There Was Almost a Scene in THOR: RAGNAROK That Included Fat Thor and Emo Loki

If you’ve seen Thor: Ragnarok, you know by now that this movie is hilarious and easily one of the most entertaining films in Marvel's Cinematic Universe. Most of the credit goes to director Taika Waititi who injected the film with a ton of comedy and helped Chris Hemsworth reinvent the iconic character of Thor.

During an appearance on Josh Horowitz’s Happy Sad Confused podcast, Waititi revealed that during his pitch to Marvel, he used some footage from a few John Hughes movies and he initially planned an elaborate 1980s flashback sequence:

“Well I wanted this little thing, and maybe if we ever do a Thor 4 we can have it, but I wanted to do some flashbacks where Thor was a kid, a fat little kid. There was like an 80s version of Asgard where everyone had massive shoulder pads, and everyone had mullets (laughs). Our idea was Thor and Valkyrie meet and he’s like, ‘Hey I know you,’ and she’s like ‘Ha I remember you,’ and then it cuts back to this thing and he’s just this pudgy little kid walking around with a mullet and being picked on by other kids. And Loki’s like this little emo goth hanging out by himself. He was like the kid in Harry Potter, [Malfoy].”

Well that would have been hilarious, but that scene was never shot, as Waititi says they decided against including the scene when logic crept in:

“The problem was we needed him to not know Valkyire in the film and stuff. And then it became less and less of a thing to have a flashback. We would’ve been forcing it, so it would’ve been a situation where we would have been having a pointless flashback.”

That is a good thing because Ragnarok is already very funny and had he pushed too hard it may have slipped into the realm of ridiculousness. 

What do you guys think, could the film have benefitted from a scene like this, or were you happy with the final cut?