I read (somewhere, on the blue hellsite) and hell if I can remember *who* said it, but the gist was that Thor got the character arc that Tony Stark should also have been given. Both started out from places of incredible wealth and privilege, both were total assholes, who suffered (at some level) from the result of their own hubris, but while Thor gets to mature and grow into a defender of Earth and someone you can reasonably see as being the ruler of Asgard (or what's left of Asgard, by the time of "Ragnarok") Tony not only doesn't evolve, he kind of...stagnates and regresses. I thought that was a pretty interesting perspective.
My own interpretation for how Thor became worthy is that, as a mortal, he was willing to die to stop the Destroyer from, well, destroying Puente Antiguo. That he pleaded with Loki to take him and spare the people of the town. Of course, it was by then too late for Loki to Stop Being So Extra, but apparently it was sincere enough to make him worthier than Genocidal Surfer Thor of earlier in the film.
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on 2019-01-06 01:31 am (UTC)My own interpretation for how Thor became worthy is that, as a mortal, he was willing to die to stop the Destroyer from, well, destroying Puente Antiguo. That he pleaded with Loki to take him and spare the people of the town. Of course, it was by then too late for Loki to Stop Being So Extra, but apparently it was sincere enough to make him worthier than Genocidal Surfer Thor of earlier in the film.