1. Thor (2011)
'It's not a bad thing finding out that you don't have all the answers. You start asking the right questions.' - Erik Selvig (Thor) Click To TweetMCU superhero action adventure directed by Kenneth Branagh, which centers on Thor (Chris Hemsworth), the son of Odin (Anthony Hopkins), king of the Norse gods, who will soon inherit the throne of Asgard from his aging father, but is cast out of Asgard by Odin for his arrogance and sent to Earth to live amongst humans, while Loki (Tom Hiddleston), Thor’s brother, plots mischief in Asgard. Falling in love with scientist Jane Foster (Natalie Portman) teaches Thor much-needed lessons, and his new-found strength comes into play as a villain from his homeland sends dark forces toward Earth.
Odin: Once mankind accepted a simple truth, that they were not alone in this universe. Some worlds man believed home to their Gods. Others they knew to fear. From around the cold and darkness came the Frost Giants. Threatening to plunge the mortal world into a new ice age. But humanity would not face this threat alone.
Odin: Our armies drove the Frost Giants back into the heart of their own world. The cost was great. In the end, their king fell. And the source of their power was taken from them. With the last great war ended, we withdrew from the other worlds and returned home at the realm eternal, Asgard. And here we remain as the beacon of hope. Shining out across the stars. And though we have fallen into man’s myths and legends, it was Asgard and its warriors that brought peace to the universe.
Odin: A wise king, never seeks out war. But he must always be ready for it.
Young Thor: I’m ready, father.
Young Loki: So am I!
Odin: Only one of you can ascend to the throne. But both of you were born to be kings!
'A wise king, never seeks out war. But he must always be ready for it.' - Odin (Thor) Click To Tweet
Odin: [at Thor’s coronation] Thor Odinson, my heir, my first born. So long entrusted with the mighty hammer, Mjolnir, forged in the heart of a dying star. Its power has no equal! It’s a weapon to destroy or as a tool to build. It is a fit companion for a king. I have defended Asgard, and the lives of the innocent across my realms in the time of the great beginning.
Odin: [after the Frost Giants have broken into their weapons vault] What action would you take?
Thor: March into Jotunheim as you once did. Teach them a lesson. Break their spirits so they’ll never dare to cross our borders again.
Odin: You’re thinking only as a warrior.
Thor: Well, this was an act of war!
Odin: It was the act of but a few, doomed to fail.
Thor: Look at how far they got!
Odin: We will find the breach in our defenses and it will be sealed.
Thor: As King of Asgard…
Odin: But you’re not King! Not yet.
Thor: It’s unwise to be in my company now, brother. This was to be my day of triumph.
Loki: It’ll come. In time.
Loki: Thor, it’s madness!
Volstagg: Madness? What sort of madness?
Thor: We’re going to Jotunheim.
Fandral: What? This isn’t like a journey to earth, where you summon a little lightning and thunder, the mortals worship you as a God! This is Jotunheim.
Thor: My father fought his way into Jotunheim. Defeated their armies and took their casket! We would just be looking for answers.
Sif: It is forbidden!
Thor: My friends, have you forgotten all that we have done together? Fandral, Hogun, who led you into the most glorious battles?
Hogun: You did.
Thor: And Volstagg, to delicacies so succulent you thought you’d died and gone to Valhalla?
Volstagg: You did.
Thor: Yes! And who proved wrong all who scoffed at the idea that a young maiden could be one of the fiercest warriors this realm has ever known?
Sif: I did!
Thor: True, but I supported you, Sif. My friends, we’re going to Jotunheim.
Thor: Heimdall, may we pass?
Heimdall: Never has an enemy slipped my watch until this day. I wish to know how that happened?
Thor: Then tell no one where we have gone until we’ve returned. Understand?
Volstagg: [to Loki] What happened? Silver tongue turned to lead?
Heimdall: Be warned. I will honor my sworn oath to protect this realm as its gatekeeper. If you return threatens the safety of Asgard by Frost, will remain closed to you. And you’ll be left to die in the cold waste of Jotunheim.
Volstagg: Couldn’t you just leave the bridge open for us?
Heimdall: To leave the bridge open would unleash the full power of the Bifrost and destroy Jotunheim, and with you upon it.
Thor: I have no plans to die today.
Heimdall: None do.
King Laufey: [after they enter Jotunheim] The house of Odin is full of traitors.
Thor: Do not dishonor my father’s name with your lies!
King Laufey: Your father is a murderer and a thief! And why have you come here? To make peace? You long for battle. You crave it! You’re nothing but a boy trying to prove himself a man.
Thor: Well this boy has grown tired of your mockery.
Loki: Thor, stop and think! Look around you. We’re out numbered!
Thor: Know your place, brother!
King Laufey: You know not what your actions would unleash. I do. Go, now! While I still allow it.
Loki: We will accept, you’re most gracious offer. Come on, brother!
Frost Giant Sentry: [as Thor reluctantly turns to leave the Frost Giant] Run back home, little princess.
Loki: Damn!
[Thor’s hammer extends and he hits the Frost Giant with it and their battle begins]
King Laufey: All-Father. You look weary.
Odin: Laufey, end this now.
King Laufey: Your boy sought this out.
Odin: You’re right. These are the actions of a boy. Treat them as such. You and I can end this, here and no. Before there’s further bloodshed.
King Laufey: We are beyond diplomacy now, All-Father. He’ll get what he came for. War and death.
Odin: So be it.
Thor: Why did you bring us back?
Odin: Do you realize what you’ve done? What you’ve started?
Thor: I was protecting my home!
Odin: You cannot even protect your friends! How can you hope to protect a kingdom?
Thor: There won’t be a kingdom to protect if we are afraid to act! The Jotuns must learn to fear me! Just as they once feared you.
Odin: That’s pride and vanity talking, not leadership. You’ve forgotten everything I taught you! About a warriors patience.
Thor: While you wait and be patient, the nine realms laugh at us! The old ways are done! You’d stand giving speeches while Asgard falls!
Odin: You are a vain, greedy, cruel boy!
Thor: And you are an old man and a fool!
Odin: Yes, I was a fool. To think you were ready.
Loki: Father…
Odin: Nay!
