[Warning: This story contains spoilers for Thor: Ragnarok]
Despite the title, Thor: Ragnarok doesn’t actually draw much from the Thor comic book storyline of the same name from 2004. Instead, the movie is drawn from a variety of comic book sources, each bringing a different element of the fall of Asgard — and pointing towards the future of the movie series.
First, a quick recap of where the film left off. Ragnarok actually came to pass, with Thor (Chris Hemsworth) allowing Surtur to destroy Asgard in order to stop Hela (Cate Blanchett). Thor learns that Asgard is not a place, but a people, and they sail off into space, looking for a new home.
The discrepancy with the comic book “Ragnarok” (which ran in Thor Nos. 80-85) is actually relatively easily explained: while Taika Waititi’s Ragnarok has certain narrative requirements that rule out the movie living totally up to its apocalyptic title — Thor and the Hulk both being needed for next year’s Avengers: Infinity War, if nothing else — the comic book storyline of the same name exists to literally put the entire Thor mythos to bed, at least temporarily. (After it was published, Marvel stayed out of the Thor business for three years, until the launch of a new Thor series in 2007.)
The plot of the comic book “Ragnarok” is, in essence, relatively simple: Loki kills almost everyone in Asgard and then Thor hits the reset button with the (unwitting) assistance of Surtur — that part, at least, is consistent with the movie — destroying not only Asgard itself, but each of the other “Nine Realms” of existence with the exception of Earth, in what is melodramatically called a “final act of cosmic ritual!” The series ends, temporarily, with Thor announcing, essentially, that he’s going to…
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