History Characters / MCUAsgard

* DeadpanSnarker: When she finds the armies of Asgard arrayed against her, she dryly muses "I thought you'd be glad to see me." Similarly, when giving her BadassBoast to Thor about being the goddess of death itself, she sarcastically punctuates it with "what were ''you'' the god of again?"

** [[spoiler: WordOfGod is that he put a fake Infinity Gauntlet in the vault, in order to appease Asgard's fears about it. This means when Thanos shows up with the real thing, Asgard is completely off guard.]]

* HealingFactor: She's not invulnerable by any stretch, but any wound she does take seems to heal in seconds. Subtly shown at several points such as when Thor hits her with the "biggest lightning bolt in the history of lightning bolts" and she's temporarily disabled off-screen, but is fine a few minutes later when we see her. Or when he kicks her in the head at the beginning of the film which concusses and stuns her, which realistically would have drastic ill-effects and probably indicate an embolism, but leaves no lasting injury. More blatantly shown when Valkyrie and one of the Asgardian soldiers respectively put swords through her chest, and the hole just gets patched up in a flash of yellow. [[spoiler:Coming back from her whole body being ''obliterated'' by Surtur is another story.]]

->''"I just want a chance to prove myself."''

[[folder:Elliot Randolph]]
!!''Professor Elliot Randolph''
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[[caption-width-right:300:''"One must adapt. Recent events have thrown us all for a loop."'']]

!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Peter [=MacNicol=]
!!!'''Voiced By:''' Juan Antonio Castro (European Spanish dub)
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD'' (first appears in ''[[Recap/AgentsOfSHIELDS1E8TheWell Episode 8: "The Well"]]'')

-->''"Pretty crappy time to be on Earth if you're not a local, so... I am laying low."''

A Norse Mythology professor that Coulson talks to about finding the pieces of the Berserker's staff. Turns out he's a ''part'' of it as well: The original Berserker himself.

[[folder:Skurge]]
!!''Skurge the Executioner''
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[[caption-width-right:300:''"I'm just the janitor."'']]
!!!'''Species:''' Asgardian
!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/KarlUrban
!!!'''Voiced By:''' Alfredo Gabriel Basurto (Latin-American Spanish dub), Frédéric Paquet (Canadian French dub)

->''"I just want a chance to prove myself."''

A one time defender of Asgard who becomes the Death Goddess Hela's henchman.

