Amidst all the colorful chaos and space battles, Thor and the Hulk sit down and have a quiet, friendly conversation where they bond over their similarities.
Right before shit hits the fan, Thor, Odin, and Loki have a peaceful talk in Norway.
Unlike Rene Russo, whose character was killed-off in the previous film, these actors' respective characters are still alive.
Absentee Actor: This is the first Thor film that doesn't include Natalie Portman, Jaimie Alexander, Kat Dennings, and Stellan Skarsgård.
For the canvas of supporting characters, the Earthbound characters were hand-waved away while Lady Sif and the Warriors Three are dispensed with, with no mention of Sif and the latter killed off in a matter of seconds. The more hellish apocalypse vision from Age of Ultron, implied to be of Thor's doing and originally to be continued here, was shifted to a different threat with Hela. The original plot for Ragnarok would have involved a more sinister Loki pulling a Kill and Replace on his father as hinted at the end of the previous film, but this was changed to Loki just exiling Odin - banished but unharmed - to Midgard to pave the way for Loki's anti-hero upgrade.
As Ragnarok ended up being a soft reboot for the Thor series, several major threads from Thor: The Dark World are quickly tied up in the first act.
The ending subtly alludes to this arc when Bruce is still Hulked out in his final scene He does Hulk out for the final fight, but other than Banner doing some quick math in his head before he transforms, nobody else including Thor brings this up again. He's worried that if he transforms again he'll never return.
A downplayed case is when Bruce realizes that when he Hulks out he's no longer partly in control, having spent two years trapped in the Hulk.
Ironically, in putting his search for the stones on hold, he misses another one right under his nose as Doctor Strange is wearing the Eye of Agamotto during their meeting, A.K.A the Time Stone. Avengers: Infinity War confirms Loki steals the Tesseract/ Space Stone before Asgard is destroyed (which was only implied in this movie), and in the first after-credits scene the surviving Asgardians are confronted by Sanctuary II, leading directly into Avengers: Infinity War. After this is explained, Thor finds himself too preoccupied with his current situation to worry himself with finding them, and they aren't mentioned until the climax of the film, when the Tesseract/ Space Stone is shown locked away in Odin's vault. and hasn't found a single one years after starting his search. In the beginning sequence, Thor explains that he's still been looking. Avengers: Age of Ultron set up Thor's reason for leaving Earth again (he had to investigate the Infinity Stones and the threat looming ahead).
An example this is initially played straight on the film's release, but averted later on when Avengers: Infinity War rolls around.
The '80s: All the music and the atmosphere of the film is made in the spirit of the '80s.
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