Today I meet a fellow Loki fan but are they really a fan when they only like him for his looks?
I don’t shame people for liking a character’s look but you’re not really a fan if that’s the only thing you like about a certain character.
I was introduced to Loki when I was younger and he became my favourite from Marvel along side Tony Stark.
To me he is not just a hot „villain”. He is a character I deeply understand.
Loki is not the villain.
Not really. At least in my eyes.
He is the child who was never chosen, the prince who stood in the shadows of his golden brother Thor, which is Odin’s biological child. Also this quote:
“I never wanted the throne. I only ever wanted to be your equal.”
This line surely reveals Loki’s deepest wound that is not hunger for power, but hunger for love, and the ache of always being second to Thor.
He is the forgotten child.
The child who was a stranger in the palace we grew up in. That’s was supposed to give him warmth and affection, comfort.
Adopted by Odin but never truly embraced, he stood beside Thor all his life, only to feel like a shadow: unseen, unheard, unwanted. What is mischief if not a desperate attempt to be noticed? What is chaos if not a cry from a soul that was never truly accepted?
So tell me. Wouldn’t you be desperate for affection and attention?
He is the boy who looked in the mirror and saw a monster…because that’s what he was told he was. (Well not directly but…) A Frost Giant, abandoned, adopted, lied to. Imagine living your childhood with a thought that Frost Giants are bad and needed to be killed and then you found out you’re one of them…
Wouldn’t that break anyone?
Beneath Loki’s sharp tongue, the smirk, the mask of arrogance or the sarcasm is…
A boy who just wanted to be loved.
Not tolerated.
Loved.
Not as a replacement. Not as a project. Not as a puppet.
But as Loki. Just Loki.
Well he lashes out, yes. He deceives.
But what is a trickster, if not someone too afraid to let others see his truth?
Every illusion is a shield. Every lie is a scar that’s trying to cover up even deeper wound.
But finally in the TVA we see another side of Loki.
At first he is still fueled by bitterness, rage, and ambition. He’s arrogant, defensive, and clinging to the idea that power and fear are the only ways he’ll ever matter.
And then… he sees his life.
Not just his past but the future he was “supposed” to live. His whole life, replayed like a film on a screen. His triumphs, his failures, the family he betrayed, the brother who still loved him. His own death. A sudden, brutal end at the hands of Thanos, not even as a king or conqueror… but as a failed god trying to be brave.
You watch it happen in his eyes: the unraveling of ego, the shattering of denial. The moment Loki realizes that he was never in control, not of his fate, not of his pain, not even of his own story. The TVA takes away his illusions, literally and emotionally. And all that’s left is him… Scared, angry, grieving, confused. A man who finally has to ask: Who am I without the lies?
Mobius asked Loki if he enjoys hurting people and Loki answers:
„I don’t enjoy hurting people. I don’t enjoy it. I do it because I have to. Because I’ve had to.”
It proves that Loki had protected himself by hurting other people first so they don’t hurt him.
Over the episodes we can see Loki change and mature even.
By the end of Season 2, Loki makes a choice that feels like destiny, but is really a sacrifice. He gives up everything he had. Freedom, love, even identity to hold the timelines together. He becomes the weaver of multiversal threads, alone at the edge of time, cradling all existence like a burden and a gift. And he becomes alone…The one thing he tried to avoid…he is forever alone. Watching over stories.
The God of Mischief becomes the God of Stories. The one who once sought a throne for power now sits on one out of necessity, out of love. He didn’t win. He chose to lose, so everyone else could win. And those worlds confirms it:
“For you. For all of us.”
And now…
He has found something better:
A purpose.
A place.
A peace within himself.
Yes he is still Loki.
But now…
He finally believes that’s enough. He is enough.
His words from the Avengers finally became true
“I am Loki of Asgard. And I am burdened with glorious purpose.”
And in the end, he proves something powerful:
You don’t have to be who you were. You can be who you decide to become.
And he chose to become someone who mattered… Not because he was feared, but because he was loved after all.
Oh and to add up he is bisexual representation!
(and genderfluid)
And I happened to be bisexual as well! ❤️
I love Loki and this is the shorter version of my rant because I don’t want to post a damn book here…
I’m just about finished seeing people say “Loki sacrificed his own happiness so Sylvie could be happy!!!” bitch no
lemme tell you why that’s bullshit
Loki saw that if he didn’t do what he did, then the entire fucking multiverse would die
unimaginable amounts of people, unimaginable amounts of branches, all gone. Dead. Outtie 5000.
when he said “I know what kind of god I need to be” he didn’t just look at Sylvie and go “for you”
he looked at both Sylvie AND Mobius, then followed it up with “for all of us” so we all know he wasn’t saying that he was doing it for just one of them
then in the aftermath, as I’m sure Loki can see from their throne, Sylvie is happier than ever. She didn’t want Loki in the first place, and was constantly trying to get away from him. That’s reason enough to say he didn’t do it for her, and isn’t continuing to do it for her, because she doesn’t even care that he’s suffering.
