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iamgroot-42 · 6 months

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#6 Avengers 1

Welcome back for my #6! I'm so glad you're still here!

So obviously by the title, my #6 ranked is Avengers 1 and I will be explaining why that is, so keep reading :)

So this movie was my all-time favourite movie growing up. I vividly remember seeing it in theatres with my whole family as my birthday gift. So, just for that, it gets bonus points. But, not only does it hold great memories for me, that's not the reason I love it so much. It genuinely is such a great movie. Great characters, great plot, great humour, and is literally the baseline for all future Avengers movies.

So, I know a lot of people either don't remember the plot of this movie or simply have never seen it. So let me break it down, without spoiling... don't worry, I would never ;)

So basically, Nick Fury, director of "Agents of Shield" recruits 6 highly skilled and trained people and activates the "Avengers initiative". He gets, Natasha Romanoff (Black Widow), Bruce Banner (Hulk), Tony Stark (Iron Man), Steve Rogers (Captain America), Clint Barton (Hawk Eye) and Thor to work as a team to retrieve the Tesseract, which harnesses the most power known to man, from Loki.

So now, that you understand the base of the movie, you can clearly see how it already seems intriguing. From the amazing heroes, to my personal favourite villain, and everything in between, this movie comes together so well.

I'm gonna start off with why I love the heroes so much, particularly in this movie. So, these 6 people, are the original Avengers. Throughout the movie, they go through their ups and downs as a team. They strongly dislike one and other and can't seem to figure it out. Therefore, failing their mission multiple times in the movie, just because they're careless towards each other. Along the way, they realize that the only way to defeat Loki, is to work together and put together a proper plan to out smart him. I love this because it really shows how powerful teamwork really is. As for me, I've always played team sports, so I've experienced many times in my life that you can't do it all on your own. No matter how mad we could be at each other, it's important to come together to out smart the other team. So the message the Avengers portrayed has a deep meaning to me personally. Especially, because at the end of the movie, they realized that they want to continue to work together because they will be able to change the world.

To continue, I love Loki as the villain. That is probably one of the most controversial things I could say, so don't come at me. But whatever, he is. He is one of the smartest ones, he knows how to manipulate almost anyone, he's very sneaky and smooth with his getaways, and he somehow will always manage to trick me. Also, because he is Thors brother, they always go a little easier on him, so it gives him more room and opportunity to manipulate and escape, which always keeps things interesting. Lokis character in general is so fun to watch because he is so tricky with his words and gets in my head. He will always make himself the victim and play with the characters emotions and my own.

Furthermore, what makes this movie so great is the comedy. Like almost every Marvel movie, there are so many great jokes cracked in throughout. This one in particular because it's filled with the funniest and wittiest characters, like Thor, Loki, Tony, and occasionally Steve. My two favourite scenes are the ones when Hulk tosses Loki around like a rag doll and says "puny god" and one scene when he is against the wall with one of the aliens, and they just stare at each other, and he just punches him out of nowhere. My brother and I used to think that they were the most comical thing in the world. I remember almost every time I've seen this movie with my brother, and I can't help but smile every time I imagine them.

To conclude, I just love this movie so much, it brings back so many childhood memories, like my Avengers themed 7th birthday party inspired by this exact movie. The plot is so intense and very original, it brings together my favourite characters and creates the most powerful team in the world. The only reason I'd put this at #6 and not higher, is strictly on the CGI. This movie was made in 2012, so I understand, but now that I'm older, it's so easy to tell how fake it is, so it ruins it in the slightest way.

But overall, an amazing movie, it'll never get old, not even in 3000 days.... hehe, get it? Okay, I'll stop

Stay tuned for my #5! We're half way!

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iamanartichoke · 3 years

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I wasn't sure if I was going to post this, but I may as well.

I keep starting to reply to things and then stopping bc the words just aren't there, and I suppose I figured out the core of what bothers me so much (and is making me have such a rollercoaster of a fan experience) about the show.

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It's not well-written. My opinion is my opinion, so I'm saying this subjectively, take it or leave it, but ... I feel that it's not well-written. The overall story is fine, and the plot is fine, but I don't know if it's because of the limited number of episodes not being enough to house the story, or because of the relative inexperience of the writer/showrunner+director, or both, or something else, but -

In an earlier reaction post to episode 4, I mentioned really wanting to sink my teeth into all of the subtext I picked up on. That was what made me initially enjoy the episode so much - there were a lot of little moments that I initially felt revealed so much about the characters and about Loki, and I wanted to analyze them. But at some point, as I gathered more information, my perspective changed and now I no longer want to analyze the subtext bc ... subtext = good. Subtext w/out payoff = not as good.

I'll go into more detail in a moment, but I think the tl;dr of it is that I feel like the narrative requires the audience to work way too hard to put together all of the moving pieces here and, like, I kinda just don't want to do that work? Not so much of it, and not in vain. A lot of the enjoyment of Loki's characterization is coming from fans who are rationalizing why he's behaving as he is, but the narrative never actually confirms those rationalizations. It's asking us to figure it out and maybe our conclusions will be correct but maybe they won't, though. At some point, subtext isn't enough without explicit follow-through.

I thought my issue was with the lack of character development - that is, not having enough narrative space to really earn the big things that are happening now, like Loki/Sylvie or Mobius turning against the TVA. And that's still true, to an extent; I still feel like the pacing is all very off and it seems like most of these things kinda came out of nowhere (but are not unbelievable - just undeveloped).

But, yknow, it is what it is, it's a limited series, and I can excuse some things. Ultimately, my issue isn't a problem with what the narrative isn't doing, it's a problem with what the narrative already failed to do and probably cannot recover from at this point.

The narrative has left out significant details that should at least help us do some of the work here. If a person turned on Loki and started episode 1 and had no background knowledge of the character besides that he tried to take over New York - how would that person interpret Loki? Would that person say, oh, well, he's been through X, Y, and Z, and plus A happened, not to mention B, C, and D, so really, it makes sense that he seems off-the-rails, or that he'd want to get ridiculously drunk at the worst time ever.

Maybe we'd like to believe they would, but how would they be getting to that conclusion? The narrative hasn't led them in that direction so, no, they would not say well we have to consider this, this, and that. It would be impossible to really understand Loki as a character from just what we've gotten in the series. The general audience would probably interpret Loki as being out of his element and so it becomes, I wonder how this character is going to get the upper hand here. And, while that's not wrong, it's just so limited.

The narrative at face value does not address Loki's identity crisis from Thor 2011. It does not address his hurt and devastation at being lied to, nor does it address how complicated his self-image is (bc it sucked to begin with and that was before he found out he was part of a race of "monsters," as he'd been taught his entire life). It does not reference Loki being so broken at the end of Thor 2011 that he deliberately let himself fall into the void of space (aka tried to kill himself). It does not reference that he was tortured by Thanos or even that he went through a seriously dark time in between Thor and Avengers, and it absolutely does not reference or address any influence or control of the mind stone.

These are all things that we, the fan audience, know because we've already invested our time into this character's story. But tons of people, the general audience, wouldn't know these things. Or if they did, bc they saw Thor and Avengers, they wouldn't be thinking about them as deeply as we would, nor contextualizing them with how Loki is behaving now, or why it would make sense that he needed to get drunk, or why it's understandable that he needs to keep going-going-going in order to not have a spare second to think or feel.

They'd probably look at Loki, again, as a character who was a villain and is now getting his comeuppance in a place where he has no power or control, and no literal powers, and even when he manages to escape and catch up to the variant, he proceeds to fuck up their plan for seemingly no real reason except that he wanted to get drunk bc he's hedonistic. Which Sylvie even berates him for! I mean. This is not exactly a complex character breakdown, nor a very flattering one, but that's what the narrative has given us.

(If the narrative has addressed Loki's mind control, his torture, his mental breakdown, his suicide attempt, and his general shitty self-esteem as a result of his upbringing, please point it out to me. If the narrative has explicitly acknowledged and referenced these things anywhere and I am missing it, please show me where. Please explain to me how the casual viewer would know any of these things that they need to know in order to actually understand what's happening in this story.)

So I mean, okay, we have a narrative that doesn't paint a full, accurate picture of Loki. Fine, sure. But because the general audience starts out on the wrong footing, they're not going to get out of the overall story what the writers probably intended them to. For example, in episode 3, a lot of us theorized that Loki had some kind of plan - that he broke the timepad on purpose, for some reason, bc otherwise it wasn't believable that he'd be such a failure. But episode 4 revealed that no, there was no bigger plan, Loki just plain old messed up. Which is fine if, again, one is only considering the surface-level portrayal here, but it's not true to Loki's actual characterization.

I mean. Loki is not perfect and Loki actually fails a lot, this is true. He fails for a lot of reasons, but incompetence has never been one of them. Usually it's that either things grew beyond his control, or there ended up being too many moving parts, or he had to change his plan at the last minute due to some roadblock or another being thrown his way, or even that he got in his own way - whatever the case may be for his plans' failures, he was always at least shown to know what he was doing.

That wasn't the case here. The "plan" to fix the Timepad failed as a direct result of Loki's actions, which were careless and made him seem incompetent, like he couldn't even handle this mission. "You had one job," etc. And there were pretty big consequences for this; they were not able to get off-world in time and would have been killed had the TVA not shown up at the last second.

And maybe none of these things matter bc the writers never intended any of this to be a reflection on Loki's character, positive or negative. The situation exists solely because the writers needed to put Loki and Sylvie together in some kind of hopeless scenario so that they could get closer, and thus the narrative could set up their romance. I get that - but, there were other ways to do it that didn't require Loki to look foolish.

Furthermore, the whole reason they needed to set up the romance is to show Loki eventually learning to love himself (like, figuratively but also literally). The audience is supposed to gather that Loki and Sylvie fell for one another, possibly due to the high emotional aspect of, yknow, being about to die (in addition to the variant-bond). The intent is clear: Loki and Sylvie almost die but get rescued at the last minute, having now created an emotional bond --> Loki and Sylvie team up and the narrative further establishes that Loki, at least, has caught feelings --> Loki might confess them but is pruned before he gets the chance --> he somehow survives, he and Sylvie are reunited and don't want to lose one another again, and the combined power of their love is enough to break the sacred timeline and spawn the multiverse, and the reason that the power of their love is so, well, powerful is because it's about self-love and self-acceptance as much as it is about having the capacity to love someone else. The end.

I get all that. The writers more or less said all that. And, I mean, it's certainly not the way I would have chosen to go about it, but it's a fair enough arc to explore. I don't really have an issue with the intent - but my question, however, is this: if the narrative has so far not addressed Loki's background issues (as outlined above), and has furthermore kinda gone out of its way to portray Loki as hedonistic and narcissistic, among other things (like kinda incompetent), and the context the audience starts with is that Loki's this villain who deserves what he gets -

- my question is 1, why should the audience care whether or not Loki gets to a point of loving and accepting himself (thus to make the theme of self-love, via the romance, hold weight) if they don't know that he hates himself to begin with and 2, why should the audience root for Loki to reach that point when so far the perception of him is that he's "kind of an asshole"? if he's a hedonistic narcissist, he probably already has a pretty inflated sense of himself, right? A misplaced inflated sense of himself, at that, because, again, the narrative has made him out to be not that capable of much of anything. (And it didn't start out that way! It seemed to start out with Loki being capable and intelligent but it's like episode 3, in trying to set up the romance, just jumbled it all up somewhere. I think this is why I'm harping on the Loki/Sylvie aspect so much - it's frustrating bc it kinda messes up the whole story and can't even accomplish what it's supposed to anyway.)

Anyway, that's beside the point. What I'm ultimately getting at is, at what point is the audience supposed to get invested in Loki's personal growth journey?

They can't, not really. Without understanding and having the context of everything Loki has been through up until now, and why he hates himself, and why it's so important that he learn to love himself, then the "payoff" becomes kinda pointless bc the significance of it is lost in translation. So suddenly we're left with this romance that comes off as either "Loki loves Sylvie bc of Reasons" (best-case scenario) or "Loki loves Sylvie bc he's vain, narcissistic, and kinda twisted" (worst-case scenario). Neither of these conclusions are what the writers intended or were going for, I'm positive, but there we are, regardless.

In order for the writers' intent in these storylines to land, they need to address the context of what makes these particular stakes high for Loki. So far, they haven't done that. They're asking the audience to pick up on all of these things, and they're showing things that subtextually make sense and are relatively in-character - but only if you realize there's subtext in the first place.

But you can't expect the audience to do all of the work for you. If you don't want the audience to think that Loki is a narcissistic asshole and instead you are trying to convey that, worst-case scenario, he thinks he's a narcissist but is an unreliable narrator, then you have to address that. If you need the audience to understand why you're going the selfcest route and why it's important to explore Loki's capacity to love himself and others, you have to address where that exploration is starting from and why it matters. Etc etc etc.

The narrative isn't doing any of that. And it isn't like it'd be that hard to do it. They don't need to reinvent the wheel here; a lot of the pieces are already there. A few lines of dialogue for context, a brief scene here or there addressing the issues, a little more care and consistency in how Loki handles things - these are all little things that could go a long fucking way in making the narrative stronger.

I'm rambling. My basic point is that my rollercoaster of emotions with this show is because

- as a part of the fan audience, not the general one, I can contextualize and analyze the subtext and come to the conclusions the show wants me to, and thus find the story and the characters more or less enjoyable,

- but I am also going to be using the subtext to come to conclusions that aren't there but probably should be (I think it would be a better story, for example, for Loki to confuse platonic love with romantic love bc it would pave the way to explore just how fucked up Loki's understanding of love - whether of other people or of himself, and the different forms it can take - actually is)

- and when they're ultimately not there, then I think, okay why am I bothering doing all this work just to ultimately feel very unfulfilled? They don't even have to write it the way I would, I'm not saying that, but they do have to do something to make the story feel rewarding.

If we don't get some confirmation of what Loki's been through, and where his headspace is, and why it matters for him to love himself, then the story remains pretty shallow and, for me, it's not fulfilling enough. It's not engaging enough. There isn't actually anything to sink my teeth into, so it becomes kind of boring. Maybe it's rewarding to other people, and that's great for them, but like - I need more than whatever this is.

So I'm just like - well, I had a lot of worries about this show, but my being bored wasn't one of them and now there's only two episodes left and am I really not going to get anything out of this, in the long run? No new canons, no new depths or layers, no new information on Loki's experiences? This is it?

I don't dislike it. I didn't start out disliking it, and I probably wont end up disliking it. I mean, there are a lot of good moments, and good things, and fan service-y things that I appreciate. As far as inspiration for fic goes, it's a goldmine, both plot-wise as well as aesthetic-wise. All of that is great. I don't dislike this show.

But I am disappointed in it, and I feel like I'll be watching the next two episodes lacking the sense of anticipation that would make it exciting. I'll still enjoy them, probably, if for nothing else just the sheer Loki content, but whatever it was I felt watching episodes 1 and 2 is gone and I'm sad about that, too. Because I really wanted to feel fulfilled by this series; I wanted it to fill up the void that Loki's death in IW created three years ago. And I just ... don't feel it. Maybe, maybe that'll change over the course of episodes 5 and 6. I don't know.

Everything that I end up enjoying long-term, I think, will come about as a result of my own interpretations and analysis and while theoretically there's nothing wrong with that, if I had known all I'd get out of this series was more headcanons or support for my current headcanons then, well - that's fine, I suppose, but I'll definitely a little bit robbed.

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alirhi · 3 years

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Loki ranting

Okay. I had this thought in my head of like just compiling links of all the Loki shit I've posted/reblogged so far so that when I get into a conversation about the show and how it fucking disgusted me, I can just be like "here. here's this masterlist post, go read all this shit. This is my entire argument, and not only mine, but a lot of stuff posted by people far more intelligent and level-headed and eloquent than I am, whom I happen to agree with." Because the alternative is constantly getting fired up all over again, and that is exhausting.

BUT! I'm stupid and don't know how tumblr works. Apparently I can't just be like "give me all the Loki-tagged shit I've got" I can only search all the Loki-tagged shit on all of tumblr. And I'm not scrolling back through all of my posts. I talk too fucking much for that shit 😂

So, I'll try to remember all of my grievances with how the MCU has treated Loki, and all of the excellent posts made by other, equally upset fans, and put it all together here under this nice, neat little cut for everyone else's sanity and scrolling convenience...

