Not gonna reblog the post that inspired this thought, but… the Loki stans who claim that Thor’s behavior toward Loki early in “Thor 1” and before was abusive annoyed me a lot more before “Ragnarok” came out. People who fail to make a sharp distinction between Thor in T1, Avengers, TDW, AOU and Thor* in TR irritate me in either case; but frankly, I’m a lot less worried about the people who say Thor’s treatment of Loki was abusive than about the people who say that Thor*’s treatment of Loki (or Loki*) is love.
What’s with the astrick?
*just Chris Hemsworth?
I’ve been using the asterisk, following a convention in academic philosophy, to indicate that the character referred to as ‘Thor’ in Thor: Ragnarok is not the same character as the one in the previous movies. It’s a shorthand for not-really-Thor or fake-Thor. (The other way people notate that in philosophy is by replacing the first consonant of a word with shm-, a convention borrowed from Yiddish, but “Shmor” is just weird.)
Loki is the Philosopher King 