History Fridge / ThorTheDarkWorld

* [[spoiler:Odin allows Thor to keep Mjölnir when the latter renounces his intent to sit on the throne. Upon first glance, it appears that Odin is merely being a benevolent father, but upon the revelation that it's Loki sat upon the throne in disguise as Odin, it becomes clear that the real reason is that Loki is unworthy of holding Mjölnir; and Odin not being able to do so would give away the deception or at the very least, lead to Thor noticing that something was up.]]
* This time, Thor ''doesn't'' fall for Loki's illusion trick in prison, reflecting Loki's taunt of "Are you ever ''not'' going to fall for that?" in ''Film/{{The Avengers|2012}}''. [[spoiler:This, of course, leads into another piece of FridgeBrilliance over Loki stepping up his deceptions from mere parlor tricks to an elaborate scheme involving his faked death.]]
** Rather Fridge Heartwarming: The reason Thor doesn't fall for Loki's illusions this time is that [[spoiler:he knows how close Loki was to Frigga since childhood, as she was the one taught him his magic, and he knows that Loki would never be this calm and uncaring after their mother's death.]]

* How is [[spoiler:Loki able to sit on the throne in disguise as Odin, when Heimdall is able to see through his deceptions]]? [[spoiler:It was revealed in ''Film/{{Thor}}'' that Loki is able to mask himself from Heimdall if he chooses to]].

* Why didn't [[spoiler:Loki's death]] cause him to lose the life-long [[spoiler:illusion spell making him look like an Aesir? Because he didn't really die]]. If you look carefully to the scene, it's still a close call: [[spoiler: his skin is notably paler and takes a blueish hue, and his eyes do not remain their usual color either.]]

** Creator/ChrisEvans has played two Marvel superheroes ([[Film/FantasticFour2005 Johnny Storm]] and [[Film/CaptainAmericaTheFirstAvenger Captain America]]), whose personalities could not be any more different. What do you get when you combine the two of them? [[spoiler:Loki's imitation of Captain America!]]

* The "Deleted Scene" where Loki [[spoiler:impersonates Captain America (this time with Tom Hiddleston wearing Cap's uniform)]] is called "Loki: The First Avenger" - in the comics, it was Loki who brought the original Avengers team together.

* People like to say that Loki and [[Film/IronMan1 Tony Stark]] are not so different, but actually this movie proves otherwise. Namely in how they treat people close to them and those lower than them. Tony? Despite his AwesomeEgo, he ''truly'' cares for his friends, trusts them on personal level, and [[WhatYouAreInTheDark can take criticism from them]]. Even at his less than lucid moments, he is always careful not to harm {{Innocent Bystander}}s, as shown in the climax of ''Film/IronMan2''. Yinsen's death was a major turning point of him, causing him to become TheAtoner. Loki? [[ManipulativeBastard He manipulates Thor for all it's worth,]] [[NeverMyFault always thinks he's in the right]], has no problem sacrificing his own kind and the people of Earth to forward his own goals, and [[spoiler:[[IgnoredEpiphany Frigga's death didn't stop him from taking over Asgard]]]].

* That moment you realize that Malekith was beaten [[spoiler:by a ''hammer and nail'']].
* When Heimdall meets Thor in the bar after [[spoiler:Frigga's death]], he puts his helmet on the table and Thor stares thoughtfully at it for several seconds before asking Heimdall to help him defy Odin. Heimdall's helmet has big horns and reminds Thor of Loki, and that he can use his help to escape Asgard without the Bifrost.

* [[spoiler:Loki gives the dark elf Kurse the instructions to "take the stairs to the left" when he leaves the dungeons. This allows him to get through the palace undetected by Odin and the Asgardian soldiers. Unintentionally, Loki played a part in his mother's death, and WordOfSaintPaul (Creator/TomHiddleston on the DVDCommentary) is even that he is very much aware of that after being told of her death.]]

* Odin's viewing the Dark Elves as monsters that paying any price to wipe out would be worth it. It seems sort of jarring after he had the opposite attitude about the Jötun in the first film. Is it just Frigga's death though? Remember he took in a Jötun baby and raised it as his own... and Loki has attempted the genocide of one race and enslavement of another. Maybe Odin now thinks that some races just deserve to be wiped out. Becomes even more scary after ''Ragnarok'' makes clear that [[spoiler:Frigga might have been the one thing keeping him from reverting to his old bloodthirsty ways.]]
* As we saw in ''Film/{{The Avengers|2012}}'', Loki made a deal with [[spoiler: Thanos]]; in return for the use of the Chitauri, Loki would give him the Tesseract. Now, Loki [[spoiler:is sitting on the throne of Asgard, and now has full access to the vault holding both the Tesseract.]] Furthermore, [[TheStinger the scene after the credits]] reveals that [[spoiler:the Tesseract is the MCU version of the Space Stone, and the Aether is the MCU version of the Reality Stone, two of the Infinity Gems needed to power the Infinity Gauntlet. And given that ''Film/{{The Avengers|2012}}'' makes it clear that Thanos]] intends to collect on Loki's end of their deal, this means that [[spoiler:two of the Infinity Stones are essentially within his reach.]]

* Exactly how long was it before anyone realized [[spoiler:that a gigantic carnivorous frost-beast from Jötunheim had been left loose in London at the end of the film]]?
* It is still unknown [[spoiler: how exactly Loki faked this death, but if Kurse hadn't thrown him to the ground after (seemingly) stabbing him, Loki might have been killed by the black-hole-grenade too]].

