Still with us ? Fantastic , because we ’ re just getting started . As those keeping score will know , Thor was conspicuously absent from 2016 ’ s Captain America : Civil War . So , where the heck was he ? Well , as it turns out , he was enjoying “ me time ” in Australia with his “ average , everyday ” flatmate Darryl . We know this thanks to the short but official Team Thor video , which was released in August last year ( check it out on YouTube if you haven ’ t seen it already , it ’ s absolutely hilarious ).
So , is Thor still in Oz at the start of Ragnarok ? Nope . Sometime around October 2016 , Thor ’ s holiday Down Under came to a crashing halt . We know this thanks to the Doctor Strange mid-credits sequence , which sees Strange and Thor in New York City discussing Thor ’ s dad Odin ( who has disappeared ) and Thor ’ s mischievous brother Loki ( who is also in the Big Apple hunting for his pop ).
So , have they found Odin at the start of Ragnarok ? Another nope . The film sees the feuding siblings still searching for their AWOL All-Father . But that ’ s only a small part of the plot as far as we can gather . We also know that , at some point , Thor is captured by the warrior goddess Valkyrie ( Tessa Thompson ) and touted as a ‘ Contender ’ to Jeff Goldblum ’ s Grandmaster . Our eponymous hero then has to fight his friend Hulk ( Mark Ruffalo ) in an epic gladiatorial battle on the planet Sakaar , with his brother Loki watching on , before attempting to get back to his homeworld of Asgard , where all kinds of craziness is
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Two-time Oscar winner Cate Blanchett was encouraged to take the role of evil Hela by her son Dashiell , who felt it would give her career a boost . We can only imagine the smile on his mum ’ s face when she heard that !
going down . Phew ! ( On the plus side , he does get to wear his famed winged helmet for a bit !)
Apocalypse Now If you ’ re wondering about the film ’ s epic title , Ragnarok means ‘ Twilight of the Gods ’ in Norse mythology , and alludes to an apocalyptic battle in which many of the Norse gods lose their lives . We ’ re guessing this bit has something to do with Cate Blanchett ’ s Hela , AKA the Asgardian Goddess of Death . She ’ s the one making mincemeat out of Thor ’ s beloved hammer Mjölnir in the film ’ s psychedelic trailer . She ’ s also the first major female villain in the Marvel film universe and a known compatriot of Thanos in the