This Brutal 'Thor: Ragnarok' Deleted Scene Changes the Entire Movie
Anthony Hopkins only had one scene as the Asgardian king Odin in Thor: Ragnarok, but he made the most of his screen-time, imparting wise words to his sons Thor (Chris Hemsworth) and Loki (Tom Hiddleston) before dying and turning to pure energy on a tranquil Norwegian hillside, triggering the release of their sister Hela (Cate Blanchett) and the beginning of the apocalypse. Odin showed up again briefly in a vision during the movie's climax, but you'd be forgiven for thinking that Hopkins spent all of a day on set.
However, a deleted scene from an early edit of the movie which is available on the official Infinity Saga home release and which has been doing the rounds on social media reveals that Odin's storyline in Ragnarok was originally very different.
A sequence was filmed but ultimately cut from Ragnarok which would have had these events play out somewhat differently. Rather than tracking down their father in Norway, Thor and Loki would have found him living on the streets of New York City, rambling incoherently about Ragnarok, with no real memory of his life in Asgard after being secretly dethroned by Loki.
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In this footage, Odin imbued Thor with his own godlike powers before being murdered by Hela — a much more violent end to his character, which would stoke up a hell of a lot more animosity towards the villain from both the protagonist and the audience. Frames from this scene were also used in the original trailer for the movie; specifically, the moment where Hela destroys Thor's hammer in a dingy alley (in the final cut, this takes place on the hillside).
Now that the multiverse is officially part of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, this alternate ending to Odin's story could be interpreted as having happened in a different timeline.
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