OK but the thing about this is that I would actually say Loki was at a lower point in the second image than in the first. In the first scene he’s just been physically defeated, but as we see in his response to the Avengers when they apprehend him (“If it’s all the same to you, I’ll have that drink now”), he’s still mentally composed. In the second scene, he’s psychologically defeated, driven by isolation, despair, and self-loathing to escape into illusions of… being someone else, basically.
God damn, that scene still makes me so fucking sad.
He’s always been more. You just never bothered to see him…
The manips are excellent, but the line doesn’t work at all. “More” than what exactly? More than being stolen and lied to? More than attempting suicide? Because that’s what the fotoset seems to suggest and it’s kinda creepy.
A better line could have been something about about Loki’s world getting torn apart time and again, first by Odin and now by Thanos, and about these things invariably lead to him almost dying. Asgard castout / Asgard last hope juxtaposition would work wonderfully. But the way it’s worded originally sends.the message that in order to be “more” he should overcome all the issues others have bestowed on him and proceed to sacrifice himself heroically for said others.
Maybe the idea is that he is more than a trickster, he always has been more than a trickster, as indicated by these images evoking his emotional complexity; but (as mastreworld put it) Thor – and the people responsible for the travesty that was Thor: Ragnarok – never bothered to see him. The caption “More than a trickster” directly on the gifs suggests that; the caption “you could be more” is somewhat confusing.
Loki is the Philosopher King 