Film / Thor: Ragnarok

"It's a long story, but basically I'm a bit of a hero. See, I spent some time on Earth, fought some robots, saved the planet a couple times. Then I went searching through the cosmos for some magic, colorful Infinity Stones. Didn't find any. That's when I came across a path of death and destruction which led me all the way here . where I met you."

— Thor

Thor: Ragnarok is the 2017 sequel to Thor and Thor: The Dark World, and the 17th overall film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe as well as the fifth entry of Phase 3. It is directed by Taika Waititi, with a score by Mark Mothersbaugh.

After the return of Hela, a ruthless, ancient being who had been imprisoned millennia ago, Thor Odinson finds himself and his not actually dead brother Loki marooned halfway across the universe on Sakaar, a Landfill Beyond the Stars—and without the source of many of his powers, his mighty hammer, Mjölnir. On the bright side, after being forced into the Gladiator Games of the planet's eccentric ruler, the Grandmaster, Thor discovers the games' greatest champion is. the Hulk, of all Avengers!

Now Thor, along with Hulk, fellow gladiators Korg and Miek, and a fallen Asgardian Valkyrie — and Loki — must escape the Grandmaster�s clutches and find a way back home, before Hela brings an end to Asgardian civilization once and for all.

The film directly leads into the opening of Avengers: Infinity War, and has a later 2022 sequel picking up on a number of unresolved plot threads from Ragnarok, Thor: Love and Thunder.

Thor: Ragnarok provides examples of:

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• The '80s: All the music and the atmosphere of the film is made in the spirit of the '80s.
• Aborted Arc:
  • An example this is initially played straight on the film's release, but averted later on when Avengers: Infinity War rolls around. Avengers: Age of Ultron set up Thor's reason for leaving Earth again (he had to investigate the Infinity Stones and the threat looming ahead). In the beginning sequence, Thor explains that he's still been looking. and hasn't found a single one years after starting his search. After this is explained, Thor finds himself too preoccupied with his current situation to worry himself with finding them, and they aren't mentioned until the climax of the film, when the Tesseract/ Space Stone is shown locked away in Odin's vault. Avengers: Infinity War confirms Loki steals the Tesseract/ Space Stone before Asgard is destroyed (which was only implied in this movie), and in the first after-credits scene the surviving Asgardians are confronted by Sanctuary II, leading directly into Avengers: Infinity War . Ironically, in putting his search for the stones on hold, he misses another one right under his nose as Doctor Strange is wearing the Eye of Agamotto during their meeting, A.K.A the Time Stone.
  • A downplayed case is when Bruce realizes that when he Hulks out he's no longer partly in control, having spent two years trapped in the Hulk. He's worried that if he transforms again he'll never return. He does Hulk out for the final fight, but other than Banner doing some quick math in his head before he transforms, nobody else including Thor brings this up again. The ending subtly alludes to this arc when Bruce is still Hulked out in his final scene
  • As Ragnarok ended up being a soft reboot for the Thor series, several major threads from Thor: The Dark World are quickly tied up in the first act. The original plot for Ragnarok would have involved a more sinister Loki pulling a Kill and Replace on his father as hinted at the end of the previous film, but this was changed to Loki just exiling Odin — banished but unharmed — to Midgard to pave the way for Loki's anti-hero upgrade. The more hellish apocalypse vision from Age of Ultron, implied to be of Thor's doing and originally to be continued here, was shifted to a different threat with Hela. For the canvas of supporting characters, the Earthbound characters were hand-waved away while Lady Sif and the Warriors Three are dispensed with, with no mention of Sif and the latter killed off in a matter of seconds .
  • Right before shit hits the fan, Thor, Odin, and Loki have a peaceful talk in Norway.
  • Amidst all the colorful chaos and space battles, Thor and the Hulk sit down and have a quiet, friendly conversation where they bond over their similarities.
  • Valkyrie, obviously, as one of Odin's elite soldiers. As well as the rest of her Valkyrie sisters in her flashback.
  • There's also a few shots showing Asgardian women with swords, and some are seen fighting in the battle at the end which is not surprising considering the Proud Warrior Race mentality of Asgard.
  • Karl Urban plays Skurge, who is also known in the comics as The Executioner.
  • An interesting case with Jeff Goldblum. Taika Waititi claims they didn't give the Grandmaster blue skin because they didn't want to seem like they were doing a Shout-Out to Earth Girls Are Easy.
  • Korg suggests a three-pronged spear for Thor to use for the Contest of Champions. However, he dismisses it as useless, unless it's used against three vampires that are huddled together.
  • Matt Damon, who took on the role of the Loki actor in Loki's stage play about his "death", played a disgraced angel called Loki in Dogma.
  • Odin is actually more impressed that Loki managed to trap him on Earth than anything else, praising his adoptive son with belief that Frigga, who taught Loki magic, would be proud.
  • Thor can't help but chuckle when Hulk describes himself as a raging fire, and Thor as merely a smoldering one.
  • Thor openly smiles when Loki refuses his proposal to talk, dryly commenting, "Open communication was never our family's forte."
  • In the The Mighty Thor comics, Hela and Fenris are jotun (giants) as the children of Loki. Here they are Asgardians instead since they are no longer related to Loki by blood, Hela is a biological daughter of Odin while Fenris is merely listed as an "Asgardian wolf".
  • In the original Norse Mythology, Fenris is a giant wolf despite being the offspring of Loki and a giantess (another of their children is Jörmungandr, the Midgard Serpent). Hela is named Hel and looks basically human, except that one half of her face looks alive and the other dead.

  If you need even more intergalactic, world-saving action, Thor: Ragnarok in November brings together Thor, the Hulk, and Doctor Strange to face off against intergalactic baddies both familiar and new.

  The Barber: Now, don't you move. My hands ain't as steady as they used to be.
  Thor: [angrily] By Odin's beard, you shall not cut my hair. lest you feel the wrath of the mighty Thor!
  [the barber unfurls a set of whirling blades of death from his wrist]
  Thor: [meekly] Please! Please, kind sir, please don't cut my hair.

  Morrison: We've actually added an awful lot of dog performance into the dragon. We've made it so when he picks up Thor in the beginning and shakes his head, it's like a dog picking up a squeaky toy. Except instead of a squeaky toy, it's a god.

  • Hela takes over Asgard by killing everyone who would oppose her and claims the royal palace for herself.
  • Hela, Skurge, and along with some resurrected Asgardian warriors, invade the ancient stronghold where the Asgardian refugees are hiding. Fortunately, all-seeing Heimdall was aware of the incursion and the refugees had already escaped.
  • Loki, possibly, in regards to Valkyrie. Just look at the expression on his face when she pins him up against a wall. He also gazes at her slightly awed while being tied up.
  • Thor is also a bit of a fanboy when it comes to the Valkyries, and is visibly impressed when Valkyrie downs an entire bottle of alcohol in seconds.
  • Banner, when Valkyrie is revealed in her armour standing next to a massive gatling cannon, just stares in wonder, and even before that he gushes about how "beautiful and strong and brave" she is. And don't forget he used to crush on Black Widow.
  • The Grandmaster is full of compliments for her contender-catching skills and looks terribly pleased with himself when she pats him on the cheek.
  • Thor: The Dark World and the subsequent invoked Flip-Flop of God made it unclear if Loki actually killed Odin or if he just imprisoned him. This movie reveals that Loki imprisoned Odin on Earth.
  • It's left somewhat ambiguous as to whether Hela is actually dead or not. The last we see of her is when Surtur covers the land in fire and plunges his sword through her and then the ground, seemingly causing her to explode into green energy, and then Asgard itself to implode. Logic says that this should have killed Hela, but seeing as she has been shown as being virtually indestructible throughout the film (shrugging off a soldier who impaled her), this could be a case of Never Found the Body. This has likely been done deliberately so that the character can appear in the MCU again, if necessary.
  • Fenris the Wolf, was defeated by Hulk throwing her off the edge of Asgard. However, Loki himself survived this fate in the first film.
  • The film or its tie-in merchandise never addresses who Hela's mother is even though Thor calls Hela his half-sister.
  Loki: I have been falling for THIRTY MINUTES!

  Banner: In the past, I always felt like Hulk and I each had a hand on the wheel. But this time it's like he had the keys to the car and I was locked in the trunk.

