Thor: Ragnarok’ trailer features a gladiatorial fight among Avengers!

Marvel Studios has released the first trailer for “Thor: Ragnarok,” a movie that will see Thor (Chris Hemsworth) go into battle against both friends and foes.

The trailer begins as most Thor trailers do, with Thor swinging his hammer Mjolnir toward evil, only this time, the evil doesn’t flinch. Hela (Cate Blanchett) catches Mjolnir with one hand, not only wielding the one object in the Marvel universe that no one else has been able to budge (except for that time Vision handed Mjolnir to Thor in “Avengers: Age of Ultron”), but also destroying it with that same hand, crushing one of the Marvel universe’s greatest weapons, leaving only godlike rubble.

Thor, now without a hammer or a home, is captured by Valkyrie (Tessa Thompson), who looks more like a potential foe than possible love interest (remember, no Natalie Portman as Dr. Jane Foster in this Thor flick). Valkyrie offers Thor as a potential gladiator contender to the Grandmaster (Jeff Goldblum) and they toss him into an arena to face the foe everyone (fans and those spectators in the arena) knew was coming. After getting a not very Asgardian haircut, Thor waits for the opening of the gigantic doors that will reveal his opponent, and he does the one thing no one was expecting him to do.