For people who actually read my shit fairly regularly - bless you, you crazy, patient people. I love you! - this is going to be a lot of repetition of shit you've already read. Probably at least twice. I'm passionate and I have a terrible memory lol. Sorry.

Anyway, first, for those who don't know me and haven't been following my explosions of rage for the past couple of months, some quick background: I do not read comic books, so Loki's Marvel comic canon means nothing to me. I know almost nothing about it. The reason I'm so in love with the character in the MCU is because I am an eclectic witch and the deity I've actively loved and worshiped the longest in my life (literally for as long as I can remember) is Loki. So when he was mentioned in The Mask, I squeed. When they named Matt Damon's character after him in Dogma, I cheered.

When Thor came out in 2011, I just about died from happiness. I was hungry for any representation of this underappreciated god, no matter what it was. I didn't even bitch about how underpowered he was, because at least he was there. But I'm getting slightly ahead of myself.

I can hear anyone reading this going "Why Loki? Isn't he, like, evil? Like basically the Norse version of The Devil?" Because I heard all this shit irl all the fucking time. And no. So let me give you a quick rundown of who Loki actually is.

Loki is a Trickster God. He's often referred to as the God of Mischief. He is not and never was evil, simply chaotic and hedonistic. Loki Laufeyjarson was the son of Laufey (that's mama; they changed her to a man for some reason in the movie) and Fárbauti. Right from the start, from his name, we get a sign of how Loki goes against traditional norms of the time, because in Norse culture, families were patrilineal, and surnames were "son/daughter of father" (which would have made him Loki Fárbautitason), not the mother. But Loki's surname is matrilineal. Feminist icon woo! lol

Though he's a Jotunn, Loki is counted among the Gods (Aesir) in Norse tradition. Depending on his mood, he is alternately helpful or disruptive to the other Gods. I'm not gonna sit and teach a whole text class on him lol but I'll use my favorite example of Misunderstood Loki - the conception of Sleipnir!

So, get this shit. This is also part of why I DO NOT follow Odin and never fucking will (a very small part, but still part of the reason). So, the other Norse Gods are petty motherfuckers, and they wanted some shit built but didn't want to pay the dude doing the building. So they were like "okay, if you can get it done in X amount of time, we'll pay you, but if you can't manage it NO MATTER WHAT, this whole thing is free." And they made sure he had NO help, nothing but him, his materials, and his Very Good Horsey. And this guy and his horse were fucking BAMFs. So it was looking like he was definitely gonna get it done in time, and Odin was like "nah, fuck that shit. I'm cheap." and so he sent Loki to distract the work horse. Loki transformed into a mare and lured the horse away, got fucked, got pregnant, gave birth to the 8-legged (for some reason) horse Sleipnir. Odin rides Loki's son into battle. Um. Kay.

So Loki helped Odin be a petty mf, and Odin got himself a new pet out of the deal.

Oh, also, because he's smart af and a shapeshifter and a master magician and genderfluid, Loki "fails" to fit the super fucking toxic and narrow Norse/Aesir view of "a real man". He prefers intelligence and manipulation to solve problems rather than violence, he's not afraid to behave like a clown if it gets shit done, and that grosses the Aesir out, so they constantly ridicule him for being "less than a man".

Loki is the God of the outcast and the misunderstood. The marginalized people from all walks of life. He is the God of the LGBT community. In modern terms, he's pansexual, polyamorous (married to Sigyn and they are deeply in love, but boy gets around and I've never seen any indication that Sigyn gives a shit) and genderfluid.

Okay. Focus, Ali. This is part of why I usually post multiple rants instead of one big long one XD The longer I ramble, the more I get sidetracked and forget the original point.

So. Loki's awesome, and being a Trickster, is powerful as all fucking hell. There's not much he can't do.

And now we come to Thor (the movie, not the deity). Loki's there! 24-year-old Ali is spazzing! All is right with the world!

Oh lord, they've actually done him justice?! Amazing! He's complex and nuanced and emotional, just like the real Loki! I loved this movie. Loved. It. The climactic thing with trying to blow up Jotunheim never really made much sense to me until someone made an excellent point the other day about Loki being raised in a racist society that was racist against his own race, he just didn't know it yet, poor child. Baby Thor was never corrected when he pledged to commit mass genocide, so Baby Loki probably absorbed the lesson then that Jotunns=evil and killing them all will win his father's love. Anyway, 2011 Loki was a beautiful, heartbreaking portrayal of the God I've loved all my life and spent 24 years longing to see depicted on the big screen.

Then The Avengers happened. And I saw another Loki very close to Norse mythology - mainly, how he's treated. In the beginning of the movie, he's sick, exhausted, and in pain. He can hardly stand, he stumbles and needs help when he walks. He was very obviously tortured, and the sickly blue light of the scepter's control is in his eyes. That gets less and less pronounced as the movie goes on, showing Loki working his way free of it, but in the beginning, he's a mess. Because he was tortured and used by Thanos. Marvel directly confirmed this, and that he was under the scepter's/Mind Stone's control. Loki's actions are not his own in The Avengers. He's under both threat and Thanos' direct control. The movie actually shows The Other directly threatening him to keep him on task, because this is not Loki's plan. It is not what he wants. He's being used and villainized... Just like in real life. It hurt to see this done to him, but the accuracy was too beautiful to ignore.

Thor: The Dark World comes out. I've heard people complain that this movie is the weak link in the Thor trilogy. I disagree. I think that's Ragnarok, for a bunch of reasons, but we'll get there. (And for the record, I loved Ragnarok, too. It was a funny movie. Infinity War and the Disney+ series are the only portrayals of Loki in the MCU that I truly fucking hated.) Anyway, good, fun movie. Had its faults, as all movies do, but it still followed Loki's real-life arc in a way. How? By having Loki dragged back to Asgard in chains and imprisoned underground. Again, not super happy that this happened to my love, and having to see it on screen was painful, but at least in the MCU he's not chained to a rock with venom dripping on his face for eternity, so there's that. (poor Sigyn. how tired do her arms get, holding up that bowl? best wife ever, amirite?)

In TDW, we're shown Loki's love for Frigga, who favored him and taught him magic as a child. We see his bravado; his attempts to mask his true feelings, especially grief. We see him slowly coming back to himself after the events of The Avengers, and slowly mending his relationship with his brother. He accepts that Odin will likely never love him, but Thor just might, because they were close when they were young. "I didn't do it for him." No, no my sweet, you did it for your brother, and a little out of guilt for what happened to your mother.

At the end, Loki fakes his death and escapes, taking the throne, and I have mixed feelings about this. Not the writer's choices here; I love that completely! A natural progression in Loki's story. But my joy is tainted by how closely they're following the Eddas now. Because Loki's escape from his prison heralds the beginning of Ragnarok. And Loki will die in Ragnarok. I don't want to see that play out in front of my face. I won't be able to handle the grief (spoiler alert! IW broke me. I almost walked out of the theater. Loki's death was legitimately fucking traumatic for me. I don't even care how pathetic that is. That grief was real, it was intense, and I still shake and cry when I think about it.)

Marvel announces that Thor 3 will be called Ragnarok. The internet treats this as a shocking revelation. I roll my eyes and mumble "duh" to myself and move on XD

Then they say Ragnarok will be a buddy comedy. I throw up a little in my mouth and no longer want to live on this planet. If they're going to make something called Ragnarok, could they at least treat it with even a fraction of the respect they've shown these characters thusfar? Jfc. I mean, I'll see it anyway, because I'm a whore for Tom Hiddleston lol. But come on, people!

I hated that they made Hel the long-lost older sister and Fenrir her fucking pet/attack dog. Those are my favorites of Loki's children! Hel is such an incredible badass that the early Christians named their dimension of eternal torture after her! They were terrified of her, to the point of naming the place that terrified them most after her. That's awesome! And Fenrir's just the best. I love wolves. Those two details, and Odin's retcon of "we're not Gods! ...lol, except your sister. she's totally a Goddess. and def gonna kill literally everything, so... good luck! byyyeeeee" pissed me off royally.

The rest was great. I genuinely liked this movie. Still do. And they finally used The Immigrant Song! That was pretty cool. If they'd thrown in Bring the Hammer Down and Thunderstruck, I might've called this movie perfect. XD

I wasn't totally in love with their portrayal of Loki in Ragnarok. Yes, the falling for 30 minutes line was funny, as was "I have to get off this planet" and "YES! That's how it feels!" And "Get Help" was funny as hell. But also, like... There is no way Loki would have been the dumb one in that first encounter with Hela. Also, he can teleport and project copies of himself and shit, so... He would not have been that desperate to go straight back to Asgard and bring her right along with them. Loki's not stupid. But whatever. Movie's gotta movie.

What I did love was seeing the slow mending of his relationship with Thor continuing, and the badass fighting on the bridge. I also loved that, like Real Loki, Movie Loki helped when help was needed, was quick and clever, and while he was carrying out the main plan, he was also planning ahead and grabbing the Tesseract. Yes, that drew Thanos right to them, but that's a whole other thing. Loki never would have left that thing on Asgard to be destroyed or lost.

And now Infinity War. Hooooly fucking shit. You know what? No. I'm not going into this. He was killed, years of character growth were erased forever, my heart fucking shattered. The end.

Endgame. IW hurt me so bad I didn't see Endgame until this year. I actually watched Civil War first (for context: I had actively avoided all Cap movies until this year because I fucking hate Steve Rogers. I find him insufferable. Did not realize what I was denying myself until I watched CW and finally saw the charms of Bucky. When he appeared in IW, I was so lost. XD I was like "...who dis? Murder Jesus?" also I just... didn't care. I was numb by then from crying through most of the movie over Loki)

So, anyway. Endgame. Loki picks up the Tesseract in alternate 2012, escapes, fans go "yay! he didn't actually die!" I go "yes he fucking did. Five years of his life, gone. Five years of growth and change, erased. Loki is dead. This will not be the same."

I was more right than I could have predicted. Now we come to the point of this rant. Sorry it took so long, but you were warned lol.

The Loki series makes me so angry I actually get sick to my stomach. It was fucking TRASH. When I praised Marvel for following Norse mythology so faithfully earlier? Yeah. I DID NOT MEAN TREAT HIM THE WAY THE OTHER GODS DID. I did not mean paint him as a pitiful clown, a joke, a caricature of who he truly was, with his pain and suffering played for LAUGHS.

This is supposed to be 2012 Loki, newly freed from Thanos' control. The Loki we saw in the beginning of TDW - snarky, exhausted, nihilistic. The Loki who rolled his eyes and said "get on with it" expecting to be killed.

The bumbling clown flipping on a dime from posturing to calling himself weak is not 2012 Loki. That is not ANY Loki. That is Tom Hiddleston in a black wig doing what he's told by a shitty writer who had no fucking idea what he was doing and was salty about his (bad) original script (for something totally fucking unrelated) getting killed.

In Episode 1, Loki is mocked, imprisoned, stripped against his will, tormented, belittled, and given a flippant summary of all the trauma Actual MCU Loki suffered that this one skipped out on, with no context, no acknowledgement of the trauma he's already lived quite fucking recently, and with the narrative twisted to not only erase all the abuse he's suffered, but to make it all his fault. And this is supposed to make him want to help these people?

And worse, IT FUCKING WORKS. WHAT?! I CAN'T- FUCKING WHAT?! Remember when I said LOKI IS NOT FUCKING STUPID?! So why is he STUPID?

Episode 2, he's a child. Mentally, this Loki is a fucking child. Now we've erased all the growth and development of his entire adult life. He's dopey, impatient, impulsive, desperate for a pat on the back and actually shows it. Yes, abused and neglected children crave the positive attention we never received, and we often grow up to be a bit emotionally stunted. But not all of us, and not Loki. Not as we've seen him EVER in the rest of the MCU. Playful and a bit callous at times? Absolutely! But not a big dumb fucking puppy.

Episode 3, a ray of hope, despite Sylvie! (I hate Sylvie) Loki casually admits he's pan/bi; labels never come up, but he admits to being with both men and women! He sings! Not really relevant to whether I approve of his portrayal or not lol but Tom has a beautiful voice, Norwegian ("Asgardian" lol) is a gorgeous, entrancing language, and I could watch that one bit on loop for eternity and never get bored. And then, finally, we see a glimpse - a glimpse - of Loki's power! He stops a falling building and pushes it right back up! Are we finally getting to see what he can really do? Will the next episode bring us Loki in all his glory?

Nope. 4 and 5 we see him mocked and pushed around and utterly irrelevant. Again. We see tiny reflections of what he could maybe theoretically do in other random Loki variants, but the "main" (lawl. main. it was the Sylvie and Mobius show. Loki was never the main anything.) Loki? Nothing. He wears his heart on his sleeve for no reason, bonds with the man who imprisoned, taunted, and gaslit him, is killed, and continues to be a moron and a joke. Always the clown. Always the dumb one. The one with the bad ideas. The inferior Loki.

Don't even get me started on that finale. I can't. This already took so much out of me. Fuck Marvel. Fuck this fucking show. I just... I'm done.

#loki #loki spoilers #loki series #loki negativity #loki hate #thor 2011 #the dark world #ragnarok #the avengers #infinity war #endgame #fuck sylvie #fuck marvel #fuck disney #this show sucked #ragepost #rant #long post #ali is angry

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realityhelixcreates · 3 years

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Dance of the Spheres Chapter 4: Venusian Vogue

Chapters: 4/?

Fandom: Marvel Cinematic Universe

Rating: PG 13

Warnings: drugging, kidnapping, forced marriage

Characters: Loki(Marvel),

Additional Tags: Loki Goes Overboard, But When Doesn’t Loki go Overboard, Mature Reader, Disabled Reader, Political Intrigue

Summary:

Images of broken light Which dance before me like a million eyes They call me on and on across the universe. Across the Universe-The Beatles

“I am Loki.”

“I asked for a bride.”

The declarations smashed into you like fists and took your breath with them.

There was a ring on your finger. Silvery, plain, simple. Why hadn't you noticed it before?

This was clearly Loki. Sunken eyes, and onyx hair, and refined bones. Exactly like the pictures. Why hadn't you noticed?

Too many things all at once. Too much. A fearful whine escaped your teeth, as you tugged on the ring. It didn't budge.

“You're supposed to be dead.” You whispered.

His face fell the instant you spoke.

“You know. I sometimes think that myself. Yet somehow I remain. Take it as a reassurance: you will not lose me to battle, or accident. I will never leave you. I suppose that is something that new brides must worry about, especially human ones. You may put that fear to rest.”

“That's not what I'm-” You clamped your mouth shut. You were in a bad position, worse than you'd ever been, maybe. You were completely alone here; you could contact no one for help. You weren't even sure where exactly 'here' was-no one knew where Asgard was located.

You were trapped in a room with a madman. A prince among his own people, who had proven himself capable of the mass murder of humans like you. Yet claiming you were his bride.

No one would come to your aid.

Did anyone even know you were missing?

You glanced at the ring once more. Its twin rested proudly on his own left hand. What choice did you have?

You had to play along. At least until you found some way out of this. Stay on the madman's good side, as much as that was possible.

“Why me?” You asked, fighting down your panic. Just gather information for now. “I'm literally nobody.”

“I don't understand either.” He sat down on the bed, just a little closer to you than arms length. “This was supposed to be a chance at reconciliation. I willingly gave myself up in a symbolic act of unity. Sacrificed my own freedom.”

You side-eyed him hard. Gave up his freedom? In what capacity? He wasn't the one kidnapped and married without any knowledge or choice!

“This isn't an uncommon arrangement.” He continued. “Your species has done this since time immemorial. From kings all the way down to commoners, uniting families, uniting fortunes, uniting entire lands. Surely your...leader...understood what was to be gained. Yes, I did a terrible thing to your people, but this should have forged a new alliance. A promise that not only would I not do such a thing again, but that my formidable prowess would be for your people, rather than against them. Was this not enough? This should have opened the way for trade, for treaties...And you! Why do such a thing to you? One of his own people?”

“Oh, I'm not his.” You said. “I voted against him. I march in protests against his shitty policies. I oppose him in any way I can. I'd say 'maybe that's why', but it really can't be. I'm nowhere near important or influential enough for the government to pay any attention to me. They're too busy trying to kill me through austerity. Or through the cops.”

