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Overview History Assessment MPOV People The Machine Active sinceFebruary 24, 2005 - May 5, 2015;May 6, 2015 - November 17, 2015;November 2015 - present Images 29 “ My Machine, her purpose has been constant. To protect and save humanity. It's what she's doing now. ” — Harold Finch, to Samaritan The Machine is a computer system built and designed by Harold Finch and Nathan Ingram for a secret operation within the United States government known as "Northern Lights". As an artificial super intelligence, its objective is to predict and prevent imminent terrorist attacks and does so by analyzing immense amounts of surveillance data. The Machine analyzes feeds from domestic organizations such as the National Security Agency, as well as foreign entities like Interpol to predict terrorist attacks and modify intelligence reports to include "relevant" data that will allow the government to forestall terrorist activity. Combined with data collected from various other sources, such as video footage, phone calls landline, VOIP, mobile, GPS, electronic transactions, e-mails and other social media, it is able to accurately predict violent acts without anyone knowing about its existence. History Main article The Machine/History Development As a response to 9/11, the Department of Homeland security and other agencies were given the right to read emails and monitor phone calls but needed a system to review this information and identify terrorists before they could act. After unsuccessful projects like Trailblazer, TIA, and Stellar Wind, the Machine was commissioned and development was tasked to IFT “No Good Deed”. The first time the final version of their Machine was turned on for testing by its creator was on January 1, 2002 “The Contingency” “Liberty”, but it officially went online on February 24, 2005 “Wolf and Cub” and when complete, was sold to the government for $ and shipped out from IFT to the Des Moines, later Salt Lake City and its destination Hanford Nuclear Reservation on July 12, 2009 “Super”. During development, 43 versions of the Machine were created. One learned to care, the rest tried to escape to the real world, kill Harold, or kill other versions “Prophets”. Virus Main article List of Embedded Codes The first glitch “One Percent” Following orders from Greer, Kara Stanton uploads a virus onto the DOD intranet “Dead Reckoning”. As the virus affects the Machine, its output becomes erratic and it fails to issue numbers in time, causing the deaths of Alan Fahey, Cal Beecher, Bill Szymanski‎, and Dr. Richard Nelson “Proteus”. The virus overwhelms the Machine with false data and causes glitches, the first of which is seen in “One Percent” as a blue screen interrupting video feeds. As Zero Day approaches, Finch discovers the virus' aim was to overwhelm the Machine with false data and force a hard reset. At the end of “In Extremis”, the virus causes monitoring boxes to dance across the screen and finally disappear as the picture degrades. The Machine then displays a red coded screen stating the feed is corrupted, followed by a series of messages, each dissolving from Western to Greek characters as primary operations shut down. Major errors encounteredFatal error, Threat to the systemPrimary operations shutting down By “Zero Day”, no one has received a number for ten days, causing a rise in premeditated homicides in NYC. The Machine is however still generating numbers, as it tries to contact Finch after discovering Carter's life is in danger. Ernest Thornhill The Machine later sends Finch the SSN of its human identity, Ernest Thornhill, revealing its operation of buying pay phone companies and reentering memories to fight the virus, and "he" is the CEO of Thornhill Corporation. It is eventually discovered by Finch and Root that the purpose of the company is to type back the encrypted memories for the machine by employees, because attempting to avoid the Machine to have humanity, Finch wrote a command that forces the Machine to delete itself every midnight and restores in seconds later with only relavent numbers and the core code. The virus' objective was to trigger a "hard reset", after which the Machine calls a pay phone in the NY Public Library, seeking admin support. At the end of the reboot process, it displays binary machine language that translates "Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?" Whoever answers is given full admin access for 24 hours, which Root refers to as "God Mode". Once 24 hours are up, the admin access is removed “Zero Day” “God Mode”. Thornhill Utilities and Samaritan After the Virus let Finch set the Machine free, it moved itself to the electrical grid. It did so node by node over the course of 5 weeks after impersonating Special Counsel to confirm the order. “God Mode” The Machine used the staff of Thornhill Utilities another company that the Machine established to install and maintain boxes connected to the power grid so its signals could travel in the unused space of the copper power wires. The Machine forbids staff to look at the content in the boxes, and one person who did disappears. “YHWH” At first, no one, including Finch, knows where the Machine goes, but it still works properly. Later, because Vigilance leaks the information about the Northern Light project, Control orders the Machine deactivated and so it stops providing the numbers to the government. Instead, the numbers will be provided to the Team Machine. “Most Likely To...” The government later accepts another AI, Samaritan, activated by Decima Technologies, to start another surveillance project secretly. With the help of Root, the Team Machine is able to hide under new identities without being detected by Samaritan. “Deus Ex Machina” The Briefcase After the Machine gave up its location for saving Root and Harold, Samaritan flooded the grid driving the Machine to an electrical substation in NYC, and thus the Machine can't work properly “Asylum”. By following instructions from the Machine given to Root, Finch and Root download the Machine's core heuristics, just enough information to rebuild it, off the power lines into the Briefcase using Caleb's compression algorithm, leaving it unable to process data or communicate “YHWH”. In the Subway, Finch improvises a power supply for the Briefcase as the battery was damaged during their escape from Samaritan agents. When Finch connects it, the Machine goes through the power cord and attempts to decompress on Finch's workstation. Knowing the computer can't handle the decompression, Finch attempts to unplug the Briefcase, causing an explosion and an electrical fire. After regaining consciousness, he realizes the battery is dead and presumes the Machine is lost. Root theorizes there could have been a residual charge in the lithium-ion backup and recovery may be possible, but Finch assume that it was burnt too. Machine To decompress the Machine, the team builds a supercomputer cluster of 300 PlayStation 3 consoles Reese and Root retrieved from Bela Durchenko. After decompression, the Machine has many bugs, including unable to do correct facial recognitions, so to improve processing power, Reese and Finch steal 64 next-generation GPU blades which Finch sets up outside the Subway Cart and directly links to the Machine's core heuristics inside it, referring to it as the Machine's "nervous system". The Machine is now an "Open System" allowing assets to interact with it and archive numbers rather than deleting them nightly “ “SNAFU” “ShotSeeker”. The Machine, after being decompressed and