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If I Could Start Again (AO3 link here) is an MCU Peggy Sue fanfic written past Taaroko centered primarily on Thor and Loki.

Unlike the catastrophe of Avengers: Infinity War, where Stormbreaker lands at the center of Thanos' chest, it instead lands ii inches to the left and renders the Titan'south left arm useless. Now unable to use the Infinity Gauntlet, Thor finishes him off, just Vengeance Feels Empty. Without thinking, he takes the Time Stone from the Gauntlet, and his heed is sent back in fourth dimension to earlier his coronation, with anybody all the same live. At present he has his chance to set everything right, and ensure that everyone he cares for survives what is to come.

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If I Could Start Again provides examples of:

• 0% Blessing Rating:
  • Besides his children, nobody likes Thanos. Thor despises him, Loki wants aught to practise with him, and everyone thinks he'south insane. After hearing almost him only one time, Clint and Natasha are on the same boat every bit Thor. Many of those in Asgard old enough to remember the war with him and its fallout also hold him in contempt.
  • Zig-zagged with Hela. While plenty of Asgardians were happy to do away with her and put their vehement by behind them, she also had plenty of followers who were loyal to her that killed Baldur via poison and tried to kill Thor and Loki in infancy, as well as return her from Nifilheim.
• Achievements in Ignorance: Thor's meet with Peter Parker means that he has met 1 of the few Avengers he would definitely never have met or heard of in the original timeline (he never met Scott Lang, but someone may take mentioned T'Challa to him during the Battle of Wakanda and Thor was at least aware of Bucky, Sam and Rhodey even if he didn't directly fight alongside them).
• Adaptational Badass:
  • The Grandmaster displayed no combat abilities in Thor: Ragnarok. In this story, he fights confronting Ebony Maw and doesn't even flinch when impaled past several spears. Notably, while everyone else fears Ebony Maw on some level, the Grandmaster actually hopes the alien will try to kill him as he thinks it'd be funny. It's not a scratch on his comic counterpart, merely much more impressive than what was shown in the film.
  • Loki makes use of his Frost Behemothic heritage rather than rely solely on his spells and trickery.
  • The gauntlet in Odin's vault was Thanos' prototype Infinity Gauntlet and non just a fake.
• Adaptational Early Appearance:
  • Chapter 53 ends with what appears to be Ava Starr, AKA 'the Ghost', shown stalking the would-be Avengers on the orders of an unidentified individual that is clearly intended to be HYDRA, a practiced few years before her canon confrontation with Scott Lang and Hope Pym.
  • Chapter 65 sees the Winter Soldier try to assassinate Tony Stark during the press conference to introduce Thor, Loki and Brunhilde to the world.
• Adaptational Heroism:
  • Thanks to Thor'due south actions, he ensures that Loki will never become a villain and it's stated that he'due south on the list to make the Avenger Initiative.
  • Without Thor having even planned on it, his actions too cause Ava Starr to discover the existence of HYDRA, resulting her rebelling against S.H.I.Eastward.50.D. and impale Alexander Pierce. Equally a effect of Ava'southward actions, Fury and his allies are able to start their campaign confronting HYDRA past planting suggestions that Pierce's death is part of an internal ability struggle in the organization itself, while Ava herself is relocated to safety and other scientists work on finding a cure for her condition.
• Adaptation Origin Connectedness: In the MCU, the Infinity Gauntlet in Asgard's vault was dismissed as a fake by Hela. Hither, it'due south the prototype of the gauntlet Thanos would afterwards use that Odin took from him in Asgard's war against the Titan's armies thousands of years ago.
• Adaptation Relationship Overhaul: In the MCU, in that location was no indication that Thanos or Odin fifty-fifty knew of each other. Hither, they are sometime enemies from Odin's conqueror days.
• Age Elevator: According to the Russo brothers, Thanos in the MCU is really somewhat younger than Thor, being roughly ane,000 years old. Here, he's ancient enough to take fought Odin long before Thor and Loki were born.
• Aliens Speaking English language: Averted. Thor and Loki speak any language thank you to the All-Speak, just they need to buy translators for Natasha and Clint when they go far on Sakaar.
• Virtually Buss: Loki and Valkyrie nearly share a osculation subsequently fending for themselves on Ebony Maw's ship, simply for Thor to drop in right before they could close the distance.
• Amnesia Missed a Spot: The best description of the Winter Soldier realizing that, despite being programmed to believe he's Russian, he's hearing the Asgardians in English, which would apparently only happen if English was his native tongue.
• Anti-Magic: Ebony Maw's ship has a congenital-in energy signature that causes negative reactions with Asgardian magic, which prevents Loki from properly using his spells when he's captured. The Warriors Three and Thor also feel the draining effects of the ship, with Fandral even feeling "as though there's a curse upon it."
• An Arm and a Leg: The story begins with Thor cutting off Thanos' gauntlet arm, preventing him from wiping out half the universe.
• Armor-Piercing Question:
  • Odin's quiet response to Loki'south ranting about why he and Frigga would adopt "an unwanted wretch like him" stops Loki cold.

    Odin: Do you remember the dearest of a parent is something one must earn? Accept I failed all of my children?

