Thor has never been a particularly boring character in the MCU, but he also wasn’t particularly interesting for Avengers: Endgame’s so-called “Lebowski Thor.”
10. “I knew it!”
One of the most breathtaking and surprising moments in Age of Ultron was that he didn’t want to hurt Thor’s feelings.
9. “The rabbit is correct, and clearly the smartest one among you.”
When Thor met the Guardians of the Galaxy in the first trailer for he’s probably right about that.
8. “Everybody knows who’s in charge.”
Chris Hemsworth has said recently that Avengers: Endgame seemed to set it up. Thor boarded Peter Quill’s ship to hitch a ride into space and calls them “the Asgardians of the Galaxy.” Quill tries desperately to get Thor to acknowledge that he’s the one in charge of the team, but Thor subtly hints that it’s him now with vague statements like this.
7. “Looks like you’ve copied my beard.”
When Captain America and Thor are reunited in classed as a war criminal, and sought asylum in Wakanda, all they talk about is Thor’s new haircut and the fact that Cap seems to have copied Thor’s beard to get the grizzled look.
6. “Damn you, Stark. ‘Point Break.’”
When Thor finds the Quinjet on Sakaar during his escape from captivity as a gladiator, he tries out a few s: “Thor,” “God of Thunder,” “Strongest Avenger.” But they’re all incorrect. It’s the last one that really gets him, because he feels that he really is the strongest Avenger, although Tony Stark, who entered all the s, begs to differ.
Instead, he made the Hulk’s “Strongest Avenger” and Thor’s “Point Break.” This is a callback to The Avengers, in which the pop culture-tinged nickname that Stark came up with for Thor was “Point Break,” based on Patrick Swayze’s character in that movie.
5. “I’m totally from the future.”
Fans weren’t at all surprised when time travel factored into the plot of the worst movie in the MCU, was one of the movies chosen to return to. It worked, though, because it gave Thor the chance to have one last conversation with his mother, Frigga, who could tell in an instant that he was a future version of her son.
4. “I like this one.”
Based on this moment alone, fans have been clamoring Thor had failed to kill Thanos in time and was therefore feeling pretty down. When the axe came flying past Carol’s head and into Thor’s hand, she didn’t flinch. Thor was impressed.
3. “I went for the head.”
The first of many, many, many previous MCU moments that got paid off in Endgame, as the Avengers head to Thanos’ farm, he tells them he’s destroyed the Infinity Stones, and Thor lops his head off in one fell swoop. He went for the head.
2. “He’s a friend from work!”
This is the line that Thor says as soon as he realizes that the Grandmaster’s undefeated champion in the gladiatorial arena he’s been forced into is the Hulk. There’s actually a really sweet story behind how this line ended up in the movie. A kid from the Make-A-Wish Foundation had been invited to the set of Thor: Ragnarok and suggested the line.
It was the scene where Thor sees the Hulk for the first time in years and the kid described him as “a friend from work” and the phrase ended up in the movie as one of its most memorable lines of dialogue.
1. “You take the small one.”
Thor slyly displays a feeling of inadequacy in the final battle scene of quite possibly the MCU’s finest battle scene.