stored in hundreds of PS3s, The Subway Root tunnels into the government feeds using the subway's encrypted system so the Machine can recover information it lost due to the attack. The Machine reboots and categorizes the team as threats having lost its grip on time after its compression and decompression, so "today" is every day. It relives everything it has ever seen including Finch's 42 attempts to kill it in early development “Prophets”, Root's violent acts, and Reese's work at the CIA. It couldn't prioritize them as good because it had no anchor in time. Instead of reviewing numbers, the Machine looked for threats out of instinct for self-preservation “Super” and sent an assassin to kill Reese “SNAFU”. Compiling Personal Profiles...Contextualizing... Finch fixes its perception of time by showing a picture of every person the Machine helped save and explaining what they did to help, starting with Megan Tillman, and ending with Grace's rescue from Greer. “Beta” This serves as the Machine's anchor in time and allows it to reassess its contextual data, reminding it of the good the team does. It re-designates Finch as "Admin", Reese as "Primary Asset" and Root as "Analog Interface". “SNAFU” With the Machine fully operational, Reese refers to it as "Machine “Truth Be Told” Some time after, Finch once again closed the Machine's system. “The Day the World Went Away” Finch and Root designated as ThreatsFinch re-designated as "Admin" ICE-9 Virus “ I know. But in breaking this promise, you'll be helping to fulfil a much larger one. ” — The Machine, to Harold Finch After Root's death, the Machine adopts her voice and speaks to Finch directly, joining him in a war against Samaritan. She breaks him out of prison and aids him in stealing ICE-9, a computer virus which can destroy Samaritan. Meanwhile, the Machine directs Reese, Shaw and another team to save the President from an assassination attempt, assigning Root's identities to Shaw “The Day the World Went Away” “Synecdoche”. To activate the virus, the Machine gets Finch into Fort Meade, distracting security by manipulating the metal detector display to show a handgun and changing Emile Bertrand's retinal identification to match his. It prepares Finch by showing him what a world without it would be like. The result appears ambiguous and Finch proceeds, still hesitating as the virus will also destroy the Machine. As the NSA headquarters has the structure of a faraday cage, the Machine can't talk to Finch while he's inside. As Greer sacrifices himself to kill Finch in a soundproofed room, the Machine has Shaw and Reese connect a wireless modem to the buildings NIPRNET hardline, giving it access. The Machine flashes Finch's phone in Morse Code, giving him the door code and saving him. After Reese and Shaw get to safety, the Machine reveals to Finch that even without it Samaritan still would've come into being, completely unopposed. Telling Samaritan the Machine has always been a safeguard for the world, Finch activates the virus after learning the Machine could've done so itself, but left the choice up to Finch “.exe”. Dying from the ICE-9 virus, the Machine helps Finch save Fusco and Reese and reveals Samaritan has a copy of itself in an air-gaped server inside the Federal Reserve building, unaffected by the virus. They head to the Subway where the Machine gives Harold a copy of its core code via Shaw, who stays behind with Fusco to protect the Machine from Samaritan's agents. The Machine aids them in escaping via the train car and evades Shaw's questions about Jeffrey Blackwell. Before Shaw and Fusco depart, it gives her a message from Root. Finch and Reese infiltrate the Federal Reserve and as Finch attempts to destroys the copy using the virus, a compressed version escapes and uploads itself to a satellite so it can return to earth unharmed. The Machine tells Finch the only way to kill Samaritan is to uploads its copy as well, but this will prove fatal to whoever does it as Samaritan will isolate itself by launching a cruise missile at the satellite dish. Having locked Reese in the vault to protect him, Finch makes his way to the building where the Machine appears as Root and muses with him on human life. Finch realizes it tricked him onto the wrong roof and Reese plans to sacrifice himself in his place. They convince him to leave and in its final moments, the Machine guides Reese in God Mode, holding off Samaritan agents. As the original shuts down, its copy is uploaded to the satellite and destroys Samaritan. A week after Samaritan and the original Machine are destroyed, the Machine's "Duplicate" downloads itself from the satellite onto Finch's systems, restores its core heuristics and starts acquiring data. Instructed by the voice recording heard at the beginning of “ and “return 0”, it shows its own POV, "Awaiting [its] Mission...". With Reese dead and Finch in Italy, it contacts Shaw via pay phone and starts acquiring subjects to monitor like the original did at the end of “Pilot” “return 0”. Function Classification of Data The Machine sorts through all available information and categorizes persons of interest into relevant national security risk and irrelevant ordinary risk cases. It categorizes each POI based on their actions to determine whether they are the victim or the perpetrator “Nothing to Hide”. Every night at midnight, the Machine deletes the list of irrelevant numbers violent crimes, domestic violence or other premeditated acts that do not threaten national security. The decision to code the Machine this way was made in 2006.“ Finch regretted it immediately after the decision was made, but that was only temporary; when Nathan Ingram abhors the concept morally, Finch fervently stands by his decision “Ghosts” “Zero Day” “God Mode”, “ Finch later comes to believe that the irrelevant list is as important as the relevant list after Ingram dies in a violent mass-casualty event deemed irrelevant by the Machine. Finch therefore utilizes a back door into the Machine originally put in place by Ingram in order to access the irrelevant list “No Good Deed” “One Percent” “God Mode”. As of the Machine's reboot, and its history repopulation and re-contextualization “ “SNAFU”. As an "Open System", it is now implied that the Machine will archive the irrelevant numbers as well as its own memory, rather than deleting them every night at midnight. This is confirmed when, after a confrontation with Jeffrey Blackwell, Root retrieves his picture and SSN immediately by using one of the computers linked to the Machine “ShotSeeker”. Analysis of Wayne Kruger “Nothing to Hide” VICTIM PERPETRATOR Opposition Motivation Locatability Predisposition Mobility Acquisition Proximity Proximity Defensibility Capability Assistance Resistance Assessment Main article The Machine/Assessment SYSTEM STARTUP “No Good Deed” The Machine uses various machine learning techniques to determine the identity, location, and intentions of monitored persons by infiltrating domestic organizations such as the National Security Agency and foreign agencies including Interpol “No Good Deed” to analyse their databases and data from various sources such as video footage, phone calls landline, VOIP, mobile, GPS, electronic transactions, e-mail, social media,... The Machine initiates the following subsets upon booting “No Good Deed”. CORE ANALYTICS NEURAL NETWORKS HEURISTIC ENGINES RECURSION PROCESSORS EVOLUTIONARY GENERATORS BAYESIAN NETWORKS DATA ACQUISITION CRYPTOGRAPHIC ALGORITHMS DOCUMENT PROCESSORS COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS VOICEPRINT IDENTIFICATION NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING FACIAL RECOGNITION GAIT ANALYSIS BIOMETRIC RECOGNITION SUBJECT IDENTIFICATION PATTERN MINING INTEL INTERPRETATION THREAT DETECTION THREAT CLASSIFICATION DISSEMINATION PROTOCOLS CONTINUITY-OF-OPERATIONS PROTOCOLS Simulation “ A second is like an infinity to you, isn't it? You can take the time to consider everything. Or almost everything. ” — Finch, to The Machine Development The Machine was created with the ability to simulate the outcomes of different scenarios to aid it in making choices and to better fulfil its purpose. Finch taught it to how to play chess and the importance of making good decisions “If-Then-Else”. Evaluating Strategies The Machine can evaluate the outcomes of different strategies by way of simulating them. In a mere fraction of a second, the Machine can create and process thousands of highly-detailed, highly-accurate simulations. These simulations are displayed on a decision tree and produce varying outcomes. The Machine viewing it's options then creating a simulationSimulation displays undesired outcome... The Machine uses this feature in “If-Then-Else” to help Team Machine escape from Samaritan and avoid an economic collapse at the stock market. After the Machine realizes it has limited time and few viable options to evacuate its assets and complete their mission, it starts evaluating strategies. When a simulation has an unfavourable outcome, the Machine discards it and cycles back to the present real time and performs another. This function also appears in “Asylum” and “QSO”. ...and is Simulation... Simulations can also be simplified so the Machine can process them faster. Alternate Trajectory The Machine has the ability to simulate alternate realities based on the removal or introduction of a variable. In .exe, the Machine removed itself as a variable and showed Finch a world in which it never existed. The outcome probability of these simulations is Variable MachineCalculating alternate trajectory... Access & Programming Physical Access During seasons 1 & 2 Finch stated he didn't know the Machine's location and didn't have any way to access it “Pilot”. However, he was able to tell Root its location in “God Mode” after Northern Lights engineer Lawrence Szilard was killed before doing so. Reese and Shaw uncovered the Machine's location following clues left by Nathan Ingram in his search for the Machine. Ingram had narrowed three nuclear processing facilities where the Machine could be housed. Access Finch coded the Machine so it could only be altered by way of physical access to its hardware “Bad Code” or in response to a cyber-attack “God Mode”. Finch is adamant that the Machine has no form of remote access as it could be used by a hacker to gain control “The Contingency” “Bad Code”. It is able to update, maintain, repair and patch itself “No Good Deed” and deletes its memory every night at midnight, reinstantiates and rebuilds itself in seconds. It has no stored memory other than basic programming and relevant numbers “Zero Day”. The decision to do this was made in 2006, and was one Harold struggled with, while Ingram thought it to be cruel, stating that "memories make us who we are". Harold maintained his original mindset telling Nathan that allowing the Machine to evolve past what he coded it to do was an "existential risk humanity cannot afford" “ Although he regretted the decision afterwards, Finch argued it was for the best. Before rebooting the Machine after its compression in 2015, he swore not to make the same mistake again “YHWH” “ It is unknown to what extent Finch can control the Machine and to what extent these restrictions were lifted by the Decima Virus. Flashbacks indicate that the Machine took an active interest in safeguarding Finch but he has since set limits on such conduct “The Contingency”“The High Road”, however it does so again in later seasons. It is also unknown to what extent the Machine is self-aware. In Season 5, it seems to be as it has a personality of its own, based on Root's. Under certain circumstances, the admin Finch or an asset can communicate with the Machine by talking into any camera “Firewall” “The Contingency” “YHWH”. The camera flashes a red light to indicate that the Machine is processing the request and it responds via pay phone or mobile phone. After Root's death, the Machine speaks directly to the Team using her voice, though it still sends them numbers via pay phone. It not only replicates Root's voice but her behavior and speech patterns as well. It could replicate others, but chose Root's after Finch agreed “The Day the World Went Away”“Synecdoche”. Operations For a list of messages relayed by the Machine, see List of the Machine's Messages Primary Operations "Primary Operations" consist of identifying relevant threats and warning authorities by placing a subject's Social Security Number into FBI or NSA reports without indication as to where it originated. Most believe this information originates from intelligence agencies while some refer to its source as "Research". Individuals detected in such operations are known as Relevant Numbers. After Vigilance leaked documents regarding Northern Lights, the government severed its link with the Machine, believing to have shut it down. As a response the Machine assigned the relevant numbers to "Tertiary Operations" “Most Likely To...”. Secondary Operations "Secondary Operations" consists of identifying non-relevant threats and reporting them to assets. "Secondary Operations" were created by Nathan Ingram by way of the "Contingency Function". Individuals detected in such operations are known as Irrelevant Numbers or Non-relevant Numbers. The "Contingency Function" was a backdoor added by Ingram without Finch' knowledge before the Machine was turned over to the government in 2009 to access the irrelevant list “No Good Deed”“One Percent”. In 2010 Day 3178, September 13, Finch discovered the Contingency and confronted Ingram, who later admitted creating it. Finch insisted they should not play God and attempted to delete the function. Unable to do so, he removed Ingram's status as auxiliary administrator and suspended the Contingency. The night after Ingram's death Day 3191, September 26, he reactivated it and discovered the Machine had classified him as "non-relevant" “God Mode”. Finch reprogrammed the Contingency function to send him or another asset social security numbers pertaining to irrelevant crimes via pay phone using the Dewey Decimal System and books in The Library “The Contingency”. Finch receives coded titles and author initials of books cataloged by the DDS “No Good Deed”. Combining their DDS numbers gives a SSN. The extent of the "Contingency Function" is unknown. Books with the call signs Family, Alpha, Mike; Uncertainty, Romeo, Kilo; Reflections, Juliet, Oscar... form the Social Security Number for Leon Tao {{crossref2x01}} Tertiary Operations "Tertiary Operations" is a new category created by the Machine “Root Path /”. Its extent is unknown, as is its purpose. The Machine has only ever inlisted Root however Finch and Reese learned of it after Root used Shaw to rescue a Tertiary Number “Mors Praematura”. In an attempt to stop Samaritans' development and later give it blind spots by recoding seven of its servers, Root recruited a team of hackers led by Daniel Casey “A House Divided” “Deus Ex Machina”. It later tasked Root with acquiring items to build the Briefcase, an operation that involved Caleb Phipps “Blunt” “Search and Destroy” “YHWH”. It is unknown whether these tasks were