Odin: Thor Odinson, you have betrayed the express command of your King. Through your arrogance and stupidity, you have opened these peaceful realms and innocent lives to the horror and desolation of war! You are unworthy of these realms! You are unworthy of your title! You’re unworthy of the loved ones you have betrayed. I now take from you, you’re power!
Odin: [takes Thor’s hammer] In the name of my father! And his father before! I, Odin, All-Father, curse you out!
[with Thor’s hammer, he banishes Thor out of Asgard]
Odin: [as he throws Thor’s hammer out of Asgard] Whosoever holds of this hammer, if you be worthy, you possess the power of Thor.
Darcy Lewis: [referring to the unconscious Thor] Woh! Does he need CPR? Because I totally know CPR.
Jane Foster: [as Thor becomes conscious] You alright?
Thor: Hammer? Hammer?!
Darcy Lewis: Yeah, we can tell you’re hammered! That’s pretty obvious.
Thor: You? What realm is this? Álfheimr? Niflheimr?
Darcy Lewis: New Mexico!
Thor: [as Darcy hold her taser gun at him] You dare threaten me, Thor! You’re so puny…
Darcy Lewis: [as she tasers Thor] What? He was freaking me out!
Admission Nurse: Name?
Jane Foster: He said, it was, Thor.
Admission Nurse: T-H-O-R. And your relationship to him?
Jane Foster: I’ve never met him before.
Darcy Lewis: Until she hit him with her car.
Jane Foster: I grazed him. But she tasered him.
Darcy Lewis: Yes, I did.
Erik Selvig: You don’t think this was just a magnetic storm, do you?
Jane Foster: Look? The lensing round these edges, it’s characteristics of an Einstein-Rosen Bridge.
Darcy Lewis: A what?
Erik Selvig: I thought you were a science major.
Darcy Lewis: Political science.
Jane Foster: She was the only applicant.
Jane Foster: [after she hits Thor with her car again] I’m so sorry! I swear I’m not doing this on purpose!
Darcy Lewis: [referring to Thor] You know, for a crazy, homeless person, he’s pretty cut.
Thor: This mortal form has grown weak. I need sustenance!
Sif: [referring to Thor’s banishment] Loki, you must go to the All-Father and convince him to change his mind.
Loki: And if I do, then what? I love Thor more dearly than any of you, but you know what he is. He’s arrogant, he’s reckless, he’s dangerous! You saw how he was today. Is that what Asgard needs from its King?
Sif: [referring to Loki] He may speak for the good of Asgard, but he’s always been jealous of Thor.
Volstagg: We should be grateful to him. He saved our lives.
Hogun: Laufey said there were traitors in the house of Odin. A master of magic could bring three Jotuns into Asgard.
Fandral: Loki has always been one for mischief, but you’re talking about something else entirely.
Loki: Am I cursed?
Odin: No.
Loki: What am I?
Odin: You’re my son.
Loki: What more than that? The casket wasn’t the only thing you took from Jotunheim that day, was it?
Odin: No. In the aftermath of the battle, I went into the temple, and I found a baby. Small for a giants offspring. Abandoned. Suffering. Left to die. Laufey’s son.
Loki: Laufey’s son?
Odin: Yes.
Loki: Why? You were knee deep in Jotun blood. Why would you take me?
Odin: You were an innocent child.
Loki: No! You took me for a purpose. What was it? Tell me?!
Odin: I thought we could unite our kingdoms one day. Bring about an alliance. Bring about permanent peace, through you.
Loki: What?
Odin: But those plans no longer matter.
Loki: So, I’m no more than another stolen relic? Locked up, here, until you might have use of me!
Odin: Why do you twist my words?
Loki: You could have told me what I was, from the beginning! Why didn’t you?
Odin: You’re my son. I wanted only to protect you from the truth.
Loki: What? Because I’m the monster that parents tell their children about at night?
Odin: No! No!
Loki: It all makes sense now. Why you favored Thor, all these years! Because no matter how much you claim to love me, you could never have a Frost Giant sitting on your throne of Asgard!
Jane Foster: How’d you get inside that cloud?
Darcy Lewis: Also how could you eat an entire box of Pop Tarts and still be this hungry?
Thor: [referring to the coffee] This drink, I like it!
Darcy Lewis: I know, it’s great, right?
Thor: [throws his coffee cup to the ground shattering the mug] Another!
Jane Foster: [after Thor has smashed his coffee cup] What was that?
Thor: It was delicious! I want another.
Jane Foster: Well, you could have just said so!
Thor: I just did.
Jane Foster: No. I mean ask nicely!
Thor: I meant no disrespect.
Jane Foster: Alright. Well, no more smashing. Deal?
Thor: You have my word.
Jane Foster: Good.
Darcy Lewis: Oh, my God! This is going on Facebook.
Darcy Lewis: [to Thor as she takes his photo] Smile?
Thor: Yes. If you take me there now, I’ll tell you everything you wish to know.
Jane Foster: Everything?
Thor: Yes. All the answers you seek will be yours, once I reclaim Mjolnir.
Darcy Lewis: Meow-meow? What’s Meow-meo?
Erik Selvig: He’s delusional. Listen to what he’s saying. He’s talking about Mjolnir, and Thor, and Bifrost! It’s the stories I grew up with as a child.
Jane Foster: I’m just going to drive him. That’s it!
Erik Selvig: He’s dangerous, Jane.
Jane Foster: [after the SHIELD take all their equipment] Years of research. Gone.
Darcy Lewis: They even took my iPod.
Erik Selvig: What about the backups?
Jane Foster: They took our backups. They took the backups of our backups. They were extremely thorough.
Darcy Lewis: Just downloaded like thirty songs onto there.
Jane Foster: Could you please stop with your iPod!
Fandral: Where’s Odin?
Loki: Father has fallen into the Odinsleep. Mother fears he may never awaken again.
Sif: We would speak with her.
Loki: She has refused to leave my father’s bedside. You can bring your urgent matter to me. You King.
Sif: My King, we would ask that you end Thor’s banishment.
Loki: My first command cannot be to undo the All-Father’s last. We’re on the brink of war with Jotunheim. Our people need a sense of continuity in order to feel safe in these difficult times. All of us must stand together. For the good of Asgard.