Loki's face darkened. “I should find that officer and flay him. Make you a bodice of his skin.”

He'd been reaching for your shoulder, but you flinched away.

“Okay see? That right there? That's why people might not want to ally with you.” You pointed out.

“He shouldn't have hurt you.”

“That's true. That doesn't mean you can use my pain as an excuse to rampage on Earth!”

“I shan't!” He protested. “Never again, I promise you that.”

But how good was the promise of government? Politician or hereditary ruler, it was all the same. How good was the word of a murderer? How many promises had he already broken?

“How do you feel?” He asked. “You seem...lively. Whatever you were drugged with, is it having a lasting effect?”

“I'm a little disoriented, but I'm awake.” You said. “The food and water helped.”

“Yes. About that. Ah. Would you like to see your rooms? I've been anticipating your arrival-well, someone's arrival-for some months now, and I've had chambers created that befit your new station.”

The big unknown outside. Beyond this room was nothing but uncertainty. But you would be the first human being to see this new Asgard. You told yourself it was a perk.

“Um...” You mumbled. “My clothes...” You weren't going out there in a flimsy hospital gown, that was for sure.

“Being cleaned and mended.” Loki informed you. “I have a simple gown that I believe should fit you. Here.” Wit a sweeping gesture, he produced a voluminous, forest green garment out of seemingly nowhere.

You scooted away. “How did you do that?” You demanded.

“Magic, of course.” He said. “You...don't know about the magic...?”

You shook your head and took the robe from him. It felt real enough, smooth and soft, with fur trim and pin tucks. This was simple?

“What do you know about me, my dear?” He asked.

“Not much. Just what...turn around!” Sheepishly, he turned his back so you could change. “Just what was on the news. And the approximately three million conspiracy websites that popped up afterwards. You might be shocked by how many people think you were an inside job.”

“A what?”

“That's not even counting all the cults. You and Thor really got the radicalization machine cranking them out. White supremacists, nationalists, doomsday cults...thanks a lot. Not as if we didn't have enough problems cleaning up the mess you left behind.”

“That...was not my intention. Were you...?”

“I was not part of any cults. I was also not part of the celebration of your death, either.”

The news broadcast had interrupted every television, lit up every phone. A tired and battle-worn Thor, looking not one inch the hero the world knew him to be, as he towered over the reporter. He gave only a short statement: His brother Loki was dead, perished in honorable battle, in an effort to protect the galaxy from an ancient enemy.

People had trusted him. They'd seen the destruction that enemy had caused, in their quest to destroy everything. The odd teleportation anomalies in England that had dominated youtube for a long time. The leaves in your bathroom, the foreign plants in the park. Exotic, even alien creatures being spotted.

People threw parties at the news of Loki's demise. You'd gone out, gotten yourself exactly one drink, and then stayed home for the weekend. It didn't seem right, not after seeing Thor so hollowed out. You didn't really get on with celebrating the death of your enemies anyway, only the success of your causes.

“Oh. Well. Thank you.”

“But yeah, all I really know is that you attacked us out of the blue, and brought an army with you. You caused billions in damages and cost hundreds of lives. Thousands more lost everything. The economic blow is still with us, and led to some of the problems I've been marching against. And then you died. Except not, obviously. Was Thor lying to us?”

“No. He truly believed me dead. I did too, until I woke up. So you know nothing of me. I feared that might be the case. I am no warlord, not truly. I am the foremost sorcerer of Asgard. My magic has many applications, one of which is that I am rarely found without what I need.”

“So magic is real?” Why not? Aliens were real. Gods were apparently real.

“Yes, very. When times were...better, I used to tutor younger students. I might go back to doing that, once we are more established. Once we are safe.”

Safe? From what? Was whatever it was that had destroyed Asgard still out there? Thor had said otherwise, before the radio silence, but he had also thought that Loki was dead, and he was wrong about that, so...

“May I look now, dear?”

“Oh...yeah. I'm dressed.” The gown did fit, though mostly because it was a shapeless, oversized thing that was closed around you with ties. Still, it was luxurious, and made you feel like you were actually pretty-as long as no one looked at you too closely. Was this what a princess wore? You shouldn't allow yourself to get too used to it. As soon as you found a way out, you were out.

“Delightful. Even such a simple gown enhances your beauty. Will you come with me, dear? Let me show you our grand achievements.”

You didn't really want to be exposed to the people of Asgard, but this room was no safer than anywhere else right now. Loki hovered, and you stood, and managed a few wobbly steps before you overbalanced. He caught you instantly.

“Don't worry.” He murmured. “I'm here.”

As if that wasn't the problem in the first place.

“So, while you were carrying me off...I mean, when you, uh, received me, did you notice a cane lying around?” You asked. “I had one. Did the guys who brought me give it to you?”

“I'm afraid not.” He said apologetically. “They seemed strangely eager to quit the area.”

“Yeah, well. They had just committed a felony.” You griped. “They probably had orders to disappear. And they probably didn't want to hang around and witness what a warlord was gonna do to me.”

He winced. “I promise you, that's not what I really am.”

“Sorry.”

He held out his arm for you. “I don't have your cane, but I can support you. We will have another cane made for you. There should have been an Artificer and an apprentice Healer in here at some point, to measure you for a new prosthetic.”

“Uh, there were. I, uh, kinda told them to piss off.”

“Ah. I suppose I cannot blame you, now that I know of your situation. But they are here at your service, as is all of Asgard.”

He helped you limp along, somehow maintaining his dignified stride, even as you wobbled along like a penguin. The hallways were as bland and labyrinthine as a human hospital, if somewhat more softly lit. Again the light source was obscured behind thin panes of cloudy crystal, which diffused the light, giving everything a comforting, if slightly mysterious atmosphere, which the general emptiness of the area only enhanced.

There were few people here, but for some reason, you had been placed in a room far within the hospital complex. Maybe they wanted to hide you away, so that no one knew you were here until they were ready to introduce you to Asgard. Or until they were certain you were going to survive. It might cause a scandal if the prince's bride just up and died upon arrival.

Or perhaps it was to protect you. There were plenty of reasons why a human bride might not be accepted by the Asgardian populace; everything from nationalism, to someone wanting to make a bid for that crown themselves.

There were still no windows to be seen, and everything was made of stone, just like in the hospital room. Out here, in the halls and waiting rooms, the desks, chairs, and tables all seemed to be joined to the walls and floor, as if the whole place had been carved from a single, solid piece, like the rock-cut architecture of the fabled city of Petra. Here again were the creamy grays and oranges lining the walls, though a smooth black also made an appearance.

Eventually, you came to what must have been a foyer, with a high ceiling, complex stone mosaics, and huge, gorgeously carved double doors, but still no windows.

“We will be going outside now.” Loki said. “This facility is within the palace complex, and is not far from your special chambers, but we will have to cross a few halls and courtyards. There are plenty of places to sit, so if you need a rest, simply say so.”

He opened the doors for you, and you stepped out into a world of stone.

Everything was stone, stone or metal. Before you was a wide open courtyard, clearly unfinished, but spacious. At regular intervals were stone towers supporting open pillared hallways in a multiple storied, vaguely Roman courtyard style. The towers shot up, and up, and up...you climbed them with your gaze, following them to the heights to which they had to buttress each other with thin struts of stone, higher still, where they joined with an impossibly high ceiling.

There was a roof over the courtyard, so tall that your couldn't fathom how it had been built. Beyond the courtyards stacked walkways-six full stories-you could see the tips of other towers, lined with lights, merging with this high rise ceiling. Was the entire palace built under this massive shelter?

Clearly the sun did not reach into the palace. To offset this, the crystal-paned, inset lights were everywhere, creating complex patterns that mimicked the intricate knotted carvings that chased up the towers and pillars. The corbels glared down at you, fierce masks of bearded men, wolves, dragons and birds, lights in their eyes.

Combined, it was not as bright as sunlight, but not dim either. The softness of the glow made shadows diffuse, made the stone look soft and fake, and even shimmery in places, like the set pieces in eighties fantasy movies. If not for the pain in your bruises, you'd have thought the dreamy atmosphere was just that, and that you were about to wake up from this absurd dream any moment now.

But the pain was there, and denied that simple, hopeful wish. And Loki was there, gently urging you forward like he was a real gentleman, instead of a heinous war criminal. There were a few other people out here as well; walking the courtyards pillared halls, resting on stone benches, carving hollows into the ground.

There was no soil here. All stone. As you crossed the courtyard, you noticed black, and gray, and cloudy crystal inlaid into the ground in a shape reminiscent of a compass rose, decorated with silvery wire knotwork in bird and serpent shapes.

There were troughs and niches being carved into the ground that looked to you like they were meant to be flower beds...eventually. You had seen no dirt here yet, no grass or growing things at all. Maybe once you finally got outside. But for now, it felt as if you had left a building, only to exit into another building, that was in turn, within another building.

It was a bit suffocating.

Loki led you across several courtyards, each with a different pattern inlaid into their bare floor, and through vaulted hallways that still contained no windows. Many of these hallways intersected in large, circular domes, and few of them had any distinctive markings. Soon you were completely lost. With any luck, you would be able to get your hands on some paper, and create a map-otherwise, any escape attempts would be doomed from the word go.

But maybe that was the point.

Your staggering steps echoed down a particularly tall and wide hallway, almost completely devoid of people. You were almost at the end of your physical capabilities, and while there were places to sit, you felt like you must be close to your destination. You really wanted to be in a room whose dimensions you could be certain of. A space you could comprehend.

Loki brought you to a stop in front of a pair of carved wooden doors. As the first piece of architecture you had seen here that was something other than stone, you found them more beautiful than anything you'd seen all day. They were something almost normal, almost like something you would have at home. If you were insanely rich, or your dad was a carpenter or something. They were a warm terra-cotta color, carved with a dizzying array of knotwork, framed with blackened, riveted iron. The handles were iron serpents.

“We imported some things from your homeland. This redwood lumber is one such thing. From what I hear, these trees are emblematic of your country.”

“Er...” How to politely say, 'not really, even though most people who live there do know what a redwood is'. They weren't very important to anyone who didn't live near where they grew. They weren't what you would call 'quintessentially American'. There wasn't anything you could really call that. The place was just too damn big.

“We couldn't bring too much, not yet anyway.” He continued. “It is expensive, unfortunately, and we only have one ship. It can only carry so much, and it takes about three days to transport. Things are moving slowly, but our construction projects are moving along speedily. There's little else to do right now, save build.”

He opened the doors for you, and led you into a fairy tale.

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cclkestis · 5 years

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reminder of hope.

character(s): steve rogers x reader

words: 1.1k+

warning(s): !!!!pretty major spoilers for endgame!!!! don’t read if you’ve not seen the movie yet (unless you don’t mind spoilers ofc)

a/n: hi hello I haven’t written in months, and it’s been several years since I’ve written for marvel so please have mercy :’))

The city was a mess, the citizens terrified, a new threat unveiled. But at least it was over for now.

Finally, the beaming light and portal in the sky had vanished from site, the trickster behind the battle apprehended by the newly brought together team of heroes you’d come to work with, and somehow managed to befriend – or more than befriend, in the case of one in particular.

You hadn’t seen him since well before everything had gone to hell but you could live with the knowledge that he was alive as you coordinated with fellow SHIELD agents to survey the damage that had been done and to assist with keeping an eye on the devices that were the root of the trouble.

Everything seemed oddly calm asides from the agents rushing around compared to the chaos of the previous hour when, just as this realisation crossed your mind, a gaggle of shouts echoed throughout the lobby.

The prisoner had escaped.

Orders were immediately issued to search the building for him – although what good any one of you could do against a literal god if you happened to come across him was beyond you.

Still, you couldn’t ignore a direct order, so it was with a heavy sigh that you stepped into the elevator that was quick to whisk you up and away from the ground floor and a little of the chaos.

Four searched floors later that didn’t wield any evidence of the Asgardian had you wanting to tear your hair out – it had been a very long and stressful day, but unfortunately going home wasn’t an option for you just yet. Not until the mess was dealt with.

Stepping out of the elevator again, movements almost robotic, you almost stumbled over your own feet when you spotted a familiar figure purposefully walking away from you with a case carried firmly in hand.

None of that mattered or could stop the burst of joy you felt upon seeing him at last.

“Steve!”

The resulting excitement from finally seeing Steve in person, alive and well, distracted you from the little things that ordinarily you would’ve picked up on immediately.

The uniform that you’d never seen before. The way he seemed to freeze up, shoulders tensing, before he slowly turned to face you. The expressions crossing his face. Confusion. Surprise. Longing. Heartbreak.

It took only seconds for you to reach him, throwing yourself towards him and distantly hearing the clatter of the case hitting the ground as he caught you in that firm hold that never failed to make you feel safe. Like everything was going to be alright.

“I’m so happy to see you, I was so worried I-“

As the words rushed from you, it was then that you noticed the uncharacteristic shaking of the man holding you, prompting you to cut yourself off as you pulled back enough to see his face – to see him fighting back tears. To see him looking at you as if he was seeing a ghost.

“Steve? What’s wrong?”

Only on very rare occasions had you seen Steve Rogers distraught or at a loss for words, and something about this particular moment was scaring you.

Just as it appeared that the super soldier was going to offer some sort of explanation, another voice from behind you sounded and drew his attention away from you.

“(Name)!”

Steve’s expression had settled into one of grim determination, longing gaze drawn back to you for only a moment before he carefully forced himself to release you and take a step back.

Turning in confusion, your eyes fell on the new arrival – only to send your mind reeling at the sign of Steve rapidly approaching you and…

Head whipping back around, you had very little time to comprehend what was happening before Steve’s shield whistled past you towards the man who’d been holding you only moments before.

“Get out of here (Name), let them know I’ve got Loki handled.”

Something clicked inside your head, Steve’s words reminding you of the reason you’d even been on that floor in the first place. Loki was some kind of all-powerful being, you should’ve been more careful.

But something just felt wrong about the encounter you’d had only moments ago. What would Loki have to gain from the interaction? And the emotions had just felt too…genuine to be any sort of trick.

The same voice shouting your name again drew you from your thoughts and back to the moment, eyes widened at the sight of the man you loved colliding with his double in what already appeared to be an intense clashing of wills.

Shattering glass sent you skittering back several steps before spinning on your heel and taking off back towards the elevator – despite the intense feeling that something was wrong, and the burning desire to find out why that was the case.

Steve had told you to get out of there in that voice you couldn’t argue with, so you didn’t try to object. Loki was a powerful opponent, and you knew yourself that remaining there would only serve to potentially distract Steve from the fight at hand.

The last thing you saw as the elevator doors slid shut was your Steve being slammed onto his back, the ground cracking from the force, and a saddened set of those same eyes you adored watching you disappear from view.

Steve couldn’t find the words to explain how he was feeling. There was a voice shouting in the back of his head, reminding him of the rules they’d been set. They should stay out of sight as much as possible and avoid interacting with people.

But he could’ve sworn that his heart about stopped when you called his name that way you always used to. And when he’d turned to see you rushing towards him with what was almost desperation, how could he have done anything differently?

Five years.

Five years since he’d heard your voice.

Five years since he’d seen you smile in that way that would always catch him off-guard.

Five years since he’d found nothing but dust.

The moment was gone far too soon when his past self came across the two of you, forcing him into action as he watched you run away from him.

It almost felt like he was losing you all over again as a fist collided with his face only moments after you’d vanished from sight.

But there was something more than that pain brewing inside of him now. A reminder of why he was in this crazy situation in the first place. Seeing you had brought back the loss all over again but, more importantly, it brought hope.

Walking away from the unconscious form of his past self, scepter gripped too tightly in hand, Steve knew that he would see you again soon.

#steve rogers x reader #captain america x reader #steve rogers #endgame #endgame spoilers #marvel x reader #marvel #my writing #this isn't proofread/edited very well #bc i know that i'd chicken out of posting it if i hesitated for too long shdjshd #anyway pls be gentle #i'm re-learning how words work all over again :'D

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mockky · 5 years

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A sad story how Russo bros reminded us about the crappy world we live in

Disclaimer (kinda). Preventing the arguments like “read the comic-book to understand the movie”. First of all I've never read the comics and never will. I shouldn't do that to watch a movie. It's the director's job to tell me a story. It can be changed a bit, but it still has to have a logic. This is author's priority.