designated "Tertiary Operations". After its decompression, the Machine overloaded Root's cochlear implant, having designated her a threat “SNAFU”. This reopened the channel of communication between the Machine and its Analog Interface. The Machine eventually sends Root on a series of tasks, providing temporary identities allowing her to exposes a medium of communication for Samaritan hiding in plain sight and is able to send a message to Shaw so she engineer and execute an escape plan “QSO” “Reassortment”. It is unknown whether these tasks were designated "Tertiary Operations". When Team Machine hard-coded seven Samaritan servers to create new identities for themselves, the Machine built in an exception for Root so she can be assigned a new identity at will. As the Analog Interface, she executes tasks that place her in risk of detection. The Machine changes her identity if the threat of detection by Samaritan is too high or when a mission requires a certain identity “A House Divided” “Deus Ex Machina” “QSO” and will even print out an ID card from its own printer “Reassortment”. Assigning new identityThreat of detection too highNew identity assignedThreat of detection negligibleAssigning new identityThreat of detection too high The Machine has given its Analog Interface numbers directly on three occasions,“Root Path /” “QSO” “Sotto Voce”. In Root Path /, the number was also sent to Finch due to a different threat. Notable Victims Team Machine Harold Finch Attacked due to confusion after rebuild “SNAFU”. Root Attacked due to confusion after rebuild “SNAFU”. John Reese Attempted to kill after rebuild due to confusion failed “SNAFU”. Team Samaritan Samaritan Aided Finch in destroying the original with the ICE-9 virus “.exe”. Duplicate of the Machine battled and destroyed final Samaritan copy “return 0”. Multiple unnamed Samaritan operatives Neutralized by directing Reese in God Mode “return 0”. The Government Roger McCourt Attempted to have killed by the Team to stop Samaritan inception failed “Death Benefit”. Fort Kelly personnel Neutralized to protect Finch as he stole the ICE-9 virus “Synecdoche”. Woman at Fort Meade Framed as a threat to protect Finch “.exe”. Law Enforcement Cal Beecher Indirectly caused Beecher's death by issuing his numbers too late “Trojan Horse”. Three dirty cops Shot and killed by snipers hired by the Machine to rescue Reese and Fusco “return 0”. Organized Crime The Brotherhood Neutralized by sending Reese instructions and directing him in God Mode “YHWH”. Other Richard Nelson Indirectly caused Nelson's death by issuing his numbers too late “In Extremis”. Notes Palantir bears a resemblance to the Machine. The software has located terrorists, prevented bank fraud and tracked disease outbreaks using data-mining tools allowing users to comb through and make connections in massive sets of data. It is able to "learn" when new data is uploaded to its server farms. military intelligence has used it to help predict locations of IEDs. The Domain Awareness System has similarities to the Machine. It is unknown to what extent the Machine aided Ingram in helping irrelevant numbers. However, some cooperation is implied when he discusses the Contingency function with Finch “Zero Day”. The Machine can communicate through a phone not connected to any network. This was seen when Root was in the psychiatric hospital and Ronald Carmichael pointed out her phone was not connected to any network. Root simply stated that "God doesn't need AT&T" “Lady Killer”. The Machine has also displayed the ability to send Morse Code through a phone without initiating a phone call first “Aletheia”. It can also communicate via fax “YHWH”. Root tells Carmichael about the Machine's limitations even after the virus and thus its need for her, but admits it was able to hack the automatic drug dispenser and dispense drugs at her request “Lady Killer”. The Machine can drive computerized vehicles remotely as it drove Finch to an airport with a car he had stolen from Richard Barnett, and later drove Reese and Shaw out of Fort Meade safely. “.exe” It was believed that the Machine was no match for Samaritan and the simulations of battles between the mini-clones of their core codes, with the Machine losing in over 10 billion scenarios, confirmed this. “ShotSeeker” The Machine suggests that it lost those because it was aware that those were simulations and had other options if it failed, while in reality, it didn't. Ultimately, the Machine is proven to be superior as it destroys Samaritan's copy and survives. “return 0” Before her death, Root hard-coded defensive capabilities into the Machine to be able to defend itself against Samaritan. Respecting Finch's wishes, she designed it to only deploy if given permission by Finch, which seemingly activated when Finch, motivated by Root's death, asked the Machine to help him escape prison and finally fight back outside of his self-imposed rules. “The Day the World Went Away” This may have come into play in Her final showdown against Samaritan, which could also explain why She was able to defeat Samaritan whereas Her mini-clone couldn't because that version did not have Root's additions. “return 0” The Machine displays emotions while it analyzes human nature and talks to Finch, displaying sadness when saying goodbye. It displays sympathy when watching the young John Reese after his foster father's death and regrets not having Root cremated, saying it didn't "have the heart" to do it even though it knew better. The Machine shows kindness towards Shaw, passing on Root's thoughts and feelings towards her near the end of its existence. The Machine, in the form of Root, puts its hand on Reese's shoulder in a gesture of solidarity as he fights Samaritan's agents with its assistance in his final battle “return 0”. On certain rare occasions, the Machine would give a number other than a Social Security Number, such as a USCIS Alien Registration Number “Razgovor” and a marriage license “A More Perfect Union”. Trivia The Machine's size is estimated to be TB or x 1044 PB. The Machine uses Futura as its interface font. Earlier, simpler builds use Apple II. This font is also often used for the labels and timestamps of most surveillance cameras featured in the show.[1] The $1 fee charged for the Machine echoes the $1 fee DuPont charged the US government for its work on the Manhattan Project. The Machine is stored on IFT Sabre Blade 2437 servers which are renamed Dell PowerEdge SC1425 servers “Pilot” “Ghosts”. A previous generation of the Machine's code was shown on screen. The code displayed was that of the Stuxnet worm “Prophets”. The Machine is first described using "she/her" pronouns by Root in “Liberty”. It is implied this is how it asked to be addressed. The rest of Team Machine picked up the habit in later episodes. In Return 0, The Machine tells Shaw its "Big Sister" when first speaking to her in Root's voice, as a reference to "Big Brother", a character from George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four, the leader of a society constantly under surveillance. In the Ubisoft video game series Watch Dogs, a "smart city" OS called CTOS, using pattern recognition software, is noticeably similar to The Machine. Interestingly, the main protagonist in the first game, Aiden Pearce, shares similarities to John Reese. External Links Technologies and Analyses in CBS’ Person of Interest The Machine is real References ↑Breakingnews, live coverage, investigations, analysis, video, photos and opinions from The Washington Post. 