THOR: THE DARK WORLD Appears to Have its Hero Lose Something That's Supposed to be a Permanent Attachment

The cat is out of the bag and more and more websites are talking about the final moments of the footage for Thor: The Dark World seen in Hall H at Comic-Con. Most of the footage descriptions have been keeping a little something-something that happens to the hero a secret at the closing of the footage.

Out of respect for those fans who do not want to know more information about Thor: The Dark World, beyond what is seen in trailers... here's your SPOILER ALERT! Stop reading now because what follows is quite shocking.

Ready?

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Here it goes...

...Thor's hand appears to get chopped off.

(This is where your jaws hits the floor.)

This is no joke. Thor appears—Do you see how 'appears' keeps getting italicized? It's for a reason—to lose his hand in Thor: The Dark World and it appears to be at the hand of none other than his insane half-brother... Loki. Or at least that is the way it appeared in the SDCC footage during Marvel Studios' panel.

Entertainment Weekly recently caught up with actor Chris Helmsworth, who couldn't be at Comic-Con due to filming his next movie (Cyber) over in Hong Kong. The actor was kind of shocked, himself, that Marvel decided to show that in their SDCC footage.

"Is that the footage they showed? I haven’t seen it yet. I’m trying to get hold of it somehow. I wish I could have been there. I can’t say too much more about it," Helmsworth rambled. "But I will tell you that’s not the worst thing that he has to worry about along the way."

However, the actor seemed to then make a joke about the whole "Skywalker-like event" of losing his hand.

"Maybe I will have to learn to use the hammer with the left hand, you know? Or I was thinking of maybe just attaching it. I could ram it straight down into the stump," Helmsworth jokingly said. "That would be very 'Game of Thrones' in approach.”

The humor attached with Helmsworth's comments seem to hint that maybe it's not Thor who loses his hand and it was some creative editing in order for Marvel Studios to generate some buzz for the November release. Marvel is crafty when it comes to leading its audiences one way and then things suddenly change and go another.

Fans of Thor will have to wait patiently for the film's release on November 8, 2013, unless more details are made available about "hand-gate" when the next trailer is released in the first week of August.

Definitely stay tuned.

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