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Warning : SPOILERS below forThor : Ragnarok !
Thor : Ragnarokreturns the God of Thunder to the Marvel Cinematic Universe . Thor ( Chris Hemsworth ) has n’t been get word in the MCU since he left Earth at the ending ofAvengers : Age of Ultronto hunting for the Infinity Stones . ( Spoiler alert : He did n’t find any , as he himself updates us at the start ofRagnarok . ) Thor has definitely been missed but as we see inRagnarok , he belong through a mickle of changes in his third movie . By the end ofRagnarok , Thor is omit a span of key part of being Thor , yet he seems overall well than ever .
Not only did Thor himself vary , but Thor ’s return brings with him a whole bunch of pregnant shifts to the status quo of the MCU . With the frame continuing towards next year’sAvengers : Infinity War , let ’s look at the major revealsRagnarokunleashed that have irrevocably altered the MCU :
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THE END OF ASGARD
In the firstThor , we learned that Earth is called Midgard , one of the Nine Realms of the macrocosm with Asgard as its crownwork jewel . According to Norse mythology , Ragnarok is the event that stimulate the end of the god and the demolition of Asgard . In the MCU ’s case , Asgard is preach to be destroy by Surtur ( voiced by Clancy Brown ) . Ragnarok is inevitable ; nothing Thor and theRevengersdo can ultimately save the realm of Asgard , but Thor and we memorize that Asgard is not a place - Asgard is its hoi polloi , whom Thor does economize , preserving his culture ’s history and legacy .
Odin ( Anthony Hopkins ) himself dies at the start ofRagnarokand infix Valhalla , but not before he reveals that Thor has an old sister , Hela ( Cate Blanchett ) , the Goddess of Death and Odin ’s eldest . Hela and Odin together conquered the Nine Realms and made Asgard what it was until two fundamental events happened : Hela wanted to keep snuff it and conquer the entire universe of discourse while Odin decided he ’d had enough of subjection and want to govern as a benevolent king . Odin banished Hela for rising up against him and kept her imprisoned for countless millennium ; only his liveliness force actually kept Hela at bay but Odin has make the end of his retentive living .
So now , Odin is get , but Thor has accepted the throne and his fate as business leader . The Asgardians outlive in a ship heading for Earth . until they ominously encountered an enormous ship that dwarf theirs in themid - credit entry sequence . Marvel Studios PresidentKevin Feige confirmedthat this ship belongs to Thanos ( Josh Brolin ) , position up the forthcomingInfinity War . As for why Thanos has decide to loom over Asgard , it has to do with something that Thanos want - something else that hold out the death of Asgard …
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WHAT WAS IN ODIN’S VAULT?
Once she returned to Asgard , Hela visited Odin ’s Vault , where some of the greatest and most powerful hoarded wealth in the MCU are kept . This is Easter testis central : in the vault is a fake Infinity Gauntlet ; the Casket of Ancient Winters , which belonged to the Frost Giants and was bring out in the firstThor;the Crown of Surtur , which Thor had lay in the vault at the beginning ofRagnarok ; Odin ’s Eternal Flame , which is what Hela was after so she could resurrect her gargantuan wolf Fenris and her Berserker regular army of the dead ; and the expectant one : the Tesseract , which is also the Space Infinity Stone .
Later , Loki ( Tom Hiddleston ) also entered the vault and stopped in his tracks at the survey of the Tesseract while on his agency to find the Crown of Surtur . Once revive , Surtur put down Asgard and Odin ’s Vault along with it . But what of the Tesseract ? WhileThor : Ragnarokdidn’t explicitly deal with the Infinity Stones - to the chagrin of many MCU fans , Ragnarokwas devoid of any solution to the mystery story of the omit 6th Infinity Stone , the Soul Stone - Thanos ' ship bug the Asgardians ' ship has to be because Loki swiped the Tesseract before Asgard meet its end . Thanos must have come to collect the Space Stone .
