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#I just realized while typing this that the first episodes of loki don't really pass the bechdel test
kawaiijellymonster · 3 years
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Issues I have with Loki 2021
1) wtf is going on with the multiverse??? Didn't Doctor Strange pretty much say that the multiverse exists and that he can do whatever the fuck he wants with it??? didn't he live through or see billions of possible futures, are you telling me that the timekeepers had no issue with that? Isn't the new doctor strange movie literally called "multiverse of madness"? However, Loki show is basically saying "hypothetically there is a multiverse, but these lizard fucks didn't like it so they turned it into one universe and if you fuck with it we kill you" (sounds paradoxical to me)
2)They are basically saying that Loki was born to die. They said that they killed dozens of Loki's who did any number of different things, looked and acted differently with a range of abilities and desires and that every single one of them did something they weren't supposed to and got killed for it. It's like saying that Loki isn't worth anything unless he's a means to an end and at that end, he needs to die. Sure he's valuable in setting up characters to be in different places etc, but he is always destined to die. Any attempt at living (via becoming a variant) will ultimately result in him dying anyway; forever a sidekick. Which is shitty and tragic and the worst kind of "welp it's just tragic, but whatever"
3) Tied into number 2, it perpetuates this same thing that marvel keeps doing over and over again. Which is basically having a character grow into a shitty person (bc shit circumstances and desperation) and then having them spend forever trying to be better, and then killing them right on the cusp of having a happy ending. They did it over and over, with Tony, Natasha, Loki, Gamora, and Quicksilver (probably more but those are the ones off the top of my head). They spend years trying to grow and develop to wipe the red of their ledgers and they never get a happy ending. I really hate it because it perpetuated the idea that humans are stagnant, that they can't improve. It declares that no matter who you try to become and the effort you put into it, you're no better than your lowest point and you don't deserve better.
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