Post-credits
Fury shows a scientist a glowing cube and asks him to study it. Someone else is in the room.
Erik Selvig is being quietly influenced by Loki, and the cube is the Tesseract.
Leads to The Avengers
Marvel Cinematic Universe
Thor
An arrogant prince of an alien kingdom is stripped of his power and dumped on Earth, where nobody has any reason to be impressed by him.
Where It Sits
- In-Universe Order — number 9 of 158 on the timeline. After The Incredible Hulk. Then Marvel One-Shot: A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Thor's Hammer.
- Release Order — number 24 of 158 on the timeline. After Iron Man 2. Then X-Men: First Class.