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=== Asgardians ===

* [[Adorkable]]: Thor's complete ignorance to how the mortal world works, his romantically-outdated use of English, coupled with his painfully polite behavior towards women makes him incredibly endearing towards the opposite sex. Even the normally cynical and snarky Darcy cannot help but warmly-smile when she curtsied in response to his gentlemanly bow of farewell.

* [[Adult Child]]: With a hair-trigger temper. [[Character Development|At first.]]

* [[Badass]]

** [[Badass Beard]]

* [[Blood Knight]]

* [[Boisterous Bruiser]]

* [[Brought Down to Normal]]

** [[Brought Down to Badass]]: When compared to humans.

* [[Elemental Powers]]: [[Shock and Awe|Lightning]] and [[Blow You Away|Wind]]

* [[Mr. Fanservice]]

* [[Fish Out of Water]]

* [[Flying Brick]]

* [[Hair of Gold]]

* [[I Gave My Word]]: And he'll damn well honor it too!!

* [[Immortal Immaturity]]: Thor is in all likelihood at least 1000 years old, and yet it is only in the 3 days he spent as a mortal that he starts to emotionally mature.

* [[Irony]]: As the first step in his [[Humiliation Conga]], the God of Thunder gets taken down by...a taser.

* [[Large Ham]]: One of many, but in a good way.

* [[Perpetual Smiler]]: Of a sort. Thor is almost always cheerful, even in the middle of a fight to the death with an army of Frost Giants - this, alongside his vainglorious optimism, is seen by many as a symptom of his childishness. Though by the end of the movie he learns to be truly serious about things and becomes more solemn as a result, according to previews of [[The Avengers]] he seems to have retained this cheerful aspect of his character nonetheless.

* [[Royal Brat]]: Thor starts out spoiled and selfish, willing to throw two planets into war to prove himself. When not showing his rage by bellowing and throwing things on the floor, he expresses gratitude and enthusiasm by... bellowing and throwing things on the floor.

* [[Shirtless Scene]]

** Seems to factor more into the Jerk's Heart Of Gold; he won't [[Let's Get Dangerous|Get Dangerous]] unless he believes that [[Never Hurt an Innocent|they won't be killed by it or they deserve to die.]]

* [[Throwing Your Sword Always Works|Throwing Your Hammer Always Works]]: Sure, when it comes back to you after you throw it.

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* [[Adaptational Badass]]: In addition to his usual magical tricks, he's much more of a physical threat to Thor than in the comics. He's not ''quite'' as good as his brother in a straight fight, but he's close.

* {{spoiler|[[An Ice Person]]}}: Much to his surprise.

* [[Badass Bookworm]]

* [[Big Bad]]

* [[Blue Oni]]: To Thor's red

* [[Cain and Abel|Cain]]

* [[Chronic Backstabbing Disorder]]

* [[Consummate Liar]]

* [[Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas]]

* [[Green Eyes]]: At least in the marketing, apropos for the above. (In the film itself, his eyes are blue; Tom Hiddleston didn't wear contacts and his eyes weren't altered in post-production.)

* [[Horny Vikings]]

* [[I Lied]]: About {{spoiler|Odin's death.}}

* [[Large Ham]]: Far less hammy than Thor or Odin, but he has his moments.

** To wit, {{spoiler|the final confrontation between the brothers shows Loki fighting almost gleefully and even laughing maniacally at one point}}. To be fair, he had been repressing it ''for a while''...

* [[Manipulative Bastard]]

* [[Master of Illusion]]: He's fond of using illusionary copies of himself to distract his enemies.

** This is (completely coincidentally) in line with descriptions of Loki in Norse myth.

* [[Royal Brat]]: Like Thor, Loki has overtones of this. He has no problem getting guards and jotuns killed for the sake of a prank on his brother.

* [[The Resenter]]

** {{spoiler|It's more understandable in the script where Laufey finds out he's his "bastard son" and went on saying Odin should have killed him. Not that he didn't leave him to die in the movie anyway}}.

** {{spoiler|But it makes more sense in the finished movie, where Loki doesn't even tell Laufey about their relation before killing him, because he doesn't care about Laufey and why should he? He only cares about Odin}}.

* [[Tragic Villain]]

* [[Trickster Archetype]]: A villainous example, naturally.

