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* DeathByAdaptation: In the comics, Baldur is Thor's brother who lives for thousands of years and his death in mythology signifies the beginning of Ragnarok. In this story, [[spoiler:he died before he was even an hour old]], well over a thousand years before Ragnarok began.
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* BigBrotherInstinct: After seeing him get killed in the original timeline, Thor is very protective when it comes to Loki. After he gets captured by Ebony Maw, Thor goes on the warpath.
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* ZeroPercentApprovalRating:
** Besides his children, nobody likes Thanos. Thor despises him, Loki wants nothing to do with him, and everyone thinks he's insane. After hearing about him just once, Clint and Natasha are on the same boat as Thor.
** Zig-zagged with Hela. While plenty of Asgardians were happy to do away with her and put their violent past behind them, she also had plenty of followers who were loyal to her and tried to kill Thor and Loki in infancy as well as return her from Nifilheim.
** Besides his children, nobody likes Thanos. Thor despises him, Loki wants nothing to do with him, and everyone thinks he's insane. After hearing about him just once, Clint and Natasha are on the same boat as Thor.
** Zig-zagged with Hela. While plenty of Asgardians were happy to do away with her and put their violent past behind them, she also had plenty of followers who were loyal to her and tried to kill Thor and Loki in infancy as well as return her from Nifilheim.
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* NamedByTheAdaptation: Valkyrie only ever went by Valkyrie or Scrapper in the MCU. Here, her true name is [[spoiler:Brunhilde Sigursdottir.]]
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* AgeLift: According to the Russo brothers, Thanos in the MCU is actually somewhat younger than Thor, being roughly 1,000 years old. Here, he's ancient enough to have fought Odin long before Thor and Loki were born.
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* InsaneTrollLogic: Both Thor and Loki call out how insane Thanos's plans are and how he completely believes they'll work despite the absurdity. Loki even tells Ebony Maw that he ''might'' consider Thanos's offers if he was out for revenge or something petty because he can actually ''understand'' those types of motives.
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* InsaneTrollLogic: Both Thor and Loki call out how insane Thanos's plans are and how he completely believes they'll work despite the absurdity. Loki even tells Ebony Maw that he ''might'' might consider Thanos's offers if he was out for revenge or something petty because he can actually ''understand'' those types of motives.
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* TrustPassword: In order to gain Hawkeye and Black Widow's trust after they learn that he's from the future, Thor tells them about when they went to Clint's house during the Ultron incident and about his family when they first met them. Since the only way Thor would know about Clint's family in the first place would be if he had his absolute trust, he accepts Thor's claims.
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* WillfullyWeak: Thor lost to Hulk when they fought was because he didn't want to hurt his friend, so he didn't put much force into his attacks. He also also handicapped himself by refusing to use Mjölnir during the fight. The author states that had he been going all out, he would have won regardless of whether he had Mjölnir or not.
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* WillfullyWeak: Thor lost to Hulk when they fought was because he didn't want to hurt his friend, so he didn't put much force into his attacks. He also also handicapped himself by refusing to use Mjölnir during the fight. The author states that had he been going all out, he would have won regardless of whether he had Mjölnir or not.
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* InsaneTrollLogic: Both Thor and Loki call out how insane Thanos's plans are and how he completely believes they'll work despite the absurdity. Loki even tells Ebony Maw that he ''might'' consider Thanos's offers if he was out for revenge or something petty because he can actually ''understand'' those types of motives.
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[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12962091/1/If-I-Could-Start-Again If I Could Start Again]] is an ''Avengers'' PeggySue fanfic written by [[https://www.fanfiction.net/u/1599767/Taaroko Taaroko]] centered on Thor and Loki.
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* LoveRedeems: Odin falling in love with Frigga is what lead to him changing his ways and becoming the benevolent peacekeeper he is now.
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* EarlyBirdCameo: Captain Marvel makes a brief appearance in chapter 23 when The Warriors Three try to find Thor and Loki, only to find her.