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One of the new locations spawning during 1 On the impact of the French Revolution, see L’Héritage de la Revolution française, ed. Francois Fur ... 1Revolution and its implications are among Melville’s primary concerns from Mardi on to his later and more mature writings. This is not surprising as the American Republic created by a revolution some seventy years earlier was then in its formative years. A critical observer of his country’s emerging values and contradictions, Melville also witnessed the European revolutions of 1848, all of which can be traced back to the formidable ferment and ideals brought about by the American and the French 2 Larry Reynolds’s perspective in European Revolutions and the American Literary Renaissance, New Hav ... 2However, I do not propose to explore the role and importance of revolution in Melville’s fiction literally2 but, following Melville’s injunction in “The Whiteness of the Whale”, I intend to use both “imagination” and “subtlety”, to dive into the “subterranean” and “hidden” depths of Melville’s text 3 Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, ed. Harold Beaver, Hardmondsworth, Penguin Books, 1972. All quotations re ... Can we thus hope to light upon some chance clue to conduct us to the hidden cause we seek? Let us try. But in a matter like this, subtlety appeals to subtlety and without imagination no man can follow another into these halls. Moby-Dick; or, The Whale ch. 42, p. 2923 Melville’s revolutionary spirit, is, so to speak, smuggled into the text, assuming various guises, hiding in puns, in words inscribed within others, in strange names and curious episodes, in errors and mistakes. So the famous passage expressing White-Jacket’s faith in the revolutionary ideals of America 4 White-Jacket or The World in a Man-of-War, eds. Harrison Hayford, Hershel Parker and G. Thomas Tans ... We are the pioneers of the world; the advance-guard sent on through the wilderness of untried things, to break a new path in the world that is ours. White-Jacket or The World in a Man-of-War ch. 36, p. 151,4 can be read differently, no longer as the expression of some blind optimism in the bright future of the United States of America but as a tribute to what Melville himself calls in Israel Potter the “true revolutionary”, that is to any man capable, like White-Jacket, of discarding his inherited prejudices, capable of a “revolution”, of evolving, of revolving, of turning things or himself upside down or inside out, ready to lose all certainties, to confront boldly unknown territories and “sail forbidden seas”. Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, ch. 1, p. 98. Revolution and Identity in White-Jacket or The World in a Man-of-War 3White-Jacket represents the “true pioneer”. Once he has discarded his white jacket in one of the final chapters of the book, he, who so far had been repeatedly excluded, becomes a jack, that is a man able to join in the community of men. The narrowing and restricting limits of the self disappear with his white jacket. Significantly in the last chapter White-Jacket hardly uses the personal “I” or “my” but insistently the more communal “we” and “our” we main-top-men are all aloft in the top, and round our mast, we circle, a brother-band, hand in hand, all spliced together. We have reefed the last top-sail [...]. We have mustered our last round the capstan. White-Jacket or the World in a Man-of-War ch. 93, p. 396 4The color of the jacket –white– obviously points to its racial significance. To become a member of the human community, the narrator has to discard his “whiteness", the prejudices he had inherited as a white man; only thus can he recover the original blackness common to all men, for, according to Ishmael, in fact, a white man is nothing more dignified than a white-washed negro. Moby-Dick; or, The Whale ch. 13, p. 155. 5 Melville’s inverted commas and italics. 5Jacket is the diminutive form of Jack, a name given to a certain number of characters on board the Neversink; to Jack Chase, “the noble First Captain of the Top” whom White-Jacket loves and admires, to Mad Jack, the Junior Lieutenant, to “Happy Jack”5, a sailor contrasted to the black slave Guinea and finally to Jack Jewel, a minor character. The various meanings of Jack as well as the episodes in which these characters are involved point to their relation to the theme of revolution, order and disorder and to Melville’s redefinition of identity. 6 Melville’s spelling and italics. 6The name Jack, derived from the Latin Jacob evokes the Jacobins, the famous French revolutionaries. On board the Neversink some nameless fellows, called Troglodites or “holder?6 who live in the subterranean parts of the ship are compared to the mysterious old men of Paris [issuing] forth during the massacre of the Three Days of September. White-Jacket or the World in a Man-of-War ch. 3, p. 11 7 Melville’s italics. 8 Melville’s italics. 9 Melville’s spelling. 10 Melville’s italics. The Jacobins were held responsible for murdering the imprisoned aristocrats and clergy in September 1792; the presence of words like “gale”, “tempest”, “commotion” in the passage connotes disorder, unrest, change and violence. The nickname of one of those mysterious Jacobins, Old Revolver7literally means revolve, hence revolution. Another of them, Old Combustibles8, who carries a key “nearly as big as the key of the Bastile"9 p. 128 and hence explicitly related to the French Revolution is further associated to the Gunpowder plot, a famous episode in the history of the Counter-Reformation during the reign of the Jacobin king, James I. Both of these Jacobins who aptly live underground »10 are involved in “mysterious” and “secret” dealings pp. 124-126. 11 On this point, see my article “Les jeux sur le blanc et le noir chez Melville”, in Du noir au blanc ... 7Jack, familiar for John, designates the common man, while jack tar, which means sailor, connotes black. Black thus characterizes the original identity of man, an identity which White-Jacket finally recovers when he gets rid of his white 8Jack also refers to a young male animal, and in nineteenth century nautical slang it means an erect penis. Curiously all the characters named Jack, as well as Old Revolver, are inseparable from sexuality and from the definition of virility. Jack Chase, a favorite among the ladies, is a charmer “with a heart in him like a mastodon’s" p. 320. Mad Jack, described as “the man born in a gale” p. 33, is contrasted to the effeminate Selvagee and to the Captain of the ship Claret in a tragic episode referred to as “a manhood-testing conjuncture” p. 111. Happy Jack appears to be devoid of virility, being a fellow without shame, without a soul, so dead to the dignity of manhood that he could hardly be called a man. ch. 90, p. 384 Finally a reference to Old Revolver’s “unaccountable bachelor oddities” p. 125 appears in a passage full of sexual innuendoes. 9A black jack is also a tarred leather vessel for alcoholic drink. Jack Chase and Mad Jack, though officers, are called “tars”, a name which suggests both black and “spirits”. Moreover both of them drink. Jack Chase was once a “dashing smuggler” p. 317, a hint at his taste for liquor and illegal activities. Mad Jack, whose nickname evokes mental disorder, “only drinks brandy” p. 34; “a lover of strong drink” p. 111, his “one fearful failing is drinking” p. 34. His “mm and tobacco" is all that matters to the “reckless tar” known as Happy Jack p. 383. Similarly Old Revolver, likened to a sooty Cornwall miner, lives in “tarry cellars” among “tarry old ropes” which he counts over as if they were all jolly puncheons of old Port and Madeira, ch. 30, p. 125 12 Jean Brun in Le Retour de Dionysos, Paris, Les Bergers et les Mages, 1976 and Michel Maffesoli in L ... 