  Loki: I swear, I left him right here.
  • Hela's victory would mean anything from "Planetary/Species Extinction" to "Planetary/Physical Annihilation" for any of the nine realms given how she's looking forward to "drenching them in blood", and has the power to make good on that plan.
  • Asgard itself suffers a "Planetary/Physical Annihilation". Hela has grown more powerful than anyone, but because her power is tied to Asgard, Thor decides to unleash Surtur so he can fulfill his destiny of destroying Asgard down to its foundations .
  • Fire appears prominently throughout the film.
  • In a movie focused on the Throne of Asgard, Thor routinely finds himself forcibly strapped to large, grand-looking chairs. Until he finally takes his place as king in the captain's chair of Asgard's escape vessel.
  • "Asgard isn't a place, it's a people."
  • Thor has been called "God/Lord of Thunder" throughout the film. His realization that the powers of lightning and thunder are inherent to him and not granted by Mjölnir is what finally allows him unleash his full power and turn the tide of the Final Battle in his favor.
  • Thor is told that he's "Home" many, many times in many, many different locations. This is related to Odin's words that Asgard can be anywhere — thus, Thor can be "home" anywhere.
  • In the Asgardian play that Loki commissioned and, as confirmed by Word of God, wrote himself, the in-universe actor who portrays him apologizes to actor Thor for "trying to rule Earth", for "that thing with the Tesseract". and for "that time I turned you into a frog".
  • After losing Mjölnir, and being banished to a strange planet and forced into a Gladiator-like competition, the one thing that upsets Thor the most is that he is getting his hair cut.
  • When Skurge is showing off his matched M-16 rifles, Des & Troy, he appears to aim right at his guests. The girls don't seem put out, but they also don't seem to fully realize what's being pointed at them.
  • When Thor and Loki get their hands on a pair of laser blasters, they wave them around as casually as if they were harmless toys. Then again, to Asgardian princes, they might be.
  • When Skurge finally arrives on foot to announce Thor's return to Asgard, after Thor has already revealed Loki's deception, Loki yells "You had one job!"
  • Loki's Oh, Crap! reaction to seeing The Hulk in the ring could be an acknowledgement to the many jokes and memes that came out after The Avengers regarding Loki being deathly afraid of The Hulk after being the victim of his Curb-Stomp Battle.
  Korg: [kicking at the illusion] Piss off, ghost!
  • Look at the masks that the trash tribes wear on Sakaar.
  • The ship Thor and co use on Sakaar is named after the Holden Commodore, and is painted in the colours of the Aboriginal Australian flag. "Warsong", Valkyrie's ship, is painted in the colours of the Māori flag.
  • A line from Topaz in the Grandmaster's chamber "Tell her she's dreaming" is taken from quotable Australian classic The Castle.
  • Thor and Loki find Odin in Norway, just as he's about to die of old age which allows Hela to return from her exile kicking off the main plot of the film.
  • Due to the element of surprise, Hela kills Fandral and Volstagg of the Warriors Three as soon as she arrives on Asgard. Hogun manages to put up a fight later before being killed as well.
  Hela: I'm not a queen, or a monster. I'm the Goddess of Death. What were you the God of, again?
  • Thor gives Surtur a Pre-Asskicking One-Liner right before summoning Mjölnir, though he mistimes it and it takes a couple seconds for it to reach him. Thor asks Surtur to give him a moment.
  • As he is leaving Doctor Strange's manor, Thor summons Mjölnir (in the form of an umbrella), and it again takes several seconds for it to reach his hand. This time, things are getting knocked down and glass is breaking as it travels through Strange's manor. Thor awkwardly apologizes as he's waiting for it to get to him.
  • In Valkyrie's introduction, she has a typical badass's entrance, taking a long slug from the liquor bottle in her hands before strutting down the ramp of her spaceship, but she drunkenly stumbles and falls off the side instead.
  • Hela introduces herself to Hogun and the armies of Asgard with a grandiose speech about her origins and her intent to bring Asgard back to its former state as a Multiversal Conqueror civilization and offers them the chance to join her. Hogun rebuffs her and tells her that whoever she is, she should leave Asgard be.
  Hela: "Whoever I am?" Did you listen to a word I said!?
  • Doctor Strange uses his own sorcery to out-maneuver Loki by trapping him in a pocket dimension. When Loki is released, he is livid and challenges Strange's standing as a sorcerer implying he is "second-rate". The film avoids a direct confrontation between these two magic users by having Strange shove Loki and Thor through a portal to Norway.
  • During their escape from Sakaar, Thor anticipates Loki's betrayal and secretly plants an obedience disc on him beforehand. He then delivers a Kirk Summation to him about his lack of growth and predictability.
  Thor: This is not possible!
  Hela: Darling, you have no idea what's possible.
  • Big Creepy-Crawlies: Miek is a maggot-like alien in a robotic suit and at one point seems to be laying eggs.
  • Big Damn Heroes:
    • Subverted when Valkyrie comes to save Thor who is overwhelmed by the trash tribes only to sell him to the Grand Master turning it into a Villainous Rescue.
    • Loki arrives with Korg, Miek and the rest of the gladiators Just in Time to save Heimdall and the other Asgardians from Hela's troops .
    • Skurge's Heroic Sacrifice, stepping up to hold off Hela's army while the evacuation is completed .
    • The Hulk isn't exactly patient and doesn't even wait for his arena door to fully open or the Grandmaster to properly introduce him — he just batters through the entrance with a mighty roar.
    • Loki, true to form, makes sure to draw all the attention to himself when he returns to Asgard with the gladiators, standing on the ramp of the Statesman with his arms stretched out shouting "Your savior is here. "
    • Hulk and Thor, respectively, not that Thor would acknowledge it but Hulk gladly does so with "You tiny Avenger!"
    • Korg and Miek. To the point where Korg accidentally steps on Miek, and feels very guilty about it.
    • The Asgardian playing Thor in the Greek Theatre�inspired play when he mourns "Loki's" death scene.
    • Thor, when the barber at the Grandmaster's arena is about to cut his hair.
    • Thor and Bruce, when Topaz shoots at Valkyrie's ship, causing it to explode, and they believe she has been killed for a second.
    Loki: YES! That's how it feels!
    • When Thor gets thrown around by Hulk in the arena, he slams one of his swords into the ground to cease his momentum.
    • During the escape from Sakaar, Valkyrie jumps from spaceship to spaceship to incapacitate them and plants her sword in one of them to prevent falling off.
    Thor: [to Loki] She didn't dump me, you know, I dumped her. It was a mutual dumping.

    Thor: [whispering] Tell him.
    Loki: I've never met this man in my life.
    Thor: He's my brother!
    Loki: Adopted.

    Thor: You and I had a fight recently.
    Bruce: Did I win?
    Thor: No. I won. Easily.
    Bruce: That doesn't sound right.
    Thor: Well, it's true.

    • After Thor has the spectacularly bad judgement to say, "I wouldn't worry, brother. I feel like everything is gonna work out fine.", their ship is approached by a much, much larger ship with ominous music thundering in the background. Cut to credits.
    • The Grandmaster exits a crashed ship and finds himself surrounded by the people of Sakaar, still in the process of an uprising . He declares the revolution a tie. Cut to black.
    • The movie begins and reaches its climax with Surtur .
    • "Immigrant Song" by Led Zeppelin plays during the fight scenes from the same beginning and climax scenes. The scenes themselves would qualify, as they both involve Thor kicking all kinds of ass. The scenes also meaningfully and nicely contrast:
      • In the first, Thor is having fun, in the second he's nice and pissed off.
      • The colour scheme goes from warm to cold hues.
      • One scene emphasises circular movement and has Thor surrounded, the other is built along a straight line.
      • The first has Thor alone, the second with many witnesses, with multiple reaction shots to Thor's big entrance.
      • Most importantly, the first fight is fought to stop Ragnarok, the second — to bring it about.
      • The first two Thor films had prologues narrated by Odin that provided exposition on the film's villain and the MacGuffin they had or desired. This film's Cold Open dives straight into the story with Thor being held in a cage after Surtur captures him (however, it also sets up Surtur's fully-powered form as the Chekhov's Gun that will be used to defeat Hela ). This is rather justified if you consider that at the beginning of the film, the real Odin is missing.
      • Unlike the first two, Loki does not have a Disney Death, or any brush with death whatsoever, and is still at Thor's side at the end of the film (however, it is implied that he is keeping the Tesseract to use as a bargaining tool with Thanos) .
      • Regarding the MCU as a whole, this is the first MCU appearance of the Hulk without Tony Stark (as either The Cameo in the other's movie or as part of an ensemble). Banner does find the man's clothes in the Quinjet, though, and gets to wear them for the majority of his screentime.
      • Early in the film, Thor is transported back to Asgard via the Bifröst and accidentally brings a dragon head with him, resulting in Heimdall's room and all within being coated with muck. Later, when Hela arrives from Earth the same way, Skurge is busy mopping the place up, and he quickly claims that he's the janitor.
      • Korg introduces himself with a line about not wanting to hurt anyone — unless you're scissors, in a Rock�Paper�Scissors joke. At the end of the film, he horrifiedly (and mistakenly) thinks he's killed the knife-handed character, Miek — i.e. that "rock" has defeated "scissors".
      • During the final battle, when Thor, Valkyrie, and Loki try to figure out how to face off against Hela, Loki says he is not doing "Get Help".
      • Loki, despite knowing that Hela has been unleashed on Asgard, adapts this attitude as he begins to forge a new life for himself as a member of the Grandmaster's inner circle on Sakaar. When Thor arrives later, Loki attempts to convince his brother to take a similar stance. However, Thor, as the hero, completely rejects this option.
      • Valkyrie (a.k.a. Scrapper-142) only survived Hela's massacre of her fellow women warriors because a loved one sacrificed herself to save her. This tragedy left Valkyrie embracing this attitude and retiring to Sakaar to drink herself to death. As Loki, she tells Thor to forget about the Asgardians, but he refuses to do so.
      Thor: Loki, look who it is!
      Loki: I have to get off this planet. Thor: Damn you, Stark. Thor: ". A wise king never seeks out war. "
      Hela: ". But must always be ready for it!"

      

      
      

    • Near the climax, Banner decides to turn into the Hulk by jumping out of the spaceship he's in, remembering he has used the trauma of crashing into the ground after jumping out of a plane for his final transformation in The Incredible Hulk. Unfortunately, he forgets that it took several seconds for him to transform back then too, causing him to splat into the Rainbow Bridge and just lay there for a few seconds, much to Fenris and the Asgardian people's utter confusion.
    • When Thor and Loki first encounter Hela, she surmises the former to be the son of Odin, musing "you don't look like him." She comments that he looks much more like Odin after she gouges out his right eye in the climax.
    • Banner tries to convince Thor that he can be a help without the Hulk, citing his seven PhDs to the Hulk's zero. While they and Valkyrie are escaping Sakaar, Thor tells Banner to put said PhDs to use, only for him to complain that none of them are in flying alien spacecraft.
    • In The Avengers, Loki tricked Thor with an illusion of himself in the prison cage aboard the Helicarrier, then sneered "Are you ever not going to fall for that?" While they're escaping from the Grandmaster's world, Loki tries to slip away and leave just an illusion of himself walking beside Thor. This time, Thor doesn't fall for it.
  • The Cameo:
    • Scarlett Johansson appears as Black Widow in a replay of her video message from the end of Avengers: Age of Ultron.
    • As usual, Stan Lee makes an appearance, this time as the barber who prepares to give Thor a haircut.
  • Cameo Cluster: Matt Damon, Sam Neill, and Luke Hemsworth are the Asgardian actors portraying Loki, Odin, and Thor, respectively, in a dramatisation of Loki's life. Ironically, all three were runners-up for the roles in the MCU that they are portraying in the play.
  • Canis Major: Fenris is a giant wolf large enough to swallow a man whole.
  • Casting Gag: In the Asgardian play Thor witnesses upon arriving to Asgard, the "actor" playing the God of Thunder is Chris Hemsworth's brother invoked Luke Hemsworth. And this isn't the first time Matt Damon has played someone called Loki.
  • Casual Danger Dialogue: Thor and Loki casually chat with each other while fighting off Sakaarian guards and typing in the stolen security codes.
  • Catch and Return: As she chases behind Thor and Loki inside the Bifrost beam, Hela catches the dagger Loki throws at her and flings it right back at him, knocking him out of the Bifrost.
  • The Cavalry: When Hela's undead soldiers are about to overwhelm the Asgardians on the Rainbow Bridge during the Final Battle, Loki and the rebel gladiators appear with the ship from Sakaar to defend and evacuate the people.
  • Central Theme: Self-reflection. Who the characters really are and can they leave the past behind? This is depicted in the repeated use of mirrored reflections and captured images such as: when the display in the Quinjet showing a panicked Hulk aligns with Bruce Banner's face, when Loki and Valkyrie walk over a highly reflective floor and their image turns upside down, when Thor looks at the remains of the painting of his former self or when Thor contemplates his one-eyed reflection in the mirror of his chamber on the Statesman.
  • Cerebus Retcon: Odin's harsh decision to banish Thor and strip him of his powers in the first movie takes on a much different context once you learn that his firstborn child, Hela, had to be imprisoned after she turned against him . Rather than a father simply punishing his rebellious son and trying to teach him some humility, it now becomes a father trying to stop his second child from turning out like his monster of an older sibling .
  • Changed My Mind, Kid: When Thor heads back to Asgard with Hulk and Valkyrie, Loki instead heads off on another ship with the liberated gladiators. Later, when Hela's undead troops cut off our heroes and all the Asgardian refugees from escape through the Bifröst, Loki and the gladiators show up as reinforcements and provide the ship as a ticket off of Asgard.
  • Change the Uncomfortable Subject: Thor decides to just drop the idea of visiting Miek's home planet at the end of the film after asking where it is leads Korg to go on an utterly strange Cloudcuckoolander tangent.

