#Thor franchise

[lokiinmediasideblog]

am I the only one who hates the fact that marvel's norse stuff is inserted in a larger universe of super heroes? i love the asgardian corner of marvel but i hate super hero as a genre and i hate being reminded that my favorite asgardian marvelites exist in the same universe as, like, the hulk or something

I think that's a very understandable grievance. Despite Loki's unexpected popularity, the MCU's Norse stuff tends to be mishandled and seen as "lesser" than other parts of the MCU. It's seen as "over-the-top fantasy melodrama" in a universe that refuses to take itself seriously and have an ounce of sincerity because "that's what the cool kids do". It was cool to dunk on Thor movies back in the 2010s.

It often feels like they only bring Loki up just to get people to watch or sit their asses at a movie theatre in hopes he might show up. And I will never forgive that they didn't let the Loki series be its own thing and actually about Lokis. It was used to set up other movies, and fucking product placement.

The mishandling has brought many batches of fans with differing interests and genre expectations as well. But it's a shame that they're usually mishandled because even those different directions could be interesting (e.g. high fantasy, space adventures, pre-determinisn dystopia).

#anon asks #norse marvel #mcu #marvel comics #thor movies #thor franchise #mcu!thor #mcu!loki

[langernameohnebedeutung]

#jeff goldblum #movieedit #mcuedit #thor ragnarok #marveledit #I had to gif this because I think of 'I've been a big part of it because you can't have a revolution without someone to overthrow' #and 'it's a tie' literally every day. Possibly the funniest moment in the franchise for me.

[technicalthinker]

I think I wasn't really ready for this episode to tie together the events with Loki's entire arc. I expected it to tie up the plots of the season, maybe setting up future ones, which it kind of did but,

The way it tied up/referenced/came full circle with the first Thor movie? And The Avengers? That is what makes it hit different for me. It showed a love for the character that just got to me.

#thor 1 was my first marvel movie and the only one i had seen before avengers 1. #do you understand what im going through right now. #marvel blogging #amanda rambles #loki spoilers #loki #loki s2 #the mcu is at its best when it shows its love for the entire franchise imo

[gaypirateslife4me]

Taika and Chris didn't invent affectionate soft boi platonic soulmates, but they have perfected it.

#taika waititi #chris hemsworth #a kiwi and an aussie walk into a failing mcu franchise and... #support platonic love #platonic besties #let men be soft #fuck toxic masculinity #support mates kissing each other #support your local bromance #thor ragnarok #thor love and thunder

[uniiiquehecrt]

Words cannot describe to you all how much I love MCU Thor from 2011-Dark World

#infinity war also deserves a shout out but it's not included bc ragnarok comes in between #the most awful film of his franchise besides l+t don't even get me STARTED on that one #and by that i mean let me rant and be salty like gd #&&. whispers #anti thor ragnarok #&&. thor. #&&. | marvel. |

[lokisaves]

#thor #thor 4 #thor love and thunder #anti taika waititi #anti chris odinson #anti ragnarok #fuck this franchise #let it burn #loki

[insanely-lovely-and-random]

Every single time a Marvel movie comes out but then they still go again 

#marvel #avengers #downhill #complaining #thor #thor love and thunder #chris hemsworth #taika waititi #thor ragnarok #spiderman #disney #pinnochio #kurtis #kurtis conner #meme #i hear this in my head every time people complain #like you hate the franchise but then you still go #everytime

[hatchetfield-scarecrow]

I just wanna let the MCU fandom know it’s okay to expect decent CGI from a multi-billion dollar corporation. It is literally the least they can do.

#disney #she-hulk #mcu #mcu critical #you can replace cgi with any part of storytelling/film making btw #cgi was better in their franchises almost twenty years ago #thor love and thunder #ms marvel #theyre not paying their teams and they keep putting stuff out back to back its insane

[rovermcfly]

a playlist for anyone who's really into the music they use for Thor now; can function as an essentials playlist for people who aren't that familiar with the genre yet

#but mostly the playlist is for ME #bc I fucking love this music and needed a playlist already #with the bonus of it kinda working as a thor character/franchise playlist too #like the poster that literally looks like it could be cover art for these albums... amazing #like all my playlists this will forever be a WIP #suggestions welcome #thor #thor love and thunder #spotify #marvel #thor: love and thunder #soundtrack

[themattress]

We’re really at this point, huh?

