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| 13 | [[center: [- [[Characters/MarvelCinematicUniverse Main Character Index]] > Other Individuals and Organizations > [[Characters/MCUCosmic Cosmic]] > '''Asgard and the Nine Realms''' ([[Characters/MCUOdinBorson Odin Borson]] | [[Characters/MCULokiLaufeyson Loki Laufeyson]] | [[Characters/MCULokiVariants Loki Variants]]) | [[Characters/MCUKnowhere Knowhere]] | [[Characters/MCUNovaEmpire Nova Empire]] | [[Characters/MCUSovereign Sovereign]] | [[Characters/MCUSkrulls Skrulls]] | [[Characters/MCUEternals Eternals]] -]]] |
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| 15 | !! Spoilers for all works set prior to the end of ''Avengers: Endgame'' are unmarked. |
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| 20 | !Nine Realms |
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| 23 | [[folder:The Nine Realms]] |
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| 25 | The Nine Realms are nine worlds that are connected to each other by the branches of {{Yggdrasil}}. Several millennia ago, Odin and Hela, his firstborn, conquered the Nine Realms in a brutal and bloody war. After Odin's change of heart, Asgard still remains the head of the Nine Realms, as the king of Asgard is the sworn protector of all of them. |
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| 27 | * ArtisticLicensePhysics: Nidavellir was built with a neutron star at its center, which sounds cool but in reality would make its existence impossible. Neutron stars pack the mass of our Sun or two into a ball the size of a city. This incredible density means they exert extreme gravitational force at its surface only a few kilometers away from its center; more than a hundred billion times the gravity of Earth. At that range, the entire forge would just instantly collapse right into the star, with everyone on it flattened like a pancake. |
| 28 | * BlueMeansCold: The skin of Jotunhem's Giants, who not only live on an ice planet but also have ice powers, is blue. |
| 29 | * DarkIsEvil: The inhabitants of Svartalfheim are the ''Dark'' Elves who come from the darkness before the universe, fly black spaceships, and Svartalfheim is a land of shadow. It'd be more surprising if they ''weren't'' {{Omnicidal Maniac}}s. |
| 30 | * DerelictGraveyard: Svartalfheim is full of wrecked spaceships, a relic of the Dark Elf-Asgard war millennia ago. |
| 31 | * HufflepuffHouse: Alfheim is one of the Nine Realms, but prior to Phase 4 it was only mentioned in [[Film/{{Thor}} Thor's first movie]], and it only made one appearance in ''Film/ThorLoveAndThunder'' as the site where Falligar is slain, given no real exposition on its landscape or the races thereof. |
| 32 | * HumanAliens: Just like Asgardians, the Vanirs look like humans. |
| 33 | * MedievalStasis: Vanaheim doesn't seem to possess the [[SufficientlyAdvancedAlien sufficiently advanced technology]] of Asgardians, and seem to be on a technological level comparable to that of Medieval Europe. |
| 34 | * {{Mordor}}: |
| 35 | ** Jotunheim is the rarer "frozen wasteland" variety. |
| 36 | ** Not only is Muspelheima wasteland of lava and brimstone, but it is also the home of a being prophesized to destroy all of Asgard. |
| 37 | ** Svartalfheim is a bleak, ash-covered wasteland. It's not clear whether it was this devastated ''before'' the Aesir/Svartalfir war, but it's definitely a post-apocalyptic waste ''now''. |
| 38 | ** Niflheim seems to be a desolate landscape. Considering it's where Hela was imprisoned, that's not a surprise. In fact, barring Hela, there's no mention of anyone else living there, in contrast to Svartalheim, Muspelheim, and Jotunheim. |
| 39 | * OurDragonsAreDifferent: Fire Dragons from Muspelheim are [[DragonsAreDemonic demonic]] [[BreathWeapon fire-breathing]] and [[FlyingFirepower fire-]][[WreathedInFlames powered]] dragons. |
| 40 | * OurElvesAreDifferent: Not much is known about Alfheim, other than it being the home of the Light Elves. |
| 41 | * SingleBiomePlanet: Jotunheim is entirely an ice planet. |
| 42 | * SufficientlyAdvancedAliens: Just like the Asgardians, creatures from other Realms, like the Dark Elves utilize technology so advanced it seems magical. In fact, Dark elf ship's cloaking is so efficient, even Heimdall can't detect it until it's already reached Asgard. |
| 43 | * TimeAbyss: The Dark Elves somehow evolved into existence in the PrimordialChaos before the universe as we know it, making them among the oldest species in the universe, with the Celestials probably their only competition. |
| 44 | * UltimateForge: Nidavellir is a RingWorldPlanet surrounding a neutron star. By drawing power from this star, the Dwarves are able to forge the strongest weapons in all of existence, including but not limited to Thor's hammer Mjolnir. Before ''Film/AvengersInfinityWar'', Thanos forced the Dwarves to create his Infinity Gauntlet under the threat of death, and then froze Nidavellir's star to prevent anyone from creating any weapons to counter it. Thor, Rocket, and Groot, however, are able to revive the star long enough to forge Stormbreaker, an axe powerful enough to kill Thanos. |
| 45 | * WhenThePlanetsAlign: Every 5000 years, the Convergence occurs, an alignment of the Nine Realms that causes portals between the worlds to open at random. |
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| 49 | !Asgard |
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| 51 | [[folder:In General]] |
| 52 | !!''The Asgardians'' |
| 53 | [[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/92c6281f_3883_4a3a_bceb_2ea83d643cca.jpeg]] |
| 54 | [-[[caption-width-right:300:''"Asgard is not a place. It's a people."'']]-] |
| 55 | !!!'''Appearances:''' ''Film/{{Thor}}'' | ''Film/{{The Avengers|2012}}'' | ''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD'' | ''Film/ThorTheDarkWorld'' | ''Film/AvengersAgeOfUltron'' | ''Film/{{Doctor Strange|2016}}'' | ''Film/ThorRagnarok'' | ''Film/AvengersInfinityWar'' | ''Film/AvengersEndgame'' | ''Series/{{Loki|2021}}'' | ''[[WesternAnimation/WhatIf2021 What If...?]]'' | ''Film/ThorLoveAndThunder'' |
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| 57 | The Asgardians are the inhabitants of Asgard. They are a race of HumanAliens possessing a highly advanced form of technology resembling magic and sorcery, which their entire civilization is built up by. They are a brave and powerful warrior race whose passion for adventure is their way of life, and their reputation as one of the mightiest races in the universe has earned them respect and fear from other races. |
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| 59 | * AdaptationalSpeciesChange: In the comics, the Asgardians are a race of extradimensional beings that live on an alternate plane from that of Earth, with many of them being actual gods. Here, they are merely SufficientlyAdvancedAliens who were simply worshipped as gods centuries ago when they visited Earth. |
| 60 | * AlienArtsAreAppreciated: As of ''Avengers: Endgame'', Asgardians have become acclimated to Earth's cultures and lifestyles. |
| 61 | * AliensSpeakingEnglish: Asgardians have no problems understanding other races and species, including humans, and communicating with them. |
| 62 | * BabyPlanet: Asgard is tiny; the whole 'planet' is about the size of an islet, and most of that is untamed wilderness. The city itself doesn't have a large population -- its army consists of only a few hundred men when Hela confronts it; later those who have survived Hela's rule fit on one mid-sized Sakaaran ship. However, it is hard to ''find'' Asgard. |
| 63 | * BadassArmy: Subverted. Asgard's army is considered one of the greatest fighting forces in the universe, having proved it multiple times in the past (fighting against the Frost Giants and Dark Elves, and in Odin's day conquering the Nine Realms. But at present their only role is to be defeated to show how powerful the villains on duty are. |
| 64 | * BadassBystander: Even Asgardian civilians can and will throw down with horrible monsters if the need is great enough. |
| 65 | * BloodKnight: Asgardians all seem to really enjoy fighting. |
| 66 | * BreakTheBadass: Malekith's sneak attack on Asgard and Kurse's assassination of Frigga shook the whole realm to its core. And that was all merely a ''prelude'' as to what was to come when Hela managed to break free of her long imprisonment... |
| 67 | * CallBack: Tønsberg, the village where Odin and Thor agree to settle the surviving Asgardians turns out to be [[Film/{{Thor}} the same place where the Frost Giants and the Asgardians fought on Midgard]] and [[Film/CaptainAmericaTheFirstAvenger the same place that the Red Skull invaded to find the Tesseract in World War II]]. |
| 68 | * CallToAgriculture: A variant is seen in ''Avengers: Endgame''. [[TraumaCongaLine After Ragnarok, the Infinity War, and the Decimation/Snap,]] the Asgardians have been reduced to less than a ''quarter'' of their previous population. Now, they eke out a living as simple fishermen in the town of "New Asgard" in the far north of Norway, having put aside their SufficientlyAdvancedTechnology and come to terms with the fact that their GloryDays are behind them. That being said, they ''do'' come back to help royally kick the collective ass of the Mad Titan's forces in the film's climax. |
| 69 | * CityOfGold: Asgard is depicted as this in the MCU, its capital being pretty much entirely gold encased. ''Film/ThorRagnarok'' addresses this, bringing up Asgard's buried history of brutal conquest, with [[BigBad Hela]] pointing out, [[ArmourPiercingQuestion "Where do you think all this gold came from?"]] |
| 70 | * CoolAirship: The Asgardians don't seem to use spaceships (since the Bifröst allows them to get anywhere in the universe faster and more easily), but they do use aircraft that look like flying Viking longships. With homing missiles and [[GatlingGood gatling]] energy [[EnergyWeapon guns]]. |
| 71 | * CrystalSpiresAndTogas: They are highly advanced and wear garments reminiscent of ancient Rome or Greece. |
| 72 | * CulturalPosturing: As Thor notes in ''Film/{{The Avengers|2012}}'', "We pretend on Asgard that we're more advanced." |
| 73 | * DependingOnTheWriter: The portrayal of the Asgardians as SufficientlyAdvancedAliens and/or actual gods varies from film to film. |
| 74 | ** In ''Thor'' and ''Thor: The Dark World'', the Asgardians make it clear that they see themselves and the Aesir as mortals. Fandral jokingly refers to prior visits to Earth, where they were mistaken for Gods, which they encouraged to cause a spectacle and for fun and games. In ''The Avengers,'' Loki keeps insisting that he's a God, and is treated as a loon by his brother Thor for doing so. In ''The Dark World'', Odin insists they aren't gods when Loki tries to claim otherwise. As Odin points out, the Asgardians are born, live, and die like every other being and species in the cosmos. Loki counters by noting how long that is compared to other beings, in whose eyes they are PhysicalGod. |
| 75 | ** This changes in ''Thor: Ragnarok'' where the film returns to the comic and mythic roots with the royal family referring to themselves as gods and playing up the godly imagery. Thor openly calls Loki "the God of Mischief," he identifies himself as "the God of Thunder," Hela's title is "the Goddess of Death" and so on. Furthermore, a lot of their supposedly supernatural abilities seen in the previous films that were just {{Hand Wave}}d as being ClarkesThirdLaw in action are now [[DoingInTheScientist more explicitly viewed as the result of magic]] (i.e., Thor's ShockAndAwe powers aren't a result of him possessing SufficientlyAdvancedTechnology, they're the result of him being the literal "God of Thunder"). A possible reason for this change is that learning they have been called gods by humanity for centuries since their first visit led them to embrace the term in recent times. However, what Odin had previously said remains true, which is also true in the myths, i.e. the Norse Gods are not immortal, not ageless, and they live and die like all beings. |
| 76 | ** This can all be attributed to the GenreShift of the MCU. The first two phases of the MCU tend to be more grounded in science, and it was only until ''Film/{{Doctor Strange|2016}}'' in Phase 3 that more fantasy elements become incorporated. |
| 77 | * DoingInTheWizard: Unlike in the comics where the Asgardians are literal gods and other magical beings, they are portrayed as HumanAliens. Most of their magic is merely a product of SufficientlyAdvancedTechnology and {{Magitek}}, to the point that they don't see any difference between their "magic" and advanced science by Earth's point-of-view. This is especially so in ''The Dark World'', where the Asgardians' equipment are obviously technological in nature such as their aircraft and a shield generator that protects the palace. It is only until ''Ragnarok'' do the more mystical and mythical elements take root. ''Dark World'' even has this quote at the beginning of the film: |
| 78 | --> '''Odin:''' We are not gods. We are born, we live, and we die. \ |
| 79 | '''Loki:''' [[DeadpanSnarker Give or take five thousand years.]] |
| 80 | * EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: |
| 81 | ** In the first movie, a throwaway line implies that Sif had to work hard to be taken seriously as a warrior. However, later instalments show that women (as seen with Frigga and the Valkyries) in Asgard can and will throw down alongside their male peers. |
| 82 | ** Phases 1 and 2 were very insistent that Asgardians weren't actually gods, but SufficientlyAdvancedAliens who the primitive and superstitious Nordic people thought were divine. In ''Ragnarok'' however, the Asgardians now called themselves gods and openly used magic, and in ''Love and Thunder'', they're divine enough that Odin knew Zeus on Omnipotence City and Gorr puts them on his kill list. |
| 83 | * EliteMooks: The Berserker were considered the most powerful warriors in Asgard, and each one was worth a total of 20 normal warriors. |
| 84 | * TheEmpire: When they refer to "The Nine Realms," they are ''not'' referring to a multiverse, but the Asgardian Empire forged by Odin, Hela and their army. This means that the fighting Thor and others do in ''The Dark World'' is not ''just'' keeping bad guys from causing trouble, but keeping subject territories in line. |
| 85 | -->'''Hela:''' ''[to Thor, in Odin's throne room]'' [[ArmorPiercingQuestion Where do you think all this gold came from?]] |
| 86 | * EmpireWithADarkSecret: Asgardians believe that they are benevolent protectors of the Nine Realms. Hela reveals that it's all a facade and Odin rose to power by the brutal conquest of anyone in his path. It wasn't until his kingdom was assured and unquestioned that he decided that enough was enough, and locked Hela away, hoping to build the legacy of peace that existed in present day Asgard. Of course, this legacy rather skated over inconvenient questions such as, "Where did all that gold come from?" |
| 87 | * EndangeredSpecies: |
| 88 | ** After the events of ''Thor: Ragnarok'', the Asgardians were reduced to a motley group of barely a few hundred to a thousand refugees, at most, barring any that might (like Professor Randolph) live in other realms -- and considering that ''Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.'' established that Loki-as-Odin was rounding all of those up, it's likely that most Asgardians were on Asgard. Their numbers were dropped even further during ''Avengers: Infinity War'', where half of them were slaughtered by Thanos and his Black Order, and then ''half of those left'' perished with the Snap meaning that the Asgardians are on the brink of extinction. However, ''Endgame'' does soften it slightly by having the Asgardians who died in the Snap be resurrected by the actions of the Avengers.[[note]][[https://www.huffpost.com/entry/avengers-infinity-war-directors-confirm-which-characters-died-off-screen_n_5af5f6fee4b032b10bfaa3a0 According to]] WordOfGod, both Lady Sif and the InUniverse actor who played Loki were killed with the Snap, i.e. the Asgardians were affected by it just like every other race.[[/note]] |
| 89 | ** By the time of ''Love and Thunder'', they are shown to have recovered, and New Asgard is a thriving city-state. Then Gor the God Butcher kidnaps most of their children. [[spoiler: These children are all rescued to a one and start training in self-defense, and Korg's narration states that "the future of New Asgard is secure".]] |
| 90 | * FakeUltimateMook: Despite their reputation, when they are faced with truly dangerous enemies, Asgardian soldiers often fall like flies. And as shown in ''Ragnarok'', they can be killed with standard weaponry. |
| 91 | * FantasticRacism: Asgardians have warred with their neighbors, and while centuries of peace have dimmed the memory of past conflicts, in the stories they tell their children they paint their former enemies as AlwaysChaoticEvil monsters: |
| 92 | -->'''Thor (as a child in ''Film/{{Thor}}'' about the Frost Giants):''' When I'm king, I'll hunt the monsters down and slay them all!\ |
| 93 | '''Odin (in ''Film/ThorTheDarkWorld'' about the Dark Elves):''' The noble armies of Asgard, led by my father, King Bor, waged a mighty war against these creatures. |
| 94 | * FlashyTeleportation: The Bifrost InterdimensionalTravelDevice generates a huge [[PillarOfLight column of rainbow light]] at its connecting point in a nod to its [[Myth/NorseMythology mythological roots]]. It also leaves behind a large circle embedded with a Norse pattern on the ground where the beam lands. |
| 95 | * GalacticSuperpower: For a time, the Asgardians were ''the'' de facto rulers of the Nine Realms, which encompassed all known planets and star systems. Due to the Bifrost creating near-instantaneous travel throughout the cosmos (and how it could double as a very destructive weapon), the Asgardians being well-rounded SuperiorSpecies basically ensured their supremacy. Notably, in ''The Dark World'', the temporary destruction of the Bifrost caused widespread unrest throughout the galaxy because Asgard lost its monopoly on power (allowing Malekith to find the Reality Stone, Ronan to steal the Power Stone and attack Nova Prime, and Thanos to invade Nidavellir and force them to construct the Infinity Gauntlet), which only got worse when [[spoiler:Loki took over and started shirking his duties as king. Hela returning proved to be its end]]. The chaos brought on by the destruction of [[spoiler:Agard]] and Nova Prime, as well as Thanos' snap left a massive power vacuum in the galaxy that various Avengers--such as Captain Marvel and Rocket--attempted to fill, to little success. So far, there hasn't been a faction powerful enough to replace the Asgardians. |
| 96 | * GirlyBruiser: An Asgardian being feminine is not a reason to assume she can't wield a sword as long as her arm, as evidenced by [[ActionMom Frigga]], who nearly kills Malekith in single combat (and only fails because Kurse joins in), and the women Skurge was flirting with, who are among the first civilians to draw their weapons during the battle against Hela's zombie army. |
| 97 | * HealingFactor: Compared to humans, Asgardians have accelerated healing, as seen in ''Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.'', when Professor Randolph is stabbed in the chest, but survives thanks to Coulson stifling the bleeding. Only minutes afterward, he is walking around again nonchalantly. |
| 98 | * HeirClubForMen: When Hela arrives and claims the throne as Odin's oldest child, [[AvertedTrope no one says she can't because she's Odin's]] ''daughter''. Hogun sincerely does not know who she is because Odin concealed her existence, and the only reason Thor doesn't want her on the throne is because she is a blood-thirsty conquerer (in his words, "the worst"). Indeed, Hela is stated to have access to a BackgroundMagicField that both Thor and Loki lack specifically because she is Odin's rightful heir. |
| 99 | * HiddenElfVillage: For a long time, Asgard ruled over the Nine Realms; during the time when Hela and Odin ruled together even in an imperialistic way. However, after Loki seizes the throne (pretending to be Odin), Asgard becomes more and more non-interventionistic, at the expense of the other realms who are used to Asgard coming to their help and thus don't have strong defenses themselves. |
| 100 | -->'''Loki as Odin:''' Well, it is best to respect our neighbors' freedom...\ |
| 101 | '''Thor:''' Of course, the freedom to be massacred! |
| 102 | * HomeOfTheGods: Asgard is the home of several people who were worshipped by the Vikings and ancient Norse peoples as Gods. |
| 103 | * HowTheMightyHaveFallen: |
| 104 | ** The events of ''Thor: Ragnarok'' and ''Avengers: Infinity War'' are '''not''' kind to them. In fact, ''Avengers: Endgame'' shows they've become significantly more humble to the point where they're been reduced to being a small town of reclusive nomads in Norway, having even set their {{Magitek}} aside and are now just trying to live normal lives on Midgard/Earth. They're still strong enough to put up a hell of a fight, as they participated in the Battle of Earth. |
| 105 | ** By the time of ''Thor Love and Thunder'', New Asgard is basically a refugee camp meets Disneyland that makes its primary income by capitalizing off an abridged caricature of their culture for the amusement of tourists, not unlike what Sparta became after Greece was conquered by the Romans. What remains of Asgard's children live a decidedly unglamorous western-suburban life, funded by endorsements of theme-park product placements of their cultures and traditions, tours on flying boats, ''icecream brands based on the genocidal tragedy that was '''The Snap''''', not to mention ''golf-courses'' built around their residential suburbs to further add to their humiliating fall from a once-proud race of Warrior Gods. Gorr just walks in one night and kidnaps most of their children. [[spoiler: The end of the film shows these children training in self-defense with Lady Sif and King Valkriye, so the warrior traditions are not entirely gone, just adapted.]] |
| 106 | * HumanAliens: They don't come from Earth and still look like humans. |
| 107 | * IAmNotWeasel: For whatever reason, Asgardians have a habit of mistaking raccoons for rabbits, to the confusion of Rocket, who doesn't even like being called a racoon that much; Though he takes it better than "racoon" as the first time he was called a rabbit (by Thor), it was coupled with ''sincere'' compliments to his intelligence and leadership skills. |
| 108 | * LandOfOneCity: Asgard is a tiny planet with one city surrounded by wilderness. |
| 109 | * LargeHam: The only one who doesn't get in on this is Hogun the Grim, although it's shown in the second movie that he's actually a Vanir, so this trope does apply to all Asgardians. |
| 110 | * LaterInstallmentWeirdness: As mentioned in the other tropes, Asgard from ''Ragnarok'' onwards have focused more on the mythological aspects such as being actual gods, whereas prior instalments depict them as SufficientlyAdvancedAliens. |
| 111 | * LongLived: According to the exchange between Odin and Loki in ''Film/ThorTheDarkWorld'', they can easily live for 5000 years. |
| 112 | * MythologyGag: In ''Avengers: Endgame'', the surviving Asgardians now live in the small village of "New Asgard," which might be a sneaky reference to the ''Thor: The Reigning'' comics series where Asgard was moved to being above New York City by Thor and the city below was conquered & [[AirstripOne renamed "New Asgard"]]. |
| 113 | * OlderIsBetter: The Asgardian army of Bor's time appears to be far more competent than the army of Thor's time. |
| 114 | * OutcastRefuge: New Asgard ends up becoming a haven not only for Asgardians, but any aliens that find themselves living on Earth. |
| 115 | * PhysicalGod: ''Thor: Ragnarok'' returns to the comic roots by treating the royal family as gods. Its members are far more powerful than other Asgardians and have a connection to the realm other Asgardians lack. |
| 116 | * PlaceOfPower: Asgard itself is intrinsically tied to a mysterious energy called the Odinforce. It is implied that much of Asgard's magic and {{Magitek}} is derived from the Odinforce, and those who rule Asgard or are heir to rulership can harness it directly. When Asgard is destroyed in ''Ragnarok'', the Odinforce went along with it. |
| 117 | * PositionOfLiteralPower: The Kings and Queens of Asgard draw their power from Asgard itself, invariably making them the most powerful of their race. |
| 118 | * ProudWarriorRaceGuy: Space Vikings. They drink, they fight, they feast... and not much else. Big on honor and glory. When one of their number dies (mostly likely in battle), then they perform rituals like the Vikings do, and they deal with grief violently (even if they were adopted into the culture instead of being born to it). While have access to magic and technology way ahead of Earth, they seem to value physical might and [[SufficientlyAdvancedBambooTechnology use medieval weapons (albeit with alien metals and energy)]], as Loki claims that while they have a popular saying that encourages being aware of one's surroundings, they're all "gullible fools". |
| 119 | * PublicDomainCharacter: Many of the Asgardian characters (including Thor, Loki, Odin, Frigga, Heimdall, Sif, and Hela) are this, being based on actual deities from Myth/NorseMythology. |
| 120 | * TheQueensLatin: Most of the major Asgardian characters are voiced with [[UsefulNotes/BritishAccents RP accents]], to lend them an authoritative, more antiquated tone. Thor himself veers into [[PlayedForLaughs comedic]] Shakespearean LargeHam territory on occasion. |
| 121 | * ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: The battle against the Frost Giants took place in AD 965, and Odin led the charge -- and the {{Retcon}} of Thor being 1500 years old, by his own account, with the fact that he and Loki grew up together, suggests that it was closer to AD 565. Fandral implies that Thor used to throw around lightning and thunder, and got worshipped as a god. Loki states in ''The Dark World'' that the average Asgardian lifespan is 5000 to 5100 years. The Frost giants presumably have lifespans just as long -- or even longer -- considering that King Laufey looks exactly the same as he does 1,046 years (or more) after the battle with the Frost Giants, and Loki appears to age at the same rate as Asgardians. |
| 122 | * ScrewYourUltimatum: In ''Film/{{The Avengers|2012}}'', this appears twice. Both times, an Asgardian is asked to lay down his arms, and both times, the Asgardian flips out and attacks. Justified, though, as Asgardians are ProudWarriorRaceGuy, so the concept of surrendering is probably an insult to them. |
| 123 | * ShiningCity: Asgard itself is a beautiful cosmic shining city filled with elaborate and beautifully gilded buildings. Right at the center stands an [[BigFancyCastle enormous golden palace]] which is home to Odin and the royal family, and from the palace to a golden station where Heimdall guards and controls the Bifrost runs a brightly colored 'Rainbow Bridge'. It is visually stunning, and certainly fit to be the home of a race of [[SufficientlyAdvancedAliens advanced alien]] PhysicalGods. |
