Okay but if Croki is a thing what animal was Thor, Odin, and Frigga???
Kid Loki finding out Thor and Odin were birds or some shit and he’s just
You throw a rock out here, you hit a Loki.
The Evolution of Loki’s Helmet
Can we talk about Loki’s Helmet for a second?
Specifically, this:
When I saw this movie with a pal of mine, she turned to me during the credits and grinned, “Finally, he used his helmet to fight with! I’ve been waiting for that! You’ve got two knives on your head, dude – use them!”
There’s a logic to what she’s saying, but it’s more than that for me. Loki’s helmet has generally been a symbol of his ego – specifically, the ego that’s feeding his rage, his insecurity, his hate, his fear, his hurt, his loneliness. It’s telling, through the earlier movies, when he wears it: when he’s sending the Destroyer to kill Thor, when he’s sitting on the throne making cruel decisions, when he’s fighting his brother on the Bifrost. (There is the scene in the beginning where he wears the helmet to Thor’s coronation – that’s the only time we get a more innocuous connotation for it, although even then, it is happening around the time that Loki invites the Frost Giants to sneak in and “ruin his brother’s big day.” Which did result in a few murdered guards, and leads to more dire unfoldings, as you may recall.)
In “Avengers,” it gets even darker: his helmet appears when he’s delivering fascist speeches and leading an army of murder-aliens. He’s wearing it, again, when he fights Thor. I think it’s telling that the helmet never appears in “The Dark World,” because that’s the movie where Loki starts to think about maybe trying to pull himself back out of the pit of hate and hurt he had half-fallen, half-jumped into. It’s the movie where his redemption arc starts.
In “Ragnaork” – continuing the redemption-arc trend – the helmet doesn’t appear on Loki himself until this moment:
This is the first time we see a helmeted Loki in a moment where he’s not only not doing something sinister – he’s actively helping. He’s actively being kind. He’s wearing that helmet to diva his way into his moment as his people’s savior – but he also is, y’know, saving his people. His ego’s still on deck, but for the first time, his ego is merely coming along for the ride as he does something selfless, rather than being in charge to lead him in the opposite direction.
That’s why it’s so fitting that this is the first time we see him use his helmet – his newly-designed, looser, freer helmet – as a weapon. There’s enough of a Hero in him now that, having had his grand entrance, he takes that symbol of his ego and uses it as a weapon, as a tool, to protect his people instead:
That’s our Trickster Hero, y’all. <3
Another Thing
No one can convince me otherwise that the real reason Odin began to push Loki away was because he was starting to remind him too much of Hela.
Thor: Ragnarok (2017)
#remember back in like 2011 when Tom Hiddleston was like ‘the opposite of love isn’t hate it’s indifference and Loki HATES his brother!!’#WELL#I HAD A LOT OF FEELINGS ABOUT THAT DURING THIS SCENE#not to Tag Feel like it’s 20 fucking 12 but… he’s so used to Thor chasing after him and Thor fighting him and Thor crying over him#to have Thor be like ‘yeah cool just stay here. our paths diverged it’s whatever. have fun ruling Crap Planet.’#Loki’s like hmmmmmm… this feels bad. I don’t…. like this……….#AND THEN HE BETRAYS THOR LIKE HA HA! and Thor’s like ‘lol saw it coming you never change. peace out have a nice life lol!’#so then Loki has to be a goody. SIGH.#like ‘he doesn’t CARE if we never see each other again? WELL NOW HE’S GONNA SEE ME EVERY FUCKIN DAY!!!’#my… lads
sljdksjd that taika waititi quote about how loki’s last outfit in ragnarok is blue and purple because with hela and the hulk there’s already a lot of green is great and makes a lot of sense but contextually it’s like loki finds out he’s the cheap knockoff handbag to his big sister’s name brand designer handbag and is like FINE I’LL WEAR BLUE AND FUCK JEFF GOLDBLUM I BET HELA NEVER DID THAT HUH
- loki: kneel before me, puny huma-
- all of tumblr: *falls to the floor*
- loki: ...well, that was easy. now-
- all of tumblr: oh my god look at how precious he is when he's trying to rule!
- loki: wha-
- all of tumblr: look you can see the pain in his eyes even now!
- loki: look here, i am trying to control your lives, you insolent little-
- all of tumblr: omsfkdkjsdgkdmgks loki skdjksaljdlkasj
What makes a Loki a Loki?
Loki is called upon to be a lot of different people. He’s been raised on Asgard, and that’s formed some of the more basic aspects of his personality and values, but at the same time he has attributes that have been consistently discouraged and pushed down by that culture, and we can see them step forward as he moves into situations where they are encouraged.