Nobody should be fooling themselves anymore after this debacle.

#Marvel #Thor #The Dark World #Love and Thunder #Comparison #Opinion #Kenneth Branagh #Jumping the Shark #This Franchise Got Screwed Up #Anti-Taika Waititi #Anti-Chris Hemsworth

[nostalgia-tblr]

For anyone keeping track (no one), I have started watching the first Avengers film (MCU not the 60s TV show) but only while eating lunch so it's gonna take a while. So far Nick Fury has been assembling the Avengers (the film was initially released in the UK as Avengers Assemble - because of that 60s TV show - but it's not called that on D+ so I'm calling it what the Americans called it, just FYI) even though there's not yet anything for them to avenge as That Suit Guy (j/k I know his name too!!) isn't dead yet, and now they're on THE FUCKING VALIANT FROM DR WHO and I assume we're gonna continue assembling for a while as they're not all there yet.

MEANWHILE Loki (who is neither an alligator nor a woman in this???) is in a SECRET UNDERGROUND LAIR with a bunch of his stans who are... idk something technobabble that involves irridium and anti-protons. He is there looking for the tesseract on behalf of ???? who I know will be revealed 47 films from now as... no, wait, it wasn't, was it? That was just announced on a website or something? So it could be LITERALLY ANYONE. The Avengers (in-progress) also seem to be after that thing, but I have already forgotten why everyone is wanting it, assuming it was mentioned (it probably was).

Thor hasn't shown up yet, but Arrows Hawkeye is working as a Loki Stan and there's Steve Rogers and THE HULK and The Only Woman One, whose power is that she's a Cold War assassin (??) and I think this one is the film where she gets called a cunt (!) and honestly I am not sure which of the men she's getting officially shipped with, I think Arrows Hawkeye though? Fairly sure, as the alternative is that a man and a woman like each other as people but not in a lusty way, which would never happen obviously. (Hey I may ship mostly het* pairings but I don't always like it!)

Based on the Valiant (if u don't know who she is get da hell out of here!) I am guessing that the film ends with Loki dying in Thor's arms romantically but then I remembered that I know it can't because one of Loki got kidnapped from... either the end of this film or the start of the next one or POSSIBLY just from a later film's time-travel bit (???) but like... maybe they've edited this film secretly and I was right after all? But nobody else has watched it on Disney + recently so nobody knows yet? IT COULD HAPPEN.

Not sure what to make of this film so far, a lot's been going on yet also not much has been going on, and the one I like best so far (Suit Guy) is gonna die (NOT EVEN IN THOR'S ARMS ROMANTICALLY) and god Iron Man really hasn't aged well now that we have that one tech billionaire being a twat in public all the time to remind us what such people tend to be like. WHERE IS THOR????

*I say het but everyone in everything is bisexual, I know this because I thought of it and announced it on tumblr and will now say "I don't make the rules" to make it an objective FACT. I don't make the rules!!!

#the avengers (mcu edition not the 60s one) #(though if u close one eye and tilt ur head the black widow looks a wee bit like emma peel maybe?) #i like to think the lair of loki stans exists after this to post angrily on social media about how actually he did nothing wrong etc etc #let me know if loki's just working from a subway station that's still in use in this that'd be hilarious he'd be so annoyed by it all #torn on the tortured-by-thanos issue so far he does look messy but he might just have the flu and didn't want to back out #a lot of people are depending on him to jumpstart a movie superhero franchise he can't just take the day off can he #if loki took care of himself thor would be LITERALLY UNEMPLOYED how could he? how could YOU? #(the 'god of thunder' thing isn't a job he doesn't get paid for it so it's just a hobby) #(he doesn't even monetise that hobby! you think iron man would give you storms for free? EXACTLY. he'd have a patreon AT LEAST) #(“if you enjoyed this torrential rain pls tip me on ko-fi which is not pronounced like you think it is because it's a really BAD pun”) #mcu tag i guess #and whatever the fuck my loki character tag was #like i said i really do need to categorise my lokis more it's been bothering me for a while #reminder: i am here because they cast a woman in a previously-male role and SHE'S NOT EVEN IN THIS FILM. OR ANY OF THEM. D: #don't think the alligator's gonna turn up here either :( :( :( #otherwise it's just kind of fascinating what this film assumes i do and don't know about these characters #nick fury's a goth right?

