christopher eccleston played malekith in thor the dark world.
christopher eccleston played malekith in thor the dark world.
who plays malekith in thor the dark world?
christopher eccleston
thor: the dark world is a 2013 american superhero film based on the marvel comics character thor, produced by marvel studios and distributed by walt disney studios motion pictures. it is the sequel to 2011's "thor" and the eighth film in the marvel cinematic universe (mcu). the film was directed by alan taylor, with a screenplay by christopher yost and the writing team of christopher markus and stephen mcfeely. it stars chris hemsworth as thor, alongside natalie portman, tom hiddleston, anthony hopkins, stellan skarsgård, idris elba, christopher eccleston, adewale akinnuoye-agbaje, kat dennings, ray stevenson, zachary levi, tadanobu asano, jaimie alexander, and rene russo. in "thor: the dark world", thor teams up with loki to save the nine realms from the dark elves led by the vengeful malekith, who intends to plunge the universe into darkness.
thor: the dark world
during the "war of the realms" storyline, malekith begins his invasion of midgard by posing as loki and tricking thor into heading to jotunheim. in addition, he did send some dark elf assassins after odin. during the battle in new york, malekith arrives with his dark council (consisting of enchantress, kurse, ulik, minotaur, and a svartalheim bog tiger). after loki saves frigga from laufey, he fights malekith before doctor strange teleports him away. when doctor strange tries to do magic, it is revealed that malekith hired a coven of war witches which prevents doctor strange from using his full power. after valkyrie buys doctor strange time to get everyone away, she is beheaded by malekith. malekith lays destruction over europe and plans to slay black knight, union jack, and spitfire with the ebony blade, when captain marvel arrives with her war avengers (consisting of deadpool, weapon h, winter soldier, captain britain, sif and the venom symbiote) to fight against malekith. as the war avengers fight the dark elves, the venom symbiote tries to attack malekith only to be absorbed into his sword. malekith tortures the venom symbiote and tries to tame it as he uses a dagger of living abyss on the venom symbiote to reshape it into knull's all-black designed to kill the asgardians. malekith is gleeful that his forces are causing chaos around earth. frigga is busy fighting off the endless hordes when malekith throws the venom symbiote as a spear at frigga's stomach. before he could kill her, odin arrives in his new armor and buys time for frigga to destroy the black bifrost bridge where its blast seemingly kills them both while defeating malekith's forces. it turns out that odin and frigga survived where malekith the accursed is torturing them with the venom symbiote at stonehenge. when odin shouts to thor not to rescue them as it is a trap, malekith stabs him to keep him quiet. knowing that the thor corps is approaching, malekith the accursed augments his acolytes with the venom symbiote and then bonds with it. frigga states to malekith that he should flee while he still can as malekith plans to cause the death of thor. odin tells frigga to pray to thor. when the thor corps arrive, malekith uses the venom symbiote's powers to grow wings as he declares himself the butcher of thors. malekith coats thor's golden hammer with the venom symbiote and dubs it the black hammer of the accursed. as malekith tries to impale jane foster with his tongue, thor goes into his berserker state and throws himself into malekith as the other thors sense the powers of the god tempest. the younger thor from the 6th century cuts off malekith's arm as thor urges malekith to surrender only for him to summon the wild hunt. however, the wild hunt hounds and the svartlheim bog tiger are eyeing malekith with a hungry look as they dismember him. malekith finds himself in niffleheim where hela and karnilla greet him and reveal that his wild hunt hounds and the svartalheim bog tiger also died soon after devouring him where they have been poisoned by the black magic he had used to bend the venom symbiote to his will. karnilla explains that when they reassembled the pieces of his soul they had drawn out of the beast's stomachs, they had found the last fragment of his true self--the little boy who had suffered through his childhood as a victim of war. hela and karnilla tell a horrified malekith that his punishment will be to witness his younger self spend eternity with the hounds and the svartalheim bog tiger. he is then chained to a rock with his eyes sewn open by karnilla. as malekith begs for mercy, the wild hunt hounds and the svartalheim bog tiger are sent through a portal to valhalla where they are transformed into puppies and a tiger cub respectively. they are then seen happily playing with the young malekith. as the young malekith has finally found peace and happiness, malekith screams at the torment of having to watch this.
malekith the accursed