guardiansofthegalaxi:

btw what I loved about valkyrie’s plot in Ragnarok is that it was such a male plot usually? she rolls up drunk, shoots up a bunch of people, owns thor, sells him, then we realise she is drowning her sorrows and is actually a fallen hero, and she then gets a redemption ark???? is that not every male outlaw with a heart of gold???

Omg I said this same thing when I first saw the movie! Totally agree!

supercanaries:

There were things that we talked about that we allowed to exist in the characterization, but maybe not be explicit in the film,” admits Thompson. Pay attention to her agony in a flashback where Blanchett’s Goddess of Death murders the rest of Valkyrie’s warrior clan. “There’s a great shot of me falling back from one of my sisters who’s just been slain,” says Thompson. “In my mind, that was my lover.