The Marvel Cinematic Universe is filled with powerful superheroes, but arguably the most powerful is Thor (Chris Hemsworth). With incredible strength, the capability to summon lightning, his trusty hammer Mjölnir, and even the power of flight, Thor has faced down the Avengers’ most formidable enemies. But during the penultimate battle sequence in the character’s introductory film, Thor, the God of Thunder used an immensely destructive power that has not been seen since, despite many occasions when it would have come in handy.

Thor, directed by Kenneth Brannagh, follows Thor after his arrogance causes his father Odin (Anthony Hopkins) to cast him out of his home, Asgard. He is forced to live powerless on Earth before becoming worthy of wielding Mjölnir and regaining his powers. Meanwhile, his mischievous brother, Loki (Tom Hiddleston), connives to defeat Thor using a Destroyer, a fire-spewing, indestructible suit of armor that comes to Earth at the end of the film’s second act.

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This sequence begins with demonstrations of the Destroyer’s power; it explodes cars and buildings and scatters pedestrians on its way toward a still-powerless Thor. Thor’s friends, the Warriors Three (Ray Stevenson, Tadanobu Asano, and Josh Dallas) and Sif (Jaimie Alexander) all confront the Destroyer, which is able to fend off their attacks and even shrug off Sif’s spear through its chest. During the battle’s final stand-off, Thor attempts to reason with Loki through the Destroyer, but after a brief pause in the fighting, the Destroyer smacks Thor unconscious and seemingly dead for a moment. Giving up his life for those on Earth is enough to prove Thor worthy, and his powers are restored – including one his most destructive.

Thor's Tornado in Thor (2011)

At that point, Thor regains Mjölnir and, after clubbing the Destroyer a few times, whips the hammer around, lifting himself in the air and creating a tornado that sucks up the Destroyer above ground, where Thor can destroy the armored enemy above the townspeople below.

As one poster pointed out on Reddit, this power – summoning a tornado – is never used again throughout the six other films in which Thor appears (seven if you include Doctor Strange’s post-credits scene). He flies many times using the same Mjölnir-whipping motion, but there’s never the same tornado effect. Other Reddit commenters point out that the tornado would cause too much collateral damage, but while this holds true during the Battle of New York in The Avengers and fights in other populated areas, the Battle of Wakanda in Avengers: Infinity War sports wide open spaces. If there’s enough space for him to arc blue fire between hundreds of Thanos’s minions, why not use the tornado power as well? Similar logic holds in Thor: The Dark World’s opening battle when Thor is armed with Mjölnir, not his battle axe, Stormbreaker.

The MCU is rich in lore and has held together remarkably well throughout its twenty-three-movie run, and while the explanation that its creators simply forgot one of Thor’s most destructive abilities in the original Thor is banal, it is also the most likely. Fans will see Thor again in Taika Waititi’s Thor: Love and Thunder, and if the plot calls for it, that film presents another opportunity to see the Avengers’ most powerful hero whip up one more tornado.

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