    Thor: Miek, where are you from?
    Korg: Oh, Miek's dead. I accidentally stepped on him on the bridge, and I've just felt so guilty I've been carrying him around all day.
    [Miek wakes up]
    Korg: Miek, you're alive! He's alive everyone! What was your question?
    Thor: Earth it is.

    • Thor never wanted to rule Asgard and is shown being strapped into various throne-like chairs throughout the movie. At the end, he willingly steps into the big chair (the captain's seat on the refugee vessel) to lead his people.
    • Loki's Chronic Backstabbing Disorder has become so predicable even Thor can see it coming a mile away. When ruling Asgard in Odin's guise, he's more interested in eating Grapes of Luxury and whitewashing his reputation than ruling the Nine Realms. However he takes leadership of the rebels and leads them to Asgard for the final battle, when he could have just run for it.
    • Having spent two years as Hulk, the Big Guy has become a bit more articulate, and has come to realize he prefers his life on Sakaar as opposed to Earth where he is hated and feared. He shown enjoying himself as the Grandmaster's champion.
    • Odin started as a bloodstained conqueror, but came to regret his actions and ruled as The Good King instead. Hela on the other hand refused to change which is why no-one on Asgard wants her in charge, even Thor who doesn't want the position and accepts that she has the right to rule.
    • When Thor and Hela charge at each other in the throne room, the camera cuts away to Heimdall leading the people over the Bifrost.
    • A few seconds after Loki, Korg and the other gladiators join Heimdall in the fight against the Berserkers, the scene cuts to Thor and Hela on the balcony of Asgard's palace.
    • While Thor is held captive in Muspelheim, Surtur narrates that bringing his helmet to the Eternal Flame in Odin's treasure room will restore him to his true form and let him destroy Asgard. This is exactly how the climax (and Hela) ends .
    • A literal case. Skurge is first shown at the Bifröst showing off his collection of stolen items to two Asgardian girls. He shows them two M-16s, claiming that he stole them from "Tex-arse". After a Heel Realization, he performs a Heroic Sacrifice by using these guns to protect the Asgardian refugees from Hela's forces .
    Thor: Hello!
    Loki: Hi. Thor: Get help! Please! My brother, he's dying.
    • The Grandmaster exhibits all of his actor Jeff Goldblum's odd Verbal Tics, seems incapable of getting names right, calling Thor "Lord of Thunder" and his home "Ass-berg", and seems to have a constantly laid-back attitude no matter the situation — including disintegrating a man, having his champion kidnapped by "the criminally seductive Lord of Thunder", or being stuck in the middle of a rebellion by his "prisoners with jobs".
    • Korg feels that he failed in a previous revolution attempt because he didn't print enough pamphlets, tries to attack an illusion he confuses for a ghost, and does numerous other extremely odd things. Despite being a Rock Monster and prison boss, he's the most laid-back character you could meet.
    Korg: Hey, man. We're about to jump on that ginormous spaceship. You wanna come?

    Topaz: The arena's mainframe for the obedience disks have been deactivated, and the slaves have armed themselves.
    Grandmaster: [uncomfortable] I don't like that word.
    Topaz: Which? "Mainframe"?
    Grandmaster: No. Why would I not like "mainframe"? No, the "S" word.

    • Skurge isn't called the Executioner, though Hela uses the word several times and asks Skurge to serve as one for her.
    • Inverted with Valkyrie, who is only called by that name (or Scrapper 142 by the higher-ups in Sakaar), while her real name (Brunnhilde in the comics) is never mentioned.
    • In previous movies, Bruce generally referred to his alter-ego as "The Big Guy" or "The Other Guy". Here, both Thor and Banner openly use the name "Hulk".
    • The Grandmaster takes the place of Red King as the ruler of Sakaar and the ringleader of the gladiatorial games.
    • Hela's backstory of having been imprisoned many years ago and freed during the present day is taken from Cul, Odin's brother from Fear Itself. She also catches and shatters Thor's hammer like Cul did to Captain America's shield. Skurge the Executioner is subservient to her, when in the comics he served the Enchantress. An executive producer mentioned her Spontaneous Weapon Creation was taken from Gorr the God Butcher. Her identity as Thor and Loki's long-lost sister is taken from Angela.
    • While captured on Sakaar, Thor plays a similar role to the Silver Surfer in the Planet Hulk series (and Beta-Ray Bill in the animated adaptation). He is forced to take part in the gladiatorial fights and meets Hulk there, even mentioning to their captors that the Hulk was his friend on Earth.
    • Valkyrie's place as an enforcer in the Grandmaster's entourage (as well as her costume) takes inspiration from Caiera the Oldstrong from Planet Hulk.
    • The Revengers is the name of several incarnations of evil Avengers, while the MCU version is more akin to The Defenders with the inclusions of Hulk and Valkyrie, as well as Doctor Strange's inclusion in the film.
    • Mjölnir's Arrow Cam is a nod to itself in Thor, this time against fire giants instead of frost giants. The shot of it from above is one to Yondu's arrow in Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2.
    • In the opening scene, Thor references having fought robots on Earth, a nod to Avengers: Age of Ultron.
    • Thor mistimes his "heroic escape moment" because Mjölnir doesn't arrive when expected, just like Tony waiting for the Mk 42 armor in Iron Man 3.
    • Thor remarks that sometimes one needs to be captured in order to get a straight answer out of someone, which recalls Black Widow's first scene in The Avengers.
    • Thor briefly puts Mjölnir in the mouth of the dragon from Muspelheim to prevent it from moving, similarly to how he put the hammer on Loki's chest in Thor.
    • Doctor Strange mentions that Loki is on a watch list for potential threats to Earth, and outright asks Thor what Loki's doing in New York City (again).
    • Just before Odin dies , he mentions that he can hear his wife Frigga calling to him from the afterlife, referencing her death at the hands of Malekith back in The Dark World. He also tells Loki that Frigga would be proud of him for managing to bewitch Odin for so long, which references Loki's close relationship to his mother.
    • When Thor meets Korg, he instantly recognizes him as a Kronan, as he previously fought a Kronan marauder near the beginning of The Dark World.
    • Hela goes through Odin's treasure room, which was originally seen in the first film. She dismisses most of the artifacts as weak (including the Casket of Ancient Winters from Thor). She even knocks over the Infinity Gauntlet seen from the first film, proclaiming it a fake (which also serves to resolve the Plot Hole of that Gauntlet appearing to contain all of the Infinity Stones in Thor, while later Marvel movies, from Captain America: The First Avenger on, all show the Infinity Stones as being at large in the universe, and Thanos not only on the hunt for them but in possession of the Gauntlet he intends to place them in). She is impressed by the Tesseract, the actual Infinity Stone in the room, though.
    • Thor's gladiatorial helmet uses same collapsing technology as Star-Lord's mask and Gamora's sword.
    • Thor mentions Hulk is "a friend from work," referencing them being on the same Super Team in The Avengers and Avengers: Age of Ultron.
    • When Bruce first appears after having been stuck as the Hulk for two years , he asks about Sokovia and is under the impression that the fight with Ultron either just recently happened, or is still ongoing.
    • While their relationship isn't expressly stated (in the comics they're both Elders of the Universe and consider each other brothers), Goldblum's Grandmaster purposefully evokes Benicio del Toro's Collector. They even have similar hairstyles and facial markings.
    • Sakaaran soldiers dressed like those manning the Dark Aster in Guardians of the Galaxy can be seen every now and again throughout Sakaar, particularly the second post-credits scene.
    • Valkyrie mentions Xandar from Guardians of the Galaxy as one of the planets they could escape to via a portal.
    • When Thor sits down in the cockpit of the Commodore, he mutters to himself "All right, I can figure this out. It's just another spaceship", referencing the time he operated a Dark Elf ship in Thor: The Dark World.
    • The mural is shown in the Asgardian throne room of Odin and Laufey signing a peace treaty.
    • Like in the first Thor, Loki is involved in the destruction of one of the nine realms and the plan is referred to as madness. While Loki's failed attempt to blow Jotunheim to oblivion is called such by Thor, this time, it's Loki himself who considers the plan madness as he successfully brings about the Ragnarok .
    • Banner tries to transform into the Hulk to stop Fenris who is charging at the Asgardian civilians. At first he fails, face planting onto the Bifrost, and Fenris continues her attack. But right before she reaches the Asgardians, she gets pulled back by her tail by the Hulk.
    • Heimdall is kicked down by a Berserker but right before he can strike Heimdall with his sword, he gets blasted away revealing Korg and Miek standing behind him.
    • Valkyrie's heavily armed gunship looks pretty awesome, is a powerful asset for dogfighting other ships, and has a cool hover mode which turns it upright so the pilot can use the open cockpit as a viewing platform.
    • The heroes' stolen ship — actually the Grandmaster's luxury yacht — is sleek and shiny, befitting its purpose of a leisure ship. It lacks weapons, but its supremely powerful Deflector Shields allow it to tank shots and even an Asteroid Thicket with nary a scratch.
    • Several of Hulk's fights, which include the enormous green rage monster vs. an alien Thunder God, a giant wolf, an army of armored skeleton warriors, and a 50-foot tall fire giant.
    • The God of Thunder, the God of Mischief and the last of the Valkyries all vs. the Goddess of Death is itself a fairly badass battle between near-elemental forces.
    • Finally, the Goddess of Death herself vs. Surtur.
    • Director Taika Waititi voices Korg, one of Hulk's allies on Sakaar. He also did the stop-motion for Surtur.
    • Stan Lee has his usual cameo, as he has in every MCU installment to date, this time as a barber delivering Thor's Expository Hairstyle Change .
    • The recorded greeting to Sakaar says things that almost sound friendly but are full of dark implications and backhanded reassurances in a voice that seems soothing but isn't quite right.
    • Loki briefly speaks this way (while wearing a straight face) when he greets Banner, unnerving him.
    Valkyrie: Because, we're gonna die, so, drinks!
    • Thor completely owns Surtur and his demonic army in the Action Prologue.
    • Hela annihilates everyone who dares to oppose her at any point in the story, be it a current event or some off-screen battle observed in a flashback. Among the most notable examples are her invasion of Asgard and what she did to the Valkyries during her first reign of terror.
    • The scavengers that pester Thor on Sakaar don't stand a chance in hell against the massive anti-ship firepower of Valkyrie's gunship .
    • Once Thor and his posse break free from the Grandmaster's grasp, they carve through the opposition without any problems worth mentioning. This includes Valkyrie and Thor ripping spaceships apart with their bare hands .
    • While the final battle as a whole rages back and forth for a while, the various individual fights often boil down to one side utterly dominating the other.
    • Thor and Hulk share this contrast when they do battle on Sakaar.
    • Hulk takes on the David position when he goes up against Fenris, then later against the massive Surtur.
    Loki: You had one job.

