Chris Hemsworth Drops Major Hint About Thor's Future After Avengers: Doomsday

Chris Hemsworth has been swinging the hammer for a decade and a half, outlasting most of his original Avenger pals. He is already locked for Avengers: Doomsday, and if you thought that might be the farewell tour, he would like you to know the thunder is still rumbling.

Thor is sticking around

On the SmartLess podcast, Hemsworth said he has "a couple more times" left as Thor beyond Doomsday. One of those is Avengers: Secret Wars. Another potential stop is a fifth solo Thor movie, which Marvel could push forward if the stars align.

Why he still likes playing with lightning

Fifteen years is a long time to play anyone, but Hemsworth points to the way the character has shifted under different directors as the thing that kept it fun. Kenneth Branagh started him in mythic Shakespeare mode. The Russo brothers let him loosen up and try new approaches. And Taika Waititi detonated a comedy grenade with Ragnarok. Hemsworth even compared it to his tattoos — if it all looked the same, he would get bored — so he keeps pulling Thor in new directions.

He said he spoke with Kevin Feige about the audience now expecting big swings with Thor, and teased that the team already has ideas to make the next chapter feel genuinely new.

The Love and Thunder lesson

Of course, pushing the tone only works until it doesn’t. Ragnarok’s reinvention landed. The follow-up, Love and Thunder, swerved further into silliness and split fans right down the middle. Hemsworth gets it.

"[Love and Thunder] was kind of like a Monty Python sketch, and we took the piss probably a little much... There was this real kind of, 'Why is he a goofball and why is it like this?' And [audiences] violently offended."

That read as a course-correction alert. Experimentation stays on the menu, just with a tighter grip on the tone.

Where you will see him next

• Avengers: Doomsday — Hemsworth returns as Thor on December 18.
• Avengers: Secret Wars — he says this is one of the appearances after Doomsday.
• Thor 5 — not a lock, but it is very much in the conversation.

"A couple more times" is the plan, and he is already talking about making the next one feel "pretty unique again."

Bottom line: Thor is not hanging up the hammer. Hemsworth still wants to mix it up, Marvel is open to more dramatic turns, and the next time we see the God of Thunder, expect a fresher swing — closer to Ragnarok’s spark than Love and Thunder’s self-parody.