In
an alien dimension, Loki monologues about defeating Thor for a page and a half
then transports himself to Asgard and appears before the Grand Vizier. The
Vizier reacts and Loki magics him away while muttering curses….
Thor,
concerned about the dying Jane Foster, wanders the streets around Avengers
Mansion and sees a kid run in front of a truck. Thor jumps in the way,
demolishing the truck and turning the kid over to his frightened mother. But
when Thor returns to the Mansion, he finds it enclosed by an invisible force
field….
Hours
later, he meets with the Chiefs of Staff at the Pentagon where he learns he is
the only superhero able to move about freely, all others are trapped within
force fields. Thor presumes that it is Loki’s doing, wanting to fight Thor
alone. There are also transparent cubes outside every Army base in the USA and
as they watch on a monitor screen, Loki and his troops emerge from the cube
outside Washington, challenging Thor to battle. Thor flies out and meets Loki
on the Arlington Bridge where he fights off several of the baddies’ soldiers
before Loki, imbued with the power of Dormammu, unleashes a power bolt that
knocks Thor off the bridge. Thor is approached by General Sam Sawyer,
commanding the US Army’s forces, with a battle plan. Thor leads US troops back
onto the bridge and there is a pitched battle while soldiers plant explosives
under the bridge; there is a blast and a section of the bridge is destroyed—but
Loki uses magic to fill in the gap with a force field. Demoralized, the
American soldiers retreat while Loki laughs….
Later,
Thor and Sawyer discuss strategy and the General holds out a nuclear blast as
the best option. The Grand Vizier arrives and Thor asks about Odin’s aid; the
Vizier reveals that the All-Father has taken on human form, to live among
mortal, under a spell of forgetfulness that he not remember his identity until
an unknown time. So Thor must go to war without him….
In
a communal home for migrant workers in California, a big old man called Orrin watches
the news on TV unaware of his true identity….