Jane: I bet Loki is this horrible person who acts angry and yells all the time and is just evil in general.
Loki: *reading a book and drinking tea* Why hello there! I heard you like astronomy and figuring out science and magic as well!
Jane:
expectation: thor is the noble kingly type. loki is always up to no good and lying and scheming.
reality: thor regularly commits treason and is arrogant. loki avoids conflict and will always help out if you ask nicely.
jane: very confused
Just one friend. That’s all I ask for. A friend for Loki
everyone: p,leas,e,, gi,ve hi,,m on,e frie,,nd at, le,,ast
marvel: no
This gets sadder when one recalls that in 616 having that one friend was literally what saved Loki from either eternal oblivion or becoming a mindless destructive being.
^^^ casual reminder that not only was loki so self-destructive that he tried to literally destroy another version of himself, but that he destroyed the plan to do that and then had a breakdown when it turned out he ended up saving himself from future psychotic tendencies by accidentally giving himself one friend
the fact that Loki’s death scene in Thor 2 was originally intended to be real & retconned later and the end where he’s alive was filmed during pickups has me SO fucked up because now I can’t choose between which headcanon I prefer re: his behavior in Ragnarok. like listen, okay, either:
1. loki was planning on playing dead the whole time and so his very sad death scene & everything he said therein was a calculated move and he was practically writing the theatrical version of it (starring matt damon as himself) as he went along
OR
2. loki really thought he was dying and every melodramatic word of his death scene was 100% heartfelt and then after he realized he wasn’t dead he fucking… woke up peaced out to go take over asgard (lol?) and several months later he was sitting on the throne and could remember every word of what he said to thor on that day and was like “wow im so fucking poetic. that should be a play. starring matt damon as Me perhaps”
and I honestly could not tell you which is better
#2, most definitely
Gotta be that Loki really got stabbed and thought he was dying. It wasn’t 100% clear before Ragnarok, but Ragnarok firmly establishes that Loki’s illusuary clones aren’t solid. Loki got stabbed as fuck, and even he can’t just shrug off a giant blade through the chest and immediately fold that into a clever death-faking plan.
fatalism-and-villainy asked:
re: ragnarok - can we talk about how Thor seems chill wearing casual clothes when he visits Earth but Loki always seems to dress in a suit? What do you make of that? Something about him needing to look authoritative and in control?
veliseraptor answered:
yes! we can talk about this!!!
I think it’s two things - first of all, I do think Loki just genuinely likes dressing up and looking nice. I mean, in Thor we see him change clothes a few times where others (if I recall) don’t, and in this movie he had at least two thematic costume changes (not including the black suit). it’s part of his Aesthetic, and Loki is very much about the Aesthetic.
(more seriously: he’s very appearance-conscious in basically every way and that includes, of course, clothing.)
so then on Earth - Thor can dress down, I think because Thor is more comfortable on Earth generally (where for Loki it’s not a place he particularly wants to be) and also because Thor doesn’t feel the same need Loki does to project a specific image - an image, like you say, of authority, control, and status. three things Loki is never going to want to relinquish.
and it does fit in with what we’ve seen Loki wear when he comes to Earth before, which. it definitely is a lot of style choice. (and it’s such a good style.)
explain
1. lack of female characters in spn means that there are no meaningful het romantic relationship prospects for dean
2. the only strong relationship in the show is between dean and sam
3. wincest pairing becomes most popular ship in the show
4. many fans are frustrated that the juggernaut ship in spn is an incest ship
5. castiel appears in show
6. destiel goes wildly popular as a result of fans being relieved to have a mlm ship that isnt wincest
7. resulting destiel flurry shoots the show back to prominence, ushering in a new audience of fans, including stacey abrams in 2017
8. supernatural becomes stacey abrams's new go-to relaxation show
9. stacey abrams's frustration with sam's decisions in season 10??? apparently??? helped form some of her opinions about coalition building in her campaign???? theres a 2018 interview with abrams on blackgirlnerds.com that posits this jkdfhgkjhdfghdfjkg
10. stacey abrams runs for georgia governor in 2018
11. stacey abrams narrowly loses the race in large part due to suppression of black votes
12. stacey abrams spends the next two years advocating for expanding voting access, an effort that has resulted in hundreds of thousands of first time registered voters
13. in the 2020 election, georgia goes blue by a margin of a thousand votes or so
14. stacey abrams's efforts are given credit for this shift
15. stacey abrams celebrates by unwinding with a nice relaxing episode of destiel is canon
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