I guess there's no need to run through the movie again and get to details, it's too many of them. Just a few big ones. Firstly, the time travel idea is pretty lame by itself. Every time-travel-movie does the same mistakes – PARADOXES, no one managed to escape it. So if you can solve your problem only by time travel – please don't do the movie, this job is not for you.

It's like the creators don't know the rules of their own universe. Nebula translates her thoughts to Past-Nebula, they're connected somehow even being far from each other, killing Past-Nebula literally doesn't do anything. How does it work? All this plan just fucked up the previous movies. And then some random rat actually saves the universe? Seriously? I don't know but I think it’s called “lazy writing”.

OK, there's no movie without a sin. But what's really important is the screwed up characters. No one did or got anything what one was supposed to.

Loki. His extremely stupid, reckless and suicidal lunge actually was extremely stupid, reckless and suicidal. The God of Guile threw himself with a toothpick against titan and dropped dead. Bravo!

Thor. I never really was a fan of him. But this is officially the worst comic-relief ever. Why he should be like some sort of that whiny drunk dumbass, especially after him being so cool and strong in Infinity war? Gods saved us from fart-jokes and slow-mo-food-fight. Thor lost his parents, lost his brother and Asgard. He's broken and crushed, and Marvel just points finger at him and laughs. Very mature.

Doctor Strange showed up to show us a very important finger.

Captain Marvel is a whole new level of pain in the ass. Skip the Boring-IMBP-part. Though it's hard to forget how they just shoved her in fan's throats, and expected them to have the same empathy for her as for Tony or Cap. But we know them for 10 damn years! The biggest problem that she's not a person, she is God ex machine with magic GPS in her head, invincible, strong-independent-woman and all. With that cockish face of hers, kicked Thanos's ass, but when it comes to the gauntlet, it's up to Hulk and Tony. What da hell? All that power, it's the only thing she could help with. And don't give me that "it's a big universe, not only you've got problems" crap. Thanos's snap affected THE WHOLE universe. Isn't he the main threat here and now?

And what really pissed me of is the ending and the way it fucked up the most interesting and deep part of it all – Steve and Bucky.

Allow me to remind you few points.

CATFA

We see Steve as this tiny subtle guy with heart of gold and strong will, he is hero inside. I can do this all day. He wanted to go to war, he took the serum, he's like walking embodiment of self-sacrifice and heroism. But he became “the chorus girl”, this empty symbol, a fake. Actual soldiers don't believe and don't respect him, cuz he’s never been in real fight. He does not respect himself anymore. But when his friend got in danger in the blink of an eye Steve transforms into this Rambo, alone against the world, flipped like a switch. He dashed headlong to the enemy's base just for tiny possibility his friend might be alive. At that very moment Steve becomes what he meant to be – the real Captain America.

CATWS

Steve managed to get through 70 years of brainwashing with only one phrase, and refused to fight Winter soldier hoping that there was still Bucky somewhere. The entire movie revolves around two of them.

CATCW

Some fans said that Cap and Tony should switch sides on this one, but it doesn't feel right for me. Cap's got a point. What if there's somewhere we need to go, and they don't let us. Obviously it is CATFA reference, where he goes against orders to save Bucky. And he's afraid cuz he knows that it could cost lives. And now he's running around the city protecting Bucky from the government and T'Chala. He fights Tony, bloodily, everything to protect Bucky.

What a lovely deep drama! It's a comic-book story here we’re talking about. I bet in CATFA no one really noticed sweet little Bucky. But the Winter soldier just stole the movie and fan's hearts. Steve and Bucky have this strong almost cosmic bonds, it's stronger than brotherhood or friendship, it was so since 40s. After all this freezing thing they became totally unique for each other. You can smash vibranium shield with that bonds (which Cap actually does symbolically when gives up the shield TWICE, both times for Bucky). It's unbelievable that after all he did for Bucky Cap could ditch Bucky for anyone or anything. Creators teased the fans and encouraged that bromance. It was openly a queer-baiting, it was a canon, and you can't stop the shippers.

Three movies were built up on this relationship. It was work of art if you ask me – so many details, so much depth, and the amaizing acting, I mean you can watch it over and over, and every time you find something new in their eyes or words. And they not just talk, they actually do anything to proof their devotion to each other. It's absolutely beautiful. And it's Bucky who made Steve interesting and alive as a movie character and a real hero as a person.

And what we get in the end? Bucky turned into dust in front of Steve, but on the group meeting Steve talks about... Peggy? Where did it come from? He doesn't mention Bucky the whole movie. Steve goes to return the Infinity stones and comes back an old man. For us, for Bucky, it was 5 sec, but for Steve it was 70+ years. He left Bucky and lived 70+ years without him. Besides he never said Bucky about his plan (or just desire or whatever), didn't say a proper goodbye, didn't consider it as a betrayal. He just decided to live for himself. By the way Bucky reacted as if it was a big surprise for him and even bigger disappointment. He was anxious during that scene when Steve suddenly didn't show up on the platform. And if you wanna say “Bucky knew it was gonna happen and was happy for his friend” then it's the great time to keep your mouth shut. He obviously wasn't happy with it, and he didn't know. Post-movie interviews don’t count! Don’t tell me that it was off-screen. It’s a MOVIE! If something is important – it’s on the screen and it becomes a canon. Stupid scene in a cafe with selfie and kids IS on the screen, apparently it’s important af and it’s a canon. Fat greasy-haired Thor yells at some gamer in chat – that’s VERY important and it’s a canon. But a talk between best friends when one of them decided to leave the other for good and go to the past doesn’t deserve screen time. Are you sure you set your priorities right? By the way Sebastian asked Russo about this. He thought there would be some dialogue between Steve and Bucky, but director said No, you already had that conversation.

No wonder Bucky didn't approach to Steve and only looked from distance. What can you possibly say to the man who claimed himself your best friend and then easily abandoned you just like that, lived without you for 70+ years and apparently was OK with it.

Steve just goes to Peggy. Because that's how it must be, that's natural, that's happiness. This cliché stuck so deep in the people minds, so they can't see anything behind it. I'm sure that not so many people knows what it actually means, but they believe that it's the right thing.

I might blow few minds now. Here it goes – the closest person is the one who shares with you your life experience, not the bed. NO WAY! I'm not saying than your partner can't be your friend. Spouses are not always the closest friends and the closest friends are not always spouses. You just can't screw up all Steve's emotional baggage that related to Bucky just for Peggy, which was in Steve's life, what, like 15 minutes? Steve knows Bucky since childhood, they were best friends, they supported each other, lived together, protected and saved each other many times. They share the same fate (war, serum, man out of time), there's no one who can be closer. “He loves her so much!” arguments can't erase too much of a history. It just doesn't work that way! You can't exchange one for another. A loved one can't replace your best friend, cuz of damn emotional baggage! You can have both, you can have none, but you can't trade it!

And what about Peggy? CATFA-Peggy was not a good person actually. She's whimsical and eccentric damsel. For example she shoots 1) at the experimental read not properly tested shield 2) with a chance to kill someone by ricochet 3) in enclosed space without ears protection for her or everyone else; she punches a soldier for an inappropriate commentary. And the scene in the bar shows Peggy as a simply impolite person – she ignores the soldier who just got back from captivity, it's very rude, especially when Bucky was polite with her. And on top of this I think she picked interest in Steve only after the serum. I bet Pre-serum-Steve was friendzoned for the rest of his life.

In TV-series though she appears to have a strong personality. She is an interesting character and not just love interest for Steve. She founded the S.H.I.E.L.D., had a happy fulfilled life. She let Steve go. And when she died, Steve let her go. I don't believe for a one second she is the love of his life. Staring at the photo is NOT a depiction of love. Not in my book. It's just a woman Steve once kissed.

So what went wrong? They made such a great Steve's character development, they put so much in his relationship with Bucky. Countless details, shades and layers. Every scene, every dialogue. An all of it just... puff... vanished.

Actually it wasn't so sudden as it seems. First signs of it appeared in Civil war. Did you noticed how the creators put the distance between Bucky and Steve? It's like “Hey guys! You know this whole story gets kinda pansy. We stand for cliché, for heteronormativity and happy ends! Every man got a girl! You can't have best friend, not the same sex, only hetero! So quit with the hugs end eye-fucking, more masculinity! Sebastian, you must get as thick as you can, so nobody could say you're gay. And Steve's gonna make out with a girl, just to be safe”. And this kissing scene is the most awkward I've ever seen. This weird kiss out of the blue, the fact that Sam and Bucky are watching (BTW how often do you stare at your friends kissing? Please, share at the comment section). Even actors call this scene awkward and weird, they basically hate it. And in fact that this scene wasn't it the script, it was added much later.

Then the forced friendship between Bucky and Sam. Moreover, they tried to replace Steve'n'Bucky's friendship with it. Sam rather has a chemistry with Steve, not Bucky. And the way Mackie and Stan here and there together on comic-cons where Mackie acts like he's Stan's BBF and Stan's just embarrassed. This whole all of a sudden friendship thing feels so unnatural and stretched. It's not like I don't wanna Bucky has friends and all, adaptation and stuff, But it doesn't mean Bucky doesn't need Steve, no one can replace him. And it all was only to make their friendship NO HOMO. But the way I see it, there wasn't anything gay about them (BTW I'm not a shipper and not homophobic), just some people have dead opossum's emotional range. In their head the man wants either bang you or kill you, nothing in between. I'm sure nobody took seriously the idea that they make them gay, or that they look like gay. It's just bromance. But noooooooo. They must've done this to them, cuz Happily ever after.

Eventually we got what we got. In Endgame Steve and Bucky are barely shares the screen together, even if they actually next to each other, they don't hug, don't talk, don't even look. Even after Bucky got back from the dust. It's like they never cared for each other.

Steve considered Bucky recovered after being tortured and brainwashed for 70 (it still blows my mind how long it is!) years, he's OK. No one said he's OK though, even Bucky himself. He's still the same wrecked man lost in time and his own head with tremendous weight of guilt and torn apart personality. It's not the same Bucky from 40es, and he never will be. Steve’s the only one who could break through to him, for Bucky Steve is like the ground he stands, the only guide light in this chaos that left of his life. According to Stan – Steve is the only thing that keeps Bucky alive. Well, Bucky, sorry pal, gun or rope?

Steve is an asshole. He thinks he's so special and good enough to rewrite Peggy's life (which was good for Peggy without Steve) just because he wants it. Abandons Bucky, who has nothing but Steve, abandons the world he fought for and called his home, and the friends called family. All this for the woman, who was almost nothing to him especially compared with Bucky and the others. All the things Peggy said in a hospital, all the character development and his words about the man died in the ice, new home and new family – all of it was fucked up, buried under that shit. You need to move on. Until you get a time machine. Then you can go back. So what is it? Maybe Steve never was a hero and hence he doesn't deserve our respect. Or, what is the most likely, creators think we are idiots.

Steve gives the shield to Sam. And I wouldn't mind. Why not. This job definitely is not for Bucky. He's tired, he's semi-stable 100 years old man, he had enough of war for two lifetimes. It's too much for him, it would be cruel for Bucky. Symbolism is a cool thing, but life doesn't work that way. Pep-talks don't heal. Get real, OK? Sam is a new Cap, fine, it's logical. But it's always about the How, not What.

From the moment Bucky sees the old man on the bench til the end of the movie Bucky didn't even think about to approach Steve, he sent Sam instead. They didn't talk, Steve didn't even look at him. This entire scene Bucky has this endless sadness in his eyes. There's a glimpse of a smile when he looks at Sam, but in the moment it's gone. And then it's pain and sorrow on his face again. I don't really see happy Bucky.

Just look at his eyes and tell me you look the same when you’re happy

And actually Steve doesn't sparkle with joy either. He kinda lived his “happy life”, but there's no sign of it, especially that he refused to talk about her.

But it's confirmed information – Peggy's mysterious husband IS Steve Rogers.In the end Bucky got this last slap on his face. Bucky asked himself if he worth all of it. NO. No, Bucky, fuck you.

I find it funny (seriously I don't) that it's the same directors and screenwriters, who did Winter soldier and Civil war. How could they screw it up? One might say “Cuz there's TV-series Falcon and Winter soldier coming, it needs to be this way”.

A few little ideas for ending that wouldn't do any harm.

Behold!

1. If they want Steve out of it, why don't kill him? Canonic, right?

1.1 In final battle Steve is dying. He tried to shield Bucky and dying on his arms. He can give the shield to Bucky, so his broken and lost friend could have purpose in life that helps him to move on. Or he can just die and Bucky takes the shield as something in memory of Steve. And then Bucky gives the shield to Sam, like saying “I've lost it all, I've lost my friend, but you're a good guy and maybe we can become friends sometime”. If it happened like this I could in time accept Sam as a new Cap and Bucky's friend.

1.2 Or perhaps Steve, still dying, gives the shield to Sam.

2. This one is not so good idea, but OK. Steve goes to the past, his a douche. But if you want a TV-series he can’t take Bucky with him. And it's still the same – Steve gives the shield, doesn't matter who would it be (pick anyone you like). But Steve can’t leave without saying goodbye.

Oh my god! It's two of it and we still got the TV show! Fascinating! And there is more of it.

3. Oh that's the good one. The one with the Steve we know and love. Steve stays. Steve goes to the past to return the infinity stones. Steve could allow himself just a moment to be selfish and have that dance with Peggy, or stay for not so long, a year maybe. And then he must go back, knowing that there are people who need him more, than Peggy. Of course if Steve is young, fit and tight, he won't retire. But Sam and Bucky are still with us, they're cool enough to have a TV-show.

4. And what if like this? Shuri did the research to find a way to clear Bucky's head from the Hydra's code. What if she did? Or what if with Hydra's code some memories are gone too? Maybe Bucky could be an antagonist.

And just for me. We don't care about the money, and give Steve and Bucky the final they deserve.

1. Bucky and Steve dying fighting together. The most obvious and sad final. Till the end of the line

2. Bucky dies. It's tragic for Steve and he could say “I've lost it all”, and goes to Peggy. A little OOC, but not so bad.

3. What if we go back to that brain-cleaning option? Steve dies, but Bucky's so broken he can't stand it, and he goes to Shuri so she could wipe up his memory. Tragically and symbolically, cuz first time he was forced to forget Steve's alive, and now he does it voluntarily to forget Steve's dead.

I'm not a screenwriter, and my head's not crowded with ideas. But this is still better than what we've got in the Endgame. I could step on my own throat and accept the Endgame only if Bucky says that Steve is a traitor and he hates him. I'm not saying that Steve doesn't deserve this dance or happy ending. He does. Everybody Does. Everybody've suffered enough. But Steve doesn't deserve to become such an asshole. Bucky doesn't deserve to be forsaken in such a way.

Honestly, I don't care about forced bromance with Sam, or Sharon, even love interest for Bucky (it would be kinda specific I guess). They could do anything, but they can't throw away Bucky and Steve. These characters are alive, their world is real. Sometimes happy ending is impossible. And if you force it, you can ruin everything. And this is what they actually did.

And it just bugs me – why, why did they do this? Maybe it's too much pressure and they screwed up. Or maybe it's Big studio' bosses. You know maybe if they just shut up about it.. time heals you know. But it gets worse. On the interview directors says one thing and screenwriters say the other, they all can't string sentense together. And only Bucky's face speaks for himself. I mean did you see this fresh Sebastian's panel at London comic-con? I’ll show you few moments, but you've got to watch the whole thing (https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=5&v=-KQpzG49exM). When he asks the audience did they like the movie, many people say “No!”, when he approves the final of Endgame one shout “Liar!”. Look at the body language. You'll see how he sincerely and emotionally talks about anything. As soon as it comes to Endgame, he is immediately clamped, his leg begins to twitch.

The previous question was that he was interested in - what kind of heroes he wants to play. Therefore, he sits on the edge of the couch, leaning over to the public. The next question about the final and Steve going to Peggy. He immediately moves and leans back, he covers his belly with hand. The question is unpleasant to him.

Then the speech becomes confused, although before that it flowed freely, he literally gasps as if he doesn't know what to say, his micro-mimic denies his words.