  • Darcy asks multiple to Fandral when his hatred for the Jotun colors his perception of Loki. It'southward plenty that he'south left in stunned silence when she finishes request him.

    Darcy: Merely tell me this. Accept yous met any Jotnar besides Loki?
    Fandral: Of form not.
    Darcy: Uh-huh. And... how much has Asgard interacted with Jotunheim in your lifetime?
    Fandral: It hasn't.
    Darcy: Okay and then. Are you really going to permit this stuff dictate what a guy yous grew up with should exist similar? Does whatsoever of it weigh more than than the centuries of first-paw knowledge you accept almost him being kind of an asshole simply reliable when it counts? Similar are y'all really that shitty of a friend?

  • When Loki demonstrates his magic for Tony, he naturally gets very excited and begins asking questions about how it works, such as whether or not the laws of conservation of mass still apply. Information technology'south the exact last response that Loki was expecting, largely because information technology makes him realize that, in spite of how many magical skills he's mastered and spells he's created, he's never once wondered how it really works.
• Ax-Crazy: Ebony Maw is one very disturbed SOB. As well the atrocities and tortures he commits in Thanos' proper noun, he also took what was left of his people and used them every bit building materials to make his personal vessel. He was really pretty insane before Thanos came to his world, as different other planets that the Mad Titan visited, Ebony personally sought him out and begged him to cull his world's population.
• Backup Twin: Loki basically serves equally this in-narrative; since Frigga was pregnant with Baldur when Odin discovered the baby Loki, his plan was that Loki and Baldur would be raised as twins, but when Baldur was poisoned and died just after his birth, Loki was presented as Odin and Frigga's natural son, although both stress that Loki'due south proper name was always his own and they never intended to make him an outright replacement for the child they had lost.
• Bad Liar: Multiple people note that Thor is outright atrocious at lying. While Clint's glad that it means the Asgardian is being honest nigh his intentions, it also makes it more obvious how much getting a translator installed is going to hurt as Thor says it'll merely be "slightly uncomfortable".
• Bait-and-Switch Comment: Steve Rogers expresses annoyance that Tony bundled for the Offset Contact press conference to be held at Yankee Stadium, causing Natasha to remark how Americans view baseball equally intrinsically wholesome and American. As such, a baseball stadium is perhaps the best possible location to ensure the Asgardians are viewed in a positive light. Steve responds that he'due south not complaining that the printing briefing is in a baseball stadium but that information technology's in the Yankee's Stadium.
• Been There, Shaped History: Loki reveals offhandedly that he used to be one of WilliamShakespeare's original actors.
• Big Blood brother Instinct: Afterward seeing him get killed by Thanos in the original timeline, Thor is very protective when it comes to Loki. Afterward he gets captured by Ebony Maw, Thor goes on the warpath.
• Big "WHAT?!":
  • Maw has this reaction to when Thor announces himself as the "Son of Odin", aka the son of one of Thanos' greatest enemies.
  • Thor has ane when he not only learns that Ebony took his people and turned them into his personal vessel, but that he also sought Thanos out to cull his world rather than the contrary.
  • Valkyrie has 1 when she learns that Odin revised Asgard's history so that people would believe that the Valkyrior died fighting the Jotun and not against Hela.
• Blood Knight: Asgardians in full general are this due to being a warrior culture. This actually concerns Bruce because he feels more relaxed on Asgard since no 1 fears the Hulk similar everyone back on Globe. This causes him to often hold dorsum his enthusiasm on letting the Hulk out to spar with them.
• Both Sides Have a Point: While Thor makes a valid argument that Odin can't simply ignore Asgard'southward more bloodthirsty past, Odin counters with the valid observation that knowing about their truthful history may have made Thor more eager for battle without a proper agreement of the compassion required to exist a good rex.
• Bread and Circuses:
  • The Grandmaster, like in Ragnarok, provides gladiatorial amusement for the people under his oppression. Thanos also plays into this by allowing him to utilize Choose Obsidian in his tournaments to entertain the masses in exchange for armies.
  • Thor takes reward of Sakaar'south gladiator games past advert and staging a fight between him and Cull Obsidian in exchange for Loki's freedom. He as well uses this to broadcast to the people of Sakaar and inspire them to rebel confronting their oppressors.
• Broken Ace: Valkyrie is this. She was the youngest commander in the Valkyrior's history and proved herself in countless battles that would inspire songs for centuries to come, fifty-fifty being instrumental in the war with the Jotun on Midgard over a 1000 years prior. The slaughter of her beau Valkyries at Hela'due south hands, with her barely surviving, would lead to her winding up on Sakaar and wallowing abroad in alcoholism and self-pity.
• Bullet Take hold of: In Affiliate 65, when the Winter Soldier tries to assassinate Tony Stark, Brunhilde is able to take hold of the bullet then quickly that nobody but herself, Tony, and a few cardinal others are fifty-fifty enlightened he was ever in danger.
• The Jitney Came Back: Bruce contacts Betty Ross to ask for her aid in carrying out enquiry into the Blob on Asgard.
• Calling the Quondam Man Out: One of the first things Thor does later proving his timeline travels is call his father out on hiding the truth almost Hela and Asgard's violent history from them.