Y’all know I’m a Lokius shipper, but I don’t even think Loki did it for him, either.
Mobius is suffering because he feels alone without Loki, and is afraid that Loki, too, feels alone. So again, Loki isn’t doing it for him, or continuing to do it for him. It aches to see his friend (and possibly lover) aching the way he does.
no, Loki did it and continues to do it because of the INFINITE AMOUNTS OF PEOPLE THAT WOULDVE DIED IF THEY DIDNT, NOT TO MENTION THEIR FRIENDS.
this isn’t about fucking romance. This is about saving the multiverse and protecting those they hold dear, even from far away.
Why Kid Loki's Backstory in Loki Proves (More Than Anything Else) That the Writers Don't Understand Loki's Character
I've mostly already talked about this in a theory around Kid Loki, but now I'm going in a comic-heavy rant direction with it. Spoilers for Loki, Journey into Mystery, Immortal Thor, King Thor, and possibly more.
So Kid Loki in the show says he's taken in by the TVA for killing Thor. It is not clear whether Thor is also a child at this point in the timeline, or (as in my theory) this is Kid Loki from Journey into Mystery, a Kid Loki from our Loki's future (a future that hasn't happened yet in the main timeline of the MCU). Which would mean that the Thor he kills is an adult (probably. The future MCU option could deviate from Journey into Mystery and mean Thor is also a younger, reincarnated iteration of himself).
In the comics, the closest Kid Loki comes to killing Thor is 1., in Journey into Mystery, when he influences events during a battle to end the bloodshed by helping bring about Thor's sacrifice for the greater good. If he had not died, the battle would have gone on and led to more terrible destruction for Asgard. 2., In AoA, after "Kid Loki" ages up in Young Avengers, when he stabs Thor with Gram in order to free him from Loki's evil future self, who has hitched a ride inside Thor as a symbiote-like parasite.
In JiM, Loki privately and very deeply mourns Thor's death. (He also does so publicly, but in a way to avoid the suspicion of Asgard that he had something to do with Thor's death. But then the Asgardians go away and he's left alone, and he cries.) He knows what needed to be done, but he has lost his brother, his protector, his friend. He loves him. He is often shown throughout JiM to care about Thor. He calls for him instinctively when something he summons turns on him. He tries to make Thor promise to kill him if he goes bad again. He names his dog after him.
In Immortal Thor, we are reminded that Thor sought out Kid Loki, Thor awoke the piece of dormant soul inside him, Thor brought him back to himself and home to Asgard. Kid Loki would never kill Thor. Unless he had to.
Likewise, in King Thor, most of the comic is Loki, armed with the Necrosword, fighting Thor. Yet even here, even influenced by the elder god of the symbiotes themself, he cannot bring himself to annihilate Thor. (Now, he certainly does a good job of trying, even when he isn't as much under All-Black's influence. He makes an effort, I'm not discounting that. I'm not saying he's pretending to kill him, but in the end there's a shift.)
At a certain point, it stops being about Thor vs. Loki and the fight of an Asgardian lifetime. At a certain point, Loki very nearly gives it up, and Thor lets him. Loki says that it's too late, but not for their bond, not for a truce between them. It's too late to end this fight, because Loki has unleashed All-Black back into the universe, and it is too powerful even on its own for Loki to contain or control.
But the important thing here is that Loki stops. He stops fighting Thor. He stops trying to kill him. And when all hope is lost, as All-Black devours them, drowning them in despair and its own viscous, all-consuming darkness, Thor reaches for Loki, and Loki reaches back.
And this is a comic. We can make assumptions based on what we know about these characters, but at the end of the day, this is a comic, a stationary form of visual storytelling. Meaning that the panel portraying this moment does not display the first reaching hand, and so we cannot truly know who reaches for whom first. The important thing is that Loki reaches, too, but he could easily have reached out first.
Therefore, if Loki can reach for his brother, for comfort and peace and a promise of tomorrow, when all hope and light is dying around him, when he's about to die himself in a universe-ending disaster of his own making, centuries and millennia into a future of antagonism and villainy and sibling rivalry played out on a cosmic scale, then why the hell would he ever truly kill Thor as an eleven-year-old?
Aside from the shock factor (for both the main Loki and the viewers), it makes absolutely no sense. And if the writers cannot even comprehend that this would never happen, not in any universe (JiM and King Thor have nothing to do with each other, yet are connected by this one truth), no matter what Loki may claim, then why should they be expected to know anything else about Loki's character?
