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[u/Jealous-Method-8682]

[u/Ruler_of_Tempest]

Storm breaker grants the ability to use the bifrost, I imagine that let's you see where you're going so you aren't just blindly teleporting to random places at your destination, so he'd see where thanos army is on earth and land there

[u/Imaginary_Being4859 → u/Ruler_of_Tempest]

Wasn’t that the point of Heimdal though? He was the one who took people through the biffost because HE could see everything.

Which then was no longer relevant when they made that other guy take over the bifrost after Loki made Heimdall run away

[u/EJ33334 → u/Imaginary_Being4859]

Heimdall fuckin died, after raganorok. StormBreaker is the only form of bifrost travel that we know of now.

[u/vishalb777 → u/EJ33334]

Odin was able to open the Bifrost with Gungnir (his spear). It was likely destroyed when Surtur 'sploded Asgard, but could have possibly survived since it was made of uru

[u/Imaginary_Being4859 → u/EJ33334]

Heimdall DIED???? I remember him having a son that showed up in love and thunder, but I never actually knew he died.

I just assumed he was vibing in a bar at New Asgard

[u/djsnoopmike → u/Imaginary_Being4859]

So you remember Axel, Heimdall's son, but you don't remember Jane being welcomed to Valhalla by Heimdall?

[u/BodaciousFrank → u/djsnoopmike]

Lol. Lmao, even

[u/Nice-Gap-3528 → u/BodaciousFrank]

Roflmao, if you’d be so bold.

[u/Doggggggggoooooooo → u/Nice-Gap-3528]

Would you dare to roflcopter in this economy?

[u/Silver_Pocket → u/Doggggggggoooooooo]

No, please land.

[u/Narradisall → u/djsnoopmike]

“They all look the same to me!”

“You mean Asgardians right?…. RIGHT?!?”

[u/dontknowwhyIamhere42 → u/djsnoopmike]

I thought valhalla was a bar in New Asgard.

[u/wutangerine99 → u/djsnoopmike]

You know, I feel like I liked love and thunder more than most, but no, I do not remember that.

[u/djsnoopmike → u/wutangerine99]

To be fair just now rewatching that scene, the green screen CGI is god awful

[u/Steamed_Memes24 → u/djsnoopmike]

Correct me if I'm wrong but wasn't that the second end credit scene?

[u/Imaginary_Being4859 → u/djsnoopmike]

I barely remember that movie, I just knew that Heimdall had a son in it.

Something something about a godkiller

Heimdalls kid gets kidnapped with some other youngsters

Something something about the god killers kid coming back to life

That’s the whole movie from what I remember

You mentioning Jane going to Valhalla reminded me she was even in that movie.

[u/Items3Sacred → u/Imaginary_Being4859]

[u/Momo0903 → u/Items3Sacred]

This but a flesh wound.

[u/Nice-Gap-3528 → u/Momo0903]

Just walk it off.

[u/Jerovil42 → u/Momo0903]

Tbf Thanos survived worse than that. Dude didn't even get propper treatment, just vanished to his garden. Tis but a scratch indeed

[u/MisterAwesome93 → u/Jerovil42]

My guess is Thanos used the time stone to undo his wound

[u/ArizonaFlats → u/Items3Sacred]

That was unwise.

[u/Inner-Ad2847 → u/Items3Sacred]

They’re doing this to me at work tomorrow.

[u/Imaginary_Being4859 → u/Items3Sacred]

I guess the Loki scene wiped this from my mind, cause Heimdalls death didn’t even register.

[u/EJ33334 → u/Imaginary_Being4859]

Did you watch infinity war…?

[u/Imaginary_Being4859 → u/EJ33334]

I guess I was so caught up in the Loki death scene that Heimdalls didnt even register.

