Tag: infinity war spoilers

everydayiztumberling:

Source https://www.themarysue.com/thor-supporting-cast-got-burned/

“While Infinity War played him right in not betraying his brother in the end, the rest of Loki’s death makes little sense for his character. Over the years we’ve learned that Loki is a genius sorcerer with a deep self-preservation streak and an endless bag of tricks.

“Then, in Infinity War, we’re supposed to believe that he would choose to attack Thanos with a tiny knife. This is like bringing idiocy to a gunfight. Loki is the only person on the Asgardian vessel who knows exactly who Thanos is and what he’s capable of, and yet the audience is meant to accept that his final move would be a stupid one with zero chance of success.

“It doesn’t fit, and it’s not worthy of the character or Hiddleston. Loki’s death is also the most egregiously violent in Infinity War, like the Russos just really needed to twist those screws on Thor’s very bad day. [My editorial insertion: or rather, on Loki’s silly fangirls.]

“[…] And while many of the dusted Infinity War folks will somehow be resurrected in Avengers 4, Thor’s characters died real deaths and are almost certainly not coming back. This seems like a huge waste, especially if all of this murder is merely there to make Thor sad and angry and committed to bringing down Thanos. Let’s be real—he would’ve done that anyway. The MCU didn’t need to remove absolutely everyone associated with him so callously.”

pennie-dreadful:

philosopherking1887:

sserpente:

lolawashere:

Loki, the God of Mischief – MCU 10th Anniversary Featurette.

Review Loki’s evil and heroic turns, from colluding with cosmic villains to teaming up with his brother Thor to save the universe.

Via Torrilla/weibo

The next… chapter? Did Tom just secretly confirm that Loki isn’t dead after all?!

I’m still skeptical. It could be a very short “chapter,” and the sense in which it “honors what has come before” might just be that Loki is a boring “good guy” now and recognizes that his only purpose in life is to sacrifice himself for Thor (again). And he does say “it will be surprising for the audience in terms of what they expect next” – which could be code for, “Surprise! He dies in the first 5 minutes, way more stupidly than you ever would have expected him to, and that’s it for your favorite character.”

Yeah I am extremely skeptical that this “you’ll be surprised” nonsense is anything but a red herring. I’m still not 100% certain we’ll even see Loki in A4; has anyone seen any other set pictures besides the one? Remember he was supposed to have a cameo in AoU and that ended up getting cut. I’m maintaining a zero faith policy tbh, all this theorizing is frankly giving Marvel too much credit. Maybe the new fan campaign to bring Loki back will work, maybe it won’t, but odds are even if it does they’ll just let writers/directors who don’t like him or understand him continue to butcher his character.

Oh yeah, fair point about the AoU scene. And I completely agree about the zero faith policy. Except for “Spider-Man” and “Black Panther,” all the MCU movies that have come out since 2016 have been huge disappointments. And I absolutely do not trust anyone there with Loki’s character.

sserpente:

lolawashere:

Loki, the God of Mischief – MCU 10th Anniversary Featurette.

Review Loki’s evil and heroic turns, from colluding with cosmic villains to teaming up with his brother Thor to save the universe.

Via Torrilla/weibo

The next… chapter? Did Tom just secretly confirm that Loki isn’t dead after all?!

I’m still skeptical. It could be a very short “chapter,” and the sense in which it “honors what has come before” might just be that Loki is a boring “good guy” now and recognizes that his only purpose in life is to sacrifice himself for Thor (again). And he does say “it will be surprising for the audience in terms of what they expect next” – which could be code for, “Surprise! He dies in the first 5 minutes, way more stupidly than you ever would have expected him to, and that’s it for your favorite character.”

thegestianpoet:

thegestianpoet:

the MCU is never gonna let an honest to god gay character played by a gay person into its lineup not in this decade at least but no matter how much I want to emphasize that this is the bottom line and headcanons are useless towards representation…i have to say. that somehow. tom heterosexual posh boy hiddleston managed to squeeze a deeply unreasonable amount of chaotic gay energy into the like 3 collective minutes he was onscreen in infinity war and i have to hand it to him for that one much as I’d like to do otherwise 

