foundlingmother:

Someone: In Thor: Ragnarok, for the first time we see Loki acting mischievous and hedonistic, but ultimately heroic! We see Loki acting like actual canon Loki! But you guys only like him when he’s talking about subjugating the Earth, spewing the typical mustache-twirling, one-dimensional villain lines.

Me: What Thor did you watch where Loki’s a one-dimensional villain? What Avengers did you watch where Loki’s a mustache-twirling villain? WHAT THOR: THE DARK WORLD DID YOU WATCH WHERE LOKI’S A FUCKING VILLAIN?!

Also, like… what “actual canon”? The comics? Which comics: classic comics or recent ones (i.e., Agent of Asgard and later)? The MCU characters are not exactly the same as the comics characters – which would actually be impossible, because they’ve been reinvented so many times in the comics; the MCU has to pick one characterization and stick with it. Loki’s characterization in Thor 1 was, I think, modeled on Loki in the “Blood Brothers” and “The Trials of Loki” miniseries, where he’s portrayed as a tragic anti-villain.

But I get the sense that in the recent comics, Loki still has more psychological depth and angst that the writers take seriously than Loki in Thor: Ragnarok, since he’s struggling with his evil past incarnations. And that the comics don’t mock his mental health problems. (I don’t know much, since all I’ve seen is panels people post on here… I’m still struggling to work my way up to his reincarnation as Kid Loki, but the older comics are slow going.)

Not sure if you saw this epically ridiculous thread… but I spend some time at the bottom explaining why Loki in Thor 1 was an “interesting, conflicted trickster” and not the “bland pretentious baddie” that the TR/Waititi/Thor* stans seem to think he was. Istg, they didn’t even watch the previous movies… or whenever they watch a movie it gets turned into a simplistic cartoon version.