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Tom Hiddleston's impressions are back!! Loki dog's everywhere!!!

#dogs called loki

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hashtag mobius and the tva.

if that was framed properly and (and this is a BIG 'and') LOKI was fully recognisable as his avengers 2012 self, that could have been quite the story, even if not what we were promised at the beginning.

a nice side quest for LOKI of asgard on his way to resolving his personal trauma and family conflicts

but instead... this is the worst timeline. 😒

Here's the thing I keep trying to articulate and possibly failing: I don't actually mind characters who are terrible people. I have enjoyed many. What I mind is characters who are terrible people while the narrative keeps trying to say that they are wonderful, often contradicting what the narrative shows us, with no self awareness

#in defense of loki #loki deserves better #2011-2013 loki supremacy #loki of asgard

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He’s so disappointed his hands are soft

#peak tom

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"You guys just hate because you want every marvel movie to be Endgame, movies cant all be that good"

Fool,

I hated Endgame too

#2011-2013 loki supremacy #avengers loki my beloved

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Thor (2011) → Thor: The Dark World (2013)

#2011-2013 loki supremacy #actually loki #this is loki #loki of asgard

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what self indulgent loki hcs do you guys have? these could be literally any sort of self indulgent. whether that’s you projecting onto him, x reader type of hcs, or anything in between. i’d like to know it all!!

#in defense of loki #2011-2013 loki supremacy #loki deserves better #actually loki #this is loki #loki of asgard #loki is not a villain #accurate loki fanfic #jotun loki

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...and, fanfic. fanart. that's where the real OG LOKI lives now.

honestly at this point i'm just waiting til AI is good enough that we can feed it an OG movie source, and a new fanmade script, and have it make the movies about LOKI that marvel denied us.

and you can fight me on that too.

Any time I see someone say "Marvel knew what they were doing when they cast Tom Hiddleston" I feel a bit like...they didn't though? I think you're projecting some 4D chess grandmaster stuff onto Marvel Studios that doesn't really exist.

Tom was cast via Kenneth Branagh and yes it was PHENOMENAL casting but let's not pretend like Marvel Studios didn't spend the next near-decade and a half deleting Loki's scenes, killing him then instantly reviving him, deleting yet more of his scenes, killing him again, retconning killing him, sticking him off-screen for almost half a decade, removing yet another scene and not even compensating his fans with a DVD extra, killing him again, then suddenly remembering he's popular (again) and coming up with something to use a now-for-real-dead character as the lead but it wasn't exactly the same character (just another version of him) and now they're apparently done with him again when it's pretty obvious he'll be wheeled out of that tree at some point.

I love Loki. I love Tom's portrayal of Loki but the only people who have consistently genuinely seemed to care about the character are the fans. Because we've been given nothing but crumbs by Marvel and yet produce all this beautiful fan art, fan fic and meta. Marvel have just kinda stumbled around Loki like some perpetually confused pigeon in a hall of mirrors that keeps crashing into its own reflection shrugging "huh...what IS this? Ooh shiny!"

Knew what they were doing? More like lucked out with a very talented and charismatic actor and a dedicated fanbase that formed 2011-12 and is somehow, despite everything still here.

#og loki my beloved #2011 2013 loki supremacy #the tragedy of loki in-universe and out

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yes.

yes to everything written here. and honestly... i think tom is only as good as his direction and his script. he seems to be inspired by that synergy when it all works perfectly, and brings some new and unexpected level of absolute mastery to his performance...

but when it doesn't, tom's innate charisma and talent is not enough to save it. exhibit A: ragnarok. exhibit B: that series.

while i'll allow that 2017-2019 LOKI was still semi-recognisable as the original character, semi really isn't good enough when you're talking about the original studio and actor only 3-4 years after his last appearance. a semi-recognisable performance is good enough when you're a cosplayer.

as for the series... absolutely not. the showrunners had no idea who LOKI was or what he stood for, and tom just... took their lead and played as he was directed.

