Thor : Ragnarok is the third film in the God of Thunder ’s franchise , the fifth pic in Marvel Phase Three , and the 17th film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe . So even though it ’s something of a stick out - alone story , you could probably still use a refresher on everything that ’s happened in the MCU that leads into the movie — and the mythological event that spells not just the end of Asgard , but all the nine realms .
There are no spoiler for Thor : Ragnarok here beyond the info formally expel about the movie , but this is pretty comprehensive . So if you do n’t desire to be intimate these detail , or are still behind on some other Marvel motion picture …
Thor
The last time we saw Thor was in 2015 ’s avenger : Age of Ultron . Thanks to the Scarlet Witch , he had a imagination of universal destruction , which he subsequently trust would be a termination of the Infinity Stones . Thor realized that four of these vastly powerful stones had late made themselves know and he thought someone — or something — was behind their emergence . He departed Earth at the end of Ultron to see out who or what that was , but we do know in Ragnarok he ’s on Earth again , seeking his Father of the Church . ( More on that below . )
Loki
Loki last appear in 2013 ’s Thor : The Dark World , so it ’s been a while since we ’ve seen the God of Mischief . At that time , he had been stop from taste to take over our world ( in The Avengers ) and sent back to Asgard , and ended up teaming up with his half - brother Thor to defeat Malekith and his Dark Elf armies . Although it seemed like he might have turned over a Modern leafage in helping quit Malekith , and even apparently died in the process , Loki is forever a slicker . The Dark World end with him slink aside in secret to let everyone believe he was still stagnant , while he removed Odin from major power and assumed his stepfather ’s identity , so he could last rule over Asgard as he ’d always desire .
Odin
Odin , the father of Thor and Loki , is the rule of Asgard . Well , he was , before Loki spirited him out and took on his shape to rule in his property . Ragnarok has revealed that somehow Odin ended up being dumped on Earth , but he ’s been missing since then — and Thor , realizing what his brother had done , travels to New York City with Loki in tow to visualize out just where Odin ’s gone …
Doctor Strange
… and they require a bite of assistance to do so . Doctor Strange ’s post - credits vista established that one of Stephen ’s first project upon getting himself settle in the Sanctum Sanctorum was meeting with Thor for a confab ( and a magically - acquired beer ) . We also sleep together from that scene that Strange is rather miff at the idea of Asgardians being on Earth , so he ’s plausibly not in the flick for long — because as he tells Thor , he wants to bump Odin for him and then get them ( specially Loki ) off - planet as soon as possible .
Hulk
Hulk , everyone ’s favorite nerdy scientist - turned - unstoppable greenish rage demon , was also last run across in Avengers : Age of Ultron . After aid his fellow Avengers win the sidereal day , Hulk pay off in one of S.H.I.E.L.D ’s Quinjets and impart by himself . He did n’t want to hurt everyone — especially Black Widow , because Bruce Banner had begun to germinate a connection with her . He even ignored her supplication to make out home . We saw his reverse lightning fly off ; later Nick Fury say the squirt may have splashed down near Fiji .
Thanks to Ragnarok ’s trailers , we know the ship somehow made its way to the alien satellite Sakaar , where Hulk ends up fight as a prizefighter in the arena of Jeff Goldblum ’s mysterious ( and batty ) character , the Grandmaster .
Other Asgardians
Thor : Ragnarok returns to Asgard , and that mean a whole crew of cool supporting characters . There are the warriors Hogun , Fandral , Volstagg , and Sif . There ’s also Heimdall , the all - seeing being who guards the Bifrost , which transports Asgardians across the cosmos . All that ’s really important to remember about these characters is they believe Asgard was fine when we last result them . Judging by the house trailer for Ragnarok , it ’s not going to be very okay for much longer .
Jane Foster
As played by Natalie Portman , astrophysicist Jane Foster was Thor ’s love interest in the first two Thor movies . In Age of Ultron , it ’s cite that she ’s not around because she ’s off on a mission . But we have intercourse that Natalie Portman will not come back for Ragnarok — and is improbable to riposte to the Thor motion picture , full layover . Marvel Studios head honcho Kevin Feige has confirmed thatJane and Thor are no longer together , and propose that the new character Valkyrie ( Tessa Thompson ) could be Thor ’s dearest interest in Ragnarok .
The Vault
Odin is a bit of a collector , and his secret vault on Asgard has two artifact that you should remember . First up is a gold glove with spaces for six Stone . It looks very much like the Infinity Gauntlet that Thanos set up on in the post - credits scene in Age of Ultron . Then there ’s the Tesseract , a.k.a . the Space Stone , which Loki used against Earth in The Avengers and was wreak back to Asgard for safekeeping at the end of that film .
It ’s only one of the Infinity Stones Thor knows about . There was another housed — the Aether ( a.k.a . the Reality gemstone ) seen in The Dark World — but it was confirm at the conclusion of that movie to have been sent to the Collector ’s Museum . We do n’t in reality what became of the Aether in the wake of the Collector ’s Museum brag up in Guardians of the Galaxy , but it ’s a dependable stake it ’s in all likelihood in Thanos ’ hands by the time of Ragnarok .
Darryl
Sorry , but as funny asthesetwo videosthat show what Thor did during Captain America : Civil War are , they are not a part of Ragnarok . Thor ’s had to leave his honest-to-god buddy Darryl behind when he exits Earth to head to the wider cosmea in Ragnarok . But we ’ll always have those DVD extras as memory board .
And now you ’re ready to see Thor : Ragnarok , which opens internationally this week and in the US on Friday , November 3 .
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