You’ll remember-or you have to-that Loki escaped from the Avengers at the end of “ Avengers: Endgame,” during a flashback that actually took place in the “ The Avengers.” It doesn’t matter that Loki got his throat crushed by Thanos in “ Avengers: Infinity War,” because this is an earlier version of the God of Mischief from Asgard, who had a bit of a redemption arc up till his demise. It’s incredibly promising from the first two episodes provided for press alone, especially as a series that doesn’t demand patience but instead straps you right into its heady and mischievous adventure. “WandaVision,” for all of its merits, is a good comparison as that show was far slower and frustratingly so far up its own concept-“Loki” throws you into a psychological time traveling mystery, in which it seems to be about the internal actions of the title character as much as the external. If the scenario can stand on its own, without seeming too inside baseball, the story is especially intriguing. We've got maybe two minutes before this goes critical.“Loki” proves something that I’ve felt has been important about many of these Marvel extensions and how they unfold. This place is about to blow and drop a hundred feet of rock on us. Yeah, you say "peace," I kind of think you mean the other thing. I come with glad tidings of a world made free.įreedom. I am Loki, of Asgard and I am burdened with glorious purpose. Well, let me know if "real power" wants a magazine or something. And then to be reminded what real power is. And for what? A warm light for all mankind to share. ![]() To have the Tesseract, to have power, unlimited power. You talk about peace and you kill 'cause it's fun. You steal a force you can't hope to control. How desperate am I? You threaten my world with war. How desperate are you, that you call on such lost creatures to defend you? The mindless beast, makes play he's still a man. Not built, I think, for me.īuilt for something a lot stronger than you. it's 30,000 feet straight down in a steel trap. In case it's unclear, if you try to escape, you so much as scratch that glass. Slowly, intimately, in every way he knows you fear! And then he'll wake just long enough to see his good work, and when he screams, I'll split his skull! This is MY bargain, you mewling quim! But they are a part of you, and they will never go away!. You pretend to be separate, to have your own code. PATHETIC! You lie and kill in the service of liars and killers. Your ledger is dripping, it's GUSHING red, and you think saving a man no more virtuous than yourself will change anything? This is the basest sentimentality. I've got red in my ledger, I'd like to wipe it out.Ĭan you? Can you wipe out that much red? Dreykov's daughter, Sao Paulo, the hospital fire?īarton told me everything. I tend not to weep over that, I'm Russian. Your world in the balance, and you bargain for one man. He made a different call.Īnd what will you do if I vow to spare him? I want to know what you've done to Agent Barton.Īnd once you've won, once you're king of the mountain, what happens to his mind?īefore I worked for SHIELD, I, uh. You need the cube to bring me home, but I've sent it off, I know not where. Not here! You give up the Tesseract! You give up this pointless dream!. Who showed you this power? Who controls the would-be-king? I've seen worlds you've never known about! I have grown, Odin's Son, in my exile! I have seen the true power of the Tesseract, and when I wield it. Then you miss the truth of ruling, brother. So you take the world I love as recompense for your imagined slights? No, the Earth is under MY protection, Loki!Īnd you're doing a marvelous job with that! The humans slaughter each other in droves, while you ideally threat. I remember you tossing me into an abyss, I who was and should be king! I remember a shadow, living in the shade of your greatness. We were raised together, we played together, we fought together. YOUR father! He DID tell you my true parentage, did he not? With the Bifrost gone, how much dark energy did the Allfather have to muster to conjure you here, your precious Earth? You know, the last time I was in Germany and saw a man standing above everybody else, we ended up disagreeing. The bright lure of freedom diminishes your life's joy in a mad scramble for power, for identity. ![]() Is not this simpler? Is this not your natural state? It's the unspoken truth of humanity, that you crave subjugation.
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