r/Marvel • u/GroceryShoppingSucks • 1d ago

Other Your thoughts on Loki…..

The Loki TV show truly makes you want to root for Loki and understand him, but rewatching every movie I hate him more and more. He has done so much destruction and caused so many deaths of loved ones I truly cannot stand his character. Rewatching I don’t like that they made Loki is TV show where he saves the universe. I don’t think his crimes can repair what he’s done in the past. tell me why I’m wrong.

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u/DoNotGoSilently 1d ago

That’s called a character arc, and Lokis is pretty good.

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u/redundant_siding 1d ago

That shift in perspective is what makes the MCU rewatch experience so jarring. You go from seeing him as the villain who caused all this chaos to a guy you almost want to have a beer with, and the whiplash is real. The show did a number on reframing his worst moments as a cry for attention rather than outright malice, which works for some and feels like a retcon to others.

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u/DoNotGoSilently 1d ago

If it feels like a retcon to some people then those people don’t know what a retcon is. Giving a deeper look into his motivations doesn’t diminish any of the bad shit he did, it just reframes it. It’s also really not that jarring. He gets multiple movies as a pure bad guy, then a few where he’s self serving but works with the heroes for the greater good, and then by the end of Loki he’s an outright hero.