    Hela: When I was young, every great King had an executioner. Not just to execute people, but also to execute their vision. But mainly to execute people.

    • Skurge says that he has named his assault rifles "Des" and "Troy". 'Cause when you put 'em together, they "Destroy."
    • Korg tells Thor that he doesn't have to be scared of him unless he is made of scissors, and then explains that that was a rock-paper-scissors joke.
    • Among the replacement weapons Thor picks up are a pair of short swords.
    • During the gladiator battle, Hulk initially wields a massive hammer and axe to match.
    • Skurge is quite proud of his dual machine guns from "Tex-arse."
    • Loki often has two daggers.
    • Hela can conjure weapons at will. When she isn't throwing them at her opponents, she often has one in each hand during melee combat.
    • Loki. The Asgardians aren't that angry at him even after duping them as "Odin" for years. Justified though as Thor takes Loki away from Asgard right after exposing him, and when Loki returns it's as a genuine hero saving his people, rather than the fake hero of his propaganda play.
    • Thor lets Valkyrie off easy despite her being directly responsible for his imprisonment on Sakaar and having a history of bringing the Grandmaster contenders for his arena. Justified in that he is more concerned with stopping Hela and Valkyrie has a change of heart and comes to his aid.

    Odin: Even when you had two eyes, you'd see only half the picture.
    Thor: She's too strong. Without my hammer, I can't—
    Odin: Are you Thor, the God of Hammers? Hmm?

    Grandmaster: Why are you handing me the melt stick? He was interrupting, that's not a capital violation!

    • Surtur rules over Muspelheim, a world populated by demons and dragons, and his destiny is to bring about Ragnarok thus destroying Asgard.
    • The Grandmaster is the hedonistic ruler of Sakaar who stays in power by keeping the populace in line and distracted with Gladiator Games.
    • Hela, once she is freed from her prison, becomes the tyrannical dark queen of Asgard with her army of undead Berserkers at her beck and call.
    • The Hulk usually has noticeable curls, but his hair has been cropped in the two years he's spent as a fighter.
    • Valkyrie wears her hair up for most of the film. When she dons her traditional armor and finds a reason to fight , she wears her hair loose.
    • Thor gets his long locks cut for the gladiator arena, much to his blubbering dismay.
    • Odin, as usual, has his eyepatch.
    • Thor also gets an eyepatch of a similar design to Odin's.
    • In the prologue, Surtur tries to make a big speech about how destroying Asgard is his destiny, but the chain Thor's dangling from keeps spinning him away from Surtur, forcing the villain to stop monologuing until Thor turns around again. Shortly afterwards, Thor tries to make a Pre-Asskicking One-Liner to Surtur while breaking free from his restraints by summoning Mjölnir to him, but times it wrong and has to wait a few seconds for the hammer to get there.
    • When Valkyrie first appears, she starts to walk down the ramp of her ship. and then falls over, right off the side of the ramp and into the trash, due to being heavily drunk.
    • Thor attempts to escape Hulk's cell through a window, and throws a ball at it to break it while boasting to Valkyrie — only for the ball to merely dent the glass and bounce back in his face mid-quip.
    • In the climax, Bruce decides to become the Hulk again, tells Valkyrie she's about to see who he really is, and leaps onto the Bifröst. only to land very painfully, still entirely human.
    Loki: You had one job. Just the one!
    • Bruce Banner, emerging from two years at as the Hulk to find himself on an alien world. He is on the verge of a nervous breakdown from the moment he resurfaces until he lets the Hulk come back.
    • To a lesser degree, Thor while he's in Doctor Strange's Sanctum Sanctorum. The constant shifting of locations and drink offerings, keep Thor in a state of mild confusion during his stay.
    • When he first meets Strange, Thor holds out his umbrella in a vaguely threatening way. It makes the typical Mjöllnir sounds whenever he moves it around.
    • Just before the identity of the Grandmaster's Champion is revealed, green smoke is fired in the air. Also, if you look closely at the crowd, some of them are wearing Hulk masks and waving memorabilia.
    • This also happens in the finale battle with Hela. Just before the fight, Thor looks down at a piece of the mural she destroyed, which happens to be a painting of him. There's a crack through it that goes over the same eye he's about to lose.
    • Loki's use of "Beg your pardon?" can be seen as an alternative to this, given Hela just stole his line.
    • The Grandmaster switches from a smile to a confused, totally blank face after Thor responds to seeing Hulk with a Big "YES!". Moments later, when Thor slams the Hulk into the walls of the arena with his own weapon, the Grandmaster even utters a Flat "What".
    • Thor, Loki, Hulk, Valkyrie and Doctor Strange will all survive, given that they will all appear in Avengers: Infinity War.
    • For those who know the story of Ragnarök in Norse mythology, they were probably able to correctly assume that Asgard would be destroyed in some manner (although unlike in the myths, Thor and Loki survive) .
    • The use of Led Zeppelin's "Immigrant Song" is no coincidence, given that the Asgardians are searching for a new home at the end of the movie .
    • Why would Thor be carrying an umbrella? Why would he threaten Strange with it? Why would it make Mjöllnir's sound?
    • When Doctor Strange asks Thor for a lock of hair, Thor refuses and says his hair is not to be meddled with. Later on, Thor loses much more than one lock.
    • When Thor introduces himself to Valkyrie (whom he at that point only knows as "Scrapper 142") for the first time, he declares that he is "Thor, son of Odin." While other people outside of Asgard have no idea what this means or why it's significant, Valkyrie replies in an indifferent tone, "Many apologies, Your Majesty," hinting at the fact that she is actually Asgardian.
    • Hela is able to catch Mjölnir without being slammed down to earth, hinting at the later reveal that she was the hammer's original wielder.
    • While en route to the Grandmaster's garage, Thor gives Loki a firm pat on the back. In the garage, after Loki tries to double-cross him again, it's revealed that this was how he planted his containment disk on Loki's back.
    • In the opening scene, Surtur refers both himself and Thor as "Asgard's Doom". It may seem like a mistake at first, but come the climax Thor has Surtur reborn with the Eternal Flame to cause Ragnarok .
    • Loki pauses in the vault to take a look at the Tesseract.
    • When the Grandmaster introduces himself to Thor, you can see an out-of-focus, happily chatting Loki in the background for several seconds between cuts before Thor notices him and the camera focuses on Loki.
    • At several points throughout the movie, Miek is training (waving about his knife-arms) by himself in the background.
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    • The Gadfly:
      • Doctor Strange spends his entire appearance using his powers to keep Thor and Loki off-balance. Thor may have used calling Mjölnir as an opportunity to trash the Sanctum Sanctorum a bit as payback.
      • When Thor figures out that Odin is actually Loki, he describes Loki as "weasely and greasy". He later takes a swipe at Loki's choice of clothes.
      • Tony Stark manages to play this part without even appearing in the film. He programmed the quinjet computer to only respond to Thor if he identified himself as "Point Break". Based on Thor's reaction, one can almost imagine he programmed the computer to call Banner "Strongest Avenger" in the hopes that Thor would be there to hear it.
      Thor: No? Then why do you dress like one?
      • Generation Xerox: Thor shapes up to look like Odin near the end of this installment after the loss of his eye and assuming the leadership of the Asgardians.
      • Genre Shift: The first two Thor films had comedic moments but were much more serious in tone. This one embraces comedy like there's no tomorrow.
      • Genre Throwback: The story (especially when focused on Sakaar) is a loving pastiche of corny Saturday Morning Space Opera Cartoons such as ThunderCats and Silverhawks, down to the glam-rock Masters of the Universe inspired logo, tacky '80s decor, progressive-rock hairstyles, hair-metal style fashion, heavy-metal-pulp-novel Aliens, Mad Max style wasteland-rust-punk scavengers, psychedelic synthesizer score reminiscent of Vangelis, and chunkily-macho-looking spaceships reminiscent of the B-Movies of Roger Corman. Even Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory gets a nod with the tongue-in-cheek use of the song "Pure Imagination" as Thor is forced through the orientation/indoctrination tunnel. Mark Mothersbaugh was brought on to record the soundtrack for good reason.
      • Giant Equals Invincible:
        • When restored to full power, Surtur is the size of a mountain and pretty much unstoppable. Even Hela is incapable of defeating him and stopping the demon from destroying Asgard.
        • Downplayed with Fenris, she's a wolf the size of an elephant, and laser blasts barely slow her down — plus she can fight evenly with Hulk, though the latter ends up winning.
        • Loki says he knows exactly where Odin is. One brief bifrost later, they're looking at a construction site and Loki has no idea where Odin is.
        • Loki insists to Thor that they're not going to do the "Get help" routine because he thinks it's humiliating. Cue them doing the "Get help" routine (wherein Thor holds him acting limply for a bit screaming for help before Thor tosses him at the guards).
        • At the climax, Thor decides that it's better to release Surtur so he can destory Asgard than allow Hela to continue to grow in power .
        • On a smaller scale a little earlier when Banner decides to turn back into the Hulk to deal with Fenris on the Bifrost .

