The Mighty Thor

Jane Foster

Played by Natalie Portman

Jane Foster is an astrophysicist who first encountered Thor after he was banished to Earth, and the two fell in love over the following years despite the distance between his world and hers. Diagnosed with terminal cancer, she found that lifting the reforged Mjolnir purged the disease from her body and granted her Thor's powers, transforming her into the Mighty Thor, though the strain of wielding the hammer ultimately hastened her death. Read more →

First turns up in Spider-Man 2.