<P> In present - day Asgard , Loki stands imprisoned for his war crimes on Earth . Meanwhile , Thor , alongside warriors Fandral , Volstagg , and Sif , repel marauders on Vanaheim , home of their comrade Hogun ; it is the final battle in a war to pacify the Nine Realms following the reconstruction of the Bifröst , the `` Rainbow Bridge '' between realms , which had been destroyed two years earlier . The Asgardians soon learn that the Convergence , a rare alignment of the Nine Realms , is imminent ; as the event approaches , portals linking the worlds appear at random . </P>
<P> In present - day Asgard , Loki stands imprisoned for his war crimes on Earth . Meanwhile , Thor , alongside warriors Fandral , Volstagg , and Sif , repel marauders on Vanaheim , home of their comrade Hogun ; it is the final battle in a war to pacify the Nine Realms following the reconstruction of the Bifröst , the `` Rainbow Bridge '' between realms , which had been destroyed two years earlier . The Asgardians soon learn that the Convergence , a rare alignment of the Nine Realms , is imminent ; as the event approaches , portals linking the worlds appear at random . </P>
when does thor the dark world take place
when does thor the dark world take place
present - day
present - day