juliabohemian:

loki-god-of-menace:

I know the collective fandom likes to pretend like Ragnarok was the ‘pièce de résistance’, of the Thor movies, especially in regards to Loki’s characterization and Loki and Thor’s relationship, but aside from my numerous grievances with that movie….

None of Loki’s ‘heroics’ or loyalty or anything being praised as ‘amazing character development from Ragnarok’ is new, and it was NOT Ragnarok that brought it about or first proved its existence.

It was Thor: The Dark World

^{Yes. Does anyone remember the movie where:}

^{– Loki agreed to help Thor attempt to save the world with no other reward than a supposed ‘revenge’ for their mother’s death (which Thor did not intend on giving him; see “You fool, you fool, you didn’t listen.” when Loki interfered with Kurse/Thor) and return to eternal imprisonment? (”Vengeance… then afterward this cell.”)}

^{– Loki saved Jane from a void bomb and almost got himself killed in the process. Something he was not beholden to do, and could have passed off easily as inevitable or unavoidable if he was evul.}

^{– Loki saved Thor’s life, and almost ‘died’ in the process (which cannot be disproved, since if we want to hold Ragnarok up as the gold standard, it went out of the way to prove that Loki’s illusions cannot be touch/can have things thrown through them, so no. Kurse could only have stabbed Loki and Loki alone).}

^{– Loki did not betray Thor (You might say, “He took the throne!!! And deposed Odin!!!”. Oh. You mean the throne Thor was avoiding and refused entirely by his own volition? And deposed Odin, who… told the guards to stop Thor ‘by any means necessary’ leading them to shoot at him i.e. stop Thor, even if you have to kill him. Odin, who would have done exactly as Thor said, “Failure will mean our deaths; success will mean exile”, and either exiled Thor again or executed him, in light of the fact Odin would have executed Loki if not for Frigga and told the guards they were ok to kill Thor?)}

^{Yeah. That was all… Thor: TDW. That movie where Loki loved his mother, and cared enough about Odin to still be hurt by his rejection and try to show Odin the hypocrisy of the situation with, “I went down to earth as a benevolent god…. just like you.”}

^{Yep. The movie where Loki called Thor ‘brother’ throughout the whole film, and saved his girlfriend, and saved Thor?}

Ragnarok was a crack fic written by someone whose only knowledge of the franchise came from memes they found on Reddit. That’s my new headcanon.

@fuckyeahrichardiii you’re not the only one who thinks TDW was great 🙂