Talk:Hela Odinsdottir/@comment-27323174-20180524023754/@comment-5536445-20180524035602

Call it creative license. Besides, in the Marvel comics, Hela is the daughter of a past version of Loki. You see, Ragnarok acts as a cycle that results in the rebirths and replays of all that is Asgardian. Hela was said to be the daughter of Loki from a previous incarnation before that version's Ragnarok. In the movie, there's no implication that this has happened yet, and Hela herself says that the Norse myths we're used to believing is nothing but an immense lie. I'm not saying that they should have done that, but to the film's credit, it was a nice twist.

Also, about how Ragnarok happens completely different, one could argue that this isn't the "true" Ragnarok. You see, in the comics, Odin had an ulterior motive when he originally banished Thor to Earth, it was to stop or halt the never-ending cycle of Ragnarok, and that had been something he had been trying to do forever. Banishing Thor, and causing the divergence in the traditional Norse mythology timeline apparently worked. So with this in mind, the "Ragnarok" of the film was nothing but the destruction of Asgard, as the real deal had been stopped for good.

But, as I said, there's no implication that this cycle exists in the MCU, and we'll never get to know because Odin is a little too dead to talk right now. However, because the true events of Ragnarok are unscripted in the movie (in that, most Asgardians have memories of their previous lives, but that doesn't appear to be true for the MCU) this may very well not be the real Asgardian apocalypse, and is merely Surtur's destruction of Asgard.

P.S. Dude, I was really hoping to see the Serpent in this one...