Fandral: Yes, of course.
Loki: Good. You then awaiten for my word.
Volstagg: If I may, beg the indulgence of your majesty to perhaps reconsider…
Loki: We’re done!
Thor: I need a horse!
Pet Store Clerk: We don’t have horses. Just dogs, cats, birds.
Thor: Then give me one of those large enough to ride.
Jane Foster: I’ve never done anything like this before. Have you ever done anything like this before?
Thor: Many times. But you’re brave to do it.
Jane Foster: Well, they just stole my entire life’s work. I didn’t really have much left to lose.
Thor: But you’re clever.
Jane Foster: Thanks.
Thor: Far more clever than anyone else on this realm.
Jane Foster: Realm? Realm?
Thor: You think me strange?
Jane Foster: Yeah, I do!
Thor: Good strange, or bad strange?
Jane Foster: I’m not quite sure yet.
Thor: What you seek, it’s a bridge.
Jane Foster: Like an Einstein-Rosen Bridge?
Thor: More like a rainbow bridge.
Jane Foster: God, I hope you’re not crazy!
Loki: [referring to Odin] So why did he lie?
Frigga: He kept the truth from you, so that you would never feel different. You are our son, Loki. And we your family. We mustn’t lose hope that your father will return to us. And your brother.
Loki: What hope is there for Thor?
Frigga: There’s always a purpose to everything your father does.
Thor: Now stay here. Once I have Mjolnir, I will return the items they’ve stolen from you. Deal?
Jane Foster: No. Look what’s down there? You think you’re just going to walk in, grab our stuff, and walk out?
Thor: No. I’m going to fly out.
Jane Foster: [referring to the picture of Mjolnir from the book] Where’d you find this?
Erik Selvig: The children’s section. I just wanted to show you how silly his story was.
Jane Foster: But you’re the one who’s always pushing me to chase down every possibility, every alternative!
Erik Selvig: I’m talking about science, not magic!
Jane Foster: Well magic is just science that we don’t understand yet. Arthur C. Clarke.
Erik Selvig: Who wrote science fiction.
Jane Foster: A precursor to science fact!
Erik Selvig: In some cases, yes.
Thor: Loki, what are you doing here?
Loki: I had to see you.
Thor: What’s happened? Tell me? Is it Jotunheim? Let me explain to father.
Loki: Father is dead.
Thor: [in shock] What?
Loki: You’re banishment. The threat of a new war. It was too much for him to bear. You mustn’t blame yourself. I know that you loved him. I tried to tell him so, but he wouldn’t listen.
Loki: Your mother has forbidden your return. This is goodbye, brother. I’m so sorry.
Thor: No. I am sorry. Thank you for coming here.
Loki: Farewell.
Thor: [as Loki leaves Agent Coulson enters the room] Goodbye.
Agent Coulson: Goodbye? I just got back.
Agent Coulson: [after they’ve given Thor a fake identity] That still doesn’t explain how he managed to tear through our security.
Erik Selvig: Steroids! He’s a bit if a fitness nut.
Thor: You know, I had it all backwards. I had it all wrong.
Erik Selvig: It’s not a bad thing finding out that you don’t have all the answers. You start asking the right questions.
Thor: For the first time in my life, I have no idea what I’m supposed to do.
Erik Selvig: If anyone is ever going to find his way in this world, you have to start by getting it that he doesn’t know where the hell he is.
Thor: My father was trying to teach me something. But I was too stupid to see it.
Erik Selvig: [referring to Jane] I don’t know if you’re delusional, or if you’re putting some kind of con. I don’t care. Just care about her. I’ve seen the way she looks at you.
Thor: I swear to you, I mean her no harm.
Erik Selvig: Good. In that case, I’ll buy you another round. And you leave town tonight.
Loki: What troubles you gatekeeper?
Heimdall: I turned my gaze upon you in Jotunheim but could neither see you or hear you.
Loki: You were shrouded from me like the Frost Giants had entered this realm. Perhaps your senses have weakened after your many years of service.
Heimdall: Or perhaps someone has found a way to hide that which he does not wish me to see.
Loki: You have great power, Heimdall. Did Odin ever fear you?
Heimdall: No.
Loki: And why is that?
Heimdall: Because he is my King. And I’m sworn to obey him.
Loki: He was your King. And you are sworn to obey me now. Yes?
Heimdall: Yes.
Loki: Then you’ll open the Bifrost to no one. Until I have repaired the damage that my brother has done.
Thor: You’ve been very kind to me. I have been far less grateful than you deserve.
Jane Foster: Well, I hit you with my car a couple times, so I think that kind of even things out.
Thor: Perhaps I had it coming.
Thor: [to Jane] You’re ancestors called it magic, and you call it science. Well, I come from a place where they’re one and the same thing.
Thor: My father explained it to me like this, that your world is one of the nine realms of the cosmos. Linked to each other by the branches of Yggdrasil. The worlds tree. Now you see it every day without realizing. The images glimpsed through, what did you call it? This hooble telescope.
Jane Foster: Hubble.
Thor: Hubble telescope.
Jane Foster: Tell me more.
Thor: So the nine realms. Now there is Midgard, which is earth. There’s Alfheimr, Vanaheimr, Jotunheim and Asgard. And that’s where I come from.
Fandral: Our dearest friend banished. Loki on the throne. Asgard on the brink of war. Yet you’ve managed to consume four wild boar, six pheasants, a side of beef and two casks of ale! Shame on you! Don’t you care!
Volstagg: [shouting] Do not mistake my appetite for apathy!
Heimdall: You would defy the commands of Loki, our King? Break every oath you have taken as warriors, and commit treason to bring Thor back?
Sif: Yes.
Heimdall: Good!
Sif: So you’ll help us?
Heimdall: I am bound by honor to our King. I cannot open the bridge to you.
Fandral: Complicated fellow, isn’t he?
Agent Garrett: [as they see Hogun, Fandral, Sif, and Volstagg] Is there a Renaissance Fair in town?
Agent Cale: Call it in.
Agent Garrett: Yeah. Base, we’ve got Xena, Jackie Chan, and Robin Hood.
