Oh look, I found another reason why I hate this movie:

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Literally everything Thor does in this movie is condescending and uncaring toward Loki. He’s not even remotely nice to him. His brother who said “Sometimes I’m envious of you, but never doubt my love” “I didn’t do it for him.” This entire movie was just a stage for Thor to be “awesome God of Thunder” and to put Loki in some sort of sideshow space. 

Exactly where he started in the first film.

He’s back to just having to go along with Thor regardless of how he feels about the matter “let’s do get help, you love it.” “I hate it, it’s embarrassing” “we’re doing it”

Loki literally tells Thor he finds that modus operandi degrading and Thor essentially replies “I don’t give a flying fuck what you think, we’re doing it because I want to, so deal.” and Loki, of course, does exactly that.

Because that’s how it’s been with Thor for all their adult lives.

“know your place, brother.”

“Enough.”

TR took Thor back to square one. He’s not the mature, thoughtful king-in-training he was in TDW (I will ALWAYS prefer that version of him; it was true to his character arc). He’s gone back to the selfish, arrogant “it’s all about me” outlook. He doesn’t care about Loki, doesn’t ask his opinion– unlike the carefully executed plan of TDW where Loki gets to use his skills equally alongside Thor’s brawn. 

But the one thing that really gets me about that comment above is this part: “while Loki thought it was an affectionate pat” 

What. The. Hell?!?!?! God forbid Loki actually receive some real, genuine affection from Thor because he’s just a trickster, so he doesn’t really matter. That was beaten in our faces OVER AND OVER AND OVER by Taika Waititi–

Loki is just a dumb trickster who has no motive and no life-plan.

Loki just wants to drink margaritas and watch bad theater about himself because he’s a glorified narcissist.

Loki just wants to fuck the Grandmaster (or at least the GM wants to fuck him).

Loki and all of his past issues were non-issues, so stop feeling sorry for him.

Oh, and my favorite, though I don’t think I can contribute this to TW, but rather whoever wrote the script:

“You’ll always be the God of Mischief, but you could be something more.”

We’re supposed to admire Thor’s cleverness and kingly wisdom in this scene, when actually all this is doing is subtly reinforcing the fact that Loki’s been treated as the punching bag, the jokes-on-legs, the “if we have no SMART ideas I’ll just throw my LITTLE brother at the bad guys”.

What. 

The. 

FUCK.

I think that might actually be from TW, since people who have read the novelization said the electrocution and lecture/ultimatum scene wasn’t in there. Taika wanted to put in a “trickster tricked” incident to show that Thor is now smarter than Loki and solely responsible for Loki’s “redemption”… never mind that the betrayal made no fucking sense given Loki’s character as established in previous films, and all it showed (like the rest of the improvised “humor”) is that Thor is self-important, self-absorbed, and cruel.