| 124 | * SigilSpam: The Triquetra can be seen repeatedly in context with Asgard. It appears among others in a lot of Asgardian architecture (such as above the throne or on the outside of the weapons' vault), on Mjolnir in ''Thor'', on Loki's leathers in ''The Avengers'' and ''Thor: The Dark World'' or when Doctor Strange creates the portal leading Thor and Loki to Odin in ''Thor: Ragnarok''. |
| 125 | * SmugSuper: The Asgardians are very self-assured in their power, with even the princes seeing humans and others as lesser races. This has blinded them to the advances made by the rest of the galaxy; Earth seemingly hasn't been revisited by them since the 10th century. Loki thinks Earth is an EasilyConqueredWorld despite being ''well-educated'' by Asgardian standards. And Thor is shocked that the residents of Sakaar have man-portable weapons that can harm him, resulting in him easily getting captured. Asgard itself is also seriously damaged by an attack from a small remnant of the Dark Elves, which they had previously defeated at their peak, further showing how complacent the Asgardians have gotten. |
| 126 | ** It is worth noting, however, that Loki was leading an army that had conquered numerous worlds far more advanced than Earth (poor weaponry and [[SuspiciouslySmallArmy oddly small armies]] seem to be the norm in the Cosmic MCU), and by the time he wound up on Sakaar, Thor had done any number of impressive things, including going toe to toe with Malekith, who was wielding the full power of an Infinity Stone, and matching him blow for blow, even saying, "You know, with all that power, I thought you'd hit harder." All in all, it's not entirely surprising that he'd be caught off-guard by the concept of ''any'' man-portable weapons that can actually hurt him. |
| 127 | * SpockSpeak: They speak in a very ''elaborate'' manner. It's a PragmaticAdaptation from the comics, where they spoke in AntiquatedLinguistics, although people mocking Asgardians tend to go for the 'thou' and 'thee'-style speech. |
| 128 | -->'''Tony Stark:''' Doth mother know you weareth her drapes? |
| 129 | * SufficientlyAdvancedAliens: |
| 130 | ** They freely mix [[SufficientlyAnalyzedMagic magic]] and science. According to Thor's explanation to Jane, they consider them to be the same thing. |
| 131 | --->'''Jane:''' Like an Einstein-Rosen bridge?\ |
| 132 | '''Thor:''' More like a rainbow bridge.\ |
| 133 | '''Jane:''' God, I hope you're not crazy. |
| 134 | ** In ''The Dark World'', Eir, tending to Jane, utilizes a "Soul Forge" to help heal her. She recognizes the device by referring to it in {{Technobabble}} terms as a quantum field generator. |
| 135 | * SufficientlyAdvancedBambooTechnology: Most Asgardian technology ''looks'' like Viking-era equipment despite being Sufficiently Advanced. This is even alluded to in ''Avengers: Endgame'', as while the surviving Asgardians now seem to live an ordinary life of fishermen in Norway, Valkyrie and Thor both heavily imply that they've just put their {{Magitek}} to the side now for the sake of not upsetting their mortal brethren. |
| 136 | * UniquenessDecay: The Asgardians long held the status of being the MCU's premier SuperiorSpecies, and ''the'' superpowered race of the setting. However, Phase 4 and Phase 5 sees the introduction of the [[ComicBook/TheEternals Eternals]], [[ComicBook/{{Blade}} Vampires]], and [[ComicBook/XMen Mutants]] in the coming future, all of whom are entire superpowered races. |
| 137 | * WarRefugees: The destruction of Asgard in ''Ragnarok'' leaves the surviving Asgardians as this. ''Endgame'' has them eventually setting up "New Asgard" in the form of a small town in Norway. |
| 138 | * WeAreAsMayflies: A common Asgardian attitude, which both the films and ''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD'' touch on. It's difficult to see humans as worth concerning yourself over when the average human life span is a small fraction of your own. |
| 139 | * WeHaveBecomeComplacent: The Asgardians are considered one of the greatest races in the universe. But centuries, if not millennia, of being the intergalactic top dog with little opposition caused them to stagnate in development. As mentioned in UniquenessDecay, elements such as their technological superiority and knowledge of magic that once made them superior over other races have now become commonplace on Earth. Meanwhile, the Asgardians' technology hadn't advanced that much, instead relying on medieval-era weapons such as swords and spears for war when firearms/laser guns were used for other races in close combat. This stagnation bites them hard in the course of the ''Thor'' movies, where a surprise invasion by a motley fleet of Dark Elves was enough to rock the race to its core, not to mention Hela's arrival that decimated Asgard's army and reduced the entire race to a group of WarRefugees. |
| 140 | * WorldInTheSky: Asgard is little more than a medium-sized city, surrounded by a compact landscape of oceans and craggy mountains, all of it floating freely in space. Said oceans cascade over the edges into the void, and the whole arrangement appears to have a diameter in the tens of kilometers, give or take, with many of the world's edges being easily visible from the shore. Question like "Where does the seawater come from?" or "Where do they grow all that food?" are never addressed, but can probably be handwaved with the Asgardians' advanced {{Magitek}}. |
| 141 | * WorldOfBadass: A world filled with mighty warriors with both hand to hand and laser combat experience, great champions, and even civilians aren't afraid to get down and fight when the situation calls for it. |
| 142 | * WorldOfHam: A shiny world inhabited by many boisterous people. |
| 143 | [[/folder]] |
| 144 | |
| 145 | !!Rulers and Guardians of Asgard |
| 146 | * [[Characters/MCUOdinBorson Odin Borson]] |
| 147 | * [[Characters/MCUThorOdinson Thor Odinson]] |
| 148 | * [[Characters/MCULokiLaufeyson Loki Laufeyson]] |
| 149 | * [[Characters/MCUHelaOdinsdottir Hela Odinsdottir]] |
| 150 | |
| 151 | [[folder:Valkyrie]] |
| 152 | !!''Brunnhilde / ComicBook/{{Valkyrie|Marvel Comics}} / Scrapper 142'' |
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| 158 | [[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/thorloveandthunderkingvalkyrie.png]] |
| 159 | [[caption-width-right:300:''"I can't turn away anymore, so, if I'm gonna die, well, it may as well be driving my sword through the heart of that murderous hag."'']] |
| 160 | [[caption-width-right:300:[[labelnote:Click here to see Valkyrie in her battle armor]] https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/mcu_valkyrie_armor.png[[/labelnote]]]] |
| 161 | !!!'''Species:''' Asgardian |
| 162 | !!!'''Citizenship:''' Asgardian, Sakaaran |
| 163 | !!!'''Affiliation(s):''' Asgard, Valkyries (formerly), Sakaaran Scrappers (formerly), Revengers |
| 164 | !!!'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/TessaThompson[[labelnote:Foreign voice actors]]Creator/AlondraHidalgo (Latin-American Spanish dub), Creator/MiyukiSawashiro (Japanese dub), Véronique Marchand (Canadian French dub), Jussara Marques (Brazilian Portuguese dub)[[/labelnote]] |
| 165 | !!!'''Appearances:''' ''Film/ThorRagnarok'' | ''Film/AvengersEndgame'' | ''Series/{{Loki|2021}}'' [[note]] Archive footage from ''Thor: Ragnarok''[[/note]] | ''Film/ThorLoveAndThunder'' | ''Film/{{The Marvels|2023}}'' |
| 166 | |
| 167 | ->''"I've spent years, in a haze, trying to forget my past. Sakaar seemed like the best place to drink, and to forget... and to die, one day."'' |
| 168 | |
| 169 | An Asgardian warrior who makes a living on Sakaar following a traumatic experience. |
| 170 | ---- |
| 171 | * AbsurdlySharpBlade: Dragonfang, the CoolSword she wielded during her time among the Valkyries, which she takes up again after allying with Thor. It can cut through Hela's Berserkers like a hot knife through butter. In ''Avengers: Endgame'', she wields an Asgardian spear that experiences only slightly more resistance while slicing through the armor of a Chitauri Leviathan. |
| 172 | * ActionGirl: Being a Valkyrie, that's a given. She seems to be the Grandmaster's most favored Scrapper and is shown to match Hulk and own Loki in hand-to-hand combat. |
| 173 | * AdaptationalJerkass: She's far more sarcastic and annoyed by everyone than her comic book counterpart. |
| 174 | * AdaptationalModesty: Her outfit was deliberately redesigned to include leggings because the creative team didn't like the idea of the movie's major female hero fighting in what is essentially a metal bathing suit. |
| 175 | * AdaptationalVillainy: In ''Thor: Ragnarok'', she's introduced as an employee of the Grandmaster and is the one who brings Thor to him in the first place. It doesn't last, though. |
| 176 | * AffirmativeActionLegacy: At the end of ''Endgame'', Thor (white straight male) appoints Valkyrie (black bisexual female) ruler of New Asgard before he [[AbdicateTheThrone abdicates]] to travel with the Guardians. |
| 177 | * TheAlcoholic: She's a hard drinker, enough that until her HeelFaceTurn is more often drunk than sober, and enough to be able to drink at least a gallon of what appeared to be whiskey at a rate which Thor is amazed. Partly to [[DrowningMySorrows forget what happened to the other Valkyries]]. |
| 178 | * AllThereInTheManual: The only identification indicating that she's explicitly Brunnhilde (the name of the main character to use the Valkyrie alias) is in TheMerch and not in the films themselves, although she's clearly inspired by the character. |
| 179 | * AmazonBrigade: Was once a member of a group of female warriors known as the Valkyries. [[TheKnightsWhoSaySquee Thor is a big fan of them.]] |
| 180 | * AreYouThinkingWhatIAmThinking: She asks a variation to Thor when they realize that they need reinforcements to take on Gorr the God-Butcher in ''Film/ThorLoveAndThunder''. |
| 181 | -->'''Valkyrie:''' Are you thinking what I think you’re thinking?\ |
| 182 | '''Thor:''' I’m thinking it.\ |
| 183 | '''Jane:''' What are we thinking?\ |
| 184 | '''Korg:''' Thinking what?\ |
| 185 | '''Valkyrie:''' I’m thinking it too.\ |
| 186 | '''Thor and Valkyrie:''' Omnipotence City! |
| 187 | * ArmorIsUseless: According to Tessa Thompson, Valkyrie doesn't wear much armor because she doesn't need it. Since she's martially trained Asgardian, she has a very high degree of innate SuperToughness compared to the usual rabble on Sakaar. |
| 188 | * BashSiblings: She becomes one with Thor, Hulk, Loki, Korg, and Jane Foster. |
| 189 | * BattleCouple: With another Valkyrie who died protecting her from Hela. |
| 190 | * BloodKnight: ''Thor: Love and Thunder'' shows that Valkyrie is excited to fight again after not seeing action for some time. |
| 191 | * BlueIsHeroic: Her Valkyrie armor is complete with a blue cape and she wielded a Dragonfang, a sword that possesses a sapphiric steel blade. |
| 192 | * BreadEggsBreadedEggs: How she describes the challenges of being king. |
| 193 | -->'''Valkyrie:''' It's all meetings and raven-mails and meetings that could've been raven-mails. |
| 194 | * BuryYourGays: Not ''her'', actually, but in ''Thor: Love and Thunder'', she reveals that she was in a relationship with one of the other Valkyries killed by Hela. This was previously confirmed by Tessa Thompson following Valkyrie's MCU debut in ''Thor: Ragnarok''. |
| 195 | * BystanderSyndrome: She only survived Hela's massacre of her fellow women warriors because a loved one sacrificed herself to save her. This tragedy left Valkyrie embracing this attitude and retiring to Sakaar to drink herself to death. She tells Thor to forget about the Asgardians, but he refuses to do so. |
| 196 | * TheChainsOfCommanding: Downplayed. Despite the monumental task of rehabilitating and rebuilding News Asgard, ''Love and Thunder'' shows that Valkyrie's leadership has succeeded significantly. That said, she doesn't hide how much of what it entailed doing (council meetings, diplomatic visits and even commercials) is beginning to weigh her down. When Gorr's onslaught brings combat on her front door and Thor invites her to the quest against him, she's positively ecstatic to go slashing again. |
| 197 | * ComicBookMoviesDontUseCodenames: {{Inverted|Trope}} as she's only referred to as "Valkyrie" in all of her appearances so neither her teammates nor the audience learn her real name, which in the comics would be Brunnhilde but is never stated on-screen. |
| 198 | * CompositeCharacter: With the Grandmaster taking the role of the Red King, Valkyrie takes the role of Caiera, his female enforcer who ends up forming a bond with one of his gladiators. Unlike Caiera, however, the bond is entirely platonic. |
| 199 | * CoolHorse: She's seen riding a [[{{Pegasus}} winged stallion]] into battle against Hela in a flashback. She rides again at the final battle in ''Endgame'', where the horse shows to be a very quick and agile mount. |
| 200 | * CoolSword: |
| 201 | ** She has in her possession a Dragonfang, a sapphiric-blue AbsurdlySharpBlade issued to the Valkyries. Thor [[TheKnightsWhoSaySquee has a moment]] when he gets to hold it. The ''Marvel Studios Visual Dictionary'' reveals that the hilts of the Dragonfangs were carved from the teeth of dragons, hence the name. |
| 202 | ** In ''Thor: Love and Thunder'', she's shown wielding Zeus's Thunderbolt as a sword while dueling Gorr the God Butcher, zapping him with yellow lightning when he tries to parry her slash. |
| 203 | * CynicismCatalyst: All her fellow Valkyries being killed for, in her words, some family feud, broke her belief in Asgard's throne. |
| 204 | * DangerousDeserter: She abandoned her post as Valkyrie after being traumatized for being the SoleSurvivor, but she is every bit as dangerous. |
| 205 | * DarkAndTroubledPast: Was once a proud Asgardian warrior, but now is in hiding on Sakaar and wants nothing to do with her heritage. This is because she's [[LastOfHisKind the only surviving]] Valkyrie, from when Odin sent them to stop Hela. |
| 206 | * DeadpanSnarker: She dismisses Thor throughout ''Ragnarok'' with either sarcasm or the taser device she implanted on his neck. When she overcomes her survivor's guilt and decides to take up the fight against Hela, she tones it down. |
| 207 | * DecompositeCharacter: Although she fulfills the main role of "the Valkyrie" in the MCU, one of the other Valkyries that appeared in her flashback more closely resembles the Brunnhilde from the comics, sporting long blonde hair and blue eyes, getting killed by Hela. It's [[HideYourLesbians heavily implied]] that said Valkyrie was this one's lover. |
| 208 | * DontAsk: Her answer when Jane asks her what happened to the Emotion Gods she stole their cloaks from during the mission in Omnipotence City. |
| 209 | -->'''Jane:''' Where are the Emotion Gods?\ |
| 210 | '''Valkyrie:''' Mm. DontAsk. |
| 211 | * DreadlockWarrior: ''Thor: Love and Thunder'' shows that she has formed dreadlocks with her long hair. |
| 212 | * DrowningMySorrows: Her heavy drinking is actually a means to forget the slaughter of the Valkyries at Hela's hand, especially the one that gave her life to defend her. |
| 213 | -->'''Valkyrie:''' I've spent years, in a haze, trying to forget my past. Sakaar seemed like the best place to drink, and to forget, and to die. One day. |
| 214 | * EatingTheEyeCandy: ''Love and Thunder'' shows her enjoying the sight of Thor's butt while eating grapes after Zeus accidentally flicked all of the latter's clothing away. When Jane asks Valkyrie if they should help Thor, the latter replies with an "eventually" before offering the former some of the grapes. |
| 215 | * EstablishingCharacterMoment: Dropping in to rescue a trapped Thor from marauding Sakaaran scavengers while completely piss-faced and still chugging a bottle, inelegantly tumbling off her ship, and drunkenly trying to claim ownership of Thor while the scavengers just laugh at her -- until she casually and ruthlessly guns down the lot of them with her ship, tasing Thor with an obedience disk and taking him in when he tries to thank her. |
| 216 | * EvenTheGirlsWantHer: The woman that Valkyrie kisses the hand of in ''Love and Thunder'' is quite...appreciative. |
| 217 | * EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep: She's only referred to as Valkyrie throughout the films. The only exception is in ''Film/ThorRagnarok'' where she is called Scrapper 142, which isn't her real name either. |
| 218 | * {{Foreshadowing}}: Her first appearance has her chuck an enemy over a great distance casually like Thor just did, and refer to him as 'Your Majesty', hinting at her connection to Asgard. |
| 219 | * FormerRegimePersonnel: Was part of Asgard's elite fighting force during Odin and Hela's galaxy-wide war of conquest; afterward she becomes a slaver and mercenary for the Grandmaster. |
| 220 | * GenocideSurvivor: Half of her people are slaughtered by Thanos, and she's among those who were spared. |
| 221 | * GoingNative: For an ActionGirl with a {{Magitek}} upbringing, she adapts exceptionally well to the advanced technology of Sakaar, and by ''Endgame'', she has settled into life on Earth as the in-practice leader of New Asgard. |
| 222 | * GoldAndWhiteAreDivine: Her outfit from her time as a member of the Valkyries (an AmazonBrigade from a culture once revered as gods) is a suit of white armor with gold accents. She dons it again at the end of ''Thor: Ragnarok'', after Thor finds it in Asgard's armory, and again in the climax of ''Endgame''. |
| 223 | * GoodCostumeSwitch: After deciding to help Thor she switches from her black leather costume to a white one with a blue cape. |
| 224 | * HatesBeingAlone: She misses her sisters (the other Valkyries) and it shows - she admits this to Jane and desires for Jane to be around because it makes her feel better. |
| 225 | * HardDrinkingPartyGirl: She kicks off her introduction by staggering out of her ship with a forty in hand while absolutely ''cocked'', and for much of the movie, she is in some degree of intoxication and spends her more sober moments acquiring more alcohol, fighting, or wrangling gladiators. Eventually deconstructed since her generally hedonistic and debauched lifestyle is a cover for a broken woman. |
| 226 | * HeartbrokenBadass: Drinks, scavenges, and fights to forget the memory of all the other Valkyries, one of whom was her lover. |
| 227 | * HeelFaceTurn: As mentioned above, she works for the Grandmaster before deciding to help Thor and Bruce Banner. |
| 228 | * HellBentForLeather: As Scrapper 142 she wears a black leather costume. |
| 229 | * HideYourLesbians: Although her sexuality was [[https://twitter.com/TessaThompson_x/status/922582256232800256?s=20 confirmed]] [[WordOfSaintPaul by her actress]], there's no evidence of this in the film herself other than the scene where another Valkyrie was shown TakingTheBullet for her. There was a scene that showed a woman leaving her bedroom, but it was cut, most likely for this reason. Tessa Thompson has indicated that ''Love and Thunder'' will actually address the character's sexuality, and it did, with Korg calling the aforementioned Valkyrie her girlfriend and her flirtatiously kissing the hand of one of the Zeusettes. |
| 230 | * HyperCompetentSidekick: In ''Avengers: Endgame'', she's heavily implied to be the one keeping things in New Asgard in line while Thor was still wallowing about in his drunken stupor. Because of her actions, he cedes leadership of the town to her when he abdicates the throne. |
| 231 | * IKissYourHand: She kisses the hand of one of Zeus's maidens before fleeing Omnipotence City with Thor and Jane. |
| 232 | * InTheBack: [[spoiler:Valkyrie uses Zeus's Thunderbolt to non-fatally stab Gorr in the back before he returns the favor.]] |
| 233 | * InformedAbility: Her skills as a leader. They're hinted at in his first scene in ''Endgame'' and Thor mentions them as the reason for giving the crown to her, but her minor role in the film overall doesn't allow them to be made known to the audience, although it's implied that she may have been the real leader of New Asgard while Thor spent the last five years in drunken, isolated depression with Korg and Miek. |
| 234 | * JerkWithAHeartOfGold: It takes some time for her to join Thor's cause and fulfill her oath as a Valkyrie. She spends most of ''Ragnarok'' coldly rebuffing his every attempt to appeal to her better nature. |
| 235 | * KarmaHoudini: She was a slaver on Sakaar, a prominent enough one that the Grandmaster considered her his best supplier. She never faces any reprisal for this beyond a few barbed comments from Thor. |
| 236 | * TheLadette: She's very fond of drinking and fighting, and can be very aggressive and forceful, especially when pushed. A DeletedScene also showed a woman leaving her bedroom, implying she sleeps around. Taika Waititi describes her as being more of a guy than the other, actual guy characters. |
| 237 | * LadyInAPowerSuit: She is the current monarch of New Asgard and ''Thor: Love and Thunder'' shows her wearing a black suit while attending a conference. |
| 238 | * LastOfHerKind: All the other Valkyries were killed by Hela. |
| 239 | * LickingTheBlade: ''Thor: Love and Thunder'' has her licking the blade of her sword to intimidate Zeus's mooks. |
| 240 | * LightningBruiser: Like all Asgardians, she's superhumanly [[SuperStrength strong]] and [[SuperToughness tough]], and while she can't fly like Thor, manages to pull off some impressive acrobatics nonetheless. She's still no match for [[OneManArmy Hela]], though. |
| 241 | * TheLostLenore: Still mourns the death of her girlfriend at the hands of Hela. |
| 242 | * MyGodYouAreSerious: She has this reaction when Thor names her King of New Asgard at the end of ''Film/AvengersEndgame''. |
| 243 | -->'''Valkyrie:''' Thor, your people need a King.\ |
| 244 | '''Thor:''' No, they already have one.\ |
| 245 | '''Valkyrie:''' ''[chuckles]'' That's funny... ''[long silence]'' You're being serious? |
| 246 | * NeverGetsDrunk: She is the only aversion of this trope among Asgardians because she spends most of her scenes drunk. She later shares this dubious honor with Thor himself in ''Endgame''. This means she must drink a mind-melting amount of alcohol ''all the time''. [[note]]Randolph, from Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., is the first exception, and he only got temporarily buzzed by drinking absolutely everything in a certain bar[[/note]]. |
| 247 | * TheNotLoveInterest: WordOfGod says romance is the last thing on Thor's mind when they meet. Indeed, they don't hook up in the film, though there are bits of ShipTease. |
| 248 | * NoNameGiven: She's never given any formal name. [[EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep Valkyrie is the group she was a part of]], while everyone else in the film refers to her using [[YouAreNumberSix her designation of Scrapper 142]]. Hulk just calls her "[[HotBlooded Angry Girl]]". Some of the [[AllThereInTheManual ancillary material]], such as the Valkyrie Toys/FunkoPop figure, list her real name as Brunnhilde, the name of the main Valkyrie from the comics. However, this has yet to be confirmed onscreen. In ''Film/ThorLoveAndThunder'' she's officially called "King Valkyrie" in-universe and Thor nicknames her "Val", short for Valkyrie. |
| 249 | * OfferedTheCrown: In ''Endgame'', after acknowledging that Valkyrie has done a much better job leading their people than he did, Thor names her the King of New Asgard, to shape as she likes, before embarking on a journey with the Guardians to try and find a new place for himself in the cosmos. |
| 250 | * OlderThanSheLooks: Even taking in the usual Really700YearsOld aspect of Asgardians, Valkyrie is very old, old enough to be one of the few Asgardians to know who Hela is, and to have met her, though this may be because of Sakaar's strange and unstable relationship with time. |
| 251 | * PajamaCladHero: During Gorr's attack on New Asgard, Valkyrie fights the Shadow Monsters in her t-shirt and sweatpants, having not had time to change. |
| 252 | * PassThePopcorn: ''Love and Thunder'' has Valkyrie offering Jane Foster grapes while Thor is being displayed completely naked in front of the Olympians. |
| 253 | * PintSizedPowerhouse: Tessa Thompson is a meager 5' 4" (1.63 m), and in-universe pretty much all of the male heroes tower over her. Being both an Asgardian and a Valkyrie, though, affords her with SuperStrength comparable with Thor's and the most extensive combat training out of any of the good guys. |
| 254 | * PrimaryColorChampion: Her white Valkyrie armor has yellow/gold accents and a blue cape. The steel blade of her Dragonfang sword is sapphire-blue in color. |
| 255 | * TheQueensLatin: Speaks with a posh English accent, like all Asgardians. |
| 256 | * RaceLift: Valkyrie is usually a white blonde in the comics, but she's dark-skinned in the MCU. However, one of her former Valkyrie comrades does indeed fit the comic's description. |
| 257 | * RibbonCuttingCeremony: In ''Film/ThorLoveAndThunder'', one of her duties as King of New Asgard is to cut the ribbon for the grand opening of the ice cream shop ''Infinity Conez''. |
| 258 | * SheIsTheKing: At the end of ''Endgame'', as Thor abdicates the throne of New Asgard to go travel with the Guardians of the Galaxy, she tells him that he can't just leave, he's the king. His response to her is to tell her they've got a king: her. Just about every Asgardian who interacts with her in ''Love and Thunder'' also calls her "King." |
| 259 | * ShellShockedVeteran: Being the SoleSurvivor of the slaughtered Valkyries would infer this on its own but she shows many signs of this between the heavy drinking, the constant need to be fighting, or scavenging to keep her mind preoccupied, and the sleeping around (in a deleted scene). |
| 260 | * ShipperOnDeck: For Thor and Jane in ''Film/ThorLoveAndThunder''. |
| 261 | * ShipTease: |
| 262 | ** A few moments with Thor, such as when he awkwardly compliments her hair. She also gets a bit with Hulk, although that may be InLoveWithYourCarnage. She also seems quite attached to Jane after Jane becomes Mighty Thor. Valkyrie also gets another moment with Thor when she's clearly excited at [[EatingTheEyeCandy seeing him naked]] after Zeus flicks his clothes off. |
| 263 | ** She gets a bit of this with Carol Danvers in ''The Marvels'', where she comforts her while helping take the Skrull refugees off her hands, and even gives her a kiss on the cheek before leaving. A deleted scene also reveals she calls Carol "my captain", and she makes a FreudianSlip of "strap-on" implying what she had in mind with Danvers. |
| 264 | * SingleTear: When Gorr asks an incapacitated Valkyrie if the gods did anything to save her sisters-in-arms from being slaughtered by Hela, Valkyrie sheds a single tear. |
| 265 | * SleevesAreForWimps: Her sleeveless Sakaar outfit showcases her impressive arms. Like Thor, it's a JustifiedTrope due to her SuperToughness. Despite returning to her Valkyrie outfit for the climax of ''Ragnarok'' and even ''Film/AvengersEndgame'', she is shown to have taken another sleeveless armor ensemble during the events of ''Love and Thunder''. |
| 266 | * TheSmartGuy: Despite her ample physical talents, this is her main role among the good guys in ''Ragnarok''. She's the only one who knows how to fly a ship or get around Sakaar's tech and is also the only one with any personal experience with and knowledge of how to fight Hela. |
| 267 | * SoleSurvivor: Of the Valkyries--the rest were killed fighting Hela. |