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* WillfullyWeak: The reason Thor lost to Hulk when they fought was because he was actively trying not to hurt his friend, so he didn't put much force into his attacks. That, and he also handicapped himself by refusing to use Mjölnir during the fight.
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* WillfullyWeak: The reason Thor lost to Hulk when they fought was because he was actively trying not didn't want to hurt his friend, so he didn't put much force into his attacks. That, and he He also also handicapped himself by refusing to use Mjölnir during the fight.fight. The author states that had he been going all out, he would have won regardless of whether he had Mjölnir or not.
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* SpottingTheThread: Thor is not very good at trying to hide that he's from the future. Natasha was able to pick up on many subtle hints in his behavior (having way more hatred for Thanos than he reasonably should and his reactions to Sakaar and Valkyrie) that he was hiding something from them and convinced him to confess the truth.
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* SpottingTheThread: Thor is not very good at trying to hide that he's from the future. Natasha was Natasha's able to pick up on many subtle hints in his behavior (having way more hatred for Thanos than he reasonably should and his reactions to Sakaar and Valkyrie) that he was he's hiding something from them and convinced convinces him to confess the truth.
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* Fiction500: The House of Odin has some rather lucrative investments and has an impressive bank account in the Nova Empire.
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* GreatOffscreenWar: The battle between Odin and the forces of Asgard against Thanos and his armies is a legendary one. The fight ended with the Mad Titan retreating and his prototype Infinity Gauntlet now tucked away in Odin's vault.
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* GreatOffscreenWar: GreatOffscreenWar:
** The battle between Odin and the forces of Asgard against Thanos and his armies is a legendary one. The fight ended with the Mad Titan retreating and his prototype Infinity Gauntlet now tucked away in Odin'svault.vault.
** There's also the Aesir-Vanir war, which is the war that led to Odin's change of heart and where he fell in love with Frigga.
** The battle between Odin and the forces of Asgard against Thanos and his armies is a legendary one. The fight ended with the Mad Titan retreating and his prototype Infinity Gauntlet now tucked away in Odin's
** There's also the Aesir-Vanir war, which is the war that led to Odin's change of heart and where he fell in love with Frigga.
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* NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist:
** Thanos talks a big game about committing his atrocities for the sake of balancing the universe, but Thor and Loki call him out (directly and indirectly) on how deluded he is in believing that he's the hero in this scenario.
** Odin originally conquered other realms under the belief that what he was doing would bring a new age of peace. It wasn't until the Aesir-Vanir war where he invaded what was once his home that he came to realize that what he was doing was for power's sake and not for peace.
** Thanos talks a big game about committing his atrocities for the sake of balancing the universe, but Thor and Loki call him out (directly and indirectly) on how deluded he is in believing that he's the hero in this scenario.
** Odin originally conquered other realms under the belief that what he was doing would bring a new age of peace. It wasn't until the Aesir-Vanir war where he invaded what was once his home that he came to realize that what he was doing was for power's sake and not for peace.
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* RationalFic: For the House of Odin, the family members actually sit down and talk out their issues rather than leave them bottled up to stew and eventually cause problems. There's still plenty of family drama, but it's more of the standard family drama and not the "put the Nine Realms in danger" type of drama.
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* EvenGuysWantHim: The Grandmaster doesn't blame Valkyrie for supposedly absconding with Loki because he agrees that Loki is extremely attractive.
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* EvenGuysWantHim: The Grandmaster doesn't blame Valkyrie for supposedly absconding with Loki because he agrees that Loki is extremely attractive.
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* ShipTease: Loki and Valkyrie get a lot of this during the Sakaar portion of the story that also borders on BelligerentSexualTension.
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* BreadAndCircuses: The Grandmaster, like in ''Ragnarok'', provides gladiatorial entertainment for the people under his oppression. Thanos also plays into this by allowing him to use Cull Obsidian in his tournaments to entertain the masses in exchange for armies
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* ColdBloodedTorture: Ebony Maw subjects Loki this in a similar manner to how he tortured Doctor Strange in ''Infinity War''.
