Thor: Ragnarok Movie Facts, Easter Eggs and hidden details
50 of the most interesting Thor: Ragnarok easter eggs you didn't know about. Handpicked and verified, these little-known hidden details can be obscure enough most people will miss. These behind the scene easter eggs and hidden messages will give you another view of Thor: Ragnarok movie message.
Imprisoned on the planet Sakaar, Thor must race against time to return to Asgard and stop Ragnarök, the destruction of his world, at the hands of the powerful and ruthless villain Hela.
Genre
Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Director
Taika Waititi
Production
Walt Disney Pictures
Stars
Chris Hemsworth, Tom Hiddleston, Cate Blanchett, Idris Elba
IMDB score
7.9
Thor: Ragnarok Movie Trivia
Valkyrie is called "Scrapper #142", which is a reference to her first comic book appearance: The Incredible Hulk #142.
Director Taika Waititi can be seen playing the center head of a three headed being in the backround, the voice of the character Korg in the foreground and presumably directing the film from behind the camera all in one shot.
Matt Damon has a scene where he is Loki in a play. Matt Damon was the fallen angel Loki in Dogma.
Thor: Ragnarok Movie Easter Eggs
The Grandmaster calls Valkyrie "Scrapper 142," a reference to issue #142 of The Incredible Hulk comic book series, featuring Valkyrie's return
Is the only MCU film where Dr.Strange used his classic yellow gloves from the comics.
The tower on Sakaar features various heads of gladiators, such as Man-Thing, Bi-Beast, Beta Ray Bill and Ares, all who have faced off against the Hulk or Thor some point in time.
Avengers (2012), Tony Stark says to Thor: "No hard feelings, Point Break. You've got a mean swing." In Thor: Ragnarok (2017), Thor's password for the quinjet is "point break"
Thor and Loki crash into the 'Shady Acres' retirement home. I think this is actually a reference to 'Long Dark Teatime of the Soul' by Douglas Adams, where Thor and Loki put an age addled Odin into a retirement home, that I believe is of the same name.
During the play depicting Loki's "death" on Sv?rtalfheim, the music is the same as the music in Frigga's funeral in Thor: The Dark World (2013).
Thor: Ragnarok movie hidden details
Loki is telling sakaarians about his fall in Thor 1
Doctor Strange prepares to teleport Thor and Loki but first researches any "Asgardian modifications" that may be necessary. When he performs the portal spell he creates a Norse-style Triquetra/Triskelion.
Thor rebuffs an offer of tea in the Sanctum Sanctorum, which is served to him in the same cup used by the Ancient One when she first met Doctor Strange in Kamar-Taj.
Before Odin dies in Norway, he points out to the distance and tell Thor and Loki "Remember this place, home". This is where New Asgard is located in Endgame.
One of the figurines on the Grandmaster's tower is the head of Beta Ray Bill, the original character to wield Stormbreaker, Thor's hammer forged in Avengers: Infinity War (2018), in the comics
After Korg tells Thor "I'm made of rocks as you can see, but don't let that intimidate you. You don't need to be afraid unless you're made of scissors." Meik crosses his knife arms together.
Thor is not being electrocuted by the control device. He is being injected by a neurotoxin as is noted by his veins bulging and being discolored, something electricity would not do.
The device on the wall in the background is the same one used in Doctor Strange during the battle with Kaecilius
The carcass that Valkyrie lands on is a bilgesnipe, a creature described by Thor in The Avengers.
The women that Skurge was trying to impress meet him again on the Bifrost Bridge
Thor holds a sword by its blade instead of its hilt, so he's smashing enemies with a blunt force of lightning. Kind of like how Mjolnir would.
Before Odin dies in Norway he calls it "home." In Avengers: Endgame (2019) after Thanos' snap, the Asgardians make their new home in Norway
As the God of Thunder, Thor executes a torpedo attack where he goes horizontal and shoots his spinning body towards a baddie. This is a signature move of another God of Thunder, Raiden from Mortal Kombat.
