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The MCU is basically Odin. They don’t know how the hell to handle Loki and treat him like garbage as a result.
EIGHT CHARACTER TRAITS: Loki Laufeyson
This gifset is amazing and gorgeous, but I think what would make it even more interesting is if it showed 4 positive traits or strengths fading downward into 4 negative traits or weaknesses that are darker versions or perhaps extreme consequences of the positive traits. Here are some suggestions, using the traits from the gifset above:
mischievous –> untrustworthy
passionate –> possessive, volatile, and/or destructive
clever –> cunning
flexible –> irresolute
ambitious –> ruthless
unconventional –> lonely
Loki “cards” I designed Thor through The Dark World. Realized I never stuck them in one post before. And a Ragnarok update is due!
Listen Tom. There is literally NOTHING ordinary about you!
I actually do appreciate his point (though he’s intending to be humble, whereas I’m here to sing his praises.)
Tom truly disappears into Loki— which is interesting to me particularly because he’s such a notable actor at this point (which for me can make it more difficult to see the character first.) Yes, he has different hair and a distinctive costume which adjusts his appearance quite a bit, but what I find most interesting is that Loki’s face is incredibly exposed and open.
There’s no hair or beard or even much makeup to hide behind— and yet, to me, Loki’s face appears so incredibly different from Tom’s, even when Tom is clean shaven.
It’s Loki’s bearing, his mannerisms and expressions that do the bulk of the lifting. Seeing Tom in Loki’s wig and costume when he’s out of character straight up looks like cosplay to me.
I think that’s why when I picture Loki as I’m reading fanfiction, or when I attempt to draw him, I don’t necessarily envision him as looking exactly like Hiddleston— Tom has made Loki into such a distinct entity of his own that, ironically, I think of Tom more as inspiration for the idea of Loki rather than the literal embodiment.
So, good job Tom. You’re too good at acting and now you’ve made yourself redundant. You shatteringly ordinary fellow.
Loki with the Infinity Gauntlet turns me on much more than it should
Can this please just be what happens in IW
LOKI, GOD OF MISCHIEF
“He was beautiful, that was always affirmed, but his beauty was hard to fix or to see, for he was always glimmering, flickering, melting, mixing, he was the shape of a shapeless flame, he was the eddying thread of needle-shapes in the shapeless mass of the waterfall. He was the invisible wind that hurried the clouds in billows and ribbons. You could see a bare tree on the skyline bent by the wind, holding up twisted branches and bent twigs, and suddenly its formless form would resolve itself into that of the trickster.” – A.S. Byatt, Ragnarok: The End of the Gods
three Lokis, three Thors, three very different hugs 😉
I continue to wonder what the hell Thor, Avengers, and TDW people watched that made them think Marvel was writing Loki as a mustache-twirling villain. You know, people always said prior to Ragnarok that Loki was Marvel’s best villain. He had understandable motivations and even could be seen as sympathetic. He was explicitly praised for not being the one-dimensional trying-to-destroy-the-universe villain. WTF changed your minds on that? Why is he now a case of tragically bad writing on Marvel’s part? A case of untapped potential until TW took him over, retconned his personality, and ignored the relatable issues he experiences (outsiderness, internalized-racism, bad parenting)? Or is this all some joke I’m not in on?
Loki is the Philosopher King 