Tag: thor ragnarok

teamvalkyrie:

Thor Ragnarok AU where Waitit straight up made it an indie roadtrip film

“ I look at the story of Thor in terms of an indie film. It’s about a guy trying to get home because there’s someone in his house, and he’s got to sort that out. And along the way he’s got his annoying brother, a drunk chick, and some bipolar kid with him. And he’s just trying to get home. “ – Taika Waititi 

Why was Loki able to extract Valkyrie’s memory?

ikoliholic:

philosopherking1887:

This is not something we’ve seen him do before. Not that he would have had any occasion to in previous movies, but this is kind of in a different category from other things he does with magic: mostly illusions, shapeshifting, and moving things around.

This is some wild-ass, blatantly self-interested speculation, but… what if the power to draw out other people’s memories is a relatively new ability that he gained from his interaction with the Mind Stone? Scarlet Witch got her powers from experimentation with the Mind Stone, and one of the things we’ve seen her do is get into people’s heads and make them experience things based on their worst fears and most painful memories.

This at least suggests that forcing people to re-experience memories is one of the things that the Mind Stone can do, in addition to co-opting their will to make them serve the aims of the wielder. I think everyone I know has dismissed the idea that Thanos was controlling Loki the way Loki controlled Barton and Selvig; that’s probably not something you can do to a magically powerful being like Loki. BUT Scarlet Witch was able to do the fear-exploiting thing with Thor, and Loki simultaneously experienced and forced the Valkyrie to re-experience her worst memory – that is something you can do to more powerful beings.

So… this provides some circumstantial evidence in favor of the theory I explore in my fic The Abyss Gazes Also about what happened between Thanos and Loki: that Thanos exploited Loki’s own fears, resentments, and insecurities and forced him to re-experience his most traumatic memories involving his family (especially Thor and Odin) to manipulate him into invading Earth on Thanos’s behalf and fighting against his adoptive family.

Tagging people who read my fic and might care: @angrymadsygin, @darklittlestories, @fuckyeahrichardiii, @iamhisgloriouspurpose, @ikoliholic, @illwynd, @lunariagold, @nursejoh53, @raven-brings-light, @writernotwaiting

@philosopherking1887 here for this theory… i thought something along these lines while watching the film:

“Well, THAT’S new. Has he been fuckin round with gemstones? Is this an easy device to do CHARACTER FLASHBACK + VERIFICATION? or is Loki just growing more into his skills in his spare time?”

answer? I personally think it’s probably all three 😀

Yeah… I’ve had some people reblogging saying they think Loki has always been able to do this, and I’m like… based on what? Probably they just want him always to have been as powerful as possible, but I’m big on consistency and constraints.

Taika Waititi on a scene they cut: “"They all land on the bridge – Thor, Loki and then Hulk.“They stand for a second. Then Hulk just smashes Loki, punches him out of the frame – just like in Avengers, when Hulk did it to Thor. It was a crowd favorite, but we just had to get rid of it for time.

Comicbook – By Nicole
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– November 8, 2017
(via frenchblondgirl)

portraitoftheoddity:

So, some fics I wanna see fandom come up with Post-Ragnarok:
(spoilers under the cut)

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Mine is only one of a zillion hug fics, and it’s pretty short (because I still need to finish my fucking dissertation by Wednesday and I didn’t really have time to write it as it was). But it’s platonic (which is an advantage for some people) and addresses some of the angsty family issues to which the movie gave short shrift. So here it is – Zeno’s Paradox (weird title, I know, but I swear – as usual – that it makes sense in context…).