Erik Selvig: It’s a beautiful theory, Jane. You won’t be able to convince the scientific community of any of it. Not without hard evidence.
Volstagg: [just then Volstagg knocks on the glass door] Found you!
Thor: My friends!
Volstagg: This is good! This is good!
Erik Selvig: I don’t believe it!
Volstagg: Oh, excuse me. Lady Sif, and the warriors three.
Thor: My friends, I have never been happier to anyone. But you should not have come.
Fandral: We’re here to take you home!
Thor: You know I can’t go home. My father is dead because of me. I must remain in exile.
Sif: Thor, your father still lives.
Heimdall: Tell me, Loki, how did you get the Jotuns into Asgard?
Loki: You think the Bifrost is the only way in and out of this realm? There are secret paths between the worlds, to which, even you with all your gifts are blind. But I have need of them no longer, now that I am king. And I say that for your act of treason, you are relieved of your duties as gatekeeper and no longer citizen of Asgard.
Heimdall: Then I need no longer obey you.
[Loki, with his new found powers freezes Heimdall]
Agent Sitwell: [referring to The Destroyer] Is that one of Stark’s?
Agent Coulson: I don’t know. The guy never tells me anything.
Thor: My friends, I’m just a man. I’ll only be in the way, or worse get one of you killed. But I can help get these people to safety.
Jane Foster: Well, if you’re staying, then so am I.
Thor: We’ll need some time.
Fandral: You’ll have it.
Thor: [walking towards Loki’s giant killer robot] Brother, whatever I have done to wrong you, whatever I have done to lead you to do this, I am truly sorry! But these people are innocent. Taking their lives will gain you nothing. So take mine and end this.
Odin: [flashback, whispering to Thor’s hammer before being banished] Whosoever holds this hammer, if he be worthy, shall possess the power of Thor.
[the Hammer rises from where it was embedded in the stone and finds Thor to save him]
Jane Foster: [after Thor’s regained his powers and is wearing his warrior costume] So is this how you normally look?
Thor: More or less.
Jane Foster: It’s a good look!
Agent Coulson: Donald, I don’t think you’ve been completely honest with me.
Thor: Know this, son of Coul. You and I, we fight for the same cause; the protection of this world. From this day forward you can count me as your ally, if, you return the items you have taken from Jane.
Jane Foster: Stolen!
Thor: Borrowed.
Thor: [as he kisses Jane’s hand] I must go back to Asgard. But I give you my word, I will return for you. Deal?
Jane Foster: [suddenly kisses him passionately] Deal.
King Laufey: [to the unconscious Odin] It’s said, you can still hear and see what transpires around you. I hope it’s true, so that you may know your death came at the hand of Laufey.
Loki: [strikes down Laufey from behind] And your death came by the son of Odin.
Thor: You’re a talented liar, brother. Always have been.
Loki: It’s good to have you back. Now, if you’ll excuse me, I have to destroy Jotunheim.
Thor: Why have you done this?
Loki: To prove to father, that I am a worthy son! When he wakes, I will have saved his life. I will have destroyed that race of monsters. And I will be true heir to the throne!
Thor: You can’t kill an entire race!
Loki: Why not? And what is this new found love for the Frost Giants? You? who could have killed them all with your bear hands.
Thor: I’ve changed.
Loki: So have I.
Loki: I never wanted the throne! I only ever wanted to be your equal.
Thor: I will not fight you, brother!
Loki: I’m not your brother. I never was!
Thor: Loki, this is madness!
Loki: Is it madness? Is it? Is it? Come on, what happened to you on earth that turned you so soft? Don’t tell me it was that woman? Oh! It was! Well, maybe when we’re finished here, I’ll pay here a visit myself.
Loki: [as Thor struggles to close the Bifrost] Look at you? The mighty Thor! With all your strength! And what good does it do you now? Do you hear me, brother? There’s nothing you can do!
Loki: [hanging at the edge of the Bifrost] I could have done it, father! I could have done it! For you! For all of us!
Odin: No, Loki.
Thor: [as Loki lets go and falls] Loki, no! No!
Sif: [referring to Thor] How is he?
Frigga: He mourns for his brother. And he misses her, the mortal.
Odin: You’ll be a wise king.
Thor: There will never be a wiser king than you. Nor a better father.
Thor: I have much to learn. I know that now. Someday, perhaps, I shall make you proud.
Odin: You’ve already made me proud.
Thor: So earth is lost to us?
Heimdall: No. There is always hope.
Thor: [referring to Jane] Can you see her?
Heimdall: Yes.
Thor: How is she?
Heimdall: She searches for you.
Erik Selvig: [post-credits lines] I have a lot to work with. The Forster theory, a gate to another dimension. It’s unprecedented. Isn’t it?
Nick Fury: Legend tell us one thing, history another. But every now and then we find something that belongs to both.
Erik Selvig: [referring to the Tesseract] What is it?
Nick Fury: Power, doctor. If we can figure out how to tap it, maybe unlimited power.
Loki: [we see Loki appear behind Erik in the reflection of a nearby glass] Well, I guess that’s worth a look.
Erik Selvig: [repeats] Well, I guess that’s worth a look.
2. Thor: The Dark World (2013)
'There's nothing more reassuring than realizing that the world is crazier than you are.' - Erik Selvig (Thor: The Dark World Quotes) Click To TweetMCU superhero fantasy adventure sequel directed by Alan Taylor. Thor: The Dark World (2013) follows Thor (Chris Hemsworth) teaming up with Loki (Tom Hiddleston) to save the Nine Realms from the Dark Elves led by the vengeful Malekith (Christopher Eccleston), who intends to plunge the universe into darkness.
Odin: Long before the birth of light there was darkness, and from that darkness came the Dark Elves. Millennia ago the most ruthless of their kind, Malekith, sought to transform our universe back into one of eternal night. Such evil was blossomed through the power of the Aether, an ancient force of infinite destruction. The noble of armies of Asgard, led by my father, King Bor, waged a mighty war against these wretches.
Odin: As the nine worlds converged above him Malekith could at last unleash the Aether. But Asgard had ripped the weapon from his grasp. Without it the Dark Elves fell. With the battle all but lost Malekith sacrificed his own people in desperate attempt to lay waste to Asgard’s army. Malekith was ambushed and the Aether was no more. Or so we were led to believe.