“THE SUN’S GETTING REAL LOW”
No wonderJoss Whedon lovedThor : Ragnarok . Taika Waititi ’s moving picture show a fortune of veneration for Whedon’sAvengers : Age of Ultron . This is n’t surprising since Thor and the Hulk ( Mark Ruffalo ) missedCaptain America : Civil War(and do n’t seem to be cognisant the Avengers even split apart),Age of Ultronwas the last time we realize either of them . There were scads of callback toAge of UltroninRagnarok :
The most screaming one was Thor using the words Natasha Romanoff ( Scarlett Johansson ) used to say to cool off Hulk down and get him to revert back to being Bruce Banner -“Hey fully grown guy , the sunlight ’s pose real low … “- and reaching out to come out his palm in Hulk ’s outstretched palm . We found out that Hulk , who Nick Fury ( Samuel L. Jackson ) believed fly the coop to an island in the South Pacific on instrument panel a Quinjet at the conclusion ofAge of Ultron , had actually fallen into a wormhole and break up on the planet Sakaar . Hulk never transformed back to Banner and remained the Hulk for about two yr ( of Earth time - peradventure more as fourth dimension on Sakaar move differently ) . When Hulk lastly retrovert back to Banner , the first thing Banner asked about was whether the Avengers deliver Sokovia .
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However , the Quinjet remained inviolate in one of Sakarr ’s junkyards . Thor tried to activate the Quinjet ’s systems with voice bidding , but to his chagrin , it would only key Thor as " Point Break " - Tony Stark ’s ( Robert Downey Jr. ) sobriquet for him - as opposed to " Strongest Avenger " , Stark ’s codification for Hulk . The recording of the video recording Natasha post Hulk to get him to fall home at the end ofAge of Ultronwas record on the varan . Luckily for Banner , there was also a memory cache of Tony Stark ’s wearing apparel for him to bear . Tony ’s pants may have been too fuddled for Banner , but somehow Tony anticipated Banner hold out them because they managed to commute size and not shoot down off solely when Banner became the Hulk on Asgard .
AROUND THE MCU
Ragnarokwhisked us from the nether domain of Surtur to New York City , where Thor remains very popular and open to posing for selfies with attractive human ladies . utter of human madam , however , it seems to be common knowledge that Thor and Jane Foster ( Natalie Portman ) havebroken up(who give way up with whom bet on who you ask ) . Thor and Loki both suffer Doctor Stephen Strange ( Benedict Cumberbatch ) for the first time - a foresighted adaptation of the mid - cite scene inDoctor Strange- before Strange send them to Norway to recover Odin .
When Thor lands on Sakaar , he finds himself an unwilling competition in theContest of Champions- gladiatorial engagement staged by the Grandmaster ( Jeff Goldblum ) , one of the Elders of the Universe and the crony of the Collector ( Benicio Del Toro ) , who was seen inGuardians of the Galaxy . The being who in person gives the captured Thor a haircut is the Watchers ' Informant ( Stan Lee ) whom we last saw fall out with the other Watchers in one ofGuardians of the Galaxy Vol . 2 ’s end - deferred payment scenes and was yelling out of a Queens , New York flat window inSpider - Man : Homecoming .
Loki ’s panicked reaction to seeing Hulk as the Grandmaster ’s undefeated fighter was priceless . The retention of his encounter with the green goliath inThe Avengersis something the God of Mischief will never forget as long as he lives . So his delightfully yelling"That ’s how it feels!“at Thor when Hulk grabbed Thor by the legs and bashed him around like a rag skirt as he did to Loki was understandable - and redeem one ofRagnarok ’s biggest laughs .
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THOR V HELA
Hela wreaked havoc all over Asgard and she did n’t spare many majorThorcharacters her wrath . Besides Thor himself , of the original cast of Asgardians from the previous picture show except for Frigga ( Rene Russo ) , who was already drained , and Sif ( Jaime Alexander ) , who is n’t inRagnarok , only Heimdall ( Idris Elba ) survived . Helamurdered the warrior Three- Fandall ( Zachary Levi ) , Volstagg ( Ray Stevenson ) , and Hogun ( Tadanobu Asano ) - as before long as she arrived in Asgard , and we watch in flashback that Hela had in the distant past tense killed all of the fabled Valkyrie but one ( Tessa Thompson ) .
Thor himself suffer greatly at the hands of Hela . The first affair Hela does after returning from ostracism is smash Thor ’s magical hammer Mjolnir . Though Thor dismantle up his power and tapped into new way to let loose his might as the God of Thunder , Hela remained too substantial for Thor to defeat . She even pull out Thor ’s right eye , just like Odin lost an eye - a veryStar Wars - like move repeat Luke Skywalker lose a hand and becoming more like his father Darth Vader . Thor never gets his hammer back inRagnarokand he only has one heart now , but that at least give him something in common with Nick Fury .
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