        Rubeo: Loki and his [blue] color when we first see him in Sakaar, it's because Loki is full of weakness. One of his weaknesses is to [associate] with the wrong people — many times in his life. And this time, he's [joined] the Grandmaster, who is some sort of like a tyrant. Loki's there, betraying his own people. While his people [on Asgard] are just suffering and trying to escape the waves of death from Hela, he's out there trying to find exile in a place that he feels safe to the cost of betraying his people, naturally. So he adopts the same kind of colors, which is uncharacteristic of him and of his actual [green-hued] costume. Then he goes back to his original costume when he finds his senses to help Thor and being a good brother again. As long as it lasts.

        • Like Loki before her, Hela has a predominantly green costume.
        • Loki himself wears much less green this go-around. At the beginning he wears his standard green Asgardian costume, but once he arrives in Sakaar, he picks up a dark blue outfit with occasionally a yellow cape. During the ending, he wears the same outfit but in a green colour scheme.
        • Guile Hero: Gone are the meathead days for Thor, he's learned his lesson about the failings of relying on just might and is now even outsmarting his own beguiling brother Loki.
        • Guns Akimbo: Skurge brings out his pair of with M-16s, "Des" and "Troy" against Hela's undead minions .
        • Guns Do Not Work That Way: The M16 rifle has a thin metal dust cover that folds up over the ejection port when the firearm is not in use, and gets knocked open by the bolt carrier either when the user chambers a round or when the weapon fires. The dust covers on Skurge's rifles can be seen closed, even as he's firing both on full auto. Spent casings are animated seemingly phasing through them. Also, while he does run out of ammo eventually, he fires far longer than the thirty round magazines would allow, and he's never shown reloading either gun.
        • Hand Signals:
          • Loki won't discuss his plan to dispose of the Grandmaster aloud, so he points with his hand at Thor, then at himself, and then gives "two thumbs up" with a smile. Thor only throws yet another stone at the illusion of Loki in reply.
          • In an extended scene, Grandmaster discusses several "universal signs" with Topaz after Loki and Valkyrie fail to understand his hand sign for "Go".
          Valkyrie: Do I know you? I feel like I know you.
          Banner: I feel like I know you too!

          Banner: So, last time I saw you, you were trying to kill everyone. Where are you at these days?
          Loki: It varies from moment to moment.

          

          
          

        • Heel�Face Turn:
          • Loki finally seems to have gotten his act together, working alongside Thor to defeat Hela and get the rest of Asgard's people to a safe place.
          • Skurge also pulls one in the final battle, though he is more of a reluctant Heel throughout the film.
          • Valkyrie enslaves Thor and spends a good chunk of the film zapping and impeding him, but finally joins forces with him.
        • "Hell, Yes!" Moment: Thor has been dumped on the planet Sakaar and is forced to duel against the Grandmaster's champion. He lets out the mother of all Big "YES!"-es when he discovers the champion is the Hulk.
        • Her Code Name Was "Mary Sue": Thor arrives in Asgard and finds Loki-as-Odin hosting a play that's a recap of Thor: The Dark World, only rewritten by him to depict himself as a Woobie who heroically saved Asgard. Thor is unimpressed.
        • Hero Killer: Hela makes short work of the Warriors Three.
        • Hero, Rival, Baddie Team-Up: Thor forms the Revengers with two of the most prominent members being Hulk (Thor's primary rival Avenger) and Loki (his brother and on-offArch-Nemesis). In order to escape Sakaar, the three are forced to set aside all past grudges and work together.
        • He's Back!: Thor has spent most of the movie Brought Down to Badass after Hela shattered his hammer, Mjölnir, forcing him to rely on his strength and warrior training. After being badly beaten and pinned down by Hela, he has a vision of Odin reminding him that he's not the God of Hammers, which allows him to fully harness his Shock and Awe abilities. He uses his powers to blast Hela with a huge bolt of lightning and take down dozens of undead mooks, turning the tide of the battle in his and his allies' favor. Bonus points in that the entire fighting sequence is backed by the second occurrence of the "Immigrant Song".
        • Hey, That's My Line!: Loki doesn't say it, but it's clear that his "Beg your pardon?!" means it when Hela orders him and Thor to kneel.
        • Hide Your Lesbians: Valkyrie is subtly hinted to be bisexual, with actress Tessa Thompson saying that the female warrior who died to save Valkyrie in a Flashback was her lover. There was going to be a scene confirming Valkyrie's sexuality by showing a woman leaving her bedroom, but it ended up being cut from the finished movie.
        • Historical Hero Upgrade: While disguised as Odin, Loki attempts to do this for himself in Asgard. He's had a statue of himself erected in his honor and recreating his "death" in The Dark World in a play, portraying his Heroic Sacrifice as much more noble and Narmy than it really was.
        • Homeworld Evacuation: It ends with Asgard's population fleeing as Surtur shatters the realm into an asteroid field.
        • Hope Spot:
          • During the Gladiator Match, Thor manages to daze Hulk with a haymaker, before trying to revert him to Banner with the same lullaby Widow used in Age of Ultron. Hulk seems to calm down, takes Thor's hand, everything looks great. and cue the Metronomic Man Mashing.
          • As everyone watches Surtur in his full power destroying Asgard , Korg gives hope to the people, saying that since the foundation rock Asgard is on looks strong, they can always rebuild it. and then even the foundation blows up.
          • At the end, after losing their home, Thor seems to have a positive outlook with the possibility of finding refuge on Earth, and is optimistic that everything is going to work out. Then Thanos's humongous Sanctuary appears.
        • Horny Vikings:
          • Loki apparently specified that the statue erected to him include his helmet "with the really big horns."
          • Later we see Loki actually using his horned helmet as a melee weapon.
        • Huge Guy, Tiny Girl: Hulk has struck up a friendship with Valkyrie. They even give each other nicknames that resemble the trope name.
        • Huge Holographic Head: The Grandmaster projects his entire body standing over his city, as tall as a skyscraper. Hilariously, he still talks in a normal, overly casual voice while addressing the city this way.
        • Hulk Speak: From the trope namer himself, who, up to this point, had uttered only eight words on screen ("Leave me alone," and "Hulk smash!" and, "Betty," in The Incredible Hulk, along with, "Puny god," in The Avengers). While Hulk is capable of carrying on whole conversations now, he doesn't use pronouns, to the point he even refers to himself in the third person. His sentence structure is simple but he oddly understands concepts like similes and metaphors and has a higher vocabulary than you'd expect, as shown in his exchange with Thor:

          Thor: We're the same, you and I. Just a couple of hot-headed fools.
          Hulk: Yeah, same. Hulk like fire, Thor like water.
          Thor: Well, we're kinda both like fire.
          Hulk: But Hulk like real fire, like raging fire. Thor like smoldering fire.

          • Thor smugly talks to Doctor Strange as if
          he is the one having to explain Midgardian technology to the "wizard":

        Doctor Strange: You don't have a phone.
        Thor: [like a know-all] No, I don't have a phone, but you could have sent an electronic letter, it's called an "email"!
        Doctor Strange: Yeah, do you have a computer?
        Thor: No, what for?

        Surtur: Thor, son of Odin.
        Thor: Surtur! Son of. a bitch! You're still alive!
        • The guns Skurge took from Texas, "Des" and "Troy".
        • Valkyrie's sword "Dragonfang".
        Loki: I've been falling. for thirty minutes!
        • Since Hela can conjure up all manner of weapons at will, her preferred attack when dealing with virtually any opponent is chucking a blade or spike into them from a distance, or stabbing them up close.
        • Hela herself is seemingly impaled and killed when Surtur plunges his gigantic sword into the ground to destroy Asgard. It could have also just crushed her entirely.
        • During Hela's massacre of the Asgardian soldiers, one of them manages to impale her from behind on his spear. She doesn't appear to notice, and carries on slaughtering everyone without missing a beat.
        Loki: YOUR SAVIOR IS HERE!

        Doctor Strange: [to Thor] You can handle him from here.
        [. ]
        Loki: Handle me? Who are you? You think you're some kind of sorcerer? Don't think for one minute, you second-rate.
        Doctor Strange: Alright. Bye bye. [sends Loki and Thor through a portal]

        • After Heimdall has been stripped of his position and golden armor he goes into hiding wearing a hooded cloak as he leads Asgard's citizens to safety.
        • Thor tries this as a Paper-Thin Disguise, but as Valkyrie points out it doesn't hide his face.
        • Skurge wears a hooded cloak to conceal himself aboard the Statesman. He throws it off when he decides to use his assault rifles to make one last stand against the Berserkers trying to board the ship.
        • Surtur is quick to correct Thor that his crown is not his eyebrows, and he grows as big as a mountain, not a house.
        • Thor calls Doctor Strange a "wizard" while Strange retorts that he prefers "Master of the Mystic Arts". Thor continues to refer to Strange as a wizard out of spite.
        • A recurring joke has the Grandmaster constantly refer to Thor as the "Lord of Thunder" with Thor insisting each time that he is the "God of Thunder".
        • The Grandmaster doesn't like the word "slave", preferring the term "prisoners with jobs". He even pauses his escape from the gladiator revolution to correct Topaz on the proper usage.
        • Thor promises Banner that he's never gonna have to think about the Hulk again. Cue them running into a street festival celebrating the Hulk.
        • At the end, as the protagonists are watching Asgard being destroyed by Surtur, Korg comments that as long as the foundations are holding up, they can always rebuild the place. Then the whole planet blows up before their eyes, and Korg meekly concludes, "Now those foundations are gone. Sorry."
        • In The Stinger, Loki confides to Thor that he is worried about going back to earth. Thor confidently tells him that he thinks everything will work out fine. Cue Thanos's ship showing up.
        Loki: YES! THAT'S HOW IT FEELS! Hela: Kneel.
        Loki: Beg your pardon?

        Play Loki: I'm sorry about that thing with the Tesseract. I just couldn't help myself. [. ] I'm a trickster!

