Thor Comic-Con Footage Description & Infinity Gauntlet

That, my friends, would be the Infinity Gauntlet from Thor.  If you don’t know what that is, read all about it here.  If you do know, than it’s pretty obvious that this has gotten everybody even more excited about Thor.  We don’t know how big of a role it will play in the film just yet, but the fact that it’s there is good enough for me.  So, with that being said, below is the description of the footage that was shown from Thor at Comic-Con.  It should also be noted that this was shown to the audience in 3D.

“…the footage begins with a lightning crack that seems to be the running theme of the footage shown, which makes sense being that this is the God of Thunder and that creating lightning is one of his principal skills. We see an aerial shot of a S.H.I.E.L.D. base where Clark Gregg’s Agent Coulson is grilling Chris Hemsworth’s Thor, who is in handcuffs slumped in a chair.

Coulson is giving Thor a long monologue, as he’s prone to do, trying to find out who this man before him is. He says to him, with suitably long pauses for added effect:

“One way or another, we find out what we want to know,” he says. “We’re good at that. It’s not easy to do what you did.”

We see Thor breaking out of what seems to be a hospital but is more likely to be a S.H.I.E.L.D. containment center, throwing people around and throwing someone in a quarantine suit through the outside of a plastic containment area.

“You make my men, some of the most highly trained professionals in the world look like a minimum wage mall cops,” Coulson continues.

We see Thor fighting more S.H.I.E.L.D. soldiers using a very physical way of combat, at one point jumping up and kicking a guy full on the chest with both feet.

“In my experience,” Coulson says. “It takes someone who received similar training to do what you did to them? Why don’t you tell me where you received that training.” Pause. “Afghanistan? You strike me more as a soldier of fortune type.”  During this part of his interrogation, we see more of Thor fighting and a bunch of explosions.

“Who are you?” He finally asks, and at this, Thor looks up at him from the chair.

The rest of the description can be found after the break.

We then cut to Asgard, which is shown as a bright constellation in the sky and as the camera travels into this star cluster, we see that this is an enormous and spectacular world filled with large towers seemingly made out of gold. Over these scenes, we hear the regal voiceover of Sir Anthony Hopkins as Odin:

“I have sacrificed much to achieve peace. So too must a new generation sacrifice to maintain that peace. Responsibility, duty, honor,” he proclaims loudly. “these are not mere virtues we must aspire. They are essential to every soldier and to every king,” he proclaims.

During this voiceover, the camera that’s been showing us glimpses of this Godly world finally enters Odin’s throne room as seen in recent pictures and the camera pans forward to Odin sitting in his throne, really holding sway over everyone in the room. Anthony Hopkins really looks well-suited to play a king in fact.

As he speaks, we see some of the Norse Gods briefly including Sif, Balder and each of the Warriors Three. At the base of Odin’s throne is his son Thor.

“Thor, for your arrogance and stupidity, you have opened these peaceful realms and innocent lives to the horror and the devastation of war.”

As that is said, we see our first look at Idris Elba’s Heimdall with fierce glowing eyes, as well as  as bunch of other Asgardian creatures, presumably trolls, advancing on the camera.

Odin’s voice starts to get louder and angrier, “You are a vain, greedy, cruel boy.”

Thor looks up and yells at him, “And you are an old man and a fool!”

Odin responds to him, “Yes, I was a fool…. To think you were ready.”

This is when we first see Tom HIddleston as Loki who tries to intercede which just angers Odin more, but he’s now back to Thor again. “You’re unworthy and you’re a traitor! I now take from you your power. In the name of my father and his father before, I cast you out!” And as he says that, he sends a bolt of magical force at Thor sending him flying backwards out of the throne room and then through the stars, screaming as he crashes to earth in the desert.

He’s found by Natalie Portman’s Jane Foster who looks at his prone body and says, “Please open your eyes.” He does and seems perplexed, asking her in what seems like his normal Australian accent, “Oh, no, this is earth, isn’t it?” and she asks, “Where did you come from?”