• Cargo Cult: Information technology is revealed that Malekith at least claims that the Nighttime Elves are the 'called' of the Aether to recreate the universe in their image, an idea that Loki in particular rejects every bit foolish as the Aether is just a stone with no true 'loyalty' to anyone.
• Cold-Blooded Torture: Ebony Maw subjects Loki to this in a similar mode to how he tortured Doctor Strange in Infinity War.
• Cool and Unusual Punishment: After Fandral confesses his office in the exposure of Loki'south true heritage, Odin uses Gungnir to link Fandral to Loki and so that any pain Loki suffers as a result of Fandral'due south deportment volition be inflicted twofold on Fandral himself.
• Cruel and Unusual Death: Ebony Maw is killed by Loki impaling the alien with his own frozen blood.
• Decease by Adaptation:
  • In the comics, Baldur is Thor'due south blood brother who lives for thousands of years and his decease in mythology signifies the beginning of Ragnarok. In this story, he died earlier he was even an hour former, well over a thousand years before Ragnarok began.
  • In the MCU, Valkyrie and Korg were shown to be among the few Statesman refugees that survived both Thanos' attack and the "snap" in Endgame. Here, it'southward stated that they were killed during his initial set on.
• Decease Seeker: Thor in the first chapter took the Time Stone from the gauntlet to apply information technology to attempt and kill himself, similarly to how Thanos tortured him aboard the Statesman.
• Defeating the Undefeatable:
  • Thanos and his armies are regarded as an unstoppable force of nature. While he seeks more armies to continue culling populations, the armies he already has have lain waste to dozens of worlds, and none were able to put up a fight. Odin, Hela, and Asgard in the past were plenty that they collection him dorsum and granted him his first defeat. Not to mention that Thor successfully killed him in the previous timeline.
  • Cull Obsidian is considered undefeatable in the Sakaar gladiatorial ring. Many write-off his opponents every bit already dead after centuries of victory. Thor easily dances effectually most of his attacks and kills him using his lightning powers.
• Didn't Think This Through: Loki amuses himself past agitating Banner almost what traveling through the Bifrost is like. Right as they're being transported, Imprint can't take the stress anymore and transforms into Hulk, causing Loki to exit the Bifrost at a full sprint and screaming for assist.
• Doomed past Catechism: Ebony Maw, Choose Obsidian, and Alexander Pierce all dice, but in different ways. Cull is killed in battle by Thor instead of Banner. Maw is gruesomely frozen to decease by Loki instead of existence blown into space by Spider-Man. Pierce, meanwhile, has his center ripped out past Ava Starr; originally, he was shot to death past Nick Fury.
• Double Have: Before Thor can argue with his male parent on why they need to go to Sakaar to stop Thanos from gaining another regular army, he has to backtrack because Odin agreed with him.
• Dramatic Irony:
  • During his mission to impale the Abomination, Loki decides that he likes Coulson considering of his snarky and relatively easygoing demeanor. At this point, Loki has no idea that he killed Coulson in the previous timeline (in front of Thor's eyes, no less).
  • Subsequently Loki is outed as a Jotun to Asgard, Fandral suspects that he replaced Odin's true son and that he brainwashed Thor into believing his timeline hopping take chances in some bid for Jotunheim to take over Asgard. Of course, the audience knows that Loki's beingness completely honest (ironically enough), and that Thor's adventures in the previous timeline are true.
• The Dreaded: Thanos is feared past almost anybody that knows about him. Thor has recurring nightmares of his slaughter of the Asgardian people as well as his killing of his brother, and Loki is completely afraid of him. Co-ordinate to Valkyrie, he's already torn autonomously dozens of planets with the armies already in his possession and hardly anyone could put up a fight confronting him. Nearly the only person who doesn't bear witness much fear towards him is Odin, merely even that falters when he learns of what Thanos did in the timeline Thor came from. In that location are also many Asgardians old enough to remember him that however dread the idea of waging war with him over again.
• Driven to Suicide: Due to the expiry of his people at the easily of Thanos, Thor tries to use the Time Stone to kill himself subsequently he decapitates the Mad Titan.
• Early on-Bird Cameo:
  • Peter makes a brief cameo as a kid during the ending events of Iron Human 2 alongside his aunt May and uncle Ben.
  • Helm Marvel makes a brief appearance in chapter 23 when The Warriors Three endeavour to find Thor and Loki, just to find her.
• Establishing Grapheme Moment: The Grandmaster is introduced hosting a party where all the guests are dancing enthusiastically (or else) and Ebony Maw waits willingly, if not happily, for him to stop playing his current song to address him. Both institute the Grandmaster as a very silly but very dangerous person.
• Even Evil Has Standards:
  • Hela is a sadistic Blood Knight who thrives off death and destruction, merely in the past, she was genuinely loyal to Asgard and her family unit. Thanos tried to sway her to his side, but ultimately failed because Hela fights for Asgard and her father, no one else.
  • Even during his bloodthirsty warlord days, Odin was reportedly then against Thanos' ideas for culling the universal population that he kicked him out of Asgard every bit before long as he discovered his true intentions and waged war with him.
