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Edited by Mrph1 on Jul 29th 2024 at 3:09:00 PM
I just want our Loki to reincarnate as Kid Loki so we can get a Journey into Mystery adaptation. Is that so much to ask?
My Tumblr. Currently side-by-side liveblogging Digimon Adventure, sub vs dub.Now that Scarlet Witch and Loki are connected to Doctor Strange 2, I immediately thought of this Wikipedia image
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Oh yeah. There was a time when they impersonated the Scarlet Witch and was a member of the Mighty Avengers. And then there was the time they had stolen Sif's body. And then there was the time when they were the God/Goddess of Stories and actually went back and forth between male and female. Here you go.
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Edited by alliterator on Nov 7th 2019 at 3:22:05 AM
Watching the original Thor.
He looked good in the helmet. It should have been a part of his standard get up.
It's not Thor without that Winged Helmet as far as I'm concerned.
Edit: And now, with the hindsight of Odin used to be like, his flat out refusal to seek out more violence against the Frost giants comes off as a dude who really wants to avoid falling off the violence wagon again. He's very afraid to unleash that beast again.
I get the feeling that he wasn't just afraid of how Thor was acting; he was scared of what he might become if he actually attacked them...a fear that he justifies one film later when his wife dies.
Edited by HandsomeRob on Nov 7th 2019 at 7:17:12 AM
One Strip! One Strip!I think another layer of subtext Ragnarok added to Odin's character in the first movie was how he reacted to Thor violating the peace treaty with Jotunheim. Thor was acting rashly, but Odin probably feared that he was turning into another war-hungry conqueror like his sister. Obviously not the original intention, but it's something the audience can think about during a rewatch.
One of the most interesting points is how much Ragnarok's revision of Asgard re-contextualizes the first film. One noticeable example is that Laufey's distaste for Asgard and talk of War Is Hell becomes a lot more poignant and the character ends up coming across as a lot more retroactively tragic.
Like when Thor comes to talk with him Laufey bellows "Your father is a murderer and a thief!" and as the third movie later shows...
"All you Fascists bound to lose."One thing I'd like to see going forward in superhero movies is more morally gray or villainous mother figures, without relying on My Beloved Smother or Femme Fatale.
Not necessarily. Laufey's feud with Odin happened when Thor and Loki were kids, which would charitably be hundreds more probably more to the tune of thousands of years after Odin's conqueror days.
Edited by KnownUnknown on Nov 7th 2019 at 7:11:11 AM
There's one line from Hela that implies Thor was born around the time she was pushed out, though it's open to interpretation. "And then one day he decided to become a benevolent king. To foster peace, to protect life. To have you." Who knows how long Asgardian infancy lasts, though.
Edited by Tuckerscreator on Nov 7th 2019 at 7:13:13 AM
The line indicates that Thor was born after Odin changed, but doesn't really imply anything about how long after that his birth was.
It's also worth noting that Odin's fight against Hela happened long enough ago that most living Asgardians had no idea who she is.
Edited by KnownUnknown on Nov 7th 2019 at 7:14:31 AM

So according to Kevin Feige, not only will WandaVision tie in to Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, but so will the Loki show on Disney+.
Edited by TargetmasterJoe on Nov 7th 2019 at 5:43:59 AM