#i dont CAAAre how sad his backstory is. it is genuinely tragic and also he doesn't get to murder whoever he feels like because of it

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folks i have put in the legwork to try to understand the jgy apologist side of the fandom since that seems to be So Many People... I thought that maybe the tv show elevated his crimes to make it a more black and white villain situation but then I read what he does in the novels and it is WAY WORSE... i literally feel like it's 2012 and people are writing loki-style apologism for "his childhood was very sad (extremely true it was horrible) and that's why the crimes are okay (the crimes are so so many murders and SA because his feelings and desires are more important than People's Lives)"

#like it is truly SO SO SO MUCH murder and SA and betrayal. SO MUCH of that. like hes. squarely evil. am i MISSING SOMETHING #like the way he kills/SAs his admittedly horrible father ALONE would put him squarely in. This Guy Is Genuinely Evil territory #i literally feel like there has to be information i am missing because that alone (and then having the 25 sex workers killed immediately) #puts him in like?? This Is A Vicious Villain territory to me??? but it doesn't seem like people like him for Hes A Villain... it feels like #EXTREMELY loki 2012 did nothing wrong vibes. loki was 100% trying to do a genocide in the first thor movie #i dont CAAAre how sad his backstory is. it is genuinely tragic and also he doesn't get to murder whoever he feels like because of it #i literally am doing the legwork to try to figure out wtf people are talking about but I feel like every single argument I can trump with #playing the he orchestrates Mass Murder/SA card?????????? #plus like. hes been killing people he doesn't like From The Beginning #that guard who was tormenting him was terrible. and yet he DOES murder him in cold blood and try to frame a different mass murderer for it #IDK i just feel like IM the crazy one here because theres SO many fans of his and I just do not get it AT ALL #i DO love villains I get it!! but that is not the flavor of discourse ive seen about this guy. ANYWAYYYYYY