Thor: Ragnarok - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts

[cameron]

The retirement home in New York City is named "Shady Acres", the same name as the retirement home where Stan Marsh's grandfather lives in South Park (1997), and the same as the psychiatric institute in Ace Ventura: Pet Detective (1994), which was a play on that movie's director Tom Shadyac.

[caroline]

This movie was retitled in Japan as "Thor: Battle Royale", an homage to the Koushun Takami story "Battle Royale", about people who are imprisoned in an arena and forced to kill each other.

[leo]

This marks the third time that Sam Neill and Samuel L. Jackson appeared in the same cinematic universe without having a scene together. Neill appeared in The Hunt for Red October (1990), while Jackson appeared in Patriot Games (1992). The two also appeared in Jurassic Park (1993), along with Jeff Goldblum.

[christina]

On his Instagram and Twitter accounts, Mark Ruffalo referred to his motion-capture suit as his "legendary man-cancelling suit."

[cameron]

Cate Blanchett accepted a role in this movie to please her children, who are Marvel comics fans. Blanchett's eldest son Dashiell John Upton suggested she take the role of Hela, saying it'd be a career boost.

[ella]

Topaz (Rachel House) is an ally of The Grandmaster (Jeff Goldblum) in this movie. In the comics, she was a sorceress.

[leo]

In addition to his credited role as the voice of Korg, Director Taika Waititi told Empire Magazine that he also played two other roles in this movie: "I am one of the heads on the three-headed alien, this character called Haju. I'm the head on the right. And I'm also the motion-capture for Surtur." Clancy Brown performed the voice of Surtur.

[sandra]

Cate Blanchett played Hela in a motion-capture suit, because of Hela's ability to shapeshift her body. She said this was a bit awkward, since she got confused in a few scenes.

[ethel]

The Grandmaster's Commodore spaceship resembles the spaceship on the cover of Electric Light Orchestra's "Out of the Blue" (1977). The song "Mr. Blue Sky", sampled in Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (2017), comes from this album.

[nora]

Thor wields a mace in his fight with The Incredible Hulk. In the Marvel comics, this mace was used by Thor's ally, Hercules.

[melinda]

Hela (Cate Blanchett) was the first female main villain in a Marvel Cinematic Universe movie.

[riley]

Anthony Hopkins's first film was The Lion in Winter, in which he played the son of Katharine Hepburn's character. Cate Blanchett played Hepburn in The Aviator.

[frederick]

Thor called his team "The Revengers". In the Marvel comics, The Revengers were a team of supervillains/anti-heroes made to oppose the Avengers.

[chad]

The spaceship seen in the mid-credit scene is the Sanctuary II, which belongs to Thanos (Josh Brolin).

[scarlett]

Cate Blanchett's youngest son, Ignatius Martin Upton, acquired a cameo role in this movie.

[albert]

The "Bartholomeus saga postola" (Saga of Bartholomew the Apostle), is a Christian saga from the thirteenth or fourteenth century, depicting the life of Bartholomew the Apostle. In the text, Bartholomew captures a demon who was posing as a god. The unnamed demon claims to be in service of Queen Hell, and mentions a war between Queen Hell and Jesus. According to the text, Jesus (who was killed on a cross, but did not die in battle) was sendt to Queen Hell's realm, but managed to defeat her and escape. "Queen Hell" is evidently Hel/Hela, and the text depicts her as Queen in a Christian underworld. Indicating that the Christianized Norse people had not stopped believing in her.

[jessica]

When Thor (Chris Hemsworth) is trying to get the password for the Quinjet, the successful password was "Point Break", which was a subtle nod to Tony Stark's nickname for the blonde Avenger, as he resembled Patrick Swayze (Point Break (1991) quite closely. "Point Break" is also what Iron Man (Robert Downey, Jr.) calls Thor when they meet in The Avengers (2012).