| 268 | * StepfordSnarker: Her acid wit and devil-may-care attitude are largely a front to cover up the fact that she's clearly still grieving over the loss of her fellow Valkyries at Hela's hands. By the end of the film, she's gotten her vengeance and seems to have become more genuinely cheerful. |
| 269 | * SuperStrength: An inherent trait of Asgardians and hers is an exceptional one. She rips up fighter ships with her bare hands and in her first scene rather casually sends an enemy flying hundreds of feet much as Thor did shortly before (the first hint that she is an Asgardian). |
| 270 | * SurvivorGuilt: Being the only survivor of a battle with Hela has left her bitter and disillusioned about Asgard. Doesn't help that she only survived because one of her fellow Valkyries, possibly her lover, took a sword for her. |
| 271 | * ThisIsGonnaSuck: In ''Love and Thunder'', Valkyrie says "We're gonna die!" after Thor's failed attempt to convince the other gods in fighting Gorr the God Butcher. |
| 272 | * TribalFacePaint: She has white markings on her face. Bruce wonders aloud what they represent (one theory being people she's killed). Given that Topaz also wears them, they seem to indicate working for the Grandmaster. Rather appropriately, they appear to resemble chains. |
| 273 | * TryNotToDie: Her last words of advice to Thor before he leaves to fight Gorr alone at the Gates of Eternity. |
| 274 | -->'''Valkyrie:''' Hey. Don't die.\ |
| 275 | '''Thor:''' Yeah, I know. |
| 276 | * TwoferTokenMinority: She's a black bisexual woman. |
| 277 | * {{Valkyries}}: She was once a member of a group of female warriors known as the Valkyries. As the last surviving member of the outfit, it's an AppropriatedAppellation. |
| 278 | * WhyWontYouDie: In a rare version where it's the hero saying it towards the villain, Valkyrie gets really frustrated that she can't kill Fenris with an Asgardian [[GatlingGood Gatling gun]]: |
| 279 | -->'''Valkyrie:''' This stupid dog won't die! |
| 280 | * YouAreNumberSix: She is referred to as "Scrapper 142" in Sakaar. |
| 281 | * YourWorstMemory: Her defeat at the hands of Hela and the mass slaughter of her fellow Valkyries -- which Loki forces her to relive. |
| 282 | [[/folder]] |
| 283 | |
| 284 | [[folder:Frigga]] |
| 285 | !!''Frigga'' |
| 286 | [[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/frigga_thor_1028.png]] |
| 287 | [[caption-width-right:300:''"It's only because I worry over you that you have survived."'']] |
| 288 | !!!'''Species:''' Asgardian |
| 289 | !!!'''Citizenship:''' Asgardian |
| 290 | !!!'''Affiliation(s):''' Asgard |
| 291 | !!!'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/ReneRusso, Chanique Greyling (young) |
| 292 | !!!'''Voiced By:''' Creator/VeroniqueAugereau (European French dub), Rebeca Patiño (Latin-American Spanish dub), Mercedes Montalá (European Spanish dub), Kumiko Takizawa (Japanese dub), Márcia Coutinho (Brazilian Portuguese dub) |
| 293 | !!!'''Appearances:''' ''Film/{{Thor}}'' | ''Film/ThorTheDarkWorld'' | ''Film/AvengersEndgame'' | ''Series/{{Loki|2021}}'' [[note]] Archive footage from ''Thor: The Dark World''[[/note]] | ''Film/ThorLoveAndThunder'' |
| 294 | |
| 295 | ->''"Everyone fails at who they're supposed to be, Thor. The measure of a person, of a hero... is how well they succeed at being who they are."'' |
| 296 | |
| 297 | The wife of Odin, mother of Thor and Loki, and Queen of Asgard. As Odin falls into the Odinsleep, Frigga takes care of him, unaware of what Loki is doing on the throne. She was raised among witches, and therefore is as formidable a sorceress gifted with sight that peers beyond the physical realm past spirit and time, and taught Loki his infamous mastery of illusions. |
| 298 | ---- |
| 299 | * ActionGirl: Thor definitely didn't get it all from his father. |
| 300 | ** ''Thor'': When Laufey and his goons try to assassinate Odin during his Odinsleep period, the first Frost Giant to enter the chamber gets cut in half by a single sword slice from her. |
| 301 | ** ''The Dark World'': She easily bests [[BigBad Malekith]] in combat, taking him on alone armed with nothing but a shortsword and superior skill. It's a shame he brought Kurse along. |
| 302 | * ActionMom: She's a MagicKnight who taught one son magic (and his combat style is very similar to hers) and can guard the other son's girlfriend splendidly on her own. |
| 303 | * AdaptationalAttractiveness: Frigga in the comics has strands of gray hair styled into braids as opposed to her having gold hair in the live action Thor movies. |
| 304 | * AmbiguousSituation: ''Film/ThorRagnarok'' and its promotional materials never address at any point who Hela's mother is and indeed, whether she could be Frigga or whether Hela came from a time before Frigga was married to Odin. The hidden murals in Asgard's throne room only show Odin and Hela; there is no sign of Frigga or any other female figure who could be interpreted as being Hela's mother. In ''Film/AvengersInfinityWar'', Thor eventually refers to Hela as his half-sister, confirming that Frigga is not her mother. |
| 305 | * AndStarring: Gets billed as "With Rene Russo." |
| 306 | * ArmorPiercingQuestion: When Frigga visits Loki during his imprisonment in ''Dark World.'' When Loki screams angrily that Odin is not his father Frigga calmly asks if she is not Loki's mother. Loki is floored and eventually says she isn't, but his heart's not in it. |
| 307 | * BackForTheFinale: Makes an extended cameo in ''Film/AvengersEndgame'', which, while not the last Marvel movie, concludes the Infinity Saga. Thor and Rocket cross paths with her while time-traveling to 2013, and she and Thor have a touching mother-son moment together. |
| 308 | * BadassAndBaby: A flashback in ''Film/ThorLoveAndThunder'' shows that Frigga used to take baby Thor strapped to her chest when she went into battle. |
| 309 | * BattleCouple: She and Odin work together in protecting Asgard from the Dark Elves. |
| 310 | * BeneathTheMask: Frigga gives the impression of being an IncorruptiblePurePureness Queen, but she's actually as devious as her son Loki, who follows in her footsteps. He's the sole person who gets to see her true self--even Odin is ignorant of the fact that his wife has betrayed him by spending time with Loki during the latter's incarceration, which is a flagrant violation of the king's orders. |
| 311 | * BigSleep: Her eyes are closed after she is fatally stabbed by Kurse. |
| 312 | * BodyguardingABadass: Odin is the most powerful being in the Nine Realms, but he's helpless during the Odinsleep, so it's Frigga's duty to guard him as he recuperates. She kills one of Laufey's goons who attempts to assassinate her husband. |
| 313 | * BrutalHonesty: The wisest person in Asgard doesn't make any bones (though she usually does follow it with something supportive and inspiring). Especially when Thor in ''Endgame'' approaches her and confesses to being an idiot: |
| 314 | -->'''Frigga:''' Idiot? No. A failure? ''Absolutely''.\ |
| 315 | '''Thor:''' [[LampshadeHanging That's a little bit harsh.]] |
| 316 | * BullyHunter: In an effort to make sure that Thor does ''not'' grow up to be a bloodthirsty conquerer like his half-sister Hela, Frigga tries to teach him from ''infancy'' to protect the helpless by ''taking him into battles'' to defend innocent civilians from marauders. He ''finally'' learns this lesson by the end of ''Love and Thunder'', and honors his mother's memory by passing her teachings and Stormbreaker down to his adoptive niece Love Gorrsdottir, so they may be free-wandering agents of kindness, unbound by political-interests and bureaucratic red-tape like being an Avenger would, who travel the universe to defend the innocent whenever and ''wherever'' they are needed. |
| 317 | -->'''Thor:''' ''[to Love while handing her Stormbreaker]'' I remember what my mother used to tell me; Listen to grown-ups, and if you see anyone who is scared or picked on, ''look after them,'' okay? |
| 318 | * CompositeCharacter: |
| 319 | ** Her name, magical powers, and role as the Queen of Asgard and wife of Odin come from All-Mother Frigga. |
| 320 | ** She gets her role as Thor's biological mother from the comic's Gaea, as well as her more youthful appearance, compared to Frigga's regal elder appearance in the comics. |
| 321 | * ConsummateLiar: It's suggested in ''The Dark World'' that Frigga is this, and that Loki had learned to be crafty from her. She ignores Odin's royal decree that she can never see her adopted son again, and she visits Loki's dungeon with an illusion of herself for the past year without her husband knowing. Also "it takes one to know one", and Frigga can read her duplicitous son like a book. She later tells Odin, "You've never been a very good liar," which implies that she's an excellent one. Frigga then proves it when she deceives Malekith with a false image of Jane. |
| 322 | * CoolHelmet: Much like her son, she can be seen wearing a winged helmet in battle during a flashback scene of ''Film/ThorLoveAndThunder''. |
| 323 | * DeathByAdaptation: She didn't die (at least permanently) in the comics, but she's killed in ''The Dark World''. |
| 324 | * DefiantToTheEnd: She's held in a headlock by Kurse while Malekith walks over to Jane. Just as he reaches out to take the Aether from her, Jane disappears, revealing that she's an illusion. |
| 325 | -->'''Malekith:''' WITCH! Where is the Aether?!\ |
| 326 | '''Frigga:''' I'll never tell you.\ |
| 327 | '''Malekith:''' I believe you. ''[Kurse stabs Frigga through the back]'' |
| 328 | * DisappearsIntoLight: During her funeral, her body turns into motes of light that disappear shortly after. |
| 329 | * DualWielding: In a flashback scene of ''Film/ThorLoveAndThunder'', Frigga goes into battle wielding two swords, one in each hand. |
| 330 | * DyingMomentOfAwesome: Goes out fighting against Malekith in order to protect Jane and the Aether. |
| 331 | * GenerationXerox: In ''Film/AvengersInfinityWar'', Loki shares Frigga's fate -- [[https://imgur.com/BWyZubQ both die]] protecting another person (Jane, Thor), both briefly use illusions (to conceal Jane, to hide a dagger), both attempt to take on a much stronger foe (Kurse, Thanos) with a short sword/dagger, both have their quick attack repulsed, and both are DefiantToTheEnd: "I'll ''never'' tell you" / "You will ''never'' be a god." |
| 332 | * FaceDeathWithDignity: ''Endgame'' implies that she knew exactly when she was going to die, and was fully prepared for it. |
| 333 | * GoldAndWhiteAreDivine: Her garments are exclusively gold and white in ''Thor'', but she varies her palette in ''The Dark World''. |
| 334 | * GoodCounterpart: To Loki. |
| 335 | ** In ''Thor'', they're linked through their sorcery and trickery which contrasts to Thor and Odin upfront combat attitude. Frigga is happy being the Queen consort of Asgard with a supporting role in her husband's reign, whereas Loki is ''miserable'' having to play second fiddle to Thor, the Crown Prince. Loki's envy and resentment towards his brother eventually lead him to commit fratricide (although the enchantment Odin had placed on Mjölnir revives Thor), while Frigga is devoted to Odin and protects him from Laufey's mook. |
| 336 | ** In ''The Dark World'', Frigga represents what Loki was (more or less) before his FaceHeelTurn, and what he can be once again if he's willing to atone for his past misdeeds. While she can be tricky and even treacherous (her visits to Loki's dungeon is technically a crime against the Crown), she generally uses her talents for the greater good, and in her final valiant act, she defends Jane from Malekith. |
| 337 | * GoodParents: |
| 338 | ** Even though Loki isn't a child of her blood, she loves and dotes on him as if he were. She pleaded with Odin to commute Loki's death sentence to life imprisonment. |
| 339 | ** She supports Thor's relationship with Jane, being happy that he is happy. |
| 340 | ** Even though the time-travelling version of Thor in ''Endgame'' isn't, strictly speaking, her son as she knows him, she still imparts some much-needed advice on him that lifts his spirits. |
| 341 | ** It is shown in the opening flashbacks of ''Love and Thunder'' that Frigga ''tried'' to teach Thor compassion for the weak by taking him into battle to defend the innocent ''in infancy''. It may have taken fifteen centuries and ''seven'' movies for him to finally understand her lessons, but he honors his mother's memory by passing down her compassion to his adoptive niece Love Gorrsdottir, so they can travel the universe to defend the innocent together. |
| 342 | * HairOfGoldHeartOfGold: She's blonde, and she's kind and respectful towards Jane, unlike Odin, who rudely equates the human woman's presence in Asgard to that of a goat at a banquet table. |
| 343 | * HappilyMarried: To King Odin. |
| 344 | * HeadbuttOfLove: In ''Endgame'', she shares one with a time-traveling Thor as she brings him back from over the DespairEventHorizon and her little boy cries in his mother's arms. |
| 345 | * TheHeart: Of the Asgardian Royal Family. When she dies, the family collapses into shambles. Odin becomes more bloodthirsty and stricter, which leads to Thor plotting behind his back to escape Asgard and exact revenge on Malekith. But the most affected is clearly [[MommasBoy Loki]], who has an off-screen TantrumThrowing because of his inadvertent role in her death. |
| 346 | * HeroicSacrifice: Died keeping Jane Foster and the Aether out of Malekith's clutches. |
| 347 | * HiddenDepths: In ''The Dark World'', she gets a fight scene against Malekith and ''wins''. Further, it's revealed that she's the one who taught Loki magic, and she uses the same sorts of illusions he does. |
| 348 | * TheHighQueen: She is beautiful, gracious and regal. |
| 349 | * HolyHalo: She is depicted with one in the Asgardian frescoes in ''Ragnarok''. Well-earned, given that she was a loving wife and mother, and died protecting Jane, a mortal she has just met. |
| 350 | * InASingleBound: She can be seen jumping into a battle with a pretty impressive leap in a flashback scene of ''Film/ThorLoveAndThunder''. |
| 351 | * LadyOfWar: When fighting Malekith, she was [[KickingAssInAllHerFinery wearing a queenly dress]] and handled him with great skill. |
| 352 | * LikeParentLikeChild: Frigga has influenced her adopted son Loki to a tremendous degree. She taught him magic, and he also "inherited" SharedFamilyQuirks (fidgeting with hands when nervous), her talent for deception, her elegant comportment and her fighting style (i.e. relying on speed and agility). Both are very perceptive about other people (lampshaded by Frigga in regards to Loki), not to mention that Loki is InTouchWithHisFeminineSide and [[LongHairedPrettyBoy beautiful in a feminine manner]]. Loki initially tried to rein in Thor's violent, impulsive side, and Frigga does the same with Odin. They even die [[https://imgur.com/BWyZubQ similarly]] by attempting to protect another person and ambushing a much stronger foe with a short sword/dagger and being DefiantToTheEnd. |
| 353 | * MagicKnight: In battle, she employs illusion spells and is very adept with a sword--Loki definitely takes after her in this regard (albeit with a preference for daggers). |
| 354 | * MamaBear: Even though her sons need no protection, Frigga still defends them. |
| 355 | * MasterActress: Odin never suspects that she has transgressed his command to not visit Loki in prison. Frigga isn't as honest, moral or obedient as he believes she is. |
| 356 | * MasterOfIllusion: She was Loki's instructor in illusion magic. She uses an illusion to visit him during his incarceration, and she conjures a copy of Jane to mislead Malekith. |
| 357 | * MayDecemberRomance: Implied. ''Infinity War'' refers to Hela as Thor's half-sister, meaning Odin was married to or at least slept with someone before Frigga. Also, take into account that their actors were born seventeen years apart with Anthony Hopkins having been born in 1937 and Rene Russo in 1954. |
| 358 | * MeaningfulFuneral: In ''The Dark World'', Asgardians come to pay last tribute to their queen and other fallen in a beautiful ceremony. During the long scene, no one says a word. Loki, a convict for life, is not allowed to attend. |
| 359 | * MentorArchetype: As revealed in ''Loki,'' she was the one who showed Loki magic and encouraged him to learn it. Loki did not believe he could ever do it, but she kept saying that he can do anything. |
| 360 | * MoralityChain: For her entire family: |
| 361 | ** She's this to her husband Odin, to the point where her death causes him to become ''hellishly'' bloodthirsty. |
| 362 | ** She's one for her adopted son Loki: In ''The Dark World'', she's shown to be the only family member Loki still connects to and takes advice from before calling her away. Her death also is what leads Loki to help Thor in the first place. Also, in ''Series/{{Loki|2021}}'', [[spoiler:footage of her death is what leads to Loki agreeing to help the TVA]]. |
| 363 | ** In ''Endgame'', she's the one that helps a depressed Thor get back on track after all his losses and suffering from previous movies. |
| 364 | * MoralityPet: To Loki. Played with because it's been shown that he loves Frigga the most, but his affection for her didn't stop him from committing his actions. |
| 365 | * MotherhoodIsSuperior: While Loki's adoption creates all kinds of drama, it all revolves around Odin. No one says that Loki is not Frigga's son. |
| 366 | * MysteriousPast: It's unknown how she came to meet and marry Odin. In ''Avengers: Endgame'', she mentions that she was raised by witches. |
| 367 | * NeverMessWithGranny: She's beginning to go grey, but she's still capable of taking down Frost Giants and even ''The King of All Dark Elves'' in single-combat if the need arises. |
| 368 | * NotSoStoic: Frigga is generally pretty serious and manipulative for the most part, but when she encounters her son's future self in ''Film/AvengersEndgame'', his startled reaction actually causes her to shout in fright. |
| 369 | * OnlyOneName: Only her first name is mentioned. |
| 370 | * ParentalFavoritism: |
| 371 | ** She favours Loki because he shares a lot more in common with her than Thor (i.e. Loki is InTouchWithHisFeminineSide), and as his instructor in magic she has spent more time with him. In ''The Dark World'', Frigga wilfully breaks the law against Odin's wishes so that she can visit a jailed Loki, but she doesn't do the same for an exiled Thor in ''Thor''. Furthermore, the latter immediately believes Loki when he lies to him that Frigga forbade his return after Odin "died" of stress during Thor's exile. It's lampshaded by Thor when he asks his brother, "You think you alone were loved of Mother?" As [[https://uproxx.com/hitfix/thor-the-dark-worlds-tom-hiddleston-reflects-on-his-big-comic-con-entrance-watch/ explained by his actor]]: |
| 372 | --->'''Hiddleston:''' Creator/ReneRusso and I, always, from the very first film, part of the backstory we created was that Frigga was really the most attentive to Loki when he was a child. And Odin didn't really know how to connect. He connected much more with Thor. They were sort of cut from the same cloth. And Frigga and Loki had this kind of beautiful, sensitive, more artistic relationship. And it was actually her who taught him all his magic. |
| 373 | ** However, unlike Odin, there's no evidence that she ever treats Thor harshly. He always speaks highly of her, mourns her death and she even gives him advice and counselling when a time-travelling version of him meets her in ''Endgame'', which helps get him out of his funk. |
| 374 | * ProperLady: The most graceful and poised member of the royal family. |
| 375 | * ReasonableAuthorityFigure: The self-described wisest person in Asgard, and she can certainly back that up. She is a [[RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething royal who does something]] and a devoted parent to her wildly different sons. Seeking counsel from her in ''Endgame'' is what finally sets Thor on the right path. |
| 376 | * RelatedInTheAdaptation: In the comics and original myths, she's Thor's stepmother, but in the movies, she's Thor's biological mother. |
| 377 | * ReverseGrip: Her preferred method when wielding a blade, as demonstrated in her fight against Malekith. As Loki is proficient with short melee arms as well while employing a similar grip, he likely picked this up from her as well as his illusion tricks. |
| 378 | * RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething: She personally guards the king during the Odinsleep in ''Thor''. She also fights Malekith to protect Jane Foster and the Aether in ''The Dark World''. |
| 379 | * SacrificialLamb: Kurse shows how dangerous he is when he manages to disarm, restrain and kill her. |
| 380 | * SatelliteFamilyMember: She's defined by her reactions to the actions of her family members. |
| 381 | * SeenItAll: Raised by witches and reigning as the Queen of a {{Magitek}} space empire, very little gets past Frigga. {{Lampshade|Hanging}}d in ''Endgame'', where she doesn't bat an eye at seeing her son from a decade into the future accompanied by a talking "rabbit". |
| 382 | * SharedFamilyQuirks: She has passed down a tic to her adopted son: [[http://othermongoose.tumblr.com/post/170204740757/i-read-somewhere-that-the-actors-for-loki-and like her, he fidgets with his hands]] when he's nervous. Loki also picked up [[https://portraitoftheoddity.tumblr.com/post/160603740864/proof-of-where-he-got-his-smirk Frigga's mischievous smirk.]] |
| 383 | * ShipperOnDeck: She's delighted seeing Thor with Jane. |
| 384 | * SilkHidingSteel: Being queenly, graceful, and proper doesn't stop her from being a formidable sorceress and swordswoman. |
| 385 | * SingleStrokeBattle: She slays one of Laufey's mooks with only one swing of her sword. |
| 386 | * StraightMan: She's more collected and calmer than her husband; she's not subject to rash decisions based on anger. In a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vUojZGq46qo deleted scene]] from ''Thor'', Frigga reveals to Loki, "I asked [Odin] to be honest with you [about your Jötunn heritage] from the beginning. There should be no secrets in the family." If Odin had listened to her, a ''ton'' of problems would've been prevented. |
| 387 | * TimeShiftedActor: She is portrayed by Creator/ReneRusso in ''Film/{{Thor}}'', ''Film/ThorTheDarkWorld'' and ''Film/AvengersEndgame'', but Chanique Greyling played a younger Frigga during a flashback scene of Thor's babyhood in ''Film/ThorLoveAndThunder''. |
| 388 | * TookALevelInBadass: In ''Thor'', she slashes a single Frost Giant before getting casually slapped to the floor by Laufey. In ''The Dark World'', she's an accomplished swordswoman who easily bests Malekith. |
| 389 | * TheTrickster: Downplayed compared to her adopted son Loki. She is implied to be his tutor in cunning, but unlike him, Frigga maintains an air of being virtuous. In ''The Dark World,'' she technically commits treason by secretly visiting Loki, an enemy of the Crown, in his cell for a year, which her king has explicitly forbidden. Odin--whom she notes is not a very good liar--is plainly unaware of this. Malekith attempts to insult her by calling her a witch after he falls for her trick with Jane, and Frigga merely smirks with satisfaction--like Loki, she thoroughly enjoys outwitting her foes. The fact that she taught Loki how to turn ''flowers'' into ''frogs'' (and not vice versa) also speaks volumes about her. |
| 390 | * TrueSight: Implied, when she easily recognizes her own son from the future. Plus, it would make sense for a MasterOfIllusion to know how to pierce through such trickery. |
| 391 | -->'''Frigga:''' I was raised by witches, boy. I see with more than just eyes, as you well know. |
| 392 | * TryingNotToCry: When Loki denies that she's his mother in ''The Dark World'', Frigga knows that he doesn't mean it, but his words still sting, and her eyes become wet and redden slightly. She then tries to brush off his hurtful comment with a fake smile and a dismissive, "Hmpf." |
| 393 | * UniversallyBelovedLeader: Judging by the attendance and the reaction of the mourners at Frigga's funeral, all of Asgard love their Queen. |
| 394 | * ViolentlyProtectiveGirlfriend: She not only takes care of Odin in the Odinsleep, but guards him as well. She takes pride in this, as witnessed by her interaction with Odin while they prepare for Malekith's invasion: |
| 395 | -->'''Odin:''' Despite all I have survived, my queen still worries for me.\ |
| 396 | '''Frigga:''' [[BadassBoast It is only because I worry for you that you have survived]]. |
| 397 | * VikingFuneral: She receives one in ''The Dark World''. |
| 398 | * YouAreBetterThanYouThinkYouAre: She never stopped believing in Loki's redemption. Thor considers this the greatest lesson Frigga ever taught him which came at a time when he was stewing in his FailureHero status. |
| 399 | -->'''Frigga:''' Everyone fails at who they are ''supposed'' to be, Thor. The measure of a person, of a hero... is how well they succeed at being who they ''are''. |
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| 401 | |
| 402 | [[folder:Heimdall]] |
| 403 | !!''Heimdall'' |
| 404 | [[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/mcu_heimdall_4.png]] |
| 405 | [[caption-width-right:300:''"Be warned, I shall uphold my sacred oath to protect this realm as its gatekeeper."'']] |
| 406 | [[caption-width-right:300:[[labelnote:Click here to see him during ''Thor: Ragnarok'']] https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/mcu_heimdall_ragnarok.png[[/labelnote]]]] |
| 407 | !!!'''Species:''' Asgardian |
| 408 | !!!'''Citizenship:''' Asgardian |
| 409 | !!!'''Affiliation(s):''' Asgard |
| 410 | !!!'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/IdrisElba |
| 411 | !!!'''Voiced By:''' Mario Arvizu (Latin-American Spanish dub), Juan Carlos Gustems (European Spanish dub), Jiro Saito (Japanese dub), Widemir Normil (Canadian French dub), Maurício Berger (Brazilian Portuguese dub) |
| 412 | !!!'''Appearances:''' ''Film/{{Thor}}'' | ''Film/ThorTheDarkWorld'' | ''Film/AvengersAgeOfUltron'' [[note]] As an illusion made by Wanda [[/note]] | ''Film/ThorRagnarok'' | ''Film/AvengersInfinityWar'' | ''Film/ThorLoveAndThunder'' |
| 413 | |
| 414 | ->''"The universe hasn't seen this marvel since before my watch began. Few can sense it, even fewer can see it. But while its effects can be dangerous, it is truly beautiful."'' |
| 415 | |
| 416 | The gatekeeper of Asgard and guardian of the Bifröst, the most loyal warrior of Asgard. His eyes see and his ears hear all that takes place in the Nine Realms. With his SuperSenses, Heimdall ensures that no enemies are able to get past his watch and that Asgard is safe. |
| 417 | |
| 418 | ---- |
| 419 | * ActionDad: ''Love and Thunder'' reveals that he had a family, with his son Axl being a major supporting character. |
| 420 | * AllThereInTheManual: In Norse myth, Heimdall is actually a Van (being from Vanaheim) by birth: he's ''not'' obligated to look Nordic any more than Hogun is -- even if his Marvel Comics version does. However, in the ''Prose Edda'', he's described as "the whitest of the gods." |
| 421 | * AscendedExtra: Despite the popularity and acclaim of actor Idris Elba, Heimdall doesn't have much a role in the films he appears in until ''Film/ThorRagnarok'', and is the only Asgardian (other than Thor and Loki) to appear in ''Film/AvengersAgeOfUltron'' and ''Film/AvengersInfinityWar''. |
