Marvel: 12 Biggest MCU Rumours You Need To Know (Sept 17th)

4. Thor: Ragnarok Includes (At Least) One Big Death

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The mysterious 4chan leaker claims to know some pretty big details about Thor: Ragnarok, including the fact that Heimdall will not survive it.

Skurge too will end up heroically sacrificing himself, after turning on his former boss Hela and saving Thor and his party by battling an army on his own. And losing.

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There's no way that Phase 3 will complete without some fairly sizeable characters falling: this is an escalating narrative with an escalating threat - there needs to be some casualties.

And if you're looking for people who might volunteer to leave, Elba would probably be top of that list. He's openly expressed how awful filming Thor: The Dark World was:

"And in the actual scene my hair was different, my… [Sigh] I was like, ‘This is torture, man. I don’t want to do this.’ My agent said: ‘You have to, it’s part of the deal.I’m actually falling down from a spaceship, so they had to put me in harness in this green-screen studio. And in between takes I was stuck there, fake hair stuck on to my head with glue, this f*cking helmet, while they reset. And I’m thinking: ‘24 hours ago, I was Mandela.’ … Then there I was, in this stupid harness, with this wig and this sword and these contact lenses. It ripped my heart out."

Given his arc in the comics, you shouldn't be surprised about Skurge dying. That's exactly what happened on the page.

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