When fans heard Led Zepplin's "Immigrant Song" used in Thor: Ragnarok's trailer, most assumed the Asgardian's tale couldn't get any more metal. The latest Marvel Cinematic Universe installment, Thor: Love and Thunder, proved them wrong. When crafting Ragnarok, director Taika Waititi utilized 1970s style, rock and pop culture to give the film a distinct style and tone from the rest of the MCU. In Love and Thunder, Waititi used every tool in his arsenal to take his story into the next decade by crafting the perfect homage to the bygone era of films made in the 1980s.

The movie is riddled with references to one of the most out-there decades in history, from its Guns N' Roses obsession to its many wild hairstyles. In turn, Waititi made a fun film that doesn't take itself seriously and is a callback to family flicks like The Neverending Story and E.T. that simply aren't made anymore. Let's discuss what tributes Waititi made to the decade he spent his childhood in and how it influenced the story seen in Thor: Love and Thunder.

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Guns N' Roses Helps Craft Love and Thunder's Tone

Thor stole Zeus' lightning bolt to fight Gorr in Love and Thunder

It's probably not a stretch to say that Taika Waititi must've been listening to 1987's Appetite for Destruction on repeat while writing Love and Thunder. In addition to showing Chris Hemsworth flexing his muscles, Thor: Love and Thunder flexed its budget by having not one, not two, not three, but four Guns N' Roses songs on its soundtrack. Each song is placed perfectly and does a stellar job of elevating both the humor of the moment and the film's overall. From "Welcome to the Jungle" greeting the audience in the first action sequence to the "November Rain" solo screaming overtop the final battle, it's clear that Slash's riffs had a major influence on Waititi. So much so that he even renamed Heimdall's son Axl after the band's founder.

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Thor Love and Thunder Splits

In the first action sequence of Love and Thunder, one piece of stunt and fight choreography elevated the movie's '80s homage from good to next level. While fighting with a group of alien bird pirates, Thor stops two of their vehicles in a stunning jump split. There's no way this isn't a nod to one of the greatest action heroes of the 1980s, Jean-Claude Van Damme. The Belgian actor made his ability to knock out two bad guys at once with his show-stopping splits a staple of his films. While this moment may have flown over some fans' heads, it made those who love cheesy '80s action flicks cackle in their seats.

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The Costumes Are Glam Rock-Inspired

Thor in casual clothes in Love & Thunder

If Thor: Love and Thunder's soundtrack didn't make its influences clear enough, the costumes certainly did the job. The Waititi Thor films are filled to the brim with overstimulating vibrant colors. And no time in Rock N' Roll history embodies this flamboyancy more than the Glam Rock era. Two costumes that convey the style most are Thor's Ravager outfit and his main blue, gold and red suit. His ravager outfit is straight out of a Guns N' Roses music video and even comes with the authentic leather squeak as he moves about. When Thor sees Jane in her Mighty Thor outfit for the first time, his helmet is quite gaudy by comparison. This exuberance draws a lot of parallels to the intense outfits bands like Kiss and Twisted Sister would dawn on stage in their heyday.

Thor's Viking Ship Pays Homage to a Tom Cruise ClassicThor Love and Thunder Goat Boat

This nod to the 1980s may have been the most subtle of the bunch but is certainly the most appreciated. On the ship Team Thor uses to traverse the galaxy, there is a bright neon sign above the gally's entryway. That sign reads "Cocktails and Dreams" and refers to a 1986 Tom Cruise classic, Cocktail. The film is one of Cruise's most outlandish flicks that doesn't involve stunts as it follows a young bartender trying to start a life in New York City. In Cocktail, Cruise begins his career at the first ever T.G.I. Friday's on the Upper East Side of New York and makes his way from bar to bar while saving up cash to open up his own. Spoiler alert: he does. That bar's name? Cocktails and Dreams, of course.

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The Screaming Goats Are an '80s Thor Comic Staple

Thor's goats Toothgnasher and Toothgrinder in Love and Thunder.

It was only a matter of time until Thor's trusty goats, Toothgnasher and Toothgrinder, made a live-action appearance in the MCU. While the two kids were introduced in 1976 during a Marvel Comics Thor run by creators Steve Englehart and John Buscema, they were major staples throughout the 1980s. The goats are utilized in the comics very similarly to how they are portrayed in Love and Thunder, as they would often pull Thor's chariot from adventure to adventure. However, the two "trusty steeds" weren't a creation from the minds of Englehart and Buscema. Their origins actually date back to Norse Mythology, with the two goats, Tanngrisnir and Tanngnjóstr, being the ones who would be not only Thor's ride but also his meal every so often.

To see Taika Waititi's love for the '80s on full display, Thor: Love and Thunder is in theaters now.