Why was Thor in a cage and how did he get there?
At start of Thor Ragnarok, Thor is doing the exposition and says something like:
You may be wondering how I got here, I was figuring out these Infinity stones...
(I know it's not exactly what he said, but it was simillar.)
I didn't really get from the story how and why did he really get in the position he's in, imprisoned by Surtur.
Best Answer
The answer is in the words of Thor himself:
"Oh, no! Thor's in a cage.
How did this happen?"
Well, sometimes you have to get captured
just to get a straight answer
out of somebody. - Source
He is having visions of Asgard's destruction :
Because I've been having these terrible dreams of late. Asgard up in flames, falling to ruins.
And you, Surtur, are at the center of all of
them. Then you have seen Ragnarok, the fall of Asgard.
- The great prophecy...
So, as he says, he was there to get his answers and to cancel the upcoming destruction of Asgard. He made it easy to become a prisoner of Surtur on purpose to get his answers.
So he tricks Surtur into telling how Ragnarok can happen and he just gets out of the chains to stop it.
It's a different issue that Ragnarok still happen and Thor made it happen.
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How did Thor get stuck in a cage?
Two years following the devastation of the Battle of Sokovia, Surtur had been informed that Thor had been searching across the Nine Realms for the Infinity Stones. Surtur then took the opportunity to take Thor as his hostage, locking him in a cage within Muspelheim.Why was Thor imprisoned?
He arranged for Thor to be exiled to Earth in Thor, then tried to help sinister alien dictator Thanos take over Earth in The Avengers. We found him imprisoned for his crimes at the beginning of The Dark World, but he changed his ways temporarily and helped avert Armageddon at Thor's side in that film.How did Thor get to Earth in Avengers?
According to alexwlchan on Science Fiction and Fantasy, in second issue of the same comic, Thor and Heimdall use the power of the Tesseract to rebuild the Bifrost Bridge. We see this newly rebuilt bridge in Thor: The Dark World, which is presumably how Thor returns to Earth in each subsequent movie after The Avengers.How did Thor end up in Muspelheim?
Over 5,000 years ago, Odin battled the Fire Demon Surtur in an attempt to prevent him from initiating Ragnar\xf6k, the prophesied destruction of Asgard. Odin succeeded in greatly weakening and incapacitating Surtur, taking the source of his power back to Asgard with him and leaving Surtur confined to Muspelheim.Thor Ragnarok - Opening Scene - Conversation with Surtur while hanging from chain [ HDR - 4K - 5.1 ]
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