Appearances
Featured Characters:
Supporting Characters:
- ⏴ Loki ⏵ (Impersonates Captain America, Einherjar Captain, and Odin)
- ⏴ Odin ⏵
- ⏴ Frigga (Death)
- ⏴ Lady Sif ⏵
- Warriors Three
- ⏴ Dr. Jane Foster
- ⏴ Darcy Lewis ⏵
- Ian Boothby (First appearance)
- ⏴ Dr. Erik Selvig ⏵
- ⏴ Heimdall ⏵
Antagonists:
- Malekith (First appearance; dies) (Main story and flashback)
- Kurse (Algrim) (First appearance; dies) (Main story and flashback)
- Marauders (First appearance)
- A Berserker (Death)
Other Characters:
- Bor (First appearance)
- Einherjar (First appearance)
- ⏴ Hugin
- ⏴ Munin
- Hildegund (Cameo)
- Richard Madison (First appearance)
- John (First appearance)
- Navid (First appearance)
- Maddie (First appearance)
- Metropolitan Police Service (First appearance)
- S.H.I.E.L.D. (Mentioned)
- Eir (First appearance)
- Tyr (First appearance)
- ⏴ Stan Lee ⏵
- Avengers (Mentioned)
- Tivan Group (Cameo)
- Carina ⏵ (First appearance) (Cameo) (Unnamed)
- Collector (Taneleer Tivan) ⏵ (First appearance) (Cameo)
Races and Species:
- Asgardians
- Dark Elves
- Vanir
- Marauder Races
- Humans
- Jotuns
Locations:
- 199999 Universe
- Nine Realms
- Svartalfheim
- Vanaheim
- Asgard
- Jotunheim
- Midgard (Earth)
- United Kingdom
- England
- London
- The Gherkin
- St. Paul's Cathedral
- Old Vinyl Factory, Blyth Road, Hayes, West London
- Greenwich
- Wiltshire
- London
- England
- United States of America (Mentioned)
- New York (Mentioned)
- New Mexico (Mentioned)
- United Kingdom
- Muspelheim (First appearance)
- Alfheim (Mentioned)
- Nidavellir (Mentioned)
- Niffleheim (Mentioned)
- Hel (Mentioned)
- 616 Universe (Named only)
- The Fault (Named only)
- The Crossroads (Named only)
- Nexus of All Realities (Named only)
- Knowhere (First appearance)
- Collector's Museum (First appearance)
- Nine Realms
Items:
- Infinity Stones (First appearance)
- Aether (First appearance)
- Space Stone (Mentioned)
- Fimbuldraugr
- Hridgandr
- Mjolnir
- Gungnir
- Hofund
- Captain America's Shield (Illusion or holographic simulation)
- Captain America's Uniform (Illusion or holographic simulation)
- Tesseract (Mentioned)
Vehicles:
- Asgardian skiff (First appearance)
- Dark Elf warship
- Dark Elf stealth fighter
- Foden truck - cement mixer with Norman Emerson & Sons branding
- The London Underground (The Tube)
- Metropolitan Police Service cars (response car, or "panda" car)
- Metropolitan Police Service armed response vehicle
Plot
Odin tells the story of how his father, Bor, fought against the Dark Elves. Every five-thousand years a cosmic event, called the Convergence, causes the Nine Realms to become aligned, and Malekith, the leader of the Dark Elves, planned to use this event and release the Aether, a relic from before the universe, to plunge the Nine Realms back into darkness. But the Asgardians intervened and took the Aether from the Dark Elves by force, watching as that race was apparently decimated in the destruction of their warships. Bor then had the Aether hidden away where none could find it, and over the following five millennia, its story faded from known history.
In the present day of 2013 Odin gives Loki a life-sentence in prison for his crimes. The power from the Tesseract was used to rebuild the Bifrost. Thor and the Warriors Three battle in Vanaheim. After the battle is won, Thor tells Hogun to stay there with his people as the rest of them go back to Asgard. A party is held for Thor, for restoring the peace in the nine realms but he leaves quickly. He wants to ask Heimdall how Jane Foster is doing. The next day Odin tells Thor that he should not hold on to Jane too much since she will die long before Thor.