| 422 | * AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence: [[spoiler:He ascended to Valhalla following his death, and is the first person to greet Jane when she arrives]]. |
| 423 | * BaritoneOfStrength: He is one of the strongest warriors in Asgard and has a deep and powerful voice, courtesy of Creator/IdrisElba. |
| 424 | * {{BFS}}: He uses a big sword to activate the Bifröst. He also uses it in combat, especially after taking it away from the Bifröst to prevent Hela from moving to other worlds. |
| 425 | * BlackDudeDiesFirst: Played straight in ''Infinity War'' as he's the first ''onscreen'' character to bite it and the first of many. He's also one of the few characters that died in that movie and ''Endgame'' not to return in some fashion. |
| 426 | * ChekhovsGun: His theft of the sword of Bifröst is what initially prevents Hela's evil from spreading past Asgard. |
| 427 | * ColorblindCasting: ''Thor'' director Creator/KennethBranagh invoked this with regard to the casting of Idris Elba as Heimdall, saying "If you have a chance to have a great actor in the part, everything else is irrelevant." |
| 428 | * CoolHelmet: It's gold and horned! |
| 429 | * CoolOldGuy: He's of the same generation as Odin, and is scary cool. |
| 430 | * CoolSword: His sword can control the Bifröst bridge. |
| 431 | * DeadpanSnarker: |
| 432 | -->'''Thor:''' Sometimes merriment is a greater burden than battle.\ |
| 433 | '''Heimdall:''' Then you are doing one of them incorrectly. |
| 434 | * DefiantToTheEnd: After suffering a beatdown in ''Infinity War'', he uses his remaining strength to summon the Bifröst one last time to send the Hulk back to Earth to warn everyone about Thanos. This results in the Mad Titan immediately killing him, although Heimdall gives off a defiant smile as he passes away from his wounds. |
| 435 | * DiesWideOpen: In ''Infinity War'', his eyes remain open after Thanos stabs him through the heart as punishment for sending Hulk to Earth with the Bifrost. |
| 436 | * TheDreaded: He stands alone between Asgard and the other eight realms. There's a reason the Warriors Three are terrified he might find out they're plotting to subvert Loki's rule. |
| 437 | * DreadlockWarrior: In ''Ragnarok'', he has a style change after being banished from Asgard by Loki to ensure he doesn't find out about Odin's disappearance. |
| 438 | * DyingSmirk: After Heimdall sends the Hulk to Earth to warn the planet of Thanos's attack, Thanos kills him. Heimdall, knowing he's given the universe a chance, dies with a faint smile on his face. |
| 439 | * EveryoneHasStandards: It's implied in ''Film/ThorTheDarkWorld'' that Odin's willingness to stage a huge attack on the Dark Elves with the intention of slaughtering them and Maleketh regardless of casualties disturbs even Heimdall, which would explain why he chose to distract his king while Thor, Loki and Jane leave on their own to find him. |
| 440 | * TheFettered: He has an eternal duty which he takes with ''utter'' seriousness. He never leaves his post, except when Bifröst is sealed, and his loyalty to Asgard is absolute. Choose to fight him, though, and you face a BeefGate. |
| 441 | * FlingALightIntoTheFuture: In ''Infinity War'', he uses the Bifröst one last time to send the Hulk back to Earth to warn them about Thanos. If Doctor Strange’s comments later in the film are anything to go by, this has given the Avengers the one (and only) means out of 14 million to defeat Thanos -- something confirmed by the events of ''Endgame'', when the Hulk is crucial to undoing the Snap. |
| 442 | * GateGuardian: As guardian of the Bifröst he defends Asgard from all who would seek to attack it. |
| 443 | * HeartIsAnAwesomePower: As he is TheDriver and functionally an AlmightyJanitor. ''However'', his job's importance is played up thoroughly, and he's implied to be near or superior to Odin in power. A little bit of his powers of sight are shown in ''Ragnarok'' when he gives Thor the ability to see what happens on Asgard during his imprisonment on Sakaar. |
| 444 | * HeroicSacrifice: Heimdall is [[OffscreenMomentOfAwesome already down for the count]] when ''Infinity War'' opens, so, given that he's no longer a threat, it's very likely Thanos would have let him live. Instead, Heimdall uses the last of his strength to send the Hulk back to Earth, and Thanos kills him for it. |
| 445 | * HeroOfAnotherStory: The only reason that there are any Asgardian civilians left to save in ''Ragnarok'' is that he has been functioning as a [[OneManArmy one man resistance and rescue team]], with no help, no back up, and only his skill and sight to aid him. |
| 446 | * HumanPopsicle: Loki freezes Heimdall with the Casket upon his "act of treason" (trying to attack Loki for attempting to destroy Jötunheim with the Bifröst). He's able to break through. |
| 447 | * ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: He meets his end in ''Infinity War'', courtesy of Thanos wielding Corvus Glaive's glaive. |
| 448 | * InformedAbility: While his powers are undeniably useful and his prowess as a warrior doesn't disappoint, he never displays anything remotely close to Odin's level of power in spite of the rumors. Best shown in ''Ragnarok'', where he is one of the last Asgardians still standing and proves extremely capable, but openly admits that Thor is their last hope, not him. |
| 449 | * InTheHood: In ''Ragnarok,'' after he has been stripped of his position and golden armor he goes into hiding wearing a hooded cloak as he leads Asgard's citizens to safety. |
| 450 | * LaResistance: Leads the Asgardian resistance when Hela takes over Asgard. |
| 451 | * LightIsGood: Has golden eyes and armor, and visually some solar motifs. He's also unquestionably heroic. However in ''Infinity War'' he refers to his ability to summon the Bifrost ([[LightEmUp what amounts to a giant beam of light]]) as "DarkMagic". |
| 452 | * LightningBruiser: And GeniusBruiser. He was hand-picked by Odin to guard Bifröst because he ''has'' no weak spots. |
| 453 | * LoopholeAbuse: He uses this to magnificent efficiency: |
| 454 | ** In the first film, twice he uses this to fudge his oath of loyalty to Loki as king. The first time he [[SteppingOutForAQuickCupOfCoffee leaves his sword in the Bifröst ignition for the Warriors Three to activate]]. The second time he waits for Loki to fire him before attacking him, so it will technically not be betrayal. |
| 455 | ** In ''The Dark World'', Thor approached him to help him and Loki escape to Svartalfheim and take the battle to Malekith. He mentions what they plan to do is treason, and yet goes along with it, taking the initiative to distract Odin: |
| 456 | --->'''Odin:''' You have called me for an urgent matter, Heimdall, what is it?\ |
| 457 | '''Heimdall:''' Treason, my lord.\ |
| 458 | '''Odin:''' Whose?\ |
| 459 | '''Heimdall: ''''''Mine.''' |
| 460 | * NiceGuy: On his job as the guardian of the Bifrost, he’s strict, no-nonsense, and professional. Off it, he’s kind, wise, and fatherly. |
| 461 | * NotSoAboveItAll: During the 1970s, he played a part in a bet between Thor and Loki (which the latter lost) that resulted in [[BeethovenWasAnAlienSpy Loki becoming the infamous D.B. Cooper]], with Heimdall acting as his cosmic getaway man via the Bifrost. |
| 462 | * OffscreenMomentOfAwesome: After Hela slaughters the [[RedShirtArmy Einerjar]] and the Warriors Three, he protects, rescues, ''and'' leads the Asgardian civilians, ''singlehandedly''. |
| 463 | * OneManArmy: See the above trope. He doesn't ''lead'' LaResistance, he ''is'' the Resistance. |
| 464 | * TheOmniscient: DownplayedTrope. He can see and hear anything he wishes in the Nine Realms [[SuperSenses with perfect clarity]], but he has to be ''looking'' for it, which is why the Asgardians fail to notice Thanos's designs on the Infinity Gauntlet. There are also a number of things he can't see even when he is looking, which always catches his attention. Dark Elf cloaking tech, for example, fools his sight perfectly but he can still ''hear'' their engines. However, his ability is useful for communicating with anyone, anywhere -- even someone on the other side of a Wormhole. It is also invaluable to keep one step ahead of the literal Goddess of Death and her roving army of minions. |
| 465 | * PetTheDog: When Jane first arrives in Valhalla, Heimdall is the first person to warmly greet her, despite them never really knowing each other when they were alive. Somewhat justified in that he wished to show gratefulness that Jane rescued his son from certain death. |
| 466 | * PragmaticAdaptation: Creator/KennethBranagh has explained that he chose Idris Elba for the part, not because he needed a TokenMinority, but because [[AbilityOverAppearance he thought Idris was a very good actor.]] |
| 467 | -->'''Creator/BobChipman:''' To everyone who pitched a fit about Idris Elba playing Heimdall; every scene he's in may as well be subtitled ''THAT'S WHY''. |
| 468 | * RaceLift: He's white in the comics and black in the film. Might also be an InUniverse example, if the myths are based on them and Heimdall's position meaning he cannot leave his post then it is not unlikely that the Norse never saw him but had heard of him enough to know his name and position. |
| 469 | * RebelLeader: Works this role as the leader and main asskicker of the Asgardian resistance. |
| 470 | * SacrificialLion: After surviving near-death in almost all his film appearances, he’s the first onscreen character to perish in ''Infinity War'', proving to the audience that anyone can die. |
| 471 | * ScaryBlackMan: The Warriors Three are terrified of him [[AvertedTrope because of his power, SuperSenses and deep voice]]. |
| 472 | * SmallRoleBigImpact: He is killed in the opening to ''Infinity War'', but his final action of sending the Hulk to Earth is the only reason why any of the Earth-based heroes learn about Thanos and the threat he poses to the universe. |
| 473 | * TheStoic: One imagines standing as the eternal guardian of the gateway to all the Nine Realms either requires or breeds a certain emotional detachment. He's friendlier in ''The Dark World'', at least to Thor. |
| 474 | * SupernaturalGoldEyes: For his SuperSenses. Asgardians, when Heimdall temporarily shares his abilities with them, temporarily gain these eyes, as shown by Thor on Sakaar, as a means for the latter to check on Asgard. |
| 475 | * SuperSenses: Heimdall possesses extraordinarily acute sight and hearing that allow him to observe everything that happens in the Nine Realms, should he choose to look or listen. As shown in ''Thor'', his senses can be clouded by Loki's PerceptionFilter. In ''The Dark World'', dark elf cloaking tech fools his sight but he can still ''hear'' their ships' engines. In ''Ragnarok'', he states that he saw Loki coming with TheCavalry. While never addressed in the movies, in the comics Heimdall selectively blocks unneeded information to avoid SensoryOverload. |
| 476 | * UndyingLoyalty: It's stated in the first movie that the only reason Odin is not afraid of Heimdall is because of his absolute loyalty. The second movie plays with this: Heimdall is loyal to ''Asgard'', not to the Allfather. |
| 477 | * UnflappableGuardian: For all of Asgard. Though he's more prone to employing [[TheQuietOne silence]] than the typical ObfuscatingStupidity and friendliness. |
| 478 | * UnrelatedInTheAdaptation: He's Sif's brother in the comics, but there is no sign of that in the movies. In the myths, he's one of Odin's bastards. |
| 479 | * TheWorfEffect: |
| 480 | ** A variation in ''The Dark World'': You ''know'' the Dark Elves will be a threat when even ''Heimdall'' can't sense their presence. This may be related to the possibility that the Dark Elves predate him. |
| 481 | ** He is the very first character to appear on screen in ''Infinity War''... Lying on the ground and slowly dying from the wounds after [[OffscreenMomentOfAwesome his fight with Thanos and the Black Order]]. The Mad Titan himself got out of said fight completely unscathed. |
| 482 | [[/folder]] |
| 483 | |
| 484 | [[folder:Bor]] |
| 485 | !!''Bor Burison'' |
| 486 | [[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/bor_borison_tdw_9233.jpg]] |
| 487 | !!!'''Species:''' Asgardian |
| 488 | !!!'''Citizenship:''' Asgardian |
| 489 | !!!'''Affiliation(s):''' Asgard |
| 490 | !!!'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/TonyCurran |
| 491 | !!!'''Voiced By:''' Salvador Reyes (Latin-American Spanish dub), Marcelo Sandryni (Brazilian Portuguese dub) |
| 492 | !!!'''Appearances:''' ''Film/ThorTheDarkWorld'' |
| 493 | |
| 494 | Father of Odin and grandfather of Thor, he led the war against the Dark Elves 5000 years before the events of the film. |
| 495 | ---- |
| 496 | * AdaptationalWeaponSwap: He is shown wielding the magical spear Gungnir during the battle of Svartalfheim. In the comics, Bor never used Gungnir and usually fights with large axes instead. |
| 497 | * AlliterativeName: '''B'''or '''B'''urison. |
| 498 | * AmbiguouslyEvil: With the revelation in ''Ragnarok'' that Odin used to be a tyrannical warlord who mellowed out at some point, it's unclear if Bor, his father, was a conqueror as well. If so, this adds a different meaning to his fight against the Dark Elves, as it would mean that he wasn't protecting the realms out of nobility, but for the sake of having lands to conquer. |
| 499 | * AsskickingLeadsToLeadership: Leads the Asgardian charge. It runs in the family, apparently. |
| 500 | * AuthoritySoundsDeep: He was King of Asgard before his son Odin, and his voice is deeper than ''Thor's''. |
| 501 | * TheCameo: Not him personally, but Asgardians with his long-antiquated helmet design appear on Hela's murals. |
| 502 | * CoolHelmet: Wears his helmet from the comics, with downwards-curving horns. |
| 503 | * TheExtremistWasRight: His utter destruction of the Dark Elves (aided by their own ruler Malekith) is portrayed as a good thing due to the threat they posed to the entire universe and the peace that came with their end. |
| 504 | * LongDeadBadass: By a few thousand years; he's ''Odin's'' father who defeated the Dark Elves previously. |
| 505 | * OffWithHisHead: Not Bor himself, but a statue of Bor gets accidentally decapitated by Thor when he escapes from Asgard with a Dark Elf ship, much to Loki's sarcastic amusement. |
| 506 | -->'''Loki:''' Well done, you just decapitated your grandfather. |
| 507 | * OurFounder: Depicted in huge statues in Asgard. Thor accidentally decapitates one of them with a Dark Elf ship while escaping from Asgard. |
| 508 | * PosthumousCharacter: King of Asgard before Odin, long dead before the events of either film. |
| 509 | [[/folder]] |
| 510 | |
| 511 | !!Lady Sif and the Warriors Three |
| 512 | |
| 513 | [[folder:In General]] |
| 514 | !!''Lady Sif and the Warriors Three'' |
| 515 | |
| 516 | Thor's closest and most loyal friends. Upon his exile, they plan to defy Loki and return their friend to his home. |
| 517 | ---- |
| 518 | * BadassCrew: Asgard's greatest warriors, other than the Odin family and Heimdall. |
| 519 | * BlondeBrunetteRedhead: Fandral is blond, Hogun is brunet, and Volstagg is a redhead. |
| 520 | * DorkKnight: Every lovable one of them is a warrior. |
| 521 | * ForgottenFallenFriend: After Hela kills Fandral, Hogun and Volstagg, they are never mentioned again and Thor doesn’t even wonder about their fates despite being his closest friends. Granted, he had more important things going on, and it's possible that all that he had lost was weighing down on him, but it's still very jarring after seeing how close he was to them. |
| 522 | ** Lampshaded in ''Love and Thunder'', wherein Korg, reciting Thor's TraumaCongaLine, refers to them as "that guy, and that guy, and whoever that is." |
| 523 | * HeterosexualLifePartners: The Warriors Three to Thor are his best guy friends; Sif might count as a [[PlatonicLifePartners platonic]] one. |
| 524 | * HeroesPreferSwords: Played with. Both Sif and Fandral have swords, but Hogun uses a mace and Volstagg an axe. Regardless, they're second only to Thor in heroism. |
| 525 | * KnightKnaveAndSquire: Fandral is the Knight; the soldier with the more classy outlook towards battle who's the Asgardian equivalent of OfficerAndAGentleman, Hogun is the Knave; on the basis of being the most [[TheStoic stoic]] of them, a quiet warrior who's a quick thinker, and Volstagg is the squire; in that, while not being the newbie or NewMeat at all (in fact, he looks to be the older among them), he's the FunPersonified among them. |
| 526 | * TheMagnificent: The Warriors Three have these kinds of sobriquets, but they aren't referred to in the first film itself. |
| 527 | * MyFriendsAndZoidberg: Inverted, the group is always referred to as "Lady Sif and the Warriors Three". Played straight in a deleted scene for ''Thor'', where an Asgardian reported to Loki and addressed them as "Warriors Three and Lady Sif". |
| 528 | * ProudWarriorRaceGuy: All four of them are like Thor in this regard. |
| 529 | * SuddenSequelDeathSyndrome: The Warriors Three are all dispatched by Hela in ''Ragnarok'', in their respective first scenes. Whilst Hogun at least puts up a bit of a fight, Fandral and Volstagg are instantly killed off by Hela upon her arrival on Asgard. Poor Fandral didn't even get a speaking line. This is averted by Sif because doesn't even show up in this film, having been already banished by Loki offscreen. It is in ''Infinity War'' where she dies offscreen due to Thanos's Infinity-Gauntlet-powered fingersnap, although she is resurrected by ''Endgame''. |
| 530 | * TrueCompanions: To say that they're Thor's dearest and most loyal friends is an understatement. |
| 531 | * WeUsedToBeFriends: Even though they grew up together and loved each other like a family, all four of them now hold Loki in nothing but cold contempt and hatred after his actions in The Battle of Manhattan. |
| 532 | * TheWorfEffect: The Warriors Three are killed off to underline how big of a threat Hela is. |
| 533 | [[/folder]] |
| 534 | |
| 535 | [[folder:Sif]] |
| 536 | !!''ComicBook/LadySif'' |
| 537 | [[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/mcu_lady_sif.png]] |
| 538 | [[caption-width-right:300:''"I am sometimes dangerous, but only toward those who are deserving."'']] |
| 539 | [[caption-width-right:300:[[labelnote:Click here to see her on ''Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.'' season two]] https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/mcu_lady_sif_shield.png]][[/labelnote]] |
| 540 | !!!'''Species:''' Asgardian |
| 541 | !!!'''Citizenship:''' Asgardian |
| 542 | !!!'''Affiliation(s):''' Asgard |
| 543 | !!!'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/JaimieAlexander |
| 544 | !!!'''Voiced By:''' Creator/IngridDonnadieu (European French), Karla Falcón (Latin-American Spanish dub); Elena Silva (''Thor'' films), Celia de Diego (''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD'', season 1 appearance), Inma Gallego (''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD'', season 2 appearance) (European Spanish dub), Junko Kitanishi (Japanese dub), Angélica Borges (films, ''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD'' season 2), Andrea Murucci (''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD'', season 1) (Brazilian Portuguese dub) |
| 545 | !!!'''Appearances:''' ''Film/{{Thor}}'' | ''Film/ThorTheDarkWorld'' | ''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD'' | ''Series/{{Loki|2021}}'' [[note]](appears in ''[[Recap/LokiEpisode4TheNexusEvent Episode 4: "The Nexus Event"]] as a construct from Loki's memory)[[/note]]'' | ''Film/ThorLoveAndThunder'' |
| 546 | |
| 547 | ->''"I will die a warrior's death. Stories will be told of this day!"'' |
| 548 | |
| 549 | One of Thor's oldest friends and the only female warrior of Asgard. |
| 550 | ---- |
| 551 | * ActionGirl: She's one of Asgard's best warriors. Her badassery has even reached memetic levels in-universe, as seen in [[Recap/AgentsOfSHIELDS1E15YesMen "Yes Men"]]. |
| 552 | --> '''Coulson:''' [She] climbed a giant metal killing machine. Speared it with her double-bladed sword. It was pretty badass. |
| 553 | * AdaptationalWimp: InUniverse, Sif's role in the play staged by Loki in ''Film/ThorRagnarok'' is reduced to her screaming for help as Loki dies. |
| 554 | * AloofDarkHairedGirl: She has greater similarity to 'the grim' than her other boisterous companions. |
| 555 | * AmnesiacHero: She's hit with a Kree memory eraser in the ''Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.'' episode "Who You Really Are", leaving her with only children's education from Asgard. Luckily, it can also put her memories back. |
| 556 | %%% What is the significance? Otherwise, it is X Just X. |
| 557 | * AnArmAndALeg: [[spoiler:Lost her left arm during an offscreen battle with Gorr in ''Film/ThorLoveAndThunder''.]] |
| 558 | * ArrowCatch: During the battle of Vanaheim, Sif stops an arrow fired at Thor by getting it stuck through her shield. |
| 559 | * AscendedExtra: She has a very limited roles in all her movie appearances but is one of the few movie characters to appear in ''Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D.'' - in fact both her guest appearances in episodes of that series gave her a bigger role than she has in movies. |
| 560 | * BackForTheDead: [[spoiler:{{Subverted|Trope}}. In ''Love And Thunder'' her first scene sees her being left to die by BigBad Gorr. She even insists in being left to die by Thor until the latter tells her she wouldn't go to Vallhalla for not dying in the battlefield. She's seen pretty much alive at the end of the movie, and is training her beloved nephew in Asgardian combat.]] |
| 561 | * TheBusCameBack: After six years of being absent from the MCU, Sif reappears as a memory construct in an episode of ''Series/{{Loki|2021}}'', and she makes her full-fledged return in ''Film/ThorLoveAndThunder''. |
| 562 | * BusCrash: According to the Russo Brothers, she was one of the many offscreen casualties of ''Avengers: Infinity War''. With the reversal of the Snap in ''Endgame'', she is alive again (although she doesn't appear, nor is she mentioned). |
| 563 | * TheConscience: [[WordOfGod Craig Kyle]] stated in ''Thor: The Dark World – The Art of the Movie'' that he considered Sif as "Thor's conscience, in a way". She tries to give him advice at times, but he rarely listens. |
| 564 | * CrazyPrepared: As shown in a deleted scene of ''Thor'', she brought her entire arsenal of weapons to the coronation. |
| 565 | * DeadpanSnarker: Usually to her friends in a good-natured, playful way (further shown in the deleted scenes), but she can also be coldly mocking at times. |
| 566 | --> '''Sif:''' ''[seeing Thor showing off in front of the whole court]'' Oh, ''please''. |
| 567 | * DisabledInTheAdaptation: [[spoiler:She loses her left arm in an incredibly brutal off-screen battle with Gorr. In the comics, she still has two arms.]] |
| 568 | * DoubleWeapon: She wields a double-bladed sword. One of the two blades is {{retractable|Weapon}}, allowing for Sif to fight with a single-blade. |
| 569 | * DualWielding: Sif has two swords that can [[DoubleWeapon join together at the hilts.]] |
| 570 | * FaceDeathWithDignity: Subverted. When Thor finds Sif after having battled and lost against Gorr, Sif resigns herself to die where she is, noting that she will reach Valhalla soon. But Thor tells her that bleeding out on on a battlefield after the danger is over doesn't actually count as dying in battle, Sif immediately resolves to stay alive at all costs. |
| 571 | * GlorySeeker: As the quote above indicates, she was ready to go down fighting the Destroyer. |
| 572 | * GreenEyedMonster: Downplayed. While she may be jealous of Jane's relationship with Thor she accepts it and bears Jane no ill will for it. Even her [[WordOfSaintPaul actress]] [[https://www.ign.com/articles/2013/04/26/jaimie-alexander-talks-thor-the-dark-world-and-wonder-woman said]] she's above all that, the most antagonistic Sif gets toward Jane is a glare because Jane's presence is threatening Asgard, not because she's dating Thor. |
| 573 | * GuestStarPartyMember: In the ''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD'' episode [[Recap/AgentsOfSHIELDS1E15YesMen "Yes Men"]], where she joins forces with the team in hunting down Lorelei. They team up again looking for a Kree in [=S02E12=] [[Recap/AgentsOfSHIELDS2E12WhoYouReallyAre "Who You Really Are"]]. |
| 574 | * HandicappedBadass: [[spoiler:Sif can still fight just as good despite only having one arm by the time of ''Film/ThorLoveAndThunder''.]] |
| 575 | * HopelessSuitor: To Thor, as he's in love with Jane. |
| 576 | * HopelessWithTech: Inverted. Coulson tries to explain to Sif how to use The Bus' touch screen, but she proves perfectly familiar with the interface from her time in non-magical alien societies. She even calls the system "antiquated." |
| 577 | * HotBlooded: She can be quite impulsive when she gets frustrated. |
| 578 | * IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: Her appearance on ''Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D'' shows she's not completely gotten over her feelings for Thor, but the second film has her protecting Jane and even breaking her out at Thor's request, and she displays no resentment towards them. |
| 579 | * LadyLegionnaireWear: Her battle armour in ''The Dark World'' includes a segmented skirt, because she is a lady warrior. |
| 580 | * LadyOfWar: Instead of the boisterous LeeroyJenkins approach of some of her friends, she has a more composed and refined fighting style. |
| 581 | * LuckilyMyShieldWillProtectMe: She uses her shield to protect herself or others, [[ShieldBash and also hits opponents with it.]] |
| 582 | * NotSoStoic: Though Sif is primarily a serious woman who rarely expresses any emotion other than pensiveness and anger, she lets out a horrified "Shit!" when Thor tells her that bleeding out on a battlefield after the battle was lost won't get her into Valhalla. |
| 583 | * NoBodyLeftBehind: [[https://www.indiewire.com/2018/05/avengers-infinity-war-russo-brothers-confirm-off-screen-deaths-1201964297/ The Russos have stated]] that she was among the Snap's casualties in Infinity War. She would later be among those restored by Bruce Banner five years later. |
| 584 | * OffscreenMomentOfAwesome: [[spoiler:After [[TheBusCameBack not being seen since ''The Dark World'']] she reappears in ''Love and Thunder''- her entrance in the movie is shown being wounded and left to die by Gorr the God Butcher after an off-screen battle. Given how powerful Gorr is portrayed in the movie, it is really impressive she survived. Lots of gods didn't]]. |
| 585 | * OneOfTheBoys: She's an ActionGirl who hangs out with an all-guy group of warriors. |
| 586 | * PromotedToLoveInterest: {{Inverted|Trope}}. She is a major love interest, and later wife of Thor in the comics but portrayed as being PlatonicLifePartners with Thor in the movies. |
| 587 | * PutOnABus: She doesn't appear in ''Ragnarok'' due to Jaime Alexander's scheduling conflicts with ''Series/{{Blindspot}}''. WordOfGod [[https://www.cinemablend.com/news/1714409/what-happened-to-sif-after-thor-the-dark-world-according-to-kevin-feige explanation is]] that Loki banished her from Asgard so she couldn't uncover his secret. Ironically, not being in Asgard saves her from being killed like The Warriors Three. |
| 588 | * RedIsHeroic: Sif's armor is partially red in color. |
