History NightmareFuel / TheAvengers

** And lest we forget the look in his eyes as he coolly calculates everything about his location in a matter of seconds and begins taking out the threats to him in rapid fashion. Seconds... mere seconds. A mind as broken as his appears to be, and he is still able to think through a situation that tactically.

** The Hulk might be an in universe example for Natasha, the mere prospect that Banner might turn has her pulling her gun on him and she looks ''terrified''. There's a good reason why she says, "Bozhe moi"[[hottip:*:Translation: "My God."]] earlier when Coulson tells her she's getting the "big guy". And he doesn't mean [[Film/IronMan Stark]].

** And lest we forget the look in his eyes as he coolly calculates everything about his location in a matter of seconds and begins taking out the threats to him in rapid fashion. Seconds... mere seconds. A mind as broken as his appears to be, and he is still able to think through a situation that tactically.

** His audible, slow breathing.

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* The [[KubrickStare first]] [[PsychoticSmirk look]] we get of Loki. It's this extremely disturbing look in his eyes and a SlasherSmile terrifyingly similar to the profile picture for NightmareFuel. [[http://i47.tinypic.com/34h6j4l.png Take a look.]]

* Hawkeye needs the eye scan of a certain man to open a door that holds a meteorite shard. He gives a hand held scanner to Loki, who proceeds to crash the guy's party, hold him down over a decorative slab in front of the terrified crowd, and - possibly not understanding precisely how the thing works, probably just for kicks - ''[[EyeScream ram the scanner right into the guy's eye]]''. [[NothingIsScarier We can't directly see the point of impact]], but on Hawkeye's end, the scan comes through ''and the eye is jerking around in death throes''. Needless to say, this is one party that didn't need a serving of [[EyeScream Eye]] [[IncrediblyLamePun Scream]].

** There's also the fact that unlike Hawkeye who's a bit dark even while good, Selvig is basically a 100% cheerful NiceGuy who is not only still friendly and sweet but genuinely excited about the amazing new science he's discovering... while under mind control and helping the enemy. It's like watching an innocent child doing evil unwittingly.

** And even if you have no idea who he is, the "''challenge accepted''" look on his face is unsettling enough. It's even worse if you ''do''. [[spoiler:He's Death's ''literal'' StalkerWithACrush.]]

** Not to mention his audible, slow breathing. In fact, this troper was reminded of CourtneyLove's breathing from the beginning of Hole's [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FL9G8GB5g0I "Sassy."]]

** Not to mention his audible, slow breathing. In fact, this troper was reminded of CourtneyLove's breathing at the beginning of Hole's [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FL9G8GB5g0I "Sassy."]]

* The way Loki looks when he first appears, all through the first scene, as well as the way he acts throughout the film show he's not only not in his right mind, but may be under control of the spear as well, and not willingly. Look at the first scene. He's sweaty, he has sunken in eyes, he sounds worn down, he's clearly weak, and when he looks at the spear, it like he doesn't even know he's holding it at first. Other than his reaction to the spear, all these things are signs of heat exhaustion or even heat stroke. Now, /what/ is Loki? Jotun, aka. a Frost Giant. Even the scanner on the cage shows he is a physically cold figure. Loki was /tortured/ with heat, and forced to use the spear. Why would I say forced? Well, in Thor, his eyes are green and pretty natural looking. In this movie, his eyes are blue, though not as blank as Barton's and Selvig's are, but something does seem off about them except at one moment in the film, when Thor and he are on the balcony of Stark Tower. Thor makes Loki look at what he's caused, and for a brief moment, when it seems he can see what he's done, his eyes look frightened and upset by what he sees, and they're green again. Then they go back to being cold and blue and he stabs Thor. It's like he wants to fight the urge to do so too. Up until the opening of this movie, Loki has been known to be a good brother to Thor who snapped and lashed out against the way Odin had treated him, but in this movie, he's all-out evil, and it seems like it's not really Loki. And just one extra point about the spear. Yes, Bruce is the Hulk, but when the whole group is fighting and he gets pissed off, it's not the Hulk that scares everyone. Bruce grabbed the spear without even knowing it. It's like the thing called to him, asking to be picked up. It doesn't need to be held to control people. All of these things point to the spear being the true villain of this film. Loki was a Frost Giant tortured into submission and forced to use/be controlled by it, and it even effects people whose hearts it hasn't touched. Talk about Nightmare Fuel
** Actually, his eyes were blue in {{Thor}} as well. They were only green in the promotional materials. What we're seeing is Mr. Hiddleston's natural eye color. The idea that Loki was tortured and may not be an entirely willing participant in these events isn't without some merit, though.
*** Actually, there is a slight change. In Thor, they were still green, but more blue than Tom's natural color. In Avengers, they become really blue, like the shade of the Tesseract or the eyes of the men the staff controls.
**** The staff contains the MIND GEM. As in, one of the six Infinity Gems Thanos uses to gain literal omnipotence, omniscience, omnipresence... The gem makes one the MOST POWERFUL PSYCHIC IN EXISTENCE, and the gems have been shown to have a semi-sentient malevolence. I'm pretty sure Loki was, at least partially, Brainwashed & Crazy.
**** [[LordOfTheRings Sounds sortta familiar...]]
** Another option is an example of FridgeHorror. What if Loki had ''accepted'' the idea of the spear altereing his mind? Depending on what he saw when he fell through the cosmos, he may well have willingly dampened his emotions.

