Well, I tried to picture his emotions through the movies and I came to think that I really don’t like his prince appearance at all because he lacked of character in that time. (Or maybe I just drew him bad)
I think Prince!Loki was very good at keeping his emotions under wraps, which is why his face appears so neutral, even bland. Then after what happened in Jotunheim, his facade pretty decisively cracked (along with some other things).
Oh my gods. Whoever originally made this, I love you and you win at life and all the internets.
Well. This is exactly how I felt about this ‘scene’ too!
His face in the second gif.
What’s that sound? Just my heart shattering across the floor.
OK but the thing about this is that I would actually say Loki was at a lower point in the second image than in the first. In the first scene he’s just been physically defeated, but as we see in his response to the Avengers when they apprehend him (“If it’s all the same to you, I’ll have that drink now”), he’s still mentally composed. In the second scene, he’s psychologically defeated, driven by isolation, despair, and self-loathing to escape into illusions of… being someone else, basically.
God damn, that scene still makes me so fucking sad.
Thor: The Dark World || Thor: Ragnarok
#this is an interesting difference between the brothers#thor refuses the even give loki an answer#and only comes to loki because he needs him for the plan#loki comes and shares their grief#and offers to help thor#despite him being unnecessary for loki’s plan#thor loves loki#i don’t dispute it#i think he works really hard to stay mad at loki#and he tries really hard in avengers to bring loki back#but he also sometimes acts like a massive thoughtless dick to loki#and i think it’s that same malformed view of loki that i’ve spoken of#thor conceptualizes loki as a bad person who needs to be fixed or managed#and it’s much more complicated than that#and he’s going to feel horrible about everything#when he realizes that (via @foundlingmother)
I think the relevant difference between these two scenes is that in the first, Thor is still hurt and bewildered and angry at Loki over what happened in The Avengers (and probably toward the end of Thor 1, too), while in the second, Loki isn’t shown as having any particular reason to be mad at Thor. (He probably should be mad at Thor for blowing his cover and potentially allowing Thanos to discover where he is, but the movie doesn’t even acknowledge that as a reason why Loki was pretending to be Odin. Or any reason other than “mischief, hur hur.”)
Maybe there is more continuity between Thor’s thoughtlessness toward Loki in earlier movies and in Ragnarok than I’ve acknowledged, but earlier on it seems more complex and well-motivated.
I don’t think I would say that Thor consistently “conceptualizes Loki as a bad person who needs to be fixed or managed” before Ragnarok.
Thor’s callousness in TDW seems put-on, deliberate, and painful even for him; in Ragnarok it’s just a matter of course.
Tom Hiddleston lifting Ladies
not so gentlywith only one arm
Thor 2: The road to Svartalfheim
Loki made me do it again
Loki is the Philosopher King 