes have now changed their colour to match the original.

Love and Thunder fans discuss the new eyewear

Despite only being a minor detail, fans have quickly picked up on the tweaks to Thor’s appearance in Love and Thunder.

One Twitter user wrote: “They never explained how Thor’s right eye magically went from orange to blue all of a sudden.”

Another person echoed this message: “I hate that they ditched Thor’s orange eye from Infinity War and Endgame. It was a really nice tribute to Heimdall. Really just feels like nobody notified Taika about it and he never noticed it in the films.”

This fan believes Thor shouldn’t get his new eye. “I sort of wished MCU kept Thor having an eyepatch.”

“No one ever talks about it, but Thor losing an eye has to be the most pointless thing to be written in Thor Ragnarok just to get a new one in the next movie,”This fan commented.

Another Twitter fan wrote: “Worst thing they did was make Thor’s right eye blue again.”

“So did they just forget Thor lost an eye or what?”This fan wrote.

The fan finally pondered the cause of the eye-colour changes: “So in Infinity War, Thor gets a new eye from Rocket but it’s a brown eye and in Love And Thunder both his eyes are blue again so I wonder if they’ll explain it or if he just didn’t want to wear contacts in one eye.”

Marvel Studios‘ Thor: Love And Thunder is out now in cinemas after releasing in the UK on Thursday, July 7, 2022 and following in the US on July 8.

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