‘Thor: Ragnarok’ Ending Explained By The Writer

[Spoilers ahead, but seriously – get to the theater this film is awesome]

In an interview with The Hollywood Reporter, Thor: Ragnarok co-screenwriter Eric Pearson gives us a bit of the inside story on how they ended up going ‘full Ragnarok’ and destroying Thor’s home, Asgard.

How early did you know you were going to actually destroy Asgard and they’d end up on a spaceship?
I forget exactly how that idea came up, but I remember bringing it up right at the beginning. One of the previous works had Asgard not really being destroyed, or being rebuilt or something. Well, it’s Ragnarok. That means apocalypse in Norse mythology. Don’t we got to blow it up? We really got to do it here, and I think we can’t be scared of it. The idea of making Thor a quasi-Noah figure … in getting everyone onto the arc to preserve them — I think I knew right from the beginning we had to do that. It was more about the tricky thing of making it Thor’s choice. It wasn’t that he just lost a huge battle. He learned something more about being a ruler that the people are the kingdom, not the space itself. As a king, as a selfless king, you’ve got to make sacrifices. We tried to present him with a no-win scenario, and he made the right choice to continue on the Asgardian lineage, as opposed to trying to punch his problems to death.

In Thor: Ragnarok, and with the destruction of Asgard the writers are able to develop Thor as a character like they haven’t in the previous Thor or the Avengers films. With the destruction of Asgard and [spoilers] the death of Odin Thor now is not just a young God that is able to run around and have fun on adventures. No doubt this choice will play heavily in the upcoming Avengers: Infinity War.

Imprisoned, the mighty Thor finds himself in a lethal gladiatorial contest against the Hulk, his former ally. Thor must fight for survival and race against time to prevent the all-powerful Hela from destroying his home and the Asgardian civilization. Thor: Ragnarock currently has an 84.74 Comicbook.com composite rating which puts it at number 6 on the all time favorite comic book films.