History Headscratchers / Thor

* What's up with the Habitrail™ that SHIELD builds around Mjolnir? What possible purpose do all those rings of tunnels serve? And why leave Mjolnir open to the air? Why not just build a big dome, or erect a tent over the area?

* What's up with the Habitrail™ that SHIELD builds around Mjolnir? What possible purpose do all those rings of tunnels serve? And why leave Mjolnir open to the air? Why not just build a big dome, or erect a tent over the area?

* What's up with the Habitrail™ that SHIELD builds around Mjolnir? What possible purpose do all those rings of tunnels serve? And why leave Mjolnir open to the air? Why not just build a big dome, or erect a tent over the area?

* What's up with the Habitrail™ that SHIELD builds around Mjolnir? What possible purpose do all those rings of tunnels serve? And why leave Mjolnir open to the air? Why not just build a big dome, or erect a tent over the area?

* What's up with the Habitrail™ that SHIELD builds around Mjolnir? What possible purpose do all those rings of tunnels serve? And why leave Mjolnir open to the air? Why not just build a big dome, or erect a tent over the area?

* I don't quite understand Loki's sudden evilness. Everything he did including his visiting Thor on Midgard made perfect sense to me. Then all of a sudden he wants to kill Thor. WTF?!

* What's up with the Habitrail™ that SHIELD builds around Mjolnir? What possible purpose do all those rings of tunnels serve? And why leave Mjolnir open to the air? Why not just build a big dome, or erect a tent over the area?

** We saw the Bifrost open a portal to Tonsberg in the beginning of the movie so its likely that the Bifrost can indeed take you to different places in the same realm. The theory that Yggdrasil is actually a natural wormhole network has been thrown around on this page and if its true then that could tell us a few things. The first is about the operation of the Bifrost itself. Instead of opening its own bridges it could fire some sort of beam or matter stream into Yggdrasil itself and you come out of one of the "Roots" of the tree with these "Roots" being pre-established but closed openings in the network. This means that sure it can take you to Norway or New Mexico or a hundred other locales on the planet but it can only deposit you on one of those predetermined places. As for why the Hammer fell so far away? It looks like it emerged from the matter stream at a very high altitude (possibly even low orbit) which means that it simply drifted off course as it fell to earth.

* What's up with the Habitrail™ that SHIELD builds around Mjolnir? What possible purpose do all those rings of tunnels serve? And why leave Mjolnir open to the air? Why not just build a big dome, or erect a tent over the area?

* What's up with the Habitrail™ that SHIELD builds around Mjolnir? What possible purpose do all those rings of tunnels serve? And why leave Mjolnir open to the air? Why not just build a big dome, or erect a tent over the area?

** In the comics Jotunheim is generally portrayed like a forester, woodland environment that just has a much harsher climate than Asgard or most of the other nine worlds. Other types of giants do live there like those you mentioned along with various other evil creatures like boar-gods, wolf-gods, hags, etc. Trolls sometime live in Jotunheim. Other times beneath the surface of various other worlds. In the comics the city of Asgard is usually just the tip of a very large landmass that has sometimes been shown to have other kingdoms. The other realms often are subdivided into different kingdoms. The Hoth version of Jotunheim as portrayed in the film is usually closer to the comics version of Nifelheim, the land of ice which is also home to frost giants, storm giants, the dead, and other monsters.

* Is it just me, or is Jane kind of a dick?
** Might just be you. What makes you say that?
*** I've only seen it once, so forgive me for missing something. But I find her lacking in endearing characteristics. First time we meet her, she's willing to drive into a swirly storm of god knows what ForScience, risking both Darcy and Erik's lives and she's pretty short, if not outright mean, toward Darcy throughout.
*** Are you talking about when Darcy was complaining about losing her iPod, but Jane lost her work? If so, I would be angry in her position. If I was her, I'd be mad at the world and lash out at it. No to mention, as funny as it was, Darcy was the one being mean in that scene. She probably offended Jane, by accident.
**** This is just one of those annoying details and not one of any great importance, but watching Jane get snippy with Darcy about losing her iPod while sitting around a desert with perfect hair and makeup was a bit hard to take seriously.
*** Of course she's short with Darcy. Maybe you missed it, but Darcy is something of an annoying twat. Also, the fact that she was the only applicant to be Jane's assistant means that every time she looks at Darcy she's reminded of how little respect she has within the scientific community. It's bound to make anyone a little irritable.
** This troper thought Jane was pretty nice, considering that she spent the movie being robbed of a chance to do a giant breakthrough, had her research and equipment stolen, and put a lot on the line to help Thor out. And she seemed more friendly towards Darcy than Erik, at least in the scene where we find out Darcy's a political science major.

** It probably has some sort of mass-teleport capability that we never saw afterwards because it simply never came up.
*** Or the army was teleported into battle by Odin's power, having arrived on Earth earlier and more gradually via Bifrost.

* Okay, so for the Aesir, magitech is super-advanced. I can accept that. It makes bladed weapons better than projectile weapons- I can accept that, probably has to do with sharpness and weight enhancing plus logistics of mystically enhancing bullets individually. But, why horses? Judging from the shape and placement of Asgard, they have antigravity and air generation for a city-sized island of land floating in space, but they still rely on equestrian mobility?

*** The post-credits scene mentioned "dimensions." Based on this and the lack of the use of the world planets I take it the nine "realms" are nine different dimensions that are linked by naturally occurring wormsholes/gates like in the comics. Bifrost and other such devices are just safe means to access these gates. Asgard at least seems to operate by different rules of physics by being a flat Earth instead of a round planet so it is a different dimension. So the nine realms are only those worlds the wormholes naturally go to. There could easily be other planets/dimensions out there, but the Asgardians do not overly concern themselves with them. However, based on some of the items in Odin's vault its clear Odin at least takes somewhat of an interest in them.

*** Yeah. Sortof a big anti-racism statement.

** Pretty sure he was holding it. In any case, long-distance freezing is, as mentioned, not part of a Frost Giant's standard repertoir of powers, so whether or not Heimdall knew what he was, it wouldn't have helped him here.