8 Ways That Thor: Ragnarok Sets Up Future MCU Movies

Thanos Is Coming

The mid-credits scene of Thor: Ragnarok doesn’t slap you in the face with a set-up for Avengers: Infinity War, but it is a doom-laden tease of what’s to come. As Thor and Loki chat about the dangers on the horizon, a humongous space vessel appears, completely dwarfing the already sizeable Asgardian refugee ship. We haven’t seen this ship before, but you don’t need Heimdall’s sight to know that it must belong to Thanos.

Though we’re not sure what happens next, we can probably work it out. Thanks to the leaked Infinity War trailer from SDCC, we know that Thor will end up floating through space, eventually winding up on the windscreen of the Milano, where he meets the Guardians of the Galaxy. So, presumably, Thanos attacks the Asgardian ship and casts out the God of Thunder.

Does this mean that Loki called his old boss so he could take the Tesseract? It’s possible, but it might not be his fault. Perhaps Thanos has a way of tracking the Infinity Stones. Once the Tesseract was removed from the security of Odin’s vaults, he was able to detect it and went after it. With that finally in his possession, he will likely next travel to Xandar for the Power Stone, Knowhere for the Reality Stone and finally, to Earth for the rest.

Thor: Ragnarok is now playing in theaters worldwide.