We talk about Thor: The Dark World and the things you missed if you never read the comics. Learn about the Asgard and the nine realms, Reality Stone, Dark Elves, Kronan, and more!

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Links from the discussion…

Map of the nine realms.

Neil Gaiman’s Norse Mythology.

The Earth-616 universe has been through eight incarnations in the comics. Pay attention to the Time subsection of this article.

The Reality Stone behaves strangely in this movie.

First appearance of Malekith the Dark Elf.

The Dark Elves in Marvel comics.

The Svartálfar or Dark Elves in Norse mythology.

Korg is a Kronan appearing in Thor: Ragnarok but one of his kin is defeated by Thor in this movie.