Tag: loki

red-rose26:

lucianalight:

lasimo74allmyworld:

juliabohemian:

My issue with the portrayal of the Odinson family is not that they are dysfunctional. All families have some degree of dysfunction. In fiction, that makes them interesting. My issue is with the fact that the only one who seems to be held accountable for that dysfunction is Loki. Especially when…

ODIN: Lied to Loki about his origins, probably took Loki for purely political reasons -even if he developed an affinity for him over time, allowed Loki to think he was born to be a king when there was no way in hell he was going to inherit the throne of Asgard, favored Thor and cast Loki aside to the point where Loki developed a complex as a result (because a person doesn’t just magically become bitter out of thin air -it’s a response to something). Also, he didn’t come in person to tell Loki that his mother had died.

FRIGGA: Also lied to Loki about his origins, didn’t stand up to Odin in regards to his treatment of Loki or favoritism of Thor. Went along with Odin sentencing Loki to life in prison.

THOR: Bullied Loki fairly consistently -even if it was purely a result of the culture he was raised in and his father’s shitty parenting, didn’t visit Loki in prison until he needed something from him, and not even going to get into the electrocution torture scene in Ragnarok.

The problem is that all of these characters were allowed redemption or hero status, despite the seriousness of their actions. But Loki is not “allowed” to be redeemed for anything he has done. Odin is forgiven because he cried a tear (of I’m assuming pride?) when Thor had a change of heart about destroying the Frost Giants. Odin is forgiven because he told his sons he loved them before dying mysteriously, without resolving anything. Frigga is forgiven because she was murdered by a Dark Elf. Thor is forgiven because he’s the title character and could probably set Loki on fire and shove him off a cliff and people would make memes about what a great big brother he is for doing that.

Loki has done shitty things. No doubt. But it seems like any good things he does somehow don’t “count” because of those things. And I find this utterly confusing. I despise the message this sends people. That if you are strange, or you don’t fit in…any terrible things you do will define you forever.

Yes. Everything good is denied to Loki, just because he is Loki.

Even his own goodness is denied to him. Nothing is allowed to him. He deserves nothing: no redemption, no goodness, no hope, no forgiving, no mercy.

It’s quite disturbing. It’s a message that wouldn’t be allowed to be sent. The complete pain. The complete isolation. The complete suffering. There’s nothing left to him to soothe his pain, because he doesn’t matter.

And this lack of mercy toward him, just because it’s “him”, is sad…

It really bothers me too, specially when people say that he did this good thing but it doesn’t give him a pass for the other horrible thing he did.

I can list most of the heroes of MCU with the terrible things they did. And all of them are instantly forgiven and called a hero for the first good thing they did. And people accept it because the narrative tells them that it’s ok. They are heroes now.

But for Loki it doesn’t happen. He can’t be forgiven because he is not like the other classic selfless and predictable heroes. Loki can be heroic and still use the situation to his advantage. Take sth he wants out of it. Loki will always follow his own agenda. People fail to see that this is not necessarily a bad thing. People can’t accept that everything isn’t black and white. That there is a lot of grey area in between and Loki is there. He can be a villain, a hero, and neither at the same time. The freedom and uncertainty that this brings to Loki’s character make him to be seen by most people as a villain. Because if they can’t predict what he would do, if they can’t understand him, that makes him dangerous and ultimately a villain in their eyes.

This doesn’t even touch on all the horrible things Thor and Odin did that didn’t involve Loki. Like Odin raising his first born to be a ruthless murderer then locking her away forever when she couldn’t change how he had raised her to be. Or the slaughter genocide and imperialism he inflicted on the nine realms using that first born. Or how he raised Thor the pretty much be the same way. And how Thor was a blood thirsty warmongerer for most of his life. And Frigga didn’t protect Thor from her husband’s bad parenting ever either. But they are the good guys so….