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lelliefant · 1 year

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If you want to know why the Loki fandom has drifted away, just look at what Disney/Marvel did to him.

He was incredibly powerful—they made him weak and helpless.

He was smarter than everyone else—they made him a fool.

He was a prince—they made him a corporate office drone. They literally put him in a cubicle.

Loki was an alien—they made him an ordinary guy.

He was flamboyant and colorful—they put him in beige. They actually made him act as if he was excited to wear a beige uniform.

The real Loki would never have tolerated a uniform of any sort, much less something so bland. He was never a soldier or a cog in the wheel. Loki is the piston.

Loki was a deeply wounded, angst-driven son with complex motivations—Disney made him an uncaring narcissist who suddenly sees the error of his ways (in one episode) and has a total personality swipe.

Loki was iconoclastic—they made him ordinary.

They took the most interesting and volatile character in the MCU and warped him into an Everyman role, and somehow everyone bought it. Apparently because they used the same actor with the same face—?

Really think about it. If another actor had started playing Loki for the series, they couldn’t have pulled it off. Series Loki is not the same character as Loki from Thor 1, Avengers 1, and Thor 2. He’s as different as the moviemakers in charge of the productions are. (The directors of Avengers 1 and Thor 2, Joss Whedon and Alan Taylor, simply had the grace and humility to take their cue from the original vision of Kenneth Branagh.)

If you don’t actually pay attention to Loki’s character, motivations, logical action, or his history, and you’re only interested in being entertained, I guess it doesn’t matter. This is just a superhero movie character, so who cares if they turned him inside out to conform with a simpler, less challenging archetype?

He’s their property, after all. They can use him however they want to. If they want to chew him up and spit him out as a naive, lovelorn mensch because that’s the Disney protagonist formula, they can and will. If they want to put him into a buddy-cop procedural, as if he were an ordinary human person whose shtick is a magic kit, they can.

A lot of you who are constantly defending the Loki Series are not really thinking about it. Maybe you’re just happy he has a show to his name. Maybe you don’t care; you just want more “content.” Maybe you don’t want someone spoiling your fun.

Maybe you think you’re being the loyal crowd by “defending” Loki. You’re not seeing that Disney did worse than kill him off—they unmade him. They put the God of Mischief into a blender with the Disney formula, audience response data, standard storytelling tropes, a limited range of plot lines, and a great deal of money, and out came this golem with Loki’s face on it.

You might revile me for saying all this because that’s easier than facing the truth or questioning the Powers That Be. There will always be people who can’t tolerate having their beliefs challenged.

I have seen nastiness on this hellsite toward people who question and protest what the majority accepts—but that’s just a reflection of the real world. It’s never going to work out well for those of us who see things differently and who don’t shut up about it. So, why do we keep annoying everyone with our dissenting opinions?

In my case it’s because I actually do care about Loki. I care enough to tell the unpopular truth, as I see it. Because, to me, Loki isn’t just an MCU character. He is representation.

He was a survivor of abuse and scapegoating by his own family. He was an outsider who defied convention and took on great challenges, despite everyone in his world trying to push him down. He shirked the role he was forced to play and chose to define himself instead. He saw the hate and scorn directed at him from all sides and laughed.

He struck out on his own into the unknown—which is incredibly hard to do, even if you had been given the support to believe in yourself.

The Loki Series did get one thing right: Loki is a survivor. He’s survived misinterpretations before, and he will survive Disneyfication. Maybe the public will tolerate a warped mischaracterization of him for a while before they lose interest, but the God of Mischief prevails. Thor1 Loki will always be there, smirking triumphantly from the shadows.

