Thor and Loki find Odin, having shaken off Loki’s spell, but he is despondent and dying. Loki shouts at Strange that he had been falling for half an hour. Before Strange sent Thor and Loki to find Odin, he releases Loki from the portal that Loki fell into. Nevertheless, he sends Thor and Loki to him. Strange reveals that he knows of Odin’s whereabouts (Norway, incidentally), but notes that Odin asked not to be disturbed.
Thor explains that they are simply trying to find Odin and will immediately leave as soon as he is retrieved. Here, he finds Doctor Strange, who insists on knowing why Loki has been brought back to Earth. Suddenly, Loki is snatched away, leaving a mysterious address card behind, pointing Thor toward Bleecker Street. At this point, some passerbys reveal that Jane Foster has broken up with Thor (although Thor insists to them that it was a 'mutual dumping'). Unfortunately, upon arrival, Thor and Loki quickly discover that the retirement home Loki had placed Odin in has been demolished. After ordering for Surtur's crown to be delivered to Odin's Vault, Thor has Volstagg transport him and Loki to Earth to find the real Odin. Thor sees through "Odin's" deception and forces Loki to drop the charade. Thor is unimpressed and goes to find Odin, who is watching a play about the valiant death of Loki, whilst laying about and being pampered by various women. Returning to Asgard for the first time in years, Thor is told by Skurge that Heimdall has been declared an enemy of the people and is on the run. His replacement, Skurge, only notices Thor's call when one of the women he is trying to impress points it out. When he attempts to return to Asgard, however, Heimdall does not respond. Thor takes the cue to call Mjølnir, break out of his chains, and fight off Surtur's minions before taking his crown as a trophy. He announces that Ragnarok is coming to Asgard by his hand, and that all he must do to achieve this is to join his crown with the Eternal Flame, which burns in Odin's Vault. Surtur releases Thor from his cage, chained and dangling, and taunts him with the knowledge of Odin no longer being on Asgard, also mentioning that Thor's absence has left it vulnerable. He notes that sometimes you have to get captured in order to get a straight answer out of someone (the someone in this instance being Surtur). He rambles toward a skeleton sharing his cage about his efforts to defeat some robots on Earth, and laments about his inability to find any of the Infinity Stones he had set out to locate. Thor has been captured by mysterious enemy forces on Muspelheim. To escape captivity and save his home from imminent destruction, Thor must first win a deadly alien contest by defeating his former ally and fellow Avenger. His devious brother, Loki, has taken over Asgard, the powerful Hela has emerged to steal the throne for herself and Thor is imprisoned on the other side of the universe. Thor's world is about to explode in Marvel's Thor: Ragnarok.