• Even the Guys Want Him: The Grandmaster doesn't blame Valkyrie for supposedly absconding with Loki because he agrees that Loki is extremely bonny.
• Anybody Has Standards:
  • Odin is willing to get to slap-up lengths to ensure the peace and stability of the Nine Realms, ranging from white-washing Asgard's bloody past to lying to his children virtually their origins, only the ane thing he can never bring himself to do is strike down his own child. On the flip side, while he was willing to prevarication to everyone near Hela's imprisonment, it was because he fully intended for her to be imprisoned forever and the prison failing upon his death was non his plan.
  • Loki is admittedly disgusted when he learns that non merely did Ebony Maw actively seek out Thanos to cull his species, but the remains of said species were so used as raw materials for his ship. He outright calls Maw insane and completely drops his usual pleasantries.
  • Even before Odin inverse his ways, the Valkyrior were highly opposed to Hela'southward ambitions and were the beginning to speak out against her.
• Evil Cannot Comprehend Good: While Ross is never entirely outright "evil", his endeavor to convince Steve to work with him focuses on emphasising the potential power a refined Super-Soldier-Serum could requite Ross and his men, where Steve e'er wanted to merely do the correct matter rather than beat his enemies up.
• Verbal Words: Thor's deal with the Grandmaster is to have Loki returned to him if he tin can defeat Choose Obsidian in the arena. While watching him fight, the Grandmaster thinks to himself that Loki will exist returned to Thor, simply they'll both be prize gladiators in his arena.
• Fangirl: Sif is an even bigger fan of the Valkyrior than Thor and Loki. It takes all her willpower not to enter The Knights Who Say "Squee!" territory when she meets Valkyrie, who was also her inspiration, for the first time.
• Fantastic Racism:
  • At that place's a lot directed towards the Jotun. Asgard despises their kind due to prior wars and causing the expiry of the Valkyrior (actually a comprehend up by Odin to hide Hela's existence from electric current Asgard's history). Fandral is shown to exist one of the most overt cases of this.
  • Amongst the Jotun, the "skamrbarn" (or human being-sized Jotun) are considered abominations and weaklings. Laufey sought to get rid of Loki when he saw that his son was born a skamrbarn.
• Feed the Mole: Fury, Natasha and Clint are basically doing this to known Hydra agents after Pierce'due south decease, Natasha using her gift from Odin to pose as Sitwell and other agents to encourage the idea that Pierce's death was part of an attempted internal coup in Hydra itself.
• Fiction 500: The House of Odin has some rather lucrative investments and has an impressive bank account in the Nova Empire. Information technology'south even compared to a bottomless pit at i point.
• First Contact: Tony sets ane up in the form of a hearing to introduce Thor, Loki and Brunhilde to the world. In spite of the Wintertime Soldier's efforts to muck it up by trying to assassinate Tony, information technology goes quite well.
• For Want of a Boom:
  • The story starts because Thor aimed two inches left and cut off Thanos' gauntlet arm, preventing him from wiping out half the universe.
  • Thor is able to successfully avoid Loki's Commencement of Darkness and ensures that his brother won't get a villain.
  • A negative case. It's lamented that considering of Thor's deportment, a long-term consequence is that some of his friends either won't exist in the hereafter (Vision) or won't get Avengers (Scarlet Witch).
  • Because the Sakaar trip happens before, the planet is liberated, Maw and Cull are killed, and Valkyrie returns to Asgard with them.
  • Thor'south prior knowledge of HYDRA'south existence in S.H.I.E.50.D. allows the Avengers to observe out nigh it sooner. This as well leads to Ava Starr killing Alexander Pierce subsequently she hears them talking about it.
• Framing the Guilty Party: After Ava Starr kills Alexander Pierce, Fury, Clint and Natasha protect her by putting Ava on another assignment and subtly encouraging Hydra to believe that Pierce'due south expiry was part of an attempted internal coup within Hydra itself.
• Gender Flip: Much like how Laufey is changed from female person to male person in the Curiosity universe, Fárbauti is changed from male person to female.
• Not bad Offscreen War:
  • The boxing between Odin and the forces of Asgard against Thanos and his armies is a legendary ane. The fight ended with the Mad Titan retreating and his prototype Infinity Gauntlet now tucked away in Odin's vault.
  • There's besides the Aesir-Vanir war, which is the war that led to Odin'due south modify of heart and where he fell in love with Frigga.
• "Groundhog Day" Loop: According to the Ancient One, Thor is in i - his accidental usage of the Time Stone will send him back every time he fails to complete his mission, and potentially even send him back fifty-fifty if he does everything right and eventually dies of old age. This is a problem, considering doing so volition put a great bargain of additional strain on the Time Stone of the nowadays twenty-four hours, potentially destroying it if he loops besides many times. Fortunately, the Aboriginal One is able to break the spell so that he will just have this 1 practise-over.
• Heart Trauma: Later on viciously mutilating his body, Ava kills Pierce by ripping his centre right out of his breast.
• Heel Realization: Fandral messes with the teleporter to driblet Loki off in the heart of a busy square, rather than the laboratory like it should. Some time afterward, he encounters a group of men who want to "put Loki in the healing hall". Already questioning his choices, Fandral promptly gets into a fist fight with them. He subsequently explains it equally "having a mirror held up to his confront and hating what he saw".
