#he claims his dictatorship on midgard would bring world peace! he says humans are a danger to themselves!

[tyrannuspitch]

i will return to this thought when i've worked exactly what i think the implications of this piece of dialogue are

but like... it does strike me as a little unfair that people keep comparing young loki favourably to young thor because of young thor's genocidal comment, when like... the first thing loki says, on hearing odin say peace ("peace") is an ongoing effort, is: "do the frost giants still live?"

which isn't quite an overt endorsement of wiping them out, but it's really heading that way imo. the implication is still that there wouldn't be a threat to the peace if asgard did commit genocide. and that that's the course of action loki would expect.

(possibly normalised by the genocide of the dark elves? in tdw they do say frigga told thor and loki that story as kids, and thor makes it sound more like a bedtime story than a Serious Talk With A Parent. like... it rhymes :/)

like. loki does have many sympathetic redeeming features but i'm just not convinced that at any age you can count "not space racist" among them. i think he and thor just express it differently because they are very different people. :/

#space viking tag #young loki does glare at thor for that comment #but it could just as easily be about interrupting or showing off as it is about what he's actually saying #especially given that. you know. they're kids #ANYWAY if you want to do loki apologism along these lines then sorry but avengers loki NOT being entirely brainwashed is the way to go #he claims his dictatorship on midgard would bring world peace! he says humans are a danger to themselves! #i think you can rlly spin something there about feeling superior to non-asgardians but ALSO having a saviour complex #that asgardian non-interventionism did not allow him to put into action #like. THAT'S interesting #meta #ch: loki #ch: thor #th: ethnicity