>when you know the studio has been trying to get rid of your weird character for like three movies now because he’s focus group poison so you incorporate a truly legendary combination of Theatrical Gay Head Movements into your final performance even though your wig is held together with superglue and wouldn’t flutter if you stepped in front of an industrial fan 

To all the people saying “the Russo brothers and Markus & McFeely are smart, they wouldn’t kill Loki in such a stupid way and leave all these hints that he might still be alive”:

  • They’re not that smart. Civil War was terrible; The Winter Soldier wasn’t as great as everyone says it was; and hello, have you seen what they did with Infinity War? Even aside from Loki’s stupid death, I mean. Thanos’s “sympathetic” Malthusian worldview? Fridging Gamora for Quill’s AND Thanos’s Manpain™? Our heroes deciding that a whole bunch of Wakandans can die so that Vision doesn’t have to because “we don’t trade lives” (right…)?
  • Markus & McFeely wrote Thor: The Dark World, which had a really weak main plot and not that much involvement from Loki until Joss Whedon was brought in as a script doctor and added more for reshoots.
  • Markus & McFeely originally intended to kill Loki permanently in TDW but Feige made an executive decision to bring him back because of his popularity with fans at the time. His mainstream popularity has (I think) waned since then (partly due to the deliberate diminution and demeaning of his character in Ragnarok).
  • I wouldn’t be surprised if M&M wanted to finish the job they started in TDW. They fridged Frigga to bring Thor and Loki together through Manpain; they had every intention of fridging Loki permanently for the sake of Thor’s Manpain.

zombiecheetah:

So even if Loki comes back at the end of Avengers 4 can we all agree on what a horrible waste of writing sidelining/killing him in the first 15 minutes of this movie was? Where are my continued petty exchanges with Strange? Taking Wanda under his wing? Teaming up with Gamora and Nebula to take down their abuser? Being Stabby BFFs with Nebula? Fighting side by side by Thor and the other Avengers he tried to take down however many movies ago? Like just imagine Steve’s face when Loki blocks an attack meant for him. Amazing.

We could have taken this atonement/reconciliation deal and taken it full circle, defending a planet Purple Testicle made him invade in the first place. Like…how is killing him in the first 15 minutes anywhere close to the most interesting choice we could have done with this character?

foundlingmother:

*rolls eyes* I really, really don’t care what the Russos are saying. Most of Marvel can’t tell a good story to save their life and can’t identify what makes their characters interesting. I mean, these are the same people who shove Bucky into everything, yet never develop his character. These are the same people who think one of Cap’s best qualities is his unwillingness to consider he might be wrong. They are a bunch of idiotic white cisgender men pandering to idiotic white cisgender men. They can all suck my dick.

I’m going to ignore whatever ridiculous fucking end they force Thor to be content with, and ignore their depowering of Loki. They have nothing but contempt for the characters I love, and, in turn, I have nothing but contempt for the stories they create.

The only reason I care is that it tells me what to expect… and confirms me in my suspicions about their contempt for Loki, Hiddleston, and fans of both (the character and the actor).

Does this mean that people on this hellsite will stop fawning over the Russo brothers (and by extension Markus and McFeely)?

foundlingmother:

tegary:

foundlingmother:

tegary:

@marvel in general

LGBTQIA+ people don’t watch Marvel movies, right? It’s not one of your largest demographics, right? We wouldn’t want to see a bisexual character (Valkyrie) or a gender fluid character (Loki) right???

Also $20 says that they cut Valkyrie’s bisexual confirmation in Ragnarök because they want Thorkyrie to be endgame so that Thor can be all happy with his new girlfriend and ~100 of his people left living. Who cares about his brother and the rest of his people, right???

Betting against this would not be a safe bet.

here’s the thing, though, marvel.

come closer.

*whispers* she could have been in love with a woman in her past and still ended up with thor. i don’t think you understand what being bisexual means.

But if Thor isn’t looking on saying “nice” what is even the point of his pretty girl kissing another pretty girl, @tegary?