fairlyfelonious
Since: Jan, 2015
Dec 11th 2017 at 10:47:39 PM
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Okay, here's the actual example that was deleted:
- Loki became somewhat of a caricature of himself in Thor: Ragnarok. Though he had chronic backstabbing disorder and an overblown need for people to worship him in previous movies, these traits were flanderized in the last Thor film. Thor's character was also somewhat derailed, though not to the same extent. Though he wasn't entirely humorless in his previous appearances, in the most recent film he was constantly joking around about things that he would have previously been a lot more serious about.
fairlyfelonious
Since: Jan, 2015
Dec 11th 2017 at 2:19:08 PM
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Is there a reason the last part of my example was deleted? If there isn't, I'm putting it back up.
Okay, I saw the link for the editing reason, now. Why are exaggerated traits not enough to qualify as character derailment? I think Loki and Thor both acted out of character, too, but that's more subjective than the examples of trait exaggeration that I used for Loki. Does the fact that Loki did nothing during his time as king other than watch terrible plays of himself, when previous movies established him as a calculating person who probably had some plans in mind for when he was king, count? He also generally was more easily outsmarted than in previous movies than usual, even more than he was in the Avengers.
Thor was always joking, as well, which was out of character, but not as blatantly.
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