Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-36304314-20180723164916/@comment-37370408-20190328205754

QMan1 wrote: Hi Guys i've just finished watching Ragnarok again and I have a few questions

As we know from the film, Odin defeated Surtur and kept the eternal flame on Asgard to keep Surtur at minimal strength. Thor retrieves the crown from defeating him in order to resurrect him again using the flame on Asgard to fulfill the Ragnarok prophecy and defeat Hela.

If Odin defeated Surtur in the first place why did Odin keep him alive and not just kill him?

Did Odin purposely keep Surtur alive, but banish him in order for Thor to eventually fulfil the prophecy?

When Loki and Thor visit Odin in Norway, he mentions Ragnarok, and knows about Surtur and Hela, meaning he knew all along what would happen if Hela is eventually freed once he died. So why didn't Odin himself just kill Hela, to stop all of this happening in the first place?

At one point in the movie Hela is in the vaults with Odin's treasures and notices Surtur's crown. Now we're not sure whether this is a real or fake because at this point Thor has retrieved it and went back to Asgard with it but we don't see what he does with it.

If it is indeed real, why didn't Hela put 2 and 2 together and realise that these two items together will lead to Asgards fall and her eventual downfall? I think Surtur and Hela mirrored each other.

both of them couldn't be killed by normal means.

Surtur died when he fulfilled his purpose and that was destroying Asgard.

Odin said to Thor that he is stronger than him. what he meant by that is that Thor is stronger when it comes to making hard decisions.

Odin couldn't bring himself to kill Hela because he would have to destroy Asgard.

basically, releasing Ragnarok was killing two birds with one stone.