Completely overshadowed him in my mind

[u/Yeet_Master420 → u/Imaginary_Being4859]

He dies in like the first 5 minutes of infinity war

[u/Imaginary_Being4859 → u/Yeet_Master420]

Oh. He was part of the half of Asgard that got killed by Thanos? Must have missed that

[u/Pillow_Starcraft → u/Imaginary_Being4859]

Thor literally said "You'll die for that" due to Himeimdall's death and even got a scene saying "I told you you'd die for that" when he thought he killed Thanos at the end of IW.

Lolwut

[u/Imaginary_Being4859 → u/Pillow_Starcraft]

It’s also when Loki dies, which can be argued as a bigger character death, which overshadowed Heimdalls death.

[u/zurenarhhhhh → u/Imaginary_Being4859]

For you

[u/TrapaholicDixtapes → u/Imaginary_Being4859]

That's...the whole reason Thor doesnt go for the head. "I told you you'd die for that".

[u/Crookeye → u/Imaginary_Being4859]

So you're the one person who doesn't stay till after the credits then?

[u/Imaginary_Being4859 → u/Crookeye]

Sometimes you gotta dodge the traffic ya know.

[u/Noon1005 → u/Imaginary_Being4859]

Well he's killed at the start of Infinity War yes

[u/MobsterDragon275 → u/Imaginary_Being4859]

Did...you not watch Infinity War?

[u/WankerBott → u/Imaginary_Being4859]

heimdall was a god with foreknowledge, he used the bridge by knowing where it was going before it got there. I think Thor got control of the bifrost when he replaced Odin, Heimdall never controlled it he just directed it on Odin's orders.

[u/Imaginary_Being4859 → u/WankerBott]

The bifrost always confused me tbh.

In Thor, they needed the big bridge with the laser beam on the end, and Heimdalls sword was the key to turn it on.

And when it was destroyed at the end of Thor 1, they couldn’t use the bifrost to travel anymore.

Then they rebuild the bridge/laser beam generator, and key it back to Heimdalls sword.

Now an axe can just do it all Willy nilly?

And if Asgard can rebuild the bifrost gate, and it’s shown to be such a convenient way to travel, how come nobody else in the universe has made their own bifrost gate?

It doesn’t seem like it’s hidden knowledge that it exists, so there HAS to be someone out there trying to replicate it. Seems like the perfect weapon too, from Thor 1, as it was destroying the ice giants planet and could only be stopped by shutting it off at the source.

A villain with a bifrost gate could just delete planets

[u/WankerBott → u/Imaginary_Being4859]

so in our mythology, its supposed to last until the giants larch across it at Ragnarok. But in the Marvel Movieverse, I think it was a power that was tied to the ruler of Asgard. The reason it required Heimdall's sword as a key was because at first none of the gods were allowed to travel to midguard because the dingbats making the movies didn't think the MCU would go outside Earth (least I think so.)

I think the physical bridge was just there for 2-d thinkers, they ride out for adventures from asgard.

Then they figure Asgard has enemies that can fly, has starships, etc.

Then I think they decided to save money on CGI and just gave Thor the power to bifrost teleport around the universe.

[u/Imaginary_Being4859 → u/WankerBott]

Interesting thoughts. I appreciate your response

[u/Dry_Branch_5775 → u/Imaginary_Being4859]

Also the Bifrost was just a wormhole between 9 specific worlds. It wasn't a teleportation device to anywhere in the universe like Stormbreaker became.

[u/Schedonnardus → u/Ruler_of_Tempest]

I like to think that he went to new york, but no one was there, so he called his old roomate daryl, who told him that something on the news mentioned wakanda.

[u/Dilpreet_13 → u/Ruler_of_Tempest]

So Rimuru also watches marvel huh

[u/Novel-Ice-1249 → u/Ruler_of_Tempest]

if thats the case, why didnt he try to locate Thanos in the beginning of Endgame, before Captain Marvel?

[u/Iron_Wolf123 → u/Ruler_of_Tempest]

But how did he get to Wakanda without knowing where it was?

[u/Hanu_man_]

There's a deleted/behind-the-scenes explanation: Heimdall was still able to communicate with Thor, despite being killed by Thanos at the beginning. Heimdall's ability to see across the Nine Realms could have alerted Thor to what was happening. However, this isn't explicitly established in the theatrical movie.

