WARNING: The following article contains spoilers for Marvel's Thor: Ragnarok, now available for digital download.


Available for digital download beginning today, Marvel's Thor: Ragnarok comes jam-packed with more than an hour's worth of bonus content, including extended and deleted scenes. We've scoured the features for director Taika Waititi's blockbuster sequel, analyzing what wound up on the cutting-room floor, and have provided some context and opinions about what should and shouldn't have made the final edit.

The God of Thunder & the Sorcerer Supreme

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This is an alternate version of the last half of the meeting between Chris Hemsworth's Thor and Benedict Cumberbatch's Doctor Strange. Instead of using Thor's hair to open a portal to bring back Loki, and then send the two Asgardians to meet Odin, the Sorcerer Supreme points out on a New York City map where Loki and Odin are, and sends Thor on his way. And rather than Thor calling Mjolnir through the rooms of Strange's Sanctum Sanctorum and hearing it crash its way to his open fist, he asks Strange to call it from across the room. Strange points out they both know he can't do that, and Thor enjoys a moment of superiority ... until Umbrellnir opens and becomes much, much harder to fear.

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Strange also tells Thor he senses a great change in the god's future and says, "Destiny has dire plans for you, my friend." It's an extra bit of foreshadowing of what Odinson will face in a matter of hours, and it feels a little heavy-handed considering how quickly Hela shows up after Thor and Loki leave New York. And speaking of Loki ...

Instead of leaving the trickster to fall in interd-imensional transit for 30 minutes, in this version, Strange simply locks him in a Porta-Potty that can only be opened with a magic key. Or rather, it can only reveal/release Loki with the use of a magic key. When Thor finally makes it over there and explains the delay, Loki hisses, "No one else needed a key." God only knows what he saw in there.

Race to the Wormhole

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This extended version of the Commodore's attempt to get to the Devil's Anus and off Sakaar includes an extra few minutes aboard the Grandmaster's ship as Valkyrie, Thor and Banner pilot it into the wormhole. Banner adorably geeks out over how cool it was to watch Valkyrie and Thor hop from ship to ship, only to quietly disclose to the thunder god that he's not entirely certain a journey through a massive wormhole won't reawaken the Hulk permanently.

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Thor's equally disturbed at this prospect, and the two decide to strap Banner into the seat he's in when everybody wakes up in front of Asgard in the theatrical cut. The freakout shared by Thor and Banner as they contend with the thought of the Hulk reappearing is comedy gold, and it makes the two an interesting, if not super-sophisticated, team.

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Travel to Asgard

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After escaping Sakaar, Thor, Banner and Valkyrie make their way to Asgard on the Grandmaster's Commodore by way of the Devil's Anus. In the final cut, all three are shown to lose consciousness until the wormhole deposits them on Asgard's front lawn. In this alternate version, everyone's wide awake and chilling until they arrive at their final destination.

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Banner brings a brooding Thor a bowl of what appear to be noodles (they are not), and attempts some informal therapy. He employs a Dumbo metaphor that isn't well-received, and there are sex-holograms of the Grandmaster playing in the background. It's a fun bookend to the bromance that began with the Hulk on Sakaar, but it's kind of redundant given how much good Thor/Banner stuff wound up in the theatrical release of Ragnarok.

Skurge Finds Heimdall

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This brief deleted scene depicts Skurge spotting Heimdall escaping with Asgardians as they flee Hela's wrath. He's doubled over vomiting amid the bodies of Asgard's defeated army when Heimdall, carrying Hofund on his back, passes through the city ferrying commonfolk to safety.

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This sequence underscores Skurge's moral ambiguity and the guilt he feels for pursuing his ambition at the expense of his loyalty. Heimdall, of course, sees Skurge watching him, and simply gives the new executioner a long, pleading look before running away. We'll take more Karl Urban whenever we can get him, and if you're a Skurge fan, you'll enjoy him tasting a bit of redemption before the film's climax.

Hulk Chases Thor Through Sakaar

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Between Thor breaking out of the Hulk's penthouse before Banner's return aboard the shuttle, there was an extended Hulk/Thor chase scene through the streets of Sakaar. It's a neat sequence that gives us a better look at Sakaar on the ground, and the fact that Hulk is actually trying to get his friend back, and not turn Thor in, is another sweet moment in the most unexpected bromance of the year.

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Grandmaster Sizzle Reel

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If you're a Grandmaster fan, or a Jeff Goldblum fan, you're about to come into an embarrassment of riches. There are two extended scenes featuring the eccentric despot, and that's in addition to the sex-hologram from the "Journey to Asgard" clip.

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The first takes place when Thor and the Grandmaster meet after the god's arrival, and it features the Grandmaster ordering his underlings to deal with some kind of alien bat infestation. We also get some extra time with the Grandmaster's late cousin, Carlo, and find out what got him into so much trouble in the first place. He still dies, though.

And if you liked Topaz, you're in for a treat: After Thor escapes and the Grandmaster orders Loki and Valkyrie to recapture him, he and Topaz get into an argument about hand gestures that you've absolutely had with your friends or S.O. It turns out there is no universal signal for, "I'd like the check." We didn't get nearly enough of these two in the final cut, which is a shame.

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Finally, for Team Thor fans, there's a third installment of Thor's adventures with his roommate Darryl, but this time, Darryl's saddled with the Grandmaster. Team Darryl is just as hilarious as the Team Thor installments before it, if a little (way) more disturbing. The Grandmaster tries to be a decent roommate, but it's not long before he's forcing Darryl to do his bidding, spying on him in the shower and making a YouTube video about taking over the planet.

A Surprise Guest

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The final 30 seconds of bonus material features one of our favorite cameos of 2017. As Skurge is about to execute an innocent Asgardian woman at the behest of Hela, a familiar voice aggressively orders him to stop. Skurge looks up not to see the common man that interrupts in the movie, but rather ... Yondu?

In a meta moment, he walks out of the crowd, pauses, and asks if anyone knows where "Kevin and Lou's offices are?" referencing Marvel Studios co-presidents Kevin Feige and Louis D'Esposito. When someone points him in the right direction, he leaves Skurge to go about his business, and the extras are roughly 70 percent successful in keeping straight faces. It looks like Michael Rooker got have some last laughs before his jersey was retired.


Directed by Taika Waititi, Thor: Ragnarok stars Chris Hemsworth as Thor, Tom Hiddleston as Loki, Cate Blanchett as Hela, Idris Elba as Heimdall, Jeff Goldblum as Grandmaster, Tessa Thompson as Valkyrie, Karl Urban as Skurge, Mark Ruffalo as Bruce Banner/Hulk and Anthony Hopkins as Odin. The film will be available now on digital HD and beginning March 6 on Blu-ray and DVD.