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Edited by Mrph1 on Jul 29th 2024 at 3:09:00 PM
Your Sarcasm doesn't answer my question!!!!!!
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One Strip! One Strip!That could be an actual answer, though: They stopped because the combined attack was tiring them out, so they took a pause to breathe and in that mean-time Hulk punched him away.
"All you Fascists bound to lose."I think its obvious that they can't just keep blasting forever.
Machines need a cooldown. There's only so much charge in the air. Etc etc.
That it happened to all of them at the same time is just narrative convienece, a way to simplify the action.
Forever liveblogging the AvengersOk, that does make sense. I mean, they actually started within a few seconds of each other (Vision, then Thor, then Iron Man), so all of them stopping at once isn't so crazy.
Funny thing, now that I've seen Age Of Ultron, I finally really understand how the Staff could Mind Control everyone.
So I guess we have a confirmation of the Loki was being mind-controlled by the staff theory as well.
Sure, he'd has probably done something in the same vein anyway, but still, we know what it can do, since it's an infinity stone, so it's hardly a stretch.
I really love re-watching the old movies after seeing newer ones.
Noticing the old man in the audience who tells off Loki (he's the only one not facing Loki, and you can practically see the moment where he just says I'm not going through this bullshit again!), and actually seeing the moment where Banner unknowingly takes the staff (you can see his arm drift near it, because before then he had his arms crossed).
It all ties together beautifully.
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Agreed, I think that scene represents the longest sustained blast from any of those characters so I wouldn't consider it a plot hole.
And even if they have a longer sustained blast in a future movie, it still isn't a plot hole since we could assume they either upgraded or gained more mastery over their abilities in the interim. Even in Thor's case he's only actually had the hammer since Thor 1, so it's not unreasonable that he still hasn't 100% mastered it's capabilities.
edited 19th Jun '15 4:58:29 PM by Falrinn
Yeah he's had the hammer for what's most likely several centuries before the first Thor.
"All you Fascists bound to lose."But if Thor losing Mjolnir hadn't happened yet, the legends wouldn't depict that at all.
Maybe you'd be less disappointed if you stopped expecting things to be Carmen Sandiego movies.But if Thor losing Mjolnir hadn't happened yet, the legends wouldn't depict that at all.
The legends don't depict him losing the hammer. They depict him with the hammer. It's only during the first Thor that he loses the hammer and then gets it back when he proves himself "worthy."
Um, no, where would you get that idea? They literally show a scene of Thor and Loki as children.
edited 19th Jun '15 6:29:58 PM by alliterator
Incidentally in the Norse myths the Mjolnir has nothing to do with worthiness. Lifting it is a pure matter of strength, and (if I recall correctly) Thor has to use some sort of strength-enhancing belt to lift it.
Which does fit with how the hammer only acquired that aspect in recent times in the MCU.
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Well yeah, they're both just a thousand years old, which makes them younger than the myths of them, so I have a theory that Odin named his kids after the original Loki and original Thor (who were his buddies or brothers or something).
The kids took on the personalities of the originals from the stories they heard of them, and the differences from the myths and the actual Asgardians in the MCU is just from the random drift myths go through.
edited 19th Jun '15 6:40:11 PM by Ekuran
Like I said before, in the Marvel universe, the Norse myths are cyclical. These are the real Thor and Loki...but a different iteration or version.
In Thor Disassembled, we actually see prior versions of Thor and Loki and they look like the original myths. (That's also the book where Thor ended the Ragnarok Cycle and all the Norse gods died, including him. They got better.)

So I'm a little late to the party, but after the How It Should Have Ended of Age Of Ultron (part 2) aired, I found myself asking....
Why did they stop?
I mean, why let Ultron, who clearly could not fight back at that point, get any breathing room at all? Why not just keep blasting him until even the Vibranium gave up?
Sure, Hulk punching him was funny, but because they did that, it led to Quicksilver dying.
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