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@philosopherking1887 The Casket is still around. We see it when Hela’s in the Vault and she specifically notes that it’s not fake but rather “weak”, so there’s absolutely no reason he couldn’t have grabbed it and done exactly this except that Thor and Loki had to be useless for the first 10 minutes of the film so that the plot could progress.
@foundlingmother I guess I forgot that because so much of that movie was worth forgetting… and I absolutely refuse to rewatch it. Something else they retconned or just weren’t paying attention to… I didn’t notice that the Casket was being used to freeze the Bifrost open until a Tumblr post called my attention to it; I thought the Observatory was just frozen because it was connected to Jotunheim. But given that the Casket was still in the Vault… the quick-thinking, forward-planning Loki of previous films would have grabbed it and saved it and pulled it out to use it in a pinch, as he did with Heimdall. Another example of how Markus & McFeely had to make him stupid so they could use him as an emotional manipulation device.