Loki: Hello, mother. Have I made you proud.
Frigga: Please, don’t make this worse.
Loki: Define worse.
Odin: Enough! I will speak to the prisoner alone.
'Merriment can sometimes be a heavier burden than battle.' - Thor (Thor: The Dark World Quotes) Click To Tweet
Loki: I really don’t see what all the fuss is about.
Odin: Do you not truly feel the gravity of your crimes? Wherever you go there is war, ruin and death.
Loki: I wanted to rule the people of Earth as a benevolent God, just like you.
Odin: We are not Gods. We are born. We live. We die, just as humans do.
Loki: Give or take five thousand years.
Odin: All this because Loki desires a throne.
Loki: It’s my birthright!
Odin: Your birthright was to die as a child! Cast out onto a frozen rock. If I had not taken you in you would not be here now to hate me.
Loki: If I had fully asked for true mercy, I’d say just swing it. It’s not that I don’t love our little talks, it’s just, I don’t love them.
Odin: Frigga is the only reason you are still alive, and you will never see her again. You will spend the rest of your days in the dungeon.
Loki: And what of Thor? You’ll make that witless oaf king while I rot in chains?
Odin: Thor must strive to undo the damage you have done. He will bring order to the Nine Realms. And then, yes, he will be king.
Sif: [as they’re battling an army of invaders] I’ve got this completely under control!
Thor: Is that why everything’s on fire!
Thor: [to the monster] Hello. I accept your surrender.
Thor: [throws his hammer at the creature, destroying it in one blow] Anyone else?
Fandral: Perhaps next time we should start with the big one.
Hogun: Where do we go next?
Thor: Hogun, the future is nearly won when we cross the Nine Realms. You should stay here and be with your people where your heart is, Asgard can wait.
Hogun: You have my thanks.
Thor: As you have mine.
Odin: Is Vanaheim secure?
Thor: As are Nornheim and Ria, though our work would have gone more quickly with you in form.
Odin: You must think I’m a piece of bread that needs to be buttered so heavily.
Thor: That was not my intent.
Odin: The first time since Bifrost was destroyed, the Nine Realms are in peace. We’re well reminded of our strength, and you have earned their respect, and my gratitude.
Odin: Nothing out of order except you’re confused and distracted heart.
Thor: This isn’t about Jane Foster, father.
Odin: Human lives are fleeting, they’re nothing. You’d be better served by what lies in front of you. I’m telling you this not as the All-Father, but as your father. You are ready, the time has come for you to take the throne. Embrace it, celebrate what you have won. Join your warriors, eat and drink, revel in their celebration. At least pretend to enjoy yourself.
Sif: There was a time you would celebrate for weeks.
Thor: I remember you celebrated the battle of Haragon so much that you nearly started a second.
Sif: Well, the first was so much fun.
Richard: [during their date] So what’s the story with you?
Jane Foster: Why does there have to be a story? There’s no story.
Richard: You’ve spent the first ten minutes of our date hiding behind a menu that has three choices on it. It’s either chicken, vegetarian, or fish, Jane. I think there’s a story, and I’m thinking the story involves a guy?
Jane Foster: It’s complicated.
Richard: Is he still around?
Jane Foster: No. He went away.
Richard: I’ve been there. The going away, it’s hard. I’d been seeing a woman, and she took a job in New York. Eventually the distance killed it. And the fact that she kept sleeping with other dudes.
Jane Foster: No!
Richard: Oh, so many.
Darcy Lewis: [shows up at Jane’s date] So, I show up to work at the lab, slash, your mom’s house, fully expecting you to be moping around in your pajamas, eating ice cream, obsessing about you know who. But you’re not! You’re wearing lady clothes, you even showered, didn’t you? You smell good.
Jane Foster: Is there a point to all this, because there really has to be a point to all this.
Darcy Lewis: Right. You know that scientific equipment you don’t look at anymore? You might want to start looking at it now.
Darcy Lewis: Our friend Erik, kind of went banana-balls.
Jane Foster: He’s not interested. I’m not interested. Time for you to go now.
Darcy Lewis: Okay.
Richard: Short but sweet.
Jane Foster: She needs help.
Richard: I think I’m going to have the sea bass.
Jane Foster: Sea bass. Yeah, sea bass is good. Sea bass, sea bass, sea bass, sea bass, sea bass, sea bass, sea bass, sea bass. Sea bass.
Richard: Jane, maybe you should stop saying sea bass, and go out to your friend.
Jane Foster: This was so fun.
Richard: You know, I’ll just stay here and say sea bass alone.
Jane Foster: Who’s he?
Darcy Lewis: He’s my intern.
Jane Foster: You have an intern?
Darcy Lewis: Oh, yeah.
Darcy Lewis: Do you want the phase meter?
Jane Foster: No.
Darcy Lewis: Bring the phase meter. The toaster looking thing.
Ian Boothby: I know what the phase meter is.
Jane Foster: [referring to her phone] How do I change the ring tone on this thing?
Darcy Lewis: An Astrophysicist with three degrees should be able to change her own ring tone.
Jane Foster: Why are you calling me?
Darcy Lewis: I didn’t want to shout.
Darcy Lewis: [as they hear a noise in the old factory] I am not getting stabbed in the name of science. It’s okay, we’re Americans!
Jane Foster: Is that supposed to make them like us?
Malekith: [subtitled] The Aether awakens us. The Convergence returns.
Heimdall: You’re late.
Thor: Merriment can sometimes be a heavier burden than battle.
Heimdall: Then you’re doing one of them incorrectly.
Thor: Perhaps.
Heimdall: You recall what I told you of the Convergence?
Thor: Yes, the alignment of the worlds. It approaches, doesn’t it?
Heimdall: The universe hasn’t seen this marvel since before my watch began. Few can sense it, even fewer can see it. But while its effects can be dangerous, it is truly beautiful.
Thor: I see nothing.
Heimdall: Or perhaps that is not the beauty you seek.
Thor: How is she?
Heimdall: She’s quite clever, your mortal. She doesn’t know it yet, but she studies the Convergence as well. Even…
Thor: What?
