Comparing Ragnarok And Norse Mythology
Thor: Ragnarok (2017) is the third movie telling the story of Thor but also Ragnarok. The movie and Gaiman in his book Norse Mythology picture Ragnarok very differently. Ragnarok, according to Norse Mythology, is a great battle accompanied by various natural disasters and subsequent submersion of the world in water between the Gods and resulting in the death of a number of major figures (including Odin, Thor and Loki). After Ragnarok the world was supposed to resurface back again. Let me begin with how it is depicted in the book and then compare it to the movie. First of all, in Norse Mythology it is clearly written that "Loki and his children will be there for Ragnarok, the end of everything, and it will not be on the side of the gods of Asgard
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There was not a thing about him having any children mentioned even once. Gaiman in his book also writes about Thor having children but, again, the movie does not show anything of such kind of things. The topic of children is completely skipped in Thor. Second of all, as said before, Loki was not supposed to fight on the side of the gods of Asgard, however, in Thor: Ragnarok he does so. At first, it seems like he is about to abandon Thor and his army but, a few minutes before they leave to Asgard in order to fight for it, he chooses to stick by Thor's side and fight for with them against evil. Thor: Ragnarok also introduces us to another very important for the movie character: Hela. We may have heard of someone similar in Gaiman's book: he wrote about Hel, Loki's daughter. According to Neil, Hel had Loki's green eyes, had no fear in herself and her eyes were filled with death. When Odin saw her for the first time he said “This child will be the ruler of the deepest of the dark places, and ruler of the dead of all the nine worlds. She will be the queen of those poor souls who die in unworthy ways—of disease or of old age, of accidents or in
There was not a thing about him having any children mentioned even once. Gaiman in his book also writes about Thor having children but, again, the movie does not show anything of such kind of things. The topic of children is completely skipped in Thor. Second of all, as said before, Loki was not supposed to fight on the side of the gods of Asgard, however, in Thor: Ragnarok he does so. At first, it seems like he is about to abandon Thor and his army but, a few minutes before they leave to Asgard in order to fight for it, he chooses to stick by Thor's side and fight for with them against evil. Thor: Ragnarok also introduces us to another very important for the movie character: Hela. We may have heard of someone similar in Gaiman's book: he wrote about Hel, Loki's daughter. According to Neil, Hel had Loki's green eyes, had no fear in herself and her eyes were filled with death. When Odin saw her for the first time he said “This child will be the ruler of the deepest of the dark places, and ruler of the dead of all the nine worlds. She will be the queen of those poor souls who die in unworthy ways—of disease or of old age, of accidents or in