* People like to say that Loki and [[Film/IronMan1 Tony Stark]] are NotSoDifferent, but actually this movie proves otherwise. Namely in how they treat people close to them and those lower than them. Tony? Despite his AwesomeEgo, he ''truly'' cares for his friends, trusts them on personal level, and [[WhatYouAreInTheDark can take criticism from them]]. Even at his less than lucid moments, he is always careful not to harm {{Innocent Bystander}}s, as shown in the climax of ''Film/IronMan2''. Yinsen's death was a major turning point of him, causing him to become TheAtoner. Loki? [[ManipulativeBastard He manipulates Thor for all it's worth,]] [[NeverMyFault always thinks he's in the right]], has no problem sacrificing his own kind and the people of Earth to forward his own goals, and [[spoiler:[[IgnoredEpiphany Frigga's death didn't stop him from taking over Asgard]]]].

* Much has been made of Loki's [[DissonantSerenity complete underreaction]] when the Kursed starts breaking all of the other prisoners out of their cells, but this is Loki, a known {{master of illusion}}. He might have turned himself invisible while throwing up an illusion of himself calmly reading in case his cell was broken into by someone who wanted to kill him. This explanation is especially likely if he was afraid that Thanos might come and break him out of prison [[YouHaveFailedMe in order to punish him for his failure on Earth.]] This might also explain why Loki stared down the Kursed in such a creepy way that [[StaringDownCthulhu he made the Kursed think he was too dangerous to be released,]] and also could be why he did absolutely nothing to help himself during his trial, when he was explaining himself to Odin. He could have decided that Asgardian justice, whatever form it took, was far preferable to [[FateWorseThanDeath what Thanos would do to him if he got ahold of him.]]

** All four of the other Avengers beat Loki in some manner. Iron Man got the better of him in the tower; Black Widow tricked him at his own psychological games; Hawkeye blew him up with the trick arrow; and Hulk smashed him--all four were situations where Loki was sure he was in control and they got the better of him. The only time Cap gets the better of Loki is in the initial fight where Loki "losing" as part of the plan. He's comfortable making fun of Cap because he feels he's the only one of the Avengers he actually beat.

* When Thor on Vanaheim says, "I accept your surrender", he's not talking to the rock giant that bellowed a challenge at him - he's talking to the marauders, knowing that they will try to surrender after he turns his opponent into gravel.

* From ''Film/ThorRagnarok'', one of the reasons Odin may so impassionately emphasize to Loki that "we are not Gods" may in part be because he's seen this sort of ambition and madness mindset overtake someone before: Hela.

* Odin's viewing the Dark Elves as monsters that paying any price to wipe out would be worth it. It seems sort of jarring after he had the opposite attitude about the Jötun in the first film. Is it just Frigga's death though? Remember he took in a Jötun baby and raised it as his own... and Loki has attempted the genocide of one race and enslavement of another. Maybe Odin now thinks that some races just deserve to be wiped out. Becomes even more scary after ''Ragnarok'': [[spoiler:Without Frigga, Odin is reverting to his old blood thirsty ways.]]
* As we saw in ''Film/{{The Avengers|2012}}'', Loki made a deal with [[spoiler: Thanos]]; in return for the use of the Chitauri, Loki would give him the Tesseract. Now, Loki [[spoiler:is sitting on the throne of Asgard, and now has full access to the vault holding both the Tesseract.]] Furthermore, [[TheStinger the scene after the credits]] reveals that [[spoiler:the Tesseract is the MCU version of the Space Gem, and the Aether is the MCU version of the Reality Gem, two of the Infinity Gems needed to power the Infinity Gauntlet. And given that ''Film/{{The Avengers|2012}}'' makes it clear that Thanos]] intends to collect on Loki's end of their deal, this means that [[spoiler:two of the Infinity Gems are essentially within his reach.]]

* One for ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheFirstAvenger'': We know that the Tesseract is one of the [[ComicBook/TheInfinityGauntlet Infinity Stones]]; more specifically, it's the Space Stone. So what specifically did it ''do'' to people shot by those weapons that were powered by the Tesseract?

* [[spoiler:Loki gives the dark elf Kurse the instructions to "take the stairs to the left" when he leaves the dungeons. This allows him to get through the palace undetected by Odin and the Asgardian soldiers. Unintentionally, Loki played a part in his mother's death, and WordOfSaintPaul (Creator/TomHiddleston on the DVDCommentary is even that he is very much aware of that after being told of her death.]]

* [[spoiler:Loki gives the dark elf Kurse the instructions to "take the stairs to the left" when he leaves the dungeons. This allows him to get through the palace undetected by Odin and the Asgardian soldiers. Unintentionally, Loki played a part in his mother's death, and WordOfGod is even that he is very much aware of that after being told of her death.]]

* [[FunnyMoments Much has been made]] of Loki's [[DissonantSerenity complete underreaction]] when the Kursed starts breaking all of the other prisoners out of their cells, but this is Loki, a known {{master of illusion}}. He might have turned himself invisible while throwing up an illusion of himself calmly reading in case his cell was broken into by someone who wanted to kill him. This explanation is especially likely if he was afraid that Thanos might come and break him out of prison [[YouHaveFailedMe in order to punish him for his failure on Earth.]] This might also explain why Loki stared down the Kursed in such a creepy way that [[StaringDownCthulhu he made the Kursed think he was too dangerous to be released,]] and also could be why he did absolutely nothing to help himself during his trial, when he was explaining himself to Odin. He could have decided that Asgardian justice, whatever form it took, was far preferable to [[FateWorseThanDeath what Thanos would do to him if he got ahold of him.]]