* AdaptationalHeroism: He is far less bloodthirsty and evil than in the comics, happy to act tough to get some respect, but not really all that wild about actually ''hurting'' anybody, which is a rather large difference between him and his bullying, sadistic, and power-hungry comic self.
* AdaptationalWimp: He is much less intimidating than his comic-book counterpart, his laziness, cowardice, and general incompetence making him a far inferior substitute to Heimdall in guarding the Bifröst. In terms of combat ability, he is also not quite as powerful as the comic version, but remains a highly capable warrior to even Asgardian standards.
* AdaptationPersonalityChange: In the comics, Skurge had little ambition and mainly sought to serve Amora the Enchantress with almost blind loyalty, being TheStoic. In the movie, Skurge is an ambitious warrior eager to move up in the ranks, yet he is also more emotive and visibly struggles to carry out Hela's cruel requests.
* AlmightyJanitor: Inverted case, as Skurge appears to have been demoted down from Bifrost guard to actual janitor when Hela enters Asgard, and then gets promoted to "head flunkie".
* AnAxeToGrind: Hela conjures a menacing axe for Skurge to use after making him her executioner, a nod to his original Bloodaxe from the comics. [[spoiler:He never uses it, not having the spine to, and ditches it when he deserts in the final battle.]]
* BadassBeard: He sports some impressive facial hair and is clearly a badass.
* BaldOfEvil: He is the bald henchman to the evil and destructive BigBad Hela.
* TheCasanova: Implied. He proudly displays his collection of items to impress the two women at the Observatory.
* CelebrityParadox: In ''[[Film/TheAvengers2012 The Avengers]]'', ComicBook/IronMan mockingly calls Comicbook/{{Hawkeye}} Legolas, suggesting that the ''Film/TheLordOfTheRings'' movies exist in the MCU. Skurge's actor Urban played Éomer in those movies.
* ChronicBackstabbingDisorder: [[spoiler: He starts working for Hela once she takes over. Towards the end, he betrays her by taking out all her undead troops, but it costs him his life.]]
* CollectorOfTheStrange: Since getting the job, he's been using the Bifröst to steal and amass an extensive collection of trinkets and weapons from across the Nine Realms, including a pair of M16 rifles from a place called [[{{Texas}} "Tex-ass"]].
* ConscienceMakesYouGoBack: [[spoiler:Once he sees Hela's undead army starting to swarm the ship full of Asgardian refugees, he decides to make amends, takes his two M-16s, and fights the undead off with them, at the cost of his life.]]
* DarkIsEvil: He becomes Hela's executioner and dressed in dark armor. [[spoiler:Subverted as he can't bring himself to harm innocents and turns against Hela to save the Asgardians.]]
* DarkIsNotEvil: Skurge is dressed in a dark armor, but has some standards and some noble qualities and even when he serves Hela, he is conflicted to do something evil for her, even moreso [[spoiler:with his HeelFaceTurn]]
* DealWithTheDevil: Karl Urban describes his alliance with Hela as this.
* DirtyCoward: Hela notices his "survival instinct" as he's the first Asgardian to join her, purely out of fear of her powers. [[spoiler:He redeems himself at the end with his HeroicSacrifice.]]
* TheDragon: To Hela.
* EveryoneHasStandards: Even after becoming Hela's right hand man, he still has scruples about carrying out her more brutal commands.
* GateGuardian: Skurge takes over Heimdall's job of guarding the Bifröst after Heimdall is banished from Asgard.
* GunsAkimbo: As well as his Bloodaxe, Skurge also wields ''two'' M16 rifles, a classic image lifted directly from Walt Simonson's epic run on ''ComicBook/TheMightyThor''.
* HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler:He eventually decides to stand up to Hela and take out her undead troops to help the Asgardian survivors escape. [[ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice He pays for it with his own life]].]]
* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:He decides to fight Hela's undead soldiers off, without caring about his own life anymore, to free the escaping ship carrying Asgardian refugees and give them a chance to survive.]]
* IJustWantToBeSpecial: Has shades of this, he seems desperate to be remembered. This is contrasted with his own sense of survival and self-serving nature. However, when [[spoiler: Hela's Berserkers threaten to storm and kill the last of Asgard's citizens]], he finds it in himself to [[LastStand rise up and be remembered]].
* ICallItVera: Has two M-16s he named "Des" and "Troy."
-->"...[[DontExplainTheJoke because together they]] [[PunnyName destroy]]."
* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: [[spoiler: Hela kills him with a thrown blade through the heart]].
* LegacyCharacter: Hela claims to have been the Executioner for Odin, so this Skurge isn't "Skurge the Executioner" until she passes that title to him.
* LesCollaborateurs: Once a defender of Asgard, Skurge decides to ally himself with Hela when she invades Asgard to save his own life.
* MinionWithAnFInEvil: He is lazy, sleazy, and cowardly, but he clearly doesn't enjoy hurting people and serves Hela mostly out of a desire to survive and because she shows him a degree of respect. In the end, [[spoiler: he doesn't kill anyone, except for Hela's undead hordes when he turns on them, and he actually saves people from her even]].
* RedemptionEqualsDeath: [[spoiler:His HeelFaceTurn redeems what he did when joining Hela, but he ends up killed in the process. He knew it was a one-way ticket to Valhalla since he was seen previously siding with Hela and was now betraying her.]]
* RememberTheNewGuy: He's presumably been around Asgard for a while, but doesn't actually appear until the third ''Thor'' movie. Lampshaded after Thor doesn't recognize him after arriving on Asgard, despite Skurge's claims that they fought together on Vanaheim.
* VileVillainLaughableLackey: Skurge is fairly hilariously useless as lackeys and especially executioners come. He fails in executing a single person the whole movie, and can't even seem to do simple things like ensure that the Bifrost Sword doesn't get stolen from under their nose. All he does is follow Hela around like a lost puppy in absolute terror of her. Loki found this out before Hela did.
-->'''Hela:''' Skurge, where's ''the sword''??