He says he agrees with the final, Bucky is happy, Steve deserves it. But his body screams just the opposite - a sharp wave of his hand and chin say "no"

And this is the worst one. On the words “He (Bucky) was happy,” his whole pose just screams “NO!”. This insincere smile, this tilt of the head and a slight denying swaying. All this says more than any words

It's so obvious that he so tired of it. I bet that under the contract, he has no right to scold the movie and must promote the policy of the studio. But when he said that “Bucky was happy for Steve” .... This is the most forced smile I've ever seen. This is the most unconvincing lie in my memory. You can see just right through it, it's like an open book. But he has to do it, because crossing with the Big Studio Boss when your career just went uphill is not the best idea. The truth is important, but the dream is too. He started the career since the age of 15, which is quite long, considering this is not such a brilliant career, but he definitely worked so hard for it. So he caught between the hammer and an anvil now. On the one hand, acting career is the only thing for him, on the other hand studio bosses who can bury the dream, and on top of it the fans who are looking for his support. So "Steve is happy, Bucky is happy, awesome film, kill me, please!". By the way where is his best buddy Mackie? Why Seb's cleaning this mess all by himself? Seeing him like this just breaks my heart

And I honestly do not understand the people who liked it. How can you not see all this?? And there are those who claim that we didn’t like Endgame because we didn’t see any movies at all and didn’t read comic-books. There are Stucky fans who liked Endgame. Are the clichés so strong that people just don’t see all this... The story of Bucky and Steve was way too deep. Bucky is too tragic and well-developed character for a superhero comic-book story. All this deserved so much more. And the creators simply could not finish the job; mass cinema is simple and flat and it's made that way on purpose. They pull the most primitive triggers, so that people do not have to think. The most simple patterns help to reach more people. In other words, they are doing everything to raise more money. And it works. Thus we’ll get more of it in the future. No doubt about that.

For me, Endgame marked the victory of the corporate moneymaking machine over creativity. And the box office speaks for itself. It's an awful world to live in...

#avengers #avengers endgame #avengersendgame #notmycap #notmysteve #bucky barnes #bucky deserves better #bucky #stucky #endgame #steve rogers

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Cool me down | Loki Summer Series Part I Imagine Tony Stark invites you all to spend a relaxing week in Greece. You insist that Loki joins you and after some agitated convincing on your behalf, he does. Sounds like a promising vacation, no?

A/N: Wow! Throughout several parts, this Imagine will literally combine six requests from four anons, @reebgirl13 and @thatcrazyfangirl100 and eleven of my own ideas. Enjoy, everyone!

Words: 2181 Warnings: aerophobia

“Who’s ready for a week in Greece?!”

“Wait, what?” Smiling, you looked up from your book and watched Tony Stark, aka the owner and billionaire of this massive building you were allowed to live in, dramatically enter the room with a sly smirk on his face.

The rest of the present Avengers, all of them occupied with their favourite activities, which included Captain America reading the newspaper, Natasha and Bruce sipping coffee and Thor abusing Tony’s X-Box, mimicked your reaction.

“Spontaneous vacation trip. You know. Summer, sun, sex on the beach…” He trailed off, wriggling his eyebrows. It sounded wonderful. The heat was killing you, a luxurious bathtub filled with cold water barely replacing a refreshing pool or the vast sea.

Tony often surprised you with pricey last-minute gifts. Obviously, with the amount of money on his bank account, a week in Greece was barely worth mentioning.

“That sounds amazing, Tony.”

But what sounded even more amazing was that you would get to introduce Loki to a typical Midgardian vacation. Unbeknownst to him, you had taken quite a liking into him. A mischievous god from outer space, outrageously handsome with a dominant villain complex… it all drew you to him like bees round a honeypot and now that he had changed for the better, healed a little and decided to help Thor save the world from Thanos… you had hopelessly fallen in love with him.

“When are we leaving?” Natasha asked, raising an eyebrow.

“Tonight. My jet will be ready in a few hours.”

Which meant you had to start packing right away and tell FRIDAY to order some sunscreen. What protective factor did Frost Giants need anyway?

“Alright. We can manage. Thank you, Tony. I’ll go and tell Loki.” You announced, putting your book down to stand up and making an effort to leave the room.

“Sorry, kid.” Tony replied unnerved. “I’ve only booked five suites.” That’s right. Clint was staying home with his family and with Bruce and Natasha sharing a suite, there were four left for Steve, you, Thor and Tony himself. His ice cold tone drove daggers straight through your heart. He had purposely excluded him then.

“What do you expect him to do, stay here and sulk away in your library?” It wasn’t like the God of Mischief had been doing just that the entire time already; leaving him behind like this, however, felt incredibly wrong. Had he not suffered enough? The Avengers had all promised to Thor to give Loki a chance. It certainly did not feel like that right now.

“Suites, you say? There’s still enough space then. Loki can stay with me.”

“(Y/N), no. I don’t want to spend my vacation with a would-be god with a ruling complex. Reindeer Games stays here where FRIDAY can keep an eye on him, period.”

“Stark, why not?” Thor tossed in, finally pausing his wrestling game. Had he… actually named his character Thor the Thunderer? “Loki has changed for the better, I don’t see why my brother shouldn’t join us.”

“Maybe it’s because he tried to kill each and every one of us at least once?” Natasha responded unsolicited. You rolled your eyes.

“If Loki is not coming, I’m not coming.” You stated, crossing your arms.

“Why are you defending him?” Steve had finally abandoned the newspaper on the counter and now faced you sternly like he did when he gave orders on a mission. He made you shrug defiantly. Frankly, you were not going to tell them you were crushing on the mischievous Trickster. Hell, not even Loki himself knew about that.

Tony faked gagging. “Fine. Take him. But he’s yours—and Thor’s—responsibility. Something happens, he’s acting funny or misbehaves, I’ll send him straight back and lock him in a cell.” Because that worked out so well the first time you did it, you thought. Or the second time.

Rolling your eyes once more, you nodded and finally left the room, seeking out Loki in the billionaire’s library. He looked like a statue as he sat there on the windowsill, raven hair hanging into his face and blue eyes focused on the many letters in his book. A silent sigh escaped your lips.

“Loki?”

He looked up in an instant. Surely, he must have noticed your presence already but you often came here to read in peace as well, he did not expect you to come in because of him. He frowned in a surprised manner.

“Yes?”

“Tony is taking us on a trip to Greece for a week.”

The Trickster lightly shook his head, raising his eyebrows and pouting a little as he said— “Well, have fun then.”

“Oh but you’re invited too.”

Now, you had really confused him. Loki shut the book he had been reading, his entire godly body turning towards you. You gasped inaudibly—you hoped.

“Is that true?” He asked mockingly, a barely visible but irresistible smirk playing on his thin lips.

“Of course! It’ll be fun?” You offered friendlily. But this time it was Loki who rolled his eyes.

“No. I do not like the heat, besides, I would much rather spend my time here, surrounded by books instead of these self-proclaimed superheroes.”

“Your brother is one of them.” You shot back, shaking your head irritated. “Please, Loki. Come with me. We can swim in the sea, eat ice cream, jet-ski… please?”

The God of Mischief took a deep breath. Blue eyes boring intently into yours, he seemed to consider for a moment. “No.” He concluded disgusted. But you were not going to give up just yet.

Grinning to yourself, you approached him and unceremoniously sank down on his lap to wrap your arms around his neck, enjoying how his soft hair felt against your forearms. He did not complain.

Loki had grown quite used to your hugs after a while. You loved being affectionate when it came to him, knowing that he could use the occasional cuddle, for you insisted that even if he did not show or pretended not to be fond of it—he rather liked the closeness.

“Are you trying to manipulate me?” He teased, fighting back another smirk.

“Maybe? Is it working?”

Loki chuckled darkly, the sound sending pleasant shivers up and down your spine and then, straight between your legs. You shifted inconspicuously.

“No.” He was going to say something else. You knew when he sighed. “I’ll come. Just this once.”

Squealing, you hugged him even tighter.

A couple of hours later, with your suitcases packed and your sunscreen (and a brand-new pair of sunglasses because you could not resist) at the ready, you found yourself in Tony Stark’s private jet and sank down on the soft leather seat next to Loki, immediately fastening your seatbelt even though the engine wasn’t even on yet.

Yes. This was one disadvantage of travelling—aerophobia. Taking a shaking breath, you dug your nails into the leather and closed your eyes for a bit to calm down. Fortunately, you usually didn’t get sick but the fear was always there.

“Are you alright?” Loki asked quietly. So quiet in fact, that none of the other boarding Avengers were able to hear it. You flinched when the engine hummed to life and started rolling along the landing strip to take off.

“Yeah, I’m okay. Just… a little fear of flying… or much rather, of crashing and bursting asunder into a million pieces.” You admitted. You never realised you had grabbed Loki’s arm for support—his dark leather armour replaced with light green clothing revealing his pale forearms—and holding on to him for dear life.

His smile was genuine, warming your heart as he did not pull away and instead, put his hand on yours. His touch cooled you down and heated you up at the very same time. Your heart jumped. Well… that way, twelve hours would pass in no time.

And fortunately, they did. You fell asleep quickly to wake up in Santorin, Greece. The spot Tony had chosen was isolated from the many tourists destroying the peace. The sea was blue, the typically Greek buildings hovering into a cloudless sky and when you landed, the hotel was beyond anything you had expected from the billionaire. High ceilings, ornamented with golden paintings and decorated with chandeliers, ancient carpets and a smoothly polished marble floor…

The receptionist handed you all your keys—heavy golden metal pieces with a beautiful pendant. You turned to Loki when you received yours.

“We share a room, if that’s alright?” You began, realising now you had not yet told him you were going to be staying in the same suite. “They didn’t have any more suites.” You lied, adding a silent Actually, Tony wanted you to stay home but I queered his pitch.

“I shall promise not to stab you in your sleep.” Loki mocked jokingly, making you grin and blush at the very same time. Perhaps you could already consider him a friend. He never joked around like this with anyone else, expect for Thor maybe. It almost seemed like he knew something you had not quite figured out yet.

So, as soon as you had dropped your hand luggage and admired the luxurious suite as well as the view from your balcony, you got changed into more comfortable clothes. Given it was around six pm in Santorin already, you could barely wait to browse the streets and markets—and to take Loki with you, of course.

“Are you ready?” You asked excitedly, finding Loki leaning against the balustrade of the balcony, blue eyes fixed on the sea. Honestly, the colour of his eyes was more beautiful than the Med.

The God of Mischief frowned. “Where do you want to go?”

“Out. Exploring a little.” You shrugged. “Maybe we’ll find a nice restaurant.” You had taken some money with you, of course and you were ready to spend it on some delicious local food. Joyfully, you smiled when Loki nodded.

Five minutes later and without telling Stark where you both had gone, Loki and you were strolling down a small market offering food, toys for children, souvenirs and jewellery. You resisted the urge to reach for his hand and hold it, unsure of how the Trickster would react if you did. You had the entire week to get closer to him, after all.

Then, you nearly collided with his broad back when he suddenly stopped to admire some pieces of jewellery in a glass cabinet. There were diamonds in all colours of the rainbow, decorative golden and silver rings, earrings, necklaces and bracelets. One of them shone out in particular—it was a golden necklace, twenty carat, and equipped with a beautiful green diamond. Was it an emerald?

Your fascinated gaze instantly caught the beautiful piece of jewellery. It reminded you of him. Loki chuckled when he noticed.

“Would you like to have it?” He asked, ignoring how the seller of the jewellery stand joined you both with a mumbled Kalispéra.

Shocked, you looked up. “Oh, no, no. It’s beyond beautiful but that’s way too expensive for my budget.”

Loki smirked. A green shimmering of light coated his hand for just the fraction of a second and then, suddenly, he was holding a very thick bundle of banknotes. The seller’s eyes widened but so did yours.

“Wait, where is this money from?”

The God of Mischief shrugged. “I took it from Stark’s wallet.” Your jaw dropped. Perhaps you should be mad at him for stealing from the billionaire, yet on the other hand it posed the perfect payback for him refusing to take Loki to Greece. You giggled.

“Consider it a gift. You were the only one who wanted me to join this vacation, were you not?” You sighed. He was perceptive beyond your comprehension. So this was what he had known this entire time. Smiling and fighting back tears of affection, you nodded and bit your lower lip as you watched Loki point at the golden necklace for the seller to take it out of the cabinet. He handed to him, named the price (a price that made you gulp) and Loki paid him with scrutinising eyes, with you realising then his magic had not only conjured money but also the correct currency.

As soon as the seller had left again, the God of Mischief smirked. “Turn around.” He demanded softly. You obliged, goose bumps spreading on your skin when he brushed your hair to the side, fingers ghosting over your sensitive neck. Painfully slow, he put it on you.

You looked down. It looked absolutely breath-taking. “Thank you, Loki.” You whispered, feeling the cool gold caressing your skin as you reached for it to feel it with your fingers. Wearing his colours now, you felt like he had just claimed you to be his. You wished, desperately, that it were true.

“Let us go down to the beach for a bit.” He suggested then. You nodded. This time you did not hesitate to simply hold his hand. Loki did not pull away. This week was going to be amazing.

Part II can be found on my masterlist!

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There are three big reasons I have not and don’t want to see Endgame ....

For one, I wrote a lengthy article about that will run in June at Sequential Tart (I'll update this post with the link when it goes live *EDIT* Here it is: The Subject of Character Death, Revisited - http://www.sequentialtart.com/article.php?id=3362 ). The other two, I'll talk about here; they involve Steve and Bucky.

I know what you’re thinking: Wolfie, how can you form an opinion on a movie you haven't seen? Well, I do have mental health issues (undiagnosed and untreated because I have no insurance or job, yay), so when the film was released in China, I found someone to spoil me so that I might make an informed decision as to whether or not I could *handle* seeing it, given some worries I had (and especially since 3 hours without a bathroom break was not going to work for me or my companion). I determined from that convo that it would be a Very Bad Idea for me to see the film.

Even seeing the constant posts about it -- especially ones that called it a “beautiful” or “perfect” end, etc. -- was triggering anxiety and mental anguish / circular thoughts (admittedly in part because there were similarly “bad” things happening in other fandoms of mine -- it was too much at once). And I'm STILL having massive issues with circular thoughts about it.

This essay isn't meant to tell anyone they’re wrong about how they perceive / feel about the film, BUT, while I know I shouldn't care what other people think, the sitch still makes me feel how I feel: frankly, a bit disturbed that people are loving things that are making me so awful. I feel like I've stepped into some sort of Bizarro world -- like I'm somehow in the wrong universe. It’s very distressing. (I mean ... they call it mental *illness* for as reason, right?)

In this franchise where I once found such great joy, I now find little more than anguish. It’s actually been making me physically ill to see the posts -- or to look on my massive Marvel collection; I've had to box much of it away for now. Hopefully some day I can enjoy it again. (I can't exactly stop using my $60 Captain America backpack I begged for, for my birthday, though. :/)

I find that when my thoughts get like this (like I'm on a runaway train that keeps revisiting the same stations), the only thing that helps even a little is to sort out my thoughts on the page -- even if I’ve done it before, as I have with this in the comments section of friends posts. (You may have seen other people express similar thoughts, too.) And really, I don't want to rain on my friend’s parades, so I figure I’ll post it in my own space, and then if people ask me my thoughts, I can just point them here. And hopefully this post will help others who are similarly struggling (I know there are at least a few).

As for the old chestnut “It’s just a story/ a fictional character”, well, for one thing, let me repeat: mentally ill here. If I could control how I feel, I wouldn’t BE mentally ill. But also, I'm a writer who feels writing is a sacred calling, so when I feel a story is badly told, I tend to take it personally. Yes, I know my opinion is not the be-all, end all -- if you think it’s a good story, yay for you. Me, I feel betrayed by this story in a way I have rarely felt before (the other biggest instance having happened the week before the film's release, so double-whammy, yay).

Warning: if you read any further, I assume you either saw Endgame or don’t care about Spoilers.

(*edited to add* If you need some solace too, check out @antiendgame to find other people who are upset.)

The first upsetting points for me were the Noble Deaths (and, in Loki’s case, lack of resurrection) -- I hate that trope with the fire of a thousand suns. But that’s what I wrote the article on (including how 2012 Loki’s escape doesn't make me feel any better), so no more on that here.

Now, let me preface the rest of this by saying no, I wasn’t expecting a romantic presentation of Stucky. And as hard as I ship them fanon-wise, I don’t actually hate Steggy -- I adore Peggy in her own right (and like the idea of them being a threesome with Bucky).