        Hela: Kneel, before your Queen! Thor: We know each other! He's a friend from work!
        • Hela makes up for her long-term imprisonment by
        magnificentlyChewing the Scenery:
        • In her first meeting with Thor and Loki:
        Hela: Kneel.
        Loki: Beg your pardon?
        Hela: Kneel. before your queen. Hela: Oh, I've MISSED THIS! Hela: I'm not a queen, or a monster. I'm the Goddess of Death! Loki: [arriving in full battle regalia] YOUR SAVIOR IS HERE!!
        • Surtur chuckles to Thor that "Ragnarok has already begun." He's not wrong, it is the opening scene of Thor: Ragnarok.
        • Hulk's insistence that Thor is only "like smoldering fire" serves as both an Always Someone Better put down by Hulk and a meta reference to Thor being the MCU's designated Mr. Fanservice.
        • The scene where Doctor Strange and Thor are randomly teleporting around the Sanctum Sanctorum is basically "if Thor was fully aware of and disoriented by the editing."
        • Thor's dialogue with Valkyrie about her past includes a line about how "it's about time" there was a race of female warriors, reflecting public pressure on Marvel to produce a female-led superhero film. note At the time of the film's release, Captain Marvel was lined up for a 2019 release.

        Thor: Okay, let me get this straight. You're going to put your crown into the Eternal Flame, and then you'll suddenly grow as big as a house?
        Surtur: A MOUNTAIN.

        • Valkyrie calls Loki "lackey" when he confronts her over the fact that she's covering for Thor and the Hulk.
        • Thor calls Surtur's crown a tiara to his face.
        • Thor calls Doctor Strange a wizard, even after Strange tells him that "The preferred term is 'Master of the Mystic Arts'."
        • The Grandmaster keeps calling Thor "Lord of Thunder".

        Actor Loki: Build a statue for me.
        Actor Thor: We will build a big statue for you.
        Actor Loki: With my helmet on, with the big bendy horns.

        The Grandmaster: Why are you handing me the melt stick? He was interrupting. That's not a capital violation.

        • Most of the story transitions to Hela back in Asgard result in this. While she's not without her humorous moments, Hela is a Knight of Cerebus who takes over Asgard, massacres many of its people, and wants to become a Multiversal Conqueror. Thus her scenes conflict sharply when they're cut in between Thor's adventures on Sakaar, which are more overtly humorous and zany.
        • Thor and Loki's search for Odin begins with Loki remarking, "I left him right here," while they observe an elderly nursing home being torn down, and then they meet Doctor Strange, who has some magical fun with both of them. Then they actually find Odin, he dies after a wistful monologue, and Hela shows up and destroys Mjölnir .
        • The Grandmaster uses his "melt stick" on some poor sap who promptly melts, in what appears to be terrible agony. Thor is horrified to witness this. and then the Grandmaster complains about the resulting goo getting on his sandals, and how bad it smells.
        • Thor and Loki have a discussion in which Thor calmly tells Loki that there was a time he thought the world of him, but their paths diverged a long time ago. Loki somberly agrees that it's best if they never see each other again. The soundtrack is sad and wistful. Cue "Hey, let's do 'Get Help'!"
        • Thor and Loki (as a projected illusion from elsewhere) have a bleak conversation inside the holding cell, which ends with both of them bitter and Loki snapping that Thor will get himself killed. and as he drops the illusion, Korg charges him and kicks the wall, screaming, "PISS OFF, GHOST!"
        • After the final battle and Surtur is laying waste to Asgard , Korg makes an inspiring speech saying that as long as the foundations are strong, there's a chance to rebuild Asgard and create a haven for all people and aliens of the universe . Immediately, Asgard explodes to bits . Korg flatly says, "Now those foundations are gone. Sorry."
        • Brian Tyler's "Deliverance" from Thor: The Dark World appears during the "Tragedy of Loki" play, performed by an in-universe choir.
        • The sweeping fanfare that introduced us to Asgard in the first film returns before seguing into the Ragnarok suite as Thor becomes captain of the Asgardian vessel .
        • Doctor Strange wears yellow gloves, in-line with the costume the character had in The Silver Age of Comic Books.
        • After reaching Sakaar, Thor wears a helmet based on the winged helm his comic counterpart often sports.
        • The Grandmaster refers to the Hulk with the title "The Incredible", a reference to his original and still ongoing comic series The Incredible Hulk. Interestingly, the MCU films never used "Incredible" to refer to Hulk till that point. note Though it is, of course, the title of his solo MCU film, and a character in the Netflix series Iron Fist called him the "incredible green guy."
        • In the same monologue, the Grandmaster says "I feel a special connection with him". This is suspected of being a reference (perhaps even an ad-libbed one) to Jeff Goldblum being one of the actors considered for the part of Bruce Banner in 2003's Hulk.
        • Valkyrie is known as Scrapper 142, after the issue of ''Incredible Hulk'' in which the character first appeared.
        • Valkyrie's friendship with the Hulk is likely based on their friendship from when they were both in The Defenders.
        • The Hulk finding acceptance as a champion on an alien world, and friendship with a warrior woman there, might also be a nod to K'ai and Jarella.
        • Banner's explanation of the balancing act with him and the Hulk taking turns at "driving a car" is taken from Totally Awesome Hulk.
        • The Grandmaster's gladiatorial games are called the Contest of Champions.
        • Loki's new headpiece is taken from his Loki: Agent of Asgard design.
        • Skurge dual wielding M16s is taken from his last stand at Gjallerbru in The Mighty Thor issue 362, as is his death after mowing down hordes of Hela's forces.
        • Some of the architectural patterns and outfits seen on Sakaar are taken directly from the artwork of Jack Kirby.
        • Thor's largely unadorned armor is based on his design from Jason Aaron's contemporary Thor comics. Thor being stripped of his hammer and forced to rely on other weapons also comes from Aaron's run, though in this case he appears to be using swords and a mace instead of an axe.
        • More Jason Aaron, by the end of the film Thor has lost an eye and taken his father's place as ruler of Asgard , just like the Old King Thor from the 2012 Thor: God of Thunder series.
        • Also from God of Thunder, Hela's "What were you the God of, again?" taunt is a homage to a similar scene where Gorr the God Butcher note Who will be appearing in Thor's next headlined movie asks "What was Thor the god of before he died?" (In both cases, the question is asked seconds before Thor summons a huge bolt of lightning in response.)
        • The golden mace Thor wields during his gladiator match looks like the one used by his buddy Hercules in the comics.
        • When they first see each other in this movie, Thor refers to Hulk as a friend and is relieved to see him. In Planet Hulk, when Hulk sees the Silver Surfer in the arena, Surfer also refers to Hulk as a friend (something Hulk himself was about to say).
        • The Hulk's casual clothes on Sakaar are the ones he wore while in Tibet during the Ultimate Hulk vs. Wolverine mini-series.
        • The color scheme of the armor Valkyrie dons for the final battle with Hela is a nod to the white and gold costume Clea made for her in The Defenders #47 back in The '70s.
        • The Grandmaster's tower has sculpted busts of Beta Ray Bill, Man-Thing, the Hulk villain Bi-Beast, the Greek deity Ares, and a fifth head depicting what some have speculated to be Thanos himself. Shots of the same palace from the trailer also included Fin Fang Foom.
        • While struggling to come up with a name for his new team that's not "The Avengers", Thor claims they're called "The Revengers", much to Valkyrie's bewilderment. The Revengers is the name of several different teams of evil Avengers from the comics.
        • For the first time ever in the MCU, Mjölnir is glamoured to look like an innocuous everyday accessory (an umbrella) which magically transforms Thor's "Earth" clothes into his normal armored outfit when he strikes it on the ground. This has been part of the comic Thor since day one, as Don Blake would do the same to change from his civilian identity into Thor, the only difference is that in the comics, Mjölnir transformed into a walking stick.
        • At the end, the idea of the Asgardians starting over on Earth after the destruction of their home was the premise of J. Michael Straczynski and Oliver Coipel's iconic 2007 Thor run .
        • In the play within a film, Loki apologizes for the time he turned Thor into a frog, referencing the 1986 Walt Simonson "Frog Thor" storyline.
        • Bruce mentioning his PhDs while complaining that people underestimate him in detriment of Hulk's strength is a reference to a similar line from Giffen and DeMatteis run in the Defenders title, where Bruce mentions having three doctorates, while Hulk could barely write his own name.
        • Thor threatening Loki-disguised-as-Odin by throwing Mjölnir into the distance, then grabbing Loki's head and reminding him that Mjölnir will always return to his hand no matter what is in its way, is taken from a scene in Simonson's run on the comics where he makes the same threat (with a different context).
        • The last Valkyrie that Hela kills looks an awful lot like Valkyrie's traditional blonde, blue-eyed comics appearance.
        • Korg, a rock-composed humanoid, calling himself "a thing".
        • Thor's situation at the end is similar to his alien counterpart Beta Ray Bill, flying around in a spaceship with his people looking for a new home after his old one was destroyed by Surtur.
        • Thor quickly identifies Korg as being a member of a species called Kronans, who have the appearance of humanoids made of rock. In the comics the very first Thor story had him defeating a spearhead invasion by these very same aliens. (Of course, this Thor has already met a rather less-friendly Kronan on Vanaheim in Thor: The Dark World. Briefly.)
        • During Ragnarok in Norse Mythology, Loki steers the ship Naglfar full with beasts to the battle on Asgard to fight the Gods. In the movie, Loki takes the Grandmaster's ship Statesman together with the freed gladiators of Sakaar to help Thor and their people against Hela.
        • When he changes sides, Skurge's weapon is machine guns.
        • When Thor and Hulk get ready for a second round, with both combatants primed and ready to take the fight to another level, the Grandmaster shocks him so Hulk can finish the battle right there.
        • Thor stops Hulk's battle with Surtur after just a few seconds, because they need the demon to destroy Asgard and defeat Hela.
        • In more a case of "Never Trust a Stinger", the meeting between Thor and Doctor Strange appears to be more amicable in the post-credits scene for the doctor's film. Here, Thor is very much unnerved by Strange's casual disregard for the laws of reality, and Stephen wants Odinson and his infamous adoptive brother off of his planet, now.
        • Hela doesn't confront Thor and Loki in New York, but rather in Norway, and the shot of her shattering the hammer happens not in an alleyway, but in a green field overlooking the sea. Later previews showed the real version, according to Taika Waititi, this wasn't supposed to be the case, but they changed it at the last minute because they wanted to set the whole scene, (including the bit with Odin) in a beautiful, peaceful setting.
        • The final trailer shows the shot from the climax where Thor descends from the sky with his eyes glowing. except in the actual film it's only one eye, with the right one having been torn out by Hela earlier. The shot where Hela has Thor pinned down during her "goddess of death" speech is also edited to show only light bruising around his right eye instead of a bloody mess.
        • This extends to the print marketing as well. The Comic-Con poster for Avengers: Infinity War cleverly posed Thor in such a way that the spot where his right eye used to be isn't visible . The issue about Thor's eye also applies in the D 23 Trailer for Infinity War, in which it shows him with both eyes . The Official Teaser trailer, however, shows Thor wearing an Eye Patch .
        • Despite having knowledge of multiple existential threats (including Hela) to Asgard and the universe at large, and having repeatedly been in danger over the course of his rule, Odin never shared this knowledge with anyone else. Thus when Loki steals the throne, he is unable to defend against these threats.
        • Loki's hasty retreat from the initial fight with Hela provides her with access to a Bifröst transport beam, allowing her to return to Asgard, power-up and kill the entire city guard.
        • Thor ordering that Surtur's crown be placed in Odin's vault, where we were just informed that the Eternal Flame is also kept, seems like a perfect setup for this trope considering that we were told by Surtur himself that crown + flame = Ragnarok. It ends up being subverted because triggering Ragnarok turns out to be the only way to truly defeat Hela.
        • Loki banishing Heimdall means he won't be in Hela's way when she hitches a ride on the bifrost. This makes him an unknown Spanner in the Works for her, allowing him to steal the sword, trapping Hela, and be Thor's guy on the inside.
        • Surtur destroying Asgard and thus eliminating Hela's source of power renders him fulfilling his destiny ironic, since he is saving its populace in the process and is unknowingly acting on the behalf of its king .
        Thor: I just hit her with the biggest lightning blast in the history of lightning ! It did nothing!
        • Loki pulls twin daggers from his sleeves before he charges at Doctor Strange.
        • After Hela slaughters the entire Einherjar, Hogun pulls a dagger out of his sleeve as a last resort but she kills him before he can attack her.
        • When Thor and Loki find Odin to take him home, he serenely tells them that he hears his late wife calling to him. Thor angrily tells Loki to lift his enchantment but Loki's look of concern and subtle head shake confirms he's not to blame this time. Then Odin reveals that he had already broken free from Loki's spell.
        • Lampshaded when Doctor Strange starts to open a portal beneath Loki's feet and he exclaims "This isn't me!"

