Thor: Ragnarok is outpacing two other Marvel Cinematic Universe films in the early going of its global launch.
Thor has lead the least successful franchise of the original Avengers thus far, but Ragnarok is primed to launch him into a different status.
Doctor Strange and The Dark World are, respectively, the ninth and tenth highest-grossing MCU films at the worldwide box office, standing at $664M and $644M respectively.
Overseas markets are already experiencing the seventeenth MCU adventure, and it is outperforming a number of previous MCU films.