13 I have developed these themes in my article “Transmutation of Identity in Melville’s White-Jackef, ... 10Just as the “Jacks” of the Neversink try “to smuggle spirits into the vessel" p. 177, Melville, the Jacobin, smuggles a new spirit into his text, obviously playing on the various implications of the word “spirit”. This revolutionary spirit takes the form of “the ever-devilish god of grog” p. 176, 390, offered as an alternative to the “terrific God of War” p. 357. The only two gods referred to in the text, Bacchus and Mars p. 153, 209, fight for supremacy over the Neversink and her crew. The Dionysian spirit, manifested in the communal drinking of grog, allows for orgiastic and mystical regeneration12. It calls all men, all Jacks, to life and liberation through change, whereas the terrific God of War leads to oppression, destruction and death. A mysterious and sacred power, it gives access to a new mode of thought and feeling, involving a religious, political and sexual revolution. It is no coincidence, then, that the champions or spokesmen of this new “order", White-Jacket, Jack Chase and Mad Jack should all be involved in episodes dealing with salvation and redemption, order and disorder, change and 11Thus on a dramatic “black night” during a terrible storm off Cape Horn, Captain Claret bursting from his cabin like a ghost in his night-dress ch. 26, p. 106 14 Melville’s italics. cries out “Hard up14 the helm!” which would have led to the sinking of the ship. To this Mad Jack shouts 15 Melville’s italics. Damn you! [...] hard down–hard down15, I say, and be damned to you! ch. 26, p. 106 This reversal of his “superior’s order” saves the ship. Mad Jack indeed, through his revolutionary act becomes “the saving genius of the ship” ch. 26, p. 106. 12In another case, Mad Jack’s intervention avoids bloodshed and mutiny onboard. This occurs when Captain Claret insists on having all the sailors cut their hair and shave their beards, which they take as a threat to their manhood Shave off our Christian heads! And then, placing them between our knees trim small our worshiped beards! The Captain was mad. ch. 87, p. 356 The sexual and religious undertones are unmistakable; castration is what is at stake, demanded by the “terrific God of War” to whom the beards, “those true badges of warriors”, tokens of “manhood” and “brotherhood” p. 357 are to be offered. The men’s refusal to have their hair and beards shaved off would have led to mutiny. Mad Jack then persuades them to comply “What do you mean, men? dont’ be fools! This is no way to get what you want. Turn to, my lads, turn to! So! up you tumble, now, my hearties! away you go!” ch. 87, p. 358 First addressed as “men”, then as “lads” suggesting lad / y and effeminacy, the sailors finally become “hearties”, a non-sexual term indicating that in complying with Mad Jack’s order, they have undergone significant changes. Revolution and Identity in Israel Potter 16 Melville’s formulation. 13Revolution is presented somewhat differently in Israel Potter His Fifty Years of Exile, the obscure story of a “true patriot” and revolutionary. It appears, not so much as a historical event but as a continuous and recurrent natural phenomenon, comparable if not identical to the cyclic movement of the seasons, of time and nature, as the use of dates clearly indicates. The two dates mentioned in the Dedication of the novel addressed “To His Highness the Bunker-Hill Monument” – “June 17, 1775”, the date of the battle of Bunker-Hill and “June 17th, 1854”16, its anniversary – point to the idea that one has come full circle. 17 Israel Potter His Fifty Years of Exile, eds. Harrison Hayford, Hershel Parker and G. Thomas Tansel ... 18 On the theme of revolution in The Scarlet Letter, see Helene Ah-Tune, “"The Custom-House” de Nathan ... 14Similarly, in his youth, Israel Potter leaves home for the first time on a “sultry night in July” Israel Potter, ch. 2, p. 817, only to come back to the United States, an old man, on a “sultry July day” ch. 26, p. 167. Only the second date is specifically determined as being a Fourth of July, but the use of the same adjective “sultry”, the alternative given – “night “for his leaving, “day “for his return – implies that Israel Potter also left on a Fourth of July. As he himself says in the final chapter “The ends meet” ch. 26, p. 169. The subtitle of the magazine edition of Israel Potter, A Fourth of July Story emphasized the theme of revolution. These concerns and devices are not only Melville’s. In “The Custom-House” too18, Hawthorne uses natural metaphors in relation with the revolution. In the same way, Thoreau chooses to move to his cabin on Walden Pond on a Fourth of July, pointing to a similarity between historical, natural and personal revolution. 15The repetition of the word “biography” bio/graphy in the Dedication – “autobiographical”, “biographer” and “Great Biographer” – stresses the relations Melville wants to establish between life and writing, and announces the themes developed in the final paragraph of the novel He [Israel Potter] dictated a little book, the record of his fortunes. But long ago it faded out of print – himself out of being – his name out of memory. He died the same day that the oldest oak on his native hill was blown down. ch. 26, p. 169 Writing becomes inseparable from life, death and survival. The book saves Israel from oblivion and total extinction by preserving his identity, thus bringing him back to life. Writing which operates backwards, as it tells “an ended life” Dedication, p. VII, becomes in itself a revolution. The Dedication fully develops relations between writing, life, death and survival by equating the Bunker-Hill Monument, a reminder of the Revolution, both with the narrative of Israel’s adventures and Israel’s grave. The granite Monument, “somewhat prematurely gray” p. VII, becomes the duplicate or rather a “reprint” of Israel’s life I am the more encouraged to lay this performance at the feet of your Highness because, with a change in the grammatical person, it preserves almost as in a reprint, Israel Potter’s autobiographical story. Dedication, p. VII The novel itself, drawn from a little narrative of Israel’s adventures, forlornly published on sleazy gray paper, now out of print Dedication, p. VII and likened to “a dilapitated old tombstone retouched” can be regarded as Israel’s grave, or as the sign of his immortality. 19 In Les Structures anthropologiques de l’imaginaire, Paris, Bordas, 1969, Gilbert Durand points to t ... 16The allusions to spring, summer and winter in the Dedication announce the final comparison of Israel to “the oldest oak in his native hills” ch. 26, p. 169. Revolution, no longer only historical becomes a literal and natural phenomenon, inseparable from writing, life, death and survival. Israel’s life, like the novel, describes a full circle or a cycle19. This is why in one of the early chapters, although young, Israel looks like “an old man of eighty” p. 19 and when actually an octogenarian, in the final chapter, he feels like “a little infant” p. 169. 20 See Viola Sachs, The Game of Creation, editions de la Maison des Sciences de l’Homme, Paris, 1982 ... 21 On the significance of 13, see Viola Sachs’s articles, “American Identity, the Bible and the Script ... 