The second trailer for Thor Ragnarok was was drenched in Kirby-flavored 80s madness, from it'southward neon title cards to it'due south retro score. And after you get done watching for the tenth time (give or accept a viewing), click dorsum over to here and nosotros'll suspension downwards the high points together. Go alee, watch it -- nosotros'll expect...

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OK, now that you're dorsum, permit'due south swoop into the biggest developments Marvel Studios packed into the near two-and-a-one-half infinitesimal trailer for director Taika Waititi's MCU debut.

Paging Dr. Imprint

The trailer opens with a beginning look at the Blob'south human counterpart, Bruce Imprint, spending some quality time with Thor, after their...um, violent outset come across in the gladiatorial ring on Planet Hulk's Sakaar. Banner doesn't seem to remember the fight at all (though he'southward pretty sure, despite Thor'southward insistence, that he... err, Hulk, won.)

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All of this begs the question: just how, and why, is Banner in infinite at all? It'due south clear, from this trailer and the first, that Thor found himself banished to Sakaar intendance of the violent have over from Hela back on Asgard. In the comics, the Planet Hulk storyline kicked off after the Avengers came to the inhumane decision to launch the Hulk into space confronting his will in an attempt to protect the planet form his rage-fueled rampages. It'south unlikely that that's the case here, unless the team was very busy in the time earlier or after Civil War.

For his function, Banner doesn't even seem to know where he is, which may or may non hateful he doesn't even know the answer to the question of how he got in that location, himself.

A Journey of Cocky Discovery

The trailer re-hashes some ground covered in the first trailer. Namely, Thor's arrival on Sakaar and subsequent capture. He does provide a new, interesting tidbit that his encounter with Hulk in the gladiatorial loonshit happened almost immediately after his hammer was destroyed past Hela, making it seem similar her take over of Asgard was quick to say the least.

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Hela'south uprising gets some fourth dimension in the spotlight as well, with several central shots of Tessa Thompson's Valkyrie leading a legion of winged horse riding warriors into boxing against her. This may or may not explain how Valkyrie ended up on Sakaar herself, but the context of her interactions with Jeff Goldblum's Grandmaster seem to insinuate some level of familiarity between the two characters.

It'due south quite possible that the initial fight betwixt Valkyrie and Asgard'due south armies is a flashback to Hela'south initial banishment.

It as well seems like Karl Urban's Skurge, who we get a nice articulate, extended look at, is working as Hela'southward right hand man in her take over.

Assembling a Team

Loki is certainly no stranger to being a prisoner within the Marvel Cinematic Universe and it looks similar Ragnarok is continuing the trend. In a definite deviation from his original reveal in the first trailer (where he'due south shown sitting, sharing a burrow with Jeff Goldblum's Grandmaster), nosotros discover the trickster in chains somewhere on Sakaar.

Whether this is earlier or later he attempts to win the Grandmaster's favor (i.eastward. if Loki is going to betray Thor subsequently Thor assists in his escape, or if the assist comes afterwards the Grandmaster has already had enough of him) is left ambiguous.

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Thankfully, it looks like all of Loki and Thor's bad blood is water under the bridge, because they're next shown opening fire with a set up of laser-launching machine guns on a squad of unsuspecting Sakaarian guards.

From this point, the stakes of the movie become pretty clear. Thor must team up with Banner, Valkyrie, and Loki to find a way off of Sakaar and win Asgard back from the likes of Hela. The Grandmaster's function in this, still seems a bit foreign. Valkyrie may or may non be a shut ally of his.

Raising the Stakes

From there, the trailer ramps upwards into true Kirby-inspired sci-fi superhero mayhem. We're shown everything from a mid-Bifrost teleportation fight between Loki and Hela to a cloaked Heimdal swinging his sword in some sort of wooded locale.

A key moment shows Blob going hand-to-mitt with a behemothic Asgardian wolf -- undoubtedly the MCU incarnation of Fenris, one of the heralds of the mythological Ragnarok -- and the squad landing on the trunk-strewn to Heimdall'south old lookout post (and gate to the Bifrost) to confront Hela.

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"I am the goddess of expiry," Hela taunts, presumably mid-Fight with Thor, "what were yous the god of again?"

The answer comes in the class of a truly epic shot of Thor, super charged by lighting (complete with glowing solid white eyes) crashes into Asgard from the stormy heaven. Interestingly enough, this shot does non bear witness Thor holding Mjolnir at the time. There is a precedent for Thor beingness able to use powers without his hammer (afterwards all, comic volume Mjolnir has seen information technology'southward bitter, explosive end more than in one case), but they are few and far between.

It's possible that we will exist getting a much more in-depth expect at how the MCU is dealing with the nitty gritty aspects of Asgardian powers before Thor Ragnarok comes to an end.

Like Raging Burn down

The last shot of the trailer is a bound cut to a surprise reveal -- Hulk full-on leaping into the jaws of a giant, flaming demon named Surtur, a classic Thor villain from the Silver Age.

This is the outset indication of Surtur'due south presence in the film, and though his bodily role in the movie is still very much up in the air, his massive size and the obvious connections the plot has to the realm of Hel indicate that he might actually function as the existent "big bad" after Hela herself is defeated.

Opening November iii, Thor: Ragnarok stars Chris Hemsworth as Thor, Tom Hiddleston every bit Loki, Cate Blanchett as Hela, Idris Elba as Heimdall, Jeff Goldblum as Grandmaster, Tessa Thompson as Valkyrie, Karl Urban as Skurge, Marker Ruffalo as Bruce Banner/the Hulk and Anthony Hopkins equally Odin.

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