"but isn't that what an actor is supposed to do?"

well... one could argue that if the integrity of a preexisting character or story is being compromised, perhaps the actor might make a stand. hashtag henry cavill. i just think tom convinced himself somehow that he was doing justice to LOKI with his new "direction" and "giving the fans what they want". but there was a special quality to his interviews and press conferences from 2011-2013, which is significantly absent now. it really feels like he's just going through the motions. fulfilling his contractual obligations. the excitement and spark is mostly gone.

do i know tom personally? of course not. do i have any evidence for my suppositions in that last remark above? well no. i only have my observations, and that is what they suggest, to me.

i'm just heartbroken that now... even moreso than when he was brutally murdered in infinity war... tom's LOKI is truly gone from our screens. because if tom doesn't remember who LOKI is, he can't ever be brought back.

all we have left of him is those first three films, where the magic was created and can never be eclipsed or erased by anything that came after.

2011-2013 LOKI supremacy.

fight me.

Any time I see someone say "Marvel knew what they were doing when they cast Tom Hiddleston" I feel a bit like...they didn't though? I think you're projecting some 4D chess grandmaster stuff onto Marvel Studios that doesn't really exist.

Tom was cast via Kenneth Branagh and yes it was PHENOMENAL casting but let's not pretend like Marvel Studios didn't spend the next near-decade and a half deleting Loki's scenes, killing him then instantly reviving him, deleting yet more of his scenes, killing him again, retconning killing him, sticking him off-screen for almost half a decade, removing yet another scene and not even compensating his fans with a DVD extra, killing him again, then suddenly remembering he's popular (again) and coming up with something to use a now-for-real-dead character as the lead but it wasn't exactly the same character (just another version of him) and now they're apparently done with him again when it's pretty obvious he'll be wheeled out of that tree at some point.

I love Loki. I love Tom's portrayal of Loki but the only people who have consistently genuinely seemed to care about the character are the fans. Because we've been given nothing but crumbs by Marvel and yet produce all this beautiful fan art, fan fic and meta. Marvel have just kinda stumbled around Loki like some perpetually confused pigeon in a hall of mirrors that keeps crashing into its own reflection shrugging "huh...what IS this? Ooh shiny!"

Knew what they were doing? More like lucked out with a very talented and charismatic actor and a dedicated fanbase that formed 2011-12 and is somehow, despite everything still here.

#in defense of loki #2011-2013 loki supremacy #loki deserves better #loki of asgard #marvel hates loki and tom #avengers loki my beloved #loki is not a villain

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#in defense of loki #2011-2013 loki supremacy #actually loki #this is loki #loki of asgard #loki deserves better

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🫂

Can we talk about how some Loki fans hate on Loki even more than Loki haters do 😟

#in defense of loki

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@varangianviper 🫂 #originstory 18 july 2022

Can we talk about how some Loki fans hate on Loki even more than Loki haters do 😟

#in defense of loki #2011-2013 loki supremacy #loki deserves better #actually loki #this is loki #loki of asgard #loki is not a villain #loki is representation for marginalised and traumatised people and that's another reason why it really matters what happens to him

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thor 1 loki baby you are so special to me <3

#loki of asgard #this is loki #2011 2013 loki supremacy

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comic con loki is iconic

#2011 2013 loki supremacy #in defense of loki #miss him #og loki my beloved

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the dynamic of thor 1 really was just scenes of Thor being a dick on earth that then cut away to scenes of Loki on the verge of having a panic attack over his traumatic childhood and desperately trying to salvage his life and please his father, only to cut back to Thor becoming mildly more polite simply so he could get this random womans approval, and they just expected us to go with it and agree that Loki was the villain all along

#in defense of loki #2011 2013 loki supremacy #loki is not a villain

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too many people out here thinking Loki’s vice was pride. No, Thor’s vice was pride. Loki’s was envy.

#in defense of loki #2011-2013 loki supremacy

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okay so...

and

well.

surprising no one lol

I'm curious let's go

#all posts are about loki #2011-2013 loki supremacy

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Thor (2011), dir. Kenneth Branagh

#actually loki #this is loki #2011-2013 loki supremacy #in defense of loki