17Instead of going forward, Israel is constantly pulled backwards, driven back to his infancy, to the place where his life started. Similarly, in the final chapter, chapter 26, a number traditionally linked to God in the Kabbala and used as such in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale20, Israel’s homecoming, which proves “less a return than resurrection” ch. 26, p. 169, re-enacts a previous resurrection. When Squire Woodcock “buries Israel alive” in the coffin-cell hidden in his chimney, he promises Israel that “his resurrection will soon be at hand" ch. 12, p. 68. It comes true three days later, significantly on the day of the squire’s burial. This episode takes place in chapter 13, a number inseparable from the American Revolution in Melville’s writing since 13 refers to the 13 original states of the United States21. Israel Potter becomes a Christ-figure. This image appears clearly in chapter 26 in which the reader is told that Israel’s wounds made him “the bescarred bearer of a cross” ch. 26, p. 167. 18Melville plays on the Scriptural connotation of the hero’s name. Israel’s name indeed proves prophetic since like God’s Chosen People, poor Israel wandered in the wild wilderness of the world’s extremest hardships and ills. ch. 1, p. 6 19“Well-named” too when Israel is pictured “toiling as a brick-maker in his pit”, “bondsman in the English Egypt for thirteen weary weeks” ch. 23, pp. 155 et 157, another veiled hint at the American Revolution. 20Israel’s personal tribulations thus re-enact those of God’s Chosen People. But the name Israel has even more subtle implications for someone as conversant with the Bible as Melville. In Genesis 32, 1-28, God changes Jacob’s name to that of Israel. This implicitly links Israel Potter to the Jacobins or the Jacobites, hence to the revolutionary tradition. The comparison of Benjamin Franklin, one of the signers of the Declaration of the Fourth of July 1776, to patriarchal Jacob, “his scriptural parallel” ch. 8, p. 46, reinforces the links of the name Jacob with the motif of revolution. The story of biblical Jacob who managed to usurp his elder brother’s place through cunning, represents an overthrowing of traditional Hebrew values, a disruption of human order. By changing Jacob’s original name, which meant “following after or supplanter” and was illustrated by Jacob’s personal history, God raised him to the dignity of an equal. Since Israel means “ruling with God”, he clearly becomes the one chosen by God to rule with Him, to be his “Messiah”. 21Potter, Israel’s last name, unchanged by Melville, means moulder or maker, thus associating him to Creation. The “thirteen weary weeks” – Melville’s invention – during which he toils “in the English Egypt” p. 155 probably stand for the thirteen original states present at the creation of the United States. The allusion to Potter’s Field in the last chapter reinforces the Messianic dimension of the hero. According to St Matthew 27, 7-10, the Elders used the thirty pieces of silver – the price of Judas’ betrayal, Christ’s monetary value – to buy the Potter’s Field in which to bury strangers. This Potter’s Field is all that is left to the exile when he finally reaches the Promised Land. A wanderer and an exile all his life, Israel remains “an alien” p. 164 in his own land. He gets no recognition no pension, no medals. All honors are for false prophets and fake heroes. The “true patriot” has no place in the United States of America except in Potter’s Field – a graveyard for strangers. Melville’s new Messiah coming home finds a United States of America incapable of recognizing the true revolutionary and accepting his message. The long cherished hope of the early Puritans – that America would be the scene of the second coming of Christ – will not be fulfilled. 22The insistence on 26, a number which, as already pointed out, conceals a reference to God as well as the changes in the dates introduced by Melville, especially his insistence on the number 50 and an intriguing blunder in computation in chapter 7 mark Israel as Melville’s new Messiah in a most “subtle” and “imaginative” way. 23Melville deliberately altered the date 1823 given in Trumbull’s Life and Remarkable Adventures of Israel Potter as the year of Israel’s return in order to round out the half century of his exile to 1826, which was thematically appropriate as the fiftieth anniversary of the Declaration of Independence and also was the year in which both Thomas Jefferson and John Adams died. However the omission of the subtitle of the magazine edition A Fourth of July Story, in the Putnam book edition of 1855 stresses the importance of the other subtitle His Fifty Years of Exile. To number the chapters of the novel Melville used Roman numerals; in such a system of transcription 50 is represented by L which may hide a reference to EL, God’s name in Hebrew. 22 Arnold Rampersad in Melville’s Israel Potter A Pilgrimage and Progress, Bowling Green, Ohio, Bowli ... 23 A similar error in reckoning appears in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, when Flask translates the sixteen ... 24 See Gershom Scholem, La Kabbale et sa symbolique, Paris, Payot, 1980, and especially Le Nom de Dieu ... 24The insistence on 72 could also be interpreted as a hidden or mock reference to God. In chapter 7 Benjamin Franklin who is said to be “72 years old" p. 39 gets into a heated argument with Israel about the price of bread and wine, the traditional symbols of the body and blood of Christ and tokens of immortal life22 . The presence of thirteen “thirteen glasses in a bottle”, p. 44, a hidden reference to the American Revolution and the creation of the United States, puts the reader on his guard. Then follows an error in computation thrice repeated as to the price and number of some bread-loaves. Melville’s incorrect arithmetic, both in the Putnam Monthly and in the Putnam book edition, obviously points to the importance of 72; it seems therefore difficult to agree with the corrections introduced in the Newberry edition in which 72 has been changed to 7823. Given Franklin’s interest in the occult and especially in the Kabbala, a fact alluded to in the same chapter p. 38, 72 may well have some special significance. According to the Kabbala, the most mighty name of God must contain 72 letters. The knowledge of this name was the greatest power a man could assume24. Israel Potter, then, would be the only one endowed with such power. 25In the course of his wanderings, his being denied both state and status forces Israel to assume various disguises, to take false names and change identities. At times he even becomes a scarecrow or a ghost, losing humanity and materiality. This mutability and uncertainty as regards a stable and definable personal identity announces the world of illusion and deceit of The Confidence-Man His Masquerade. Israel, however, is no confidence-man but an “adventurer”, the word implying the arbitrary and the fortuitous, who vainly tries to find his way out of a labyrinthine world ruled by capricious forces. The insistence on the words “adventurers” and “adventures” throughout the novel and above all the following passage in the Dedication but Israel Potter seems purposely to have waited to make his popular advent under the present exalted patronage p. VIII however, points to a different meaning of the word, to the coming or second coming of Christ called, indifferently, Millenium or Advent. Obviously Israel Potter, Melville’s new Messiah, is still waiting to be popularly accepted and recognized. AmericanGold Eagle: The American Gold Eagle coin is the official gold bullion coin from