I actually don’t think it was stupid and shallow, let me tell you why. Note where Loki is – a place where the high class people are those who laugh at the misery of those below them. They laugh and enjoy the torment of others, he was not making fun of himself when he laughs after saying ‘Then, I let go’, he is Loki, he is blending in, making himself a new life, becoming one of ‘them’ – remember, he thinks Thor is dead at this point, he is doing what he can and playing with the sadists who laugh at the trauma and pain of others.
He is surviving, as he does with Thanos, as he does in the prison in Asgard, he survives. To be high class, he has to turn himself into a person who is a hunger games loving sadist or he ends up like Thor – in an arena where he has no hopes of lasting.
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I really, really, really like this. It’s a great point, and it’s the first thing that’s made me feel a bit comfortable with Loki laughing about his fall.
#though i’m not sure i’d assume we were meant to get that from the scene#because of how other serious moments from the previous movies were handled
Fair point, @foundlingmother… this is one of the few circumstances where I take full advantage of the “death of the author” principle: in fanfiction, at least, I’m going to assume an explanation like the one @satanssyn-n-things offers, where Loki is laughing at his own pain because he needs to in order to survive. But I am certainly not ready to give the actual creators of the movie that much credit… except maybe Hiddleston himself, because he seems to be the only one who sees Loki’s pain as worth taking seriously.
Loki is the Philosopher King 