        Hulk: Yeah, same. Hulk like fire, Thor like water.
        Thor: Well, we're kind of both like fire.
        Hulk: But Hulk like real fire, like raging fire. Thor like smoldering fire.

        Thor: It was a mutual dumping.
        • Up in the VIP seats, Loki looks visibly distressed to see the Hulk again obviously recalling his previous encounter with him.
        Loki: I have to get off this planet. Loki as Odin: [sees Thor approaching him as he is disguised and enjoying the play] Oh, shit. Banner: NONE OF THEM ARE FOR FLYING SPACESHIPS!
        • Thor as usual. He shows this once at the beginning when taking down Surtur and most of his mooks with Mjölnir, and then again at the climax after he has fully learned to control his lightning powers and zaps down Hela's army of the dead by the dozens . Both scenes are accompanied by Led Zeppelin's "Immigrant Song".
        • Hela as well. She is shown multiple times to have taken down several squads of Asgardian soldiers single-handedly without breaking a sweat.
        Tropes P to Z
        • Painting the Medium: During the stage version of Loki's supposed death in Thor: The Dark World, the backup choir starts to sing the theme music from that scene.
        • Palate Propping:
          • Thor jams the jaws of Surtur's dragon with his body and puts Mjölnir into its mouth, pinning it to the ground.
          • Hulk manages to catch and hold open the jaws of the Fenris Wolf right before they clamp down on him.
          Thor: Not when I do this, you don't. [drapes a corner of the blanket over his mouth] Loki: Open communication was never our family's forte. Valkyrie: I don't answer to you, Lackey.
          Loki: It's Loki. And you will answer to the Grandmaster.
          • Hulk's voice is much deeper than Banner's which is understandable given that the Hulk's vocal cords would be much larger. However, there's a moment where Banner starts getting stressed and seems dangerously close to Hulking Out. Not only do some veins in his face and neck briefly turn green, but his voice distorts and deepens, despite still being predominantly Banner.

          Thor: Why are you being so weird?
          Bruce: I don't know, maybe the fact that I was trapped for two years inside of a monster made me a little weird!

          Odin: [in Thor's vision] Are you Thor, the God of Hammers?

          

          
          

        • Pragmatic Adaptation:
          • The Ragnarok is a tale from Norse Mythology about the cycle of destruction (including Asgard, all its gods, and the world) leading to new creation. The movie adapts that to focus only on the destruction of Asgard and most of its heroes and gods, leaving Thor, Loki, Heimdall, and the Asgardians intact for future MCU stories.
          • In both the original Norse mythology and in the comics, Hela is Loki's daughter. Instead, in this film she's conflated with Angela, Thor and Loki's long-lost sister. No doubt this is partly because it makes more sense for Odin to have a secret child, and partly because the audience subconsciously wouldn't be able to accept Loki note played by 36-year-old — andOlder Than He Looks — Tom Hiddleston, even if Asgardians tend to be Really 700 Years Old having a fully grown daughter note played by 48-year-old Cate Blanchett .
        • Primp of Contempt: Hela stares at her fingernails before she addresses the Einherjar with a bored expression.
        • Prophecy Twist: Ragnarok is the cataclysmic event which will utterly destroy Asgard, and Thor takes action to prevent Surtur from gaining the power he needs to make it happen thus saving Asgard. or so it seems. It turns out that Ragnarok is the only thing that can stop Hela from continuing to gain power, and our heroes end up having to initiate it in order to prevent her from conquering other realms.
        • Public Execution:
          • Following the disappearance of the Hulk, Grandmaster tells Loki and Valkyrie that he thought about killing them in one, because of their connections to Thor and Hulk, but instead orders them to find the two and bring them to him.
          • Hela threatens to have an innocent woman beheaded if the Asgardians won't tell her where the Bifrost sword is.
        • Punch Catch: During the gladiator fight, Hulk catches Thor mid-attack by catching the big hammer that he is swinging.
        • Punch-Clock Hero: Played for Laughs. Thor thinks fighting Alien Invasions and Killer Robots with Hulk makes them "friends from work."
        • Punch-Clock Villain: Skurge is basically a follower of whomever appears to be in charge and never does anything particularly evil.
        • Put on a Bus: Jane Foster does not return, with a brief dialogue exchange establishing that she and Thor had an Offscreen Breakup. Darcy Lewis and Erik Selvig are not even mentioned. Sif is also absent, with the Word of Godexplanation from Kevin Feige being that Loki likely banished her to keep her from discovering that he had replaced Odin.
        • Putting the Band Back Together: To take on Hela, Thor reunites several former allies who seemingly left him and/or Asgard permanently, including Bruce Banner/The Hulk, who went into permanent hiding after Age of Ultron, Loki, whom Thor thought was dead since Dark World, and Valkyrie, a former ally of Asgard who's been in exile for centuries. Thor himself also lampshades it. Thor: I'm putting together a team, like the old days!
          • Thor does this when Surtur tells him that Odin isn't on Asgard anymore.
          • Thor's actor does this when Thor exposes Loki's deceit.
          • Valkyrie, who is a white blonde in the comics, is played by Afro-Latina Tessa Thompson here. It's likely, however, that she is another Valkyrie and not the one from the comics, as a Valkyrie fitting Brunnhilde's description is seen in her flashback shielding her from a fatal blow.
          • Idris Elba returns as Heimdall, the all-seeing Guardian of Asgard, who upholds his sentry even when stripped of his official station.

          Thor: What would you like me to say? You faked your own death. You stole the throne, stripped Odin of his power, stranded him on Earth to die, releasing the Goddess of Death. Have I said enough or would you like me to go back further than the past two days!?

          Thor: Oh dear, brother, you're becoming predictable. I trust you, you betray me, round and round in circles we go. See, Loki, life is about. it's about growth, it's about change, but you seem to just wanna stay the same. I guess what I'm trying to say is that you'll always be the God of Mischief, but you could be more.

          Thor: What are you, crazy?!
          Hulk: YES!
          • Korg is an alien made of rock, and he introduces himself with a line about not wanting to hurt anyone — unless you're scissors, in a rock-paper-scissors joke.
          • He also says he tried to start a revolution, but didn't make enough pamphlets. Paper defeated rock.
          • Later turns into a Brick Joke: at the end of the film, he mistakenly thinks he has killed his friend Miek — an insectoid alien who fights with a pair of knifes mounted on bionic arms — by accidentally stepping on him. Hence, that "rock" has defeated "scissors".
          Hela: Where do you think all this gold came from?