During the play scene, the Asgardian choir is singing 'Deliverance' from the Thor 2 soundtrack.
All 3 Siblings Share The Same Sword Draw Gesture
Fight coordinator Jon Valera copied a move used by rival coordinator Ryan Watson in Wonder Woman.
The rubble foreshadows Thor's injury.
Phrasing used by Heimdall earlier in the film alludes to a later reveal
Hulk is seen with a scar on his chest. This is actually a subtle nod to Edward Norton's (Hulk) from The Incredible Hulk (2008), when he was stabbed in the chest by Abomination.
Thor grabs one of the Undead Asgardian's swords and wields it like a hammer, hilt out.
Thor misses Loki with the glass because he recently lost an eye and is still adjusting to his loss of depth perception
When Thor and Bruce are on Sakaar, Bruce puts on glasses to disguise himself as Tony Stark, quoting that they will be "Tony and the gypsy". In Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows, Robert Downey Jr. plays Sherlock and works with a gypsy woman, Simza, throughout the movie
Bruce Banner wears a shirt displaying the album Rio featuring the song Hungry Like The Wolf. He later fights the Fenris Wolf as The Hulk.
The ship stolen from The Grandmaster has its color scheme inspired by the Australian Aboriginal flag.
- Hela knows that the Infinity Gauntlet in the vault is fake because it is made for the right hand. The real Gauntlet is for the left hand.
Thor kills goons with the hilt, holding the sword by the blade
The Executioner (Karl Urban) wears armor with a pretty major vulnerability: a big opening right in front of his heart.
Valkyrie makes a sarcastic comment on his lineage when Thor reveals that his father is Odin. Giving us a clue as to who she is.
Skurge claims he got his guns (named Dez and Troy) in Texas. Dez Bryant and Troy Aikmen are both players for the Cowboys football team. The Cowboys play in Dallas Texas.
The Executioner names his two Guns "Des" and "Troy" for the obvious "Destroy" pun, but he also mentioned that he got them in Texas. This seems to imply there is also an intended reference to Dez Bryant and Troy Aikman, two of the most famous Dallas Cowboys of all time.
. Thor's captured by Grand Master. Thor sees Loki & yells "He's my brother." Loki says, "Adopted." Avengers Assemble (2012), Thor defends his brother's reputation saying "...He's my brother" until he's told about Loki's murder spree and adds, "He's adopted."
Valkyrie says if she's going to die, it might as well be "driving my sword through the heart of that murderous hag." Valkyrie's last attack against Hela is by stabbing her through the heart.
Thor sees shattered plaster that shows what will happen to his eye later in the movie.
-While Thor is going through the light tunnel to meet the Grand Master,an instrumental version of "Pure Imagination" from WILLY WONKA AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY(1971) can be heard.
Hela is wielding Mjolnir in the mural on the ceiling of the King's room explaining how she was able to stop the hammer when Thor threw it at her.
Odin is so ashamed of hiding Hela from his sons, that he can barely look his sons in the eyes when talking to them before saying goodbye. He only looks at Loki once, and can't look at Thor at all, as he knows Hela will take the throne away from Thor.
When Skurge fights from the ship, empty shells are shown to eject but the duct cover of his right M-16 is still closed.
A massive ship arrives in front of the Asgardian ship. Thor seems to be cautiously curious. But Loki has a look of despair; he knows it's Thanos's ship.
Just before Thor confronts Hela and has his eye cut out, he stares at a mural that foreshadows his disfigurement.
When Loki appears to Thor in the "freaky circle," Thor throws stones at him to see if he's an illusion. There are stones to throw because of Korg, being made of "perishable rock" loses them.
You can see a ship casually hitting an falling object and exploding in the background when trying to pass through a portal while Thor is looking at it. showing just how chaotic Sakaar is and giving Thor an idea to escape the planet.