History Awesome / ThorTheDarkWorld

* Loki’s piloting skills. After evading laser fire, he successfully guided an Asgardian skiff, rocketing at full speed, through a tiny crack in the cliff barely wider than the boat itself. He had done it in the past, sneaking past the all-seeing Heimdall in the process.
--->'''Loki:''' If it were easy, everyone would do it.

** And then Thor summons the Bifrost and teleports away in front of the speechless police officers. Mixing with meta, we now actually see how it looks like when you are traveling by Bifrost. And it's awesome, in-universe and out.

* Thor's pre-mortem one-liner towards Malekith;
-->'''Malekith:''' The aether cannot be destroyed!\\

** It's awesome because he's killing TheDragon, avenging his mother and saving his brother all with one strike.

** [[spoiler:The reveal that Jane is actually an illusion. Loki takes after his mother.]]
** Once Malekith realizes [[spoiler:it's an illusion, he asks Frigga where Jane is. Her answer?]]
--->'''Frigga:''' [[spoiler:I will never tell you]].
** [[spoiler:Thor gets points for nailing Malekith in the face with his lightning despite being emotionally distraught from Frigga's death.]]

** The scene in the throne room is [[SpiritualLicensee extremely close to a live-action version]] of [[spoiler:the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VjhJcm-lpjc "Deceived"]] trailer for ''VideoGame/StarWarsTheOldRepublic'']].
* Thor visits Loki in his cell to [[RecruitingTheCriminal ask for his help]] in leaving Asgard. For the first time, he instantly sees through one of Loki's illusions. Not because Loki's illusion had flaws, but because even after everything that happened, Thor knows his brother too well to fall for his attempt to [[spoiler:pretend to be fine after their mother's death.]]

* Thor and Loki's plan to trick Malekith: [[spoiler:They pretend that Loki is betraying Thor, and wait until after the Aether is removed from Jane before striking back.]] Again, OutGambitted.
* Loki heroically throws himself on top of Jane to protect her from the explosion of Aether. Sure, [[spoiler:it was AllAccordingToPlan]], but that doesn't make the action any less awesome.

* For the villains, we have Kurse vs. Thor. [[spoiler:Thor managed to put up a decent fight against Hulk, but Kurse literally pounds him into the dirt with absolutely no trouble, not to mention that Thor's Hammer, which has shown to be able to knock back the Hulk, destroy the Bifrost, take out an entire forest, and pretty much crush everything (except Captain America's shield), literally ''bounces off his shoulder'', and he was able to bat it aside as if it was a fly during their fight]].
* Loki's defeat of [[spoiler:Kurse. He uses his own weapon against him, but Kurse doesn't realize that until after he's been impaled.]]
-->'''Loki:''' [[spoiler:[[SeeYouInHell See you in Hel]], monster.]]
** It's awesome because he's [[spoiler:killing TheDragon, avenging his mother and saving his brother all with one strike.]]
* Malekith [[spoiler:with the Aether. The difference in power and effectiveness is great enough to be a match for Thor]].

** Ian, the film's comic relief, gets one when he [[spoiler:saves Darcy from a squad of Dark Elves by snatching up a levitating car and smashing the elves into the ground with it. Not only a moment of awesome, but also a moment of FridgeBrilliance, as he realizes that while the car is floating because its weight has changed (because of the gravity problems), its ''mass'' is still the same.]]
** Jane [[spoiler:trying to save an an unconscious Thor from being crushed by a giant falling spaceship. Extra points because it's not possible to do it in time and she realizes that, but she still keeps dragging him away till the last moment, putting her own life in danger too]].
** [[spoiler:Then Erik saves them both by triggering one last portal and sending the ship back to Svartalfheim... coincidentally [[DeathByLookingUp dropping it on top of Malekith]]. Which means ''Dr. Selvig'' technically got the kill on the villain.]]
** [[spoiler:ThePlan with the portals in general -- countering Dark Elf {{Magitek}} with human super-science and using the very universal imbalance Malekith intended to use to ravage all creation to instead wreak havoc against his troops, literally break apart the eldritch power that made him so powerful and -- as said above -- teleporting him and his gigantic spaceship to a lonely end all the way across the universe -- not to mention triggering a ton of SugarWiki/VisualEffectsOfAwesome. It's this moment, if anything, that counters all of the Asgardians' condescension toward Jane and humans throughout the movie, and proves what Nick Fury was trying to prove in ''Film/{{The Avengers|2012}}'': that, if given the chance, humanity can hold its own.]]
*** Bonus points for Jane [[spoiler:taking Selvig's equipment, which was supposed to only ''sense'' the anomalies, and turning it into a battle-changing defensive ''weapon'' on the spur of the moment]]. She's not one of the brightest in her field for nothing!
* Thor's [[spoiler:pre-mortem one-liner]] towards Malekith;