| 589 | * SecretKeeper: Her guest spot on ''Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.'' makes her the only character tied strongly to a particular film series rather than the MCU as a whole to know that Coulson is still alive. He asks her to let him tell Thor himself. |
| 590 | * SleevesAreForWimps: Most of her outfits have either no sleeves or simply metal shoulder caps, though she does wear braces to protect her wrists. The exception is when she travels to Jottunheim with Thor in his first movie. Then she wears full-length sleeves to protect herself from the cold. |
| 591 | * SoleSurvivor: Thanks to being off-world during the events of ''Thor: Ragnarok'' and being revived from the Decimation, Sif is the only living member of Thor's personal circle of friends and one of two living named Asgardian females, the other being Valkyrie, as of ''Endgame''. |
| 592 | * ThrowTheDogABone: She got [[Film/ThorRagnarok banished from Asgard which was then destroyed by Surtur]], [[Film/AvengersInfinityWar snapped away alongside half the universe for five years]], and [[spoiler:[[Film/ThorLoveAndThunder lost her arm fighting Gorr the God Butcher]], so it's a well-deserved break for her when she finally gets reunited with Thor and the other Asgardians at the end of ''Love and Thunder'', and trains her nephew, Axl, in the ways of Asgardian combat.]] |
| 593 | * TomboyishPonytail: Wears one when going into battle. She seems to have dropped the habit during ''Thor: The Dark World''. |
| 594 | * UnluckyChildhoodFriend: |
| 595 | ** Implied as of ''Thor'' with Sif to Thor (she's Thor's main love interest in the comics and his wife in the myth). According to interviews, this was more explicit in scenes that were later cut. This was made more explicit in ''The Dark World'', in that she tries to reach out and comfort Thor's increasing broodiness, and yet gets the courteous-yet-curt reply of: |
| 596 | --->'''Thor:''' [[ObliviousToLove I thank you for your sword and for your counsel, good Lady Sif.]]. |
| 597 | ** Her guest spot in ''Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.'' reveals she lost her first love to Lorelei's seduction magic and is still hurting over Thor not choosing her. |
| 598 | --->'''Lorelei:''' Never to get what you desire. Not Haldor; not... ''Thor''. |
| 599 | * UnrelatedInTheAdaptation: She's Heimdall's sister in the comics, but there is no sign of that in the movies. |
| 600 | * WellIntentionedExtremist: She sees the Inhumans as nothing but dangerous weapons that have to be put down, though she's convinced to spare Skye for the moment, after she shows undeniable signs of wanting to learn to control her powers. |
| 601 | * WhatHappenedToTheMouse: In spite of being resurrected after the Time Heist, she's nowhere to be seen in the Battle of Earth. |
| 602 | * {{Xenafication}}: In the myths, Sif is a [[ProperLady sweet, lovely lady]] displaying HairOfGoldHeartOfGold, and associated with the earth and marriage, while Marvel's Sif is a {{Aloof Dark Haired|Girl}} ActionGirl. Though in the comics, the black hair is explained by Loki cutting her gold hair as a prank, and in apology giving her black hair made by dwarfs. ([[Myth/NorseMythology In the myth]] he cuts it too, but gives her a gold headdress). It's also implied in ''Thor'' that Sif wasn't always an ActionGirl. |
| 603 | * YouGoGirl: It's implied that Sif had to put a lot of work into being taken seriously as a warrior, hence why she's still called "Lady Sif". |
| 604 | -->'''Thor:''' And [[StayInTheKitchen who proved wrong all who scoffed at the idea]] that a young maiden could be one of the fiercest warriors this realm has ever known? \ |
| 605 | '''Sif:''' ''I'' did. \ |
| 606 | '''Thor:''' ... true ... but I supported you! |
| 607 | [[/folder]] |
| 608 | |
| 609 | [[folder:Fandral]] |
| 610 | !!''Fandral the Dashing'' |
| 611 | [[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/mcu_fandral.png]] |
| 612 | !!!'''Species:''' Asgardian |
| 613 | !!!'''Citizenship:''' Asgardian |
| 614 | !!!'''Affiliation(s):''' Asgard, Warriors Three |
| 615 | !!!'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/JoshDallas (''Thor''), Creator/ZacharyLevi (''Thor: The Dark World'', ''Thor: Ragnarok'') |
| 616 | !!!'''Voiced By:''' Creator/EmmanuelGarijo (European French, ''Thor: The Dark World''), Gerardo García (''Thor''), Arturo Cataño (''Thor: The Dark World'') (Latin-American Spanish dub); Hernán Fernández (European Spanish dub); Fuminori Komatsu (''Thor''), Daichi Endō (''Thor: The Dark World'') (Japanese dub), Léo Rabelo (Brazilian Portuguese dub) |
| 617 | !!!'''Appearances:''' ''Film/{{Thor}}'' | ''Film/ThorTheDarkWorld'' | ''Film/ThorRagnarok'' | ''Film/ThorLoveAndThunder'' [[note]] Archive footage from ''Thor: Ragnarok''[[/note]] |
| 618 | |
| 619 | ->''"Nothing personal, boys!"'' |
| 620 | |
| 621 | A charming warrior who often hits it off with the ladies of Asgard. |
| 622 | ---- |
| 623 | * BloodKnight: They all love battle, but Fandral seems to especially enjoy it. |
| 624 | * ChickMagnet: Can be seen chatting it up with a couple of women during the post-Vanaheim celebration in ''The Dark World''. |
| 625 | * DeadpanSnarker: Particularly in ''The Dark World'', where nearly every single line that comes out of his mouth is a witty one-liner. |
| 626 | * {{Expy}}: Of/to [[Film/TheAdventuresOfRobinHood Errol Flynn's version of Robin Hood]], to the point where one S.H.I.E.L.D. agent who sees him with Sif, Volstagg, and Hogun in New Mexico calls him "Robin Hood" on the radio. |
| 627 | * HairOfGoldHeartOfGold: Fandral has blond hair and he is one of Asgard's most valiant warriors. |
| 628 | * ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: |
| 629 | ** He's skewered by a Frost Giant's ice spike during the raid on Jötunheim. He lives, but has to be carried off the battlefield. |
| 630 | ** Hela kills him in ''Ragnarok'' this way with throwing swords she summoned. |
| 631 | * RoyalRapier: He uses one and is implied to be Asgardian nobility. |
| 632 | * {{Swashbuckler}}: Fandral is practically an Creator/ErrolFlynn {{Expy}}. |
| 633 | [[/folder]] |
| 634 | |
| 635 | [[folder:Hogun]] |
| 636 | !!''Hogun the Grim'' |
| 637 | [[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/mcu_hogun.png]] |
| 638 | !!!'''Species:''' Vanir |
| 639 | !!!'''Citizenship:''' Vanir, Asgardian |
| 640 | !!!'''Affiliation(s):''' Vanaheim, Asgard, Warriors Three |
| 641 | !!!'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/TadanobuAsano |
| 642 | !!!'''Voiced By:''' José Luis Reza Arenas (''Thor''), Dafnis Fernández (''Thor: The Dark World'') (Latin-American Spanish dub); Andy Fukutome (European Spanish dub); Tadanobu Asano (Japanese dub), Flávio Back (Brazilian Portuguese dub) |
| 643 | !!!'''Appearances:''' ''Film/{{Thor}}'' | ''Film/ThorTheDarkWorld'' | ''Film/ThorRagnarok'' | ''Film/ThorLoveAndThunder'' [[note]] Archive footage from ''Thor: Ragnarok''[[/note]] |
| 644 | |
| 645 | A stoic and quiet warrior, he is a quick thinker and highly observant. |
| 646 | ---- |
| 647 | * AscendedExtra: His role in ''Ragnarok'' gives him the most lines of the Warriors Three, and he also lasts the longest against Hela before dying. Possibly to compensate for him being DemotedToExtra in the previous film. |
| 648 | * CarryABigStick: He uses a spiked mace. |
| 649 | * CurbStompCushion: He ultimately still loses to Hela in a one on one fight, but he lasts the longest out of the Warrior's Three, and is the only one to get a hit in. |
| 650 | * DefiantToTheEnd: Refuses to yield to Hela no matter what. Takes a while, but she kills him. |
| 651 | * DemotedToExtra: He makes a brief appearance early in ''The Dark World'', having remained in his home realm to help rebuild it after the Marauders' attack, and has only one other appearance in the film, which is no more than a reaction shot, during the portal-hopping battle in the finale. |
| 652 | * DidYouJustFlipOffCthulhu: When Hela comes back to Asgard and demands submission to her, he refuses to kneel. He and most of the Einherjar army ends up killed anyway. |
| 653 | * EpicFlail: In ''Ragnarok'' he's wielding a flail instead of his mace. |
| 654 | * ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: Hela kills him in ''Ragnarok'', impaling him on a large spike she summoned. |
| 655 | * TheQuietOne: He rarely speaks, so when he does, the others listen. |
| 656 | * RaceLift: Hogun in the comics is vaguely Mongolian-looking and based on Creator/CharlesBronson. Here, he's Japanese-looking. He seems to have grown an impressive beard during ''Thor: The Dark World'', which hearkens back to Asano's portrayal of UsefulNotes/GenghisKhan in the film ''Film/{{Mongol}}''. |
| 657 | * NotSoStoic: Even he gives a big grin when they find Thor on "Midgard". |
| 658 | * TheSpock: Far more logical and [[TheStoic stoic]] than his companions. |
| 659 | * TheStoic: He always acts completely serious and composed. |
| 660 | [[/folder]] |
| 661 | |
| 662 | [[folder:Volstagg]] |
| 663 | !!''Volstagg the Voluminous'' |
| 664 | [[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/mcu_volstagg.png]] |
| 665 | [[caption-width-right:300:''"Do not mistake my appetite for apathy!"'']] |
| 666 | !!!'''Species:''' Asgardian |
| 667 | !!!'''Citizenship:''' Asgardian |
| 668 | !!!'''Affiliation(s):''' Asgard, Warriors Three |
| 669 | !!!'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/RayStevenson |
| 670 | !!!'''Voiced By:''' Creator/OctavioRojas (Latin-American Spanish dub), Eduard Farelo (European Spanish dub), Shunsuke Sakuya (Japanese dub), Júlio Cézar Barreiros (Brazilian Portuguese dub) |
| 671 | !!!'''Appearances:''' ''Film/{{Thor}}'' | ''Film/ThorTheDarkWorld'' | ''Film/ThorRagnarok'' | ''Film/ThorLoveAndThunder'' [[note]] Archive footage from ''Thor: Ragnarok''[[/note]] |
| 672 | |
| 673 | A large Asgardian warrior, his healthy appetite does not decrease his love for battle or his loyalty to his friends. |
| 674 | ---- |
| 675 | * ActionDad: He is an Asgardian warrior and father of three children. |
| 676 | * AdaptationalBadass: Volstagg has a habit of being portrayed as a MilesGloriosus in the comics. Here, he's an able bruiser, and holds fast even when the Destroyer has him dead to rights. |
| 677 | * BewareTheNiceOnes: (Coldly to Loki) "If you even ''think'' about betraying him (Thor)..." Loki, having received his fair share of death threats if he betrays Thor, cuts him off at that point. |
| 678 | -->'''[[DeadpanSnarker Loki]]:''' You'll kill me? Evidently, there'll be a line. |
| 679 | * BigEater: Do not mistake Volstagg's [[NervousWreck appetite]] for [[TheSnackIsMoreInteresting apathy]]! |
| 680 | * BigFun: The big guy out of the quintet formed by Thor, Lady Sif and the Warriors Three, he's also always the life of a party. |
| 681 | * BoisterousBruiser: If you're sitting in the mead hall, sit next to him because he's [[BigFun a lot of fun]]. If you're standing on a battlefield, stand next to him because he's [[TheBigGuy fierce!]] |
| 682 | * BrutishCharacterBrutishWeapon: He is the physically largest and the most fight-happy among the Warriors Three, and uses a gigantic battle axe in battle. |
| 683 | * {{Expy}}: Of/to Creator/WilliamShakespeare's Sir John Falstaff. |
| 684 | * FieryRedhead: If someone can rival Thor for hotbloodedness, it's this guy. |
| 685 | * FunPersonified: Always the life of a party, smashing mugs with a jolly laugh while asking for refills just like Thor. |
| 686 | * FriendToAllChildren: In deleted scene for ''Film/{{Thor}}'', in Earth, he helped a little girl taking her toy ball from under a car... [[SuperStrength by lifting said car with one hand]]. Granted, he also has adorable children of his own in Asgard. |
| 687 | * GateGuardian: For his last scene, Volstagg seemed to have replaced Skurge as the warrior manning the Bifrost. |
| 688 | * GentleGiant: The largest amongst the warriors of Asgard, and quite easily the sweetest and goofiest. |
| 689 | * HappilyMarried: Volstagg is married and has three adorable children. One of them sits in his lap during the feast after the Battle of Vanaheim. |
| 690 | * ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: Hela kills him with summoned throwing swords of hers in ''Ragnarok''. |
| 691 | * OhCrap: Counts as a TemptingFate. |
| 692 | -->'''Volstagg:''' Hush! Heimdall might be watching...\ |
| 693 | '''Guard:''' ''[enters the room]'' Heimdall demands your presence!\ |
| 694 | '''Volstagg:''' ... We're doomed. |
| 695 | * PunnyName: "Volstagg" is a play on the Creator/WilliamShakespeare character Sir John Falstaff. |
| 696 | * StoutStrength: Heavier set than the other warriors, but also very strong. |
| 697 | [[/folder]] |
| 698 | |
| 699 | !!Other Asgardians |
| 700 | |
| 701 | [[folder:Eir]] |
| 702 | !!''Eir'' |
| 703 | [[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/f4879229_7000_4448_b884_f443694222fc.png]] |
| 704 | !!!'''Species:''' Asgardian |
| 705 | !!!'''Citizenship:''' Asgardian |
| 706 | !!!'''Affiliation(s):''' Asgard |
| 707 | !!!'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/AliceKrige |
| 708 | !!!'''Appearances:''' ''Film/ThorTheDarkWorld'' |
| 709 | |
| 710 | An Asgardian courtier and physician. |
| 711 | ---- |
| 712 | * CanonForeigner: One of the few norse gods who never got adapted in Marvel comics. |
| 713 | * TheMedic: She's a Physician in the Asgardian court. |
| 714 | * WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Eir only appears in ''Film/ThorTheDarkWorld''. It is unknown if she survived Hela's coup or the massacre at the ''Statesman'' and settled in New Asgard. |
| 715 | [[/folder]] |
| 716 | |
| 717 | [[folder:Tyr]] |
| 718 | !!''Tyr'' |
| 719 | [[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/f7be2220_2633_480d_8d70_125968f3368b.png]] |
| 720 | !!!'''Species:''' Asgardian |
| 721 | !!!'''Citizenship:''' Asgardian |
| 722 | !!!'''Affiliation(s):''' Asgard, Einherjar |
| 723 | !!!'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/CliveRussell |
| 724 | !!!'''Appearances:''' ''Film/ThorTheDarkWorld'' |
| 725 | |
| 726 | Commander of the Einherjar. |
| 727 | ---- |
| 728 | * AgeLift: Was Odin's son in the comics but appears to be around the same age here. |
| 729 | * OldSoldier: He seems to be a contemporary of Odin's and serves as commander of the Einherjar. |
| 730 | * UnrelatedInTheAdaptation: He's Odin's son and Thor's half-brother in the comics. |
| 731 | * WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Tyr only appears in ''Film/ThorTheDarkWorld''. It is unknown if he survived Hela's coup or the massacre at the ''Statesman'' and settled in New Asgard. |
| 732 | [[/folder]] |
| 733 | |
| 734 | [[folder:Skurge]] |
| 735 | !!''Skurge the Executioner'' |
| 736 | [[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/mcu_skurge.png]] |
| 737 | [[caption-width-right:300:''"I'm just a janitor."'']] |
| 738 | !!!'''Species:''' Asgardian |
| 739 | !!!'''Citizenship:''' Asgardian |
| 740 | !!!'''Affiliation(s):''' Asgard, Einherjar, Hela (formerly) |
| 741 | !!!'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/KarlUrban |
| 742 | !!!'''Voiced By:''' Alfredo Gabriel Basurto (Latin-American Spanish dub), Frédéric Paquet (Canadian French dub), Filipe Albuquerque (Brazilian Portuguese dub) |
| 743 | !!!'''Appearances:''' ''Film/ThorRagnarok'' | ''Film/ThorLoveAndThunder'' [[note]] Archive footage from ''Thor: Ragnarok''[[/note]] |
| 744 | |
| 745 | ->''"I just want a chance to prove myself."'' |
| 746 | |
| 747 | A one time defender of Asgard who becomes the Death Goddess Hela's henchman. |
| 748 | ---- |
| 749 | * AdaptationalHeroism: He is far less bloodthirsty and evil than in the comics, happy to act tough to get some respect, but not really all that wild about actually ''hurting'' anybody, which is a rather large difference between him and his bullying, sadistic, and power-hungry comic self. |
| 750 | * AdaptationalWimp: He is much less intimidating than his comic-book counterpart, his laziness, cowardice, and general incompetence making him a far inferior substitute to Heimdall in guarding the Bifröst. In terms of combat ability, he is also not quite as powerful as the comic version, but remains a highly capable warrior to even Asgardian standards. |
| 751 | * AdaptationPersonalityChange: In the comics, Skurge had little ambition and mainly sought to serve Amora the Enchantress with almost blind loyalty, being TheStoic. In the movie, Skurge is an ambitious warrior eager to move up in the ranks, yet he is also more emotive and visibly struggles to carry out Hela's cruel requests. |
| 752 | * AlmightyJanitor: Inverted case, as Skurge appears to have been demoted down from Bifrost guard to an actual janitor when Hela enters Asgard, and then gets promoted to [[TheDragon "head flunkie"]] despite having little to no power of his own. |
| 753 | * BaldOfEvil: He is the bald henchman to the evil and destructive BigBad Hela. |
| 754 | * BottomlessMagazines: {{Downplayed|}} - his [=M16s=] run out of ammunition during his HeroicSacrifice, but they were still definitely firing a fair bit longer than they should have been before running dry (his [=M16s'=] magazines look to be 30-round ones). |
| 755 | * BrutishCharacterBrutishWeapon: Hela conjures a menacing axe for Skurge to use after making him her executioner, a nod to his original Bloodaxe from the comics. He never uses it, not having the spine to, and ditches it when he deserts in the final battle. |
| 756 | * ButtMonkey: Pretty much nothing goes right for him in ''Ragnarok'' -- he first appears chatting up a couple of women and not noticing that Thor's calling on the Bifrost... until one of the women brings it to his attention... and he opens the Bifrost... and brings through not only Thor but [[PortalCut the head of a dragon from Muspelheim]] which ends up "drenching my work-place in brains" and sending the women running off screaming... and then Thor ignores his request to stay so that Skurge can announce him, flying off to confront Loki-as-Odin, and by the time he ''does'' catch up, it's all gone pear-shaped. He is thereafter reduced to janitor of the Bifrost, and conscripted by Hela because it's JoinOrDie. Finally, though, he gets a HeroicSacrifice, going out in style by DualWielding his M16's against Hela's undead army. |
| 757 | * TheCasanova: Implied. He proudly displays his collection of items to impress the two women at the Observatory. |
| 758 | * CelebrityParadox: In ''[[Film/TheAvengers2012 The Avengers]]'', ComicBook/IronMan mockingly calls Comicbook/{{Hawkeye}} Legolas, suggesting that ''Film/TheLordOfTheRings'' movies exist in the MCU. Skurge's actor Urban played Éomer in those movies. |
| 759 | * ChronicBackstabbingDisorder: He starts working for Hela once she takes over. Towards the end, he betrays her by taking out all her undead troops, but it costs him his life. |
| 760 | * CollectorOfTheStrange: Since getting the job, he's been using the Bifröst to steal and amass an extensive collection of "stuff" -- specifically, trinkets and weapons from across the Nine Realms, including a pair of M16 Assault Rifles from a place in Midgard called [[EverythingIsBigInTexas "Tex-arse"]]. |
| 761 | * ConscienceMakesYouGoBack: Once he sees Hela's undead army starting to swarm the ship full of Asgardian refugees, he decides to make amends, takes his two M-16s, and fights the undead off with them, at the cost of his life. |
| 762 | * DarkIsEvil: He becomes Hela's executioner and dressed in dark armor. Subverted, as he can't bring himself to harm innocents and turns against Hela to save the Asgardians. |
| 763 | * DarkIsNotEvil: Skurge is dressed in a dark armor, but has some standards and some noble qualities and even when he serves Hela, he is conflicted to do something evil for her, even moreso with his HeelFaceTurn. |
| 764 | * DealWithTheDevil: Karl Urban describes his alliance with Hela as this. |
| 765 | * DirtyCoward: Hela notices his "survival instinct" as he's the first Asgardian to join her, purely out of fear of her powers. He redeems himself at the end with his HeroicSacrifice. |
| 766 | * TheDragon: Hela designates him as her "executioner", which means he executes her vision and also the people she wants dead. |
| 767 | * EveryoneHasStandards: Even after becoming Hela's right hand man, he still has scruples about carrying out her more brutal commands. |
| 768 | * TheExecutioner: When Hela takes over Asgard, she takes Skurge as her executioner. |
| 769 | -->'''Hela:''' When I was young, every great king had an executioner. Not just to execute people but to also execute their vision. But mainly to execute people. Still, it was a great honor. |
| 770 | * GateGuardian: Skurge takes over Heimdall's job of guarding the Bifröst after Heimdall is banished from Asgard. |
| 771 | * GunsAkimbo: As well as his Bloodaxe, Skurge also wields ''two'' M16 rifles, a classic image lifted directly from Walt Simonson's epic run on ''ComicBook/TheMightyThor''. |
| 772 | * HeelFaceTurn: He eventually decides to stand up to Hela and take out her undead troops to help the Asgardian survivors escape. [[ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice He pays for it with his own life]]. |
| 773 | * HeroicSacrifice: He decides to fight Hela's undead soldiers off, without caring about his own life anymore, to free the escaping ship carrying Asgardian refugees and give them a chance to survive. |
| 774 | * IJustWantToBeSpecial: Has shades of this; he seems desperate to be remembered. This is contrasted with his own sense of survival and self-serving nature. However, when Hela's Berserkers threaten to storm and kill the last of Asgard's citizens, he finds it in himself to [[LastStand rise up and be remembered]]. |
| 775 | * ICallItVera: Has named his two [=M16=] rifles "Des" and "Troy." |
| 776 | -->"You see, [[DontExplainTheJoke when you put them together...]] They [[PunnyName "DesTroy"]]." |
| 777 | * ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: Hela kills him with a thrown blade through the heart. |
| 778 | * JerkWithAHeartOfGold: After Skurge eventually regrets siding with Hela, he leaps out of the escape ship full of the Asgardian citizens to save them from Hela even if it ends up costing him his life in the process. |
| 779 | * LargeHam: He really ''tries'', but all of his attempts fall flat, such as when he tries to intimidate Asgard's population into giving up the Bifrost sword, or when he tries to hype up his collection of nicked goods (which includes a scooter, a pair of M16's and a [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking shake weight]]). |
| 780 | -->''"BEHOLD!! My stuff."'' |
| 781 | * LegacyCharacter: Hela claims to have been the Executioner for Odin, so this Skurge isn't "Skurge the Executioner" until she passes that title to him. |
| 782 | * LesCollaborateurs: Once a defender of Asgard, Skurge decides to ally himself with Hela when she invades Asgard to save his own life. |
| 783 | * MinionWithAnFInEvil: He is lazy, sleazy, and cowardly, but he clearly doesn't enjoy hurting people and serves Hela mostly out of a desire to survive and because she shows him a degree of respect. In the end, he doesn't kill anyone, except for Hela's undead hordes when he turns on them, and he actually saves people from her even. |
| 784 | * RedemptionEqualsDeath: His HeelFaceTurn redeems what he did when joining Hela, but he ends up killed in the process. He knew it was a one-way ticket to Valhalla since he was seen previously siding with Hela and was now betraying her. |
| 785 | * ScrewThisImOuttaHere: How he initially handles getting on the ship to leave during the climactic battle on the Bifrost. |
| 786 | * VileVillainLaughableLackey: Skurge is hilariously useless as lackeys, and especially executioners, go. He fails in executing a single person in the whole movie (though, to be fair, this is due to conscience more than anything else), and can't even seem to do simple things like ensure that the Bifrost Sword doesn't get stolen from under their nose. All he does is follow Hela around like a lost puppy in absolute and entirely justified terror of her. Loki found this out before Hela did. |
| 787 | -->'''Hela:''' Skurge, where's ''the sword''?? |
| 788 | * WhatYouAreInTheDark: Has the chance to escape and board the ship fleeing Asgard and is wearing a hooded cloak to hide his identity but upon seeing Hela's hordes about to attack and kill the civilians, he discards his cloak and grabs his M16's to destroy the zombies and gives his life to save them and allow them to get on the ship. |
| 789 | [[/folder]] |
| 790 | |
| 791 | [[folder:Balder]] |
| 792 | !!''Balder the Brave'' |
| 793 | !!!'''Species:''' Asgardian |
| 794 | !!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/{{Loki|2021}}'' [[note]](Appears as a statue in Recap/LokiEpisode9EighteenNinetyThree)[[/note]] |
| 795 | |
| 796 | An Asgardian warrior implied to have been murdered by Loki. |
| 797 | ----- |
| 798 | * AmbiguouslyRelated: It's unclear if he's still part of the Asgardian royal family, as the statue display depicts him alongside Odin and Thor which fits with his status as Thor's brother and Odin's son but the lack of previous reference to him makes this doubtful. |
| 799 | * DemotedToExtra: A major member of Thor's supporting cast in the comics, Balder is only briefly mentioned to exist. |
| 800 | * TheGhost: He's referenced in a book of Norse legends in ''Thor'', which states he was murdered by Loki. In ''Loki'' he's mentioned by Loki himself, confirming he exists within the main MCU timeline. |
| 801 | * RedBaron: Known as Balder "The Brave". |
| 802 | * RememberTheNewGuy: Despite having never appeared even before [[Film/ThorRagnarok Hela's reign of terror and Surtur's destruction of Asgard]], ''Series/{{Loki|2021}}'' revealed that Balder the Brave does indeed exist in the MCU and that Loki is familiar with him. Loki even lampshades it by pointing out that [[LeaningOnTheFourthWall no one's even heard of Balder]]. |
| 803 | [[/folder]] |
| 804 | |
| 805 | [[folder:Asgardian Signaller]] |
| 806 | !!''Asgardian Signaller'' |
| 807 | !!!'''Species:''' Asgardian |
| 808 | !!!'''Voiced By:''' Creator/KennethBranagh |
| 809 | !!!'''Appearances:''' ''Film/AvengersInfinityWar'' (Voice only) |
| 810 | |
| 811 | An unknown Asgardian who sends a distress signal when the refugee ship is attacked by Thanos. |
| 812 | ---- |
| 813 | * CreatorCameo: For Kenneth Branagh, the director of the first ''Film/{{Thor}}''. |
| 814 | * DistressCall: Sends one when the Asgardians are attacked by Thanos. |
| 815 | * SmallRoleBigImpact: He is such a minor character that he doesn't even appear in the flesh, but his distress signal is what allows the Guardians of the Galaxy to come and save Thor. If he hadn't been there, Thor would have probably died in the void of space, and the Guardians wouldn't have found out about Thanos' quest to find the Infinity Stones. |
| 816 | * UncertainDoom: It's unknown if he was among the Asgardians who were killed by the Children of Thanos or if he was one of the few who managed to escape. Assuming he survived, we don't know if he was turned to dust by Thanos' Snap at the end of the movie or not either. |
| 817 | * TheVoice: Is never actually seen on-screen, only heard in voiceover during the opening of ''Infinity War''. |
| 818 | [[/folder]] |
| 819 | |
| 820 | [[folder:Axl]] |
| 821 | !!''Astrid Heimdallson / Axl'' |
| 822 | !!!'''Species:''' Asgardian |
| 823 | !!!'''Citizenship:''' Asgardian |
| 824 | !!!'''Affiliation(s):''' Asgard |
| 825 | !!!'''Voiced By:''' Kieron L. Dyer |
| 826 | !!!'''Appearances:''' ''Film/ThorLoveAndThunder'' |
