Waititi says he took more visual cues from his source material than story beats.
"None. I didn’t really read any. I started reading a few but I got too overwhelmed,"

"We looked at Planet Hulk and then the other one was God of Thunder. But we mostly took the visual stuff from comics, going through saying 'That looks cool. That looks cool.' I wasn’t taking storyline or characters, because my strength is tone and character and dialogue."

"I also wanted some ownership over the franchise, in a way that I couldn’t get on the other Marvel franchises," the director continued. "[Thor] is the franchise that has the least amount of identity. Like, it sort of doesn’t know what it is yet. So I came in saying, 'Well it could be THIS.' So, I ignored the source material and even the first two films and tried to do my own thing."

Así que no, ese personaje ni es Thor ni nunca se propuso que lo fuere. Como adaptación idiosincrásica es temible. Dadle las vueltas y justificaciones gratuitas que se os antoje. Palabras textuales de Waititi, por cierto.
Otra cosa, muy diferente, es que os complazca. A ese respecto, nada que objetar.