• Hiding Behind the Language Barrier: When the Asgardian royal family don't want someone to know what they're saying, they use the nameless tongue. Unlike Allspeak, which can be understood by anybody, the nameless tongue can only ever be understood by those the speaker is addressing. Thor uses information technology to address a oversupply on Sakaar, knowing simply those unhappy with the Grandmaster's rule will empathize. He and Loki likewise use it to talk most HYDRA infiltrating SHIELD.
• Hoist by His Ain Petard: Alexander Pierce sends Ava Starr to spy on the would-exist Avengers. She ends upwards walking in on the team correct as they are discussing how to deal with the HYDRA infiltration, non only revealing the organization's existence to her but also confirming the fact that they had never intended to cure her condition. She afterward kills Pierce in cold blood, and Pierce's own paranoia about his personal security means that it'due south relatively easy for Fury and other agents in the know to comprehend upward any testify incriminating Ava and create the idea that Pierce's death is office of an internal coup in Hydra itself.
• I Am Not Left-Handed: Thor mostly holds back in his fight against Cull Obsidian, dancing around his attacks and toying with him to give Widow and Eagle enough time to set up off the traps. After that'southward done, he reveals that Odin gave him admission to his true potential and proceeds to annihilate his opponent without a shred of effort.
• I Did What I Had to Do: Essentially Odin's justification for why he basically 'framed' the Jotun for the devastation of the Valkyrior after erasing all tape of Hela. Since Hela gained power from her followers on Asgard fifty-fifty after beingness cut off from Asgard itself, the only fashion to ensure she couldn't gain farther power was to remove all knowledge of her existence, which including creating a scapegoat for the destruction of the Valkyrie.
• If I Wanted You Dead...: When telling Clint and Natasha well-nigh their future/by history in the Avengers, Thor observes that if he wanted to hurt them he would hardly need to make upward such an elaborate story.
• Ignorant of Their Own Ignorance:
  • Odin sent the Valkyrie after Hela because he was unaware that she could depict power from her followers even afterwards being cutting off from Asgard, with the outcome that she proved harder to defeat than he had predictable.
  • Loki was completely unaware of the existence of the magic used by the Ancient One and her disciples until Thor brought him to Bleeker Street.
• Insane Troll Logic: Both Thor and Loki telephone call out how insane Thanos' plans are and how he completely believes they'll work despite the absurdity. Loki even tells Ebony Maw that he might consider Thanos' offers if he was out for revenge or something little because he can actually understand those types of motives.
• Internal Reveal: Affiliate 28 features Clint and Natasha learning almost Thor's time travel, besides as details of the timeline he came from.
• Information technology Simply Works In one case: After the Ancient One breaks the link betwixt Thor and the Time Stone, Brunhilde expresses agreement that she won't get the aforementioned hazard as Thor to relieve the other Valkyries, recognising that the events that let him come back are basically a one-in-a-million shot that would probably take never worked for her.
• It's All My Mistake: Odin places the death of the Valkyrior squarely on his shoulders, and considers sending them to Nifilheim to fight Hela to be "the greatest tactical error of [his] entire reign." Because how long lived he and his dominion have been, that's maxim a lot.
• It's Personal: Even though he succeeded in killing the Mad Titan, Thor has most immeasurable hatred for Thanos that persists even when his listen is sent back to when his family unit and people were alive and well. This sets off a reddish flag in Black Widow'due south head, because Thor shouldn't take this much hatred for someone he's logically never met, fifty-fifty if he'southward an old enemy of Odin. Thor also has a strong hatred for the Children of Thanos, every bit he takes a lot of delight in mocking and belittling Cull during their battle.
• Know When to Fold Them: Afterwards being found years before the Convergence and with their send both surrounded and swarming with Asgardians, Algrim promptly surrenders later on Malekith is defeated.
• Leeroy Jenkins: Thor may exist proficient at following plans, but he is terrible at actually coming upward with i. When they arrive at Sakaar, he didn't make whatsoever preparations at all for the mission and only decided to fly information technology. The program goes wrong inside minutes of landing and ends up with Loki and Valkyrie captured, which Thor acknowledges is his fault when he didn't come up up with a plan.
• Logical Weakness:
  • Hulk is basically an incredibly powerful child, being ruled by his emotions and having poor reasoning skills. This allows Frigga to calm him down with the same magic she used to apply on her sons when they were children.
  • On Sakaar, Cull Obsidian is put against the Broodling Brothers, v twins who don't talk but communicate through a psychic link. The problem is that that same psychic link shares the pain they feel besides, so Cull but has to take one of them down before the rest are put out of committee and get piece of cake pickings.
  • Anyone who tin can speak Allspeak can understand and be understood by anyone in the universe, regardless of what language they speak. However, it translates to their native tongue, then they can have a hard time understanding how a discussion sounds in the language it's actually spoken in. Despite having worked directly for William Shakespeare, Loki can't tell people how to pronounce his last name.
• Dearest Makes You Dumb: Fandral is convinced that Odin and Frigga taking in an infant Loki and loving him has blinded them to his true nature.