Back on Earth, England, Jane Foster is a date with a man called Richard. But then Darcy interrupts, saying that Jane's device is beeping a lot. It hasn't done that since the events in New Mexico. They get in the car where Darcy's intern, Ian Boothby is waiting for them. They drive to where the signal is the highest and end up at some storage house. There some kids show them what's going on. The Convergence which takes place every 5000 years is soon to happen again and some time before that there will be flaws in the laws of physics, like random objects not being affected by gravity and portals into the other realms. They find a portal place and start to throw things in there. Sometimes they come back and sometimes they don't. Ian throws his car keys in there but they don't come back. While Darcy, Ian, and the kids continue to play around with the portal Jane goes to a dark entrance and is sucked in. This appears to have been a portal as well. It takes Jane to the vault where the Aether is and she accidentally releases it. The Aether then gets absorbed by Jane against her will and five hours later she wakes up at the storage house. She walks outside where Darcy and Ian had been waiting. The police had been called there by Darcy and when a policeman tries to touch Jane the Aether sends him away. Jane notices a circle of rain around her and then Thor gets beamed down to earth. Jane slaps him in the face to check if he was real then one more time for taking two years to visit her even though he was on earth during the events of The Avengers. He then grabs her and they get beamed up to Asgard.
Once there, Heimdall greets them, but she is quickly taken to the healing chambers so that they could find out what's wrong with her. They find the Aether in her body but they don't know what it is. Odin comes and orders for her to be taken back to earth but when a guard touches her wrist he is also sent away, like the police, and Odin starts to understand what he's dealing with. He tells Jane that there are relics from before the universe usually resembling stones but the Aether is more like a liquid. He tells Jane about the Dark Elves. She asks if the Dark Elves is truly dead and Odin insists that they are.
Malekith has felt the call of the Aether. He awakens in his ship and he makes his second in command, Algrim, become a cursed one, a sort of super Dark Elf. Algrim then gets captured and transforms into a cursed one, inside the prison cell. He frees all the prisoners but Loki and they start a riot. At the same time, Malekith sends away some ships into Asgard and invades the main building. A battle takes place. Frigga creates an illusion of Jane but when Algrim learns that Jane isn't there he grabs Frigga in a headlock and stabs her in the back, killing her. Thor saw his mother fall down bleeding on the ground so he burned half of Malekith's face with a lightning ball and threw the hammer into Algrim and Malekith, accidentally sending them back to their ship.
A funeral is later held for the dead Asgardians and Frigga. Thor knows Malekith will return for Jane, but blinded by hate and grief Odin won't let Thor move her. So Thor comes up with a plan to move her even if he would then commit treason and in the worst case get them killed. He asks if Heimdall could keep quiet. And since Loki managed to get three Frost Giants into Asgard Thor hopes that his brother can take them to Svartalfheim. Thor, Jane, and Loki then jump on to the Dark Elf ship. While Sif and Volstagg delay the guards, Thor flies out beside the Bifrost Bridge, pushes out Loki and jumps out with a sick Jane in his arms. They all land on a smaller Asgardian ship that Fandrall has been driving. They get hunted by an Asgardian patrol but Fandrall swings over to their ship and knocks out the soldiers. Loki then drives through the secret passage that takes them to Svartalfheim.
While there, Jane regains her strength and they land in the wastelands of Svartalfheim. Thor starts to talk about wanting to trust Loki. Then Loki says he can't and use his dagger to cut Thor's hand off. Malekith has been there waiting for them and Loki tells him that all he want in return for Jane, is a good spot where he can see Asgard burn. Algrim remembers seeing Loki in a prison cell so he tells Malekith Loki is an enemy of Asgard. Malekith then start to draw the Aether out of Jane but when still absorbing it Thor shouts Loki! and it appears that Loki only created an illusion of cutting off Thor's arm off and Thor calls for Mjolnir. He then shoots a lightning bolt on the Aether causing it to explode. Loki jumps on top of Jane to prevent the Aether explosion from hitting her. Although, Malekith has already absorbed enough power and he leaves telling Algrim to take care of the rest. Algrim throws an implosion bomb in the air and Loki almost gets sucked in but Thor saves him. Algrim starts to beat up Thor but Loki then stabs him in the back with a sword. Algrim, being a cursed one, isn't injured and he grabs Loki and pushes him towards his chest. The blade sticking out of Algrim's chest then pierces Loki's solar plexus. Loki managed to press one of Algrim's implosion bombs and Algrim dies. Seemingly, Loki dies in Thor's arms. Thor and Jane then enter a cave that seems to have all the objects that didn't come back when Ian, Darcy, and the kids played at the storage house. Jane grabs Ian's car keys and as she and Thor continue into the cave, they get transported back to the storage house in England.