* ColdBloodedTorture: Ebony Maw subjects Loki this in a similar manner to how he tortured Doctor Strange in ''Infinity War''.
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* ThrowingYourSwordAlwaysWorks: Besides Mjölnir's ability to return to its owner, it's also lamphaded that for whatever reason, Thor's enemies always seem to inevitably line up and make it easier for him to take them all out with a simple hammer throw.
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* BreadAndCircuses: The Grandmaster, like in ''Ragnarok'', provides gladiatorial entertainment for the people under his oppression. Thanos also plays into this by allowing him to use Cull Obsidian in his tournaments to entertain the masses in exchange for armies.
* DeathByAdaptation: In the MCU, Valkyrie was confirmed to have survived both Thanos's attack and "The Snap". Here, she died in his initial assault on the Asgardian refugee ship.
* DeathByAdaptation: In the MCU, Valkyrie was confirmed to have survived both Thanos's attack and "The Snap". Here, she died in his initial assault on the Asgardian refugee ship.
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* BreadAndCircuses: The Grandmaster, like in ''Ragnarok'', provides gladiatorial entertainment for the people under his oppression. Thanos also plays into this by allowing him to use Cull Obsidian in his tournaments to entertain the masses in exchange for armies.
* DeathByAdaptation: In the MCU, Valkyrie was confirmed to have survived both Thanos's attack and "The Snap". Here, she died in his initial assault on the Asgardian refugee ship.armies
* DeathByAdaptation: In the MCU, Valkyrie was confirmed to have survived both Thanos's attack and "The Snap". Here, she died in his initial assault on the Asgardian refugee ship.
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* VengeanceFeelsEmpty: After killing Thanos, Thor feels no satisfaction in what he did since it won't bring Loki, Odin, or any of Asgard back.
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* DeathByAdaptation: In the MCU, Valkyrie was confirmed to have survived both Thanos's attack and "The Snap". Here, she died in his initial assault on the Asgardian refugee ship.
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* VengeanceFeelsEmpty: After killing Thanos, Thor feels no satisfaction in what he did since it won't bring Loki, Odin, or any of Asgard back.
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* AxCrazy: Ebony Maw is one ''very'' disturbed SOB. Besides the atrocities and tortures he commits in Thanos's name, he also took what was left of his people and used them as ''building materials'' to make his personal vessel.
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* AxCrazy: Ebony Maw is one ''very'' disturbed SOB. Besides the atrocities and tortures he commits in Thanos's name, he also took what was left of his people and used them as ''building materials'' to make his personal vessel. He was actually pretty insane ''before'' Thanos came to his world, as unlike other planets that the Mad Titan visited, Ebony sought him out and begged him to cull his world's population.
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* AntiMagic: Ebony Maw's ship has a built-in energy signature that causes negative reactions with Asgardian magic, which prevents Loki from properly using his spells when he's captured.
* AxCrazy: Ebony Maw is one ''very'' disturbed SOB. Besides the atrocities and tortures he commits in Thanos's name, he also took what was left of his people and used them as ''building materials'' to make his personal vessel.
* BreadAndCircuses: The Grandmaster, like in ''Ragnarok'', provides gladiatorial entertainment for the people under his oppression. Thanos also plays into this by allowing him to use Cull Obsidian in his tournaments to entertain the masses in exchange for armies.
* AxCrazy: Ebony Maw is one ''very'' disturbed SOB. Besides the atrocities and tortures he commits in Thanos's name, he also took what was left of his people and used them as ''building materials'' to make his personal vessel.
* BreadAndCircuses: The Grandmaster, like in ''Ragnarok'', provides gladiatorial entertainment for the people under his oppression. Thanos also plays into this by allowing him to use Cull Obsidian in his tournaments to entertain the masses in exchange for armies.
