Battle Of Asgard – Thor: Ragnarok
As awesome as all of 2017’s superhero movies were, some of them didn’t have the best third acts ever. Most of them weren’t bad, but they lacked a certain spark to make them great. The best of them, though, has to be Thor: Ragnarok‘s major final battle. We’re used to superheroes defeating the villain and saving the world, but this movie has the confidence to have the hero defeat the villain by destroying the world.
It helped that, with all the characters in play, it felt like a mini-Avengers climax, what with the God of Thunder’s Revengers fighting not just Hela and her undead army, but also a giant wolf and an enormous fiery demon. Thanks to the destruction of Asgard, it has real weight, too, and ends the Thor trilogy on a fitting note.
While all the characters claim a piece of the action, importantly it’s still driven by the God of Thunder’s story. We see him knocked down pretty far by his evil sister as she takes out his eye, so it’s all the more epic when he unleashes the full might of his lightning powers (though technically he should have just conjured up a rumbling sound in the sky).