What I DO hate is that Steve abandoned Bucky for her.

Aside from Steve’s moral compass, Bucky was the impetus behind pretty much *everything* Steve did in his trilogy. He found the missing soldiers because Bucky was amongst them. Bucky’s death broke him -- and finding him again in Winter Soldier seemed to give Steve, who was clearly depressed, new life. Despite Sam insisting Bucky was Gone, Steve wouldn't kill Bucky to save the world. And in Civil War, Steve fought other dear friends, and was willing to throw away his own freedom, to protect his best friend. So how the FUCK is them being *separated pretty much forevermore* a satisfactory end to that story???????

TL;DR, the Captain America movies were about the repeated separation and reunion of Steve and Bucky … and yet we barely got to SEE them together before Steve said sayonara to the man he’d been best friends with for over a for over a decade, to go be with a woman he’d known for about a year.

A woman who’d already had a family without him.

Yeah, we can say her family still exists in the original timeline -- but I have seen soooo many different explanations of how the time sitch works out, it’s not even funny.

Really, that’s the third reason I don't want to see the movie: I HATE time paradox, and this movie sounds riddled with it. Also, as I understand it, the writers and the Russos are saying different things, with the Russos saying it’s a different timeline (which apparently Steve would be going *back* to after the shield pass, for some reason, and yeah, that bothered me, that he didnl't even give his best friend that momento, and sent their last onscreen moments together talking to SAM), and the writers saying no, the alternate timelines were only a thing when the Stones were in play. So yeah, Steve could spend the rest of his life with Bucky then ... but that means he also would have erased Peggy’s family (and maybe her work). Unless he was the man she married all along.

Either way, it would mean that Steve let Bucky suffer, and let HYDRA infiltrate SHIELD, neither being things I could see him doing.

And if it IS a branched-off timeline, I LOATHE that time theory, because it means NOTHING WE DO MATTERS. There’s always a version of us that’s our worst selves, and people who suffer because of it. That’s hella depressing. (Even if it would explain why I feel like I'm in the wrong world.)

At any rate, the ONLY end I really wanted was to see Steve and Bucky get to be together, no matter how -- “just friends” would have been fine. It was literally the thing I wanted most in the whole damn MCU franchise (aside from seeing Loki be redeemed and then fight alongside the Avengers. *sigh* At least I didn't have high hopes there ...). I would rather Steve had taken Bucky back in time WITH him, even if Steve still married Peggy; time paradox issues aside, I could have lived with that -- yes, even if it meant we didn’t get The Falcon and the Winter Soldier. (And honestly, how much am I supposed to look forward to that anyway, when Sam has been such an *inexplicably* uncompassionate asshole to Bucky in WS and CW? A guy who runs meetings for people with PTSD holds a grudge against a guy who was brutally mind-raped? It's like they made him OOC for the lolz!)

As for “Oh, but Bucky knew and he was okay with it!”

Uh, if he was okay with it, it's just because the writers *wrote* him that way for their own convenience, so they could do this ending. I have been besties with someone most of our lives. We broke up a few times, but we managed to keep finding our way back to each other. We don't live in the same state, so we rarely see each other, but at least we DO sometimes, and we write each other. If this person said they were going to go live somewhere with no way to communicate with me ever again, so they could be with someone they loved, of course I wouldn't want to say don't leave, because I'd want them to be happy, and wouldn't want to stand in the way … but that doesn't mean I'd be “okay”. in the slightest. And I wouldn't WANT other people I care about to go through such pain, much less think it beautiful to watch.

Plus, as I always say, this is fiction -- I don't need *that much* “reality” in my escapism. Temporary angst is my bread-and-butter -- it’s cathartic -- but I need a happy ending to be the payoff. To me, A TRULY happy ending for Steve -- and the one that would have been the best payoff for the narrative we’ve spent a decade watching -- would have been for him to not have to choose between the two people he loved most.

Edited 5/11/19 to add: For all those who are all “Oh, they’re just friends, they aren't gay”, I am more or less fine with sexual Stucky staying fanon; they still love each other platonically, are SOULMATES, ACCORDING TO THE SCREENWRITERS THEMSELVES (Christopher Markus and Steve McFeely), who wrote this as part of the intro to the graphic novel Captain America: White - “…Of course, this is still a rollicking adventure tale, and no adventure is complete without a love story. And yes, these books have one – the longest, most tortured one in Marvel history, in fact. We’re talking about Steve and Bucky, without smirking or innuendo or raised eyebrows. Platonic though the relationship may be, from the meet cute to the tragic separation, their bond has all the elements of a classic romance. These two men love each other – as any pair of friends who faced exclusion, combat, inhumanity, and death would. Their bond stretches across half the twentieth century. The loss of it gnaws at Steve throughout the modern day, and it slices his heart in half when the Winter Soldier rears his tormented, homicidal head. Just as Jeph and Tim’s earlier Daredevil: Yellow, Spider-Man: Blue, and Hulk: Gray all dealt with the major love interests in the heroes’ lives, so too does Captain America: White. Steve and Bucky are each others’ soulmate, if you will, because no one on Earth understands what either of them has been through as well as the other does. The book deals deftly with the strengths and weaknesses that relationship engenders. As the Red Skull himself says to Bucky, “The captain has a … ‘soft spot’ for you. A spot I intend to put a bullet through this very evening.” Soldiers fight for their country. They fight for themselves. They fight for each other. And sometimes they die for these things, too. The ones who don’t carry the memory of the ones who did for the rest of their days. Steve Rogers is no different.”

So he's gonna leave his soulmate (no matter the nature of their love) behind forever? FUCK THAT NOISE. I am completely baffled ow two writers who see Steve and Bucky that way would go on to give them that ending.

And retouching the whole for Bucky “knows and is okay” thing, the Russos also said that Bucky is too damaged still to be Captain America. Uh, THAT DOESN’T SOUND LIKE THEY REALLY THINK HE’S OKAY.

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The End of the World Pt. 01

Thor and the Rabbit

Pairing: Thor x Reader

Word Count: 2,017

Warnings: None? Maybe feels? Oh, spoilers if you haven’t seen Thor Ragnarok or Infinity War. Language, eventually.

Masterpost - Will re-link when tumblr fixes its shit with links.

A/N: So, other than a very short first three chapters of Harry Potter book five way back when I was in high school, this is my first fic...ever. Definitely the first I’ve ever shared. I don’t really know if I want to keep going. I love writing but I’ve always been a little averse to fanfic if only because some people make the characters do things that are WAY out of character and I tend to be like, “They would never do that!” I’m weird. I know. I hope you enjoy it. If even one person likes it I might keep it going. Lots of love!

Waiting. That’s what you’ve suffered through. Unbearable, torturous, never ending waiting.

It’s been months. Months since the world literally ended. Well, it's still turning. People are still living, if that’s what you can call it. Life for everyone, life for you, has become a half life.

In one unbelievable instant everything changed. People, your family, your friends, all gone.

As you stand by the sink, the water running over a small pile of unwashed dishes, you stare at your hands. You can still see it, falling through your fingers, dust…or something like it. Your hands had grasped frantically to hold them close, to keep them from going, but they’d dissolved and disappeared anyway. The people around you not your family. You hadn't been there when they were wiped away. Wiped from existence as if they’d never been there but behind them they’d left a painful hole proving that they had and now they were gone.

You clench your fists, urging your mind to stop thinking about it. You feel so angry that you grab the pale blue ceramic plate from the top of the pile in the sink and traverse towards the living room then chuck it.

There is no satisfying crash of a breaking plate. Instead you find a large, tall, gorgeous blonde standing there with the plate in hand over his head.

“I see you have not lost your impeccable aim." He brings the plate down to twirl in his large hands, a soft and nervous smile stretching his lips.

“You’ve looked better.” You whisper, unable to find the strength to speak any louder as you're overwhelmed with a flurry of memories. Of sleepless nights spent talking, exchanged embraces, kisses, and other intimacies that would have normally made your cheeks flush were your heart not currently aching.

His mouth contorts into a wry smile, a humorless expression as your words send some sort of bitterness through him.

“I have felt better.”

For several painful moments you both stare at each other and you take the opportunity to get a good look at him. His hair is short now. When did he cut it? Why? His eyes…they’re not the same. One is still that beautiful blue but the other is amber and slightly mechanical. He’s still huge. His arms bulge out of his armor with his cape resting against the sides of his wide shoulders.

You want to say something but you're not sure whether you want to be angry or sad. Maybe you want to be honest?

“Are you two just going to stand there staring at each other? If you are could you point me in the direction of the bathroom? Never mind, this potted plant will do.”

Your attention is pulled to what is, in no doubt, a raccoon wearing some type of space armor with a large gun strapped to his back. Did that raccoon just talk?! His voice is hard, gruff, and somewhat cold. Your eyes go wide.

“Wha…?!” Is all you manage to say as the raccoon makes its way to your large potted Philodendron by the fridge.

“Oh, I almost forgot.” Thor says, watching Rocket walk to your plant. “Y/N this is Rocket, a talking rabbit. Rabbit, this is Y/N, a human female.”

Clearly, Rocket is not a rabbit, but it’s Thor so you’re not surprised by the confusion.

“This is Y/N? I don’t see the fuss. She’s no better than that other one back at the compound.” Rocket grumbles stopping beside your philodendron.

You hear a zipper then rush to stop him from peeing on your plant. “Hey! Stop. Don’t pee there. If you want to use the bathroom, it’s through that door.”

You point towards the solid white door beside the open French doors that give a glimpse into your bedroom, the bed still unmade.

Rocket zips his pants back up and after a glare at you, he moves towards the door. He reaches up and turns the handle, having to stretch a bit to reach it, and disappears into your bathroom. As the door closes you turn back to Thor and find him watching you.

You have a gnawing sense that you know who he visited first but you’re afraid to ask. You know it’ll only hurt but still, you to ask anyway.

“Who was he talking about?”

Thor’s gaze changes and you recognize the guilt there. In his hesitation he shifts his weight to his front leg like you’ve seen him do when he’s readying himself for a confrontation. He clenches his fists around the plate and sighs. It’s a miracle it doesn’t shatter.

“We saw Jane on the way here.”

You scoff at the same moment that her name touches his lips. You can’t help the knee-jerk reaction at her mention. It sends a coldness into your heart as it lurches with jealousy.

“Of course, you’re going to go see her.” You are going to add ‘first’ but that would imply that you had expected him to come see you. Until the moment that you saw him standing in your living room you weren’t even really sure he had survived.

You move towards him and watch as he tenses, expecting who knows what? A hit? Like you could ever hurt him. You take the plate from his hands and watch as he physically flinches away from you but lets the plate go all the same.

With nothing to hold onto, he snaps his fingers then holds his hands neatly in front of him at ease. His eyes watching you as you move to the sink and shut the water off, depositing the plate with the rest. You hold onto the edge of the sink, staring as the water drains, urging yourself not to overreact.

“We only saw Jane because Bruce Banner is assisting me in finding my people and Jane is the only astrophysicist that might know of a way in which we might find them. It has been a long time since Jane and I stopped courting, you know that.”

“Find them? You lost your people? Aren’t they on Asgard?” You ignore the part about Thor and Jane courting.

You don’t need to think about that. You’d seen more than enough of their courting.

“Asgard was destroyed.” He states simply.

You turn around and search for his face but he’s no longer looking at you. He’s looking at the ground, his eyes unnaturally sad.

“I’m sorry.” You want to comfort him, but your pride roots your feet to your kitchen floor. “What happened?”

“My sister Hela,” He begins.

“You have a sister?”

“Yes, she tried to take Asgard and rule it after my father died.”

“Your dad is dead?”

“Yes. He is with my mother now.” The area around his eyes tightens as his jaw clenches and unclenches. “My brother and I summoned Surtur so that he could bring about Ragnarok to destroy Asgard, as Hela was using it to sustain her power over my people. We succeeded and escaped Asgard but before we could reach Earth we were ambushed by Thanos. He killed half of my people…and Heimdall. And Loki.”

His voice falters on Loki’s name. His brother’s name.

You let your feet carry you forward as your heart aches for him, pride be damned. You don’t stop until your arms are wrapped around him, pulling him down so that you can hug as much of his torso as possible. He melts in your arms, his own wrapping about your waist to hold you against his body as he buries his face in your neck.

“I’m so sorry, Thor. Loki was…I know you loved him.” Whatever anger you held towards Loki for his attack on New York, you now know what it feels like to lose your loved ones.

To have them be gone as if they’d never existed. How could you not feel anguish for Thor?

“I was right there, Y/N. I could not save him. He saved me.” His voice sounds thick as he struggles to contain his grief. “He was a terrible brother.”

You understand the love in his voice as he says it. Though Loki had given Thor such heartache in life, no pain compares to what he must be feeling now after losing him.

You run your hand along the back of his head, comforting him as best you can. “So, this happened before…before everyone else…?”

You don’t need to finish the question. He knows what you’re talking about and he hugs you closer. Tighter.

“Thrice I have failed, Y/N. I failed to save my people. I failed to save my brother. And I failed to save the universe. It’s my fault that they’re gone. If I’d been smarter, if I’d killed Thanos before he could use the gauntlet none of this would have happened.”

You let that sink in for a moment and wait for the anger to wash over you. You lost everyone and yet the anger doesn’t come. All you feel is an ache in your chest, a squirm in your stomach, and relief to finally have your arms around him. It feels like you can breathe again. Like the world is right though you know it’s far from.

“I’m sure you did the best you could.” You finally pull back so that he can straighten up a bit and so that you can look into his mismatched eyes.

He looks tired and defeated. You place your hands on either side of his face and with your thumbs caress it. He stares into your eyes, searching for something, forgiveness maybe?

“I’m so glad you’re safe.” You whisper.

There’s no warning as he suddenly dips his head and closes the distance between your lips and his. He pulls you closer against his body and up so that you’re standing on your tip-toes as you kiss him. Your stomach does somersaults.

His lips are warm, soft at first but then they become demanding. You run out of breath before he does, like always, what with your human lungs. You pull back so that you can catch it and he lets you, but keeps his forehead pressed to yours and his eyes shut.

“I do not know what I would have done if I had shown up and you were not here.” He confesses.

“You would have gone back to help Jane find your people. If your father is gone, that means you’re King of Asgard, doesn’t it?”

“I do hold a responsibility for my people now, you are right.” He sighs, and you feel his fists grip the back of your shirt tightly as if he were making sure that you can’t go anywhere. “But I would have been lost if you were not here.”

Suddenly, you hear your toilet flush and are reluctantly pulled from the moment as Rocket walks out of your bathroom drying his hands on the front of his shirt. He stops and stares at you and Thor.

“That was fast. And you were worried she’d hit you?”

You pull back, inserting some space between you both. Thor straightens up and turns slightly to face Rocket, but he doesn’t release the back of your shirt. He’s still gripping it tightly, wrinkling the fabric.

“Have you finished relieving yourself rabbit?” He asks Rocket who shrugs.

“As far as relief goes. Are we almost ready to leave? I’ve got a date with the Man of Steel. I’m gonna show him the proper way to make a flight suit and he said he had some drink called ‘Tequila’ he wanted me to try.” Rocket moves towards the open front door.

You hadn’t noticed it before but that was clearly how they’d got in. Had you left it unlocked?

“Stark is called the ‘Iron Man’, and yes. We can leave. But,” Thor turns towards you once again. “I must insist that you come with us, Y/N. I cannot bear to be apart from you for a moment longer and I will not leave you here, alone. I am assuming that your family-?”

“Yes, they’re gone.” You don’t seem to need to explain that to him. He knows.

You turn to watch Rocket walk out your door and then look back up at Thor who stands staring at you with pleading eyes and you know that you can’t leave his side either. You reach behind your back, gently worm your hand underneath his and intertwine your fingers, gripping his hand tightly.

“Let’s go.”

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letitbefiction · 6 years

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Iron heart and a spider shaped key- chapter 7

A/N: Ok. So I added a few characters and as someone who always wrote only oc’s it’s extremely difficult for me so go easy on me if you don’t like how I wrote them here

Warning- like..nothing? Again..?

