Christian Bale even admits MCU movies are "kiddie"

“He's a highly religious character at the beginning with tattoos displaying his piousness, and then he becomes disillusioned with that, and then literally just mutilates himself to get rid of that,” Bale explains in a new interview with IGN.
An interesting bit of trivia, perhaps, but apparently Thor: Love and Thunder went so far as to actually include the scene in which Gorr cuts out his tattoos. Ultimately, though, it was perhaps a bit too much for a family-friendly superhero film,

“It was perhaps a little bit too extreme to be included in the film, but there was a lot of wonderful stuff that we shot. But you know that as an actor. You always know, hey, you're going to experiment. Some things can work, some things don't, and we want this to be a family film. My kids love it,” Bale says.

While the movie itself was a selling point, it was ultimately Bale’s kids that sealed the deal. He said, “There were some potential scheduling conflicts. I said to my family, ‘I don’t think it’s going to work out,’ and they went, ‘No, you make it work out. You’re doing this, Dad.’ They gave me my marching orders, and I dutifully obeyed.”
In fact, he told Entertainment Tonight that “This was the first time that I kids had really paid an interest in my choices.” That interest clearly paid off, not only because their dad took the role of Gorr the God Butcher, but because the Bale children got to actually be in the film as well.

Chris Hemsworth confirmed this in a recent video interview, revealing that Love And Thunder was a full family affair. His own son briefly appears as a young Thor, while his daughter plays a character called Love. He added, “Taika had his children in there. Christian Bale had his. Natalie had her kids as well.” Marvel really is fun for all ages!