* [[The Unfavourite]]: He sees himself as such.

* [[Yandere]]: When his daddy becomes ill just thinking about warring with the Ice Giants, Loki concludes that the quickest way to please his father is to {{spoiler|blow up the Ice Giants' planet. Just imagine young Loki suggesting this with an adorable grin, while Thor is content with beating a few up to scare them. Do it.}}

 

== Odin ([[Anthony Hopkins]]) ==

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* [[Badass Grandpa]]

* [[Cool Horse]]

* [[Determinator]]: He's been putting off the Odinsleep for quite a while.

* [[Good Parents]]: Loves ''both'' his sons {{spoiler|even if Loki is an adopted Frost Giant, a racial enemy}} and gives Thor a '''much''' needed object-lesson (IE, being made mortal) to teach him the value of kindness and compassion. His main failure is loving and being too prideful in his sons to teach them the lessons they needed to learn until it was too late, resulting in Thor becoming a boisterous warmonger and Loki in becoming a repressed ball of jealousy. Only one of them gets better.

* [[Hot Dad]]: A well kept old gentleman.

* [[Papa Wolf]]

 

* [[The Dragon]]

* [[The Juggernaut]]: Until Thor gets his powers back.

* [[Wave Motion Gun]]: A beam it fires from its faceplate.

 

== Hogun (Tadanobu Asano) ==

A member of the Warriors Three, primarily identified by his grim demeanor.

* [[All Asians Are Alike]]: He's Mongolian in the comics but portrayed by a Japanese man.

* [[Not So Stoic]]: His big fat grin along with the rest of the warriors when they locate Thor.

* [[Badass Beard]]

* [[Big Eater]]: Lampshaded by Fandral in one scene, calling him on perceived [[Cavalier Consumption]]:

'''Volstagg''': Do not mistake my appetite for apathy! }}

* [[Boisterous Bruiser]]

* [[Hot Amazon]]

* [[Lady of War]]

* [[Unlucky Childhood Friend]]: Implied. ''So far'' (She's Thor's main love interest in the comics and his wife in the myth).

** According to interviews this was more explicit in scenes that were later cut.

* [[Cool Sword]]: His sword can control the Bifröst bridge.

* [[Exact Words]]: Uses this to {{spoiler|go against Loki's orders not to grant anyone passage on the Bifröst, by letting Sif & the Warriors Three use it to head to Midgard - He was told not to open it, Loki said nothing about leaving the key in the ignition, as it were.}}

* [[Genius Bonus]]: A man of African descent playing Heimdall, "the whitest of the gods" according to Norse mythology. In context, by "whitest" they mean "brightest", as in shining, but it's still funny.

* [[Heart Is an Awesome Power]]: As he is [[The Driver]] and functionally an [[Almighty Janitor]]. ''However'', his and his job's importance is played up thoroughly, and he's implied to be near or superior to Odin in power.

* [[Designated Love Interest]]: To provide Thor an excuse to return to Earth.

* [[Hot Scientist]]

 

== Dr Erik Selvig (Stellan Skarsgard) ==

 

== Agent Phil Coulson (Clark Gregg) ==

* [[Seen It All]]: Hints of Type 1, as is typical of MIB. He also has a bit of Type 2's Genre Savviness as he orders his men to let Thor try and lift his hammer, and realized just in time that Destroyer's head opening and glowing is a very bad thing.

* [[That Makes Me Feel Angry]]:

 

== Clint Barton/Hawkeye (Jeremy Renner) ==

* [[Deadpan Snarker]]

* [[Friendly Sniper]]: "You'd better call it, Coulson, because I'm starting to root for this guy."

* [[Shown Their Work]]: Snipers fire in between heartbeats. Hawkeye, with bow drawn, puts his thumb to his throat. He's keeping track of his pulse. Or maybe [[Rule of Cool|it just looks badass.]]

 

* [[Gender Flip]]: It is notable that in the comic and film, Laufey is Loki's father, but in the actual Norse myths, Laufey is in fact, Loki's mother.

* [[Knife Nut]]: Twice tries to stab Odin with a knife made out of ice.

* [[Reasonable Authority Figure]]: He was prepared to let Thor and his buddies go after they invaded his nation and violated the truce.

 

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