What If... Hela Found the Ten Rings?
- Episode aired Dec 28, 2023
- TV-14
- 30m
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Hela - stripped of her powers and banished to Earth - comes across a new source of power: the Ten Rings.Hela - stripped of her powers and banished to Earth - comes across a new source of power: the Ten Rings.Hela - stripped of her powers and banished to Earth - comes across a new source of power: the Ten Rings.
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Jeffrey Wright
- The Watcher
- (voice)
Cate Blanchett
- Hela
- (voice)
Jeff Bergman
- Odin
- (voice)
Feodor Chin
- Xu Wenwu
- (voice)
Lauren Tom
- Jiayi
- (voice)
Idris Elba
- Heimdall
- (voice)
Michael Hagiwara
- Shunyuan
- (voice)
Liv Zamora
- Young Hela
- (voice)
Vic Chao
- Additional Voices
- (voice)
David W. Collins
- Additional Voices
- (voice)
- (as David Collins)
Karen Huie
- Additional Voices
- (voice)
Paul Kwo
- Additional Voices
- (voice)
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Did you know
- TriviaHela mentions that Frigga is her father's girlfriend, implying she is only Thor's half sister.
- GoofsEarly in the episode when The Watcher explains the difference in this universe he says Odin would normally imprison Hela in Hel. The subtitles incorrectly use the more common spelling of Hell with a double L. In Norse mythology they would be referring to the realm of Helheim or just Hel with a single L.
- ConnectionsFeatured in WatchMojo: Top 20 Darkest What If...? Moments (2023)
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Hela'n back.
Back to familiar characters again this week, and with another episode that loosely blends the prequels of two MCU films together. This time it's Ragnarök and "Shang Chi".
Having become concerned about the increasing bloodlust in his daughter, instead of locking her away, Odin (Jeff Bergman) strips Hela (Cate Blanchett) of her power and sends her to Earth. There she encounters military warlord Xu Wenwu (Feodor Chin) who is in possession of the ten rings, a weapon not of earth origin. Seeing her strength in battle, Wenwu proposed an alliance, but Hela just want to take possession of the rings.
So, it's an interesting mix of Thor's rehabilitation storyline alongside the events that would later take place in Shang Chi, including a trip through the moving forest to Ta Lo. Where she meets skilled forced opposing Wenwu and wishes to learn their powers too. It sounds like Blanchett is having a ball voicing Hela again and there's a lot of fun moments as her redemption plays out. I felt the ending of the story was perhaps a bit odd, we could perhaps have expected the change in Hela but in Wenwu too? Anyway, it leads to an interesting final moment in the episode - though no tie into a wider story for this one.
Descent again, though perhaps still a touch below the first couple of episodes of this run.
Having become concerned about the increasing bloodlust in his daughter, instead of locking her away, Odin (Jeff Bergman) strips Hela (Cate Blanchett) of her power and sends her to Earth. There she encounters military warlord Xu Wenwu (Feodor Chin) who is in possession of the ten rings, a weapon not of earth origin. Seeing her strength in battle, Wenwu proposed an alliance, but Hela just want to take possession of the rings.
So, it's an interesting mix of Thor's rehabilitation storyline alongside the events that would later take place in Shang Chi, including a trip through the moving forest to Ta Lo. Where she meets skilled forced opposing Wenwu and wishes to learn their powers too. It sounds like Blanchett is having a ball voicing Hela again and there's a lot of fun moments as her redemption plays out. I felt the ending of the story was perhaps a bit odd, we could perhaps have expected the change in Hela but in Wenwu too? Anyway, it leads to an interesting final moment in the episode - though no tie into a wider story for this one.
Descent again, though perhaps still a touch below the first couple of episodes of this run.
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- southdavid
- Mar 7, 2024
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