– illusions
– magic
– ice powers
– shapeshifting
– mind reading powers
– telekinesis
– very powerful spells that work even on Odin
– and so on, so on, so on because IT’S LOKI, YOU KNOW, HE’S SUCH A FUCKING TRICKSTER
but what does marvel and the russo brothers
let him use? A KNIFE? JUST A FUCKING KNIFE? OMFG this is the most stupid thing ever… i hope there was some hidden meaning.
YES!!!!!!!!!! same ,my words!
I’m so pissed. Why are they throwing him out of the MCU like this?!
It might have been the Russo brothers or it might have been the screenwriters, Markus & McFeely – who, by the way, also wrote TDW and had Loki kick a bunch of Dark Elves’ asses with just a knife. Which was extremely implausible, to my mind.
The dumbest thing was that he even tried to kill Thanos right then. Why didn’t he make an actual effort to play the long game, to pretend to be on Thanos’s side and find a way to betray him later? The story-external answer, of course, is that there were already too many characters and plotlines and pretty obviously the people in charge give no shits about Loki as a character.
The story-internal answer might be that Loki knew there was no way Thanos was going to take him back after his failure in The Avengers and his attempts to defy Thanos just a few moments before, so he thought his best bet was to try to kill him immediately, before Thanos had a chance to order him killed. But in that case, the original questions re-arise: why didn’t he
- conceal the knife with an illusion until it was right at Thanos’s throat,
- propel the knife at Thanos using his telekinetic powers,
- produce an ice blade from his own hand at the last minute, OR
- anything else that would have had a better chance at success??
Loki is the Philosopher King 