Erik Selvig
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2012, Cinematic: Selvig hands the Tesseract to Thor to be taken back to Asgard.
Cinematic
Swedish-born astrophysicist who befriends Thor after the god lands in New Mexico, is later recruited to study the Tesseract, and is mind-controlled by Loki into opening the portal for the Chitauri over New York. Freed by Black Widow, he suffers lasting mental strain, helps stop Malekith at the Convergence in Greenwich, guides Thor to the Water of Sight, and later consults for the Avengers.
Comics
A Danish Cosmic Cube expert who became caretaker of Kobik at S.H.I.E.L.D. Kobik rewrote his past to make him a lifelong Hydra loyalist, and he helped create Pleasant Hill. Taken by Zemo, spared by a Hydra-aligned Captain America, he killed himself rather than destroy Kobik's sentience.
Timeline 15 events
- Secret Wars · Comics: Proposed Pleasant Hill, a town of reformed villains, at the Red Skull's direction.
- Secret Wars · Comics: Nursed Maria Hill and helped Steve Rogers find Kobik after Zemo's assault on Pleasant Hill.
- Secret Wars · Comics: Was teleported by Kobik with Baron Zemo to the Himalayas and held by him.
- Secret Wars · Comics: Was spared by Captain America, who faked his death.
- Secret Wars · Comics: Refused to merge Kobik's cube shards at the cost of her sentience, hid them and killed himself.
- 2010 · Cinematic: Selvig and his research team collide with the newly arrived Thor in the New Mexico desert and later befriend him.
- 2012 · Cinematic: Nick Fury recruits Selvig to study the Tesseract, and Loki takes control of his mind after emerging through the Tesseract portal.
- 2012 · Cinematic: Under Loki's control, Selvig opens a portal atop Stark Tower so the Chitauri army can invade New York.
- 2012 · Cinematic: Freed by Black Widow, Selvig reveals that the Scepter can shut down the Tesseract portal, which ends the invasion.
- 2012 · Cinematic: Selvig hands the Tesseract to Thor to be taken back to Asgard.
- 2013 · Cinematic: Selvig is arrested at Stonehenge during a breakdown and is rescued by Darcy Lewis and Ian Boothby.
- 2013 · Cinematic: At the Convergence in Greenwich, Selvig and Foster use gravity devices to teleport Dark Elf forces away and help Thor defeat Malekith.
- 2015 · Cinematic: Selvig leads Thor to the Water of Sight so he can relive his vision of the Infinity Stones.
- 2015 · Cinematic: After the Ultron Offensive, Selvig moves to the Avengers Compound in New York as a consultant.
- 2025 · Cinematic: Selvig works with Jane Foster on treatments for her stage IV cancer, without success.
allied with
Thor, Jane Foster, Nick Fury, Darcy Lewis, Red Skull, Steve Rogers
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