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Taika Waititi's Thor: Ragnarok is making mad chedda around the world after two huge opening weekends, globally and in the all important US market.

Seems like his uniquely Kiwi sense of humour has a more international flavour than we'd ever imagined.

SUPPLIED Topaz tells the The Master (Jeff Goldblum) to "tell her she's dreaming" in Thor :Ragnarok.

In fact Waititi has said he deliberately peppered the film with in-jokes for his New Zealand and Australian fans. Here are a few of our favourite nods to Aotearoa-New Zealand:

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1. "Piss off ghost!"

Ghosts not welcome, according to Korg (Taika Waititi) in Thor: Ragnarok.

Sticking up for your mates is pretty decent, but sticking up for your mates in a strong Kiwi accent when they're being annoyed by ghosts Kiwi as.

That's why the scene where Korg punting hologram Loki and hitting the wall instead is top of the list.



Also, it's highly unlikely Thor fans outside New Zealand will get the Kiwi in-joke here, a subtle reference to a - weirdly beloved - 2011 anti-drink driving campaign in which a bloke rebuffs his dead, drunk-driving mate's offer ghost chips.

2. Sam Neill in an Odin suit

SUPPLIED Sam Neil as Hec in Taika Waititi's Hunt for the Wilderpeople.

While everyone else was busy trying to get their head around Matt Damon playing a very stagey version of Loki in the scene where Thor returns home to find his brother has assumed Dad's identity, Kiwis were stoked as to see Sam Neil looking awkward as in the role of Thor's dad, Odin.

The elder statesman of Kiwi cinema was the co-star of Waititi's hit comedy Hunt For The Wilderpeople, which is New Zealand's biggest grossing home-made film to date.



A Sam Neill cameo is practically the crowning criteria for calling a production a Kiwi one.

3. Skux life

SUPPLIED Skux Life in Outer space.

That modern philosopher Ricky Baker outlined his interpretation of fatalism thus: ​"I didn't choose the skux life, the skux life chose me." The Hunt for the Wilderpeople's Ricky had a way with words, but his biggest mark on the language would be his popularisation of the street slang 'skux'.

When confused overseas media asked star Julian Dennison for a definition, he offered up "cool, gangster, spunky, awesome."



Skux life finally leaves New Zealand shores and joins the world dictionary as a piece of graffiti spotted on a wall behind Thor as he engages in battle with his sister Hela.

4: Korg, the K Rd bouncer.

SUPPLIED Taika Waititi as Korg, a K Road Bouncer in space, in Thor: Ragnarok.

Korg, the scene-stealing, cheerfully naive revolutionary lump of rock has an immediately recognisably urban Kiwi intonation and accent - one Waititi himself has said he modelled on a bouncer at a K Road pub.

"I just like the idea of a character hard on the outside, and gentle like a marshmallow smudged together with daffodils on the inside... He's like a motherly character; he looks after people, he doesn't like fighting," said Waititi. You could imagine it - a gentle Polynesian bouncer with brains, stuck in the job because of their size but dispensing some homespun wisdom mixed in with the odd reluctant left hook.

5: 'Tell her she's dreaming'.

SUPPLIED Rachel House as a particularly Kiwi Tpoaz in Thor: Ragnarok.

Yes, of course it was an Australian film. But find me a Kiwi who doesn't smile when they hear the phrase 'ah the serenity', 'it's Mabo, it's the vibe' and 'Jousting sticks' and I'll show you someone who has sadly missed out on a piece of classic popular culture.

The Castle, a tale of one family's fight against The Man, rated well in Australia and New Zealand but didn't get a widespread global release.



So when Rachel House leans into Jeff Goldblum and intones "tell her she's dreaming", the rest of the world will take it as a standard line of dialogue. But we superior Kiwis can snigger, and think of Darryl and Dale Kerrigan debating the value of goods in the classified advertising section - particularly those jousting sticks.

6. The Aboriginal/Tino Rangatiratanga painted spaceship.

SUPPLIED Valkyrie's ship, The Commodore, waved the Red, Black and Gold - the colours of the indigenous people of Australia and Aotearoa-New Zealand.

There's a compelling argument for seeing the Valkyrie (Tessa Thompson) story arc as a particularly indigenous one.

Dan Taipua, writing for The Spinoff calls her "Valkyrie: once was warrior", explaining her tale of defeat at the hands of an oppressive force, separation from her culture and homeland, and eventual redemption and reconnection with her people is a subtle allegory for the Māori experience.

Valkyrie's ship is named The Commodore, after the most beloved of all Kiwi rides. Sah-weet.

You can't get much more Kiwigian than that.

Did we miss any out? Let us know in the comments.

SUPPLIED Tessa Thompson as Valkyrie in Thor: Ragnarok.