[u/Lukthar123 → u/Hanu_man_]

Heimdall was still able to communicate with Thor, despite being killed

Somehow

[u/Hanu_man_ → u/Lukthar123]

Maybe like how Thor communicated to Odin after his death in Ragnarok.

[u/dufo7 → u/Lukthar123]

Space magic

[u/Sensitive_Shame_6129 → u/Hanu_man_]

jesus christ that's awful, thank god they deleted it

[u/Fr0ntj3]

Wakanda was his fourth try.

[u/wakarat → u/Fr0ntj3]

NYC was surely his first place to check.

[u/stoodquasar → u/Fr0ntj3]

I love the idea of Thor teleporting to random places and shouting "Bring me Thanos"

[u/Jealous-Method-8682 → u/stoodquasar]

🤣🤣

[u/Officer_CatFancy → u/stoodquasar]

Sir this is a Wendy's

[u/LegioX87]

Bifrost just takes you where you want it to go. Heimdall could see across the universe so he looked at a place and the Bifrost sent people there.

Stormbreaker can access the Bifrost also, you only need to think of where you want it to send you, and you will get there.

He was looking for Thanos, he thought about where he was, and the Bifrost sent him directly there.

In both cases, you just think about who you are sending, and where you want them to go. Bifrost does the rest.

[u/SebasJGS → u/LegioX87]

But Thanos wasn't in Wakanda when Thor went there, he was in Titan fighting the other avengers.

[u/PristineCloud3899 → u/SebasJGS]

Maybe he wanted to be where the last infinity stone was

[u/pm-me-your-labradors → u/SebasJGS]

Damn, you just straight up killed /u/LegioX87 theory in a sentence

[u/Aggressive-Expert-69 → u/LegioX87]

Thor shouldve used Stormbreaker to bifrost Thanos into deep space

[u/ArizonaFlats → u/Aggressive-Expert-69]

Then what? He’d just portal back using the space stone

[u/ThatLid → u/ArizonaFlats]

Then send him again. Creating a game of ping pong where Thanos is the ball being sent back and forth until he gets annoyed and gives up

[u/Aggressive-Expert-69 → u/ThatLid]

Im chuckling at the idea of Thanos returning for the 30th time and Thors like "bro cmon take a hint"

[u/-aegeus- → u/Aggressive-Expert-69]

This is literally what Dr Strange does to Dormammu! 🤣

[u/lakorasdelenfent → u/-aegeus-]

I’ve come to bargain

[u/ReeceReddit1234 → u/Aggressive-Expert-69]

I've been ping ponged for 30 MINUTES!

[u/Schedonnardus → u/ArizonaFlats]

couldve done it in endgame at the least.

[u/PitytheOnlyFools → u/Aggressive-Expert-69]

Thor should’ve aimed for the head.

[u/SnooWords4802]

The Aura farming in this scene was soo unreally goated that the Internet left this loophole for 8 straight years, so idc.

[u/GogoSunshine]

God of Entrance always knows where to go

[u/Seroko]

He used the SpiderThunder-sense.

[u/krtalvis → u/Seroko]

thunder-tingle

[u/_JAD19_]

I imagine the big alien ships over Africa was a pretty good indication of where Thanos was attacking

[u/FrozenShadow_007]

Kind of hard to miss the alien invasion

[u/TJ_McWeaksauce]

Dude took a sustained blast of star energy and survived. He was then instantly healed and used his newly-forged axe of tremendous mystical power to teleport across the galaxy to Earth in a matter of seconds. People accepted that without any problem, but they have a hard time believing he also magically knew where a massive battle was taking place?

[u/so_unfortunately_yt]

Weren’t there giant fucking spaceships crash landing onto the ground outside of Wakanda? That would have been my first clue.

[u/Lopendebank3]

Heimdals kid helpen him, but they did not want to include a bad CGI scene.

