I think the reason pro-Ragnarok fans get so defensive, is because one, they’re the majority so they feel superior and like it’s their duty to put the antis in their place, and also, alot of people in a majority like that take comfort in group conformity, and when they see someone not conforming to their ideas, opinions or beliefs, it’s like they feel threatened by it? What is bewildering is how they can blindly flat-out worship the guy and not know anything about him. Never read an interview, never listened to a podcast, never heard the man speak about making the movie. They think you’re making it up when you quote him directly. You then provide the link to the source, then they say you can’t take a joke, and tack on calling you a racist. There’s a trendy belief among this majority that the other Thor movies sucked. There’s also the trendy belief, even among some Loki fans, that “it’s just Loki, so it’s ok” to treat him like trash. And they say the whole thing about Waititi wanting to humiliate Loki was made up by the “crazy Loki stans” because we’re “horny hetero racists”. No, we just read the interviews. And you don’t really need the interviews to know that.
I’ve seen posts that are blaming “problematic” fans for all the hate and negativity that exists in the Thor franchise fandom now. You can always blame the fans of course, but the fact is that it was Taika Waititi who showed up with his middle finger cocked in the face of fans of the franchise, and called it “respectful disrespect”. He is the one who showed up with a grudge and an agenda, no shit. He is the one who brought the hate in. He and Chris Hemsworth together. That defensive attitude of superiority? He speaks their language because he is just like that.
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