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* PeggySue: Thor is sent back prior to the events his film, but it's played with here. Thor fully intends to SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong, but his approach to this is rather blunt and he outright tells Loki and the Warriors Three who he is upon first seeing them. In addition, he only has knowledge of what went down in ''Thor'', ''The Dark World'', and ''Ragnarok'', as well as the Avengers movies. He can solve what he knows about, but he can't solve everything.
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* PeggySue: Thor is sent back prior to the events his film, but it's played with here. Thor fully intends to SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong, but his approach to this is rather blunt and he outright tells Loki and the Warriors Three who he is upon first seeing them.them, and Natasha figures out he's hiding something given how bad he is at subterfuge and gets him to spill the truth. In addition, he only has knowledge of what went down in ''Thor'', ''The Dark World'', and ''Ragnarok'', as well as the Avengers movies. He can solve what he knows about, but he can't solve everything.
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* SpottingTheThread: Thor is not very good at trying to hide that he's from the future. Natasha was able to pick up on many subtle hints in his behavior (having way more hatred for Thanos than he reasonably should and his reactions to Sakaar and Valkyrie) that he was hiding something from them and convinced him to confess the truth.
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* SocialDarwinist: According to Odin, his father, Bor, was this. His philosophy was that the strongest deserved to rule over the weak, and Odin admits that the allure of this mindset is hard to argue with when you're born stronger than everyone else like he was.
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* WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity: Odin admits to Thor that this is why he went the extra mile to limit his abilities since childhood, as he worried that his eldest son would turn out like Hela, who became TheCaligula and had to be imprisoned.
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* WillfullyWeak: The reason Thor lost to the Hulk when they fought was because he was actively trying not to hurt his friend, so he didn't put much force into his attacks. That, and he also handicapped himself by refusing to use Mjölnir during the fight.
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* OnlyTheChosenMayWield: This is averted at first since Thor was sent back before Odin put the worthiness enchantment on Mjölnir. To prove that he is Thor from the future, he asks his father to put the enchantment on his hammer. Since this is Thor post-CharacterDevelopment, he has no trouble lifting Mjölnir and proving who he is.
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** Thor is able to successfully avert Loki's StartOfDarkness and ensures that his brother won't become a villain.
** A negative example. It's lamented that because of Thor's actions, a long term consequence is that some of his friends either won't exist in the future (Vision) or won't become Avengers (Scarlet Witch).
** A negative example. It's lamented that because of Thor's actions, a long term consequence is that some of his friends either won't exist in the future (Vision) or won't become Avengers (Scarlet Witch).
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* WillfullyWeak: The reason Thor lost to the Hulk when they fought was because he was actively trying not to hurt his friend, so he didn't put much force into his attacks. That, and he also handicapped himself by refusing to use Mjölnir during the fight.
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* ForWantOfANail: The story starts because Thor aimed two inches left and cut off Thanos's gauntlet arm, preventing him from wiping out half the universe.
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* ItsPersonal: Even though he succeeded in killing the Mad Titan, Thor has almost ''immeasurable'' hatred for Thanos that persists even when his mind is sent back to when his family and people were alive and well. This sets off a red flag in Black Widow's head, because Thor shouldn't have this much hatred for someone he's logically never met, even if he's an old enemy of Odin.
* OffWithHisHead: Right after severing his arm and giving him a TheReasonYouSuckSpeech, Thor executes Thanos by cutting off his head.
* OffWithHisHead: Right after severing his arm and giving him a TheReasonYouSuckSpeech, Thor executes Thanos by cutting off his head.
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* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: At the start of the story, Thor gives one to Thanos on how his supposedly [[WellIntentionedExtremist noble intentions for the universe]] are a load of crap and how much of a monster he is.
-->'''Thor''': You call it salvation, slaughtering half of my people when they were already but a fraction of Asgard's numbers from mere weeks ago? Wiping out the dwarves and leaving only their king behind to suffer? You think yourself a just god, capable of making the hard choices, but there is nothing in you but cruelty. My brother was right. You will never be a god.
