Film guide · 2017
The whole film, start to finish, told scene by scene in words. Read this and you'll know everything that happens.
Contains every spoiler, up to the ending.
In the fiery realm of Muspelheim, a chained Thor listens as the fire demon Surtur describes Ragnarok, the day he'll burn Asgard to the ground. Thor breaks free, defeats Surtur, and takes his crown, the source of his power.
The Bifrost's keeper is no longer Heimdall but a man named Skurge. Thor has him open the bridge and returns to Asgard.
In Asgard, "Odin" is enjoying a play celebrating Loki as a hero. Thor uses his hammer to force the truth out: "Odin" is Loki.
Loki says he left Odin in a retirement home on Earth, but the building has been demolished. Thor meets Doctor Strange, who helps them find their father.
On a cliff in Norway, Odin tells his sons he has a firstborn daughter, Hela, who will return once he dies. Then he fades into light.
Hela appears at once, catches Thor's hammer in one hand and crushes it. Thor and Loki flee on the Bifrost, but Hela follows and knocks them out into space.
Hela arrives in Asgard and cuts down every soldier who stands against her. Skurge becomes her henchman to save his own life.
Hela strips away the ceiling murals to reveal the history Odin hid. Long ago, she and Odin conquered realm after realm together, until Odin chose to become a peaceful king and locked her away.
Hela raises her ancient army and a giant wolf from beneath the palace. Heimdall secretly leads the people to a hidden refuge in the mountains.
Thor lands on Sakaar, a planet where the universe's junk piles up. A hard-drinking scrapper puts a control disc on his neck and sells him to the planet's ruler, the Grandmaster.
At the Grandmaster's side is Loki, who arrived weeks earlier and is already in his good graces.
Thor's long hair is cut off and he's entered in the gladiator games. In the holding area, he meets the rock warrior Korg.
Thor's opponent is the Grandmaster's champion: the Hulk. Thor is thrilled, but the Hulk attacks for real. Just as Thor's lightning flares, the Grandmaster's disc knocks him out.
The Hulk is a star here and doesn't want to leave. Thor learns the scrapper was once one of the Valkyries, Asgard's women warriors, all wiped out by Hela.
Thor finds the Quinjet the Hulk arrived in. A recording of Natasha turns the Hulk back into Bruce for the first time in two years.
Valkyrie decides to face her past and joins Thor. Loki tries to betray them, but Thor sees it coming and leaves him behind.
Loki helps Korg's gladiator revolt and takes one of the Grandmaster's ships. Thor's team dodges their pursuers and flies through a giant wormhole toward Asgard.
Heimdall's refugees are cornered on the bridge by Hela's army. Thor lands with a bolt of lightning, the Hulk and Valkyrie join in, and Loki arrives with a huge ship to evacuate the people.
Fighting Hela, Thor loses an eye. A vision of Odin tells him he was never the god of hammers. Thor realizes the thunder is within him and unleashes it without Mjolnir.
To protect the ship full of refugees, Skurge turns on Hela and dies fighting her army alone.
Hela draws her power from Asgard itself and can't be beaten there. Thor realizes Asgard is not a place, but its people.
Loki places Surtur's crown in the Eternal Flame, and the fire demon is reborn. Surtur destroys Asgard, and Hela with it.
Aboard the ship, Thor takes the throne. With his people, he sets course for Earth.
As Thor and Loki talk aboard the ship bound for Earth, an enormous spaceship appears in front of them.
In the wreckage on Sakaar, the Grandmaster tries to tell the rebels that the revolution was a tie.