Paring- Peter Parker x stark!reader

Type: fluff, funny, adorable and a bit of angst

Word count: 3520

Chapter1

Chapter 6

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“Is the trickster on our side?” Adam asked briefly before continuing to pace around the room, “he doesn’t usually participate in the war but he wouldn’t mind.. why?” You asked curiously “mind calling him for me? I think we could use the help” he smirked devilishly. And so you did, and the long haired trickster indeed was interested with your plan to prank the newest avenger, even though he thought it was a bit cheesy you explained it as a “two pranks at the price of one!”.

Loki crossed his arms, his icy blue eyes darting from your friend to you “so what do you say god? Wanna help a friend in need?” You teased, placing your fingers on you cheeks he eventually gave in to your puppy dog eyes and quivering lip “fine” he grunt before a smirk appeared on his thin lips “so I creat an illusion to make your ankle look...?” His tone was questionable and Adam was quick to continue his words “just make it seemed really bad..but like not bone out of the leg bad!” He chuckled as you punched his stomach “and then I’ll go take stuff from the medical cabinet, you yell at me for bringing the wrong stuff and-“ “then yell at peter and drag him here! Adam would be standing behind the door with the whipped cream pie and throw it on him.” You continued eagerly a feeling of both excitement a maybe a touch of evilness developed in your heart. “Y/n phone would be recording the whole thing it’ll be awesome!” Adam cheered pointing to your phone leaning on your bedside table. “You know. I love those prank wars.” Loki smile “tell someone and I will send you both to knowhere” he said darkly before you all smiled.

Loki perfected the illusion, his blue eyes concentrating on making it seem bloody and reali, and while doing it felt like a gentle makeup brush was moving up and down your leg “you should ask Banner to take a look at it, it does seem a bit more than the usual bruising” Loki commented, his blue eyes looking into yours as you felt thick fluid go down your illusion made cut, you stared at the blood as Loki smiled proudly “see. No pain.” He assured you as you simply stared at the dark red blood slowly move down your leg “ok! Show time!” Adam clapped, the loud noise woke you from your trance and you smiled as he rubbed his hands together mentally preparing himself for the role of his life, he suddenly turned into you and said coldly “cry.” “I’m not going to cry.” “But you have to!” He whined “I’m gonna be in pain if I’ll cry, good, if I won’t still good.” You giggled as he rolled his eyes dramatically, “Loki. Count until 30 than take the elevator and yell at me! And feel free to threaten the victim” your friend smiled evilly, running his hands through his blond hair he shook all of his body before stomping outside. “You sure he’s the right guy?” Loki criticized as you began timing him “yes. And 30 seconds. You should go.” You smiled as he left, leaving you alone you got ready in your position.

A few moments before, a black jeep rolled into the compound grounds with three teenagers.

“Wow..” Ned whispered as Peter opened the front door, Peter smiled brightly, half jogging throughout the hallway, a few of his curls jumped to his movements “yeah I know! And wait until you see the lab they got here! And we have here a theater room and-“ “how come you live here Peter? You have a Stark internship, not the lottery.” Michelle interrupted, she may have sounded mean to others but the smile on her face indeed said otherwise. “Well..Stark said I’m a big help or something and now I live here!” Peter shrugged as he walked into the kitchen with the two “so, we’ll start working on our project soon but first, snacks.” The brown eyed boy smirked as he opened the large cabinet “whoa...that’s a lot of food!” Ned stated as he begun going through it all “don’t touch the cereal! Especially not the forth one..trust me on that” Peter neglected from explaining why as his two friends picked their favorite snacks and sat at the marble island.

Grabbing the needed snacks Ned and Michelle went upstairs, following Peter’s directions, sort of.

The two left the snacks next to the door Peter had told them was his and went on exploring by themselves.

Not even minutes later after they left, rushed in a new face, Peter only stared the blond guy went through the cabinets distressed “may..I..help you..?” Peter wondered, confusion written all over my face “not unless you know how to-“ The young men were both caught off guard when a low and graveled voice was to be heard from the hallway “ADAM! What the hell is taking you so long-“ Peter was like a deer caught in headlights, his lips parted staring at the show presented in front of him “what do you want from me I didn’t do it!” Adam lifted his hands defensively “Yeah ok!” “No I swear some new guy did it!” Suddenly the movement stopped and Loki turned to terrified Peter, Loki’s ocean eyes became stone cold, he clenched his jaw tightly “you..” he sneered grabbing peter by the shoulder “grab everything and go upstairs Adam.” Loki commanded as he tighten his grip over the young man shoulder “you think painful pranks are funny huh?” Peter looked to the sides, in utter shock not sure what do to when facing an actual god, and not only that, the word ‘painful?!’ Was like a scream within his mind echoing in his thoughts, “don’t worry kid, I am not going to hurt you.” He hissed, an evil, cold and terrifying smile creeped on his shadowed face as he grabbed Peter’s upper arm violently forcing the boy to drag his feet along side him.

“Hey man! L-let go of me!” Peter stuttered, trying to escape Loki’s strong grip, but giving in to the mention of your name.

“y/n?” Peter exclamation, his position was tense eyes moving quickly from the elevator to the blue eyed character beside him.

“yes you know another Stark?!” Loki groaned rolling his eyes in annoyance. Within minutes they both arrived at your door step “you know Peter, I get pranks. I am the god of mischief after all but for me, I try not to hurt specific people with them..” Loki stared, his eyes suddenly seemed serious and genuinely hurting, Peter’s lips parted and his heart was thumping in his chest loudly, worrisome his hand hovered over the metal door, shooting a fearful look towards Loki as he opened the door.

And there you were sitting on your bed tightening your bandages over your ankle, you held a little laugh back trying to stay professional knowing that he was inside and all was needed was a simple word from you. “y-y/n?” Peter asked timidly, he stood anxiously in the door frame his thoughts were running wild and all words of comfort had seemed to escape his mind, you looked up with puffy red eyes and a soft smile “it’s nothing..It’s just a scratch spider boy” you empathized the last words of the sentence and just like that, Adam’s hand appeared from behind the door and whipped cream went everywhere.

It seemed to you like it was in slow motion and Peter’s reaction was surprisingly different from what you expected.

His so called spidy sense kicked in and he managed to escape, Loki on the other hand did not have a sense of what is yet to come as the whipped cream was to hit his oblivious face.

A moment of horrifying silence roamed through, both terrifying and cringed looks were to be exchanged between the three of you before The sound of Adam began collecting his belongings quickly filled the room before Loki’s growl erupted the silence “Adam. You have 5 seconds head start to escape before I’ll destroy you.” Loki snarled, removing the sweet fluff from his eyes angrily, you simply waved with a pitying yet awkward look as he smiled nervously, an amused laugh escaping his trembling lips, a yelling “b—y-e!” was heard from the hallway yet his word being cut off at parts as he ran for his life.

After that Loki was to disappear, quite literally after 5 seconds, without another word. Quite was still occupy the room as the illusion of blood and dried tears was to leave your body.

Peter’s calm voice was to be break the silence between the two of you, he picked up a drip of whipped cream from your door with a tight smile “well..at least it’s good quality!” He shrugged and you couldn’t help but laugh genuinely “yeah well..” you smiled, quietly you stood up and tidied your outfit before limping your way to Peter “you know you can stop acting now” he shook his head, he wanted to be cold to you as he promised but he couldn’t right now, he felt the need to be true with you, and true with himself.

You rub the back of your neck with an awkward smile on your face “yeah...that is not much of acting now..” You giggled nervously staring at the curly headed boy when one of his eyebrow rose up worriedly, his eyes scanned yours for an answer and you gave him the the truth..well almost all of it. Blaming it on training only.

“I’d give you that. I did not see this prank ending up like this!” You admitted while the both of you walked towards the elevator “I didn’t even see it as prank at all so..!” He charmed, shrugging as a tight smile set in his lips, the san shown behind through the slightly tinted window making him look angelic to you, you felt your body temperature rise and was quickly to hid it away as he continued “yeah I mean I brought my friends and-“ as the elevator door opened your father and Peter’s friends at his side were to be seen, “hi dad!” You smiled “hello sweetheart” he smiled kindly before turning to peter with a questioning smile and clenched jaw “who’s are those children Parker?” He hoarse staring at Peter accusingly “Mr. Stark I can explain! We have a project from schoo-“ “I don’t care. Make sure to keep them away from my stuff” Tony said coldly, slightly pushing the two teenagers towards you and Peter “and especially this one.” He pointed at Ned accusingly “Keep him away from my designing room..he keeps saying annoying comments about my stuff!” Your dad mumbled as the elevator glass doors closed once again.

You sared at Peter for a second before taking a step closer towards the pair of friends, “hi! I’m y/n stark, you are obviously Peter’s friends..” you flashed a kind smile and a gentle wave “Ned! So your y/n Stark.! This is awesome do you have your own iron man suit? Or like because your a girl the name changes to like iron girl? Iron women? And like how long do you know the avengers? Do you have dinners together—?” The boy your father had pointed on just seconds earlier seemed quite nice, he wore white with some print over it, but you couldn’t quite see it for the dark red hoodie he wore over it. You nodded ever so slightly losing his track of words “I-..I’ll answer those later?” You giggled as Peter smacked his head, you turned to the female next to him, her hair was curly and in a low ponytail, strains of her hair dropping next to her right cheekbone, she had no makeup whatsoever but still look so beautiful, she wore an outfit you actually kind of liked, pair of black jeans some white shirt underneath and an olive green bomber jacket. You smiled softly “and you must be Liz!” You said, trying your hardest not to seem irritated by the fact she was here, something within you wished your friend had stayed longer just so you wouldn’t feel outcasted next to the other. “Liz-?!” She let out a sarcastic laugh to the name, she faked wiping a tear of laughter away and turned to you with a friendly face “No. no. I’m Michelle” she said nodding you, you felt a bit shocked but a smile of delight crossed your face “oh uh.. cool! By the way I love your outfit!” You said truthfully before turning to Peter “well..I won’t disturb you guys, you do..wait. What are you doing again?” You asked a nervous yet curious tone to your words.

“We have some school stuff to do” Peter shrugged with a tensed smile, a quiet “oh..” escaped your parted lips “well.. I already graduated so if you need help peter, you know where I am” You smiled shyly, a trace of turning to the others you waved at them saying it was nice meeting them and walked away, you didn’t see nor hear the teasing his friends gave him after you left and his ears turned a bright color of red.

“Banner??” Your voice echoed in the silent room, your feet made their way around on the cold floor, a sudden noise brought your attention and your heart rattled as you turned to see Sam standing in the entrance, he leaned against the door frame a soft smile on his lips, you placed your hand on your chest shaking your head with a small huff, you noticed his staring at your injured leg and you were quick to hide it behind your left one.

“May I help you Birdie?” You chuckled and walked towards you “been looking for you Stark, was wondering..” he began a suspicious eyebrows shadowing his dark brown eyes “did you take my snacks?”, he accused but you stared confused, then remembered Peter’s friends, you shrugged and said no shortly, you nudge his arm with a smile “go ask Buck..or Steve” you suggested before leaving to the bright hallway, a soft chuckle escaped your lips ‘better go save the spiderling before he’s gonna have a front with pidgin’ you thought and shook your head, a small and satisfied smile creeping up to your pink lips for now you had an excuse to see the dreamy boy.

You stood at the foot of the door and leaned in, you could hear some music being played along side with giggles and some muffled voices, you breathed deeply and took all the courage your father was ever so kind to pass it to you and stormed in “Parker!” You surprised the boy so much that he fell out of his spinning red chair, you stood still a bit shock as the boy mumbled a few curse words under his breath, and stared at the ruffled boy a teasing grin opposed his frustration. You scanned his room, sure you’ve seen this room a few times but no it was a bit different. The room was significantly smaller than yours, but still spacious and open, the walls were still bright white with a tint of mint in them, a medium sized window was at the left side of the room, he had a queen sized bed with a fluffed out comforter, he had everything simplified with just a few touches of modern Stark tech, he had a few posters hanging on the wall and the missing Snacks sitting on the table next to Peter. On the white carpeted floor sat Michelle who seemed to like you since she even knew you, to be exact, she began liking you from the moment she saw Peter’s blue teeth. And on the bed sat Ned, well now he stood and approached his dumbfounded friend.

“W-what is it y/n?” His voice was rough, his voice signaled thay he was mad but his hidden smile said otherwise. You smiled innocently “well..no need to be angry I just came here to warn ya” you shrugged and entered the room fully closing the door with a click “F.R.I.D.A.Y” you called and the three of them seemed to look around when the disembodied voice answered, you could even hear the three of them mumbling “cool” all together.

“could you please tell me where Sam Wilson is?” You asked politely and strode around the room eyes locked on the Star War poster “he is currently with Mr. Barnes and Mr. Rogers miss” you nodded your head and turned to Peter with a grin “my advice to you trainee,” you came closer to him confidently, well you seemed confident and that’s good enough. “Hide the stuff you took before Sam finds ya” You smiled devilish eyeing the pile of Candy, they all darted their eyes from you and Peter to the quite large pile sitting on the desk “where is Mr Wilson right now?” You asked again politely eyeing Peter “he is currently in the elevator and he seems upset, should I call your father—?” “No! No. Don’t call my dad it’s fine.” You cut quickly, you felt yourself heating up in embarrassment and just Grabbed a few of the candy and stuffed them underneath the pillows “what’s going on?“ Michelle asked slowly rising from her spot “Smurf boy is in trouble, again. And I’m helping.” You reply with a teasing smile fronting the red cheeked boy “don’t call me that it’s wasn’t my fault it was morn-” you giggled as he eyed you, he was trying his best to seem irritated for the sake of the act but couldn’t feel flattered that your tried to ‘’save’’ him.

“just help me to hide this or you’ll suffer a whole lot and this time it would not be from me” smirking you turned on your heels and continued to stuff the different sweets underneath the covers and even in Ned’s bag. From the corner of your eye you could see him do the same as his friends simply looked lazily at the two of you.

“Hey Parker!” Sam entered the room dramatically, by some kind of miracle the two of you were just done and scattered to sit around the room, Ned and Michelle hadn’t moved much and just hurried to return to their previous places. Peter had returned to his seat, sitting backwards leaning on the back of the red chair, his chin was resting over his crossed arms leaning forward into the conversation that had been rudely stopped. “Yeah?” The curly headed boy turned his head slightly and now was leaning his cheek over his tensed arms “you took my snacks Queens?!” Sam accused, Peter eyes widened and he turned to you, you crossed your legs on the bed in an attempt to hide the pile of Candy underneath the covers beneath you, “...no?” He hesitated and darted back at you “No Sam. He didn’t.” You rolled your eyes, scarily reminding your dad. “Stop protecting the boy cause you think he’s cute Stark! He know what he did—“ “I-I don’t like him! First of all.” You cut him off, your voice strummer as you spoke, a fleshing color of red rose up to your cheeks as you continued “and second of all, though you may have been sleep eating? Hm!?” You stared at him, a judging expression written on your face, he scoffed at your response and left muttered quietly something like “those damn kids..”

Leaving the room door open you signaled Ned to close it and so he did, not breaking eye contact with you “you do that a lot?” Michelle asked nonchalantly, you turned your face to her, an impressed smile cracking her bored expression. “Yeah when you think of it” You giggled and undid your legs ready to leave them alone “well..” you said slowly rising from the comfortable bed, “I shall leave you to do your..school work” you said in disparagement a bit of disappointment in your voice but you hid it with a slight smirk crossing towards the door “ask her-!” Ned whispered loudly pushing Peter in your direction, making him trip a bit farther. You turned to look at him a cheeky yet embarrassed look written on his face as he ran his hand through his brown hair, “ask me what Parker?” You teased and crossed your arms, leaning on one leg as he placed his hands in his pockets, he rolled his eyes rudely before he grunted under his breath “could you like to help us a bit?” You felt your heart beats fasting their pace but kept yourself, and even though your eyes were warm and happiness spread through your body, you were met with Peter’s stone cold ones. He actually did want you to stay, but as he watched you smile, taunting Sam, your soft giggle echoed in his head he remembered his promise ‘be cold so she would stay safe..’ he thoughts trolled, he sight as he saw the slight hurt in your eyes when he acted coldly, but he had to keep his act up, because...what else could he do to protect you?

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My desperate Loki Infinity War theory.