• Beloved Redeems: Odin falling in love with Frigga is what led to him changing his means and becoming the chivalrous peacekeeper he is now.
• Mama's Babe, Papa's Maybe: When Thor talks with Jane about his electric current family unit issues (claiming that he merely "just" learnt about Hela and Baldur's existence and Loki being adopted), Jane offers her own awkward family unit history where she doesn't know her own begetter, as Deoxyribonucleic acid tests she carried out at schoolhouse confirmed that the man who raised her isn't her biological parent and her mother doesn't know who really impregnated her.
• Manipulative Editing: Odin does a version of this when addressing Asgard nigh Loki's real history, presenting a tale that places emphasis on Laufey every bit the monster to encourage sympathy with his victims rather than suggesting that all Frost Giants should be considered the villain, every bit well as attributing his recovery of Loki to the Norns.
• Mental Time Travel: Thor himself isn't sent back to the past, but rather his mind after he killed Thanos in Infinity War is sent dorsum to his pre-coronation torso after he picks up the Time Stone from the gauntlet, afterward established to be a effect of Thanos using the Fourth dimension Rock to restore the Mind Stone and thus creating a link betwixt the two.
• Mistaken for Misogynist: Steve Rogers feels that this applies to him when he realizes that he causeless Jemma Simmons was the nurse rather than the physician, but Dr. Simmons assures him that she appreciates that he's from a time where a female dr. would be less common.
• Missing Steps Plan: Thor's plan on Sakaar for dealing with Ebony Maw and Cull Obsidian amounts to ane.) discover them, two.) learn about the army they were gathering, and three.) kill them and the ground forces. As Natasha points out, that's not a plan, but a listing of objectives.
• Must Make Amends: Fandral towards Loki for exposing him every bit a Jotun. Afterward Loki asks Brunnhilde to spar with Sif to aid brand amends for him accusing Sif of being behind Fandral's deportment.
• My God, What Have I Done?: Odin basically has this when he learns that, in Thor'south future, Asgard will exist destroyed and everyone of his family but Thor killed, and it can all exist traced dorsum to Odin'due south choice not to find some more secure way to deal with Hela.
• My Greatest Failure: Thor considers his to exist his failure to save Loki from Thanos, both from the torture he endured afterward his fall from the Bifrost as well every bit his expiry on the Statesman. Loki getting captured past Ebony Maw on Sakaar drives him into an absolute frenzy.
• Mythology Gag: Thor suffering from a severe cut to his arm is 1 to the Jason Aaron run in the comics where his arm was cut off.
• Named by the Adaptation: Valkyrie merely e'er went past Valkyrie or Scrapper in the MCU. Here, her true name is Brunhilde Sigursdottir.
• Narnia Time: Similar in Ragnarok, Sakaar'due south flow of fourth dimension moves very differently from the residuum of the universe. By the time chapter 34 comes around, Thor, Loki, Clint, and Natasha have been on the planet for three days while very little fourth dimension has passed for Asgard. The author also uses this for Hela'due south initial siege on Asgard in canon, stating that with how time flows differently, she likely took more than than 2 years killing off Asgard'due south population.
• Negated Moment of Awesome: Thor tries to use his lightning to supercharge both Iron Human being and War Automobile's armor to give them a massive boost for the battle with the Hammer tech drones... just for them to overload and shut down. Whoops.
• Nice Chore Fixing It, Villain: The reason Thor was able to send his listen back in time was considering Thanos' utilize of the Time Stone to undo the destruction of the Mind Stone linked the two Infinity Stones together.
• No-Sell: When Ebony Maw somewhen gets fed upward with the Grandmaster, he impales the human being several times with his ain guards' spears. Grandmaster isn't even scratched and is merely annoyed at his outfit being ruined.
• Not Me This Fourth dimension: When Loki realizes the teleporter was sabotaged rather than simply malfunctioning, he blames Sif. It'due south non until later that he realizes it was Fandral.
• "Not And then Different" Remark: Loki notes that Captain America is a lot like Valkyrie in that both of them are warriors from the past returned to a earth that still reveres them, merely it's not the world they once knew.
• Not-So-Well-Intentioned Extremist:
  • Thanos talks a big game nigh committing his atrocities for the sake of balancing the universe, but Thor and Loki telephone call him out (directly and indirectly) on how deluded he is in believing that he's the hero in this scenario.
  • Odin originally conquered other realms nether the belief that what he was doing would bring a new age of peace. It wasn't until the Aesir-Vanir war where he invaded what was once his dwelling that he came to realize that what he was doing was for power'south sake and not for peace.
• Off with His Head!: Right after severing his arm and giving him a "The Reason You Suck" Speech, Thor executes Thanos by cut off his head.
• Omnidisciplinary Scientist: Zigzagged. Several of the scientists take far more specialties than they should but withal run into things they don't specialize in. Bruce Imprint is called in to look over Ava Starr's condition merely lampshades that quantum mechancis are far from his areas of expertise and it'd accept a lot of fourth dimension and studying to help her.
