Or maybe something to do with the after-credit scene from Thor? Maybe he wasn't tied exclusively to Skarsgaard's character, but could move about? Or Skarsgaard's character was unknowingly gathering info for him when Fury brought him in to S.H.I.E.L.D.?

eta post-credit x-post!

One of the post-credit scenes in one of the movies had him lurking around SHIELD, didn't it?

Ah, I missed that. Makes sense.

I tend to assume that godlike aliens have special abilities to get information.

Except for the protagonists, because they have to stumble through a get-to-know-us phase while the chick falls in love with them.

Except for the protagonists, because they have to stumble through a get-to-know-us phase while the chick falls in love with them.

Maybe looking like a doof (while the chick falls in love with him) is part of Thor's punishment for being such an arrogant so-and-so?

If it in any way bothered him or contributed to growth, maybe.

I'm not sure how the Queen is defeated: it might be one of the "she flew into a rage so great she burned herself up" moments.

The Queen is invited to the wedding of the prince and his new bride, not realizing that the new bride is Snow White. At the wedding, a pair of heated iron shoes are brought out with tongs, and the Queen is forced to wear them and dance until she dies.

The Queen is invited to the wedding of the prince and his new bride, not realizing that the new bride is Snow White. At the wedding, a pair of heated iron shoes are brought out with tongs, and the Queen is forced to wear them and dance until she dies.

There needs to be a movie of this.

Fairy tales: the original horror movies.

I was so excited as a child to find one of the big collections of Grimm's fairy tales with the proper gruesome endings. I brought it home from the library, and my mom was all "Awwww, fairy tales! Not ghosts or vampires!"

My dad, however, laughed, and told me to have fun.

Fairy tales: the original horror movies.

Indeed.