I know that this is grasping at straws, but I’m trying to convince myself that Marvel wouldn’t be stupid enough to kill one of it’s most popular characters within the first five minutes of the damn movie, and in such a predictable way that they’ve basically handed to us in snippets throughout each new trailer. Why would they be so obvious about a popular character’s supposed death scene?

Well, here’s my stupid theory.

It starts out like everyone else’s theory about how things might go down with the Asgardian refugees. Thanos’ ship intercepts them, attacks their people in a devastating way, and gives Thor and Loki almost zero time to come up with a plan.

Loki reveals that he took the tesseract, for one reason or another (I don’t think that he took it for nefarious reasons) and they send Bruce down to earth using a portal from it. This is why he ends up in the Sanctum Sanctorum.

There is a fight and Thor and Loki are captured by the Black Order. Loki manages to hide the tesseract away within a pocket dimension, but they know that he has it and that he won’t give it up. They can’t just simply take it from him because it’s technically not on him. They threaten him, but he refuses.

Until Thanos grabs Thor and begins to torture him, threatening to kill him right there unless Loki hands it over.

Now, some people are saying that Thor is screaming as he is forced to witness the execution of Loki, but I can see Thano’s fingers pressing a bit harder into Thor’s forehead, and of course, Thor’s eyes are closed. He’s not looking at anything. He’s just in agony. Loki is being forced to watch his brother’s torture and threatened execution while being held by the Black Order with Proxima’s spear pointed directly at him in case he even tries to move forward.

Loki eventually gives in a hands the tesseract over in exchange for Thor’s life.

Now here’s where my theory begins to differ from the rest. Why would Thanos just throw Thor out to space? Why would he have Loki killed right then and there? Both are valuable. Both know the location of other infinity stones. He also promised Loki that he’d “long for something sweet as pain”, which a few seconds of watching Thor being squeezed doesn’t really add up to. I’m going to throw out the possibility that Thanos orders for both brothers to be taken prisoner, where Ebony Maw will try to pry the information about the locations of the Mind and Reality gems from Loki’s mind. A while back there was some news that Rene Russo was on set. Perhaps Ebony forces Loki to hallucinate Frigga in order to torment him further. But, he miscalculated. Loki’s love for his dead mother urges him to overpower Maw. After defeating him and knocking him unconscious, Loki throws an illusion over Maw and himself to make it appear that Ebony Maw’s beaten form is Loki’s, while Loki takes on the appearance of Ebony Maw himself as he walks through the wreckage to try to find Thor.

When he does find where Thor is being held, Loki pretends that Loki fell unconcious during the torment and that he (as Maw) wants to infiltrate Thor’s mind next. Thor is hostile at first, until Loki finds a subtle way to reveal to his brother that it’s actually him in disguise. And in comes this scene, because Ebony Maw actually shushing someone else is just weird?

The two try to escape. They no longer have the tesseract, and so maybe they’ll have to take a damaged escape pod or the Commodore. Either Thor will go alone and Loki will be left behind (either by accident or on purpose), or they’ll try to go together. Instead of Thanos randomly tossing Thor into space without first making sure that he’s dead, this honestly would make more sense to me. Maybe Thor’s escape vehicle, being damaged from the assault on the main ship, crashes and he (or both brothers) are sent tumbling through space. But, only Thor is picked up by the Guardians.

Loki is either not seen again, leaving his fate a mystery for the time being, or he is picked up by someone else. Maybe Nebula? I think that it would be a pretty dramatic and a satisfying plot line to have Thor and Loki separated, and fighting against Thanos while they each think that the other is dead -- always just missing each other and failing to cross paths. Until they finally do find each other again and cue the water works. It would be even cooler if Thor gets to spend time with Gamora and Loki with Nebula, since their adopted-sibling expiriences are so similar.

Now, let’s be honest. All of this probably won’t happen and it’s just another theory, but like I said... I’d be kind of shocked if Marvel was willing to show Loki’s “death scene” in such an obvious way throughout the trailers.You’d think that Marvel would want to keep the film’s big deaths a complete mystery with how they’re hyping them up, but they keep tossing us little snippets from that scene and now literally everyone is 99% sure that Loki will bite the dust. But why would Marvel be that obvious?

Loki is one of the MCU’s most beloved characters and one with arguably some of the most untapped potential. If he was to die in Infinity War, it would be quite stupid for his death to be done in such a quick, obvious, and unsatisfying way. Maybe they are just simply that clueless when it comes to Loki’s fan base (and sometimes, I really do think that they are), but I like to at least hope that they've wizened up over the years and might choose to make the most of his character.

Try to keep in mind that just because you’ve not seen Hiddleston on set doesn’t mean that he wasn’t in a studio somewhere surrounded by green screen. And just because he’s not been seen in any other clips doesn’t necessarily mean that he won’t be in any at all. Those other scenes could be a massive spoiler. Marvel has also been know it edit characters, props, and even bits of a character’s costume out of scenes in trailers due to them being spoilers. Loki could actually be in that ship with the Guardians and fighting alongside Thor in the film, but they could have purposely edited him out of the trailers.

Just look at the San Diego Comic Con trailer for Dark World (and honestly any trailer for that film. They were all so damn edited) as an example of their jumbling of a “plot twists” in trailers to confuse fans. They made it look like Loki was betraying Thor to the Dark Elves, only to have the complete opposite happen in the film. They like to fool us with their trailers. They like to make us think something is going to happen only to have it turn out to be false. I’m hoping that they’re playing that game again.

Of course, Loki could really die in the scene, but don’t forget that there’s also still a small chance that he won’t.

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Loki Episode 5 Review: Journey Into Mystery

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This review contains spoilers for Marvel’s Loki episode 5, WandaVision and The Falcon and the Winter Soldier.

Loki Episode 5

“I am Loki. God of Outcasts. They see themselves in me, and I in them. All of us, alone together. It’s why my stories always end with someone trying to put me in a box. And begin with my spectacular escape.”

An except there from Daniel Kibblesmith’s Loki #5, and quite a prominent theme of Loki’s story in the Marvel Cinematic Universe to date. Classic Loki (a spectacular Richard E. Grant) declared part of it aloud in the fifth episode of Loki when he told his gathered counterparts that they only have one part to play in the story of life, the universe, and everything: the God of Outcasts.

But throughout the series to date, Loki has borne witness to all his terrible flaws made flesh, and right about now he is just sick to death of them. From the God of Outcasts to the God of Losers to the God of Mischief, Loki is tired – so very tired – of himself. He’s also falling in love with himself, but I’m not here to perform that kind of emotional labor. He can take that shit to his therapist and work it out in private.

“Wherever you go, there you are” fits just as well for Loki episode 5’s theme, as Loki got to know some other versions of himself while stranded in the Void; their mistakes laid bare. Kid Loki killed Thor (you could’ve heard a pin drop), Classic Loki survived his Avengers: Infinity War encounter with Thanos by using his beefed-up sorcery …to hide. Alligator Loki ate his neighbor’s cat. Boastful Loki kicked both Iron Man and Captain America’s asses and went on to collect the Infinity Stone set, and “Vote Loki” was all about claiming political power on Midgard, I suppose.

It’s hard to pick an MVP from this gaggle of Lokis on the run. While it’s tempting to immediately choose Alligator Loki (literally every shot of him broke any serious moment with a laugh) or Kid Loki, who I am looking forward to inevitably joining a future Young Avengers lineup, Classic Loki wielded the most thematic impact by revealing what would have happened if Loki had evaded death in the “sacred” MCU timeline: weariness, loneliness, and a mile of regret. Loki really got a chance to see where all his worthless baggage was taking him, drawn heavily in the lines of Classic Loki’s face.

While there was both a lot of emotional resonance and fun to be had in this particular installment of the series, it did suffer from the traditional problems of a penultimate episode. It had “one last boss to fight” in Alioth before our Loki-Sylvie duo forged ahead to challenge the big bad, and we also had to go through the motions of “formulating a successful plan of attack,” all of which drove up enough excitement for the finale but didn’t really get us any closer to the end of our own journey into mystery. After last week’s shocks and surprises, there was bound to be a little calm before the storm, but I’m probably not the only one who hoped for a little bit more oomph in amongst the admittedly extremely distracting and gleeful collection of Marvel Easter eggs onscreen.

It was definitely a relief to see Mobius had managed to stay alive in the Void after being pruned at Judge Renslayer’s behest. Many thanks to Marvel for pulling its own “Lightning McQueen to the rescue” moment in a pizza delivery car – alright, it wasn’t a jet ski, but there’s still time. It seems that Loki has made a real friend in all this weirdness, and I hope that this will be a friendship that endures beyond the end of the series. Owen Wilson has been an excellent addition to the MCU and seems to have had a lot of fun playing the character.

Though it was a pleasure to spend some time with Mobius, the Lokis, and their stories, there was some awkward blanket time with Loki and Sylvie that I really could have done without. I will reiterate that I wish this romance wasn’t happening; it just feels weird as hell. I love Sylvie as a character but making her a love interest for Loki still feels unfortunate and way too rushed.

In the end, Loki and Sylvie managed to enchant Alioth by combining their growing power, but unfortunately it was too late to save Classic Loki, something I do not have it in my heart to forgive at this time. Yes, of course they managed to open a portal to the place beyond the Void in an effort to confront the entity who may truly be behind the creation of the TVA, but would it have killed them to get the job done a few seconds earlier?

Who will be revealed as the villain of this show next week? My first instinct – and one I had when the first trailer was released despite getting all the details laughably wrong – was that Loki and Sylvie were about to meet the MCU’s version of Doctor Doom. The castle we see in the distance looks eerily like the Doomstadt of Battleworld. But so many hints in the series thus far have teased a Kang the Conqueror appearance!

However, in the back of my mind lies another, perhaps more realistic fact: this is the third Marvel Disney+ series, and in the first two there were “big bad” mysteries that were resolved without introducing a new MCU character at the end. In WandaVision it was not Mephisto pulling the strings, but Agatha. In The Falcon and the Winter Soldier, the Power Broker turned out to be Sharon Carter. In Loki, it is therefore just as likely that the man behind the TVA curtain will be someone we’ve already met: Loki himself.

As always, I’m looking forward to all your thoughts and theories in the comments, and I’ll see you next week for the finale!

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my rambling thoughts about thor: ragnarok + thoughts for iw

!!!!spoilers!!!!

- the opening scene of thor vs surtur is brilliant

- odin!loki is one of the best thing in this movie. from the way he sits, eat his grapes, and saying “oh shit” when thor came... it was priceless. props to anthony hopkins for portraying it perfectly

- the cameo is also very hilarious

- brodinsons finding their father is also a good moment. i love how odin acknowledges loki and even said he was proud of him, while telling them both to work together.

- we’ll talk about hela later, along with my comment to other characters

- sakaar is really fun, all those colors and the ~theme music~ is just really cool

- i’d love to see more grandmaesters shenanigans

- korg is so precious bless him

- the final fight is also pretty spectacular since the people were literally trapped if loki the little shit didn’t come to help, and no one literally know how to defeat hela

- HELA. okay she’s cool and extremely powerful. she showed that she can single handedly killed the whole asgardian army and pin thor down and continuously producing weapons but i really wish we saw her make more destruction. i feel like from the trailer, they give us “shit is coming” however, when she’s on asgard, she literally made no destruction other than killing the army. i really wish we could see more of her powers.

- THOR. THIS IS THE THOR WE HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR. he’s funny, he’s carefree, but he’s also wise. he’s like the bratty thor from thor 1, but less angsty than the other thor we’ve seen so far. this is the balanced thor. idk how to explain it but I LOVE IT. i love to see his new ability too, mainly his ability to communicate with heimdall.

- VALKYRIE. i really hope we see more of her in mcu- to see more of her in action and her conquest as a valkyrie. also, does she has a name? since valkyrie is name of the elite army, not the person.

- BRUCE. damn bby so precious and need to be protected at all cost. i mean, he turned back into hulk to save asgardians from fenrir, even though he knew he might not come back?????? *sobs*

- LOKI. okay tbh i didn’t really like him here. sure he’s hot as usual, and like i said that battle sequence is g l o r i o u s, i can’t wait to see them gifs on my dashboard, but loki seems very tame in this movie. in thor 1, his jealousy fuel him. in avengers, it’s his madness (?)- or possibly mind control, depends on which side you see him. in thor 2, it’s his grief and revenge. in this movie... he seems tame because he has nothing to drive him. i miss that drive in loki. we only saw it in the third act when he needed to protect the asgardians.

on the other hand, maybe it’s also because he has nothing to be angry for? i mean he got a taste of being king. he lost his parents already and thor is all he has left... and he’s obviously fond of thor as we can see in this movie. i think this is how loki was and should be, someone who just wanted to be by thor’s side. it seems very abrupt tbh, but in that universe it’s been 4 years since the dark world, so who knows, maybe loki already has time to reflect and be nice.

also i feel like they really downplay loki’s ability in this movie. yes, his fighting is amazing as we see in the final act, but he was beaten by valkyrie beforehand. and then for someone who’s supposed to be the best sorcerer in the nine realms, he was easily dodged by dr. strange. like???? he managed to spell odin, which even odin himself admit was hard to break. so theoritically, he could put a spell on someone to do what he said, and he could definitely use that in their escape effort but nooo they have to reduce him.

we saw his other new ability though, like it’s great to see how he could see someone’s memory and that his illusion is not easily dissolved as we believed it to be.

i can’t wait to see this calm loki meeting the avengers. they’ll flip. i can’t wait to see their reactions.

- I LOVE THE BRODINSON MOMENT. either the acting is just amazing, or their chemistry just works. by seeing at their gestures and facial expression you could see a strong brotherly bond. loki being scared of mjolnir and thor threatening loki with it. loki understood thor’s grief and try to cautiously calm him down, and didn’t try to fight when thor blamed him. thor rely on loki to attack hela in bifrost. loki begging/asking/bugging thor to speak in the freaky circle (i swear he looks and feel like a little brother begging his older brother to talk at that moment). loki being obviously sad when thor agreed with him that they path are not together anymore. thor already anticipated loki’s tricks by throwing stuff and electrocute him. loki smirking when thor recount the snake incident. LOKI SMIRKING WHEN THOR’S WENT FULL LIGHTNING LIKE HE WAS SO PROUD AND KNEW IT ALL ALONG THE EXTENT OF THOR’S FULL POWER like “finally this oaf got to used them”.

- and my favorite: “if you’re here i’d give you a hug” *throws shit* “i’m here”

*cue me screeching internally*

- i love how none of the asgardians are surprised loki come back to protect them, and neither did thor. they just strategize together immediately. like everyone knew they could depend on loki when shit gets real. *proudly sobbing*

- i have the feeling that the huge ass ship in the mid credit scene is thanos coming to grab the infinity stone, which i’m 10000000% sure loki took. i mean the next avengers movie is titled “infinity war” there’s no way in hell one infinity war got destroyed before the movie even started.

- i’m pretty sure stephen strange won’t be happy seeing the asgardians relocate to norway (”remember this place” it just so foreshadowing don’t you think?) i mean he let the brothers go in exchange for going back to asgard but they actually destroy asgard AND NOW RELOCATING TO EARTH

- no he won’t be happy

- come to think again, i don’t think any of the avengers would be happy

- now here’s the thing that confuse me for iw: it was obvious from the preview that loki was in ruins giving the tesseract to someone unknown.

whether suicide or not, loki deliberately let go and fall in thor 1. when he first came to earth in avengers, he didn’t look healthy either. and there’s no way in hell the director and make up artist set it to look like that without any meaning. however, in the dark world it went unmentioned and it seems like too many time has passed for it to be brought up again. and then this whole debacle about loki’s eyes.

we never knew what happened when he fell or why he looked unhealthy etc, so either it will be addressed in iw or it will went unmentioned and just become a plot hole. which means a) the brothers will reach earth and things will work out with loki in earth and asgardians and avengers b) the brothers will reach earth, but shit happens because hello, loki in ruins c) none of the brothers and asgardian reach earth, possibly the huge ass ship attack asgard’s ship, killing everyone and leaving thor stranded to guardians’ ship in the movie d) option c but only thor and loki survived e) something else entirely.

another thing is the last infinity stone is still m.i.a from mcu, and the final movie before iw is black panther, which is pretty unlikely to have the soul gem. so either it will appear in iw directly, or mcu will surprise us and showed it in black panther.

i feel like i’m squeezed dry already so bring it on 2018!

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