This is a lovely example of how the Ragnarok filmmakers retconned everything about Thor and Loki’s relationship and twisted their characters.
According to Ragnarok, it’s Thor who wants to talk things through. Thor wants to bring up their family issues. And Loki chooses not to talk.
Let’s just have a little stroll down Memory Lane to Reality Check Street, shall we?
Thor habitually undermines and shuts his brother up, to the extent that Thor’s friends—and even the servants—openly show disrespect for Loki.
In the final moments, when Odin rejects Loki, It becomes brutally clear that this is the dynamic: Loki will never be heard in this family.
Thor never once asks Loki why he’s come to Earth, or what happened to him in the void. He makes the worst assumptions about his own brother.
Then, he literally puts a gag on Loki and goes out to eat with his new friends.
Despite everything that has gone before, Loki is still making overtures to Thor—still trying to reach his brother.
Thor: “I did not come here to share our grief.”
Then, Thor gives the first of several threats that he’ll kill Loki if he “ betrays” him.
Still, no one has ever asked Loki why he tried to take over Midgard. Odin has passed his harsh judgment, and Thor apparently agrees with it, though Loki never had a chance to defend himself. His life is only spared because Frigga is soft hearted. The entire family apparently believes he deserves to die.
Loki reveals that he has taken the Tesseract from Asgard’s vault before the planet was destroyed. Thor doesn’t consider why Loki might have taken it. The assumption is that Loki “stole” it for some nefarious purpose. He snaps to his final judgement of Loki; literally the last words he ever says to his brother.
Loki is in this movie for about 2 minutes, and in that time Thor gags him.
Thor did nothing but shut Loki up and shut him down in every movie—but in Ragnarok, Thor’s the one who wants to talk it out?
The truth is that Loki was always desperate to be heard. Desperate.
If one person in Loki’s life had been willing to hear him, rather than treating him like dirt (Odin), ignoring him (Thor), gaslighting him (Frigga), mocking him (the Warriors 3), despising him (Sif), distrusting him (Heimdall), and betraying him (all of the above), things would have turned out very differently for them all.
Just one small example of how Ragnarok disrespects Loki and violates canon.
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