OMG I DIDN’T EVEN NOTICE HE ROLLED HIS EYES DAHELL LOKI DAT SASS
rightful king of sassgard.
DON’T YOU ROLL THOSE EYES AT ME MR.!!!
he’s checking out how the door mechanism works for future escape, actually. but yeah.
Knowing him, it’s both. His checking the door and rolling his eyes. Because our boy is sassy and dramatic.
Checking the door, rolling his eyes, and using that to also spot where all the cameras are without looking like he’s looking. Makes it much more dramatic when he looks directly at the lens a few minutes later because we haven’t seen him register the location.
Everyone in Infinity Wars gonna be complaining about how hard these last few years have been for them until Thor rolls up with no hair, no hammer, and one eye.
Don’t forget “my planet had to be destroyed to keep my sister from killing like the whole universe so now me and all my people are refugees. But hey, Loki’s back, that’s good news!”
I think the first gif is far more telling than the second one.
It’s a sudden moment of sheer panic. For their whole lives, Thor has been this immovable, invincible mountain. He’s never been hurt or anything, and Loki finds comfort in that because it’s something stable and unchanging. Thor is Thor, he won’t change. He won’t leave, he won’t turn against him in anger.
But now, none of that holds true anymore. Loki has just sentenced his brother to death (with the half-certain knowledge that Thor will escape) and the consequences of that have abruptly broadsided him. Thor is not invincible anymore. Thor is not standing beside him, laughing at one of Loki’s pranks. Thor is plummeting 30,000 feet straight down towards Midgard’s surface in a cage that Loki trapped him in.
Suddenly, all those games and sparring matches they had as young men have melted away in the face of this new battle they’re fighting. Suddenly, everything is terrifyingly and viscerally real. No more games. No more tricks. They’re equals (opposites), now, and Loki is going to prove it, whatever the cost.
And Loki can’t help wondering: “what if I’m wrong? what if he doesn’t come back?” Because out of everything, that would be the worst nightmare of all.