"Yes, we're still waiting for Marvel's first standalone superhero movie with a female lead character, and no shade to Captain Marvel, but Valkyrie is the superhero queen I'm dying to see with her own movie. Tessa Thompson broke out into the mainstream with her flawed, alcoholic antihero whose valor has been cloaked by her grief. In the funniest Marvel movie so far, we got the best female character in a Marvel film so far." — SVR
"Despite her strength (she's an elite Asgardian warrior, after all), Tessa Thompson's Valkyrie spends so much time getting her footing in Thor: Ragnarok. We meet her on the downswing of her particular heroic arc when she's refusing to follow the oath she took after the loss of her fellow Valkyries, including her lover, but she doesn't just leave everything behind when she rises back up; she brings her trauma and her anger with her to fight Hela. Her motivations are all her own, and she keeps on despite all that's happened to her." — RC