Heimdall: [as we see Jane being infected by the Aether] I can’t see her.
Darcy Lewis: Jane! Where the hell were you?
Jane Foster: Tell me you didn’t call the police!
Darcy Lewis: What was I supposed to do?
Jane Foster: Not call the police!
Darcy Lewis: I was freaking out.
Jane Foster: You call the cops, they tell the feds. The next thing you know we have SHIELD crawling all over area fifty-one and wanting the place.
Jane Foster: We had a stable gratification anomaly, we had unheeded access. Our only competition was ten years old!
Darcy Lewis: Jane, you were gone for five hours!
Jane Foster: What?
Thor: Jane.
Jane Foster: [slaps Thor hard in the face] Sorry. I just needed to make sure you were real. It’s been a very strange day.
Thor: Well, I am.
Jane Foster: [suddenly she slaps him again] Where were you?!
Thor: Where were you? Heimdall could not see you.
Jane Foster: I was right here where you left me. I was waiting, and then I was crying, and then I went out looking for you. You said you were coming back
Thor: I know. I know, but the Bifrost was destroyed. The Nine Realms erupted into chaos. Wars were raging. Marauding hordes were pillaging. I had to put an end to the slaughter.
Jane Foster: As excuses go, that’s not terrible. But I saw you on TV. You were in New York!
Thor: Jane, I fought to protect you from the dangers of my world. But I was wrong, I was a fool.
Thor: I believe that fate brought us together. Jane, I don’t know where you were, or what happened, but I do know this.
Jane Foster: What?
Thor: I know…
Jane Foster: You do?
Thor: Do what?
[as they’re about to kiss Darcy interrupts them]
Darcy Lewis: Look at you, still all muscly and everything. How’s space?
Thor: Space is fine.
Police Officer #1: Do you know this man?
Jane Foster: He’s my intern. My intern’s intern.
Police Officer #2: [to Jane] Place your hands on your head, step back!
Thor: The woman is unwell.
Police Officer #2: She’s dangerous.
Thor: So am I.
Jane Foster: [to Thor, as they go through the Bifrost] We have to do that again.
Malekith: [subtitled] Look at my legacy, Algrim. I barely remember the time before light.
Algrim: [subtitled] Our survival will be your legacy.
Malekith: [subtitled] The Asgardians will suffer as we have suffered. I will reclaim the Aether. I will restore our world, and I’ll put an end to this poisonous world.
Odin: My words are mere noises to you that you ignore them completely?
Thor: She’s ill.
Odin: She is mortal. Illness is their defining trait.
Thor: I brought here because we can help her.
Odin: She does not belong here in Asgard any more than a goat belongs at a banquet table.
Jane Foster: Did he just…?
Jane Foster: Who do you think you are?
Odin: I’m Odin. King of Asgard. Protector of the Nine Realms.
Jane Foster: Oh. Well, I’m…
Odin: I know very well who you are, Jane Foster.
Jane Foster: You told your Dad about me?
Thor: Something is within her, father. Something I have not seen before.
Odin: Her world has its healers. Their called doctors, let them deal with it.
Odin: There are relics that predate the universe itself. What lies within her appears to be one of them. The Nine Realms are not eternal. They had a dawn as they will have a dusk. But before that dawn the dark forces, the Dark Elves, reigned absolute and unchallenged.
Thor: [reading from the book] “Born of eternal night, the Dark Elves comes to steal away your light.” They were these stories mother told us as children.
Odin: Their leader, Malekith made a weapon out of that darkness, it was called the Aether. While the other relics often appeared as stones, the Aether is fluid and ever changing. It changes matter into dark matter and seeks out to host bodies, drawing strength from their life force.
Loki: [referring to the new prisoners] Odin continues to bring me new friends. How thoughtful.
Frigga: The books I sent, do they not interest you?
Loki: Is that how I’m to wile away eternity, reading?
Frigga: I’ve done everything in my power to make you comfortable, Loki.
Loki: Have you? Does Odin share your concern? Does Thor? It must be so inconvenient them asking after me day and night.
Frigga: You know full well that your actions have brought you here.
Loki: My actions. I was merely giving truth to the lie that I’ve been fed my entire life, that I was born to be a king.
Frigga: A king? A true king admits his faults. What of the lives you took on Earth?
Loki: A mere handful compared to the numbers Odin has taken himself.
Frigga: Your father…
Loki: He’s not my father!
Frigga: Then am I not your mother?
Loki: You’re not.
Frigga: Always so perceptive about everyone but yourself.
Thor: [to Jane] I believe you were in between worlds. The Nine Realms travel within Yggdrasil, orbiting Midgard in much the way your planet orbits the sun. Every five thousand years the worlds align perfectly, we call this the Convergence. During this time the boarders between worlds become blurred. It’s possible you found one of these points. We are lucky that it remained open. Once the worlds pass out of alignment, the connection is lost.
[he leans closer and they kiss]
Jane Foster: What’s going to happen to me?
Thor: I’ll find a way to save you, Jane.
Jane Foster: Your father said there was…
Thor: My father doesn’t know everything.
Frigga: Don’t let him hear you say that.
Fandral: [as they enter the fight with the prisoners] It’s as if they resent being imprisoned.
Volstagg: There’s no pleasing some creatures.
Thor: [to the prisoners] Return to your cells and further harm will come to you. You have my word.
Thor: [one of the prisoners punches him in the face] Very well. You don’t have my word.
Frigga: You take care.
Odin: Despite all I have survived, my queen still worries over me.
Frigga: It’s only because I worry over you that you have survived.
Frigga: Stand down, creature. You may still survive this.
Malekith: I have survived worse, woman.
Frigga: Who are you?
Malekith: I am Malekith, and I would have what it is mine.
Malekith: Witch! Where is the Aether?
Frigga: I’ll never tell.
Malekith: I believe you.
[suddenly Algrim stabs Frigga in the back and kills her]
Erik Selvig: My gravimetric spikes can stabilize the focal point of the Convergence. This time the alignment, and all the other worlds, would just pass up by. It’s beautiful. It’s simple. Any questions?
Patient: [we see it’s Stan Lee] Yeah. Can I have my shoe back?
Odin: I do not wish to fight with you.