#loki #tom hiddleston #disney+ marvel #MCU #Disneyfication #actually loki #loki deserved better #loki deserves better #loki laufeyson #loki odinson #thor #avengers #kenneth branagh #alan taylor #joss whedon #anti loki series #anti disney

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purgatory-of-assbutts · 7 months

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“lokius is queerbait” etc etc

the queerbait is cast and, boy, did it catch us hook, line, and sinker

#loki series #loki x mobius #**#disney+ marvel

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candyello · 2 years

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matt murdock with his hands on his hips—the duo you didnt ask for but im giving to you anyways

#marvel #mcu #daredevil #matt murdock #cai writes #marvel daredevil #matthew murdock #mcu daredevil #charlie cox #disney+ marvel #disney+#is he disappointed? is he enjoying himself? is he sexy? find out in the sequel: matt with his hands on his thighs

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briefcasejuice · 2 years

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dear god confirmed disney+ dd show? with charlie cox as matt murdock? im praying to every god in existence that

it wont be a 6 ep series with one season

we get elden as foggy and deborah as karen

bullseye is (one of) the antagonist(s)

otherwise I'M SO FUCKING EXCITED

also hi! disney! based on what you guys did for moon knight im gonna go right ahead and say that you most likely wont reproduce the gritty themes we once had so please please PLEASE base this show on waid's run it's PERFECT especially after what s3 was.

#marvel's daredevil #netflix daredevil #daredevil #matt murdock #charlie cox #disney+#disney+ marvel #marvel disney+#gabrielle speaks (a little too much)

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ikol-loki · 2 years

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Did the MCU forget that light elves aren’t even from Asgard lmao

#she-hulk #she hulk #mcu #I’m still watching the episode I am enjoying the elf parts lol #she hulk spoilers #she-hulk spoilers #mcu spoilers #mcu tv #Disney+ marvel #she hulk attorney at law #shaal

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robin-the-toy-wonder · 2 years

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No context Ms. Marvel episode 2 spoilers:

Good night Brian

💃🏽

#ms marvel #ms marvel spoilers #Ms marvel episode 2 #disney+ marvel #Ms. Marvel #kamala khan

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isawiitch · 9 months

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ok NOW we can all freak out marvel vfx workers voted to unionize thank god

article here

#union #!#anyway.#do i dare tag #marvel #still have to wait for marvel/disney to legally recognize and accept/negotiate with them but... good.

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traveller-of-the-knight · 6 months

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*ok, but what is Jake's stragle?*

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animentality · 1 year

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#marvel #disney #mcu #harry potter #twitter #lgbt

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highqueenofnarnia · 6 months

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Will forever be mad about the fact that She-Hulk didn't get 13-20 episodes bc it was intended to be a SIT-COM! Sit-coms need time to shine and find their grove. It would've been so much better if the lawyer life and super life had equal screen time and there was just more lawyer stuff PERIOD

#she hulk #marvelcomics #marvel cinematic universe #marvel #disney+ marvel

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mysharona1987 · 5 months

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#neil gaiman #disney #mcu #the marvels #books #brie larson #nia dacosta #bob i

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mcufam · 6 months

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Avengers: Infinity War (2018)

LOKI serie 2021-2023

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maxyartwork · 6 months

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princess carol

#captain marvel #carol danvers #the marvels #art #digital art #fanart #artists on tumblr #drawing #digital drawing #illustration #marvel #disney #brie larson

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candyello · 2 years

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i can be your angel or your devil

#marvel #mcu #daredevil #matt murdock #cai writes #marvel daredevil #matthew murdock #mcu daredevil #charlie cox #disney+ marvel #disney+

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superherocaps · 1 month

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copingchaos · 6 months

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that last sentence is so powerful considering everything that's going on

including recent events in which french senators are currently trying to pass a bill to criminalize critiqueing the state of israel/ speaking up against zionism: "those who insult the state of israel would face two years imprisonment and a fine of EUR 75,000 "

imagine making it illegal to speak up against a state that has bombed civilians with white phosphorus

imagine making it illegal to speak up against a state that is carrying out collective punishment against the entire population in Gaza, as we speak

this might soon be the world we live in

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