I come back on Tumblr because something's gotten into my head and I need to say it, so I will. Recently, I've gotten a lot more MCU content on my fyp because of the new Deadpool movie. It made me look back on old things, and it's been really wonderful seeing myself relive what got me so deep into Marvel before I burnt out eventually. But just today I saw a complaint I myself had in the past.
The Daddy Dom-ifacation of Marvel characters. Where they're so heavily OOC that people are too busy getting horny to really think if that's anything the said character would actually do or say for a second. Usually it's not, but even that isn't my real thing here. What got me thinking were the reasons why people thought they were inaccurate.
This was about Loki specifically, so some people brought up Comic Loki. How in the comics he was, at some point, young enough in human years to be considered a teenager.
A lot brought up TVA Loki, how he's so much softer and caring with his friends, and that with the first romantic interest he had in the entire MCU, he was mostly awkward and vulnerable with her. Not aggressive or demanding. Not to mention it's clear he's specifically inexperienced, with love at least.
Someone brought up Loki from the movies, that before he died, he was more of a geek than some aggressive dom type. That, even if he had sex experience, he'd be unlikely to act as some people portray him to be.
Someone even brought up how it was inaccurate to the actual deity, but I'll choose not to say anything about that before I get ignorant.
But there was one comment that really got me thinking, and that was someone who said that people needed to stop taking the series version of him as gospel, and that it was even frustrating to watch because of how "soft" and inaccurate he was.
Now, this isn't the first time I've heard people hate TVA Loki. But I feel like, in a way, people are comparing variants way too much?
Because that's what he is. He's a variant. He was similar to movie Loki at some point, but they're entirely different people. They've learnt different things, and had different experiences. Expecting him, or any variant for that matter, to be any similar to another past core values is kind of blind to me.
Like, the way I see it, he's always vulnerable and "soft" because he was put in a vulnerable position. He had no magic, no real way out, and his entire universe was gone. And he was in a place where they made Infinity Stones completely useless. Of course he's more vulnerable and soft, he's weak there. And when he wasn't in the TVA, he was on planets going through Apocalypses, or surrounded by agents. He can't exactly be tough in a situation like that.
He was still vulnerable later because, well, any of his friends could die at any moment. As crazy as that sounds, they're all powerless in a way. And when the loom exploded, I feel he only realized that fact more. He's softer with them because they're all human except Sylvie, and they're weaker, and even she's vulnerable when it comes to the loom and the Multiverse.
He's softer because he literally has everything to lose without them. There's not too much time for bullshitting when the Multiverse could crumble and there can be a full fucking war and you can lose the little friend group you have in an absolute second. Of course he's a bit softer. He's not Comic Loki or Movie Loki.
I could go on about just how Movie Loki and Comic Loki are different too, but I'm just kinda rambling at this point, so I'll leave it there, but I feel like people really forget that while yes, they're all Loki's, they're still different Loki's. With different experiences, lives and feelings. Honestly, there probably is some weird Daddy Dom Loki out there, I feel like the main reason people find it weird is because most people write or mean for those three to be that type of guy, and they just aren't.
TLDR; Making your dom smut about specific character variants instead would be a little cool actually. And I find people expecting all variants to be the exact same annoying. They're still different people guys, keep up.
