#if they make the female variant mirror king loki's character in terms of bitterness or wanting revenge i will be !!!!!!!!!!!!!

[worstloki]

I mean in the comics they had him face several different versions of himself and come to terms with his life's consequences during a vision he had while dissolving in his father's stomach. the show isn't even coming CLOSE to how dark loki's stories can get.

EXACTLY. like. this panel alone is more unsettling than what I've seen about the TVA's blatant authoritarianness and it does it while staying lighthearted anyway??

and that's without getting into whatever Ikol and Kid Loki had going on??? or how Nightmare is useless against Loki because a world where everyone believes the worst in him is his worst nightmare and that's just reality for him????? or how Loki works on using the remnants of the previous Loki to try and do better but the past still noticed the changes with Mephisto and Hel???? Loki's stuck in perpetual cycles of trying-to-be-better and being-better and being-limited-to-knowing-how-to-be-worse-and-using-it-to-be-better and selfmurders on a few notable occasions.

I don't expect the show to match up to Journey into Mystery or Agent of Asgard or any of the better comic arcs because those are masterpieces, but there are a lot of factors they seem to be trying to adapt and I hope it follows on to acknowledge that he never wanted to be a supposedly evil lying scourge.

at the very least he's dealt with psychological abuse and torture so it's not as if it would be a baseless thing to suddenly say he's suffered or regrets things and tbh if the show leads on to anything like this where even the TVA/TimeKeepers still see Loki as bad but the narrative acknowledges he isn't I'll be thrilled.

#not to hate on the show because it IS fun and i do believe it's setting itself up to be more suspenseful and heavier #but currently any darkness is an undertone #an irrelevance a detour a footnote to what i hope is an ascent that deals with more meta and acknowledges Loki's side of things #if the female Loki Variant is bitter and trying to make their story more than what is written????? #well i already love her but it would be a lot more #Loki trying to be good and a hero by working with the TVA imo was an actual attempt to simply do that #he has no reason to stay with them of course because of their nature in immediately suspecting his betrayal and/or threatening with death #but I do think he was trying to stop the timeline from collapsing if that truly is what would happen #and that's why he wants to get to the Time Keepers you know? #because they sounds COMPLETELY dodgy and a fully-made propaganda product #if they are legitimate he'd be fine with it maybe tell them to pen better stories or tell them how wrong they were about him and others #but otherwise his story is so cruel and tragic and....... he was still willing to return to his timeline if possible #mcu loki is so soft compared to the other lokis #like #he genuinely doesn;t seem to mean people ill-will or hurt a lot of the time and at the very least doesn't enjoy it #if they make the female variant mirror king loki's character in terms of bitterness or wanting revenge i will be !!!!!!!!!!!!! #we'll see though #i guess #we've still got 4 episodes to go #the Loki show #loki spoilers #loki show spoilers