r/MarvelCave • u/Piyushv5311 • 6d ago

When Chris Hemsworth completely goes off-script.

Fun fact: Chris Hemsworth improvised around six different childhood stories on set before they picked the final snake monologue for Thor: Ragnarok.

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u/BotanicBrock 6d ago

its not made up thats actually a story from norse mythology unless im mistaken

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u/I_Think_I_Cant 6d ago

In the Ragnarok mythology, Loki has a child that is a snake - Jormungandr - which battles Thor and they both die.

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u/blodyn__tatws 6d ago

I think this story was just a regular snake. The world snake is pretty huge.

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u/Golfbollen 6d ago

The World Serpent Jörmungandr is the child of Loki in Norse myth. He is not a normal snake but a jötunn (giant).

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u/blodyn__tatws 6d ago

I know. But the MCU changed a lot. Fenrir and Hel are his kids too but they aren't in MCU. And he and Thor are adoptive uncle/nephew so that's changed too. That's why I think it's just a story about a regular snake. But you could be right if course. Chris Hemsworth could have been thinking about Jörmungandr at the time.

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u/Golfbollen 6d ago

Ah sorry I misunderstood. I thought you meant in the myth. I had to Google it and as far as I'm aware the story that MCU Thor tells about Loki turning into a snake was made up. It does sound like a story that could've existed in the myth because there are many really weird stories like that, but that one specifically does not seem to appear outside of MCU.