-->'''Thor''': You call it salvation, slaughtering half of my people when they were already but a fraction of Asgard's numbers from mere weeks ago? Wiping out the dwarves and leaving only their king behind to suffer? You think yourself a just god, capable of making the hard choices, but there is nothing in you but cruelty. My brother was right. You will never be a god.
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* PeggySue: Thor is sent back prior to the events his film, but it is played with here. Thor fully intends to SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong, but his approach to this is rather blunt and he outright tells Loki and the Warriors Three who he is upon first seeing them. In addition, he only has knowledge of what went down in ''Thor'', ''The Dark World'', and ''Ragnarok'', as well as the Avengers movies. He can solve what he knows about, but he can't solve everything.
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[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12962091/1/If-I-Could-Start-Again If I Could Start Again]] is an ''Avengers'' PeggySue fanfic written by [[https://www.fanfiction.net/u/1599767/Taaroko Taaroko]] centered on Thor and Loki.
Unlike the end of ''Film/AvengersInfinityWar'' where Stormbreaker lands at the center of Thanos's chest, it instead lands two inches to the left and renders the Titan's left arm useless. Now unable to use the Infinity Gauntlet, Thor finishes him off, but VengeanceFeelsEmpty. Without thinking, he takes the Time Stone from the Gauntlet, and his mind is sent back in time to [[Film/{{Thor}} before his coronation]], with everyone still alive. Now he has his chance to set everything right, and ensure that everyone he cares for survives what is to come.
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!!''If I Could Start Again'' provides examples of:
* EveryoneHasStandards: Odin is willing to go to great lengths to ensure the peace and stability of the Nine Realms, ranging from white washing Asgard's bloody past to lying to his children about their origins, but the one thing he can never bring himself to do is strike down his own child.
* GreatOffscreenWar: The battle between Odin and the forces of Asgard against Thanos and his armies is a legendary one. The fight ended with the Mad Titan retreating and his prototype Infinity Gauntlet now tucked away in Odin's vault.
* PeggySue: Thor is sent back prior to the events his film, but it is played with here. Thor fully intends to SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong, but his approach to this is rather blunt and he outright tells Loki and the Warriors Three who he is upon first seeing them. In addition, he only has knowledge of what went down in ''Thor'', ''The Dark World'', and ''Ragnarok'', as well as the Avengers movies. He can solve what he knows about, but he can't solve everything.
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Unlike the end of ''Film/AvengersInfinityWar'' where Stormbreaker lands at the center of Thanos's chest, it instead lands two inches to the left and renders the Titan's left arm useless. Now unable to use the Infinity Gauntlet, Thor finishes him off, but VengeanceFeelsEmpty. Without thinking, he takes the Time Stone from the Gauntlet, and his mind is sent back in time to [[Film/{{Thor}} before his coronation]], with everyone still alive. Now he has his chance to set everything right, and ensure that everyone he cares for survives what is to come.
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!!''If I Could Start Again'' provides examples of:
* EveryoneHasStandards: Odin is willing to go to great lengths to ensure the peace and stability of the Nine Realms, ranging from white washing Asgard's bloody past to lying to his children about their origins, but the one thing he can never bring himself to do is strike down his own child.
* GreatOffscreenWar: The battle between Odin and the forces of Asgard against Thanos and his armies is a legendary one. The fight ended with the Mad Titan retreating and his prototype Infinity Gauntlet now tucked away in Odin's vault.
* PeggySue: Thor is sent back prior to the events his film, but it is played with here. Thor fully intends to SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong, but his approach to this is rather blunt and he outright tells Loki and the Warriors Three who he is upon first seeing them. In addition, he only has knowledge of what went down in ''Thor'', ''The Dark World'', and ''Ragnarok'', as well as the Avengers movies. He can solve what he knows about, but he can't solve everything.
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