History Fanfic / IfICouldStartAgain

* GroundhogDayLoop: According to the Ancient One, [[spoiler:Thor is in one - his accidental usage of the Time Stone will send him back every time he fails to complete his mission. This is a problem, because doing so will put a great deal of additional strain on the Time Stone of the present day, potentially destroying it if he loops too many times]]. In the meantime, she's advised him to try not to require additional loops while she figures out how to unravel the spell.

* AliensSpeakingEnglish: Averted. Thor and Loki speak any language thanks to the All-Speak, but they need to purchase translators for Natasha and Clint when they arrive on Sakaar.

* GroundhogDayLoop: According to the Ancient One, Thor is in one - his accidental usage of the Time Stone will send him back every time he fails to complete his mission. This is a problem, because doing so will put a great deal of additional strain on the Time Stone of the present day, potentially destroying it if he loops too many times. In the meantime, she's advised him to try not to require additional loops while she figures out how to unravel the spell.

* NotSoDifferent: Loki notes that Captain America is alot like Valkyrie in that both of them are warriors from the past returned to a world that still reveres them, but it's not the world they once knew.

Unlike the end of ''Film/AvengersInfinityWar'' where Stormbreaker lands at the center of Thanos' 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.

* DoomedByCanon: Ebony Maw, Cull Obsidian, and Alexander Pierce all die, but in different ways. [[spoiler:Cull is killed in battle by Thor instead of Banner. Maw is gruesomely frozen to death by Loki, instead of being blown into space by Spider-Man. Pierce has his heart ripped out by Ava Starr; originally, he was shot to death by Nick Fury.]]

* AlwaysABiggerFish: Thanos and the threat he poses supersedes any possible villain or villainous organization on Earth. Captain America even agrees that despite his hatred for Hydra, they need to put that on hold to focus on taking out Thanos.

* AxCrazy: Ebony Maw is one ''very'' disturbed SOB. Besides the atrocities and tortures he commits in Thanos' 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.

* CoolAndUnusualPunishment: After [[spoiler:Fandral confesses his role in the exposure of Loki's true heritage, Odin uses Gungnir to link Fandral to Loki so that any pain Loki suffers as a result of Fandral's actions will be inflicted twofold on Fandral himself]].

* DoomedByCanon: [[spoiler:Ebony Maw, Cull Obsidian, and Alexander Pierce all die, but in different ways. Cull is killed in battle by Thor instead of Banner. Maw is gruesomely frozen to death by Loki, instead of being blown into space by Spider-Man. Pierce has his heart ripped out by Ava Starr; originally, he was shot to death by Nick Fury.]]

* 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.

* FanGirl: Sif is an even bigger fan of the Valkyrior than Thor and Loki. It takes all her willpower not to enter TheKnightsWhoSaySquee territory when she meets Valkyrie for the first time.

* SadlyMythtaken: It's lampshaded by Jane and Loki that the Norse Mythology built around Asgard doesn't really stack up with the reality of it. Loki states that the mythos surrounding their people that Earth came up with is mostly made around prophecies and drunken fancies.

* AlmostKiss: Loki and Valkyrie almost share a kiss after fending for themselves on Ebony Maw's ship, only for Thor to drop in right before they could close the distance.

* TheStationsOfTheCanon: Averted. While it does start out with some events from the early MCU films, such as ''The Incredible Hulk'' and ''Iron Man 2'', canon starts getting ditched soon after that as later plot threads from the movies are tied up and altered in different ways.

** The Grandmaster displayed no combat abilities in ''Thor: Ragnarok''. In this story, he fights against Ebony Maw and doesn't even flinch when impaled by several spears. It's not a scratch on his canon counterpart, but much more impressive than what was shown in the film.

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.

** The gauntlet in Odin's vault was Thanos's prototype Infinity Gauntlet and not just a fake.

* AnArmAndALeg: The story begins with Thor cutting off Thanos's gauntlet arm, preventing him from wiping out half the universe.

* 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.

** Maw has this reaction to when Thor announces himself as the "Son of Odin", aka the son of one of Thanos's greatest enemies.

** Even during his bloodthirsty warlord days, Odin was reportedly so against Thanos's ideas for culling the universal population that he kicked him out of Asgard as soon as he discovered his true intentions and waged war with him.

** The story starts because Thor aimed two inches left and cut off Thanos's gauntlet arm, preventing him from wiping out half the universe.

* 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.

* MistakenForMisogynist: Steve Rogers feels that this applies to him when he realises that he assumed Jemma Simmons was the nurse rather than the doctor, but Doctor Simmons assures him that she appreciates that he's from a time where a female doctor would be less common.

* SuddenlySpeaking: Cull actually talks during his fight with Thor, something that the Asgardian lampshades, since he thought he was just the dumb brute of Thanos's minions.

* SuddenlyVoiced: Cull actually talks during his fight with Thor, something that the Asgardian lampshades, since he thought he was just the dumb brute of Thanos's minions.

* MytholoyGag: Thor suffering from a severe cut to his arm is one to the Jason Aaron run in the comics where his arm was cut off.