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On the internet, I mostly searched for data on the world and iconic figures to definitively establish which historical period I had landed in.
I managed to watch the famous press conference of Tony Stark, where he admitted to being Iron Man.
Everything matched, starting from Downey Jr.'s face and ending with the long pause before the confession.
That happened two months ago, and the passions had already subsided, but there were more than enough links to all sorts of expert assessments and hangers-on, though they didn't concern me.
I also found Doctor Strange, though for some reason not Stephen, as I remembered from the movies, but Stefan.
But Cumberbatch's mug was in place, convincing me once again that I am in the Avengers Cinematic Universe.
This worthy gentleman was currently still a practicing physician specializing in neurological surgery, working in a New York clinic and making good money on his operations.
Traces of Bruce Banner were also found, but there wasn't a word on the internet about where he works now or under what circumstances he ceased active scientific activity.
Nor was there any sensible information about the Hulk, only rumors, water, and all sorts of hoaxes. But at least they wrote about him.
However, neither Nick Fury, nor Victor von Doom, nor Reed Richards seemed to exist here at all.
And if the former could easily be attributed to the secrecy of the head of S.H.I.E.L.D., the absence of the others spoke volumes.
And by the way, Susan Storm in the first two Fantastic Four movies was a real beauty and simply a perfect hit for the image of a sexy female character from classic cartoons, straight up eleven out of ten. Alas, no luck for me here either...
I also looked up local legends about Asgard and Loki personally.
I wouldn't say I was a great expert on his myths in my past life, but a couple of points, precisely in contrast to Marvel, stuck in my memory.
Specifically, on my Earth, Loki was always considered a Jotun whom the Aesir allowed to live in Asgard.
Also, Laufey wasn't his father, but his mother, in some versions, even an Asgardian goddess, not a frost giantess.
His father, on the other hand, was a Jotun, but I couldn't remember his name.
Here, there was nothing of the sort. Loki was considered Odin's younger son, no double interpretations about it.
However, the differences ended there, and then began the same wild nonsense that all primitive savages loved to invent about their gods, from Japanese Shintoists to ancient Greeks and Scandinavians.
You had the chaining to a rock with an acid-dripping snake above the head because… well, basically, he called on the gods to have a sense of moderation and stop stuffing themselves like pigs at some feast.
You had the "Swedish family" situation with a giantess and a goddess, resulting in a bunch of weird kids, including the wolf Fenrir and the serpent Jormungand.
And the spawning of all witches through conception via the charred heart of an evil woman…
Honestly, I didn't understand how, but apparently, it was implied that Loki carried and gave birth to them himself.
In short, digging through this prime nonsense of a sexually obsessed schizophrenic zoophile, I began to heartily understand why my predecessor hated Vikings personally and humans in general.
If people made up stuff like that about me, I would also agree without hesitation to lead an army of evil aliens to conquer the storytellers' homeland.
While spending my nightly leisure this way, I didn't forget to think about what to do next.
The idea of bailing from Asgard was correct and timely, but intermediate. And the words about finding methods to exit this universe were too vague a formulation. I needed specifics, but that was the hard part.
And no, let's not bring up Deadpool, who jumps through parallel universes after the credits in his movie and kills his own copies, including the actor who played him in my world.
That's Deadpool.
He doesn't even need to get drunk to hallucinate squirrels, and generally, Deadpool is something best not touched even with a ten-meter pole.
Thus, I didn't have that many options.
First up was Kamar-Taj.
This association of Earth sorcerers possessed very impressive techniques for working with space and the dimensions closest to this plane of existence.
Relying on memories of the movie and Loki's magical knowledge, I could quite easily imagine exactly how some of the local sorcerers' techniques worked, but only some, while others left even the God of Magic respectfully bewildered.
Thus, the idea of contacting Kamar-Taj and proposing an exchange of knowledge looked promising.
Even if the principles of their portals couldn't be refined for inter-universal transfer, the skill itself would be useful to me on its own.
The second option was the search for a technological solution. But I didn't remember the names of scientists who invented such devices in other variations of the universe, and I probably couldn't find them myself.
The X-Men weren't going to be helpers in development, since even Hank McCoy, who was always responsible for their tech, is more of a competent technician with a broad outlook than a genius inventor.
Plus, he wasn't visible in the vicinity, so he might still be struggling with the external manifestations of his mutation somewhere, making other projects simply irrelevant for him.
But this world did have Tony Stark, who, judging by the stylish glowing circle in Iron Man's chest, would indeed soon start dying from radiation poisoning.
If I'm not confusing anything, and in such things, it's hard to get confused, this matter made him very nervous, almost to the point of trying to beautifully suicide, having previously signed the company over to the woman he loved.
And say what you will, but even the local Tony Stark is actually a genius.
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