All the heroes of the Marvel Cinematic Universe are gearing up for Avengers: Endgame but one beloved character seems to be MIA and it’s not sitting well with fans. After a massive blast of 32 character posters for the upcoming crossover event hit the web, fans immediately took to social media with one question: where the heck is Korg?
In case you missed it, a bit of background: when the God of Thunder was tossed into the Grandmaster’s dungeon on the planet Sakaar early on in 2017’s Thor: Ragnarok Korg was the first to make his acquaintance.
He’s huge, blue, and made of rocks and although he has a most genial manner, he’s something of a budding revolutionary. Later in the film, Korg and his companion Miek join Thor and his team of “Revengers” in their bid to prevent the destruction of Asgard, which doesn’t go super-well. When Thor’s insanely formidable sister Hela, the goddess of Death, appears ready to wipe out Asgard’s citizens, the makeshift team is forced to unleash the demon Surtur, who lays waste to the realm — and kills Hela in the process. As the beast embarks on its rampage, Korg helpfully provides commentary:
The Endgame posters trickled out over the course of a day, and as one-sheets for the Asgardian warrior Valkyrie and the fallen trickster god Loki dropped, true believers waited anxiously for Korg to get his due. But, alas, it never happened.
It should probably be mentioned that Korg was portrayed by Thor: Ragnarok director Taika Waititi, who has been just a little bit busy. In addition to creating a small screen adaptation of his 2014 comedy feature What We Do in the Shadows for FX, Waititi helmed and appeared in the forthcoming dramedy Jojo Rabbit, and has been lending his vocal talent to several episodes of the currently-in-production Disney+ series The Mandalorian.
On top of all this, he’s serving as a producer on the feature We’re Wolves, as well as Time Bandits, a TV adaptation of Terry Gilliam’s classic 1981 film which recently received a pilot order from Apple’s soon-to-debut streaming service. With all of this on his plate, Waititi can perhaps be forgiven for not lobbying too hard to return as the big blue revolutionary in Endgame — but that didn’t keep fans far and wide from expressing their disappointment.
Compounding the omission is the fact that the character’s fate was left unclear; while he was present for the flight of the Asgardians aboard the Grandmaster’s spaceship at Ragnarok’s conclusion, he was nowhere to be seen during Avengers: Infinity War’s brutal opening sequence aboard that very ship, in which Thanos murders Heimdall, snaps Loki’s neck, and slaps a fully enraged Hulk around like a rag doll. This oversight didn’t sit well with fans, many of whom politely suggested that a little clarification was in order. Keep watching the video to find out more about the Endgame poster leaves us with one staggering question… where is Korg?
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