I think the only ambiguity is the unanswered question of whether Loki killed Odin or simply imprisoned him somewhere, somehow.
S.H.I.E.L.D. is at least mentioned in this movie.
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[li]After Jane’s first disappearance, she’s angry that Darcy called the cops. Something like, “You involve the cops, the cops involve the government, the government involves S.H.I.E.L.D.”[/li][li]Then when Jane is gone again, Darcy is complaining that she doesn’t know what to do, “Jane isn’t returning my calls, Erik isn’t returning my calls, S.H.I.E.L.D. isn’t returning my calls!” Intern: “What’s S.H.I.E.L.D.?” Darcy: “It’s a secret!”[/li][/ul]
And then the two most recent Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. T.V. episodes have referenced the events of the second Thor movie.
S.H.I.E.L.D. is mentioned in The Incredible Hulk as having developed an algorithm or search program or whatever to find e-mail communications between Banner and Dr. Sterns. The S.H.I.E.L.D. logo is on the computer screen when one of General Ross’ people gets an alert that a communcation from Dr. Banner has been detected.
In Iron Man 3, S.H.I.E.L.D. is not involved nor do I believe it is mentioned at all.
It’s mentioned when Tony asks Jarvis to recreate the scene where the bomb nearly killed Happy. Jarvis says something like “I’ve cross-referenced NSA, DoD, and SHIELD databases.”
In Thor, I always assumed everything happened too quickly for SHIELD to get involved. Especially if the police didn’t report the portals in the warehouse to anyone, and it just went in as a normal Missing Persons report. Though you’d expect both Selwig and Foster’s names to be flagged so if ANY police report mentioned them, someone from SHIELD would check it out.
I agree wrt Selvig, though not necessarily Foster.
I do wonder though if Coulson will appear in any other Marvel movie. Of will it be like DS9 and the TNG movies? It might have made for a nice cameo, in the film if they showed SHIELD (Coulson’s group especially) attempting to get to London.
[spoiler]she was putting things in terms she understood and trying to figure out whether her understanding was correct; she was testing the new concepts against similar ones she already had to verify whether they matched or not. It’s very common when people from different cultures and specially different languages come together and start talking shop; it’s an important part at the beginning of corporate projects involving consultant teams…
Client: “*list of Must Have Items includes ‘reconditioning’”
Consultant A: “what is this ‘reconditioning’? Is it some form of ‘rework’?”
Client: “no no, it’s when we have product that isn’t right and needs to be fixed, we call that ‘reconditioning’”
Consultant team members write down “rework = reconditioning”[/spoiler]
You make a good point and now I think on it, the wording could have gone either way: it was the way the lines were delivered that was primarily the problem. Neither the attitude nor tone were thoughtful, as would happen if she was genuinely interested in integrating data, but arrogant and corrective.
I disagree with your read on the scene. Jane only had attitude after the woman running the device sneered at her for calling it a whoosimawhatsits. The Asgardian was being kind of a bitch, assuming that a primitive human couldn’t possibly understand Asgardian tech. Jane was justifiably smug in proving her wrong.