• The Omniscient: Thor and others aware of his origin from the time to come use Heimdall'south status equally this to merits that he is the source of well-nigh of their future noesis, claiming that he has seen HYDRA in action within SHIELD so that Thor tin can warn the other Avengers about their schemes, such equally Bucky'southward current status equally the Wintertime Soldier.
• One of the Guys: Witnessing Sif with the Warriors Three, Brunhilde compares them to her erstwhile bond with her boyfriend Valkyries.
• Only the Called May Wield: This is averted at first since Thor was sent back before Odin put the worthiness enchantment on Mjölnir. To show that he is Thor from the future, he asks his male parent to put the enchantment on his hammer. Since this is Thor post-Character Evolution, he has no trouble lifting Mjölnir and proving who he is.
• Out-of-Grapheme Alarm: Something that signals that something is off with Thor is that he openly admits that he'd rather accept the Jotun equally his allies. This completely shocks Odin, Frigga, and Loki when they first hear it, as he's usually i of the most openly vehement towards Frost Giants.
• Papa Wolf: Odin is very protective of his children. Subsequently Baldur was killed through poisoning, he remained on Asgard to protect the baby Thor and Loki. He even admits that had Hela had anything to do with Baldur'due south expiry, he would have lost all care for her and killed her himself.
• Parents as People: Odin loves both his sons, merely how he raised them caused a number of problems. He openly praised Thor in means that led to him gaining his infamous ego that would've caused the 2d coming of Hela had Thor not learned humility on World, while he inadvertently left Loki starved for the acknowledgement of his father. He understands the mistakes he made and seeks to do better.
• Peggy Sue: Thor is sent back prior to the events of his flick, but the fic uses Thor's head-first mentality in regards to how he'd operate in this type of situation. Thor fully intends to Set Right What One time Went Wrong, only his approach to this is rather blunt and he outright tells Loki and the Warriors Iii who he is upon first seeing them, and Natasha, despite meeting him for the kickoff time from her perspective, figures out he's hiding something given how bad he is at subterfuge and gets him to spill the truth.
• Portal Cutting: Loki kills the Anathema by having Heimdall open the Bifrost when the height third of the monster is in the manner.
• Rational Fic: For the House of Odin, the family unit members really sit downwardly and talk out their issues rather than exit them bottled up to stew and eventually cause issues. At that place's nonetheless plenty of family drama, merely it's more of the standard family drama and non the "put the Nine Realms in danger" type of drama.
• "The Reason Y'all Suck" Speech: At the starting time of the story, Thor gives 1 to Thanos on how his supposedly noble intentions for the universe are a load of crap and how much of a monster he is.

  Thor: Yous call information technology salvation, slaughtering half of my people when they were already but a fraction of Asgard's numbers from mere weeks ago? Wiping out the dwarves and leaving only their king behind to suffer? You lot think yourself a but god, capable of making the difficult choices, but in that location is nothing in you simply cruelty. My brother was right. You will never be a god.

• The Reveal: Although we already knew that he died, chapter 50 reveals that Baldur was murdered via poison by a group of Asgardians still loyal to Hela. Non but that, merely Fandral's uncle Hroarr was the one leading the assassination, and Odin subsequently lied to Fandral, claiming that Hroarr was a casualty of the Jotuns, indirectly inciting his antagonistic beliefs towards Loki.
• Revenge Earlier Reason: Since Thor was successful in killing Thanos in the past timeline, he never fully rationalized the consequences of being too obsessed with revenge similar he did in catechism. Every bit a result, he spends a lot of time goading and mocking Cull Obsidian in their fight as payback for what he did in the main timeline, which results in him getting angry enough to fight dorsum and put Thor in a bind.
• Sadly Mythtaken: It's lampshaded by Jane and Loki that the Norse Mythology built effectually Asgard doesn't really stack up with the reality of it. Loki states that the mythos surrounding their people that Globe came up with is generally made effectually prophecies and drunken fancies. In regards to the ane where he'due south the "mother" of Sleipnir, he considers it a "very drunken fancy". Coulson naturally drops the trope proper noun at 1 point as a pun.
• Hugger-mugger-Keeper: Outside of his parents, Loki, Sif and the Warriors Three, Hawkeye and Black Widow are the only non-Asgardians Thor has told about his experiences in an alternate future timeline, and they take agreed to keep that detail from Fury and the other Avengers (the Ancient Ane too learns the truth through her experience of the Time Stone, and thus reveals information technology to Brunhilde and Kaecilius).
• Seen It All: Pepper walking in on Loki turning Tony into a flying squirrel is the accented last matter she expects, but she but takes a deep jiff and rolls with it considering everything she'south already seen in the terminal ii days.
• Senseless Sacrifice: A villainous version of this from Malekith; he rejects Thor's offering to surrender in favour of transforming himself into a Kursed, but at best he would have destroyed his own people with the Aesir invasion force, and in the finish Thor defeats him past using Mjolnir to throw Malekith out of the ship before the transformation tin can finish.
• Ship Tease:
  • Darcy gets a lot with Fandral.
  • Loki and Valkyrie get a lot of this during the Sakaar portion of the story that too borders on Belligerent Sexual Tension.