!!Other

[[folder:The Destroyer]]
!!''The Destroyer''
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!!!'''Portrayed By:''' N/A
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Film/{{Thor}}''

An extremely powerful set of armor created by Odin to defend Asgard. As one does not wear it, but project their consciousness into it, it can be misused.
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* AdaptationalWimp: In the comics, the Destroyer cannot be harmed by Thor's best blows with Mjolnir, is strong and fast enough to smack Thor around, and its heat ray can slice right through Mjolnir or an Asgardian. In the film, once Thor gets his powers and hammer back, he effortlessly blocks its heat ray and then smashes it apart.
* AnimatedArmor: Controlled with a user's mind.
* BreathWeapon: The heat ray of the Destroyer is fired from the opening in the helmet. It looks like a WaveMotionGun.
* TheBrute: Temporarily a non-sentient one to Loki in ''Thor'' once he takes the throne.
* FightingAShadow: Killing the Destroyer doesn't harm its user, seeing as it is controlled by an extension of the user's mind. In a sense, the fight with it could be considered the first battle between the Asgardians and Loki.
* HavingABlast: They come from the eyes.
* ImplacableMan: Until Thor gets his powers back and is able to fight it, it hunts him down without regard for anything else.
* {{Magitek}}: One of the only real examples shown from Asgard so far, with the rest of the "magic" being MagicFromTechnology.
* MenacingStroll: Walking along and batting aside warriors in its path.
* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: The Destroyer
* PowerGlows: The opening in the face glows when it is about to fire.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: In the film it isn't shown what happened to it after it was destroyed. The tie-in comic ''Fury's Big Week'' shows that S.H.I.E.L.D. took custody of it, and are now trying to ''reverse-engineer'' it. As shown in ''The Avengers'', they are successful.
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[[folder:Fenris]]
!!''Fenris''
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!!!'''Species:''' Asgardian Wolf

Fenris was a giant wolf who served Hela during the times of the expansion of Asgard around the Nine Realms. Millennia after her death, she is resurrected by Hela with the Eternal Flame and put at her service during her oppressive rule on Asgard.