I am completely fine then I remember that Marvel has never given us Loki's story, his opinion, his point of view, his version. He was introduced as a side kick, a plot device, and when he was finally given a show, named after him and everything, they made it about some new bitch and he was turned into a sidekick again. That in 11 years,6 movies and 1 series, we never got Loki as a protagonist.
He never got to go on a rant about his true parentage and origins. As far as I saw, in none of the movies he has ever said he no longer sees himself as a monster. Other than who is real father is, nothing about his past was explored. Not childhood, not his birth mother, he never got the chance to be who he was born to be - king of Jotunheim. Nobody asked him about murder of Laufey. Sigyn his wife from mythology is non existant in MCU. They could have shown us how Frigga tought him magic. How his childhood was as a magic apprentice. And million more things.
We never got explanation what happened to him after falling into the void. Encountering Thanos. Being given the scepter. What he endured. Not a word
None of those things have ever been explored and when he finally gets a show, only 1 episode is about him and its just a recap, terrible recap, of previous movies, the rest of the show is about a new character, writers are even telling us to feel sorry about this new character more. After years of waiting.
sometimes i'm fine and then i remember sylvie is addie larue coded.
OKAY HEAR ME OUT.
she's grown up in apocalypses- places where no one can remember her. where she can't make a mark on the world or the timeline. sylvie has never had a lasting relationship or friendship with anyone since she has to keep jumping to a new timeline. if she is spotted and makes a mark on someone or a place, the tva will find her.
it's genuinely so sad, and so justified on why she hates the tva so much and 'selfishly' just wants to live. like addie, she is invisible to the world and had to spend years, centuries even, growing up in the destruction and death of countless people.
all they both want to do is experience the joys of life, and have true relationships. to make a mark on this world (in sylvie's case, causing chaos and burning the tva to the ground). even if that's just working at mcdonald's and listening to records, she savours those moments. the bartender who knows her usual, the record store manager who calls her by her name, the boy working at the mcdonald's who admires her.
she finally has a timeline to enjoy, and she's not being hunted by an organization that wants to kill her for what? her crimes? for being who she is? her nexus event was (in my opinion, i strongly believe this) becoming a girl. they would prune her for 'crimes against the sacred timeline' because the timeline decrees her to stay male for the rest of her life.
(this also explains the lack of genderfluid lokis in this universe because hwr really said- nah make the lokis all male-presenting)
when a version, a young 8-year-old sylvie, decides she is a girl and shapeshifts into one, the tva takes her and destroys her entire life just because another universe has people with unique thoughts and feelings. she grows up without any lasting relationships, in apocalypses, invisible and wanting to live.
just like addie.
this is spiralling into a sylvie rant and i didn't even mention addie that much but you get what i'm saying. they're also both bisexual and when they meet a certain dark-haired person who is a twin soul that's had a terrible deal as well, they lean on each other and form a bond.
tl;dr sylvie and addie are both invisible, can't make any lasting relationships, and just want to live when they were screwed over at a young age.
Marvel be like we're giving iceman new comic just for pride month with new villians!!!
you look at the villians and you see Loki is one of them.
Bro he have been in the marvel universe since forever the fuck???NEW? where? In your dumbass head??
Also why him?you literally made two villians up why shove Loki with them a character who haven't been a villian since 13 years now???AND have been struggling to keep himself as not the villian in fucking pride month? Of all months pride month? The month where since he's queer we should be getting stories where his struggles get knowledged?
I swear if this doesn't turns out to be a miss understanding between iceman and Loki I'm gonna be so pissed.
i feel like maybe someone on the writing team for the loki series attempted to read agent of asgard. but they didnt understand it bc wtf was that line about “have you ever seen a female/woman loki?” as if sylvie being a woman is what sets her apart from the other loki.
thats like if you skipped to the climax and conclusion of agent of asgard without any context abt the representation of loki’s gender identity in earlier issues and titles. and then you’d think the only reason the good aoa loki beat ikol/evil loki was bc of their shapeshifting genders?? what??
and then u just decide to go do a bunch of interviews on how you put time and care into “representing” these aspects of the character, (which, yeah, i’ll give it to you, have only been marvel canon in the past decade) when really the only way the show explores gender is stating that loki’s sex is fluid and featuring an alternate version of loki that presents and presumably identifies as a woman full time, stating that she’s the ONLY FEMALE/WOMAN LOKI IN ALL TIME and just
thats insane. how can you read the source material and adapt it that way. im genuinely curious as to what happened in the minds of the writers who wrote this and crew members who’re praising it in interviews. did we read the same book? do they know what a genderfluid person is? im so lost with this show.
