Avengers: Infinity War
On the set ofThor : Ragnarok , manufacturer Brad Winterbaum went on recordcomparing the third Thor movie to 2014’sCaptain America : The Winter Soldier . “ Much like wintertime Soldier take a lot of estimate off the playing field of honor to make it hard on the Avengers in Ultron , [ Ragnarok is ] a like thing , ” said Winterbaum . “ The whole cosmic world of the MCU was … you had Thanos , and you had Chitauri , and you have threat from above coming . But you also have Asgard , you also have these protective forces out there too … we make it much hard for those protections to make out help our heroes as we recruit [ Avengers 3 ] . ”
The comparison ’s a braggart one to make because , away fromWinter Soldierbeing so beloved , that movie really changed a lot for the Earthbound wedge . We saw the downfall of the organization S.H.I.E.L.D. to the terrorist group Hydra ( who ’d infiltrated American politics to the upper echelons in a longfield coup over decades ) . The status quo for Captain America , Iron Man and co. was irrevocably altered , forcing them to become more accountable as the Avengers and transfer the web of resources they antecedently had at their disposal .
In dividing line , Thor ’s outings have infamously had very minimum effect on the MCU as a whole . Despite introducing us to the Odinson , Loki and the city of Asgard , neither late episode add together much to the overall canon apart from a few Easter eggs for comics sports fan . The cosmic side , which was Thor ’s “ realm ” when he first joined the Avengers , has since taken over by theGuardians of the Galaxymovies , both of which have manage with the hulk menace of Thanos and the closed book of the Infinity Stones much more directly .
Looking at it literally , the consequences are obvious : Asgard has been destroy , displacing thousands of hoi polloi and leave them stranded with Thor , Heimdall , Loki , Hulk and Valkyrie onboard a starship . Tragic as this is , it ’s very in - keeping with the comics as , like the movie , a prophecy foretells the dying of Asgard for it to be reborn again . The ancient city engages in a cycle , over and over , with this being just another rebirth for the realm . The film avoids going into the loftier mythology bond to this ( primordial organism fee off the vim emit by Asgard ’s destruction - it ’s weird ) but it does play into the musical theme that Asgard is something more than a city with the phrase “ Asgard is not a place , it ’s a multitude ” .
Thor , like Steve Rogers in the secondCaptain America , finds himself without the safety meshwork he ’d grown used to . Now he holds the throne for a universe front to him to find where they ’ll start building Asgard afresh . Setting a course for Earth , the only other safe place Thor can suppose of , their ship isintercepted by Thanos ' per the post - credits scene . Although this may have surprised many interview members , it was hard hinted in the picture show thatLoki has stolen the Tesseractfrom Odin ’s vault . Loki plays nice at the end , but this is the trickster God we ’re talk about , and a former employee of Thanos ' . The likely apparatus is that Loki took the Tesseract thinking Asgard ’s destruction would provide enough of an alibi , and Thanos chase after the vim of the outer space stone therein to their ship .
This all feed into the deeper recital one can take from the movie . In Norse lore , Ragnarok refers to a “ Twilight of the Gods ” ( or “ Doom of the Gods , ” depend on the interpretation ) . There ’s a lot of history confiscate to the term that points to different strains of European folklore , but the really relevant part here is that it ’s the fall of the established order , go away only a few left to lead off reconstruct . As per the root account , a series of event go to a great battle in which many of the Gods are kill and the known world is submerged . Only two stay on , then , to regrow the man ’s population once again . It ’s not a stretch to think of Marvel ’s heroes , the Avengers and the Guardians , as a set of pseudo - deity that have taken it upon themselves to protect the universe from evil . And consider we ’re coming up to 20 movies since the firstIron Manin 2008 , one could say we ’re almost overdue for our groovy fight .
Sure , it may be arrogant for Marvel Studios to force such a direct line between their cinematic universe and real Gods , but who ’s to argue when the integral modern movie landscape is ape their construction to try and replicate their achiever ? Most of the newspaper headline characters are home brands now . Hel , Thor : Ragnarokhas alreadymatched the universal gross of the first flick , and it ’s only been out a hebdomad . That ’s pretty God - like . And when you consider the route we ’ve taken to get here , and all the discussion about what Marvel will do next or what shapeInfinity WarandAvengers 4will take , it ’s surd to believe that we ’re actually about to find out .
IfRagnarokaccomplishes just one matter , it ’s take a shit it clear that affair are about to exchange and the Marvel Cinematic Universe as we know it is startle to shift . Nothing is consecrated and that includes our favorite heroes . The MCU has start to burn , and some will exit , whether out of necessity to the level or because the actors desire to do other things . But some will survive and they ’ll set about putting together the next chapter and new torpedo and villains will form new stories and explore new place . After all , the MCU is n’t a masses , it ’s a place , and it must be reborn for in truth prosper .
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