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Hela is so moved she allows both Asgardians to leave her realm still possessing their life sparks. Thor journeys to Hela’s realm and offers his own soul in exchange for Sif’s. Thor confronts the king of the giants who reveals he bartered Sif with Hela, the Goddess of Death, in exchange for immortality. Later, Thor discovers that Storm Giants have kidnapped Thor’s beloved Lady Sif (Storm Giants are dicks). The Fates tell Thor that he will only be worthy of the hammer when he faces death. In this story, a young Thor consults the Three Fates to find out when he will be allowed to wield Odin’s magic hammer Mjolnir. So let us journey into the Asgardian underworld and take a look at the history of Marvel’s newest and most horrific big screen villain, Hela… And over the years, many Hela tales were just as awesome as Kirby’s visual design. Just check out that Jack Kirby design! Of all the Kirby crafted Asgardian legends introduced in Kirby and Stan Lee’s run on Thor, Hela is the most badass, over the top, majestically rendered of them all. She is an awesome figure that sparks dread and awe on all who set eyes upon her, and with good reason. Hela is a complex being that goes beyond traditional ideas of good and evil. Hela, daughter of Loki, Queen of the Dead, is more akin to a cosmic force of nature than she is a simple villain. Really, Hela is just one of those villains that transcends being a simple evildoer.
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That intensity, that over the top yet awesome helmet, that dark majesty, it all just screams Goddess of Death.
THOR RAGNAROK VILLAIN MOVIE
And, with all the missed opportunities, this movie could have provided some insight beyond just the colorful action scenes and laugh-inducing one-liners.Cate Blanchett has nailed the dark majesty of Hela in Thor: Ragnarok, and her interpretation of the Asgardian Queen of the Dead looks like it stepped out of a Jack Kirby black light poster. Looking to the Captain America or Iron Man franchise, struggles with relationships and families and ideologies have been well-done in Marvel Cinematic Universes. Regardless of a young audience that excitedly awaits the next punch or kick, depth was still possible. To that extent, it’s understandable why the plot is a quickly-moving conveyor belt to the next flashy fight scene - kids have short attention spans. Given that Marvel targets kids and young teenagers, trying to create a plot that has Academy Award-winning depth would be a commercial mistake. Yet it would be wrong to label this movie as poorly-made. Unfortunately, the movie stuck to a formula. Especially considering this is the third movie in the “Thor” series, there is no way to rely on developed backstories of characters, rather other, more creative ways of getting us to understand relate to new additions to the cast. Even characters we know from before, like Odin and Loki, seem to lack any characteristic that allows the audience to truly and deeply care about what happens to them. We may love Thor, but many of the characters introduced, without an explanation of their past and values, make them expendable. Even this film’s villain, Hela, is briefly introduced without an explicit understanding of how her philosophy was shaped by past experiences - how she became the antagonist. We see no development between brothers Loki and Thor, as their relationship is still the confusing mess of betrayal, yet brotherly love as we saw in “Thor: The Dark World.” A new character, Valkyrie, has a traumatic past which she gets over in, quite literally, a couple of minutes. Indeed, the movie has a theme of sacrificing areas of development in exchange for moving the plot forward as fast as possible to the next action scene. There’s a surge in Marvel’s classic comedic takes (in fact, in nearly every scene), but it seems like the comedy is there to distract from the lack of an emotionally insightful plot. A character deeply close to Thor dies and he barely has time to reflect and respond before a new, poorly-explained villain appears. The introduction is incredibly fast-paced, where large, somewhat possibly emotionally poignant scenes are rushed by.
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The superheroes are at their best, with epic displays of thunder and villains piercing through dozens of well-armored Asgardians.
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The action scenes are filled with well-designed CGI and tons of neatly-choreographed fights. Ragnarok checks the boxes: The humor hits all the marks. It’s the classic villain-tries-taking-over-the-world (or galaxy) and the-hero-saves-the-day story.