An Asgardian guard rose up from the same place where Loki had died with a green light around him. The guard went to Odin telling him that Loki's body has been found in Svartalfsheim.
Darcy and Ian see on the news that Erik Selvig has been running around naked at Stonehenge. He has now been put in a retirement home. They go there to get him out, and he tells them he got crazy after having Loki in his head. He has studied the Convergence and developed a new machine, looking like spears, which can teleport things from one area to another. They meet up with Thor and Jane and Erik tells them that the people who lived in England 5000 years ago had built certain objects to create a secret map to where the cosmic event would happen next. And that place was Greenwich.
When they got there, the worlds were almost in line and Malekith had landed. Thor and Malekith started to fight and the fight took them through many different worlds, one of them being Jotunheim, where a monster attack them and is brought to Midgard/Earth. The Dark Elf warriors started to invade Greenwich but Selvig's devices could teleport some of them away. Darcy and Ian were accidentally teleported away a few blocks, together with three Dark Elf Warriors. The warriors were going to attack Darcy but Ian saw a car not affected by gravity, so he took it up and smashed it on to the Dark Elves, saving Darcy's life. They kissed as Jane then teleported them back. Malekith, now back on earth, had started to release the Aether. Thor cached up with Jane and Erik. They said neither of them could get close to Malekith. But Thor, being the son of the All-father, could. He took Erik's devices and threw them on to Malekith's arms teleporting them to Svartalfheim. Then he threw the last one in Malekith's chest teleporting him to Svartalfheim. But now Malekith's ship started to fall down onto their heads. Luckily Erik's devices teleported the ship away and it crashed down on top of Malekith, killing him.
Back in Asgard, Thor talks to Odin about not wanting to take over the throne. When Thor walks away Odin starts to laugh, and with a flicker of green light, Odin transforms into Loki.
Sif and Volstagg hand the captured Aether to The Collector who asks why they don't keep it alongside the Tesseract. They replied by saying it would be too dangerous to keep two Infinity Stones so close.
Thor gets transported back down to Earth with Jane embracing and kissing him. After that, a monster from Jotunheim walks freely through the town.Cast
- Chris Hemsworth as Thor
- Natalie Portman as Jane Foster
- Tom Hiddleston as Loki
- Stellan Skarsgård as Erik Selvig
- Idris Elba as Heimdall
- Christopher Eccleston as Malekith the Accursed
- Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje as Kurse / Algrim the Strong
- Kat Dennings as Darcy Lewis
- Ray Stevens as Volstagg
- Zachary Levi as Fandral
- Tadanobu Asano as Hogun
- Jaimie Alexander as Sif
- Chris O'Dowd as Richard Madison
- Alice Krige as Eir
- Rene Russo as Frigga
- Anthony Hopkins as Odin
Notes
- Patty Jenkins was originally set to direct the film, but after a few months, she exited the project due to "creative differences". Alan Taylor was hired to direct by the end of 2011.
- Zachary Levi replaces Joshua Dallas as Fandral from the first movie.
- James Gunn (director of Guardians of the Galaxy) handled the mid-credits scene.
- The film is dedicated to writer Don Payne, who passed away before the film's release.
Trivia
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- Star Chris Hemsworth revealed that the Thor sequel would be more influenced by Norse mythology, stating "I think the science fiction element to Thor… the danger is it falls a little bit into the world of it's 'tough to throw a light to.' I think of big waterfalls and mountains and a Viking influence, where the Norse mythology kind of grew from. Having that in Asgard is going to make it all the more special and that's what Alan [Taylor] wants to bring to it."
- The teaser poster for the film was originally a set photo that was later photoshopped.[1]
- Erik Selvig's board in the asylum features Easter eggs of the Earth-616 and the Crossroads, as as they are both written on it.
See Also
Links and References
- Thor: The Dark World on IMDB.com
- Thor: The Dark World on AllMovie.com
- Thor: The Dark World on Marvel Cinematic Universe wiki
- Thor: The Dark World on Marvel Movies wiki
- Marvel Films
- Thor: The Dark World on the
References
- ↑ First Poster For Thor: The Dark World Is A Photoshopped Set Picture Bleeding Cool. Retrieved on 21 April 2013.