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With the Endgame moment, we deliberately used footage, takes and angles that hadn’t been in that film, mixed in with the structure of the scene that people recognize. We wanted to put it more into Loki’s POV, so I filmed the shot in the elevator where he waves. I almost think of it a bit like Rashomon; it’s a scene we’ve seen before, but now we’re putting it through a different lens. So we did film some of it, as it’s a mixture of both [new and old footage]. - Kate Herron, Director of LOKI (2021 - )

Oh my god, I cannot stand for Odin’s shit.

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This bit right here where Odin plays the “The only reason you were ever something was because of me, by yourself you are nothing" card is what he is actually about in regards to Loki (I’m side-eyeing everyone in the comments acting like it’s okay to say this kind of abusive shit to anyone and those who are ignoring the fact that Odin was the one who instilled that "born to be king" crap in Loki in the first place). Here he is practically relishing in telling Loki how unwanted he was and how he was always nothing. 

He doesn’t really give a damn that Loki doesn’t value human life (he himself doesn’t) and he himself didn’t view the supposed annihilation of a whole race (Dark Elves) as a tragedy. 

Odin is just pissed that Loki acted out of “his place”. 

So glad at least Thor called him out on his hypocrisy later in the movie. 

//GOD BLESS YOU FOREVER  yes yes YES 

I wrote so much meta on this when TDW came out, but primarily, if you think it’s alright to tell your own child that he should be grateful that you didn’t let him die as an infant, you’re the problem. YOU.  If you want to call Odin a good ruler, fine, that’s DEBATABLE at least. A good father? Please. 

What a load of hot cock. 

Seriously? Odin jumps down Loki’s throat with the ‘your birthright’ shit because Loki just tried justifying breaking not one (Jotunheim) but two (Earth!) peace treaties/laws that Odin had set in place before Loki had even spoken his first words. Yet inside two (at most!) years, Loki fucked up two of the nine realms. Three, if you include the shitfest Asgard would have been thrown into trying to contain the damage he wrought. Loki did it all, knowing, knowing inside out that Odin was never going to approve—but he believed it his birthright. Why? Because Loki, for all that we love his sharp tongue and his bullshit and issues—is the unreliable narrator of his own life. Cut me down if this shit isn’t true, seriously. 

Odin? No, not a great dad. But can he seriously be a dad in this scene when Loki has committed treason? Genocide? Attempted mass slavery of a peaceful planet that wasn’t even remotely prepared for war? No, in that case Odin had to be a king. And kings don’t tell their goddamn hard-fought and captured prisoners they were owed any sort of birthright relating to outright murder and slavery. As for the (Dark Elves) part, remember that was long before Odin. That was Bor, his father—and that was another war. 

How about—for a novel idea—we stop blaming Odin for all of Loki’s shortcomings? Because if Odin was half as shit a dad as we all want to believe, where the mouldy ass was Frigga during Loki’s upbringing? And how in god’s name did Thor come out okay? 

Odin isn’t perfect. Not even close. But slapping abuse labels on him, expecting the soft compassion of a bleeding heart from the king of a warrior race, and expecting him to hug it out with his criminal son (sorry, did we forget the part where he also summarily disowned and kicked Thor off the entire planet without his powers for doing similar, where he would still remain if Loki hadn’t set him up to die) and then treating Odin like he’s some kind of demon? No. No, how about we let Loki own his crimes and then work upward from there. 

Because frankly, yes. Loki’s birthright was to die. We all read the deleted lines from the script, didn’t we? Laufey’s abandoned bastard. Picked up by Odin. A political tool? Sure. But the only reason Odin adopted the son of his former enemy as his own? Hardly. Odin could have Jon Snow’d that baby. Kings don’t often make sons of their war trophies. If Loki had a single moment of clarity, he might have realised that—and maybe the entire Thor MCU series would never have actually taken place.

In short, Odin ain’t your goddamn scapegoat for characterisation justification. Not in the MCU. He didn’t even get the damn on-screen chance to be the kind of bastard that could forge Loki. 

"Where the mouldy ass was Frigga" just ripped an insane laugh out of my body

#it's irritating how many times i see odin being bashed on#or thor being mischaracterized#because so many fans just take LOKI'S outward opinions#that he probably doesn't even whole-heartedly believe himself#and accept those for fact#Loki is angry at Odin?#oh shit that must mean Odin is a TERRIBLE father#Loki calls Thor a witless oaf?#oh Thor must be a poptart-eating buffoon#I doubt Loki believes half the shit that comes out of his own mouth#he is the fucking LIESMITH for crying out loud#and if YOU believe it#sorry but you've been duped (via assxmilate)

#loki is a villain who plays the victim#bucky is a victim who plays the villain (via gottacatchembrawl)

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#everyone is all over hiddleston for this scene but can we appreciate how great evans was at imitating his mannerisms?

Evans was so good that we forgot it wasn’t Hiddleston playing Loki pretending to be Steve.

The entire scene is magnificent

  Someone said that at this moment Loki looks like he is vacuuming :D

Thank you for waring a white t-shirt, Tom, and thank you for nominating Benedict Cumberbatch and Luke Evans

the best scene in any of the movies

bird love.

who don’t believe in anything

basically every other country is thor on the fourth of july