Disney has released a second trailer for Thor: The Dark World, the second film in Marvel Studios’ post-Avengers Phase 2, which is set to open nationwide on November 8th.  Alan Taylor is directing the second stand-alone Thor film, which features Chris Hemsworth as the hammer-toting Norse Deity, Natalie Portman as his human love interest, Anthony Hopkins as Odin, and Tom Hiddleston as the ever-conniving Loki. 
 
Although the tone of this new trailer is dark indeed with Hopkins as Odin intoning, "Some believe that before the darkness there was nothing.  They’re wrong, there was darkness and it survived," Portman manages to add a dose of lively humor to the proceedings by slapping Loki and then adding an Avengers-themed quip, "That was for New York," and the levity continues in the trailer’s final sequence as Thor dispatches a massive stone swordsman.
 
The new poster that Disney released for the film is not only a strong design in its own right, it also provides a veritable pantheon of Norse Gods as well as a glimpse of Uncanny Valley of Snow.   Disney released a first Thor: The Dark World trailer in April (see "First 'Thor: The Dark World' Trailer").