11 Awesome Movie Scenes That Almost Didn't Happen

8. Loki's Shape-Shifting - Thor: The Dark World

Look, nobody here is going to try and tell you that Thor: The Dark World is a great film, even though some people improbably love it a lot more than it deserved, but it does deserve a little credit for some of its genuinely good moments. Sure, they're studded far too sparsely in a boring mess of a film whose production issues and creative battles are emblazoned on it way too obviously, but they still count.

Chief among the best parts of the film are pretty much every scene Tom Hiddleston's Loki is involved with. Even as the rest of the film sags, his performance shines and he's just about the only character who emerged with his reputation improved. That's probably why Thor: Ragnarok bothered to acknowledge this movie at all in its Odin sub-plot.

Oddly, one of the best Loki scenes - in which he shape-shifts to annoy Thor - wasn't in the film at all initially and was a "very, very late addition" according to director Alan Taylor.