What I love about Thor Ragnarok is that before Taika became attached to it and had a gigantic impact on the tone and style it was most likely going to be another by the numbers Thor sequel considering this
Was originally this
And I remember watching Dark World in theaters kind of rolling my eyes at the revelation after the credits that Loki took over disguised as Odin because there would probably be this overly complex and dark plot about what he did to Odin and his new dictatorship of Asgard but four years later there’s this goofy ass film that wraps up what was meant to be a HUGE reveal with “oh yeah I just dumped the King of Asgard in some retirement home on Earth” and he puts on plays with dialogue of “I’m a trickster!” Ragnarok was just such a godsend and I wanna see it for a fourth time already