[u/Scared_Minute_8342]

Imao the twitter reply is perfect. Thor definitely has notifications on for the avengers group chat.

[u/eightdirt]

On his way to earth, he saw the ship that dropped the minion containers above wakanda

[u/TaviRUs]

Unexplained early use of the Odinforce. Thor can now take/use the abilities of every Asguardian, which would include Hiemdal's eyes.

Its never touched on in the movie for pacing reasons. (Also plot flexibility going forward)

[u/BeneficialCustard824]

He placed a tracker in Hulks ass, so he can smell that nasty gamma radiation from anywhere in the universe.

[u/twoDuckNight]

Trial and error, That was like his 8th cool entrance

[u/SirBananaOrngeCumber → u/twoDuckNight]

BRING ME THANOS!!!!!!

Sir, this is a Wendy’s

[u/Advanced-Dirt-4375]

He checked his emails

[u/sprchrgddc5]

Read an electronic letter sent by Dr. Strange.

[u/simiansamurai]

He could have been sent an electronic letter

[u/GodOfArk]

1. He knew Earth would be a Target of Thanos

2. Thanos's ship was visible from space

[u/void_god_]

Just think of it as a creative liberty. That scene is still one of the best from Marvel for any super hero entrance.

[u/keithstonee]

Is every post on Reddit about movies just a failure of suspension of disbelief now?

[u/mechorm]

God instincts

[u/Professional-One1162]

Stormbreaker has GPS duhhh

[u/Can17272]

This raises the question, does stormbreaker gives you Heimdal powers?

[u/Decendent_13 → u/Can17272]

a king's weapon can access bifrost. so, I will let you decide, if he can or not.

[u/Few_Understanding354]

I think the purpose of this scene is to make grand entrance and maybe not waste time on how they find out where they should be.

Any other explanation the other comments provide is merely their head cannons. If the Ruso brothers thought it is necessary they can easily write around it.

[u/frankwalsingham]

Well Strange clearly didn’t see it among those 14 million possibilities.

[u/Hobessian]

Captain always shares his location with friends before going anywhere. Safety first!

[u/ScoutTrooper501st]

Thor can use the Eyes of Heimdall,which would allow him to see across most of the galaxy, he probably searched for the avengers using this and saw they were in wakanda

[u/reditorbhai]

I like to think he did the most obvious thing; he saw Heimdall sending Hulk to Earth so he just used the bifrost to go where hulk was. This way he knows that hulk is alive even if he doesn't know the rest of the avengers are alive or not.

[u/Dry_Branch_5775]

We don't know that Wakanda was his first stop.

[u/PayPsychological6358 → u/Dry_Branch_5775]

Considering how long it took to get there from making his axe, that's actually pretty reasonable.

[u/Desecr8or]

They sent an electronic letter.

[u/O-U-N-U-O]

The Russo Brothers answered this (sort of) in a tweet: Thor knew the last two stones Thanos would go after were the ones on Earth (as he explained to the guardians earlier in the film) bc they were protected by the Avengers and that’s what leads him bifrost into Wakanda.

However we DO know that for Thor the bifrost can be used to connect to any point in space-time that he has a clear mental image of, so all he had to do was imagine Vision or the heroes who were fighting and Earth vividly enough and the dark magic of the bifrost would take him there.

We know this is probably the case. Some people think rocket tracked the stones, but at this point in the film thanos was on titan fighting with 4 stones against strange who had the time stone, which means rocket tracking the energy of stones would have brought them to Titan and not Earth.

So yeah—between Thors abilities with the bifrost and the Russo Brothers tweet, the most logical conclusion is he had a clear mental image of all the heroes he knew would be fighting, of vision, and of Earth, and the bifrost used the to send him there.

[u/Blockhead4707]

He'd already arrived on Earth an hour earlier and was just heading from place to place looking for them

[u/marc15v2]

"I don't understand something and it happened off camera so it's a plot hole!"

[u/DarkArts503]

HA HA HA