This is so heartbreaking, seeing his resolve fading. For all his words, his love for his brother overcomes. He can’t stand to watch Thor in pain.
Tom deserves all awards!
Tom’s performance in this scene reminds me of a story my college choir director used to tell about a German orchestra conductor he worked with. The orchestra was hired to play for a local theater’s production of Oklahoma! The first day they rehearsed the score, the conductor raised his baton and said (in a little old man German accent), “All right, my darlinks, let us see if we can turn shit into gold.”
@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.
thanks twitter user @/C0rezi for an inspirational twist on the latest crappy plot //please don’t repost
Loki: shows up to Infinity War 20 minutes late with Starbucks
Avengers: Thor, what hell, you said your brother was dead?
Thor, shaking his damn head: I don’t know why I even fuck with this asshole anymore.
Loki: Well, I was dead, but after that dreadful business with Ragnarok, our dear sister the Goddess of Death was less than keen to have me as one of her subjects.
Avengers: You’re saying you got kicked out? of Hel???
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
But they’ve already filmed A4, so this petition is kind of pointless.
At
the base, Loki was to die in Thor The Dark World and finally when they
saw the popularity he had in SDCC, they added that scene of him on the
throne. So nothing is said.
Avengers 4 is a year away. I’m convinced they have the power to change things. And so do we! Nothing has to be set in stone!
Let’s not forget that it was fans who brought Loki back after TDW. They have plenty of time to reconsider their strategy.
Marvel can definitely do reshoots; they have quite enough time for that. I signed the petition with the following message:
“I get the distinct sense that Marvel either does not care about or is deliberately trying to alienate any fans who aren’t cis men… but I would be delighted to be proven wrong. Believe it or not, Marvel, many of us are drawn to Loki because of his complexity as a character and not just because we have the hots for Hiddleston. Loki deserved better than the pathetic end he was given 5 minutes into ‘Infinity War.’”
Considering what was done to his character in Ragnarok, I would not be surprised if Marvel deliberately killed him before the title card and made him look completely weak and incompetent in the process because they’re mad that this morally ambiguous queer-coded nerd gets more female admiration than the standard male power fantasies they’re marketing.
Loki is the Philosopher King 