* AdaptationSpeciesChange: Originally a Jotun, as the son of Loki and a Jotun sorceress. Here her species is merely listed as "Asgardian Wolf".
* BackFromTheDead: Upon coming back to Asgard after being sealed by Odin for millennia, Hela destroys the floor of Asgard's Weapons Vault to reveal a crypt in which Fenris and her long-forgotten army are resting. She then resurrects them all as undead using the Eternal Flame.
* CanisMajor: A huge monster wolf, times and times larger than a regular one. Justified as she is actually part of an in-universe species called "Asgardian Wolf", which naturally grows to be that big.
* CompositeCharacter: As Hela's RightHandAttackDog, she takes the role of Garm from the myths.
* DisneyVillainDeath: [[spoiler:She falls off of Asgard's waterfalls into outer space at the end of her fight with the Hulk.]]
* GenderFlip: [[http://www.artofvfx.com/thor-ragnarok-alexis-wajsbrot-kyle-mcculloch-jonathan-fawkner-vfx-supervisors-framestore/ According to]] WordOfGod, Fenris Wolf is a female in this movie.
* GreenEyes: Her eyes glow green due to Hela's magic.
* {{Hellhound}}: A giant canid that serves the ruler of Hel.
* HorseOfADifferentColor: Hela uses Fenris as her mount when riding into battle rather than the normal horses that the rank-and-file soldiers ride.
* NonHumanUndead: Given the SicklyGreenGlow of her eyes as similar to the [[NightOfTheLivingMooks Berserkers]]', it's highly likely that Hela's magic combined with the Eternal Flame made her into an undead hellhound.
* NotSoStoic: Inverted. She's usually vicious and violent, but she pauses in confusion when [[spoiler:Banner]] smacks down on the Rainbow Bridge in front of her. Also, during one scene in which Hela is enthroned in the palace, Fenris is seen [[OrcusOnHisThrone merely lounging around]] docilely in the background.
* RelatedInTheAdaptation: Inverted. In the comics, as in the original myths, Fenris is Hela's brother and Loki's son. Here, she's just a monster that serves Hela.
* RightHandAttackDog: Hela unleashes her upon Asgardian refugees on the Bifröst during the FinalBattle. Luckily for them, the Hulk steps in to fight the giant wolf.
* SadlyMythtaken: This version of Fenris is about thrice the size of a direwolf, which is still nowhere near as large as her mythological counterpart (who could apparently swallow the moon). [[spoiler:She also doesn't get to kill Odin]], nor is she Loki's child and Hela's brother.
* SavageWolves: A giant and vicious wolf in service of the Goddess of Death. [[spoiler:She bites Hulk hard enough to ''make him bleed'', which is more than almost any other character in the movies can claim to have done]].

[[folder:Berserkers]]
!!''Berserkers''
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!!!'''Species:''' Undead Asgardians
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Film/ThorRagnarok''

The reanimated corpses of dead Einherjar that fought under Hela.
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* AnimateDead: All of them were laid to rest beneath Odin's palace and this is were Hela finds them.
* ArmiesAreEvil: They fought under Hela in the time in which Asgard was a conquering, imperialistic power.
* DemBones: They have rotten to the point that all that remains of their faces is their skulls.
* KeystoneArmy: They are all destroyed after Hela's apparent death, as she's the one who had reanimated them.
* NonHumanUndead: They look like human corpses but this is because Asgardians are HumanAliens.
* SicklyGreenGlow: Their eyes and innards glow a bright green color like Hela's magic following their reanimation.
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!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Film/{{Thor}}'' | ''Film/ThorTheDarkWorld'' | ''Film/AvengersAgeOfUltron'' | ''Film/ThorRagnarok''

* DarkIsNotEvil: Skurge is dresses in a dark armor, but has some standereds and some noble qualities and even when he serves Hela, He is conflicted to do something evil for her, Even moreso [[spoiler:with his HeelFaceTurn]]

* ImplacableMan: Until Thor gets his power back and is able to fight it, it hunts him down without regard for anything else.

* HeartIsAnAwesomePower: As he is TheDriver and functionally an AlmightyJanitor. ''However'', his job's importance is played up thoroughly, and he's implied to be near or superior to Odin in power [[spoiler: A little bit of his powers of sight are shown in ''Ragnarok'' when he gives Thor the ability to see what happens on Asgard during his imprisonment on Sakaar]].
* HeroOfAnotherStory: The only reason [[spoiler: that their are any Asgardian civilians left to save is that he has been functioning as a [[OneManArmy one man resistance and rescue team.]] With no help, no back up and only his skill and sight to aid him.]]

* NotSoDifferent: From either of his sons. In ''The Dark World'', he shows himself very much like Thor in the first film, with his bloodthirsty ways in the fight with the Dark Elves. Granted, he has better reason. While he respects humans as a race and government he also shares Loki's attitudes about being superior to individual humans, though that comes with the caveat of the fact that he would first have encountered humanity in the early bronze age, through to the Viking Era, so it isn't exactly surprising. On the better traits, he shares Thor's courage, nobility and ability to lead, with Loki's intelligence and diplomatic skills, as well as, to some extent, magic (he shows signs of it in ''The Dark World'' when he examines Jane for the Aether.