Yes, Thor has angered his father Odin so badly that he’s been exiled to earth sans powers, which is a very popular storyline from the comics, though not necessarily the same origin story told in “Journey into Mystery” #83 as we’ll learn later.

We then see Hemsworth walking around shirtless (which got many girls in the audience to scream) and impressing Foster and her assistant Darcy (played by Kat Dennings) makes a comment, “You know, for a crazy homeless person, you’re pretty good.”

The next few scenes involve Thor and Jane Foster driving an RV through the desert and talking.

“Describe exactly what happened to you last night,” she says to him.

“Your ancestors called it magic and you call it science,” he answers. “I come from a place where they’re one and the same,” he tells her.

“We are on the verge of understanding something extraordinary,” she says to him as they drive.

“The answers you seek will be yours once I reclaim what’s mine,” he tells her.

We then see that they’re driving to the S.H.I.E.L.D. base and once inside, he pulls back a curtain to show where they’re holding Mjolnir, Thor’s hammer, after finding it in the desert at the end of Iron Man 2. Its business end is encased in a large thin piece of rock that had been cut away from the crater created by it dropping to earth. Thor tries to pull the hammer out of the rock, but as hard as he tries he can’t seem to get it out.

This is something interesting to note, because Kenneth Branagh is clearly not going for the usual origin of Thor where Dr. Donald Blake finds a cane in a cave, strikes it on the earth and then changes into Thor. No, in this case, Thor has been exiled sans powers and without the strength to pull that hammer out of the rock, at least for now, which means he remains strong and well-trained in fighting, but still merely a very strong mortal.

Odin’s voiceover says, “Whoever wields this hammer will be deemed worthy to possess the power of Thor.”

We’re then back to Asgard, where Loki is leading a group of Gods on some kind of march, but we also then see that Odin is lying prone on a slab, clearly having been killed either in war (or maybe through some trick of Loki?) leaving his kingdom of Asgard in need of a successor. A woman’s voice, presumably his wife Frigga,  says, “The line of succession falls to you. Asgard is yours,” and indeed, Loki says, “I am now the leader of Asgard. I am your king,” as he casually walks up to the throne and the Warriors Three kneel before him.

“For the first time in my life, I have no idea what I’m supposed to do,” Thor says in voiceover and then we finally see him in his full costume as he battles with Loki. We also see a great shot of Thor standing on the throne with his hammer raised above his fight, another physical battle with Loki, in which he actually hurls Mjolnir at him and Loki blocks the hammer with his staff. There’s also a shot of Thor kissing Jane Foster, though we didn’t really see much of Sif, which was surprising.

Throughout the footage, there are lots of lightning strikes used to great effect, the last one heralding the first official Thor logo.

We do see and hear Odin one more time in the footage, as he’s standing in the shadows with another figure, his voice proclaiming, “He has disobeyed the expressed demand of his king. His fate is in his own hands now.”

The closing scene of the footage shows Coulson gathered with a bunch of agents in the desert, and we hear this loud booming noises which is shaking everything ala the T-Rex footsteps in Jurassic Park. Coulson looks up to the sky and we see something large drop to the desert sending sand everywhere.  When the sand clears, we see it’s Odin’s destroyer, an enormous robotic construct not unlike the one from The Day the Earth Stood Still.

“Is that one of Stark’s?” someone asks Agent Coulson, who responds, “I don’t know. The guy never tells me anything,” he adds, and then says to the Destroyer, “Hello, you are using unregistered weapons technology, identify yourself.” The Destroyer starts pacing towards the S.H.I.E.L.D. agents, and Coulson says matter of factly, “Here we go.” and that’s when the eye panels on the Destroyer’s metal head opens up and starts shooting eye blasts out at the gathered agents, blowing up the agent’s cars off to the left and then the cars on the right and then the last blast goes right at the camera to end the footage.”

Source: SuperHeroHype