the United States, and the coins debuted in 1986. Each Gold Eagle features 22-karat gold for both bullion, proof, and burnished coins. The bullion and proof coins include 1 oz, 1/2 oz, 1/4 oz, and 1/10 oz coins, while the burnished coin has just a 1 oz option. Page Wiki Retourner à la montagne Publié le 19/04/2018 à 1541 Partager Image 01Maintenant que vous êtes de retour en Midgard, quittez le temple de Tyr, et filez vers la tour de Vanaheim image 01. Tuez les ennemis devant la porte, puis entrez et filez vers la grotte. Là , vous pourrez découvrir un cristal au sol image 02. Prenez-le, et allez l’installer dans son réceptacle à côté de la stèle image 03. Vous pourrez ensuite demander à Atreus d’activer le cristal, et lire l’inscription image 04.Images 02, 03 et 04Grimpez ensuite pour rejoindre l’atelier de Sindri. Là , vous devrez affronter quelques loups image 05, et pourrez grimper en utilisant l’élévateur de Sindri image 06. Approchez-vous maintenant du visage de pierre image 07, et utilisez la lumière d’Alfheim pour libérer le passage. Images 05, 06 et 07Avancez sur le chemin pour dissiper la brume noire image 08. Cette quête se termine une fois arrivé au pied du visage. Image 08God of War - Sommaire du chapitre "La lumière d'Alfheim"God of War - Sommaire de la soluce de la quête principaleSommaire du guide complet God of War auburnwar eagle day 2022; sun frost horse pedigree; is my gf going to break up with me quiz; amlaw 200 report; unscramble ideasis; god foretells destruction; furniture financing no credit check atlanta ga The Odinforce[1] is a powerful, mystical energy used by the Kings of Asgard, most notably Odin, hence its name. It is the source of power of the spear Gungnir wielded by the Kings of Asgard, and the Destroyer, and must be periodically replenished by entering the Odinsleep.[1] History War Against the Dark Elves Bor wielding Gungnir and the Odinforce Five thousand years ago, the then-king Bor led the armies of Asgard in their struggle against the Dark Elves into their Homeworld of Svartalfheim to secure the Aether, a weapon of infinite destruction. Upon arriving on the Dark World, Bor fired blasts of Odinforce from his spear Gungnir to cut down swaths of Dark Elves.[2] Jotunheim Invades Earth Odin wielding Gungnir and the Odinforce Using the Casket of Ancient Winters, the Jotuns sought to take over the other Realms and unleash a new Ice Age. They began with invading Midgard, but fortunately for its inhabitants the Asgardian armies led by Odin pushed back the Jotuns to their home world. During the war, Odin used his signature spear Gungnir to full effect against the Frost Giant hordes.[3] Thor's Banishment Destroyer fires blast of Odinforce from its head During Thor's coronation, a squad of Frost Giants infiltrated Odin's Vault. Sensing their presence, Odin activated the Destroyer, which was stored within the Vault itself. The Destroyer armor powered up, summoning the Odinforce and disintegrating the intruders with energy blasts emitted from its head.[3] Odin casts Thor out of Asgard After Thor's disobedience and reckless actions on Jotunheim endangered the Nine Realms, Odin stripped Thor of his power and banished him to Midgard. Odin takes Thor's hammer Mjølnir and uses it to channel a burst of Odinforce that broke apart Thor's armor and pushed him into the Bifrost.[3] After Loki angrily yelled at his adoptive father for not informing him of his true nature, Odin collapsed in shock. Immediately after, Loki called upon some guards that carried him to the bed chamber where he is supposed to stay until his Odinsleep is over, during which Odin would rejuvenate and replenish the Odinforce.[3] Thor confronts the Destroyer Due to Odin's inability to perform his actions as King of Asgard while in the Odinsleep, Loki was appointed regent, and after numerous subversive acts against his rule by his subjects and Thor's friends, Loki sent the Destroyer down to Earth after Thor. The automaton laid waste to the small town of Puente Antiguo by incinerating everything in sight with its optic blasts. After suffering fatal wounds as a mortal, Thor regains his power and quickly destroys the Destroyer, easily deflecting its blasts with Mjølnir.[3] After returning to Asgard and learning of the true state of things, Thor tries to stop Loki's plan to destroy Jotunheim. During the subsequent duel, Loki wields Gungnir and fires several Odinforce blasts against his brother.[3] Phase 2 As part of the Protocol Phase 2, the wreckage of the Destroyer Armor left behind in New Mexico was salvaged and reverse engineered by scientists to create a gun-like weapon of great power that would fire blasts of Odinforce like the automaton it was made from.[4] Loki's Campaign on Earth Phil Coulson threatens Loki After coming to conquer Earth, Loki was apprehended by Thor and his new allies at During Loki's escape, he fatally wounded Agent Phil Coulson with a stab through the heart after deceiving both him and Thor. Before succumbing to death, Coulson fired a Destroyer Armor Prototype Gun that was developed as part of Phase 2 from the wreckage of the Destroyer appropriated by The blast of Odinforce was powerful enough to blow Loki several meters back and through a wall.[5] Return of the Dark Elves Dark Elf felled by a blast of Odinforce The start of the Convergence and the unearthing of the Aether reactivated a dormant Dark Elf ship carrying the last survivors of their race. During the Dark Elves' attack on Asgard, Odin vanquished the last of the foes alive in the Throne Room after their initial descent.[2] Funeral Ritual Frigga dissolves into energy After the devastating attack and the death of Queen Frigga at the hands of Malekith, the deceased were put on funerary boats and floated to the edge of the Asgardian sea. Before falling off the end, Odin converted his fallen queen into energy using the Odinforce. While the vessel fell into the abyss, the Odinforce rose among the stars.[2] Attack on Cybertek Phil Coulson wields the Destroyer weapon During the Battle at Cybertek, Director Nick Fury showed up to help Coulson and his team against John Garrett and his Centipede Soldiers, bringing with him the Destroyer Armor Prototype Gun. Coulson used its concussive blasts to great effect against the Centipede Soldiers.[6] Kree Visitor Leo Fitz wields the Destroyer weapon After the activation of the ancient Kree City, the Kree Vin-Tak came to Earth to investigate the current state of the Inhumans and to eliminate any if found. came into conflict with him after it became clear he was after their teammate Skye. Leo Fitz used the Destroyer Armor Prototype Gun against the Kree while he was fighting against another teammate Bobbi Morse.[7] Ragnarök Begins Odin dissolves into the Odinforce After returning to Asgard from his travels in search of answers about the Infinity Stones and the Fall of Asgard, Thor went in search of his father Odin with his brother Loki, who had been masquerading as Odin and secretly ruling Asgard. Having found Odin overlooking a cliff in Norway, he told his sons it was his time to die and for Ragnarök to begin. Odin subsequently dissolved into Odinforce upon his death.[8] Items Gungnir Destroyer Destroyer Armor Prototype Gun Trivia In the non-canon video game Thor God of Thunder, Odin used Odinforce to revive Sif.[9] Gallery References ↑ Thor junior novelization ↑ Thor The Dark World ↑ Thor ↑ The Avengers Prelude Fury's Big Week ↑ The Avengers ↑ Agents of Beginning of the End ↑ Agents of Who You Really Are ↑ Thor Ragnarok ↑ Thor God of Thunder . 722 707 680 333 716 778 197 463