#christ-figure

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[jackiestarsister]

"Loki" season 2 finale reaction

Currently reassembling my mind after having it blown by the Loki season finale.

I thought most of Season 2 was decent, but this finale was one of the best things I've seen from the entire Marvel franchise. It also turned out to be one of the most beautiful combinations of science fiction and mythology I've ever seen.

And that character arc ... I'm struggling to find words adequate for how amazing and transcendent it was. It wrapped up the journey of a character whose story has been unfolding onscreen for 12 years, and brought him to an unexpected but satisfying place.

There was one line in particular that, combined with his actions in that moment, made him a Christ-figure. "I know what kind of god I have to be ... for you. For all of us." He realizes that he has to be the kind of god that sacrifices himself for the survival of the world. He has to be reborn through death, like the T.S. Eliot line he quoted earlier in the episode.

After all the time he spent trying to make himself a god to be feared by all, he becomes a god who works unseen, without credit for all that he does.

Loki finally understands what "burden" and "glory" and "purpose" mean, and has found his own through love--for Sylvie, for Mobius, for all his friends and colleagues in the TVA, and for the innumerable timelines and all their inhabitants.

If that is the last we see of Loki, I'll be content. But apparently he's now the god of stories, so I guess he'll always be (or maybe always has been) in the Marvel multiverse.

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Shows some of the themes.