It really annoys me how they had Loki drop the tesseract. It is only one of like a million plot point driven dumb actions that the Russo Brothers had these characters do but its just so utterly ridiculous. It was the perfect opportunity for Loki to take him and Thor out of there but instead he dives on him and drops the tesserect.
Powers Loki has in other movies that he didn’t use:
freezing people
making duplicates
illusions
going to other realms with the tesserect
bringing himself into rooms out of thin air
crossing realms without the bifrost or tesserect
making people relive painful memories with a touch of his hand
I still cannot for the life of me understand how anyone can realistically consider Infinity War to be a well written movie…
This is a classic example of an “idiot plot”: a plot that can only get going because characters are acting inexplicably stupid. The expression is deliberately ambiguous; it can and should also be read as “plot written by idiots.”
Loki is the Philosopher King 