THOR: RAGNAROK Villain Reportedly Confirmed, and She's Not Messing Around

The Thor: Ragnarok rumors continue to fly. In the wake of their report about the fate of Odin in the movie, Geek.com is back with a new piece of info about the Marvel sequel.

Spoilers ahead.

Cate Blanchett has been in talks to join the cast for a while now, and Mark Ruffalo recently revealed that she'll be playing a villain if her deal goes through. There's been speculation that she might play Hela, the Goddess of Death, and Geek.com's sources tell them that Hela is indeed going to be the major villain of the movie. She'll travel from the realm of Niflheim to Asgard, where she'll team up with Loki in some capacity. But this next part is the most fascinating aspect of this report, and has big implications for the rest of the MCU movies:

There has been speculation that the character of Hela could replace the physical embodiment of Death that Mad Titan Thanos falls in love with when he obtains the Infinity Gauntlet in the comic books on which the Avengers: Infinity War movies are loosely based. The general thought is that having a character representing Death suddenly appear in a big Avengers movie would be more confusing to audiences than a character they already know represents Death from a previous movie...

In Thor: Ragnarok, Hela and Loki will have set their plan well in motion by the time Thor gets wise to what’s going on. Hela ends up creating the incident to Thor’s journey in the film. According to our sources, when Thor confronts Hela, things do not go well. Not only does she banish Thor from Asgard, but she destroys Mjolnir!

Destroying Mjolnir sounds like a pretty huge deal, and I love the idea of Hela being the object of Thanos' affection. It's exactly the kind of streamlined move Marvel Studios has been known to make before: based enough on the comics where fans will see they're paying homage to the source material, while also not going so far into obscurity that they lose general audiences along the way. I hope this all pans out, and most importantly, that the script for Thor: Ragnarok is better than the previous two Thor movies.