Thor: Nor I with you, but I intend to pursue Malekith.
Odin: We possess the Aether. Malekith will come to us.
Thor: Yes, and you will destroy us.
Odin: You overestimate the power of these creatures.
Thor: No, I value our people’s lives.
Odin: If you fail, you risk this weapon falling into the hands of our enemies.
Thor: The risk is far greater if we do nothing. His ship could be over our heads right now and we’d never even know it.
Odin: If and when he comes, his men will fall by ten thousand Asgardian blades.
Thor: And how of our men shall fall on theirs?
Odin: As many as are needed!
Odin: We will fight! Until the last Asgardian breath, the last drop of Asgardian blood.
Thor: And how are you different from Malekith?
Odin: The difference, my son, is that I will win.
Darcy Lewis: Jane isn’t called me back. Erik isn’t calling me back. Stupid SHIELD isn’t calling me back!
Ian Boothby: What’s SHIELD?
Darcy Lewis: It’s a secret.
Thor: Malekith will return, you know this. I’ll need your help.
Heimdall: I cannot overrule my King’s wishes, not even for you.
Thor: I’m not asking you to. The Realms need their All-Father strong and unchallenged, whether he is or not. But he is blinded, Heimdall, by hatred and by grief.
Heimdall: As are we all.
Thor: Well I see clearly enough.
Heimdall: The risks are too great.
Thor: Everything that we do from here on is a risk, there is no other way.
Heimdall: What do you require of me?
Thor: What I’m about to ask of you is treason of the highest order. Success will bring us exile, and failure shall mean our death. Malekith knew the Aether was here, he can sense its power. If we do nothing he will come for it again, but this time lay waste to all of Asgard.
Loki: Thor, after all this time now you come to visit me. Why? Have you come to gloat? To mock?
Thor: Loki, enough. No more illusions.
Loki: Now you see me, brother.
Loki: [referring to Frigga] Did she suffer?
Thor: I do not come here to share in our grief. Instead I offer you the chance of a far richer sacrament.
Loki: Go on.
Thor: I know you seek vengeance as much as I do. You help me escape Asgard, and I will grant it to you, vengeance. And afterwards, this cell.
Loki: You must be truly desperate to come to me for help. What makes you think you can trust me?
Thor: I don’t. Mother did. You should know that when we fought each other in the past, I did so with the glimmer of hope that my brother was still in there somewhere. That hope no longer exists to protect you. You betray me and I will kill you.
Loki: When do we start?
Fandral: [referring to Loki] He will betray you.
Thor: He will try.
Loki: This is so unlike you, brother. So clandestine. Are you sure you wouldn’t rather just punch your way out?
Thor: If you keep speaking I just might.
Loki: Fine. As you wish. I’m not even here.
Loki: [turns himself into an Asgardian guard] Is this better?
Thor: It’s better company at least.
Loki: Still, we could be less conspicuous.
Loki: [turns Thor into Sif] Brother. You look ravishing.
Thor: It will hurt no less when I kill you in this form.
Loki: Very well. Perhaps you prefer one of your new companions, given that you seem to like them so much.
Loki: [turns himself into Captain America] Oh, this is much better. Woh. Costume’s a bit much. It’s so tight. The confidence, I can feel the righteousness surging. Hey, you want to have a rousing discussion about truth, honor, patriotism? God bless America.
Loki: You can at least furnish me with a weapon. A dagger, something!
Loki: [Thor puts something in his hands] At last, a little common sense.
Thor: [Loki looks down to his hands are in iron handcuffs] I thought you liked tricks.
Jane Foster: You’re…?
Loki: Loki. You may have…
Jane Foster: [slaps Loki hard in the face] That was for New York.
Loki: [to Thor] I like her.
Odin: You called me here on an urgent matter. What is it?
Heimdall: Treason, my lord.
Odin: Whose?
Heimdall: Mine.
Sif: [referring to Thor] Betray him and I’ll kill you.
Loki: It’s good to see you too, Sif.
Volstagg: [referring to Thor] If you even think about betraying him…
Loki: You’ll kill me? Evidently there will be a line.
Loki: [on Malekith’s ship] I thought you said you knew how to fly this thing.
Thor: I said, “How hard could it be.”
Loki: [referring to the guards] They’re on the ship! Well, whatever you’re doing, brother, I suggest you do it faster.
Thor: Shut up, Loki.
Loki: [as Thor is trying to fly the ship and hits the palace columns] I think you missed a column.
Thor: Shut up!
Loki: Look, why don’t you let me take over, I’m clearly the best pilot.
Thor: Is that right? Well, out of the two of us which one can actually fly?
Loki: [referring to the Asgardian ships] Now they’re following us. Now they’re firing at us!
Thor: Yeah, thank you for the commentary, Loki! It’s not at all distracting!
Loki: [as Thor crashes into the statue of King Bor] Well done, you just decapitated your grandfather.
Loki: You know this is wonderful. This is a tremendous idea. Let’s steal the biggest most obvious ship in the universe and escape, flying around the city, smashing into everything in sight so everyone can see us. It’s brilliant, Thor! It’s truly brilliant!
[suddenly Thor pushes Loki off the ship]
Loki: You lied to me. I’m impressed.
Thor: I’m glad you’re pleased. Now, do as you promised. Take us to your secret pathway.
Thor: [as Loki is taking them towards the mountain] Loki!
Loki: If it were easy everyone would do it.
Thor: Are you mad?
Loki: Possibly.
Loki: [referring to Jane] Say goodbye.
Thor: Not this day.
Loki: This day, the next, a hundred years is nothing. It’s a heartbeat. You’ll never be ready. The only woman whose love you prized will be snatched from you.
Thor: And will that satisfy you?
Loki: Satisfaction is not in my nature.
Thor: Surrender is not in mine.
Loki: The son of Odin.
Thor: No, not just of Odin! You think you alone who loved mother? You had her tricks, but I had her trust!
Loki: Trust. Was that her last expression? Trust? When you let her die!
Thor: What help were you in your cell?
Loki: Who put me there? Who put me there?!
Thor: You know damn well! You know damn well!
Thor: [referring to Frigga] She wouldn’t want us to fight.
Loki: Well, she wouldn’t exactly be shocked.
