History Characters / MCUHela

* 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 Thor, Valkyrie and one of the Asgardian soldiers respectively all put swords/spears through her chest, and the holes just get patched up in a flash of yellow. Coming back from her whole body being ''obliterated'' by Surtur is another story.

* HomeFieldAdvantage: Her power is increased the longer she stays in Asgard. Even without it, she's already strong enough to lift Mjölnir despite being unworthy and crush it. This is why Thor decides having Surtur destroy Asgard is the only way to defeat her.
* HornsOfVillainy: Her hairdress is decorated with an impressive multitude of horns. She uses them as projectiles in fight.

** According to producer Brad Winderbaum, her ability to manifest weapons was taken from [[TheButcher Gorr the God Butcher]].

* SpikesOfVillainy: Her iconic headdress has huge spiky, antler-like horns.
* SpontaneousWeaponCreation: She's capable of manifesting weapons from her body.

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** The twist of the character being Thor and Loki's [[LongLostRelative long-lost sister]] is taken from [[Comicbook/AngelaMarvelComics Angela]].

* NearVillainVictory: If she had only had the foresight to destroy Surtur's crown or remove it from Odin's vault and hide it somewhere, there would have been no way that Thor and the other Revengers could ever have defeated her.

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* DeadpanSnarker: 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?" [[ShockAndAwe Considering what happens next,]] this was perhaps TemptingFate -- though it doesn't slow her down for long.

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** Ironically though, this gender changed makes it closer to its 616 comic counterpart who is actually gender fluid, being the father of all Wolf Gods but the '''mother''' of the first Storm Giants by mating with Surtur as a female wolf. Though for the majority of its comic appearances, it usually presents or is regarded as a male wolf.

** This is actually inaccurate, as the 616 comic Fenris is actually gender fluid, being the father of the Wolf Gods but the mother of the first Storm Giants by mating with Surtur as a female wolf. Though for the majority of its comic appearances, it usually presents or is regarded as a male wolf.

* GodSaveUsFromTheQueen: She not only crowns herself Queen through a violent takeover of Asgard, terrifying the populace into submission, she also aims to lead a bloody campaign of conquest on every other realm in existence. See ZeroPercentApprovalRating above.

* VileVillainSaccharineShow: Ragnarok isn't completely a 'Saccharine Show', but it's a mostly comedic, brightly-colored, action heavy, 80's inspired space opera in the vein of ''Film/{{Flash Gordon|1980}}'' and ''Film/BigTroubleInLittleChina''. Hela in contrast, does have her comedic and LargeHam moments, but is very much a Vile Villain as TheSociopath and an OmnicidalManiac.

* AdaptationalNonsapience: Fenrir could speak in the orginal myth and the comics, and even had a bit of an awesome ego. Fenris in the film is just a mindless beast that serves Hela.

* 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, while the mythological Fenris and Garm she is based on were both male.

* RavenHairIvorySkin: Like her father Odin and brother Thor (not to mention a majority of the Asgardian race it seems), she is very good looking and her beauty is certainly emphasized by her pale skin, piercing blue eyes and raven black hair.

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* AdaptationalSuperpowerChange: In the comics, Hela is the literal goddess of ''the dead'', and she rules Hel, the place where people's souls go after they die. In here, while Hela does resurrect some fallen warriors, her "goddess of ''death''" moniker seems to refer to her murderous ways rather than her having power over all dead souls. Also, the comic book Hela's most notable superpower, her touch that rots the flesh of the living, has been replaced with the ability to produce an endless amount of deadly blades out of thin air.

** Was she actually killed by Surtur, or did she teleport away at the last moment?

* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: Following Odin's death, Hela (as his eldest child) is the true heir to the throne of Asgard, and she is also clearly presented as being by far the strongest and most powerful Asgardian. Thor can somewhat compete with his new SuperMode, but Hela is still stronger due to her ties of Asgard.

* BeyondTheImpossible: Mjölnir was forged in the heart of a dying star, and imbued with magic so that only the most worthy of heroes could possibly make it move in any way. Hela catches and then ''crushes'' it with just one hand.