**** [[LordOfTheRings Sounds sortta familiar...]]

**** The staff contains the MIND GEM. As in, one of the six Infinity Gems Thanos uses to gain literal omnipotence, omniscience, omnipresence... The gem makes one the MOST POWERFUL PSYCHIC IN EXISTENCE, and the gems have been shown to have a semi-sentient malevolence. I'm pretty sure Loki was, at least partially, Brainwashed & Crazy.

*** Actually, there is a slight change. In Thor, they were still green, but more blue than Tom's natural color. In Avengers, they become really blue, like the shade of the Tesseract or the eyes of the men the staff controls.

** Joss' commentary reveals that they added the eyes in post-production, and that the original script had no obvious signs of mind control. [[ItGotWorse Somehow that's even creepier.]]

* Hawkeye needs the eye scan of a certain man to open a door that holds a meteorite shard. He gives a hand held scanner to Loki, who proceeds to crash the guy's party, hold him down over a decorative slab in front of the terrified crowd, and - possibly not understanding precisely how the thing works, probably just for kicks - ''[[EyeScream ram the scanner right into the guy's eye]]''. [[NothingIsScarier We can't directly see the point of impact]], but on Hawkeye's end, the scan comes through ''and the eye is jerking around in death throes''.

** In the scene mentioned above, [[ItGotWorse it gets worse]]. At one point, she thinks she's lost the Hulk, so she sneaks through, but then she turns and [[StealthHiBye the Hulk pops up]] and [[JumpScare roars at her]], resuming the chase.

* [[spoiler: {{Thanos}}... [[TheReveal Just Thanos]]. [[OneSceneWonder Two shots of him in the whole movie.]] [[TheVoiceless Not one line of dialogue.]] [[ItGotWorse More than enough to crap your pants.]]]]

** Actually, his eyes were blue in {{Thor}} as well. They were only green in the promotional materials. What we're seeing is Mr. Hiddleston's natural eye color. The idea that Loki was tortured and may not be an entirely willing participant in these events isn't without some merit, though.

** Actually, his eyes were blue in {Thor} as well. They were only green in the promotional materials. What we're seeing is Mr. Hiddleston's natural eye color.

* The way Loki looks when he first appears, all through the first scene, as well as the way he acts throughout the film show he's not only not in his right mind, but may be under control of the spear as well, and not willingly. Look at the first scene. He's sweaty, he has sunken in eyes, he sounds worn down, he's clearly weak, and when he looks at the spear, it like he doesn't even know he's holding it at first. Other than his reaction to the spear, all these things are signs of heat exhaustion or even heat stroke. Now, /what/ is Loki? Jotun, aka. a Frost Giant. Even the scanner on the cage shows he is a physically cold figure. Loki was /tortured/ with heat, and forced to use the spear. Why would I say forced? Well, in Thor, his eyes are green and pretty natural looking. In this movie, his eyes are blue, though not as blank as Barton's and Selvig's are, but something does seem off about them except at one moment in the film, when Thor and he are on the balcony of Stark Tower. Thor makes Loki look at what he's caused, and for a brief moment, when it seems he can see what he's done, his eyes look frightened and upset by what he sees, and they're green again. Then they go back to being cold and blue and he stabs Thor. It's like he wants to fight the urge to do so too. Up until the opening of this movie, Loki has been known to be a good brother to Thor who snapped and lashed out against the way Odin had treated him, but in this movie, he's all-out evil, and it seems like it's not really Loki. And just one extra point about the spear. Yes, Bruce is the Hulk, but when the whole group is fighting and he gets pissed off, it's not the Hulk that scares everyone. Bruce grabbed the spear without even knowing it. It's like the thing called to him, asking to be picked up. It doesn't need to be held to control people. All of these things point to the spear being the true villain of this film. Loki was a Frost Giant tortured into submission and forced to use/be controlled by it, and it even effects people whose hearts it hasn't touched. Talk about Nightmare Fuel