Thor: Ragnarok - 20 WTF Moments

3. SPLAT

Thor Ragnarok Bruce Banner
Marvel Studios

Easily the funniest non-Korg related moment in the entire movie comes courtesy of Mark Ruffalo, whose performance as the slightly befuddled Bruce Banner deserves a lot of credit. His comedy timing and generally frazzled demeanour offers another opportunity for disarming charm, and honestly, he's just a joy.

His big laugh moment comes when he realises he needs to transform into Hulk to save the Asgardians from the rampaging Fenris Wolf on the rainbow bridge in Asgard. Dropping out of Grand Master's ship, you expect him to land as Hulk and smash, but instead he slams into the bridge still as puny Banner, presumably doing himself a terrible mischief.

How exactly he survived that fall remains to be seen (since the Hulk logic already established elsewhere - in the suicide speech in The Avengers, in fact - that Hulk would transform to save Banner from mortal injury). But logic can just about be put aside for the laugh in this case.

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