Mark Ruffalo

Our History of the Marvel Cinematic Universe column is almost done! This time we’re going all the way back to 2017 and Taika Waititi’s hilarious Thor sequel.

After two years of controversy, the first trailer for Matt Bomer’s ‘Anything’ has arrived.

This year, Marvel Studios is celebrating 10 years of the MCU — an impressive length of time, to be sure, but even more impressive given the number of films they’ve released since 2008. (Black Panther is the 18th movie, FYI.) The game-changing studio is celebrating this milestone all year long, starting with a massive class photo (Academy Awards-style) in which they’ve assembled all 79 stars of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. It’s so many familiar faces, in fact, that we had to crop some of them out in the above photo.

If you missed the secrets, references, and shoutouts in the new ‘Thor,’ we’ve collected the coolest ones right here.

While Cap and Iron Man and all their earth-bound super-friends were tearing each other apart in Civil War, Thor and Hulk were off minding their own damn business because, unlike their pals, these guys are actually civil. (Okay, maybe not Hulk.) That business is primarily fighting a new villain hellbent on intergalactic domination, and to do so, Thor must assemble a team of his very own. And that team is the subject of a new featurette for Thor: Ragnarok, titled “Meet the ‘Revengers’!”

From the looks of things, Thor: Ragnarok is the closest to a new Hulk solo movie we’re going to get anytime soon.

The third ‘Thor’ film starring Chris Hemsworth definitely improves Marvel’s weakest franchise, with fun jokes and a great cast.

Due to some complicated rights issues, it remains unlikely that we’ll see everyone’s favorite angry green smashing machine in another solo movie anytime soon. But Mark Ruffalo and Marvel Studios head Kevin Feige have apparently cooked up a plan that will allow the Hulk (and his puny alter ego Bruce Banner) to have his very own film trilogy of sorts. Think of it as a film-within-a-film trilogy.

It’s not just the best scene in the first Thor: Ragnarok trailer — it’s the scene: Thor and Hulk are reunited on the battle planet of Sakaar, where they’re meant to engage in a gladiator-style fight to the death for the amusement of thousands of bloodthirsty fans (and Jeff Goldblum). Instead, Thor is pumped to see his “friend from work.” In a new, extended look at that scene, we see that not everyone shares the god of thunder’s excitement.

It’s not all punching bad guys on the set of superhero movies. Sometimes you fill out paperwork while you have little white dots on your face.