Did anyone else think about Max Scherzer during ‘Avengers: Infinity War’?

Like thousands of other people, I went to watch Avengers: Infinity War on Friday before the Spoiler Monster could get me. It’s a major movie in the MCU and even if possible plot points have been agonized over for upwards of a year now, offering a basis off which to guess the outcome, it’s still not the same

If you were not one of the thousands of people who saw Avengers: Infinity War already, this post contains spoilers about the movie. This is your warning.

For everyone else, take a deep breath let’s discuss some minor events from the film.

Everyone good? Good.

In Thor: Ragnarok, Thor loses an eye at the hands of his sister Hela. It was a whole thing. So he went into Infinity War with one eye, no hammer, and a few less living family members. When we rejoin him and Loki at the beginning of the latest MCU installment, he’s rocking a snazzy eyepatch to cover the gaping hole in his head.

It didn’t look bad! Although it definitely helps if you look like Chris Hemsworth when trying to pull off the one-eye look.

But about halfway through the events of this movie, after he teams up with half of the Guardians of the Galaxy crew in Rocket Raccoon and Teen Groot, he gets his eye back. Or at least ... an eye back. Rocket Raccoon offers him an eye to use that he stole on one of his thievery- and shenanigans-filled adventures.

It’s a kind of gross scene, as Rocket heavily insinuates that he was only able to sneak the eye away from its owner by putting it up his butt and then Thor puts that eye into his eye socket without washing it, but at least it ends with the God of Thunder having two working eyes again.

The only thing, and it’s a very small detail, is that the new eye is brown while Hemsworth’s eyes are blue. So now he has two different colored eyes. You know who else has two different colored eyes? This dude.

Yep, Thor now has one striking thing in common with one of the best pitchers in baseball. And it made me think about Max Scherzer for fully half of a three hour movie. It’s exactly like me to completely space out mid-way through a movie based on one small detail that makes me think of something else and then go down that mind rabbit hole.

My question for you is: was I the only one who thought of this after the eye was firmly socketed?

Now that Thor doesn’t have the flowing locks but does have the mismatched eyes deal happening, he might have an argument to take the Thor nickname away from Noah Syndergaard. Although Scherzer’s best pitch is his slider, while Syndergaard’s cutter is out of this world.

And if you’ve seen the movie, you know Thor has also added something of a vicious “cutter” to his arsenal as well.