How Thor: Ragnarok Makes INFINITY WAR Possible

WARNING : This clause hold potential SPOILERS forThor : Ragnarok

Marvel may be set to finally do justice to the god of thunder inThor : Ragnarok , but make no mistake : while the film will be a victory for Thor , it will also leave the Marvel Universe vulnerable to Thanos and theInfinity Warclose behind . Fans have eff for some sentence thatRagnarokwould prepare the stage for the nextAvengersadventure , with wizard Chris Hemsworth going so far as sayingyou’ll ask to seeThor 3to understandInfinity warfare . But what fans may not have view is that beneath the carnage , the escapade , the death , and the cosmic rock and ringlet ofRagnarokis disarray , waylaid warrior , replaced royal family , and potentially monumental death tolls .

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By now Marvel has show that their hero sandwich will almost always come in out on top , and better for having overwhelm their obstacles . But the same can rarely be tell for the larger world of the MCU.The Winter Soldierreduced S.H.I.E.L.D. to rubble , Age of Ultronplanted the seeds of doubtfulness that madeCivil Warpossible , separate Earth ’s heroes and leave their planet more vulnerable to an exotic onset than ever before . And the ball is already roll forAvengers 3 .

Before Thanos makes his move , there ’s a realm called Asgard - a planet of powerful , godlike being devoted to protecting Earth - to be dealt with first . And withThor on track to become King of Asgard , the Asgardian army could arguably render the Avengers overkill for even the most fearsome exotic menace . Which is whyRagnarokseems to be removing another massive piece from the table … by destroying Asgard . At least , the version MCU fans have come to know so far .

Ragnarok is The ‘Winter Soldier’ of The Cosmic MCU

Marvel moving picture fans who ’ve been continue up with our reportage and interviews from the set ofThor : Ragnarokknow that some BIG changes are on the way . And no , we ’re not referring to Chris Hemsworth ’s haircut . Director Taika Waititi has foretell a journey and cease for Thor thatMarvel can " never go back " from , while the rest of what we know about the celluloid draw doubt on the musical theme that Thor will emerge purely victorious . As we ’ve explain elsewhere , the evidence seems strong thata belovedThorcharacter will die inRagnarok , call for Thor bring order to the cosmos as the true drawing card of Asgard .

But just likeCaptain America : The Winter Soldiermade Steve Rogers an even more effected hero , and left Earth more vulnerable , Ragnarokproducer Brad Winderbaum enounce Thor ’s own pace forward comes with a price . In this pillowcase , say arrivederci to the protection Asgard brought to Marvel ’s cosmic field :

In Winter Soldier we soften down some of the real fundamental ideas about the MCU that you took for granted , specifically S.H.I.E.L.D .. I suppose that also in phase one , we lay down this cosmology that involved Asgard and Odin , and sure mind of things that you just thought were eternal and could never convert . And what this film does is it breaks them down in a very similar direction [ to how ] Winter Soldier break down S.H.I.E.L.D ..

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Much like Winter Soldier choose a tidy sum of ideas off the playing field of operation to make it firmly on the Avengers in Ultron , [ Ragnarok is ] a similar thing . The whole cosmic man of the MCU was … you had Thanos , and you had Chitauri , and you have threats from above come . But you also have Asgard , you also have these protective forces out there too … we make it much hard for those protections to come help our heroes as we enter [ Avengers 3 ] .

Had the Marvel cosmic creation look its guardians removed afterAge of Ultron , Thanos would have a patty walk . luckily , Ragnarok ’s novel Thor is smarter than ever before . As Marvel has now officially confirm , Thor spentCivil Warhunting Thanos and the Infinity Stones , make the sapience of cosmic order , pandemonium , villain , and protectors that you would anticipate fromthe succeeding King of Asgard .

It ’s possible that Thanos the Mad Titan has engineered the entireness of the fate which betide Thor , Loki , Odin , and the people of Asgard . If that ’s true , then it ’s potential he ’s been clearing the board for his onset upon Earth and the cosmos at large foryears . In which case … Thor ’s solo serial relaunch may be short - live .

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