* Thor telling Odin [[spoiler:who is Loki in disguise]] that he has chosen to reject the offer of being a king, feeling that he would do more good as a defender of the realms. Thor has truly become a wiser man.
* The awesomeness that is [[spoiler:Loki sitting on the throne of Asgard. In the span of a single movie he switched from a permanent jail cell to the throne.]]. He even achieved it without breaking his word and actively betraying Thor.
* [[spoiler:Infinity Stones.]] Specifically, that [[spoiler:the Tesseract]] that was so important in Phase 1 and [[spoiler:the Aether]] from this film are two of them.

!!Film:

* Loki’s piloting skills. He successfully guided an Asgardian skiff, rocketing at full speed, through a tiny crack in the cliff barely wider than the boat itself. He had done it in the past, sneaking past Heimdall in the process.

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!!Meta:
* Crosses a bit with FridgeHorror, but Jaime Alexander (playing Sif) gets a big one for coming out of an accident that easily could have been a CareerEndingInjury. She then went through therapy and went back to shooting stunts in one month.
--> ''I injured myself pretty bad. I actually haven't talked about this on camera yet. I herniated a disk in my thoracic spine, dislocated my left shoulder, tore my right rhomboid, and chipped eleven vertebrae. I slipped and fell down something very high, I hurt myself pretty badly and it scared me. I knew when I couldn't get off the ground I was in big trouble. Then, I was okay, but in a lot of pain. The next morning I got in a car to go to the hospital, and I sat in the car and compressed my spine a little bit, and went paralyzed in my right leg and my right hand. So I was in the hospital for a week. But, it was a thing where it was just a swelling thing. Once the swelling went down I was good to go. I did physical rehab for a month, then went back and did some more fight sequences.''
* Off-screen we have example of Tom Hiddleston coming on in full costume and in character to introduce the Comic-Con footage. The highlight being when the audience begins chanting his (Loki's) name: Hiddleston raises a "shhh" finger to his lips...and they ''stop'', instantly.
* [[spoiler: Captain America's cameo.]]

* At first the Asgardian healer is annoyed with Jane asking questions about the instrument they're scanning her with, until Jane correctly guesses what it is and explains how it works, causing the healer to briefly look stunned and give her a noticeable look of approval. Doubles as a CrowningMomentOfFunny as Jane then proceeds to snark at the Asgardian's insistence of giving their technology grandiose names.

** [[spoiler:ThePlan with the portals in general -- countering Dark Elf {{Magitek}} with human super-science and using the very universal imbalance Malekith intended to use to ravage all creation to instead wreak havoc against his troops, literally break apart the eldritch power that made him so powerful and -- as said above - teleporting him and his gigantic spaceship to a lonely end all the way across the universe -- not to mention triggering a ton of SugarWiki/VisualEffectsOfAwesome. It's this moment, if anything, that counters all of the Asgardians' condescension toward Jane and humans throughout the movie, and proves what Nick Fury was trying to prove in ''Film/{{The Avengers|2012}}'': that, if given the chance, humanity can hold its own.]]

* >>>'''Malekith''': The aether cannot be destroyed!
>>>'''Thor''': '''But you can.'''

--> '''Odin:''' You have called me here on an urgent matter. What is it?
--> '''Heimdall:''' Treason, my lord.\\

-->'''Thor:''' But I thought you liked tricks.

--->'''Frigga''': [[spoiler:I will never tell you]].

* Thor visits Loki in his cell to [[RecruitingTheCriminal ask for his help]] in leaving Asgard. For the first time, he instantly sees through one of Loki's illusions. Not because Loki's bison had flaws, but because even after everything that happened, Thor knows his brother too well to fall for his attempt to [[spoiler:pretend to be fine after their mother's death.]]

---->'''Frigga''': [[spoiler:I will never tell you]].