So why is any of this important to Thor: Ragnarok? First things first, it gives us a flavor for the film that we can use to gauge our expectations. He also fought death for the resurrection of his Cosmic Elder brother, the Collector. He’s done that with the Avengers and West Coast Avengers, he’s done that with The Defenders, with the Squadron Supreme and lots of other characters.įamously, he fought Thanos for ownership of the Mind Gem and lost. He’ll typically just take whomever he wants to see fight or play, putting them in an arena and pitting them against one another. Of course, the stakes are usually pretty high, gambling for a character’s life or even his very own. If it’s a competition between at least two opposing forces, the Grandmaster is into it. Grandmaster’s obsession is games in whatever form they might take: sporting events, board games, card games, video games, whatever.
These beings tend to have one intensely obsessive area of focus, like The Collector - surprise surprise - feels the need to collect things. Among their ranks is also The Collector, whom we’ve already met in Guardians of the Galaxy as played by Benecio Del Toro. There is a small fraternity of these nigh immortal cosmic beings that have come to be known as Cosmic Elders. Sadly, he is the last known survivor of those civilizations and is almost as old as the universe itself - a borderline immortal of nigh unlimited power.
He is an ancient being who belonged to one of the first intelligent races in one of the first galaxies to form following the Big Bang. The Grandmaster’s real name is En Dwi Gast. He makes everything better!īut secondly, who is the Grandmaster and why is this awesomely weird casting? Recently, Marvel Studios released news that they had cast Jeff Goldblum in Thor: Ragnarok as an enigmatic character named The Grandmaster.įirst off, let’s get this out of the way - it’s Jeff “ life finds a way” Goldblum.