6. If Loki Is Already Able To Control Dr. Selvig, Why Isn't He Already Doing It In The Avengers? - Thor (2011)/The Avengers (2012)
The Plot Twist: Here's a plot twist that connects two movies in Marvel's Cinematic Universe,
Thor and
The Avengers, the second of which follows directly on from the first chronologically. The "twist" itself takes place during the post-credits sequence in
Thor, which sees Dr. Erik Selvig, who is a good guy, being "controlled" by Asgardian God Loki, who is a bad guy in both movies. In the sequence, Nick Fury, head of S.H.I.E.L.D., hires Dr. Selvig to come and help him research an object known as the Tesseract, a source of potentially unlimited power that drives the plot for most of
The Avengers. The twist reveals that, oh no, Dr. Selvig is actually
being controlled by Loki. We know this because we see Loki in a reflection behind Selvig, saying the line, "Well, I guess that's worth a look," which Selvig promptly repeats.
But, Uh... Well, as we come into
The Avengers, Loki isn't controlling Selvig anymore. We know this because the entire opening scene of the movie sets out to establish a plot point regarding Loki's control of Selvig (and Hawkeye, for that matter). So, what are we supposed to believe? That Loki lost his power to control Selvig somehow, and, uh... set out to get it back? The fact that the beginning of
The Avengers seems to ignore that Selvig was
already under Loki's control is kind of weird. I mean, no matter how you look at it, that post-credits sequence in
Thor plainly suggests that Loki is controlling him. Why else, after all, would he have him repeating that one line of dialogue verbatim? Worse still, if Loki can apparently influence anybody he likes anyway, what's the big deal about the fact that he can do it in in
The Avengers? Can't he just control everybody? The fact that this power is established and promptly forgotten in the next movie creates a whole bunch of plot holes, the main one is... why isn't Loki doing this stuff all the time?