The Making Of The MCU: 17 Fascinating Behind-The-Scenes Details You Need To Know

15. Loki's Thor 2 Death Was Supposed To Be Permanent

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When Thor: The Dark World was being made, the plan was always for Loki's valiant death to be the character's final end. But then... test screenings happened.

These audiences didn't want Loki to be dead and neither did the folks at Marvel Studios, who decided to pull a switcheroo and revert Loki's death during reshoots.

As such, that final scene - wherein Odin is revealed to be Loki in disguise, setting up the events of Thor: Ragnarok - was a last-minute addition. In fact, many things in the movie were last-minute additions, with the entire project being top-to-bottom reworked during its 35 days of reshoots.

It's little surprise that The Dark World is one of the MCU's messiest, most underwhelming efforts.

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