It’s true, he doesn’t look that much like Odin, but it puts in mind the theme of family resemblance and, hey, look who does look like a family member:
But Loki and Hela aren’t related by blood, yet they look like. Sure, sure, comic designs are being ported over to the MCU etc. But you know what’s confirmed by this movie:
Shapeshifter Loki.
Odin, having had to seal Hela away before she caused too much damage, still thinking of her and the loss of her, his firstborn, and not too much later, this happens:
SHAPESHIFTER LOKI, EVEN AS A BABY, PICKING UP ON ODIN’S THOUGHTS OF HELA AND SHIFTING TO A FORM THAT RESEMBLED HER.
Picking up on just what exactly would allow him to survive, to be taken in and cared for, to be loved and protected. And Odin, grieving over the loss of his firstborn, coming to love this child who looks so much like her, this new chance to do right with a child.
Ragnarok (and all of the Thor movies, really) is the story about how Thor is actually the redemption of Odin’s line, of course, that the terrible power both Hela and Thor wield is something they either do or don’t learn to do with compassion and good in their hearts.
But I love that this makes Loki just as important a part of the family as he can be. He has his mother’s magic, she would be proud of him, he is Odinson just as much as Thor is, Thor is closer to having his mother’s looks, Loki and Hela share looks, Thor and Hela share a power beyond almost anyone else we’ve seen, the web of connections and themes is everywhere and Loki is 100% fucking there with them all.
One of the friends I’m seeing “Thor: Ragnarok” with for my second time told me that he hadn’t seen the second Thor movie and asked if that was going to be a problem. I filled him in on the important developments but also insisted that there was a particular scene – Loki’s death(?) scene – he needed to have watched for something in “Ragnarok” to make sense. So I sat with my friends outside the restaurant where we’d eaten dinner and showed them Loki’s death scene from TDW on the YouTube app on my phone.
This one time when we were children, he transformed himself into a snake, and he knows I love snakes. So I went to pick up the snake to admire it, and he transformed back into himself and was like, “YARGH, IT’S ME!!!” and he stabbed me. We were eight at the time.
Thor at Doctor Strange: “Can I get my brother back?”
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Even when Loki is angry his voice is hot
^ True.
Also… maybe they shouldn’t have been so blithe about this, considering the associations Loki probably has with the experience of falling. The movie was mostly pretty good about the callbacks (including Loki’s reaction to Thor getting Hulk-smashed), but this oversight made me a little uncomfortable.
Goddammit, how am I going to focus on writing my dissertation when all I want to do is WRITE PORN??
…and by “porn” I seem to mean “hugging and crying and talking about stuff.” Because that kind of is porn for us.
omg same. I, too, set out to write post-hug porn, but the fuckers won’t stop hugging now
I feel honor bound to write my own hug fic but damn what can I really add to all there is already? ;_;
I think Hermaline did a really good job covering many of the unaddressed issues (before segueing into sex). But there’s always more for them to talk about. There were a *lot* of unaddressed issues.
Loki Concept Art from THE ART OF THOR RAGNAROK. No copyright infringement intended. (1) Sorry for the blurry pics. Blame it on the fact that I don’t own a scanner and I have bad eyesight.
Did anyone else feel seriously called out by that “play” (very Shakespearean, btw) depicting Loki’s death scene from Thor: The Dark World? Because that scene really does affect me. Like… they even had that “angelic choir” singing the score that accompanied that scene, which is a major part of why it’s so emotionally wrenching, but then they’re making fun of it and I can see how everything was (perfectly!) calculated to manipulate my emotions…
Loki is the Philosopher King 