Thor (film)/Awesome


 * Lots of them, but Thor hitting the Frost Giant in the mouth and exiting through its skull is a moment that deserves a special mention.
 * My theater burst into applause when that happened.
 * Hell, what makes it even more awesome is that it is an enormous frost monster.
 * Heimdall breaking free from the ice.
 * Heimdall breaking through the ice, and killing the two frost giants ready and waiting for him to break through the ice in half a second flat, while he has hypothermia that can only be dreamt about.
 * More of a passive crowning moment of awesome than an action of combat, Heimdall telling Thor and friends that he cannot open the Bridge for them... He then turns away and walks off with his sword still in the pedestal for them to use.
 * Hell, just Heimdall, period.
 * Asgardians vs. Frost Giants in Norway. Frost Giants enter, freezing over a whole town. Then suddenly, the Asgardians beam down on Bifröst, and the two massive armies size each other up. Then they charge.
 * Thor, despite not having his powers & being unaware that he needs to prove himself worthy of holding Mjölnir once again, refuses to leave Sif & the Warriors Three to fight the Destroyer to their deaths whilst he flees with Jane. Hell, he even walks up to the damn thing to try & talk Loki down.
 * Also a Tearjerker with his speech to Loki. Thor's just so hurt and confused that his brother is doing this, and he seems to think that it's his fault.
 * At the same time; Jane, Selvig & Darcy's lack of hesitation in deciding that if Thor's staying, so are they.
 * Finally, when Thor proves himself worthy by practically sacrificing his life trying to protect the innocent from the Destroyer, Mjölnir suddenly launches from its embedding as you see it arc through the air to return to him, leaving both the Destroyer and his friends to behold in breathless wonder, the restoration of The God of Thunder, Mighty Thor!
 * And he absolutely curbstomps the Destroyer. In terms of raw power, Thor is beaten only by Odin and possibly Heimdall, even Loki wielding Odin's spear can't do much.
 * Sif and the Destroyer have a combined one. First, Sif jumps down and impales the Destroyer through its open face plate just as it's about to fry Volstagg. This is cool enough... but then, the Destroyer reverses its entire body so that it can pull itself up off the spear and take on Sif immediately. It literally rotates around the various grooves on its body.
 * Thor rampaging his way through the S.H.I.E.L.D. crash site to get to Mjölnir is awesome in and of itself. He goes through the fence, beats up some guys and steals a jacket. Then he goes inside and just beats the crap out of anyone who gets in his way and makes it to Mjölnir. Okay, one guy just beat the ever-loving crap out of a full squad of Badass S.H.I.E.L.D. operatives. That's awesome, but a little Fridge Logic doubles the amount of awesome because he did it without killing anyone. Thor is a Badass and a Blood Knight and a Boisterous Bruiser but he's still The Hero. He just has a lesson to learn.
 * Loki. Just Loki. In the comics, he is a complete moron, whose plans are almost always doomed to failure without Thor's interference. Here, he is actually a competent villain, almost frighteningly so, especially because he's such a good actor, that if the audience didn't know he was a villain from the start they wouldn't have realized until he revealled  And with more character depth that has been seen in a good many years. I found it very hard not to root for him throughout the entire movie.
 * It's not that comic book Loki is a moron (and his plans certainly aren't doomed to failure), he's just too arrogant and for all his cunning has a blind spot that refuses to accept that anyone whether his brother or anyone else could ever defeat him and thus leaves himself open for defeat. Movie Loki on the other hand wasn't so blinded by arrogance and wasn't even as evil as the comic book version hence his managing to come off looking better and more competent.
 * Loki's best moment in the film: "And YOUR death came by the son of Odin." His other schemes get pretty messed up, but luring the frost giant king into Asgard just to get him into a place where he can be killed is a truly magnificent use of his trickster skills, and you get the sense that's a genuinely sincere moment where he's trying to prove he's fighting for Asgard and his adopted family despite having just found out his heritage.
 * Realizing that Loki's "There's nothing you can do " was not at all a slip of the tongue.
 * Loki stands between a frost giant and a long fall. Loki has a scared look on his face as the giant charges towards him... only to pass right through him and fall to his death. Loki pokes his head out from behind a pillar, and turns off his illusion with a smirk.
 * Loki freezes Heimdall, not even flinching as his sword inches closer to his neck.
 * Loki's final scene.
 * In The Avengers, it appears he didn't actually end up.
 * Thor neutralizing Loki by putting the hammer on his chest. And then destroying the Bifröst.
 * The ends credits sequence, which reveals the path from Earth to Asgard through Yggdrasil while Awesome Music plays.