“You know I heard you were meaning to get in touch with me, but then I heard you were dead. And I also heard that you were a king and various other things.
But the fact is, Loki, you and I are not the sort people understand… we’re the sort people fear.
Now I got the information that I needed and now I have to break your neck. It’s just the way it is. I’m not—I’m just the messenger.”
This is creepy and very mafia-y!!
Yep… this is mob boss!Thanos. I don’t think this Thanos had any benevolent pretensions about balancing the universe. This is creepy in-love-with-Death Thanos.
This is truly bizarre and…creepy? Parts of the delivery make this almost sound improvised? (Would that be normal for test footage?) Either that, or at one point, Thanos’ motive for killing Loki was written a little differently? I don’t even know.
Anyway I’m so tired of his dumbass face, they wasted Josh Brolin on such a poorly written villain. Just gonna rewatch Deadpool 2 and think about his sweet lovely crush on Ryan Reynolds. (Tbh I kinda wish Ryan Reynolds got to be in charge of the MCU, he seems to actually get it. Anyway, tangent over.)
This sounds like they may have been toying with a different characterization of Thanos – when they weren’t making a bullshit attempt to make him sympathetic, and he was just an evil nutjob with a weird sense of humor (which was how I wrote him). Not that the way he killed Loki in the movie was particularly sympathetic, but they sort of made it a “Greedo shot first” situation with Loki siccing the Hulk on him and then making that unbelievably stupid attempt to stab him. At that point, Thanos could be construed as killing him to avenge personal betrayal in addition to the breach of their previous agreement. But in this video, Thanos seems to be saying that he has to kill Loki simply because he has no more use for him – which is what I would expect from a straight-up psychopath-in-love-with-Death Thanos rather than that asinine “humanitarian” version they ended up pushing on us.
I neither can nor want to read this tbh. Anyone else can give general heads-up as to how atrocious this is re: general vilifying, powers / intelligence erasure, backstory and so on?
@shine-of-asgard Its honestly fine if you want to read— that first page is just brief interview questions. Mostly Tom just talking about wearing his costume, getting into character, his acting relationship with Hemsworth (this part is quite sweet), his love of Branagh’s approach to Thor and his excitement/observation that people have latched onto the characters and seem to enjoy having real emotions in their blockbuster superhero movies. The “bad boy” bit in the title isn’t followed-up except for where Tom (probably jokingly) says the horns give Loki a bit of the devil about him.
What did catch my eye was the blurb about the Mind Stone on the next page— and the claim that Thanos didn’t know what it was when he gave it to Loki in the scepter. I’m sorry, what?!?! This is news to me.
WTF, Marvel? How do you keep making your big bad scary new villain sound like such a dipshit? At this point I believe my own account of what happened with Thanos more than I believe anything coming from these ass-clowns.
@petermaximoff MADE A FIRE FUCKING POST ABOUT THIS EXACT PHENOMENON AND I’D LIKE TO THANK YOU OP AND YOU SUNNY FOR STANDING UP FOR OUR MANS WHO HAS NEVER DONE ANYTHING WRONG IN HIS LIFE EVER
Thor: Look, I usually do but I have an axe now and Disney wants to make billions of dollars so things need to stay PG-13 and while the Motion Picture Association of America’s standards that inform their decisions on ratings are mysterious and ridiculous to navigate, I feel pretty confident that they don’t want me to go for your head with an axe if we are to remain at a PG-13 rating. I may be able to cut off your head with this axe if the camera cuts away at a precise moment before impact and your blood is a cartoonish shade of slime green, or if your body just disintegrated into confetti upon impact and it was partnered with a fart sound effect, but we don’t have time to negotiate those changes right now and frankly I think they would not fit with the overall feel of this moment.
IT JUST BOILS DOWN TO WHAT TYPE OF VILLAIN MOST PEOPLE WILL CONSIDER ‘BEST’ AND A COOL, WITTY, RELATABLE AND UNDERSTANDABLE VILLAIN WHO HAPPENS TO ALSO BE ATTRACTIVE WILL WIN THOSE NUMBERS EVERY TIME it’s just human nature!
Also, Thanos ended up being incredibly lame and Markus & McFeely’s attempts to make him “sympathetic” went over like a lead balloon.
Loki is the Philosopher King 