"They already knew at that point, 'We're building toward The Avengers,' and they said, 'Guys, if you fail at everything else, give us a villain as good as [X-Men bad guy] Magneto,'" the writer said — not that that was all that the studio had to say about the writers' plans, however. "The problem that we kept encountering was that Thor didn't have a force of opposition when he was on Earth," Stentz explained, saying that he and Miller wanted SHIELD to take that role. "There was a lot of skepticism from the Marvel people at first, because they were like, 'Well, but SHIELD are the good guys!' That was something they went from being skeptical about to really getting on board with."

Watch the video below, courtesy of Screen Junkies, and enjoy Stentz's ability to laugh at (and, occasionally, agree with) criticism of his work.