10 Behind The Scenes Reasons For MCU Characters' Quirks

You might remember that in the trailers for Thor: Ragnarok, Loki (Tom Hiddleston) could be seen flipping his daggers in his hands like a total badass, and though this impossibly cool shot somehow didn't make it into the final film, the trick did reappear more recently.

In the Loki Disney+ series, we see the God of Mischief use the same dagger flip during an encounter with his variant Sylvie (Sophia Di Martino), but the origins of Loki's combat technique are most unexpected indeed.

As it turns out, Tom Hiddleston improvised the knife flip while shooting Thor: Ragnarok because he'd finished performing his fight choreography a little early during a take and didn't want to look silly while the cameras were still rolling. He said in an interview with EW:

"I ran out of choreography. Basically, I think I finished my moves before Idris [Elba], and he was still rolling, and I didn't want to just be standing there like a lemon, not doing anything interesting. So I just flipped the knives, and caught them by chance... And Idris laughed about it. We watched it back. He was [like], 'Oh, god, he's gone and done a knife flip at the end of it.' Because he was finishing his fight moves. But, yeah, it ended up staying. I've since tried to do it. Every time I try to do it with wooden spoons, it never works, and I always drop one. So it was one of those things, but lightning never strikes twice."