| 827 | |
| 828 | Heimdall's son. |
| 829 | ---- |
| 830 | * AlienArtsAreAppreciated: Renamed himself from Astrid to Axl, expressly after [[Music/GunsNRoses Axl Rose]], a reference that Korg also shows recognition towards. |
| 831 | * BigBrotherInstinct: Axl acts as the leader of the Asgardian children when they were kidnapped by Gorr and uses Stormbreaker to bring all of them back home to New Asgard. |
| 832 | * CanonForeigner: Axl has no comic book counterpart. |
| 833 | * DeliberateValuesDissonance: In Asgardian culture, Astrid is a unisex name whose meaning is derived from elements such as "god" and "beloved". On Earth, it's primarily a girl's name, meaning "divinely beautiful". Thus, he decided to change his name to "Axl" to avoid embarrassment. |
| 834 | * DoNotCallMePaul: He doesn't like being called by his birth name "Astrid" and insists on being called "Axl" instead. |
| 835 | * EmbarrassingFirstName: He doesn't like the name his father gave him, possibly because on Earth and in the present day, Astrid is a girl's name. Instead, he calls himself Axl, after [[Music/GunsNRoses Axl Rose]]. |
| 836 | * HeroWorshipper: He tells Thor that he considers him his hero. |
| 837 | * HowDoIShotWeb: Thor has to coach him a bit on how to use his powers. |
| 838 | * IntergenerationalFriendship: He and Thor have a strong bond even though Axl is a young teenager in Asgardian years. |
| 839 | * NamedAfterSomebodyFamous: [[GenderBlenderName For obvious reasons]], he decides to change his name, asking to be called Axl in homage to the Music/GunsNRoses frontman. |
| 840 | * RememberTheNewGuy: Was not mentioned before in any of the other films. |
| 841 | * ShockAndAwe: After being imbued with Thor's powers for a limited time only, Axl is able to temporarily conjure and manipulate yellow lightning so he and the other Asgardian children can combat Gorr's Shadow Monsters. |
| 842 | * SupernaturalGoldEyes: Once he starts to get the hang of his powers his eyes turn gold like his father's. |
| 843 | * SuperpowerfulGenetics: He's inherited his father's all-seeing and shared vision abilities. However, his powers are still developing so it takes him more effort to use them. |
| 844 | [[/folder]] |
| 845 | |
| 846 | [[folder:Grace]] |
| 847 | !!''Grace'' |
| 848 | !!!'''Species:''' Asgardian |
| 849 | !!!'''Portrayed By:''' Eliza Matengu |
| 850 | !!!'''Appearances:'''' ''Film/ThorLoveAndThunder'' |
| 851 | |
| 852 | The wife of Heimdall and mother of Axl. |
| 853 | ---- |
| 854 | * AerithAndBob: Unlike most Asgardians, she has a pretty common human first name. |
| 855 | * AllThereInTheScript: Her name is never said during the film and is only revealed in the credits. |
| 856 | * CanonForeigner: She doesn't seem to be based on any character from the comics. Heimdall was never even married in the comics. |
| 857 | * GoodParents: She is very much concerned about her son's abduction by Gorr the God-Butcher. When he's brought back to New Asgard at the end of the film, she's overjoyed and runs to hug him before asking him if he's okay. |
| 858 | * SatelliteFamilyMember: We don't know much about her except that she's Axl's mother and Heimdall's wife. |
| 859 | * RememberTheNewGuy: Heimdall never mentioned having a wife in any of his previous appearances. |
| 860 | * TokenMinorityCouple: She and Heimdall are among the few named [[BlackVikings black Asgardians]] (along with their son Axl and Valkyrie), and they were a married couple. |
| 861 | [[/folder]] |
| 862 | |
| 863 | [[folder:Dag]] |
| 864 | !!''Dag'' |
| 865 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/dag_3.png]] |
| 866 | !!!'''Species:''' Asgardian |
| 867 | !!!'''Affiliation(s):''' S.A.B.E.R. |
| 868 | !!!'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/AbrahamPopoola |
| 869 | !!!'''Appearances:'''' ''Film/TheMarvels2023'' |
| 870 | An Asgardian employed by Nick Fury onboard the S.A.B.E.R. space station. |
| 871 | ---- |
| 872 | * OlderThanTheyLook: Dag looks to be in his 30s, but when Yusuf Khan tries to advise him on saving up for retirement he reveals he's several centuries old. Amir Khan promply snarks that Dag and Yusuf are the same age. |
| 873 | * ThisIsGonnaSuck: Unlike most of the other S.A.B.E.R. personnel, Dag allows himself to be eaten by a flerkitten, though he doesn't enjoy it and grimaces while holding his nose as it happens. |
| 874 | [[/folder]] |
| 875 | |
| 876 | [[folder:Elliot Randolph]] |
| 877 | !!''Professor Elliot Randolph'' |
| 878 | [[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/randolph_elliott.jpg]] |
| 879 | [[caption-width-right:300:''"One must adapt. Recent events have thrown us all for a loop."'']] |
| 880 | !!!'''Species:''' Asgardian |
| 881 | !!!'''Citizenship:''' Asgardian, American |
| 882 | !!!'''Affiliation(s):''' Asgard (formerly), Berserkers (formerly), University of Seville, S.H.I.E.L.D. (formerly) |
| 883 | !!!'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/PeterMacNicol |
| 884 | !!!'''Voiced By:''' Juan Antonio Castro (European Spanish dub), Renato Rosenberg (S1), Alfredo Martins (S3) (Brazilian Portuguese dub) |
| 885 | !!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD'' |
| 886 | |
| 887 | ->''"Pretty crappy time to be on Earth if you're not a local, so... I am laying low."'' |
| 888 | |
| 889 | A Norse Mythology professor that Coulson talks to about finding the pieces of the Berserker's staff. Turns out he's a ''part'' of it as well: The original Berserker himself. |
| 890 | ---- |
| 891 | * ActualPacifist: At one point during his interrogation, he mentions that he is a pacifist now. |
| 892 | * AscendedExtra: Originally a OneShotCharacter from the first season, he returns in Season 3 with a much more important role: helping S.H.I.E.L.D. rescue Simmons. |
| 893 | * DeliberateValuesDissonance: Asgardian attitudes towards humans living brief lives in comparison to them return here from ''Film/ThorTheDarkWorld''. Randolph isn't very concerned about issues on Earth, as humans live and die in a time much less relevant to him, to the point where he doesn't really think a band of anarchists using his staff to wreak havoc is a real problem, since in his mind they'll all die soon anyway. Likewise, he attempts to reassure Ward by telling him the darker effects of the staff will wear off in "only" a few decades, not thinking about how long that period of time is to a human. Coulson is noticeably unimpressed by this rationalization. |
| 894 | * DirtyOldMan: Not too old by appearance, but he counts by sheer age. In his first scene, he is [[TeacherStudentRomance arranging a date with one of his students]], and he spends a decent amount of screen time hitting on Simmons. Also, the reason the Berserker story got out in the first place was because a French girl he was sleeping with liked stories, and he wanted to impress her. Turned out her brother was a priest, who wrote it all down. |
| 895 | * FromNobodyToNightmare: Though he's retired now, he went from being a mason to a screaming berserker warrior. |
| 896 | * IChooseToStay: Opted to stay on Earth when the rest of his comrades returned to Asgard, as he decided he rather liked being here. |
| 897 | * JumpedAtTheCall: Signed himself up to become an Asgardian warrior so he could do something other than busting rocks all day. |
| 898 | * LivingForeverIsAwesome: TheTeam estimates that he's been alive for a thousand years and his only complaint is a student putting too much Lit Crit and not enough History in their paper. He's had numerous paramours over the ages. |
| 899 | * NeverGetsDrunk: "Usually Asgardians can hold their drinks, but one night, I tried to hold ''all the drinks''." |
| 900 | * NoNameGiven: His real name is unknown. "Elliot Randolph" is just an alias he uses in his human disguise. |
| 901 | * NormalFishInATinyPond: Subverted, he initially appears to be this, but his backstory seems to indicate that he was a Berserker who was one of Asgard's finest warriors. |
| 902 | * PalsWithJesus: Averted (or "Pals With Thor" is, anyway). When asked if he knew Thor, he scoffed at the idea that a simple mason/soldier would have met the future king of Asgard. |
| 903 | * PlayAlongPrisoner: He could walk out pretty much any time he likes, but as he points out, Norwegian prisons have nice beds, steady meals, plenty of books and a lack of ATCU agents looking for aliens. |
| 904 | * Really700YearsOld: He looks like a middle aged man but he's been on Midgard for centuries. This is why Coulson recruits him to help with the Monolith; he's been around for longer than it has. |
| 905 | * RememberTheNewGuy: Subtle example. When S.H.I.E.L.D. [[Film/{{Thor}} discovered Mjolnir in the desert of New Mexico]], Agent Phil Coulson called upon Randolph for a consultation. This was never mentioned before but it's justified, because [[ProtagonistTitle guess whose viewpoint is the focus of the plot in ]]''Film/{{Thor}}''? |
| 906 | * RetiredBadass: His days of berserking are long behind him -- now he's a professor of Norse mythology, though he plans to retire elsewhere after the events of his episode. |
| 907 | * ScrewThisImOuttaHere: He deserted the Asgardian Army (implied after the final battle with the Frost Giants in 965 A.D.) to live a more fun and comfortable life on Earth. He definitely does not want to go back to Asgard, and it's implied his low profile is also to keep off Heimdall's radar, as Odin takes desertion seriously. |
| 908 | * SeenItAll: Part of what gave him away. He was far too calm for someone who was attacked by super-powered men and locked in an interrogation room. Coulson also points out that he didn't ask any questions when Coulson mentioned he had met aliens. "Most people are very curious about that." |
| 909 | * SuperStrength: Enough to curve a knife with just one hand and effortlessly rip prison bars out of their sockets. |
| 910 | * WalkingTheEarth: He implies that he did this for quite a while before settling down, and that now that Asgardians have made contact with humans again he might do so once more. In fact, this is why he signed up for the Asgardian army and came to Earth in the first place. |
| 911 | -->'''Randolph:''' Honestly, I think I just wanted to travel. |
| 912 | * WeAreAsMayflies: One of the perks he enjoys from living on a mortal world is the fact that his problems mostly die of old age if he waits a century or so. |
| 913 | * TheWorldIsJustAwesome: He stayed on Earth because he loved it too much to leave. |
| 914 | [[/folder]] |
| 915 | |
| 916 | [[folder:Lorelei]] |
| 917 | !!''Lorelei'' |
| 918 | [[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/lorelei_aos_9700.jpg]] |
| 919 | [[caption-width-right:300:''"Men kneel before me. I do not bow to them."'']] |
| 920 | !!!'''Species:''' Asgardian |
| 921 | !!!'''Citizenship:''' Asgardian |
| 922 | !!!'''Affiliation(s):''' Asgard, Dogs of Hell (formerly) |
| 923 | !!!'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/ElenaSatine |
| 924 | !!!'''Voiced By:''' Gloria Núñez (European Spanish dub) |
| 925 | !!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD'' |
| 926 | |
| 927 | ->'''Lorelei:''' And women can rule your land? Can they not?\ |
| 928 | '''Rooster:''' You'd be the first.\ |
| 929 | '''Lorelei:''' Yes. I will. |
| 930 | |
| 931 | An Asgardian who arrives on Earth shortly after the team's discoveries at the Guest House facility. |
| 932 | ---- |
| 933 | * AdaptationalBadass: In the original comics she has no fighting skills whatsoever. This version, is able to give Lady Sif a good fight, which would put her in the same league as Loki. Sif notes that she is highly trained. |
| 934 | * AdaptationalWimp: However, her magical abilities are far more toned down. Physically too, she is weaker. While the show version is Sif's equal, the comics version survived a NoHoldsBarredBeatdown from '' Odin wielding Mjolnir''. |
| 935 | * ArchEnemy: "[[Recap/AgentsOfSHIELDS1E15YesMen Yes Men]]" establishes her as one to Sif, both because they're {{foil}}s and also because of what happened to another man in Sif's life. |
| 936 | * BodyguardingABadass: Although Agent Ward is a Badass, Lorelei is almost as strong as Loki and Thor. |
| 937 | * BreakHerByTalking: Her method of choice when dealing with women standing in her way is crush their morale since she can't crush their free will. Both May and Sif end up on the receiving end. |
| 938 | * CharacterCatchphrase: "Do you prefer her to me?" |
| 939 | * CompellingVoice: She has the ability to make men do whatever she tells them to. If they can resist the voice, making physical contact will overpower them. It explicitly doesn't work on women, and nothing is said about whether it's reliant on sexual preferences one way or another. |
| 940 | * {{Crossover}}: It is indicated that Lorelei escaped from confinement during the prison break that Kurse initiated in ''Thor: The Dark World''. Astute readers who watched the movie will note that Loki has somehow supplanted Odin and has taken his place while maintaining his likeness. So when Sif says that Odin wants her back alive, it's actually Loki speaking. In other words, Loki has some unknown plans for Lorelei. |
| 941 | * CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: Puts up a good fight against Lady Sif. |
| 942 | * CruelMercy: Sif spares her because Odin orders her to, though Sif does acknowledge killing her would be the easy way out. Leaving her alive is more painful for Lorelei because she'll be unable to talk, imprisoned in a tiny cell, presumably for life. |
| 943 | * DoubleStandardRapeSciFi: She {{brainwashed}} and raped Ward, and it's implied she also slept with many other of her previous thralls. While she is a villain anyway, no mention of it is made later, and Ward is treated as partially at fault for not being strong enough to resist her. Also qualifies as DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnMale and a form of DoubleStandardRapeDivineOnMortal. |
| 944 | * EvilPlan: Find strong men, build an army, take over some place, and rule as queen. |
| 945 | * EvilRedhead: She's a villainous Asgardian with scarlet hair. |
| 946 | * FemmeFatale: As Sif notes, ''wars'' have been started by her feminine ''uber''-wiles. |
| 947 | * FishOutOfWater: |
| 948 | ** When she arrives on Earth, she begins her first conversation by talking about Earth as "Midgard" to a total stranger, calls Death Valley (where she landed) the "Valley of Death" when told its name, and [[DeliberateValuesDissonance simply takes a water bottle someone is holding when she needs a drink]], not realizing it would be more reasonable to ask. |
| 949 | ** She expected gold to be used as currency on Earth, like it is on Asgard: |
| 950 | --->'''Lorelei:''' I ask you for gold and you bring me ''paper!'' |
| 951 | * {{Foil}}: To Sif; while Sif is a {{Tomboy}} who loyally fights for Asgard despite having rejected its gender norms, Lorelei is a GirlyGirl who performs femininity to TheVamp extremes and wants to rule. It could be argued that the two both had discontented reactions to the limitations imposed on women and then went opposite routes -- Sif beat them by joining them, Lorelei beat them by making them beat each other. "That's the difference between you and me -- I don't ''take'' orders." |
| 952 | * FunctionalMagic: Her mind control is explicitly called "sorcery" by Sif. |
| 953 | * HeadTurningBeauty: It's even part of her modus operandi to seduce men. |
| 954 | * {{Jerkass}}: Said to prefer taking men who are already spoken for. On two occasions, she then rubs this fact in the other woman's face. |
| 955 | * KneelBeforeZod: "I don't kneel to men. Men kneel to me." |
| 956 | * PostRapeTaunt: Gives one to Sif, taunting Sif about how she made her former lover Haldor into her plaything. |
| 957 | * SexForServices: Her favorite "reward" for particularly "strong" men is them becoming her "plaything". |
| 958 | * SquishyWizard: By Asgardian standards, she is a delicate magic-user. |
| 959 | * SuperStrength: By Earth standards, she could beat their strongest warrior in arm wrestling. Not restricted to that though. She pimpslaps May across the room into unconsciousness, and then matches Lady Sif on a push-off. |
| 960 | * TheVamp: Lorelei has the ability to seduce men into doing her bidding, be it with her CompellingVoice or through physical contact. |
| 961 | * WhatHappenedToTheMouse: It is unclear what has happened to her following Asgard's destruction in ''Ragnarok''. |
| 962 | * WomenPreferStrongMen: She "upgrades" twice in her debut episode. From an average Joe to the leader of a group of bikers, to [[OneManArmy Agent Ward]]. |
| 963 | [[/folder]] |
| 964 | |
| 965 | !!Creatures and Weapons |
| 966 | |
| 967 | [[folder:The Destroyer]] |
| 968 | !!''The Destroyer'' |
| 969 | [[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/the_destroyer_thor_4937.png]] |
| 970 | !!!'''Portrayed By:''' N/A |
| 971 | !!!'''Appearances:''' ''Film/{{Thor}}'' | ''[[WesternAnimation/WhatIf2021 What If...?]]'' |
| 972 | |
| 973 | An extremely powerful set of armor created by Odin to defend Asgard. As one does not wear it, but project their consciousness into it, it can be misused. |
| 974 | ----- |
| 975 | * AbnormalLimbRotationRange: When it is impaled from the back by Sif, it completely rotates every part of its body to face her, knocks her away and then removes the spear by standing up while the blade slides out by itself. |
| 976 | * AdaptationalWimp: In the comics, the Destroyer cannot be harmed by Thor's best blows with Mjolnir, is strong and fast enough to smack Thor around, and its heat ray can slice right through Mjolnir or an Asgardian. In the film, once Thor gets his powers and hammer back, he effortlessly blocks its heat ray and then smashes it apart. |
| 977 | * AnimatedArmor: Controlled with a user's mind. |
| 978 | * BreathWeapon: The heat ray of the Destroyer is fired from the opening in the helmet. It looks like a WaveMotionGun. SHIELD evidently realized this similarity too as Phil Coulson demonstrates on Loki with the firearm they created from reverse-engineering it in between ''Thor'' and ''The Avengers''. |
| 979 | * TheBrute: Temporarily a non-sentient one to Loki in ''Thor'' once he takes the throne. |
| 980 | * TheDragon: For Loki after ascending to the throne. He sends the Destroyer after Thor to prevent him from returning to Asgard. |
| 981 | * FightingAShadow: Killing the Destroyer doesn't harm its user, it is controlled by an extension of the user's mind. In a sense, the fight with it could be considered the first battle between the Asgardians and Loki. |
| 982 | * HavingABlast: They come from the eyes. |
| 983 | * HeadBlast: The Destroyer can open up its face to fire energy blasts from an aperture in its head. When it does this, part of the facial structure retracts downward into the lower face. |
| 984 | * ImplacableMan: Until Thor gets his powers back and is able to fight it, it hunts him down without regard for anything else. |
| 985 | * {{Magitek}}: One of the only real examples shown from Asgard so far, with the rest of the "magic" being MagicFromTechnology. |
| 986 | * MenacingStroll: Walking along and batting aside warriors in its path. |
| 987 | * NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: The Destroyer. [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin You weren't expecting it to help you repair your roof, were you]]? |
| 988 | * PowerGlows: The opening in the face glows when it is about to fire. |
| 989 | * SomethingOnlyTheyWouldSay: When Coulson and Sitwell get their first look at the Destroyer, Sitwell asks if The Destroyer is one of Tony's creations. |
| 990 | * WhatHappenedToTheMouse: In the film, it isn't shown what happened to it after it was destroyed. The tie-in comic ''Fury's Big Week'' shows that S.H.I.E.L.D. took custody of it, and are now trying to ''reverse-engineer'' it. As shown in ''The Avengers'', they are successful. |
| 991 | [[/folder]] |
| 992 | |
| 993 | [[folder:Sleipnir]] |
| 994 | !!''Sleipnir'' |
| 995 | !!!'''Species:''' Asgardian Horse |
| 996 | !!!'''Citizenship:''' Asgardian |
| 997 | !!!'''Portrayed By:''' N/A |
| 998 | !!!'''Appearances:''' ''Film/{{Thor}}'' | ''Thor: The Dark World Prelude'' | ''Film/ThorRagnarok'' (fresco) |
| 999 | |
| 1000 | Odin's steed, an eight-legged horse. |
| 1001 | ----- |
| 1002 | * AbsentAnimalCompanion: Although he served as Odin's personal steed in the first ''Film/{{Thor}}'' film, he's inexplicably absent in the following movies. |
| 1003 | * TheCameo: In ''Film/ThorRagnarok'', a depiction of Sleipnir can be seen on the original mural in Odin's throne room. |
| 1004 | * CoolHorse: Sleipnir is Odin's personal steed since the time of the Asgardian wars of conquest and expansion. |
| 1005 | * DarkIsNotEvil: Sleipnir is a black horse, but he serves as [[BigGood Odin]]'s loyal steed. |
| 1006 | * ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: Sleipnir was already used as a steed by Odin during his conquests of the Nine Realms, which happened millennia ago. |
| 1007 | * RearingHorse: Sleipnir rears when Odin arrives on his back to save Thor and his friends from the Frost Giants. |
| 1008 | * UnrelatedInTheAdaptation: In the myths, Loki is Sleipnir's mother which makes Sleipnir half-siblings with Hela and Fenris. In the MCU, Sleipnir doesn't seem to have any connection to any of them. |
| 1009 | * VertebrateWithExtraLimbs: Sleipnir looks almost exactly like a normal horse from Earth, but he has eight legs instead of four. According to Myth/NorseMythology, [[OvenLogic the greater number of legs allows him to run faster]]. |
| 1010 | * WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Sleipnir is only seen in ''Film/{{Thor}}'' and the comic book prelude to ''Film/ThorTheDarkWorld''. His fate remains unknown. It's unclear if he's still alive after the destruction of Asgard or not. |
| 1011 | * WhiteStallion: Played With. While Sleipnir is black colored, he's depicted as a white horse on the original mural in the throne room, and he serves as the noble steed of the King of Asgard. |
| 1012 | [[/folder]] |
| 1013 | |
| 1014 | [[folder:Hugin and Munin]] |
| 1015 | !!''Hugin and Munin'' |
| 1016 | !!!'''Species:''' Asgardian Raven |
| 1017 | !!!'''Citizenship:''' Asgardian |
| 1018 | !!!'''Portrayed By:''' N/A |
| 1019 | !!!'''Appearances:''' ''Film/{{Thor}}'' | ''Film/{{The Avengers|2012}}'' | ''Film/ThorTheDarkWorld'' |
| 1020 | |
| 1021 | Odin's raven familiars. |
| 1022 | ----- |
| 1023 | * AnimalEyeSpy: It's implied that Odin uses them as this to watch over the Nine Realms, just like in the myths and the comics. When Thor goes to Midgard in ''Film/{{The Avengers|2012}}'' to stop Loki, Odin sends his ravens to keep an eye on him. |
| 1024 | * TheCameo: They make a brief appearance in ''Film/{{The Avengers|2012}}'', watching over Thor after he took Loki from the Avengers' Quinjet in Germany. |
| 1025 | * CleverCrows: The two serve as Odin's spies in ''Film/{{The Avengers|2012}}'' and watch over Odin during the Odinsleep. |
| 1026 | * DimensionalTraveler: They're implied to be capable of traveling from one Realm to another, since they were able to come to Midgard in ''Film/{{The Avengers|2012}}'' to watch over Thor and Loki while the Bifrost was destroyed. |
| 1027 | * DivineBirds: They're a pair of Asgardian Ravens who serve as familiars to the Allfather Odin. |
| 1028 | * WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Their fate after Loki casts down Odin at the end of ''Film/ThorTheDarkWorld'' remains unknown. It's unclear if they are still alive after the destruction of Asgard or not. |
| 1029 | [[/folder]] |
| 1030 | |
| 1031 | [[folder:Fenris]] |
| 1032 | !!''Fenris'' |
| 1033 | [[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/5ebf53f3_90c3_40cd_9044_caf7cc890c7e.jpeg]] |
| 1034 | !!!'''Species:''' Asgardian Wolf |
| 1035 | !!!'''Citizenship:''' Asgardian |
| 1036 | !!!'''Appearances:''' ''Film/ThorRagnarok'' | ''WesternAnimation/WhatIf'' |
| 1037 | |
| 1038 | Fenris was a giant wolf who served Hela during the times of the expansion of Asgard around the Nine Realms. Millennia after her death, she is resurrected by Hela with the Eternal Flame and put at her service during her oppressive rule on Asgard. |
| 1039 | ---- |
| 1040 | * AdaptationSpeciesChange: Originally a Jotun, as the son of Loki and a Jotun sorceress. Here her species is merely listed as "Asgardian Wolf". |
| 1041 | * AdaptationalNonsapience: Fenrir could speak in the original myth and the comics, and even had a bit of an awesome ego. Fenris in the film is just a mindless beast that serves Hela. |
| 1042 | * AdaptationalWimp: In the myths, Fenris eventually grows large enough for the upper part of his mouth to reach the sky. Here, she’s only [[https://www.fxguide.com/fxfeatured/building-character-with-thor-part2/ 23 foot tall]] and [[https://vfxblog.com/2017/11/07/crafting-the-insane-action-behind-thor-ragnoraks-end-battle/ 35 foot long]]. |
| 1043 | * AlternateSelf: Queen Hela's version is briefly seen in a flashback of ''What If...?'' |
| 1044 | * BackFromTheDead: Upon coming back to Asgard after being sealed by Odin for millennia, Hela destroys the floor of Asgard's Weapons Vault to reveal a crypt in which Fenris and her long-forgotten army are resting. She then resurrects them all as undead using the Eternal Flame. |
| 1045 | * CanisMajor: A huge monster wolf, many times larger than a regular one. Justified as she is actually part of an in-universe species called "Asgardian Wolf", which naturally grows to be that big. |
| 1046 | * CompositeCharacter: As Hela's RightHandAttackDog, she takes the role of Garm from the myths. |
| 1047 | * DisneyVillainDeath: She falls off of Asgard's waterfalls into outer space at the end of her fight with the Hulk. |
| 1048 | * TheDreaded: When Heimdall and the other Asgardians find Fenris at the Bifrost Bridge, they all start to fall back instead of taking their chances with the giant wolf. |
| 1049 | * FurryReminder: She sniffs Banner when he crash lands in front of her. |
| 1050 | * GenderFlip: [[http://www.artofvfx.com/thor-ragnarok-alexis-wajsbrot-kyle-mcculloch-jonathan-fawkner-vfx-supervisors-framestore/ According to]] WordOfGod, Fenris Wolf is a female in this movie, while the mythological Fenris and Garm she is based on were both males. |
| 1051 | ** Ironically though, this gender change makes it closer to its 616 comic counterpart who is actually gender fluid, being the father of all Wolf Gods but the '''mother''' of the first Storm Giants by mating with Surtur as a female wolf. Though for the majority of its comic appearances, it usually presents or is regarded as a male wolf. |
| 1052 | ** ''What If...?'' would have Hela refer to Fenris with male pronouns, meaning that he's either male in that universe or that Fenris is actually gender fluid like in the comics. |
| 1053 | * GlowingEyelightsOfUndeath: She has green-glowing eyes after Hela revives her with the Eternal Flame. |
| 1054 | * {{Hellhound}}: A giant canid that serves the ruler of Hel. |
| 1055 | * HorseOfADifferentColor: Hela uses Fenris as her mount when riding into battle rather than the normal horses that the rank-and-file soldiers ride. |
| 1056 | * ImmuneToBullets: Valkyrie unloads a Gatling Gun taken from the Asgardian armory onto Fenris, but it is nothing more than an annoyance. |
| 1057 | -->'''Valkyrie:''' This stupid dog just won't die! |
| 1058 | * NonHumanUndead: Given the SicklyGreenGlow of her eyes as similar to the [[NightOfTheLivingMooks Berserkers]]', it's highly likely that Hela's magic combined with the Eternal Flame made her into an undead hellhound. |
