History Headscratchers / Thor

** Heimdall isn't omniscient in the sense that he sees everything. He's omniscient in the sense that he ''can'' see everything, but he has to be looking at it. Note when he summons the Warriors Three and Sif; they say that Heimdall ''might'' be watching them right now. He has to ''watch'' something in order to see it.\\\

* It is mentioned that Sif and Thor had to prove to Asgard that a woman could be a warrior. Okay, we could ignore viking culture and Nordic myth for a moment and believe that the Asgardians would not allow women in battle before Sif came along but Frigga shows that she is a capable warrior in both films and she is far older than Sif. Wouldn't they be aware of female warriors based on the fact that the queen can kick ass herself?

Exactly what was the point of sending the Destroyer after Thor and his friends? Even if Thor were to somehow regain Mjolnir and his powers, the only way to get back to Asgard is through Heimdall, whom Loki merely froze and left at the Bifrost, apparently not realizing how that might backfire. Second, exactly what made him think Odin would react any differently to his actions than he did to Thor's? Finally, exactly how was going to explain all his actions to Odin when he woke up?

*** It's [[AllThereInTheManual all there in the myth]]. But yes, Sleipnir (the horse) ''does'' have eight legs, is totally magic, and probably can be summoned and dismissed like an [[FinalFantasyX Aeon]].

*** Good lord. [[FinalFantasyVII Loki is the genetically reconstructed child of Sephiroth and Cloud!]]

*** They seem to be the kind of people who authorize their agents to "tase someone and watch Supernanny while they drool into the carpet." I'm thinking CTU from Series/TwentyFour at best and Section One from LaFemmeNikita when they're sufficiently pissed off; protecting people through fear.

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* Once Malekith got hold of the Aether and began his assault upon the nine realms from Greenwich, why didn't the entirety of Asgard's remaining army led by a very pissed off Odin get bifrosted down to Earth to help Thor in the battle? It was already established that Odin was raring to go another round with Malekith and was quite happy to sacrifice all his subjects to do achieve victory. Did Odin sit back and watch just because he was still angry at Thor's betrayal? Or had he already been usurped by Loki at this point? And if that was the case, then why didn't Loki (disguised as Odin) bring down Asgard's armies to help? Securing the throne would be a ridiculously brief and meaningless victory for Loki if Malekith had succeeded in the end. Why take that risk?

*** Please tell me you are not so foolish as to believe that, the real life part, anyway.

*** I'd have to say, no, that is not fridge brilliance but obsession with conspiracies on the part of the troper. There were plenty of reasons for removing Hussein that had nothing to do with members of the Bush family, though several of those reasons can be applied to other dictators. However, this is not the place for such a discussion, lecture, or wall of text, so I end this with a suggestion that you think a little harder before saying something that cannot be fully substantiated.