* TheCoup: According to Valkyrie, when Odin turned against her, Hela attempted one of these; she massacred everyone in the palace of Asgard and tried to seize the throne by force. It took the entirety of the Valkyrior (who, with the exception of one, sacrificed their lives to stop Hela) and the intervention of Odin to defeat and imprison her.

* EvilReactionary: Her EvilPlan is to revert Asgard back to its dark, blood-soaked, galactic-conquering, imperialistic past and continue its reign of terror on the rest of the universe, no matter how many of her ''own people'' she has to slaughter to do it.

* ItsAllAboutMe: Hela is solely focused on herself and putting the blame on everyone else. She wants to conquer the universe by pretty much killing everything else and cannot comprehend why Odin or other Asgardians oppose her. She also gets frustrated that no one remembers her.

* KarmicDeath: After spending the entire movie murdering and victimising the people of Asgard and getting away with it because no-one could possibly stop her, her precious kingdom comes under attack by an even more powerful being, whom she is as powerless to stop as the Asgardian people were to stop her and at whose hands she meets her fate.

* NighInvulnerability: It appears to be impossible to truly harm her in any way (at least as long as she has her connection to Asgard as a power source). Stab her, throw her, kick her, hit her, blast her with lightning. Nothing even leaves a scratch, let alone phases her. It's possible this is a result of the Asgardian's normal enhanced healing abilities taken UpToEleven via her connection with Asgard itself.

* OnlyFriend: It's one-sided as Skurge is more in pants-shitting mortal terror of her than receptive to friendship, but Hela seems to treat him as such, confiding in him and even attempting small talk before officially making him her right-hand man, despite the fact that all he did was be smart enough to not challenge her when she arrived in Asgard. When Skurge later does a HeelFaceTurn, she seems genuinely disappointed before she kills him.

* TyrantTakesTheHelm: Asgard goes from Odin disguised Loki's lax but seemingly mainly benevolent rule to Hela's violent coup and takeover. She seems determined to revert Asgard back to it's blood-drenched, imperialistic past.

** Throughout the previous two Thor films, the Einharjar (Asgard's elite army) has been portrayed as being a mighty, unstoppable force that has won countless wars against fearsome enemies and helped maintain not only the peace of the Nine Realms, but the ''universe'' as a whole. To show how crazy powerful Hela is, she is not only capable of taking on the entire army ''single-handedly'', but also ''winning''. [[BeyondTheImpossible Not to mention that she's also sufficiently powerful enough to destroy an enchanted, supposedly indestructible weapon with little to no effort]]. All of this serves to show how powerful she is and how pointless direct confrontation against her is and thus providing the justification for The GodzillaThreshold.

* AdaptationalSuperpowerChange: In the comics, Hela is the literal goddess of death, and she rules Hel, the place where people's souls go after they die. In here, while Hela does resurrect some fallen warriors, her "goddess of death" moniker seems to refer to her murderous ways rather than her having power over all dead souls. Also, the comic book Hela's most notable superpower, her touch that rots the flesh of the living, has been replaced with the ability to produce an endless amount of deadly blades out of thin air.

* NotSoDifferent: Thor points this out in the scene where he and Hela are in Asgard's throne room. He could have easily become as vicious and blood-thirsty as his older sister over tume, had Odin not exiled him to Midgard to teach him a lesson in humility.

* NotSoDifferent: Thor points this out in the scene where he and Hela were in Asgard's throne room. He could have easily become as vicious and blood-thirsty as his older sister over tume, had Odin not exiled him to Midgard to teach him a lesson in humility.

* NotSoDifferent: To Thor, who over time could have easily become as vicious and blood-thirsty as his older sister, had Odin not exiled him to Midgard to teach him a lesson in humility. This is even [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] by Thor himself in a scene between he and Hela in Asgard's throne room. Also to Loki, another black-and-green-clad sorceror with ambitions to violent conquest.

* PhysicalGod: Referred to as the goddess of death both by herself and Odin. Given the context, her much greater power than other Asgardians, connection to the land, and overall imagery the implication is she is a god.

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