| 1059 | * OhCrap: When Hulk grabs her by the tail and swings her around. And again when he suplexes her. Its quite possible that it was the first time she actually faced a challenge. |
| 1060 | * NotSoStoic: Inverted. She's usually vicious and violent, but she pauses in confusion when Banner smacks down on the Rainbow Bridge in front of her. Also, during one scene in which Hela is enthroned in the palace, Fenris is seen [[OrcusOnHisThrone merely lounging around]] docilely in the background. |
| 1061 | * RightHandAttackDog: Hela unleashes her upon Asgardian refugees on the Bifröst during the FinalBattle. Luckily for them, the Hulk steps in to fight the giant wolf. |
| 1062 | * SadlyMythtaken: Note that InUniverse, the myths are mistaken but out-of-universe the trope still stands. |
| 1063 | ** This version of Fenris is 23 feet tall and 35 feet long, which is still nowhere near as large as her mythological counterpart (who as previously mentioned, is big enough for the upper part of his jaws to reach the sky). She also doesn't get to kill Odin, nor is she Loki's child and Hela's brother. |
| 1064 | ** The beastly companion of Hela in the original mythology is [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garmr Garmr]], a monstrous wolf/hound. Though Fenris is associated with Hela as brother and sister, they are not considered companions to one another. |
| 1065 | * SavageWolves: A giant and vicious wolf in service of the Goddess of Death. She bites Hulk hard enough to ''make him bleed'', which is more than almost any other character in the movies can claim to have done. |
| 1066 | * UnrelatedInTheAdaptation: In the comics, as in the original myths, Fenris is Hela's brother and Loki's son. Here, she's just a monster that serves Hela. |
| 1067 | * UsedToBeASweetKid: [[spoiler:As ''What If…?'' shows us, as a puppy, Fenris was an adorable BigFriendlyDog until Odin reared him and Hela into living weapons of war.]] |
| 1068 | [[/folder]] |
| 1069 | |
| 1070 | [[folder:Warsong]] |
| 1071 | !!''Warsong'' |
| 1072 | !!!'''Species:''' Valkyrie Steed |
| 1073 | !!!'''Citizenship:''' Asgardian |
| 1074 | !!!'''Portrayed By:''' N/A |
| 1075 | !!!'''Appearances:''' ''Film/AvengersEndgame'' | ''Film/ThorLoveAndThunder'' |
| 1076 | |
| 1077 | Brunnhilde's winged steed. |
| 1078 | ----- |
| 1079 | * AdaptationNameChange: In the comics, the name of Brunnhilde's winged horse is Aragorn. In the MCU, his name is Warsong. |
| 1080 | * CoolHorse: Warsong is Brunnhilde's personal winged steed that can open portals to anywhere in the universe. |
| 1081 | * {{Pegasus}}: Warsong is a winged horse. |
| 1082 | * ThinkingUpPortals: He's able to open portals to anywhere in the universe, but can only transport whoever is currently riding him. When Brunnhilde, Thor, and Jane need to travel together, they rule Warsong out as he can't carry all of them, but when Jane needs to pull a one-man rescue without the aid of Stormbreaker or the Thunderbolt, she instead rides Warsong into battle. |
| 1083 | [[/folder]] |
| 1084 | |
| 1085 | [[folder:Toothgnasher and Toothgrinder]] |
| 1086 | !!''Toothgnasher and Toothgrinder'' |
| 1087 | [[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/f4bfad67_b71d_4b32_8d04_a437a5ea8560.jpeg]] |
| 1088 | [[caption-width-right:300:''[[NoIndoorVoice (loud screaming noises)]]'']] |
| 1089 | !!!'''Species:''' Indigarrian Goats |
| 1090 | !!!'''Citizenship:''' Indigarrian, Asgardian |
| 1091 | !!!'''Portrayed By:''' N/A |
| 1092 | !!!'''Appearances:''' ''Film/ThorLoveAndThunder'' |
| 1093 | |
| 1094 | Thor and Korg's goats that originate from the planet Indigarr. |
| 1095 | ----- |
| 1096 | * AdaptationalBackstoryChange: In both Myth/NorseMythology and the comics, Toothgnasher and Toothgrinder are supposedly native to Asgard. Here they were given to Thor as a gift from the Indigarrians for driving off invaders. |
| 1097 | * AmplifiedAnimalAptitude: They obey Thor and Korg's commands, and later save Korg and pull him to safety from Gorr's monsters of their own initiative. |
| 1098 | * BigDamnHeroes: Both of them arrive just in time to help Thor, Jane, Valkyrie, and Korg escape Omnipotence City. |
| 1099 | * CelebrityParadox: Assuming [[Myth/NorseMythology Norse mythological]] texts such as [[Literature/PoeticEdda Poetic]] and [[Literature/ProseEdda Prose Edda]] exist and are based on occasinal human interactions with Asgardians, then Thor should have already had the goats long before any of the movies started. However, since the MCU's Earth's history already has significant differences from ours, it is possible they are simply not mentioned in their version of the Eddas. |
| 1100 | * HornAttack: Since they are giant goats, they can use their huge horns as ramming weapons. |
| 1101 | * HorseOfADifferentColor: They are huge goats that can pull an Asgardian Skiff. |
| 1102 | * NoIndoorVoice: At no point in the movie are these mystical goats capable of making a noise that isn't an incredibly loud scream. |
| 1103 | * NoisyNature: Both of them keep on screaming in a high-pitched, human-like manner at every opportunity. |
| 1104 | * OOCIsSeriousBusiness: [[PlayedForLaughs Not totally serious]], but they stop their constant screaming when Thor suggests the possibility of eating them, and [[DeathGlare stare ominously]] at him. |
| 1105 | * ScreamsLikeALittleGirl: Both of them are prone to constant, loud and high-pitched human like screams, which finally wore away what little patience The Guardians had left for Thor's irresponsibility. |
| 1106 | * {{Unishment}}: The deafeningly loud duo of goats were given by the devoutly religious Indigarrians to Thor as a backhanded "reward" for saving them from an army of bandits... by flying full-speed into their priceless crystal temple and bringing it crashing down on the bandits' leaders. Unfortunately for them, Thor thinks they're awesome. |
| 1107 | [[/folder]] |
| 1108 | |
| 1109 | !!Allies of Asgard |
| 1110 | |
| 1111 | [[folder:King Eitri]] |
| 1112 | !!''King Eitri'' |
| 1113 | [[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/b9e66e0d_ca8f_4ce1_8ceb_896e36a80dbb.jpeg]] |
| 1114 | [[caption-width-right:300:''"You were supposed to protect us! Asgard was supposed to protect us!"'']] |
| 1115 | !!!'''Species:''' Dwarf |
| 1116 | !!!'''Citizenship:''' Nidavellirian |
| 1117 | !!!'''Affiliation(s):''' Nidavellir, Asgard |
| 1118 | !!!'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/PeterDinklage |
| 1119 | !!!'''Voiced By:''' Santos Alberto (Latin-American Spanish dub), Katsuhiro Kitagawa (Japanese dub) |
| 1120 | !!!'''Appearances:''' ''Film/AvengersInfinityWar'' | ''Film/ThorLoveAndThunder''[[note]]Deleted scene[[/note]] |
| 1121 | |
| 1122 | King of the Dwarves, an ancient people that are close allies to the Asgardians. |
| 1123 | ---- |
| 1124 | * AnArmAndALeg: Eitri has had his hands plunged into metal by Thanos, and they are encased in solidified chunks of it. |
| 1125 | * CastingGag: A man with dwarfism cast as a [[OurDwarvesAreDifferent Dwarf...]]and he's the tallest character in the movie. Especially since Peter Dinklage's dwarfism was a core part of his [[Series/GameOfThrones other most notable role.]] [[WesternAnimation/TheAngryBirdsMovie This isn't even the first time he's done this.]] |
| 1126 | * FieryRedhead: The King has bright red hair. |
| 1127 | * {{Irony}}: In spite of being a dwarf, Eitri is twice as tall as Thor, who is well over six feet in height. |
| 1128 | * LastOfHisKind: By the time Thor, Rocket and Groot reach his realm, he is the last remaining dwarf after Thanos exterminated his entire people. |
| 1129 | * OurDwarvesAreAllTheSame: Zig-zagged. Certainly has the surly personality and smithing skills of your average Dwarf, but other than his beard he couldn't look more different. Apparently MCU dwarves are giants, but with the proportions of a human with dwarfism. |
| 1130 | * OxymoronicBeing: Eitri, the sole surviving dwarf... who is on the order of ten feet tall, making him taller than the Hulk or Thanos, to say nothing of everybody he actually interacts with in the film. Made even better by him being played by Peter Dinklage. |
| 1131 | * ThePerilsOfBeingTheBest: Thanos forced him and his people to make the Infinity Gauntlet for him so he could better manipulate the Infinity Stones, and how does Thanos reward them? He slaughters his entire race, leaving Eitri the only survivor. But, in a literally classic example of the trope, Thanos ''merely'' takes Eitri's hands. |
| 1132 | -->'''Eitri:''' "Your life is yours," he said. "But your hands... Your hands are mine alone." |
| 1133 | * ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: He's very old, or at least enough to call the 1,000-year plus old Thor "boy" by comparison. |
| 1134 | * ShootTheBuilder: Played with; Thanos destroys Eitri's hands to prevent him forging weapons against him. It's his knowledge that's important however. Others can always provide the hands. |
| 1135 | * ShownTheirWork: He is a giant dwarf. This might sound oxymoronic at first, but in RealLife it's theorized that dwarves weren't supposed to be short in [[Myth/NorseMythology the original myths]], and it was a mistranslation brought on by Christianization. Any references to the Dwarves being "small" were supposed to mean "lesser", to indicate that they were beneath the gods in power. In ''Film/AvengersInfinityWar'' we find out that the Dwarves are essentially a client state to Asgard, relying on them for protection and supplying them with weapons in exchange. Eitri's massive appearance implies that this theory is true in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. |
| 1136 | * UltimateBlacksmith: He was the one who forged Mjolnir and the Infinity Gauntlet. He makes Stormbreaker for Thor in order to defeat Thanos. |
| 1137 | * UncertainDoom: It's unknown if he turned to dust following Thanos's finger snap or if he survived. Although considering the snap was undone in ''Endgame'', it may be a moot point if he did. |
| 1138 | * YouWillBeSpared: His life was his in return for building the Infinity Gauntlet. But the rest of his people wouldn't be. |
| 1139 | [[/folder]] |
| 1140 | |
| 1141 | [[folder:Darryl]] |
| 1142 | !!''Darryl'' |
| 1143 | !!!'''Species:''' Human |
| 1144 | !!!'''Citizenship:''' Asgardian |
| 1145 | !!!'''Affiliation(s):''' Asgard |
| 1146 | !!!'''Portrayed By:''' Daley Pearson |
| 1147 | !!!'''Appearances:''' ''Film/ThorLoveAndThunder'' |
| 1148 | |
| 1149 | A tour guide in New Asgard. |
| 1150 | ---- |
| 1151 | * AdaptationalJobChange: Is a tour guide instead of an office worker. |
| 1152 | * AdaptationalRelationshipOverhaul: Unlike his Earth-16828 counterpart he has apparently never met Thor. |
| 1153 | * AlternateSelf: To Darryl Jacobson from ''WebVideo/TeamThor'', and he stands out for being the first character in the main MCU reality to appear after a version from a different universe. |
| 1154 | * CanonImmigrant: A very minor one, but Daley Pearson played Thor's roommate Darryl in the non-canon ''WebVideo/TeamThor''-One Shots. |
| 1155 | [[/folder]] |
| 1156 | |
| 1157 | [[folder:Runa]] |
| 1158 | !!''Runa'' |
| 1159 | [[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/b968a91e_9e68_4c4c_ad3f_d568abc0901f.jpeg]] |
| 1160 | !!!'''Species:''' Light Elf |
| 1161 | !!!'''Citizenship:''' Alfheimian |
| 1162 | !!!'''Affiliation(s):''' Alfheim, New Asgard |
| 1163 | !!!'''Portrayed By:''' Peg O'Keef |
| 1164 | !!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/SheHulkAttorneyAtLaw'' |
| 1165 | |
| 1166 | A shapeshifting Light Elf who conned Dennis Bukowski into thinking she was Music/MeganTheeStallion. |
| 1167 | ---- |
| 1168 | * CaptainErsatz: A shapeshifting elven prankster may remind some of Puck from ''A Midsummer Night's Dream'', but where Marvel is concerned, she's also a stand-in for Impossible Man (an extradimensional being rather than an elf). |
| 1169 | * ConArtist: Impersonates Music/MeganTheeStallion and cons Dennis Bukowski out of a large amount of money. |
| 1170 | * DidntThinkThisThrough: She seems to be very short-sighted for such an old woman. |
| 1171 | ** She cons Dennis Bukowski out of a large sum of money by playing on his stupidity. Problem is he finds out, and sues her for damages. |
| 1172 | ** She and her lawyer try to claim [[DiplomaticImpunity diplomatic immunity]] to get out of being found liable. The judge shoots them down, pointing out the case is being tried in Los Angeles and Thor's speech about how Asgard is not a place but a people is not legally admissable in court. |
| 1173 | ** She decides to impersonate the judge administrating her trial ''while the trial is ongoing''. This lands her sixty days in jail in addition to having to pay back Dennis. |
| 1174 | * DiplomaticImpunity: Runa's lawyer tries to get her out of being sued by Bukowski by claimg that as the daughter of an Elfin diplomat to Asgard (and now to New Asgard) she has diplomatic immunity. The judge [[SubvertedTrope shoots it down]], pointing out that her immunity only applies in New Asgard, and they're not ''in'' New Asgard. |
| 1175 | * HarmlessVillain: Her inability to be subtle or put any amount of thought into her cons makes it impossible for her to use her powers effectively. The only person she managed to fool was Bukowski, and even he was able to recoup his losses in court due to Runa compulsively undermining her own case. |
| 1176 | * {{Humanshifting}}: Is able to transform into other people. |
| 1177 | * ImmortalImmaturity: In her default form she resembles an elderly woman, but being a Light Elf it's unclear how old she actually is. Either way, she acts like an overgrown teenager who refuses to accept that she's done anything wrong and attempts to use her powers to dodge the consequences of her actions. |
| 1178 | * IneffectualSympatheticVillain: The only person she ever managed to fool was [[AssholeVictim Bukowski]], which even his own lawyers thought was funny. |
| 1179 | * NotHelpingYourCase: Transforming into the judge in the middle of her trial to try and get her case dropped. Her own lawyer calls her out on it, reminding her that impersonating a judge is ''illegal'', while Pug notes to Dennis this will make it easier for them. Indeed, the actual judge charges her with contempt of court on top of her losing the suit against Bukowski. |
| 1180 | * PerfectDisguiseTerribleActing: Despite being good at shapeshifting into other people, Runa doesn't bother trying to actually ''act'' like the people she's impersonating - having Dennis buy her a Passat while impersonating Megan Thee Stallion, drinking a massive amount of an energy drink while impersonating Dennis and remaining her mischievous, manipulative and jolly self, even when she's trying to pass herself off as the ''judge hearing her case''. |
| 1181 | * PointyEars: She has pointy ears, as it is common for elves in media. |
| 1182 | * RapidFireNo: Starts babbling "No" over and over again after the judge rules against her and sentences her to 60 days in jail for impersonating him. |
| 1183 | * ScrewTheRulesIHaveConnections: Her lawyer initially tries to use the fact that she's the daughter of a Light Elf diplomat and thus [[DiplomaticImpunity has diplomatic immunity]]. [[SubvertedTrope However, the judge shoots it down]]. |
| 1184 | * ScrewTheRulesIHaveSupernaturalPowers: Uses her powers to con Dennis out of a hundred and seventy five thousand dollars and when she gets sued for damages, she tries impersonating the plaintiff and later the judge to get the charges dropped. |
| 1185 | * ShapeshiftingSeducer: She signed up on a shady "celebrity dating" site as Megan Thee Stallion and tricked Dennis into giving her an absurd amount of money. Whether there was any romance involved or it was just a money scam isn't made explicit. |
| 1186 | * ShapeshiftingTrickster: She first scams Dennis out of $175,000, then uses her shapeshifting to try to get out of legal trouble by impersonating Dennis and later the judge, or to turn into Pug and loudly announce to two secretaries that he enjoys harassing women. Although it's more like a shapeshifting ''prankster'', given how childlike she acts and how blatant all of her tricks are. |
| 1187 | * WithGreatPowerComesGreatPerks: She uses her shapeshifting powers to con a gullible man out of a large sum of money, and repeatedly tries to use them to get the case against her dropped. |
| 1188 | * {{Womanchild}}: Despite looking like an elderly woman by Midgardian standards, Runa acts like a hyperactive teenage girl. |
| 1189 | [[/folder]] |
| 1190 | |
| 1191 | !!Enemies of Asgard |
| 1192 | |
| 1193 | [[folder:King Laufey]] |
| 1194 | !!''King Laufey'' |
| 1195 | [[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/img_3877.JPG]] |
| 1196 | [[caption-width-right:300:''"You're nothing but a boy, trying to prove himself a man."'']] |
| 1197 | !!!'''Species:''' Frost Giant |
| 1198 | !!!'''Citizenship:''' Jotun |
| 1199 | !!!'''Affiliation(s):''' Jotunheim |
| 1200 | !!!'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/ColmFeore |
| 1201 | !!!'''Voiced By:''' Creator/SebastianLlapur (Latin-American Spanish dub), Gonzalo Abril (European Spanish dub) |
| 1202 | !!!'''Appearances:''' ''Film/{{Thor}}'' |
| 1203 | |
| 1204 | ->''"You've come a long way to die, Asgardian."'' |
| 1205 | |
| 1206 | The King of Jötunheim, a Frost Giant, and the biological father of Loki. Over 1000 years ago, Laufey invaded Earth (Midgard) in an attempt to conquer it, but Odin and the Gods came to Earth's aid and pushed them back to Jötunheim and defeated them, and took the Casket of Ancient Winters, a powerful artifact, from them. Since then, Laufey desires peace first, but if possible, to get the Casket back. |
| 1207 | ---- |
| 1208 | * AbusiveParents: Left his weak and tiny (for a Frost Giant) infant son out in the cold to die. Said son, Loki, was then found by Odin and raised as his own. [[KarmicDeath Said son later kills him in order to gain the approval of his adoptive father.]] |
| 1209 | * ActionDad: Laufey is the warrior king of the Frost Giants and the biological father of Loki, even though he chose to abandon his son and left him to die for being a runt. |
| 1210 | * AdaptationalPersonalityChange: Laufey in the comics was a violent, mean brute. Here, his behavior is much more befitting a king: he's formal, soft-spoken, and wants to avoid war just like Odin. |
| 1211 | * AffablyEvil: Almost always calm, even-toned and polite when talking to the Asgardians. |
| 1212 | * AmazingTechnicolorPopulation: Like all Frost Giants, he has blue skin. |
| 1213 | * ArtifactOfDoom: The Casket of Ancient Winters, a device that can freeze entire landscapes and his old weapon. |
| 1214 | * BigBadWannabe: He is presented as the main threat at the beginning of ''Thor'' before the reveal of Loki's manipulative scheme. |
| 1215 | * CoveredWithScars: His face bears several noticeable scars. The implication is that Odin and the Asgardian army inflicted them on him during the war between Asgard and Jotunheim. |
| 1216 | * CreepyMonotone: Laufey always speaks in a calm, steady voice. |
| 1217 | * DiscOneFinalBoss: While Loki is revealed to be the one who allowed Frost Giants into Asgard, and makes a deal to allow them inside in force, King Laufey is assumed (at least in-universe) to be the primary antagonist of ''Thor''. |
| 1218 | * DroppedABridgeOnHim: For such a mighty warrior, all it takes is two shots from Loki to disintegrate him. Though those two shots came from Odin All-Father's spear, one of the most powerful weapons in Asgard's general vicinity. |
| 1219 | * EvenEvilHasStandards: He's clearly a malignant character, but even he doesn't want full-out war needlessly, as he has experienced it, and has seen the costs that come from it. |
| 1220 | * EvilIsDeathlyCold: Frost Giants, whether openly violent toward Asgard or not, are [[AlwaysChaoticEvil always seen as evil]] when confronted, whether overtly or not. |
| 1221 | * EvilPlan: In the Dark Ages, he wanted to plunge Midgard into a new Ice Age. Odin put a quick stop to that, but the results of that plan set the stage for the events of ''Thor''. |
| 1222 | * EvilSoundsDeep: Speaks in a low, calm voice that demonstrates both his villainy and his authoritative demeanor. |
| 1223 | * GenderFlip: In Myth/NorseMythology, Laufey is Loki's mother, and a Frost Giant called Farbauti is his father, but much like in the source comics, Laufey is the father and a unidentified female the mother. |
| 1224 | %%* GoodScarsEvilScars: Has many claw-shaped ones across his face. |
| 1225 | %%* GreenAndMean: The armor that he wears is metallic green. |
| 1226 | * AnIcePerson: Though he's more skilled at controlling it than other Frost Giants. |
| 1227 | * KarmicDeath: The child that Laufey abandoned to die ends up being the one who kills him. |
| 1228 | * OurGiantsAreBigger: Frost Giants are bigger than Asgardians. |
| 1229 | * ParentalAbandonment: To infant Loki and later tells Loki that Odin should have left him to die instead of saving and raising him as his own son. |
| 1230 | * PragmaticVillainy: Laufey is evil, but he's not stupid. He knows that Odin's a dangerous enemy, and wants to make sure that the Asgardians fire the first shot so he can [[VillainWithGoodPublicity have the moral high ground when he starts the war]], which sees Loki cleverly manipulate this strategy against him by using it as a setup. Loki allows Laufey and a few Jötunns into Asgard to assassinate Odin (giving Laufey a reason to believe that he has an ally within Asgard and thus not needing an overt reason to kill Odin and maintain his posture) while he sleeps, but only so Loki can then turn the tables on Laufey, kill him, and give ''himself'' the moral high ground in order to start a war with Jötunheim. |
| 1231 | * ReasonableAuthorityFigure: He was prepared to let Thor and his buddies go after they invaded his nation and violated the truce, because he knows that Thor is an immature boy that doesn't understand war. |
| 1232 | -->'''Laufey:''' You know not what your actions would unleash... [[WarIsHell I do.]] [[GetOut Go now,]] [[LastChanceToQuit while I still allow it.]] |
| 1233 | * RedEyesTakeWarning: All Frost Giants have red eyes, but his seem to glow to show the unique threat he poses. |
| 1234 | * RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething: Personally led the invasion of Midgard during the Dark Ages, wielding the [[ArtifactOfDoom Casket of Ancient Winters]]. |
| 1235 | * SparedByTheAdaptation: In the comics, he was killed by Odin centuries ago, when Loki was still a baby. In the film, he is left alive, but only temporarily. In the end, Loki kills him. However, when comics Laufey was resurrected while this Laufey stayed dead, the trope was temporarily {{inverted}} until comics Laufey died a second time in ''ComicBook/WarOfTheRealms''. |
| 1236 | * TooDumbToLive: The fact that Loki was offering to let him have the Casket of the Ancient Winters back with no strings attached once Odin was dead should have raised several red flags. Loki's terms never provided for any sort of permanent immunity for Asgard once their plan had been carried out, which should have reeked of "too good to be true". If Loki were serious about the agreement, he would have made Laufey promise to stay out of Asgardian business once he had what he came for but instead Loki implies that Laufey will be free to do as he pleases once he enacts the assassination of Odin and Loki can be installed as ruler of Asgard. |
| 1237 | * UnwittingPawn: Laufey is manipulated by Loki into boosting his reputation at the cost of Laufey's own life. |
| 1238 | * VillainHasAPoint: |
| 1239 | ** He's right and quick to point out that pre-CharacterDevelopment Thor is just a fight-happy {{Manchild}}, and he's also right about how much a war between Asgard and Jötunheim would cost both sides. |
| 1240 | ** Laufey also correctly points that the House of Odin is full of traitors and that Odin himself is a liar and a thief, which is proven true later in the movie itself when Odin adopted his son and didn't tell him the truth of why he did so, causing Loki to angrily berate Odin, which puts him into Odinsleep, while Thor's half brother tries to murder his own kind in a misguided effort to win Odin's approval, while in ''Film/ThorRagnarok'', Odin himself was a conquerer that made Asgard to what it is today alongside [[DaddysLittleVillain his daughter Hela]], only wanting to become a benevolent king after Asgard had Nine Realms and didn't want to expand any further, no doubt having seen the true costs of building an empire. |
| 1241 | * WarIsHell: Tried to stop Thor from bringing on the fight because, unlike Thor, he knows the damage of war. |
| 1242 | [[/folder]] |
| 1243 | |
| 1244 | [[folder:Malekith]] |
| 1245 | !!''Malekith'' |
| 1246 | [[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/5c04f5341e8852f0a356acdd32418fc6.png]] |
| 1247 | [[caption-width-right:300:''"Darkness returns, Asgardian. Have you come to witness the end of your universe?"'']] |
| 1248 | !!!'''Species:''' Dark Elf |
| 1249 | !!!'''Citizenship:''' Svartalfar |
| 1250 | !!!'''Affiliation(s):''' Svartalfheim |
| 1251 | !!!'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/ChristopherEccleston |
| 1252 | !!!'''Voiced By:''' Creator/ReneGarcia (Latin-American Spanish dub), Santi Lorenz (European Spanish dub) |
| 1253 | !!!'''Appearances:''' ''Film/ThorTheDarkWorld'' |
| 1254 | |
| 1255 | ->''"Your Universe was never meant to be, Asgardian! Your family, your world will be extinguished!"'' |
| 1256 | |
| 1257 | Leader of the [[DarkIsEvil Dark]] [[OurElvesAreDifferent Elves]] of [[DeathWorld Svartalfheim]], Malekith attacks Asgard following the end of ''Film/{{The Avengers|2012}}'', setting in motion the events of ''Film/ThorTheDarkWorld''. |
| 1258 | ---- |
| 1259 | * AdaptationalBadass: In the comics he's not a great fighter, and is much more prone to use his shapeshifting skills and various schemes than to face his opponents head-on. In the movie, his characterization is changed, probably so that he would make a more impressive BigBad (in the comics he's merely TheDragon). Another possible reason for the change is that the comic book version of Malekith, whose favourite tactic is to deceive his enemies by pretending to be someone else, would've been too close to the movie Loki. |
| 1260 | * AdaptationalDyeJob: Traditionally blue-skinned in the comics, he has pale white pigmentation here. Also, the blackened half of his face is on the right side instead of the left. |
| 1261 | * AdaptationalNiceGuy: While Malekith in the film is still evil, he comes off as a decent person compared to his comics counterpart, who's even ''worse'' by being an AxCrazy sadist. Furthermore, Comics Malekith nearly killed Algrim just to get a chance to kill Thor, the film shows him having a genuine VillainousFriendship with Algrim. |
| 1262 | * AliensSpeakingEnglish: He can communicate directly and fluently with Asgardians (who seem to speak English since they can converse with Americans). The Dark Elves have their own tongue but he is the only one seen using any language besides that. |
| 1263 | * AnArmAndALeg: Gets both of his arms cut off by Thor in their final battle, though the Aether has started to reform his arms. |
| 1264 | * BadBoss: He is very ready to throw his own men under the bus, should he need to. |
| 1265 | * BigBad: Serves as the main antagonist of the second film, ''The Dark World''. |