Thor: I wish I could trust you.
Loki: Trust my rage.
Erik Selvig: How did you find me?
Ian Boothby: You were naked on TV.
Darcy Lewis: [as Erik continues to hold her] Okay, time to go. Lots to do. Getting weird now.
Darcy Lewis: I should not be left in charge of stuff like this. I don’t get paid enough. I don’t get paid period.
Ian Boothby: I’m Ian by the way. Darcy’s intern. I don’t get paid either. Are you alright?
Erik Selvig: I have had a God in my brain. I don’t recommend it.
Darcy Lewis: Why are you smiling?
Erik Selvig: There’s nothing more reassuring than realizing that the world is crazier than you are.
Loki: You know this plan of yours is going to get us killed.
Thor: Yeah, possibly.
Loki: [as Thor uncuffs him] You still don’t trust me, brother?
Thor: Would you?
Loki: No, I wouldn’t.
[suddenly stabs Thor]
Loki: [after he’s stabbed Thor] You really think I cared about Frigga, about anybody? All I ever wanted was you and Odin dead at my feet!
Loki: [referring to Jane] Malekith, I am Loki of Jotunheim and I bring you a gift! I ask only one thing in return, a good seat from which to watch Asgard burn.
Loki: [after Algrim stabs him] See you in hell, monster!
Thor: No, no! Fool, you didn’t listen!
Loki: I know, I’m a fool. I’m a fool!
Thor: It’s alright. I’ll tell father what you did here today.
Loki: I didn’t do it for him.
[he closes his eyes and seemingly dies]
Jane Foster: Oh, God. None of this would have happened if I hadn’t found the Aether.
Thor: Then Malekith would have only possessed it that much sooner.
Jane Foster: I only found it because I was looking for you.
Thor: Jane.
Jane Foster: Now we’re trapped here.
Jane Foster: [over phone] Richard?! Where are you?
Richard: I’m still in the office. It’s been a crazy day here today.
Jane Foster: Oh, my God! This is amazing.
Richard: Is it? I quite enjoyed our lunch despite never actually ordering anything.
Jane Foster: How am I getting service here?
Thor: So who’s Richard?
Jane Foster: Really?
Erik Selvig: Jane, how wonderful! You’ve been to Asgard.
Jane Foster: Where are your pants?
Ian Boothby: Oh, he says it helps him think.
Thor: Are you well, Erik?
Erik Selvig: Your brother is not coming, is he?
Thor: Loki is dead.
Erik Selvig: Oh, thank God. I’m so sorry.
Thor: Thank you.
Erik Selvig: All the great constructions: the Mayas, the Chinese, the Egyptians, they made use of the gravitational effects of the Convergence. And they left us a map. Stonehenge. Snowdon, the Great Orme. These are all coordinates taking us here.
Ian Boothby: Greenwich?
Jane Foster: The walls between worlds will be almost non-existent. Physics is going to go ballistic. Increase and decrease in gravity, spatial extrusions. The very fabric of reality is going to be torn apart.
Erik Selvig: I better get my pants.
Darcy Lewis: Focus, this is important. We have to hammer them in all around the site, and then Jane and Erik will activate them from the tower.
Ian Boothby: They’re taped together!
Darcy Lewis: Do you even know what these things do?
Ian Boothby: No.
Darcy Lewis: Neither do I.
Malekith: You needn’t have come so far, Asgardian! Death would have come to you soon enough.
Thor: Not by your hand!
Erik Selvig: The Convergence will be in full effect in seven minutes.
Jane Foster: That just means we have to keep Malekith busy for eight.
Jane Foster: [in the library] What are you all doing? You need to get out of here! Now!
Student: You’re joking, right? That’s Thor out there waving his hammer around and everything!
Ian Boothby: Are you alright?
Darcy Lewis: You saved my life.
Ian Boothby: Yeah. Yes, I did.
Jane Foster: [as she finds Darcy and Ian kissing] Darcy?
Darcy Lewis: Jane!
Erik Selvig: [as Ian falls to the ground] Ian?
Ian Boothby: Selvig!
Darcy Lewis: [as Mjolnir appears and flies past them] Meow-meow!
Thor: How do I get to Greenwich?
Woman on Train: Take this train, three stops.
Malekith: The darkness returns, Asgardian. Have you come to witness the end of your universe?
Thor: I’ve come to accept your surrender.
Malekith: You think you can stop me? The Aether cannot be destroyed.
Thor: But you can.
Darcy Lewis: [referring to Thor] He’s going to come back. Except, you know, last time he was gone for like two years.
Jane Foster: Well, it’s only been two days, so.
Erik Selvig: Did he say anything before he left?
Jane Foster: Yeah, he had to figure some stuff out with his father. He kind of committed treason on our way out.
Odin: You once said there would never be a wiser King than me. You were wrong. The alignment has brought all the realms together. Every one of them saw you offer your life to save them. What can Asgard offer its new King in return?
Thor: My life. Father, I cannot be King of Asgard. I will protect Asgard and all the realms with my last and every breath, but I cannot do so from that chair. Loki, for all his grave imbalance understood rule as I know I never will. The brutality, the sacrifice, it changes you. I’d rather be a good man than a great King.
Odin: Is this my son I hear, or the woman he loves?
Thor: When you speak I never hear Mother’s voice. This is not for Jane, Father. She does not know what I came here to say. Now forbid me to see her, or say she can rule at my side, it changes nothing.
Odin: One son who wanted the throne too much. Another who will not take it. Is this my legacy?
Thor: Loki died with honor, I shall try to live the same. Is that not legacy enough?
Odin: [referring to Mjolnir] It belongs to you, if you are worthy of it.
Thor: I shall try to be.
Odin: I cannot give you my blessing, nor can I wish you good fortune.
Thor: I know.
Odin: If I were proud of the man my son had become, even that I could not say. It would speak only from my heart. Go, my son.
Thor: Thank you, father.
Loki: [as Thor leaves, we see Odin’s form transform to reveal Loki] No. Thank you.
The Collector: [mid-credits lines] referring to the Aether] I can assure you it will be absolutely safe in my collection.
Sif: See that it is.
The Collector: [as Sif and Volstagg leave] One down, five to go.