Now I'm curious who he had in mind originally. Banner? Tony maybe? Jane? It would be mean since they're not present, but also why would they be at a SHIELD base for him to go after?
Probably not Banner or Tony because they're PC's of players who are actively involved in the campaign. So that narrows it done to either supporting characters like Jane or returning Villain's, I mean it has to be someone Kevin A) thought of using and B) ultimately decided it would be too mean to use. I can't imagine an active player character would be considered but I also can't think of anyone who would fit the role of "Science person" other than Jane, even Pepper Potts is more of a Business woman.
Well, originally Loki wasn't necessarily meant to walk away from the prologue with everything he needed for the plan... just the Tesseract.
Kevin didn't necessarily have a plan, but he was hoping for Tony to get mind-controlled later on, and actually intended Selvig to be on-hand as a replacement "smart guy" to help Banner.
It's only just now that it occurred to him that the smart guy who was already within mind-controlling distance is a much more obvious option, especially since he got Liam started on the idea by asking him to take Barton off the field.
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