[lokiinmediasideblog]

Im sorry. I wasnt saying u said retcon. I meant as a general question

It does feel way more like retcon (and it's annoying and I need them to stop fucking up my HCs). The reboot won't happen in a very long time because I doubt that Feige wants to scrap everything and restart yet, plus, in Loki's case, he doesn't need a reboot if Disney's greedy ass ever wants to save money with a cheaper and younger actor, because comics!Loki dies and reincarnates. I get the feeling kid!Loki will be back outside of the Loki series soon, and they might be setting up the Young Avengers. There won't be a need for a reboot of the Thor franchise in a VERY LONG TIME.

#thor franchise #anon asks #mcu #mcu!loki #kid!loki #mcu!thor

[ackerslut]

no but listen i am constantly thinking about the mcu and other franchises like star wars and dc have tried to replicated their cinematic universe and i think the problem is that these big budget movies aren't willing to commit to the concept of a stand alone film. the entire reason avengers (2012) actually works is because all of the movies beforehand were complete stand alone action flicks that tied into the same universe only by a few end credit scenes and the fact that SHIELD was at least mentioned in each movie. when you go over to the DCEU they're trying so hard to get to the justice league and they haven't even made a batman movie yet!!!

i also think this is why the mcu started sucking after age of ultron because they stopped making stand alone movies and instead made a cinematic experience where you had to go to antman: 17 revenge of the cockroaches just so you could see an ensemble movie where deadpool crosses the multiverse to find spiderman's girlfriend for an ocean's 11 team up with moon knight

#THESE MOVIES ARE EXHAUSTING BY THE TIME YOU HIT PHASE THREE #like??? #you have to watch wandavision and MAYBE loki to understand wtf is going on in DOCTOR STRANGE'S movie #during phase 1 & 2 i did not have to watch a single thor or captain america movie to understand what was going on in the iron man films #and vise vera fr #and then you go over to whatever the FUCK is going on with dc and star wars and guess what its so incoherent that i've watched every #property associated with the franchise and i have no fucking clue what's going on #mcu #mcu critical #except not really? #dceu critical #star wars critical #this isn't anti anything i'm just throwing it in the tag #marvel cinematic universe

[ladylaufeyson1]

Thank fucking god.

#thor #thor critical #anti thor love and thunder #anti taika waititi #lets hope loki season two gets the memo now #ill never forgive this asshole for ruining the franchise #never #i feel like chris h will bow out now which is fine #give the role to someone who actually gives a flying fuck

[notalexhorne]

God it's so strange having a show I like that actually has regular and consistent output, after so many fandoms with years between seasons/series.

Venture Bros: get rekt

Sherlock: Fuck the fans

Marvel: lol wtf is an output schedule? Fans are replaceable anyway

Meanwhile Taskmaster over here giving us two series per year, plus a yearly special, plus another special every five series (ish, scheduling depending). It's nice to be fed and happy for a change.

#taskmaster #admittedly with the venture bros the scheduling was largely the fault of adult swim from what i've gathered #and tbh the art getting better and better with every season always made the wait well worth it #cannot wait to watch the movie on thursday #and with marvel they have a problem with oversaturating the market with so many of their millions of properties #that the one specific title you're following gets sidelined and doesn't have another issue come out for six months for no fucking reason #idek what's going on with the D+ series anymore because I dropped that shit ages ago #i'll just pirate it if anything I'm even remotely interested comes out ever again #which after loki seems unlikely tbh #because the thor franchise has been thoroughly fucked by the studio anyway and i've given up on it ever being good again but whatever #and sherlock #fuck sherlock in its entirety #it knows what it did

[beheworthy]

You all hate Taika Waititi for ruining Thor. I hate him for hiring known abuser Michael Fassbender for HIS OWN film "Next Goal Wins." Look up Sunawin Andrews.

All around questionable behavior, really!

We're all in this together, buddy.

[I wanna clarify that we're only talking about his work. nothing beyond that.]

#suddenly everyone is protecting their franchises from him #all it cost was thor's character assasination #answers #anonymous #thor #thor odinson #anti taika waititi #anti thor ragnarok