          

          
          

        • Rule of Three:
          • Thor throwing things at Loki to check if he's actually there or just projecting an illusion. The first time he's an illusion, the second time he's really there and gets hit in the head. The third time, Thor naturally assumes he isn't really there and throws something out of habit — and Loki catches it.
          • "Asgard is not a place" is said three times: First by Odin, then by Thor, then by Heimdall.
        • Running Gag:
          • The Grandmaster calling Thor "Lord of Thunder".
          • When Loki comes to visit Thor in the gladiator's cell, he throws stones at him to check if it's Loki or an illusion. He does so again when Thor sees Loki in Valkyrie's room, this time hitting a solid Loki in the head with a thermos. He does so one last time with the cap from a liquor bottle when they meet after Asgard is destroyed , this time Loki catches it, showing he really came to see his brother.
          • Korg "recruiting" whoever he comes across for his "revolution".
          • In order to gain access to the Grandmaster's garage, Thor and Loki perform what they call "get help" to disable his guards. The climax sees Thor, Loki, and Valkyrie facing Hela, who looks none worse for the wear after being blasted by "the biggest lightning blast in the history of lightning", and Loki dryly comments "I'm not doing 'get help.'"
          • Something usually goes wrong when Thor tries to have something cool happen while uttering the line "because that's what heroes do", be it Mjölnir showing up late or a ball rebounding into his face.
        • Run or Die: Loki realizes this after Hela breaks Mjölnir with one hand and summons two swords closing up on him and Thor, and tells Volstagg to open the Bifrost to bring the two back. Unfortunately, this is also what enables Hela to enter Asgard where she grows stronger every day.
        • Sadly Mythtaken: Hela being Odin's daughter is consistent with neither Norse myth nor Marvel Comics. This change was probably an attempt to get as close as possible to adapting Fear Itself or Original Sin (both of which feature the reveal of secret relatives of Thor not recorded in myth ) while still using Hela, a fairly popular and well-known classic Thor villain.
        • Savage Wolves: The Fenris Wolf, the wolf-looking savage creature loosely based on Fenrir/Fenrisulfr from Norse mythology, appears as Hela's faithful canine companion and Right-Hand Attack Dog.
        • Saved to Enslave: After a disoriented Thor arrives on Sakaar without his hammer, Valkyrie saves him from his attackers. Then she immediately subdues him with an obedience disk that shocks him unconscious and delivers him to the Grandmaster as a slave for sale. She gets a hefty sum for her efforts, and Thor is forced to participate in the Grandmaster's gladiator games.
        • Saving the World: Ragnarok ends with the now-traditional climactic showdown where the heroes try to save the world from the villain. Subverted when Thor eventually realizes that destroying the world is the only way to stop Hela, who draws her power from Asgard. Thor and his allies do manage to save the Asgardian people, at least.
        • Scenery Dissonance: Thor's first confrontation with Hela occurs in a pleasant Norwegian meadow overlooking the sea.
        • Screaming Warrior: In their fight, Hulk responds to the giant wolf Fenris howling at him with an inhuman roar of his own.
        • Screams Like a Little Girl: Thor, the physically imposing, Baritone of StrengthGod of Thunder, lets out an unmanly, high-pitched scream when faced with something terrifying. Examples include: being bound to a chair that's speeding down a dark tunnel only to have the lights turn up as a voice announces that he's about to meet "the Grandmaster", having a man being liquefied next to him, and getting a haircut.
        • Screw This, I'm Outta Here:
          • Played for laughs, when Loki's first reaction after seeing the Hulk again is exclaiming "I have to get off this planet" and trying to run off. Unfortunately for him he runs right into the Grandmaster who guides him back.
          • Skurge does this when he realizes that he seems to be a part of the losing side of a battle, quickly hiding amongst a crowd of escaping refugees. Later, when the refugees' escape is threatened, he pulls a full-fledged Heel�Face Turn, performing a Heroic Sacrifice in the process .
        • Sealed Evil in Another World: Hela has been imprisoned in Helheim for millennia until Loki inadvertently manages to release her through banishing Odin to Earth, weakening him to the point that he willingly gives up on life. Odin was the only being powerful enough to keep Hela at bay and his death means that she finally manages to escape her prison.
        • Seen It All: Loki is barely bothered by being used by Thor as a blunt object to throw at people, since the "Get Help" plan has been utilized many times before with the same results.
        • Self-Destructive Charge: Downplayed with the Hulk fearlessly and pointlessly jumping at a gigantic Surtur destroying Asgard. Valkyrie and Thor tell him they need to leave because that's suicidal and Surtur's playing into their hands anyway.
        • Self-Fulfilling Prophecy: Played with. At the beginning, Surtur tells Thor that he can only die after bringing Ragnarok to Asgard, which will happen when his crown is put into the Eternal Flames, which will cause him to grow tall as a mountain as a result. Thor then quips that he'll only have to remove that crown to prevent it from happening and does exactly that, bringing the crown to Asgard and locking it away in the vault. When Thor realizes at the end that the only way to stop Hela is to cause Ragnarok, he remembers Surtur's words and tells Loki what he has to do.
        • Self-Imposed Exile: Doctor Strange informs Thor that Odin chose to remain in exile and went to Norway after breaking free from Loki's spell.
        • Self-Serving Memory: Or possibly creative lies by Odin, he says that Hela's violent appetites grew beyond his control, but fails to mention that she was greatest warrior and right hand man as he built the Asgardian empire in death and blood.
        • Sequel Hook: The mid-credits sequence has Thor and Loki heading off to find a new world for the surviving Asgardians, only for Thanos's ship to materialize, setting up the events of Avengers: Infinity War. Also, earlier in the movie, Loki was seen eyeing the Tesseract (a.k.a. the Space Stone), indicating he likely took it with him before Asgard was destroyed.
        • Sequel Non-Entity: Sif (played by Jaimie Alexander) doesn't appear in the film, despite having a significant role in its predecessors, due to scheduling issues. As she isn't seen killed during Hela's takeover unlike her comrades, this leaves the door open for her to appear in later sequels. Kevin Feige has suggested that she was exiled from Asgard by Loki in order to keep her from discovering his secret, but nothing that counts as Word of God yet.
        • Series Continuity Error: Hela is determined to find Heimdall because he has the Bifrost sword and she can't operate the Bifrost without it. However, it's established in previous films that Odin's spear, Gungnir, which she already has, can also operate the Bifrost. (Though it is possible she doesn't know this, it's unlikely given that she traveled the universe with Odin.)
        • Serkis Folk: The Hulk, Korg and Surtur were played by various actors and stunt men on set, but are rendered entirely with CGI in the finished film.
        • Shabby Heroes, Well-Dressed Villains: The "villain" part is zig-zagged across the movie, however, while on Midgard, Thor dresses in simple workman's clothes (a worn-out denim jacket, jeans) and can't pass up a chance to snark at Loki's all-black suit.
        • Shirtless Scene: Thor is briefly shirtless during his stay in the Hulk's quarters. At this point, it wouldn't be a Thor movie without one.
        • Shock Collar: The slaves — sorry, "prisoners with jobs" — on Sakaar are kept in line with a remote-controlled implant that shocks the wearer when they step out of line.
        • Shout-Out: Has its own page.
        • Show Within a Show: When Thor arrives in Asgard, he watches the performance of a play about the events of Thor: The Dark World, The Tragedy of Loki of Asgard. Easy to guess who wrote and commissioned it.
        • Shut Up, Kirk!: Hela confronts Thor in the throne room, who gives her a "The Reason You Suck" Speech until she loses her cool. Hela: Okay, get up. You're in my seat. [summons headgear]

          Taika Waititi: We basically just destroyed everything that went before. It's what Ragnarok is: the death of the world and its rebirth. This film is a rebirthing of all those characters. It's like a reboot, but we didn't have to recast. The play scene in the film was meant to be our message to the audience, saying, "Whatever you've held on to, whatever you fell in love with in the last films, allow us to respectfully disrespect that stuff." It was really like that was our good-bye to those films.

          Loki Actor: I'm sorry. Sorry for all I've done. I'm sorry I tried to rule Earth. I'm sorry about that thing with the Tesseract. Sorry about that time I turned you into a frog.

          • In the actual myth, Thor, Loki, and Heimdall all didn't survive Ragnarok. Nor did most of "humanity", though an Adam and Eve Plot still happens (and there's definitely a lot more Asgardians than two) .
          • Likewise, while there have been several attempted Ragnaroks in the comics, the one seen as part of Avengers Disassembled (which seems to have influenced the film) ended with all of the Asgardians dying, including Loki, Valkyrie, Heimdall, and even Thor himself .
          • The Big Bad, Hela, has a black helm with multiple spikes coming out of it, like the comics, in her "powered up" form. Her weapon is similarly a short sword with a spiked blade.
          • Surtur's helmet also contains prominent spikes.
          • While Civil War was a realistic, serious Earth-based Thriller involving former friendsand alliesbecoming rivals and enemies, Ragnarok is an over-the-topScience FantasyBuddy Picture that involves The Mighty Thor, The Incredible Hulk and even their former enemyLoki working together to fight against a common enemy.
          • While Civil War was a Crisis Crossover movie that featured a huge cast from outside Cap's franchise, Ragnarok mainly focuses on Thor and his allies from his films (with twomajor exceptions). Just for the sake of comparison, while Civil War features only eight firmly Captain America characters note Cap himself, Bucky/Winter Soldier, Falcon, Sharon Carter, Peggy Carter, Zemo, and Crossbones out of a cast of about 18 characters, Ragnarok only uses about 4-5 non-Thor characters note Hulk, Doctor Strange, Grandmaster, Topaz, and Korg in a film with about 17 characters.
          • While the ending of Civil War establishes that the titular conflict between Iron Man and Captain America was engineered by Zemo, it is made clear from the beginning that Thor and the Hulk's conflict was caused purely by coincidence. Later on, Thor and the Hulk decide to form a quasi-Avengers team to stop Hela.
          • Even the Big Bads of both films contrast each other. Whereas Helmut Zemo in Civil War was a Villainous Underdog with no powers or costume who relied on strategy and patience, Hela is a straightforward Person of Mass Destruction. Furthermore, while Zemo was motivated by vengeance against the Avengers due to his family dying during the Battle of Sokovia, Hela is vengeful against her family, the Asgardian Royal Family, for rejecting and imprisoning her due to her violent ambition, then scrubbing her from history.
          • Thor is also squicked out by the Grandmaster melting someone right next to him.
          • Korg is imprisoned because he didn't print enough pamphlets. In other words: Paper beats Rock.
          • Near the ending, Korg accidentally crushes Miek, who looks like a scissor with his Artificial Limbs, and almost kills him . In other words: Rock beats Scissor.
          • Some of the pre-stinger credits:
            • "Editing" is shown with a Wall of Weapons that has a lot of cutting weapons.
            • "Casting" shows Thor's actor from the Show Within a Show.
            • Pre-credits stinger: On the vessel containing the surviving Asgardians, Thor and Loki discuss the possibility of their people living life on Midgard. Thor assures Loki they'll be fine before a spaceship dwarfing theirs in size and belonging to Thanos emerges .
            • Post-credits stinger: The Grandmaster returns to the surface of Sakaar and finds the population still in the middle of the revolution, trying to placate them by calling it a draw .
            • Loki's self-aggrandizing play is full of crappy acting, dialogue that's even more overwrought than most of Thor's movies, gross mischaracterizations of the past, and homemade costumes.
            • In contrast to the rest of the costumes, the Grandmaster wears hideously garish robes in rather deliberately cheap and tacky-looking fabric, and his melt stick has an almost charmingly retro '60s "generic sci-fi staff" look to it.
            Thor: Hulk, stop! Just for once in your life, don't smash!
            • Ominous music is playing while Surtur talks about his

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