Foaming at the mouth over this post :)))
Oooh boy, don’t get me started.
First of all, about Loki’s heritage and the Jotunheim situation… it’s even more egregious that they just refuse to acknowledge it in Ragnarok considering Ragnarok is supposed be a movie specifically about Asgard’s history of colonialism. At one point, Hela monologues about how Odin conquered, pillaged, and then destroyed basically all the other nine realms. And they didn’t think it was relevant to bring up the entire plot of the first Thor movie where Odin acquired one of his sons by *checks notes* conquering, pillaging, and destroying another realm??? Why? Like Hela and Thor were used as tools by Odin, sure, but Loki is a direct victim of his colonisation. He’s literally a spoil of war who was a victim of cultural genocide. And they didn’t bother even mentioning it once? Ew.
It doesn’t surprise me whatsoever that they didn’t dive into the coming to terms with his race thing or the suicide thing or the Thanos thing or- we all get the point. The earlier writers put so much effort into giving him depth and complexity and the newer writers resent that because it means they would actually have to put effort into resolving all of it. So instead they just outright ignore it and retcon everything into comedic one liners, and then just move right along. It’s annoying as hell.
And the most frustrating thing about the series, to me, is that Loki had legitimate character flaws that he needs to atone for. He has actually done bad things for bad reasons and he needs to confront that stuff and handle his issues that led him to that point…… but they’re so busy excusing his actions as “oh he’s always been a narcissist who hurts people” that they didn’t tackle any of those things at all. They say the series is about him growing, but they refused to even acknowledge any of the stuff he actually needed to grow from.