| 1266 | * BlackEyesOfCrazy: Malekith has black sclerae, highlighting his role as a primordial being who desires to destroy all of existence. |
| 1267 | * BraidsOfAction: Keeps his long hair in one. |
| 1268 | %%* CompositeCharacter: Malekith in the [=MCU=] bears a heavy resemblance to Knull, a Thor villain and an ancient [[GodOfEvil God of]] [[DarkIsEvil Primordial Darkness]] that predated the universe with the sole intention of returning the Universe to its pre-lit state. Even Malekith's use of the Aether resembles the nature of the Necrosword and Symbiotes, both of which are Knull's creations. |
| 1269 | * ContrastingSequelAntagonist: Loki is Thor's adoptive brother whose ambitions of ruling the Nine Realms created a personal conflict with the home and the people he grew up with. Malekith had no previous personal ties with Thor and he intended to use the Aether to cover the Nine Realms in complete darkness. |
| 1270 | * CreepyBlueEyes: ''Very'' light and piercing, overlapping with IcyBlueEyes. |
| 1271 | * DarkIsEvil: He and his race were born in primordial darkness, and they despise the universe of light it became. |
| 1272 | * DeathByLookingUp: Had just enough time to see his mothership crash upon him after being teleported back to his homeworld. |
| 1273 | * DirtyCoward: Threw his entire invasion fleet under the bus by depowering his ships to crush Asgard's forces when he lost the Aether during their first skirmish and to flee the battle, killing anyone who was on board at the time. He even has the gall to claim Asgard forced his hand and they will be the ones to pay for his own cowardice. |
| 1274 | * EstablishingCharacterMoment: The moment he realizes he's going to lose against [[OurFounder King Bor]], he turns off his own battleships' power, [[ColonyDrop dropping them on the Asgardians]] and [[KickTheDog killing absolutely everyone on board (implied to be nearly the entire Dark Elf population)]] solely to clear his own escape. |
| 1275 | * EvilSoundsDeep: Whether he's speaking English or his native tongue, his voice is quite deep. |
| 1276 | * FantasticRacism: To other Asgardians and mortals. He considers them "light based vermin". |
| 1277 | * FlatCharacter: His goals and motivations are relatively unexplored in comparison to other Marvel Cinematic Universe villains. |
| 1278 | * GoodScarsEvilScars: It should be obvious what kind he has, but just in case half his face burned by Thor's lightning because he invaded Asgard and killed its queen. |
| 1279 | * HumanoidAbomination: After absorbing the Aether he turns into this freaky looking thing with CombatTentacles. |
| 1280 | * {{Irony}}: At the end of the first war with Asgard, he [[ColonyDrop dropped his fleet]] onto the battling armies, slaughtering both sides to cover his escape. Jane Foster warps his collapsing mothership right on top of him, killing him after he was soundly beaten by Thor. |
| 1281 | * {{Jerkass}}: Malekith, on the whole, appears to be a rather unpleasant individual, [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking and rude to boot]]. |
| 1282 | * KarmicDeath: He sacrificed most of his people by making their ships drop on them and his enemies. He's ultimately defeated by his own ship dropping on top of him. |
| 1283 | * MakeMyMonsterGrow: During the climax of the Convergence, when Malekith starts releasing the energies of the Aether, he grows to about three times Thor's height. Though when Thor delivers the final blow on him with Mjölnir, he immediately reverts back to his normal height. |
| 1284 | * NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: "Accursed". If you haven't got the message yet, then you're screwed. |
| 1285 | * OmnicidalManiac: It seems that life and light disgust or "poison" Dark Elves in general, and he seems to treat both as threats that need to be put down. |
| 1286 | * OneWingedAngel: After being powered up by the Aether, he transforms into a monstrous humanoid thing. |
| 1287 | * OurElvesAreDifferent: From a race of SufficientlyAdvancedAlien demi-gods with PointyEars called the "Dark Elves". |
| 1288 | * OutlivingOnesOffspring: He dies centuries after his entire family does. |
| 1289 | * PetTheDog: Seemed genuinely remorseful when he had to infect Algrim with the darkness to turn him into Kurse. |
| 1290 | * PointyEars: He's a pointy eared Dark Elf. |
| 1291 | * ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: A god like the Asgardians. Probably older than them, since Loki says that Asgardians live for about five thousand years or so, but to remember "a time before the light" Malekith would need to be at least a few million years old. (See TimeAbyss below.) |
| 1292 | %%* RedBaron: Malekith ''the Accursed''. |
| 1293 | %%* RedEyesTakeWarning: After he absorbs the Aether. |
| 1294 | * RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething: King of his people and the BigBad of ''The Dark World''. It's implied in interviews that in regards to his plan for destroying the Universe, his Elves are with him all the way. |
| 1295 | * SorcerousOverlord: Of the SufficientlyAdvancedAliens variety. He's lord of the Dark Elves that lives in a barren land and seeks to extinguish other civilizations. He nearly destroyed the universe at first, and then tries doing it again, using the power of the Aether. |
| 1296 | %%* SpaceElves: Their king. |
| 1297 | * TimeAbyss: He's older than Odin, and possibly older than the universe itself. |
| 1298 | * TwoFaced: Due to half of his face being burned off thanks to lightning from Mjölnir. |
| 1299 | * WeHaveReserves: To escape in the first act, set millennia in the past, he sacrifices reserves of his men, and then escapes with his lieutenant and a skeleton crew of elves. |
| 1300 | * WhiteHairBlackHeart: He's a ''Dark'' Elf with white hair. |
| 1301 | * YouKilledMyFather: Directly involved in Frigga's death, causing Thor and Loki to have an [[EnemyMine uneasy alliance]]. Ironically, cut content, according to WordOfGod, means that he once lost his own family. |
| 1302 | [[/folder]] |
| 1303 | |
| 1304 | [[folder:Algrim / Kurse]] |
| 1305 | !!''Algrim / Kurse'' |
| 1306 | [[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/algrim_tdw_8017.jpg]] |
| 1307 | [[caption-width-right:300:''"Let my life be sacrificed. It is no less than our people did, or you have done."'']] |
| 1308 | [[caption-width-right:300:[[labelnote:Click here to see him in his Kurse form]]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/kurse_thor_the_dark_world.png]][[/labelnote]] |
| 1309 | !!!'''Species:''' Dark Elf |
| 1310 | !!!'''Citizenship:''' Svartalfar |
| 1311 | !!!'''Affiliation(s):''' Svartalfheim |
| 1312 | !!!'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/AdewaleAkinnuoyeAgbaje |
| 1313 | !!!'''Appearances:''' ''Film/ThorTheDarkWorld'' | ''Series/{{Loki|2021}}'' [[note]] Archive footage from ''Thor: The Dark World''[[/note]] |
| 1314 | |
| 1315 | Malekith's lieutenant who is one of the few Dark Elves to survive the war against Odin's father Bor, and continues to serve Malekith. Malekith allows him to use an ancient DangerousForbiddenTechnique, transforming him into the nigh-unbeatable Kurse. |
| 1316 | ---- |
| 1317 | * AdaptationDistillation: In the [[ComicBook/TheMightyThor Thor comics]], Algrim/Kurse was a minor villain, whose only appearance had been in the same issue where he died, until an omnipotent CosmicEntity revived him and made him massively powerful as part of a [[ComicBook/SecretWarsII crossover]] that had nothing to do with the main plot of ''ComicBook/TheMightyThor''. For understandable reasons, the movie gives him a rather different backstory. |
| 1318 | * AdaptationalVillainy: In the comics, Algrim/Kurse does work for Malekith for a time, but Malekith betrays him and Algrim -- a noble soul -- swears loyalty to Thor and Asgard, in fact being the one to kill Malekith himself. In ''The Dark World'', Malekith does sacrifice his own people but doesn't betray Algrim personally. Algrim has UndyingLoyalty towards his master and becomes Kurse as a result. |
| 1319 | * BodyHorror: What happens to him (and all other Dark Elves) when transforming into Kurse; as described by the art book, his armor is basically ''grafted onto his body'', with no sign of it being reversible. He gets this a second time when Loki detonates the black hole grenade on his belt, generating an implosion that sucks his body down into a vortex, ''starting with his legs, insides, and then his eyes''. |
| 1320 | * CoolHelmet: He gets one for his transformation, which also obscures his identity during the TrojanPrisoner gambit. |
| 1321 | * TheDragon: He's Malekith's most trusted and capable Lieutenant. He was already a great warrior, but when he becomes Kurse, he easily kills scores of Asgardians and Thor is no match for him in pure physical combat. Even Mjölnir causes little harm. Not only that, he completely overpowers Thor in battle, something that his master, even when empowered by the Aether, was unable to do. |
| 1322 | * EvilSoundsDeep: He rarely speaks, but when he does, it's in a deep, baritone voice. |
| 1323 | * EyeScream: His eyes are visibly (and audibly) ripped from their sockets by the black hole grenade that Loki set off. |
| 1324 | * HeroKiller: As Kurse, he's both incredibly strong and not without a fiendish intelligence. He first kills his share of Einherjars, then is the one to stab Frigga to death, and during his battle with Thor and Loki, he [[FakingTheDead appears to]] kill the latter. |
| 1325 | * HoistByHisOwnPetard: Loki manages to defeat him by activating the black hole grenade on his belt that the Dark Elves earlier used to great effect against the Asgardians. |
| 1326 | * TheJuggernaut: As Kurse, he shrugs off everything that's thrown at him. It takes a black hole grenade to finally get rid of him. |
| 1327 | * MightyGlacier: Slower than the Hulk, or Thor, but much stronger and tougher. |
| 1328 | * MythologyGag: Pre-transformation, Algrim wears a red-and-yellow helmet, the same colors as comic book Kurse. |
| 1329 | * NeckLift: A signature move once he becomes Kursed. |
| 1330 | * NighInvulnerability: Kurse is only defeated by being sucked into a miniature black hole. Nothing else so much as puts a dent in him. |
| 1331 | * NonStandardCharacterDesign: All the other Kursed have their doll masks become their faces in the prologue. Since Algrim was disguised as a Marauder, his Kurse form has a more expressive and demonic visage. |
| 1332 | * NoSell: He smacks Mjolnir away like it's nothing into an entire mountain. Alongside [[Film/ThorRagnarok Hela and Eternal Flame Surtur]], he's one of the strongest villains in the Thor movies. |
| 1333 | * PainfulTransformation: Algrim's transformation into Kurse has him ''burning from the inside out and thrashing wildly in his prison cell.'' |
| 1334 | * ScaryBlackMan: More so as Kurse because he's basically a demon, but also less so because his armor has been grafted on and thus conceals his skin. |
| 1335 | * SmarterThanYouLook: As Kurse - he may look like a giant, monstrous demon, but he's still sharp as a tack - and more than smart enough to decide that maybe releasing the guy who's somehow got a cell all to himself and who only looks amused by Kurse's rampage might ''not'' be a good idea... |
| 1336 | * SuperStrength: As Kurse, he's more than a match for Thor, being able to beat up the thunder god in single combat. |
| 1337 | * TimeAbyss: He's older than Odin, and possibly older than the universe itself. |
| 1338 | * TokenCompetentMinion: Algrim is the only Dark Elf other than Malekith portrayed as dangerous to the heroes. He manages to infiltrate Asgard, kill countless soldiers, kill Frigga, almost kill Loki and even overpowers Thor himself with ease. |
| 1339 | * TouchOfDeath: As Kurse, he can fry people by grabbing them with a choke-hold. |
| 1340 | * TrojanPrisoner: He's sent into Asgard disguised as a marauder prisoner just after being given the Kurse stone, knowing that when the transformation kicks in, he can break out with ease. |
| 1341 | * UndyingLoyalty: Seems to be a racial trait. They might be evil, but Algrim and the Dark Elves in general are also unyieldingly loyal to Malekith, even after he sacrifices a whole fleet to escape. Taking up the "Kurse" is very much this: a Dark Elf will willingly submit to the painful and eventually ''deadly'' transformation into a giant monster, and fight for their people until it kills them. |
| 1342 | * WorldsStrongestMan: He's much stronger than [[PhysicalGod Thor]], one of the ''very'' [[LightningBruiser strongest]] beings in the universe. |
| 1343 | [[/folder]] |
| 1344 | |
| 1345 | [[folder:Surtur]] |
| 1346 | !!''Surtur'' |
| 1347 | [[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/img_3871.JPG]] |
| 1348 | [[caption-width-right:300:''"You have made a grave mistake, Odinson!"'']] |
| 1349 | !!!'''Species:''' Fire Demon |
| 1350 | !!!'''Citizenship:''' Muspel |
| 1351 | !!!'''Affiliation(s):''' Muspelheim |
| 1352 | !!!'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/TaikaWaititi (motion-capture) |
| 1353 | !!!'''Voiced By:''' Creator/ClancyBrown (English), Víctor Covarrubias (Latin-American Spanish dub), Benoît Rousseau (Canadian French dub) |
| 1354 | !!!'''Appearances:''' ''Film/ThorRagnarok'' |
| 1355 | |
| 1356 | ->''"I am Asgard's doom, and so are you. All will suffer, all will '''burn''!"''' |
| 1357 | |
| 1358 | A giant Fire Demon and the ruler of Muspelheim who is prophesized to bring about "the end of everything" during Ragnarok. |
| 1359 | ---- |
| 1360 | * AccidentalHero: By plunging his giant sword into the ground (Hela on the other end of it), burning and shattering Asgard, he ironically ends up saving its people from Hela. |
| 1361 | * AdaptationalWimp: In the comics, he's basically equal to Odin. Here, he gets [[CurbStompBattle effortlessly trounced]] by Thor at the beginning of the movie. Though this is a justified case, as Surtur walks with a noticeable limp and seems to clutch his side, indicating that he had not yet fully recovered from his previous battle with Odin. After his crown is put on the eternal flame, he's back to the same level as his comic counterpart, treating the ''Incredible Hulk'' as a minor annoyance. |
| 1362 | * AffablyEvil: Aside from bouts of InsistentTerminology, he's ''remarkably'' patient with Thor's antics and well-mannered at the beginning of the film. |
| 1363 | * AttackOfTheFiftyFootWhatever: Surtur already stands at around 30-feet tall in his normal form, but says he grows "as tall as a mountain" when fully empowered. The reality is actually much, much bigger, as he can be seen dwarfing Asgard's mountains when finally unleashed. |
| 1364 | * BadassBoast: Even though they fall on deaf ears considering that he's laying waste to an empty city, many of his lines are this. |
| 1365 | -->'''Surtur:''' Tremble before me, Asgard! I am your reckoning!! |
| 1366 | * TheBadGuyWins: The heroes are forced to allow him to come back and destroy Asgard to stop Hela from getting any stronger. The citizens of Asgard survived due to being evacuated, but he still destroyed their homeworld. |
| 1367 | * BecauseDestinySaysSo: Unlike Thor, who wants to avert Ragnarok, Surtur is not only fine with his role in it, he actively aims to make sure the prophecy comes to pass. |
| 1368 | * BigOlEyebrows: Thor admits he thought his crown were actually giant eyebrows or something. |
| 1369 | * BigRedDevil: Well, he's a gigantic demon made of magma, so he's pretty much this by default. |
| 1370 | * CameBackStrong: Loki resurrects him by putting his skull and crown in the Eternal Flame, which brings him back to his original strength as a skyscraper-sized monster. |
| 1371 | * CelebrityParadox: In ''Infinity War'', Tony Stark calls Ebony Maw [[WesternAnimation/SpongebobSquarepants Squidward]].[[note]]The show was also referenced in ''Series/{{Iron Fist|2017}}''.[[/note]] If he ever met Surtur, he would probably quip the Fire Demon sounds like Mr. Krabs. |
| 1372 | * ChekhovsGunman: After appearing and seemingly being defeated in the opening, he returns to destroy Asgard and kill Hela. |
| 1373 | * TheComicallySerious: Unlike Hela and the Grandmaster, Surtur never snarks or cracks a joke and is entirely serious, which contrasts with Thor and his light-hearted antics and quips. |
| 1374 | * CreatorCameo: Taika Waititi, the film's director, did the mo-cap work for Surtur. |
| 1375 | * CrownShapedHead: Surtur's HornsOfVillainy is also his crown. Despite his serious, threatening demeanor, he gets a little defensive about his crown. |
| 1376 | -->'''Surtur:''' ''This'' is my crown. The source of my power!\ |
| 1377 | '''Thor:''' Oh, that's a crown? I thought it was a big eyebrow.\ |
| 1378 | '''Surtur:''' ''[annoyed]'' It's a crown! |
| 1379 | * DecoyAntagonist: After initially being presented as the villain that will destroy Asgard he's [[CurbStompBattle easily trounced]] by Thor and Hela becomes the major antagonist instead. He only appears again when the heroes actually ''choose'' to revive him at his full power in order to stop Hela. |
| 1380 | * TheDreaded: At his prime, Surtur's influence is so powerful that even ''Hela'' is horrified when he's revived by the Eternal Flame. |
| 1381 | * EvilIsBurningHot: He is a Fire Demon who desires nothing else but to raze Asgard to cosmic dust. |
| 1382 | * EvilIsHammy: He is normally serious most of the time, but as soon as he is brought back to life and starts laying waste to all of Asgard, he starts hamming it up. |
| 1383 | -->'''Surtur:''' I AM ASGARD'S DOOM!!! |
| 1384 | * EvilSoundsDeep: Fitting his demonic appearance, Surtur speaks in a deep, gravelly voice. |
| 1385 | * EvilVersusOblivion: The Oblivion to Hela's Evil: where she has grandiose goals of universal conquest, he just wants to blow up Asgard. He's also one of the few cases where Oblivion is the one the heroes are rooting for. |
| 1386 | * ExpectingSomeoneTaller: Hela expected his crown to be bigger. [[TemptingFate It got bigger.]] |
| 1387 | * GenericDoomsdayVillain: He wants to destroy Asgard because that's what he was prophesied to do, and that's basically it. He doesn't even seem to care if his actions actually end up harming anyone or not [[AndThenWhat or what happens after that]], only that the physical place of Asgard is destroyed. This, by the way, is pretty accurate to the original myths, where Surtur gets little mention, and is more or less there to bring the curtain down at the final fate of the gods. |
| 1388 | * GodzillaThreshold: The only reason Thor brings him back is because he's the only one who can permanently get rid of Hela. |
| 1389 | * HornsOfVillainy: He looks like a classic devil and his crown is decorated with two horns. Please, don't mistake them for the eyebrows. |
| 1390 | * HorrifyingTheHorror: The ''only'' time [[InvincibleVillain Hela]] loses her smug, confident composure is when she realizes Surtur's full power has been awakened. It's the one time she appears [[OhCrap genuinely worried]]. |
| 1391 | * InsistentTerminology: He is rather picky with wording. First off, his magnificent crown is not a "big eyebrow" -- it's a CROWN! Secondly, when said crown is placed into the Eternal Flame, he'll grow as big as a MOUNTAIN! ''Not'' as big as a house. It's all very important. |
| 1392 | * InvincibleVillain: In the brief scene where he's shown at full power he swats the Hulk away like an annoying flea and he barely reacts when Hela (who herself trounced Thor, Valkyrie, and Loki like it was nothing) hits him in the chest with multiple skyscraper-sized spears. |
| 1393 | * LargeAndInCharge: He is the Lord of Muspelheim and towers over all the other Fire Demons. |
| 1394 | * MagmaMan: He seems to be made of eternally burning lava and rocks. |
| 1395 | * MakeMyMonsterGrow: He starts off several times Thor's size, but once he's exposed to the Eternal Flame he grows to Kaiju-sized proportions. |
| 1396 | * MeaninglessVillainVictory: He gets to destroy Asgard like he always wanted... after everyone but Hela has already evacuated. Then he explodes, and, because Asgard is destroyed, his PurposeDrivenImmortality goes with it. The most he could possibly get from it is peace of mind from ''finally'' getting to fulfill his singular purpose in life. |
| 1397 | * NoSell: Hela hits him with ''skyscraper-sized spears'', and he barely reacts. |
| 1398 | * NotSoAboveItAll: Despite his serious, threatening demeanor, he gets a little defensive about his crown. |
| 1399 | -->'''Surtur:''' ''This'' is my crown. The source of my power!\ |
| 1400 | '''Thor:''' Oh, that’s a crown? I thought it was a big eyebrow.\ |
| 1401 | '''Surtur:''' ''[annoyed]'' It's a crown! |
| 1402 | * OffWithHisHead: Thor kills Surtur early in the movie by knocking his block off. Ultimately, it doesn't stick. |
| 1403 | * PersonOfMassDestruction: Becomes this at the end when his helmet is thrown into the eternal flame and he destroys Asgard. |
| 1404 | * PlayingWithFire: He's literally a giant made of fire. |
| 1405 | * PurposeDrivenImmortality: Surtur claims that he cannot die until he destroys Asgard. He succeeds in this goal at the end of the movie, annihilating both Asgard and himself. |
| 1406 | * PutTheLaughterInSlaughter: He starts enjoying himself a little too much when he begins his destruction of Asgard. |
| 1407 | * ResurrectiveImmortality: Surtur can be killed, but it’s implied that he will eventually come back to life after a long time if Thor’s comment about Odin killing Surtur "half a million years ago" is accurate. Also, he cannot truly die until he brings about Ragnarok and destroys Asgard. Putting his skull into the Eternal Flame allows him to come back immediately. |
| 1408 | * SerkisFolk: He is rendered in CGI. Who performs the motion capture? Why, Creator/TaikaWaititi (the director of the movie) himself! |
| 1409 | * SlouchOfVillainy: Surtur is first seen lounging on his throne. |
| 1410 | * SummonBiggerFish: Upon running out of solutions to stop Hela, Thor decides to unleash Ragnarok itself to take her out, by ordering Loki to put Surtur's skull in the Eternal Flame. Surtur ends up destroying Asgard with his gigantic sword, defeating Hela in the process. This is particularly driven home by Hela's realization immediately before her defeat that her attacks, which utterly destroyed the other Asgardians she fought previously, can barely even scratch the fully empowered Surtur. |
| 1411 | -->'''Hela:''' You can't defeat me.\ |
| 1412 | '''Thor:''' No, I know. But ''he'' can! |
| 1413 | * SuperToughness: Hela throws spears at him that rival the size of Asgard's buildings, and he doesn't even flinch after the first one. |
| 1414 | * SwordBeam: He can shoot streams of fire from the tip of his sword. |
| 1415 | * SwordDrag: Drags his sword behind him as he's about to execute Thor as the latter is his prisoner at the beginning of the film. |
| 1416 | * TakingYouWithMe: He knows that Asgard's destruction will also kill him, but he doesn't care, so long as his destiny is fulfilled. |
| 1417 | * ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill: Stabs Hela with the tip of his flaming sword through her platform down into the planet's core, unleashing a pyroclasm that engulfs the city, instigating a wildfire that quickly spreads throughout the world, before breaking Asgard in half, and then having the burning planet explode shortly after, with Hela in the direct center of it all. |
| 1418 | * TookALevelInBadass: At the start of the film, Thor apparently kills him. By the end, the Hulk is swatted aside like a pest after getting in a good hit, and although Hela manages to get in some good stabs, she's clearly outmatched. |
| 1419 | * TheUnfettered: Surtur is absolutely unconcerned with anything else other than decimating Asgard. ''[[ChewingTheScenery And he's really into it.]]'' After the Hulk jumps to him and gets in a good lick, Surtur simply flicks the [[BrickJoke puny green rage monster]] away and continues his single-minded drive to annihilate the world. Even ''Hela'' barely provokes much of a reaction, despite her sticking him with skyscraper-sized necroblades. |
| 1420 | * TheWorfEffect: At full size and power, he tosses Hulk away with one hand like a rag doll and easily defeats even ''[[BigBad Hela]]''. This demonstrates how powerful he truly is, and underscores his WorfHadTheFlu claim. |
| 1421 | * WorfHadTheFlu: His swift defeat at Thor's hand at the start of the film is justified, given that he was deprived of his power source and thus nowhere near his prime. He's also walking with a noticeable limp, indicating that he has yet to fully recover from his battle with Odin. |
| 1422 | * WhoWantsToLiveForever: He could potentially live forever as he is fated to never die unless he brings about Ragnarok, but he just hates Asgard ''that'' much. |
| 1423 | * YourTerroristsAreOurFreedomFighters: He's presented as an intimidating villain who promises the destruction of Asgard, a place the audience has associated with heroism for several films. However, as ''Ragnarok'' illustrates, Odin was an imperialistic conqueror who won dominion over the Nine Realms through war and blood, so Surtur could be seen as the ultimate living weapon of liberation from a galactic dictatorship. |
| 1424 | [[/folder]] |
| 1425 | |
| 1426 | [[folder:Marauders]] |
| 1427 | !!''The Marauders'' |
| 1428 | !!!'''Species:''' Various |
| 1429 | !!!'''Appearances:''' ''Film/ThorTheDarkWorld'' |
| 1430 | |
| 1431 | A band of ragtag invaders from many races that begin raiding along the Nine Realms after the destruction of the Bifrost Bridge. |
| 1432 | ---- |
| 1433 | * CanonForeigner: In the mainstream comics, there are no space pirates named "Marauders". Instead, the Marauders are the lackeys of ''ComicBook/XMen'' villain Mister Sinister. There was also a villainous gang of outlaws called the Marauders in the first volume of ''The Outlaw Kid'' comics. |
| 1434 | * EqualOpportunityEvil: The Marauders recruit individuals from many races. |
| 1435 | * KnowWhenToFoldEm: Wisely decide to surrender after Thor kills their strongest warrior in one blow. |
| 1436 | * RapePillageAndBurn: Their standard tactic is to attack the weak and engage in savage destruction. |
| 1437 | * SpacePirates: They raid and kill along the worlds that form the Nine Realms. |
| 1438 | [[/folder]] |
| 1439 | |
| 1440 | [[folder:The Kronan Marauder]] |
| 1441 | !!''The Kronan Maraunder'' |
| 1442 | [[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/korg.png]] |
| 1443 | !!!'''Species:''' Kronan |
| 1444 | !!!'''Affiliation(s):''' Marauders |
| 1445 | !!!'''Portrayed By:''' N/A |
| 1446 | !!!'''Appearances:''' ''Film/ThorTheDarkWorld'' |
| 1447 | |
| 1448 | A Kronan and a member of the Marauders. |
| 1449 | ---- |
| 1450 | * AsskickingLeadsToLeadership: He is the largest and the strongest of the Marauders, and seems to be their leader as well. |
| 1451 | * LoadBearingBoss: After he's killed, his entire army surrenders. |
| 1452 | * MythologyGag: The Kronans were the first villains Thor ever encountered in the original Silver Age ''Journey Into Mystery'' comics. |
| 1453 | * NoNameGiven: We never get a name for him. Originally, he was suggested to be the MCU's version of Korg, and then ''Thor: Ragnarok'' came along. |
| 1454 | * RockMonster: He's seemingly constructed of rocks, and is blasted apart by a blow from Mjölnir. |
| 1455 | * WeHardlyKnewYe: Killed in a CurbStompBattle by Thor. |
| 1456 | [[/folder]] |
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