* FaceDeathWithDignity: He is quite content to spend his last months of life wondering the Norwegian countryside on Earth, and seems barely bothered by it by the time his sons find him.

* TheGoodKing: Taking care of his people is his number one priority and his anger at Thor is based on his fear that his son cares more for war then for them. In ''The Dark World'' his despair drives him into the very BloodKnight behavior he scorned.

* ProudWarriorRaceGuy: Space Vikings. They drink, they fight, they feast... and not much else. Big on honor and glory. When one of their number dies (mostly likely in battle) then they rituals like that too and they deal with grief violently (even if they were adopted into the culture instead of being born to it).

* SupernaturalGoldEyes: For his omniscience.

* TheDragon: In ''Ragnarok'', he seems to have been the one left in charge of Asgard in the absence of Odin, Heimdall, Thor, and Loki. He isn't with Fandral and Volstagg when Hela confronts them, and later leads Asgard's army against her.

* MsFanservice: Downplayed, but that skintight outfit, the poses, the SexyWalk, that voice. Oh lord....

* TheSociopath: Let's see... LackOfEmpathy? Check. ConsummateLiar? Unknown. She very well may be an UnreliableNarrator when it comes to her and Odin's past, spinning it in her favor. Pathological Need for Stimulation? Seemingly. She constantly seems bored of everything and everyone around her, the only thing that seems to make her happy is killing, so she's definitely AxCrazy. Grandiose Sense of Self-Worth? ''Definitely''. ItsAllAboutMe? Another check, the only regard she shows for anything but herself is for Fenris, her wolf. But that could easily be interpreted as her appreciating Fenris as a useful tool of war rather than having genuine affection for the creature.

!!Lower Asgardians

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* KeystoneArmy: They are all destroyed after Hela's death, as she's the one who had reanimated them.

[[AC: Rulers and Guardians of Asgard]]

[[AC: Lady Sif and the Warriors Three]]

[[AC: Others]]

[[folder:The Destroyer]]
!!''The Destroyer''
[[quoteright:300:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/the_destroyer_thor_4937.png]]
!!!'''Portrayed By:''' N/A
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Film/{{Thor}}''

An extremely powerful set of armor created by Odin to defend Asgard. As one does not wear it, but project their consciousness into it, it can be misused.
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* AdaptationalWimp: In the comics, the Destroyer cannot be harmed by Thor's best blows with Mjolnir, is strong and fast enough to smack Thor around, and its heat ray can slice right through Mjolnir or an Asgardian. In the film, once Thor gets his powers and hammer back, he effortlessly blocks its heat ray and then smashes it apart.
* AnimatedArmor: Controlled with a user's mind.
* BreathWeapon: The heat ray of the Destroyer is fired from the opening in the helmet. It looks like a WaveMotionGun.
* TheBrute: Temporarily a non-sentient one to Loki in ''Thor'' once he takes the throne.
* FightingAShadow: Killing the Destroyer doesn't harm its user, seeing as it is controlled by an extension of the user's mind. In a sense, the fight with it could be considered the first battle between the Asgardians and Loki.
* HavingABlast: They come from the eyes.
* ImplacableMan: Until Thor gets his power back and is able to fight it, it hunts him down without regard for anything else.
* {{Magitek}}: One of the only real examples shown from Asgard so far, with the rest of the "magic" being MagicFromTechnology.
* MenacingStroll: Walking along and batting aside warriors in its path.
* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: The Destroyer
* PowerGlows: The opening in the face glows when it is about to fire.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: In the film it isn't shown what happened to it after it was destroyed. The tie-in comic ''Fury's Big Week'' shows that S.H.I.E.L.D. took custody of it, and are now trying to ''reverse-engineer'' it. As shown in ''The Avengers'', they are successful.
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