History Fridge / ThorRagnarok

* In the Japanese dub: Hela is voiced by Amami Yuuki, former top star and ''otokoyaku'' (male role actress) of the Creator/TakarazukaRevue. Her experience playing men for the Revue gives her a ContraltoOfDanger that's a dead-ringer for Cate Blanchett's Hela. Additionally, had ''Thor: Ragnarok'' been a Takarazuka production, Hela falls perfectly into the kind of female role that would typically be played by ''otokoyaku'' as a CrossCastRole: villainous, domineering, and sensual (if not sexual). The ''musumeyaku'' (female role actress) ideal is a ProperLady, so they're not often cast as female villains or {{Femme Fatale}}s. The Takarazuka acting style is considerably more melodramatic than typical western theatre - think of a better-acted version of ''The Tragedy of Loki of Asgard'' -, which further qualifies Amami Yuuki for being a LargeHam as Hela.

** Loki probably gets away with ClarkKenting for the exact same reason that the [[{{Superman}} trope namer]] gets away with it -- because he has never given average citizens a reason to believe that he spends any time whatsoever walking around dressed like a human. The fact that Thor lives on Earth part time is common knowledge within the MCU, but the idea that ''Loki'' ever would in a post-[[Film/TheAvengers2012 Avengers]] world sounds (comparatively) ridiculous. If you lived in this universe and tried to convince your friends that the man in a plain suit standing on the sidewalk next to you was actually Loki, they would probably laugh at you and tell you to be realistic.

* Thor's DeadpanSnarker CasualDangerDialog while bound in chains before Surtur can seem grossly out of character for someone who was never particularly quippy before. But it makes a lot of sense if you view it as Thor deliberately trying to wind up Surtur so he'd give the details of his role in Ragnarok during his EvilGloating speech. This also shows CharacterDevelopment on part of Thor that he would use psychology and talking at such a degree instead of just force.

* Hela picks up the fire, Loki brings the masks to the fire. Of course he does. As a Jotun, he probably doesn't mix well with unyielding fire.

*** Yet another way of looking at it: the last Hela knew of Odin, he decided he no longer wanted to (primarily) use force to get what he wanted; the implication then is that he had to make agreements and compromises with people (the peace treaty with Laufey, for example). What does Loki say to her when they meet? "We can come to an arrangement".
* When Loki's projection visits Thor in gladiator cell, last thing he tells him is that he placed a large bet against Thor. Seems a bit cold, considering Loki's later more amiable relationship with Thor after the escape? But consider that those words did enrage Thor and had the champion been anyone else besides Hulk, Thor might've channeled that rage into even greater strength and determination. Being an illusionist and mind-bender one has to be a decent psychologist as well.

* When Thor is telling the story of Loki turning into a snake to stab him he says something interesting. "We were eight at the time." We were eight, not he was eight or I was eight. As in Loki and Thor are relatively the same age. Adopted or not, they were raised as twins.

* Laufey's hatred of Odin in the first movie makes even more sense now: not only did Odin thwart his attempted conquest of Earth and steal the Casket of Ancient Winters, Odin was acting as the wise, moral law-enforcer of the Nine Realms when the only reason he had the power to do so was because in his youth he'd succeeded at exactly what Laufey tried and failed to do. It wasn't just the defeat but the hypocrisy.

** Unless Odin aired a LOT of dirty details that only he, Thor, and the audience were privy to, and we know Odin preferred cover-ups, no one knows the full extent of Loki's actions, and given the publicly available facts, it's actually very easy to come to the conclusion that the jokester younger prince, after his father fell to the Odinsleep, TookALevelInBadass by taking charge of the realm, acted to enforce Odin's last command, tried to get revenge for an attempted assassination of the king, did some unspecified mischief on Earth where he was only lightly punished, avenged the death of his mother, pulled a prank involving impersonating Odin, apparently died again, then arrived at the last minute to save them all with a ship and warriors to protect them while they boarded. Given all that, the Asgardian civilians thinking well of Loki is completely justified.

* Thor heard about electronic mails but isn't aware why he needs a computer for them. As the God of Thunder, he probably believes that he can send them by his own lightning power.
* Why did they cut off Thor's hair in this film? Well, in practically the next scene, Thor starts using his lightning powers for the first time without Mjolnir's help. If Thor still had his long hair, the filmmakers would have had to have shown it sticking out everywhere due to static electricity whenever he used his lightning powers!

* At one point the Grandmaster is having a conversation and mentions that Scrapper 142, always finds and brings him the best fighters and contenders for his arena. Of course she does she is a Valkyrie, that is their whole job description.

* Aside from catching the receivers of it off guard, the reason "Get help" works is because canonically Loki is about ''500 lbs''. Getting suddenly hit by something that weighs that much would knock out pretty much anything or at least leave them stunned long enough for Thor to finish the job.

* It would make sense that Odin would be found on Norway, considering that this is where he hid the Tesseract long ago and where the Asgardians weere worshipped as gods.

** As of Film/AvengersInfinityWar, he does return to being Bruce after a brutal beatdown by Thanos.

* Specific to the Japanese dub: Hela is voiced by Amami Yuuki, former top star and ''otokoyaku'' (male role actress) of the Creator/TakarazukaRevue. Her experience playing men for the Revue gives her a ContraltoOfDanger that's a dead-ringer for Cate Blanchett's Hela. Additionally, had ''Thor: Ragnarok'' been a Takarazuka production, Hela falls perfectly into the kind of female role that would typically be played by ''otokoyaku'' as a CrossCastRole: villainous, domineering, and sensual (if not sexual). The ''musumeyaku'' (female role actress) ideal is a ProperLady, so they're not often cast as female villains or {{Femme Fatale}}s.

* Hulk's comparison of himself and Thor to fire and water despite being the "same" isn't his misunderstanding, both are primal forces, difficult to control, but necessary for life. Furthermore, Hulk is exactly right. Hulk is constantly angry, and like fire for the most part can be directed but never controlled. Thor is just as powerful � arguably more so (after all, water puts out fire) � but has power of a different kind. Rather than the raw destructive power of fire, water is often outwardly peaceful but also unrelenting and capable of enormous feats both destructive and constructive. And by the end of the movie, ''so is Thor''.

** One of the first statements out of Thor's mouth in this movie is "Surtar, son of - a bitch!" I doubt that has an Asgardian origin...
** Funny you should mention that, according to the other site the etymology is: Alteration of an earlier phrase represented by Middle English biche-sone (�son of a bitch�, literally �bitch's son�), Old Norse bikkju-sonr (�son of a bitch�).

** In Age of Ultron, Banner was depressed to learn he might have killed a few Hydra goons while fighting as the Hulk. Nobody explicitly told him in this movie what he'd been up to while stuck as the Hulk, but the revelation that he's murdered likely dozens of people for sport won't be a fun moment.