• Shout-Out:
  • When infiltrating Ebony'south ship, Clint disguises himself as Han Solo and acts as a prisoner. Additionally, when Tony and Loki are talking well-nigh his magic, Tony begs him to say that midichlorians aren't a thing.
  • Information technology's stated that a man, heavily implied to be J. R. R. Tolkien, cruel into the nine realms, and his experiences would inspire The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings.
  • Director Nick Fury delivers to Thor an item of neat importance (the Tesseract) via a briefcase, and when he opens it a glow illuminates his face; much like a picture with another graphic symbol played by Samuel 50. Jackson.
• Social Darwinist: According to Odin, his father, Bor, was this. His philosophy was that the strongest deserved to dominion over the weak, and Odin admits that the allure of this mindset is hard to fence with when you're born stronger than everyone else like he was.
• Spit Take: Rhodey has 1 when Loki angrily mentions the idea that he gave birth to Sleipnir.
• Spotting the Thread:
  • Thor is non very good at trying to hibernate that he's from the future. Natasha's able to option up on many subtle hints in his behavior (having way more hatred for Thanos than he reasonably should and his reactions to Sakaar and Valkyrie) that he's hiding something from them and convinces him to confess the truth.
  • The Wintertime Soldier ultimately begins to realize that something's wrong when he hears the Asgardians speaking in English; if his memories were right, he'd be hearing them speak Russian, but the fact that he hears English implies that that's his female parent tongue and that something isn't right about his memories.
• The Stations of the Canon: Averted. While it does beginning out with some events from the early MCU films, such as The Incredible Hulk and Iron Man 2 (Which happened concurrently with the events of Thor and thus were too far along to seriously derail given the point in time Thor traveled back to), catechism starts getting ditched soon after that as later plot threads from the movies are tied up and contradistinct in different ways.
• Of a sudden Speaking: Cull actually talks during his fight with Thor, something that the Asgardian lampshades, since he thought he was simply the dumb creature of Thanos' minions.
• Superior Successor: While he didn't beginning out this way, Odin's eventual pursuit of peace and stability for the Nine Realms compared to Bor'due south Darwinism shows that he became a much better ruler than his father ever was.
• That Came Out Incorrect: Fandral'due south initial refusal to share why he committed treason nearly gets him killed until he explains that he feels his reasons for doing and then are irrelevant compared to the fact he did.
• Throwing Your Sword Ever Works: Besides Mjölnir's power to return to its owner, it's also lampshaded that for whatever reason, Thor's enemies always seem to inevitably line up and make it easier for him to accept them all out with a simple hammer throw.
• Trust Password: In order to gain Hawkeye and Black Widow's trust later they learn that he'due south from the futurity, Thor tells them about when they went to Clint's firm during the Ultron incident and about his family when they first met them. Since the merely way Thor would know near Clint's family in the get-go place would be if he had his absolute trust, he accepts Thor's claims.
• Undying Loyalty:
  • Before her exile, Hela was completely loyal to her begetter and Asgard as a whole. Not fifty-fifty Thanos could sway her to his side.
  • Sif has complete loyalty towards Thor which also overrides her distaste for Loki and her hatred for Frost Giants. While she withal doesn't like them, she'll put upward with it if Thor is more than willing.
• Underestimating Badassery: Ebony Maw severely underestimates both Thor and the Grandmaster. The quondam utterly obliterates Cull Obsidian once he stops playing effectually and the latter reacts with annoyance when Maw impulsively impales him with several spears. In the Grandmaster'southward case, information technology occurs to Ebony Maw that he should accept considered that Thanos is willing to do business with the man and give in to his demands than merely conquer Sakaar.
• Unskilled, but Potent: Loki'due south usually the opposite of this trope, but Valkyrie notes that his control over his Frost Giant abilities are rather laughable, despite their immense power.
• Vengeance Feels Empty: After killing Thanos, Thor feels no satisfaction in what he did since it won't bring Loki or any of Asgard dorsum.
• What If?: The story follows what would have happened had Thor managed to kill Thanos and selection up the time stone, only to exist sent back to before his coronation.
• Willfully Weak:
  • Thor lost to Hulk when they fought because he didn't want to hurt his friend, and so he didn't put much forcefulness into his attacks. He also handicapped himself past refusing to use Mjölnir during the fight. The author states that had he been going all out, he would have won regardless of whether he had Mjölnir or not.
  • This also plays into the Sakaar arc. Thor could easily handle anything the planet throws at them, barring Ebony and Cull, but with Black Widow and Eagle around, he limits himself to avert too much collateral.
• With Great Power Comes Slap-up Insanity: Odin admits to Thor that this is why he went the actress mile to limit his abilities since childhood, as he worried that his eldest son would plow out like Hela, who became The Caligula and had to be imprisoned.
• Wouldn't Hurt a Child: When the Aesir learn that the Dark Elves are protecting their children, Thor is unpleasantly reminded of the Aesir children who died on the Statesman, and shifts his plan from simply destroying the ship to requesting the surrender of the Dark Elves.
• Xanatos Gambit: The Grandmaster'due south bargain with Thor works out for him whether or not Thor lives or dies; if Thor dies against Cull, so his original deal is still on, but if Thor wins, then he gets entertainment for the masses and the Asgardians off his back.

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